skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is expectations failure "the more the merrier" is not the case. Having tight 10 person group is so much better than having 100 people group.

You probably don't want to get new ideas directly from 100 of sources but new ideas filtered trough trusted people. From time to time it is good to get someone new and give it a shot, but most of the time it is better to stick to known group. Unless your group is about drugs and alcohol only then maybe just change the group.
I was wrong about the Democratic Party
Possibly a trade secret as marvelous as the famous South Sea Bubble instance described by Charles Mackay:

But the most absurd and pre-posterous of all, and which shewed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown ad-venturer, entitled "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to be-lieve that any person could have been duped by such a project. The man of genius who essayed this bold and successful inroad upon public credulity, merely stated in his prospectus that the required capital was half a million, in five thousand shares of £100. each, deposit £2 per share. Each subscriber, paying his deposit, would be entitled to £100 per annum per share. How this immense profit was to be ob-tained, he did not condescend to inform them at that time, but pro-mised that in a month full particulars should be duly announced, and a call made for the remaining £98 of the subscription. , Next morning, at nine o'clock, this great man opened an office in Cornhill. Crowds of people beset his door, and when he shut up at three o'clock, he found that no less than one thousand shares had been subscribed for, and the deposits paid. He was thus, in five hours, the winner of £2000. He was philosopher enough to be contented with his venture, and set off the same evening for the Continent. He was never heard of again.
You are right that that is a delicate issue and could deserve a long treatise on its own. I tried to qualify it sufficiently, but it is easy to caricature as the first reply to my post already seems to do in a callous way.

It was most certainly not meant in any way to be derogatory, as I myself don't think of any of this in a negative way at all.
High-capacity tape for the era of big data
*supports
one way to understand how to break things is to first build a couple

when you build things you can understand the trade-offs people have to make which gives you an intuition for weak spots
It is not about $/hour, it is about the knowledge they have learnt and that will help Apple protect against some bugs which would result in losses and other damages to consumers..
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Damascus: its hard to make and expensive. My son has a shop, and makes it by his own process (surface polishing, forge welding, custom 50-ton press, cut and repeat) and provides it to boutique knife makers. He can create blanks as necessary. And sometimes do a deal where he takes a cut of the knife sale, to enable smaller makers to use this premium quality product.
AORCA: Association des Officiers de Réserve des Corps de l’Armement (Association of French Reserve Army Officers)

https://aorca.fr/public/

Original source: http://markcrispinmiller.com/2020/10/assessment-of-the-covid...

Intro from report:

In accordance with your instructions and in forwarding to you this report, the Investigation Group has the honour to convey to you its findings on the characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic, as we were able to observe them.

In order to propose a prevention protocol and to provide information on therapeutic approaches, it is necessary to establish the parameters of the pathogenic agent, which has revealed serious inconsistencies in the official version.

These inconsistencies have led to the identification of obvious corruption and an agenda contrary to public welfare, culminating in criminal and genocidal intent, and the implementation of a totalitarian state, which are reported in our conclusions.
A bug bounty program is aimed to find individual instances of a security hole in your technical architecture. Like finding a weak spot in a ship's hull, and punching a hole.

A security consulting firm would do more for you. They'd basically be telling you how to make your entire hull stronger. And one of the things they might tell you to do, is start a bug bounty program. And they would also likely put things in place for the real security problem in your org: social engineering. Among other things.

And more than that, spending x dollars on a security consulting firm demonstrates that you did some diligence in securing customer data. And that goes a long way in a courtroom.
I'll add another one that has transpired: the technical and expert knowledge has gone elsewhere. The board is nowadays predominantly populated by emotional outbursts from people who have next to no idea what they are talking about regarding the subject matter.

The threads on COVID where everyone is a statistics trained doctor is a good showcase of what the board has turned into.

I don't even want to bother discussing tech stuff here anymore. People can make fun of Reddit all they want, but while they have a larger population of people who are there to shitpost, they also have a larger population of people who know what they are talking about.

As one person said, HN is "no longer really populated by hackers". It's an embarrassment.

Others have mentioned that the downvoting brigade is in full swing, and that there seems to be a lot of shitflinging in general.

As for moderation, DanG does a great job of staying out of it but I do wish he would toss his weight around a bit more.
If that were to happen, then banning political ads would violate the First Amendment.
Life can go back to normal if make it our common goal to achieve herd immunity
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$1500 a day?!?! They are getting ripped off. I had a family member that worked for a large Fortune 500 company tech company. He got to take a look at the invoice for consulting on a project They pay consultants $1500 an HOUR for anything from QA to software engineering.

