skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
14 years from now? Call me a luddite, but I'm going to hold off even thinking about this until then. Maybe I'll get one for my retirement party a couple years later...
Cheaper to host your bot ring in eastern europe I imagine
I just wish Firefox would support HDR, more than 60hz refresh rate and more than two channel audio.
It tarnished the brand, but maybe it's like pennies, where people sort of expect them to have that brown tarnished color.

Here's the deal - if you're charging a premium for a product, it has to be exceptional.

I had a friend who worked for the airlines (this was pre-9/11 days).

He would tell me stories about first class customers. One guy came to the airport and bought 2 first class tickets to france for he and his wife and paid an astronomical sum for last-minute tickets. no problem. Stuff like this happened all the time.

But he said the flip side was that you CANNOT disservice a first-class customer. If you want to see a REALLY MAD person, bump a first class customer. Their expectations are in line with the prices. high.
That is a load of bullshit. Google tried to get back into China (see Project Dragonfly). Did China change the offending laws in the meantime? How are those Tianamen Square searches doing in China on those Apple phones?

What kind of person or entity hides under the pretense that it’s the law and you have to always follow it? Nuremberg trials defense? Separate but equal? South Africa anyone?

All I have to do is to do is change the law and then suddenly it’s moral. Slavery moral one day, not moral the next. Moral on this side of the line but not moral on the other. One day the emperor says that red hats are against the law, the next day you can only wear red hats. Wait, 1984!

A morality grounded on adherence to the law is no morality at all. It only lets the levers of law be pulled by those with other ideas on morality or the lack thereof.
You were complaining that inmates would deign to find work after being incarcerated.

> Should the assaulted be happy with the fact that the inmate will get a job?

YES, everyone should be happy if ex-felons are able to find work after leaving prison. Otherwise, they just go back their previous behaviors (eg ~80% recidivism). If they can't get work, that's effectively a "life sentence".
> One morning I woke up and found that Telegram implemented a new feature called “People Nearby”. If you choose to share your location publicly on Telegram, you’ll appear in a list for users who are physically close to you.

As always, it feels like this "discovery", at least for the headline (which, let's be honest, it's what most people read anyway) is based on glancing over the fact that this feature is opt-in, and that 99,999% of Telegram users do not use it. There's nothing in the headline indicating whether this is a critical data leak or simply expected behavior.

Sure, it definitely falls under unexpected usage of the data, but at the end of the day, the data was shared willfully through user action.
Another example of positive discrimination. I find it absurd that skin color has anything to do with businesses’ quality. Could be that I’m just living in a Finnish bubble where I haven’t seen racism in ages.
Of course it won't work in a bear market, but neither will working 9-5 if you get laid off.
In Shopian or something, OK.
"we’re the first generation in modern history to end up poorer than our parents."

Hrmm. My grandfather, the very first person in my entire family tree to achieve a post-secondary degree, graduated from business school. In 1929, so you might see where that went. The next decade consisted of scraping by, depression, hyperinflation, terrible drought, and famine. Followed by another near decade of devastating total war, poverty, starvation, ethic purges, mass extermination, etc. Followed by a 30-40 year cold war under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation, punctuated by a never ending string of truly awful regional conflicts.

While I feel genuinely bad for the rotten luck of those who graduated in 2008, at least in this country they are not facing starvation and six other competing threats of annihilation.

So when you hear "Entitled" and "Millennial", it's because of wildly selfish statements like this. This article is interesting and brings up solid points, but that kind of display sinks the whole thing.

If the generations before did such a bad job, and the current generation has it so bad, then you are positing that you'd have been better off being born in what 1970? 1960? 1930? What??? Do you know that the interest rate for residential home loans in the 1980's was 15% or more? How many women or minorities were able to get a college degree? Or white-collar job until the 1990's?

The author is comparing the poor position that a young generation as a whole finds itself in with the better position that only the most successful members of a mature generation find themselves after working for 40+ years to get there.
I really like the idea and the implementation looks nice! But not having any type of spam protection is a deal breaker for me. Even if links are set to nofollow, it's still a big opportunity for bots and spammers to abuse this system and spread their links, similar to what is happening to misconfigured wordpress sites.
Jeff Bezos on why Blue Origin is his most important work
I always liked the rumors about it being huge BDXL libraries best. For example this HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647571

IIRC Facebook actually built something similar for their cold storage.
> In the Unity games I’ve played GC doesn’t seem to be much of an issue

Remember that all of the 'hot' code is internal to Unity and is not written in C#. C# basically just takes on the role of a particularly powerful scripting language and isn't dealing with cleaning up huge amounts of data as would be the case for anything dealing with assets directly.
heh, my calculation was incorrect: ItemID is 4 bytes in size, so the calculations are slightly off:

pre-13 was 16 bytes each (20 when 64-bit compiled), and post-13 it is 6.32 bytes/heap tuple when deduplication has kicked in.
> I believe Firefox is a good enough browser to go toe-to-toe with Chrome. It and it's developer are not without problems. However, at this point I'd use Firefox even if Mozilla was just as bad as Google because I think the diversity is worth it.

