skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone more extreme on the 80/20 ratio, instead thinking as innovation points. Fine to have a few risky things, but that should largely be driven by the business, not dev. Having 20% risky deps that you might need to track changelogs on and fix adds up as you keep adding code. We do some wild GPU and data stuff, and time spent on weird js/python/infra/etc lib issues from old risky deps is time not helping our core and our users. Nowadays, we try to remove deps, not add.

Putting 20% on innovation in the codebase makes more sense when thought of as % time improving, not the mix of risky deps. Ex: We invested in switching to more modern CI as useful innovation in the codebase (serverless GPU CI w gh integration, PR artifacts/snapshots/reproducibility, config as code, etc)... but done intentionally with boring code (gha/docker/packer). This brought in new ideas that took some iterations, but the boring code means it's only had one real incident, and all that has been justified in the business by the productivity ROI.
A minor annoyance with GP is that when you delete a file, it doesn't update the graphics of only the deleted portion (with an option to refresh that folder alone) - you have to rescan the whole disk again to regenerate the view.
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They claim to care about the “unbanked” so it's fitting surely?
I thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
I got diagnosed with ADHD at 31 and got a prescription for methylphenidate (Ritalin is the most known brand name for this)

I think medicine should be used as a last resort and it is not a "fix" or "solution". Dealing with my ADHD is still a daily struggle and I didn't transform into a better person by taking the medicine

What it did was to turn my experience of my life from a large overwhelming interconnected problem into small doable issues. It made me able to pick up each of the many broken aspects of my life, fix it, and move on to the next

I'm afraid of the notion, I often hear, where medicine "fixes" something. My ADHD didn't go away with the medicine, but it did make me able to take responsibility for my own life and feel confident enough in myself, that I don't want to apologize for needing a different environment to be productive

The good thing about methylphenidate is that it works quickly (20 minutes or so after taking it), so you know pretty quickly if it's a good fit. It wears off after 4-8 hours depending on the formulation, so if you feel worse it'll only be for a short period
I deleted my LinkedIn a few years ago. I had hundreds of contacts going back 20+ years.

For “reasons” I made one again a couple of years ago. No title, just the current place where I work. When I switched jobs, I deleted the old job entry and updated with the new. It lets me say “yes” to connection requests from people I encounter in my day job, while keeping the rest of L.I. at arms’ reach.
I don't really understand. If Gold didn't have use cases as jewellery or for industrial uses then are you saying it would be a net destructor too? How can it be a net destructor if the coins are worth more than the mining energy?

Would Gold become a net destructor if jewellery demand declined for some reason?
That's only because of #include, however. preprocessing is very fast, it's just because C++ lacks a sane way to import definitions that it dumps a huge amount of text into the frontend of the compiler.
Linux PC company ZaReason goes out of business due to Covid-19
Interestingly too, I noticed the box for their Oculus Quests only subtly display the FB connection. And on the recent model, using a different/new 'thinner, all-caps' logo.
> In my experience charge backs are not so common in mainland Europe

Definitely agree. I'm pushing 40, and this is the first time I've done it. When I talked with friends and colleagues about this (from in the UK, but also from around Europe), I don't think a single person even knew what chargebacks were.

But I don't think I've ever once been in this kind of situation where my hand was forced - companies in Europe generally do the right thing, or at least behave within the boundaries of the law.
Rethink the ethics of vaccine challenge tests to be more like those of a battle
Truly valuable advice doesn't resonate. Otherwise you would already know it yourself. Good advice is about things you think you get right but you don't. It's also one most difficult to take.
Author here.

>The article is just more affiliate spam

There are no affiliate links in this article. I link to a writing course I teach, but that's not an affiliate link, as I'm selling my own product.

>buried near the end is the book he got the 'solution' from.

>A correct title would be 'how book' X' helped me recover funds'

The link is to a blog post[0] that I discuss heavily in the beginning of the article.[1]

[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

[1] https://mtlynch.io/collect-debt/#handling-bad-behavior-with-...
It's a good insight into the mind of a banker/master of the universe but it doesn't go into too much detail about the actual job IIRC, though tbh I haven't read it in a few years
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What would the purpose be? I can't imagine a motive or a rational end goal. Would it be in the hopes that sickened diplomats could cause an incident that the hosting country could exploit in some way? I'm not saying that countries always act rationally, I just don't see what could be gained by doing this. Petty sadism?
You have reached Peak HN.
Wow, ugly, but it works:

(void) R"long-comment(
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std::cout << "hello" << std::endl;
)long-comment";
It was a face-to-face course, not something online. It also wasn't really something formal -- someone paid a recruiter to give a lecture on it.
Why would she not work there, no company is perfect. Plus working there provides her with a particularly good insight when it comes to criticizing Google.

