skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first and only real use of awk was around 1995. I was working at a new job doing embedded software work at GE and we had a lot of documentation in SGML, written/viewed using Interleaf. Interleaf was super slow on the HP-UX workstations we had and iirc search was even slower. I got the idea to convert all the SGML files into a single HTML file and I reached for awk as I had used it for some one-liners previously. I ended up writing an awk script that generated a frameset with one sidebar frame that was a treeish table of contents and the other frame the mondo html file with anchors for the table of contents. It loaded pretty fast in the HP-UX browser and search was really fast.
Until yesterday their homepage said "By default, we do not keep any IP logs".

That was unclear and has now been removed.
We should stop thinking in terms of "tech companies" and think of them in terms of "companies that use tech with a high degree of success". Ultimately any company that makes money is not a tech company because pure technology on its own does not make a business. Also, with the right incentives and management it is possible, although hard, for legacy companies to start using tech better to compete.
It's like the Reddit Island of Galt's Gulches.

https://www.salon.com/2014/09/16/ayn_rands_capitalist_paradi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/nns9ne/the_reddit_is...
The skills that make you successful at producing a product (the various types of engineering, product design, marketing, process analysis, manufacturing, the real work essentially) in the first place are not the same skills that make you successful in a corporate organization as an individual (politicking). As time moves on and a company becomes a money-printing machine because the 'real work' has already largely been performed the organization becomes host to parasites, or I guess you can just call them people that are better and better at extracting personal value even at the expense of group well being. I think its sort of inevitable due to finite human lifespans and non-transferable skillsets.
You can also add it to your ~/.ssh/config, so you can just ssh hostname, scp hostname, etc. without a public IP on the VM.

Host myhost
ProxyCommand gcloud compute ssh user@myhost --zone=myzone --tunnel-through-iap --command="nc 0.0.0.0 22" -- -o "UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null" -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no"
no - see above comment re illegal sweepstakes
Go back to academia
Yes, I think I get what you are trying to say and it's a valid point, just the words are a bit confusing.

So yes - 'most of the assets that back currency is just government debt' and 'much of that debt is held not just by the Central Bank but also by other government agencies'.

Which makes a good chunk of the system just a matter of accounting.

But: "balance sheets that really means very little"

No, it still means a lot.

Both the 'internal accounting' stuff matters, and you can't forget that most TBills are not held by 'other government agencies'.

Yes - the fact that the value of currency cay be 'fuzzy' is relevant, but it's not entirely fuzzy. All of that accounting matters still.
You can query Elastic for specific fields only:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

Edit: As you said, there may be reasons on the backend not to filter things out of the query. Though it seems likely that the web response could be trimmed down.
El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so
But then it becomes a question of "Do I want to put swap on this drive" at all? I don't know the endurance of modern NVME drives, but if you can write 1 PB before wearing out the drive at a sustained 100MB/sec, you can wear out the drive in less than 4 months if you let your system run under heavy swap.

Probably not an issue for a desktop since no one would want to use it under heavy swap all the time, but for a server no one pays much attention to... maybe.
What's important for you about using Protonmail? Would any non-Google non-Apple email account suffice?
> The tech has to be good - but, it’s still all about the TV. If Netflix was only showing reruns of Frasier and Ally McBeal no-one would have signed up

I think this is always a bit of a silly argument. If Netflix was showing everything, but the tech was terrible, no one would've signed up. You need both.
I run many GUI apps remotely. I don't waste time porting stuff that works best on Windows to Linux (I have two machines). Not all use cases are development.
Comparing a single study to a whole subfield is just odd.

Also again, no. You generally don't make individual judgements based on group differences. You can make population-level decisions based on them or allocate funds more effectively or reach a deeper understanding on group differences with such research so socially outlawing it is counter-productive even if you personally won't use the results in your day to day life.
> His brain should have adapted to the new normal and compelled him to risk his whole fortune in the hope of making even more money

Why do you think this should happen? That doesn't sound very rational to me. If you have more than you could possibly ever need then why would you choose to risk that? This is one reason why we should never reward people with these ridiculous levels of wealth in the first place.

> The best way to redistribute wealth is wealthy individuals overplaying their hand.

This sounds like a very wasteful and unreliable way to redistribute wealth to me. Unreliable because as you say it often doesn't happen. Wasteful because if it does happen it involves wasting enormous amounts of resources on a failed project.

IMO the best way to redistribute wealth is to not allow people to become as ridiculously wealthy as they are in the first place.
Ironically, I am in Zurich right now supervising upgrades and capacity increases in ZH4.

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So if you’re still in the market for cloud storage in Zürich, email us. We’ll give you a “screwed by pcloud” discount.