But what good is it if it won't deviate from Google's vision of the web? It will go toe-to-toe with Chrome at being Chrome, and almost nothing more.

Mozilla is fine with DRM being a core part of the web, and they completely validated and enabled EME extensions. They deprecated useful technologies that have not been replaced.

I can't forgive them for validating the direction that the web is going in. They had enough leverage to slow it down, and they didn't. They have the same arrogance as Google but they don't have any of the success.

Firefox (then Firebird) didn't beat Microsoft and IE6 by trying to implement half-baked Windows ActiveX and Janus DRM support. They didn't even bother implementing stuff that they didn't think should be part of the vision of Microsoft, Adobe, etc.

I wish they would aim for the web they want, not just follow in the footsteps of others.

I for one use Palemoon, alongside Chrome for sites that need it. There are incredibly useful XUL based extensions that I rely on still, and Palemoon is much friendlier to sandbox and modify. And for modern web garbage, I have Chrome. I don't need Firefox.
Your video stops before the best part:

https://youtu.be/4--IoHXmj2U?t=1204

Steve clearly hates this fucking phone.
The barrier to entry just seems too high now for a new browser or render/scripting engine. Things like Widevine/DRM, Apple's refusal to allow another browser, the broad footprint of browser functionality, etc. It's almost like it would have to be something other than a browser. Like the transition from gopher/ftp/newsgroups to web browsers. A bigger leap.
Data Analysis of Airbnb Records of Buenos Aires
When East Punjab was split into Punjab and Haryana what the hell do you think GoI was doing then?
"Expected value" is a well-defined term from statistics: "In statistics and probability analysis, the expected value is calculated by multiplying each of the possible outcomes by the likelihood each outcome will occur and then summing all of those values." This explanation is from investopedia no less.

Anyway, shorting gamestop has some probability distribution that includes every outcome from making a bunch of money to losing your shirt because of a viral meme (shorting losses have no theoretical limit). That distribution can simultaneously have positive expected value and also be an unattractive bet because of the risk involved...and that's before we talk about shorting fees.
Yes, this would work. The problem with random error is that it can be averaged out. The error vector must be consistent. One way to provide a consistent vector is quantization, which is as you propose where you assign a point deterministically to a nearby discrete set (in this case hexagonal grid centers).

This still leaves some issues with non-static positions, or temporal variation, as you noted in (4), where boundary crossings (or worse, movement near 3-cell boundaries) allow better precision. I think a good solution in this case is to also add temporal quantization (limited update rate of position), as well as some hysteresis (to avoid back-and-forth between cells for people living near borders). This way you cannot pinpoint the exact time the transition occurred (you cannot locate the person in space-time), and with hysteresis you cannot tell he is consistently near a border.

edit: Interestingly, all of those suggestions appear elsewhere in this thread! They all more or less appear forms of quantization.
I started using Home Manager long after I adopted Nix. I must say, I should’ve used it far more earlier on. With the power of the Nix language, Home Manager gives me so much more control and customizability over packages that just can’t be provided with traditional package managers.

While it takes some learning to leverage the full capability of Home manager, it’s also easy to get started. People new to Nix can start out with a basic configuration specifying a list of packages to install and then gradually move to a more capable configuration as they learn more.
>There are plenty of cases all around the world where some health professionals killed tens of innocent people.

But this article is about US doctors vs US cops. And US doctors murder at a far lower rate. The argument isn't that doctors are perfect. The argument is that they are better than cops.
Yup because we are currently in an innovation boom due to new emerging technologies. If the innovation slows down then the returns will shift in favor of labor while capital generates negatives returns.
What does it mean for it to be dual licensed under MIT/GPL?
The problem lies with Pakistan and Apple and Google. If the apps in question could be installed without an App Store blocking them would be much harder. The entity creating the apps does not seem to have a commercial presence in Pakistan and the Pakistani government would have no jurisdiction over their actions. Having large commercial intermediaries with money on the line is really convenient when you want to get something censored.

