skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long noticed that Quizlet is a repository for a lot of information that shouldn't be online... from test answers to proprietary line-of-business stuff (ex. retail training materials) to security related stuff (security trainings, emergency response codes). But I would have thought the military would be smart enough not to use it (at all--private or public, it is not in any way designed to handle classified or FOUO data).

For example, this one appears to list a number of installations that hold various critical networking infrastructure as well as the names of various admins. https://quizlet.com/414907821/eiws-study-guide-here-it-is-bo...
Not sure if that's available outside the EU as well, but over here you can export an archive with all data they have on you including messages and attached media. I'm sure they leave out things but I use it to backup my chats.
Federal student loans have a fixed interest rate. Assuming inflation makes its way to wages, that makes the education an appreciating asset.
All homes are always on the market for sale, regardless of whether they are listed on the MLS or not. If you see one you like there's nothing stopping you from making an unsolicited offer to Blackstone's Invitation Homes.
In the desert, most plants are dependent on the water that falls directly on them. Solar panels do not make this possible. Any space between the panels is also maintained.

There are some plants that lay down gravel across the entire farm.
since i dont see it here in the comments- my opinion is the marginal tax rate should be very high when you get to this point of income, and the money should be redistributed via services, credits and direct payments (maybe?) to poorer people, since its shown very clearly in the data to result in longer lifespans, better mental health, and an improvment in economic activity (though the last thing i dont care much about). curious what people who disagree with this general approach have to say about it.
No? One applies to any future person that has been "realized", the other is about whether people are being "realized" or not. People that never existed in the first place don't need to be protected, but generally the two questions are just not related at all.
No one ever threw millions of dollars at founders with modest goals and realistic expectations. Every startup has to be changing the world, disrupting the status quo, innovating the next big thing.
Good point. Now I want even more to build a better planet.
This is another reason why removing radar from the new Teslas is a hilarious example of gross incompetence in the field.
That's the irony. Their own views don't have any actual substance.
ISPs are a rigged economy. Google Fiber showed competitors are blocked from entering competition. Or so much friction is injected that they effectively block competition.

Contract log-in to block price shopping/switching. Gouge existing customers & lower price for people switching. Low prices on website, but existing customers can't ever get those costs.

Very rigged economy. City level government often sells out to block competitors.
When did you stop paying taxes? 300 B.C.?
> The poor tend to be net borrowers.

Wages for the poor won't go up because they don't have any leverage in terms of negotiating. With no fixed assets and no negotiating power to demand higher wages, the value of the real payback won't change for them, but the cost of living will go up.

It'll help a few people who got lucky and bought houses within the last couple of years, but the truly poor (no assets) are about to get much poorer in terms of purchasing power.
> Guess I should re-RTFM.

HN is full of hidden "features". Ask post are not clicky, but you probably will never find that in the docs. If it looks interesting enough, I try to add a clicky link.

> our overuse of ™. There's a very on-brand reason for it.

Sorry for that. It's fine to post your projects here even if they are commercial, but hashtags and tm look weird here.

> By scenarios, you mean the games listed above?

Yes. I think that a video showing a gameplay of one game or a similar simplified version will get you much more traction here.
It doesn’t seem to be the default anymore on iPhone. Mine was set to private and doesn’t show on the feed. I got Venmo about a year ago.
Some guys try to basically ATP bootstrap a game concept. And there are other guys including the author of the article, that want to rip it apart.

If there is a scam, where are the victims?

All I can see here is only a lot of speculative and targeted hate and smear that makes me wonder why on earth it is on Hacker News.
oooo... interesting question. I'll give it a shot though.

In my opinion, a tech company is a company whose primary products/services are digital electronics, e-commerce, software, hardware, and internet services.

Netflix, in my opinion, is not a technology company. It is a media company that uses a digital content platform to deliver their product. Uber is also not a technology company, it is a transportation company that uses an online platform to connect users with their drivers. Both of these companies could use other means to deliver their products/services, but they've chosen to use a digital platform.

That said, I'll admit that it is very hard to clearly define the line nowadays. Almost every major company has a sizable IT department, an internet footprint, and/or a data center. So if those were the bar to entry, then nearly every company would be a tech company.
Bill Gates is the largest landowner according to some recent articles. So how much does he really own, or is only farmland considered?
Yes, it matters a lot. One of the reasons people want open source is to be able to "fork away" from a popular project, if the leadership team of that project takes a direction that people disagree with. Obviously this goal is impossible to meet, if the project is closed-source, or has an onerous license.

There is another cost that people don't talk about as much, and that is the cost to understand a large, alien codebase enough to be able to understand and change it. If the effort to contribute is too high, you can't get a second group of programmers to rally around the fork, and the new project will fizzle.

