skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is possible. If you have a good income, then a hedge would be gold and silver. If the dollar gets strong then so does your purchasing power. If not, then gold/silver hedge against that. Of course it also helps to have bought a house when prices were low going back to 2012ish. For some of us, who cares if housing drops 50%
Given that we haven't even done a thorough search of a single planet in our own solar system yet(we're only beginning to scratch the surface on Mars), these sort of articles should be taken with a giant grain of salt. They failed to detect megastructures and radio waves on certain frequencies. Given these metrics life on earth would have been entirely undetected until the last ~100 years despite life having existed here for billions of years. What if aquatic life is the norm in the universe, and we are outliers? Perhaps there are millions of super-intelligent whale-like species out there. Our current search methods would detect nothing.
There are really really good reasons why our status in the universe matters so much and they all have to do with what is next for us as a species.

In part this has to do with the Fermi Paradox. Are we alone because we're in a protected garden? Alone because the half-life of civilizations is very low? Alone because there is a firewall that takes out all civilizations at a particular level of development (like say climate change)? Maybe if we learn about the firewall we can do something about it? The list of answers to the Fermi Paradox is immense and many of those answers could make a concrete difference to us.

Who is to say that we can't communicate? Some theories of physics might allow for wormholes or something like that (this is not likely at all due to time travel paradoxes, but who knows).

Even just learning about another civilization and measuring the rough properties of the atmosphere of their planet could be a revolution. If we discover that the atmosphere is totally unlike what we have, that a totally new kind of life is possible, we could open up entire new fields of science.

The most obvious way to communicate is to put out basic facts about the universe, like say the energy states of your favorite atoms or something like that. What if their version of the basic facts is thousands of years ahead of ours? Physics works off of very little evidence, a small nudge toward the right answer is all that it would take to change everything.

Even if we can't communicate in a lifetime or two, maybe we can communicate over the span of 200 years. Imagine what could be learned through an exchange with a culture that has followed a totally technological and scientific arc. We could be in a local minima missing really important things about the universe.

We're in a pretty crappy place when it comes to AI. We know how to do some things, but the overall picture of figuring out what intelligence is, we're in the dark about that. We don't even know how to ask the right questions. Access to a totally different intelligence would change that completely.

I could go on from fields like linguistics, to psychology, everything that communicating with an alien species touches upon would be revolutionized. Imagine how chemistry would change if we knew for sure that ammonia-based life was possible? We would invest massive sums and figure it all out, and all it would take is a bit of knowledge about the gross statistics of their atmosphere.

And we're just scratching the surface.
It is worth it to Learn SAP?
Currently, I have MBA (finance) education and now I want to work into IT stream.

I see an option in SAP finance module. Please let me know if there is another option. Can someone suggest an open source project which includes SAP? So that I can volunteer and listen about SAP. Please assist me.

Also any good resources for SAP?

And also did anyone tried any career Coach service ?
I'm with a credit union. I'd never trust my phone with access to my bank account, but I use their web site. Does fine. I can check my balances, pay bills. What else do you need?
Some managers will push you to do more until you push back.

Perhaps you have to learn to say "No" to things you don't have time for in a regular workday.

As Stephen Covey put it in 7 Habits, when asked to do more, pull out your prioritized, filled-out calendar and ask which item they'd like you to deprioritize to take on the new task. Then you'll discover their real priorities.
Yes, in the sense that it gets reported to law enforcement and investigative agencies. Without being specific, I was a victim of identity theft and cybercrime. My incident was “reported to the FBI” but I’ve literally never heard anything back from them.

In practical terms there needs to be something special about the cyberattack for the government to devote any resources towards it.
Incredible. This company must be penalized, but I don't have any faith they're gonna change.
Ask anyone who babysits boxes in the US that are critical - they've been at war for a while. But... Its not like it affects daily life in any meaningful, permanent way.

Didnt we read about this pipeline on HN, for being so painfully insecure relative to its value? And painfully outdated? I expect if/when the release drops, we're gonna see some niche/strange software archaeology, and some windows-shit layered on top.

But mostly? I remember reading on HN about how much this 1950s-era pipeline leaks like nobody would believe.

Perhaps its time we overhaul the rotting infrastructure under our feet. Maybe even try to make these massively centralized pipelines irrelevant. Theyre a weakness.

Then again, Im not fond of the idea of Lithium-Wars replacing the Oil-Wars.
Couldn't status.discord.com point to any server?
> I seriously don't understand why the pipeline operators don't have some contingency plan or have simulated scenarios like this which enables them to roll-back systems immediately to some usable state.

