skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The average monthly payment was $5000 (skewed massively by the top 5%).

I used to work in the direct carrier billing department of a large telco and I'm still amazed by the phenomenon of whales. We'd get 98% of people spending 20 bucks on Spotify and the odd app here and there, and then there were people who would consistently spend 15k+ on Candy Crush (and pay their bills). Not the same level as what you're talking about but I couldn't help but wonder about the millionaire sitting on their couch playing terrible mobile games all day.
Amazon launches annual ML summer school in India
Totally agree! Your suggestion makes us rethink the mobile friendly. We just released a mobile friendly website. Please let us know what we can improve! For the web app, we still stick on the desktop version because we focus on the developers and the developers only code on the desktop. The mobile version is not the highest priority but it is on our roadmap.
The Olympics Is a Racket
This doesn't consider the opportunity cost of having more money now for other investments. Say an index fund or what have you. That's fine but I don't think the rent vs. buy scenario exists within it's own vacuum sealed container.
MeetingBuddy: Take app window screenshots at regular intervals and OCR them
> fortunately the programmer does and they can use Rust's type safety to reduce the opportunity for foot guns.

And what, they just didn’t?

This is an ordering bug. You could encode that into types perhaps, but I do not think that would be easy or as valuable as other ways to spend time.

> Specifically, when you call that Rust readb() function with a constant like GPIO_SIZE that's not actually a GPIO register, it compares the constant you asked to readb to the size of the GPIO's I/O memory (1 page = 4096 bytes) and check it is smaller - if not the type match fails and your compiler tells you this won't work. No runtime crash, it doesn't compile.

I think nearly every c compiler has had the ability to warn on something like this for thirty years. What’s the point? The rust programmer could do things differently but so could the C programmer?
On the other hand, I have found it pleasant how reliably non-offensive it is to ask almost any attractive* woman about their subscription content now. It is mostly freemium or they are willing to have an objective conversation about how they’ve been thinking about it.

I don’t really think it is different from a parenting perspective. Many of the women** appreciate the approach about their content because the intentions are clearer and they don’t have to guess what a guy thinks about anything while also knowing that guy finds them attractive but isn’t likely going to bother with anything non-consensual or at least not blow up on them on the spot. From what I can tell, many of the women (that I’ve met in person and subsequently asked about their streaming services) were also hostesses and strippers and/or dabbling in modeling and pivoted when the venues weren’t available through the pandemic, something that offered only a slightly greater temporary anonymity and equally outside of the view of protective parents.

When the analytics leak from these websites, I bet the demographics data would subvert all assumptions. If enough people do it, the “blackmail” potential from having digital shareable erotic content evaporates. So that should give some peace of mind with this direction of the world.

*A consensus-level of visual attraction, as opposed to something more subjective. ie. you can look at someone and guess which ones have been suggested to do content by others, and likely have a following to stay active by the time you showed up

**My perspective is only about women and isn’t suggesting that only women are content creators
That is because Indians have always been patriots inspite of the poverty.

You may think that, but the people of India think otherwise and that if why he has an overwhelming popularity.
A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27792366 - July 2021 (118 comments)
Let's engage in a hypothetical to flesh out your position; if 10% of only fans accounts were victims of human trafficking, acting at the behest of their traffickers, what course(s) of action would you recommend for only fans (as a company), and from regulatory bodies?
It’s not about the content it’s about the incentives and reward structures we put in place to govern our society. E.g. we want(ed) a strong economy of businesses in the US so we subsidize(d) their operation. We know very well now that social media platforms (sometimes even deliberately) promote content that irks people because they get rewarded by our ad industry for eyeball time. What better way to consume and waste human capital than to present a bunch of people with outrageous bullshit? There must be a structure or limit we can impose on the attention industry that would deter what we have come to consider abusive treatment of humans. A really dumb but raw implementation would be a use tax where social media companies are literally taxed for engagement beyond some threshold. Point is it’s not a contradiction to demand and invent better systems in the face of poor outcomes. What you can’t do, and what is the contradiction you’re referring to, is to force the desired outcomes without addressing the underlying incentives because then you are oppressing people or companies exhibiting valid behavior within the existing system.
Of course it's possible that some Russian nukes were stolen, and someone's been keeping them in a warehouse for the last 25 years, and we'd never know.
But I find it likely that if someone had stolen a nuke, they would have sold it, and the kind of people that would buy it would have used it by now.

