skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Learned to Break Out of My Comfort Zone as a Public Speaker
David Cancel is a wonderful role model, leading by example on many aspects and sharing his journey along the way (I'm a big fan if it wasn't clear by now): "Being a frontman and having my name and face out there is pretty difficult. But the reason I do it is that I believe it's one of the best ways for me to serve my company. To push myself out of my comfort zone and try to get as much publicity for the company as possible. How do I do it? I figured out how to make it intellectually interesting." -- Making something fun and interesting for yourself is how you let your brain deal with the struggles of learning. Change the rules, play with the format until you're enjoying the iterations just enough to try again. Take a few minutes and google up his name to watch a few of his talks or interviews.
Presumably for the same reason people in every other era, including today, try to speak with the dead: they miss them.
When Zuck says Facebook wasn't sharing our data with NSA/Prism, he has his company's and his own reputation on the line if he was lying... we don't know who you are and what this service is, so, sorry to say, but your 2nd paragraph doesn't mean much.

I could promise you I'll send you a legit authentic fancy gold Rolex worth $20,000 if you transfer me $15,000, so you can re-sell it and make $5,000 in an instant. Would you believe me?
I think you’re downvoted because you’ve (correctly) answered this person’s question with respect to the law in the article but parent comment is worded more broadly. I think maybe they’re asking about a state’s ability to fine social media companies for anything.
Ah, this takes me back! On my first job, our CEO asked me to look at some fraud transaction data from an airline and use a graph database to gather some insights from it. His idea was to show that to some executives from the airline as a prototype to get some buy-in to build a fraud detection tool from them.

The data source basically contained account IDs, billing addresses, credit card hashes and whether an account was identified as fraudulent or not.

Using that data, I built a quick GraphDB prototype that showed clusters of fake/fraud accounts. It was simple stuff, but back then said execs were pretty impressed.

I don’t know what came of that because I left shortly after, but it was an interesting little experiment. I had fun building it!
On dropbox
Something tells me that a theft ring doesn't get to $8 million without anyone taking more than $1K. And even if they did, I personally don't see why society should foot the bill for prosecuting and incarcerating someone over a stolen $100 from a private corporation that's probably insured anyway.
Is MongoDB still a recommended production database? The answer seems to change based on what year the question was asked.
Experts aren’t good at building shared understanding – Surfing Complexity
"Experts aren’t explicitly aware of the value of all of this information, and so they tend not to volunteer it without being asked. When a newcomer watches an expert in action, a common refrain is, “how did you know to do that?”" -- Lorin Hochstein explains why we should all try to create (or iterate on) a mentorship program or some other explicit method to share context and information.
Depends on what you're doing, I guess. If you're just working with Python dictionaries with occasional background flushes to disk then it would be very fast. Probably close to as fast as anything else. Of course, there's a lot more to a DBMS than just reading/writing in-memory data structures and occasionally saving them on your hard drive.
You don’t have to give them the points card.

Also, I know an engineer that was inside a monstrous grocery chain many years back. Back then the payment and loyalty systems were separated by technical measures and firing level policies. If you used a CC without a points card they were not able to associate it to any kind of account.

Obviously the CC processor could but they didn’t get a list of purchases.
Anyone that has taken Edward Tufte's[0] Data Visualization course (I don't know if he gives it anymore), has seen his favorite props, which are a couple of copies of Euclid's Geometry. Supposedly, these are real, 400-year-old books, printed by a 17th-century mathematician.

He likes them, because of pop-out examples of geometric shapes.

I think they are more modern reproductions, but I could be wrong. They are in great shape.

[0] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
I would love to see a public database of app buyers. I think some interesting insights could come out of it.
> What about the case of someone signing up for thousands of accounts?

My question is related to the specific /login page, not the registration page.

I understand the benefit for blocking spammer signups, but not for the current case of the login page where users have an account already, were verified that the account/password was correct (captcha appears in second step), and then have to enter a second decryption password manually.

In that scenario there's no argument on the "WHY" a captcha helps. It simply doesn't.
I have a good friend who is an architect, which is neither CEO or management, who wants to be able to express her trade but has very mixed feelings about the need to also mother.

Even if retail or whatnot, having an identity outside of the home to give you self worth isn’t exactly unique to C-level execs. I think it’s quite patronizing to assume that’s the only route to self-actualization.
Why all the senseless bickering? If you don't like ProtonMail, don't use it! Choose whatever else, and go bicker or rave about that instead.
I am not talking about Indian culture at all, and don’t know whether this specific encounter in this specific environment by this specific person was sexual or appropriate or whatever. I am specifically objecting to "This is not a cultural thing at all" by the GP.
If the first amendment didn't exist the government could force a bakery to bake Nazi cakes. They can still force you to bake cakes based upon certain protected classes. So I guess if political affiliation became a protected class then maybe the government could force a bakery to bake a Nazi cake? I dunno.
But most people who for example, give a wedding speech, also do a terrible job. Essentially, most people are uncompelling speakers.
I think RAH went over the cliff into self-indulgence with SIASL, as many authors do later in their career.

