skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except if the export is broken, as it has been for us for months with no answer from support. Our company account got quite large to about 40 GB. Ever since, all export options just result in "export failed"... and as nothing can really be deleted; I'm scared we'll be locked in permanently.

Don't get me wrong. We love Notion. But we also need our data to be portable and backed up to not be liable.
Forbes removes Team Labs’ Harsh Dalal from 30 Under 30 Asia list
I was one of the critics and I definitely trust backblaze more after the transparency, communication, and seriousness shown here.

Will check out B2 for our backups sometime :)
Widespread Disinformation Campaign Against the cheap Covid Cure Ivermectin
It's on the journal's web site: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22592-4
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
Are we all forgetting the Smell-O-Scope?
Too grandiose a word for a targeted assassination of a handful of folks.
The nodes aren’t voting on political proposals.

In the Etherium world, which has more changes, they do. Bitcoin, not so much.
Ok well what happens when the entorhinal cortex is excised or probed?
I learned Haskell instead of OCaml in part because of this. Yeah, it probably wasn't that important, it was an emotional decision, and it wasn't "fair" to OCaml. But whatever it was or wasn't, I learned Haskell instead of OCaml.

Also, if I read between the lines correctly, in your scenerio it's management who is interested in OCaml and the developers want to use something else? Wonder if that has ever actually happened?
I wonder if anyone is worried about the liability of dealing with "dirty" money?
It is much better to pay a 50M bug bounty than to have a system downtime cause billions in damage.
I'm surprised there's no mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Necker in the story .. "remembered today for taking the unprecedented step in 1781 of making public the country’s budget .."
there's really no vacant infill in south LA unfortunately, and despite it's bad rap, commercial rents in the area are nearly as inflated as everywhere else in LA. we really need to structurally discourage unproductive economic activity (like rents) to get better outcomes for all.
The long short of it is misanthropy.

For some reason there are a lot of people around today that believe life is suffering and that the universe would be a better place with fewer humans in it.

It's a hard position to argue with because it's just so full of holes and lunacy you don't know where to start.
>Many appraisers that work for banks have the uncanny ability to appraise just high enough to get the loan (within reason, of course).

Yes however Appraisers cannot work for the bank. They can be part of a separate company "owned" by the corporation, but they cannot work directly under the lending institution. Hence why 2008's crash happened. Also with a purchase, appraisers basically know loans need to come in at a minimum of 80% Loan to Value (LTV) ratio so they just take the purchase price and divide it by 80% to get the value needed so the loan can be funded and to speed things up. Although it doesn't matter to appraisers because they get paid either way. A lot of appraisals today are ordered through a third party that contracts out the appraisal bidding for banks because it absolves the financial from having a bias.

>There is a lot of wiggle room for appraisals.

Not once it's said and done. The appraisers cannot just change things in the appraisal cause the borrower complained. The borrowers can come back with comps or disprove inaccurate information such as incorrect sq footage and the appraiser can readjust it if they deem it necessary. They're on the line when an audit comes around and they're risking their license each time they do it, that's why they rarely ever change it unless the borrower is definitely right (which they rarely are, but it happens).

> And if an appraiser is very motivated and willing to put in some extra time and effort looking for comps and finding reasons to increase, decrease based on other details, they can affect the appraisal greatly.

They most definitely are not. They have no incentive to work harder on one appraisal over another aside from retaining repeat business if it's not ordered through the third party appraisal company. Financials try not to go with the same appraiser for all appraisals because then it looks as though we are the sole employer of an appraiser and therefore can become a serious audit issue. Auditors will look at everything, even some stupid doc that wasn't supposed to be in a file and write up the institution for it.

>I wouldn't expect that the make huge differences, but i can imagine it having an aggregate effect of statistical significance.

You are overinflating their power by a lot. Appraisers have far less influence on the loan process than the lenders do. The simple fact that there are for profit lending institutions that can charge single digit percentage fees on 6 figure loans or allow for 0-3% down just shows were heading for 2008 again. Except the only difference is investors know when they're buying risking mortgage securities as opposed to not knowing if all of them are good or bad.
As much as they need for what? Aside of ransom payments and drugs, you don't need to buy cryptocurrency, ordinary fiat money works just fine as a medium of transfer.
Remember the time of early ActiveX, when you could execute an antivirus in the browser that would scan your entire hard drive. It was exactly the same tech that happened for Windows Update executing in-browser. It feels like we’re doing the same mistake over and over.
I think once SpaceX gets big, he will get so focused on milestones that if he loses some astronauts and gets sued for damages, he's likely to leverage everything he has for more flights. No matter how safe those ships are, they're not infallible, so while it may be a safe bet it's not a guaranteed bet. If another crashes after that, or he loses contracts, he could be filing for bankruptcy, and taking Tesla down with him.
I suggest blocking all facebook domains via DNS/hosts etc. Even if you don't use FB they collect data about you from crap like this.
> What I'm saying, or more appropriately asking, is whether your impression with the OP's project is inspiring you to change your actions in the future towards being impressed with yourself in similar ways.

