skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You originally posted as lucideer then instead of editing that you posted as piaste.

It looks like there are more of us than there are, possibly.
Wish HN would document such things, feels a bit gate-keeper-y but I doubt intentional.
What about things in-between like an extremely slow and limited laptop that still works? How long do you keep it?
Can you sell your stake to another outside investor, and let that investor deal with the co-founder?
I don't have a clue about economic realities (especially not now in late 2020), but current market value is the market's bet on possible future earnings, not current state of affairs.

Maybe the market's valuation is a lot of people betting on Tesla being able to scale up dramatically in a pace that current car manufacturers will not be able to catch up with. Not entirely unthinkable.
Wow you even block CSS.
It's doesn't matter. Tesla's stock price is around 450 times its cash flow, which is an order of magnitude beyond insane for a public company. Apple is around 30. The average S&P500 company is around 15. For Tesla's stock to be worth the same relative to the company's business as Apple the stock should be 15X less than it is now. To justify this price they would have to sell 15X more vehicles. Apple's gross margins are like 30%, cars are probably just a few % due to the complexity of making something as big as a car. Unless Tesla becomes the only seller of cars in the world, there is no way it will ever be worth the current price.
The modern stock markets have been insane since at least the 90s, and I bet there are some underlying banking and finance rules which led to the changes in overall market sanity.

If you go back in time, value investors really dig into companies to try to understand their current and probable future values.

Also, I believe it was rare or never that companies could pull off an IPO without some history of profitability.

At least since the dot-com era, hype-only (no valid financials) IPOs became common.

I suspect the whole VC funding ponzi system had something to do with this. Uber was my favorite example... years of never-profit, but rather multiple higher rounds of funding and then IPO.

But at least in the case of Tesla, they not only have managed to build actual cars that sell well, but more importantly they are a battery company. This last bit is probably a big part of their future valuation.
Yeah worst case just cut them off.

In any case shoe salesmen are actually in the business of telling customers their shoe fits even when it doesn't.

A relative who was a shoe salesman in the forties told me if the shoe was too small, tell them it'll fit in the morning because feet swell in the afternoon. If the shoe was too big say it had to have a distance between the toe and the end of the shoe of about one finger width.

In reality you should actually try on shoes until one actually fits comfortably.

I highly doubt this machine was actually used for finding better-fitting shoes as opposed to being a magical contraption used to give authority to the shoe salesman so he could sell more, more expensive shoes faster and with less work.
FBA is not a profit center according to an Amazon employee I spoke with.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

9-11 taught us many things. One of which was that we don't need to crack all encryption on the planet. The "suspects" who did this were exactly that. Previously been identified as potential baddies, with the intent to do bad things. Authorities knew them/about them. Authorities failed to track/monitor/<other verbs> them, and 9-11 happened (and it was a horrible horrible event).

Now, for the solution. Get authorities to get their shit straight, remove their heads from their asses, operate properly.

The solution that "if nothing is a secret we would have prevented that".. imho doesn't stand. One shouldn't go about messing up with EVERYONE's privacy (and defined rights) because 100/1000 people in the world are baddies. The world shouldn't create next one Stasi in every country because of 9-11 or Bataclan or London Bridge.

And lack of transparency is a pure characteristic of a "Stasi".

Anyone with power, funding, combined with no transparency or accountability will become a dictator in their own domain.

Humanity is not yet mature 'enough' ('enough' varies - eye of the beholder thingie)(btw this is not a threat, it's dissapointment/acceptance).
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I've been loading the Youtube homepage every 15 minutes for the past week (I've been sick). It's the same videos over and over again. If I scrolled past it the first time, I'm still going to scroll past it the 100th time I see it.
I find YT does a gradient ascent into more popular videos.

I start out listening to a song with 1000 views, I get recommended 10k view songs, then 100k, and before you know it it's back in the mainstream. There's no way to surf a niche, to hunt in a pile of bin ends.

I imagine it's similar for conspiracy stuff. It'll point you in the direction of the most convincing nonsense.
Named for Stanislaw Ulam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam

Were you?
I live in Moscow (Russia), and decent steaks here start at about $100. Japanese wagyu beef would cost you much more though.
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It used to be the case, and I also avoided using OsmAnd in cities for years, but my recent attempt was far more successful. I think they finally fixed their search, at least I didn't encounter any issues with it lately. It's still definitely worse than most apps for hotels, stores, restaurants and so on, but is much less laggy anymore, and is indispensable for biking and pedestrian navigation as it shows every little OSM detail, unlike most other apps that focus on businesses.
Looks like the parent ran his comment through a strikethrough character generator; I don't believe HN supports it natively.
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I don't know how I was wasting my time watching skateboarding and far right videos...

