skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing is, at least in the UK start ups are often headquartered in the US to make it easy to chase valley VCs.
> But what mystifies me is how these people keep going for years without ever realising they aren't getting account transaction emails

I put the blame squarely on those vendors. "well, we made them type it twice, what more do you want?" Please, please, just pretend it's a communications channel and close the loop!

Notes from BankCorp Ticket BUG-14333: "CIO saw some post on HN so we need to change the email validation. Make them type it three times."
Sure, but "hard cash" is funny money; that's why people investing in FAANG don't want it and prefer stocks.
Europe growth in the past 12 years has be pretty anemic for the past 10 years. Look at the GDP per capita growth of lets say germany and you get a real good idea of how mismanage their economy has been for the past decade so this doesn't surprise me.
> Google "European growth stocks".

This short sentence contains irony.
Peek-A-Boo 4-U cancelled the following...

There is a pending payment requests section in PayPal. The buyer finally noticed it and cancelled it.

You would think they would expire these after some time. Imagine if the buyer completed the payment 19 years later??
I wouldn't call it laziness but money-driven apathy. They probably tell the warehouse packers to use envelopes for all non-fragile items. As long as the cost of returns is less than the cost of hiring more packers to keep up, Amazon will do things this way.

And, from my experience as a warehouse order packer, the quotas are insane. I'm cautious with other people's stuff, so it wasn't long before they reassigned me. Commercial bulk buyers got better treatment.
Sure thing, you can reach out to me through the contact page in my profile
Local farm says will not sell grain in cities any more; Says agricultural "revolution" has resulted in decline of people working on farms from 83% to 8%; Working themselves, day in, day out, tilling the land by hand, and all the good honest work that pre-agricultural revolution farming required.

Some people cite that the agricultural revolution paved the way for cities, the industrial revolution, science and technology, but what is really important is jobs that involve turning the land by hand.

The facts that food is now far more available, far cheaper, and far easier to obtain (it can be delivered to your door) and at far greater variety, don't offset the fact that if we returned to pre-agricultural revolution pratices we could have 250 million americans all employed working dawn till dusk on the fields, with only the occasional famine.

(In other news, Farm admits that its only doing this because "The pandemic changed the landscape, Powell said, with Amazon prioritizing cleaning supplies and other essential goods -- slowing the shipment of books.")
That beats Duke Nukem Forever pre-orders receipts.
You can, but if everyone tried that at once then the price would fall, and most people wouldn't get as much money as they think they now have. So in that sense company valuations are not real. We might pretend that Tesla is worth 2100 USD per share until someone shouts: "Emperor is naked"
> I own a 5 character common first and last name @gmail.com address

Were you a Google employee? Or did you mean something other than how I read this, that your first and last name combined are 5 characters? Because I believe 5-character usernames are not permitted for gmail addresses.

I tried to confirm this and provide a link, but all of support.google.com appears to be non-responsive right now. When it stars working again, this may support my assertion: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9211434?hl=en
As a counterexample, I felt awful in March and April and feel much better now. Very little has changed about my day to day routine. I think different people handle these things differently. I don't seem to have experienced this "surge capacity" phenomenon.

I think it's because I'm a naturally very private, introverted person, and have a lot of practice with isolation already. So now that the initial fears and anxieties have subsided, I've settled into a comfortable routine.

It's not ideal, and I miss having the option to see people or go to events. But for me, things are more manageable now than they were early on, where I was filled with constant dread and anxiety.
Bookmarked, thank you!
> destroy privacy and fungibility on the network

Do people expect privacy from the bitcoin network?
Media coverage for the app: 40 sources
Are you saying the banned apps promote banned sites, or merely don't block banned sites?

There's a huge difference.
https://www.unusual.vc/field-guide
Full disclosure: I work for AppDynamics and this is our founder's VC field sales guide.

It perfectly articulates on a high level, how to build a sales force and the metrics / GTM for B2B selling. Another thing to keep in mind is your product and target audience. This will help you figure out your Pipeline Generation. Feel free to PM me, I have been in B2B software sales (I was also a software engineer previously) and I would love to help / guide you.

A16Z - Love their blogs and articles. Here is my favorite one for Enterprise Selling: https://a16z.com/2020/07/29/growthsales-the-new-era-of-enter...
you can click on the textbox, and it will immediately fill the whole sentence and move on to the next one! Might be frustrating to click so much, but I wanted to recreate old timey videogame pacing
I'm sorry it was a "Insider"-Joke about SSN's, Boomer is another name for SSBN's (The ballistic rocket Carrier of Sub's) and one class of those SSBN's is the Ohio Class.