As an example, Google understands the economics of code very well. They know that there is little threat to market dominance for them to release Android or Chromium as open source.
If you can remember a term, any term, that was written in the message, you can search & jump to it directly. For my girlfriend and I, it was the bar we went to on our first date. This feature only gives you small subsets (a couple dozen, maybe) messages near the query result, but then you can just search for the last message again and get the next “page,” so to speak. Of course, remembering such a term is hard, which is what I assume you mean by “search for old messages is unreliable,” but it’s at least a possible workaround.
Spain's postal service ends its skin color-inspired stamp campaign
Buybacks are not mentioned in this article, and you quote a number from 2019, which is, to the best of my knowledge, pre-pandemic.

If you are saying that they foresaw the pandemic and government grants, well...

Now, I wouldn't be surprised that they were doing that even in 2020, considering they were also taking out $3B in loans (in addition to $100M of subsidies) to maintain the share value or reinvesting in themselves when others had lower trust in them, but when all of these numbers are stacked together, this article title is obviously click-baiting ("Top execs receive €25M of stocks while company borrows €3B and gets €100M in grants" is not something too much fuss will be raised about).

The bigger problem IMO is the regular subsidies they receive for "innovating" (somebody here brought up a figure of >$400M of tax subsidies a year).

I do agree that top executive remuneration is commonly out of hand, but I think that applies even to "regular folk": I find it unfair that my programming salary is like 7x the average salary (10x the median) in my "developing world" country. Both of those problems equally need to be fixed. While I may be providing suitably more economic benefit to my employer, I am not "worth" that much more: the incentives and values are messed up somewhere.
Congratulations Andreas, I've been working my way through your entire history of videos and loving it. I just doubled my monthly sponsorship, can't wait to see what's to come!
Zuck's trying to catch up to Larry Ellison who owns nearly the entire island of Lanai in Hawaii.
Pretty much every browser except Safari supports WebGL2
I agree that the follow topic suggestions are awful. They don't even respect muted keywords. I can be browsing my timeline, peacefully looking at art and developer side-projects, and then out of nowhere I'll get hit with several political tweets from accounts that no one in my network even follows.

I used to have the same opinion as the parent poster. I'd tell people that Twitter is actually really great if you curate your feed. Unfortunately, I can't tell people that anymore, because it's not possible to do.
Maybe it's just me, but I was already turned off by the use of "cut" in the first question in a way that assumes all the names in the file have exactly one space and exactly two names.
Definitely thought this truth was going to be that we don’t need to work 8 hours a day to get our work done.
I don't know what "equality" means in this circumstance, but for those nearing retirement age, 4% inflation would destroy the value of their savings at a time when they cannot afford to take additional risk in equities with no guarantee they'd perform. Inflation robs the value of a lifetime of prudence and hard work. There's an argument it's truly evil.
But why is it that one of the benchmarks is so negative then? What is it about that test?
> How much food and what quality?

Food stamps make this back into a "how much money" question without getting into execs pockets.
The default UE4 mannequin makes it so much funnier.
Internet Explorer: A Brief History
But there’s one that went way negative, on a relative basis.
What about the video embedded in the article with the title "DreamWorld - Exposing the Scam Game" and "Ultimate Scammers" in big yellow 60pt font?
"For the vast majority of people their covid stimulation money did not go into their pockets, it went to their landlord or their mortgage holder " you have evidence for that, other than people catching up on late rent/mortgage payments?

Governments miss-allocate things all the time, and its a lack of trust of citizens to do what is in their own best interest. It is a position that really limits the utility of government as a source of stimulus by a desire for control, a desire that a free people do not want to give in to.
Pulled it up on my phone just to see what they considered "large", looks like 4MB is the cutoff (nothing smaller than that shows up for me). But nearly everything I'm seeing is a video or a photo taken with my real (not phone) camera. And a random PDF I apparently sent over iMessages.

However, deleting through this interface would be a pain. You select "Edit" and then each attachment is selected individually.
Oh man this is a flashback to a previous job that I did not need.
I've used this as well, mostly with success, but this last year I tried and it kept failing and I haven't had the time to revisit it.

It may be a problem with PhoneView, but I'm not convinced that it is. Also, due to the size of the backup, I do have to do it to an external drive.
Attempted crimes aren't the most theoretically coherent part of the law. But they're better than you're making them out to be; you can't be guilty of "attempt to commit manslaughter" by virtue of your negligence.
> Legislative incompetence is caused by voter incompetence.