James Michener as an example in general fiction.
I love this piece, but really:

> getting hired via LinkedIn has, inevitably, become more about getting attention than being qualified for a given job.

Does anyone actually get hired via LinkedIn?

I have always assumed that the majority, and most extreme, of the performative LinkedIn “actors” are really simply wasting their time.

I find LinkedIn really useful for two things: looking someone up before meeting with them to see why we have in commmon, and using it as a candidate’s resume). I only really see the “feed” when some friend posts something and those tend to be things they have posted elsewhere.

Now my gf used to work there and she is an enormous fan yet…despite that she doesn’t post in the feed either.

So the rest of the piece is great, but is there actually hiring going on as a result of the feed?
Yep, thanks, tried scanning it to find the but of advice. Failed:)
> In all of english Canada,

I went to grade school in Ontario during the 80's, and I remember the teachings about Riel being quite nuanced. He wasn't demonized nor glorified. If anything, the material was sympathetic to him and the Metis people.
Only effective against ones that don’t have activation criteria.
I can't make out what you meant by those two words, but that one looks surprisingly bad.
I know we as HN readers have a tendency to look in the comments for a TL;DR, but this time, do yourself a favor and read the article first. You won't find anything below that wasn't already covered, with more nuance and historical context, in the original linked piece.
> Exactly which parts of their business model should be illegal?

For starters, this part:

> give away your product until there is no competition left, then you can do what you like.

The free market doesn't work without competition, and that's a blatantly anti-competitive practice. Just because a lot of SV companies do it, doesn't mean it's right.

But really I was referring to their data collection practices, and doing things like intentionally making it difficult for users to find privacy controls. No matter which way you look at it, that's harmful to consumers.
“faux-thentic” is truly a masterful word, my lord. Now I have learnt it I immediately see examples of it everywhere
Actually, that's a specific thing that does not work (at least long term). Trees die and rot if not cut down, and the carbon from that process has to be absorbed by the younger trees growing in the same space. So once a (mature) forest exists at a given location, it will no longer absorb any more carbon unless some of the trees are cut down and used for something that doesn't allow their carbon content to return to the atmosphere.
time to make a pull-request
When Samsung had mst they had a pretty big lead on the competition, but seems like they dropped it.
This is the physics version of the Monty Hall problem, because your intuition tells you this can't possibly be real.

For sailing[1] the energy explanation is that when you jibe back and forth on a broad reach you're sucking the energy out of a much wider swath of air than if you're dead down wind (ddw). (And it's also why the closer to a beam reach you can get, the better - according to that article, ice boats can get like 8 deg from perpendicular, and 6x the windspeed!)

The use of a propeller here is quite clever, but I don't understand how it works since the prop is moving ddw. The hand wavey illustration of "two sailboats on a cylindrical world form a propeller" is evocative, but it didn't click for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing
Earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27322568
It might be true, but I can tell you I have hiked in a lot of completely-natural swamps that also smell like rotting cabbage.
Cars are usually more expensive than bycicles and inconvenience people too.

Don't get me wrong, I've got both a car and a bicycle, not 100% for road cycling but count it as if it was (it's a gravel bike.)

For me cycling beats running 100-0. I can easily pedal 100+ km but I can't run 100 meters, too tiresome. Furthermore I see 100 km of the world vs a small area around my home.

Ultimately it's all subjective. Each of us likes something different and it's OK.
Couldn't she just file a FERPA complaint and get the records herself?
It can be difficult to vet closed source applications, but I think this policy describes a truly stark difference between the two: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212039

Whereas every location ping is seen by Google as an opportunity to attach data to your account, Apple Maps goes beyond not tying to your account, but regularly trying to make it difficult for them to tie the activity to any sort of cohesive profile entirely.
yeah I'm not sure why either... either fully open source it or have some kind of roadmap saying that you plan on monetizing it later or anything. looks useful but I'm concerned about privacy implications of it... when the product is free: you are the product kinda thing.
What's surprising about that if I may ask?

We have observations that match quite well what would be expected if there was additional matter in the universe. We cannot detect this matter though, so the conjecture is that there must be something that interacts gravitationally with the rest of the universe but not in other ways. We call it dark matter for now. We do not yet know what it consists of, there are even competing theories but mapping the effects of it? That we can do.

