skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to make this criticism, I feel you also need to be capable of recognizing when such criticism actually is valid [1]. That is, under which circumstances would someone be justified in saying "okay this is not an optimal problem"

(A famous example from the other direction was when Uber re-engineered a querying service to better fit the use case, where several HNers and a Medium article showed why their re-invented wheel was worse than an off-the-shelf solution that they just weren't using correctly [2].)

If you can't satisfy that, then this feels like a fully-general rejection of any claim that an org has over-complicated a problem or has unnecessary bloat, and/or that no one can criticize until they've personally worked (for n months) at the org. Which itself would be hard to defend.

[1] Based on my "Scylla-Charybdis"/Goldilocks Heuristic: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2015/12/the-scylla-charybd...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537008
The customer is advertisers. The product is less valuable if the customer can get it somewhere other than Google.
While the Soviet Union had 20-27M deaths in WWII, the most of any country:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

'Only' about half of those were in Russia itself. Breaking things out by Soviet 'provinces', which are now independent countries: Belarus had 2.3M and Ukraine had 6.9M.

Absolute numbers also don't tell the whole story: 25% of Belarus' population was killed, while 'only' 12.7% of Russia's was. Ukraine, 16.3%; Latvia, 13.7%; Armenia, 13.7%; Poland, 17%.
The only way to do this is with blogrolls/linkrolls and other decentralized mechanisms. Making a centralized repo of links like a Yahoo! style web directory is only going to lead to that directory monetizing its gatekeeper status.
The Hard Thing About Learning from Experience
> “If we don’t go, who will?”

I just want to take a moment to honor the courage and sentiments of the man behind these words. RIP, may your family be ever proud.

They echo MLK's Ive been to the mountain top [1]

> That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question.

or (attributed) Dietrich Bonhoeffer [2]

> First they came for the Communists,... there was no one left

May we soberly continue to consider these thoughts as we approach world affairs.

[1]: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemou...

[2]: http://www.knowyourquotes.com/First-They-Came-For-The-Commun...
Honest question. Why can't they just start doing everything with bitcoin?
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Even if they lost 80% of their business that still seems preferable to lighting the whole thing on fire
> Tesla hid nothing.

They deceptively claimed that for additional money the customers' cars would be enhanced in the future with FSD. They then made that claim again each time they failed to deliver. They continue to make this claim and people are trusting it.

A lie hides the truth.
Good question. Right now we are building customer empathy feeling the challenge of starting a new lending business.

The choices for us are similar to the customers we serve. Either we:
1) lend off of our balance sheet
2) sell equity of the company to power more lending
3) prove a longer track record for traditional debt providers to do a larger debt deal
4) open up a marketplace so that debt providers can use Level to invest in alternative assets that they might not otherwise have access to

We're going to be exploring a collection of these techniques to see what can be a scalable source of capital for both Level and the customers we serve.
I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer
Dan Boneh: The elliptic curve running the modern internet might have a backdoor
Was watching this lecture, and was startled to hear the Dan Boneh mention that P-256 might have a backdoor.

Gist: the seed for the curve has unknown origin. Possible attack: let's say there is an attack possible on 1/10^6 curves. Just loop through a million curves until you find one vulnerable, and publish it into the standard.
In cryptographic context there are very different hash functions:

* Password hashes including password based key derivation functions. These are salted and deliberately expensive to compute. For example bcrypt, scrypt or argon2. Salted sha2 is not suitable for this purpose.

* collision resistant hash functions like SHA2/3. They're designed to be fast, but can't keep up with non cryptographic hashes/checksums

* keyed hashes. This includes pseudo-random-functions (like HMAC) and MACs (weaker requirements than PRFs)

Plus people sometimes use plain collision resistant hashes when they actually need a MAC or digital signature
Is that so bad though? Nothing I idly read about online much less twitter has any bearing on my daily life. It's mindless content masking as some important cultural zeitgeist. It's no different than netflix or any other time sink.
Intel’s “Ponte Vecchio” GPU Better Not Be a Bridge Too Far
> So, fundamentally different than partial ownership of a boat as compared to a rental of a boat; no one is objecting to renting a boat on the UK canals.

tbf it's actually very hard to legally do regular rentals on UK canals as opposed to short term hires at vacation prices and ownership (fractional or otherwise).

But the fractional ownership schemes aren't rental rules evasion or selling the dreams of property appreciation, they're "you can get a 1/12 share for the one-off cost of a four week hire if you don't mind chipping in for 1/12 of the maintenance and mooring costs in future years"
We thought the same when Posterous finally died, but then Medium happened.
I don't know, the confidentiality of a professional therapist is huge. Plus a lot of the elders I know would advise you to deal with depression by sucking it up. Or try to pray the gay away.
Hugo Probably Isn't for You (2019)
I think it's more about prevention going forward, and devaluing its worth in secondary market. Sure, it might still be worth something, but only in parts. Given how rapidly TV models change, parts = basically worthless.
Who is using k8s as a relational db?
more language diversity is more fun. common languages are boring. folks should learn more languages, rather than less. its good for your brain too. here's to another babel moment!
Because I grew up in a shitty redneck state, and left to get sober, land my first six-figure job, etc. I'm not making the shit up to insult people, I feel this way because I literally did it. It was the second best decision I ever made aside from getting married.

