skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twenty-five year ago that would fool people. Now things are complex enough that you can't help but leave clues even as you're trying to plant them.

The DPR was caught in part from a post on Stack Overflow where he was asking a question unique to his platform. Imagine how hard it would be to write the Flame malware. Now imagine the NSA and CIA hunting for traces afterword. Building that malware required deep information on many system that would likely require badges or intensive social engineering to access, both of which leave traces. Do you really think you could hide?

I'm an expert (of sorts) and I'm not sure that I could buy drugs on the dark web 100% securely if those resources were hunting me.
Well Jesus, I think the people commenting here in HN were exactly right not to hype an unproven and unreliable looking techno-currency. If that made you not to want to invest in bitcoin, not just gamble, then I guess they did their purpose. Did they stop you buying it also when it was 10 or 100?

The fact is nobody knew where it was going back then. In hindsight sure you can try to shift the blame to others, but seriously I have always noticed that if I do investments based on emotional whims without understanding what I am actually buying I never feel comfortable owning said asset. Then I have no idea if the current price is right or wrong and whether I should sell it or not.

But coming back to your main point, it is more than usual that no small portion of HN comments are conservative and critical towards any new innovations. Therefore, it is up to the reader to make their own research and judgement before taking anything said here for granted. I like that criticality, to some extent, as that keeps you grounded in reality but it is true for certain that some of it is just plain old resistance to change.
And do those cyclists “being assholes” kill 50000 Americans a year? Or even close to the proportional equivalent?

The fact that people driving 2 ton steel killing machines complain about cyclists being “assholes” when it’s overwhelmingly their killing machines that, you know, kill cyclists, pedestrians, and other people in killing machines, is a remarkable display of entitlement.
At peak time, I can stand at the crossing outside Old Kent Road ASDA for 5 minutes and see 3-5 cars actively jumping a red light with 5-10 others entering the junction without a clear exit (means other cars and pedestrians have to weave around them when the lights change.)
The TV series really were perfection and not just down to Sir Alec Guinness. Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton, Michael Jayston etc were all wonderful - not to mention Arthur Hopcraft's adaptation. The opening scene with four men, an office, no action and four words of dialogue, yet a world of detail sets the tone for the rest of the series [1]

Recently re-reading TTSS with Alec Guinness's Smiley in my imagination was a wonderful experience. Thank you John Le Carre.

PS One oddity is that in TTSS Toby Esterhase has a British accent but in SP he's acquired a broad Hungarian one!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPPjxlmp4U
Of course James Bond is way too obvious, but a technique is to send a few decoys to focus enemy attention on them while the real spy is quietly doing the job.
What does drawndown have to do with ATH? The SPX is ~50 points (1.3%) from its ATH right now (3663 as of Friday close) vs ATH of 3715 on 12/9. It's reasonable to say "close to ATH".

Edit: Corrected points and added percentage.
No one got a chance to short WeWork since the IPO never happened.
That‘s great!
> in natural language, 'and' usually implies set union

well, sometimes it can be syntactically ambiguous too, right?

e.g. "I welcome big and small dogs" vs "I welcome well-behaved and properly groomed dogs"
We have anti-drunk-driving programs where I live, and they work. These comprise of surprise, out of the blue road blocks and spot checks. They work.

Ergo, at least some of this can indeed be solved.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2016001/article...

That's a drop to 1/3, in 30 years.

Further, drunk driving used to be much more accepted. In the "old days", cops would often let people go if they were drunk, but seemed OK at driving.

Now there is absolutely zero tolerance for drunk driving, which also means that if there is an accident/death, and even the hint of alcohol, it is now labelled as 'drunk driving'. This is partially to reinforce the (needed) narrative, but also because cops hate to see this sort of thing, and therefore, it increases the penalties when someone dies.

This inflates the statistics, yet the rate is, as seen, extensively reduced.

Beyond spot checks, you now have a very low tolerance for any alcohol in the blood. Down to 0.05 where penalties start, meaning that even a full grown man worries about drinking a beer (recall, we have stronger alcohol content in beer in Canada) and driving.

These sorts of things, and more, can dramatically change the landscape... regardless of human nature.

I agree however, that there will always be outliers. Those that do not comply. However, you're trying to link "Driving cars", with "See all the ills they cause!", which I deem to be highly unfair and non-logical.

You could point to any other thing, knives, guns, chainsaws, ladders, and explain how due to human nature, these things will sometimes be used for ill. While this is true, it is a nasty trick, in order to get ones personal peeve resolved.
Can I integrate it somehow with my goodreads account?
My question to this would be, why wouldn't you have this as your house if this area is close. Why commute?

Just move that 20-30 further from city/town to a few acres and have your office in a room in said house. And now you 'commute' to town when you want town things, which is probably far less than daily for most.