Do you have any evidence for that or is that a guess? Corruption seems to have far more of an effect than just blaming people for not being smarter.
After a reading a pretty crazy and inspiring story from OurCrowd CEO, Jon Medved, I realized something:

As founders, we often try too hard to keep our startup story as neat as possible...and then we miss the opportunity to show how strong we really are.

Thought I’d share this perspective as it might be helpful for those in a similar situation!
Oh, a Sepultura fan.

They were big in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s. A Brazilian band, but resonated with Central European metalheads a lot.
I've heard this phrase used by non-native English speakers, but are you suggesting it comes from practicing within a particular domain? If so, which?
I believe you would like https://janet-lang.org/

It is lisp-like language with Lua like semantic and implementation, but it is separate from them.
Green Gables, 74 acres in Woodside, CA, is for sale again, if anyone has US$135M.

Who lives here? [1]

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/@37.45398166,-122.30164715,204....
At least in the US and Canada - a big part is because we don't have fair elections.

In the US there is extensive gerrymandering and just this year there's been a wave of anti-democratic voter restriction laws passed to try and prop up a dying party but, bigger than all of that, the lack of some alternative to FPTP[1] has forced extremism in the populace. Even in Canada with a parliamentary system that eschews direct elections of the head of state[2] there is still rampant strategic voting and low voter satisfaction.

We can't elect competent legislators because we don't have competent elections.

1. First-pass the post, i.e. whoever gets the most votes is declared the unanimous winner.

2. Well, the real one - not Queen Elizabeth II
I have my real name on Twitter, am reasonably active, and I never get trolled. But I pretty much only post on tech related subjects.

Do you post on controversial subjects?
Apple had nowhere near a billion customers when iMessage was launched.
So I may follow @JohnSmith because he’s a known dev in the JS community and tweets about JS, but he also tweets about his country’s politics, what he ate at lunch, and engage in heated debats about pineapple on pizza I don’t care about.

You're following the person, not the vision you have of the person. If you're interested in just posts about a topic then Twitter isn't the platform for you.
Gun ownership is quite common in many parts of Europe. Finland in particular is nearly the same as the US in terms of percentage of households with firearms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_gun...
Flexibits developed an app to do this search called Chatology (https://flexibits.com/chatology) but they've discontinued it since Big Sur came out. Works pretty well on my Mojave machine.
I'm just commenting because I also find iMessages to be a completely neglected app considering how central it is to so many people's communications.
I also have a spectrum landline I can't stop paying for because it would cost me $15 more a month to have less service, somehow.
And employees’ bonus were reduced due to a hard year. And there were layoffs.
Feminists I know (including myself) consider that the "patriarchal society" is a trap for both gender.

There are other brands of feminism, of course.
I read The Economist which every year publishes their list of notable books. That is how I found Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis of The Financial Times. That book describes how the richest people get there (mostly through ill gotten means) and what they do to hide money (lots and lots of real estate)

WaPo review https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-among-the-klept...
The Economist review https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/10/08/two-book... (might require login)

Small quote from The Economist that does a wonderful job summarizing why this book is very good:

“Kleptopia” is wonderfully if grimly entertaining, replete with tales of Zimbabwean thugs, late Soviet gangsters and kgb officers-turned-entrepreneurs, as well as a Romeo-and-Juliet romance between the children of rival oligarchs. Mr Burgis’s depiction of the interlocking worlds of post-Soviet business and politics captures the way corruption binds together economic and political power. He meticulously demonstrates how, once overseas money enters Britain (attracted by the protections of its legal system), the associated power struggles and skulduggery follow.

Except it is not just Britain, but also us here in USA - countries that he touches include USA, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Colombia, Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and both Koreas.

It was a fast and furious read that made me REALLY angry at times. It does not have a happy ending:

America and Britain, he thinks, are ever-more like Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan: “Like a parasite altering a cell it invades, so kleptocratic power transforms its host.”

Highly recommend as a serious, if depressing read.
I agree nearly completely with the inherent failur-proneness of invite-only networks, and participated in three of the four you mention. I'd dispute Mastodon as invite-only however.

That said, the exception is a network created for an extant community. In fact, most of the major successful social media networks have emerged from just such a community, and quite frequently one that's academically oriented.

Email, Usenet, and Facebook all emerged out of academia. Email and Usenet with early Arpanet and major research universities. Facebook was once literally Harvard. Several other early networks such as The WELL and Slashdot were strongly adjacent to these.

Several early BBS systems emerged out of or alongside military service communities. I don't recall if it was AOL, Prodigy, or another early network which was strongly popular among US military personnel and families (a large, reasonably cohesive community, widely distributed, with contacts and ongoing communications in distant locations).

YC's HN would be another example.

But generally, creating an early cohesive community is a challenge, and many of the tricks for short-cutting this process tend also to greatly diminish the long-term value and prospects of the discussion platform.

