skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't the site just show ads directly from their domain? It'd be hard to block ads without blocking content then.

Many websites used to just run ads that were directly negotiated and paid for by the company. eg: Plenty of Fish used to do that and they sold for $575M .
What do the two guys produce that's hard to analyze?
I don't know if it's a shortcoming on my end, but whenever China comes up on HN, my antennae extend a little farther out.

I think the more naive belief would be to think that HN is somehow immune to shills and bots...
If you think Tesla fans are bad, wait until you see NIO fans...
(2021)

URL should be https://www.ajogmfm.org/article/S2589-9333(21)00176-2/fullte... , but HN changed it for some reason.
Gmail's Chat now has a feature to forward an individual message to your inbox. I kept clicking on that feature and all the forwards from Google were in the Gmail Spam folder.

Gargh.
> Do you really trust your failsafes enough to risk the life of your own kid?

I mean, the right way to do it is with a precommitment to preventatively destroying the thing the attacker wants from you, via some kind of dead-man's-switch. You don't let your future self make the decision of whether to give up your secrets; your hypothetical future self is under duress. Your present self is not, and therefore knows better.

Of course, they still probably won't believe you that the secret is destroyed with no backup. But now you actually have no option to cooperate with them, so at least you're off the hook for the moral responsibility of whether the hostages live or not any more. The only ones that can make a decision that will causally influence whether the hostages live or die, at that point, are the hostage-takers.
Veracrypt hidden volumes look like a nice implementation of that: https://veracrypt.eu/en/docs/hidden-volume/
“Peace, Order, and Good Government” is the maxim of the Canadian government, like “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” is for the US government, and “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” is for the French. Pointing out that it hasn’t always lived up to that (nor have the US and France of course) is a non sequitur here.
I was trying to say that it is hard to trust someone (or an institution) when we believe that they are not on our team. I didn't mean to imply that just because I think they have good or neutral intentions towards me that they won't do something that will harm me or others. I strongly agree they could do things that most people would consider bad, evil, harmful, etc. I think most of us do things that both help and hurt people. Just as I'm against demonizing someone, I'm also against idolizing them, as I believe they both blind us to the good and bad people will do.
One thing that was doable in my last company where I used gRPC was I made interfacing with the gRPC API dead simple. Something like `connect(ServiceBlockingStub.class)` was in your code and it would instantly pull configs, build the service, wire up all of our middle wares + logging, etc.

You can automate a lot of this which essentially makes the normal level of friction easier.
Why not debate the API that’s in front of us rather than make up excessive imaginary ones?

(besides, payment APIs are already able to request your contact information in order to bill you and ship things to you. And guess what: pretty useful!)
Nah - they could alternatively use a honeypot to try and trick you - aka the Rick and Morty episode M. Night Shaym-Aliens!... or they could just make your life pain until you're able to successfully unlock your thing - even if it's a password you can't communicate verbally it is something you can communicate since your computer can understand you.

Biometrics come with the same potential issue - great, now instead of beating me up until I tell them the password is rosebud they're going to cut off my thumb - this scenario is so much better.
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Civ 1, 2, 3, 4 were more strategic IMO.

Civ5 and Civ6 has moved more tactical. I'm spending more and more time thinking about where to place units, because they no longer "stack up" with each other. Collision detection for the human means that I need to put more effort into deciding where to move and place my units.

Yeah yeah yeah, people were confused about "stack kills" in Civ1/2/3, and without stack-kills, Civ4 combat grew dull. So maybe removing stacks all together was a solution (the current direction for Civ5 and Civ6).

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Somewhere along the line, combat was no longer a guaranteed killer. (Civ1/2 was definitely a "win you live, lose you die" for every combat). Civ6, now I'm thinking about movement points, where to retreat to, how to save up HP again and recover, whether or not I can cutoff the opponent's retreat. These are more tactical elements.