This is what I did anyway, and personally its been a great choice.
It's the tragedy of the commons
This is a great copypasta.
If you look at Norway where EV's account for close to 50% of new car sales you'll find that Tesla is not outselling anyone. Most sold EV this year was the Audi e-tron, followed by VW e-golf. Tesla M3 on 5th place. Tesla has the best range, but it's not that far ahead of the competition and it is generally more expensive than the competition.
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So, there's no consensus because writes are coming from a single process.

I must say, I'm a little bit disappointed : that's not the world-changing algorithm I was hoping for.
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I see a lot of comments complaining about the times pedestrians haven been hit/near hit by bicycles. Setting aside the fact that this is entirely because the majority of infrastructure places bicycles extremely close to pedestrians, have you ever considered the obvious reason why we don’t hear as many complaints about pedestrians that have been hit multiple time’s by cars? Here’s a couple of hints.

1) The hits by cars result in the deaths of tens of thousands of pedestrians per year in the US compared to single digits, if any, by bicycles.

2) Dead people don’t write HN comments.
Stuxnet should also get a honorable mention (:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4339781-teslas-transformati...
Director at Nvidia published a list of people to be harassed for their views
For CRUD internal tools, I'd still consider taking a look at other software vendors in the space. Everyone is moving so fast really.

- https://www.forestadmin.com // Fastest way to build self-hosted admin panels on top of SQL (Postgres, MySQL...) and Mongo databases

- https://www.appsmith.com // Open source alternative to retool

- https://www.internal.io // A no-code alternative to all the above

- https://www.basedash.com // Very spreadsheet like XP, YC20 startup
> Unfortunately Java’s structure seduces the unwary programmer into excessive abstraction. Between demanding a class for everything and enforcing all types at compile time, it encourages you to lay down layer after layer of formalism in class and interface declarations.

To me, it's not really about "seduction", it's about inviting the programmer to abstract away with tools that are heavily unfit for the job. If your only means of abstraction is a class, everything starts to look like a method call.

That's why I enjoy Common Lisp's ability to create macros on multiple stages of the language's operation: reading code, compiling code, substituting function calls. These make it possible to introduce new syntax where necessary, which in turn makes the code shorter, and to write compile-time optimizations that do not get in the way of the main function bodies.
What if non-sexist gender differences make it harder for them to succeed, like the higher likelihood to drop out to have children, and overall less pressure to succeed?
Both the cooling and how electric motor works. They lose out power after 60mph or 1/4-mile distance whichever comes first.
Amazon was forced to shut down IMDB boards, because the discussions on the most popular blockbusters had devolved into flamewars, people posting obscenities and threats, etc. Amazon ended up having to pay a lot of money for workers to police the forums. It does suck that cinephiles having reasonable discussions about less-popular movies got caught in the crossfire, but I totally understand why Amazon did it, and in fact many large companies have taken down fora on their websites for the same reason.
Shorting the stock market makes no sense because central banks prop up stocks. All that newly created money goes into your pocket if you go long.
I think if the Justice department was more technically savvy, and in one of its strongly anti-trust eras, they would see this as Amazon extending its monopoly power, and the Justice department might stop this.
I would add to this, my job of marketing is part creative part analytical.

To do one well I need time on it. I'm not at my best if I do creative for an hour then analytics for an hour and so on across the day.

At least for me, I prefer to block time to lock my brain into a format for better result. Guessing here but would say 3-4hour minimum.
Well, I also feel that this year HN discussions are seeing more bickering and more endless discussions where we have seen each side’s arguments a thousand times. The discussions feel a little bit more predictable than pre COVID. Or maybe I just spend more time in the comments...
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This makes absolutely no sense.

If you’ve ever biked in a city, you would know that the people who get pissed more than anyone else by bikers following red light rules are the cars behind them that cannot accelerate when the light turns green, because the biker in front of them is slow to get going.

Invariably, they will simply get pissed and try and pass the bike dangerously, if not honk or hit them out of the way.
Also I don't get it - alcohol free mouthwash exists.
(love your HN username)

Are you implying that Bitcoin should reach a much higher price?
Important to note that her own cousins helped set up the kidnapping and there is no drug transaction or service mentioned. Was done purely for money. Also, this isn’t a story about just one event. A much broader story is laid out. A quick search shows ~1300 confirmed kidnappings per year with 70000 reported missing. A kidnapping ending in death may just get reported as a murder. These numbers indicate a systemic problem.
So much that it is a consumer industry now:
“To pay the first ransom, Mrs. Rodríguez’s family took out a loan from a bank that offered lines of credit for such payments.”
For those reasons, I think it is likely they have better odds with VC investors, too. It just depends on what data you pick to make a story.
The concept is intriguing. One thing I would do is trying to find books orthogonal to my tastes rather than opposites.