I would expect that most companies, even companies whose core product is technology, are not capable of what you describe.
They can’t even properly identify who’s cheating and who isn’t but they want students to believe they’re capable of figuring out who’s behind an anonymous instagram account?
This should suprise no one. The same elites that was talking about pandemics a few years ago at their gathering has already moved on to talking about cyberattacks.....

Remember evil exists.
They don't make a 2-door Tacoma any more (for the US market). The smallest now is an "access cab".

I bought a 2-door Tacoma 5 years ago, and the dealer struggled to find one for me. It shipped from over 1000 miles away, meanwhile they had 20+ 4-door Tacomas on the lot.
I can't tell you how often I see comments on HN about "corporate greed" and such things as "businesses just want to make money at any cost". What these commenters don't understand is that cash is like the blood pumping through the veins of the business. Without cash the business dies. Even worse, people lose jobs, families lose security and the chain reaction can be massive. Businesses need profit and careful management in order to accumulate cash to grow and survive through events and circumstances most people who have never run a non-trivial business couldn't even begin to imagine.

Every time I read such comments I reflect upon how terrible of a job we are doing in teaching young people about finance, business and entrepreneurship. In the US most high school graduates have no skills to offer other than, perhaps, stacking boxes and making coffee (after some training). I truly don't understand how people are happy with this in a so-called "developed" nation. We launch young adults into the world and they know so little about it. That's where such comments come from. How could you blame them? The entire country failed them by not ensuring their education includes perspectives and knowledge that allows them to deliver value to potential employers.
To quote Fermi, "Where is everybody?"
That is a fair assessment in some cases, but I have also assisted tech-illiterate elderly folks with bank accounts in non-US banks. Keeping a printed list of codes (one time passwords) was in-scope for accessing the bank online, as well as other silly tricks as an on-screen keypad with rearranged numbers.

I think there is too much emphasis on catering to the lowest denominator to the point of sacrificing privacy and autonomy , rather than raising awareness and education.
Reimagining Databases for Vector Embeddings
Well, the burden of proof is on you for saying that there are small trucks on the market. But, it turns out that the complaint about the Tacoma is spot on.

The Tacoma's weight has increased from the 3155 lbs. - 3877 lbs range when it was first released [0], to now being in the 4,425 lbs. – 4,480 lbs range [1]. In comparison, the 2020 Ford F-150 weighs in the range of 4,069 lbs – 4,653 lbs [2]. For fairness, a Ford F-150 from 1995, the first year that the Tacoma came out, weighed around 4,316 lbs [3]. So, they are in fact the same weight.

Similarly, the length of the Tacoma was 30-40 inches shorter when it was released [0][1]. Now, it is within the range of a modern F-150 [2].

In conclusion, the Tacoma has increased substantially in size since its introduction (the Wikipedia page mentions it was reclassified from a compact pickup to a midsize pickup), and is now on par with a Ford F-150 (both modern and the 1995 version) in terms of weight and length.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Tacoma#First_generation...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Tacoma#Third_generation...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-Series_(thirteenth_gene...
[3] https://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-150/1995/features-specs/
A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021
Beyond Sci-Fi: Studies of UFOs gain mainstream acceptance
A billion users, a million advertisers? Nah, we can do it with a key-value lookup table.
Yes, the problem is "How quickly can we nationalize this company."
Most of that can be said about whales, but we still don’t see many whales-motivated scientific research being carried out even if there’s a possibility we could communicate. Who’s to say aliens would be any different?
For myself, it was around that age that I stopped just writing games line by line from magazines, and started creating my own from scratch.

I also branched out from just making games, and started writing programs to solve things for me, for example, a budgeting program.
> But many of those people are blocked because they wrote bad checks. What would you suggest to do with them?

Allow only direct transfer of money already in account, do not accept checks?

From stories about fraud - ones that require bad checks are especially unusual to me. Because in Europe checks seem to be basically gone, at least I have never accepted or made one.

In theory bank transfer may be reversed, but I have not heard about popular frauds centered around it, so it is likely harder to achieve.

I can make a bank transfer, but only if I have enough money in my account.

Is it solving the problem, or is having ability to produce checks absolutely necessary in USA and not replaceable by bank transfers for some reason?
The bible brought you the weekend in the form of the Sabbath, the day were people were not allowed to work.
I have. And I will. Eventually. I just don't have the time to do something like that justice at this point and the emotional ride might not serve me well. It's one thing to open-up on rare occasion on HN, it's quite another to make a regular thing out of it. Revisiting your failures doesn't necessarily make for the best frame of mind as you work hard to push forward.
That’s a bit of a sensationalist stretch headline. The actual meat of the article is that Instagram/Facebook tells you accepting ad tracking helps to keep Facebook free. Which seems pretty obvious, that is their business model after all. Seems like quite a leap to go from this to “Facebook threatens users who block tracking“
Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?
As I get older, I am realising there are tons of things I do not know. I am constantly meeting people younger than me that just blow me away with their smarts.

