skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it was more than the critism. They might have wanted more competition all along.

I don't know enough to debate though.

Why do I feel the CCP is happy with the world's view of their system of a few guys with big egos whom pull are the strings.

(I purposesly didn't use question marks. I don't want to debate. I'm suprised any system with Communism intrgrated in its name is doing great economically, and on other stages. I will never just assume any polital system that incorporates Communists are destined to fail, and of all nations, China worries me the most.)
Time to get to work on that link shortener I've been wanting to build ha ha.
Non-twitter link, in case that would have been useful for anybody else.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-the...
I know you don't want to hear this. You need to find your own niche and create solution for it. There are so many different industries. Manufacturing for example, has more I maybe 1000 different sub/niche industries. As you get involved with these companies, you will find your software and sell to those in need of the solution.

Look into accounting, manufacturing, wholesale, b2b. Ancient dinosaur industries with very small movement because of the monopolies. Keep your eyes open, it is not easy, if it were, everyone would be a millionaire.
Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “contact import” feature
Using multiprocessing I've been able to quite easily saturate a 20GBps Ec2 NICs in python.
https://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd

There is no reason why multiprocessing for IO in python would use _crazily_ more memory than in an other language, when done properly.
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Anyone else lose work because they were forced to restart Firefox?
Create bots to catfish on dating apps.
I really don't understand the article. So in 2003 cellular minutes were expensive. Fair enough. But then we jump to 2010-2016. No information on pricing of calls then, or more importantly, SMS messages...

So a missed-call was free. Okay. But was a single SMS message in 2010-2016 really prohibitively expensive? Because it seems to me that a single SMS number, to which you can send a single SMS with an unlimited number of codes in the body to sign-up for various services, is more efficient than a dedicated phone number for each individual service one might want to sign-up for.

And we are also left to assume that incoming SMS and calls were free.
The app shows the reasons, typically around 1-2 hours total per day (usually < 1 hour in the four days I've tracked it so far). Most of the time is due to 'obstruction' (when a sat is in field of view of dish, but there's something in the way—in my case a tree covers about 10° of the sky).

After that is 'beta downtime', which is typically 10-20 minutes per day. Then 'no satellites' (see https://satellitemap.space), when there's no satellite within broadcast distance—typically 5-10 minutes per day at my latitude.

Hopefully the latter two metrics go down as time goes on :)
That’s true but data flows through the machine executing aws cli. The parent was asking how to copy data without it flowing through a compute instance.
They could use OTP - OT Login Links to log users in, no call center required.
Github account name made me chuckle.
There’s been some success with transit systems that have extensive parking lots to allow for a “park and train” scenario.
Startups fetishize selectively "maximizing the work not done", e.g.: low quality except on the surfaces the customer can see.
I got a zwave product that you mount next to your normal smoke detector. It listens for the alarm. When it hears it, it sends a zwave notification. Works great!

I also have laser particulate sensors hooked to esp8266s for dramatically higher resolution smoke/air quality detection. They go over Mqtt to home assistant for graphing, automations, etc.
I feel like passive Boglehead rules worked best because it existed in the period when America stacked the deck to make it where stocks always went up and everyone always wanted dollars. America left the gold standard in 1971 and Bogle introduced index fund investing in 1976. I wonder how successful it would have been without lots of unbacked dollars available for decades.

I think we are reaching the end of that era. I guess we shall see.
Well, someone else is covering it in post it notes and serving it to you. Again, the same issue applies, if everyone covers the ads in the journal then the advertisers will leave the journal and it will have to shutdown.
all obnoxious ads are bad, but I tend to find the less targeted ones, for example the ones for payday loans or ambulance chasers, more obnoxious than products based on my hobbies.
>if they don't have impressive projects.. maybe not so good?

lol, you realize that for I'd say almost all projects the interesting part/core is small % of the whole, meanwhile the rest is just boring code that needs to be done?

ofc it's not the nicest thing that you arent completing your side projects and just doing the interesting stuff, but you may have experience in industry, so you know how to do that boring ass stuff anyway
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Sounds like it was a case of them trying to hire somebody who was smart enough to program in Python but too passive or desperate to walk out on a test it was clearly irrelevant.

Did you end up taking the job?
If you play on Asia region there’s 8/10 chance you will be matched with a hacker from China. The hacking industry there is making serious money.
To be fair, some people have died from caffeine overdose when ingesting pure caffeine, which lead many internet retailers to not carry them any more.

Example: https://www.inquisitr.com/1909754/caffeine-powder-death-teas...
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There are lots of ways.

