skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, certificate issues is a huge tell into organization and treatment of IT folks. Every place I've worked which has had issues with last minute certificate changes or expiring certificates without renewal has had a systemic problem with underpaid and understaffed IT department.

This is not a new problem, organizations will always choose guaranteed profits over possible loss of business unless the loss of business is catastrophic, I just wish that in this case instead of trying to make it seem like a big deal by writing an entire multipage excuse, a company for once would be honest and say 'The risk percentage did not fall in our favor this time, but we're not going to do anything about it because it didn't really impact our profits.'
>I might be homeless soon

Where is your family? Why can't you return to your parents?
get real, all he cares about is money. if you have any social media accounts you are a fool; delete them all now
I think it may be more so for logged in users. When logged in, and I go to the homepage, which is essentially an activity feed, it has 93 requests, 4.4MB of resources (1.5MB transferred), and took 7.66 seconds to finish.
If the mat that my coins are landing on is a strong magnet, I know I can make every single flip land heads. Even when the coin would otherwise land tails, it will instantly flip to align with the strong magnet beneath.

So what if I dial the magnetic field back just a bit? So that only when the coin is oriented flat as it lands will it maintain that orientation in spite of the opposing magnetic forces. But if the coin's orientation is near vertical, then the forces are directed to nudge it "headwards" instead of "tailwards".

Your math applies to weighting the coin. It makes sense in that context. I'm talking about a system of magnetic coin and matched magnetic landing pad.
>My understanding is that the Starship program is fully-funded already

Where does that information come from? SpaceX just raised another round of money. I keep seeing things about how profitable the organization is, but it looks like the operations are shareholder subsidized. Rockets are expensive, I don't think this stuff is profitable yet.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/spacex-raises-valuation
For context, the author is the Verge's Executive Editor, a (former?) prince among twitterati.
Who's the CEO of Dynetic? I have no idea who they are.

Jeff Bezo and Elon Musk are very well known public figures.
Right now it seems to be the main driver indeed. If the 'store of value' Bitcoin fails, I guess in the short term, all crypto's will crash. And then the question will be if one has a decent enough value proposition to rise up again. Although a lot of people are opinionated on this last part, the fact remains that none of us really knows.

Another option is of course that one crypto would just overtake Bitcoin. If I remember correctly this almost happend with Ethereum and was called the flippening. This scenario would be better for crypto of course than a real Bitcoin crash.
Just have it default-off, allow the user to turn it on if they want to be "ad targeted".

I mean I keep hearing how, as a consumer, I want this.
Romans had copper and that would be enough to run the Empire using the telegraph. They just didn't know about the electricity and how to make a voltaic pile in particular even though they had the sufficient technology.
$168M though? It's just a website.
The real question is which one will replace the 3 if we remove them?
I am confused so hope you will clarify. I thought the article argues that Markowitz mean variance has problems and 1/n is a reasonable estimator. You seem to be arguing for the opposite? Or perhaps you mean 1/n vs. Kelly but that article does not talk about Kelly.
It is trying to make the article meaningful to the average person (which most people here are a fair way off being.)

The average person knows who Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are, because they are two of the richest men in the world–and Musk is prone to saying controversial things too, which helps stick him in people's minds. They might not remember who SpaceX are (even if they heard about Crew Dragon, they might just think that's NASA). They very likely have no idea who Blue Origin are.

Musk and Bezos are household names, even among the hoi polloi. The average person has never heard of Patrick Gelsinger, or of David A. King (CEO of Dynetics)
I love what I hear about them. Germany has a basic culture that is quite conducive to this kind of thing.

The only thing I wish, is that it was called "KAOS Computer Club," and that they have a picture of Bernie Kopell in their entryway.

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2016/07/an-interview-with...
Yes, sure, but if you painted just two roofs white with regular paint, you're already doing much better than painting a single roof white with super-fancy paint.

And yet it's hard enough even to do that.
I hear you, but I feel like that ignores a lot of externalities to hosting a site for a client, including:

1. Support (fielding calls, answering emails, etc)

2. Updates (copy, design, patching)

3. Admin (billing, contracts)

And that's just off the top of my head. Having a client is rarely about just handling the hosting. You effectively become a technical resource and field all the duties that entails.
I'm on macOS as well.

But for the apps, I only use the individual language apps (Idea + Goland + PyCharm) as opposed to IDEA + plugins.
because we all get it regardless of income or job, and we don't' go bankrupt because of medical issues, nor are we locked into poorly paid shitty jobs because we NEED healthcare. When i hurt myself i just go, i don't sit there thinking about "is the co pay worth it" - American healthcare is worse than ours for most people: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

I'm sorry your family hasn't gotten the care it deserves, but would you rather end up with a 100,000 bill, or your child dead because they didn't have insurance and couldn't afford their insulin?

