skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're eulogising a system that doesn't deserve eulogies.

Workers pass out in warehouses and aren't allowed toilet breaks. And many are gig-economy contract hires who have zero chance of ever seeing a 401k or any other permanent employee benefits.
So freaking good!

Love little apps like this. I will definitely remember this and actually will use for a project I am doing right now. Could not be better timing.

Any feedback here (just looking for something), I would just say the site could maybe include code for responsive CSS that's also quick to copy and paste for people.
"That’s hundreds of years before historians think the Israeli people first appeared. It’s also centuries before the oldest known Egyptian reference to the Jews on the Victory Stele of Merneptah."

So the story of Moses out of Egypt has definitively been disproven by the word 'think.'

I would encourage people to use critical thinking skills while reading this article.

Of course slave labor was used over the thousand year period these structures were built. Perhaps not all the workers were slaves but some percentage of them were.

This article merely points to the existence of some popular contractors at the time. Contractors who most likely used their own slave labor.

What's the definition of a slave in Egyptian times? What would prove or disprove their existence 4000 years ago? This is not a logical or reasonable article. It makes far too many assumptions. It should be rewritten and the findings described without the interpretation of the author.
There should absolutely be a cap on "speaking" fees a current or former Government official should be able to receive. It is absolutely institutionalised corruption or post facto bribery.
> Eventually proxies came after us to try and intimidate us from publishing fee and speaking calendars for politicians and pundits.

Wow. Can you tell more?
Is Nano the micro-payments solution for Nigeria's economic rise?
Not exactly unexpected conceptually though, given that objects have no intrinsic structure. What may be surprising is that this fact has useful consequences in applications to concrete mathematical objects that do have structure.
> And a voting machine company sued a politician for a Billion Dollars for disparaging its black box results.

That's one way to phrase it. Another would be that a highly visible, influential politician used that influence to attempt to destroy a multi-billion dollar company; specifically by using what may well be lies and slander, presenting it as truth.
Payroll taxes (FICA) are included in the effective tax rates I quoted, and furthermore are split between the employer and employee. The employee portion for 300k income is 4.6%
This is amazing, it deserves its own post describing the effort.

Bright lights tend to disinfect.

If something like this could be coordinated globally, it would be a great way to put pressure on power.
Author saying “Let me guess… You paid for your son’s education” can fuck off, especially calling the old guy entitled later on. People aren't invalidated by having wealthy parents. The author's reasoning appears to be Wealth implies Education ergo Education implies abuse of wealth. I'd wager most kids at stanford did not get there through special connections. They may have had additional advantages in life that allowed them to self-invest and get into Stanford, but its not without substantial merit. I did not go to stanford*

Comparing attendance at Stanford to requiring a college degree is also a pointless comparison. If you're on the fence about whether or not a college degree is required for a job, you're not looking for students from stanford, with the odd exception of programmers who can somewhat frequently big up a large degree of technical expertise on their own. Even if you do want to take the stance that requiring college degrees is discriminatory, shitting on some old guy for being proud of his son's academic achievements without any evidence that it wasn't earned on merit is extremely rude. And for what its worth, I'd bet heavily on a random student from stanford over a random student from my undergrad being more generally competent at intellectual tasks.
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Show HN: Scientific Calculator for iOS
I've just released an update for the iOS version of my app, TechniCalc.

It's a scientific calculator aiming to provide a comprehensive math feature set while not compromising on the user interface. I found too many apps had a great story for one half of that, but fell short on the other.

The app itself is React Native. The calculation and editor logic are in ReScript, and this part is open source too! (if you're interested - https://github.com/jacobp100/technicalc-core)

I'd love to hear all your feedback!
Why AWS? I want to plug a pi into my cable modem and host it there.

On a related note, We need something like bit torrent for video. Where the chunks would come approximately in order and watchers effectively host a copy for the entire time they are watching. So we can all self host arbitrary length videos to all our friends on that same Rpi.
I honestly don't see the problem with giving speeches at market rate. If the allegation was that she opened Citadel's books and provided advisory services to them, I would consider that different.