I had another family member who worked in a big 4 accounting firm. These companies regularly pay in excess of $800 an hour for the most ridiculous consulting. $1500 a day for two people is robbery in the world of consulting.
Great read! I can imagine that a Feature Store could have an impact regarding the challenge of provenance in ML as well. I couldn't find anything on that.

Appreciate the comparison table: Data Warehouse vs Feature Store. Might stea.. re-use that.
I had originally thought of 3D. This isn't my first time making a spatialized audio chat system. I built one for WebVR some 4 or 5 years ago. And I'm actually building one at work right now (with Calla as the underpinning). But for when I started this project (at the beginning of the pandemic) and for what purpose I built it (testing the current temperature of the waters in WebRTC land, as I hadn't done a lot with it since that last app, plus trying to support a weekend tech meetup that was finding Zoom to be a bit annoying, plus seeing if FOSS WebRTC libraries were at a level that I could use for my day job), I wanted to make the graphics portion of the app a simple as possible, support the most people as possible, and not get in the way.

One thing I've noticed with a lot of the "competitor"[0] apps out there is that they're more focused on the graphics than the audio. They're more focused on making a 90's-era RPG than on audio conferencing. I'm the opposite. I'm more focused on conferencing than the game. I get a lot of requests in the github repo for functionality in the game. The "game" is beside the point. It's just an exercise of the audio conferencing.

[0] I don't really see myself as in competition with gather.town or High Fidelity or any of the other apps because I'm not building Calla to be a startup. I love my day job and I won't be leaving it. Calla is just a component of a much larger thing I'm building.
Great job! It really fits the way I consume HN which is just once per day usually.

I like the outline.com article style, and also discovered outline.com in the process.

I am not a huge fan of the layout for the comments, it feels a bit too big for me and a bit hard to follow along, as it switches between authors and so on, but that might just be a personal preference.

You should probably consider making it open-source as it is definitely the type of project I would like to contribute to!

Thank you for building this!
It is impossible to quantify what is a good use of their time without knowing them. Also not everyone does things in the pursuit of money. I sell eggs and could easily ask 5$ a dozen with the demand I have. Instead I only ask 4$ and have lots of clients I only charge 2$ and some I just give eggs to when I have extra. These are people with no money or means. I don’t expect to ever get anything from these people but every once in a while ‘oh my car breaks down and guess who has the knowledge or tool I need the guy I have been giving eggs’. I know the world will eat you up and take all you have but I personally “invest” my time and effort into a few of the things I enjoy even if the reward is low. These researchers now have an excellent start to a resume which is always a good thing.
If it's all just plastic, you can melt the broken thing and make something new from it. It doesn't have to be such a bad thing.
The state of the Common Lisp library ecosystem is probably the saddest thing about the language.

As the author says, the inbuilt standard library is hopelessly too small for modern requirements - even basics like string manipulation are only cursorily covered. And most of the third-party libraries out there are single-person projects, out of date, undocumented, or all three...

The language itself is still fantastic and, IMO, still superior to most other languages out there. But the lack of decent libraries is a major productivity killer.
A transparent government institute? What's that? A kafkaesque bureaucracy operated by unelected and unappointed career bureaucrats accountable to no one that responds to FOIA requests in 18 - 36 months about why your ad was censored and your opponent's wasn't, after which you have no course of recompense?

Yes, what we need is an organization like the IRS to govern political speech online that's a BRILLIANT idea why didn't anyone think of that, that will finally solve bias in political advertising
> Those blades would have been so expensive in relative terms that I truly wonder how much real combat they were used in. In any war the peon's get the worst of it. Anyone rich/ senior enough to have them wasn't going to be on the front line.

There are parallels in modern warfare.

Javelin missiles cost $175k, and are fired by troops making $20k/year. It gets even more disparate when you move into things like fighter jets.
Can someone describe to me what is good about OCaml? Unfortunately I think I've only eve heard complaints about it, many being mentioned here (multicore support, bad tooling, things like utf support you'd expect to be built in, Windows pains, etc.). I've also read a number of admittedly older peices criticizing it's type system among other things. When or why should someone consider using OCaml versus a lisp, modern mainstream languahes or even a purely functional language like Haskell?
True but they do not integrate with the car like the build in navigation.

The only place you see the instructions are on the phone itself or the display of the car. The build in shows the next instructions within the cockpit & HUD.

It has no access to the wheels, and in tunnels the GPS will simply not work where as the build in sort of does.

