skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ This user does not exist or does not have any activity.”

:(

Edit: looks like it’s case sensitive, be warned people on mobile phones.

Edit2: the person I matched with the most seems a bit aggressive in their comments. I guess I can learn something from this.
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Yeah, I think I saw this movie. Snowpiercer.
Ask HN: Approches to line-of-business apps that don't SUCK
Dear HN,

Is there any good way to build line-of-business applications in 2021? My impression so far:

- Drag 'n' drop app builders (Zoho, Salesforce, MS Powerapps, etc) - inefficient, can't reuse technical skills, no version control/testing

- Write from scratch - slow, snowflakey, error-prone, time-consuming/expensive, reinventing the wheel most of the time

There seems to be precious little in between. What's your preferred approach?
Yes obviously.

Let’s say Bob and Sue make up their own society. Both make 100k each and agree to a tax rate of 50% to build roads they will both benefit from.

However Bob gets a 30k tax exemption because his name begins with “B”. Therefore the tax burden on Sue is greater and she’s subsidizing Bob’s road usage (and potentially having crappier roads).

There are legitimate reasons for tax exemptions, but as tax payers we should always be critical of them.

So does a business dropping the ball on security mean everyone else who pays taxes should subsidize their screw up? Maybe… but it seems like a stretch to me and worthy of criticism.
Just doing my bit for Amazon et al.
Where do you see the "crackpot claims" in this situation? He/she just stated that "inclusive discussion is being suppressed", showing a recently removed YT video.

For anyone who can't take 30s to look it up: It is a discussion between 3 individuals (2 of them already fully vaccinated with Moderna) regarding the pandemic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XkRq4PaHqo
But the thing is that getting vaccinated isn't just a matter of individual safety. It's a way to minimize the spread throughout the whole of society. Even if the death rate would be only 1%, it's a whole lot of unnecessary death when dealing with a large population. Not to mention all the non-lethal yet life altering conditions that may follow full blown COVID.

Regarding your naturalistic argument, I doubt that you have the same outlook when it comes to other aspects of life. There is no shortage of natural causes of death that we try to avoid in our everyday lives. Unless you are proposing that we use COVID as an opportunity to literally and explicitly cull the human population, I don't think that reasoning holds water.
My schedule is not intense as yours but I do have a 2 year old, who keeps me busy after work. I prepared for couple of hours every night after he went to bed for about 3 months, mostly doing problems on Leetcode. I ended up getting to the onsite rounds to three FAANGs and one offer. I also did some mock interview with help of a friend which helped.
Until you lose most of your money in a bubble, you don't really get bubbles - they seem like something that only happens to other dumb people, not to you.

The most obvious, recent, and one of the biggest being the subprime housing bubble in the US.

Everyone who wasn't buying a house looked like a moron for 3 years as prices were going up >10% per year (on 33:1 leverage, if not near infinite leverage - a lot of these were no money down).

The average family was making more money in appreciation on their house than working their jobs.

Isaac Newton was not exactly a moron, and he lost all his money TWICE in the South Sea Bubble: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.001...

> This paper shows that Newton did not just taste of the Bubble's madness, but drank deeply of it. His losses, even by conservative accounting, almost surely exceeded £10 000, and plausible methods easily produce values that exceed the £20 000 figure that family lore claimed, and which is frequently cited today. By comparison with typical earnings, and making allowances for a very different society and economy, £20 000 in 1720 might be comparable to £20 million, $20 million, or euro 20 million today.9 However, before the Bubble, in the 1710s, Newton's investments appear to have been those of a careful and shrewd person, and to have been very successful. Newton died rich, with an estate valued at about £30 000, but that is primarily because he was already rich on the eve of the Bubble.
How will this perform in rain and snow? What about operating temperatures? No mention of carrying capacity limits on this article or Unitree's website. How well does it handle variable terrain (ie, hiking)?

