skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I'm adding another reply as I re-read and realised this point was interesting too. I hope I'm not derailing this too much but I don't get to speak openly about CZ stuff with people so when it pops up on HN I get very interested. Re BLM, this one is a bit of a mixed bag in my experience - the categories I see are:

1. people who are on-board with BLM (most/all of my friends)

2. people who naively take it on face value that there's no explicit laws against people of colour, there is no problem and the idea of systemic racism is just stupid reactionary western[0] snowflakes being a bit try-hard

3. people who believe they are sort of post-racism - they can crack racist jokes because "I don't see race", oof

4. far right wingnuts, the same stripe as everywhere else (US, UK, Germany etc) - no more numerous here than elsewhere

5. people who don't really understand - they're relying on second-hand explanations which are often badly explained

I am curious if this is the same as what you have observed. I feel like #2 and #3 are misguided but not beyond help. #5 are really interesting, it's easy to miss that the majority of the population are completely at the mercy of whatever interpretation or translation they've read, heard or watched. One instance I am aware of was someone in the comments of idnes on FB or something with an "ALL LIVES MATTER" banner on their profile. My friend engaged her politely to figure out what was going on and was kinda shocked. This was a person with a disability who'd completely sympathised with the BLM movement, and wanted to show solidarity. Keenly aware she wasn't black and possessing only rudimentary English she had seen "all lives matter" mentioned around the internet and decided that was a good statment to use. It never clicked for her that it was a reaction against the BLM movement rather than one in solidarity with it. Maybe this is obvious but it was a bit of an eye opener for me.

Anyway my general feeling is that I don't think Czech Republic is more anti-BLM (or more racist) than other European countries. Certainly the anti-BLM protest here in Brno had people numbering in the dozens (20-ish?) and were countered by crowds in the hundreds. It is easy to be a bit shocked at attitudes here towards these things, but I think or maybe hope it's down to some people being a little naive or sheltered. I think that the right person spending 15 minutes talking could turn most people around on the subject. Maybe :)

[0] = I haven't heard anyone here refer to "westerners" in English or Czech, but there is definitely an attitude of "you guys over there are too sensitive sometimes". I couldn't think of a better term for that general idea, it wasn't meant as a slight.
Some of these are good advice if you prioritize security over usability, as some legitimately need to do. Some of these have nothing at all to do with "Hardening macOS" and will have no measurable effect on security whatsoever, especially when state attackers are excluded from consideration (as the page itself states). Why are these things mixed together into a single guide?

Or, to present one specific example of this mixed-messages issue:

How precisely does the listed step "Disable Crash Reporter" harden macOS against being attacked, when nation-states are excluded from consideration?
Desalination of seawater will be the norm in the future and people then will wonder how we ever got by without it
That's good to know!
What if all products are good? How does one stand out?
Yeah I'm honestly not too sure here either, the more I think the more I believe simulation + hidden variables may be the true explanation behind our reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
Grinding fast builds helps you when you're fighting. :) Boxing someone and then editing a hole to shoot them is sort of "top tier" gameplay.

In general, not only do you have to shoot people as in a typical FPS, but you have additional defenses you can put up (builds), you can use those builds for mobility and gaining height quickly, Epic constantly rotates the weapon set, they add/remove mobility items all the time which forces you to change how you move across the map, and the map changes.

And then when I just want to chill there are all sorts of non-fight challenges and (relatively shallow) lore to chase down.

It's never not interesting, and if you like grinding and seeing your own skills and reaction times improve, it's all there

edit: I should link some videos.

1. One of the best players in the game right now getting 25+ kills in ranked play (ignore the rich kid chatter, he's 16 and already made nearly a million in comps which makes him insufferable sometimes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhTCEEeLvdk

2. One of the best teams placing 2nd in the last FNCS, what typical "endgames" look like in tournaments (lots of yelling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLFCmOFAf_w
> Lobbying (newspeak for corruption) is 100% perfectly legal.

Lobbying itself is neither good nor bad. There are aspects of it that are both. The more excessive negative portions even pass into illegality, but that doesn't mean there's no good from it.

The EFF meeting with lawmakers and explaining how their proto-legislation is not only impossible in practice but has many negative consequences they should be aware of is the exact definition of the benefits of lobbying as envisioned by the system in place and something we should not lose sight of. Babies, bathwater, etc.
I watched that documentary, it is certainly very well researched. I note that Christopher Mellon (fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) on May 5 appeared on the Joe Rogan show for 3 hours, it's worth a listen.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2V0uWX1C4m8xEL0HHYqbnE
> If I increase online sales by 0.1% through optimizing something, I am worth millions of dollars to Amazon and nearly nothing to Joe Schmoe with a small Shopify site.

