skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent about 10 minutes reading it before getting an unsettling feeling that the writing was just abjectly incoherent.
Managed kube costs $0.10 per cluster per hour for GKE, and the first one is free. 72$ monthly is nothing.
You're right. It was interesting to learn that Obama won his first election in Chicago by getting his opponents disqualified due to signature issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Senate_elections_of_B...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-04-04-070403...
I drink decaf coffee sometimes and still feel the same boost as drinking caffeinated even though I know is has much less caffeine. I guess its mostly in my head. Although decaf does have some caffeine.
I mean, it didn't nearly land. It landed. For certain values of that verb.
Eset too
I read in bed with a Kindle with all the room lights turned off and just read until I can't keep my eyes open anymore. According to Kindle insights I've read 95 books this year.

I've always been a reader though; my mother would buy me a video game on my birthday or Christmas, but anytime I asked for a book she'd buy it for me.

Your reading speed will increase over time. When I read, I don't read word-by-word, line-by-line; I kind of dart back and forth through the page scanning for what I deem important and excluding things like detailed descriptions etc.. Usually the first line of a paragraph will tell you if it's worth reading carefully. If it's something like

> "Character A walked into the detritus of the ancient castle left by the shelling. They were struck by the total destruction of the place, a place that had stood stoically for centuries against endless tides of invaders, all undone..." etc.

I read "ok, character A walked into a destroyed castle" and move on.

I imagine I'm not getting the "full experience" by doing this, but even when reading big series like Malazan or the Wheel of Time I don't find I'm suddenly encountering things for the first time: the salient details seem to stick in my head.
I was a cyclist for another tech company that used cyclists to deliver in NYC, AMA.

Delivery people are truly neglected at these companies. A quarter of my wage went to recovering the calories I spent on my shift. I'm lucky that I didn't need that job, I only took it to experience being a bike messenger.
I'm kind of confused by this. When Facebook acquired WhatsApp didn't it have to get government approval? For example here [1] is an article from Reuters.

It seems like "corporate entrapment" to approve a deal and then later sue the company for going through with the deal that you approved. For what it's worth, I'm not fan of Facebook (I'm not employed, don't directly own their stock, and in general do use Facebook products) but this seems kind of absurd to me.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-whatsapp/faceboo...
>I will grant that maybe Trump (1) exaggerates and (2) says things to gauge reactions

You mean lies? They're called lies.

This is the crux of the issue and why Google's action are sadly necessary: The stereotype regarding Americans is mostly true; around half of them really are quite, quite stupid.
Well, there are facts which are either hard to argue or everybody is agreeing upon, like the public presentations of politicians. Given those facts, sometimes - not always - it's a matter of values to choose sides.

It's not always easy, yes. But still critical thinking goes a long way.

Godwin's Law can be used as a tool to suppress valid comparisons. Don't fall for that.
> [G]ive me plain links that I can middle click on to open new tabs.

[Stampede of +1s]

It's really sad that WeB ApPlIcAtIoNs seem to be synonymous with broken no-choice-but-left-click navigation. Yes, I consider that broken.

I only remember to right-clicking the tab to try duplicating it about half the time, and that works maybe 60% of the time I do try it.
When we covered the 1st Amendment in school and talked about censorship I always thought “who could possibly be against the 1st Amendment?”.

Apparently a lot of people!
How did trumpism penetrate this deeply into the HN crowd?
The crash is valuable by itself.

Examining the wreckage will tell SpaceX lots about structural defects/overbuilt areas.

Edit: SpaceX has invented a vastly better process for innovation. That's what should be scaring the others.
What's the 2020 number if we take into account ballots that arrived late? Is it near to 6 percent?
It's not a conclusive test because the net is too lightweight. Such networks don't utilise the compute at maximum, so it's not showing what it would do under heavy load. At least try a ResNet-50.
Today I had a frightening interaction on Facebook with a friend of my wife's cousin. He claimed "the new COVID-19 virus had never been tested on humans, only animals" and when I called him on his misinformation and pointed out that the phase 3 trial for the Pfizer vaccine included 43,000 people he shrugged and told me he was entitled to his opinions, and he just had different sources.

This is somehow terrifying.
It's easy to disbelieve what you read on the internet when it's one voice in a thousand. But increasingly, all thousand voices are telling you what you want to hear.
Social graphs are really useful for detecting idea contagion though. Facebook obviously has the tools to fight propaganda, they have one of the most granular datasets of people data ever assembled in human history. They are just addicted to the ad dollars. It is a shame they killed their delightful API.

