skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The stacking of improbabilities is a head scratcher.

"This study applies Benford’s law to detect anomalies in county-level vote data for the 2020 US presidential election. Most prominent distribution violations are observed with Republican vote counts in blue states, all vote counts in states won by the Democratic candidate, and Democratic vote counts in swing states. Distributions are anomalous in swing states won by the Democratic nominee and not anomalous in swing states won by the Republican nominee. The results are robust to two-digit analysis, Monte Carlo simulations of p-values, broad or narrow swing state definitions, and when compared to distributions observed in 2008, 2012, and 2016 elections." - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3728626
i wonder for how long tencent and the other conglomerates will obey these orders

Strange question with what I would consider to be an obvious answer. They will obey for as long as they want the profits they get from China's market of video game players for instance. Which strikes me as pretty much "forever".

What company is gonna leave and give that kind of gift wrapped profit center to someone else voluntarily?
That's Australia only and (hopefully) temporary. Do agree that it has authoritarian aspects to it.
Would love it if you could detect hemorrhagic vs ischemic so people at risk could keep tPA at home!
That makes sense and I should have thought of it with all of the packages I've ordered from Canakit
>> (on) stories about crypto being inscrutable to those looking in from the outside

So... half the reasons are those you mention... subculture. Alien ecosystem, hard to distinguish between geniuses, quacks and con artists, blade runner theme music.

The other half is because crypto is an unregulated, start up financial sector. Stories and headlines about the financial sector tend to also look inscrutable those on the outside. Chase a rabbit down a financial story for real, and it always leads to a "they can't do that! outrageous!"

The fun thing about the gamestop thing, a few months back, was that every person had reached a different outrage. Margin lending by default. That the brokers' business model is selling users' trading data to competitors who frontrun it. That the hedge funds targeted for the short squeeze is the attackers' brokers' investor/partner/customer. That there is a layer of private clearing houses between brokers and markets that regulate the market. That this private regulator can impose unlimited capital requirements on brokers. That it did so, cutting most retail investors out of the market while institutions sorted out their positions. Etc.

Stablecoins are basically an unregulated USD account. Sounds innocuous enough, until you consider that USD is just numbers in regulated USD accounts. Someone is making US dollars, and it's not the issuer of that currency. That's what a totally unregulated bank is.

So... it's only natural to think "scandal" when you hear that some billionaire and a financial demigod minted $60 billion US Dollar denominated money.
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Terminal?

Maybe not very Mac. ;-p
If you find a software bug in an ATM that gives you all the money from the machine it absolutely would be considered theft. A bad lock on a door (or even no lock) doesn't give you the right to steal things behind that door. IMHO this is how the law would look at it and not care a wit about whether or not there was a flaw in the software. IANAL but have seen this kind of argument play out ever since computer bugs were exploited by unauthorized individuals.
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4 years my manager never shows himself, never calls and never sends messages to anyone. I cant tell if he aced it or simply doesnt care to do work. He might be dead for all i know.
> You turned his "I despise libertarianism" into "an aspiring central planner

No, sir. I turned his "preferred solution to the problems created by cryptocurrencies is to treat them all like child pornography: totally illegal, possession a strict liability offense, choke off interoperability with real currencies at the credit agency/bank interchange level, and make them useless for non-criminals, at which point only criminals will bother with them. And India is going down this route"

into that. Despising Libertarianism is merely co-occurrent, proceeding from the same philosophies.
I like it. It is hard to read and easy to skip over, which is just about perfect for tweets.
Can I cache my API response if it contains data from Google geocoding/places API
Can I cache my api response if it contains data from google geocoding/places api having that caching is prohibited by google policies.

Can I store any data received from google api endpoints having that database is some kind of cache.
The new font is also destroying Arabic and Farsi text. Does Twitter not have a single Farsi or Arabic speaking employee?

This is an indication that they really don't value diverse employees there. Can't believe no one was like "hey this is destroying readability of these two major languages."
Division of political maps will always be problematic in the USA because it is a multi-racial and two-party country, with a high number of non-citizen irregular migrants.

In that scenario, long-term demographic factors (and how they are shaped by Government policy) should also be placed under the same scrutiny as gerrymandering.

If one party tweaks the system to give them an advantage in the next election, how does that compare to one party tweaking the system to give them an advantage for the next 100 elections?

The worst case scenario is that the USA turns into a one-party state with effectively no opposition - at which point it ceases to be a democracy.
> if Reddit were to strongly disallow any or all of the above we have seen how EASY it is to simply clone the tech and re-host

this seems doubtful to me. Reddit has tons of legendary threads, AMAs and is its own library of content at this point, similar to YouTube. Sure the tech could be replicated but the value is all in the content it generated.
I mean, he's correct in the same sense that a Buick can't be made to haul a fifth wheel trailer. It's because a modern Buick's design doesn't include the bed required to install the fifth wheel on.