My own contention is that Google+ actually did have a strong internal-to-the-network (not just Google) community (though one that excluded a great many people). I feel the social network hurt itself by trying to open too quickly (Ello certainly did), as well as by Google's own greatly bifurcated affinity groups: technologists on the one hand, and marketers on the other. Marketing/advertising is toxic to social cohesion, and this showed early in G+ evolution.
> What other method is there to get ahead as an individual other than out-competing your peers?

There's a parable about this, about a fisherman and a businessman.

https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the...
i don't believe in physical limits for computation since beginning of 90ties when i read about 50MHz being the fundamental impossible to surpass limit and few years later i had DX4-133 running at home. Saying that with high appreciation for the grit of the people in the industry who has taken us that far and going to take even farther.
The "blatant scam" part, maybe. The fact it's Y Combinator-backed is still relevant, though.
Same. It feels like anti-scraping protection gone awry. This isn’t the first website I’ve seen that happen to.
i hate rentiers, especially greedy telecoms, and as such, share internet with neighbors, each using our own routers to create isolated networks behind the modem.

most people typically use 5-10 Mbps, so 200 Mbps can easily support 20 people and multiple households (who won’t all be online at the same time).
I found pinned messages on Monday. I've now unpinned things.

It only made things worse :(
IMHO the aid should have been loans only and executive bonuses should have gone to the government as collateral. If the company pays back the loan, the executives get their bonus.
beware deleting your own messages on discord ("self botting") is against tos and people have been banned for it, myself included
This kind of comment just enforces the defensive perception towards the community. He clearly stated that it was just his opinion. Why not just point out that "common tasks" always refers to each own's bubble?

There is no need to insult people around.
Self-reply: DV == "downvote", from other responses.
> We love to overwork ourselves to death

I'm not sure that's true. It's just the system is often set up with the rule of "overwork or be left behind".

Common work schedule in China these days is "996" or 9am-9pm, six days a week. It's standard across internet companies. ByteDance and Pinduoduo I believe are "11116", i.e. 11am-11pm six days a week.

I don't think anyone actually wants that schedule, honestly.

Yes, it destroys families, it wrecks people's lives, it contributes to screwing up everyone's cardiac and mental health, it drives people to depression and worse. But it's not like you can negotiate with them to work 9am-5pm five days a week for slightly less pay. They don't offer that option.

This isn't really China-specific either. iBankers in NYC do the same or more hours and they also aren't offered a 9-5 option, it's either work all your waking hours or you're fired.
I have come to realize that many people are haunted by the constant fear that someone somewhere might be making a profit.

I think it's a great thing and a credit to our institutions that millions of citizens of my country weren't evicted last March and April. Who cares if landlords got paid for rent or if a bank received a mortgage payment?
If it’s discontinued and they don’t charge for it I hope they consider open sourcing the solution so others can try to make it functional.
Fewer women die in total, than men. This is because roughly 51% of all births are boys, 49% girls.
This was previously true. Free storage at Google hasn't increased from 15 GB since 2013. (I have a few promotional bonuses that bring me up to about 19 GB, but it's been that way for... over half a decade without increase.) Personally, my Google storage is mostly full, even though I haven't used Google Drive or Gmail since 2016, and have removed much of my personal content since then.

Also, now they're actually effectively decreasing everyone's storage. Previously, Google Drive document types and Google Photos didn't count towards that 15 GB limit. They will as of June 1st, 2021: https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

So, while cloud storage usage has exploded over the past eight years, Google's storage limits have not only not expanded to meet it, they've actually begun to tighten the belt.
Can we blame Discord for this?
Edit: Does Discord deletes all user messages when it bans an account?
It's terrible internet really, too. Freqently drops and has slowness during the working day. On zoom calls, it tends to cut out audio for 5 seconds at a time, so I'm asking everyone to constantly repeat themselves.

I can't even run from this. It's literally this or back to the stone age with AT&T DSL. These are my choices.
A lot of PPP loans in my industry were passed through to the owners as dividends/profit taking, as they didn’t actually need the loans since we were all busy. Small/medium business owners in slightly affected industries got RICH last year.
Do you care how your face looks when you go out? Why do you care, if you're not looking at it?
i don't know why you say "American Jew" because that trait is a trademark of Americans of all race, religions, and creeds not American Jews only.

( skip to 1:06 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ4aDgZSjDo
The key word there is "perpetually". In the US welfare payments and other social support programs are usually time limited for recipients who aren't disabled.

I have no problem with government supports for people who actually work but still can't afford basic necessities. Just don't ask me to pay for non-disabled people to sit around all day.