skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am actually astounded by the number of people on here who think this is a great product. I mean as a product it might indeed be quite good, but it also comes with the huge risk of you funneling your users into a third party company, who can then hold that as a knife to your neck (intentionally or unintentionally).

Sorry but the greatest user management experience in the world is not going to make me use this. Maybe, if there is some kind of mirroring back of all user data to some database I control, I might consider it.

But even so, I don't think it's a great idea to give away all my user info to a third company. I'm sure it's covered as necessary for functionality,but what happens if tomorrow Clerk gets bought out by Facebook and they decide the database of my users is now theirs to target for advertising? Especially when the privacy policy a actually says they will collect and share personal information with their affiliates and subsidiaries.

Nope, sorry not touching this with a 100foot pole. And I will go further and not use any company that uses this for their user management needs.
The Caltech Sweepstakes Caper
A weapon used in self-defense is by definition against someone who is not innocent. The original comment was suggesting defense, not offense.
Within the last few months, it's been on ABC News, CNN, the Financial Times, PBS, USA Today, VOA, The Los Angeles Times, and many others.
The old school response, weaponized without being inappropriate.
Digg users had an attractive alternative to run to. Reddit users don't.
Love how the comments slightly start going off topic by discussing the Swiss cheese and then diverge completely towards the process of making Greek yogurt.

Anyway... This calendar fragmentation is a real problem, I've noticed that my most productive period was when I was working 5h/day and was forced to attend only the critical meetings and ruthlessly make time for deep work as Cal Newport calls it.

Nowadays with a very active 3yo child at home and a wife also working full-time remotely, we're working in 1-3 hour shifts and taking turns in taking care of the child so our calendars are perhaps the best example of Swiss cheese out there and I have no idea how to make it better.
Apple’s Scorched Update Policy
That's not a problem with imperial (13+3/8 mm and 13/32 mm have the same problem); it's a problem with fractions (especially 'proper' fractions, which should never be used for anything ever, since they combine all the downsides of both decimals and rational numbers, with no benefit). Normalize everything to, say, 1/64 inch units and "This piece is 856/64in, I need to subtract 26/64in and then find the midpoint of that: (856-26)/2 = 415, so it's 415/64in." works fine.
I still dont understand how something like Reddit can be worth billions of dollars. It feels like such a random, empty number
That's hilarious!

Did they continue to link to your software after that? (I'm curious - what was your software?)
Capital allocation can be ludic; where do you get the idea that just because you're allocating capital, there's no thrill or enjoyment to be found? You're taking a crank on the slot machine of the economy; throw in the inherent rush of leverage, and the dopamine hit of a profitable/successful trade, and I'd say speculation is inherently ludic.
Wait I’m misunderstand you, right? Reading your comment it almost seems like yours saying that the r word isn’t a slur or isn’t that bad of one?! It’s a word that takes a whole class of people and uses them as an insult when talking about other people.

Are you seriously going to try to pull some narrow technical originalist definition to argue that in this specific edition of this specific dictionary it defines “slur” as being about ethnicity and thus that word can’t be a “slur” bc it effects a class of people that isn’t a specific ethnicity?
FWIW Google did this ("letting go" of an asset) with Kubernetes / the CNCF.

I work on this at Google, but Google no longer owns this since 2015.
Might depend on the level of embarrassment.

Interesting that they did this with Julia, with 83% of instructions being AVX-512 (if I'm reading it correctly).

Does anyone know if Julia's GPU capabilities could have been leveraged on say a cluster of NVIDIA A100/V100?
Apologies if this is a bit of an ELI5 request, but after many years I still don't understand the real-world uses of smart contracts. There was this post on HN a couple years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225857, and I still don't understand how any of those issues are addressed.

