skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immigration is the only reason we don't have negative population growth and a population demograph resembling Japan.
Do those lesson allow to learn only the relational tricks of SQL? or does it cover also for example hierarchical, recursive queries, etc?
Why he thinks fraud and corruptions are the worst parts of the capitalist system? Aren't they just bad practices with no relation to the system in which the people who practice it operate?
Too bad the anti-trust office was on vacation that day?
> how is this different from anything else in life?

There is a high concentration of scamming around cryptos. There are the obvious thefts and frauds. But a good fraction of crypto businesses make their money pushing tokens in a manner remarkably similar to pump and dumps.

That said, for the reasons described here (crypto being a wealth transfer to the wealthy), I think it is here to stay.
Philosophers can make great politicians (See: Marc Aurel). Philosophers don't necessarily make good showmen, and that's what politicians in western, two-party democracies need to be.
The importance of redundancy and backup alternatives in any major project:

"It is worth remembering too, of course, that the F-35 enterprise almost had an alternative engine to the F135. However, the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 turbofan was deemed to be an unnecessary expense and was eventually canceled in 2011, when the project was over 80 percent complete. With the benefit of hindsight, it can well be imagined that an alternative source of engines would be very valuable right now."
Potato Sack (Alternate Reality Game)
Python vs. JavaScript: why not both?
I'm not sure if i follow you when you mention YouTube.

I thought just yesterday how YouTube changed the world again on making knowledge much more accessable than ever before.

I have seen very well done YouTube videos debunking things, explaining things, visual showing things.

I asked my mother about cooking and in here time, you needed to go to a cooking class. I have already more diverse cooking experience thanks to getting inspired and learning certain aspects of cooking through youtube.

Facebook? just burn that shit.
> They celebrate open-concept renovations as great for entertaining, but fail to recognize that the best spaces for throwing parties are actually houses with many divided rooms.

This is so annoying about gatherings in many people’s homes today. You basically have to custom build a new home or do some major revisions to any home built in the last 20 to 30 years to get a decent non open layout.
Plot twist 2: that's not how statistics work

Plot twist 3: even if you get it you're much more unlikely to develop serious symptoms when you're vaccinated
Tesla ‘Would Die’ If Elon Musk Wasn’t CEO, Says Elon Musk
Developing the first ICs to orbit Earth
One argument I've often heard is that since it's easier to scale your application compared to your database, pushing the calculations on your application is a way to get a better scalability in the long term. I wonder how true that is though.
If by the place I work at you mean nowhere, yes I own a lot of equity there. But in my past employment and contracting relationships, equity or not, I can't imagine shipping code with kill switches or booby traps that weren't in the spec or otherwise requested by the person I was working for.
Aha, that's why I never spotted it. What have I missed!?
When does this “insurance” they sell pay out? What risk are they insuring against and how is it underwritten?

I think this doesn’t make any sense but maybe I just don’t understand.
While reading the article, I was also wondering if this particular type of haystack is really uniquely Romanian. Although nowadays you have a much greater chance of seeing these in Romania, where there is a lot of hilly/montainous terrain which is not suited to the mechanical contraptions that spit out hay rolls (plus arguably in Romania there are more poor farmers who can't afford mechanical contraptions for their hay, or have plots so small that using a mechanical contraption is not worth it).
a shell script running rsync is "a backup automation software"
Nietzsche, for one, wrote against the dangers of “disengagement from outcomes” present ins stoicism, buddism and any other “accept the world as it is” philosophy.
Indeed, as someone who grew up in a South Indian city (Mangalore), my parents would send me off to stay with my agrarian relatives in the countryside during summer holidays, and haystacks like this were all over the place. Fast forward a few decades and I've seen conspicuously similar haystacks in Romania.
I'm not criticizing poor people, as they do live with roommates. I'm criticizing the people like the author of this article who assume that every worker should be entitled to their own one or two-bed apartment.
> selling insurance for their projects on decentralized programmatic insurance markets

One of the problems with crypto is people treating it like fairy dust. There are remarkably few, perhaps vanishingly so, business models that do not work centralised that do decentralised.

This is one. What is the pay-out? Who makes what guarantees? How are they enforced?

