skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> was I supposed to think up the skepticism when I discovered the product?

It's always good to be a bit skeptic. But please don't put too much pressure on yourself.

The reason why I see red flags is because I spent a lot of time learning about what makes a good privacy product and created my own framework to evaluate services. But most people don't have the time to do that, and need to trust what they're being told.

In other words, I don't think the problem is your lack of skepticism or technical knowledge about privacy. That's perfectly reasonable and normal.
The problem is that companies blatantly lie, exploit users and do shady businesses, and they get away with it with repugnant impunity. If they were sevely punished and scrutinized when they do shady business of feed lies to people we would have a more trustable ecosystem.

In my ideal world, when a company like Neeva launches with such grandiose statements, they would get analyzed and scrutinized by experts, who will publish findings in a simple English format. If their statements were incorrect, they would be held accountable and punished. For example they would have to remove the 'privacy-oriented' crap from their website and just position themselves as another search engine.
We need a better way to distribute land than the one we use now (=based on money and inheritance).

This is the problem which smart people should be working on, not some prefab home.
Mentee is the correct word in modern usage, but Mentoree would arguably be more "correct" etymologically in that Mentor is a proper noun that has been "verbed" [1], not "one who ments".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_(Odyssey)
This is common across amazon sellers, all major sellers will recycle SKU codes to transfer reviews. Amazon knows about this, it’s everywhere.

They could stop it, but presumably it stops reviews being “lost” which helps support their sales.
Postgres for the database for the start and maybe this does suffice. Maybe think now how you could model a transaction with something like Cassandra.
Only append the data. No updates to transactions. The balance is the sum over all transactions over time. Use something like a double entry bookkeeping system so you don’t make up any money out of thin air.

Keep in mind how to do reconciliation, what is a transaction, how to do idempotency.

For the backend Erlang/BEAM.
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What does climate winner mean even in a local level with temperatures hitting numbers like shown in the article?
Lost Money? Unrecovered Bitcoins
It seems to me that bitcoins will slowly "rot".

It is my experience that anything digital gradually dies. I have lost accounts due to location changes, website changes, lost passwords, etc. I've lost files when machines die.

Bitcoins require you to know the secret key. I suspect that these secret keys will eventually be lost due to hardware, software, and human deaths. That means that a percentage of bitcoins will never be used again. The percentage can only grow over time.
These counter-examples are what "prove the rule". They succeeded despite not playing with their own products. Good for them. But they are noteworthy because they are such outliers.
Thank you. At least I am not alone. I just want to write some code and not waste a week redeploying K8s shit again... send help...
Why would GitHub integrate DocC output? GitHub Pages doesn't have any other integrations, it's just a webspace for static content.
Do you have any citations for the "founders intended to sell it off" part?
MDP is Markov Decision Process, a process that has the Markov property - future state depends only on current state and new inputs, not the history/sequence of states that got you there.
This comment has made me realise that one of the key ideas of the Erlang runtime (over other concurrency implementations) is the link. For those of you not familiar with it, rather than just starting a process independently, you can start a process linked to your current process. If either of you die, the VM kills the other one.

This sounds like a fairly simplistic primitive operation, but what it means is that you can start a whole set of processes that are logically linked together (e.g. because they handle one web request) and if anything happens they all get killed together. This means you get almost the simplicity of error handling of throwing an exception in a single thread of code, but with all the concurrency, parallelism and locality of reference that you get with multiple actors doing the work.
Reminds me of the Stacks in Ready Player One ...

Sure, maybe these are good as temporary accommodations ... maybe a garden shed or home office ... but take the new-home glaze off of them, and add the patina of life, and these will eventually be classified as slum housing.
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Very interesting comment! Any ideas on what are we supposed to do in this world?
I keep on thinking we need to take a step back, come back to evidence and logic and make things right. But deep inside I know that's not going to happen. In the post-evidence world, it's too easy for people without moral to grab power and benefit. That is, it makes it easier for those in power to grab more power. That's why things will remain the same for a while.

Is the solution to simply smile and carry on? Is it time for a (non-violent) revolution?
They share at least one property - you go broke slowly, then very quickly.
I keep meaning to install either Pop_OS or Regolith, as a means of approaching tiled window managers with a ready to go, opinionated by default system. Pop_OS brings their own tiling, with easy enable/disable buttons, and Regolith is based on Ubuntu with i3.

After trying vanilla i3 and Pop_OS before in the past, the inertia of years of using floating windows keeps me going back to known territory (Linux Mint). Also I don't have time to tinker with settings, so I need a well thought out set of defaults.

