skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's a government office or some service that only serves people from one country, then sure whatever, be a hard-ass if that's what you want to do.

The problem is it's every SaaS online service in the world many of which happily do business in Myanmar. You can't just tell an entire country with its own unique culture and 50 million citizens "FU, you're wrong", and when you do, it's you that's wrong not them! Everyone from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, to federated platforms like Matrix or Mastadon, to developer tools, to every forum on the Internet [1] requires a first and last name! These platforms have literally millions of users or customers around the world - and at least one entire country - that don't fit the <first> <last> mold and I find it highly disrespectful to force it on them like this.

[1] My info might be out of date on some of these as I've been out of the country and not paid much attention for a few years. I would hope that by now at least some of these big multinational companies would get it right. However, suffice it to say, the vast majority of SaaS platforms today are disrespectful to people with one name.
If following has happened already:

Player #1 has picked door A

Player #2 has picked door B

The host has opened door C and there was a goat

At this point:

What are the chances of winning of player #1 if he keeps his pick of door A? And if he switches to door B?

What are the chances of winning of player #2?
Language only conveys information as accurately as it is interpreted. Ambiguity invites varying interpretations. While ~everyone here knows better, half of the people Trump leads are of a below-median ability to fill in the blanks.

Ambiguity is great when you are running an election and you are trying to appeal to the greatest number of people -- it is not good when you need to convey information in situations where human life is on the line. The reasons we have seemingly obvious warnings on household chemicals are written in blood.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
TLDR people get on internet forums to debate topics, and leave because topics aren't debated, they're screamed about from opposing sides, and nobody is willing to say "I might be wrong, change my mind"
Has anyone here experience of pitching to NFX? They seem quite forward in looking for cold pitches.
I think your example is instructive. That's not really an "error", so much as a rule people learn in school about how English "should" be spoken and may or may not pass along to their children. But consider this conversation:

child: "My brother said me -"

adult: "My brother told me"

child: "{pause} My brother told me..."

That conversation just doesn't happen. Those are the real grammatical rules of English, and the ones that native speakers of Spanish, in this example, violate. But a child doesn't learn that from an adult interrupting them and correcting them, they just internalize it and know it on their own.
Great job! I see you have used Electron for development.
I get paid enough to not complain about it... part of the job description, I suppose
This post feels, to me, like a call for new postgres service companies to spring up.

Not SaaS startups, but services-first products-second consultants who know postgres inside out and can solve hard problems that development teams don't have the time or expertise to.

Sounds like a fun way to go for many needs seeking independence and continued human interaction (as opposed to one-person-saas).
It’s not being hateful it’s just being honest. Sorry if the Truth offends you. This thread is like a bunch of steroid users becoming up with reasons why they need them
Contrarian things our Dev Lead does updating execs
Hope is the only thing we got
We have been building a feature first data store for seven years and it feels like feature store is about to become one of the more exciting ways to extract value from data. We see feature stores doing much more than becoming just another silo for ML, but instead a way to get a real-time, centralized view of fragmented data that has to either be federated or put in a data lake to to be queried together. I share more of my thoughts in this blog post: https://www.molecula.com/why-moleculas-feature-based-approac...
Molecula is based on the OSS platform Pilosa (https://www.pilosa.com/) and both Pilosa and Molecula are transitioning to reposition as feature stores over the coming months. Doing machine-scale analytics and ML on the data itself will be a thing of the past.
Moderation is relatively easy with a community like HN.

Facebook and Twitter desperately need moderation - but they're built completely differently and much larger. Moderation there will immediately be compared to censorship, which Twitter and FB are afraid of because it threatens their money.

We're so afraid of one good idea being hidden by moderation that we allow thousands of bad ideas - which eventually create a hive-mind and drive out the good ideas anyway.
The suspension is a part which can be easily inspected on a car

Parts can be weakened internally and break suddenly, especially those of the cast-alloy that Tesla uses. The aerospace industry has extensive knowledge of that process, and the methods required to detect such defects are well beyond "easily inspected".
Nobody makes actual Damascus steel. Layering multiple steels and forge welding them is not how Damascus steel was made.
Less surface area?
Even if zero hedge has an extreme right bias, does that mean everything they report is fake news? Was seth rich really shot twice in the back and not robbed despite the official story saying he's a robbery victim? He certainly had access to the DNC emails and was a devote bernie sanders supporter. It's a low barrier to connect those dots and it becomes even more suspicious when left wing media and "fact checking" websites jump to calling it a conspiracy theory. It seems a lot more likely than the russian story which is falling apart every day with official memos saying hillary pushed the russian narrative to distract from her email server. I'd love to believe we live in a fair and just society, but maybe we dont.
Your description of the in-patient problem sadly reflects the state of affairs up in Canada too, where most, but not all, healthcare is free (eyes and teeth are strange exceptions).