I feel like Civ6 has pushed "strategy" through its government card system, which is pretty abstract (Oh, you just got a new government card! Time for a new war! I'm going to equip +100% pillage bonus and +4 Strength bonus). A lot of Civ6 is about abusing the multiplicative bonuses of these cards at the right timing.
China doesn't need a wealth tax because they can just erase the wealth of entire sectors and then print new money.
You conveniently forgot to mention that you have to have a lightning node connected to the network 24/7 to protect yourself from fraud. Or, you have to use and trust a third party node.
How does the reactivity work with Datomic? Is it polling those queries? Or I’d it listening to the log of transactions and figuring out when relevant parts have changed?
And ... If hitting you with a wrench can potentially make you unable to provide the password, there is also using the wrench on someone else that you don't want to be hit with a wrench. If they want it badly enough, they'll find the leverage to get it.

Many people have moral lines they won't cross, but the kind of people willing to use a wrench on you to get what they are looking for, are willing to cross many more lines than an ordinary citizens.
It always depends on your scale. I was at a company that had a month spend in the 6 figures and they wanted to constantly talk. A different company I was at the spend was 3 figures a month, and we couldn't get any help at all, even knowing some internal folks in different areas of the company.
oh no, they have it. i know they do: i get a lot of spam in french because of my user name, and not much else on that account. i recently had legit email in english be flagged as spam and gmail had a "why is this message marked spam?" note on it that said it was not in my usual language.
You don't need to change your password unless it gets compromised. Changing passwords regularly is a security myth. It's more important to use a unique password per service.
Why would you carry that much cash? I know he has every right to do so, but there are a lot of bad players out there (TSA included) and I would not want to risk it.

You could deposit the money in a national bank (JPM, BoA, etc), call ahead and plan the withdraw from a local branch. I'm sure there are other players in this marker who would only charge a few grand to provide you the cash on site if you had the money in a trusted escrow. To me, that is cheap insurance, but also to me it's worth the $70 bucks to have my bank wire the money instantly to any bank account in the US.

Not saying this guy did wrong, just saying you can't trust anyone to be on their best behavior when they see $115K.
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I agree. Keyboard shortcuts are really difficult. If I could go back I'm not sure I would repeat the exercise, I've just kind of stuck with it. On macOS there is "Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘" which switches to QWERTY when pressing ⌘ so many shortcuts work.
Very insightful. There are three other variables that are important here, but which unfortunately are very opaque to me:

* Is Evergrande an isolated case of "Ponzi finance" (taking money from new customers to pay interest to old customers), or just the tip of an iceberg? How many other Evergrandes are there in China? To what degree has uneconomic lending and investing underpinned the Chinese economy over the past three decades?

* If the mass of Chinese consumers who lent to the Evergrandes of China get stiffed, how will their behavior change? And how will that impact the Chinese economy?

* If foreigner lenders get stiffed, how does that affect credit markets -- in China, in Asia, and everywhere else?
It’s been perfectly clear all along, to anyone closely following the case and Apples deposition and legal statements exactly what Apples position was. Their conditions for letting Fortnite back in was Epic agreeing to drop the case and follow the rules. This has never changed.
A healthy dose of skepticism seems certainly warranted. I would like to share an example that I hope illustrates the potential of using programming languages to formalize legal reasoning, or at least one possible usage scenario. Take for instance Article 14 of the Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR), available in its entirety from:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...

Article 14 mandates that a technical system be built and states, among other requirements:

"Where competent authorities lawfully issue, in their own Member State and in an electronic format that allows automated exchange, evidence that is relevant for the online procedures referred to in paragraph 1, they shall also make such evidence available to requesting competent authorities from other Member States in an electronic format that allows automated exchange."

The core of this task is therefore to translate evidences between different European Member States. It would be nice to formalize this in the form of logical rules that clearly state which documents can be used to establish the necessary evidences. For instance, the contents of an Austrian birth certificate could be used to prove a required age to a different Member State. The logical rules could take changes in legislation and data formats into account without requiring a redeployment of the entire system, if there is a way to read and interpret the rules dynamically.
I was all in on Azure for years, but once my BizSpark wore off and died I was shocked at how expensive it was to run the most trivial side project or seedling of an idea or non-money making project.

