skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No contact info, no terms of service or privacy policy, not even an About page to describe who/what this is. All downloads are hiding behind bit.ly or dropbox links, so there's no clear attribution of where they're coming from.

This _feels_ about as scammy as it can get. It's possible that everything is above-board, but I would not feel safe using this content for anything public-facing.
> I'd immediately request MAXINT.

Would you really though. They're trying to avoid deflation, if/when that happens the value of property and shares falls each year. What would you do with your loan if all assets fall in value each year?
Guessing this would be more typical: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/201...
Get the Funk Outta Here (2017)
I'm not sure what a big computer consultancy is. Is that like IBM? Accenture? I don't think where I fall in the ranks matters much here.

Loaned out doesn't feel applicable here though. There are some consultancies that are primarily just staff augmentation. Like, here are some expensive workers for you to use for a while. That's not really what McK does. McK is doubtlessly very expensive. "pumping people up on the job" sounds like a bad faith way to describe training and investing in your employees.

I don't have a way to "prove" that the average net impact of McK consulting is positive, and for sure sometimes it won't be right. My only point is that most if not all of the clients I work with are blunt about not knowing how to do X on their own, and when we're done with the project they say they know how to do X. We do fixed price contracts, not per hour, and are incentivized to keep the scope fixed. Our prices are generally higher than competitors, but we still win bids. I don't need to believe McK is the greatest company in the world, but I strongly disagree that we're not making a good faith effort to help clients do things.
Which means it's paid by your taxes. It comes out of someone's pockets. Almost ANYONE can go to college in the US. You can be a complete idiot and still get in somewhere. You could argue that's a bad thing but countries that pay for higher education via taxes typically have much stricter standards on getting in to school. IF I'm going to be paying for other people's higher ed then there better be something in place making sure they actually finish or deserve to be there.
Almost as if crime does pay.
Disruption of Image Processing Systems
Disruption of image processing systems

Surveillance cameras with night vision capability use infrared waves ,Infrared waves are not seen by the human eye,But infrared affects CCTV cameras.
This way you can disrupt image processing systems only with the help of an infrared flashlight,This information has been reported to increase system security.

##reported:amirali sadeghi
Does that give you any more sympathy for the artists who would rather be painting oils than designing yet another ad for hemorrhoid cream? Or poets who really don't want to be copy-editing your documentation?

Most of us would rather be creating art than be beholden to crappy commercial interests. Most of us would rather be the one giving orders than taking them, or compromising our art to other people.

We programmers have been incredibly fortunate to be considered "golden boys" (and a few girls). We spend no more time mastering our craft than the poet or the painter, but we get paid a lot more to do it. We still don't make as much as the one who brings in the seed money and keeps most of the profits, but because reasons we haven't been relegated to the barely-tolerated and barely-paid status of the people who write documentation or make our products attractive, no matter how good they are at it.

We programmers have, I think, become more associated with those who get rich off the process -- the CEOs and CTOs and such -- than the ones doing what we think of as grunt work rather than creative work. We get to dream that our side projects are just one elevator pitch away from our own C suite.

I'm suggesting that you're on to something considerably bigger than a personal gripe. This is a very widespread thing, and maybe the alternative to being unhappy about the difference between our side projects and our day jobs is to help everybody reconsider what "day job" really means. There are a lot of people who would like to be more creative in their work -- including collaborating creatively -- and perhaps finding that people would actually enjoy (and pay for) the results of that.
So you mean we must stop borrowing money from China, must pay our debt to them and stop trading with them.
I think the argument that Google is trying to make is that Privacy Sandbox is better because it's our trusted friend Google that will control this information, not all these other organizations who don't have your best interests at heart. Which is hilarious, and not even original: governments and law enforcement have been making the same argument around privacy issues (to the sound of millions of rolling eyeballs) for decades.
Can it be used to implement something similar to typen_ame() or type_id()?
> Bringing in consultants is, among other ways, a way to bring in people who can get shit done.

I don't think consulting is useless or scammy, but come on, you're not rock stars. Consultants advise a business on how to get revenue, and the business implements changes that generate revenue. This leads to the headline we have before us. There's not much more to consulting. Note: my family are consultants.
Crypto?
“ enough to transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second” the engineer in me: compressed? With images? Or just raw texts?
It was a very long time ago, but I had a long running account that was in the $5-10/month range that I used to host my email, a blog, and a self-hosted picture sharing app. IIRC, the plan either had unlimited space, or the space limit grew every month. I had 100's of gigabytes of photos that were accessible via the photo app, and I had some small % of files in a folder named backup that wasn't publicly accessible to the internet.

