skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah. the latter doesn't work!

i think the first "right" step I took was that I asked for a broader role in the startup I was working for.
I didn't just want to be a senior dev anymore. I wanted to have client contact and also contact with potential suppliers/business partners.
At one of our business partners back then, I met a guy who brought last year up to 200k of business for me.
That was 5 years ago and we are friends since then, working together since 2 years.

So long-term relations are key. And patience. When I first met him he was just a great drinking buddy with whom I could talk about politics :P
I heartily recommend "In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" if anyone is interested in learning more about Nantucket whaling. It is a captivating true story that talks about the characters and culture involved in the whaling community. It is also apparently the story that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick.
How the next social network is going to make money
In my personal experience, git crashes about 1 in 3 commands I run on windows. Haskell takes ~10 times longer to compile on a ~4 year old desktop windows machine than a ~6 year old mac laptop. And I usually spend hours trying to get simple tools installed, vs. minutes on macs.
I'm not sure that was the goal? From reading about it, it sounded like intel was trying to develop a high performance apu?
I'm sorry I can't find the link but I remember reading a discussion on a freedesktop gitlab issue tracker in which some developers of other wayland desktops wanted to standarize a wayland protocol extension that everyone but Gnome already used. A Gnome dev showed up and told everyone this is not needed because the problem at hand is solved with dbus in Gnome. Everyone told him that the extension is already widely adopted (not to mention dbus was Linux only at the time and solving this with dbus would cut off any BSD users from that feature). The response was basically 'the only adoption that matters is Gnome adoption and Gnome did not adopt this, so it's irrelevant'.
I think we would also be hard pressed to find a political campaign succeed without the use of Twitter, Facebook, AWS and others. To claim that someone can successfully reach the masses without those tools is - an interesting proposition I personally don't think is possible.
Back Pressure
I would be glad about more people that contribute. But afaik launching this on PH would require to make it look more fancy. As you said tags and maybe screenshots. Otherwise I think the post will not get any attraction :)
Running a Blog with an iPad
Couldn't you say this about virtually any hardware improvement?
When we launched it a couple months ago, this was the biggest question. After a lot of discussion and feedback, this is the first step toward that answer. I was initially hesitant to offer any kind of paid option, but I think allowing users to support communities as well as offer other benefits while not subtracting from the overall experience, it could work.

It's kind of like a hybrid between Spotify, Twitch and YouTube Premium.
Maybe for a key hire with a specific skill-set. Principal engineer level probably can leverage severance since the hiring pipeline at that level is much slower
Maybe I’m stupid, but are you saying that it IS illegal in the coffee shop example? Sure it’s different, but for example giving grants and selling coffee, or even giving discounts on coffee, are not THAT different.

It would be interesting to know what the legal limit actually is.
generally speaking, yes. I work a lot in DX / dev productivity

- https://github.com/verdverm/pypge (algo I wrote, works like dijkstra's)

- https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuetorials.com/blob/main/co... (I hang around Cue online)

- https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof (the main thing I work on)
...when the CA (DigiCert) requires the private key to perform the revokation which Cloudflare does not give away
Yep, that's because it is a mixed bag. Certainly a step up from normal consumer grade stuff, and not as expensive as 'real' enterprise hardware. Had a lot of promise, and lots of hn folks like myself converted.

But I said had, because in 2020 the company seems to have transformed into a money-grabbing shitshow. Cloud for everything, deprecating fine hardware and fine software in favor of unneeded cloud stuff. Crappy firmwares with no easy way to rollback. CEO is supposedly running the company in the ground with outsourcing, constant crunch etc. There are some disgruntled ex ubiquity employees here and on reddit, if even half is true of what they say the company really needs to turn around soon, it is probably already to late.
That's an excellent example. Thanks for finding it.

I'd rather believe this was a combination of natural phenomenon and instrumentation failure than an alien visiting us from far far away.

After reading the text that doubt is definitely still strong.

It starts with conflicting reports from people on the ground.

They are never able to identify what it was.

And also the text reads as if it was written by a "believer" if you know what I mean.

Take this for example; WHEN THE 'F?4' TURNED FROM THE OBJECT AND APPARENTLY WAS NO LONGER A THREAT TO IT THE AIRCRAFT REGAINED ALL INSTRUMENTATION

That to me reads like someone who has watched too many scifi movies.

And the report goes on to say that a 2nd object came out of the original object and was estimated to be "half to one third the apparent size of the moon". wtf?

This whole report makes me question the sanity of everyone involved. And since it's now declassified why won't any of the at least 5 airmen involved step forwards?