I've had thousands of conversations in Georgia, and thousands in Oregon, and I prefer the folk in Oregon. And if I was a young twenty something with a rap sheet in Oregon right now, I don't think I'd have to worry about getting sent to a chicken farm to be a slave.

So. Sorry, but not for my point.
for 1.. I'd say it was a trend...just a much smaller one.

I've been 100% WFH in tech for 20 years, and it got easier every year even before covid. What you had to predict, wasn't the pandemic but what tech would be hot enough employers wouldn't care where you worked.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar with snarky provocations. Especially not on divisive topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Depends on the city. I still hold high regard for London's cabbies, NY's ones not so much.
Skin in the game. Nassim Taleb would agree with this measure!
Yeah, that seems perfectly rational. There is nothing to hit on a deserted highway. Driving in traffic, on the other hand, is more stressful and has worse downsides.
"They know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Hong Kong is an extremely international and technically advanced city that freely accepts American passports for visits. Many on HN bring up the HK crackdowns because they have personal experiences with the city.

Its unlikely that on a majority-American forum you will find many people with personal experiences in countries that the USA has put under embargo.
So you're considering selling the data of people who use your APIs? You may want to advertise that more prominently. FWIW, I'd much rather pay for them and wouldn't even consider using APIs with such a business model. I guess you may find a market for it for non-business use.
I still don't understand where you were trying to go with your comment. If one person comments about the fact that marital rape and other forms are rape are treated differently and your response is to be wary of false accusations, I'm going to have an uncharitable reading of your comment. I'm just trying to understand what your actual intention was.
...this is how you end up with file formats like classic XLS. So, careful what you wish for.
I know your ending question is a figure of speech, but since we are imagining it simultaneously, it's more or less by definition not crazy at all.
I picked up 0.1-and-some-change Bitcoin, largely from "faucets" and a tiny amount of collaborative mining. Basically free, a few hours of screwing-around being my only real "investment". I neglected the wallet, since it wasn't worth anything anyway, and lost the file in a format-and-reinstall at some point. Did something similar with Doge, later. Whoops.
Does it have a particular advantage over something like Venmo or Zelle? At least in the US?
Broadcast radio, television, and print newspapers still exist without these things.
Charlie Watts was not only a great rock musician but (unbeknownst to many) a gifted jazz player and a gentleman.
Rest in peace.
I think it's pretty clear where Apple is heading. Your device is no longer your device anymore. It's theirs and you're just a guest on it. Enjoy...
Now a professional therapist might not want to tell you to do anything at all. The ones I've met have been very passive. They listen, it's great, but they don't point in any direction.
Along with animals we also forget about fungi and insects. Trees communicate between themselves through forest wide fungal networks. And that's the biggest problem of pesticide driven monoculture farming - you destroy all of that complexity.
Owning (kinda) means you won't be priced out of your favorite vacation spot as well. If you buy when you can afford it, you can keep going to the family beach house indefinitely. If you rent every year but your income doesn't increase with rental prices (which at least during COVID sure do seem to be outpacing inflation), you might not be able to take your "usual" vacation in a few years.

For me the thing that got me to briefly consider buying a vacation home was the flexibility in arrival/departure times and the corresponding advantage regarding traffic. At least in the DE-MD-VA-NC beaches where my family typically vacations, almost all rental houses are rented by the week, with either Saturday or Sunday as the arrival/departure day. Departure times are pretty strict (usually 10 or 11 am) as the place needs to be cleaned in time for the next week's rental. So everyone is on the road at once and traffic Saturday and Sunday during the day is just awful. The last time I drove from DC to the Outer Banks it took me a full 12 hours. I was so annoyed that at the end of the week, I left around midnight the night before scheduled departure, and I made it home in 6 hours. I made the return trip in half the time! If I owned the place, I could show up and leave whenever I felt like it (or not at all)!
The cost to clean (and repair damage) and opportunity cost of not earning money in the meantime would be far more than $500, and far more than how much most people could afford to pay.
Even if they knowingly left him behind, sometimes you have to make hard choices in war.

Sacrificing a unit so that no man is left behind is a movie trope, not reality.
You can do the same with your whole OS. With Linux at least. And some distros which enable that. Boot it from USB with a parameter (often via Menu) like "toram", and be done with it.
Even installing or deinstalling software, customizing it to your needs and likes, and remaster that in RAM to be rewritten into your custom boot-image, so you won't have to do that again and again in case of restart or the occasional kernel-updates. That is working for me, lazily reaching uptimes of about four months with no crashes in between.