Apparently backups of any kind were not allowed by the TOS, but this was buried somewhere deep in the TOS, and once they made the decision to shut me down there was no recourse. I had something like a week to move everything away from dreamhost. I believe my account was targeted because I was using a large amount of disk space (for TOS legitimate purposes) and they wanted to find any reason to let me go.
I'm expecting just that you need an account or need to login. These are all behind the Medium subscription paywall which should allow a couple for free.
It's a way to write scientific reports, or other documents integrating Julia code chunks, from inside your current IDE (Juno, VSCodium etc). There's no need for an external server, like Jupyter. The code execution relies on the IDE's REPL and the locally installed instance of Julia. The reports can be exported to various formats - HTML, PDF etc.

In the R ecosystem it's similar to using RMarkdown.
I feel one huge takeaway from covid is that the centralization of education is a mistake. There are a huge range of decisions appropriate for different family groups, and they should be free to make more decisions.
Or another way of saying this is that the optimization of only storing one copy of each message doesn't change user-visible semantics of each user having their own copy of their messages.

But I thought Discord, somewhat controversially, did actually let one person delete messages from all parties. Maybe they eventually caved because it enabled abuses/harassers to deprive their victims of evidence.
My understanding is that Dutch banks already have negative interest rates. They charge a negative interest to large account holders (over 1M euros) and a minimal positive rate for less wealthy clients. In reality I suspect that few end up in the 1M+ category since you can spread your money and keep the rest invested in the stock market or T-Bills if you really want security.
SPAs designed to mirror state on the server have a distributed data problem, there are lots of problems there in terms of fetching, updating, ensuring the users are traversing from action, loading, success/failure etc

Then there's the problem that the page could have changed since the user started filling out that form, what happens when those form values now conflict etc etc

The difference between serving a dead fish of a HTML page, and a SPA application is vast because you're essentially creating 2 independent systems, server and client instead of just server and then adding one of the hardest thing in computing which is consensus between disparate systems

I'm quite excited about React Server Components because it means for the majority of your web app you can return to the simplicity of shipping HTML it doesn't solve everything but at the moment client side applications have a lot of boilerplate to do with just keeping the server in sync that would have been historically "for free" in a server context
More importantly, has Japan ever recovered from such state?
Is this a “dog whistle”? Or what I like to call “political mind reading”?

“I have zero proof, but I knows it’s true because of how you are.”
Such business should, you know, bring in leaders who can improve their business. Or train their leaders via executive MBA programs (there are so many). McK touts as being able to transform businesses but all they will do is add more costs and send in clueless consultants who your employees will somehow have to try and get along with.
Are they actually legally liable in this case or just paying a settlement to get their name out of the press and get away cleanly from the issue?
> Killing elected officials going through the steps of a peaceful transition of power would have been "no real threat to democracy"?

Yes, that is absolutely correct. Even if the rioters got hold of some legislators (highly doubtful - the only one that got close got shot, and that was the end of that), it would not have changed anything material about our government. Our institutions are far, far stronger than that.

The only difference is that we'd be adding murder charges to the docket.

> Do you think Joe Biden would be president right now had they succeeded in storming the building (and had none of the officials been evacuated)?

Without question. This is a weird right-wing fantasy that somehow occupying a building is going to change government. It didn't even work in rural Oregon.
To the best of my knowledge, yes.
I've been on the other end of that story, where entire dev organizations freak out because of a concern with webpack, babel, or some other piece of the stack... and nobody knows how to fix it.

CRA has its place, certainly. But it is a black box, and somebody in your org should know the tools well enough to make good decisions to build up a product from scratch without CRA... and then you may still choose to use CRA, but it is an educated choice, not a default answer because you do not know any other options.
I know a lot is focusing on the Bandwidth. But are we making any progress on Long Distance Subsea Cable using Hollow Core Cable, achieving close to maximum speed of light for theoretical lowest latency possible? Imagine cutting latency from West Coast US to Hong Kong by 50ms!

Light is only traveling at around 2/3 of speed within Fibre.

The previous decades have been around Bandwidth. Is time we shift out focus to latency. 5G is already part of that , and 6G is further pushing it as standard feature. I wish other part of network start thinking about Latency too.

May be not network, but everything. From out input devices to Display. We need to enter the new age of Minimal Latency Computing.
Completely agree. Excess is not actually pointless: it makes people feel very good and comfortable. People say it's pointless because they're looking at the big picture and thinking "this is wasteful since it does not advance the family/corporation/nation/species". It does advance the person's individual goals and desires though.

