skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone wealthy enough doesn't sell. They just share.
Did you use transactions?
I noticed a significant performance increase after wrapping blocks of queries with BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT TRANSACTION.
Best part of the article for me:

> C is not the primary reason for our past vulnerabilities

> There. The simple fact is that most of our past vulnerabilities happened because of logical mistakes in the code. Logical mistakes that aren’t really language bound and they would not be fixed simply by changing language.

Moving to Rust for new projects seems like a good idea, but I just had an experience moving from Clojure back to Java for a new project recently that helped me realize something: it's not about the language.

When I moved back to Java, it wasn't about the language anymore. It was about building something cool. There's always this subtext to any programming I did in Clojure that was like "you're doing this cool thing in a cool language and that makes it better", but in java it was "hey let's make something really cool".

That's what this guy is saying the most, I think. It's not about the language. It's about building something rock-solid, and rewrites aren't usually the answer when that's what it's about.
For sure. But look at long term trends. Since 2008, the trend has just been up and towards the right.
Logo Adventure:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapi...
Let's not blame the lowly sub here.

The next paragraph continues:

Citibank's procedures require that three people sign off on a transaction of this size. In this case, that was Raj, a colleague of his in India, and a senior Citibank official in Delaware named Vincent Fratta. All three believed that setting the "principal" field to an internal wash account number would prevent payment of the principal. As he approved the transaction, Fratta wrote: "looks good, please proceed. Principal is going to wash."
There's a difference between that and what Google does. Look at how many products on https://killedbygoogle.com/ that were several years old, e.g. AngularJS (11 years). And I'm sure many of us remember Google Reader.
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I am loving Waters' slap down of Tenev. Tenev refuses to give her the honest answer: Robinhood did have a liquidity problem.
Ah yes. Thanks for the memory. So they effectively cut their ad spend on Facebook by 2/3rds (an experiment) and saw virtually no difference between the two budgets. An obvious indication of reporting fraud.
Plot twist: this is actually how Google decides to kill products.
Totally, just a minor quibble, they don't have audits, they have attestations. That's not the same thing, it's much less detailed. I'm not particularly worried about the existence of their backing assets, however, it's just worth noting.

I was referring to the Circle entity in the event of a wheels-come-off situation.
The only time they'd actually sue is if you made something worth money. in that case, there's a good chance you can get investors to pay the lawsuit.
> Most economists agree once you take into account retaliatory tariffs they're bad for the economy.

How much real predictive signal is there in economists' consensus?
Remember that these are correlational studies! They're not directly comparing raw counts of data points, they're checking for statistical significance.

It can be that

COUNT(failure -> failure) > COUNT(success -> failure)

while also being the case that "there is not a statistically significant correlation between past success and future success".

Think about generating a dataset using the process you outline and then performing a statistical test for correlation on the resulting dataset.

Think about the percentages in step 2 and 3. If those get small enough, then there could be a statistically significant (failure, failure) correlation in your generated dataset and also not a statistically significant (success, success) correlation in your generated dataset.

The 90% number [0] explains how those percentages get small enough that (success, success) is not picked up by a significance test but (failure, failure) is.

You don't have to take my word for it, though. You can actually implement this process, run your favorite test for correlation, and verify that as those success probabilities get small you have the above effect.

What you've proven above is that

COUNT(failure -> failure) > COUNT(success -> failure)

But just because this is true doesn't mean that there will be a statistically significant success -> success correlation.

Again, the most fundamental reason that can happen is because failure rates are over 50% [0].

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[0] I mentioned in my first comment you can get this result even with a 50% failure rate. How? Companies and founders aren't 1:1, founders drop out of the data generation process, etc. You can play with that to create similar effects even in extreme cases like failure rates dropping to 50% but it'd be a bit contrived.
I bought them through a IT reseller, at more or less retail price around here.
Is that terribly different from early stage startups? the alternative for google is inertia where any product needs to prove it can get to a billion dollars of revenue prior to launch.

The way internal politics at companies go - I'd expect that approach to yield a lot of Stadia style flops.
You can actually place components at arbitrary angles, and even do so programmatically through the scripting interface.
Yep, mine have similar breaks.

It's also super interesting to see how my productivity has waxed and waned over the past few years. Due to the way the metric is derived and the differing natures of the various projects I've worked on, I don't think it makes sense to compare across projects - but I can definitely tell where I was engaged and happy versus where I was struggling to keep going.

