skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on launching!

The good:
I checked out the tool and seems to work as advertised. Also nice to see Replay browser based on a Firefox fork.

The bad (and this is more your marketing/PR/branding, not product):

- You require an account signup, OK. It's a Google only signup, OK step over that. But it did not clearly mention that you this put me on a mailing list and surely 5 minutes after I signup, I get a random email to support a launch on product hunt.

- With the amount of engineering that went into it, I would expect you to be proud of the craftsmanship and your team. Instead the top of your website states you are proud of getting money from investors. This is more a vote against this trend, than your particular behavior.

- I was able to find the post "How Replay works" [1] which is the actual content addressing your target market. The post conveys 2000 characters of information and uses 4.3MB of data to do that for a signal/noise ratio of 0.04%. It is the type of web obesity [2] that we are used to nowadays, so nothing new. Mentioning this only because you are a web engineering-centric company. Promoting the right values of web performance and engineering attention to detail is IMO important for a product talking to web engineers.

I realize this may come as unpopular/beyond conventional wisdom but getting a different perspective is what HN is good for. Use the feedback at your discretion.

Props for making an innovative product and good luck!

[1] https://medium.com/replay-io/how-replay-works-5c9c29580c58

[2] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
You can question Sen. Manchin's motives but his statement isn't wrong. Coal is generally no longer price competitive with natural gas and renewables for power generation. The fleet mix is already shifting and will continue to do so even absent government mandates or subsidies. (There may be environmental reasons to accelerate that shift even faster.)
It probably does. But if that was the intent, why not just say 60-40?
Solve the problem "find me the all restaurants within 1 mile of of my location" efficiently in a database with restaurants and their lat-long coordinates.

Brute force solution: iterate over all possible restaurants, compute their distance to your location, then return the list that meet the criteria.

Better solution: cut the world into 1-mile square grids, and assign each restaurant a grid square index. Search for all restaurants in your grid square, plus all adjacent grid squares to that (because you might be on the edge of your square), and filter out the ones that are more than 1 mile away. This is a pretty good solution, but you're searching a square area for a circle of restaurants. Any restaurants in the corners of the square are wasting your time -- you're never within 1 mile of the corner.

So, if you could search a circular area, you'd have no corners. Using tessellated hexagons means your search space is more circular, so it's more efficient.
This is the first I heard of these allegations. I just took a look at his Wikipedia and the judge sided with him for his brothers case. Unfortunately much harder to prove anything with the domestic abuse. With how much he posts on social media I could imagine him as a “do-gooder” narcissist though.
I think it's very optimistic to assume this would result in the salaries all being pushed up to the upper limit and not the lower one.
Billionaire Nick Hanauer and his team at Civic Ventures are working towards this (as are others, of course):

https://civic-ventures.com/

There are powerful forces fighting against what AnotherGoodName is suggesting. They have money and propaganda and lobbying. It’s a tough fight.
There's always trust involved. You have to trust the DNS infrastructure, you have to trust your ISP, you have to trust the VPN provider. You don't have to trust them completely, but you have to trust them at least somewhat.

We take steps to reduce the amount of trust required, such as splitting that trust across many parties, so any one party hopefully can't betray us enough that it matters or that we don't notice, but there's still a lot of trust. For example, we use SSL certificates and certificate authorities that are known ahead of time to protect from problems on the network, but that requires you trust your OS and/or your browser, which is generally how you receive those certificate authorities. If I'm able to get my own CA on your system and trusted, and I can see your traffic, it doesn't matter whether you're using HTTPS connections.

A VPN provider might say they're not keeping logs, or that their servers are not beholden to a third party and traffic is not being analyzed, but ultimately all you have is their word on that. Ultimately, the only thing different between you connecting to the NSA and routing all your traffic (even if your traffic is mostly encrypted) through them so they can look at it and a VPN provider is that you trust the VPN provider when they say they aren't the NSA and they aren't looking at your traffic.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. The comments here are about as sophisticated as "Short Tesla and kill Elon. Stock markets are broken QED".
> The EU could also subsidize centralized EU-based tech [...] cloud computing is relatively straightforward to implement with talent and funding.

Exactly this is already happening with Gaia-X[0]. Its mostly pushed by German companies, along with French ones. But because of huge involvement of Deutsche Telekom, BMW and such I dont have high expectations.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIA-X
Windows has this for time travel debugging : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de.... Visual studio also supports TTD https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/introducing-time...
Thank you for the assistance. So do I have to repeat the copy-paste each time I open HN? Also, it didn't work for me the first time, or now.
> There is activism and propaganda.

My point is that it have to be targeted towards people below the median wage and especially kids.