Yes, but software skills are fairly fungible. Just because you currently work on ads doesn't mean that's all your skills are good for, or even that you need to work anywhere in ecommerce.
They know there will be an uproar if they take a cut today. But once everyone is used to using it they'll introduce their cut and make money.

Like when instagram started they promised they'd have no ads
Indeed. There is much controversy about this way of thinking, and about the methodology. See for instance [0]

[0] https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/3/17/two-hump-world
Scientists Claim to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars in NASA Rover Photos
Also in case the team is here... the updated date for ERA5 back extension to 1950-1978 (Preliminary version - https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/search?query=ERA5%...) is incorrect as this was only released last year (2020) but is stated as 2011.
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"Grand-inquisitor I am not-guilty of the capital crime of adultery defiling the will of god. My explanation is that I met Ms Nin at the motel in question at lunch time to play basketball and go for a run."

We hope our world will continue to change incrementally rather than sharply and suddenly. History tells us that all periods of incremental change come to an end.

We continue to be setting up the tech for the future so there exists a turn-key surveillance system the stasi could only dream of. It doesn't matter so much just now, we think. Just like having no insurance usually doesn't matter when you make that decision.

It seems really risky to me.
Apparently if you send someone a tip with this they get your mailing address as part of the receipt. https://twitter.com/racheltobac/status/1390409874006183936

This is a PayPal issue, but Twitter are responding by adding a warning so people know it will happen: https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1390423761183117312?
That is without employer subsidy or tax credits?

We can purchase insurance from state (ACA state) or federal exchange (non-Aca state), and also from the companies themselves. The cost will be either $0-1500+ Per month per person, yeah it varies a bit. Many employers will charge about $50-150 per month and subsidize the rest.

There are also high deductible plans that they are paying though, but they usually have a $3000-6000+ deductible per person, these are not good if you want to have kids or have a family history of chronic illness.

In my opinion the whole system is a huge inconsistent mess though. They will literally send you bills for hundreds of dollars (got a $350 therapist bill a few months ago) and I had to call them up an very politely tell them that yes I do have insurance with the credit card history to prove I’ve been paying the premiums, and to very politely fuck off.

The bill went away.
I disagree with that. Production doesn't mean that the code runs fast, but that it is stable and reliable.

There are use cases where you need a performant system that uses CPU really efficiently, in these cases Python is probably not the right tool.
To expand on your model, I think our ability to predict success and our ability to predict failure are separate things not on a continuum with each other but orthogonal metrics. We need to count false positives and false negatives here.

I predict that HN is no better at predicting success than average. It might be better than average at predicting failure but given the distribution that might not be that hard: if you dismiss every idea AND most ideas fail, then you always look like you are getting it right with a few occasional wrongs. Think about it in the inverse: if most startups succeeded spectacularly but a few failed miserably and you always were bullish on all startups, people would just say that you are almost always right.

The only real difference between predicting success and the result being failure and the opposite is that in this world success is unbounded (your valuation isn’t constrained since you can create a whole new market segment), but failure is always bounded. Therefore getting a success wrong sucks more than getting a failure wrong: you could have made a lot of money by correctly predicting a unicorn.
The title needs to be de-click-baited, IMHO.

Personally, click-bait and other Internet provocation and trolling now has the opposite effect - instant turn-off. I just don't bother to read it.
This is a great resource. At Splitgraph, we index ~40k open data sets, and we make sure to include structured metadata for each one, so we show up in these results. (example [0])

One cool aspect of this metadata is that it allows a dataset to have multiple sources. So if two sites index the same dataset, there is no duplicate content penalty like there might be with textual content. If you search for a dataset, it will include links to all its sources (whether canonical or otherwise).

For most of the data we index at Splitgraph, the canonical source is
an open government data portal powered by Socrata (e.g. data.cdc.gov). We noticed that Socrata powered a lot of portals, so we wrote a Socrata plugin for Splitgraph, along with a scraper to index the metadata. The plugin basically implements a Postgres FDW so that Splitgraph can translate from SQL to the upstream query language. In this case, the plugin translates to Socrata's bespoke API language. But for private deployments we also have plugins for Snowflake, Postgres, some SaaS services, etc.

If you find some data on Google Dataset Search with Splitgraph listed as a source, please take a look! Our "Data Delivery Network" (DDN) is implemented on top of the Postgres wire protocol, so you can connect with any Postgres client (or use our web editor). All the Postgres query syntax is available to you; you can even JOIN across any of the other 40k+ datasets indexed at Splitgraph. That includes "live data" like Socrata portals, but also versioned snapshots of data called "data images." Here's an example of a point-in-time query across two snapshots (basically a diff) [1], and another query that joins across tables at data.cityofchicago.org and data.cambridgema.gov [2].

