skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodwill only ever shows up as the result of an acquisition. If a company with a book value of $1B gets acquired for $10B, the balance sheet of the acquirer will see its goodwill increase by $9B after the acquisition closes. Nobody's doing a bottom up estimate of brand value to come up with that $9B, it's just the fudge factor double entry accounting needs in order to make the Equity = Assests - Liabilities equation continue to hold.
Man made virus leaked intentionally =/ nature virus that escaped by accident. The latter is what is being discussed as possible, the former was and still is a deranged conspiracy.
https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/research/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3RQbsaYfM
> a book on "how to survive the loss of a spouse" is really dark

That's evidence in some states....
This is a great point. One of the ideas we were wanting to get across is that using a very simple tech stack you can get to a number of requests that most services will never meaningfully see. We do have our Django configured to pool connections, but it's configured per process, and not sharing them across all the various web processes that we're running: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/databases/#persist...

I'd be curious to see if there is a meaningful gain from that approach, if anyone has done the transition before.
How did you decide on Intercom over the dozens of competitors in the space?
> One of the more pernicious problems they've faced is the team that holds the base on the bottom half of the map has consistently had an advantage, as much as 5%. This appears to be related to the perspective being 3d in the shape of top down, vs a literal 2d top down view. They've tried a few different ways to balance this, but what's ended up working best is trading it off vs first pick in the lineup drafting phase of the game start.

The opposite to "the enemy's gate is down"
I've been reading the Nheko updates in This Week in Matrix with enthusiasm. How are E2EE and cross-signing coming along? Once those parts are fully implemented, stable, and trustworthy, it will look pretty attractive as a replacement for Element desktop.
Though I have only a recreational interest in datastores, I would be pretty wary of a service that claims to strap a Consistant-Unavailable database (Postgres) to an Inconsistent-Available database (ElasticSearch) in a useful way.

Doing so would require ElasticSearch to reach consensus on every read/write, which would remove most of the point of a distributed cluster. Despite this, ZomboDB's documentation says "complex aggregate queries can be answered in parallel across your ElasticSearch cluster".

They also claim that transactions will abort if ElasticSearch runs into network trouble, but the ElasticSearch documentation notes that writes during network partitions don't wait for confirmation of success[1], so I'm not sure how they would be able to detect that.

In short: I'll wait for the Jepsen analysis.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/blog/tracking-in-sync-shard-copies#:~...
Curious what you learned from DDIA that you wish you knew years ago.
The same thought occurred. And, even if prosecutors correctly thought that this was a waste of time to take to trial, GM saying nope "nothing here" doesn't, shall we say, impress me.
You use the word "but", which implies some kind of inverse relationship between your clauses, but I don't see anything to indicate that.
There is no automatic mechanism that operates independently. The prosecution, defense and judiciary are not GPT-3 robots that can mine through centuries of case law in 2 seconds to achieve a perfectly balanced decision.

If you want regular prosecution of white-collar crimes, you may want to support better funding for these agencies, so they can actually put resources behind investigating and trying cases where criminality occurs.
Here's a link where you can actually view the paper: https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273...

There is also an interactive website where you can play around with some of the data: https://advertising-effects.chicagobooth.edu/

Both are linked from the lead author's website: https://voices.uchicago.edu/bradleyshapiro/
It was done, it had to be done still. Just not that often and it was massive work.

Source: I visited laundry museum once and it was pretty clear they have done it.
Two flaws would be to assume
A) the ccp is a monolithic entity
And
B) they have complete control over tencent et al. Some control isn’t complete control.

Factions exist in the ccp and having outside concentrations of power can lead to dangerous fragmentation that can also affect the internal politics of the ccp
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Ask HN: Would there be any interestest in working on a sort of obit site?
Basically, we need a mechanism to dosument what we did "technobituaries" or some such..

How can you document and claim that you contributed X to Y and why that is important for your kids or such....

But I truely think there is a need for HN to be captured. Archive.me or something...
(Not optimistic, but I figure it's polite to ask rather than assume malice by default:)

How do you intend to insure that your software cannot be used to deny access to porn (and other objectionable content) to users who do want to access it, especially but not exclusively minors whom the software is used against by their legal guardians or other 'legitimate' authority figures.
Is there varied content on micro.blog? The concept is nice (simple social network using RSS) but I’ve been looking at the “discover” page a few times and the content really doesn’t seem interesting, although the vibe is polite and calm.
Ask HN: What tips and tricks do seasoned macOS users have for others?
A guy doing marketing for a travel company once told me they had to spend an enormous amount of money on Google, for their own brand. People would search "brand cityA cityB", but a competitor would buy the top spot. How much were the competitor willing to spend? Basically their whole margin for that sale, as it was still better than nothing. So this company had to match that.