I like stakeboarding but I am 41 and I have not practiced skateboarding in years.

But I am on the left on politics.

I delete the youtube app and put a URL blocker to stop this behavior.
Personally, I find the opposite. When I watch conservative content on YouTube, the recommended video is almost always very milquetoast - almost always an episode of “Uncommon Knowledge” by the Hoover Institute (despite me finding those extremely boring and therefore actively avoiding them), or a speech by Roger Scruton/Jordan Peterson/Douglas Murray - thinkers who are right-wing, but “safe”.
Seeing this, it looks as if there could be a simple workaround to protect anybody who thinks they might be infected, by getting their webserver / proxy to block all incoming http requests with any of these headers.
Does anyone else find these toxic post on HN to be toxic, not even trying to make a cheap point here. At least on twitter and YT I can consistently ban thinks that play on cheap emotions.
there's a distinction between consumer and business-to-business contracts and the california law applies only to the former.

per https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...:

17602 says, "It shall be unlawful for any business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer . . . "

where 17601 defines a consumer as "any individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or lease, any goods, services, money, or credit for personal, family, or household purposes."
I literally only watch one type of video on YouTube (chess games).

The entirety of my recommendations are Jordan Peterson.

Wtf
> in the next 10 years they'll all going to struggle to develop re-usable rockets that can keep pace with SpaceX.

National space programmes don't even need to have re-usable hardware.

Building hardware to be mission specific for 2-3 launches per year may well be cheaper than to re-engineer, and then reuse.

Saturn 5 is sixties technology, parts, and materials.

The biggest thing that contenders in national space programmes lack is really a match of talent with sane leadership. This is the thing that was exposed times, and times again by successes of Indian space programme.
Mapy.cz or WindyMaps don't.
I'm no Tesla short seller.

They make damn nice products, but I feel like you aren't really getting for what you think you're paying for.

The FSD option isn't a real thing yet. You've effectively paid for a promise of a feature (if they ever deliver it?). While I do see the value in the data they've collected, I haven't been very impressed with their autonomous driving promises.

Before there was FSD, 'autopilot' is what they marketed as their driverless offering.
I’m quite enjoying it- I don’t watch anything political, and if anything comes up that’s a bit strange I just don’t watch it and eventually it goes away. It’s recommending me some great old footage of shows and some interesting new channels, mostly around engineering etc.

I suspect if you try and use it as a news source or anything other than entertainment it would be dangerous.
I find youtube recommendations crap because if I watch something on one subject it seems to assume the subject is now the love of my life and proceeds to offer a zillion on just that subject.

regarding what the article is talking about ... eh, it seems like they're saying it works fine but sometimes puts up videos whose politics they don't like. Short of going in and removing the stuff you don't like so that other people won't get to see it I don't see how you fix this. It's presumably the same algorithm that's working most of the time that's surfacing the crap.
The trick is to actively tell YouTube what you don’t like, it work quite well for me.
I've also been using btrfs for 5+ years. When the USB stick I keep my home server's file system on didn't boot after a power outage I stuck it into my PC, performed the simplest repair on it (don't remember which) and everything was great again.

The most annoying issue I've run into (and I really hate it) was being low on space and it being really hard to free some since it's very intransparent what's actually using it - but with btdu I mostly got that under control as well.

That said when repairing the boot drive I did experience some confusion due to there being multiple different ways - the documentation could be better on that front. For simple things at least (subvolume management, snapshot creation, checking free space) I've been quite happy with the btrfs command line tool.
One thing Btrfs somewhat promised was mixed disk RAIDs. Ie, having a 2TB disk and a 1TB disk and being able to say "keep 2 copies of any data in this subvolume" and "keep only 1 copy in this subvolume".

I'm currently on Bcachefs, which has erasure coding with similar promises and works better for me.

ZFS is more rigid, I have to have all matched disks for best performance, plus RAM unless I like bad performance (I don't). This could be solved by striping disks into 1TB partitions, but ZFS doesn't like living on a partitioned disk nearly as much.

Mixed disk has a bunch of cool properties for homelab users. Bcachefs also solves another problem; caching and speed. I could designate my 1TB NVMe as fast and my SATA 2TB SSDs as slow. I could also define that /tmp requiers no Erasure Coding and everything else requires 2 replicas. Then I would be able to combine the performance of my NVMe with the capacity of my SATA SSDs while gaining a simple redundance solution. My NAS has a dozen of mixed disks that I could combine more easily than ever.

The issue with ZFS is not that it's not ready to use. The issue is that it's born from enterprise and requires a costly enterprise setup to run, rather than a cheap homelab setup.
get well soon. May you want watching some TED talks instead. :)
I'm not saying don't learn RocksDB - quite the opposite. It's a great tool to have in your toolbelt.