But delivering a speech that she may have delivered in other venues does not strike me as necessarily of conflict. I do think the ethics office should review after the fact and raise any concerns that arise, but generally I think we as citizens should be afforded the benefit of her expertise more often than not.
If the author is upset that challenging and attacking random people gets them told to "go fly a kite", they really need to invest in some social etiquette training. I'm surprised that was the harshest language used.
You can get an RSS feed of replies to your HN comments:
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The page never stopped loading for me so... Then, what I read in the comments here does not really make me want to read it.
Totally agree with what BBC reported, like below video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu--YZjLLLI
It implies approval from the current administration for that kind of discrimination.
Right now I don't have any size enforcement included in the hosted solution. And individually uploaded object can be up to 25mb (IIRC). If users start blowing out the S3 usage, then I might have to revisit this.

The hosted solution (and the self-hosted on AWS which uses the same deployment methods) automatically backup every night by dropping a database dump on S3. There's some manual work required to restore from the backup but I haven't had any issues with it so far. All the images live on S3 which I'm treating as durable. If you self-host on a Raspberry Pi then you're on your own for doing backups.

I've thought about the different groups feature. I haven't decided if it's one I want to implement. It might be the top of the slippery slope of adding too many features.
Payoneer to Go Public
I guess that is how the term is defined by people who dislike them, but I think the core motivation is social progressivism and generally left leaning politics. SJWs are unlikely to favorably compare themselves to 4chan or use the n-word and r-word. I don't think the heart of WSB is particularly political, but it certainly gives off vibes that are closer to the alt-right than SJWs.
Isn't that exactly what we're discussing?
> where I think blockchain applications actually make sense.

Blockchain (may) make sense for these applications but did you stop to think if the applications themselves made sense ?

Lotteries, internet gambling and internet advertising are three cancers in my book, I have no interest in solving their problems.
You have to wonder, why would the hedgies pay her that kind of money for speaking engagements while she was still a civilian? Did they foresee that she would be their regulator in the near future?
A normal person's investments get around 4-6% increase per year. A politician's investments get 25-35% increase per year. It's hard to rationalize that happening across the board without insider trading.

Obama very publicly "held politicians accountable" with the STOCK act and then very privately pulled it's teeth a couple months later (keeping it technically illegal while making it all but impossible to investigate).

Politicians should not be permitted to pass legislation concerning their conduct. Perhaps it should be put to state and national ballots as appropriate with a direct vote from the people.
If they use an unique salt for each password you are right, if they use the same salt for each password then the article is correct(ish).

I should say correct enough.
I came here to say exactly this: my numbers are similar to yours (and from headers only, like you[1]), and a decent proportion of my views come from feed clients. My blog generator takes care of the feed for me; I haven't thought about managing it in years.

[1]: https://www.yossarian.net/snippets#vbnla
Wayland has serious accessibility issues, low priority fixes
Why not increase prices?

Demand is pretty inelastic for a course, especially if the company is paying for it. I believe that charging at lesat $400 is the sweetspot, volume decreases (so does customer requests) and profits skyrocket.
Yes, why don't we prosecute a one-time shoplifter the same as a guy who stole so much he used it to fund a shoplifting conspiracy, then paid a bunch more to various PACs and related contributions to not go to prison for it?

The obvious, trivial answer of course is that in tax law, how much you evaded determines the severity of the crime.
Show HN: Imagine if you can visualize any outfit on Farfetch
...stop building henhouses designed for foxes.

We need decentralized economics and finance.
> WSB and other agencies are "laundering" political kickbacks through speaking fees

Wow what happened today, WallStreetBets is now an official agency paying kickbacks?
That's great to know! This integration is helpful for just knowing the size of an app and being alerted if it goes over a threshold, but it doesn’t provide any insight into where that size actually comes from. Adding a Bitrise integration for Emerge is definitely on our roadmap though!
You do know how easy it is to go into developer mode, inspect element, and make things say whatever you want to say, right? How do you prove that was not done?
Just to swim against the current a little: There were some Egyptian pyramids that are well recorded to have been built with at least some slave labor. Just not the great pyramids, which people usually think about when the word pyramid is mentioned. While the great pyramids are the largest of their kind, and the most iconic, they were not the last. The last tomb or cenotaph in the shape of a pyramid was possibly built as late as a thousand years after the great pyramids had been finished.