And everything is f***ing FAST!1!! :-)
I Don’t Fuckn Get It
It was originally for helping to organize Perl events. It acted as an entity that could enter into contracts for insurance and rental purposes.

It was extended to have grants among other things.

Larry Wall has historically only really been influential on the design of the language. So it was not taken away, he just has rarely done anything outside of that.
Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn.

One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.
I highly doubt police would care. People trash hotel rooms all the time, and they might escort people out of the hotel, but recouping any costs is a civil matter for the business. And good luck breaking even via that avenue.
aka the Cooperative Principle or Grice's Maxims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
This is a crusade I could get behind.
TLDR MongoDB then Cassandra
> Anyway, the quote is: We fall in love the most with those we know the least.

Another similar quote is "familiarity breeds contempt."

Pair it with "distance makes the heart grow fonder," and you're led to the idea of a Goldilocks zone for relationships.
> “Or the EU regulate exchanges to the point you can't transfer your Bitcoin to a wallet you own?”

Why not? The EU regulates banks to the point that you can’t transfer money to an account in North Korea. It’s not obvious why Bitcoin exchanges should be regulated differently (as you can’t prove the random Bitcoin address isn’t controlled by NK).
Interestingly the reasons you mention for using trackball over trackpad is the same reason I use trackpad over a mouse. I guess a thumb based trackball does better in those regards,

Do you have suggestions for a decent thumb based trackball?
I guess it picked up my ip address.
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for Covid-19 Vaccine Injury
The comment is still valid, I think. You can't really trust crypto to hold its value in any way that a currency should. To use cryptocurrencies you need to tolerate anything from a 50% drop to a doubling, all in extremely short time scales. If that's what trust means to you, that's interesting.
While your statement is not incorrect, it isn't profound either. When something restricts free speech, it almost never (probably never with no exceptions) restricts every type of speech simultaneously and this bar is never used to judge restrictions on speech.

The problem is when a meaningful form of speech is restricted , not when every form is completeñy restrcited simultaneously
With privacy concerns, companies should be shamed for storing billions of messages.
Challenging weather conditions mean human drivers become even more unpredictable.
Tech Against Terrorism calls for removal of Taliban content on online platforms
I'm pretty sure you can still get SMS notifications by turning it on in your Settings[0] and then also clicking on the "Notifications" button on the specific profile for which you want to receive notifications. I haven't used it in ages but all the settings appear to be there still :)

[0] https://twitter.com/settings/sms_notifications
Ask HN: Ubiquitous Less-Conspicuous Infectious Diseases
In attempt to expand a list of ubiquitous and less conspicuous infectious diseases, especially those with significant asymptomatic instances and therefore less public awareness, I hope to extend that below with help -- preferably with a focus on extant or emergent (possibly future pandemic), more pan rather than endemic examples. I've embellished some with notes, and some of that listed below may not quite (yet?) deserve the title of Ubiquitous, or necessarily, a place in the list itself, though I've italicized some that do. Due to the popular awareness and many extensive discussions on corona viruses, please consider abstaining. Thanks in advance to those who share their knowledge.

###Approximate percent of infection for global population in parentheses - (%)

>H-Pylori (50%)

Extremely prevalent and often asymptomatic. All positive cases result in inflammation and increased risk of cancer. Treatment is complicated by biofilms and ubiquity of bacteria; eg raw vegetables, oral route via hands, shared utensils, etc. Previous antibiotic usage might increase vulnerability.

>Tuberculosis (25%)

Generally asymptomatic and non-infectious in latent stage, but quite pervasive and extremely easy to spread when active. Treatment requires an almost impractically long duration of antibiotics and resistance is a substantial risk.

>MRSA and fellow mutants (?%)

>Toxoplasma Gondii (50%?)

There have been a few interesting threads on HN, with a significant number of comments expressing surprise and previous ignorance of this terrible creature, specifically its proposed ability to alter behaviour in hosts, including schizophrenia. Also notable are its presence in many households by route of cat (non-culinary) or rare beef (non-ornamental) and a typically dormant but voracious appetite for the heart and brain when inspired by circumstances.

>HPV (?%)

>Candida; eg Candida Auris (?%) - Emergent?

>C-Difficile (5%)

Although infectious, many may carry it asymptomatically until aggravated through antibiotics. Percentage of infected varies wildly, dependent on environment, eg hospitals. Complications have a significant mortality rate.

>Herpes Variants; eg EBV, etc. (?%)

>CJD Variants, TSE, etc. (?%)

I've included this due to zoonotic variants, eg CWD, Scrapie, BSE, etc. Worth noting is the unusually long dormancy potential of related diseases and absence of any treatment.

