skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If their "friends" are arranging play through some medium that they know the kid doesn't have access too, I have some bad news for the kid: They're probably not his friends. My friends know that I'm not on Facebook, and they know to contact me over E-mail when we're getting together.

EDIT: Wow, how is this so unpopular? Do your friends regularly make plans together without you?
Why is this provocative? It was certainly not meant as a black and white contrasty "it is always true"-law of nature, bit rather someone describing vague undercurrents based onpersonal experience?

Weird overreaction on your side tho.
Getting a 500 error
Are you using a wheel-on or wheel-off version? BC I'd have to do the swap many, many times to justify buying another trainer in terms of either floor space (urban living, yo) or dollars.
I was underwhelmed by A Philosophy of Software Design. The first 100 pages are solid, but the last 70 didn't resonate with me at all.

In those last 70 pages, the author advocates strongly for lengthy comments which felt excessive and often unnecessary to me. Here's an example from page 124:

// Controls cursor blinking: true means the cursor is visible,
// false means the cursor is not displayed.
private boolean cursorVisible = true;
The equivalent app to that in Germany launched a month earlier than Irelands, is also open-source and integrated with other countries' (like Irlands), and not the app talked about here.
I think that's honestly how most people score. If you read the entire book and it was okay you give it a 3 if it was great a 4 best book ever a 5. If you hated the book you may not finish or review.

The opposite is uber where rating affects future service and puts a lot of power over others in your hand. Not giving 5 is socially unacceptable like not tipping vs tipping less and complaining.
My mistake, bitcoin transaction fees are lower around $25 according to this chart[1].

Everything else in my comment still stands though and it certainly is a cryptocurrency.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...
> why working-class Britons might be a little upset?

Is it because of the dominance of Oxbridge in BBC management, polical coverage, and even comedy?
How do you get in touch with authors? What's their motivation to contribute a list? Getting more exposure?
It doesn't show me the comments. Don't just tell me "it's racist". Show me. I have no idea who the black presenter is but there might be legitimate reasons to complain that go beyond skin colour. I'm not just going to take the Guardian's word for it.
My impression: Europe does pretty well in non computer-science areas.
I think the feed also shows ads/"promoted content"? Or that may just be the stories feature. I've had my account deactivated for a few months so I might misremember. Usually the ads I remember did not involve half-naked people, but I think it's a subjective measure, and so influencers' promoted content could be racier to some than others.
Not a thought that would have crossed my mind. My mental model was more along the lines of Paul Erdős showing up on famous mathematicians doorsteps asking for a place to live. I don't think anyone accused him of being some loafer trying to hitch a free ride. I mean if you backpack and people don't even want you around for free then how on earth are you ever going to get that faang cash money.
Just from general announcements around this. As you mentioned, they just raised a round of funding which will probably be used for Starlink and Starship. Another big chunk of change came from Yusaku Maezawa for the Dear Moon project.

SpaceX is a private company and doesn't disclose its financials so there's way to know for sure; that's why I qualified my statement with "My understanding is".

Also their launch business (Falcon 9) is massively profitable already, there have been public statements by the company on this matter.
"European and American universities both have strengths and weaknesses" is not that provocative.
Sorry, but _nobody_ Maven.
yeah i'm sure they have some technical justification for it but i know it's trivial so why should i care? it's an intentional refusal
Between FLoC and AMP, Google's attempts to destroy the web have surpassed even IE levels of toxicity. It's good to see the consumer focused forks of Chromium take a stand here.
I think coordination was terrible in the beginning. But over time folks have worked out lots of things.

I've seen gradual, but sustained improvement in WFH skills.

For example, teleconferencing skills. People have learned to share their screens, then people gradually adapted to have an agenda on-screen to show and step through, people figured out how to send links and files during a meeting. Even silly stuff like how to contact someone who forgot about a meeting.

And some of it is more democratized. Regular folks are figuring out how to do peer-to-peer meetings, which were normally organized and driven by managers. This also goes for other tools like wiki, shared documents, teams, calendars, email, slack.

Another thing is a gradual spool up of WFH support. It took a while for people to figure out a webcam that works, or a microphone or headset. Or a chair, or a room setup, or just a rhythm.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387412/peloton-apple-wa...

Looks like the "strict 1-to-1 mapping of activity types" is the issue here.
Correct. That is the gap in understanding here.

When I place a bet, I can estimate my edge because the outcome is binary. When the outcome is continuous, it is far more tricky. It is like saying a kid who learns to ride his trike is ready for MotoGP...they are just totally different.