I don't have to think about it, i just go and use it. Yes it could be better but would you want to pay more taxes to fund it better? (i know is sure would)
It hasn’t always been this way. Prior to the 1900s the wealth was outside the US. Capitalism existed in the world before the US, possibly in more extreme forms. It seems like you’re discounting the possibility the US education system & government contributed to the current economic situation. To what do you attribute the change?
By destroying competing businesses and reducing consumer choice, isnt it obvious?
Seems they're working on it, at least[1].

Did they not bid because of the Starship funding SpaceX is already receiving? If you knew you had zero chance of winning, why bother bidding?

> Not to mention that they are owned by Lockheed and Boeing.

Not sure your point here? Is that supposed to be a negative thing? Both companies have a massive amount of aerospace experience going back decades.

[1] https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/commercial-crew
Could this be due to EU universities studying specifically one subject while US universities require credits in other topics like Languages?
Indeed yes I meant cells, I'm not a native English speaker.

> At electric-car scales, you have thousands-and-thousands of cells. You can't just manage all of them with one IC, so you build an IC per bundle. Maybe 48 cells or 100-cells per IC or so.

Ah okay, I had more expected something on the order of 1 IC per 4 cells to allow individual cell health monitoring.
Well, I guess you're a lot more optimistic than me. I always assume that big companies don't give a shit about their customers and will always screw them over if there is some benefit in doing so.
The literary industry seems largely bemused by a scam or series of related scams that have been going on for several years.

Unpublished book manuscripts are being stolen [0] and the motives are unclear. For instance, they apparently haven't resurfaced elsewhere by rip-off artists selling them to highest bidder.

Prize money has been stolen by phishing emails. But these are relatively small amounts and infrequently available, compared to other targets. Perhaps there's just a favourable risk-effort-benefit ratio to these attacks for small-time scammers. A particular streak of efforts followed a repeatable pattern, suggesting a single person or small team [1].

Perhaps the industrial-scale level of data piracy and phishing makes attacks like this a profitable long-tail worth rinsing?

[0] https://archive.is/kY50G

[1] https://archive.is/GvOF5
Yeah, most review sites have the 5 or nothing problem. I look at the distribution and then find some medium to low starred reviews to see why I might not like a book that otherwise seems a good match for me.

In aggregate the star rating is pretty good for literature and non-fiction. For mass fiction it's fairly useless.
A bit of an overreaction here? I’m pretty sure it’s ok for people to share their personal observations.
Literally the next sentence provides strong (if circumstantial) substantiation for this.
Ed Thorp AND Claude Shannon! One of the best nontechnical finance books ever written.

In practice though, positioning doesn’t work like that in modern times because a lot of your entries and exits happen around liquidity events. However, it is very pertinent for biotech stocks and special situations where you are dealing with discrete outcomes.
It would be nice if developers could debug Safari specific issues without jumping through Apple imposed hoops.
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I am pretty sure that's not what the author meant. Given the subject matter it's quite obvious that they meant:

> In a closed world, these [two different ways, data vs. object, to represent two different instances of coordinates on which the same interface (in name and signature) is defined] are identical representations [of a data type bundled with a single method/function].

They are saying that the example in Java and the example in Haskell have the same expressive power. Both allow you to apply a distance function / method to a Coord type coord "thing", and depending on whether coord is a cartesian coordinate the cartesian coordinate based distance implementation is used and if it is a polar coordinate the polar coordinate implementation is used.

Now, it would have been good for the author to acknowledge your point as well so as to avoid this misunderstanding. After all in the example, there is an underlying aspect / layer of things that can be substituted. I just don't think the author intended to talk at all about the actual (non) equivalence of polar vs. cartesian coordinate representations here. They'd probably say (and I'd agree) it doesn't matter at all for what is discussed. You could add a disclaimer saying "these coordinate types are both not actually equivalent" and it would not actually affect the validity of the points made.

P.S. It's not even that the example is bad either. After all it's not uncommon in real codebases that two actual implementations of the same interface are producing subtly different results (e.g. calling into database engine A vs. B). Often these differences don't matter and the benefit of being able to exchange implementation / internal representation lies elsewhere (see DI).
I don’t think vscode will soon be able to match the feature set of JetBrains, when used for large complex projects, so they have a lot of runway left.

