skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had (have?) the same problem in my University. Our problem is that we have like 40.000 new students each year, so a simple "This is your new virtual campus. Please confirm your account and update your password." will raise a lot of red flags.

The main problem is that the emails don't bounce, nor go to the spam folder. They just disappear in the air.

If the other person had send an email to you, then the messages usually are delivered. So in our case it's not so bad for old connections.
This is a feeling you have in time of fat cows, where food is everywhere and you probably should eat a bit less even.

In times or places where this abundance is not as shockingly unnatural, the feeling of the food we consume takes less importance. And, as others said, it's not just animal. Killing a plant, often in way more atrocious manners, is just as bad.

We'll probably have to murder and massacre our food for a bit longer. Live with it and work on synthetic food, this will resolve the problem you have with life-sourced food. Well except we'll probably still have to kill millions of animal and plants for population control. Heh.

You know we also kill, without asking their opinion or respecting them much, other more exotic life-forms, like virii or bacterias, that are as innocent as the rabbit you had in your last civet. All they did was follow their instincts, and they didn't have a choice contaminating you; but you had a choice killing them.
Which would seem to speak directly against the idea that Google aren't allowed to police the medical advice being given on their platform. After all, they're not marketing themselves as a safe source of medical advice, so there should naturally be no standards preventing them from controlling what's being displayed.
Hate is an incredibly appropriate description for someone who mocks people like me while simultaneously advocating for changes in public policy.

If there's anything to be learned from critical race theory it's that structures matter much more than interpersonal relationships.
I see this comment every year, for 15+ years that I’m active in the community, and yet I don’t see the promised hoards of Linux fanboys rioting on the streets wanting to burn down Redmond and 1 Infinite Loop.

Oh right, Linux on Desktop lost. Stop trying to make Linux on Desktop a thing.
Notably Ubuntu offers zsync downloads which is particularly useful when following daily development images, since only small deltas that changed from earlier images are downloaded.

There’s also a version of zsync somewhere that uses libcurl and allows sending custom headers which allows for example sending cookies to enable zsync to handle images on servers requiring custom authentication.
I could definitely see certain people going home from a party and looking up whether so-and-so’s bag was real. I don’t think it’s going to take off but that part seems plausible.
Honestly I've been to offices at Amazon in India, and this was not my impression. I would slack Indian coworkers and not hear back for ages even during normal working hours.

At the end of the day the reality at Amazon is that your manager dictates your experience. If you join a bad team you will have a miserable time. The best work experiences of my life were also at AWS.
>> Many retail investors don’t really care about whether GME’s price is justified by their corporate earnings - they simply buy at any cost.

In all fairness, most people that invest portions of every paycheck into 401k index funds are the same way. There is a significant amount of money flowing into the market everyday that is ignorant of valuation.
I’d be curious to know how much you drink.

I also have what I consider to be an alcohol dependency. In much the same way - practically identical in fact - to my caffeine dependency. I can skip the 2 glasses of wine and finger of scotch in the evening without much trouble , but, like skipping my morning coffee, the evening is less enjoyable
What’s there to explain. She acquired billions of dollars because of a thoroughly corrupt and inept legal system and she clearly cares what others think of her.
I would agree to err on the side of caution, but the fact of the matter is we really don't know how different the qualia of other animals are from that of humans.
Interesting thought, but once we find Aliens, then we ourselves also become Aliens...too the other species.

Indeed if you look up the definition in dictionaries for the word "Alien" you get definitions all routed in `fear of the unknown`. For example Colins: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/alien

Makes you wonder how things can be interpreted and some extraterrestrial species did discover us, would they have the same fear of the unknown definition.
I bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 (2011)
Thinking the current trans rights movement is toxic is a form of hate. The anti-trans movement today is what's actually toxic.
Everyone here is so cynical. She has the money. She's giving it away. Who cares why?
>Like a lot of white males, I read Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged when I was 18.

>Rand’s simplistic Objectivist worldview couldn’t be better designed to appeal to sheltered middle-and-upper-class suburban white boys like me

>As soon as I befriended people who were not suburban white dudes, and once I understood that they had to work five times as hard to enjoy half of the privilege that I enjoyed, I realized that Rand was singing a heroic ode to the comfortable.

Stop posting racism that's wrapped up as self-flagellation. It's getting tiresome.
Is it really a trick? Crypto is overwhelmingly about narratives. Currently adoption only matters as a way to market the token.

