skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the difference between the linked repo and the hosted service at https://till.datahen.com/api/v1 ? Why do I need to sign up for a token if I am hosting my own server? Or otherwise, why do I need to host a server if I'm just calling your APIs? What sort of scraped data is exposed to the till hosted service?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I suspect it's due to the last sentence, but getting 2000 calories of food for less than $2 is very doable:

https://www.upstart.com/blog/lowest-cost-per-calorie-foods

2. White rice – $0.41 per 2,000 calories

7. Peanut butter – $1.25 per 2,000 calories

8. Whole milk – $1.37 per 2,000 calories

9. Pinto beans – $1.39 per 2,000 calories

13. Eggs – $1.61 per 2,000 calories

Add in a few extra dollars for fruits/vegetables and you got a balanced meal for less than 1 hour of the federal minimum wage.
Does it also include microtransactions?
Sounds similar to this blog post by the founder of SO

https://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-f...
Going by this rationale, are you going to add Apple ID to your website when users request it?
You should subtract capital gains.

Unless you know of a way to put $84k/year into a roth account.
Vitess still does this. It can also do similar with writes on hot rows where someone is incrementing a counter for example.
In my experience, the architecture is not relevant at all for the success of a business.

It's alignment with the company structure is.

The same way Conway's law tells us that company structure and the communications should be in sync, the architecture should match the teams.

As a rule of thumb... the good architecture is the one that minimize the communication within the different teams.
They are not giving new argument (and it's mostly the same person) they are making the same claims that are not being backed up (i.e. scientifically demonstrated).

We can speculate all we want that means nothing.

With regards to doing something about "it" what demonstrated consequences of climate change is it you mean we don't know how to deal with? I never claimed we shouldn't deal with it, just that it's neither existential nor something we can't handle.
Not to be a spur under your saddle, but why not just collect the junk to a higher orbit for reuse at a later date; maybe as extra parts for space station repair? It's expensive to get material up there, so why send it down into an incinerator so no one can use it?
All PII must be encrypted at all times. At the field level.

Translucent Databases explains how.

https://www.amazon.com/Translucent-Databases-Peter-Wayner/dp...

http://wayner.org/node/46

Source: Was once an insider. Created and ran electronic medical record exchanges.
They're not forcing you to use it. They're only forcing developers to give you the option. For you as a user there are only positives and no negatives.
Is there a safer alternative phone/os that can’t be broken into by Cellebrite?
The "dynamics at play" here begins and ends with the company itself making deals with authoritarian countries. The fact the brunt of the consequences trickles down to employees or students who grew up and live in a society with free expression and independent judicial systems is merely just side effects.

I find it very difficult to point the finger at those individuals.

The amount of extrapolation being done here from a single post on social media is almost ridiculous. Not to mention communicating on personal profiles, not as some representative for the company. Context and intention matter.

This will ultimately have a wider effect on society as a whole, if organizations decide to act as proxies for countries with different value systems and people bring out pitchforks over some mindless throw-away social media content. We'll end up with the society we all choose to create.
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ActionCable (for Rails) was pretty just drop it in and it works, in my experience
Peter Drucker wrote a really good essay called The Second half of your life. I can’t find it online outside of buying the Essential Drucker, but this article covers some of the points: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/peter-druckers...
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I don't know, how could figuring out the message is about arranging an extramarital affair or discussing cancer treatment options with your spouse be an invasion of privacy.

/s

This stuff is so obvious that it's obviously just willfull at this point.
The FARA source doesn't support your conclusion here, which leaves the Daily Caller, which is a white supremacist rag that Tucker Carlson puts out.

In other words, you have no evidence to support this.
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What properties the doll or figurine have to satisfy to not be propaganda?

There are hundreds of barbie occupations: yoga teachers barbies, ballerina barbies, hairdresser barbies, chef barbie, meme maker (? lol) barbie ... do they all count as propaganda too?
Is this really necessary? How many implementations of the standard library do we need? I get the feeling that engineers love reinventing the wheel so much that they forget to ask themselves what's wrong with the current wheel. My last company had its own implementation of the stl and it was a piece of crap, productivity would've gone way up if we just used the normal implementation and boost threading. Maybe I'm just projecting, but I get the feeling this company wasn't the only one that has made that mistake.
From one perspective, they won't know or care either way, so that's why it's important to showcase diverse careers and individuals, so that it can just become "normal".
I tend to believe the statement -- I don't know about the "happiness" aspect per se but regarding doing all those things you told yourself you'd do, yeah for sure. During COVID lockdown I saw hundreds of instances of a meme something along the lines of:

"I used to think I just didn't have the time for all the things I wanted to accomplish; lockdown proved that isn't true!"