From the article:

> The PTA also ordered shut a US-based Ahmadi site, TrueIslam.com, threatening its administrators with criminal charges that carry a $3 million fine. The decision may not be enforceable, since the people who run the site, including Zafar, do not live in Pakistan.
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You are right. I don't want to sound bitter but I guess this is easier to teach by trainers who are not very skilled or experienced; following a bootcamp might be enough to write a programming texbook for beginners and the inexperienced not able to tell the difference, whereas making a cabinet by an inexperienced trainer will immediately be obvious.
In addition, I can imagine there is more funding available for this and therefore easier to milk.
A better long term solution would be to make websites behave more like print has for the past 500 years, and only allow them to pull info from the server while greatly restricting what they can transmit back. Only allow POST buttons to send home strictly textual data the users themselves typed out. Yeah, this would break certain cool legit websites like those that run HTML5 games that need to constantly transmit info back to the server. But this wouldn't have to break sites like HN/Reddit/Twitter/news/science/whatever. If you wanted a web that could give you beautiful images and typography without fingerprinting, such a thing could be built. It would break big Adtech tracking though so we'll never see this simplifying improvement in a big-Adtech funded browser (like Chromium).
That's not the point.

The point is: at 19 USD per share you nearly buy at a valuation (8 billion) at which the institutional investors bought Ancestry ($4.7 billion) and 23andMe ($3.5 billion)

Also: 23andMe had declining revenue in the past years and does only make around 200 million revenue.

You buy a business at a valuation at 8 billion which makes only around 200 million revenue.
I used to work in health care for years, and I have an understanding of our health care system. Make no mistake, it still sucks in many areas, and there is some cover up between cops and health care workers when it comes to drug users, or anyone who goes to the detox room (alcoholics, mostly). They treat people inhumanly there.

Before I became a health care worker, I spent some time at the psychiatric ward, and at the detox room (voluntarily). I liked the psychiatric ward, the staff and roommates were nice, and I made some pleasant memories with a girl in there. :)

In any case, you are typically an inconvenience and they do not want you there, especially at the detox room.
So many people I know immediately took their stimulus check, dumped it into some dumb crypto meme, and lost all their money. There is something to be said about money allocated for low level economic activity is instead obliterated into the worldwide ether, sometimes at massive electricity costs just to rub salt into the wound of our warming world. I wonder if in the future we will see national economies shrink as people dump more local fiat into economically useless, speculative crypto that is distributed globally.
And to insist that "begging the question" refers to a specific logical fallacy is to ignore well-established present-day vernacular usage.

In everyday discussion, pedantry rarely helps. In this case, it was pretty obvious what was meant.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beg-the-questi...
Writing copy in the English language is a dying art.
I didn’t know what this was from so I looked it up, in case anybody else is curious, from the movie Killing Them Softly: https://youtu.be/Zi9iCOsD8Sg
HN is marvelous, in that even the slightest hyperbole will be pointed out as incorrect. By "marvelous" of course I mean tedious
Patagonian toothfish -> Chilean sea bass
It was not universally acclaimed. Blackberry users were not at all convinced away from hardware keys at the start, and there were no enterprise integrations. Enterprise was hostile to the product on its networks.

You have to look at this from the perspective of Windows mobile users at the time. I.e the Wizard. That is what people who don’t get Tesla are using right now.
Yeah I think more people, especially younger generations, see the current wealth gap and know that getting lucky on a big bet is their only way to escape 40 years of toil for a modest existence. I can't blame them for wanting to gamble, as dumb as it may be.
There's nothing wrong with installing packages into /usr/local, but brew turns /usr/local into a git repository and IMO that is wrong. Also, brew acts like it's made for a single user, as it changes files and directories to be owned by the user running it, but /usr/local is a system directory. When I install brew, I always put it into my home directory instead of /usr/local.
In 2019 ibm tried 35 but there was too much noise, I think this year they will skip 35 and go directly to 55.
Or maybe the innovation permanently destroys labor possibilities... not many self-checkout machines are going to be replaced with humans.
We're aiming for something that plays a bit like Legend of Zelda but allows you to interact with the world in a manner closer to Dwarf Fortress. We're also trying to keep movement fluid and dynamic with lots of opportunity to use the environment around you as you move throughout the world.

All of this is a work in progress (hence the pre-alpha versioning), but we already have a few hours of gameplay with dungeons and caves to explore, lots of items to craft and find, and several skill trees to upgrade. In the long-term, we're aiming for more procedural interaction with elements of the world.
Interesting my CS degree had a required introductory Computer Engineering course which itself had a pre-req first year course where we learned digital logic (among other stuff).