Specifically what I'm struggling to understand is that most (all?) real-world contracts require some information about the real world: The price of corn (or corn futures), whether the rental apartment was as described, whether the sneakers were authentic, etc. But whenever you need this real world information, at some point you need an oracle, or a consensus of oracles, and at that point I don't really see the point of using blockchain as you have to trust the oracles.

Would really appreciate if anybody could provide some info or links that explain how this problem is handled or solved. More importantly, would appreciate a single example of an actual smart contract that responds to events that happen in the real world.
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Amen. I'm 43, and started putting money into Vanguard around the age of 40. I absolutely wish I'd started at the age of 30; even just a bit here and there. I have money in index funds, and a Roth IRA. I have seen overall returns of 20%, though I understand that's an anomaly from the past few years.
Unless there was a CGI mesh in the scene, but due to how everything laid out it never actually got any screentime. In which case there would be some debate as to whether it should be considered.
I hear this a lot as an abstract statement but can you give a real world example of where you personally have used that fact? I've struggled to think of any way it would be useful. Dividing by 2 is useful for finding a center, but obviously you can do that just as easily in metric.
You can also just let the water sit and the chlorine will evaporate out.
And fake shills from all over the globe able to target communities with a microscope of oppression? It is total insanity that the digital citizen doesn't have rights to know who is not a verified person and who could be one of million bot accounts.
this is nice. i will certainly look this up
Teenager Helped Launch Seed Libraries in Every State
> For a car?

Yes.

> Are many people driving around in a car from 2000 or earlier?

A fair number, though not a lot because an accident or neglected maintenance will often kill them first. Though the average age of a car on the road has been climbing quite a bit recently, so 20+ years being common probably isn't unreasonable to see during the lifespan of cars sold today. Well, maybe not for the Teslas, but...

> When I search for cars that old or older it's 0.4% of the used market.

That's because there is little demand outside of collectibles, so they mostly aren't worth selling; if you've got a car that old, you are probably going to drive it until it's ready for the scrapyard, not reselling it.
It has to do with macOS and Intel vs Microsoft and Windows.

I think Apple sort of give up optimising x86 on Intel a while ago.
I'm not American and I had no idea "fortified pasta" was a thing. What about organic/artisanal pasta? Do they still legally have to add iron?
Security jobs usually pay worse (if not much worse) than SWE of same or even lower level.
Meanwhile, my ancient laptop can generate and validate many thousands of transactions per second, using just 10s of watts. In fact, the negligible cost to validate transactions is exactly what allows you to run a node at home, on a humble Raspberry Pi.

Miners don't sell transactions. They sell block space in which to store them. That, fundamentally, is simultaneously what makes Bitcoin so expensive, and so valuable -- people wanting to get their transactions confirmed.
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doge tecnically is just a clone of bitcoin and not even updated any more. it has unlimited supply and thus useless as a store of value. its price is total manipulated bs and people gonna get hurt, elon is a total dick for doing what he is doing and i hope people gonna really see whats under the mask.
Stop raising money. Each time you do that you increase the pressure on the site to make more money to earn the valuation. If the company is valued at $6B today then it probably needs to get to at least $18B valuation in two years. How? By trying to extract even more money from the users.
> given out arbitrarily by reddit staff, with the intent of giving users the impression that it's common for redditors to spend real money to "gild" or otherwise flair posts that they like, so that they might do the same

I received for the first time yesterday, 100 credits for free from Reddit. I had to spend it within 24hrs or lose it, so I guilded the most interesting comment I read that hour.
The World’s Aging Dams
Processors Under Pillows
And we glom words together the same way, just maybe less gratuitously
In your experience, do they get better after their stint in the psych ward, or are they pretty much the same, or are they worse?

My experience dealing with the homeless on the streets of Seattle is they seemed to either stay the same or get worse. I never saw one person get better from a stay in the psych ward, it seems at best a place to keep them locked up for a little bit and then turf them back out on the street.