Nevermind that there's nothing strictly stopping GM from changing the designs for Buicks to include a vehicle capable of a fifth wheel mount.
Why is this being downvoted other tha people not reading properly? Saving “+ / a $30k” means occasionally “saving negative $30k”.

What was meant was “saving ~$30k”, which is impressive. Don’t use “+ / - $X” because it doesn’t mean what you think
A lot of font foundries switched from one-time lump-sum payments to pay-per-use, thinking they’d make a whole bunch of money from the scale of big digital companies, and not realizing this would just cause these companies to design their own fonts instead. Really short-sighted IMO.
You don't need to psychoanalyze Lindell to assess this situation. He released data at this event. It's on Github now. It's nonsensical.
Or I can just get paid cash under the table, same thing
clang already builds Linux kernel on Mountain View dungeons, and it has been doing that for a couple of years now.

Those changes just don't get to upstream.
We don't have to parse the quotes. The garbage data is on Github.
>They only reason they're not insanely profitable is complete and utter mismanagement.

It's hard to take this statement seriously, at least look into the business before making claims that it should be "easy". How did you come to your $10/ride number? Over what distance/time are those rides? How are those rides spaced during the day? How many drivers can you keep on standby to service those rides. Those questions are incredibly important into whether you can achieve a sustainable business that you have handwaved away into "$10/ride".
Eh, I've seen it done rarely from time to time, but there's more effort in catering to the HN audience specifically. This post is more generic content you'd see thrown to any link-aggregator/social media. Additionally it seems to be bad form to try to abuse the Ask HN section when normal HN posts repeatedly failed to obtain any traction.
"hacker news" is mostly, after all, not about security penetration.
I've wanted the Etcher Pro to come out because I used to manage dozens of IoT devices, it took the better part of two days to flash operating systems onto them before I could deploy them into the field. The Pro would've made that process take minutes instead of days!
Thank you! I didn't know this and it leaves me feeling conflicted. I haven't used Balena Etcher in a while, but I used to use it all the time. I've been using the official tool from Raspberry Pi lately. I wonder if their tool does this.
Hadn’t heard of SWC, only esbuild. Why did your team choose SWC/rust over esbuild/go? This: https://mobile.twitter.com/rauchg/status/979525321882984448 ?

Thanks a lot for Next.js and the Vercel platform. Both are great.
It's unbelievable how inconsequential most of those are...

Unlike other things, if you didn't have them, you wouldn't really think twice about them in the first place, except as very minor inconveniences...
By that definition, "business environment" just describes the universe at large. Meteor strikes are part of the business environment. Nuclear war is part of the business environment. Solar flares are part of the business environment.

I'm not saying it's wrong in some general philosophical sense, but you've taken a useful phrase and turned it into a useless one.
Be careful with those. Diver's Alert Network states that full face snorkeling masks can cause dangerous hypercapnia unless they have tight seals and working one-way valves.

https://blog.daneurope.org/en_US/blog/are-full-face-snorkeli...
> This kind of corporate "we need to be seen to be doing something rather than nothing" stuff does wind me up

Do you see the long list of substantive work done, in this underfunded open source project?
If you add the website to homescreen (make it an “app”) then the 7 day storage limit does not apply.

This makes total sense to me, and I’m happy Facebook can’t store tracking data in my Safari for longer than 7 days.
I'm not sure about other places, but at Uber specifically, it was a combination of explosive early growth (and subsequently teams finding themselves having to justify their continued employment) combined with the notion that "Uber scale" was really really big and required custom solutions (never mind that AWS scale actually is orders of magnitude bigger)
It will be really interesting to see how this space evolves, particularly given the massive market opportunity. With a heavyweight like Marqeta, will Lithic's focus on being the most developer centric allow them to succeed?

Kinda reminds me of accepting payments space a little less than decade ago when Paypal was the heavy weight (i.e., Marqeta currently) and Stripe was just starting to really grow (i.e., Lithic here).
I don't know about Twitter, but HN font (or colours, or spacing, I don't know) has always given me headaches. And I almost never have headaches otherwise.
Yes, send all your data to someone’s server instead.
You seem to know a thing or two. Could you point me to an intro for material/physics simulation? Keywords and such? Some basic ideas or even tutorials how this is approached and the common pitfalls?

Is water simulated like gas, sand, or spaghetti? Are internal grid configuration and electromagnetic properties considered usually? Water's chemistry and physics makes it such a special thing, no? What's the scale when things commonly fall apart? Is quantum computation a possible answer to scalability? Can you "divide and conquer" a fluid system? Do real life model measurements tell you much about upscaled applications?