I’ve got an older friend who did a lot of drugs back in the day, but got his life mostly figured out until a few years ago when he had to get shoulder surgery. Prescribed Oxy for recovery, even after telling the surgeon about his past addiction struggles. As expected, they become less effective over time, he likes getting high, so he starts taking larger doses. Gets to the end of his prescription and can’t get a refill.

Did he make bad choices here? Definitely. But then the health care system screws up:

“I want to detox and get clean again.”

“Sorry, you’ve never overdosed, so you can’t detox in the hospital. Maybe you can get on a waiting list for a private (out of pocket) facility. Oh, and no refills, you’re an addict”

“Maybe I can be a short-term patient at a mental health facility?”

“Sorry, you’ve never tried committing suicide because of your drug use. Maybe you can get on a wait list at a private facility? Oh, and no refills, you’re an addict!”

So... what does an opioid addict who is in withdrawal and can’t get support from the health care system do? Goes and scores some heroin...

Today he’s mostly clean again. I think he pops a pill here and there but isn’t high all day. But... this could have all been avoided. The health care system had many opportunities to help out here, but didn’t.

Edit: one last note: the private facilities are quite expensive and have massive waiting lists. Even if he had had the cash to go, he would have still been in limbo for weeks-to-months with no access to clean drugs nor support to get clean.
Square Buys $50 mln worth of Bitcoin
Buying $50 mln worth of Bitcoin actually involves significant costs in terms of commissions and bid/ask spreads, which is why we build https://www.covemarkets.com - to significantly minimize or eliminate such costs whenever possible.
Wind to heat is easy: just run an electric [arc] furnace. This is how most commercial steel foundries heat iron. this is how Aluminum ore is smelted (the point is the electron exchange, molten metal is a welcome side effect).

The above is why aluminum is smelted in low energy cost areas. the above is why my company runs the foundry only for the night shift - the power company gives us a discount for using power at night when they need to keep the base load power plants running even though nobody is using power, which more than makes up for the extra pay we give to for working the night shift. (Now that wind is >50% of the electric mix in my state I wonder if the shifts are changing)

In fact most high temperature is generated from electric not fuel. If you burn something to get high temperatures the process is inefficient, turning the fuel into electricity and then the electricity into heat is more efficient (look up carnot efficiency)
>To extend your thought, cloud gaming would be the answer. Heat, noise, and size is on datacenter.

Microsoft is going all in on Game Pass as the future. I'd be surprised if the company doesn't do some combination of the following:

* Xcloud client for Xbox One (maybe even 360)
* Xcloud client for PC/Mac
* Official Xcloud client for Android TV/Amazon Fire
* Ultra-cheap Xcloud-only Xbox Series GP
This is one of those ideas that just found its time. I was by no means the first to make a spatialized audio chat system. I might have been very close to the first to release something after the start of the pandemic, but it's also not even the first time I've built spatialized audio chat into a system.

My first experience with spatialized audio in a chat system was AltspaceVR, when I first got into working in the VR space, when they interviewed me for a job (sadly, they didn't understand their own product enough and insisted that I'd have to move coasts to work with them). That was easily 6 years ago.

A couple of years later, I built my own VR-based spatialized chat system. It was way too early. WebVR was way too much friction for users[0].

Incidentally, Calla has all the necessary parts to be usable in a VR system. And I'm using it for that in my day job (VR environments for roleplay scenarios in learning foreign languages).

I don't remember why exactly I open sourced this project. It just seemed like the thing to do. I guess I hoped that other developers would find it useful and contribute bug fixes. That largely hasn't happened, so I'm mostly just focused on building the day job project for now. Once I get the next milestone done, I'll consider working on more features for Calla, but for now I need to pay the bills.

[0] WebXR today still kind of is, but it's a lot better than it used to be and I think some clever design in UX with something akin to 2-factor auth can help get around it.
...are you seriously not aware of how to vet sources you find on the internet? I find that hard to believe on this forum.
If I might expand the question to be about technologies in general, I'll submit OpenSocial[1] and Widgets[2] as two things I thought would be widely adopted, but ultimately weren't.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial

[2]: http://w3c.github.io/packaged-webapps/api/Overview.html
Make a Landing Page – Building SaaS #75 · Matt Layman
Ice cream is huge in Cuba and similarly affordable as in every other country

https://www.mashed.com/220283/the-strange-story-of-ice-cream...
Lol I'm only on HN because the articles get here before they get on slashdot. The HN groupthink is much more toxic than Slashdot ever was
I'll add my experience (and that of my entourage) in support.