What is your system time? If it's not British time you're somewhere else.

What is your actual IP? Where is that IP based?

dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | sed 's/"//g'

What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back? If it's over a certain number of microseconds, you're 'no longer in Kansas, Toto'.
Yeah, let's pretend libraries have equivalent content to the free internet!
How do marketing companies like this (Bridge Corp)get their data?
I've come across this company - Bridge Corp. https://www.thebridgecorp.com/ that claims to have demographic profiles for over 250 million people and the ability to target ads to them. I understand the Ad ID component (great write up [1]) but where does the demographic data come from? How do they know an Ad ID is associated with me - and are thus able to target an ad at me? How can you be removed from these types of tracking efforts?

[1] https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror
Surely there must be a way to chunk the data and feed it into a restful, idempotemt and atomic service for batch processing.
The value creators (engineering/programming/creative/design/product) people have been pushed aside for the value extractors (finance/managers/marketing/oversight) and now the extractors are creating the product. It is a completely backwards setup that is causing products to suffer.

Nothing worse than knowing what a product needs and being overridden by project managers with no experience shipping product or fighting to put in quality or features the users want. Somehow the MBAs and PMs are now seen as product value creators when they are part of the value extraction team, it doesn't and won't work.

Most developers know now that adding to a product or putting in time to get to a more polished post-production model rather than pre-production only can cost you perception due to taking longer, it is a major problem with our industry today.

Imagine the executives of the movie company telling what directors, technical and creative people should and make. Or a novel written by the publisher. It isn't what anyone wants. The value creation needs to go to the value creators AND they need freedom to control their tasks and flows. What happens is people that are capable of shipping products people want, end up in a tasked system where they are given daily/weekly tasks from people that have never shipped. It is frustrating and destroys value.

This is an age old problem highlighted in "How Software Companies Die" but really you could say how creative companies die. Software and technology is closer to art than business in many cases. You can't force creativity into a 3 hour task planned by an outside project manager that doesn't understand what it takes to ship a product themselves. There are some great project managers that do, but they end up just making things or their own company because it is such a unique subset of the overall pool.
A privately owned and maintained street.
Using a query like [Einstein fraud] or whatever is going to get you crap results. Try something like [Mileva Marić] instead to get results from mainstream sources like SA[1]. And obviously those sources aren't going to throw words like "fraud" around, but you don't even have to read between the lines to see my claim is plausible if not entirely justified. It's yet more evidence that women in STEM have been erased by men taking credit for their work.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotte...
This is not directed at the op, but I feel like voicing my frustration.

I detest Elsevier like many scientists. I also would like to be evaluated based on my merit, and not on an intricate game of status (where I, being relatively junior, share the smallest endowments).

It must be clear that the burden lies with tenured scientists. Junior scholars in many fields need publications in certain journals, as their career and positions are at constant risk. Instead, it is the universities and the senior scholars who propagate the reputational signals that these journals provide.

Some calls from tenured scholars towards nontenured scientists to choose open access journals just grind my gears.

Science nowadays has next to zero job security and a switch to industry is often difficult. As a junior researcher, your first and only goal is to survive. Furthermore, too few tenured scholars actually forgo these journals. The reason is simple: These publications, if only in the long run, are worth a lot of money - and once you have them, you'd like their reputational effect to persist.

Anyone who has a secure job has some moral obligation to publish open access.
Furthermore, politics must act. Each mandate towards open access is a good step.

Change must come from the top, or from outside. You can not expect those with the least power to change the system for you.
Godaddy gave me an iq test. That was nuts.
So Google never betrayed your trust because they simply haven't needed to - you gave them everything willingly.
Do you need a 12MP photo of a goat?
Is the school thing a strictly American phenomenon? In New Zealand for instance all that tends to matter is which city/town you want to live in and whether the institution offers the field you want to major in (medicine for example is only offered by Otago IIRC).

I've only been asked for grades once in the previous 12 years where at which point I withdrew my application.
I take it you mean asymmetric speeds.

It is done for market segmentation purposes, not because there is a technical requirement for it. Asymmetric vs symmetric is used to separate residential from business customers, and charge the later category higher prices.