>Pinworms (11.4%) Incident Rate in USA and much higher elsewhere

Apparently a universal rite of passage

Finally, if I've presented something stupidly, constructive clarification is preferable to Hanlon's Truncheon.
*Hanlon's Truncheon: Attribute malice to and hastily beat the living hell out of anything that seems unintelligent or confused.
If you read just the first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html you'll see that HN is about more than hacking or technology; hopefully a lot more.
I guess it worked for Instagram so they're copying them?
You cannot predict the future with patterns from the past, regardless of how many patterns you crunch - the world is always changing. ML can just never solve FSD - conceptual understanding and causality is needed to achieve human level driving capability. We instantly classify things conceptually from our perception, instantly understand how those things may behave, and then learn the specifics of what that thing is doing to instantly predict what might happen and how it is interacting with other causally connected things in the environment.

If ML could predict the future, there would be some very rich stock brokers right now.

Autonomous driving efforts need a major pivot to start working with concepts, causality, and the integrated space time model of the world we humans use.
Good luck walking from Cuba, China, India, Dominican Republic, Philippines, Vietnam, Haiti, and Jamaica
How do you figure? Assuming the alternative is all those consumers individually visiting stores (a good amount of which would likely be driving there to avoid carrying their purchases while in transit or other reasons), it seems like bypassing the extra traffic and emissions with one person delivering packages in an optimized route is much less awful.
It's not apples to oranges, it's directly analogous: both represent federated networks on the internet where users have the freedom to decide which client they want to use and which servers they want to connect to.
Depends on what you cut. It cuts wood pretty nice. I couldn't documented the wood cutting performance on prototyping. I will demonstrate it's wood cutting capacity in v1 release. It's a 3d printable desktop machine and never intended to cut precise metal parts. May be I can design a full metal body version with professional components like rail guides instead of plastic v-slot wheels.
Firstly - Make sure you thank them for their honesty.

Secondly - Make sure they see a copy of their review in which you praise their abilities within the team. That will help to reassure them that there are no penalties for not wanting to 'progress'. Slightly OT since it isn't IT related but I once asked a PC (police Constable, aka a British 'Bobby') why they had remained a PC for 25 years (I was curious). Their answer was - Mo' Money, Mo' Problems. In other words they preferred the day to day life and didn't want more Paperwork, more BS and ass-kissing (sadly a prerequisite for ladder climbing) and they really did not want the hassles of managing others. I did a mental re-take and thought fair enough. I am slightly ashamed that my initial ‘hunch’ was because they lacked the skills or abilities to gain a promotion (my bad and I was glad I asked rather than silently assuming/judging).

One thing to think about doing is exploring their responsibilities – Think about their specialities / preferences / interests. If they are a ‘people person’ consider making offering them the role of helping to onboard newcomers on the team. If they have an analytical mind, consider delegating some of the cost centre analysis work to them. Ensure any unofficial roles are noted positively in their next review so that they can see in black and white their value to the team.
One other thing is, many of you could write something like a mouse driver in a weekend. That is not enough for the business however. The UI needs to be Electron based for easy maintenance, and you need to add telemetry, because how else will you know if people actually use your product? So you need backend and API teams too for each platform.
Yeah. Pretty frustrating. I’ve had similar experiences with other companies. It’s unfortunate the experiences aren’t more uniform.
I need this but for using prepaid debit cards. Anybody have any recommendations?
Kindle Vella – publish serial stories with Kindle Direct Publishing
Seconded on the Trackball Explorer, it was an absolute joy. The day I started using one, I immediately went out and purchased a backup. They’re both dead now.
Possible Havana syndrome incident delayed Harris flight to Vietnam
Out of curiosity, anyone who knows how they're making money?

Their pricing pages says that everything is $0 (free).

https://ramp.com/pricing
Remarkably, Reddit has managed to organize two teams of programmers competing to make a worse experience between their app and website
Blue Origin's secret response to SpaceX Starship captured on photos
Did they make the move to ScyllaDB, as mentioned in their "Future work" section?
Instead of making meaningful change, the EU proceeded to make almost every European website 10x worse with egregious cookie nag screens filled with dark patterns.

They trained users to accept all advertising cookies, while being massive hypocrites (a lot of EU bureaucratic websites ship user data to Google via GA or GTM).

The EU is one of the biggest threats to online freedom. Threatening to ban memes, egregious copyright laws to serve Hollywood interests, cookie nag screens and US media excluding EU IPs altogether because EU law is insane.

Access to media within the EU has never been worse. A significant portion of US news media exclude all EU traffic due to regulation.
This feature ("Aggregations for Smart Streams") sounds like what I'd normally call "reduce":

"Aggregates let you define functions that combine each record in a stream with some long-running state, or 'accumulator'."
Or just use dumb tvs?