During that thousand years of pyramid construction, some of the monuments were recorded to have used slave labor for construction. Notably, the Annals of Amenemhat II record of a expedition into the levant where two towns were destroyed and the survivors were brought back into Egypt and put to work building the White Pyramid.
>Imo, the consoles have been stingy on built in storage space

Xbox and PlayStation now require you to install all games on the SSD so discs lose out on that advantage as well (unless you're regularly uninstalling and re-installing games, in which case the BD might be faster).
Magic links sounds like a perfect solution.
Yes, the Bloomberg article we are discussing is an example of the type of event I described.
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Thankyou for the correction it’s something I remember from a radio interview with him years ago :)
Are activists masquerading as journalists in the media still the misinformation hotspot?
This applies to anyone in any position of power or influence ever. All we can hope for is that they are as minimally corrupt as possible, and all transactions and communications are transparent. Even then, you’ll get into trouble with privacy norms and being unable to conclusively prove “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” moves.
I use RSS to read HN!

and about 170 other sites, at last count.
The whole hedge fund colluding conspiracy has been debunked [1]

RH and Citadel weren't colluding at all. It was their clearing house (Apex, which is used by almost 50% of brokerage firms) that demanded they raise the collateral by 100% which in turn required the brokers to stop transferring shares as the clearing house were not comfortable with floating large number of shares with limited quantity and high volume.

I'm afraid that because WSB has politicized this to "David vs Goliath" without even considering that a small group of their users ARE the real Goliaths, hyping and mobilizing their userbase incapable of critical thinking to drive share prices up and down.

Now they are simply going to make life more difficult for retail traders and we are going to see new regulations against using social media to pump up stocks.

I hope that those people who were pumping up $GME, saying it was going to $30,000 have been using Tor or VPN. The conspiracies coming out of WSB has been nothing short of Qanon-like in terms of its vigor, fixation and paranoia. It feels exactly like what r/the_donald was in 2016 before they were rightfully shut down.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26016048
Yellen could have recused herself. All of this is kind of moot in the face of that.
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The issue was comparing suffering. If one makes 7 times more than another, they only have to put up with it 1/7th the amount of time before earning enough to tell their employer to screw off. Hard to feel as sorry for the person making much more money.
I use Softmaker FreeOffice, which I find to be better than LibreOffice.

LibreOffice is a good faith project, but the legacy from Sun StarOffice is still there. Namely, a non-polished UI that in many aspects looks less-polished than other major office suites.

The project roadmaps also do not give me any hope that will be better in the future. There are shapes with physics simulation, but the most user facing aspect of the product, the UI, looks highly neglected.

I tried cloning the LibreOffice repo to tweak the UI to my satisfaction, but after witnessing the escheresque 4D spaghetti code that implements it I simply deleted the repo and continued doing something else.

Adding features will not change the fact the UI still looks like Sun StarOffice.
Not sure if maybe their comment was edited in the last minute, but

> For technical people, self-hosting is made easy with a one-line AWS deployment script, *and an install script for the Raspberry Pi Zero W.*
I think the article is primarily focused on the Great Pyramids, though they probably could have been more explicit about it.
Where does this 50/50 myth come from? I have used Amazon prime as my first choice for all shopping since 2014. Only if I can’t find an item on Amazon will I buy elsewhere. (This is a convenience and customer service decision, I am relatively price insensitive.) Now I have kids and a larger family, this usually means 1 or 2 packages a _day_.

I have exactly _once_ received an item that was obviously fake.

Every time I purchase elsewhere I am shocked to be charged shipping, wait days for the item to be shipped, and go through hell if I need to return something. Amazon wins because it’s a better product in every way.
Open Frequent Files (in addition to Open Recent Files). Seems easy enough to me.

GUI file browsing details that influence the width of their column. Too often I find long names truncated and have to adjust the width myself when there's obviously lots of white space in other columns. Maybe a bit too OS for your question.
I'm rooting for this to be a success! We burn far too much of our lives on meaningless work to pad the pockets of the rich. If I ever found a successful company myself I will adhere to a 4 day work week, I swear it.

Good luck to Phil and everyone else :)
It’s a win-win for the current power system.

I also wish progressives realized they were being used as tools in this battle.
Naked shorting isn’t legal. That’s why you have to borrow the shares..
This is, in fact, cynical. Getting a luminary like an ex-president is a huge draw and extremely valuable to the institutions paying for them. Someone like Bill Clinton, took a lot of speaking fees _after leaving office_. Meaning, if someone was trying to bribe a president, maybe they shouldn't have waited until his terms were expired. What exactly is the quid pro quo that could possibly have transacted? When Hillary signed on as SecState, did she ever did a single favor for any of the place that paid her fees? She spent literal days in front of Congress testifying to political opponents. The Clintons are probably the literal most investigated people in the history of American politics. What actual conflict of interest has ever been uncovered? I can honestly with 99% confidence that these two are not at all corrupt.

