skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great link to drag to the bookmark bar.
Most office workers will never return full-time, survey says [BBC]
Sounds like it's time to write a Discord crawler...
They won’t investigate child abuse but they will hatch a plot for a soft coup, a domestic terrorist kidnapping plot, or send a dozen agents to investigate a garage door rope.
Crazy it sold at all, really. Still overvalued.

The free money bubble sets your value horizon to weird levels.

I remember hard solutions being worth something, not bro apps. Now I'm actually not that grumpy. This happens in every industry, I wish everybody involved well (I regret calling it a bro app, I'm sure there is way more involved than I am seeing, but it fits here in terms of functionality), markets are fuzzy, I don't get to make the evaluations, prices don't reflect material value but market etc. - I'm just trying to figure out my INTJness and how people cannot see this coming.

"Genius.com is going to be the Internet Talmund" and a unicorn - what? Based on what?

WeWork/Fab.com etc. etc.
A trivia question, but my favorite when interviewing for an operations-related role:

How you would start planning for shooting this video? - https://youtu.be/u1ZB_rGFyeU (OK Go - I Won't Let You Down)
Remember OpenID (from before it became a OAuth variant)? The premise of an universal identity from any IdP usable anywhere would've worked just as well.
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Didn't they get blacklisted from Google results for some sort of dark / spammy SEO scheme a while back? I assumed that was the death blow for these guys. Or did they somehow workout a deal that let them come back? I stopped keeping track.
It's called quality assurance. Or the lack of it. In a normal development process you have design and testing all acconpaniated by reviews. But there commes tailoring and you skip some testing ( it uses code from previous tested project) and maybe some reviews. At the end of the project you shall have some lessons learned, but they are there just to please management. Add to this the fact that the people who will have to fix the mess are never the same who did the original development and you have a picture.
And unfortunately this is not MS specific.
Is medialab.ai that sketchy company that just throws ads on the things it buys then let's them rot? What are they hoping to get from this?
This basically leads to people getting away with lots of sketchy behavior, (in the US) because the corporate veil absolves the decision makers of any personal responsibility.

A stark difference between the EU and the US is that European companies have a harder time claiming their product is safe when it really isn't. For example, lead paint was banned in European countries long before the US.
Very interesting because of the interesting results from random websites. It's a great discovery tool.

Now hoping for search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes paywalls
Yeah this is a great example of a company that would have benefited from staying small and playing the long game. There's not a clear path to make money off of annotating song lyrics (or anything) so it seemed in their benefit to stretch out their lifespan instead of burning out chasing fast growth.
The VW Rabbit, imo, was better built than a ford escort (excepting electrical); but much worse design. They didnt do thinks like "oops we forgot to bolt in the transmission" (my favorite ford trick); they did things like "when the clutch needs adjusting the entire car has to come apart to reach a retaining screw" and iirc there was something about a crankshaft that was destined to break in half at 30k miles...
Please not mailinglists. They are unbrowsable and who likes getting their inbox spammed in order to follow a discussion?

What's more, not everybody follows etiquette:

- reply and just keep the original message at the bottom

- reply in between the original message

- reply at the bottom with the original message on top

- Some mix quotes and then reply to some parts in the original

And then how do you link to users or messages from your email client?

Plus who wants to have 5 different email accounts for 5 different mailing-lists? And why would I respond in a manner that allows the world to see my private email address?

I heavily disagree that emails are the way forward in this regard (maybe even in any regard).
If the shitbox is sending garbage packets at line rate, it doesn't really matter if it's sending to you or someone else, now links in those directions are at least a lot more congested and that's likely to impact everyone else's experience.

From past experience with endpoints that got into 'infinite' packet states, if you've got any monitoring at all, you notice when you're sending line rate garbage, even if you don't monitor packet sending directly, it'll spike your CPU and reduce your throughput/increase your latency for other tasks. That was, thankfully 1:1 packet generation, but sometimes got triggered by hosts (or middleboxes) with low latency and a 10G pipe; also thankfully it was a bug on our machines, so fixing it was not too bad (actually we had first seen the problem on localhost, when it showed up again on public interfaces, having seen it before made diagnosis pretty quick).
You can't have "global citizenship" without a "global social welfare system".
That sounds right. Same end result either way.
> real camera

The camera obscura or one of the horrible modern DSLRs? \s

Always love when people that don't get modern tech start with the gate keeping. iPhone produce better pictures by themselves than 90% of all the "real camera" people with their $5000 Canons.
This is really cool, it filters out all fluff.

It's not always taking me to totally relevant sites but the results contain my favourite type of content.