Not exactly scientific, but I can relate to that.
> I'd be really interested in the answer, because if it is yes, then Google is surely collecting way too much information

An example from the article has an employee listening to children's voicemail. Google operates a voicemail service. It is not clear to me how you would operate a voicemail service without storing that data somewhere. (Yes e2e encryption, however let's acknowledge that is very uncommon).

Google operates a number of services (docs, Gmail, photos, etc) that require the storage of sensitive data and I am actually happy they have programs that seem to be catching internal abuses.
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This is why I max out my HSA and don't withdraw since it became available to me (unfortunately this was until my 30s)

Have you considered moving to a country with quality healthcare at cheaper price? Mexico comes to mind
That is like... ENIAC levels of performance. I want to say at least the interpreter has more RAM available to it than an ENIAC would, but I'm not sure enough of how malbolge works to be sure about that!

On behalf of the HN gestalt, I award this program the official Hacker News Bloatiest Bloat award for 2021. HN commentators are now invited to derail the perennial bloat arguments with constant observations that "At least it's not as bloated as that Lisp interpreter written in Malbolge."

SIGBOVIK also take note.
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> What boggles the mind is people are often sold the cloud even though their org isn't serving millions of users, and could just as easily operate as a box in a closet.

Capex vs opex may play a part here. Also, companies in general seems to have transitioned to using services in general. 20/30 years ago companies had cleaners in them. Now everyone uses a cleaning service.
Okay, China Daily paid for ads. Any evidence that "CCP paid The NY Times, LA Times, and other major papers to [...] not publish COVID lab leak pieces during 2020"?
From Wikipedia: "The slave patrols' function was to police enslaved persons"

How can their function have been to "police" slaves, when policing hat not yet been invented and only evolved from those slave patrols? And how did governments keep order before slavery made the invention of "police" possible?

In any case, what does it matter what it evolved from?
I guess they are refering to mmap (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html).
In go you can use the mmap syscall directly (low level, not supported on all targets/OSs). I believe there are a few libraries that offer wrappers around the syscall/emulate the syscall if not available).
It's not illegal by itself, but will get you fired.

There are exceptions, of course, e.g. revealing trade secrets or insider information on a publicly traded company.
This seems like a good thing for FB and users (isn't that why researchers playing with homomorphic encryption more and more)?

This way, FB gets to make money off ads with fewer privacy concerns.

I have no insider knowledge but I fully expect Apple, Google and MS are actively trying to do this too.
If you invest in S&P 500 index fund you don't need to sell until after retirement.
If you've ever talked to anyone that has done FIRE or just retired a few years early, it's always health insurance. The current US system of healthcare via your employer is a huge blocker to any kind of alternative lifestyle. Have to wait until 65 (or like 68 by the time most of us can retire)
Looks interesting, but the README is thin on espousing the benefits. Questions that come to mind:

- What stands out about it?

- Benchmarks?

- What platforms are supported?

- How is it differentiated today vs. 15 years ago? Qt wound up with its own 'standard library'-alike types mainly because the STL (and its implementations across platforms) were not really up to snuff when it started out. I suspect this may be similar.

- Does anyone have direct experience to share? :-)

Edit: Found some info at https://eastl.docsforge.com/master/faq/#info2-what-uses-are-... and benchmarks at https://eastl.docsforge.com/master/benchmarks/

Especially interesting for me as Linux dev: "[...] EASTL is significantly more efficient than Dinkumware STL, and Microsoft Windows STL [...] EASTL is roughly equal in efficiency to STLPort and GCC 3.x+ STL, though EASTL has some optimizations that these do not."
Not only that, but if they can generate meaningful targeted advertising from encrypted data, that would be pretty a strong indicator that the encryption method is not strong enough. Ideally, encrypted data must be indistinguishable from random noise.
I think about this a lot. No one can predict what will happen, but I don't see how it could possibly replace fiat currency. Governments are financed by debt, which they want to issue in a currency they control. The US gov does not want to issue bonds in a currency that they can't debase. That would be risky.

So, since they must issue bonds in dollars, they must also pay interest in dollars. They get this money from tax revenue. But that means they can never allow people to pay their taxes in anything but dollars, because they would risk losing money to volatility.

That in turn means that Americans will always need dollars no matter what, which means that they in turn have to careful about accepting something that's volatile with respect to the dollar.

