skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a way to solve it would be to accept a nominal fee of cryptocurrency. Even a one-time fee of e.g. $5 would probably put a damper in someone trying to sign up for thousands of accounts while preserving privacy for real users.
Coding Adventure: Chess AI
Wow, thanks, I'm really happy you liked my videos so much! I wonder how many of us have great tool ideas in private notes sitting on our hard drives, not really sharing them with others. I'm glad your ideas overlap with mine, because the more people have the same idea, the more likely it is to be a good one, I think.

> when there are two strong, conflicting views, you do a pros/cons analysis on both

Yeah, it's not easy... I've participated in endless, looping debates as much as anyone - I guess it's just human psychology. But with enough conscious effort, I find that it's sometimes possible to take a step back, take a fair look at both sides, and design a best-of-both-worlds solution. I'll apply this method again in future videos, and if I can inspire a few more people to use it, that's great. Making the programming world a tiny bit less "tribal" and a bit more constructive.

> I've sent you an e-mail a while ago

Yeah, let's continue our discussion over email. I replied to your email from my private address, let me know if it got through.

> That's a first-class contribution. I think you should post the link to your site as a HN submission

"First-class contribution" gave me tears of joy :) I'd like to "Show HN" in a few months. Once I post there, I might get a lot of comments, and I want to be available to answer the comments and make follow-up videos quickly, but currently my personal life is too busy.
Hospital operating margins are in the single digits, so what? That doesn't mean that less than 10% of the price of that aspirin goes to profit.

How much of that rent is profit? How much of the drugs being used goes to profit, and how much of the equipment and material of that drug goes to profit, and so on.

If you want to cite a meaningful margin number, use the entire vertical. You can't limit yourself to a single level in the value chain and say that the overall margins are low.

There are definitely upper upper classes making profits in education. "Physical plant" means money going to RE conglomerates. Beyond that the slew of education industry providers seems to make an EBITDA margin on average of more than 10% : https://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profitability_Ratios...
They charge for users that are disabled

Took me a second to figure out that you weren't claiming accessibility was only supported at an extra cost.
I’ve always found it weird how people jump hoops to be apologists for Protonmail

Does anybody else find that weird?

“I completely misunderstood Swiss privacy laws and fell for a sales pitch from an email and VPN company that goes out of its way to track every user no matter how they sign up! Its to avoid email abuse, exclusively!”
This is the real rub to me.

It would be one thing if you rip off all my data but I am constantly seeing ads for cool things I would never have found otherwise and can't wait to buy. Instead the ads are always shit that I never even consider.

If things were not tailored I would probably randomly run across products that are just outside my current taste but at least spark some interest.
It possible to update the BSON without loading the entire document in the memory? I am curious how Mongo does updates.
I don't think that's quite true. The grants and papers talk about what the goals were and the biosafety labels being used.
What data is being sent to Google? Besides the user interacting with Google to solve the captcha? Or is that the problem?
Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them.

In a news article, you put the key facts first, then get into the detail. A summary is optional. Journal articles are different.
there was an article a while back claiming the possibility of Alcubierre drive effects (displacement of space/time) in close proximity to a neutron star that is spinning rapidly.

I'll try to find the article.
Might makes right destroyed entire ways of life in North America.
Contributing to Gemini Ecosystem
One fairly big machine.
They use UserVoice for voting on issues (not sure if anyone ever looks at it). Here's one for recaptcha, and it's one of the most voted on tickets: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/su...
Although I grew up with bad things, luckily I learned and followed the good things. When I was teenage, I didn't see any light in my life. Now I almost don't feel stress anymore. Although I know saying is easier than doing, I have to tell you: take it easy, everything will be alright.

I was taught one thing from my uncle, the man had experienced many things, even the worst and the bad in his life. He taught me that: If you have tried your best and the bad thing still happens to you, you have no choice to let it be like that. Because, the more you think and depress, the worse it be. You cannot change the happened things, right? So don't let it pulls you down would be the best thing you can do in this situation.

I've bared it in my mind. It helps me a lot when I face problem in my life. I realize that, myself is the most important thing I need to care about, others don't even matter without my existence, my feeling. So I would never overrate both good and bad things.
IDK - I had a few biker friends (before I moved last time, pretty much stopped riding since my son was born, going to sell the bike any day now), they would use DB-killer but if we went off riding twisties they would pull it out and just enjoy the insanity. There was one guy who would ride without dbkiller all the time, he was a dick in general, so there's that.
> In terms of Linux: I can do partial disk encryption with LUKS and have all my intellectual property secured with that, but what tools should I be using in Linux? I prefer the JAM stack, so apart from VSCodium and XAMPP, what other tools should I be installing?