I'm in the process of downloading and printing all of mine back 2007 or so. When I'm done I'll be able to point to them and say "I remember when this was all fields!" :)
I mean that when you trust someone, that can mean you either trust them not to screw up or trust them not to screw you over.
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I'm projected to make a generous profit, but that actually depends on the continued Ethereum price.
Another 10%
There's a balance to be struck.

You can't just lie to people and tell them that everything is deadly or they're gonna question everything else you've said. That's basically what DARE was.

I know a chainsaw is dangerous. But listening to every Youtuber lecture me about how I have lock out tag out to change a lightbulb my own home and every Redditor jump at the opportunity to engage in a monologue about how I should wear safety classes when I use a screwdriver sure lends a lot of legitimacy to the people who say their dad never wore PPE and retired with all his limbs so it must be fine.
> If everybody has an incentive for rates to stay low, they will stay low

Your list of stakeholders who like low rates is the same today as it was in the 2010s, the 2000s, the 1990s, the 1980s and the 1970s when rates were much higher.

If stakeholders who like low rates had the power to set the rates, the rates would have been lower then, too.

> This ends in hyperinflation

Counterpoint: low rates are a consequence of a sluggish economy, not Soviet-style central planning. If the economy comes roaring back with double-digit GDP growth eight quarters in a row, and central banks continue printing tens of trillions of new money in the face of an overheated economy, then we'll see a wage-price spiral. But if the economy remains sickly, or central banks ease off the stimulus, then it's hard to see hyperinflation on the horizon.
I recall reading somewhere that Waymo had retention problems due to many of the early engineers were given so much money that they simply no longer cared to work. I don't know how true that is, but I believe it.
Google is not an early stage startup and the expectations of each type of company are necessarily different.
> …where my request was left to rot, without any response.

Hey, I am involved in the OpenSSF and happy to take at least a look. I maintain a popular python OSS project in the security area so we have that in common. Did your email actually go through, I just searched my list archives and there is nothing for gensim. EDIT: see your email now, have msg'ed the WG in slack.

> Made me wonder whether this is just a PR stunt / corporate power grab

I would not say it is, we have folks from OWASP on the technical advisory panel and many other non profit orgs / individual developers. One thing I would keep in mind, is that being a newly founded org, a lot of time has been spent working out and agreeing how we will operate, so the working groups are all still quite fresh.
One of the fun side games I've been playing is to try to beat the game with the fewest possible events, which means not flagging squares - it's definitely much harder!
You can't attack another user like that on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again. Instead, if you're worried about abuse, please follow the site guidelines and email us so we can look into it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As the world keeps moving full remote this type of hiring middleware makes a lot of sense, but I have reservations for the trajectory of this model.

First, yes, companies in US/Canada and Europe will look for different regions (including LATAM) to source their talent needs. And I do believe that many companies will rely on middleware like this to handle contract and payments. It's great that you're setting up yourselves to be the leader of this model in Latam.

The problem I see is that your successful trajectory only makes sense to me if you guys handle dozens of contracts for a single operator a time. Meaning having something like 500 companies with ten or more remote Latam employees each.

Now, as an agent you have extraordinarily little leverage for retention. You generate all the contracts and boilerplate, and handle payments. But once a business has set certain employee footprint in a region, what will prevent them from cutting you off?

The way I see it, your path to success looks like having hundreds of companies that just need an employee or two per country, but that sounds like an incredibly intense operational overhead. Maybe that's how you have been thinking about it and have ideas for addressing this at scale with technology, idk.

In general, it seems that there are two potential paths, but one will be harder than the other one. One with long-term relationships which means more recurring revenue and a more predictable financial horizon. The other one is with short-term relationships (short-lived contracts, low footprint, small labor) and that path is more convoluted and with a less clear trajectory towards profitability.

This is of course a problem that all the companies operating on this model need to figure out. Not only you.

The other problem I see is with a foundational thought of your business: "quality at a fraction of price compared to what they can get elsewhere."

I would thread lightly with that. It almost seems like you're saying: "feel free to exploit the already undervalued and underpaid talent of Latam. We will make it easier"... My concern is that you're setting up your brand to have the same reputation as companies like Cognizant, Infosys and TATA. Yes, you could be generating value for stakeholders but at the expense of facilitating the exploitation of Latam professionals.

I would hope that this model doesn't become an alternative to the H1-B fiasco that was pervasive in the US. As a US immigrant that had an H1-B visa I will always remember those companies as the worst type of companies because they exploited Indian tech workers for years to the detriment of other immigrants like me that had to compete for the same visas.