So maybe it'll be a secondary currency that people use for certain discretionary things, where transaction costs are otherwise high, or when bitcoin is high against the dollar. But people will always have to think about what bitcoin is worth in terms of their countries fiat currency, and someone must take the volatility hit.

That doesn't mean it couldn't be useful as a store like gold. But there bitcoin faces strong competition because I don't think it will get much of a network effect if that's it's main purpose.
Replying to the university's claim directly:

> Der Wunsch der ehemaligen Betreuerin, sich klar zu distanzieren, ist nachvollziehbar, wenn ein Rassismus-...

"Nachvollziehbar" mag sein, wenn -- warte mal, was war das da mit dem "Rassismus"?

> ...Vorwurf im Raum steht.

Nein. Wenn was "im Raum steht" ein blosser "Vorwurf" ist, dann erwewist die ehemalige Betreuerin sich mit ihrer übereilten Distanzierung als Vollblut-Arschloch.

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For you non-German-speakers, in (my personal translation into) English:

> The wish of the ex-advisor to clearly distance herself is understandable, when racism...

"Understandable" may be, if -- wait a minute, what was that about "racism"?

> ...has been alleged.

No. If this "racism" has only "been alleged", then the ex-advisor, in her over-eagerness to distance herself, reveals herself to be a pure-bred asshole.
"I am a profesional in the science industry and the profession is so debased I would not recommend my children to get into the field. We all talk about burnout and loss of meaning."

I'm curious to hear more about this. What's causing the debasement and loss of meaning in the field?
The abuse is that Facebook won't refuse updates to your customers' devices if you choose not to opt into their SSO, but Apple most certainly will.

The problem is not the social sign in aspect, but that fact Apple forces you to implement it if you use their competitors' service.

Had Sign in with Apple not been mandatory, but merely something customers would ask developers for, then I'd consider the framework to be fair game. This simply isn't that.
Well, what can I say, I am sorry. I am sorry for having to do this and wish things were different

But it is the only way I can shed light on Apple's behavior. I promise to add a transition mechanism, happy? I will still make sure users get to read some "Apple bad" message to highlight the reason behind Apple ID not being straightforward on the web
Lumping your comparison to include people without high school degrees with lawyers is making a huge mistake. At a minimum the comparison should be between collage graduates and lawyers minus the opportunity cost of law school.

Consider, when comparing starting salary your accountant or whatever not only makes money in both years a lawyer is in law school they also likely have two raises before the lawyer gets his first paycheck and start paying back undergrad loans while a lawyer is still adding interest and new debt.

If your opportunity cost from loans, tuition, lost wages and delayed carrier advancement adds up to a conservative 10k/year after taxes for the rest of your life, then your 72k pre tax lawyer is actually making the equivalent of ~58k pre tax and 1/2 of starting Layers are doing worse than that.
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I think this puts it in perspective more; if I understand what you're saying correctly, then setup essentially gives you more fine-grained control over Vue's reactivity system, as opposed to just doing it all for you when a component is created. Which allows you to more easily pull out & consolidate reusable logic as needed.

It is kinda nice making reactive state really explicit like that; I like Svelte's approach for similar reasons.
I assumed this was the goose they were talking about.

A+
Are there any international law hurdles for this type of operation? I recall seeing mention of prohibition or at least a grey area around satellite docking / movement by government agencies because of the potential military applications.
You'll find no disagreement from me on this topic, and it's going to be fascinating to continue to live through the era of a deeply-interconnected world where the most populous country in the world is governed by an authoritarian regime.
Jawas. Love it. And you are spot on, this is the first step towards expanding to Asteroid resource extraction!
> how far are you willing to go to further a good cause?

But what, exactly is the "good cause" here? Is the good cause to force Apple to stop delivering an experience that we've already established throughout this thread is an experience Apple users want?

There are so many problems and battles to be fought in tech, so much abusive behavior, so many dark patterns. This is not that. If this is the cause you're fighting, I fear you've missed the forest through the trees.

Unless you had something else in mind, in which case I'm genuinely curious.
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China Daily actually paid mostly (if you actually read the FARA documents that were falsely cited above as evidence) to print copies of the China Daily for dissemination in the US. That's very clear from the documents. The advertising was a relatively minor endeavor by comparison and limited mostly to buying WaPo ads, whereas they paid a number of papers to print the China Daily.

There's no evidence at all that US papers were paid to publish "propaganda pieces".
I took a 'Proper Gander' at it and without praising Mattel I couldn't overly condemn them for it either.
Every C++ shop that I've worked in has done the same thing.
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Just to be clear, I believe this is an emergent phenomenon with social media and the internet. "21st century" maybe would be better stated as around 2009 or so.

