skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is actually one of the few really good strategies if you want to take over an entire already populated and heavily armed planet. Of course it will take some time, a couple of decades, but at some point if you land your hefty 5km long starship in some god forgotten place, probably the shaken remaining societies won't even bother to shot some nuke at you.
I scraped it from a source that allows scraping :)
As an example of overdramatic "high culture", Juliet fakes her death, Romeo sees her "dead" body and kills himself by drinking poison, Juliet wakes up and attempts to first kill herself by kissing him and receiving the poison, and when that fails stabs herself to death with his dagger.
App Engine team was maybe a 5-10 engineers. It wanted to be the next Heroku, whereas AWS aimed to be the infrastructure for all the world's software.
> I'd also prefer not see irrelevant ads.

This sounded good when I first heard it, but by now I understand 'relevant' to mean 'tailored to optimally influence my behaviour', eg showing me articles about the futility of voting if my political preferences are likely to lean a particular way.
In my mind this is an example of solving a problem that does not exist.
Why just not simply say "we watching 2 movies a week, once you choose and I'll choose next, and so on..."?

p.s. Credits and kudos for learning new things !
They explain this in the tutorial, but anecdotally it reads really well if you speak a SOV language.
When I get to ||||||||||||||||||| situation, I just close the browser and start fresh and then type in sites I had opened if I remember any. I am left with just a few really important to me at the time and I find this less distracting.
What's really telling is how many people and companies think they're entitled to running ads on my computers and phones, as if I'm the one who is doing something wrong by choosing what I see or don't see.
"Driving adoption amongst merchants/vendors" sounds like creating a self sustaining economy.

https://youtu.be/YAKOWcs8w54
FWIW tools like Firebase Auth make the development piece fairly negligible (and also have the concept of anonymous users).
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But how else could we make it LaaS (locks as a service) with a monthly subscription?
I'm disappointed. I expected the syntax to be cuter.
Shocking. I thought it was no more than 38 percent.
agree, i found it quite helpful!
Company towns are slavery by another name
Yep. And 98% of software written today will never need to scale beyond 10k TPS at the database layer. Most software is small. And of the software that does need to go faster than that, most of the time you can get away with read replicas. Or there are obvious sharding keys.

Even when thats not the case, it usually ends up being a minority of the tables and collections that need additional speed.

If you don't believe me, look through the HN hiring thread sometime and notice how few product names you recognise.

Most products will never need to scale like GMail or Facebook.
Any statistical prove makes certain assumptions and as with every assumption, there are diverging views. In that particular case, the prove ignores any aspects that cannot be modelled and then be tested like, e.g., domain knowledge that gives you a headstart over other market participants. As always, I'd say the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I strictly prefer irrelevant ads less likely to influence me.

I really have enough projects, TODO lists, interesting things to buy to last for lifetime of 250 years.

Why I would want ads likely to influence me? There is basically no chance that ad will show me useful, worth using object or service to buy that I would not discover anyway.

It would be just another scam more effectively targeting me.
The idea of creating a futuristic city in a developing country is noble. The cryptocurrency idea is weird. It is primarily motivated by personal wealth accumulation. In theory the money could be used to fight against corruption and it would be a net gain, but this can only work if you have deep trust in Akon.

If there are trustworthy and competent leaders in Africa, then why haven't they been voted into power? It will have the same effect.
I dunno, I don’t see a problem with progressive enhancement of a dumb device: Clearly, don’t control the screecher with a web-connected microcontroller. But if it’s a totally standard dumb fire alarm that also outputs a voltage to a microcontroller that sends an alert to your smart home platform of choice? I don’t see the downside. And if it has a 90% chance of alerting you that your fire alarm has gone off when you’re out of earshot of the irritating noise? Why not?
For those curious, last time it was on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13345832

The author answers some questions.
Leave a message for the president explaining that his website's instructions are broken (and that it's literally easier to contact him than a webmaster).
How does BBC iPlayer know I'm not in UK despite logging into UK server via VPN?
Hi all,

I use NordVPN on my iOS 14 and I want to watch some entertaining series aired on the BBC.

Earlier I used Sweden server on NordVPN but then I changed to UK since BBC shows are only available to people geographically situated in the UK.
Even though browser and websites detect change in location and start throwing tons of CAPTCHA, I circumvent this (or I'd like to think I do) by deleting all cookies and caches from all browsers I have installed, beginning with Safari.