I only know people hate fluid dynamics studying physics and that it's a hard problem.
Read harder. https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web#more-than-just-another-...
Apple and Google seem spooked by bill requiring more app stores and sideloading
> You're gonna have the same fomo with death in the future as you do now.

I'm sure my ancestors worried constantly about their next meal because starvation was a very real possibility, but luckily I don't think about starving even though it's technically still possible. I hope that in the future the same is true of disease and non-accidental death.

The point is having as much time as you want to do the things that interest you. Nobody should be forced to live when they don't want to, and nobody should be forced to die when they don't want to. Pretty simple really.

> We've already found out how … Have children

Come on now, we both know that a legacy isn't remotely the same as not dying.
I struggled with whether or not to include that one.. haven't actually read it and wasn't sure.

The whole genre is "Lost World" and goes all the way back to King Solomon's Mines in the 1800s.
g has an ugly tail, and ? kerning is too small.

cnet's font is kind of ugly, too...
I think that's a valid concern. Stuff like this should only be allowed after a prompt where the user explicitly allows it, just like any other permission
>having Fansubs available for all anime (no longer do anime clubs watch raw anime and have to debate afterwards what the plot was! Yes, that’s actually how they’d watch anime back in the 1970s–1990s

This actually sounds really fun and makes me feel nostalgic for the 90s
Trivia: B-612 is the name of the asteroid home of the Little Prince of the eponymous story. That name is derived from the name of the aircraft flown by author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Saint-Exupéry was a pilot.
Thanks for sharing. I think everyone here will recognize themselves, at least occasionally, in what you just wrote.
A tweet showing the actual difference as screenshot:

https://twitter.com/Tempo_Storm/status/1425549066377777156

Appears to be a standard-res Windows rendering. (Obviously a Retina Mac/iOS rendering will be totally different.)
EEE doesn't have to work to be considered anti-competitive. The intent is nefarious, it's trying to attract people by offering a veneer of good grace and good intentions, only to capitalize on it once you've attracted a strong enough user base that you can get away with closing things down, squeezing things in, and calling the shots.

So it be great if their proprietary remote extensions fail and they are forced to open-source them and make them a standard, but clearly the intent right now is that they don't fail and it gives them a leverage over their competitors.
> Let’s ignore the elephant in the room about canceling the founder CEO

I'm not sure I follow this one. How would the mere presence of the founder allow them to ignore economic reality? Like, this is fundamentally a business model problem. If anything, it might have provided an opportunity to dump some of the money-burning efforts (self-driving etc)
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Well exchanges take a percentage of each trade, so the higher the price is pumped via tether, the higher their revenue, right?
i find the new font absolutely HORRIBLE on desktop. but it's quite pleasant on mobile (more specifically, on a galaxy s21).
There are some reviews on immune organoids that I posted below. This is the first human one though able to recapitulate these features at a commercial scale.

We haven't gotten any feedback from med chemists yet!
The cost is comparable to other in vitro systems and is cheaper than using animals.
*The data collection can be very granular. You can use single cell techniques like flow and RNA-seq to generate high resolution data. You can also use high resolution imaging techniques like CODEX. Moving into high throughput and building predictive models is exactly where we want to go. Currently, we can generate 7500 organoids from a single donor and screen them in the thousands. We're working on building a ML pipeline along with automation so that we can screen in the hundreds of thousands if not more. Key to this though is that we have designed a platform that is amenable to this kind of automation and scale.
> inheritance is for some reason one of the most accepted, but also most obvious examples of unearned wealth.

I've been thinking about this Steven Pinker quote for literally decades:

"No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn."
I'm zoomed in 140%, it helps
> "Maybe Office 365 needs to be conservative with fonts. Twitter can push boundaries, though."

What's the difference between Office and Twitter here? Both are apps that should just get out of the way of the content.

Most software should just have native UI that follows the platform guidelines. Unfortunately software companies hire graphic designers who know nothing about interaction design, and generalist programmers who want to do one-size-fits-all UIs. And that's how you get unreadable fonts in slow Electron apps.
I assume any problem or slowness I have with a website on Safari in MacOS or iOS using a content blocker is due to the website wanting to track me or otherwise for advertisement purposes.
Yes. This can be said about any business as all business are made up of people.
Great project! I've been using mididings for similar purposes. Main draw of this for me is customization in go instead of cpp. How would you say it compares otherwise?

http://das.nasophon.de/mididings/
I'm surprised it works as well as it does. Really cool project by Github!
You’re right. That’s how I use it but I forgot thats not the only way.
Heat pump water heating system with simple air outside unit (similar to mini-split A/C), tank, and remote control is about 300k-500k JPY in Japan including construction cost.
Then your goal is at odds with removing section 230 protection. Section 230 protection is also what shields ISPs... If it were done away with, ISPs would be at risk of taking lawsuits for things done via their service and would flee the market. Cloudflare would drop the Daily Stormer faster in a world without 230.
Generated AFAICT :)
The "reimplementing" part resonates with me 100%. I've also reimplemented this solution many times and every time it has been a pain in the ass.