It doesn't seem to be.

So if I take your advice and imagine what I could accomplish... that just makes the feelings of discouragement worse.

You listed two things to keep in mind. For me the first one actively makes the negative feelings worse and the second one doesn't really apply.
At least you can oust a government. What can you do if YT wants to send you garbage to watch or starts sending you ideological content or start skewing content to whatever advances their POV?
Hyenas aren't genetically feline, they are "genetically" feliform.

Felines are part of the Felidae family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae

Hyenas are part of the Hyaenidae family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena

Both felines and hyenas are of the Feliformia order and they share a common ancestor but that doesn't mean hyenas are felines. Hyenas are more closely related to felines than dogs, but hyenas are not felines.
Hyenas are super cruel. It seems from many videos they take down beasts by biting off balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9kmX0kFq2M (CW: graphic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2k9LFb-VtY (CW: graphic)

In yet other cases they just start eating the animal from before it's even dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kNW4KQCoY (CW: graphic)

Very different from many cat family predators that usually kill their prey first.
How to respond to the MuseCore takedown request email?
Oh man I'm excited to read the replies to this thread. I'm working on my own 2D language right now as a layer above JS. Let me know if you'd be interested to beta test! I have a sense that the programming community at large will reject it at first, but if it helps non-technical people ship it's a win in my book.
> I can't throw stones about configuration causing issues like this.

True, such misconfigurations are bound to happen.

That's why it's so worrying that they thought it was OK to have a third-party script injector on the signed-in pages to begin with.

I see now that they've removed Google Tag Manager from those pages, however they're still fairly opaque about preventing such a glaring security and privacy issue from happening again.

Not a customer, however I was seriously considering switching to B2 for my backups before this happened. This post does very little to make me want to pursue that further.
Well, we implemented Auth using Auth0. The experience wasn't terrible, but not fantastic either. Probably best described as "ok".

However, now they've been bought by Okta, which has a pretty bad reputation.

So, I guess we'll get to find out eh?
Spencer Silver, who helped invent the Post-it Note, dies at age 80
I found these features quite simple to implement. What gave me a headache was advanced anomaly detection (both from the per-account and per-requester perspectives) and handling. For me, there is no bottom of the well on those things, and they are the killer features of auth as a service.
Given how encryption is generally symmetric in terms of operations and speed, I wonder how long the original encryption took as well? What warnings were overlooked leading up to the attack fully going into place?
This. This made my morning. Thank you.
Game theory says nah, just do enough so the other guy gets hit first. I mean I could spend the kids' college fund turning the house into an impenetrable fort with bulletproof glass, booby traps, 2 ton doors and concrete walls; or I can spend a few thousand and get a really grumpy window cat so a burglar moves on to an easier target.
The marginal cost of dragging 40ft of air is so small compared to the hassle of trying to determine which truck is the correct one for today’s deliveries and pickups, so the companies tend toward having all trucks the same size.
What virtual toilets can teach us about the art of game design (2017)
Causes instability when you transfer into yeast as your amplification medium; deleting the TE boosts the correct colony ratio from 50% to nearly 100%. I also identified the gene responsible for the phenomenon: it's RAD42. So if you're ever cloning new genomes that don't have TEs removed yet you might consider using RAD42- yeast.
Yes, it’s a rare medium for conveying information.
> If the company goes up in value a lot over 4 years, then yeah, the employee may lose out

This is horrible at pre-IPO unicorns like Stripe. One year vesting could cost normal employees millions if the company blows up.

Sure, the stock might not move much, or it can go down. A temporary dip means good performers are more likely to get larger refreshers to get tc up to market rate. And if pay is your driving motivation you can switch to a new job.
Okay, maybe this approach isn’t for everyone but I have 2 email addresses.

One, a Gmail that I’ve had forever, is my “public” email that’s just filled with junk.

The other is used for stuff like banks, utilities, etc. and I protect it fiercely from spam of any kind.