If 9/11 happened in the current world (under trump OR biden), the political circus, division, and paranoia would be immense.
I don't have any and it's my opinion.
It's more a general consideration and AppleID is just one specific instance.

I would still be happy they tried even if something like AppleID would turn out to be a bad idea, provided enough of these efforts turn into something valuable to me.
What would justify a year long crash course, assuming you have a functioning memory? I still cannot think of anything that has actually changed, in a fundamental way, over the last 15 years.
I know of a case when the salesman-CEO sold a freaking demo. (Helped the company to stay afloat, but the devs had to work hard to turn it into something of a product as fast as they could.)
There's a modern rhetorical trend where the phrase "common sense" just means "whatever I personally think to be obviously right", so that's given me a pretty strong distaste for anything/anyone using it.

But I maybe shouldn't make the assumption that that's how it's used here.
> they stopped incorporating allied troops as paid and respected units within the Roman military command structure, and instead had them operate under their own kings, paid with conquered land.

So in essence... they privatized the military?
> unless this is yet another counterintuitive feature of high-dimensional geometry

As it turns out, that _is_ another feature of high-dimensional geometry. The details depend on how many dimensions your images have, the similarity metric being used, how big your database, is, ....

For a brief illustration, consider standard euclidean space. If your images have D dimensions, ignoring some pathological cases you can find a point equidistant from D+1 of them (and if you have more dimensions to work with you have a lot of points to choose from). If D+1 < (40% of database) then you've accomplished your goal.

Note: It is possible for such a point to be arbitrarily far from the rest of your database (in context, that it would look nothing like a face). Spare dimensions can give you enough freedom to place it "in the middle" of your database in some sense, not just some point in the middle of nowhere that's an equally bad match for everything.
The article specifically says that some portion of those terminated employees were caught sharing internal documents externally (leaking).
So what’s an alternative to react for simpler websites like blogs? Surely the answer isn’t to just go for vanilla js and html? There’s a lot of differences between browsers and a lot of abstraction that lets me just get to work in react. I’ve built a couple of blogs, using react for the frontend, and I didn’t see anything wrong with that.
The problem is it’s association with http/3… ‘3 is better than 2, so we should upgrade, right?’
> The greatest expense for me in retirement is now health insurance

Obamacare changes that. If you don't have much income you get ACA federal tax credits.
They are not, they are referring to "Homomorphic encryption" which basically allows you to do computation on encrypted data without decrypting it or otherwise reveal the encrypted data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Again, something can be a problem without growing into a bigger problem.
Medicare. To be eligible for Medicaid, you have to be quite lacking in assets.
This one's massive, and probably the biggest culprit. I was fortunate enough to be in an area where you could choose the default high school (college prep), or be bussed to the regional vocational school where you alternate doing one week of academic work and one week of your trade. And of course, those that went to the vocational school were looked down on as being dumber. And once you're in the college prep high school, it's just always looming over you: what colleges you looking at? What major do you want to study? What are your safety schools and reach schools?? You are looking at colleges right now while you're only 15 and a freshman and have no idea what the fuck you want to do for the rest of your life right???

And then that's how you land up with the only 25% of kids that enter college actually graduating. So many kids who aren't sure what they want to do (or just straight up aren't cut out for that kind of work) are shoved into college, rack up debt, drop out with nothing to show for it, and don't know where to go next.
Says how luck weighs in one's life and how dealing with chaos, randomness and risks is important.

My first gig felt horrible, I left for freelance, drowned and never recovered.

Also the importance of networking and support.
This is one of the ideas Jordan Peterson lectures. People don't try to make the best decision, they make the decisions this is least likely to get them in trouble with their boss.
I wonder if this fact makes it easier to attain some form of early retirement in countries with more extensive public health care. I guess it would have to be weighed against the (assuming here without numbers) higher earning potential/lower taxes in the U.S.
I'm very confused by the OP.

There's legitimately nothing "simple" about the massive container ship system described in the OP. It's a complicated semi-autonomous cyber-physical system with multiple complex failure modes possible in the software, electrical, hydraulic, and/or mechanical domains. The reason said system has both the superficial appearance of simplicity to its operators and the high-probability of low-downtime is because its very complex systems and subsystems were fastidiously designed and built using tools, processes, and practices which helped manage and understand all that complexity. Not because it is "simple".
Funny that for an "ad" company, I do not see a single ad on their frontpage nor on any pages that require me to create a facebook account.