I'm making two assumptions:

1. you don't steal a nuke unless you're going to sell it or use it

2. you don't buy a nuke unless you're going to use it (for blackmail or to blow something up)

And (2) would have been easily noticed.
If your mortgage is lower than the rent that means your location appreciated very significantly. Given stagnant prices mortgage being lower than rent doesn’t make sense. Now the question for someone buying today is if they expect that to happen in the future. For me the answer is not positive enough to gamble buying a place.
> . If you do zero moderation, you are not liable for user generated content period

Ok sure, whatever. But the point would be to put facebook in a position where they are only doing moderation that a user is requesting that they do. We can use common carrier laws, or we can use some different legal precedent. Thats that goal. The specific method, or process, isn't really the main point.

> you're suggesting a strict reduction in moderation tools, and claiming that this will solve everything the way everyone wants.

I am suggesting that users should be allowed to have voluntary choices about what moderation they want to have, as it relates to them, without facebook forcing those decisions on the user.

> All of the options you want are already available

No, users still are forced to accept facebooks choosen moderation preferences. That can't choose to opt out of Facebook's censorship or moderation, if they voluntarily choose to subscribe to certain content.

> solve everything the way everyone wants.

It will solve what a lot of people want. Sure, I am sure that there are people who are just explicitly pro-censorship, and want the 1st amendment to be removed, and want the government to ban all opposing political opinions.

But there are also a lot of people who don't want facebook to be forcing users to accept certain moderation, and instead want users to be in control of what they see.

> how does your approach address coordinated misinformation campaigns?

If something is so bad, that it needs to be censored, then that is what the government is for. Terrorist threats are already illegal, for example.

Backdoor censorship isn't the way to go. If you really believe that mis-information is so bad, that it needs to be stopped, by these types of methods, then the onus should be on you to gather enough support, to get around the protections of the 1st amendment.

Checks and balances are difficult to get around for a reason. And if you can't get around these checks and balances, well thats the point of those checks and balances.

> I haven't done anything illegal

Well thats life. You are trying to backdoor your way to try to get stuff censored, because you aren't able to convince the government to do it. We don't need this backdoor method of supporting censorship.

> Spam is a much larger problem on my phone than anywhere else

There is nothing illegal about phone companies offering additional, voluntary methods, of allowing users to choose more things to be moderated for themselves.

Such problems could be solved that way. By facebook, or whoever, offering voluntary programs, to block certain types or categories of things, if the user chooses to opt in to that form of moderation.

> Ben Shapiro can post whatever he wants on Facebook

You don't have to listen to Ben Sharpiro if you don't want to, in this situation. Instead, you could just voluntarily choose to subscribe to a "ban right wingers" block list, or whatever voluntary algorithm that the user opts in to.
> negotiate everything with landlord ... Home ownership gives you almost infinite options

that's the point of ownership. If renting gives you _almost_ as much rights as ownership, who would own!?
Megaverse: Simulating Embodied Agents at One Million Experiences per Second
A hidden major problem too can also be your neighbors, who can be incredibly annoying and won't go anywhere anytime soon. If you rent, oh well, go somewhere else.

Not so easy with a house, also excluding neighbors who do legal things that devalue your home.
Ask HN: How) should data be incrementally reclaimed from the cloud?
Company A exclusively utilizes a small set of domain-specific SaaS products to store literally everything. There is nothing of importance on local machines. They are essentially thin clients for a small set of cloud services.

This strikes me as precarious, given that everything breaks the moment that something happens to the local internet connection or service providers' connection (the latter, but not the former, being highly unlikely). It's turtles all the way down, and if a single turtle slips and falls so does the business at the top. I'm the type to use plain text formats stored on a local server, use WAN as little as possible, and keep a gun next to the printer if it makes any weird noises[0], so I'm (opionatedly) suspicious of 'too much' cloud.

The thing is, Company A's setup works. Functionally, the amount of abstraction they're playing with is quite powerful, and it makes everything pretty easy for them.

The following questions are asked from a technical perspective, not an inter-personal/workplace perspective:

- Should I work to keep this company's data a bit more independent? If everything is working just fine right now, is it really best to start messing with things?

- If so, how do I do this incrementally?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981980
Show HN: Rustpostal v0.2.0
Monitoring vs. Observability: Know the Difference
yes, double extortions are getting common because people rely on backups
All valid points. I guess it’s difficult to simultaneously de-stigmatize and urge caution. Instead what happens is we encourage new people to try it, and then some of the people who have tried it share their experiences with the community. That’s how people end up learning about problems with it. Since it is an experimental phase there are more failures (went poorly for some folks).

We might say the same thing happens with bad crypto schemes. Young people get excited and they can lose a lot of money. Though the stakes are potentially higher when you lose your reputation.
Something like the Stackoverflow Importer for Python? https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import
You just use cold backups.

For home, I have two USB disks I use for backups and I alternate which I use. Neither is plugged in at the same time. At least one is always "cold".