But still thanks for the explanation, did not know that.
Amazing. Worked well on mobile, except the text went out of the screen a few time.
if you are like me and are out of reads on medium, there is an outline link https://outline.com/GwHDSf
Can you talk a bit about the tech stack behind this? I see <1ms API responses which is very impressive, curious to hear more about the implementation.
For now. The government is looking to let VCs use 401k’s as Monopoly money.

You might go to liquidate only to find that YOUR pension...er investment was lost without you knowing it.

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/16/trump-labor-department-quie...

“You accepted the rules by buying in. Can’t say you weren’t aware the market is risky!”

That’s what they keep telling grandparents when their pensions were flushed down the drain.

Let’s keep trusting political grifters of our agency to do right by it despite historical evidence though.
This justification still implies Chrome & Firefox also ought be content aware & be censorship machines.

This is grossly unacceptable. Apps need some safe harbor too. Apps can not be responsible for every possible use of the app.
Zoom's lack of security focus has been a competitive advantage for them. It's clear that many users don't actually care that much about the confidentiality of their video meetings.

The low-friction nature of jumping on a Zoom call with a meeting code and PIN dominates security concerns. In fact, this phrase I've heard people use, "jump on a Zoom," indicates that the speaker expects it to be easy and fast to start the call.

Hopefully it's still possible to develop something that's both secure and convenient. But I fear there's no economic incentive to do it.
> The "growth" in tech has been entirely driven by monetary policy.

For the uninformed, what monetary policy exactly is driving this growth?
That's because the airwaves are public, so the FCC could regulate / require equal time in the public interest. A TV or radio station isn't operating entirely on its own dime - it's using a public resource, so it should be done in the public interest.

There was no fairness doctrine applied to, say, newspapers.
Thanks for articulating your position in more detail.

The way I read your argument is that you actually do think the distinctions are real, buy they shouldn’t be used by Apple to control the marketplace.

I think that’s a reasonable position and one worth exploring.

I actually agree with you that the distinctions are in place to allow Apple to retain control of the marketplace.

I just don’t think it makes sense to pretend they aren’t meaningful distinctions. Not do I think we can assume the reason is mainly about gouging. If you want to make a case for that - by all means, but it’s not a given.

I don’t agree that steaming games are no more of a threat to Apple than the web.

For one thing, the web as a platform is slow to evolve because of interoperability issues.

These would not be present with steaming Apps.

If you don’t think Games are a distinct category then you must concede that streaming games means streaming apps of all kinds.

Yes - offline is an issue still, but it’s becoming less of one over time.

Streaming Apps don’t need to be an existential threat to Apple or have access to local data in order to be harmful.

They can bypass age restrictions, phish, be scams, collect credit card numbers, do social engineering, promote hate etc.

More importantly - your argument seems to be that Apple shouldn’t be able to discriminate based on what apps do.

If that is the case, then you’re not arguing for a narrow carve out for steaming games since you’ve already denied they are a category that Apple should be using.

You real argument is against Apple being able to control what goes on the store or on their platform.

I think that’s a valid argument, however I think it can’t meaningfully be just about Apple. If we are going to say Apple shouldn’t have this control, then nobody should be allowed it.

And then of course we have to articulate how we’d deal with all the security, malware and trust issues in such a world.
> already did, multiple times. Every single liberal industrialized nation is structured around economic markets, where the means of production are privately owned. By definition this means that the majority of the industrialized world is driven by economic self interest. There are of course variations here and there: you have the Anglo-Saxon model[1], the German Model[2] the Rhine model[3], etc. All just slightly varying accoutrements sprinkled over the same fundamental structure: how best to channel economic self-interest for the public good.

That is almost entirely orthogonal to your claim that there are no truly democratic industrialized nations.

>On my part, I literally just provided you with a list of the most economically free countries. They include (in order): Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Canada, and the Netherlands, among many others. They correlate strongly with most accepted lists of so-called “happiest countries”. This directly refutes your claim that “we can witness countless examples of economic freedom increasing while happiness decreases”. If you’d like it directly spelled out for you, here’s the research that not only observes the same correlation, but attempts to even prove the causation.

I have not made claims about economic freedom, but material wealth. The best example is the US, where economic output has grown but happiness and life-satisfaction has decreased. As I said, this must be analyzed over a time series, your comparisons are useless for hundreds of reasons. So is your equivocation of economic output and economic freedom. There have been many cases in time-series of economic freedom increasing and happiness/life satisfaction decreasing, too. In fact, one of your studies even points that out, if you've read them in their entirety: hat is, shrinking the size of the government (i.e., reducing the tax burden on citizens) seems to be negatively related to subjective well-being.

Furthermore, it is trivially true that economic output and happiness are not causative, for the simple reason that in the last 30 years or so happiness and well-being have been decreasing while economic output has been skyrocketing.

It is also trivially true that aggregate economic freedom can increase while economic output can decrease.

