skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a currently open job role for a content assessor at the Internet Watch Foundation:
https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are/work-us

The stats there say they've dealt with 1.2m reports over 23 years, with 560,000 takedowns. That's certainly more than a couple a month.
Very good point. I always considered that Twitter profile as tongue-in-cheek, rather than being outright dismissive.
SPACs are the perfect example of this.

Before SPACs, retail couldn't get into IPOs at anything lower than $40/share...and even that was _after_ missing the initial pop that happens once the ticker starts trading.

Now that retail can get into (support) exciting companies at a MUCH lower floor ($10 for commons, $2.50 for warrants), "SPAC bad" hit pieces are a dime a dozen and some brokers (Merrill Lynch, for example) won't allow retail to trade them unless they have $n million in net worth.

Are SPACs riskier? Of course they are. Are they any riskier than IPOs (which can and do trade lower than first-day valuation)? I don't think so. Retail finally has a shot at the same pathways for wealth than IBs and others have had since forever...and we can't have that.
Unless your name is Kevin. Then it’s a no-go.
Think I will shift all multiplatform console game purchases to Microsoft after this incident. They seem to have a reasonable backwards-compatibility story figured out.

At this point I'm pretty sure the only thing holding off OG Xbox and Xbox 360 compatibility on Xbox One / Series consoles is publisher approval. With the possible exception of Kinect games, I expect virtually every game on Xbox One and later to be supported as long as MS makes console hardware.
India has had trouble shaking the socialist mud off it's boots. Back in the late 40's and 50's huge numbers of bureaucratic make-work jobs were created. A thicket of state and local permits and rules have crippled India to this day. There are few large scale Korean Chaebols - instead there is a frenzy of small shops.
Now all these bureacrats and small shops are a force to be reckoned with as the rationalize production millions of people would be turfed out of their feather-beds and made to work.
Ask any man from India - India will only prosper in the Chinese way if they change.
Try firefox lite , you can get it on uptodown and apkmirror, its is not available in the play store for all regions.
That still benefits Apple though as it means the profits from the sale is already repatriated - as opposed to being stuck overseas (see: Apple's cash hoard stuck in Dublin or the Netherlands).
I know. My point is that multiple clients make the network LESS resilient. Moments like this prove it, as the network lost 11% of nodes until it was fixed. Satoshi was correct, multiple implementations are prone to failure, not resilient.
Weird exceptions indeed. I don't know in which case it would apply.

To me, it just sounds like this is a "low priority" law.

For example, if you are allowed to use deception, for example in the context of a criminal investigation, or if a citizen needs to protect himself, then the new law doesn't change that fact.
Yeah that would make sense
Being able to sync different devices into one place is key. How do you get an overall view of fitness and health when information gets siloed into different applications/services. If you don't have a central datastore that they can all send info to, then you're forced to stay within a single ecosystem. Which sucks if you like different products from different companies and becomes impossible when you want equipment that the ecosystem you're stuck in doesn't even offer.
> this doesn’t appear to do that kind of statistical analysis of average returns?

Exactly, and you had to be really unlucky not to have significant returns over the past year.

Has anyone looked at their managed retirement find lately? I wouldn't be surprised if you see 30% even in a medium-risk fund.
each passing year, the web dev world is getting closer to reinventing PHP
The build quality is worse and mine gave up the ghost after a year.
Young Anders Hejlsberg at age 28 in an interview...

https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp01_868.jpg
https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp02_871.jpg
https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp03_874.jpg
https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp04_877.jpg
By "updated index" I mean the app's index page (only page) :)
And a Google Form where you can submit your own tiny tool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS1wnK2-FYW7IKlcMK...
I‘m using AlaSQL for years in my projects ... is that the wrong approach or am I missing something here?

http://alasql.org/
The Guardian has chosen to opt-out of FLoC
Apple Watch may be able to predict Covid-19 and flu infections
Apple Watch may be able to predict COVID-19 and flu infections, according to researchers from University of Washington.
This sounds like what Blitz.js is doing: https://blitzjs.com/
I think I agree in theory, but I think we've seen in practice that people are easily controlled by mass media. Wouldn't we just be moving the locus of control?
Introduction to deep generative modeling: Priors in VAEs
Via Link? (I hadn't ever gotten around to verifying that would work. I partly ask, as the Google Earth VR experience was particularly epic in a way the Google Street View app--which was available on Quest--was not, even if the latter still causes a feeling of wonder in me... and the GP is talking about street view and people surrounding their position and the such.)
The US decouples voting from taxation in the opposite way too. Felons, those here on a visa, even those here illegally, etc, all get taxed, but don't have the right to vote.
> Please don't limit lifetimes of other people's children.

assuming your kid lives to 100, which he won't. 60 years is already past half of his life time meaning he's nearer to the end than the beginning at the point in time he hits your aforementioned 5 million dollar goal.