This is why so many of us look down on the US and their ease of firing people that don't buy into the groupthink.
> Ethical and considerate _actions_ are important at all times

Agree with that;

> Actions have real life, often irreversible, effects on those around you

agree with that also;

> Many very dishonest people help themselves sleep at night by pretending that being polite excuses their actions

I could believe this is true, although I suspect most habitually dishonest people don't even see themselves as dishonest or think they're doing anything wrong.

None of these things are opposite to what the GP wrote though - so I don't understand what you're disagreeing with.

A classic example of the value of respect and courtesy in dealing with a difficult situation is when you have a problem with a food order at a restaurant. You can choose to shout at the person serving you, or approach the problem in a respectful and courteous way - in my experience, the latter is more effective at getting the best outcome, regardless of who is nominally at fault.

Respectful discourse also gives you an easy route to backing down when it turns out you've made the mistake, and some moral high ground if you need to escalate the situation.

Finally I would also say that even if someone is behaving unpleasantly towards you, that does not necessitate an unpleasant response. They may be having a terrible day for other reasons, and a little patience gives them a chance to relax a bit and respond in a more constructive way, which is to your benefit. It's hard for someone to stay angry with you when you're treating them fairly.
"This is America no one is stopping her from starting the next google and crushing google."

aren't you tired of drinking from the ideological kool aid?
IIRC it used to be possible to buy them separately.
Learn to Code If You Want to Immigrate to America as Lower-Cost Labor
If you are an IT professional in America -- especially one who writes quality code -- then this article is for you.
A controversial topic .. there is an effect called mito-hormesis .. when you do excercise there are small amount of free radicals leaked that activates kinases and inhibits phosphatades and overall increase phosphorylation in the cell. Through this and other pathways, some genes are expressed which are supposed to increase survival, so overall there is a window of free raficals concentration. If you get below it (total blockade) you will prevent the hormesis (beneficial) effect, but if you get above it, you can get all the free radical related diseases e.g neurodegenerative diseases.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3624
BSD make has lots of debugging options, so you can ask it to print the dependency graph amongst other things https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make

If you use GNU make, check out remake http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/ which is GNU make patched with debugging support
I understand your concern now.

There are many layers to privacy. If you want privacy from both Reddit and Teddit, then it sounds like a VPN is what you need.

I think Teddit's focus on privacy is the removal of ads, tracking beacons and other analytics that the official Reddit front-end includes, perhaps at the cost of - as you put it - having Teddit track your actions via proxy instead (although you're not logged in, so all they get is your IP).

If you run it locally then you remove the proxy problem but then you are talking directly to Reddit, but - unless you use a VPN - that seems unavoidable.

So pick your poison, or add another layer like a VPN to the mix.
Ok, so let's focus on the underlying idea, without the "Facebook is trying to rebrand their evil brand" cruft.

Basically, I think the underlying idea is valuable - low-cost, fast, reliable, accessible money transfers - clearly something missing right now in this world, even for the "global rich" (citizens of first-world countries), let alone for the "unbanked". It could even scale even more to a money store but that's basically being a bank, which is related but somewhat orthogonal (e.g. both Revolut and TransferWise started as mostly money-sending services and are now moving towards the "bank" stage).

So, my thoughts / questions are the following:

1) Is there a reason this is tied to the blockchain? For most purposes, blockchain without proof of work is just a glorified git repository, and I'm pretty sure that not even the most law-abiding citizens want all their transactions to be public.

2) Is there a reason this would be tied to a company, instead of being run by e.g. a charity? I understand why Facebook / Apple might be more successful with launching this than e.g. TransferWise (they can utilize their platform to push this (or any other) idea to a massive userbase), but really there's no underlying reason why you'd want this to be run by a non-financial company (and an ad ("use people's data to manipulate them") company) and many reasons why you wouldn't want to comingle your financial data with the likes of Facebook / Google / Apple.

3) Why a "new currency" ("stablecoin")? I understand that it might have some desirable properties but I'm pretty sure that most people would be negatively surprised if their "stable" coins started losing value (in terms of their local currency). Also, I'd say that most people don't even care/think about "FX rates" etc. and those that do are mainly currency traders / "speculators". So I envision the "ideal" system to be basically just an app displaying "sending 100EUR to person A in country Z will cost you 0.3% and the payment will arrive in 20 minutes" and the other person seeing "person B sent you 8919 INR".

4) I'm sure there are many issues with fraud/reversible transactions/KYC/anti-terrorism/anti-money-laundering that would need to be resolved somehow.

I think this is an ideal case scenario for a charity - an almost-government (non-profit, "for the people") organisation handling an area of "social tech" that global governments aren't tackling (because they aren't incentivized to) but fundamentally all the pieces of technology are there.

