skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super interesting that it seems to confirm the adage people fight because they are similar and not because they are different. E.g. they're interested in the same things and it's the struggle over the minutae that creates the conflict.

Small differences create the largest conflict, and large differences mean people ignore each other in that model. Should give some people pause.
Assange was pretty clearly outed as having been working for or at least with Russian disinformation agents. He kept trying to push the Seth Rich conspiracy even after the truth about the DNC hack was already out. At his best, he was a guy willing to host sensitive content that other people gave him. At his worst, he's an abusive, manipulative self-promoter. We've gotten 1000X more valuable and more responsible investigative journalism from the the NY Times, Guardian, ProPublica and even Buzzfeed at this point. We don't need to prop up a guy like Assange who doesn't deserve it.
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Much of such dubious "science" is packaged by self help authours as miracle principles which are going to set ones life right. Popular books like "Power Of Habit" and Cal Newport's books also seem to fall into this category, and seem to enjoy huge patronage, even in HN.
My only point in referencing saving is that it is one path to achieve the bargaining power to actually work less, against employers who inherently want to occupy your entire life. I'm talking about having saved up enough to be comfortable working less - after which you can turn your reduced spending into reduced working. An alternative avenue that doesn't involve saving at all is collective action, which is how we've gotten down to a 40 hours per week standard.

"The economy" is defined by what is legible in the financial system. In this example, that is working for a wage. Time spent on other endeavors is not reflected in such accounting (sure, money spent on those activities is obviously still part of the economy, but said money is only part of what is spent on them). Time spent on other endeavors is therefore not "growing the economy", except in some pathological sense of trying to shoehorn our entire existence into economic terms.

Time spent with family or on hobbies certainly does make society better though, despite not being economic activity or "growth". In fact, this is exactly what opponents of the growth-worship philosophy are aiming for.
Interesting how as I began reading the excerpts from the paper I had to stop myself and realize that the author himself had ironically conferred a bias against the paper, LOL. I was primed to find all the flaws.

I think psychology and sociology are legitimate and worthy studies, but they run into issues with the scientific method itself due to the ambiguous and “high-level” nature of their concepts and theories. It’s hard to create meaningful, repeatable experiments. So perhaps it should be emphasized how important it is to put effort into constructing experiment... and in particular keeping the subjects unaware of what it being tested. There are probably many great examples of experiments done.
You can define your own function and use it in your pipeline yes. You can have your function take pipeline input just like the built in cmdlets.
So don't follow the instructions and just make your own.

I don't know when you were a kid, but when I was a kid Lego sets _were_ like jigsaw puzzles. Lots of big single-use pieces that were hard to adapt into something new.

Modern Lego sets may look like they can only go together one way, but they are made of a bunch of smaller general-purpose pieces. There is much more room for reusing those for your own creations than there used to be.
My response to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27529751
For staff+ level engineers many SV companies do pay comparable salaries in Europe. I worked for one in a smaller Scandinavian city and had a base salary of $300k and approx. $1m stock yearly. It is hard work though especially due to the timezone difference. I resigned once I reached FI.
Not the OP, but the lab leak theory being 'debunked' in the press very swiftly, before any real research, in stories sourced from a bunch of people who would be implicated to some degree by such a thing would be one recent example.

That's not to say it's proven by any means, but various media outlets credulously accepting stories from conflicted sources and not even disclosing that conflict is itself a black mark whether or not the theory pans out later.
"Whether it's useful is not important, only whether we can make money off of it" is one of the more dangerous attitudes to come out of Wall Street in recent decades.
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On the third point about feeling informed but not really being informed, there was something earlier this week where Vox had an article claiming that publications were ganging up on blackrock. Turns out one of the board members has a huge conflict of interest and is an investor in blackrock. https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac...

Now let’s say you read the vox article but nothing else. You might feel informed, like you’re doing something good keeping up on the news or whatever, but you’re potentially worse off if you don’t know the whole story
The article is about how Buy American in the mid-20th century immiserated generations of Americans with bad transportation and long-term debt. Which aspect of that even gives the impression of caring for our citizens?

In terms of transportation infrastructure the USA is behind countries like Kazakhstan and Morocco. We need all the help we can get from other countries. Indeed, the law we need is that we're forbidden to buy from ourselves, and nobody who has ever planned an American transportation system is permitted to do it again without at least 20 years of remedial experience abroad. We need Buy Not American.
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We've already got Fahrenheit 451's "Seashells" in the form of the AirPod--your constant companion, even when you sleep!

