skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think you'll ever convince someone who doesn't believe in privacy of the value in privacy until they're hurt.

But that fundamentally doesn't matter in the least. I don't care what they do; but they cannot get access to my data without my approval. And they're definitely not getting my approval without some really good justification.

It's my data; I have no obligation to anyone else(*) to disclose anything about it.

(*) legal restrictions aside -- which is vastly different from someone who wants your data claiming they're legally entitled to it.
Well you can't really require identification and if you do you're placing undue trust in a system that would make no difference to pro-social users and grant malicious users more trust than is deserved.

I agree that phone book data seemed just annoying at the time, but in hindsight it was a bad idea to normalize letting other people sell your data. Just look where we are now - I imagine a society more privacy focused when it was just annoying might not end up in a surveillance state quite so quickly.

Hindsight 20/20 and all, so I'm just looking at the past through todays lens and wondering if the modest (at best) convenience was worth the normalization of letting other people sell our data.
Agreed. Generally I prefer native apps, but HN is so well designed and so minimalist that I don't feel it needs a native client.
Thanks! Super excited to be a part of the Meltano and Singer communities as they grow. Excited for what you guys are building.
OPOD
OPOD is a fintech startup that enables consumers, lenders, real estate agents, and property developers to connect and transact throughout the end-to-end mortgage and property acquisition process seamlessly and securely.

We are using historic and current financial profiles, as well as predictive financial behavioural aggregate data to help our customers realize homeownership through affordable mortgage repayment packages.

Our aims to transform the current cumbersome and a rather rudimentary mortgage lending process currently existent in Nigeria and across Africa eventually. With an existing 17 million housing deficit in Nigeria prompting the boom in the real estate sector, many of the over 15 million Nigerians in the diaspora and many millions of Nigerian residents are seeking to be homeowners and/or desire to acquire properties for investment.
I completely agree with your main point: excel is terrible because people use it for everything.

I've noticed there different ways people use excel: as a dashboard, to store data, to modify data.

IMO storing data is the worst use of excel, especially when it's done in a non 'tidy' fashion , with highlights and formatting to encode data.

This is from my experience as an R and python user in science.
I much prefer a native mac experience for things that aren't necessarily tied directly to services and I do more than just read on, and usually that I'd like them to be offline by default. However, I've been wanting a HN client for a while for some reason. I don't sync tabs around, but do use Firefox.
Relationships within a reporting chain are a classic example of bad business ethics, because there's obvious opportunity for favoritism and bias, and most corporate policies disallow it (in favor of moving folk to other teams or similar).
And they require so much additional setup and processing power that they will never supplant spreadsheets.
Maybe pushing updates to users is their test process? I doubt they're the only ones doing this, sadly.
Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm sorry for your losses.

I'm taken away by your story and would like to connect, please. I have a similar experience and I'm working on a research project in AI that is related to this. Please drop me a note me aee at berkeley edu I couldn't find your contact info in your profile.
Would be great to get that and read it in Emacs (gnus).
God I would love somebody to make one of these that could block specific users, linked sites, or topics/keywords.
cnn is not here to tell the truth, never has been, never will be. two of their reporters just got paid hundreds of millions of nazibuxxx to literally keep spilling bullshit on cnn. bye jeff bezos.

some idiots figured out that people who deal with schizophrenia also smoke pot. there's nothing else in that article.

the rest of this is just regular abrahamic nazi propaganda, gas-lighting, attrition, and other harmful things.

even in this thread, these pompous egotistical white supremacist clowns show just how little they care and just how little they know. the levels of gas-lighting in this thread is a type of culture hacker news promotes.

even worse than the microaggression and targeting, they're making it more difficult for people who actually have to deal with this disorder to find treatment, help, and acceptance in this fascist society which already makes it too difficult. even worse, some of these dipshits are lying about their own annecdotes and the circumstances surrounding them because they're ashamed and guilty for what they've done.

fuck off
I don't think I've ever picked the web interface over native as long as the native app is "really native"
Can we see a working example of something to buy? For example: 10 cents just as a test purchase.
I used to use them. Then I was burned by some Very Opinionated managers and coworkers who didn't like seeing new things. It wasn't a hill I was willing to die on; there's more important things to argue about in C++.
Jupyter is a joke compared to spreadsheets, it doesn't auto-recalculate when you edit cells.
No. But there is a "Firefox" shell around WKWebView.
I haven't touched C++ in forever, but as a C programmer it looks insane that you can do dot operator and -> operator on the same variable and not cause compiler error...
Python or R have tons of ways to edit, extend, and quickly filter and search within stuff like a CSV. You could even do all of that with a bash script. It will probably run a whole lot faster on your computer than opening the excel workbook.
I'm baffled that there's no test for this, manual or otherwise, before this rolls out to production. That you can change ChromeOS code in the login path, and the very first time it's exercised is by an end customer.
This is a good point. Reddit is a self-described hive mind and there are certainly things that will get you abused.