And yes Soros put on big bets, but what you are missing with Soros is the fact that his hit rate was still 30%. Most of the stuff he did didn't work out, macro is largely bets on skewness not returns. Buffett had a higher hit rate but trying to suggest someone optimise a strategy based on what literally the best investor of all time did is...not smart. Even if you were better than Buffett, you might not be lucky.

The reason why Kelly doesn't work with value investing in particular is because your returns are largely random, you know that your portfolio has an edge but you don't usually know which position is going to revalue.

The reason why Kelly doesn't work with long-short in particular is because you aren't only betting on return but correlation. Anyone who runs Kelly will eventually get a correlation spike and blow up (this is also roughly true of macro, again why Soros isn't a good example, he largely bet on skewness).

I was a "pro" so I am also aware of what most pros do. Again, investors don't only look at return, they have to look at correlation, volatility (note that if you are betting on sports, you don't have to worry about things like correlation).
Nit: since this is a news piece, I don't think it needs the "Show HN" prefix; I believe those are reserved for creations by the author themselves.
“Best universities” according to which measure?

I find it super difficult to come up with a hard set of criteria that measure the performance of an educational institution. Number of graduates? Number of research papers published? Amount of grant income? Can all be gamed.

Strength of character and depth of personality of graduates would be a good metric, but is impossible to measure.
Rad Basic VB6 Clone Kickstarter
This is the nature of an addictive technology that has an influence on peer groups.

If it's flashy, exciting, looks cool - other children are going to want to have the same thing too.

In a situation like that, even if your own preference is to have a quiet, slow existence for your family -- and even if that's what other families want too -- the environment has been altered by this external factor.

Adults aren't immune to these kind of peer effects either, to be honest - but it's particularly pathetic for multi-billion dollar companies to intentionally market towards children with the hope of holding on to their attention and customer data.
The main reason for using Node.js is because the rest of our stack is Node.js: https://bedrock.io

We use MongoDB as persistence and have existing wrappers for dealing with Google Cloud Storage.

Since it's an isolated service we could've used a different implementation language.

In our case Node.js in our existing Kubernetes environment was the least amount of friction
The result of that tooling is better. It is easier to read, navigate, refactor and write then supposedly superior language without tooling.

The large the project, the bigger the gap gets.
This (not so much the article, but the discussion so far) reads to me like that essay in the movie "Thank you for Smoking." Highly recommended.
In the US it's ok for the private sector to fund universities, very different story in Europe...
Do US engineering programs actually require foreign languages and other liberal arts coursework? That wasn't the case at UVA or VT in the 90s.
And on what criteria are comparisons based? Oh yeah, just the ones that fit american cultural expectations of what being a good university is. How convenient!

University grading systems are the truest expression of american cultural imperialism, shaping education systems all around the world.
Just installed for Safari and enabled but not seeing the Dark Mode applied on Hacker News. Am I missing something here?
[0] mentions “a typical Sun-relative 20–200 kilometers per second”, which would translate to 1.2-12 years for a 50 AU displacement, but only for stars that move 90° perpendicular to the sun; and for stars that are further away than Proxima Centauri or Wolf 359 you have to multiply with a corresponding factor. So I think it’s typically more in the range of centuries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_br...
Open Library recently(ish) launched a bookshelf style browsing feature to mimic the organic discovery of titles based on your interests and, even though it’s frowned upon by some, the cover. It’s awesome. I’ve read so many books that I’ve scrolled past a thousand times on iTunes and Audible. It does help that I can flip through the books a bit before deciding to read it. Like you can at the store or the library.
Likewise. I did our wedding site in it with a wufoo form back in 2015. Spent an evening at it, sent out email. Done! Literally never touched it again. Simply done and well executed.
The comment you're replying to is comparing the suffering humans cause to animals vs mosquitos and their diseases.

It's pretty hard for it not to be us when you look at livestock numbers. We slaughter 10s of billions of animals _yearly_ in the name of food.
This is probably largely due to NASA's Congress-specified HLS budget not being enough to support two companies.
The problem with VAR is that it thinks armpits are important in a soccer game. it should be measured either by the player's foot position in case of indirect goal, or by the the player's body part that scored the goal if a direct goal (goal score as a result of the touch).

Also... why is the resolution so poor? Sometimes there's only one camera angle.
Are you valuing your own time at all? At $150/year for a business that barely registers as an expense.
I edit, design, layout, and make books for an independent press
That is totally irrelevant.

This about not allowing competing browsers as a blanket policy. If this was trully about security, Apple can do as many security audits as they want. They can even charge for them. They can require affidavit, security officers, insurance policy, indemnity, etc.