For larger scale, you can do the same thing with tape. One tape backup goes off-site (perhaps) or at least cold.

The cost isn't that high. A USB spinning disk may cost a third to a 5th that of your SSD hard drive. And you can get hard drives up to 18TB now. But even a portable 2TB USB-powered 2.5in external hard drive is only $60, so this is a cheap and robust strategy.
I don't think Webassembly will ever replace Javascript in the browser. Javascript has a low barrier of entry and if you are creating React/Angular sites there's little to gain from Webassembly for someone not interested in safer languages.

Saying that I am really interested in Webassembly and think the word web in Webassembly does it a disservice.

I have started to think of Webassembly as a light weight JVM. It's heavy sandboxing makes it really interesting as an evolution to FaaS (Function as a service) such as AWS Lambda. Lucet which Fastly is using for their Compute@Edge reports 35 micro second code start time! I can't wait until Fasly put there Compute@Edge on general release so I can try it. I've been playing with Cloudflare workers and as they us Chrome to run WASM files you have to mess about writing Javascript shims so a bit rough around the edges debugging.

Webassembly should realise the original goals of serverless providing a cross platform runtime with security guarantees and be fast and lightweight.

Most people package an entire OS in Docker containers, with WASM they get a small cross platform artifact. This project already looks like a way to run them in K8s https://github.com/deislabs/krustlet.

It also looks great for cross platform media devices. Have the bulk of your code as a WASM binary and then have very thin platform specific shim the WASM interacts with.
What a scumbag;

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Upon further investigation, it became clear that Wenzheng Tang is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law.

If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country.

This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck 学习强国, which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.

While under normal circumstances, he could apply for asylum in order not to be deported, but this option is extremely limited when found in violation of the laws of the country you are a guest in.
Why you should always report both mean and median!
The nihilism doesn't make sense from someone making $200k/yr though. If you're in a career with little advancement and making minimum wage then yeah sure, but if you write software at a FAANG, then lets back of the envelope for a second.

$200k is like 130k take home pay after taxes, (which is just shy of $11k/month). 20% down on a million dollar house is 200k. If you're able to put $4k/month towards a future down payment, that's 50 months, or just over 4 years. If you were making that when you are 30 years old, if nothing changes from then (which it won't), you can buy a million dollar house before you're 35.

If you put it into stocks instead of holding it liquid for those 4 years, then before long term cap gains tax (California and Federal), then you'll need closer to $300k. Which still seems like it should be doable before you're 40. (If you bought AAPL at the height of the 2008 bubble, you'd be doing quite well today.)

Does it seem reasonable to me that housing is this expensive in the Bay area? No! Does it seem feasible for someone who's software development career is going well, to be able to afford a house, eventually, if they make that a priority? Quite.

There are many directions someone making $200k/yr at 30 can choose to go with their money, and I don't begrudge anyone the agency to make their own decisions. But let's not say that someone making those kinds of wages can't afford a house. They may prefer to use DoorDash for every meal and extravagant vacations instead of buying a home, but people who make less money are forced to make much tougher, more existential choices on how to spend their money.
It's not like I have a solution, but with a sufficiently large enough Big Employer Company in a town/city, it all but guarantees a plaintiff against won't get a fair trial when damn near everyone in town or the city is 2 or less degrees of separation from a job at that company.

In Boston the city employee to resident ratio was one of the lowest in the nation and while Thomas "Chuckles" Menino cultured an air of being a friendly grandpa patriarch who couldn't keep track of which team name corresponded to which sport...reality was that city workers were an ersatz campaign worker army, infamous for being fiercely loyal, and demanding loyalty from family and neighbors. "Are you voting for Not Menino? Because if you do, I'm gonna lose my job, Bill." There were newspaper stories about families nearly getting into fistfights over this stuff.

Menino stepped down, Marty Walsh stepped up (and promptly got involved in some scandals involving his staff pushing for union work on construction sites.) He's been appointed federal secretary of labor, so the deputy mayor suddenly was in charge. This current election cycle seems heavily focused on identity politics, social justice, etc.

It's a subject some politicians are more than happy to discuss because it sidesteps how massively wasteful and incompetent the city workforce is; nothing gets done unless you're on good terms with the "neighborhood liaison" or know someone. It's a miracle they manage to even keep their office chair seats warm. When nearby Somerville (which is basically the municipal version of the Italian mob) is more functional, that's not a good look...
Discussed at the time:

How to Be Polite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8178536 - Aug 2014 (65 comments)
Sexual saturation nulls intimacy. There will be little drive to explore a personal experience when kids treat their libido as a itch to scratch. Not even historical emperor's children had harems at age 14 - this is training their behaviour for instant reward at high monetary costs - instead of working towards a goal. Instant gratification is unnatural and makes for shallow character.
>The consumers have no choice here

For the choices that matter to the arbitration firm, they absolutely do. Without a customer who is willing to initiate arbitration proceedings, there are no fees to be collected.