Good riddance to them.
Most of them are basically gambling, not investing. You talk to enough of them, they can’t tell why a stock goes up or down. They point to this double top or flag pattern and say yeah you need to buy now. They get “tips” from someone at a stock board and buy or sell. It’s very very close to what the late 99s look like. Robinhood helped them along for sure but is not all their fault
Slotting fees are real, but of course supermarkets pay for the product. How else would the manufacturer be paid? The fee is basically paying for the right to shelf space, but the supermarket still buys the product to fill the shelves. Also, not all supermarkets, including not all large chains, have such fees.
This line of thought is very reasonable for normal engines, but I wonder if it’s not quite right for the raptor.

I’m not 100% on this, but I think the raptor actually runs really oxygen rich. According to Elon’s tweet and Wikipedia, it runs 3.5-1 O2-CH4. It runs so lean that the unburnt o2 cools things.

If it were running closer to 1-1 (low ch4) then it would run much hotter and burn things like we saw.

Edit: reading more I’m not positive they run O2 rich anymore
Should you get a heat pump? Here’s how they compare to a gas boiler
I wish I had a history class like that in high school. I took AP American History and there was a lot of attempt to discuss alternative viewpoints that was constantly shut down as "not being on the test."
I quit after 2 because doing a startup means you have all eggs in one basket thus skin in the game is not reduced.

> Raising capital to do a startup reduces skin in the game (you’re spending other people’s money, after all

Peoples most scarce resource is the time they are investing and I have yet to meet a founder that doesn't do 80 hour week to make the wave next week.
Sure, it's a hard-landing or crash-landing. The vehicle was obviously under control but not making enough thrust for a soft touch down.
Please excuse my ignorance, but doesn't the FTC (or is it the SEC?) have to approve acquisitions? If so, why were the acquisitions approved in the first place?
That's not true at all. Every recount changes the results by a little bit, and that's exactly what happened and exactly what was reported in the recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin.

What was not seen was "fraud", nor any reason to suspect the end result of the election (Biden victories in those states) was incorrect.
You don’t have to imagine it. The Patriot Act section 215 gave the “well intentioned” US government the right to access library records as a general warrant.
>PornHub would delete video uploaded by userA. userB would reupload with different video name

Allowing (re-)upload of prohibited or previously removed content is a fatal flaw, and I find it hard to believe they've been allowing it for so long without either being staggeringly incompetent as an organisation, or wilfully turning a blind eye in the name of profits.

There are various lists of hashes for Child Sexual Abuse Materials which I'm sure they'd have access to, and they could license something like Microsoft PhotoDNA [1] (or implement something similar themselves, it's not like they're lacking the tech talent) which is able to detect image alterations that break simple checksum comparisons and operate on video content.

They don't need to play whack-a-mole, for the most part this should be a solved problem. Obviously if it's new content that hasn't been fingerprinted before you still need manual reporting and moderation, but they could and should be scanning against known CSAM on upload and quarantining it / shadow banning the user until it can be evaluated by a human and passed off to law enforcement.

It's hard to do this at scale given how much content they ingest every day, but they need to bite the bullet and invest some cash and engineering time - what they are doing now simply isn't good enough. Hopefully having the spotlight put on them will force them to do the right thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Worse, if it changes hands through inheritance there is no step up in basis.
whatsapp has 2FA
I don't think you could get 99.98% of people to tie their shoes correctly. Let alone fill out a paper ballot, and match their signatures. Have you ever worked with below average intelligence people?
They want to implement that sort of thing, but it just doesn't work for very large projects.
Speaking anecdotally, I know and know of many people who believe the election was stolen from the president by a conspiracy, 100% of whom are devout evangelicals.
Let's wait a few years. Bloat will kill these companies. It's inevitable.
I don't buy this for a fucking second.

You don't "cheer on" the fucking global market leader. You force them to allow 3rd parties to leverage their platform for innovative, derivative products.

Facebook has been extremely hostile to any sort of 3rd party integration with their products. Break that shit up.
How do you feel about calls to 'liberate' individual US states, plots to kidnap and put on trial a state governor, and exhortations to sacrifice life on behalf of a failed candidate?

I've been rather unpopularly predicting an eventual civil war for about 5 years on HN, maybe a bit longer. Predicting is one thing; if you're suggesting that others are inciting it, as you did above, then your analysis should be a bit broader and more inclusive.
Actually yes, I would be surprised, because it would be completely fucked, excuse my language. Punishing someone on the basis of other people's reaction is just one step away from collective responsibility, and that's what happens during wars and occupations. A lot of innocent people were murdered because of reasoning like that.

I might have sounded a little bit too dramatic considering the fact that the tweets in question didn't even say anything bad, but whatever. Also, "dog-whistles", lol. You're clearly just making stuff up at this point. Braynard didn't do anything wrong and removing his fundraiser from GoFundMe was baseless and unfair.
You make a good point, California is beautiful. Texas isn't really all that beautiful. There are pretty areas, and there's some beauty in any natural landscape.