I imagine you were fairly safe from death and rape threats, as happens frequently on Twitter, but you're right it's not a welcoming place for everyone, at least outside of certain subs.

Reddit is a particular demographic and mostly a particular philosophical lean.

And there are ways for users to be dicks without the extreme behaviour you get on Twitter. I'm sure it happens on Reddit too but it seems more managed.
> This is exactly the same 'cancel culture' behavior that many US Republicans like to decry.

Hypocrisy is a central tenet of the US Republican platform.

"Laws for thee but not for me" is a cornerstone of their belief system.
Where's the politics?
No, the law has a lower bound, and it's 40.
No, why do you think so?

Among the largest users, MySQL (or Percona Server) is chosen far more frequently than MariaDB.

GP mentioned Group Replication, which isn't even available in MariaDB.
the tyranny of white supremacy and globalism and pointless labor
I use materialistic(on fdroid and gplay) because it gives me a phone home screen widget of top hn stories.

https://f-droid.org/is/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
One of the things I did, was draft a complete design of the project structure in advance of actually writing any code. This included only the essential features with no additional bells/whistles in order to prevent feature creep.

By the time my two team members formally joined, the above design was already split up in manageable chunks of tasks which could be worked on in parallel.

In addition to the above, we decided not to decouple the frontend and backend, but instead used Livewire in conjunction with Laravel & Alpine. This, coupled with Tailwind's UI components (tailwindui.com), helped us spend very little time on the frontend aside from a few specific aspects.
Maximum number of columns is 16 384 (in modern Excel). PostreSQL has a limit of 16 000.

So Excel > PostrGRE? :)

I wonder what kind of data did you use and why it had to be stored in so many columns. This approach would probably kill a "real" database too.
Yeah, I've seen some studies that link early retirement to earlier death, but also some that show retirement can trigger underlying issues like stroke and heart attack from the changes.
If it's an app I want open all the time I'd rather have a dedicated native app for it.
An additional limitation is that you can only have three such applications installed at a time. You also aren't going to be able to get access to functionality like push notifications (which might be obvious) or network extensions (which might not be: you have to have a paid developer account to develop/install a custom VPN for iOS; I find this limitation particularly frustrating, as it seems to mostly serve the purpose of helping authoritarian governments, and it isn't like Android has such a restriction so we know it isn't "par for the course": they are going above and beyond here).
It varies and how you're outgrowing it. I heavily use spreadsheets, but if I start to hit some limits or need to formalize a process I'll switch to something like Python. As a data store I may still query the spreadsheet, or use csv, sqlite, or something that scrapes the data source. I really like columnar data because I like mucking with it by piping data on the command line (which has its own, well known ways to bungle data).

As for reasons you're outgrowing a spreadsheet; access and permissions, friendlier error messages or a better "wizard-like" process, formalizing input data, outgrowing data size, smarter caching for computing values, protection or clarity around modifying "constant" or "magic" numbers. Many of those you could implement in a spreadsheet, but its often more complex than using something else. That something else probably varies with which problem you're trying to solve.
Personally, I strongly prefer working with GSheets to Excel. It handles large sheets better and you never worry about the app crashing and taking your precious work along with it.
iOS devices are "consoles," not computers.
> And yet they all have a net brain drain to the US.

And you can tell that they move not because US is free, it's because US has a better life. One evidence: H1B workers cannot vote for at least 5+ years.

I am one example.

And again, that's exactly why US don't want other to have a better economy, and only want them to have a free society. Apparently some people making policies in US understand how to sustain the leadership position. They are truly the patriot of US. And I deeply admire their dedication.
For me, right now, this is a hobby project — until now, the feature roadmap was basically the feature that I have in mind.

I’m more than happy to get feature requests though — read/unread indication and favorites are something that I would definitely try implementing. Notifications are a bit harder because it would require polling HN — I’ll be thinking on it.
I think we might be talking at cross purposes. How, in Python, do I extend a CSV with new numbers, or edit existing values? Use 'input'? I could implement an excel-like interface, but then I already have Excel.

I could just open it in a text editor I suppose, but then I have to deal with escaping, and moving around cells, and that sounds painful.
I don't think the other poster was imagining a language that retained compatibility with C, but rather a new language altogether. Of course it would be impossible to change this aspect of the language if retaining compatibility with C was a requirement.