I do wish that all of the community engagement with vscode could be redirected to something like emacs or neovim instead.
Largest card grading service halts submissions
The commenter said no references, it seemed like an expression of broad opinion/experience, not like a strong declaration of truth.
"In winning the $2.9 billion contract, SpaceX beat out Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which had formed what it called a “national team” by partnering with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper. SpaceX also won over Dynetics, a defense contractor based in Huntsville, Ala. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)"

That's good PR, mentioning that Bezos owns WP when it is completely irrelevant, in order to foster a feeling of openness and honesty, while the real bomb in that sentence is that spaceX beat the team of the dinosaurs (Northrop, Lockheed)

I don't know how I feel about any of this
What expenses are you considering in that $5 though? Even so, keeping things running might be cheap, but its expensive to get to that stage. By the same token, it costs the same ~$50 to fill gas in a camry or a lambo.
I don't think the intention of this page is for people to post what they just learned about on YouTube...
The lock would be handled by something like Redis or a DB.

But yeah, if you only need to support one client, I can see the reasoning. It would never have flied at any of the places I've worked, though, having to support tons of clients.
American universities attract the best students from all over the world. For example - at Tandon School of Engineering about 80 percent of graduate students hail from foreign countries - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american... American academic STEM research is sustained by the constant flow of the best students from all over the world who are willing to spend 12 hours a day for 4-6 years for a meager grad student stipend. Some are actually even willing to pay for the privilege.
I used to think this way. I have 3 kids, the oldest of which is now in her mid teens. Doing what you say is way harder than you think. Mostly because you have to control not only your own children, but your children's friends as well.

For example, my kids did not get phones. But all of their friends had them. Which meant my kids would just create accounts for these services on their friends phones and just post whatever they wanted without me being able to control it.

A second example is when their friends get new phones. Guess what they do with the old phone? They give it other kids who don't have them. Sure, they don't have a cell plan. But that doesn't stop them from using wifi at starbucks or any other place.
i sincerely hope that insecure ftp is either running over tls or a vpn...
Yeah, I think some folks have mentioned it, but The Storygraph [1] has really gotten some traction as a replacement. Question for HN readers, then -- if you look at Storygraph vs Goodreads, what's the missing secret sauce? Just critical mass?

[1] https://app.thestorygraph.com/
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck

The definition of the word "savage" from the Cambridge dictionary states

savage

adjective

uk /ˈsæv.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈsæv.ɪdʒ/

extremely violent, wild, or frightening.

Americans from USA are savages under that definition.

But I'm interested to know why you think that the government shouldn't care about pollution and who actually should.
I run a VC firm. I'm a full stack engineer who's built core infrastructure that runs on billions of devices and handles trillions of server side requests a year. And yet I choose to use squaris Squarespace for our website. It's just way easier and more reliable than building it myself despite being more than capable. I don't want to deal with maintenance, mobile, upkeep, etc. I have better things to do than to maintain our website.
Good luck finding decent hosting for $5/year, and hosting it yourself would cost more like $5/month (entry-level linode or something).
Ireland has a Covid19 tracker app that can easily intergrate with other EU covid apps. NearForm the Developer sells a branded version for a million.

It's also open source with a generous licence.

Why didn't Germany use that? Corruption.
Depending on the field, it can be. Lots of University-affiliated labs in the medical field get significant industry funding.
I recommend “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler. In short, not every sentence, paragraph, chapter, or even book is of equal informative importance. To read all literature as if everything is equally important is really a mistake. Once one recognizes this, it is then ideal to read only at the level of detail and focus as is required for the particular work.

What does it mean to have read a book? To read every single word and symbol? To understand the key ideas and points?

Is every book going to be one hundred percent new ideas to you or are there thematic riffs that allow you to shortcut portions of it without loss of understanding of the entire work?
The US values creativity I think in a way many other cultures value discipline. I think we need a bit more discipline, though.
Think climate change is a hoax? Don’t watch this Google Earth timelapse
discontinued it due to a lack of use.

...wait, how would they know it wasn't being used, unless they were also spying on your router?
IDK the lack of ability to export _your_ data and leave when _you_ feel like it is pretty much crap.

Frankly, from a product perspective it's short-sighted. Let people leave. Find out why. Fix the problem(s). But if you hold them hostage you're holding your own product back _and_ you're creating ill-will towards your brand. Lose, lose.

That's not forgivable.
This drives itself, it gets mad if I leave my hands off too much. But it will take turns and doesn’t just bounce off the lane edges.

When I drove mr brothers model 3 I couldn’t really tell a difference.
silly. spotify killed music piracy not any government. Steam killed game piracy not any government. Netflix had killed movie piracy but with all streaming services making it annoying again piracy is back - despite all their efforts. notice how the government fails to move the needle at all?
This rings true... there’s a tendency to exaggerate or maximalize in the US, certainly at least in the commercial realm.
Facebook sends cease and desist letters to 'wrapper app' developers like Simple
As explained on Reddit, several app developers like Simple and Swipe have received letters from Facebook attorneys forcing them to remove their apps from the Play Store. This has been discussed on Reddit, although the complete text of the letter seems to have been removed as well.