What, is anything can I do to improve memory, intellect, acuity etc..
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I want to add that the physical limits of how the design is done is as much as corruption/stupidity.

By physical limits I mean us, the wet ware in the middle of all this. These systems can be designed years if not decades before they are actually brought online. By simple temporal placement they get the materials and techniques of that time span. By the time these things are ageing out of the system they will have some old tech on them.
Imagine getting your life ruined over a shitty application and hastily made decisions from college administrators.

Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a class action lawsuit against the colleges and companies that create this shitty spyware.
Be prepared to expect to send a photo of your drivers license and a selfie basically any time you want to interact with customer service.
Wow that’s a strawberry tree? I always assumed it was some kind of persimmon judging by the taste and astringency when unripe.
Iran would like a word!
Simple, because to some people it is worth it.

Everyone else can complain about the situation this imposes but those people have a right to over work themselves. And of course, ON AVERAGE, they are going to make more money and be more successful. So other people try to follow suit because they want the same results.

No one is forcing you to overwork. I can promise you there are many many people living on communes all over the world who spend all day doing aerobatic yoga and eating organic quinoa and getting one over on "the man". If you don't like it go and join them.
The article in a nutshell:

"The past ideas were wrong, and the present ideas (people like me have) are right. Hume had opinions like us in some ways, and thus was right about those, and shared the opinions of his own era in others, and thus was wrong about those others"
I think "seriousness" has to be interpreted in the context of the programmer. I discovered computer programming at the ago of seven, and I was about as serious about it as a seven year old can be.
Then I can't hook it up to a real domain like google.com, just a subdomain of whatever site is running it.
Ah yes, So even worse then.

Had they released both at the same time last year, perhaps they would have had a chance. Now all their competitors including Twitter are eating their lunch.

Should have released both iOS and Android on launch then.
>would you agree that people that make right decision fastest are the smartest?

they are the smartest in that decision space, probably due to training in it and have made a lot of similar decisions in the past.
I think there are some automatic removals of gratuitous words with the intention of making titles less clickbaity. Not sure I see the value in this case, or I could be entirely mistaken.
Absolutely. I know a number of people use this “trick” and it’s been working for me for over 6 months. I can’t remember if referral codes are allowed here but I have 2 invites which let you jump to Tier 1 (3%) right away instead of having to go up 1 tier a month (it skips waiting 3 months before you hit 3%). I used a Black Friday deal that gave the same “perk”.

Full disclosure: using my code would give me 1 “undo” or something like that. Essentially it would let me move up a tier 1 time if I were to fall for some reason. I don’t think I have any use for something like that but I always fell a little scummy offering referral codes so I didn’t want to leave it out.

If you want it, my email is in my profile.
I recall when Simple transitioned from Bancorp to BBVA as part of the BBVA acquisition, and it... did not go smoothly. Days of downtime, and double-spends on transactions that did go through. As someone living paycheck-to-paycheck at the time, I promptly moved my spending (and my paycheck) back to a traditional bank.
"and was not targeting monetary gains"

But in the end was it really though?
It baffles me how much younger devs seam to be unable or unwilling to consider anything else than "communities". I guess the latest 20 years of research in web marketing did that to us.

Being part of a "language community" is not the only way to be a programmer. Not knowing your way outside of the opinionated built tool black box is indeed quite frankly the hallmark of being a beginner, if not a tech illiterate, in my book.

When I originally asked what was the point of Dune, the answer I received from the people pushing that project at that time was that I shouldn't worry, it was just a tool to speed up getting a workable workflow when teaching 1st grade students. It made sense then, I though at some point beginners would naturally outgrow that walking aid. But look at what happened instead!

Mind you, today's experience with ocamlc/ocamlopt for the seasoned programmer is not unchanged either. Because of that new "community first" principle, all the tools tend to work only withing the ecosystem at the expense of cooperating with the larger distribution. Again, younger devs or devs used to "lesser operating systems" never experienced life under a proper system-wide software distribution so they have no idea what they are missing. Of course opam looks great once Debian is broken (and until, let's hope, guix or nix takes over). An exemple of such a regression: querying the type of an ocaml expression from any editor used to be trivial from the easily parsable annotation file producer by the compiler. It's now been replaced by a memory dump that's easier for merlin. And merlin will not even be able to answer that simple query unless you provide it with a full blown configuration. Good luck setting that up without the assistance of the dune built tool. Good luck setting that up if your project involves anything else than plain and simple ocaml.

