skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current big tech here (not Amazon) and very few know lower level things like C, systems or OS stuff. Skillsets and specializations are different. Your comment is incredibly false. Even on mobile if someone is for instance a JS engineer they probably don't know Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin or Java any native APIs. And for the guys who do use native mobile, they can't write Javascript to save their lives and are intimidated by it.
Badly implemented power limits, 5 mOhm resistors out of spec and bam all of a sudden you go past 350W (or whatever it is) hardware limit.
I think confusion around billing has to be intentional at this point. I would guess they are making >$1b every year due to users not understanding the consequences of their actions fully.
How so? Literally everything you wrote applies exactly the same if you s/E.164 number/email address/g and s/SMS/email/g
Personal offense isn't comedy, it's something else. If you need to pull over to vomit, you have other problems.
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Author here. Amusingly I tried that once with an Android VM; it accepted the input and tried to proceed, then failed with an unexpected error, implying the developer of the application hadn't anticipated this. The account entered some half-created state in which attempts to login with it on the web demanded a phone number.

Interestingly I am also now locked out of an old Gmail account I have had since 2005 in the same way; any attempt to merely login to it yields a demand for a phone number. There is no phone number filed for that account, so this cannot possibly be for "security". It is literally an attempt to extort a phone number out of me if I want access to my own data. One suspects this is probably against GDPR, of course...
thanks for the feedback! I fixed the screenshot.

I definitely agree, trust and safety is going to be the number one priority if I'm able to get this thing off the ground. Ideally though, these aren't really events, they're more casual hangouts, something you would do with a small group friends. So it's different from Meetup in that way.
how is quoting this here relevant? nobody's saying k8s isn't successful or going to be successful—the argument is whether its complexity and layers of abstraction are worthwhile. dropbox is a tool, k8s is infrastructure. the only similarity between this infamous post and the argument here is that existing tools can be used to achieve the same effect as a product. the response here is "that'll never catch on" (because obviously it has), rather it's "as far as infrastructure for your company goes, maybe the additional complexity isn't worth the turnkey solution"
I don't see how that's a better example, and you missed the point. Your example is about someone doing something unethical as part of their job. My example was about someone doing something unrelated to their job duties. That's the entire point I'm making, that things done outside of job duties do not reflect the competency of the job.

If you read the grandparent post, it's about making a judgment about whether one is effective at their job.
To be fair there's some apparent history of Google sabotaging the browser so people favour Chrome.

e.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...

That said, it's not healthy that Mozilla have relied on search revenue from Google.

Personally I've used FF for 10 years+, on Linux nowadays
Since you're leaving off half the cost, it does make the government bloat look slimmer :-)
It’s very clear that Stockfish _claims_ ChessBase violated the terms of the license (and by corollary, ChessBase claims they didn’t) but it’s not at all clear who’s right until the litigation process plays out. One thing I will say is the perceived superiority of ChessBase’s fork (“better than the open source stuff” as you say) has no bearing on either claim.
I don't know how people discover MUDs these days. I discovered them in the mid 90s because I was bored and happened to find out about them on a Usenet feed.
To actually read the text: https://archive.is/EwSWT
It's still a very popular thing for kids to doodle even today.
> Define fair share.

Fair share, the cost to run the country. For most people that's 33% of what we make a year. For megacorps that can be as much as nothing.

> I'll never understand this line of reasoning.

While I understand how some people don't want to give individuals handouts, I don't understand how those same people are ok giving large corporations handouts.

Take Walmart. If the poverty line where the local government steps up to help people out is $12.25 an hour (for 40 hours worked a week), and Walmart only pays out $7.25 per hour (for 40 hours), the it's on the local government to help those people out by giving them that extra $5 an hour. Well that means that walmart didn't pay the real rate for local wages, and the local tax payers got stuck with the bill.

> Would you rather have people who can't earn enough to support themselves earn $0 and rely entirely on public assistance?

Maybe, at least I'm subsidizing individuals and not the shareholders of Walmart. If we free up that person from the burden of working their dead end Walmart job, they would have an opportunity to improve themselves. Sure, many wont, but some will. I don't see how giving that same handout to Walmart helps any individual, those who own Walmart already have plenty.

> Presumably Amazon delivery trucks are using gasoline, and fuel/sales taxes should cover some of those repairs.

We could debate how fair those gas taxes are, and if they pay for themselves.