If they offer symmetric speeds to home users, they worry that business customers will try to switch to residential plans in order to save money.
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MVP
As an example, if a startup is choosing to build a web app as the platform for their business, why would they choose to start with a django web app instead of developing it custom from scratch with a JavaScript, css, and html frontend, python REST API, and a database, etc.? I get that they could launch quicker and save time with the django web app MVP, but if the company grows and gets really big, won’t they have to pivot and start developing from scratch anyway? Or, is it okay and not bad to build the MVP custom as described?
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Yeah you're just there for the dating not for the sermonizing
This is a great comment. Thank you for writing it.
For those that are interested, this is known as the Grossman-Stiglitz Paradox. See their original paper, "On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets" (1980). In my opinion, this is one of the most important econ papers ever written. The paper itself is not too technically difficult: the model consists of CARA (i.e. exponential) utility functions and normal random variables, which results in linear demand functions. Solving for the equilibrium is possible with a little bit of linear algebra.

For more recent (and much more technically difficult) treatment, you can take a look at Garleanu and Pederson (2018) ("Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Asset and Asset Management").
It would be nice if tabs in all apps and terminals in tmux/screen could be managed by my window manager just as easily as desktop windows.
these figures give context to the average reader
It really is going to be save the government a fortune trying to get last mile internet to rural NZ, so a win win for everyone.

The only losers are the rural ISPs who everyone complains about. I am sure there are some great ones but the rest are going to disappear as soon as Starlink launches.

If you want to send me an email (address in profile) I would really like to hear how the setup goes when you get it.

When the sat-sat routing happens it will also be a good undersea cable backup Internet option.
I was somewhat disappointed to find a timeline of mathematicians instead of a smart way to capture the evolution of mathematics.

Pretty design for what it does, though!
Thanks, I had originally seen it on twitter or else I would've sent the blog post directly. Iirc it's something like 60 tweets so the post is definitely better!
Cool, but it has some way to go.
Currently it is slower and less accurate than the same function in Canva.
I adore the name of the language.
I’d double check the cli code path for that parameter. The s3 api does have a copy method, which performs the operation within s3 without compute acting as an intermediary. If that’s not the case for the copy parameter, sounds like a bug that needs to be fixed in the cli tooling.
There were multiple attempts at getting a D-Bus-style IPC into the Linux kernel, none of which have particularly succeeded. It seems like the userspace solution works totally fine, and it allowed D-Bus to actually ship to people and take off - especially because it was easier to figure out which IPC mechanism had the right model and iterate on features.

And that's not to mention that a rich IPC mechanism in the kernel is necessarily a more intricate attack surface. Android's Binder RPC is in the kernel and it's had quite a few CVEs over the years.

Actually it's kind of funny that Linux, the monolithic kernel, is the one where IPC is in userspace, and Mach, the microkernel, is the one where IPC is an unavoidable part of the kernel. (Especially because the overhead of unavoidable Mach RPC seriously hurt its market success chances, and Darwin made Mach RPC avoidable by bolting on a BSD syscall interface, making Darwin in some sense worse than monolithic.)
tried it with two images, it worked nicely with both, way to go
This is the kind of fine Facebook should get for leaking data of half a billion people, then shrugging it off and not even informing the affected.
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Nice!

Curious if you've compared the results with remove.bg, which has been around (and improving) for a few years?

And are you trying to become a competitor or is this something you're open-sourcing?

[1] https://www.remove.bg/
Great news. So how to I create my own set of cohorts?
> The claim was a "vast percentage of people are vulnerable" to alcoholism.

Uh, the claim was that "a vast percentage of people are vulnerable to the gradual creep of addiction." As it was written, rather than as you interpreted it, it's a statement that, based on my experience and observations, I believe is correct.
> Actives do expensive research and trade against each other to arrive at the consensus price. Passives trade at that price for "free." Since both get the same price on average but passives incur no cost, they win on average

No, actives can make money on average. If the actives do expensive research and learn things, they can buy good stocks at low (below-fair-value-given-new-knowledge) prices, drive up the price, and the passives follow later, buying at high (fair) prices. No one needs to lose, but actives accrue a disproportionate fraction of the gains.

> This breaks down if passives outnumber actives

Hypothetically there is a level of passive investing where the system breaks, but (1) this has nothing to do with 50% threshold (a small active minority can be fine) and (2) the are natural strong forces that prevent this from happening (as the fraction of passives increases, the reward for being active increases, drawing in more actives).
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In my opinion for the majority of the cases you manage systems and lead people.

Improving the organisational system so that the individuals can effectively do their job is an important activity. This requires collecting reasonable information to feed into developing your hypotheses on how to improve the system. This I feel is management.

Ensure that the individual team members can understand how they are contributing the overall company aim, feel motivate to learn and work, and generally understand how they are fitting into the organisational system is leadership.