Imagine that ethereum wins, and the global economy runs mostly on rollups on eth2 shards. How much is that worth on a PE basis? Let's assume $100M in daily fees. At PE of 20 that gives a nice valuation of $730B - or about $6300 per eth. Maybe 60x - premium for being the only big yield asset that doesn't rely on law to enforce property rights (ie. eth replaces offshore banking). This means eth is already priced for success.

The alternative is worse for everyone in crypto, because if the long-term future is multi-chain (ie. pushed out usecases don't go back to ethereum once it's scalable enough, and activity spreads everywhere looking for low fees) then the whole space has almost no ability to extract rent. That would mean the stable fee level is some small margin over actual running costs. Which means total crypto market cap <$10B.

Bitcoin, of course, has no fundamental value at all - all it does is make btc buyers poorer because of mining, as a group. Yet it's still the largest crypto. Why? Because it's all about narratives to make people buy the token, thinking they are going to sell it higher to other people that buy for the same reason.

Back to matic - what this means in practice is if the project successfully markets itself as a 'small helper' to ethereum, it's going to be valued like that.

Eventually, the narrative premium is likely to disappear, and I think at that point either ethereum is valued at 1T-2T in today's dollars, or crypto as a whole collapses >100x. The latter would completely destroy PoW security and make PoS questionable. Is a chain safe if coordinating validators can make 10x by stealing pegged funds even at the cost of destroying their stake? Simple game theory says no, but in practice it may work because stealing is illegal and most validators aren't anonymous - ie. de facto law-based consensus.
> Your first two paragraphs aren’t an appropriate response.

Er... why not? They seem fairly reasonable to me.
“ If you're someone who likes your 7 hours of sleep a day, stay away.” how do people function long-term with so little sleep? I need at least 9 hours to not be a useless husk the next day.
I think the message of They Live; is that our rulers complete lack of empathy for ordinary people means they might as well be aliens.

I'm more interested in what the movie tells me than in the message the author was trying to convey. If you look at it from the rulers perspective, it will depende on whichever the rulers are. I prefer to look from the perspective of the individual and how propaganda and the need to conform affects my ideas, conscience and behaviour.
The prosecution should take the amateur's opinion to a certified expert to (1) meet the legal requirements for an expert witness, and (2) verify the amateur is correct. Trial lawyers do this kind of thing all the time with experts. Even if the lawyer understands and can explain the problem, in the US at least, he cannot himself give testimony. He needs to present it through a witness.
India’s Vaccine Makers Are Pandemic Profiteers, Not Humanitarians
Just to be clear the goal of IRL gossip is to keep it from circulating to specific targets, which the gossip is about. Singlr targets are much easier to exploit.

Just in case anyone was wondering..
This shows how difficult it is to regulate companies when they grow big enough.
Well that was delightful!
We use Slack but strive to be responsible about it. We've worked upstream to write better issues using issue templates, leverage conversations on GitLab comments to these issues, Wiki, etc. We put a lot of effort to let people focus. I even told the team it's better to disable notifications, and told them explicitly I don't expect and answer right away, and that if I do or they do, that would be the exception rather than the rule. When these exceptions occur, we treat the incident, and then dig to find the root cause that made it necessary to tap on someone's shoulder, and then we fix those to avoid that in the future. Writing better docs, adding sections to issue templates, recovery mechanisms, code, etc. This is valid for everything, even payroll or taxes where someone had to call me to fix something and we instaured things not to have that emergency come again.

We do everything possible to safeguard people's focus. Then when we do calls, we have a collaborative notebook (right in the platform we're building) we can live edit where we put the agenda beforehand. People add things they want to talk about.

During the call, we can add points and remarks, answer the questions, and write proof of concept code right into that executable notebook.

We're at a point where people look forward to calls. It's a balance.

No productivity tool matters if people don't let other people produce something in the first place.
Say I’m offering a contract to pay you $100 every month for as long as I'm alive.

Would you buy that for $1? What about $1M? Something price in-between? Does the price change if it’s Bill Gates offering? What if it's the US government? Does it change based on your life expectancy, the tax treatment of that $100, expected inflation rates, if a bunch of investors want to buy this contract, or if the payment is “maybe $100, but sometimes more or sometimes less, within a reasonable range”?

There is a calculable and narrow band for the fundamental price of this contract, and it’s intrinsically based on two things: how much I promise to pay back (~return) and how believable it is (~risk).