Guess this is a good place to ask! Have you used Regolith and/or Pop_OS? Comments about how the implementations are in each one? Good/bad experiences with them?
I do and know several people who do too. Although the UI could be improved.
Record everything, voice to text every conversation.
"Zero reason for HK publisher to meet with Pompeo and other US officials."

That is called freedom of association. You want to meet somebody else, go ahead. You do not have to state your reasons to the intelligence service of your country or explain yourself in a court.

"crushing foreign influence"

If all countries other than China do that do you, you will live in a world totally devoid of friends. What is so bad about foreign influence that it must be crushed?
There are several great e2ee features:

- 250GB of free storage
- personal subdomain that serves your public folder
- git (e2ee)
Define “in the open”.

Through lens of (social) media and through our own cognitive biases the idea of anything being done “in the open” seems more like self delusion.
DronaHQ Co-Founder here.

We are consumption based priced. We have prepackaged consumption based plans which are available. Our currency of measuring consumption of our service is 'Task'. Say any API/service call is a task & so is any BPM workflow block used while designing the system. Hope this helps.
>If tomorrow the whole of China became a democracy very little to nothing of their key policies and aims would change

No idea why you would say that. China's policy focus would immediately change. Domestically it can no longer afford to focus solely on middle/upper-class growth due to the need to appease the majority of the population still living on low wages. The transparency of the decision making would also cause a lot of domestic policies to be revisited. Currently these decisions are made with the public in the dark. That would no longer be acceptable in a democracy.

On foreign policy and the geopolitical front, China will almost certainly pursue a reset with their neighbours. Whether this results in closer cooperation with the west, or continued antagonism remains to be seen. The Chinese military isn't in the same position as the USSR back in the 90s, and China will not inherit the position as the superpower heading the communist regimes. In any case, it will translate to real changes in how China deals with border issues and military expansion in the South China Sea.
Presumably because Florida banned trans women in women's sporting events, a position supported by the overwhelming majority of Americans as polled by Gallup? [1]

Are we just going to ignore bone structure, biology, height differences and everything else in the pursuit of not offending people?

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/350174/mixed-views-among-americ...
Note that Erlang OTP 24 (the latest release) includes a JIT for the first time. It only runs on x64 but should significantly improve performance on that platform. For some workloads people are reporting as much as a 40% improvement. I would expect to see some improvement in those benchmarks as a result.

OTP 25 will also include JIT support for ARM64
Interactive Tutorials?
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/docc/building-an-i...

I found that via web search, but I couldn't find a demo anywhere online...
I suppose there’s merit in the complaints from an OSS contributor’s standpoint, but yes, it seems like the current target market is companies with closed-source SDKs.

Which isn’t a bad thing if this is MVP1, and I do expect improvements in the future.
> it doesn't work with any kind of static web hosting which is a shame given that it's all static content anyways.

As far as I can tell, that’s not true. The output is completely static and just requires some very basic URL rewrites.

The Netlify config in the linked blog post (https://josephduffy.co.uk/posts/hosting-docc-archives) illustrates this quite nicely. While Netlify has some Function-as-a-service capabilities DocC uses none of that.
Many products listed in the discussion here. Any of them any good for classical music? The usual metadata of Artist-Album-Song fails very short when trying to index Vivaldis arrangement of Corellis variations on the "La Follia", from the "Baroque Fever" CD with Peter Spissky, Bjarte Eike, Tom Pitt, and Allan Rasmussen. So far I am using a regular file system, with directories full of symlinks for playlists, and a little script to randomize the lists, while keeping parts of the same piece together.
Desktop professor sounds interesting :D
I am pretty sure they use computers with internet on the government agencies. Unless the entire office uses typewriter or write with pen and the encryption being used by mechanical machines(does any mechanical machine exist provides the safety of AES?) your entire point seems void.
The new JIT does improve the computational story a little, but yes it's a little like Python where you use it for orchestration and then offload the work. That said new systems like NX do make the 'offloading' part significantly cleaner for some applications.
"You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?"
The US rarely starts wars with anyone who can hurt it. Even a conventional war with China would be extremely different than anything the US has seen since WW2 and in some ways this would be worse. Do you think the modern US has the stomach for multiple sunken aircraft carriers, WW2 or Korean war style casualties, etc. all the while with the US home front without products it cannot live without? It would completely destroy the US as we know it, with a ruined economy and a many decades setback. Not much of a victory compared to the loss of Taiwan.
You joke about putting everything on the cloud, but it is one of the things that can massively accelerate innovation because you're no longer bound by paperwork to spin up a new server, or bound by server capacity for that matter.
It's good and bad. The bad news is they're evil, but the good news is they're incompetent. That's better than competent evil, but I'd prefer competent good.
> Would it not be better to write code in python that communicates directly with Signal's API?