If you've already made your choices for code editing environment (and extensions) and a specific backend stack, what remains is some front-end specific extensions for your chosen browser (Firefox or Chromium) like Web Developer, Firebug, and Postman.
The Digital Nomad Life and the Ambiguous Gift of Freedom
It depends - be aware though that the more you diverge from the sensor input others use, the more you tend to diverge from others behaviors. You see different data.

It’s important (often more important) while driving that you’re doing what others expect, less what the rules say must be done - especially on edge case behavior.

Each sensor suite has it’s own pros and cons - LiDAR can have real challenges with reflective surfaces or highly absorptive ones (wet and slick, oily, snow). It’s range is based off return signal strength. There are also problems with many LiDAR sensors and daylight drowning out the signal.

Time of flight sensors (really a type of ‘broadcast’ LiDAR) have similar issues combined with some weird edge cases with reflective geometries or some surfaces.

Passive visual light sensors have issues with contrast (high signal strength drowns out low signal strength in nearby areas) and lacks useful information about time of flight unlike LiDAR. They are Cheap though generally, and give us a signal we generally think are ‘obvious’

Active radar sensors (including phased array) also provide very useful signals, also have pros and cons.

Sonar, same.

Ideally you’d have 360 coverage from enough different sensors that you can do sensor fusion and detect and exclude a sensor in situations where you’re hitting a known problem for a sensor suite. Looking into the sun? Well visual and potentially LiDAR/ToF data is iffy, switch to sonar and radar. In a high EMF environment? Surrounded by metal? Switch off radar perhaps.

Those cost money - equipment and development - however.
I'm really late to the party, but here goes anyway.

Some context is due. The article is almost twenty years old. The experiences described there are from a time period when Latvia had gained independence from the Soviet Union only some ten years prior. So, pretty much all the people working in the hospitality industry would be someone whose formative years and/or young adulthood was spent during the nineties.

That was a pretty brutal decade. Rearranging from planned to market economy is hard. Economic crises abound, rampant organized crime, generally high levels of aggression. I come from a small town and I was a kid then, but even then I know of four murders that happened then in my home town. A guy was beaten to death in a nightclub, another guy was thrown from a bridge, my favorite sales clerk at a local store got incarcerated for axe-murdering his wife and her lover, and a body was found in the bushes behind my music school. Ah right, there was also the case of a neighbor massacring a family on a potato field. A friend who lived in Riga during that time told me how his dad always had a peace of metal pipe behind the door. Just in case. In a later interview the guy who was chief of police then revealed how he slept with body armor on at all times.

So, people who were teenagers or young adults then learned to not smile for the same reasons the prison population is not really a cheerful bunch. It's outright dangerous. There's a book and a recently made movie about coming of age as a metalhead in a mid-sized Latvian town during the nineties called Jelgava 94 (Doom 94). It really conveys the look and feel of those times quite well.

It's very different now. Sure, people don't smile as much as Americans (no one except Thais does), and are not as chatty as the Brits. But a lot of people have worked or traveled abroad, have seen and gotten accustomed to different cultures. According to my experience pretty much everyone below the age of 25 speak fluent English. And hug. They hug a lot. And yeah, the crime levels are nowhere near to how it was in the nineties.
> And if there’s nothing they need the workers to do or goods the rich want to purchase? Then how should those without wealth eat and provide shelter for their family?

The fact that you, for example, don't have any goods or services that, say, Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos wants does not mean Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have all the wealth and you have none.

Wealth is not a fixed thing. Wealth can be created. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are rich because they founded companies that created enormous amounts of wealth. Say what you like about Windows and Amazon, but Windows made personal computing available to everyone, not just the affluent who could afford a Mac, and Amazon has made cheap products and easy, fast shipping available to everyone, not just the rich who could afford to hire personal shopping and delivery services. And the wealth those companies created had to be spread among everyone, by the very nature of what they did. Windows would have been useless if it were just Bill Gates' personal OS, and Amazon would have been useless if it were just Jeff Bezos' personal shopping service. The whole point was to make those things available to everyone.

Similar remarks apply to everyone who creates wealth. The people who grow the food you eat grow more than they need just for themselves. Then they trade the excess for other things they need or want. The same applies to you. Want some food? Create some wealth that you can trade for it.