"Corporate earnings" are equivalent to this monthly payment, just the payments take the shape of dividends, or share buy-backs, or reinvestment which promise even greater corporate earnings.
A little too quick with that.
JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot who has very recently retweeted Maya Forstater, someone who describes pronouns as being akin to rohypnol.
In my opinion, a large portion of the benefit I get from iOS is due to the fact it’s a secure, locked down platform. If there were a way to run unsigned code on iOS, people would build exploits around it and malicious apps would just tell you to enable whatever “advanced mode” or be able to install a bootloader that transparently loads the OS but with a malware layer between the bootloader and the kernel. By disallowing unsigned code, these less-technical exploits become impossible, which also limits the blast radius of any exploits that are found.

If I want general purpose computing, I have other devices that allow more freedom (like a laptop or cloud server). I don’t need to be able to do everything with one device.
"An archivist browser controller that caches everything you browse, a library server with full text search to serve your archive."

Ah, wow, that's a very cool way to build up the content.
I think you're completely wrong. If there was no opensource, we would have an ActiveX internet with Silverlight and DCOM+ and still struggling between different software renderers in a world without Chromium. I mean that the open source has opened up what the software world is and what it can be. Every opensource software enables (keyword) the paid software world to cooperate. All these jobs you see are there because there is Linux, Angular, Javascript, Python, Go and all their opensource library companions. Also Microsoft understood that, it's time you also do.
This reminds me that everyone should read Consider The Lobster by DFW. [1] It's such a straightforward, yet well written think piece about this exact subject.

[1]: http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
Apparently he created a $10B charitable organization to fight climate change last year.
The really crazy part is how those sharks are toxic until they’ve fermented.

There’s definitely a story of desperate starvation in there somewhere.
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4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity
People have very different metabolisms and lifestyles. I know people who need less than 5h per night and are completely healthy. I myself feel like shit if I wake up before 9am.
I wonder how many of the people defending or downsizing Nina Paley's position have seen the offending content - irrespective of how you feel about trans issues, representing trans women as such offensive caricatures (as violent club-wielding male genetalia) seems like sufficient grounds to label someone as hating trans-people.

Imagine if someone had drawn similarly offensive caricatures of black people or any other minority? Would you hesitate to claim that they were racist and hated the targeted minority?

I admire Nina Paley for her advocacy of free culture (both public domain artwork and free software), but it is somewhat saddening to her take such a hateful stance.
But it hasn't been done by you, in that language, right? Yoy are doing it mainly for learning.

Also, you will find you end up with a somewhat different feature set, get to fix what annoys you.
Just get California to pass it and resistance becomes untenable.
And yet all the wealthy people fleeing the cities to the idyllic countryside taking over small towns and building their own little versions of Galt’s Gulch…

And what to say of government here? The best reforming group out of this entire pandemic was private industry developing lifesaving vaccines while governments around the world took action ranging from pretending the virus doesn’t exist to outright denial that such a thing could even happen. And let’s not forget it was government researchers and labs that almost surely were working on gain of function research and accidentally let the virus escape.

So no. I’m not buying this one-sided argument. Governments around the word failed miserably at their jobs while corporations and supply chains did miraculously well. Donald Trump didn’t put food on my table. The CEOs of major corporations and front-line workers did. Ayn Rand is certainly worth of critique and there are a lot of things to say about Objectivism (which I do think is funny how up in arms people get over this silly book), but the arguments and discussion put forth in this article were quite poor, in my opinion.

> How would Galt’s Gulch have responded last year when COVID-19 arrived?

Idk. Seemed like all the small towns that all the wealthy software engineers and remote workers fled to did alright.
Is it ironic that Amazon uses leetcode for their programming screeners?
Possibly, but this could also be the day that animals we now eat are considered useless to us and so not worth caring about. They could be driven to extinction if we decide to use the land for other purposes, such as building huge labs to produce the meat. So we'll need to think about keeping areas available for animals. And enough people will need to care.
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What does Amazon need thousands of engineers for, exactly?

Amazon.com is a fine website. It is finished. It is complete, perfect as it is. The website could remain the exact same for the next ten decades, with minor adjustments to the product menus to reflect new products, and it would serve its purpose perfectly without risking being dethroned by competitors.

Why do millions of lines of code need to be written each month? It certainly isn't reflected in my browsing experience.

The British cracked the German naval codes with no more mathematicians than can sit at a table. But Amazon needs thousands of engineers to run an e-commerce website (and its concurrent AWS, which could be run by less than 50 engineers)?