I can't see myself buying a $2700 piece of tech that can only be used in ideal conditions. Seems like a novelty item at this point.
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The article says that the Edu version has a capacity of 5kg which is an upgrade of 2kg. This would imply a load-carrying capacity of 3kg for the base model. Not a lot, but not totally insignificant.
Reductio ad absurdum. It's a tactless demonstration that one shouldn't view animals as moral paragons.
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“Fundamental analysis” is not merely a narrative, though. For example for a mature company, there is an underlying economic reality about the time frame you can expect to earn back your initial investment in dividends, and the subsequent ROI.
Right, and even five nines would be impressive compared to:

AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that each individual Amazon EC2 instance (“Single EC2 Instance”) has an Hourly Uptime Percentage of at least 90% of the time in which that Single EC2 Instance is deployed during each clock hour (the “Hourly Commitment”). In the event any Single EC2 Instance does not meet the Hourly Commitment, you will not be charged for that instance hour of Single EC2 Instance usage.

This essentially forces the use of distributed computing for even small businesses.
If you shop ~pre-2014 or so models you should not have this terrible problem. I would do as much research as I could and get something older just to avoid such things. In my household both cars are older than that and my (independent) mechanic can do anything we require. Granted, that is today, and in the likely future we may not be so lucky so enjoy it while it lasts!
This went from "weird, defensive throwaway" to "possible Amazon HR agent" in 5 seconds.

I think asking for the name of someone's former manager on a public forum without giving any details in return is pretty suspect.

For those who aren't already aware, Amazon has a history of covertly paying its employees to "represent" the company in social media:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26636021
Coasting is boring.
Apparently no where. In all of those pictures, there isnt a single paved road. Perhaps some are there but not pictured, but it appears that many if not all of the houses were built using dirt roads only. Putting down roads is neither expensive nor difficult so its baffling that there aren't any.

edit: Yep, no paved roads in the development: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Burj+Al+Babas+Villa/@40.44...
Reminds me of that classic parable about the CEO and the worker who just made a $100,000 error. The worker says, "I assume you'll be firing me now" and the CEO says, "Fire you?! I just spent $100,000 training you!"
>their stock, a discounted cash flow model for AMC or GME starts to not become very predictive of share price. By reflexivity, that will have impacts on future cash flows! In a similar fashion, using present-day frameworks for thinkin

This was not the case in the early 2000s.
The most likely alternative, and the one that is least considered, is that short funds do not cover their position at all. Everyone loses.
Damn, that's crazy. I know GitHub commits mean nothing, but this changes the game.
I wish most people be so comfortable in life that they start thinking this bs.
It’s incredibly rare though.
You're right in a way but I think these people are still a tad wrong. It's not that everyone deny there can be side effects, on pregnancy or otherwise. It's that if nobody does the sacrifice, and everybody has his little thing he wants to protect (you want to get pregnant, I want to keep on working, my wife wants to be there for our kid, our parents have diabetes, etc etc) then nobody gets the vaccine.

Get it, whatever it cost you, because it's your duty.
Oh hey it's deepnight - I remember your awesome Ludum Dare games. Thank you for sharing this tool with the gamedev community!
Mostly because they’re extremely expensive to set up.. but even so there are maybe a dozen new ones that have opened in the past 5 years with about that many under discussion to open in the next 5 years. I think the big bottleneck right now is the residency slots, those need Federal funding and they’ve been hesitant.
Oh, but it's not the name what smells like a "intelligence community" front.

It's that if you check the founders they are related to the "intelligence community", and the way the video was "leaked" to the NYT feels kind of funny too. This guy Luís Elizondo (1) is clearly from the "community", what it's not so clear is that he was in charge of investigating UFOs as he is claiming. I don't know, maybe they just want to make money or they are legitimate and just want the truth.

Of course, this is just a "feeling" that I have, so, I'm not claiming is falsifiable or it's the true, for now it's only something to have an eye on that I wanted to share.