However, the problem here is this → the BBC iPlayer website somehow figures out that I am still logged in from a non-UK country and doesn't let me watch videos, despite clearing all my caches and cookies, after I have recently changed my NordVPN to login from UK. The workaround I have found for now is stay logged in from UK NordVPN server for around 2-3 days and then access BBC iPlayer content (streaming videos/ series), then it works. Patience is not one of my virtues and waiting for a 2-3 days is a lousy workaround.

Is there a quicker workaround for this? I know deleting just cache and cookies ain't gonna work so easily.

Should I go for a network reset? That will have the added complexity of re-entering my WiFi password which I wanna avoid.

My thinking here is that the web server Session Affinity (Sticky bit) is cookie based, as opposed to IP based and hence this keeps on happening.

Would someone please help me out here?

Thanks

PS → the BBC iPlayer website does ask its users to turn off VPN, if they are using any.
Seems like you need /r/relationship_advice. Anything a romantic partner does is a Red Flag. The only fix is to immediately hit facebook, delete the gym and fire your lawyer.
Is the trend of Turing.com/Andela/Upstack moving US remote dev jobs to overseas?
has any US engineer really taken jobs from Turing.com ? or is the trend of Turing.com/Andela/Upstack taking US remote dev jobs to overseas?

I am a dev in a LA based software company, in the past year of 2020 pandemic as permanent remote got popularized, I am also seeing a trend my company is hiring more and more from such agencies (Turing/Andela/Upstack/...) with developers from overseas (Brazil/Ukraine/Nigeria/...), and whenever a US based dev quit, the company can hire 3 or more devs from such oversea places, and the company has actually ceased hiring within US, even though our company's website career still shows hiring within US, but I know all recently joined ones are based overseas (via some such agencies), no new ones within US were hired for at least many months as far as I know; a dev based in such oversea countries can live well on $1k or $2k month, but a US based engineer cannot even survive; now I become the only few US based on the team, and I don't feel good about my company's future;

https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-tried-Turing-Is-it-any-good-for-finding-gigs-What-does-the-process-look-like-after-registering-with-them

TL;DR: they are OK but they take more than 50% of your paycheck forever and give you practically zero benefits for it. It’s better to avoid them and wait for another opportunity.
don't know details of this effort, but two thoughts come to mind:

1) the threat of a good example -- see how the US still treats Cuba, etc.

2) 'labor' is crushed in america. they/we are nothing. so, any tiny effort, however misdirected, ill-advised, etc. -- is akin to Chinese people protesting in Tiananmen Square -- brave, but not likely to end well.
Knowing to hire for weakness instead of "top talent" implies a level of reflection almost no medium+ sized company actually has. Most companies don't need top talent, and the talent they have isn't anywhere close to the top.
I read that they are now considering worshipping Charles, who they have already met in person.
I think what you are saying is privacy concerns are a straw man. But just to accuse HN doesn't really help me. Can you share with us a bit about what is going on in Chrome. I would be genuinely interested to hear more about how it was made/runs etc.
In my time at Google I never understood on what criteria young PMs were hired. The company would regularly reject engineering candidates who had very successful solo projects because they didn't correctly answer the generic Comp Sci and how-do-you-scale-search questions, but at the same time the vast majority of PMs I encountered were just a year or two out of undergrad, and had never built a product, never launched a product, never demonstrated any aptitude for connecting with users. They were certainly personable, and overall were good communicators, but not --as a rule-- inventive or imaginative.
Without being totally dismissive of every person who has contributed to the platforms you mention...99.99% of the stuff on YouTube is terrible, and most of the stuff written about GME was total nonsense.

It is difficult to convey this because, in the end, you have no idea either so you don't know whether there is useful stuff on YouTube or if I am just talking nonsense too...but it is so bad, and it gives the misleading impression that picking stocks is very easy. It isn't, people do CFAs (allegedly, a hard exam), MBAs, and work in fund management every day for decades...and will never come close to being profitable (indeed, what is amazing is how many people have no knowledge but end up doing okay...it is remarkable...the post is a perfect example, no content, no apparent understanding of investing...somehow the guy is a billionaire from investing, like Chamath...amazing).