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/cdc-gov/distribution-of-covid19-d... – "View Source" to see the Schema.org metadata

[1] https://bit.ly/3epvxcj

[2] https://bit.ly/3f1ll8K

(Sorry for the bit.ly links. The URL for our query editor includes the full SQL string, and I don't want to mess up HN formatting.)
How about 19 year olds as was the case here?
This is rather insulting and dismissive. There's a lot of empty media content aimed primarily at men that's no more ultimately meaningful than celeb gossip that's hardly "pornography." Sports are the most obvious. A lot of empty action/comedy shows would also fit the bill, I think.
The article does not contain the string "ICO". The article describes enforcement of Canadian privacy law against a Canadian company.
That's only really true for Web. Mobile ad blockers can't work since their ads are served from the same hosts as the content. And most of their usage is on mobile.
Quite the collection of vinegar stroke utterances.
I think it's a fair question, but these are not great examples, IMO.

COD skins and Roblox bucks can only be produced and sold by one company, so I don't see why you would need a decentralized protocol for them. CS:GO doesn't use DeFi, and apparently the market was active enough to be used almost entirely for money laundering.

For other financial markets, I can definitely see more of a case to be made, but it remains to be seen whether that will actually take off. From what I've seen, the crypto markets right now are primarily dealing in crypto, as I said.
For a while I had my laptop set up with a udev rule that would automatically lock it as soon as my USB Yubikey was unplugged. The Yubikey was on my keychain on a lanyard attached to my clothing.

I mostly used that at CCC events where I was paranoid about forgetting to lock my laptop when I left it unattended, but it would also defend against that scenario pretty well.
That doesn’t require the blockchain. The US is moving from ACH to RTP, which is 24/7 instant approximately free transfers between bank accounts. [1] My understanding is the reason it took so long was small banks wanted to figure out a risk management model.

[1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
This could go on all day.
Something like a glass ceiling often has a subjective experience behind its usage. A story, an anecdote.
When you ask somebody to go into more detail on something they have personal experience with, a with, a snide link to wikipedia detracts from the personal discussion and learning that could take place.
I read that article on wikipedia already, but I want to hear HIS story. Everyone is different, and there is something to learn from everyone.

ex•pound
intransitive verb To make a detailed statement.
intransitive verb To explain in detail; elucidate.
That appears to specifically be with PayPal, not the Tip Jar feature in general.

I do agree with the OP on Twitter though. While this is a PayPal thing, Twitter is integrating them into their service and so should be educating their users.

Based on follow up tweets from the OP it looks like Twitter have already reacted to it in some way? Not sure. Would be interesting to see what they do.
I think there are enough examples for and against.

He does give the example of Copernicus, I believe Louis Pasteur would be another good example. PG does say he is speaking mostly of maths, sciences, etc.

But there are also many examples where the domain experts missed the opportunities, and somebody else stepped in.

The AirBnB gang weren't domain experts in hospitality. Coinbase founder wasn't an expert in finance (though he was an expert in security I believe), Collison brothers weren't experts in credit cards, doesn't look like the founders of DoorDash were experts in hospitality or delivery.

Not to say PG is wrong, there is good logic to not dismissing ideas, and finding nuggets, but I think the model is being overfit. Or perhaps one wild ideas by domain experts doesn't negate the potential for wild ideas from non-domain experts.
Jeff is defending shareholders and not ads as a revenue model. Without shareholders Google would be free to pursue alternate strategies. Not as profitable but better for the user.
>If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise

I believe it is simplification.

Let's say that I want to get good standing desk or chair - how can I discover those smaller players that make good products?

I don't want to spend time on some ChairHackerNews for 2 months and read about this stuff
This analysis starts with a straw-man.

> So: why is advertising good? I mean, isn't it annoying when sites show you ads instead of whatever it is you want to read? The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models:

> Paywalls. You pay with your money.

> Ads. You pay with your attention.

Anyone on the internet prior to 2000 knows people make content just to make content. I would strongly argue that the wave of "everything must be monetized" has been entirely negative. While it's made the quantity of content go way up, it's polluted everything with clickbait. Whereas before you used to get much higher quality content due to them being passion projects and not people trying to make money.
I think it’s quite smart to launch this sans-crypto to avoid headlines, ensure the feature works well and is received well, and then add additional payment methods weeks or months later.