Notice how psychiatrists and psych hospitals don't really advertise much anything about "cure rates" or percentages cured. You compare that to any other field of medicine which often talks about percentages of outcomes, especially for fields like surgery, infectious diseases, oncology, etc... and you find the primary reason why I personally (and many others) do not find the field of psychiatry to offer much beyond "medicate and manage" while syphoning insurance money and government funding, and while also causing potentially horrible side effects.
A collection of cast-iron doorstops
How to run a shoe startup? A interview with an entrepreneur
Right -- miners are selling you block space in which to store your transactions. That's the thing everyone's buying with Bitcoin, and that's the thing miners are spending all their energy on -- putting your transactions into blocks. The transactions themselves are very cheap to produce and validate.
Fun fact: HN uses spacer gifs to indent comment replies.
This is great! I've Got a few of these - going to try this out
unfortunately, I have found this increasingly less useful as marketers catch on.
>It is total insanity that the digital citizen doesn't have rights to know who is not a verified person

I would gladly trade having to manually filter through the crap for anonymity online. I think there's absolutely a niche for platforms serving (only?) verified people, but I don't think that should be the default in the way that saying it's a right for digital citizens to know implies.
They're already in FTC's sights. The change in administration makes that more complicated, but not even a Biden nominee would be able to reign in the lawyers if FB did that.
It's likely that the consumer doesn't even display that image. It's probably a dry 1mb download test.

Most indian ISPs, even mobile ones are extremely cheap to not matter a 1mb.
Violent animals.
Did you know Electric shock is still a very lucrative business in the USA, while the United Nations has deemed involuntary ECT (which is allowed if court-ordered in the US) as torture?

Meanwhile the FDA recently re-classified ECT as Category 2 "Safe and effective" devices, even though there are hundreds of studies showing they cause long term memory loss.

I'm not even sure why we still haven't reformed the FDA, but it is long overdue.
https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=343.4832&dec=-6.5823&lay...

This one ^^^ is curious. Kinda looks like it's burning. (I know, all are burning, but whatever.)

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=346.0946&dec=-4.8791&lay...
Israeli research: Google search can help predict Covid-19 spikes
Man, some days I wish I could give up an eye and an arm to have the quiet but intense passion I've seen in some people. I've tried cultivating whatever hint of passion I've had before and it sputters out. Someday I worry I'm a zombie inside.
I want to be enthused, but Tesla getting invovled with one the stupidest wastes of energy on the planet Bitcoin on the same day makes me non-plussed/kind of miffed.
I’ve never spent time on r popular or the main page. If you only spend time in subs Reddit is very well designed and I think less exploitative than other social media
Just wanted to point out in case you didn't see it, that rusuto currently needs a fulltime maintainer! They're in maintenance mode currently, no one is spending much time on it since the primary maintainer stepped back.
Complete failure in acceptance testing, most likely. Someone did an Annie Dookhan there.
They'll have to go public in order to take advantage of the obvious synergies...
Titania, to follow the oxide metaphor. Which is honestly a pretty darn decent name.
>looking for product recommendations

This is the trick I use too; but I found the result still isn't great enough for a few reasons.

1. People seem have a tendency to recommend products/brands that are niche or "in minority". Like some obscure ones that scratch particular itch for that user (and often expensive and hard to find). This is totally fine on its own, but you want to have the big picture (i.e. learn about the most popular ones) first when researching a new product.

2. The number of the answers is often so low (and most would have 1 digit upvotes) that it's very hard to judge when there is conflicting info.

3. People often just list the brand/name, without much more information.

4. you can't even sure if these answers are genuine (instead of marketing/soft advertisement).