It is gambling (the distinction between gambling and investing is information), what most VCs are doing in the space is financial terrorism (stuff like WealthFront is an unbelievable scam, it is 1980s-style financial advice), and most people should take your approach (although it is still very easy to go wrong with 3 ETFs...most people will get there though).
> I am donating to greenpeace

Can you please not do that? In France at least they're actively doing their best (by lying mostly) to sabotage the integration of nuclear energy to the clean energy programs. I'm convinced they're harmful to our future.
Your active strategies are not against passive traders, they're against other active traders. You can't create one of those differential bets trading only with index funds as they won't take the other side of the unbalanced position you want as they're obliged to follow the index. In your scenarios you'd be winning against some other active investor taking the other side of the bet. Active as a whole can only beat passive as a whole if the market becomes so screwed up there's too much tracking error for passive to work properly. At that point the passive index no longer represents the market average and the active traders can take a larger share of the gains.
Nobody will advocate it, no, but there's a significant set of the population with self destructive tendencies. They're gonna use what they can get their hands on, and lots of whatever it is. I know a few folks who have taken tens of tabs of acid, and every single one was traumatized by the experience; some were incapacitated for months or years following.

I'm in favor of universal legalization, but it's definitely worth considering the impact to everybody, not just the people who use drugs responsibly
As if you have never run to the bathroom during a commercial break.

No one is under any obligation to accept advertising. Only since the modern web have advertisers and content providers made this an argument on ethics.
If ads are relevant to the content of the current page, no user profiling (even pseudo-anonymously) is necessary. To me that would be the best option.
and look at the Crunchbase profile of Turing.com , they actually got a lot of attention from VCs, (raised over $40M during 2020) and more similar hiring agencies are copying this business model, this crewscale.com has an almost full list in their comparison: Toptal, Crewscale, Upwork, Turing, Upstack, Fiverr, ...

As this list will for sure grow longer and longer, many US employers will get lured into this model, hiring junior to mid seniors from such agencies instead, so in not-far future, will this hiring model become a mainstream?

Are any US based engineers getting this fear? I know for the top ones who earns $500k+ annually, your job will probably still be kept in US, but all the whole size of US software dev jobs will largely shift to overseas, for those junior to mid-senior levels, your jobs are not replaced by AIs but more probably lost to overseas

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turing
https://www.crewscale.com/
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Exactly. Some traits are always good, some always bad and yet others depend on context.

For example I currently work with a team with a lot of very hard working technical people but not enough concern for questions like "what's valuable for us to work on?". So I need to hire people who will ask those questions.

On the other hand, if my team was full of big picture pontificators, I'd be looking for someone who's shut up and code for a change.
Concorde would still be flying if Airbus hadn't refused to continue with maintenance on the aeroplanes. Without that support the decision was made to remove them from service.
> you only send your interest categories

Not sure why it is supposed to be significant improvement.

"FLoC cohorts will comprise thousands of users each, so a cohort ID alone shouldn’t distinguish you from a few thousand other people like you. However [a tracker now] only has to distinguish your browser from a few thousand others (rather than a few hundred million). In information theoretic terms, FLoC cohorts will contain several bits of entropy—up to 8 bits, in Google’s proof of concept trial. This information is even more potent given that it is unlikely to be correlated with other information that the browser exposes. This will make it much easier for trackers to put together a unique fingerprint for FLoC users."

"as your FLoC cohort will update over time, sites that can identify you in other ways will also be able to track how your browsing changes [...] a FLoC cohort is nothing more, and nothing less, than a summary of your recent browsing activity."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
It’s literally a cohort ID? Where did you get “hands them your browsing history on a silver platter” from?
Correct, but isn't that a socially accepted thing? You don't see people protesting doctors being corrupt? Quite the opposite, people praise them. I can't even recall any party that would have tackling this in their program, not even making disclosure of such benefits mandatory...
Yeah, these are good, FTA:

1. Be patient. No matter what.

2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.

3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.

4. Expand your sense of the possible.

5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.

6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.

7. Tolerate ambiguity.

8. Laugh at yourself frequently.

9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.

11. Give up blood sports.

12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.

13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)

14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.

15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.

16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.

17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.

18. Admit your errors freely and soon.

19. Become less suspicious of joy.

20. Understand humility.

21. Remember that love forgives everything.

22. Foster dignity.

23. Live memorably.

24. Love yourself.

25. Endure.
The book covers both techniques (though not in great detail), Memory Palaces are another term for Method of Loci[0] - in my experience it is actually much better and faster, but requires habitually revisiting rooms in order to remind yourself of their contents (this is as quick as mentally walking through a door into a room and glancing around it from left to right). This is easy and fast but it's also easy to forget to do it and then the contents do start to fade. I use the layout of the first house I owned as my "palace", so it's a real place but no longer somewhere I actually go to in real life which helps avoid confusion.