I don't mind paying for the right to use the road, but many roads weren't built to handle the increased delivery traffic. That delivery traffic is a new burden that Bezos created and got rich off of. Surely the company that gained the most from using the public roads deserves to be billed for their upkeep.
No it doesn't. E.164 is a closed system in which I cannot own my own identifier, in which interconnection is based on an outmoded billing system based on the now false presumption of a circuit switched architecture, and any ability to contact other entities relies on the prior negotiation of some kind of contractual agreement with a carrier, whereas email permits agreement-free federation.
This is not a chatroom, think twice. Climate change won't kill literally everyone.
Comparing type systems to kubernetes seems like an incredible category error to me. They have essentially nothing in common except they both have something to do with computers. Also, there are plenty of well-designed and beautiful type systems, but k8s is neither of those.
Have you tried Dexedrine? It’s the right handed enantiomer of adderall which has less pronounced effects on heart rate, etc.
Exactly. This shows how much power they have over the network, because network is comprised of the middle man.
In this hypothetical scenario the real money might be in consultancy. "Sure, we can get your organisation set up with OpenNotAWSBecauseTrademarks. Our rates are $20K/consultant/week and we expect to bring a team of 5 for a fortnight." It just has to be a comparable cost and financial structure to how a large organisation trying to escape from cloud lock-in would have otherwise expected to engage their cloud architecture consultants or cloud security red team or other cloud specialists and then you're in the game.
Not contradicting, just adding that MS Word for DOS was also somewhat popular.
Church leader outed via Grindr data
From a tech perspective, I find it highly concerning that Grindr provides enough data to vendors to enable this.

If a small investigative team can track down an individual with the data, I can only imagine what more robust reporting organizations could do with the same data.

"Commercially available app signal data does not identify the names of app users, but instead correlates a unique numerical identifier to each mobile device using particular apps. Signal data, collected by apps after users consent to data collection, is aggregated and sold by data vendors. It can be analyzed to provide timestamped location data and usage information for each numbered device."
Stop pretending this is about some kids. I'm talking about the system and culture today. A lot of academic research is broken and you can't pretend you don't see it. The main goal is to maximize metrics.

Just look at many authors' publication lists that look like paper mills. Quantity over quality. Irreproducible results, bad study design, too many hidden variables, unrepresentative subjects. Unrealistic and oversimplistic assumptions. I've even served as subject of studies published in top venues, and I can tell that the study was a joke.

It varies by the area, but this is present everywhere. Just one example: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo....
I disagree. It may not be as direct, but if you're on HN then your lifestyle is likely supported off of the back of poor exploited people.

Sure, it's not your fault that Foxconn employees jump off buildings, but it is why you have your lifestyle. (that's meant to be illustrative, not literal. Hence overly specific to Foxconn)

Sure, it's not in the same way through your direct choices, but like Bezos you are playing the game, and choosing not to reward those supporting your lifestyle.

But more importantly here Bezos is choosing this, as opposed to buying some more and bigger private islands. Yet he's being criticised for this more than if I had.

> If Jeff Bezos gives up the same percentage of his accumulated wealth, that helps many, many, many more people and affects his lifestyle even less.

As someone else wisely pointed out: Bezos has already helped people more than you have. That's how he got his money.

People telling him he "should" give away most or all are ignoring that he earned his vast wealth by creating orders of magnitude larger wealth in the world, and taking a cut for providing what wealth.

Yes, Amazon has done some pretty shady stuff (see book "The Everything Store", for example), but Amazon got big from providing value to people.

That said, no I don't think there should be decabillionaires at all. Nobody can "earn" that much. Nobody is truly that irreplaceable. But given that he is that rich, this spending isn't the unfairness you're looking for.
A lot of banks are offering photoTan. You get a special device just for generating your photo tan. It's more secure than sms tan and you wouldn't need a mobile phone anymore.
What are the forces pushing in the opposite direction? If you look at what happened to Erika Christakis or Bret Weinstein (try to ignore everything that Weinstein has become since then) it's hard to say that academia is not more highly policed than previously. Of course in some ways this is good, in that I recall some professors mercilessly ridiculing some students in front of the whole class, and of course professors having sex with some students which was always terrible but had no consequences until a few years ago.
This is why I abandoned Mac and Windows...

My computer is a workstation, not a playground, and I don't need things randomly rearranged for me.

I resisted for a long time, because Linux seemed like a "hassle", but once I'd had to reconfigure everything several times after upgrades, I realized that I was essentially going through the same process, only on someone else's schedule and not by choice.

After trying out a couple of WMs and choosing one to become familiar with, I've NEVER AGAIN had that experience. Even if a distro has a different default setup, it's a matter of copying the config file I already have saved from a previous install.

What a load off my shoulders!
Here in Sao Paulo, theres a dinner that serves fried rooster testicles.