(Not a software engineer or someone who's ever worked for $AMZN)

Edit: Woosh, way too many people failed to understand that this post was mostly sarcasm. Cunningham's Law in action.
Alternatively, there is an argument to be made that these quotes are antiracist in the context of present society (in the US, although not exclusively).
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I don't necessarily think cloud run nodes are worse per se, I just think the crowding that happens when people run on a few big (aws, google, ovh, hostgator, etc) cloud providers is bad for decentralization and makes it easier for well resourced actors to easily compromise the network if they can compromise the big providers (legally à la 5eyes, and/or technically with server/node vulns) and modify the chain state of nodes with enough stake to make the modifications pass consensus (and potentially make non compromised nodes byzantine, unless they update to compromised nodes states).

I think part of this tradeoff has been made because for a couple years with no real competitors to the evm (probably because from early on, most people seemed not to care for smart contracts, so the jury was very much out on it for some, compared to just forking btc) combined with peoples acceptance of pooling with PoW systems, most have become resigned and decided that the capabilities needed to run a node for a evm compatible chain will need to be delegated to the cloud providers (and even though newer consensus algos are out, people might still make this tradeoff to deal with the not quite answered state space issues being worked out/researched now).
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Aliens are like angels and demons in 12 century Europe- they're everywhere but you'll never see them.
They would purchase inflation proof assets e.g. property.
Then increase the rent every year in line with inflation.
I think the algorithm might have trouble with negation, questions, irony, jokes, etc. My top matches seemed inclined to comment on similar topics but with different opinions. Granted, my matches topped out at 0.972, so maybe I'm an outlier.
Most of your daily interactions are not for profit. But did you eat during any of these interactions? Then you participated in the capitalist society, unless you grew and cooked the food yourself. Did you use a phone to coordinate with others? Again you participated. It is difficult to not participate,I understand that, so singling out medical care is a weird stance to take.

I live in the UK, medicine here is not a for profit industry. Does that mean having a vaccination in the UK is ok but in the US it is not? The NHS buys it from a for profit company, does that make a difference? What about aspirin/Tylenol/ibuprofen? Do anti-vaxxers avoid the use of all medicines or is it something specific about injecting a vaccine that has been made by a for profit entity that is the issue?

People are irrational, I get it, and people are free to be irrational, that is their choice. But I am also free to call out that irrationality if I want to.
I agree. These hit pieces are low quality click bait pretending to pass as intellectual insight. They’re not.
HN was initially build around the readers of the blog of pg http://www.paulgraham.com/

SO was build around the readers of Joel Spolsky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ and Coding Horror https://blog.codinghorror.com/

So the first part is to build a successful blog.

The second part is to have good moderation. A lot of moderation, and sensible moderation. It's a very difficult tradeoff.

The third part is luck. Never underestimate luck and survivor bias. But luck alone is not very useful without the previous parts.
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> we believe that teams with experience on the front lines of challenges will know best how to put the money to good use, we encouraged them to spend it however they choose

I think this is the key to a lot of good charity work today. We need to stop saying "I'm giving you this money so you can do the thing I think will help" and instead give money to the people who know what will help because they've dedicated their lives to trying to help.

It's about trusting that someone else knows more than you do, which seems to be more and more difficult in a world where the very basic facts about anything are available to anyone instantly.
I'm not sure if the Lindy Hop is what TFA has in mind, but I've never seen couples so happy as those who do this dancing on a regular basis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmvKrPUo97E
”Between all the Zoom meetings, emails, slack messages, and jira updates, I was finally able to write 5 lines of code.”
Global chip sales expected to rise 20% in 2021 amid supply bottleneck
I think that the (engineering and computing) technology version of the concept may be best exemplified by unix and Fortran/C/C++. At least in my field, Numerical Analysis of PDE, we encounter computationally heavy problems daily, and for decades numerical analysts have been coding on unix/linux in those languages. I recently discovered code that my own grandfather used for solving thin shell problems, which are studied by some civil engineers. It was written in Fortran, but he used punched cards (1974).
I started today with 4.5 hours of sleep and I’ll do just great with that. Once a week my body grabs 10-14 hours in a single night to “catch up”.
maybe there is already an internal search engine app that does the indexing of the local contents of the drive, to provide a quick search interface on the topic - with links to the actual material?

Also, based on trends, would'nt most of the populated world (even 3rd world) be covered by internet in the next decade? The prices may not come down enough to serve the needs of the population?
I got a bunch of empty accounts and one startup launch post. Not sure how that qualifies as a doppelgänger
Most Amazon engineers do not work on the amazon.com front end.
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