There is an exception when an individual has deviated strongly from your average team member and that requires case by case analysis.

The distinction might seem a little pedantic and I'm continually evaluating my perspective on leadership but I do feel there is reason to make some distinction and that it might avoid some of the pitfalls of leadership such as micro management and individual demotivation.
Staatliches is a free font on Google Fonts, I'm a big fan of it personally, but looks like they forgot to include a link to the webfont. :(

And the "cursive" fallback font is defined by your browser, and it's often pretty... well... interesting.
Nor can they afford top talent.

I was going to chime in on all the terrible thoughts here, but that is rather pointless. High grade performers can earn quite a bit.
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Rich Chinese did already see the writing on the wall. They have been aggressively buying real-estate in western cities in the last few years.
don't users move between cohorts with some frequency?
Perl is definitely the answer you're looking for.
I'm not sure about the "audited" part, but the WIV did have such a central database. It went offline in September 2019, they say due to repeated hacking attempts. It hasn't been back since, and access to that database has been a major point of contention between those who believe a forensic investigation (i.e., one that doesn't simply trust the WIV to report whether they were working with related viruses) is necessary, and those who do not.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349073738_An_invest...
Delayed until no later than April 14

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/291/mars-...
I don't do guilt-trips and I don't lay blame.

Never argue seriously with your partner. You don't always need to win. If you did win, was it worth it?

People get the benefit of the doubt the first time. After that, probably not. "Never ascribe to malice what can also be ascribed to incompetence."

Reciprocity and fairness. Is the situation the same if you reverse it?

There is a difference between 'Moral' and 'Legal'. It pays you to know that difference every time.

Unnecessary cruelty to animals is a sign of a person with low self-esteem.

Edify, edify, edify.

Win-win is a thousand times better than zero-sum.
If you're not happy with programming in bash, then you won't be happy with other shells.
What science fiction can do
Actually no, this marks the beginning the decline of power for Alibaba and the rest of the Chinese megatech companies like tencent and baidu.

The chinese government goal for the next 5-10 years is stability, control and state companies, not innovation nor private sector growth. They fear the end of CCP. That's why the recently 5 year plan stresses stability, and doesn't set a growth goal

That's why they cracked down on Hong Kong and basically gave up a conduit of western capital/talents as well as letting Hong Kong citizen's wealth escape abroad.

That's why they are becoming alarmingly nationalistic and lashes out on US/EU politicians and encourages its citizens to boycott foreign brands like H&M.

That's why they are building artificial islands in the south asia sea despite Vietnam/Phillipine's angry protests, to shore up their maritime power.
Thank you for checking it out! Glad to hear it might be useful.

Will take a cleanup pass soon - was excited just to ship it.
> You will be worse off by using irrelevant data in evaluating the choice of a particular product

What do you mean irrelevant data? I am much better at choosing a product that suits my needs than Google and friends are. The only irrelevant data is the one provided by the ad companies.

> the company that paid for the advertisement likely won’t even miss your sale.

If that's true, then why do you think they advertised to me? Why would they possibly choose to advertise to people who they weren't interested in selling to?
Thanks to the rate of bitcoin appreciation it doesn't matter where I work. I can make the same or more than the top companies. I can opt out of the crazy hiring process
I'm not sure that using Google Maps to demonstrate copying a single way of encoding coordinates vs using an open standard is a terribly convincing argument.

Having a field that takes lat and lon has all sorts of ways to enter data either incorrectly, or in an unexpected format - if someone has coordinates from some other source they might be typing it in, rather than copy/pasting.

Also, as others have mentioned - plus codes (or Open Location Codes) are an open standard that can be implemented by anyone under an Apache 2.0 license with a whole bunch of example implementations on github[1]

[1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code
What I mean is get rid of any way that the legal system can be used to prevent third-party apps. TOSs, CFAA, DMCA, contracts, etc. should all be null-and-void when used to prevent interoperable third-party apps.

Companies with large market share should also be actively required to facilitate interoperability, e.g. with APIs available on FRAND terms.
I speak as a FreeBSD developer who has dabbled with RPi, having tested and shuffled in a lot of the initial RPi4 patches and did some not-insignificant hacking to get a single RPi image to actually support RPi3 + RPi4.
Recommend everyone stopping by to take a walk through this site as a whole, its always one of my favorite rabbit holes to get lost in (though it does seem that its become a less cryptic place over time organization-wise, almost a shame).
Does this work better than the standard process? How do you evaluate whether it does?
Yes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_CopyObje...

I wrote many tests for it... so many tests...