In a more illustrious example, von Braun felt no need to avoid speaking like a foreign speaker, despite having lines like "small motor in the winged fourth stage":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zcU85O82XE&t=25

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716521

The situation would change if one were in an economic situation where one has to "pass" as having had a different background, but does that ever happen in civilised areas?

(the Expanse' Skinnies would have yet more issues, as with their distinct phenotype it'd be impossible to pass: Belta, fodagut, mi showxa wit naterash. To mebi tenye delowda sekrip pash setara. To mebi tili tenye walowda kapawu unte imbobo gerowsh wit imbobo okwa ere Sirish. To mebi tili vedi fit inya unte mebi xalte wit kopeng inya. Amash: detim kasi kowl owta inya vedi to, im fosho gonya pense ere kibal!)
In an emergency yes but not several times a day as the OP described.
"hacker politics" is in the eye of the beholder. There's no clear delineation between "politics" and "hacker politics" in an age when Facebook can be used to organize a genocide.

One could say that many Trump stories are "hacker politics" because of Trump's unprecedented use of social media, and the effect that social media as a whole has had on the American political landscape since his election, leading to the "fake news" phenomenon and controversies about the influence of social media platforms and their ability to manipulate public perception. The investigations into Trump's relationship with Russia, Wikileaks and the DNC leaks certainly touch on "hacker" themes and Assange specifically. And a strong case could be made that stories about gender and racial disparity in tech and programming count as "hacker politics."

Yet again, many such stories are more likely to be flagged than anything to do with Assange exclusively. "hacker politics" is not the standard actually being applied here, rather it's aggregate political bias. Do you think a story about, say, an Antifa or BLM hacking group would stand on technical merit alone?
> The Daily Caller is one of Facebook’s official fact checker partners

That doesn't tell you how much they weight it compared to the others.

> And the top performing content on Facebook is dominated by right wing media figures

This is misleading for the same reason as Fox News being the most popular cable news network. There is only one right-leaning cable news network, whereas CNN and MSNBC split the left-leaning viewership even though together they're larger than Fox.

The same thing happens with links. Fox covers a story with their take, it gets N shares, CNN and MSNBC each cover the same story with their take and each get M/2 shares, and then Fox is at the top of the chart even if M > N.
I really don't understand this whole "whining over how much I got paid for my bug bounty" thing.

1. Nobody is asking you to find exploits in the systems of a company you don't work for. If you want to use your time that way, then fine, but understand that is your own time-management decision. Don't go complaining about how you feel "undervalued".
2. Companies are under no obligation to pay bounties and companies are certainly under no obligation to pay headline grabbing bounties.

1+2 = Stop whining and be greatful for someone paying you a five-figure (or greater) sum for something you didn't have to do.

Frankly, I also think this whole bug-bounty thing is a little bit dangerous. Sooner or later its going to end with various attempts at blackmail. It strikes me as a very thin line.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I'm speaking in general here. Not about Apple and not about this particular person.)
> Zstandard is dual-licensed under BSD and GPLv2.

Both of which don't offer a patent license.
> can ever have personal airplanes be as affordable and accessible as cars.

Sibling comment already addressed that Boom isn't "personal airplanes".

However: why not?

I mean, apart from the current fact that not enough people want this.

Let's look at a Cessna. It masses around 800kg empty, so lighter than many modern cars, and that's not due to exotic, expensive materials, and without that, cost tends to be roughly proportional to weight.

The engine is a four cylinder with 180hp. My car gets 200hp out of 2l with a turbocharger, but aviation tends to use very old-school engine tech for reliability, so it's got huge displacement, almost 6 liters. So there's some room for improvement there, particularly once we go electric, because electric motors are so much more reliable.

Fully electric is already viable for flight-training and other short-range needs, and unbeatably cheap for those missions. (A friend and I had this idea of getting a used Antonov An 2 and stuffing it with electric bus batteries for a south-/west- to east-bay commute... The numbers worked quite well).

Hybrid electric could mean getting to use much smaller, cheaper, common, efficient engines and use the electric engine and some batteries for safety.

Avionics? Yup, somewhat complex and expensive, but really not for too many intrinsic reasons. The gold standard for GA today is (still?) the Garmin 1000. An iPad has most of the same sensors (as does my Apple Watch), and the compute power is nothing to write home about.
Good point! last time I used elm i didn't know what a nonempty list was.
> First, it's like choosing between two communication providers, both of which know there is no other choice and silently split market between them.

Except that's not what's happening with search engines. They compete with each other in the same territories. With communication providers, it can sometimes be impossible to switch unless you physically move. That's simply not the case with search engines.

> Give me at least 5 - and in practice, more - options to choose

While this would be nice, not having "at least 5 options" is not a prerequisite for monopoly, by any definition.

> If AMD had a smaller market share, Intel would be in much hotter water as recently as a decade ago.

Again, switching costs. That simply doesn't exist in search engines.