I do wonder if this hurts or helps twitter as a product tho - I can’t say I’ve been enjoying the recent “only so-and-sos friends can reply to this post” trend. But now we will see very popular tweets with no discussion allowed that is also earning money from sycophants? I can’t say that makes me excited to jump on twitter - although clearly this doesn’t sway a large number of users off Facebook either so maybe I’m not the target market here... it does seem strange though that after a decade of talk about social media bubbles, we seem to be reinforcing them explicitly!

At what point is a read-only tweet, shown only to those who already agree and which asks for donations, any different from televangelism? It feels about as alien to discussion (presumably the purpose of twitter) as one can imagine.
Yeah, it's a great idea and a clever design, but sophistication is often the enemy of security: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clegoues/docs/coker15acsac.pdf
Appreciate seeing pages like this, and 50% is pretty great. I need to set one up for myself.
Ours are on a timer to blow off a small amount of air at a few low spots in the system every five minutes, even though having a refrigeratant type demudifier.

One of the devices stopped working between services and the bottom reciever tank half filled with water.

Edit: they're call bleed valves
I think Mighty is a reasonable hotfix on the face of it. Having said that, if the question is "How do we make the web less slow", the actual solution must be reducing inefficiencies in the web apps themselves. Mighty seems like the equivalent of saying your room is tidy because you've shoved all of your clothes in the wardrobe. It'll work but what happens when we need a Mighty for Mighty or something like that.
You don't really have to trust anyone's opinion on this... You literally just need a yardstick and a calendar. Or a pair of eyes. Snowpack gets worse and worse every year.
Awesome lists of tech stuff
A little under $100k to manage someone’s calendar as an executive assistant seems like a pretty sweet gig.
You should become Wanksy, but for advertisements. "Rate My Add, with totally coincidental Poo on it". Maybe there's a market for YTMND with split screen ads, poo or whatever and music for us to mock all these brands with.
That's par for the course on RT, not noted as a bastion of journalistic integrity. This is an op-ed with no author attribution or links to primary sources.
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How do they avoid giving 30% to Apple? I guess there's a carve-out for P2P cash, like Venmo? Is this why they're not taking a cut?
> "the contractor said they're compliant"

this part wont work w/ GDPR - this is not the US. I've mentioned it someplace else - the contracts with the contractors have quite explicit clauses about liabilities about data breaches/leaks as the fines would still be applied to the main entities.

With regard to GDPR, personal data is a liability and it should be handled with appropriate care.
"crypto" means hidden/concealed, if we're going to go there. I sometimes use the term "cryptoracist" but I had to stop because most people don't know what κρυπτός means.
> I've never clicked on an internet ad.

Me neither, but marketing is significantly about awareness, not just the clicks.

If you've seen it, it is at some level "in you", and the brand has (fractionally) been built.

I know this doesn't apply to all ads by any means, but it's important to remember that advertising also works this way.
I hate a lot of things about advertising, but "If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise" is a very naive take. In spite of my aversion to ads, I see some concrete benefits:

- new and upcoming products - think Tesla in 2010, or Signal messenger in 2020/21

- making things accessible for those who can't afford them - I know a lot of folks who'd rather watch YT ads than fork over 15$ to Google every month. They simply don't have that much money

- letting me know about stuff I was not thinking about but am happy to know now - eg. interesting summer camps for my kids
It has nothing to do with the people. The majority of the water is used for agriculture, which supplies the nation and even the world with water-hungry food.
Absolutely. This dataset search was first introduced in September of 2018. It was out of beta in January last year: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/google-dataset-search.html.
I’m a big fan of David Goggings and the self reliance messaging. A treasure.

He should be getting more attention but I guess he runs a bit against mainstream narratives. A taste:

https://twitter.com/davidgoggins/status/1386386177184333829?...
Imagine if Google wasn’t full of BS ads and SEO link farms and you could easily find the blog posts and reviews of products from smaller players that make good products?

As much as search used to suck, I kind of long for the days where I could organically find products by searching.
Top Product Skills: SQL, Excel, Communication, Story, Prioritization
> rainfall is the same

Compared to the last 1,000 years, yes.

Compared to the abnormally wet 1900s-era patterns that established our current expectations, no.
> *Payment service availability and features vary by region

Why do companies think they can compete with internet payment services that don't have any of these arbitrary restrictions placed upon them?
Any serious industrial installation will have multiple mitigation approaches.
I use this with a Mi Band 4! The initial steps to get the Xiaomi DRM Pairing key to actually connect it are a bit of a pain (which isn't the developers' fault), but once you've done that once it's a seamless experience. Huge props to the developers!