Although I can expect replies like 'do not use Facebook' I still think this is a sad decision.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/mkruz4/what_happened_to_facebook_wrappers_swipe_and/
> I don't want to dismiss your assertion out of hand, but I think the truth is a little murky here.

Agreed. It’s not as clean as that, but I think that it’s directionally correct (at least for this particular thread).

I agree with all of your other points as well.

I would be really curious about why the driven and talented students at the state school didn’t even get a look. I imagine there’s a good reason. Probably something like lack of research, studying under a dud professor (this can sort of be a kiss of death in some fields), studying under a prof with Ivy envy (basically crabs pulling their own back down — strange, but it happens), etc.

Any ideas?
In my medphys program we had a unit on how to get research funding after grad school. The instructor explained that the most likely source by far is industry, followed by government, and last academia/other. It's been this way for a while as I understand it.
Didn’t the rise of the US as a superpower mainly came down to financial gains during World War 1?
Maybe I should start a new one and just follow a couple dozen people I like. I think a lot of the issue could be me following hashtags or topics or whatever instagram calls them. For example, if I follow backpacking, the first few posts will be relevant, then it will devolve into people abusing the hashtag system and me seeing content I'm not interested in.
get ready for (random weird maneuver)

all system nominal

boooom

looks like we have a slight issue in the (weird peice of hardware bolted to the capsule), oh well, we have to make adjustments in the next iteration

oh and we should remove microphones from the crew module in the next flight, the screaming after explosion was very unpleasant

edit: apparently my attempt to make a joke was too sophisticated for some people
Oh thats awesome! i'll take a look, thanks
This is good, but even with integrity hashes it makes me slightly uncomfortable to have a (relatively unknown) SaaS company stand between the original source on npm and us.

Self-hosting seems good, but how does one do that? I didn't see any docs on Skypack's site about self-hosting something that would work as a npm-to-deno-repackaging server.
Given a specific focus, you only need a few good videos from YT.

For example, perhaps you are using Khan Academy with your kids. Then you augment it with one other lecture series. You're not going to augment that with yet another lecture series on the same subject, are you?

Kids don't need access to the whole cultural tapestry that is YT, they only need guidance as to the highest quality resources.
It's obviously time to stop burning all that money on SLS, which costs over $2 billion per flight because it's not reusable. The sunk cost fallacy only hurts more the longer you run with it.
Yes - that's correct! Those were my thoughts too; that maybe a general-purpose dark mode extension for Safari would work nicely, but the ones I found costed $$$ and I didn't want to have to pay for something I could easily code myself.

Appreciate your thoughts on comments on this!
If I considered investing, I certainly would not be worried about this company not spending enough on marketing.
Naïve question: has JS evolved into distinctive dialects based on area of application? To a relative outsider, it feels like "V8 JavaScript" and "in-browser JavaScript" are heading in different directions.
To provide an additional example. Unelected ex-senator Kelly Loeffler's husband is chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. She made trades using non-public information. How is this sort of conflict of interest legal?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/31/raphael-wa...
Boeing wasn't part of this competition. They didn't make the top three in the first selection round.
> Just 4% of the 24,500 complaints about the performance were made in the immediate aftermath of Britain’s Got Talent being aired. Instead, the majority followed news stories about the relatively small number of original complaints to Ofcom, which in turn prompted even more complaints, and in turn more news stories, producing a self-perpetuating media outrage cycle.

They presumably have an idea what the "normal" lag between broadcast and complaint is; if you can file complaints 24h/day through the website, and most people complain in the hours following the broadcast, then you can determine that complaints made later were news-driven.

Heck, I've done this myself once, for the broadcast of the Enoch Powell speech recently.
As a consumer, i want targeting features default-off.
The name has unfortunate verbal similarities with a well known sex toy, especially when different accents are considered. I am actually astounded they went ahead with this name.
I love the quote “the money in investing isn’t in the buying and selling but in the waiting”.

I know for me I had the moment where things had gone down to roughly 15% and I questioned my decision making. Learning to wait through those periods is super important. Years ago I made the repeated mistakes of not waiting through those periods and missed out on log gains in favor of linear gains.

Agree that it’s easier as an investor and not a CEO to manage that experience day to day.
I agree, the FTDI cable seems to be the way to go. Also works great with vintage Palm (pilot) devices. This $12 FTDI adapter worked great for me on the first try (no affiliation): https://amazon.com/gp/product/B006AA04K0/
I don’t think so. I’ve seen time and again that it leads to completely unpleasant nationalism flame war.

Did anyone read the article at all?
Yep VPN. The devices don't support TLS. (We have Cloudflare in front of other services)