It’s easy to know what to pay attention to that way and made my life more enjoyable, or at least easier to parse.
I agree with you as a tech, but pushing back on Google Tag Manager outside of the tech team can be a painful exercise. Everyone in sales and marketing wants it, everyone in management wants it, heck I've seen a company where the legal team argued GTM was legally required on every page (so they could use it to manage a popup).
I've always wondered why people say crypto isn't a "fiat currency." It only has value because some people say it does. And it doesn't have an Army, Navy, and Air Force to defend it, like the U.S. Dollar has.
This is a semantic argument. I agree that power flows from consensus. When it doesn't, we're talking about coercion, force, and violence, not power. But the word power is often used colloquially to mean those things: coercion, force, violence, and that's how I was using it.
Yea, I’m not sure what the commenter means by implying not formidable and being the size of dogs. Modern hyenas are not small by any means and are the size of the largest dog breeds and are much stronger.

https://alumni.duke.edu/sites/default/files/dm-main-images/p...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETcFOq3UcAEjG8Y?format=png&name=...

A modern hyena could trivially kill a human all by itself (hyenas have literally bone crushing jaws), which doesn’t even consider a pack of them.

I actually found this video where a hyena basically took what it wanted from a leopard before the leopard took its prey up a tree. (Warning: predators with dead prey.)

https://youtu.be/cYzogF9IVLI
I don’t know. Did any of it matter? It was bad when people started hoarding gas. Just a few unfathomably stupid people - as always in this country. If idiots didn’t hoard gas, nothing would really have gone wrong.

The preppers are the other side of the same coin. The only thing they seem to never run out of is toilet paper. Who the fuck cares? Pentesters have the same energy. They tell you about what software not to use (anything in their automated suite), followed by a bunch of meaningless bullshit. It is a form of anti preparation, it would not have helped Colonial at all.

You talk about crippling, and in the biggest audition for crippling society in the world, time after time it’s the Everyman being an idiot - or a Prepper being too smart for their own good - that is responsible for all the bad.
I pay for vpn with crypto, the provider doesnt even have my email. How do you do that with ordinary fiat money?
Are they doing so by offering the existing landowners a fair market value for their properties?
Same for me, hard mode is quite easy, our brain is pattern matching Engine and constantly try to make sense of this and hence it may look like legitimate, it wouldn’t if text were 2D.
There's also the <details> element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de... It works quite nicely but is a block element by default. You can override that with some CSS (display: inline or inline-block) and style it to look more like a regular piece of inline content. Pretty useful IMO!
"Additionally, we’re continuing to evaluate steps to help ensure that such an issue does not occur again" most likely covers stuff like that.
Money. If they were able to open 100,000 fake accounts today, they would only be able to open far fewer if they had to press a button every time.
Ha. The people that man the booths there are generally researchers for pen testing companies or universities.

Also, just a cool thing
https://www.wired.com/story/evil-bubbles-industrial-pump-hac...
There are like tons of attack like this that are possible and they demonstrate those at the booths
The "threaded" part is key here. Slack threads are useless compared to Zulip. In Zulip you can create threads on the fly from existing messages, so if discussion starts diverging you can turn it into a new thread. It's just a fundamentally superior model.
> "So you feel, in a world of properly run companies, he should never work again?"

Apple is protecting their brand. Full stop.

There's no shortage of other work opportunities for Martínez. He'll be fine.
But it won't help in this case because they drove just a car.
Growing more things in the place of lawns in Southern CA ain't gonna cut down on water usage. I was born and raised in SoCal and the only thing meant to grow there is the natural chaparral. Definitely not leafy greens.
I watched it recently, and I laughed out loud at the acoustic couplers... :)
Surprised the article mentions Kant but omits Bachelard, topoanalysis and the Poetics of Space.
I would humbly submit that Gravity was also not centrally concerned with the parts of orbital mechanics that would make it an utterly boring movie. I continue to fail to see the big distinction here, and why only one of these is described as "cheating."
Going to watch the video now. Thank you for the explanation! Graphics isn't my primary field so admittedly I don't know what I'm talking about. One thing I love about SpaceX is how engineers are allowed to do talks like this, I barely hear anything from the engineering division at BO or ULA.
Vaccinations could've been an option last May. The mRNA vaccines were designed days after receiving a full genetic sequence of the virus (in January). Those are the same two vaccines we are currently injecting people with – we just spent a long time on trials/approval/ramping up production. Far longer than necessary.
Same for Chrome. This is amazing.
There's a fundamental difference between balancing a rocket on its thrust, and an object on a surface. The surface pushes up, the rocket thrusts along its axis. When the pencil strays from the balance point, the normal force of the support produces a net torque pushing it further out of balance. The rocket doesn't have that problem.
Benchmarking Arrow, Pandas, Julia, R, Spark
That’s a different line of argument but I suppose it is valid. I certainly don’t feel good about huge multinational corporations originating from Silicon Valley shaping information (and as a result, culture and politics) across the entire planet.
> As much as they need for what?

Tesla's, until quite recently. It's also fantastic for tipping people online without all the grossness of Patreon or Medium. Easier than making a wire transfer (my bank sucks). I tend to use it everywhere I used PayPal, minus the places where it isn't supported.
I asked "What % chance of nuclear holocaust per year are you wiling to take?"