Still, why can't there be a beautiful place with lower taxes? If taxes are enough to drive people away from a breathtaking place, maybe they're too high.
The customer is always part of the decision making at Amazon. /s
Could there be some kind of granular permissions (with privacy-first defaults) to mitigate this problem?
From a technical standpoint you need to get off monolithic platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce, and even Salesforce and Oracle Commerce Cloud. These platforms stifle growth and present limitations for scaling.

What you need is something called a headless, mircroservices-based, API-first e-commerce architecture. A mouthful, I know. Fortunately there is some OSS and SaaS that makes adopting it easy. For OSS check out https://www.vendure.io/; for SaaS check out https://www.fabric.inc

The reason Amazon is able to scale so quickly and add new channels and features so quickly is because of their innovative technology and approach to technology management (e.g. two pizza teams).
They could do more part verification, but it might take twice the time and 3 times the money for the same insights. Just launch some prototypes and see what happens.
Yes, it did, and MOG (what Beats bought and turned into Beats Music) had something like that too. Almost none of the MOG aesthetic is left today, though.
Sort of tangential: is there a reason why Robinhood et al don’t have a “build your own index fund” tool? I’d really like to pick my own basket of stocks, then invest in them all with a “single” buy according to my weights.
It would be a lifeline if restaurants made money from Doordash orders. Some do and for them it's been a lifeline.

But many restaurants don't make any profit after the 25% cut. Pre-covid you could write it off as a marketing expense but when in-person dining disappears you're faced with option to close or keep open and make a loss or no money on every DD you get.

This is partly why 110,000 restaurants have closed since the pandemic
Nope, not true.

A very small fraction of stocks account for a large majority of the return of an index. If you miss these few in your portfolio, you will under-perform. It's not 50:50 whether or not you over-perform or under, its more like 1:50(over a significant period of time).
Unfortunately this is far too common, whether its Youtube in this instance, or Facebook touting its cooperation with the FBI and the Atlantic Council. Once a company starts taking government funds and/or government directives the debate ceases to be about free speech and censorship and becomes an issue of illegality and violations of the 1st Amendment.
yes, it is. Government pressured censorship at least.

One can make a reasonable argument that YouTube is making the decision voluntarily. And the letter is just giving them some cover for what they wanted to do, based on their own biases, anyway.

But private censorship is still censorship. And when a platform is so large that it has effectively become "the public square", well I do not go so far as to say that they cannot legally engage in censorship, but I do believe they are morally obliged not to, and should be publically called out when they do.

I hope people will begin moving to other platforms in droves so that some real competition emerges.
Explains why people repeat Apple's claims of Privacy and Security.
Sad day not only for americans, youtubers & it's common users but for the flow of information worldwide.

If there's a good part about this is that youtube hasn't achieve the dystopian corporate monopoly status yet, and there are still chances for the world to pick up alternatives.

Yes most of them are scrappy because they try to implement decentralization to circumvent shitty censorship & cancel-culture practices.But they exist and it's the duty of tech-literate individuals to let others know that they exist.
And sometimes "managing" is firing an individual.

When I was brought in, I had one employee who somehow got hired way above his competency level. Everybody liked him, but he was too high in the technical chain.

We had a long conversation because I simply couldn't take the time to teach him--it was a startup in which we simply didn't have time (we died about 6 months later). Either he had to go down a level (including salary) or he had to start looking for a new job. I was even happy to give him a decent referral ... but for a lower level.

He left for a new company--I think he managed to keep most of his salary, but I know he had a downleveled title. He did quite well.

Had I been in a big company with runway, I could have taken the time to teach him. And it would have likely been better than trying to hire someone new since everybody actually liked him.

Managing is about balancing conflicting goals. If you think managing is easy, please stay away from it--your team will be better for it.
We're inundated with information every day. We don't have enough time in our lifespan to individually process all of that information.

Hence we need a system that naturally filters out the noise and out only input to is to ensure that the system is fair.
Has anybody here tried out the 8 GB model? Thinking about getting one for the kids but not sure if 8 GB will be enough. This blog seems to be a +1.
We are also left to wonder why people think Trump gives a single fuck about this country or the republican party.
But if the deleted content turns out to be true after SCOTUS ruling, it would be Google who undermined the 2020 US Election Results. Its a double-edged sword.
The battery is on the HBA. If you lose power it will replay all uncommitted writes. Specifically, to the ZIL but for everything else too. (Originally these were batteries but they are mainly supercapacitors now.)

Just saw this interesting SNIA presentation, which indicates that having NVDIMMs might be even better than NVMe for ZIL.

https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SDC/2018/presentati...