This approach is not at all unusual. If you want to know about another example from a different field, look no further than genetics.

Gregor Mendel observed rules for inheritance of certain traits in plants and was able to make predictions from that. He discovered genetics. In the 1850-60ies. This was a long time before Crick, Watson and Franklin discovered the structure of the underlying mechanism for inheritance (DNA).
> Building and maintaining a good CAPTCHA service is both hard and requires a high level of continuous development, since every day people are waking up and trying to figure out how to break it. This means almost every company that tried building their own in the past has switched to either hCaptcha or Google, since it is not practical for even large companies to maintain their own solution these days.

I’m under the impression that the bottleneck isn’t “high level of continuous development” so much as it is just having a large enough data set of Internet activity to conduct statistical analyses on. Cloudflare and Google are obviously in a good position for this, since a significant amount of Internet traffic goes through them. But I can’t create a startup to invent the next Captcha unless I magically discover a flash drive containing a giant corpus of HTTP requests made by billions of modern devices around the planet.
I think that big corp must always grow (in earnings ) or various manager hierarchies start having problem.. sometimes this need forget to consider ethic , trust , monopoly , roots , ...
That last one doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all.
Yes the same funds usually are the top ones. There’s one offs like people who made money in 2008 etc. but it’s the same people always beating the market. The industry is really small, I don’t need a false and misleading academic study
Why would that be a problem on surface? You have thousands of users, why do they need to be unique identities?

The only reason I can think of is because they want more unique identities. More unique people means a greater chance for a purchase. More mail accounts just cost more.

The entire business model of free accounts requires someone paying for something extra. By unique identifying people they can limit new accounts and increase their chances of an upsale.

What if they changed how they operated. Instead of looking for more unique identities why not accept multiple addresses and include an ad at the end of every free email letting the receiver know this came from protonmail. That would give a benefit for each email sent and provide more advertising and give users a reason to upsell?

My guess is having that ad after every mail would bother you (the customer) more than having your identity uncovered.
I don't think that would be useful, for two reasons:

1. What rules are being violated by these offers? It is what happens after the sale might break the rules but I can't report someone for having bad intentions.

2. I do not believe Google would be interested in spending even a minute of their precious human time to do any real investigation. If they can't automate the solution then they ignore the problem.
Rr was initially designed to reproduce flaky tests I think. They then realized that they could modify it for reverse debugging.

The recording overhead is quite acceptable, about 50%.

Rr also has a 'chaos mode' which changes the thread scheduling, and which greatly facilitates finding the 'unhappy' path.
DuckDuckGo have said that they make less money, because they use only the search term not other data/tracking.

But they still make money.
I think his "Crazy Years" prediction is playing right now

Here's Heinlein's "Future History" timeline.[1]

He got the "False Dawn" of space travel half right. He predicted a religious dictatorship in the US in the mid to late 21st century.

[1] http://templetongate.net/graphics/literature/fhchartlarge.gi...
Section 230 makes it clear that these companies aren't considered speakers of their user posted content, hence preventing them from moderating it doesn't impose on their free speech since the user posted content isn't considered their speech.
I know he's explained it, but I still don't understand how this works...
Wool duvet inner - you tend not to overheat.

Cabeau sleeping mask - very comfy and soft. Love it.
The keyword is idiot, not loud pipes. To be fair sometimes we cyclists also behave like idiots on the road. Same thing when we get off our bike, get into a car and drive. Of course an idiot with a needless loud exhaust is far worse than a silent one, I agree on that.
You can try https://www.hcaptcha.com as an alternative.
Curiosity rover captures shining clouds on Mars
Hass.io already sells their blue box (https://www.home-assistant.io/blue) but an rpi works nicely too. The Lidl gateways and similar zigbee hubs aren’t really necessary in a hass.io setup once you plug in a (pretty cheap) USB zigbee stick.
It might produce EMI though. (if we are picking nits)
Pregnancy pillows are the best lol
Any good resources for the original sense?
Ask HN: Is Anyone Listed on the LTSE Yet?
I can't find anything of that nature, or where to look up quotes.

Went through most of the communications here: https://longtermstockexchange.com/market

But none of them are very revealing to any companies that may or may not be listed there yet (there might be indexes, but nothing else yet?). Perhaps they don't want to make a splash with the first companies being listed?

Curious if anyone knows about the status and can share.
This review implies that the main use case of microfilm transfer was to free up shelf space by destroying books and putting them on microfilm. To my knowledge, that is not the case: the main use case was for periodicals like newspapers, magazines, and journals, not books.