So in the end Google makes more profit per ticket than the companies delivering the service itself.
Indeed. It's the purest form of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
We do a write on every ad view, so there is a bit more complexity here. Most of those writes should be atomic (eg. each ad will only be viewed once) -- but there is a case where an ad might get viewed, then clicked, and we need the view data to know if the click is valid.
For simple queries Postgres can do thousands of requests per second on desktop hardware without any serious tuning. Of course if those are complex queries or if they need to handle a lot of data this can be much, much slower. But Postgres is not slow for simple queries.
Rich people don't go to jail.
I think that speaks to the relative paucity of women in "gaming culture" rather than the purity of women. Were there a concentrated community of female gamers, I wouldn't be surprised if they levied such complaints (consider for example any of the commentary on male Olympic divers in predominantly female circles).
There's a real world version of this, the DePuy Quantified Judgement Method.[1] It's fairly simple - weapons have a weight value (sword=1.0), you add that up for the forces committed,
there's a quality of troops multiplier for each side,
some adjustments for defensive preparations, and you get a measure of combat strength.

DePuy was a US. Army colonel, and the weights come from analysis of real-world battles. His observation is that the side with a 2x advantage almost always wins. If nobody has a 2x advantage, either side can win.

So, real-world war has a "hard counter".
I don't think they ever went to "jail" at all, just home detention. They convinced a Federal judge that “the intent was not there to engage in illegal conduct”.

Gold & Silver Reserve CEO Douglas Jackson was sentenced to 300 hours of community service, a $200 fine, and three years of supervision, including six months of electronically monitored home detention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold#Resolution

It's Wikipedia, so it may not have been updated with all the relevant info.
I once worked on a startup founded by lawyers and they would do this all the time. Never put things in writing that they might be flexible on later. I hated that part.
How does it happen? There are still people throughout this thread downplaying this and making it seem like it's not a big deal. People have been bringing up the issues of sexual harassment in our industry, but folks like James Damore have a lot of support in believing it's just that women are just less interested in technology and don't suffer from any discrimination. You've got literal incels on this site threatening violence and getting support for blaming their problems on feminism. The signs of this behavior are everywhere and women (in particular) have been talking about it for ages. Why has it been so easy to write them off? Efforts to stop these sorts of environments will get companies labeled as "going woke". To me this Activision / Blizzard situation is inevitable when so many of our communities are willfully blind to these behaviors and have been for decades. What isn't being reported on?
When I tried to troubleshoot getting a bank linked to the account, WeChat suspended the account for "suspicious behavior". That was that.
Some of the parents in that room are full time parents. They are engaged with their child from the moment the child wakes them up until the moment that child goes to bed, and then they'll probably be engaged again when that child wakes up in the middle of the night. Just like I need breaks from work to function better during the non-breaks, those parents need time for their brains to relax a bit. That's super normal.
To some extent, it all comes down to identity.

If you knew which unique person was associated with each account and if you knew which unique person you were talking to on the phone, it would be possible to verify both that you are talking to the person you should be and that you aren't talking to Notorious Social Engineer #2344 trying to do something shady.

But instead you're stuck trying to figure out if "Saal Weachter" on the the phone is the proper owner of the 'saalweachter' account, or even if it is someone named "Saal Weachter" on the phone at all.
> people become tired and distracted during long drives

You can have multiple drivers sharing the same vehicle. This is a common occurrence in both commercial and non-commercial situations (e.g. a family trip with two adults alternating driving and rest periods). With 3-4 drivers on hand, either traveling with the vehicle or trading off along the way, a vehicle can be operated continually without any safety concerns, making the EV with its limited endurance and long recharge times the weakest link.
If you can have a presence in Utah or really anywhere in the Mormon Belt (Idaho, Utah, Arizona) you'll likely find many willing early adopters for this. It's pretty common to see billboards on the freeway for adult site blockers, etc.

Specifically near Brigham Young University in Provo...
Is it discrimination if I own a company and only hire my friends who are into the same things as me? Serious question because I don't understand how that's different, if it is.
I found the SupCom 1 controls uncomfortable in the first 20 minutes of the tutorial, and chose not to continue. Life is too short to finish bad books or punishing games; however for me SupCom 2 was a huge ergonomic improvement and if not for that game I wouldn't be playing the series at all.
Overly long, a bit smarmy. The main points, that the audience for that ad aspires to be old money while at best being nouveau riche, and ads that appear to be for women but are placed in a men's magazine are actually for men both seem accurate to me.
The guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ask to use the original title. Small changes are sometimes ok, or sometimes the subtitle. If you are an specialist in this subject it's better to write a nice blog post explaining the errors in the identification.