Full of writing and pure html - usually the hallmark of someone who knows what they are doing, wants to communicate but doesn't want to waste their time.
If the company was bootstrapped it could just have kept running and creating profits. Many business can create value in the world, but who are not VC material. Unfortunately the people behind was hitting for the fences and missed, instead of playing it more safe.
Fully agreed, except for this one: All news is dogshit, and various levels of lies

This is just first-grade populistic crap. Yes, there's various levels of lies and shit, but that doesn't mean they're all equally bad. Being able to discern the quality and trustworthiness of a source is an important skill, and it doesn't seem you are willing to master it.
I frankly don't understand what to trust when it comes to sandboxing in Linux.

On the one hand, there are SUID binaries like Firejail and on the other, we have bubblewrap which uses unprivileged user namespaces, also used by Podman and Docker rootless containers. However, linux-hardened disables unprivileged user namespaces by default and the Arch Wiki has warnings plastered all over the Podman page about potential security risks of using unpriv user namespaces.
A "stint" in consulting typically has three outcomes:

a) You fail at the business side, can't find clients, your finances suffer, after all the optimism and pleasure at owning your own time, you start looking for a job within a year or so.

b) You succeed at the business side, get more clients than you can handle, start sub-contracting, start having to manage your sub-contractors, decide the margins would be better if you had employees, grow into a "boutique consultancy", stop coding mostly and become a full-time salesman and manager, but now with other people who depend on you for their livelihoods.

c) You succeed just enough to sustain yourself, don't seek new clients or attempt to grow beyond a 1-person shop, outsource to subs when you need to for a little extra juice but otherwise shy away from taking on too much work, take the work that comes your way, subcontract for some of the bigger fish who need your special skills, and accept the 'feast or famine' reality of income, enjoy your freedom and time off between clients, but not entirely because you're always worried about where your next check is going to come from or "what if the work dried up?", but ultimately get trapped in the endless cycle of making pretty good money and "enjoying the variety" as you grow older, start a family, etc, and can't afford to take the hit trying something entrepreneurial any more since your kids need to go to college, until finally the burnout is so intense you hate consulting and the fact that your livelihood is tied to your labor, hoping that you've put enough away to at least retire early and maybe then you'll work on something you actually want to.

There is a fourth approach (or path, if you will) which is to work for an established consultancy as per the article. This path itself has three typical outcomes:

1) You are a natural creature of the corporate consulting world, you prosper in the one true measure of value -- selling work, you ascend to director-level or something where you make very good money, if you're entrepreneurial you maybe can take your clients with you to buy into a partner role at another consultancy. Maybe you see this life as a good life that you're well-suited to.

2) You think success at an established consultancy is based on technical merit, you're gradually disabused of this idea and suffer burnout, if you haven't been there long, you maybe jump to the product world or (gasp!) start a startup solving some problem you solved for a client of the consultancy. Congrats, now you have a startup and all the attendant cares. There is a different list for that path.

3) You burn out of working in corporate but think "hey, I'm a pretty good consultant and what else am I gonna do?", you decide to go independent, see outcomes a, b, c above.
You can limit the search query per website in DDG (and probably in others)

Example: `rust slow compilation site:stackoverflow.com`
Discourse just feel like someone just heard about Web 2.0 and decided to re-implement forum software.

I dunno, it’s a sort of uncanny valley where some of the ideas are good but the whole thing just grates on you.

I’ve used Flarum as an alternative and been much happier with it.
Fast and doesn't crash when on the front page of Hacker News!
I'm saying you are being fed these stories.. just as we are always fed stories to manufacture consent

e.g. wouldn't have made the news a few years ago. suddenly the Japanese defence minister is being interviewed on CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/asia/japan-defense-minist...

If countries are genuinely concerned about China, then start to disengage commercially with them. Stop buying stuff from them, invest in production of alternative sources for white goods and electronics and cars and plastic stuff.
Stop selling them Iron ore and stop encouraging them to invest in your country.

Also start to positively engage with the rest of the developing world. Not by handcuffing them with monetary deals from the IMF and world bank, but with genuine selfless goodwill and repatriation to help them develop in sustainable ways.
Also, let me say I'm totally against mandates. I feel it's everyone God given right to walk into a convenience store without a shirt or shoes. Although, during a pandemic with a highly contagious disease I'm willing to make an exception.
What versioning system do you use or have seen in practice?
In a company I'm working at, I'm seeing something like

A.B.YYWW.RR

- A : Major Hardware Revision

- B : Minor Hardware Revision

- YY : 20YY year code (e.g. 2021 would yeld YY=21)

- WW : ISO week (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date)

- RR : Firmware Revision

What other versioning system have you seen in the field?