If a business plan requires crypto—as opposed to being enhanced by it—it’s probably dead on arrival.
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Actually, SJ gave great credit to the minor employee who reached out to Apple from NeXT on their own and started the whole thing going. Then at first he acted primarily as a kind of advisor and gadfly and appeared to embrace that role.
What definition of ”dependency” are you using to estimate that GCC has tens of thousands?
Over time you learn what “triggers” your immune system. Often this is called a flare. Or simply inflammation.

A few hours In the sun? Destroy all the organs!

Eat some carbs? A real shame if those nerve sheaths got eaten...

Avoiding triggers becomes your life.
I have to say, that plenty of those videos describe already a level of quality a lot of people probably never get.

Complaining about taking a paycut of 10-30% when you want to move while some topshot person is allowed to move without issues, might not be 'fair' but holy shit is that life far away from normal reality.

And this discord is what makes it very hard to read for me.
Nice but it's a list of places basically no-one wants to visit.
True, that was a bad juxtaposition. Lack of responsibility can offer a lot of freedom in many cases.
Side anecdote, I don't know anyone who drinks these types of sugary beverages anymore (even the ones with alternative sweeteners). I predict this attitude will spread until these are seen in a similar light to smoking cigarettes.
The EU is very much under the influence of big companies lobbyists. It always was and always will be. The EU parliament is a joke- voting is done in a way that makes it possible for people to vote for the wrong thing - see https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283837/europe-copyright... They are moving increasingly towards QMV (Qualified Majority Voting). I'm British and very glad of Brexit.
As a New Zealander there is a substantial lack of critical analysis, thought and long term strategy across all levels of society and government. I am not at all optimistic for the extended outlook of the country.
Will they ban workers for wearing jewelry (necklaces with crosses) or for having tattoos?
Or will this be selectively applied to minorities?
Case C‑804/18 if anyone is interested.

Ruling was in the morning, so it's not yet in the database.

Judgement is now available but only in German and French at this time https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&do...
I wonder how these vulnerabilities would be treated if the researchers didn't bother to find an exploit for them?

The description of the exploit is so detailed that it gives the impression that discovering the original vulnerability was fairly quick and simple, and the real work is in building a functioning exploit to wriggle through the discovered kernel flaw.

If the researchers were to just stop once they discover the vulnerability, and immediately report it to the kernel security team, would it be treated with the same level of seriousness? Could a CVE with the same severity be issued, or would there be arguments over whether or not the bug is exploitable?
> Hello from the other person on HN in the NE.

Oh wow, small world! Looking forwards to returning to the Town Wall at some point in the future.
Hay lofts are common in România too. My grandma had hay stacks for long term storage, which would be used to refill the hay loft as it emptied. A hay loft on its own can’t hold enough hay for an entire winter.
>A monopoly or oligopoly does not suddenly become OK because we put some rules in place for how it should operate, and those rules may in fact entrench the established companies because they can afford the overhead

I think in some areas it is extremely difficult to prevent market concentration. How many viable operating systems can there be for instance?

Some markets simply have a structural bias towards very few global players. Trying to prevent that is a quixotic effort.

We need some rules to govern the relationship between dominant platforms and those whose livelihoods depend on those platforms.
Karma is believed to work across lifetimes. Without it we'd not be free to make mistakes. So is more about reincarnation, and not about revenge, justice systems or retribution. Misguided belief in karma may wither away at sense of necessary fairness (dharma), which is also karma.
Hi! Tell me, where do you use your unique tool?
I like open layouts.

Having spent most of my life in the UK where there's not a vast amount of space, in houses with smaller, divided rooms, the wide open feel of (say) Australian houses and the larger American ones is a breath of fresh air.
I like the colour scheme and general concept. One quick observation is the categories don't seem to work quite right - menswear shows only one result, but clothing shows many. Would be good to be able to search for categories e.g. t-shirts
My first reaction, how is this going to work on iOS?

Games are subject to App reviews, Apple would not pass any Game Streaming services unless each Game on the streaming services was individually approved by Apple.

Games are also not "Reader" Content. Hence Netflix will require a button for Account Creation, and under the new guidelines any Apps with account creation must also have account deletion within the App. This new account also means 30% of commission to Apple.

Are they "Streaming" the Games to your Devices? That has an extremely large infrastructure cost I dont see how this would make sense for Netflix.
> It's kind of a race to the bottom if everything is treated like you're an object and not a subject, as in, blowing around in the wind by objective forces that are external. There really is a mix of external and subjective forces at play, but we're reminded of the external with this style.