Still, probably much better than anything else that can be easily found in general search.
In some cases, probably. But in others, bringing your knowledge of X into the team that does Y can be quite valuable. Consider the case of a former product manager who knows very well what the customers need from the product, and how they use it, and now also understands the code and dev process - any dev team can really use someone like that. A subject matter expert, someone who knows the industry, designer, or whatever, can bring a lot of value to a different role.
People don't use it like you say. My SSD that says "500 GB" on the label is actually only 500e9 bytes or 465 gibibytes. If I see a file size listed somewhere, I never know which version of the unit it's using so I tend to think in terms of bytes anywhere that the difference matters.
Have you seen the privacy policy for this service? Clearly not GDPR compatible. Simply using this means you cannot service the EU.

Also, if your issue is that owning your user passwords is difficult, then I'm sorry that's just the nature of the problem. It doesn't get any easier by offloading the problem to a third party. Bcrypting passwords is not rocket science anyway. MFA libraries exist for pretty much any server library you use.

Sure a company dedicated to doing user management will definitely do a better job than you, but only if your needs align with those of the majority of its users. The minute you want something custom,and trust me you will you're back to doing user management yourself. Only now you have a giant opaque blackbox to deal with.

Also, tomorrow if Google buys the company,I'll have 20 hours of notice to integrate my own user management before they shut it down. If Facebook buys it, they'll use my user data for targeting their advertising. Either way, I'm in deep trouble (If I care about my users, which I think most people will).

Even ignoring these, the simple fact is that by the very nature of the company, it is a much bigger target for people trying to break into and steal user information,than my little saas could ever be. I'd wager for most people using such services they'd be more likely to get hacked as collateral damage rather than being targeted.
Also, RE skills themselves are pretty useful for ordinary SWEs, it's worth pursuing even if you are not going to work full-time in it.
Here's mine :)
https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=124.7540&dec=83.2675&lay...

Another one: two feeding off each other:
https://viewer.legacysurvey.org//?ra=187.6434&dec=41.6737&la...
So a dozen times ten?
Tech Companies Are Leaving San Francisco
I thought the same a few years ago, when I moved to backend development. I don't feel like the backend was that different, in terms of setting up infrastructure.

In hindsight, I just didn't enjoy writing code for money. When I left my last programming job, I started programming for fun again. It wasn't a deliberate effort, but something that happened on its own.

If you program for fun, you don't have to learn anything. You don't have to use webpack or SCSS if you don't want to. You don't need to write tests. "oops" is a valid commit message and "bugger off" is a valid response to stakeholders.
You can’t make a statement like that without mentioning which part you’re testing with.
Depends, there's some more complex formats defi systems out there now. Synthetix for example allows you to buy SNX tokens and then yeild farm on these against a B-Book which is filled with synth tokens (the synth tokens are derivatives of real assets e.g. sUSD, sAUD, sXAU, sFTSE) so you can trade against real financial instruments.

You can take a look at their litepaper [1] if you want to know more.

[1]: https://docs.synthetix.io/litepaper
Reminds me of Jakob Nielsen's old web page aesthetics, and he was/is regarded as the daddy of web usability.

Not sure if it's a deliberate play on that or a coincedence.
Cannot upvote this enough. Cognito is the absolute worst solution you could choose.
This problem is solved by chainlink. Chainlink is also kindof the thing that allows all this wild DeFi stuff to happen.

https://dyor-crypto.fandom.com/wiki/Chainlink_(LINK)
Yes, they did, they actually thought it was quite funny. They even cached the actual download once they realized we wouldn't be able to deal with that either. The software was the first version of the public peer-to-peer webcam software I wrote:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000510010712/http://www.camarad...
There are 90,000 Asian Americans in Oklahoma. There are over a million in Texas. And more than half a million in Florida. Certainly enough for a pre-mediated act of political terrorism to find a target.