The real complaint that can be made about the "1 percent" or "0.01 percent" or "elite" or whatever term you want to use, is that they have created a system that makes it harder for everyone else to create wealth, by putting all kinds of regulations and complications in place that only they know how to navigate. But you don't fix that problem with more regulations and complications. Nor do you fix it by just confiscating what the rich have now and redistributing it; that only works once. You fix it by scaling back all those regulations and complications so more and more people can create wealth themselves instead of having to wait for a few "elites" to do it.
Slides help to drive the discussion and convey relevant information. The slides are meant is bullet points to allow deep dive in whatever direction is desirable. Open discussion without structure simply leads to ratholing and consumption of the entire meeting slot.
With Postgres excellent FDW support for SqLite, doing cross-dataset analysis (especially geospatial) would be an interesting project.
But that's exactly what I'm asking: what does a report of shared qualia actually look like?

> If distinction between personalities is fluid

But it isn't. It might be vague but it isn't fluid. If two personalities are distinct then they remain distinct. It might be difficult to decide whether two different kinds of behavior are manifestations of two different personalities, or the same personality behaving differently from one moment to the next. But whatever criterion you apply, the situation is not going to change from one moment to the next. This is one of the defining characteristics of personalities. It is what allows you to say that a person is the same person as they were yesterday, despite their behavior today being different in some respects from what it was yesterday.
I wonder if it's a response to the recent incident with Ryanair plane got grounded by Belarus. I believe an anonymous email with a bomb threat was sent with ProtonMail.
Never used HolaVPN (apparently a prerequisite for Luminati). Never heard of it. Only turn my VPN on once in a blue moon for a few minutes.
Ask HN: How to automate handling tech recruiter spam?
If you're like me, and somehow your email now exists in tech recruiting databases (probably due to resumes you handed out at job fairs X years ago), how do you automate handling all of the inbound emails from every startup in the world? What's the best way to minimize the # of minutes and overall noise this creates in one's daily email life?
Ask HN: Any good book on companies/individuals failure stories?
It seems to me that I am overfed on survival bias success reads (books, blogs, podcasts, etc.) I am looking to read some failure stories of companies or individuals.
Not really sure about Abhishek, but based on thr name he's an Indian and I'm fairly sure that Niken is

A. NA in india
B. Too expensive
C. We get conversion kits which can add two side wheels as a rear wheel/chassis attachment which many handicapped people use here in India.
Maybe go for a weekend in the mountains. Take a book (fiction) and see whether you like that. Leave the cell at home. I personally never had this problem. I only do overtime to please the boss sometimes, not for myself.
> Money is a completely unnatural invention

Not unless human society itself is "unnatural". The reasons why money gets invented are common to all human societies that get beyond the tribal stage; money is as natural as the human societies that invent it are.
It's reasonable to be this cynical about politicians, and I certainly find this to be true in two-party systems.

But, it's easily possible for democratic representation to result in a set of contradicting laws without any dishonesty.

Suppose laws A, B and C are incompatible, but any pair is reasonable.

35% of representatives fundamentally support A and B [and not C];

35% support B and C;

30% support A and C.

All three such laws will pass with majority support, with everyone holding true to their represented beliefs - but the system is still at fault.
It shares PGO data across the cluster so that all JIT clients eventually drive to an optimal set of common optimizations.

As it runs standalone it can also take advantage of the whole server for itself for more resource hungry optimizations without impacting running code.

The generated code is then reflected back into the client JVM instances.
No, there's no tracking in ProtonMail. Captchas appearing is entirely based upon IP reputation and number of recent login attempts.
One step closer to Manbearpig!
> "Joe's porchbuilding" does not send automated greetings.

And, that's false. Unless you make them run one of your restricted platforms that doesn't have the features they want and need for their business.

Wordpress runs 60% of CMS websites. 15% of the most viewed websites run Wordpress.

> You only need to worry about security issues if you build such a site on top of a dynamic platform.

Do you actually believe that there are no security issues with static websites?

Thank you for the conversation, but I'm going back to running my business.
It isn't an infinity style edge display and has a chin. It just looks odd.
Like the VCs Congratulating Themselves account
Thanks, I appreciate it! I still don't see the captcha even when I use a private window thought. Browser is Brave on Mac. Also outside the private window I have shields up, which means trackers, ads, cross-site cookies and fingerprinting are all blocked.