Only the official builds of the official signal clients are allowed to connect to the signal servers, everything else is considered unauthorized use (under the CFAA) by moxie, Signal’s lead dev.

At least that’s what he said on the bugtracker of the fork "LibreSignal" while forcing them to shut their fork down.
Any chance of a beefy server and use them as terminals?

AliExpress has some cost effective x79 / x99 Dual Xeon Mobo / CPU / RAM combos. System would be Sandy Bridge / Haswell. But 24 cores and 128gb of ram can go a long way and whole system cost would likely be under $2K USD. A few Sata SSDs and you could easily host a classroom on a single box.

Not Cheap if you don't have the money, but likely cheaper then a new laptop fleet.
I guess they'll still fund travel to China though, which does not care about LGBTQIA+ [1] rights. More political theater to keep the obedient masses distracted.

[1] Why does California discriminate against intersexual and asexual people?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LGBTQIA
The Windows 95 ".chm" help pages [1] were basically HTML pages, displayed in an application embedding Internet Explorer. IIRC this lead to login exploits (since the login screen was able to show help pages).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help
Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (.chm) has been the bane of all that is good and true ever since 1997.
It’s still just statically generated HTML pages (+ some client side JavaScript). It only requires a webserver with a minimal amount of configurability for URL rewriting and redirects.
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Your story doesn't actually demonstrate that you have to know Warren Buffet as a child and attend an expensive school to become successful.

I don't think anybody here claims that working hard automatically makes you successful, either, just that it is difficult to become successful without it.

Also your movers could probably afford to work less if they dropped their drug habits.
Cost of electricity subsidy drops to N30 bln from N50 bln ~Power Ministry
Geographical influences do exist, but the exceptions are quite significant.

Britain was once considered a backward periphery of Europe. Japan is so geographically peripheral that it could successfully close itself off the rest of the world for 250 years.

On the other hand, there is no Yemeni/Somali equivalent of Singapore even though a lot of the world traffic must pass around them. Gibraltar is rich, but Spanish Andalusia all around it has pretty stagnant economy oriented on tourism. Panama kinda works, but nowhere near as well as, say, California or Florida.
Did you read the article?

"A copy of the loan contract reviewed by NPR shows that if Montenegro is not able to repay China's state-owned Export-Import Bank on time, the bank then has the right to seize land inside Montenegro"

Do EU contracts contain that sort of language? China knew they would never get paid back on this loan and made specifically to extract political and diplomatic concessions when the inevitable renegotiation happens.

Furthermore China requires Chines state owned companies get the contracts for doing the work, so much of the money the lend out comes straight back to them.
>> Task.start(...)

> I almost never use task, because I like certainty. I've been bitten too badly by people using it who didn't understand it. I don't like having to explain `Enum.each(tasks, &Task.start/1 )` is going to screw up your order of operations to someone who doesn't get it.

I don't understand this. In any language with any concurrency support there's a point where you spin up a bunch of threads to do something. That's a useful capability and developers should understand it. If you don't know Elixir then you need to learn what Task does, but that's true in any language.
> That's your speculation, are we at war now?

A conditional statement is not speculation. Also:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/12/largest-chines...

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210105-taiwan-says-c...

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-military-buildup-atti...

> What fuss about Taiwan? we always declare Taiwan is part of China.

Status quo is that it's not part of China, and hasn't been for well over 100 years. This doesn't hurt China in any way. So why not simply accept that status quo?

> By all means what you're saying is "this man wants war, let's fight him".

I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

> Maybe because you think like that and assumes people are like you.

Quite exactly the opposite.

But I guess you've just arrived at the point where you can't argue your position in good faith anymore.
Feedback: I don't think you are using HN properly, entirely as a promotional tool for your own business. I see you have tried to make "ShowHN" submissions in the past, but incorrectly, without a link. Please read the guidelines about what a ShowHN is. There is no "Hey" category for self-promotion, or for random advertisements. For a submission, either 1. make a web page/blog post about your product and link to that, or 2. submit your product as a ShowHN—something online people can play with/try. HN is a community, not just a place to hawk your wares without ever contributing anything except advertising. Thanks.
Fyi, Ivermectin only works at very high doses. Taking it at safe doses doesn't work at a prophylactic or anything else.

It's overdose or nothing.
"When you don't pay for a service, you are the product"

Never realised they'll read my code to make something like this and maybe even make profit from it.
> We were depending on Geocities, for example. What's the difference?

Here's one: Geocities wasn't buying every Internet-related startup that looked like it had half a chance of becoming a contender.
> it's just a webspace for static content.

that's not true. They do run sites through Jekyll on each commit. It's very possible they could add explicit support for rendering docarchives.
Seems like a good opportunity for someone to setup a https://readthedocs.org like website that works with this new format. Maybe even readthedocs could start working with it.
Its all fun and games until they all want to watch Netflix at 8 pm. Then the individual throughput might go into shit prompting people to cancel cuz they cant even watch Netflix.