> I honestly don't see why someone would do bitwise operations on boolean

For example, you might want the behaviour shown here of not short-circuiting. Or you might want to create a bitwise function that also allows calling on single-bit (i.e. boolean) values.
You're right, of course. I was talking from memory, it's been years since I haven't seen those folders.
>The company is $1T market cap and still fully controlled and executed by just him, the original founder.

That doesn't mean he's been essential for a long time. I think an awful lot of people thought that Steve Jobs was important to Apple when he died in 2011. But look at it now.
That wouldn't change with a more or less potent strain, though. People will use until desired effects are reached. An alcoholic might drink a liter of vodka in a sitting to get hammered, but they aren't going to drink only a liter of beer if they were drinking beer, they will drink an entire case of beer to get to the desired effects.
Communist countries each have a million people sitting around thinking about how to replace the US.

They have multiple levels of ways to influence other countries that are short of kinetic war.

Using microwaves against their enemy makes a lot of sense when viewed from the above.

The best example in the headlines today is CRT which is a variant of Communist Critical Theory (CT.) Just look at the chaos this non-kinetic influence is having in the US, all self-inflicted. (All of the leaders in US intersectionalism are self-proclaimed Marxists, but we are slow to believe them.)
In the absence of a USENET news server comp.bbs.hn, a TUI RSS reader would be the next best thing for me, and viewing the site in a Web browser after that.

(I appreciate that many will enjoy a native app, and I applaud the effort, but for me personally content sites are harder to keep track of if each has its own app.)
Ask them to give you 100 bucks from their wallet. Then keep it.

Cheapest privacy lesson they'll ever get.

(The point: privacy about who is allowed to acquire the valuables. The owner is in control, not someone else. Once they decide to give that away: fine, now it's no longer under their control.)
When I said they do more than “produce random numbers”, I meant that they do more than such than that which is out of their control (i.e., due to noise). By the physics of a quantum computer, at their very foundation, they’re random number generators. What you program on a quantum computer is, more or less, the shape of the distribution from which they sample.

A linear congruential generator from Knuth programmed on a classical computer produces controlled pseudorandom numbers. So what? Whether a LCG or a program to produce controlled samples from a goofy Porter-Thomas distribution, they’re both coming from machines that were programmed to do a job. If the machine was neither a computer nor programmable, then the job could not be done.

You haven’t refuted the point of the published existence of a computer. The paper includes both the results of a program running on a quantum computer, and a comparison of the results as simulated by a classical computer, the latter taking several orders of magnitude to complete at several orders of magnitude increased cost.
The jurisdiction doesn’t extend past their borders, but the cultural heritage law is not satisfied by a geographical block on the content.

Italy has recently empowered a regulator to block sites domestically for IP violations. Additionally, Italy could make things difficult for any executive that visits the country and restrict any transactions with Italian advertisers.
> And psychoactive drug usage is directly linked with the early onset of otherwise dormant schizophrenia, as well as a myriad of other mental disorders.

Citation please. Drug usage tends to begun around the same age schizophrenia is typically diagnosed.
How the Delta variant achieves its ultrafast spread
> Starlink has like 1700 of the planned 42,000 satellites in orbit now.

I'm not sure if anyone believes that 42k number. They are launching ~60 satellites at a time - that would mean ~700 launches. There is no way that will be economical for the relative handful of people (500k? 1-2M?) who could realistically be interested in this.

Not to mention, the lifespan of these satellites in orbit is tiny, just a few years. They would have to be constantly launching new satellites to keep up.

The current state is probably more or less the best Starlink will ever offer - as more people will join the network, coming closer to Musk's 500k number, bandwidth will significantly diminish, even if the number of satellites is maybe doubled.

And if federal funds dry up, I expect the whole venture will quickly go bankrupt, or remain alive with a handful of satellites and a huge price spike.
I've gone back to level through WoD, and I was very impressed with Draenor and HFC. I have no personal qualms with that expansion other than what I hear about.

I think I agree with your commentary about SL, but I just said the same thing in a different way. BfA had a bit more interesting content though in that respect. They were not 'incredibly bad' by my estimation, just have their various flaws.

With regard to friends list, I stopped playing shortly before new patch drop, but mostly because it's summer and WoW in general just makes it way too easy to spend time indoors. I was following the world first race though, and would love to raid SoD and do BGs. But, before letting my sub expire I went and farmed out all the Mechagon mounts and most interesting rare drop mounts, had my fill of Nathria, and a bit of Mythic+ as miserable as that is. Could have been more fun with a proper gaming setup and guild, but I knew summer was coming up and I'd want to dial my playtime back to zero.