Humanity is not a Borg collective.
It took about 10 words to realize this was written by someone holding a short position. This is fine, but Wallstreetbets demands some sort of regulation?
Slice it in half or thirds. It feels weird chopping up a perfectly good book, but makes reading so much easier.
This is what I tell myself every time I read an HN comment written by a collection of proteins.
I get what you mean, yes. But in practice, no, because the loan would never actually pay itself off, just get closer and closer to zero :)
Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking
Europe yes. US, no. The US is in an amazing position in terms of demography and growth. Aging population, but not immigrant averse like Japan and not an island. The US borders a rising economy with perfect demographics for growth (Mexico). The US is the least involved country in global trade. The US is increasingly disinterested in being the world police, so that capability can be deployed to protect economic interests abroad.

We’re headed for global instability, but don’t expect the US to have a fate similar to Europe.
Anders Ericsson's Peak was already suggested and I think it offers great advice on how to become the best you can be at any given pursuit.

A few keys from it:
1- Push yourself out of your comfort zone;
2- Have clear, well-defined, goals for what you want to achieve, either in the overall skill and for each practice session;
3- Total focus while practicing;
4- Get feedback from people who know what you want to do looks like
I'd imagine that the permissions/licensing/whatever only applies to the ends of the cables, when you're out of international waters.
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As someone from europe, the american democrats are in no way extreme on abortion, I would say they are somewhat centrist, maybe even slightly conservative.
You shouldn't ask for someone's password, no matter what the context is. There should be other ways to duplicate or identify the issue, no?
Facebook's booming business, sinking reputation
Apple and friends should be _required_ to document their protocols. It would improve competition and benefit everyone in the long run.
I've just poked into some source files and decided to compile it on Archlinux with GNOME and Avahi. It seem to work in general :)
Facebook's anti-Apple campaign uses misleading figures, marketers claim
But it's not just the rate with the central bank, they're forcing high street banks to prove that their systems can handle negative interest rates for consumer loans and mortgages.
They didn't want it in court because it would have made a documented legal precedent around liability.

"One former partner called the settlement hugely significant because it shatters the distance that McKinsey — which argues that it only makes recommendations — puts between its advice and its clients’ actions. For decades, the firm has avoided legal liability for high-profile failures of some clients, including the energy company Enron and Swissair, Switzerland’s defunct national airline."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids...
This is in a work issued computer, so no, this is not a valid solution.
Well people are also actually using it deflating your ponzi scheme argument. And people are investing in it also. But it has utility
I don't really understand how this is an issue. The raspberry pi/raspian distro is made primarily for education, so making it easier to install VSCode which is a popular tool (and also one of the recommended tools for developing for the new Raspberry Pi Pico) is a good thing. It's not like VSCode is being forcibly installed on all raspberry pi's, just because the repo is in the source lists doesn't mean you have to install anything from it.
Well, the Bank of England is also predicting a rebounding economy in the Summer for the UK because of the vaccine. A whole load of pent-up demand to live again, a dearth of travel opportunity so the money is spent in the UK, and everyone vaccinated so things open up ...

So who knows ?
> 1. If the presence of something is not a reliable feature of the environment, dependence on that something will be ruthlessly weeded out.

Something is only weeded out if it is sufficiently disadvantageous. There are lots of examples in biology where mutations are neutral and allowed to accumulate. There is also a lot of junk DNA, and even though we've found that some junk DNA was misclassified, there still is a lot of junk DNA in each genome
Checking Poisoned Projects
No one wants to believe they have a bullshit job. So we usually tell our selves nice little fairy tales to overcome this cognitive dissonance.

Truth is, McK and the like, are there just to give mediocre leaders an extremely expensive psychological crutch needed when human beings face uncertainties.

Now that these consulting agencies are the behemoth they are, it's mainly corrupt leaders that are being "pursuaded" to use their services.

Oh and ppl like you are just cheap "brains" to give the optics of credentials for this sordid affair.
Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death
Don't worry, as hardware advances roll out, software bloat will always expand to fill the vacuum.
But... contrary to what OP states, Trump didn't say that.

"He might as well have" is not accurate either.
Children's ID tags unearthed at Nazi death camp in Poland
My web site has this:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/updates.xml">
...

Unless I screwed something up, it used to be the standard way to tell browsers where the RSS feed for this particular web page are. Back then it was very easy to use, even for Grandma™: just click on the standard RSS icon in your browser, next to the URL bar, and there's your feed. That was your subscribe button.