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Elizondo
At least many areas have monotony laws in their building codes. The development where I bought my previous house from had accidentally sold two of the same house styles next to each other, so they ended up giving one of the buyers a free elevation upgrade (they had 4 models (floorplans), and 4 trim levels ("elevations") in each floor plan which was basically a simple roof, or adding [fake] dormers or other roof peaks features, and vinyl siding vs partial brick vs stone facing, etc). Add in different siding or brick colors and you could have a large variety with a minimal set of basic house plans.
I think the weakness of this technique is in the normalization of the vectors. The close match comments don't look like mine because the content of my comments has to be massively compressed. The close matches appear to have been massively expanded.

Or to put it another way [1], cosign similarity is not enough here. Magnitude also matters here.

This is probably a case where traditional information retrieval methods should play some role. The data are not really big enough that a pure cosign similarity is warranted. [3]

[1]: a phrase that my actual Doppelganger must use. [2]

[2]: and also endnotes like these.

[3]: performative erudition is what is absent from all my matches.
Well I'm also glued to screens; but not work screens.
If I think of a work problem I write it down or mail my work email and then forget about it for the rest of the weekend.
As to what to do; sigh,at this rate keep up with my backlog of home tech problems. Occasionally work on something fun and interesting.
Adding an extra 9 billion in trading would be 30% of daily volume, and might push the price down a bit...
But since about 30 billion changes hands every day, you might even get close to that out in real (or "real" for the BTC zealots) money.

Too bad they only traded out 684BTC. Hope they held.
You'd be surprised how many fellow humans are ready to throw you under a bus. So be careful with statements like that, it won't end in your favor.
> At least if we accepted poverty in the USA in exchange for bringing industry back home, those workers would be poor but work in a safe environment.

Nobody's stopping anyone from opening up a factory that pays people $7/hour in the US.

Since bringing industry back home is so important, are you ready to go work in it for those kinds of wages?

It's easy to demand that other people accept poverty. It's hard to explain why market actors would be willing to work for low wages in a high-COL country.
I'm searching for a job right now as a junior backend engineer with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and 2yoe in that field. I have absolutely no leverage and there are very few positions available for juniors in the market. It's obvious why more experienced engineers have leverage--the entire industry has a massive pipeline problem in that it fails to train the juniors that will later satisfy the increasing demand for seniors. The pandemic made this problem worse, not better, as no one feels capable of training juniors over zoom and also no one wants to go into the office. I believe senior engineers will keep seeing their leverage increase for the next 5 years as companies continue to avoid hiring juniors.
you literally just described whataboutism.

'apple follows the law like every other'

you are saying 'but apple isnt the only one, whatabout'

when the companies get to make the laws, they dont also then get to hide behind them as a shield.
It's worth noting that for most papers, arXiv provides the LaTeX source for download, which is presumably what they trained on.
No, that's not for security, that's for multi-channel 3.1 (256/67=3.x). So you can stream a L+C+R+LFE. More bass for your face with that sub.
I’d be OK with that if it was unpreventable. I think there needs to be a burden on the business to show they had some level (TBD) of security practices and policies.

I’d prefer if they had to have insurance so the market can determine how much crappy security would cost them.

We should want to minimize these instances.
Before that we lived in a time where that role was delegated to [famous] people on tv that appeared in ads. Really nothing fundamental changed. It just morphed.
Thats interesting. I wonder what the logic behind this is?

A neat experiment would be randomly issue vanity plates that change the year but look normal and see if there is a difference how long a person keeps the car. If having a plate that makes it appear you have a newer car makes you hang on to it longer.
Not sure that is necessary to judge a commitment to ones ethics
At one point in the 90's the Seattle newspaper estimated that Microsoft had minted 10,000 millionaires, excluding home equity, due to stock options.

I haven't seen statistics, but there are a lot of Amazon mansions around here.