>Please read and apply advice from "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, it will improve your life.

I read the book and guess what it literally says.

It says never criticize anyone. If everyone around you takes that advice, you'd never receive any criticism. You'd blindly live in a world of lies an illusions. The advice you give when taken by me is good for me, but when given to me the effect on you is self harming.

The good thing about the internet is that you can use this avenue as an opportunity to get real opinions as No one, and I mean absolutely no one will say what I am saying to you now in real life.

The fact of the matter is, my argument is for you, I'm saying you are being treated unfairly under the current system. Your argument is just saying that you're not being treated unfairly and that most of what you experience is just a symptom of bad saving/investing habits.

You think anyone making more money than you in real life is ever going to tell you to your face and say the system is unfair and I am reaping the benefits by stepping on your head? No they lie to you. I'm not lying. I can say more then likely I make more money than you simply because I navigated the system better, not because I contributed more gdp to the economy. Arguably I alone contribute even less gdp than both you and your wife together yet I make much more.

The argument goes further, because there are plenty of people above me who do the same to me. As you go higher and higher up, you find people who do essentially nothing for the economy and just benefit off of economic growth. People on the bottom are the ones getting screwed, the closer you are to the bottom the more screwed you are.

I can assure you 100% it is not a spending habit/investing problem. It is genuinely a wealth inequality problem where rich people live off the labor of others. The ability for someone to purchase human capital as an "investment" is what enables this kind of thing.

I literally own a house where people pay me rent and I do nothing. I sit on my ass while they work and transfer the fruits of their labor to me. And this is all because I have enough money to own property. It's not fair, and absolutely you're never going to find someone in my position that will admit this to you.
This is a really greasy website.

It's not the cheesy logo or the fact that they are ripping off other fintech companies, it's that they are selling get rich quick dreams like a scam artist.

This article is really an advertisement for their services and it's surprising that it went viral here. They are basically encouraging people to try and cash in on criminal financial activity in congress.

I can't put my trust in this site.
Try firefox lite, get it on uptodown or apkmirror. Its has a region lock an the ppay store.
> They are the only organization that routinely breaks news against 'both sides' of the aisle.

Both sides indeed. They report on news of national importance, such as a playground scuffle:

A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks at a Playground - https://web.archive.org/web/20190927202007/https://www.nytim...

Once it turns out the story was a hoax, they do their journalistic duty and remove any reference to race from the title:

Update: Virginia Girl Recants Story of Assault, and Family Apologizes - https://web.archive.org/web/20191001003852/https://www.nytim...

I wonder if they would have reported on it at all if victim and perpetrator were reversed, or featured race so prominently. But if they were reversed, the story would not be important to the national conversation, would it?
targeted advertising is inherently problematic, and anyone trying to sell you a “better” version is trying to fool you
Separation of purpose.

* Front end - Show the user what she/he wants in an intuitive manner.

* Back end - Handle business layer which can be scaled horizontally. Have databases that can be scaled.

Mixing it all up results in one huge mess where you cant extend code or change functionalities well.
They do have lots of integrations with other platforms so you can get at the data via what those platforms expose, but do you have a way to get at your data without going through a 3rd-party? I don't think Wahoo have their own public API yet, still.
As a member of Congress she has much better colour on what's about to happen than everyone else. She can basically count up the votes before before anyone else.

I'd rather live in a world where reps are squeaky clean. It's much better than one where we make up some rules where people who come right up to the line end up smelling bad, and then everyone is born complaining about the corruption and enduring it with no recourse.

Ultimately it's a rules vs discretion (aka judgement) question.
>Segcache prioritizes expiration over eviction by making sure expired objects are removed efficiently. It further offers the following features to achieve high memory efficiency and high throughput:

>>It has been shown at Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit that most objects stored in in-memory caches are small. Among Twitter’s top 100+ Twemcache clusters, the mean object size has a median value less than 300 bytes, and the largest cache has a median object size around 200 bytes. In contrast to these small objects, most existing solutions have relatively large metadata per object. Memcached has 56 bytes of metadata per key, Redis is similar, and Pelikan’s slab storage uses 39 bytes2. This means more than one third of the memory goes to metadata for a cache where the average object size is 100 bytes.