This is all after a decade long hiatus.
They may intend to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and with the court's current composition, there's an excellent chance they win and even get the underlying statute neutered or struck down.
Or lightning. Lightning can and does happen without rain, too.
CIA director says he is escalating efforts to solve 'Havana Syndrome'
Agreed that Oracle licensing is byzantine, probably deliberately. But devil's advocate says that any organization should be aware of what they are actually licensed for, even if that means contracting a third party to ensure compliance.
The simple "airplane" they flew was enormously less of a technical challenge than a fusion reactor.

The days of easy, made-in-the-garage inventions are way over. Nuclear fusion reactors will not be created in some garage.

We need serious government money funding many labs and groups or a massive Manhattan project.

We're talking about making a miniature star in a box.
It's the tortured logic of late capitalism. People who actually 'contribute' somehow retain a semblance of individuality.
Here is some code for a simple chrome ext for HN to show votes/created date/bio inline (just stick it in a chrome ext)

function hackernews() {
if (document.location.toString().indexOf('news.ycombinator') === -1) return;
document.querySelector('#hnmain td').style = 'background-color: #55b6f2;';
var i = 0;
function render(user, html) {
const div = document.createElement('div');
let style = 'cursor: text;overflow-y: scroll; height: 39px;position: absolute;border: 1px dotted #828282;width: 250px;margin-left: 250px;margin-top: -34px;background-color: #f6f6ef;';
div.innerHTML = html;
const date = div.querySelectorAll('tr')[5].querySelectorAll('td')[1].innerHTML.split(', ')[1];
const karma = div.querySelectorAll('tr')[6].querySelectorAll('td')[1].innerHTML;
const about = div.querySelectorAll('tr')[7].querySelectorAll('td')[1].innerHTML;
if (about.length < 60) {
style += 'display: flex;flex-direction: column-reverse;margin-top: -39px;border: none;background-color: transparent;';
}
div.innerHTML = about;
div.style = style;
user.querySelector('.age').innerHTML += date ? ' ' + date + ' ' + parseInt(karma).toLocaleString() : ' (x_x)';
user.appendChild(div);
}
function next() {
if (i >= document.querySelectorAll('.default .comhead').length) return;
const user = document.querySelectorAll('.default .comhead')[i++];
if (!user) return next();
const username = user.querySelector('a').href;
if (username.indexOf('soheil') !== -1) return next();

const html = localStorage.getItem(username);
if (html) {
render(user, html);
next();
return;
}
fetch(username)
.then(res => res.text())
.then(res => {
localStorage.setItem(username, res);
render(user, res);
setTimeout(next, 3000);
});
}
next();
}
It’s just a protein, so it’s not very expensive to make. I guess a few hundred dollars? Here’s one seller: https://listlabs.com/products/bacterial-toxins/?sub=botulinu...
Yeah, you're right with their respective histories, though I do think a freemium model with a relatively low fee/tx can definitely work (look at e.g. Gumroad/Shoppy)

We do also indeed have plans for a fraud detection system to help combat fraud.

Btw since you're a former team member, I think we might have crossed paths on HF a couple years ago :)
Lol why -4 downvotes on this?!?
Not that there were zero, just that they were rare due to entry barriers. If you have evidence to the contrary I would love to see it rather than listen to your pathetic attempt at a clever put down.
I think you raise a good point that often gets forgotten. When you switch from a general purpose tool to something specific, you lose visibility and introspection tools.

I see people move from a filesystem based workflow to a database and while that may be faster and more efficient you lose those tools to look at and tweak data. You either need to write those or teach them how to navigate the database. People rightfully hate black-boxes as soon as stuff stops working as expected.

Personally, I love the Linux command line and will pipe stuff in and out or stash things in flat files. I may move the data back into a spreadsheet to get more visibility or look for trends.
The equivalent is alcohol being prohibited leading to everyone drinking 180 proof smuggled moonshine that makes you go blind.
The only reason we're talking about something as obscure as DOS is because it wasn't threatening. Now that people have raised awareness of the inconstency they're blocking it, like many other general purpose emulators.
Half of the world? We're talking primarily north-american school kids.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chromebook
Yeah, the biggest thing to me here is that there's no "login succeeded" unit test, integration test, manual test, etc. Whatever customer logged in first was the first person to actually run the code.
From the video: "Cloud computing is really a fancy name for someone else's computer."

He goes on to discuss the expansion of "trust boundaries".

Big Tech: Use our computers, please!
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
I have never seen anybody use the "I have nothing to hide" argument, but I have seen many people write rebuttals to it. This effort seems like an enormous waste of time.
Does rule 1. And 3. Not mean you read multiple books at once? Just not simultaneously :)
Lots of things are blatant. However, it takes a lot of money to run something through the legal system, and, if you win, you may still not be in a better position.

This is what allows so much harassment (both general and sexual) to go unchecked. It's better to shut up, bag some amount of experience and move on to a better job than it is to actively fight against it.