Tech companies are famous for turning low level employees into millionaires.
The Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist (2007)
That is just the fabrication aspect, 5nm is not going to be an advantage for long.
Last week’s 8-K filing revealed GameStop are actively assisting the SEC with an investigation into ongoing manipulation of their share price.

They even disclosed to investors the risk of a further short squeeze on their stock. If they don’t have reason to believe that’s a possibility, it would never have been put on the record in a public filing.
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In terms of food? Yes.
Dominance of Western culture is robbing us of solutions from other cultures
This doesn't make a lot of logical sense to me.

> natural way that keep population in balance

This is essentially a faith based belief, and not something rooted in personal risk as you previously mentioned.

> All these vaccines are keeping more kindling for a bigger fire down humanity's timeline.

Viral infections don't just kill you or you'll be fine. There are expensive (to society) effects of lots of people having diminished physical and cognitive capacity after infection. More over, by not being vaccinated you are imposing extra risk on anyone you contact who is unlucky enough to be in the narrow slice of people who are vaccinated but still susceptible to infection.

I don't see how you can argue from a perspective of unknown vaccine risk and some sort of concept of needing a virus to kill "excess population." That just seems perverse to me.
> There is a "risk" that bill Gates is actually an alien and has been putting microchips into the vaccine.

Do those risks look proportional to you?

> Pretty much all risks are identified within a short period, it's very rare for there to be long term risks

I am not aware of any first principles in immunology that evidence this view. Maybe you do?
Who would possibly want to buy such an esoteric thing?
I don't think it was ridiculous, except perhaps for the name, but non-tech people back then didn't even really know what the Internet was. It probably didn't seem far-fetched, since most (all?) products were basically tangible things that could fit into a box, and it probably bridged the gap.

In that box was a browser and list of dial-up POPs and designed to compete with AOL, which offered AOL's version of the Internet and was peppering the country with free floppies (and later CD-ROM's).

Other than AOL, most people in the country could only do dial-up to gain access to the World Wide Web (it sounds so quaint when you write it out now!).

Juno did this even better -- for free, with ads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Online_Services

Shockingly, they're still doing it today! I had no idea there was a market for free dial-up internet in 2021! That is so cool.

https://www.juno.com/free

A lucky few within a certain distance from their CLEC's CO could get DSL or would spring $800/mo (or a lot more!) for a 1.5Megabit/s T1.

I think it was around the late 90's that Time Warner and a few other cable companies started testing out high-speed cable.

So, to me, the Internet-In-A-Box product was a cool thing that didn't last that long because most people migrated from dial-up to broadband as quickly as they were able. I wonder, though, why it died so quickly while Juno is still around 20-something years later! Freemium is a better business model?
> seem to have hit one of these areas of toxicity yourself

Have you considered that the original poster's experience is actually the norm and that your experience is the one that is the anomaly? I was 1 for 2 in organizations with shitty leadership, and the organization that was run properly had zero open headcount. Everywhere people are hiring into is not one of the "good ones".

Check out the old-fart tool, 85% of the company has been at Amazon for 3 years or less. Do you think that if the normal/average organization/team was a great place to be, that there would be so much attrition?
From a brief skim, you’re irrevocably giving the money away and you still pay taxes on any money you get back from the trust, so I think more explanation is needed. How do you come out ahead, and compared to what?

Is this a way of getting a different tax rate?
From experience, it's not too hard to not work Wednesdays (like some others, I had to burn a lot of PTO because corporate changed the accrual cap), but managing work hours is harder. It's easy to slip and then you're working (or in the office anyway) 8 hour days and paid for 6 hour days.
Unfortunately the vaccine helps only in about 20% of the cases.
From the same base tables. And yes, it is very incompatible with the definition of a microservice and causes plenty of horrible issues.