And certainly, microfilm was not intended to free up shelf space in the library: most items in a library's collection aren't on the shelves, they're stored in warehouses and basements.

Paying to store miles of old newspapers was not sustainable for most library systems, and despite what this review implies, newsprint does not last forever. The alternative to microfilm was not that we would have pristine copies of our history easily accessible to every library patron, it was that most copies of a periodical would simply be destroyed.

The remit of public libraries is not to preserve books, but to provide access to information. There's a crucial difference. Microfilm was not ideal, but in a pre-digitization world it was about the best option available to provide access to those old periodicals that would otherwise have been lost, or at least hard to access.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3026.html
Most active manager performance is mean reverting. They have a good year, and then there is little evidence of persistence in their future returns. Here's a larger study from S&P:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/research/researc...

"We observe little to no evidence of performance persistence among active managers, except in the large-cap value and real estate categories. For example, out of 1,034 large-cap funds that existed in the universe as of Sept. 30, 2013, only 19.73%, or 204 funds, outperformed the S&P 500. In the following year, 15.69% of those 204 funds outperformed the benchmark. By the end of the third year, none of those original 204 funds were able to outperform the S&P 500 on a consecutive basis."

What is implied from this data is that if a manager has a good year, they are unlikely to match it going forward. So only 20% beat an index, and then only 16% of those that did beat it the next year.
PowerPoint is a tool.

Like any tool, it can be used well, and serve its wielder, or it can be used badly, where the wielder becomes it servant.

I've used PP and Keynote plenty. I prefer breaking away from them, as soon as possible, but they are pretty good for helping to establish a structured context to a class or presentation.

They just need to be used correctly.

I was just writing about Tufte (who is heavily cited by everyone). He loathes PowerPoint. He gives a pretty good class on how to convey information without the usual PP pie chart BS.

Most of my presentations are actually kind of useless, if provided as class resources. That's because they are simply background props to what I'm saying.
I don't think they have a problem with a user creating two or three accounts. It's a problem if someone creates thousands of email accounts to send spam with.
Mark Twain dictated some 2,000 pages for his autobiography.

"Twain first tried dictating into Thomas Edison's new recording machine but didn't like it -- he was a man who strutted stages all over the world, delivering extemporaneous spiels. Twain needed a live audience to speak to, not a bloodless machine. He eventually found that audience in stenographer Josephine Hobby and author Albert Bigelow Paine, his first biographer. Paine says Twain often dictated from his bed, clad in a handsome silk dressing gown of rich Persian pattern, propped against great snowy pillows. He also got up, paced the floor and waved his arms as he poured out nearly 2,000 pages of typescript over three years."

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131703237/on-publishing-mark-...
Only good for the bosses and the shareholders.
Databricks Feature Store
Using KDE on Windows 10 via WSL2
That's great but you didn't answer one question I asked - mutual funds or hedge funds? AUM or performance?
The disease is Myxomatosis, it still exists and won't disappear anytime soon. The government makes sure to introduced rabbits in the areas where the Lynx lives if there aren't enough of them.
And now I realize I was very wrong about what unexec does/did. Wow.
The criminal use of the cryptocurrencies seems always conflated.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3026.html
> Apple's lead is definitely on the software side of things.

It’s their lead in hardware that makes that software possible.
From one angle, by looking at the bill of materials comparing a inkjet and makerbot, they both look like robots

But from another angle, printing and publishing paper is a different industry than manufacturing objects, so the distinction is in their context
It’s not just Texas. Most states have similar laws. In the past, most dealers were local, so it was easy for state politicians to put their interests over Detroit’s.
Japanese use futon driers, partly because local weather, partly because they need to be ventilated.

We’ve slept on the floor for few months after childbirth, but then tried bed and were like “ah damn this is so much better”…
Apple Watch Series 3 has become a white elephant for Apple
Firefox "Focus" browser does the trick for ad-blocking and erasing history on iOS. No tab support though.
Wish I had the chops. Time to find money to have someone do it you mean.
OOM = ?
Yeah, knowing the financial incentives makes me very cautions about installing any new extensions. And even for the old extensions I check the recent comments from time to time to see if there's any suspicious new behavior.
Given the well-documented tendency of large corporations - and this corporation in particular - to not give two shits about ethics, I'm not entirely sure which direction the burden of proof lies.

However they are certainly supplying China, a regime widely acknowledged to be committing genocide. Whether their chemicals are directly used for genocidal purposes seems academic? They do not care either way.
I wonder why it didn't make it to production, at least the self balancing and electric parts of it.
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
What is this source?
Ford “Volume knob” is “finger” on set of bearings epoxied directly onto display