As a .NET full stack web dev for like 14 years, I finally decided to put all my new learnings into just doing static sites on React and trying to figure out some AWS stuff because I wasn't going to try and use .NET on AWS when I had it so fairly figured out on Azure.

For a serial entrepreneur and maker, it just couldn't cut it anymore. Now I do NextJS on Vercel with minimal extra services out of what they provide and I get way faster stuff for free pretty much and I guess I'm no longer the only .NET guy struggling to hold the fort in a big tech community that also thinks .NET is too old or boring or non-sexy.

I still do like Azure better than AWS. The stupid, weird UX is still nicer than AWS. The docs by MS are 1000x better than everything on AWS. I miss MSSQL and the SQL Server Management Studio, but I don't miss the cost for scaling it enough to actually use it for scraping or data processing.

I tried to sell friends on Azure and even got a part time gig from MS themselves to try and help local startups use it, but no one cared or was interested. It just doesn't have that same "standard" or "sexyness" or "built into every new tech" feel to it, so I doubt it'll ever really change or pull ahead in comparison.
But you still have to make a transaction to open a channel.
Very nice. Thanks.

Many 404s, whats the reason?
I had the same experience with ultra-light switches, I couldn't use anything heavier than reds. Then I tried very smooth lubed linears (Alpaca v2, which are 62g), and they were totally fine.

I am not sure if they helped ergonomically but I found I was accidentally pressing keys far less.
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I have. I just describe the first time I changed it.
I wonder if they could have their bots email one another a lot and continually mark their messages as "not spam" until the Google system learns to trust them.

I have also been getting several of these super obvious spam mail messages recently.
The strategy behind Epic Games' Houseparty announcement
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That's not the worst term. Not bad. Hereby unanimously adopted.
My prediction for all the inner-city commercial property that's becoming vacant due to a post-pandemic shift to WFH, is that it will be reclaimed by resurgent cottage industry
The author is stating that not all music sees distribution on Spotify et al, instead it is distributed via Bandcamp or other sources. A lot of older material isn't available through Spotify et al due to licensing issues, or labels that have gone bust.
The Stanford study here cites an 11% reduction from ~8% to ~7%.

This is purely for surgical masks, it found no impact from cloth.

By far most mandate compliant masks even in high mask populations are cloth. There might be a conflation going on here.
Thanks for your comment. I hope you send a postcard!

We spent a while debating whether or not we should have a contributions section on the website. At this point I prefer the simplicity of a really clean landing page, and have already planned to finance a quarterly run of 250 for a year. If there were to be a massive volume of requests, I would definitely like to increase the number of postcards. We would like to eventually find organizational backing. If we ever did take donations on the website, I would want those to be accounted for transparently and I don't think the demand yet meets the cost of that accounting.

Thank you again for your kind words!
> That’s the answer. You move your business out of Texas. Any company that expands or initiates new operations in Texas implicitly supports Texas’s abortion ban.

I like reading Gruber usually, but this comment is completely asinine.
Creating Code with Artificial Intelligence. Good or Bad?
The one thing that I find different and sometimes a bit jealous of people who's passion is in some or multiple forms of making is the idea of having a bunch of projects and stuff to show. Of course there's the practical and sometimes relationship implications of finding the space to store it, but a bunch of in-progress woodworking projects looks impressive in a way that a desktop and NAS containing a bunch of in progress coding projects don't.
Wages for local NZ companies are mostly bad. In spite of that, we are breeding more and more successful companies for reasons I can only guess at. You have a much better chance of finding interesting work than used to be the case.