Finally, I've never even made the claim that we should reduce economic freedom, or that markets are bad, or anything like that. I've made two claims - that the political self-interest of the masses is essentially different from their economic self-interest in that it can suit the goals of the individual better, and that well-being and happiness is only tangentially correlated to material wealth. From these premises I draw the conclusion that we should only pursue material wealth insofar as it actually benefits our well-being, and that government involvement in the economy can be good as long as the government is actually following the will of the people and that it is the best way to do so. So far you've been attacking a bizarre strawman, and have failed to back up your claims.
This comment is HN distilled.
Very awesome. In 1989 a game like that would have been an AAA title (well if given the resources to make it 40+ hours) And it brings back memories of so many games I played when I was 10-15. Wow nice job.
Ham radio is still essential to weather spotting in Kansas. Cell service is very spotty, especially service good enough to send images.
I really hope that your comment gets upvoted and seen by many HN readers.

I'll elaborate based on my own experiences. To me, this article is explaining an extremely common phenomenon where people who have "played the game" or "been on the conveyor belt" realize that the game is a lie. In the conveyor belt world, we're taught to get good grades, aim for a promotion, etc. And as long as we keep doing well in a structured environment, goodness will flow.

Those of us how are poor do not get to get on the conveyor belt without great luck or triple the work that it took our monied peers to do the same. Great disruptions to the conveyor belt show those who have never been off it what it is like to fend for oneself as all those who were not fortunate enough to get on had to.
I would argue tech isn't high because of the value of it but instead it is a combination of being seen as a safer investment while also having potential for growth that outstrips inflation.

If there is a company that is only growing slightly year over year, then due to the loose money policies of the fed, they won't be able to make your real money adjusted for inflation.

Bit another issue may be that as Matt Levine likes to point out private equity markets are the new public markets. So the question is what will be the next step in financial engineering?
That's good to know. Any reccommended place to get started (assuming I already own an rtl-sdr)?
But the concerns expressed in those works were the same as the ones expressed forty years ago; that's the point the original article is making. Bethke himself used the phrase “self-referential metafiction” in describing sci-fi authors in the late 70s. I think a lot of the current cyberpunk work is the same, commoditizing an art movement into a fashion dressing to tell the same kind of stories we always get.

Vast corporations doing what they want to the helpless working class started as an 80s fear in opposition to a largely hopeful view of companies from the 50s and 60s. Just because it's come true, or is still a fear, doesn't mean that it's still exciting or exploring a new frontier.

Bruce Sterling was writing eco-fiction thirty years ago, about humans struggling to survive post-climate-change... except that wasn't a phrase that meant what it means to people today. The edge he was riding on in his work has now headed towards the middle.

Vernor Vinge writing about true names in the early 80s was predictive; Become Human commenting about it now isn't.

It doesn't make it bad or not worthy or anything, but it definitely is a move away from the bleeding edge of a predictive SF movement.

"Snow Crash" and "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson are interesting books in this sense. "Snow Crash" works best if you're a cyberpunk fan already, if it can relax into the tropes you already know and make an action movie out of it. "Diamond Age" moves away from that towards a definitely post-cyberpunk place with people who aren't criminals trying to make a buck but maybe good people trying to change the world with the power of technology. It's already shedding the trappings and trying to get somewhere else.

It's gotta be a little weird for these authors to see their "movement" co-opted into big media properties that make millions of dollars for big companies. Somebody else said it in these comments; that's not very punk.
Probably won't be able to refuse it outright. Though It's unlikely that an external contributor would be able to bring these features in easily. Redis Labs has a lot of people working on their enterprise offering.
Redis has sentinel and scaling features, as well as established patterns. Enterprises are likely willing to pay for experience of doing it right, reliably.
It’s not critical infrastructure: people can easily move to google meet.
> Google also controls the browser, and does make it difficult already to access some sites https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4

Safe browsing doesn't include sites for encouraging hatred and violence, etc. Only malware, social engineering, and "harmful"/"unwanted" applications. If they start including those sort of sites in their safe browsing lists, that would make your point here more relevant.

(Of course, some people get hit by safebrowsing unfairly. But I think in most cases, it is because someone compromised their site and used it for a malicious purpose, and then they struggle to get Google to remove it within a timeframe which is reasonable.)
Since you asked about Java 3D, I assume you want to render 3D in your app.

I’ve built a couple of moderately advanced CAD/CAM/CAE apps with WPF + Direct3D 11. Both me and my clients were happy with the software.

You don’t want C++ for 2D GUI parts, or other higher-level pieces like disk I/O or networking. It’s too low-level, and too unsafe which inevitably gonna cause issues once your code grows complex enough. If you only want to support Win10, UWP might be even better because easier to integrate with Direct3D, for WPF you’ll need to write a page of C++ code to make sense of DXGI surface sharing (WPF renders with DirectX9 not D3D11, but it’s possible to pass frames in VRAM by sharing a texture).