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Also does versioning have to necessarily be incremental?
What if the last few digits are a portion of a git hash (At least for internal or test releases).

One other possibility is to use iso week date plus revision number (YYYY.WW.R) e.g. `2020.11.7`
This could just be titled “Nearly half of all new people are women!”
it's too "uncompact". Font size too big and could use a bit more horizontal space.

I find it comfortable to use at 60% zoom level
Not really, you could just do it as tax proportional to how much in-practice the company’s cars pollute. Though that would introduce a greater difficulty in risk and cost management since it’s harder to predict and control in advance.
Guessing your chances go up significantly with each stamp you do get.
There's also the aspect on how you deal with simple questions that are asked repeatedly. But in my experience, both Reddit and Forums aren't dealing with it perfectly.

For example, consider a PC hardware subreddit/forum. Let's assume people repeatedly (every few days) ask certain common questions such as "Should I buy the SuPerB A100 or A200 CPU?" or "Should I go for 16 GB or 32 GB of RAM?" or "Is the stock CPU cooler sufficient for the A200 CPU?" [1] Essentially, questions often asked by relatively inexperienced users which are - to some extent - obvious to the subreddit/forum veterans.

In Forums, moderators often close threads with those questions with comments like "This has already been answered 100 times - research your question first". Unfortunately, exactly these topics are invariably going to show up first in your favorite search engine. And the built-in search function of most forums is borderline unusable, or gated behind registration (which IMHO is an anti-feature, I don't know who came up with that idea).

In Subreddits, moderators create mega-threads for simple questions, with the effect that you have weekly giant threads that totally unorganized (since it's just a random collection of hundreds of unrelated questions) and unsearchable. Especially considering Reddit's search function has also turned useless at some point: I sometimes try to use it to look for terms that have definitely been mentioned a lot of times in a certain subreddit (e.g. searching for "Linux" in a Linux subreddit), but the search still didn't turn up any results.

I guess one of the better ways to provide typical, standard answers to common questions is the Q&A format (Stack Overflow), but that comes with its own pitfalls.

[1] After writing these examples, I realized they might not be optimal since those questions often do rely on the context (e.g. "Use 32 GB of RAM if you run a lot of VMs/use $memory_hungry_software, otherwise 16 GB is enough") - but let's assume for a moment these questions have clear standard answers.
We could do with a more real version of this with an area of land that anyone could go live. Maybe the US / EU could lease somewhere for 200 years say for refugees and the like to be able to hang out?
Computing Discrete Logarithms [pdf]
I would not trust this list at all.

Rapper Mos Def was arrested and charged in South Africa for trying to use his 'World Passport'. It's considered a fake document and is a criminal offence.
Quite a few societies/countries have made the call that accepting refugees from things like dictatorships is a moral obligation they want to take on, though.
> finally debug my websites in Safari

GNOME Web uses WebKit and is officially recommended by Apple to test websites on WebKit.
You mean Elizabeth Holmes and pregnancy?
Irish High Court challenge against ratification of CETA fails
This story (and many others from liberal media sites) seem like a hit job on Thiel . . .
Nice! Typing my name in, gets my own site back as 3 of the top 5 results. I suddenly feel important ;)
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I recommend a read of the Austrian School of economy.

Not as influential as Keynes since he is at the top. But for me, the most correct theories (without being an expert in the matter) come from there.
But then you run into the problem of having one username across Discord "servers". I don't want what I say on servers with my friends to be easily cross-searchable from what I say on a "server" for some software development library.
Doesn't this go beyond the FBI? Weren't the DOJ, FBI and Olympic committee all implicated by congress?
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I wrote it myself from scratch. I have some metadata in mariadb, but the index is bespoke.

A design sketch of the index is that it uses one file with sorted URL IDs, one with IDs of N-grams (i.e. words and word-pairs) referring to ranges in the URL file; as well as a dictionary for relating words to word-IDs; that's a GNU Trove hash map I modified to use memory map data instead of direct allocated arrays.

So when you search for two words, it translates them into IDs using the special hash map, goes to the words file and finds the least common of the words; starts with that.

Then it goes to the words file and looks up the URL range of the first word.

Then it goes to the words file and looks up the URL range of the second word.

Then it goes through the less common word's range and does a binary search for each of those in the range of the more common word.

Then it grabs the first N results, and translates them into URLs (through mariadb); and that's your search result.