I built https://batch.sh specifically to address this - not having to reinvent the wheel for storage, search and replay.

For some cases, storing your events in a pg database is probably good enough - but if you're planning on storing billions of complex records AND fetching a particular group of them every now and then - it'll get rough and you need a more sophisticated storage system.

What storage mechanism did you use? And how did you choose which events to replay?
> Sometimes mistakes happen(a faulty system, a design bug or straight out human error and people who are trying to take advantage of those), most of the time these are correctable.

These errors are correctable if the counter-parties trust each other, or at least have a relationship that they don't want to undermine by being petty.

Immutable blockchain systems are valuable in part because they allow entities to transact with each other even if they don't trust each other at all, don't know each other at all, or are even antagonistic with each other. Yes, if something goes wrong, a transaction won't be reversed, but without the blockchain these potentially antagonistic entities wouldn't have the capacity to do business with each other in the first place.

Blockchains allow these entities capture the value of transacting with each other—value that wouldn't otherwise be realized—at the expense of irreversibility.

You can potentially imagine that if antagonistic entities tried to do business in a more malleable environment, a request to reverse an error by one entity might not be honored by the other entity, or one entity might maliciously attempt to reverse a transaction that was not performed in error, but was simply disadvantageous in hindsight.

The possibility that a transaction may need to be reversed—or that a reversal request may need to be litigated—increases transaction costs, especially when counter parties are antagonistic. The certainty of irreversibility creates a context by which certain entities are willing to do business with each other, when they might not otherwise do business at all.
It's the perfect crime, how will they ever report it?
Now we just need an open-source server to go with it.
there's a surprisingly large amount of low hanging fruit before you even bother going to ML.

i've worked with a few asian MMO publishers, and before you dive into full on ML or start sending users' clipboard contents and bank website window captures to notoriously shitty and useless korean anticheat companies, there are some very big things you can do:

- count gains, portal entries, dungeon entries, etc, then sort descending. players that are gaining experience 24 hours a day, or gold 24 hours a day are rarely, if ever, legitimate.

- even if this does not entirely get rid of gold farmers, it causes interesting points where they are suspicious of whatever software they are using, rather than suspicious of the inhuman fact that they have not stopped attacking for 84 hours straight

- one lazy thing i've seen take down massive (warehouse-scale) gold farming bot operations is having the game send out broadcast discovery packets. these large scale operations are usually piles of optiplexes or similar on a flat network, and a discovery packet will be noticed by every other device running your game on the network. instant breaking through a different VPN per device, linking all accounts together.

- trace currency, and on top of that, trace timings. often, bots will do something like "farm until inventory full" and then transit back to trade it off, then return to the same map with incredibly tight timing.

the biggest problem you will have is that asian mmo companies don't give a fuck about anything other than their cash shop, and just slap on the cheapest, worst, most insecure malicious and privacy violating rootkit anticheat they can find as a bandaid while the underlying game code is incredibly vulnerable. writing a sql query is too much effort to care, same with having human review.
New Luxury Brand NFT Marketplace
I'd assume Tim has a different definition of what an app is than what you're thinking of.
I'd give them a pass due to the pandemic. This was a force majeure event.
Non-line-of-sight imaging with picosecond temporal resolution
Could you give an example? It seems like any "var" could be replaced with "let" at a different scope.
A usecase that comes to mind is the general secondary school exams here in Finland. The exam is digital and done in a purpose-made OS, booted from usb-sticks. So every time a new version comes out, every school has to update their hundreds of sticks. Something like this is already used, but seeing as the exam authority already recommends Etcher software I can see this having a market.
That is pretty hilarious... "we reserve the right to be a scam".
Has to be a BeBox.
That wasn't a scientific statement. Just a theory about Reddit. I personally like Reddit because it's not shoving ad's in your face constantly and I think others do as well. Apologies for presenting it without labelling it as a theory. I would edit it now if I could.
There's a movie called Moebius based on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moebius_(1996_film)
Every UI change forces a cost on your users. It forces them to relearn the language of what your buttons mean (the Follow button semantics here are atrocious now, and give almost no affordances to users about what is going on).

Changes to UI reduce familiarity, and if they are fond of your product, that is usually a really bad thing. Having a good friend change personality is disturbing and unpleasant!

What is gained from these changes from Twitter, other than some employees are able to say they influenced the product? They may have tested with some users, but was the testing representative of reality? What risk was taken here for what amount of potential gain?