On Windows, you want Direct3D for the GPU API. If you have a good PC with a recent nVidia card all of them gonna work great. However, as your install base grows, you’ll inevitably have to deal with Intel and AMD GPUs (Intel only supports VK since Skylake), GPUs older than a few years, outdated GPU drivers, and other shenanigans. Direct3D is way more reliable than GL or VK in these cases, because supported by MS (GL and VK are only supported by GPU vendors), better integrated into Windows (major parts of D3D are in dxgkrnl.sys kernel mode driver), and used a lot by the OS itself (since Vista, desktop compositor uses D3D to render desktop; in Win10, all UWP apps like calculator render with D3D 11).

You do want C++ in the backend. Not just because D3D (that alone is solvable with SharpDX and others), because too many C++ libraries useful for CAD were written over the course of decades. The 3 most useful for me were DirectXMath, Eigen, and Geometric Tools. Fortunately, interop between C++ and C# in the same process is both simple and efficient. On Windows I usually use COM interfaces created by C functions exported from a native DLL.

Game engines are huge, and designed for different use cases. They are trying to render stuff at refresh rate of the display; you don’t want that in a CAD app, your only want to render frames when things change. They assume most things are immutable once loaded from disk and rely on offline pre-processing for a lot of things, while CAD apps need to import whatever, and many things are user-editable. Game engines often strive for photorealistic rendering. You probably don’t need deferred shading or volumetric lightning in your CAD app, let alone water, vegetation, day/night cycle or character animation. All these features complicate a lot of things in game engines.

If you want to be able to port to non-Windows, look for a GPU abstraction library as opposed to a game engine. For example, I have positive experience (unrelated to CAD) with this library http://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/ It has “engine” in the name but I don’t think that’s an engine, it’s a GPU abstraction library which was exactly what I wanted.
Yea just keep imagining. We'll never know. We could have had the same amount of deaths just by the older folks and at risk people quarantine themselves and everyone else keeps working. Then we could have had the jobs and money to help our neighbors pay for grocery delivery. People helping other people. Quarantining everyone is like punishing the whole class when one kid acts up. Now no one has jobs and we can't help each other. From what I know the older members of my family were already taking precautions. Why does everyone? If they are in contact with no one then we can't spread it to them.
Companies wanting to operate in places without unions because the labor is cheaper isn't exactly the kind of thing that requires "hushed tones."
Sounds sucky to always be watched but, as someone that actually worked in an aircraft repair facility, we'd show up for work at 6am, then a 5 minute "break" at 8am and 10am followed by a 30 minute unpaid lunch from 12-12:30. Then another 5 minute break at 2:30pm followed by work ending at 4:30pm. And that was the schedule for Monday-Thursday followed by 8 hour days on Friday and Saturday. It got old quick and I left that field and went back to school lol.

But the point is, anytime you provide 4 "breaks" a day for bathroom time, you'll get some managers staring at you for breaking the pattern. And don't forget that most tasks in aircraft assembly require 2 people. If you're installing fasteners, you've got to normally have someone on the other side of the assembly to either buck the rivet or put a nut on a bolt. So one person running for the toilet causes work to stop for others.
almost positive 5 + 5 > 6
This is the source of a low-impact but still interesting scam: Scammer signs up for netflix free trial with "your" email (but it's really some new combination with different dots). Scammer runs out the free trial. YOU get an email saying "gotta pay for netflix." You're confused but chalk it up to some computer glitch somewhere and click the link to log in. Your password isn't taking but that's fine you just reset it. Finally, you're logged in, and you plug in your credit card and everything seems fine. You maybe don't even notice the two charges on your next credit card bill.

Yes, it's definitely convenient that you can have "multiple" email addresses that all point to the same inbox, but the issue is that identity providers don't treat them as all the same logical email address which creates opportunities for scams like these or worse.
The challenge, going forward:

If we cannot get our government to help us tackle the pandemic in an effective fashion, we are increasingly forced to contemplate questions like, "well, if this goes on forever, how do we adapt to preserve the other important things in life?"

This epidemic can still be won, but it takes effective and coordinated leadership to do so. When our government's response mirrors the reality of the situation, rather than proclaiming that we are doing a sufficient job, and nurtures a united approach to mitigation, we will start winning. Case rates are falling slowly -- we are on the cusp of improving the situation substantially if we can get our act together further.

When we start to win, winning gets easier. Such is the nature of confronting an exponential adversary.
Not OP but my guess is the low interest rates and the high amount of cash the Fed has been handing out.
There is a standard, RFC 5233 on subaddressing:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233

Adoption is a mixed bag.
When the cathedral supports real-world violence it's good. When you support real-world violence it's bad. They want you dead, but will settle for your submission.