> The result is enough votes in enough places to stop any political solution. Even if there's a majority, the rules are designed to prevent action unless the majority is overwhelming.

Sure, that's what i meant. Kids who are 13 now will be able to vote in 5 years and they can be convinced much easier. But I didn't manage to find anything popular in the form which will be comprehensible and interesting for them while keeping arguments and information, not just "CO2 is bad. Bad-bad-bad".
> A growing portion of society is getting tired of these plague spreading herman cain nomination recipients demanding their 'freedom' to spread disease to others.

This is the heart of the issue. How will vaccine skeptics and believers co-exist? I guess we could segregate by vaccine status. What do you see as the solution to this problem?
American Airlines Kicks Two-Year-Old Off Flight for No Mask During Asthma Attack
+1, and that podcast is incredible... jack's story telling skills are amazing....
Some of us see this as a feature and not a bug :)
Dan Price being sketchy aside, yes, people feeling financially comfortable enough to produce babies is a positive thing. It's the most fundamental purpose we have as humans.
“About 80 percent of the hospital's funding comes from Medicare and Medicaid, Mr. Jasper told KCBD.”

I’ll guess that west Texans want their cake and eat it too.
> The fewer people are vaccinated the quicker we get rid of the virus.

There is no evidence that the virus can be get ridden of.
Been looking for something like this for a while! Can’t wait to give it a spin!
Employees signed up to own nothing. God love them. Why is this news? Were they duped, or did they all just benevolently sign up to make a few others wealthy? Same goes on with pretty much every PE-owned company as well, not really worth a story.
I also did the same for parenthesis, so would need to double the cases :)
Yeah that stuff is annoying. It's not wrong to ask for clarification when the question is lacking context, but there are a lot of cases where people really want to answer a different question than what was asked.

I remember one question about std::bitset using 8 bytes when it could use 1 byte, and answerers basically laughed at being concerned over 7 bytes, like they'd never considered that you might quite reasonably be using millions of them.
I agree with the degree of your expectations. Europe needs a DARPA/YC model led by doers, not entrenched corporate interests or bureaucrats. Europe and America are their own worst enemies, in different ways.
The mail service that handed over data of a customer to a foreign government and changed the privacy statement on their site is based there too IIRC. The name eludes me know, surely several readers can provide it.
A single datapoint,how convincing. Correlation does not imply causation, as it's commonly said.
Most Americans are fighting for things besides their financial well being, unfortunately. Some would rather have the freedom to sue a stranger who may have driven a woman to get an abortion in Texas. It is disheartening that this is what the political machine is focused on, instead of raising money and investing in things like infrastructure and Americans.

Although, some do think that the only thing standing between them and wealth like Bezos is a few hundred bucks a year in taxes (that they want to cut, ramifications be damned).
Most Complicated Machine
StackOverflow built itself as a Question and Answer site and you can see the results of that original concept.

Had they instead built themselves as a symptom and treatment website, much of the problems that they have had would have gone away.

The original asker should not have nearly as much power as they do. Duplicates would instead be other symptoms. If you had a cough 5 years ago, come March of last year the cure would have changed for the same symptoms. But since SO is a question site, they would not have responded to such.
Congrats Jason! Know you and the team have been working super hard on this
My guess is that if a particular prediction were really so easy (low cost and risk) to manipulate then you wouldn't expect much trade volume. As an easier example, you wouldn't expect many people to bet money that no one will tweet a cartoon of a cat wearing a pink hat today, because it would be obvious to everyone that it would be trivial for an insider to manipulate this outcome.

As for your specific example, starting wildfires is an extremely serious crime that I expect the authorities would spend significant resources investigating, so I don't know how bettors would estimate the ease of manipulation for that market. Even if the prediction market were implemented in a perfectly anonymous system where you're guaranteed to be able to collect (and spend) your money without authorities knowing you were the one who profited from that prediction market, it seems like you have a pretty high risk of getting caught simply for the act of arson itself (not to mention the "risk" of firefighters controlling the fires that you start).

I'm also not sure how many people there are out there who refrain from starting wildfires only because there is no direct financial incentive, and not for other reasons (like not wanting to destroy massive amounts of ecosystem and property and potentially kill many people).
Key U.K. Power Cable Will Be Partly Knocked Out Until March
I think people need to get a strategy - any strategy - before they can think about these sort of second-order details.
Wasn't the >$1T infrastructure bill a bipartisan effort?
Ada Lovelace's father was Lord Byron?! TIL
Plus the recent Protonmail fiasco.
It doesn't represent any XSS - the details are here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/26295
Retire your tables – it's all JSON now (is it?)
This "machine [that] perform[s] those steps" sounds exactly like it is a static site generator.
Thank you, that does have some of the data I'm looking for, appreciate it very much!
Comparing Covid statistics to VAERS is comparing apples to oranges.