NVDIMM as RAM+FLASH+capacitor:
https://www.vikingtechnology.com/products/nvdimm/
I don't really feel like everyone's concerns are resolved by creating more unaccountable entities that all have everyone's data
The front-end is a static site. I used terraform to setup the S3 bucket & Cloudfront.

The search backend is running on Typesense Cloud, which is point and click to provision.

This is my 1-line deployment command: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search/blob/7b5...

That's it for the infra! No API Gateway.

Hmmm, seems to be up for me. Could you show me a console+browser screenshot of what you see?
> I’m not using this example of fraud to prove that the entire electoral system is broken

You could have fooled me. Your previous comment contained no such qualification, leaving an open ended implication which seemed to be intentional.

Most people responding to this example are pointing out the problems with it, and they don't seem to have any issue being quite frank about how this evidence doesn't show fraud, doesn't show systematic error, doesn't show that the election outcome would be different.

No one interested in the facts should be willing to take that as a starting point and proceeding to entertain this kind of meandering, open ended, unprovable and vague speculation that you seem to want to steer the conversation toward.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817850

> Can someone please tell me how Instagram's actual content is worth anything? We're talking about photo-filtered cell phone camera shots here. Facebook doesn't need a user acquisition ploy. I guess maybe it's a move to keep users in Facebook, but I'd be willing to bet a million bucks that almost everyone is discovering Instagram content via Facebook or Twitter. Seems like mostly a huge waste of cash.
...but it did happen, and has actual admissible evidence to support it. If it weren't for the unprecedented obstruction from the WH on the matter, we'd know even more currently - but, we'll have to wait for a year or so to get more of the story.

Still blown away how trumpism has infected the HN crowd this deeply.
Re-election. All paper ballots, in person and hand counting with observers.
The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook
The "slippery slope" argument doesn't work in this case (as for usual). Youtube already removes certain types of content and it already removes certain types of political content. This is necessary to monetize the platform in a meaningful way.
Ask HN: Tips to job search on a slow net connection?
Other than getting a faster connection which, duh, if I could get one, this thread wouldn't exist lol. I had a job in software development and due to very bad circumstances I haven't had work in a very long time and close to running out of money. I live in the US and do not qualify for unemployment pay.

One thing I have lost is the ability to pay for internet other than whatever I get through my phone. This data connection is really throttled when I tether it through my PC and it's pretty frustrating to do anything online with it. I thank sites like HN still exist which sip bandwidth. My slow connection is barely just passable for Reddit, and resource heavy websites like LinkedIn and several job web apps fail to load half of the time. Bad requests and timeouts become common. I'm also a member of a Slack group of professionals which is actually very helpful for people in my field to network and share job resources, which now I unfortunately cannot access because it takes forever to load.

Most shops and cafe public areas are closed due to Covid making it hard to use a public Wifi.

How do people navigate the web to look for jobs efficiently on a slow connection, when basically everything in my field is done online? Anyone else faced a similar situation and is it possible to fix without just throwing money at it (which I don't have)? I can't find anything locally about public assistance for decent internet service when job searching greatly depends on it.
Last time I tried deno there was some friction with depending on npm packages that didn't natively support deno without vendoring, is that easier nowadays? Can we seamlessly import anything from npm inside deno-run code and use the deno stdlib side-by-side with node_modules code? We love the Deno direction and would even willing to donate $ to grow its development, but for us it's pretty much non-starter to switch to a different runtime until we can use the wealth of packages available on npm without any additional friction.

The Deno docs here almost seem to purposefully avoid answering this question: https://deno.land/manual@v1.6.0/examples/import_export
I'm not implying it's harder to find infrastructure. I'm arguing that developers don't want to pay for any infrastructure improvements needed to keep services operating in the same manner with more people. Like everyone else, they're self interested and will act in ways that maximize their own interests, even if it externalizes certain costs to the surrounding community. I suspect it's also more expensive per person to upgrade existing infrastructure compared to building it new.

In terms of who should improve infrastructure, it doesn't really matter who does it, but I think either local government or the developer should be required to do it and not be allowed to let things slide. I focus on the developer because they're the first in the process, but it doesn't matter if instead the city requires the developer to build in the infrastructure improvement costs and does it themselves. The only position I have is that it should get done.
Crime has been coming down after prop 47 passed. This is such a common myth that I put the data into google sheets for these discussions.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QgrfJvfa8XaVm0MEfU4j...
The best way I’ve found to remember what I read is to read books in a way that they connect, recently that was Antifragile and The Plague (which is talked about in the conclusion of the latter). I did the same with Digital Minimalism and Atomic Habits.
America, please don’t put bleach inside yourself like the president says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/24/america-p...