We didn't go quite as far as this book seems to but definitly got a decent grounding in how computers actually do their thing before it was back to theory.
Yep, despite good browser hygiene my most unique browser identifier is my display size and color depth (2560x1600x24) Guess my original Apple Cinema HD display will clearly identify me as a dumb cheapskate who pays for expensive things and then uses them until they break. I'm a terrible advertising target :)
Sure, it's not a closed question. I'm mostly pointing out, as an example, the fact that society operates the mechanics of justice these days, it is the interests of society that are paramount. Making individuals whole is a part of that, but avoiding repetition is also vital, or else the punishment plays a part in causing crime later.
This is nice and all, but why is everyone focused on "coding" trade schools? Can you really learn enough to make $200k a year in a "boot camp" style coding school? If so, why not doctors and lawyers too?

So, i'm not a big supporter of these things because I think it trivializes the amount of effort it actually takes to be a useful team member. The people I work with are doing the logical equivalent of rebuilding the flight control surfaces of a helicopter while its flying in formation. These aren't the kinds of skills you learn in 6 weeks. Many of us have years of formal schooling combined with 10x that in personal learning hours before we even landed our first jobs. Add on a decade+ of professional work experience/etc. I'm not trying to sound arrogant, but I suspect that if someone tried to measure the knowledge required for some of these jobs people on this board hold, it would dwarf pretty much all but a few other professions. Its also not to say, that its not possible to be productive with a couple years of HS/AP level comp-sci classes and a year or two of toy programs (I landed my first programming job in HS, making barely more than minimum wage). Only that those jobs are the floor, and much harder to come by now that everyone and their brother is learning coding.

So frankly, some people have the interest/drive/aptitude into making software engineering their life, and some peoples strengths lie elsewhere. I think its doing everyone a disservice not to provide other options to prisoners, be that AC repair, or law degrees.
I found lot about CAHOOTS from the Daily Show a few weeks ago. Here's the episode: https://youtu.be/D3Z6uEfpTog.
Right, so more than twice as much as #2 (2.3M), at least in December 18.

And more recently, the US has more than four times as many pageviews as #2 (4B to Japan's 1B)[0].

So no, I don't think the work is done outside the US, and I think maintaining a leading position doesn't happen automatically, so I don't think the work is entirely done inside the US, either.

0. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/page-view...
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll add Akismet integration to the backlog for people with the same objection. Allowing people to pass an API key to their Namespace shouldn't be too difficult but I'll need to build out a UI for separating ham versus spam which might take more work.

In the Namespace settings you can force all comments into moderation before displaying to the page. This would be the best option for you in the mean time.
10 Years of Openstack at CERN – Part 2
Real interest rates have been falling for centuries
Government powered lotteries are designed to raise funds for things like schools, not as an investment vehicle.
And thats the problem with American society. Its always easier to understand the (short-term) gains from being selfish, and difficult to understand the (long-term) edifying effects of being magnanimous.
I don't see at all how that post is forcing you to hold your nose.

It is a straight and simple denunciation of the attack on the US Capitol, and a call to critically investigate the role social media played in it. How is that controversial?
The Bitcoin Price Paradox
So you believe that there are a significant amount of non-African-American murderers who managed to escape prosecution, and that these law enforcement agencies framed random African-Americans for murders they didn't commit? And you believe this happens across the country at rates high enough to change these numbers?
From what little I know the person responsible for growing the WSB community was the banned admin 'zjz' who was quoted.
Almost perfect IMHO.. but word "transfer" sound to me like a transplant. May I suggest "digestive microbiome rejuvenation" ?
If the bar is considerably higher than "can very likely code", then I question whether those roles are actually entry-level.

We hire dozens of entry level roles per year. That's our bar (of course, coupled with "is authorized to work where the role is").
Ok, we'll put that in the title above.

Since the same URL was posted as long ago as 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266172), it's not clear how current this is.
I would highly recommend jacking up the --blocking-factor on tar (or your custom software) as high as your drive will accept. AFAIK the default on tar is 512b which is utterly inadequate, and even sequential data on a fast SSD will shoe-shine when written directly to tape.

AFAIK most large businesses wind up writing to disk and then queuing the resulting serialized virtual tapes for actual writing at a later time. This basically turns the virtual tape library into a massive write buffer. It's absolutely insane that we have to do this - but a lot of archival utilities aren't built for async/parallel IO and thus aren't taking advantage of modern storage devices.