You're constructing a false dichotomy where you assume all Red counties are rural, white, and low-population. That's definitely not true outside the coastal states. If the trend is being primarily driven by Republican voters, the Trump-stronghold of Houston (which has one of the largest Asian-American populations of any American city) should be a hotbed of hate crimes. Yet far more seem to occur in San Francisco. Clearly there's an x-factor that goes beyond Trump.
Ask HN: What tech stack you should know to survive in this software world?
i'm just curious to know about "how to become a successful software developer"!

an aspiring student here :)
What a shame they had to waste the pasta for being slightly less than the iron nutrition guidelines.
https://archive.is/grLQ4
Not sure, but perhaps statements like "Comments like these are so hilariously idiotic. Props for making me guffaw out loud." are why people downvote. Personally I think that OP contributed to the conversation so I wouldn't have downvoted (if I could), but maybe some people did because of that.
Disclosures are never an issue until they are, by someone who feels you were disingenuous in the discussion, or your current/former employer has a problem with what you said.

I don't throw the disclosure on every single comment, but it's stated on my profile, and I do commonly add it when discussing industries I've been involved with.
While I would never be one to question the value and power of internet forums to facilitate meaningful social interaction, I do question that this value can (or should) be realized by financial markets. This makes me very concerned that the social capital harbored on the site will be transmutated into revenue via advertising models and thereby be diluted or even extinguished.
What you've just said here is the reason PoS cryptocurrencies are the way forward. I don't think bitcoin is sustainable as a global currency. The bitcoin network currently uses 1-2% of global energy production, which is already too much!

The mean wealth of an adult on Earth (in USD) is ~$70,849 [1]. For all adults (let's say 70% of the global population, or 5.46 billion), on average, to have even 1% of their wealth stored in bitcoin, and assuming 14.8 million bitcoin in circulation (as 18.5 million have been mined, ~20% have been lost [2]), the bitcoin market rate would have to be $258,243 USD/BTC. This would mean an increase in mining incentive which will likely outpace advances in renewable energy technologies. With ballooning transaction fees, Bitcoin is not even useful for 90% of the world, for the scale of their transactions.

With Ethereum's 2.0 network (which uses PoS), we will have a much more sustainable cryptocurrency that can hopefully be adopted at a global scale without devastating impact on the planet. Perhaps Bitcoin Cash or some other contender with negligible fees will play an important role as well (I'm not sure what the Eth 2.0 transition will mean for mining fees on the Eth network, which are also undesirably high). I'm overall optimistic on blockchain technology as a whole, but I really hope Bitcoin isn't the dominant cryptocurrency in 10 years time

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/news/20-all-btc-lost-unrecovera...
If he wants this to go away, he should wait a while before buying a popular social media firm:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-s...
Removing stop words is what old school users of IT systems do, because that's what we learned worked best at the time.

Internet users who came online later, from GenZ to many boomers, will often just write conversational sentences and questions.
My one's got something similar going on: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=188.1737&dec=29.7119&lay...
That's such ancient history I would bet most of the kids on there now never used digg.
Not any longer, I was a technical manager and CTO for 25y now I'm a CTO coach.
>I don't really buy this. Despite parties using those terms, they don't really mean anything when any given thing had been the status quo at some point in history.

I think that most conservatives don't look to some distant point in the past, but the status quo now, or perhaps some time earlier in their lifetime. If you view all over your examples through this lens, the ambiguity is resolved.

If you look at conservative views and values, they are more consistent through time than liberal views. I think the data presented a few parent threads up clearly supports this view.

I'm not saying there is a moral high ground in being more resistant to change or less resistant to change, but in my mind, it is clearly part of political reality we live in, and a valuable lens to understand the current political divide.

If you don't agree with this view, what alternative do you propose? Are conservative and progressive values and interests random? What values inform the positions they take and how they change over time?
Not a popular answer probably, but if there’s one that can land you a ton of various jobs, it’s the Spring ecosystem. It is also used globally (read: India and eastern Europe) and will thus make you a world player. If you can learn Spring you will likely be able to learn other major frameworks with comparatively little effort.
Lately I have been adding "reddit" to all the questions I ask google because I know some "real" person on reddit will have a relatable answer. I too feel this is untapped potential.