If there is a huge upfront financial burden to the customers, the customers are much more likely to just drop the whole matter. And while the businesses would absolutely consider consumers not pursuing grievances to be a win, the arbitration firm does have an incentive to actually have there be some arbitration.
I always assumed it had to do with taxes... CapEx can't be written off in it's entirety, but rather has to be calculated as depreciation over time. OpEx however, is a business expense can be written off completely.

I'm not sure how that really benefits an organization with a time horizon that is longer than the time it takes to depreciate a server. You still get to write off the full price of a server, it just takes a few years longer (and it was probably cheaper!). But then again, I'm not in finance...
None of this has anything to do with the computer not working well. All reports are that the M1 Macs work extremely well.

Implying that the device is at fault is dishonest.
For this to be true I think you have to be using a basically circular definition of reckless driving, like "if it was possible for conditions ahead of you to change faster than you could brake, then you should have been going slower."

In reality drivers rely on models and predictions of other road users' behavior, and are committed by inertia to a course which requires those predictions to be true. We can tolerate more or less uncertainty, bigger or smaller margins, but a speed so slow that you can be sure of stopping in time for the most unlikely development right in front of you, is also a speed which is pretty much useless for transportation. The need to take this risk in order to go about your life is built into the whole system of urban planning and not something for which a particular driver is blameworthy. A driver becomes blameworthy to the extent that their tolerances were unusually tight for the situation. But even loose tolerances are exceeded some of the time.
>But I don't expect the flames themselves actually interact with the food in a meaning way compared with the hot metal.

Maybe not as much as the hot metal, but they absolutely can (and should, under the right circumstances). See how these noodles are tossed over the flame? https://youtu.be/oX62hKkcb6s
I worked for an ISP so that my day job was 1mpbs, this was enough to serve 50 concurrent dialup customers back then!
Not a specific law, to my knowledge, but a few court cases that have established over the years that arbitration agreements must make every effort to be reasonable and accessible for the consumer. Unreasonable or unconscionable agreements can and have been successfully challenged in the courts. The company footing the bill is a _de facto_ requirement.
If they were paying for bullshit research, they got what they wanted. Otherwise, they'd stop.
Unlike the Jews in Germany, the Muslims and Christians in India are very much Indian.

As the recent PEW survey shows, a large percentage hold Hindu values and think of it as culturally superior.

Hinduism is also the culture of converted peoples, as the vast majority were coerced to convert.

Importing the experience of Europe into India is meaningless.
This was a long time ago and I've had many heartbreaks since then but I think your advice is very good. Thank you for the kind words.

And believe me I understand "the ex-wife did me dirty" :-)
D'oh, I feel dumb for missing this. Thanks!
> Nice thing about language classes is that being bad at a language (or just not being interested) doesn't preclude many career paths.

It does outside the English-speaking world. In many non-English-speaking countries—including Japan, where I live—English education is similar to mathematics education: All children have to study it and ability at school English is treated as an indicator of overall academic ability, but many children struggle with it and by adulthood most people have forgotten most of what they learned.

In Japan, school English education is also affected by problems similar to those mentioned in other comments on this page, including English teachers who themselves are not skilled at the language, educational policies that require that all children study the same material at the same age, and, sometimes, an overemphasis on rote memorization and teaching-to-the-test.

There’s a huge industry in Japan serving adults who have forgotten most of their school English—or didn’t learn much in the first place—and who now want to get better at it in order to advance their careers.
> I think this is sarcasm

Yes. Maybe satire as well. It’s hard to tell because most comments about rust’s Memory Safety are utter gibberish as well.

> no compiler can make guarantees about the behaviour of a different computer.

Honestly, I think it’s worse than that: the computer simply cannot tell you what your program is going to do.

This should be obvious, and yet many people are using Rust in prayer of exactly this.
Aren't OnlyFans (and similar companies) another way to launder money?
I made an A-deck – extension that sends website to your Nextcloud Deck
Afraid not. We'll just accept programs 10x more bloated, and demand systems 10x faster to run them.
Lucky you! In 1991, I moved from a Timex 2068 to PC, while the technical school was still using 8086 and 286 systems.

A 386SX with 20MHz, 40 MB and 2MB, running Windows 3.0.

16MB was indeed another level!
Personal aggrandizement is not the same as endorsing your product.