I completely reject your premise that the covid statistics are shoddy. It's easy to confirm a covid case. You do a PCR test, and if you get a positive back it's covid, end of story. It's admittedly a bit trickier to attribute a covid death... but not really. If a covid patient dies of a heart attack, it could be bad luck, or it could be the disease that coagulates its victims' blood. But usually it's pretty obvious. Someone dying of pneumonia and/or a cytokine storm isn't exactly subtle. There's nothing in the overall death statistics that suggest that the obvious covid deaths are anything but the obvious.

By comparison, establishing a casual connection between a vaccine and any adverse side effects is incredibly difficult, simply because they're so rare. Of the 44000 people in the Pfizer trials, literally none of them died of covid OR the vaccine, vs 15 covid deaths in the unvaccinated control group. And VAERS is just a safety net in case something small-but serious slips through the statistical power of a full scientific study (as happened with the J&J vaccine).
His brother lost his lawsuit. Do you have evidence otherwise?

https://www.inc.com/paul-keegan/dan-price-gravity-lawsuit-wi...
> This specific behaviour of python has always struck me as completely idiotic

I'm curious, what would be your proposed solution? Make a special case exception for when the expression that constitutes a function default is evaluated? What would that exception look like?
I'm not a fan of propping up the coal industry, but it's hard to argue that he's fighting against his constituent's interests here. WV is coal country — he's not lying to his base.
It's unfortunate that it's necessary to provide this reminder within almost every message thread.

It's basically a straw man fallacy, and the fact that it's probably unintentional on the part of the committers tells you something about the single-mindedness of those doing the committing.
The way the Texas law as currently written allows for private citizens to snitch and sue on behalf of the state. Texas has not explicitly criminalized abortion but has instead made abortion significant difficult and costly. It's different from the way booze and weed are regulated. Booze is legally regulated in the state where it's sold. So if you buy a beer in Colorado you're consuming it under the standards set by Colorado law. Weed is federally classified as a controlled substance, but the Feds have relaxed prosecution with regards to possession and usage and left it to the states to regulate within their own jurisdictions.

Yes, the original subject was jobs. IANAL, but the Colorado law is a likely a 1st amendment issue in that the state is compelling disclosure of information from private companies. If a lawsuit ever hits a federal court I expect to see the law upended.
Not necessarily a motivational thing, but events such as these become widespread and allows for easier dissemination of information.

It's easy to see then that such events allow for the eventual "recruitment" of other scientists, and in showing society that "science is working" and "solves important problems".

Both of which serve to enrich the scientific world with new researchers and funding to keep the engine running.
Past efforts to retrain coal miners have been generally ineffective. President Biden told them to learn to code, which didn't go over too well.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...

I support efforts to give miners other opportunities but we have to be realistic about what's possible.
(Replay engineer): In the long run we'd love for Replay to prove to the major runtimes that they should build support for this in to the runtime itself, rather than us maintaining many forks. The API that we designed for recording a runtime is open source and available here https://replay.io/driver and could serve as a good starting point.
Thanks for the link - I’ll have to check that out. I wonder if the limitations in IndexedDB will make certain queries impossible
That issue has been continuously open since 2015. Assuming it works, sure, but I would not hold my breath.
It’s also impossible to establish that one particular person infected another particular person. Drunk driving accidents are precise on actors.
Sounds like how blogs used to be (and even how Twitter and others were, too).

I wonder if the lack of interaction will just make people try to build workarounds to interact in other ways. For example, AFAIK, early Twitter had people use RT and other techniques to spread and/or reply to tweets even though the platform didn't have those functions itself.

How do you imagine this platform would deal with that desire to interact more with each other?
Who knew my mother was right all along to scold me for opening the microwave before the timer went off
Yeah but it only passed the Senate. House leadership won't allow a vote on it until the democrat-only $3.5T bill passes.
Try to use the debugger, learn breakpoints and watches. Unsure what IDE you use, but if you use Intellij, this will get you started very quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWnIP1S6UA
That's very good. I never saw these in Montreal. Maybe because I'm not a new graduate.
Thank you! We also have a Discord server (link at bottom of website) -- the app is rough around the edges still and some support / inspiration usually helps.
> Is this any more helpful than saying "throw away your iPhone" or "uninstall Windows"?

I've done both those things, and am happier for it. So yes, I would argue that it's helpful to advise people to cut junk out of their lives.
It doesn't change the median to mean discrepancy though. Australia has a smoother wealth divide and that's purely policy.