If anyone is interested in funding / founding such an organization, let me know.
Well first of all, do you plan to continue to do business with this unscrupulous company?

Second, what is your general position on business ethics? If you get yours, then is it ok for them to be potentially screwing others? Basically are you of the perspective that as long as you're taken care of, who cares about the others?

You're right, a class action would be the result here, and maybe it's not worth it for this fleabag of a company and the potential outcome you might get.

But I think you might want to rethink what this article is about.

This article, despite the title and claims has little to do with a professional note-taking approach. Rather it's "How I uncovered potential affiliate fraud, and I agreed to settle with them for a small amount rather than fight them."
> The whole “unbanked” thing is really unconvincing, because there's no way Libra/Diem will be usable for people who don't have identity documents and the evidence needed for KYC/AML forms, and that excludes most unbanked people.

Who says the countries this will be used in have KYC/AML? The unbanked people this would be for aren't in countries that have those laws.

> As for international money transfers: TransferWise and the like are already providing better solutions in that space without forcing you to use Facebook Coins. Now you might say that mostly caters to the rich world, and that's true, but the people who can't use TransferWise are probably not going to be able to use Libra/Diem either for the same reasons they can't use TransferWise: ID documents, KYC/AML, plus capital controls and sanction regimes which aren't magically going to disappear for this new currency.

Can't use transferwise, so can't use something else.

This isn't aimed at people who can use banking where KYC or AML apply. It's for people who are curently using other unbanking payment methods.
Tbh the image this projects is that Diem is not for me, or even anyone here.
>To begin with, the "banking system" includes an enormous amount of services that Bitcoin doesn't provide (loans, mortgages, securities), and retail banks are part of that as well.

This may be a lack of imagination on your part....Many companies already offer loans/mortgages using Bitcoin as collateral (at much lower interest rates than traditional banks). Not having thousands of idle bank employees sitting around in brick and mortar banks makes the financial system a lot more efficient...
Interestingly hosted by Wordpress.com (VIP).
Being very pedantic, Linux was very much built for 386 architecture. The 68K had a number of features missing that Linux originally leveraged from the x86 world. Atari and amiga were not initial targets for the runtime.

The very first port of Linux To a different architecture was 68k, but it was really rough. Linus did then do the port over to the dec alpha as well as fix the aspects that were overly wedded to i386.

I would also argue that to a very large degree Linux’s success was driven by the rising of x86 is the dominant compute platform for server architectures. It’s universality was very much a second order effect, and the paying off of technical debt.
Elementary OS on Raspberry Pi
How does one even get a list of dropped domains to populate this database? This is something I really have no knowledge about.
She offered to resign on a particular schedule to work out things with her team if they insisted on retracting the paper. They terminated her employment immediately, while she was on vacation, because of an email she sent to the ERG about it, and they didn't even inform her direct manager.

Whatever they accepted, it wasn't the resignation she offered.

(And even if they had done so, I expect the folks here to remain unhappy about the circumstances that lead up to her offering her resignation. It's not a thing you do if things are going well.)
The Furps Doctrine for Software Engineering
Did I understand correctly from the article that the sample size is only 100 milligrams?
Some people have a stance they chose, that this is some Daily Mail "political correctness gone mad" thing, because SJW cultural domination controls all our lives. They're working through some cognitive dissonance.
The refund is a hard one for me. I hate what I and my family had to go through, but I like the person I became because of it, I like the knowledge I got because of mindless hyperfocus on things I shouldn't have cared about, and the stimulants make me able to do whatever I want. It helps that I found out about it before my mid 20s.
> default stylesheets if these were not a tasteless disaster that nobody can stand.

I beg to disagree. Having browsed quite a few sites with css disabled over the years, I can assess that default stylesheets tend to grow in you and that you may end up liking them.

In a saner world, all sites would use default stylesheets (with empty css), and individual users would set up whatever css they deem beautiful each day.
"...look at the heterogeneity in behavior across the epidemiologists - indoor dining, hanging out without social distancing and going to gyms! This lack of consensus indicates that epidemiologists do not think alike and hence that field is not a settled science.

Scientists exhibiting different personal behaviors has very minimal connection to scientific consensus. Is settled science that smoking causes lung disease and yet some doctors smoke. Just because you know what the "safe" behavior is doesn't mean you're going to do it. And if the question is, which of these have you done and not which of these do you think is safe to do, then the question isn't about best practices at all.
"An exact match for alifay could not be found.
The LinkedIn profile you’re looking for isn’t public or doesn’t exist."

Maybe only people who are connected to people already connected to you can find you, or the profile is private.
I've used Moodle a couple of times, including building a course from scratch three months ago. It has a good feature set out of the box, has plenty of plug-ins for add-on functionality and - for me, the best thing - a really helpful and responsive user community. (See the forums [1])

Documentation is also refreshingly comprehensive and up to date.