And besides all that, what motive would these aliens have to come here and fly around with their light shows once a decade?
> Instead, they sold to a company that is often described as "the Oracle of hardware companies" and "a law firm with a few engineers"

Didn't Qualcomm beat out a ton of competitors?
Yes, but it was most likely because Gab could never get on Apple's App Store and was banned from Google's Play Store before Parler was even founded.

Funny how it's working out now…
I Studied 365 Data Visualizations in 2020
Right, there are other solutions, but "just cut the insurance check to employees" isn't a good option for employees.
To quote a dead comment:

"Am I missing something, or are they really being let off with less than a slap on the wrist, and no fines?
Not really sending a great message here, FTC."

Agreed. This is one of the most egregious abuses of privacy imagineable.
Not if the keys are generated by the client.

Signal also offers to label contacts for which you could verify the authenticity by another way.

Doing a video call with the contact can be a simple way to clear doubts, even if it is not a proper different channel.
So when was the "peak" for you, and what was different?

> IRC and forums are dead.

IRC was always doomed because it wasn't discoverable or usable for a typical person. I think it's more fair to complain that XMPP/Jabber died, because those were widely used by everyone who used Google Talk (and the original FB Messenger maybe?) and then were killed off. The big companies have done some awful bait-and-switch in terms of interop.

> Everyone has moved to things like FB and reddit, who have then killed off and censored many of these communities.

I think the perspective you are missing is that the censorship is the value for a lot of people. I personally didn't start using reddit until they started actively banning neo-Nazis and abandoning their "everything except violence is fine" policy.

The ultimate unregulated venues used to be (or maybe still are) forums, and I personally run a niche industry forum that has a lot of traffic. The problem with forums is that they require extensive, aggressive moderation to prevent spam just as a starter.

Then what you're left with is a choice of what culture you want. Do you want a mainstream culture that appeals to lots of people? Because you can't have that unless you create the kinds of rules that the corporate giants have created.

In summary, I think the issue with censorship is that everyone loves it and wants it in their social networks, but no one can 100% agree on what should be censored or not.
Personally class time in STEM courses has always been a waste for me. If it wasn't required for my degrees, I would just learn everything on my own, pass the tests and complete the assignments. OTOH I also attended a great books discussion based course and there the class time was essential to really dig into the texts. However, even that can be zoomified with a disciplined enough group.
Dropbox has executed its business well. While I'm certain they are working on some things unrelated to their core business, I can't imagine you need thousands of employees to keep things running smoothly and make incremental improvements to their data compression and deduplication scheme.
If they were storing that it would have been produced when they were forced to produce all data relevant to the case.
In Sundiver by David Brin they put all the heat in a laser, so they can beam it away from their craft
If aliens were actually found, it definitely wouldn't be announced in an unclassified document shared with everyone at NSA. Although I don't think it's a prank per se, just someone who wrote a cryptography puzzle and wanted to frame it in a cute way.
I'm curious if anyone has insight into the value of this kind of data.

I work with alternative data for investors, mostly consumer spend behavior - things like point of sale transactions and online cart contents. These have value in that you can correlate panel behaviors with a company's revenue or identify trends in the market.

But, for data like ovulation schedules or events like pregnancy, it seems that it's a lot of work (and based on the FTC ethically questionable) to see one-off events or target specific consumers a small set of products.

I must be looking at the available opportunities with some kind of blind spot, because I don't get why companies would pay for this sort of data.
I've only been at this for six months now, but what seems to be working for two of my children is to combine parent-student-paired activity (reading/watching course material) and practice exercises (usually solo but sometimes with parent if it is a new subject).

I feel like the paired activity is basically following the apprenticeship model, as I focus on showing them how to get through the material quickly and how to look up supplemental information or follow interesting tangents to keep it interesting.

The practice exercises then are more relaxing for them as they can just tune out to a certain extent and work through problems on their own.

One thing that is funny is that I am absolutely learning as well as we do this. About half of the material we have covered before I don't remember ever learning in high school, and the rest is a good refresher.
I will be banned here if I say the wrong things, just like just about anywhere else
Yes, and I trust Durov.
Affirm doubles after starting to trade despite strong IPO pricing
The discussion is about how maybe the law should work.
Fair. I'm still curious how you use that much space?
Pip has that feature now. Put this in your ~/.pip/pip.conf:

[global]
require-virtualenv = true

and then you get errors like:

$ pip install foo
ERROR: Could not find an activated virtualenv (required).
You don't compare builds because you probably don't actually have sources. What you do is use a special iPhone (a Security Research Device) that Apple grants some researchers or you use an emulator like the one from Corellium (to whom Apple recently lost a lawsuit over this emulator) to probe and step through the code. Find the key sections that do the real crypto work and make sure that they do what they are supposed to do and that they are getting the correct inputs.