>To summarize, we designed a new storage backend for Pelikan called Segcache. Segcahe groups objects of similar TTLs into segments, and provides efficient and proactive TTL expiration, tiny object metadata, and almost no memory fragmentation. As a result of this design, we show that Segcache can significantly reduce the memory footprint required to serve Twitter’s production workloads. Besides, it allows Pelikan to better utilize the many cores offered by modern CPUs.
As soon as you build a business model capable of delivering a quality experience, the necessary logistical entanglements that facilitate your business are now directly targetable by legal systems everywhere.

This is the soft power of the market at work. Short of refusing to create business presence or monetize, you'll never be able to get much of anything done.

If anything is to be done to force providers to raise the bar above a compelling, high quality piracy alternative, it quite literally has to be out of the goodness of contributor's hearts. Which means it must be so easy to build, people don't mind spending leisure time on it.

And assholes would still screw it up and ruin a good thing for everyone else. That won't ever change.
yes! THIS
Sqlite is certified for use in planes. This requires a high level of tests.

I think the odds are likely that Firefox is doing something unsuspected.

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

- Four independently developed test harnesses

- 100% branch test coverage in an as-deployed configuration

- Millions and millions of test cases

- Out-of-memory tests

- I/O error tests

- Crash and power loss tests

- Fuzz tests

- Boundary value tests

- Disabled optimization tests

- Regression tests

- Malformed database tests

- Extensive use of assert() and run-time checks

- Valgrind analysis

- Undefined behavior checks

- Checklists
Paraphrased from The Matrix maybe?

> I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
The earliest I remember in popular culture is from the first Matrix movie. And I’m sure they got it from somewhere else.

Anyone studying mathematical biology has also probably come to the same conclusion.
A lot of the times the top comment will be a rebuttal on the main thread. Although the rebuttal received a lot of upvotes, the main thread did too. It's just part of the HN dynamic, the people who are against the main thread will feel the need to contradict it.
I suspect most people see Apple One as Apple Music + <the other service they want> and they get the other 5 for free.
I'm with sibling commenter, how so? We got a year of iFit with the rowing machine, and considering that my wife uses it several times a week on both rower and treadmill, I'll probably renew it when the time comes in a few months. In the case of the rower, it's nice in that it will adjust the resistance automatically.

I mostly use Apple Fitness+ when on the rower, but iFit is nice in that it is not restricted to studio workouts. There is a far deeper library on iFit, and more variety. Outdoor workouts, indoor if that's your thing, a "Time to Walk" equivalent before Apple thought of it. I don't know if we'll renew the sub or not, but I think iFit gets it just fine.
If you think insider trading occurred, its already illegal and should be reported to the Office of Congressional Ethics. (https://oce.house.gov/learn/citizen-s-guide)

I'm frankly disturbed that this kind of specific trading by people in power is going on at all. Salaried federal employees above a certain level are strongly encouraged to invest only in generic mutual funds to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest. When I look at the above trades I'm not sure whether anything technically illegal occurred but I'd support making all specific trading illegal to avoid even the appearance of unethical behavior. Higher powers deserve to be held higher standards.
anyone still believing global warming could be stopped, and more than that, stopped with capitalism?
How the hell did you reach that conclusion from what I wrote in the context of this thread? I'm honestly curious.
Lots of us at work don’t wear headphones on calls. I used to think this might be a problem and occasionally asked how the sound is from my end. The response has always been that it’s great. Others sound great too. No echo.

We have a mix of the enterprise type Dell laptops and MacBooks. Both seem fine. Software is usually Teams.
That doesn't really solve the problem because how do we make them become monks? We already have a blueprint on how to hold them accountable: hold them to the same standard as those working in financial services with access to PII. Essentially make it impossible for them to be active traders; they can even still invest in ETFs and hands off advisors/roboadvisors like Betterment.
We elect people who actually believe in governance instead of people out to make a buck. I know that everyone's going to act in their own interest (that's sorta how interests are defined) but some people feel a legitimate duty and loyalty to country and welfare above their own personal comfort - these people tend to be torpedoed very early on in US politics because they refuse to cozy up to special interests to play the campaign finance game but they do exist.

It's easy to be a thorough cynic in the modern world, but most people aren't out to con everyone else when they get the chance and, if a spotlight is shone on the problem, will respond that actions should be taken to make things more just.