[1] https://moodle.org/mod/forum/index.php?id=5
This doesn't pass the sniff test regarding throughput. I've observed both cc and various linkers take hundreds to thousands of seconds on template-heavy and sometimes not-well-organized c++ on machines running around 4ghz with ddr4, nvme storage, and plenty of both to not be constrained (1TB RAM, 6TB disk). The preprocessor steps barely register in the bazel profile of my repo, compared to places where we hit slot paths in the compiler and linker due to massive mains which are fundamentally separate programs glued together with a switch/case and a read from a config file.
This is not an example of "firing people that don't buy into the groupthink."

She gave an ultimatum: either doxx the people who said her paper was unfit, or she quits. Google didn't give into her demands so accepted her resignation and moved her end date up because of her browbeating.
They've been saying hospitals are going to fill up for almost a year and they haven't.

Didn't happen in Houston, didn't happen in Miami even after the news media spread all kind of fear based reporting about it. The heads of all the major hospitals in Houston got together and did a press conference to dispel the false press.

Hospitals also havent filled up in numerous places with virtually no Covid restrictions like Sweden.

The flat curvers are looking to be as wrong as the flat earthers.

I'd also like to see stats on hospitalization and age that you casually threw out there.

Only 500 people died of Covid under the age of 24 while over 200,000 have died above the age of 55.

It would stand to reason that hospitalization stats are wildly skewed towards the older generations.
Thanks for the warning.

This is one of my last servers with nginx. Nginx and letsencrypt is ... cumbersome, unstable; once every few months I have to manually reboot and/or renew the certs. ugh. Time to move this one to Caddy too.
Exercise naturally makes your body better at anti-oxidizing. Maybe consumption of too many antioxidants causes that to atrophy.
"Being polite has few, if any, tangible effects"

This is easily refuted. Being polite is socially expected, therefore being rude is unexpected. When you're rude, people take it personally, and it creates anxiety, anger, and rage, because it is unexpected and frankly, unnecessary.

There's just no situation I can imagine where being rude and impolite helps. Every social situation is ameliorated by the engine oil that is kindness. People are happier, more willing to help, more creative and flexible, all due to not yelling and not personally attacking them. Both parties in any transaction or interaction being polite is a win win.
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Anything by Facebook is a no. Anything cryptocurrency by Facebook is a double, triple, quadruple no.
She gave her employer an ultimatum, threatening to quit if she didn't get her way. They called her bluff. I don't see how that is the same as being fired.

At that point she was on her way out, one way or another; most employers would rather not work with people like this.
Nice! This brings back some old memories from a long time ago..

Would be great to have a wildcard such as * as well as basic filters to allow for search by: numbers or letters only, .com only etc.
Also found right away a domain that is not available and registered since 1997 so wondering how accurate the list is.
Noam Chomsky on the Future of Deep Learning
"Think of the children" when all other arguments fail.

Kids would benefit if their parents' savings in USD wasnt debased at an accelerating rate aka 50% loss of purchasing power every 8-10 years (soon to be 5-10 years).
Thanks for mentioning this, it's always difficult determining which levels of information to include, and which to leave out. I agree this is worth mentioning and I've now added this in to the article.
So mixing shady with shady doesn't cancel them out? Huh.
Possible means of wireless power transmission to a covert device?
I never really felt the Harvard focus. I've taken at least MIT and Harvard courses on it. Maybe others (not really sure what has been Coursera and which EdX). Probably the biggest issue for me is a general one with MOOCs. They mostly solve for something which really isn't that much of a problem (broadcasting a video). Other things not so much.

My experience over the past nine months is that there are a lot of platforms with work pretty well with experience facilitators for a modest-sized group. And nothing that is really very satisfactory for interactivity at scale, especially with a heterogeneous audience (except in the most glancing way like poll questions).
An API would only be the _interface_, which just like with MVC isn't the same between a lot of different implementations of the same model and doesn't cover additional assumptions, like e.g. having a chain of blocks with a consensus mechanism to decide which chain of blocks to prefer over a diverging chain of blocks.

If you want to argue for an alternative to a chain of blocks you could of course do that, but in my personal experience if you consider all the requirements (multi-party, auditable, etc.) the usual argument of "you could just use a normal centralized database" falls apart and you end up with something that in some form or another resembles a blockchain (or something equally complex), so why not use a blockchain?
Wouldn't bet on it. People said the Yen was going to displace USD, then they said that about the Euro...
> cops are extremely respectful

I'm glad you've had only positive experiences with the police, but this is a hell of a take in 2020.
Whether or not I agree with the conclusions, that’s exactly the sort of paper one might expect to be written by someone whose job title includes the words “ethics” and “AI”. I’m not sure what Google expected.