The linked list idea works well and arguably lasts longer, but it's also much more time consuming to "set up" (for me at least), and suffers from O(N) time complexity just like a real linked list (i wonder if it would be possible to construct a mental skip-list!) and if I forget a single association then the whole remainder of the list is forgotten.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
react, c#, redis for caching+pubsub, mongo/postgres,
clickhouse - awesome for analytics/mi, algolia for search, mindsdb, logentries for log aggregation, datadog monitoring + catchpoint for synthetic tests

killer combo
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no web framework, no template, etc.?
Bayeux Tapestry
> Android doesn't have anything like it either.

Uh, it sure does through the applications section. You can see running services, which ones are taking battery, and stop/disable those as well.
>> Think of how different human history would have been if cycling had become popular in, say,1000 B.C. Commerce would have been stimulated, armies would have moved much more quickly and follow-on inventions likely would have advanced technology at a faster pace.

Somehow I don't see the Mongol hordes conquering the world on bicycles.

No really. The Mongols, being steppe archers, had a tricky manoeuver they mastered, where they turned around on the saddle and unleashed three arrows in quick succession at the enemy on their back (they charged at the enemy first, then when the enemy braced or worse went to give chase, they turned around and galloped back, but still kept shooting. Nasty).

I can't imagine how that would work out on a bike. And for bikes to run fast enough for ancient warfare on rough terrain they would at least need vacuum chamber wheels that were not necessarily as easy to invent as a bicycle with wooden wheels.

Then there were all the heavy horsemen of antiquity: Alexander's Companions, Eastern cataphracts, European knights... Kinda hard imagining a joust from bicycle-back.
If you bet on a liquid market, you will pay vig of something like 1-2%. Where I am, it is actually cheaper to bet (just think about how unbelievably fucked that is...you can see why VCs want to insert themselves into that) but in the US your trade costs are probably underneath that level all-in.
My belief is simply that there is no such evidence.

Reasonably convincing evidence, to me, would be:

- genetic precursor virus particles which have died and no longer exist - they are extinct, or,

- dated blood samples with immunological evidence of infection, sufficient that it isn’t just tampered/false positives. There’s no reason to expect this would have been collected.

i.e. if you haven’t collected it by 2019, there is never going to be any evidence.

This also answers your sibling commenter: it’s not in China’s interest to publicise any such search, when the odds of discovering anything (even if there were earlier infections) are vanishingly low.
I've seen people try that, but the admins just sit there quietly watching them loop for an hour or something, then note how long it takes them to respond to a simple hello.

Or in some games, they can send messages in a way that a human would see, but not a bot who expects the messages to come over chat. For example, waving a sign in front of the character's face with a message or whatever. It helps that the admins can also hide from normal presence detection, even though they're visible on the bot's screen, visually.

I've literally watched admins ban a bot using these precise countermeasures. The trick is to always keep giving them new things they haven't thought of to adapt to.
I have a bit more to learn :)
Seems like a cool app; will definitely give it a go.

Does/will the the app filtering by streaming service take region in to account?
I haven't used firebase at all. I'll definitely look into it
So the content creators have no right to demand compensation for creating “what you see“?
How do I unlock that mythical high quality app experience? 99% of the stuff is crap adware and copypasted apps, letting some indie in it is not going to significantly move the average.
Idk why you picked on the word reasonable. But your proving my point by attempting to shut down the discussion already

In reality the government is already discussing what is protected and what isn't. Free speech is an illusion. Otherwise we wouldn't have exceptions to free speech. There wouldn't an fcc if it it was truly free.

I think we should be explicit about what is protected and what isn't. We want to protect the expression of criticism of our government. I don't think we should be making choices about how society functions based off of ambiguous tweet sized one liners. This site your commenting on has higher expectations, maybe our bill of rights should too.

Is advertising really speech? It's ideas with the intent to manipulate people, commercial propaganda. What is speech, maybe we should define that better. It could be the ideas and opinions of individuals. Its a mistake to provide the same protections to a corporation.

There's nuance to speech, the 1st amendment is ambiguous. The intent is protect people, government exists to protect people. The rest of the world is successful without a almost religious devotion to free speech, there's no reason why the us can't, if anything it's detrimental to our society.
Can confirm, I did a few paid reviews (until the reward was greater than the time spent).

I wrote genuine thoughts on the product but given it has been offered to me and not someone else, there is a clear selection bias.
I’m sure it says somewhere but i could not find out what version of chrome(chromium?) brave is based on while trying to find this out for maybe 5 minutes. So, just to be sure i am not installing an browser with known vulnerability I’ll stick with chrome for now.
Good luck if you think it is easier! By the way, have you created a profitable business before?