Edit: also it says there are 0 items blocked
Do you have any suggestions for alternatives?
> people in positions of authority, even when nominally "credentialed" in science, are often completely incompetent

That's genuinely a baffling lesson to take from that incident. I mean, your father was the credentialed one, with an engineering degree, and the teacher was the unqualified one who was just a science teacher. Surely the lesson should be the exact opposite?
I strongly dislike the idea that a households with one breadwinner is/was the usual/ideal organization of a family, but instead of writing a long rant, I prefer to give you a link to a 5 article series by Bret Devereaux about the production of cloth in the Roman Empire and similar times/places. https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-t... (HN discussions, with ~100 upvotes each https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Clothing%2C%20How%20Did%20They... )
Optimized List Representation in Fexl (Function EXpression Language)
Agreed, it’s definitely best to just never change the protocol. But if you do have to change it someday (quantum cryptanalysis?) it’s better to have a single setting introduced at that point than to have 15 settings with no correct answer introduced at the very beginning.
The biggest problem with software employment is missing fundamentals, poor training, and poor leadership. When employers advertise a software job, for example, they focus most importantly on language and tools. The focus is not about delivering a solution, despite all intentions to the contrary, but how to do a job (literacy).

The result of that systematic failure is an artificial perception of talent shortage. When people are unwilling to offer a solution developers instead turn to tools to fill that gap as though they can outsource experience and training for a product (typically free permissively licensed products).

Many software developers, as my experiences on HN suggest, are horrified to even address this problem and proposals are demonized. Every other industry has solved this problem. I suspect that if the industry is unwilling to address this matter it will take some catastrophic event and government will solve it for the industry.
If you hear your colleagues doing things on the weekend you'd have liked to been doing as well, well, it's not too late to start doing them on the next weekends.

If you enjoy the work and you don't feel like it's too much, then just work when you feel like it. That also goes for self-education that you'd otherwise be doing during work time, like looking into that new framework. If your employer is flexible, you might also be able to work when you feel like it on Saturday night and then take Monday morning to sleep in and relax with a series while cooking breakfast. Of course, be careful when doing this, and it doesn't sound like this is for you, but it might be for other people. I sometimes work in evenings because a project is just a lot of fun and I don't want to play games to relax instead. Sometimes I take that time back later, sometimes not.

As for disconnecting: when I'm done working I turn off my work laptop and don't carry my work phone. If someone wants to reach me for work they can contact my private phone, or if I want to do work, I need to boot the laptop (or pick up the phone but everyone else is also offline so not much work to be done there). I guess that makes it quite a conscious decision and clear barrier. It does, obviously, mean having private devices so you don't need to use your employer's equipment for private stuff.
The trick to that problem is to pass the burden of proof on the one producing the BS (as it should be), which is similar to what Bertrand Russell does in Russell's Teapot:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
A few comments about this.

A very small fraction of logins get the CAPTCHA challenge. We, and other services, face unrelenting brute force attacks on our login endpoints. If you are seeing a CAPTCHA on login, chances are that something about your connection is suspicious to our system. It's far from perfect, and we continue to improve it, but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.

The CAPTCHA is run in an iframe on a separate domain to sandbox it from the Proton login flow prevent it from compromising the webapp. Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.

CAPTCHAs are very hard to build, especially considering Google has a habit of clearing the field with it's own captcha-breaking code. Most companies do not have the resources to build their own. We had an alternative CAPTCHA we were going to use as a replacement a few years ago and then the company behind it went bankrupt. We are currently looking to replace ReCAPTCHA with hcaptcha, which should alleviate some of these problems.

We have other strategies which we are also exploring to try to reduce the need for CAPTCHAs entirely, but these are also not trivial to build and integrate into all clients.

TL;DR It's a small fraction of users who are affected, it's necessary to protect our users from brute force login attacks, we don't like it either and are working hard on replacements.
The big thing is that there is a tectonic shift when you go from the top 20% to being wealthy enough that employment is no longer a meaningful part of your income. I think this is the big realization that puts things in place.

But of course even amongst the 0.1% for which employment is genuinely counterproductive financially, there is the stratification stated above.
I agree with the general point you are making here. But you appear to assume that the way to fix it is more government bureaucracy and regulation. I think the way to fix it is less government bureaucracy and regulation. Government bureaucracy and regulation is as bloated as it is because the rich set it up that way. Those regulations benefit them, not you and me. They want society to be set up that way, so that creating wealth requires navigating a complex maze that only they know how to navigate. The only way to fix that is to get rid of the maze.