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The issue with being radically democratic is what to do with the portion of the population who doesn't want socialism? The communist parties thought they had to be authoritarian to force the transition. Or at least that was their justification.
Some of these features look awesome and I can see how much thought went into them. The hotkey toggle looks like a viable alternative to splitting the screen with a console and pop out mode seems similar to how Firefox allows videos to be overlaid on other pages. I'll be honest, I don't really see the utility of some features like workspaces or the tree history, but then again I initially rolled my eyes at Gmail's pop out compose and clearly they knew what I wanted better than I did!

I have a few questions:

1. Did you code the engine from scratch, or is it based on Chromium or Gecko or something?

2. What's your sustainability, e.g., monetization, plan for the browser?

3. Do you have any estimate on how long until I can `apt install bonsai-browser` from an official distro repository?
Internally the library has a "quantity type", which defines for a given quantity all the given conversions that are valid in the database and a "category" which is used so that you can create subsets of units which you want to consider valid for your application.

It's helpful in the context that you want to restrict what's valid for such a category (see: https://github.com/ESSS/barril/blob/master/src/barril/units/... for what that means -- think of defining a "cylinder width" as a subset of "length").

As a note, it's main use-case is NOT doing computations such as dividing/multiplying Scalars (albeit that's supported it does have some caveats -- so, while it also does dimensional analysis, it's really not the core functionality), rather the core functionality is making the conversions based on what's available in the unit database (so, you're not supposed to be creating units out of the unit database, rather, you want to collect input from the units you support and then make your conversions to other units you still support -- think of doing validation of input, converting to values in units expected by the user, defining a unit-system for input, converting to your internal unit-system for actual computation in C/C++, ...).

So, I guess it depends on what you consider as core for a units library. As I mentioned, it's created for an Oil & Gas use-case -- albeit it's also used in other engineering-related projects -- where the units are all pretty much well mapped in the application and you're worried that you are getting into units you're not expecting and that'd actually be an error.

p.s.: if you have specific use-cases which don't work as you expect, I suggest contacting the library maintainers -- once that was me, but it's been a while ;)

p.s.: thanks for letting me know about how to deal with dimensionless units in pint (I wasn't aware of that).
>increasing the humidity in the respiratory tract which in turn affects the ability of the virus to transmit disease.

Consistent with early studies on mask sterilization techniques, which found that adding moisture to heat accelerated decay of virus particles.
While you can make that argument today, Netflix as a company is 24 years old. It got to its current position not by spending $15B/yr on original content (which it can afford to do now) but purely based on a superior and novel tech experience for its users.

Of course eventually all discussions of this nature devolve into the intricate definition of "tech company", and in the absence of one that is agreed upon, bringing this whole thing up is pointless.
Perhaps we need to be more aggressive with laws encouraging competition (or more accurately discouraging leaders of a market from getting too large a lead). It really does seem to be better for most involved (except for those that want to capitalize on enough success for short term greed that destroys momentum and talent pools).

What that actually means in a situation like this, where technology and production pipelines are years long and a misstep can set you back a decade or more (like it did for AMD, and like it's doing now for Intel), I don't know. I do know it sure seems like markets with at least three major players are more healthy than those with two, as we keep seeing again and again (iOS and Android being another recent example, if exhibiting a different problem).
I have the complete opposite experience, but I only used RealVNC (not sure what mirror driver is). My experience is that the Windows RDP client and RDP server on any platfrom is >>> VNC in every way.
It's a feast or famine industry. It's been a feast for a while, and a lot of people who are relatively new to the industry haven't experienced a famine.

My father is/was an electrician and 2008 decimated the industry. He was de facto laid off and worked part time for the better part of three years after. Of course, today there's tons of work and no one to do it. Any young'uns who came in between like 2002-2008 didn't make it through the GFC and switched careers, and the old-timers who weathered the storm don't have enough juice left to work the insane hours.
Dude, I literally mentioned articles with in-the-wild exploits that have been found for Android this year. "Yes, but those are from a few months ago, they are fixed now, and there is a CURRENT one for iOS" is not the "checkmate, iSheep!" move you apparently think it is.
If you click a button to report bad messages, your client (which of course has the keys for your messages) sends that message and the 4 messages before that to Facebook in such a way that Facebook can read them.
If quantum communication becomes a possibility you could imagine an invisible network that provides a type of ultimate privacy
Being a white male, anecdotally there is more peer and cultural pressure to care about sports, cars, tv, eating tons of meat, and drinking then there is to succeed at school. And for a few decades now a major political party has been bolstering anti-science and anti college messages.

It is unsurprising less men are finishing college in the face of that culture.