For 99 a month i dont think I would get it unless there was no other option.
PG talks about that in other essays, on how you should probably move to the right location. He compares Milano to Florence - it is unlikely people in Milano were less intelligent, but all the famous painters emerged in Florence.

Nevertheless I think your claim about the zip codes is too broad. Most people will have average lives. I suspect even in Silicon Valley only a small fraction of kids grow up to be successful entrepreneurs.
Why restrict oneself to RL though? One could potentially escape Markov curse (no memory) with this one.
Don't Generate Glue...Exterminate!
Looking at memoirs of Central European Jews in the late 1930s, lots of them were unwilling to admit that it won't end with "Jewish only" post office hours. Things like real property weigh you down and lead you to wishful thinking.

We all generally underestimate risks of many types of behavior. For example, sedentary behavior is pretty bad for your health, but how many smart commenters on HN find a reason not to exercise?
The Media Blackout on recent Assange revelations
One thing I have seen in mp3Tag but not in others are the easy and powerful batch-processing features (with preview!), somewhat like a DSL.

Want to rename and move all your files at once? go for it. Want to extract Metadata from the file/foldernames? just do it. There are spaces in those filenames but you want them to be underscores? no problem. Remove or add leftpadded zeroes to track numbers? done.

Sadly its only available for windows.

Just to note though, Its more of a tagger than a library management tool. And that is fine, it means it's not opinionated. You can do whatever you want.
> As far as I can tell, that’s not true. The output is completely static and just requires some very basic URL rewrites.

My understanding of static webpages is that there's zero processing happening server-side. "Basic URL rewrites" counts as processing in my book
The tutorials are written manually in a SwiftUI-like script. It's a totally different thing from the docs auto-generator.
You can't single out Bezos as being a psychopath, though, because all people in Bezos-like positions are psychopaths. Otherwise they don't end up in Bezos-like positions. The question is really, how do you constrain them so they can be psychopaths but integrate into society in a useful way: they're already making themselves useful in some ways, but by their nature they have to push for more and more until they ruin everything including themselves.

It's a larger and more interesting question than whether these captains of industry are good or nice or healthy. You can assume they're not trustworthy and then go from there. Hell, all of crypto is based on the idea that people aren't trustworthy: not a big stretch to take that literally and assume that business operators aren't trustworthy.
Digital transformation in financial services is an ongoing process
Been there, done that, need the t-shirt...
It appears you have defined the taxpayer out of existence. Assuming that the government goes to extremes and does away with the idea of taxes as the primary source of funding, what term will you accept to pithily describe "someone has to give up the resources that were used for this project, despite not personally wanting the project to happen"?
I think overall it is completely reasonable to learn Java programming on a system that old. Waiting a bit for programs to start is not the end of the world.
Thats a whole lot of generalising, and a broad assumption at the end there. Even with UEFI enabled there can still be hudles to getting secure boot and TPM2.0 enabled without messing up the current install.
Maybe I'm wrong, but vue.js is just frontend js. So in theory it can be used in pair with a static server on backend side.
So the problem here is surely not vue.js
a) ... was deliberately weakened by US restrictions on cryptography
b) ... is a network feature and could have been disabled for ~15 years.
c) afaik 3GPP has recent proposal to get GEA1 out of 5G
The life – and death by suicide in 2012 – of influential artist Mike Kelley
? 21.04 is LTS
Am I missing something? You can totally deploy a vue.js (or any JavaScript) on GitHub Pages.
https://archive.ph/fX3Fu
Are you running Linux or Windows on these? With sufficient RAM (and slightly efficient IDE) (and the right FS) Linux may cache your files and you might not actually feel a huge problem after first compile of the day. Or you can see if you can create a ram filing system (tmpfs) and do compilation from there. Docker COULD be very efficient and might Just Work(tm) ok. Is IntelliJ the thing that's slowing you down?

Possibly just replacing the spinning rust with cheap SSDs might be a good compromise. Modern laptops have a separate M.2 connector, but these old ones probably don't.

Another solution might be to have a single central server to stand up docker instances fast, if that's a thing you need.

Also, maybe look in to using something like raspberry pi 4 as an extra plug-in unit to help out (as docker host)? They're surprisingly powerful; possibly at least as good as the 2011 laptops. At least try one out and see!

... and you're spoiling these guys ;-) Back in my day, I used notepad and javac raw, and liked it!
I don't think I've had that problem, having bought literally hundreds of things from AliExpress. Were the fraudulent charges from AliExpress or other companies?