Your average person reads a dystopian novel and finds it frightening because they can follow the author's extrapolation from the present to the fictional setting. Advertisers and other immoral beings read a dystopian novel (well, they probably read the Cliff's Notes) and think, wow, he's right, I bet people would put up with that sort of thing if we pitched it right!
I don’t get this.

When we advise other countries how to bootstrap their economies economies will tell them to build up their local economy and import knowledge where needed.

This was the playbook for the “Asian tigers” but also post war Japan (or back to Meiji Japan) and China and we see it in India too...

Hey but when the US wants to do a little of this, then these profiteer advocates get all tied up in knots.

They could not care less about US workers and job losses and skills losses. They only care that the status quo of making money for the interests they represent is uninterrupted.
Ask HN: What are good alternatives to Webflow that have better web performance?
Webflow isn't very good with web performance. It doesn't purge unused CSS or support code-splitting on deployments. After growing your website with more pages, you often end up with a large single CSS file that has to be loaded on every page.

Now that Google is starting to take into account performances (Core Web Vitals) for ranking pages on Google Search, marketing teams have a higher incentive to improve the performances of their website. Webflow unfortunately isn't very good at satisfying this need.

Is there any other product suited to marketing teams that has better performance capabilities than Webflow? A tool that, like Webflow, doesn't require the help of a developer every time the marketing team wants to change the website.
Cruise missiles are expensive. In theory a million person guerrilla army that stays somewhat spread out can be too expensive to use cruise missiles against effectively. But small, cheap drones…
Again, the ABI issue has nothing to do with editions. You can already build a binary today with three editions (though I forget if 2021 has any actual changes implemented yet) in the same executable. Part of the reason I said what I said is that every time we have this conversation you say you want to see how it plays out in practice, and we have shown you how multi-edition projects work, and how you can try it today, and you keep not listening. It’s FUD at this point.

It is different because those are frozen, editions are not (though in practice editions other than 2015 will rarely change). They make no guarantees about interop, and my understanding is that it might work, but isn’t guaranteed. If you have sources to the contrary I’d love to see them!
I may have another reason to add.

I am toying with GIS tools these days and it kind of shocked me that when I queried for "most common amenities" in a medium sized US city, I got:

1: parkings

2: places of worship

Well above any educational facility.
Chemical weapons are banned because they kill indiscriminately, and it causes undue suffering compared to conventional weapons, not because you can mass produce them. Drones wouldn't have either of those issues.
That's the one! Yeah, the timestamps are right, that's when I remember seeing it.

Thank you for finding it.
Pass-by-reference is distinct from passing a pointer by value. In my old comment [0] I gave example code fragments in C# to illustrate the difference. (C# supports both pass-by-value and pass-by-reference. It's like C++ in that regard, although the syntax is different.)

> I'm reluctant to bikeshed

This is the kind of topic where precise phrasing is important, so I wouldn't chalk it up as pedantry. It doesn't help that Java muddied the waters with its use of the word reference.

[0] Here's the link again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553574
The people who need to internalize that lesson will not generally be impacted enough.

This is likely to result in growing unrest among the people who are both impacted and increasingly done with that kind of leadership.
There have been programs which did this before google became so popular. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the software, but it would query several search engines and show the results below each other. I remember it had some colors indicating the progress next to it - like green, when it found something on that engine. That was the time when there was also Software to find the cheapest provider for dialing in over modem line at a particular time of the day - because it was expensive and each minute counted.
This is a poor article. The main evidence for “Americans can’t build stuff good” is the NYC subway cars ordered in 1970.

Even the most “America First” of Americans will readily agree that manufacturing in the 1970s was horrible compared to present times.

If you actually click on the provided link and scroll down to where it talks about those train cars, you’ll see that the first problem came from running an extended-distance speed test where the average speed over the entire distance exceeded the maximum speed in the design of the train cars. You can’t seriously say that burning out the electric motors as a result of this is a manufacturing deficiency.

Then there is this quote:
> When the R-44s initially entered service, failure rates increased tremendously because of a combination of new technology and inadequate training.

You can probably attribute some of the “new technology” part to manufacturing problems. How much? Who knows? But if your subway system is poorly run and has inadequate training, the best subway cars built in the best factory in the world isn’t going to save you.
I don't know about other people in general, but this does not apply to me, I would rather like to know how things work, because if you know you might actually be able to hack things and this seems much more interesting than making unsubstantiated claims or having unsubstantiated hopes about things you do not understand.
DDG relies on Microsoft for both search results and hosting as far as I can tell. The site itself is served from Azure endpoints.
Mysterious methane-eating microbes in the sea are ‘helping to keep Earth cool’
Nasty Linux systemd root level security bug revealed and patched
That is probably true, but do you have any proposal how such a trial should be done?