People will eat the strangest things if they believe it will make them more "manly".
Given how frequent that is with regard to the word murder, I wouldn't be surprised if the definition in all official dictionaries gets updated to include “vehement disapproval and acknowledgment of a killing regardless of legality”

Actually I’ll petition for that right now, since the stewards of those dictionaries probably noticed that context too and would be willing to do their part so that less conversations get auto-derailed
With a non-trivial example that uses readable attribute names, a single, long, space-delimited string becomes more a burden than a convenience, I think. Also, the amount of time saved typing is miniscule in comparison to all the rest of the development work that'll happen.
Y'all may be interested in a fast dataclass-like library I maintain called msgspec (https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/) that provides many of the benefits of dataclasses (mutable, type declarations), but with speedy performance. The objects are mainly meant to be used for (de)serialization (currently only msgpack is supported, but JSON support is in the works), with native type validation (think a faster pydantic).

Mirroring the author's initialization benchmark:

In [1]: import msgspec

In [2]: from typing import NamedTuple

In [3]: class Point(msgspec.Struct):
...: x: int
...: y: int
...:

In [4]: class PointNT(NamedTuple):
...: x: int
...: y: int
...:

In [5]: %timeit Point(1, 2)
48.4 ns ± 0.195 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)

In [6]: %timeit PointNT(1, 2)
185 ns ± 0.851 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)
Except you had access to the capital the whole time via the loans, and only pay back according to the loan schedule, negating most of the tax burden.

Hence the 1% figure based on the numbers you yourself provided.
The article doesn't mention it - and I can't find it anywhere - but in any neighborhood what is the highest proportion of units that are short-term rentals. Five percent? Ten percent in the super touristy areas? I have no idea and even before the other flaws in the study I am skeptical than anything short of 20% would make an impact on any major attribute of an area.

I see one stat in the paper that "40% of buildings had airbnb listings in some tracts" but if the buildings had 10 units in them each this still may mean a relatively small number of total listings were from Airbnbs. In fact, even in Boston there are some tracts where I suppose that the average building must have 30+ units which would meant that if 60% of buildings had no listing the total percentage of listings that are Airbnbs is relatively small.

>higher levels of violent crime did not appear immediately after Airbnb listings became available to tourists, but rather developed over the course of several years, the researchers said.

Alternative theory. Every area had some Airbnbs. In neighborhoods that were being wealthier/more popular/had more jobs decided it was easier to just do long-term rentals. In areas where landlords had trouble renting them out to anyone long-term (because locals know if a neighborhood is nice or not) they turned more units into Airbnbs because outsiders don't know/don't care.
I'm going to get a monocle and a top hat and ride with my nose in the air to enhance my arrogant look!
Because he was busy being CEO of Amazon, one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Now he will spend most of his time on Blue Origin.
This is fun. I can play too. East Texas is also still in Texas. South Texas is still in Texas. And wait for it... North Texas is in Oklahoma? No, that's not right. It's also still in Texas.
I like the name. The website is pretty clear. But like another commenter it wasn't obvious that you have this complex UI builder. It seemed more like a template library.

As a developer my first concern is about the quality and maintainability of the code. If I can't write the code to begin with, then I won't be able to maintain it either. What might be interesting to me is a component generator instead of a whole site generator. For example if I want to make a list with a search box, I could see using a GUI to scaffold this out, download the skeleton code, and then fill it out from there. But I'm not sure I would pay for the service.

It looks from the tutorial that you handle firebase integration on the backend. But when I skimmed your landing page my impression was that it just generated the code to interact with firebase, but didnt manage a firebase acct etc. That actually is pretty cool if you provide end to end management and hosting of the server that talks to firebase.

Congratulations on getting a quote from the CTO of Stripe. I would feature that higher up on the landing page.

Who are your target users? If they are developers looking for great React code then I would feature more example code snippets. If its non technical folks who want a basic marketing page or simple sass product then I wouldn't feature React as a selling point and instead focus on things like ease of use, page load speed, etc (where React may be irrelevant or a negative).

My project is knotend (there's a top level comment) if you have time to try it out.
Maybe criminals like staying at Airbnb. They have the cash after all and Airbnb can easily be used to hide ones identity.
When I said "particular", I meant it as a synonym to "specific". If that's wrong, my apologies, but that's how I understand it.
Where is the evidence to support this? Utter fabrication.
Yes. People don't know and most don't care.

For example, the EU parliament has just recently passed legislation to allow "providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police."

Most people I talk to don't know about this. When they hear it, they're in shock. And then go on living their lives. It's really very intangible to most people.