Looking at that photo, they are putting silos/turbines/flowerpots/whatever in what looks like the dry course of a seasonal river or stream. Is that a good idea?
This is one reason why government should be as small and do as little as possible.
I have a strange opinion that it should be a lot easier to send people to jail and that more people should spend time in jail for real crimes. Ex. First time DWI - straight to jail. None of this "I'm rich and important" or "it's only my first time".

But also that jail time should be short and absolutely not destroy lives. This whole "lottery" thing that jail has become is completely absurd. One person who does zero jail time for a crime while another person has their life destroyed for the same crime.

If we start apply punishment equally without any question then maybe we can get some laws changed.
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted. If you double the size of a water column, you of course double the total weight pressing down. But you've also doubled the cross-sectional area, so the weight-per-unit-area (pressure) remains the same. This is pretty intuitive if you understand what pressure is.
The desktop TOS has a bunch of options analysis tools (mobile has some, too), but honestly I don't use them very much so don't know them too well.
I've banned threads on our work Slack in conversations I'm expected to be involved with because they overwhelm me. Chat is already cleanly two dimensional (by channel and time) - threads add a whole third dimension to the mix meaning I have yet more places to check that I didn't miss something important.
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Contra Acemoglu on Oh God, We're Doing This Again, Aren't We?
From a cursory glance at the comparison shot I'd say it looks like she got a bit older and her face saw a lot more direct sunlight. Pretty reasonable changes if you ask me.
So if I'm hiring someone at what point am I allowed to use my own personal discretion? Am I allowed to dislike someone? Am I allowed to say I don't like them so please don't hire them?
Sigh. Perl. My second love.
> The ground unit cannot hurt the air unit in any way, and the air unit can hurt the ground unit. This relationship is based on innate and immutable differences between the two unit types.

There are some ways in which ground unit can still win the game in this scenario. For example if you can flood the enemy with zerglings and kill his buildings just ignoring the air units slowly picking the zerglins apart.

So, in a way - there are no hard counters either :)
Anecdotally, western democracy was seen as a means to an end for many “common folk Chinese”. The end is prosperity. Now that the prosperity gap has drastically closed (also there are more clear paths to prosperity), the desire has also dissipated. China has also seen a China-like society in Singapore achieve a very strong economic and social outcome with authoritarian government, so western style democracies aren’t the only “role model” so to speak anymore
It was, but it wasn't the original source of that quote.

Someone tried tracking down the source here:
http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/04/what-the-papers-say/
The fact of a thing doesn't imply causality, and if causality is evident in this case, it still doesn't provide a license for glib sarcasm.
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Geocaching
Buses and other modes of public transit can be faster than cars, but also they can be better than cars because you don't have to pay too much attention or drive or park or maintain the damn thing. If I lived in LA and there was a bus only lane on the freeway, the bus would sure as hell be the better option, as it would in many cities. The reason people don't drive for trvial things in Europe is that driving isn't the better option.

Where I live, I take transit or walk almost everywhere, and it would require some exception for me to get a car again. Even on the occasion I use car sharing because I think it'll be faster, I often regret it, because it's not faster and I have to find parking or avoid crashing into people.
I'm building a system for measuring levels in water tanks using submersible pressure sensors (triggered by living in a dry area and being totally dependant on our tanks).

Quality sensors cost a lot - too much for domestic purposes. Much cheaper ones can be bought from China, so I've been looking for some way to test them, without actually altering the level in a gigantic water tank.

It occurred to me I should be able to just use a thin vertical pipe. But as you say, this seems counter intuitive, especially if the pipe is barely wider than the sensor itself. Just doesn't... Feel right.
Expensive, but many families spend more on physio and other professionals (150$-300$ per hour). When we are talking about children's health and future, parents will raid their pensions accounts, grandparent's etc...

Hopefully once they get more popular, the government will pay for it to setup in Rehabilitation centers. From what I saw right now it's mostly private centers that are buying it (US/Canada).
I love Mercedes, yet what got me to buy two cars in particular were YouTube videos by other owners showing just how fun they were.
> there's a specific Threads button that lists all open threads

I can see there's a Threads button next to the search bar, but it appears to be scoped to the channel I'm in; I don't see a way to see threads across all channels.
I tried playing Heroes of Newerth at some point, which was a DOTA clone with voice comms. Right in the first round I get told that I need to be raped and murdered by some punk. I didn't take it personally but that's a very bad onboarding experience and a good learning opportunity for game designers. It's also likely it's the type of game that attracts the more aggressive/testosterone driven player.