RCTs are good when they can be done and I'm all for doing more of them and too often there's no good excuse for not doing them. But at some level things just get impractical.
Linearizability versus Serializability (2014)
There is an argument that Assange wants an an indoctrinated American public too, just in a different direction. The prime example is how he repeatedly implied that Seth Rich was the source for the DNC leaks despite knowing that wasn't true because Wikileaks was still in contact with their source after Seth Rich was already dead. That act shows that Assange's goal isn't to reveal truth or corruption. His goal is to seek specific political ends and the missions of truth-seeking and anti-corruption are just an act to help achieve those ends.
TED isn’t necessarily much better. Plenty of talks are based on low-quality psychology research that doesn’t replicate (e.g. power poses).

TED should be viewed as high-quality feel-good, inspirational YouTube videos, not an educational resource.
Swarm bots would also be useless against tanks or carriers. Too small to carry enough explosives to do much. As the drone becomes big enough to do more it approaches the size of a missile, which we already have.
Just an update on this—we've some changes in flight. Accessing sensitive verification results like date of birth, extracted document numbers, or collected images will soon require the use of restricted API keys. (More at https://stripe.com/docs/identity/verification-sessions#resul....) Thanks again for your feedback. I'll shoot you an email to chat more too.
Advertising is mental pollution.

I dated a woman who experienced trauma in the past and she would routinely get horror movie trailers in YouTube. Even I found them disturbing. Neither of us had any interest in getting intrusive thoughts from watching assault and body horror. Putting in uBlock Origin did wonders for her well being.
The point isn't that you can write programs in RASP. It's that you can use RASP as a tool to reason about what tasks Transformers will be good and bad at and how their architecture influences that.
Yeah, Blink was the first and last of his books I read. Nice anecdotes but it struck me as nothing more than saying "Your gut feeling is right, except when it's wrong"
But time has come. Enough for chinese poachers to fish the oceans dry.
Carlin actually had Gladwell on recently to talk about the book. He wasn't anywhere close to as critical as this review, however.

https://pca.st/5rvqo9kz
So, what percentage of ddg's results for queries come from bing? like a ballpark estimate. Is it like 10%? 50%? 80%? Because in your answer you still carefully avoid giving any actual numbers.

I still say (by looking at the results for random queries) that ddg is is mostly bing, do you have any actual data to refute this?
I guess that's technically true. No other country's laws can restrict the kinds of laws the US Congress can make.
No skill can turn $7.25 into a living wage.
Oh right now there is no shortage of needs, thanks to AI applications mostly, but I could see homomorphic encryption as the next moat that datacenters propose.
Ask HN: Working on a side project for AWS, can domain have “AWS” included?
Ask HN: Currently working on a side project for AWS, the product's domain name has the word "aws" included. Will I get any legal issue from Amazon? Is it advisable to have the word "AWS"? Please advise
Any guesses which "major fitness brand" this is?
At the company was a range of people, everyone gets older I know... Also an old relative of a coworker died unexpectedly

At the time I remember thinking it could be something from the office AC unit, dirty filters etc...

It might not have been Covid, maybe something unidentified, but definitely something abnormal
This is one of the fundamental issues I take with arguments of free trade and how it's best because "different countries focus on what they're best at". That all sounds good if you don't turn on too many brain cells, but there are certain things we do less efficiently on purpose because we hold certain values as more important.
You could accidentally throw your last throwable object which zeros out you velocity, leaving you hopelessly stuck.
This always seems to get buried when talking about Assange on HN. The guy was pretty clearly biased in the reports he would send out and they _just so happened_ to harm Hilary Clinton during the 2016 election, in spite of the fact that Republican email servers were also compromised.

If he really had an interest in transparency he'd release the Republican emails. But he didn't. So I can only assume the guy is a propagandist designed to sow chaos.
Your prediction of it being called Apple Undercover is significantly more 80’s though. And I like it.

So much so that I would accept Apple using something other than Helvetica this one time for a Miami Vice typeface and a Michael Knight and Kitt intro at WWDC.

I cannot stress enough that Hasselhoff needs to stay in character the entire time or the whole concept doesn’t work.
"As an Autobot, should I buy life insurance or car insurance?"
> Publishers (and retailers, and anyone with a dataset) seek out adtech partner companies, to justify high CPMs and to sell their audience data. Adtech companies are market-makers, it's been years since the data they can get independently of supply-side partners was worth shit.