I do not want to find books I know I will hate, I want to find books around axis I have not even considered.
How clean is the air in your office?
Probably not the same Brian Warner, but I admit I've never seen them in the same room at the same time.
Well. They are representative of a wide variety of different work cultures within Google. And if one were to join it would depend on the team/manager one ends up with what part of the stories told would be representative to you.

As always in big corporations there is no one culture, but an amalgamation of many different subcultures. They can have a shared core, but even that becomes more unlikely the more a company grows. At least in my experience.
Well I guess then it is different for each person what induces mental load. I for one sometimes just use my mouse to click and copy things or insert a character here and there or to go to some other line. Why? Because I can think about the next problem while I do that because I don’t have to think about any keystrokes.
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What the?

Speed limits where I live are lower than they should be, not higher. Painting is designed to aid drivers, and improve safety, not induce greater speed. Speed limits are enforced, for people receive tickets all the time. There is plenty of transport available where I live, to take the bus or other public transport -- or even bike, to get to where you want!

All of your examples do not apply here. They're made up.

I do realise that in the US, you have these weird zoned areas, instead of having supermarkets in communities and so on.

But to have people get upset, and demande wider roads (for safety), to demand roads are better marked (for safety), then have someone come along 20 years later and yell "why are these roads so wide and well marked, that's unsafe" is a bit much to stomach.
The problem is one that I've witnessed, but uh:

> Good Java should resemble C

The recommendations are a mixture of things that are... questionable, and things that really apply to basically any big refactor regardless of paradigm, language, or problem.

But getting back to the issue at hand: what I see from the Java/C# world is a mentality of "abstract unless there's a reason not to", instead of "don't abstract unless there's a reason to".

Charitably, this approach might be compared to the micro services pattern: if you're shipping your org chart, and your org chart is thousands of people across four continents, then maybe eagerly building out those fire-walls of decoupling can be useful. Stereotypically, at least, this seems to line up with the kinds of companies we tend to think of as using these languages.

But where it becomes a big problem is when it's used in a one, two, five-person project, and all those walls just become massive speedbumps, not only slowing you down but making it hard to drive straight.
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One of the locations used for the TV series was the BBC technical training centre.
As an 80' graduate engineer I "enjoyed" the "behind the iron curtain" feel to the accommodation. The onsite bar made up for it.
I remember attending a presentation from Pandroa many years ago and one thing struck me as very interesting. I am rephraizin from memory: "It is of little value to recommend obvious things. For example if you like Duke Ellington there is no point to recommend you Ella Fitzgeral d. You probably already aware of her. But if we recommend you a song by Madonna, whom you would not normaly consider listening, which happens to be very much in jazzy style you like, you will be pleasantly surprised." This is how you break a bubble.
The actual three men could be played that way for amusement precisely because they are not "First World".

First world people would and could just throw middle finger once narcissist starts to play that way. The third world men in question could be used this way, because they are poor.
While this makes sense to reduce plastic overall, it doesn’t help to eat less plastic right now.

Furthermore, I kinda think that this must be solved on a political level. It’s good if more and more people ask for plastic-free products, but don’t think that this changes anything on the individual level, especially if you consider that a lot of plastic in the oceans come from fishing nets.

It might actually make more sense to stop eating fish, if you want to have less plastic in your ocean.

So generelly: yes, try to reduce plastic, but also make it vocally (and vote) that this is important to you/all of us.
You argue that the scale of the problem does not make it different ("more of the same"). I disagree. I could not draw you a line in a gradient of white to black to demonstrate exactly where light-grey becomes dark-grey. That does not mean that there is no distinction between the two hues or that it cannot be demonstrated.

Also, you keep talking about equating it to violence, which I never said.
Who Holds Bitcoin?
Might have meant Babel which is part of a trilogy?
> Google sells user data, but that isn't true; user data is only used for ad personalization.

I mean, i guess that's a lot better in principle, but it still seems like basically the same thing with an extra layer of indirection. It certainly doesn't give me warm fuzzy feelings about google.
The actual steps are described there: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2020/12/13/customer-guidance...

1. Run up to date antivirus or EDR products that detect compromised SolarWinds libraries [...]

2. Block known C2 endpoints listed below in IOCs using your network infrastructure.[...]

3. Follow the best practices of your identity federation technology provider in securing your SAML token signing keys. [...]

4. Ensure that user accounts with administrative rights follow best practices, including use of privileged access workstations, JIT/JEA, and strong authentication. [...]

5. Ensure that service accounts and service principals with administrative rights use high entropy secrets, like certificates, stored securely.[...]