While there’s going to be many causes, the aforementioned seem more important than a message of privilege.
Yes 100% this. Their mobile apps need to have a switch for "All connections through Tor", and that switch should be enabled by default.

Tor too slow? Speed up the ecosystem by setting up your own Tor nodes, Proton.
They are a tech company. Just not only a tech company.
There are, but even in these cases there are economic downsides: notably with semi-conductors, risk if any of these big companies fail. I think that if the benefit of scale is so great, then you should be able to prove it by withstanding the higher tax burden.
The tech isn’t just content delivery. It’s also extracting useful information out of their customers’ habits so they know what to license, what to renew, how much to pay for it, etc.
I'd disagree considering there's more than a few streaming platforms with sub-par tech. Hulu is quite buggy, as is HBO Max. Criterion Channel is literally just Vimeo and didn't even have working closed captioning until recently.
This seems less like a performance problem and more of a security issue. Especially considering that this is a website that hosts unlicensed translations. How much of this information is actually intended to be made public?
For lactose intolerance maybe it doesn't matter. There are a lot of diesesases for which screening is not worth it if your risk is too low due to a high false negative compared to your risk (which is part of why we screen young people for a lot less).
So long as your not getting spammed with ads and viruses people will jump through almost any hoop to watch something online short of paying
I agree, but that's also why I don't think 100% anonymity is something we should strive for. I'm fine with anonymity until the provider is obligated to comply by law... but that's mostly because I'm in Canada and I have a relative trust in laws. Wouldn't feel safe with anonymity guaranteed by US law at all.
If this was Google in 2016, it would be very notable and your comments would apply.
This is all completely irrelevant as anti-competitive behavior is only an issue when a company holds a monopoly, which Google did not have in any way in 2005. In the absence of a monopoly position, anti-competitive behavior is completely normal, expected, standard, and does not even merit the label because it is how businesses grow.
> Your previous education, your upbringing, your cultural values, these things all also have huge effects on your aptitudes, and you've just dismissed them out of hand, apparently in favour of pre-determined genetic intelligence.

They didn't seem to do this at all. It can simultaneously be true that there are some who, due to genetics, simply cannot complete a particular task, no matter how conducive an environment they are put in, while for others genetically do not have these hurdles but whose success is still dependent on their environment.

If anything, you are the one dismissing this possibility out of hand, and making leaps of logic.
What's really in rendered pet food? (2014)
> Set to fly on a twice-flown Falcon 9 booster and in a once-flown Crew Dragon capsule, SpaceX’s first fully private astronaut launch will also be reaping the fruits of the company’s decade-long pursuit of reusability.

Is this the first time a Crew Dragon has been re-used?
Where does this post 40s mean come from? I mean, seriously... it makes no sense.
Ironic since the US is more or less the world leader for money laundering and tax evasion. It also bothers me that the US has spent billions of dollars over the past several decades fighting narcotics just to turn around and make them legal. They must have passed the "It's Ok When We Get Our Cut" Act when I wasn't looking.
Artistic critique of cryptocurrencies (what do you think?)
> Censorship isn’t what make social media and blogging so toxic to our culture. It’s the lack of reputational cost to bad actors and the undeterred gathering of information.

This isn’t an either-or binary thing, both can contribute to a toxic platform and mistrust. Censorship and cancel culture and bad actors and venomous users all contribute a part
> Who's going to police the feature branches to ensure the merges are cleaned up and rebased prior to merge to main?

That's typically handled when the code is reviewed.

> My feature branches are full of useless commits (from the perspective of the main branch), and anyone that tells me to clean that up prior to a merge can pound dirt.

If I were reviewing it, then you would not get my approval until the commit history is cleaned up. It would be the same result if your code was failing a test scenario, not making it past the linter, or if someone asked you to clarify what's being done by adding a comment block.
How would you compare GM and Tesla using this framework? They're both very tech dependent given the impact of the chip shortage and electric car manufacture, but one is certainly more "novel." I'm honestly not sure where I would come out, but I think it's a good point of comparison for the framework as a result.
Not this particular case but just to give context on why padding the primary with sham candidates of the same ethnic group is an issue, but also in Chicago it has happened that people change their names to imply certain ethnic/heritage/characteristics like Phillip Spiwak (R) became Shannon P. O’Malley (D) to win an elected judge position in 2018 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-judge-candidat...
The overwhelming majority of access would still happen in the 2GB RAM the benchmark has. The disk is only hit to stash or load overflowing pages, not on every memory access. That's why it doesn't mirror the hardware difference between DRAM and disk.
Reads like a clickbait title. Of course they are. Somewhat out of touch if Ben really thinks like that.
Not only that, but in most markets those salaries do not exist.