As a counterpoint, we have seen far worse corruption in broad daylight and it's not coming from people who took speaking fees.

May I further suggest that the decades-long propaganda campaign against the Clintons has worked wonderfully and you are possibly a victim of it. And not just you, but millions of people.
I’d say screenshots of anything over a few shares of GME on wsb has a very good chance to be fake.
What is the topic of your blog?
Is this a surprise to anyone?
It's nothing to do with "prestige", it's about return on investment. It's usually a payment for friendly behavior in the past, or to increase the likelihood of friendly behavior in the future (or to essentially tap into their personal network at some point in the future).

Celebrities are bribed, they're called endorsements. Former presidents are worth less and less as they lose their connections. Their price tag depends on how much power they still wield....which is why Clinton and Obama still command high prices.
Realistically I don't expect any benevolence from any of the corporates that run all the popular search engines. (Even DDG is a private company with millions of dollars invested in it).

So my choice, as you rightly guessed, is limited to compartmentalising data collection, I also wanted to choose the best non-US competitor of Google - Yandex (Russian), Baidu (Chinese) and (later) Qwant (European). Yandex is the best among them.

To further compartmentalise data collection, I don't use Yandex exclusively and sometimes go directly to specialised sites for the answer. (For e.g. Stackoverflow for programming queries, IMDB for TV and movies, Wikipedia for some queries, etc. ... this is now easy since browsers allow us to add custom search engines to them.)
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To me, one of the most important features of RSS is not having to reskim over titles I've already dismissed. I don't even mind that most feeds don't have any content, the links are good enough for my needs.

I really wish AP and Reuters would bring back RSS, I'd no longer have any reason to open a site just to skim headlines. Some might argue that is the reason news sites stopped offering RSS, but I don't think it really lowers my engagement with a site, I very often click around after opening an item that caught my attention.
Open-source device management/administration system like JAMF
I know Netlify supports basic auth via a config file when you publish. Unsure of other hosts.
Brilliant. Twitter is chomping on its own tail. I look forward to seeing it devour itself ass to nose.
And hate how poorly warehouse and other non-office employees are treated.
Other than that, I like the business model. But it's difficult for me to shop with Amazon knowing how the employees are treated, so it is a last resort for me.
Public servants often do not make enough money in public service to make these kinds of ethically gray payments easy to turn down.

I don't know about Yellen's personal finances, but the chairman/woman of the Fed makes $203k/yr. I bet 50%+ of the people reading my comment make more money than that, and unless my comment is graced by a well-known CEO I sincerely doubt any of you have as important a job.

Maybe if we want to hold our public servants (generals, commissioners, congressmen, secretaries of x, etc) to higher ethical standards we should compensate them well enough that a speaking fee like this is "more money" rather than "help pay off my mortgage".
Not disagreeing with the larger point, but, I think you would be surprised how many shops (think hedge funds, think tanks, etc), would easily pay a few hundred thousand dollars to have a big-wig visit for a few minutes and boost employee morale and do some handshaking. It’s major signaling that can easily amount to 10m a year.
It’s not unfounded, and NYU risks serious damage to their reputation and credibility with editorial garbage like this.

It’s OK though, right wingers are leaving the lefty-liberal-commusocial big tech censor-sphere at record rates. Every ideology can have its own platform, ideally on the darknet.

EDIT: no need to provide muh sources or counter academic narrative when de platform ink of conservatives is already a well known and acknowledged issue. Academics can’t declare the sky to be green without serious repercussions, and they can’t claim de platform ink of right wingers isn’t a thing without a loss of face and a blow to their credibility either.

It’s too late, damage control should have been done at the head end, now people are checking out of social media, especially right wingers. Those who haven’t been canceled already, that is.
Unless you have pretty restricted bandwidth, or a huge number of friends, you should be able to do that pretty easily with a basic HTTP server on your pi; no torrents needed.
We are compensating high office holders all wrong. We are paying them pennies on what they could make in the private sector for a similar position of power, and leaving them to make up the difference by extracting money from favors and prestige. It virtually guarantees corruption.

They should be paid an enormous salary plus an excellent pension for life, with the caveat that they are not allowed to accept income from any other source for the rest of their life. This would not be a lot of money. If we paid everyone in the house, senate, and cabinet $10M / y, that would cost < $5B per year, which is nothing to the government. You could make the pensions like $2M / year, and the total cost would probably come in at < $10B.