Contrast that to say World of Warcraft or LOTRO where most people are very nice, and any ladies that come up on voice comms are treated with respect. This is just anecdata I guess.
Building a Domino Robot
Insane growth with YouTube ads revenue. I don't think any other streaming video service comes close.
I’m a climate change denier. A lot of us keep our opinions to ourselves, mostly because we know we don’t know enough about it.

Articles like these help change my mind.

Well, partly. The question I keep coming to is “how do you know any of this matters, for a definition of ‘matter’ that includes widespread upheaval of human societies?” But at this point I go meh, not worth the risk.

Point is, condescending remarks only push people away from your cause. Why would you want to do that?
Each of those benefits are things I had before using containers or kubernetes, and were simpler.

> Builds with fixed dependencies that never change. Rollback is easy

Any good build system already did this, such as Bazel, or a Gemfile.lock. We'd just snapshot AMIs to keep OS dependencies fixed... which is what Docker images effectively do. If you re-docker-build the same Dockerfile, it's not like you get the same result of "apt-get install libxml" the next time either.

> Easy deployment of a prod environment on a local machine

How containers are deployed varies wildly between prod and the local machine. All the things that were hard before are still hard. Things like secrets and external dependencies still usually vary.

If prod is a kubernetes environment, getting a suitable k8s environment setup locally sucks, especially since it will probably have a different ingress controller, load balancer setup, storage classes available, resource requests, etc.
If prod is kubernetes and local is docker-compose, that honestly seems like just as much work to create a second way to run the stack than just using a bash script + "npm start" or "bundle exec rails server" or whatever.

Either way, it's not really a prod environment. It's hard to run identical-to-prod environments locally, and those problems are related to secrets and clouds and such, not due to the lack of containers, in my experience.

> Fast deployment

In my experience, containers haven't sped up deployment. Let's say you use ubuntu for your host and container's OS. Before containers, this meant you had to download one version of libssl ever, and that was it. If there was an update to libz, that didn't require a new download of libssl. After containers, if you build your container for app1 last week, and your container for app2 today, the "FROM ubuntu" likely resolves to a different image. Both your apps now have different "ubuntu" layers, which probably have the same version of libssl, but deduplication of downloads only happens if the whole layer is identical.

In essence, we went from downloading 1 copy of libssl (for the host OS only) to 3 copies (host OS + 2 containers w/ different ubuntu bases), and there's no deduplication.

That by itself seems like it has to be slower since there's an inherent increase in network bandwidth that has to happen. Even if you have a shared base image, you're at least doubling the downloads of libssl since before you could use the host's copy only.

All the items you listed under k8s are things I had before it, excluding "Abstraction of infrastructure". Frankly, if you have a well-made load balancer, it's hard not to have zero-downtime deployments and auto-scaling.
If 1% of a fanbase of 10 million gets mad then you have 100k angry people. And of those a percent or so will be insane people who likely will murder someone in real life at some point, its just statistics. And those one thousand insane people will create a lot of ruckus, but that doesn't mean their views are shared with the community in general.
For what it's worth, there's an off-the-shelf terraform module for EKS that is far simpler to use than AWS' cloudformation tooling, which does allow you to pass in a custom AMI and multiple nodegroup configurations as input parameters.

https://registry.terraform.io/modules/terraform-aws-modules/...
Not sure what the actual number is but they did report 50% growth for last quarter

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-21-Q3/p...

> Server products and cloud services revenue increased 26% (up 23% in constant currency) driven by Azure revenue growth of 50% (up 46% in constant currency)

edit: my link was for the quarter before but the actual previous quarter (that ended today) still reports 51% growth

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2021-Q4...

> Server products and cloud services revenue increased 34% (up 29% in constant currency) driven by Azure revenue growth of 51% (up 45% in constant currency)
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my mother, my best friend, multiple co-workers and ex girlfriends. Even one person who grew up under the Warsaw Pact, and defected. He would say it, even when he did have something to hide, because he knew that the powers that be could always use something against you. Also known as CYA.
It's a great article.

The real problem with evidence like this is that the "believer" must strive for 100% accuracy; that is really hard.

The "skeptic" only needs to have one single piece of data turn out to be inaccurate, and then can doubt the entire thing; that is really easy.

And, we can hold both things in our heads. I just went to the Newport Aquarium in Oregon. There is a terrific exhibit which shows a paleobotanist discovering fossilized palm fronds in Alaska. The climate has changed radically over time. And, it is still very possible that we are altering it for the worse. And, we should all know we will be impacted whether or not we can find the "right people" to blame for it. Let's not waste time arguing over that, but I suspect the real conspiracy is that we are arguing over that, rather than arguing over how to solve what is inevitable.
I'm troubled that your comment was downvoted. It seems very reasonable. Thank you for posting.