There is a large group of people who do this sort of research, and some fraction of them do this research and actually talk about it or publish papers. If you could find a deliberate weakness in the security of an app like what we are talking about (or WhatsApp or iMessages) then you have just printed your own golden ticket to whatever mobile cybersecurity job you want for the next decade or two, so there is a bit of an incentive to publish if something like this was discovered...
If you are paranoid, you can do public key verification through another channel. People with high risk profiles should do this.
My $0.02 advice for dealing with toxic FOSS users: "You already got more than you paid for, closing this ticket for violation of basic human interaction protocols."
We might have guessed that
SPAC Mania Gives Early Investors Steady Returns with Little Risk
In that case you can probably hook up the GPIOs to a resistor ladder if you know the shape of the analog signal you're trying to sample.
Why do you think that this is due to your gender, rather than any other aspect?
Results and Insights from the Sustainability Survey we ran in 2020
" to let very different people "say" things like "Wow. I think you are stupid because I'm a racist/misogynist/classist asshole and the way you said it tells me you are the wrong color/a woman/poor."

Funny, because I see it more often as "I think you are stupid because you have an opinion which I don't agree with and has triggered me due to my hypersensitivity, assumption of ill will, and inability to handle issues which may require nuance which my ideology won't allow for, which therefore causes me to suppress you"

I see overt racism (or even 'classism' or misogyny) on HN very, very rarely, certainly not remotely common enough so as to be a primary impetus for down-voting.

Edit: as an exercise in reality, I'd urge anyone interested to have a cruise through top, say 100 current threads, and point out the examples of misogyny/racism/classicism, or at least this as a basis for voting patterns.
I think there's an economic principle here (and I don't know the sign), but this is all assuming a frictionless vacuum - in practice, Apple cannot sell 25% more M1 Macs if they lower their price to $800, or whatever, since their marginal costs rise in that case (because TSMC is totally booked!).
not the GP but I switched from PIA to Mullvad
A metal lamp shade, obviously. But, I Want to Believe.
Look for a appX-minimal package and add —-no-install-recommends.

Don’t ask why these are not the defaults.
I can vote and lobby for change. I’m asking where do others stand? If we don’t decide what is right, somebody else will.
Cloudamo. 100GB. I was managing something like 9.2GB on my Dropbox, so it'll be a big jump. They say you can upgrade storage space but I don't know how the pricing works for that.
Yep it is not easy to admit you were wrong and to have to make such drastic changes in your life. Especially not in the current climate. I had to do the same thing, and it is difficult, but also rewarding in a spiritual sense. Much respect to you, and good luck.
I can't help but think that this is exactly the kind of things that the US army must secretly have a better version of.
I have a Sytem76 Oryx as my personal dev machine and a new macbook pro at work. The System76 was much more trouble to setup initially, but has been better in almost every way since then. The Oryx fan can be kind of loud, but the fan on my new macbook is CRAZY loud when it kicks on.

I like the thicker case as well. The mac just feels too flimsy when I'm banging away on the keyboard.
So it’s ok to label Parler as “right wing news” as a justification to bring it down? But “alt” or Liberal news is fine? Are you people stone cold crazy? This BS will lead to a real War with far more damage and consequences for the U.S.!
It's worth saying that the OU model partly works because of an economy of scale (a small module for the OU probably has a couple of hundred students, many have thousands).

A huge amount of work is put into making the modules high quality. Modules are written by teams not individuals and there is a specific process with reviewing etc involved which includes modules going through 'developmental testing' where they basically pilot the whole module with students (who I believe do the module for free) before releasing it properly. Having worked at traditional universities, the different in effort involved is orders of magnitude.

The modules generally use the 'flipped classroom' model to some extent. Students have a tutor who supports them and there are tutorials (all online at the moment obviously) and although there is teaching in tutorials, they is an expectation that they support the course content - perhaps explaining key ideas or addressing common misconceptions - rather than being the central means of delivering course content.

Also worth mentioning that the OU has invested hugely over the years into research into what works and doesn't work in terms of remote education and compared with traditional universities where I have worked, teaching is more valued.
Officially part of the strategy:

> Developing military and asymmetric warfare strategies to help Taiwan in its long-standing, tense relationship with China.
There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding of this news story that seems to stem from not reading the post. Any connection to current events and big tech are coincidental only. This has been in discussion for years before today.

There is a guardian article that explains the context to date reasonably well. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/09/australia-is-m...