I'm saying that unless you've used and hit the limits of RocksDB - and it's already absurdly fast - there's zero reason to utilize this project.

Maybe it'll mature one day, have multiplatform support and a wide array of client libraries, and be to RocksDB what RocksDB was to LevelDB. But today is not that day.

For now, developers that don't immediately understand what this project is for would best be served with a simple link to RocksDB.
> could be seen as self-serving

Almost spit out my coffee there.
so how does it work so go on me? I find urges to check the feed all the time. But the content rarely engages me. I watch a couple minuets then switch. What is going on here? why am I gravitated towards it? Can I use the same process to my benefit? Like can you build your own algorithm to get you addicted o healthy information?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
tl;dr;:

+ "Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult with legal, policy and public relations teams before pursuing topics such as face and sentiment analysis and categorizations of race, gender or political affiliation, according to internal webpages explaining the policy."

+ "A senior Google manager reviewing a study on content recommendation technology shortly before publication this summer told authors to 'take great care to strike a positive tone,' according to internal correspondence read to Reuters."

+ surprisingly, there's not much else in the article beyond those two sentences

Edit: as commenters noted, there is more in the article. I apologize for not being clear that the last bullet is just MY OPINION. That is, for me the rest is not as meaningful as some consider it. I guess, if you care deeply on the subject, you'll want to read the article and decide for yourself.
Please correct me, but I don't think this applies if the suspect is un-involved in the decryption process. I think this was meant to prevent a suspect from being forced to give up their passwords.
Sure, I'm not saying that it shouldn't be cited in the text. I'm just saying it doesn't belong to the first paragraph, as one of the most important things. You don't celebrate cars/apfelstrudel anniversary in Germany for example with such sad memories. The nazis and every authoritarian regime used/uses every technology available to control the people and spread fear.
Ah ha, but you see, you can perform transformations on tagless-final terms that are not strict catamorphisms. Oleg demonstrates this in (page 14)[0] with examples of reassociating binary expressions and double negation, so matching two levels deep is possible.

As for matching remaining terms, I don't know the answer to that, would be interesting to investigate.

Yeah, having many typeclasses involved could be problematic. What sort of issues are you thinking of? One possibility is that so many constraints are involved no concrete type can instantiate a final term.

[0] http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/course/lecture.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437
Moreover, the worst year was 1992, which isn't in the 80ies last I checked...
> I didn't talk bad about the company that I was getting my paycheck from

Have you ever been in a union workplace?
Sure, and in theory directly selling to customers and manufacturing a higher percentage of parts should allow them to extract more profit per vehicle than using dealerships. EV’s also allow car companies companies to profit from ‘gasoline’ sales as the lower operating costs are linked to higher purchase prices.

However, none of that supports the insane increase in Tesla’s stock price over the last 2 years. That’s likely an artifact of so many short sellers which ironically drive up the price faster if a stock starts to rise, and with a 40% increase in revenue in 2020 some rise would be appropriate. As the saying goes the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Educate your non tech friends to use adblockers, vpn and cleaning browser data after each session. Actually YouTube has decent search with filters. Don’t use any suggested video search an build a profile ( if you wish).
Yeah I wonder if in the future we won't see this as a terrible crime (pushing the next dopamine hit to a bunch of addicts) or if humanity needs to evolve to gain much much more self control.
Market reflects future not present . That is how I take it.
Tesla in itself is a fully vertical car Company
+ Chip Company (think Nvidia)
+ Battery/Electrical/Electronics Company (Custom Battery Cell)
+ Materials Company (Custom materials including Aluminium n leather)
+ IT Company (Self Driving Division)
+ Automation Company

Please add if I missed something
Good starting point would be https://www.youtube.com/c/MunroLive/videos
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Treat it like writing, there is such a thing as a first draft. It’s going to suck, but this is not the draft you put all your edits in. The draft is just a vision for what it should be.

Then, no matter the impulse to leave it alone and mark it as ‘working code’, go back and edit it.

This alleviates the pressure as it’s only your first draft, followed with a discipline to go back and fix your abstractions, organization, and elegance.
Downvoters, you may want to imagine a world in which the parent has a... wait for it... sense of humor
>I'll open a website and nothing will appear because nowadays it's normal to load all content through Javascript.

I,ve found this behavior to be strongly correlated with low-quality content, another waste of my time.

Unless I already know I want to read the site, I,ll often close the tab at this point and move on.

Chances are, nothing of value is lost.
> most of the 'stolen' things are actually just people getting blood/vomit/poop on things and being embarrassed about it so they take them home

How do they know?
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0336
It can depend a lot on your definition of "ready to use".