But they dont because this is not about security, it is about controling the market
> if Chrome detects that the page load ads or ads-related resources

how does it make this decision?
What, no doors? FIDOnet? j/k, this is awesome! back in the day, I actually used an old modem with an actual POTS phone line (I think I had to leave it on dialtone for power or play with the receiver) that I'd rigged to hooked up to a 1200bps modem on my PC for my old 8-bit. It did work, but the modem for the 8-bit was only 300 baud (~bps), whereas this should be able to operate at the maximum theoretical speed of the computer's serial port. (115k? probably not, but who knows!)
You can polyfill this using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... -- you "brand" your objects by stashing references to them in WeakMaps, and hide the WeakMap using a closure.
The area gets smaller if it can be somehow raised, perhaps in orbit? (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F)
I don’t like IOTA. It was pretty overhyped for it’s value. I don’t know how many cryptocurrencies there are, maybe 10s of thousands, but being in the top 15 by market cap lends more credibility than in the top 1000 by market cap. Anyone can make a cryptocurrency, but not anyone can make it valuable.
Typical certificate management practices for internal PKI are just absolutely set up to cause outages like this. The certificates get issued for a year, or two years, or whatever. This is infrequent enough that it doesn't feel like it makes sense to automate the process, and then it becomes a run-book that only ever comes out once a year, it's way too easy to add additional services without remembering to monitor which certificates you deployed to them etc.

Start from the idea that you're going to issue certificates valid for 24 hours, and think how different your environment would need to look.
> 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.

I've seen the opposite: Organizations who spent so much on the department that everyone was getting promoted to manager and hiring someone underneath themselves to manager things. Responsibilities being shuffled around as the department is constantly reorganized, until no one really understands who's responsible for what any more, but there are enough low-level employees to blame when things go wrong.

I've seen enough variations of organizational dysfunction that I no longer pretend to be able to guess what's going on behind the scenes.
> Outdoor cats are an invasive species which are destroying the native bird populations

This is certainly true for feral cats, but I'm highly skeptical about this claim being true for owned indoor/outdoor cats.
Do the templates have compile time type checking?
I don't see anyone's data being held hostage. I do see a specialized hosting service that will require you to rebuild/redesign your site if you migrate away.

Yes, there are higher migration costs if you use Squarespace. For a lot of people those are reasonable in exchange for lower up-front and maintenance costs. People should absolutely consider the lock-in factor but there's not a universal correct answer.
I agree. Also, some universities in Europe, like ENS in Paris, produced more field medal recipients than all top US universities combined. But way more people heard about Harvard than ENS. English helps too.
I'm not sure that underage drinking is an outlier, at least here in the US. In fact, the majority of college students in the US violate drinking age laws.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...

> If there were no drinking age laws kids would still not be drinking and smoking weed because parents wouldn't allow it.

In places with more relaxed drinking laws, we do often see more kids drinking. 42% of 15 year old boys were weekly drinkers in the UK in 2002.

https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/382840/...

> Most young people begin using alcohol between the ages of 12 and 16, an age
at which they gain increasing independence and spend more time outside the home unsupervised. At the same time, the direct influence of parents diminishes and friends become increasingly
important.
Yeah, many of them do.
It’s my understanding Marc Lore is trying to do just that:
www.businessinsider.com/marc-lore-head-of-walmart-ecommerce-to-exit-2021-1
And yet millions of electric torches are sold in the United States each year without confusion.

(Although not, let's be honest, without amusement.)
> One would think that having Amazon’s customer ethos and resources would give muscle to create a delightful user experience. Disappointingly, it’s remained an elusive dream.

Take this with a big grain of salt because my memory is terrible, but I thought I remember reading an article a while back from someone who was either working on Goodreads when it sold or at Amazon right after they bought it and they said the code for Goodreads is just terrible to work in and any change you make causes a ton of bugs. They basically added enough features to make it fit into the Amazon ecosystem and after that it's not worth the time or effort to improve it.
Is this not a thing in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashlight

I assume they are going for "batteries included" connections?
State management made simple: a Clojure map that implements java.io.Closeable
http://web.archive.org/web/20210412193528/https://human-id.o...
I made the first independent extension store
Readmill (acquired by Dropbox) was a better Goodreads -- there is no app I miss more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTNCLSoMho
The incorrect grammar in your title and post leads me to believe it may be prevalent in your resume/ cover letters as well. Either try and learn the correct grammar for these things or have someone else look over your resume to correct for that.
This seems on topic:
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/newsroom/newsn/10721/the-color...
Cert Expiration is a problem that needs a better solution when a company does not renew it. These were internal certificates. Still important but not user-facing.