You're correct, for large publishers ... I guess we could almost say they are adtech companies now.
That's on par for Tether, which has 13 employees managing ~$65B in funds, meaning everybody including the janitor manages a portfolio of $5B. The poor schmucks at Goldman Sachs can only manage around $18M per person.
Wikileaks fanned the flames around pizzagate. Don't put your hopes for an informed public in that organization.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik...
Steps to Being a Positive Thinker
I don't see this as a fair point when the option is disabled by default, like in this case. If you enabled it, then you should be aware of the risks of it, if you connect it to untrusted networks.
Name one document wikileaks published that was shown to be false or retracted.

Then, compare that to the track record of the organizations you compared to. Wikileaks has incredibly high standards.
Yang was treated terribly because he's an outsider and not part of the establishment. See also Bernie, Trump, Tulsi. The GOP, DNC and corporate media were all against them during the primaries.
The reason this doesn’t work as well as you’d hope is that there are confounders that make it difficult to apply Norway’s experiences to the US. The design of using a “natural experiment” where a localized change lets you measure before/after at a discontinuity is a good way of solving this. That’s what this paper looked at to test their model.
SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity
The site could provide an opaque ID for user. Also, anti-tracking on the part of the EU could be enforced by law.
They're accepted terms in computer science. They're not specific to any programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy
Ah, found it (I used a much earlier version of it):

https://copernic-2001-basic.informer.com/5.0/
I'm trying to create a more balanced view. Andreessen made a claim that is completely false.

> Moderna, a product of the American venture capital system -- Andreessen

Where is he talking about the importance of government grants?
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>In one move, Apple has taken onion routing from a specialized tool for hackers to something that will be in daily use on billions of devices.

Sounds like praise to me.
>DDG uses Google's and other search engines' data. DDG does not do their own crawling.

>Please do a quick search here on HN and read up on all the previous conversations about privacy and security implications of that before selling the narrative that DDG is somehow more awesome than more established search engines.

I'm not sure I understand your argument. What are the privacy and security implications? If you submit a query and DDG turns around and gathers the results elsewhere, those other sources would have no idea it was you submitting the query; all they see is a request from DDG. Sounds like a better deal than directly exposing yourself to the sources you mention.
> Once you've knocked out all the enemy drones, they'll surrender because humans can't fight drones.

Or will lead to blending in with civilians, more advanced camouflage, or “hugging the enemy” tactics (staying close enough that they risk harming their own people). Or more terrorism rather than open warfare.

It might be that with these killer drones, we will look back on WW2 style armies in the field as equivalent to 18th century musketeers lining up and firing volleys at each other in bright colored shirts.
> what you're saying boils down to "it's already paid for, but nobody else can have it anyway"

This is already paid for but the next show isn’t.

If the BBC were sold to the public as a soft dollar expenditure, it would be one thing. But it wasn’t. I’m not sure it could be in today’s Britain. Ignoring the freeloader problem threatens the support on which the BBC’s funding depends.

This is a debate with reasonable arguments on both sides.
You still can in some places if I recall correctly. Notably not in US due to licensing disagreements (of course).
iClouds lack of encryption basically invalidates all other promises they make.
Definitely agree. It comes across sort of “cocky” as well as if their only goal was to become Billionaire and they failed at that goal.

The goal should be to build a great product, company and reputation. If that makes you a billionaire, that’s fine. Most likely you will achieve this goal but not the billionaire status.
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The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
Well you're right, retail banks and central banks do operate fractional reserves. The problem is that Tether/Bitfinex claim every single Tether is backed by a dollar but they are lying. If they want to operate a fractional reserve, why not register as a bank legally?
I personally would rather my tax money be spent in the country, even if it costs more. As a matter of fact I would take it a step farther and say that all Government purchases must be completely sourced in country. All the way down to the semiconductors in their smart phones. We're a large country, with a ton of resources and people, we should not be dependent on anyone else. At least not for anything the governments are doing.
The Guardian seem very lost: chasing the same slice of advertising pie as DM/Telegraph.

Channel 4 news are a small team with a heck of a punch - but there is not a lot of daily output.
Median is 55ms, though it can probably be improved as we haven't spent any time optimizing this...
Year, $3.8B later: How 2020’s race reckoning shook up Big Tech
>And yet, after years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain—besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.

I quoted the opening line of the article. I think the author clearly includes Bitcoin millionaires, and NFTs, as "currency speculation."

Inventory and logistics tracking is, as you say, not widely used enough to count. It certainly doesn't seem like it's been seriously adopted outside of pilot programs, or financial transaction/speculation.

Blockchain is older than Kubernetes. Tonnes of large corporations successfully use kubernetes in production; basically no-one uses blockchain outside of smaller programs.

I have seen it used successfully in some cases (indigenous elections), but you have to admit it still seems like a nascent industry trying to get it's footing outside of the fields the author specified.