As far as I understand it (you can read the explanatory memorandum for more plain-english explanations) https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat... this merely sets up a process for Google (and other companies) to negotiate with media providers.

Google (and Facebook) are obviously strongly opposed to this (and the potential for precedents to be set around the world). This story doesn't seem particularly bad for Google but they have definitely been fighting it out in the public sphere. https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/australia/d...

I also haven't seen any media organisations (that I've seen) crying foul over this - though obviously this would be reported on. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/google-admits-to-rem...

Anyway keen to hear other perspectives on this. I haven't looked into this in detail and have actively tried to ignore all the advertisements - but I am up and thought to try to explain this from my perspective.
I absolutely loved my WRT54G series router. I had one years ago that had its input ethernet port fried during a storm. Luckily I was running DD-WRT on it and was able to reconfigure one of the output ethernet ports as the new input so the router lived on.
I don’t disagree with your points 1 and 2, but IME having worked in telecom for more than a decade your point about there being no data to back it up is wrong. Probably no data that you have been privy to, yes. Your lack of exposure to data does not equate to a lack of data. IME, internal analysis of trouble tickets along with unit cost is driving most moves by an ISP to make installation and usability simple, automated, and specifically not result in support calls. Remember that 90+% of their customers have the expectation that it just works like a power utility and buy their kids’ gaming machines from Costco and Walmart. They really don’t care about config customization and prioritize the assumption that it “just works” far above their flexibility to load custom firmware.
I had to throw my Ironkey away because it doesn't work over USB-C to USB-A adapters
Grakn 2.0: Rewritten on RocksDB with ILP, Actors, Async Producers, and Raft
Why on earth would they prefer people with a specific phenotype? Do you have basis for that assertion at all?
Other than literally showing up at somebody's datacenter and taking their machines away you won't be able to do this with any service ever.
Show HN: Explore IOCCC 2020 entries in the browser via CheerpX (x86-to-WASM JIT)
Is this a serious question? The APK is widely available, but it's pointless given the server is down.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe colonoscopy screenings are every 3 years or so (5?). If the stool sample is performed annually you get a lot more data samples/tests.

That would seem to shift some weight to the stool test.
why not? it should be possible. I don't think it is against the constitution.
It was not meant to be a slight. I have Google Drive, but I primarily use iCloud and I was thinking in terms of desktop OS platform rather than major tech companies or market share; ie, I use iCloud on Mac, what’s the one MS built into windows?
It's not in countries with other healthcare systems, but it is in the US.

It's why doctors in America get paid the big bucks. /s
You are confusing two crucial things: UFOs doesn't mean aliens, it's simply unidentified objects. Unless you really do want to speculate about aliens ...

> "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

The evidence gathered by David Fraser et al. is actually quite compelling. Definitly there seem to be natural phenomena that can't be explained by our current scientific understanding.
It's actually more complex than that, when a big company wants to reduce workforce they will fire the bottom and offer retirement packages to their oldest employees which are above or near retirement age, sometime as much as a full year of salary.

The intuition is that older employees cost more and by cutting them you can reduce your payroll more significantly while doing what looks like smaller employee cuts from the outside. This is often viewed favourably by investors because on paper it doesn't seem as the company is stalling (head count is still high, costs are down). The obvious issue is that these older employees are not easily replaceable and you end up losing more velocity in the long run than originally anticipated.

The above is more applicable to traditional blue-chip businesses where workforce movements are more limited. For software engineering (which Intel is not really) your assumption is correct and once cuts are announced a lot of your great engineers will jump ship.
Are you asking _how_, or is it assumed that quantum algorithms have the highest benefit-cost when targeting, for example, the n highest cryptocurrency wallets? If there’s no attack vector that can be parallelized across numbers of humans, are you more interested in efforts to depress quantum development because the elites feel targeted?
A big part of the confusion is that you seem to treat this like an abstract matter of philosophical debate, because frankly, you don't really have a personal stake in it. That's not meant as an insult, just a statement of fact. As a straight, white male, neither do I. But it's not reasonable to expect someone to engage in dispassionate discourse about their own safety and their right to be treated like a human being. It's easy to forget because of how rapid and sweeping the change in public opinion was in the US, but in many other countries (and quite a few places in this one) LGBTQ rights are still a matter of life and death.

And this is the problem with so many debates - the people who are largely comfortable with the status quo are confused because people in marginalized groups are screaming at them, when they didn't really do anything to those people. In fact they may, in some abstract way, be supportive of their struggle. But the people are screaming because a third party has a gun (literally or figuratively) to their heads. So in order for there to be a real conversation, first we need to get that guy to put the gun down. Nothing else can happen until then.
Well done!!