Not saying that's what you're doing, but words matter so I would re-evaluate how you talk about the value you bring.

P.S: Also, as a fellow Colombian and Technologist please know that I'm rooting for you. One word of advice regarding HN etiquette. Please don't have other team members commenting as random commenters. It looks disingenuous.
It does matter in practice in California.
Btw if you want to help mirror some of libgen's files here is how you can do it: https://freeread.org/ipfs/
> which means they can buy more expensive houses or pay less for the mortgage on the house they already own, which in turn means they can buy more things from Amazon, which means Amazon does more business, which means the stock price goes up, and so on.

Do they do this? I was under the impression that they stashed it offshore and sat on it. I'd like to see what "the rich" are actually spending their money on and how it drives any economic levers.
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Hi alex, thanks for your thoughts.

Not currently publishing updates other than to the site itself... opul.ai is hopefully an easy link to remember :)

I like the choose-your-own interface idea - this could hide a lot of the complexity that isn't necessary for certain users.
There is no congestion on the Tor network, Capacity is 2x demand.
It was due to an escalating addiction, not impurities.
If I'm not mistaken, this problem is exactly what is attempting to be solved by the current anti-trust suit against the big tech companies in the United States (this is the suit brought by Texas and a few other states). Depending on the outcome, vertical integration like you're describing could be deemed monopolistic and result in Google being spun off into separate entities for each of the parts you're describing.

I think views related to this topic somewhat depend on whether or not you consider Google a monopoly in the digital advertising space. If you do, it would seem that bringing more of the world in-house would be deemed illegal under anti-trust laws.
NPR has repeatedly brought up fascism in relation to US politics. Here's a story I just heard:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/14/967917822/author-on-trumps-ac...

National NPR shows tend to be more cautious but local shows have been much more explicit:

https://www.kalw.org/post/rise-fascism-united-states-how-sho...

Rarely read/listen to BBC but they seem a bit less hyperbolic than NPR.
I can't speak for the buffer overflows since those can happen in various ways
but I'd sort double frees under logic errors which he admits curl to have
Capitalism? :P
Shouldn't we? Alcohol ruins more lives and causes more injuries and damage than heroin.
Well, they did transfer high volume benefits to the customers, only $500M worth they weren't expecting.
Agreed that a lot of people do things that are appealing now and not so wise later. But I think we'll get farther if we talk about this as a "short horizon" problem, rather than assailing their mental capacity.

It's all a variant of "candy today; diabetes in 20 years." Public health experts have probably thought the hardest about how to get people to take the long term into account. There must be something in their playbook that could benefit the anti-surveillance cause.
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The Age of Steam
They need to look like they are working on something decent whilst the ad casino keeps churning money for them.

Otherwise investors will inevitably realize that Google hasn't really done much. I'm certain that many investors are riding on the Moon Shot projects they keep marching out.
“Choice” is precisely the problem.

It’s not much of a choice when developers have all of the knowledge and users can’t even begin to understand how the apps work.
Started by Microsoft, Dapr put in place an open governance model starting in September https://blog.dapr.io/posts/2020/09/30/transitioning-the-dapr...
Honestly, no.

I like having access to these experiments. This site is literally a free 3d-object hosting website. I pay nothing, so why should I expect stability, lifetime access, etc. etc. all of which cost money?

Google couldn't monetize this, but maybe someone else can. Google was the first to do an office suite in the cloud. Now there is Notion, Airtable, etc. all of which exist because Google was willing to put its experiments online.

And yes, they mine and scrape all the data from these experiments to fuel their other paid services and ad engine, I know, but still I prefer access to these experiments. They're often ahead of the curve, and no other company is going to be able to offer all these things.

I'm not a Google fanboy at all, but I don't mind if they shut down free "products" like this if the tradeoff is that we get to see and use new, innovative products earlier. We all benefit from seeing what's possible. Applies to lots of products: Stadia, Drive, Maps, etc,
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Dockerize Your Dev Env
"Interactive Fiction" is probably the search term you need. Might start here: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_write_my_own_g...
Insinuations of astroturfing and shillage are not allowed on HN without evidence. If you want to know more about why, it has been explained countless times over many years—see the links below. The short version is that internet users have an overwhelming tendency to imagine this into other people's comments, so there needs to be something objective to go on, and someone else having a different opinion is not objective evidence.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Ah, yeah - this is very much like my experience as well. I sat on my bed and just cycled through the same thoughts for a shockingly long time. Nevertheless it felt great. Very creepy.
HN Discussion when the case was filed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045
It's been decrim unofficially for personal use for 5 years now, now officially decriminalized https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/11/28/vancouver-votes-to-decri...