The build in depends way less on healthy Internet access (yes there are parts of Europe that I drive though with cripple G2 at best).

Mind you, I SWEAR by Google maps for driving (in Europe) since it is so current and predicts / reroutes better then anything else I've ever used.

Paying major money for updates of the build in also is a real pain.
Ifixit actually has a pretty stellar site for most common phones - at least, every phone I’ve owned so far.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide

I’m realizing now that they’ve actually got way more content than I thought. It isn’t review format, but they rate how difficult different components are to repair on most items which is a step towards what I want.

Weird that I thought they only did phones/tablets/computers.
Tech people go to conferences and conventions. (If they do not go, colleagues might go.) Conference venues are notorious for having unions that flip out if you attempt to perform basic tasks like moving your own objects a few inches or plugging a laptop into an electrical outlet. Because the stories are outrageous, they are shared with colleagues.

Tech people work in buildings. Some buildings are union-operated, particularly for smaller firms that do not own their own campus. The most direct experience a tech person might have with a union on a day to day basis is as an explanation for why there are months-long delays for basic repairs and upgrades to their facilities.

Is there any similar manner in which tech people interact with the Writers Guild of America? ... Perhaps at Netflix specifically? News coverage of the writer's strike is not the same.
The big ones haven't been paid out yet it seems
The Digital Path: Smart Contracts and the Third World (2003) [pdf]
I once came up with a silly way of hijacking facebook accounts that were registered with @hotmail.com. I told both facebook and microsoft about this, never got even a thank you. I know that are some people who make a living out of bug bounty, but I felt very discouraged back then (I was still in college) and never bothered to try again.
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This is the truth. I've worked in large organizations and it really is impossible organizationally to be fully secure. People come and go. Responsibilities change.

The comparison of the city is a really good one.
We started a newsletter on startups that Build With Users (that's the name). Seeing more and more startups start with community and building product from that, so we wanted to stay close to this development and share what we learn.

Love to hear what you think & let me know if you know someone that should be interviewed!
What would be the dependent type you could use to prevent the bug in the given example though? There is nothing wrong with the function itself, there is just a discrepancy between what it does and how it is named. I don't know of any constraint that would fix that.

In any case, the more code you put into the type system the higher the chance that your dependent type specification haS a bug in it.
Viral effects are advertising with low/no staying power because people lose interest and move on to another bright shiny new thing. Network effects have staying power because people in a network tend to all have similar interests.
TLDR: Computer program UX design has to settle for boring consistency and stop reinventing the UX wheel. Learn the best UX practices for your platform based on ACTUAL USER STUDIES and apply them.

UX design is like yeast in bread. Too much, the bread overflows the pan and burns everywhere. Not enough, the bread does nothing. Maybe the 90s UX designers didn't use enough and thus we had boring UIs. But today we have 99% yeast and 1% flour and oh it is ugly.

Hang the fads, no more gesture-first uninuitive magic PLEASE! Styling is not evil, contrary to the 'unstyled HTML only' crowd, but consistency first and foremost makes for good UX. Consistent (accessible, localizable) look & (undo-able, default cancelling data-destructive) behavior above all, then look at 'intuitiveness' etc.

My parents were on the cutting edge of technology. My dad had self-taught and setup auto-dialling dial-up WiFi accessed over PCMCIA cards that he and my mother used for desktop emails, eBay when it was brand new, 320x240 video messages, even some skype. There was nothing they couldn't do on the computer with a little bit of googling and poking around the Control Panel or registry.

Today, not so much. And little wonder. User-hostile OS, application design abounds.

All of the geniuses at these companies have cargo culted stupid stuff to a grotesque degree:

- flat button icons instead of 3d buttons with text (it saves localization costs!!!! at the cost of user confusion)

- hamburger menus instead of "scary toolbars" (A menu bar with options? eww! we are too cool for that. smush all the options into one triple dot or even better, toolbar icons with no tooltips)

- "clean" workspaces with plenty of whitespace because reasons (good design means an empty plate where if you swipe from the right, food appears! why would you be so drab as to add a button that says 'summon food'?)

- all of this running in not-quite-responsive client side JS over native widgets (because it's better with Javascript! https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/04/19/its-better-with-ja...)

Yes, someone moved the cheese and all users no matter their age should keep finding it, not ceasing to learn and stagnating. "I'm not good with computers therefore I refuse to learn" is no longer an excuse.

On the other hand, if the cheese never stops for even a moment, all of the mice will die because they exhaust themselves seeking cheese they never actually get to take a bite of.