Pretty good description of toxic femininity.
Back when we had a claw machine with plush toys in nearly every grocery store, it was generally a well-known fact that it's a game of chance much more than it is a game of skill. When it didn't want you to win, it just didn't grip as hard as would be necessary to hold the toy. It would either not grab it at all, or it would but then would drop it due to an abrupt stop when it hits the top while lifting the claw.
There's no way for the platforms to really deal with gullibility and propaganda without making the problem worse and they have no real incentive to either. The cure (censorship, most likely) will be worse than the disease.

The platforms will make a valiant effort to solve the problem in the way which is most politically expeditious for them. Not in a way that solves the problem.

The effects of this frankly terrifies me. Way more than Russian psyops campaigns running mommyblogger tweets.

"First, do no harm" doesnt just apply to doctors.
Here are more detailed statistics that were used as the source for this article:

https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/number-of-people-who-tested-posi...

See breakdowns per age group and infection location.

The distribution of vaccinations per age group is here:
https://www.rivm.nl/en/covid-19-vaccination/figures-vaccinat...

Which shows that the proportion of vaccinated youngsters (who dominate in recent infections) is more or less in line with other age groups.

By aligning those numbers with total amount of people in specific age group, one could tell the impact of vaccine for (not) getting ill

At a quick glance (excluding behavioral contexts, which are more difficult to measure) it seems obvious that having no vaccination substantially increases the chance of getting ill. Which is not really the news, as pharmas already published such information after their own tests.

The difference now is that these are official and substantial numbers to draw an independent conclusion. So, theoretically any anivaxxer who understands the statistics, should be easy to be persuaded
people who tested positive for coronavirus ≠ coronavirus patients
Transitive dependencies absolutely do matter.

Even in the "real world" overly complex and distributed supply chains are a source of problems - and much the same problems as sprawling dependency trees: They are the cause of unnecessary environmental pollution (by shipping components around the world for purely financial or organisational reasons), they decrease transparency (because it's difficult to understand what kind of companies at the very end of the supply chains actually produce your parts) and they introduce risk of failure.

As with software abstractions, those are problems that are easy to ignore by the designers of the end product, until they hit. We're getting more aware of those risks by now, thanks to COVID and geopolitical tensions putting stress on supply chains.

As a dev, it's important to remember that abstractions are a tool, not a mechanism for responsibility washing. When you develop a product, you're responsible for all code of it, not just the parts you wrote yourself.
Ask HN: Best remote desktop software for Mac OS X
As Microsoft announced Windows 365 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365) I wonder is anything like this exists for Mac OS X.

Basically virtual desktop solution so you can host your M1 Mac Mini in the data center and access it from any Mac/Linux/Windows thin client around the world, preferably with good FPS and multi-monitor support.
Device taps brain waves to help paralyzed man communicate
Agreed. It is one of the worst types of scam and people get taken advantage off. But if you exile Alex Jones, you also exile its users and their ability to get out of there is severely dimmed.

"There must be some truth to what he says if he gets that much backlash" is always a convincing argument. I don't even mean that ironically.

Better have that in the open because on the internet there will always be at least one person that disagrees with any view that is espoused.
> if you're trying to say that routing in lightning is an instance of traveling salesman, you're not only wrong - routing is actually shortest path problem

I am not. I am saying we don't have the map that we need to solved the shortest path problem, and we have no way to get that map.

> by this metric nothing on the internet is peer to peer, because packets are routed through intermediaries

And we have routing protocols to do so for the internet. We do not have one for the Lightning network that works at scale.

> yes, there will be hubs, large and small and there will be clusters of interconnected local meshes and there will be users routing however they wish through the system instead of taking the cheapest most connected path.

No, there will only be a small number of very large hubs. Nothing else actually works in practice.
Rethinking the Corporation (2020)
Apple alone getting an exception for iMessage seems quite fishy.

The indian government has recently introduced new legislation that gives them power to dictate terms over many online platforms and broaden their surveillance powers over online social media and messenger platforms.

One of the laws dealing with messenger platforms requires the platform to track "origin of content" (first originator) of any content that is shared through their network. (Facebook / WhatsApp has already gone to the court to challenge this, as it claims that they would need to break end-to-end encryption for this and it thus violates indian privacy laws).