For instance, a common threshold for "ready to use" is "included in a released version of the upstream Linux kernel, and not under CONFIG_BROKEN or CONFIG_STAGING". Under that definition, neither ZFS nor bcachefs are "ready to use".
This book may have value to learn something about meditation, but it also has exactly the kind of "mystic woo" I was talking about.

In the first few sentences it talks about the "soul" wanting to return back to it's source, the "supreme consciousness". Then a couple pages further, a statement about reincarnation:

"If you don’t believe in rebirth then this book will be of little use to you. As I said earlier, meditation to me is the most powerful tool to harness and channelize the restive and other tendencies of the mind we’ve been carrying with us over lifetimes."
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I don't even know anymore what's the word "toxic" means and what do people think it means.
I just read the headline, but I feel like Karma is beginning to hit them back. They bred like rats for decades, and continue to do so, leading to extreme overpopulation, leading in turn to extreme pollution. In the end, there's only so much population a territory can support before individuals start dying off. Whether this is by starvation or air pollution, it all originates from the same issue. They really need to start working on birth control.

And don't get me wrong, I have nothing against indians. Would this happen anywhere else (and it is) my reaction would be identical.
Beware the filter bubbles: https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s

Using scientific unification as a cognitive guide to understand this holistically: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375714499/

Developers! Startups! Cap tables! Unicorns! Disrupt YC and tune it out.
devil's advocate; doing a job takes time, whereas just getting paid does not. Making it harder to have an additional side-job. (it's a common belief that you need to be unemployed and looking for employment before getting a handout)

Also, whoever's "guaranteeing" those jobs can get work done, if you're into that sort of thing. e.g. digging/filling holes, or building roads to nowhere.
Hah, reminds me of this literature teacher I had in school. She asked us to write a report on the positive aspects of Hamlet. I remember sitting at home and thinking "Well... It could have been worse - more people could have died, that's positive thinking, right?"
The ACLU has lost a great deal of moral clarity once they began taking on political positions. They no longer have the clout they once had, in the eyes of many.
This was useful. Do you know how painful it would be to use Stan with 100k rows, or even 1m? (For a sorta normal hierarchical model)
In Terminator Genesis, the AI was put in a good light also- on billboards and such.

It didn’t work in that movie, though. The AI still ended up being hostile even when the public embraced it.

Why are we xenophobic about AI self-awareness? idk
Life as an “Untouchable” in India
Google is a for profit corporation, not a college campus, news at 11.
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Anyone who has ever installed virtio-win by yum is vulnerable
Then the rest of the 99% of workers would compete for the remaining 1% of jobs based on how things have gone so far.
To everyone who says 'good webcam must be expensive' and 'you need light first'.

No, and no. I am testing Reincubate Camo with my iPhone XS, and the image (together with computed portrait blur) is absolutely awesome, and several times better than any webcam tests I see.
However, the set up is tedious.

First kickstarter to take an upper midrange smartphone sensor (<$40 BOM) and connect it to at least middling ISP and USB controller wins $100+ of my cash easily, and will be the best thing that happened to webcam market since its conception.

I have no idea how can Logitech sell atrocities like Brio and call them premium webcams.

And I am baffled by everyone who insist that hack from a DSLR, Elgato, and a bag of cables to keep it powered is that only possible solution. To me, this feels like the famous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Serious question: how do you define "valid financials" and why?
Again, its pretty sad if one can't figure out how to talk to another person without shaming them, denigrating their sex or making inappropriate advances. How about, talking professionally about the job?
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Hey hackers!

I switched laptops and cannot for the life of me remember the name of an nodejs hosting provider I wanted to try.

They recently showed up on Show, and could deploy nodejs apps instantly from terminal.

Please help a lost soul.
Another thing, don't click on a "Clickbait" video because you are curious, it will open the gates of hell and destroy your recommendations for a week.
I did try this a few times, but usually it have little effect on my recommendations.
"box model" is the term to google.
...and that's why we release vaccines slowly and carefully, I imagine.
The malinvestment seems to be a byproduct of low interest rates, too many investment dollars facing too few returns, and increasing wealth inequality (further driving too much investment capital).
On a recent Thrasio podcast they explained that they look at all financials. Which also includes purchasing third party services to ensure that businesses were not buying anything illegal or against ToS.
FWIW I do also have an iPad Pro + Pencil, and that was sensational for note taking during lectures etc. while studying (GoodNotes made all my scrawled handwriting indexed and searchable by text) and it remains great for drawing diagrams with neat shapes and various colours.
It's not as compelling to write about positive experiences.

The main competitor to btrfs is zfs, which is harder to set up, arguably more complex and has licensing issues so you can't really ship things with it built in.

I like zfs on my server, but am also happy with btrfs on my laptop.