Even in markets that still pay well outside the valley like Boston, that level of compensation is still extremely limited and are < 1% of available positions most of which are quite senior.
What is 15-minute grocery delivery costing India’s workers?
They are a crowbar using company. They use leverage. What big news.
I just scrolled through their main feed and every other video was some kind of alt-right misinformation rant (COVID is fake, Joe Biden is dead/dying/has dementia, Antifa is killing kids, etc.). Just based on that alone I want no part of it.
And what I'm saying is that the change of appearance in this particular case is less surprising than the fact that double or triple name candidates on a ballot "regularly" occur.
I disagree. The HBOGO app used to have pretty poor tech. It would logout with no reason, forget where I was in the show, sometimes freeze requiring to close and open the app multiple times, have problems with Chromecast. Still, I wanted to see GoT
Well, the best way to protect that information would be to not store it at all.

Whenever they select a candidate to vote for, you would place them into match groups bucketed by score (based on their first/second/third choice), maximum group size, and some other criteria like signup date.

You end up with buckets of IDs that are known to match to some degree, and you would know enough to be able to say, "you matched with Bill because he wants to vote for your third choice candidate" without needing any idea about who that might be.

By limiting the sizes of the buckets, you limit the impact of knowing any particular member of the buckets' affiliations should a malicious actor get their hands on the data.

There's plenty of other precautions to take, storing the bucket data encrypted at rest, secure backups, separating bucket data from any PII.
1. No consent. Rape dressed up as authority, horribly performed across billions. Torture. Murder.

2. No laws to restrain the powerful. Nature fills the void with much worse outcomes, wars, famines, covid.

3. Superpower, hegemony, destroying the USA, wealth, nice places, their leadership does not care. Their only concern is avoid execution, primarily from their own people.

4. If their people had the power to do it, their leadership wouldn't exist. Their power is derived from keeping their followers weak.

5. It's amazing how easy life actually is when you get away from bad people. If you think your parents or your kids meddle in your life and get in your head, imagine what military surveillance with the power to execute at will does to you. Second guess everything you say and do.

5. marxists do not care about charity, pluralism, mutual respect, social welfare, and happiness. It's a very cynical and backwards view of humanity. Even nature acknowledges peace and thrives. marxist's don't. They think revolution is always necessary and nice things are for fools and cowards. If you make things nice, they'll mess it up on purpose. It's why you don't let teenage bullies rule the world. Stand up to them, they grow up real quick.

6. They would be much more effective if they dropped the guise of government and laws and just say strongest one wins. A return to barbarism. People would run faster from the monster attacking the village. No more pesky reading. Ogre with biggest club wins.
My point was that such results would most likely not lead to any embarrassment since the embarrassment threshold for elections in Russia seems to be very high. I did not say a word about anything changing or not.
But what are the parents to do when they weren’t taught to do that by their own parents? There needs to be an intervention to break the cycle.
Forest for the trees in this thread ...

One of the characteristics of a good CEO is their judgment of risk.

That includes their ability to avoid controversy for their organization, and put the organization's message above their own.

He knew this tweet might have the risk of financial impact to the company he was specifically and volunatrily selected to protect (among other things) its financial health, and if he had ran it by the board they absolutely would have told him not to post it.

The poor judgment on display here is the core issue.
As both a developer and a consumer, I think baking in a 30% surcharge for Apple payments is a bad idea.

I'm willing to bet that the extra subscriptions you lose out on won't make up for the 30% (15% for the first 1,000,000) you lose. Personally, if I saw tiered pricing like that, I would start looking for a competitor app.
A very recent example: a made-up story about a hospital being overrun with patients who had overdosed on Ivermectin, such that they were unable to treat gunshot victims. This ran in Rolling Stone, the Guardian and other pubs. Your usual run of smart, skeptical urbane types accepted it uncritically.

Be careful when something you would like to be true comes along.

It’s also worth examining what happens after something like this is shown to be untrue. Some will own up to their mistake, most will not. But will continue banging on about “misinformation” and so forth.
this article is an example of the remote-guilt-industrial-complex
You’re correct. I have learned something new:

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
Once the tech gets good enough to show tiles on all platforms and distribute the content to edges efficiently what "new tech" does Netflix need quarter over quarter?
I think "tech company" is a near-useless label, anyway. I struggle to think of any company that isn't, or at least shouldn't be, a tech company. Everyone uses technology to provide their product or service, even if they are rudimentary ones. There are those companies that are pushing the boundaries of what was previously possible, sure, and if that's what people agree is the definition of "tech company" (high innovation), then surely Netflix counts. No one watched much TV on computers or phones before them.