Ach, I probably start to sound unfair. Indeed this tendency toward infantilism is in no way specific to ocaml, probably ocaml has been resisting it for longer even. And it's not specific to programming languages either, nor even to technology. Pardon my rant, grumpy old man can still feel passionate about computers at times; rest assured he is being transferred to another trade :)
It may be poor memory, or maybe different styling, but a 2020 Tacoma feels a lot bigger than a late 80s Toyota Pick Up or Ford Ranger.

Looking it up, the longest fourth-generation Hilux was 195.5 inches long, and the shortest Tacoma is 212 inches. Similarly its ~60 inches vs ~70 inches of height. For the single cab, long-bed it's 10 inches higher and 16 inches longer and the Hilux was available with a single-cab short bed that was even 12 inches shorter.
Another thing that can be done is to divide the pipeline into several sections, not just one long one. So if one section gets compromised, it doesn't propagate to the next.
Interesting, I just started with them recently and haven’t needed support yet but I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll miss Simple’s support, especially in the early days...
Not to start a massive flame war, but just a personal opinion: I rather prefer humans to be the only intelligent species in the observable Universe - that means it will be all ours to play with.
> With regard to the problem, scroll bar is set to have 0 pixel width by default, it's a behavior not expected If it shows up in your browser.

That isn't correct.

> UAs should enforce a minimum actual size of scrollbar width per WCAG 2.1 SC 2.5.5 Target Size

If you want the scrollbar not to appear, then the width must be set to 'none':

> 'none' - implementations must not display any scrollbar, however the element’s scrollability is not affected.
What would customers read that phone number off?

You should advertise in Yellow Pages!
Microsoft Space Simulator (1994)
I've got a very concrete reason not to use a credit union. They wouldn't let me open an account.

Chase in the other hand, was happy to let me open one.

I may not need money in morroco, but I do in Seattle from time to time, whenever I lose/compromise my credit card
I also love it :)

Just this weekend I was learning about RabbitMQ and setting it up on a free Oracle Cloud VM. Writing some Python code (using the Pika library) to be able to send and receive messages.

Also getting around to learning about how to use Flask (Python web framework) and then Gunicorn. All this so I could try to figure out how to have my own webhook receiver accessible on the Internet and then get those events to end up inside my local intranet.

And reading an article here today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100974) and realizing I could use Cloudflare's Tunnel (aka Argo) and be able to stop using the Oracle Cloud VM.

At the end of it all I was thinking, "this is cool!" :)
Great organization there, and the people donating time do actually work enough hours to amortize the training time. It’s less useful from a corporate publicity standpoint though because of the time investment. Plus your employees are being trained into an opportunity for work that may be more satisfying and still decently paid, and then leave.
Awesome comment:

Covering my ass is the least of my worries, should thing go sour the CEO wouldn't turn against me, and yes there's a very solid paper trail of this decision, and a history of similar events.

> The outcomes of that will probably reveal if it's time to suck it up and say "He's the CEO, he gets to make stupid looking choices ...

Yip, I agree. I was hoping that the wisdom of this great crowd would provide me with some better insights.

> maybe I just don't have all the information needed to understand why its the right choice?"

The root is incompetence + playing with family money

> or whether it's time to start polishing up the resume before Bad Shit(tm) starts happening.

I'm actually consulting part-time here, COVID took a toll to the business and I left for another (better) full-time job elsewhere. The CEO asked me to remain on a part-time consulting basis; I do enjoy the $

Thank you for taking the time to comment.
I do too, and I'm 99.8% certain it's because I don't (primarily) do it for a living.
LOL, interesting comment.
Anyone who has ever done analysis of raw data knows that the process consists of iteratively excising bad data until you can actually precisely and accurately explain your analysis results.

Tools like this, where the data consumers (campus admins) have no possible way of understanding the data analysis methodology, let alone the raw data themselves, when the _responsibility_ for the consequences lives with the consumers, have no business operating like they do today.
Work is not replacing church. In the Middle Ages, there was farm work performed by peasants. As far as 100 days off, if we take 52 weekends a year, we're a little over that same amount for those who don't work weekends (which is the majority of single job holders). Broadcast media replaced the church as a moral arbiter and now we are sort of in a phase where some are attempting to rebuild that church of television with the internet.
Those in the EU have IBAN and instant transfers (both in country and between other countries in the EU; I believe the max SLA for payments to settle is no more than 20 seconds). The US does not yet have such a system, but it’s being built (domestic instant transfers).
I thought this too but on looking again the author never mentions "outcomes", that's just the title on hn
I would also like to know the reason why a subdomain is not sufficient to host a status page as long it's pointing to an independent infrastructure.
Do all snake plants clean the air?