Source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parlia...
We Are Leaving 'Lost Einsteins' Behind
That doesn't stand scrutiny of the facts. Tesla lost money on every Model S.
Author here. I also had this issue and switched banks to fix this, as I also wrote about: https://www.devever.net/~hl/phonebank
Their ‘normal’ lifestyle is as comparatively extravagant anyway, regardless of space travel, just less reported on. It being on cable news doesn’t change that.
I believe you are correct. The IBM PC's direct competition was not so much Apple but 'business standard' CP/M Z80/8080 machines from a variety of vendors.

Also IBM was under an antitrust decree requiring reasonable and discriminatory licensing, so they didn't have much choice in the matter. Once this was lifted, they went the Microchannel route.
Hasn't there been many years where Bezos paid no taxes?
Yeah, but the people are not exactly "fundamentally in control" if opposition candidates and critics keep mysteriously falling out of windows, drinking plutonium tea, and accidentally getting jailed.
They'll ruin your submarine legislation if you're not careful
We use difference-in-difference models (Eq (1)) to test whether a rise in the prevalence of Airbnb in a census tract in one year predicts increases in crime and disorder in the following year.
...
The models control for tract-level and year fixed effects. In order to make the parameter estimates that follow more interpretable, we note that the average census tract in the average year experienced 11.32 events of private conflict, 7.68 events of public social disorder, and 28.58 events of public violence per 1,000 residents.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

I've not dug into the study enough to vouch for its quality as a whole - but it's clear the researchers are plenty aware of the differences between correlation and causation and are at least attempting to address them. This is actually often the case with scientific papers, even if it's lost in the media coverage of them.
I wholeheartedly agree.

For security purpose, email or any 2 factor authentication system is better.

For providing uniqueness, as already proven by the current market, it's easy to get a new number for free and bad actors can automate that for a price.

I would say if you're doing a service where uniqueness matters, you should rely to government documents verification (eg. https://identity.stripedemos.com/, 1.5$ per user), which, unfortunately, we're all required to have.

That said, no big tech exec will listen to this.

It's not all bad, I don't really need one more reason not to use Twitter or Google.
Sounds like good material for this website:
https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Was this information "hacked" from the US government or a corporation? We've frequently seen dumps of information from corporations and governments that could not be acquired legally but leveraging them is, IMO, a net good. There is no "person" that's being harmed, just a company's profits.
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No, they can't. The resource they're limited on isn't money, it's time. The window of time they have to respond to a genuine distress call is very small.
>Just since the beginning of 2021, and according to StatCounter, Firefox may have lost

Who doesn't block statcounter.com!?

Edit: Apparently the guy following my comments works for them.
clang's -Wshorten-64-to-32 can catch this:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wshort...

The more general-purpose -Wconversion has many false positives, often around int to char conversion. Some functions like int toupper(int) have an unexpected int return type to deal with special out-of-bound values like EOF.
Energy consumption is not a problem, provided it comes from the sun. The sun is going to burn and blast the earth with energy, whether we harness it or not.

Harnessing the sun's energy and applying it towards water desalination and distribution would allow us to grow all sort of plants (including trees) in areas that would otherwise be unable to sustain plant growth.

Plants are composed largely of carbon that is extracted from the air, so the more plants you can grow, the closer we get to solving global warming.
> The British had an issue with people killing themselves with oven fumes, back when the ovens used coal gas which created a lot of carbon monoxide, with this accounting for about 50% of suicide deaths.

This detail is a little wrong or at least confusing. The coal gas (typically called "Town gas") was about 10-20% carbon monoxide, along with hydrogen, and other flammable gases. When set aflame in a ventilated room, the carbon monoxide burns - like the other gases - producing mostly carbon dioxide which is still slightly poisonous but since we breathe huge amounts of it already it's not near the top of your list of problems.

In this era British people (maybe 1000 per year or so) commit suicide by turning on the gas supply to an oven but not lighting it. The phrase "stick my head in the oven" signifies suicide for this reason, the implication is not that you would cook your head, but that you would deliberately breathe the poisonous carbon monoxide and die.
If there was a simple and dignified way to end my life I think I would have done it multiple times already. My whole life so far has been a struggle with feeling that I am not fitting in, with social anxiety, depression and other stuff. There have also been good times but it seems whenever I start to believe that life is good, something happens, and the happiness is taken away. The older I get the more tired I get and I really don’t feel anymore like fighting to find a place in life where I feel ok.

What’s holding me up mainly is that this would probably freak out family and friends and I don’t want to be a burden to them. I also still have the hope that one day things will get better but that hope is diminishing.

I just watched somebody go through a serious cancer treatment and I am 100% sure that I wouldn’t have gone through the treatment but would have ended it. I don’t want to go through the hell of treatment only to end up back in a life that’s not much fun either.