6. Reduce surface area by removing/disabling unused or unnecessary applications and service principals.[...]
A NAS system and several TBs of hard disks.
This is one of the most consistent misconceptions about Bitcoin.

The growth of Bitcoin mining in America is due to miners partnering with oil and natural gas producers to use the energy that would be otherwise wasted. Instead of excess natural gas being flared, it's being used to run Bitcoin miners [1].

Everyone should read Lyn Alden's "7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin" [2], where she addresses the energy use; here's an excerpt:

Furthermore, a significant portion of the energy that Bitcoin uses could otherwise be wasted. Bitcoin miners seek out the absolute cheapest sources of electricity in the world, which usually means energy that was developed for one reason or another, but that doesn’t currently have sufficient demand, and would therefore be wasted.

Examples of this include over-built hydroelectric dams in certain regions of China, or stranded oil and gas wells in North America. Bitcoin mining equipment is mobile, and thus can be put near wherever the cheapest source of energy is, to arbitrage it and give a purpose to that stranded energy production.

Bitcoin mining converts the output from those cheap stranded sources of energy into something that currently has monetary value.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/energy-giant-equinor-to-cut-gas-fla...

[2] https://www.lynalden.com/misconceptions-about-bitcoin/
Not just Valve and others, but much of the heavy lifting on Wine has been done by Codeweavers. If you are in the position to, one of the best ways to support them is to get your business to pay for their products (crossover, consulting, etc) if you are using Wine in a business setting.
I was honestly disappointed in The Queens Gambit. It was just so predictable, and started getting really repetitive. I love chess, but you just can't appreciate what it going on when they're moving that fast. Unless you want to play along and pause every few seconds, it just a whole bunch of repetitive scenes.
It's pretty nice to see that there are now several P2P techs.

This one seems pretty good, but unless you have a single client and unless the protocol is defined to do a single thing and do it well, I can't see it thrive.

For example bittorrent is a good tech because it only does one thing and users can understand it. Same for IPFS. Softwares like limewire or kazaa thrived because they were simple enough to use. Same goes for protocols.

In my view, decentralization requires:

* a client that runs on user's hardware

* a p2p database and filesystem, with this kind of append-only log and verification, that runs on the client

* server can still accelerate access access time

Generally with this kind of system, the goal is that each user can publish data/content either in a public/private manner, without being dependent on servers.

The only problem is being able to attract users and compete with popular platforms. If such a protocol+software can attract users who want a "privacy-aware" alternative to platforms like facebook, I could see it work.

Sometimes I wonder why there isn't more money invested to build such platforms, because the p2p internet seems to be the only viable solution to fight privacy issues.
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And they even have a business model: https://fastocloud.com/

Going to try this today, keep up the great work!!
Interestingly, if you consider it at all, it means that you need to move out now: otherwise you are going to be caught in the huge wave of moving people and will be unable to realize all benefits, i.e. you might have to take the loss on the house, etc. Also, if you spouse really wants to move...
The problem is not the language. It is possible to write very elegant and well-structured software in Java. The abstraction bloat usually seen in Java software comes from somewhere else, and I’m not sure where. Is it a symptom of corporate software? Is it Java’s popularity that attracts lots of mediocre programmers? Or is it that Java is often used for solving complex problems that are by definition hard to get right?
Wasn't the story of the Nobel with Meitner, that they took her off the list to protect her from Nazis?

In any case, she was given the highest possible honor by having an element named after herself, Meitnerium. It's absurd that she keeps appearing on those lists of allegedly overlooked female scientists.

Sure, she may have had to fight for recognition, but that is not unique to female scientists. Einstein had to work in a patent office, for example.

Similar with the story of Bell - not sure what exactly happened, but in any case she is not the only scientists who didn't get credit for her work. It happens to men on a regular basis, too. The assumption that it happened because of her gender may simply be wrong. (Edit: in the meantime she received 2.3M GBP via the "Special Breakthrough Price in Physics" https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-pulsars - as for the Nobel, they are a private organization, and it may be difficult to judge for outsiders what is the elementary work in a discovery. Maybe the people who designed the telescope are more deserving than the person who manned it, or whatever).

Sadly, there are few sources discussing why women were excluded from academia in former times. I suspect part of it was the church, another economic reasons as women had a high risk of dying from childbirth, making their education a risky investment. Even today, women work less on average over their lifetime compared to men, so investing in their education has lower returns.
So are you and the other person in agreement that it's conspiracy theory nonsense then?
probably harder to reliably get to Ethereum than to reliably get to any DNS server. for indiscriminately-targeted ransomware Namecoin etc. would make sense, but DNS is a better choice for internal networks.
Should be 125% though (or is it already obvious for everyone and just me being pedant ?)
AWS provides a sync API, I imagine they just mean that.