Then browsers stopped working. No more RSS icon, at least by default. I had to add an explicit <a/> link at the bottom of the page, which when cliked on shows an ugly rendition of plaintext XML.
Couldn't this simply be a wallet held by an exchange managing a large number of customer's DOGE holdings?

If this was a long-term storage wallet, it would make sense for it to have steady deposits and few withdrawals (in big chunks, going into other "hot" wallets held by the exchange, from which withdrawals to individual customer withdrawals are sent).

Assuming they're solvent, the exchange has to hold DOGE backing up all their customers balances. Since many customers never withdraw into their own wallets -- especially for a short-term trading coin like this -- that balance managed by the exchange will be substantial and grow during times of high trading.
I mean that logic is just sick and heartless.
That is true, social media is full of garbage from every side.

But the statement here is that on one side, it's goes a lot further than social media...
Inflation expectations are highest since 2013
That's more short-term with regard to OP's question.
> Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report. We have no position (short or long) in Clover Health because we think in this moment for public markets, it is more important for people to understand the role short sellers play in exposing fraud and corporate malfeasance. For more on that discussion, see our conclusion. For members of the media who wish to independently corroborate our work, please contact us for information on sources on condition that their anonymity is maintained unless they explicitly agree to go on-record.
Why don't you build one? The worst that can happen is that you learn the answer to your question.
You could also say that software devs are just technicians just translate specs into machine language. And product managers are just users who get paid to file feature request. And management just coasts on the real workers' work.
I actually like the idea of Privacy Sandbox. It appears to enable sites which depend on ad revenue to continue to exist while seeking to eliminate the usual problem with current adtech: third party tracking.

I wrote up a more nuanced version of this opinion here:

* Privacy Sandbox: Google's answer to privacy-conscious advertising -- https://dafoster.net/articles/2021/02/04/privacy-sandbox-goo...
David Ogilvy said 'You have to attack people through the eyes and the ears' or something along those lines when referring to text on flip overs and what you say. As in, the spoken and written text needs to be exactly the same in order to land the message. If you speak different words than are written, he says, you are doing it wrong.

I don't know if I agree with text vs no-text, but I do feel what Ogilvy says about this subject: it is so distracting when a speaker uses different words than his slides, even if ever so slightly. I also love the sticky image of 'attacking through the eyes and ears'. Again, not 100% sure these are his exact words.
Iceberg Method of Product Development
Any idea what happens when T-Bills go negative as happens in Germany? Do people hoard physical cash or gold?
There should be some fuzziness probably. My tags were in hundreds because I imported bookmarks. Many tags were essentially same with an 's' I remember.
Back in 2012 at a previous job we tested compilation performance on spinning disks versus solid state. On Linux it made almost no difference what so ever, on Windows however it was a game changer. The builds were an order of magnitude faster so it was well worth it making the switch.
If you would continue reading beyond 10 words you'd see this:

> Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
We have no position (short or long) in Clover Health because we think in this moment for public markets, it is more important for people to understand the role short sellers play in exposing fraud and corporate malfeasance. ...
Quoting from https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/23/parler-llc-...

"Immediately before AWS shut down all online services, Parler had over 15 million accounts and approximately 1 million new downloads of its app per day."

My interpretation is that they didn't have the time or the staff to fix the scalability bottlenecks in the site.
Charted: Google Cloud stacks up to AWS
Is it possible that this is related to the recent Chromium sync changes?

If Privacy Sandbox adds APIs for tracking/advertising, it would be trivial for a Chromium rebuild to patch them out. If a user can use google sync with Chromium, it would be easy then to escape the tracking system. If you can only use sync with Chrome proper however, it becomes much more difficult.
The bank isn't going to pay anyone interest to take out a loan, still less a loan for MAXINT. It still has to cover repayment defaults and make a profit.

But changing the base rate from 0.1% to -0.5% incentivises the banking system to loan to consumers and businesses at lower rates
Something similar, yes. Behind the scenes, datatype99 deduces a type of a matched expression using the typedefs generated earlier.
It's important to note that the company who wrote this report makes money by shorting stocks and then putting out negative reports about them. This is not to say that the allegations are false, and, in fact, many such reports by similar companies have been true, and excellent works of investigative journalism. However, this type of report often turns out to be nothing more than market manipulation and fraud. So all of these allegations should be taken with a grain of salt.

edit:
Since multiple people asked, source is I used to trade a lot and have been in trades where entities like this have put out similar fraud reports that have turned out to be false, and also seen others that were true. Also it's common sense that you should always question statements from people who stand to benefit from them.