One possible solution might be having the client introduce an artificial delay of 10 seconds or some other time when it encounters an expired cert, or adds an additional second of delay for every day it is expired. This degrades the connection but does not immediately break anything.
> In the Santa Cruz Mountains, houses are going within days well over asking to buyers with all cash offers.

Where I live in south Orange County, as well. Listings are in the market for 1-2 days tops in my neighborhood. It's ... insane.
What platform are you targeting that supports private class fields but does not support (in a month or two I guess) the new #foo in obj syntax?
Without knowing anything else, that sounds like it could've just been partially an acqui-hire to get the CEO.
Not only English, but also the marketing through Hollywood.
First of all, Tesla's lane departure avoidance system is active and intelligent. In 2010, Kia's system yells at you and doesn't have the capability to actively avoid an accident with another vehicle by returning you to your lane.

In-fact most systems in the last few years all only "weigh" on the steering wheel, they don't actively steer the vehicle to return it to it's lane they just know "I know you don't want to go over that line without a signal" - very different and may not avoid an accident.

If you've actually put these systems to the test like Honda's system they've had since 2015....they suck. I test drove a fully loaded 2017 Honda Accord and the mistakes it made were atrocious and dangerous. I decided to just wait for a Tesla at that point.

Case in point: God forbid you cut 1ft of the yellow line at a highway exit or the Honda will yank your steering wheel so hard you move all the way beyond the white line on the other side of your lane due to the curvature of the actual road not being accounted for properly by the naive emergency road departure system.
FTP is certainly more flexible and virtual users are far more secure than adding folks to /etc/passwd. PureFTPd [1] was my favorite for that very reason. There have been a few FTP daemons that supported the SFTP protocol and had virtual users, but they had too many bugs for me. I believe ProFTPd was one of them.

Regarding SFTP and null passwords, I do not use a separate sshd. I just use the "Match" stanza in OpenSSH. Any SFTP users I add are in the sftpusers group and don't have a shell. SELinux will block some nonsense. For a few years, I had a cron job that was dynamically adding any account that bots would try. I think I was up to about 23k SFTP accounts. I will fire it back up either today or tomorrow and you are welcome to do a pen-test on it. I will also post the sshd_config.

[1] - https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/
> One of the Macau companies, VCH Limited, in May 2020 entered into a consulting agreement with Hometown International, the filing said. “Pursuant to this agreement, VCH was engaged as a consultant to the Company, to, among other things, create and build a presence with high net worth and institutional investors,” Hometown said in its annual report.

This is not exactly just a deli in NJ. Although it looks like one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/hometown-international-nj-de...
It's not Dragon, it's a variant of Starship.

The three proposals they were selecting between:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-blue-origin-dyneti...
While your point is taken, Shopify >> Squarespace in terms of almost all metrics. No way would Squarespace usurp Shopify in a merger, not even close.
How serious of an effort did Northrop and Lockheed put in though?

Blue Origin isn't really a serious contender, and has very few actual flights under their belt. I have no idea, but I'd think the other two companies probably were mostly a "consultancy" role to provide clout behind BO.

It's pretty perplexing BO would take point on such a major undertaking given their vast lack of experience.
I had considered this, but decided against this for a couple of reasons:

- Scaling requirements are relatively low. Even though we're dealing with 10 thousands of devices, the amount of firware updates at a given time to those devices is minimal. Our main scaling challenges are around OCPP over websockets. Story for another day.

- I have bad memories of ProFTPd etc buffer overflow exploits.

- I wanted something simple that could bridge between FTP and our cloud persistence (MongoDB and Cloud Storage).

- I found this Node.js library that I since then forked: https://github.com/autovance/ftp-srv - The great thing about this library is that it allows a quick implementation of a custom filesystem.

- For Kubernetes pods the file system should really be treated as a /tmp - which we are doing.

- When a charge station connects, the FTP username/password is a temporary generated set of tokens that is checked against our MongoDB.

Essentially, I'm using FTP as a throwaway here.

If you think through this you can imagine it would be quite a lift to accomplish this with an existing FTP server.
Spying has very negative connotations, it's just analytics on what features are enabled or possibly based on traffic of the parental control blocklists. Spying is a harsh term to use. More like snooping
It does not automatically follow that the reanalysis is also bad...and by saying "we" you presumably were an author on this paper. If you thought it was bad, why did you put your name on it?
Chris Thile is such a genius, Goat Rodeo (Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma) is one of my favourite things in the world
https://youtu.be/O7EcT5YzKhQ
well, docker containers have an md5 sum. I think that's pretty reproducible.

(although yes, the base filesystem might be different)