If more developers, UX designers, anyone who actually made UIs in some capacity were to read cover-to-cover and subsequently apply the principles (or if relevant, the Windows/MacOS platform specific norms) the Microsoft Windows User Experience Guidelines & Apple Human Interface Guidelines rather than uxdesign.trendy blog, we'd be much better off.
didn't they all move away from US ?
If you are unable to secure your perimeter, what would lead you to believe that you had better security of your interior?
They cut drugs with various substances to increase volume and / or perceived strength, and that can cause health issues just as dangerous or even death by accidental overdose. In fact the number of overdose deaths have increased in Portugal since that policy has been implemented. Another flaw of this policy is that when users don't have to spend money on paraphernalia, they will have more money to spend on drugs. So I would say this is not about safety of the consumers, but to protect Portugal's healthcare system. It is easier and cheaper to deal with a dead overdosed consumer than a consumer who caught HIV.
I dont agree with "C# library ecosystem is lacking". The nuget ecosystem is massive, and the paid offerings side is much larger (owing to more of an enterprise audience generally). There arent a lot of well known projects that _run_ on the CLR like there are on the JVM, but the in-language ecosystem is just as robust as those other ecosystems if not more so.
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WPF. Thought it would be the future of development for Windows. I think it isn't dead yet, but there seem to be serious doubts about its future. Maybe UWP killed it.

From languages I would have thought that golang and rust would make larger inroads, but maybe that is still to come.

Honorable mention would be Java an in particular "agent"-frameworks. Thought it would be the future of automation. Perhaps people actually use it, I just haven't seen it implemented anywhere.
How does this compare to non-EV sales?
Cars, planes, trains: where do CO2 emissions from transport come from?
Americans love winning to the extent that we cannot tolerate losing. Culturally, we are all but encouraged to cheat if we are ahead in order to maintain our lead (we deserve to win), in the event of failure we point the blame at someone else (we would have won if not for those meddling kids!), and when even that doesn't stick we just ignore reality (actually we did win).
do you mean blender 2.8 with the new interface? i haven't switched to that yet, i m talking about previous versions.
From your link:

> also known as pattern welded steel swords

Pattern welded steel is not the same thing as the ‘original’ Damascus steel from 1000+ years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
I'm sure that not literally everyone at a Nazi rally is actually a Nazi. But the Unite the Right rally and posters were full of actual Nazi symbols. There were enough Nazi and white power symbols that anyone marching there is either:

1. Anti white supremacist and Anti Nazi, but VERY dumb or very unobservant.

2. Anti white supremacist and Anti Nazi, but believe that
saving a statue is worth marching in a rally on the same side as a large number of self professed Nazis.

3. A white supremist and/or Nazi.

This wasn't a case of a few white supremacist sneaking into an otherwise unrelated event. A large percentage of the crowd was chanting overtly racist slogans and flying overtly racist flags (even ignoring the confederate battle flags). No one there was confused about what was happening. None of the people marching on the Unite the Right side were "very fine people."
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I've seen the other comments about his crusade against Tesla, but unless he's breaking them himself or being extremely skilled at editing photos, I think the evidence speaks for itself --- so either Tesla's bodies are extremely tough, or their suspensions are below average in strength. I would expect to see some more damage elsewhere on those cars if they've been in accidents.

(IMHO a low-speed impact of the sort that doesn't cause other damage beyond minor scratches and dents should not be enough to break suspension parts.)
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>It is not about $/hour

It is when the thread kicked off by measuring how much they are being paid / man month...
Dang, I know you like to run a tight ship, but being critical is not the same thing as trying to instigate a flamewar. I’m stating harsh realities and we need to be grown-ups and deal with them if we ever want to solve them. You’re clearly a person of enough mental fortitude to moderate subjective material but sometimes I think passionate discussion is necessary. Everyone on this forum is an adult (From an intelligence pov) who should be able to handle critical questions with admittedly poor tone and not become emotionally blinded. See that’s what im trying to do; I’m trying to see if they will fight reason with better reason or subjective emotion. If you limit conversation on the grounds of hurting someones feelings, then you’re stifling the ability to express an idea to people more who might be more receptive.
I went through the pain period of noscript but still couldn't stick with it. I had to be constantly mindful every time I buy something online. The process would half-fail at some stage and then I have to start hunting for which domain is the one that's essential for the checkout to complete.

This is not NoScript's fault of course. Some websites are including 20-30 different domains (check out maperformance.com for example) and picking and choosing to get something to work is a nightmare.