Apple's iMessage platform has more than 25 million users, and thus should come under the ambit of this law. But strangely, the indian government seems to have given them an exception because apparently iMessage only runs on Apple devices and other devices cannot install them!
> you don't write complicated mathematical equations quickly if you've got any sense anyway

I don't get this line of reasoning. Writing equations is hard, so what difference does it make if you make it a lot harder? I think the fact it's hard makes it even more important to make it easier to write!

Proofreading / editing (as opposed to writing) is even more severe. When using raw LaTeX, there's absolutely no way you can be sure the equation is right without checking the PDF, so you end up in a slow loop of typesetting (the whole document!), read something for a while, go back to the LaTeX to fix something you've found, spend a while finding where the problem is, etc.; in LyX you're just organically reading and editing the document. If you spot an incorrect subscript, you just click on it and fix it then carry on reading. In raw LaTeX that can 100 times as long, or even longer still if you take into account the context switch of your mind.
> There's also 100 years of research on how to pick up skills that aren't minimum skill and minimum wage.

I have news for you: the world is run by min wage people, the entire system depends on having a large amount of people being paid as little as possible.

This is the "it's easy: just stop being poor" level of argumentation...
Steam is totally fine without participating in a walled garden utopia. Netflix may do the same?
What I admire about Google is that you can openly publish these without fearing retribution (or at least the old timers could)

At most places I have worked, you'll be fired for this kind of snarky criticism.
TheFlow is also the person behind many of the PS Vita exploits. Amazing stuff!
I still consider voting for him in 1992 a high point and would do it again in context.

Possibly not the optimal choice, but hey: "Die with your boots on."
Most comfortable place I could find is Alexander Bay in South Africa. Seems really underdeveloped.

Arequipa is even better.

I think most comfortable places lie on west shores at medium latitude.
It's easy to be snobbish about it if you want to point out that it's not a scientific study published in a journal with Very Serious People as gatekeepers...

...but I think this one is onto something, and I wouldn't be surprised to see significant correlations between the behaviours described and social class as defined by relatively recent work e.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003803851348112...

(The above takes into account social and cultural activities and classifies Brits as elite, established middle class, technical middle class, new affluent workers, traditional working class, emergent service workers, precariat)

The BBC used to have an interactive version of the above, but it's broken (again!) - if you report it they'll probably fix https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973
I feel fairly confident that I can write SQL queries for basically any result set (On a well designed DB). But the project I am working on is close to breaking me (VERY bad DB design, in progress)

Also: I think knowing your way around triggers and such is quite important too though. I should learn them properly some day.
That isn't an automatic indication of them having any real success. See Instagram's attempts to become Tick Tock. Their failures would be pathetic if I mourned their decline.
I guess any individual function defined outside of main() can be considered a dependency, the question is just whether it's you or someone else who's in charge of maintaining it
I can confirm the above. The entire premise of that novelette was all about technological stalemate so to speak (possible inspired by Cold War concepts). While I tend to allow old sci-fi authors some liberties (eg. I never blame pre-nuclear H. G. Wells for claiming what stars are cooling down with time, while just the same claim from relatively modern Jack Vance is unforgivable), the overall storytelling quality is really mediocre.

The novelette is might be notable from something like 100 years of Sci-Fi retrospective, but definitely not of something like Gold Collection. I read it just because I generally read a lot sci-fi, that «First Contact» unlikely worth looking for it specifically
How the “photo dump” took over Instagram
> we cannot say for certain that lockdowns did anything at all

This level of misinformation is no longer rational. You question that not meeting others in person can have an effect? It’s getting close to denying germ theory. Maybe it’s all bad vapors?

Sure, we can’t exactly specify the effect of different measures. But there’s plenty of evidence that they work, collectively. And the only method to come up for evidence regarding measures of this nature is to try them. You can’t do a lockdown study in a lab.

As to negative effects, we know that GDP recovers fast and suicide rates actually didn’t rise, despite constant assertions od the opposite.
Show HN: Make P2P-secured calls everywhere you want
In general, to be safe you should treat all memory corruption bugs as leading to code execution. Now, it may be difficult to exploit the bug, but more often than not "probably unexploitable" bugs end up being exploitable; even bad primitives like one-byte overwrites or wild copies. Of course, without an exploit you can always just say "ok this is not exploitable, I'm going to ignore it", but such an outlook is generally frowned upon now.
Revolut confirms a fresh $800M in funding at a $33B valuation