Every bus stop since March last year in the drug slums also has instructions where to get prescribed opiates. Area only got worse
Stupid analogy, the worker can be told to remove the headphones during paid hours, non-compliance makes you fired.
We are talking about whether what you do outside of work, that is isolated from work, should get you fired.
Obviously not what you're looking for, but Gitlab does have a "Mirror repo to Github" feature.
Uh... I think you completely skipped the UDP portion.. Agora (hence CH audio) uses UDP and obviously you wouldn't see the traffic on HTTPS or Websocket.
> It involves honest and sometimes difficult conversations.

These conversations are only OK if the person feeling the honestly and difficulty is either higher up to food chain or white (and preferably both).
Satellite internet already breaks location services and geo randomly.

AFAIK, the entire country of Eritrea is uplinked solely by a Hong Kong based satellite ISP.
I read hacker news every day, and this is the first time I'm hearing about this product. Good first impression!
Is there a good news source covering this?

Very interesting is this interview yesterday with the Interactive Brokers chairman (5min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TPYuIRVfew
Get a good mentor
Is the beer weaker in the US than the UK?

Most of the UK beer I've heard of is at a similar level or lower to US macro brews.
Prediction: In the 2020s, Caring About Things Will Go Mainstream
If the clause didn't exist, I could pay off my 250K Lamborghini loan, get the title and then ask for the money back because it was a "mistake".

For similar reasons, items at Sherrif's auctions can't be returned to the original owner even if they win the original court case that led to the auction.
That's how CryptoCapital operated after all. It's a pretty standard approach to money laundering.
They dont give heroin im ER.
I worked in an ad agency in the nineties that had a cocaine and amphetamine tidal wave going through it. I never realized the number of seemingly high functioning and reputable people that are utterly addicted.
I don't love the article because I think it shows a statistical anomaly, but in that light, yes this is interesting.
> If all those are amazing enough you can IPO before you even launch a product.

No, you actually cannot.

For a one billion dollar valuation, it should be expected that the company owns the technology stack used to power the product. If I were Clubhouse's vendor I would be absolutely holding them over a barrel right now. I would have jacked up my costs 10X the second they closed the round.
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Robot psychiatrist.

;-)
At a previous very well-known employer, they had also overpaid Oracle 5+ orders of magnitude for the value of their software and had an entire floor of developers, analysts, and other support roles building what they needed into purportedly “off the shelf” software.

One day, a novice-level Java error in Oracle’s code caused a multi-day outage requiring data to be restored from backups and reloaded to get any functionality back and several months of that group deploying duct tape to get everything working.

For a consumer app, people would leave in droves as one star reviews poured in. In this case, they solved this by inviting the relevant VP to a football game in the corporate box with the account rep, both of the same fraternity, and starting that Monday nobody in management talked about the outage publicly again.
They really need to get into how the collateral deposit required by the clearing firm from Robinhood is calculated. It gives all parties plausible deniability but without knowing how it is calculated you can't know all the avenues from which undue influence might have come into play.
Have you considered the possibility that people might just like it?
Interconnectedness is not a silver bullet. The 2003 East coast blackout incredibly large because of inter-connectedness.

The inter-connectedness is actually what caused that. blackout, and what caused it to be so hard to recover from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
> I think that's one area where modern compilers are going wrong

And I think people should stop to approach software development as if building the next shiny web CRUD application was serious software development.
I got prescribed Percocet back when they casually gave them away to teenagers who had their wisdom teeth removed, and did not like it. Not only was I constipated but it made me feel really lazy and itchy. Not a fan.
This is a secondary reason for me. The main reason is that I don’t want an arbitrary Google ban to ruin my life.
> I'm certain that many investors are riding on the Moon Shot projects they keep marching out.

When they realize that Google is shutting down all the Loon Shot projects, I wonder if they'll keep investing or start pulling out their money.
People without both debt and assets aren't paying anything.

Poor people are in debt. They have student loans, medical debt, housing debt, etc.; there are people who owe on houses that they've been long evicted from. Inflation reduces that debt, which is why the fed believes its only mission is to hold inflation down.

People with savings, and who own debt are the people who suffer from inflation. Or would, if there were any. Instead we just have an explosion in price of what rich people already own, like real estate.