I didn't say it was good architecture. It's a remnant of when we were a startup in "move fast break things" mode (we have since been acquired) and as an org paying down tech debt has never been a priority so we're left with a lot of bad decisions that we have to live with (to the point where it's a miracle when we actually ship any meaningful features...)
The origins of COVID is not concerned science in your view for what reason? It's a scientific theory. The only proof to the contrary is from biased individuals who in some cases were directly involved in the granting of money for the purposes of extremely controversial gain-of-function research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

So, what's not science about the origin of a virus? Your comment makes zero sense.
The Colorado is a far more complicated discussion to have. Arizona contributes to overuse with the CAP, but it's a bit misleading to frame that discussion without bringing in the wider context of border politics, the all-american canal, and how the CAP water gets used.

As for the NGS, you're aware that it was built after hydro was (rightly) rejected by environmental groups in the 70s and has already been torn down?
There's an xkcd comic where the protag tells someone to make them a sandwich. They respond, "no, make one yourself." The protag then says "sudo make me a sandwich" and they respond "Okay". If you've ever set anything up in unix from the command line, you've run a command only to realize you need to run it as a super user (sudo). The post is scripting that let's you run "make me a sandwich" and "sudo make me a sandwich" in command line, just like the xkcd comic. It's not much of a joke, more of a novelty.
Work is boring.

Coasting means I can spend my best time & effort on stuff that isn't boring. I'm not coasting when it comes to my personal goals and dreams :)
Money laundering is absolutely rampant. When criminal organizations are able to sell billions of dollars worth of highly restricted schedule I drugs in the US, it stands to reason that laundering the proceeds of those sales is a cake walk in comparison. And we know they successfully launder a significant fraction of those billions of dollars worth of criminal proceeds, as otherwise their criminal enterprises wouldn't be sustainable the way they are.

So AML laws result in massive amounts of privacy violation (far more than what TSA rules, which only apply when one boards a plane, impose), in requiring the reporting of a significant fraction of private financial interactions to law enforcement surveillance agencies. And despite this massive sacrifice in government accountability and privacy, these laws are widely circumvented, to the tune of billions of dollars worth of criminal proceeds being laundered each year.

The reason why AML laws are dangerous is that the state itself is a threat vector, and these laws massively increase the power of the state relative to the private citizen. Policy needs to be crafted to minimize all risks, not just those that emanate from malicious non-state actors, like criminals. The risk of tyranny, or structural repression, needs to be addressed too.

Given there are numerous other investigative tools available to law enforcement to stop crime besides warrantless surveillance, I see no justification for such a dangerous law, with such limited evidence of effectiveness, being in place.
> There are over 1 million Black people in Central Europe today. Most Europeans still don’t know of the long history of the Black Diaspora in their countries. As a result, there is a general assumption that Black people are a relatively new presence on the continent and thus are historical and national outsiders. Through historical investigation, Black Central Europe challenges these assumptions.

That's very sneaky phrasing, implying that the 1 million Black people in Central Europe today come from this thousand year old Black Diaspora of undefined size, instead of being recent arrivals.

Population statistics are oddly absent on blackcentraleurope.com, but according to [1], "there are roughly 12.5 million Black people in Europe" and "More than 1,000,000 sub-Saharan Africans had settled in Europe between 2010 and 2017."

At that immigration rate, it would take only 87 years (one lifetime) for all of those 12.5 million to enter Europe (ignoring death and birth-rate). That immigration rate was probably not constant [2], but it's more than enough to say that the vast majority are "a relatively new presence".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Europeans_of_African_anc...

[2] Finding Black population history numbers in Europe is surprisingly difficult, possibly because "many European countries refuse to collect racial data on their citizens": https://qz.com/1236213/europes-black-population-has-increase...
They do ask it, but it doesn’t affect the rates and they don’t have any way of verifying how much I actually drive.
If ARM is getting vastly more efficient then why is the battery life of smartphones not getting vastly-better? Where is the benefit to the end user?
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