It is bizzarre to answer 0.01% only to follow up with "well, I could take 0.9% too"

My question obviously implied "what's the maximum you're willing to tolerate" - else you could have just said 0% -- conveying zero information.
Windows Settings lets me choose an app, but not choose no app/remove an app. So that's not entirely useful (the obvious "just use notepad for everything" is also an obvious tell)

I'm not wildly keep on manually editing the registry, at least without someone else doing it first and reporting that it didn't break their computer :)
Seems like food desert is a very relative/subjective term. The article mentions there being a major grocery store one mile away. On a recent trip to Atlanta I visited a neighborhood where there was no significant grocery store for more like a 5 mile radius. That’s quite a lot worse. And there are plenty of outer suburban/exurban locations where the a particular neighborhood may be 10 miles or more from the nearest grocery store.

I think the defining characteristic here is the presence of a large population of lower income and lower car ownership (hence distance to a good grocery store being a greater difficulty).

As far as subsidizing a local grocer, perhaps that’s a good idea, but I suspect that if the real problem is serving car-less urbanites then we don’t just need one big grocery store, but rather a number of smaller markets spread through the area so that it’s never a burdensome walk to get fresh food. This is how grocers used to operate. However, small grocery stores don’t have the same economics of mega stores, and inevitably charge more than supermarkets as a result.

It’s not obvious to me that there’s a good way to define a subsidy such that walkable neighborhood markets can offer mega store prices - but only in low income neighborhoods that need the support.

On the other hand, something like community markets and micro farms - if they’re run and organized by the people who live in the neighborhood - seem like a very positive development, since they are empowering people to save money / make some extra utilizing the resources they have and keeping the work and value creation inside their own neighborhood.
This reminds me that google drive used to support hosting static site directly from a folder, as well as dropbox.
Later all those online storage platforms dropped that feature.
Which option maximizes the long-term rate of growth of your wealth depends on how much money you already have. The Kelly Criterion takes this into account and handles a wide range of situations including this one.

Example: Say you have $10⁵, and you have the option to play game 1, which offers a 95% chance of a $5×10⁶ prize, or game 2, which offers a 50% chance of a $5×10⁷ prize. By the Kelly Criterion, the value of a scenario is the expected value of the logarithm of your wealth under that scenario:

• not playing at all = lg[10⁵] = 5

• game 1 = 95%×lg[10⁵ + 5×10⁶] + 5%×lg[10⁵ + 0] ≈ 6.6

• game 2 = 50%×lg[10⁵ + 5×10⁷] + 50%×lg[10⁵ + 0] ≈ 6.3

So game 1 is the best option if you have only $10⁵. On the other hand, if you have, say, $10⁶, then game 2 is the best option.
That has never stopped Elon before! "funding secured"
What I’m more worried about is when the sat is too valuable. We can millisat it with LN, but it’s still not enough. I used to think eth was absurd with 18 but we kinda wish for more than 2.1 quadrillion of the beasties.

There are world currencies used by 100M+ that are worth less than a sat today (IDR). In short while it’s more like 1B+ as BTC grows rarer.
If you use Google Tag Manager on a page, but don't add any Google tracking codes on it (eg Google Analytics), the page sends data to Google?

Any OSS self-hosted Google Tag Manager alternative to recommend?
It's interesting watching the grift happen in real time.
Zulip is one of the very few software tools that I really find a joy to use, because they make it easy to work within the correct patterns.

Seriously, it's hard to express this experience until you've tried it. If you look at their feature lists, you can't appreciate the craft and love and thought put into Zulip that makes it stand out from other chat systems.

And you may live in the chat systems with your distributed teams all day.
Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark
Seeing the most advanced technological processes now subject to what is crudely a protection racket brings to mind a quote by Debord:

"Founded on obscurantism and poverty, the Mafia at that time was not even able to implant itself in Northern Italy. It seemed condemned to vanish before the modern State. It was a form of organized crime that could only prosper through the ‘protection’ of backward minorities, outside the world of the towns, where the laws of the bourgeoisie and the control of a rational police force could not penetrate. The defensive tactics of the Mafia could only suppress witnesses, neutralize the police and judiciary, and install as ruler in its sphere of activity the secret that is necessary to it. Subsequently it found a new field in the new obscurantism of the society of the diffuse spectacular, then in its integrated form: with the total victory of the secret, the general resignation of citizens, the complete loss of logic, and universal cowardice, all the favorable conditions were united for it to become a modern and offensive power"

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-debord-comments-...
> inheritance is an advanced programming language feature

It really isn't.

> that is easily misused.

If a tool is misused frequently enough, it really isn't the fault of the users.