I was shocked when i found out there's no 0% tax bracket in the USA. All that paperwork to collect tax from those who are struggling. Meanwhile the federal tax caps out at 37% and doesn't even consider very high wage earners. The higher minimum wages in Australia are also clear cut.
Fundamental attribution error. I got used to people around me considering these measures a joke(which they are if we take into account the size of the problem ).
I mean, wine ranges in price from $4 to no real ceiling based on exactly those sorts of factors...
My Toyota Sienna AWD (with run flats) doesn't have a spare tire, so sometimes you CAN'T even change a tire!
The flag function works

businessinsider is full of questionable articles, is a low quality source
Updated way to host a static site on AWS
Here is a blog that compares garbage collection across several versions and GC's: https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/06/09/jdk-gc-benchmarks-part1

They concluded:

"JDK 8 is an antiquated runtime. The default Parallel collector enters huge Full GC pauses and the G1, although having less frequent Full GCs, is stuck in an old version that uses just one thread to perform it, resulting in even longer pauses. Even on a moderate heap of 12 GB, the pauses were exceeding 20 seconds for Parallel and a full minute for G1. The ConcurrentMarkSweep collector is strictly worse than G1 in all scenarios, and its failure mode are multi-minute Full GC pauses."
Perhaps you were looking for something like this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/science/snowflakes-photos...

https://archive.is/OeBIb
More details here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/21/introduction-futarchy/
> I'm a little confused about the issue description

Not helped by the fact that even with explicit cajoling* to give steps to reproduce, the reporter wrote:

> Steps to reproduce

>Try to login/create an user in Gitlab (on-premises/Gitlab.com) where the username ends with a MIME type format

Goddamit, those are not steps to reproduce! Has the current era of "social coding" and its terrible software development practices completely turned people's brains to mush?

(In fact, such cajoling shouldn't even be required. If you don't know you need to provide STR without someone going to the lengths of coddling you by going out of their way to create a template, you don't have any business using a bug tracker.)
You seem to have exactly the wrong takeaway? The business introducing pay transparency was a boon for you! It told you they won't pay you fairly, and so you left to get the raise you deserved.

Would you rather be lied to in manager 1-on-1s how you just need to work more collaboratively to get that promotion? What a scam!
> I'd hope the VPN service is built and operated in a way that doesn't require trust

Unless you're continuously verifying, this requires trust that it is built that way and/or won't be changed in the future.
Good point. Maybe new developer salary is different from what contractors get? The number I see for contractors are pretty good but yeah they have decades of experience under their belt.
My exposure to them is based on having been one. And I know for a fact that most of them believe that whatever a laissez-faire - defined as completely unregulated - market produces, is inherently optimal. Some will argue that it will not have monopolies; but many will argue that when it does, that's because a monopoly is more efficient, and so it's a good thing overall.
I don’t disagree with this sentiment, however, American culture explicitly drives what you’re describing here. There’s really no money to be made by battling inequality and people want to become wealthy more than they want to live in an equitable society. Because once you’ve become wealthy, you get to join the ranks of the privileged few that have the ability to make the choice that Dan Price made, but they don’t.

I remember reading once that America is the land of the frustrated wannabe millionaire, and it’s kinda true. We’re all on a warpath to make a ton of money with no real incentive to fight the fight you’re talking about.
> I would also consider adding native cloud storage option, ala S3 and friends as that would make it the most useful.

Careful! Egress bandwidth is insanely expensive for almost all cloud providers. GCP is $0.12/GB, so downloading a 1TB backup would cost you $120.

You can get a 64TB Hetzner server for 79 euros a month + free bandwidth: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx
>Jürgen Schmidhuber has a track record of complaining about unfairness in the conventionally accepted view of the scientific record, especially in the English-speaking world.

So, he has

>Ultimately, as always, credit will be assigned by future generations of scientists and historians long after everyone who is alive today has disappeared from the face of the earth.

Well, credit for the field of CS is already applied now, and also yesterday and 20 years ago. It's not like this future credit would be the first such, or that it would be more accurat (or that it would not feed of the current popular views).
You can be sued for almost anything. The judge decided for Dan Price on all accounts.
Aging polar bears on the last piece of melting sea ice
> carrying out hacking operations for the benefit of the UAE government without obtaining the required licences from the US

lee7 means you have a license to hack?

Sorry, couldn’t resist.
"instituting 0% tax for the lowest wage earners"

Well, we do for income tax. It's just that the cut off limit is extremely low ($12k). Based on tax credits, one can even pay $0 in tax and get money back.
s/Ever/Yet/

Saves one character and leaves room for the near-certainty that there will be larger spending bills in the coming decades.
it's not the size of the data that's the problem, it's the size of the metadata and the sheer number of files in the data. Torrents suck for lots of tiny files, and we have that here in spades.
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