> Google maintains share by a variety of ways, including app store, mobile OS, agreements for pre-installation etc.

I think, at best, you can make the case that this kind of pre-installed bundling should be curtailed. But that's a pretty narrow ruling.
Although the first sentence is true, the second doesn’t follow perfectly from it.

Microwave ovens are much longer wavelengths than visible light, and some biological processes are sensitive to a few degrees of temperature change.

I have close to zero reason to believe that current environmental EM exposure is even close to strong enough to be relevant (Mythbusters or a similar show tried to use a hundred cellphones at the same time to cook food, and demonstrated that no it doesn’t), but this sort of thing could reasonably prevent microwave beamed power from seeing widespread use.
I have no idea what you're talking about
Speaking from personal experience, probably one of the most common things I saw were people starting their own businesses.

A friend quit engineering to build high end custom furniture and has done quite well at it. Another started a landscaping company. He makes more money working fewer hours than he ever did in engineering. He now has about 10 crews that do the actual work. He just handles problems, makes sure equipment is repaired/working and everyone gets paid on time.

My opinion, the problem is a cultural thing with US business. Engineering is viewed as a cost to be controlled; sales is viewed as a profit center to be nurtured.

The explanation I heard over and over again was, "No one gets paid until something gets sold". My response was, "Nothing gets sold until something gets built". One is just as valid as the other but lots of America companies spend as much or more on sales and marketing than engineering --- and the results usually speak for themselves.
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If Facebook were nationalized, it would have to adhere to the constitution, including the first amendment right to free speech. So if it was run constitutionally Facebook would be even less restricted than it is now.

However I don't think that Facebook would be run constitutionally if it were government owned. It would be run as a propaganda outlet and a way to spy on people all over the world.

Right now Facebook's motives are just money. If Facebook were government owned its motives would become more complex and dangerous. It would want to make the American government look good. It would want to elect corrupt politicians who promised behind closed doors to increase Facebook's funding.
Probably depends on the game you play. I like to hack on some code while waiting for groups to form in MMOs for example.

And I'm not building 10 million lines of C++ on the side. For moderate sized apps (<100k LoC) in higher level languages (JS, Java, Python), building and/or running the code is mostly unaffected. While actually going through the code with grep or ag, cloning repos, reviewing PRs, making a commit, those aren't super CPU intensive.

And well, my gaming machine is so far beyond the macbook pros my employer provides, it's still going to be faster by a factor, game or not.

Lastly, even if there was a significant perf impact, being able to close the game and immediately fire up a terminal is still a lot better context switching experience than having to go through a reboot cycle.
I can imagine Nobel prize in literature probably the hardest to award compared to everything else. I assume Nobel prizes are awarded based off impact they had.

For literature, I think it's a bit harder to measure.

Will read her work though, been reading only non fiction lately.
Are you suggesting the strike rate for the ISS doesn’t match expectations? What could explain that?
Wrought iron is not steel.
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I would love to hear more about how you did this. I've been doing serious, but slow-paced, Japanese studying for the last few years (I've got my N3 certificate; know ~1500 kanji; etc.) but media consumption still feels like a chore.

In particular:

* Most anime leaves me behind. If English subtitles are on, ~80% of the time I can say "oh yeah, that does match what they said". If Japanese subtitles are on, I can't read fast enough. If no subtitles are on, I get confused when sentences get long, involve lots of proper nouns, or just too much unfamiliar vocabulary.

* Reading feels like a chore. I have to look up a word every sentence or three, and longer sentences can get me twisted up on the grammar, wherein I resort to Google-translating the whole sentence or reading the corresponding English translation if available. So it feels like just a very roundabout way of reading the material. I try to mitigate this by adding the words to an SRS deck, but that just increases the feeling of it being a chore.

Any tips from your experience would be much appreciated.
I... think that would be an _extremely_ premature assumption.
Cookie autodelete is also worthwhile to prevent cookies from lingering unnecessarily.

The Resist fingerprinting and Third party isolation settings is also worth a try, it doesn't stop everything but it does prevent some of it. For usability I usually install the corresponding add-ons so I can toggle them with a button (these settings tends to break stuff).

LocalCDN may also help a bit by using local copies of commonly used resources.

I used to have an add-on that could spoof the font detection by making small random changes to font sizes, but it stopped working and I haven't found a replacement.
I asked a question like this on Ask Metafilter[0] and got some detailed answers. The consensus among metallurgists, rather than swordmakers, is apparently that almost everyone had crap iron to work with, and various techniques for dealing with that; but Japanese process was better overall because the rarity/expense of iron in Japan meant more effort (expense) put into labour. It was easier to get a cheap, crappy blade in Europe.

[0] https://ask.metafilter.com/153280/Steel-is-strong-but-flesh-...