Here's an article calling out the stock trading specifically around Covid treatment drugs with some congressmen and politicians calling out the behavior:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/aoc-calls-senate-i...
I feel like a good first step would be requiring that any assets over some small cutoff be held in a blind trust. It wouldn't solve all problems, but it sure would solve a lot.
What kind of dose are the individuals being given? It says 2 high-level doses over a 6 week period. Are we thinking the antidepressant effects aren't from the trip itself, but from the aftereffects? That's sort of what's being discovered w/r/t ketamine therapy for depression.
I think I need help understanding the use case. Like others, I'm quite happily using a PostgreSQL server, when I need to query a DB using SQL. This clearly doesn't work in the embedded case, but why would I need SQL there? Why wouldn't be an embedded key/value DB like Berkeley DB (which also offers ACID, transactions and write-ahead-logging) be sufficient there? I for one am quite surprised to learn that a web browser would have a SQL DB built-in.
all the data gathered by floc is algorithmically categorized and anonymized by google, they also determine what qualifies as a “protected” content
That is for the desktop menu (like the windows start menu). Searching that is fairly widespread (Off the top of my head KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, and XFCE all do it). I'm talking about the menu inside an application.

For example, I want to change the printer settings in libre-office writer. That's under the "File" menu. Given that it has nothing to do with files, I don't look there. On a Mac I can search all application menu items from the "help" menu. Why can't I do that with all GTK3 applications? Or all Gnome applications if it's out-of-scope for GTK?
Not bad! I wish we could have that info in real time!
UNIX: treat everything like a filesystem

This post: treat everything like a SQL database

What's important is that those two EXTREMELY important paradigms of data organization basically don't support each other without kludges galore.

Hierarchical vs relational

But, fundamentally I agree with the poster, what we want are powerful proven data models and powerful proven access languages (SQL for relational, for hierarchical, I'll just throw out XPath which is basically the ONLY good thing from the era of XML that I liked).

Graph could potentially be considered, but IMO it has never proven itself in the practical marketplace. In particular it has no proven and stabilized query language in wide use by people that aren't domain experts, unlike users of the filesystem (basically everyone with a computer) and (less universally) users of databases.
> Everything else - government, media, academia, military - is in decay and has lost all of its legitimacy.

This seems like a stretch. Media certainly fits both of these, but it's hard to claim academia is in decay by most measures, and I have no idea how you could possibly claim American government or military are illegitimate OR in decay without resorting to completely subjective measures, such as how partisan the republic is or how few things get done (of the things you care about, no doubt).

(Note: one could construct a plausible claim that military is in decay based on what percentage of spending goes to operations instead of R&D and acquisition[0], but I'd argue this doesn't mean our military is in decay so much as entering a period of restructuring as a result of a series of unfortunate long-term planning misses)

[0] as seen on HN, https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/04/welcome-to-decad...
I've had a similar thought on many occasions, but even then, they will find alternative ways to acquire wealth and power. The clergy of many religions, in aggregate, have a lot of wealth and power, even if the wealth is not directly in their name.

No system can prevent humans from exercising their basic instincts, emotions, urges, needs, and wants.
Sorry, you're right. I was lazy in my rounding. That said, the exact number isn't too relevant to my point.
Sure, we’re the same if you ignore a bunch of important differences. Growing our own food, not reproducing rapidly during food excess, etc.
Google Search does let you limit the results to old sites (though I realize this isn't quite equivalent).
That's true, and what makes this decision so foolish. By raising the bar slightly they are inducing some people to choose Fitness+.

Avoiding this is why Apple made the iPod compatible with Windows.

Spotify is thriving on Apple platforms even though Apple has had its own music products for longer than Spotify has been around.
I hear ya. The view is that by references to a large network, split bt SPV and miner nodes, the miner nodes can run expanding blocks and the Rec users just hold block headers, more or less. That implies bigger blocks can occur, will occur at scale, and the miner can roll with it, users are still able to verify, and SN saw nothing wrong with that. Similar evidence as yours exists elsewhere.

I tend to think it’s too easy to cherry-pick SN quotes to make compelling logical cases on SN implying large or small blocks. I don’t think he ever gave a really strong statement on it, in the style the discussion now needs to close it out. As such, he’s not a great source.

I can pick something like this: /the more smaller farms resort to generating bitcoins, the higher the bar gets to overpower the network, making larger farms also too small to overpower it so that they may as well generate bitcoins too./

SN is arguing here, it seems, that the security model holds by enough small farmers, who he equates earlier to recreational users, being able to mine too.

That quote, and your quote, feel fairly at odds with each other! Miners can worry about the block size, they’ll be the super computers with TBs to spare v we need small users to participate in mining too as a key part of the security model, small users won’t have TBd to spare. If we can leave out how this steers into asics, do you note that contrast.
No. I want and need to do manky shit on the backend that I desperately need to hide from users or the front end. If I can't hide that then basically all my users get to see my underwear and that's no good for many reasons (e.g. exploits, abusing the api, etc).

and all the security can of worms. Seriously, if you don't respect the benefit of the text layer in JSON then you need to go have a look at why .NET Remoting failed. You want loose coupling here.

Perhaps I'm missing the point of the article?