I'm skipping over a few steps, but that's the very crudest of outlines.
I don't think the height is that impressive, but this flight achieved orbit, which is a considerable achievement for private ventures. I would say the other starts were still space flights though.
Yes it is, and it wouldn't fail my algorithm:

a -> not in set -> add a (a)
b -> not in set -> add b (ab)
c -> not in set -> add c (abc)
b -> in set -> remove b (ac)
a -> in set -> remove a (c)
Set has 1 <= 1 element -> return OK

(Of course, "aabcb" would return yes as well, but that's the whole point: we're not asking whether a string is a palindrome, but whether any one of its permutations is.)
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A few months before 9/11 my France -> Switzerland border control on the TGV was a conductor asking our train car "Is anyone not allowed in Switzerland? OK, good." Almost jarring, having gone through US border controls a lot.
The proper response would be to prosecute both the corporation and specific individuals who acted illegally.

The former as a corrective action to help unwind any advantage gained in the market due to the illegal activity. This means, though, that fines need to actually claw back the ill gotten gains, not the small fraction they represent today. Right now, the fines are just another expense, assuming the company even gets caught.

Prosecuting the company properly might also ensure some measure of justice in cases where specific individuals' guilt is obscured by corporate structure and systems (intentionally or otherwise).

Prosecuting individuals who break the law in service of their employer (executive or not) isn't much different than prosecuting soldiers who commit war crimes -- obviously different in degree, but not in kind.

"I was just following orders" shouldn't be an acceptable defense in either case, though coercion and fear of reprisal should certainly be taken into account.
> What you've been saying boils down to "You're wrong in claiming that everyone would gladly nerve-gas everyone around them!"

That's literally the opposite of what I've been saying. That "everyone" in that sentence, man, do you not listen at all? I've explained to you multiple times that the topic of contention is not "degree of evil that everyone has" - the topic of contention is whether people are grouped into 1 group or 2 groups in this context. What I found offensive in the original post is that it grouped people into 2 groups instead of 1 group. And yet you're here pretending that I'm upset that someone grouped people into 1 group. No, that would have been fine, but they didn't do that. If the original post had grouped people into 1 group, like if it had claimed "everyone is an arsehole", that would've been fine by me, as I've explained to you multiple times. My issue was with a description that divided people up by party lines and described one group as saints and the other group as evil.

> The original contention was just "people do shit like smoking regardless of the harm it does to those around them".

No it wasn't. The sentiment in your statement is that "people are similar in this way", whereas the sentiment in the original post was "people are not similar - there are 2 groups of people, one of these is good and the other is evil". For reference, here's that original post again, which VERY OBVIOUSLY describes the existence of 2 groups which are different from each other:

> > America has two radically different concepts of freedom that travel under the same name. Both start with "I should be free to do as I want". One ends with "as long as I don't harm others". The other ends with "regardless of harm to others".

I'm arguing that "two radically different" groups don't exist; that people are similar in this manner, not too different from one another. You've already conceded multiple times that you agree with this point. If you want to argue that the original post (which I copypasted above) is also saying that "two radically different groups" don't exist, PLEASE, go ahead, let's see that magic how you will twist those words into the opposite of what they actually meant. Go ahead, I'll wait.
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yes good idea, i'm looking for interested and skilled people in development of this algorithms.

Thank you for your suggestion in any case.
Apparently someone on Discord is paying attention, because I just now updated my copy, and a popup came up drawing attention to their new feature: different nicknames per server!

Edit: Ignore me; see reply.
I wondered the same thing. How many customers can honestly say that the emmission levels had anything to do with their purchase? It is the governments/health services that have to pick up the pieces if the emmissions were really that bad.

It also staggers me that a company can afford to pay $30B in fines and costs. Do you think the ATM can fit their bank balance on the screen (perhaps it can now!)
As the sibling noted, the order of borrowing and deposits does not matter. The summation will always be zero.

This gets to the heart of why there can be negative dynamics in a credit cycle. If I’ve lent 1 real dollar 100 or 1000x then there is a real risk of everyone needs that dollar back today. Similarly if creditors become risk averse and stop redepositing the money into the banking system, the velocity of money will tank and the number of dollars available to lend/spend will collapse. Growing the money supply only through fractional reserve dynamics also poses risks if a systemic imbalance emerges between creditors and debtors requiring some individuals/corps to be permanent borrowers e.x the Great Depression, and Recession.

In many ways the US is using treasuries to counterbalance the above by having the federal reserve purchase treasuries which will never be paid back in real dollars. However until the pandemic the government had limited ability to place those trillions of dollars in the hands of people who needed the surplus.
I believe they did an encoding(Morse code or something) in the lyrics to prove google was using them verbatim.
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