But the untold story of tech work in NZ is that working remotely for good wages is rapidly getting easier. I started the Mozilla NZ office in 2007 and we were paid adequately, because back then HR didn't have a firm "local cost of labour" policy. Since then I've seen friends find remote work at other companies to get paid a lot more than they would locally for the same job. Zapier is a good one. We can all see that remote work is trending steeply upward in general; it doesn't always translate into location-insensitive pay policies, but sometimes it does.
Petnames are great but the issue is initial discovery. Passing around public keys isn't fun.

Another IPFS alternative is BitTorrent v2 (The main changes are that it dedups files between torrents and uses sha256, not sha1) which does basically everything IPFS does. The only catch is that the spec is only a year old so most torrent clients don't support it yet. Also, RE: cryptocurrencies Monero is not a "series of logos and nothing more". It is private (Nobody can see your transaction amounts or account balance), just does payments (No contracts), has lower fees than BTC, and it has a (reasonably good IMO) CLI wallet.
Borland was taken over by managers and did themselves in:

- bought DBase for WAY too much money when flat files DB were on the way out.

- spent lavishly on a new HQ in Mountain View

- renamed themselves to the pompous name of "Inprise"

- suddenly jacked up the price of all their packages so high that their natural user base started looking elsewhere, rather than trying to convince their boss to pay for licences.

...And then came the web, for which they had no product to sell.

Microsoft was only happy to help their downfall by poaching and copying.
The point is, the 5B was a fine, accepting full penalty for whatever "wrong thing", over that part which was being investigated.

The 47x number is apples and oranges. They are two different fines / issues.

What Zuck knew isn't relevant, for, the fine was likely "if all the bad things we think you did, happened, then this is the fine".

So, in essence, he admitted to all the questions being asked.

Zuck / Facebook paid, rather then shine greater light on things. So yeah, bad stuff surely, but I see no direct connection to the other fine.

In fact, by relating it to the other fine, people are missing that it may have been an entirely other (very bad) matter.

The bit about personal liability, etc, etc is standard boilerplate stuff.
Deep learning helps researchers remove clouds from satellite images
He's an extremely good Twitter follow, for what it's worth.
I quite like the split style, so I made a split keyboard for me:

https://imgz.org/i6HG7FUf/

I love it, it works extremely well and is exactly suited to my hands. I should finish writing up the process one of these days.

I certainly recommend getting a split keyboard (maybe BT?) if you want to try this approach, though two cheap keyboards might be cheaper than one good split one.
USA has legalized slavery so long as the person has been convicted of a crime.

Want to hire some slaves for call center work?

https://unicor.gov/ContactCenterVideo.aspx

They've also got slaves fighting fires in CA.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/califor...

Want some slave milk?

https://unicor.gov/Product.aspx?idProduct=281
I think that you are right. May be some form of denial has blinded me, but watching first hand uncensored reaction here helped a lot to remove any form of romanticism.
Greed trumps all.
The tracking is not just for measuring success of the campaign, but also for measuring the level of service provided by the ad network. Did they put your ad on 1'000'000 websites like they promised? Or just 100?
Winter is coming, and the vaccine narrative is about to shift
This is great! As someone learning jazz, this type of collaborative tool can serve for sharing transcriptions with a remote teacher, and maybe even for teaching harmonic analysis (I'm not familiar with ABC notation, but I see it allows comments).
Very few people hate Nestle. I certainly don't. Nestle is the fifth most loved brand in the world (whatever that means):
https://www.nestleusa.com/media/news-and-features/nestle-5th...

This idea that you can put yourself into an ideological bubble and just assume that the world outside the bubble is the same as the world inside the bubble is a form of self-deception.

Most people don't hate Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. All these companies have huge user/customer bases. Even when the whole Microsoft is Evil thing was going on, most people were sufficiently self-aware to understand that this was a niche view. For some reason, that connection with reality became unhinged and many people really think they are in the majority now, and that's when they experience these types of coginitive shocks such as realizing that most people in Texas are pro-life or that most Brits voted for Brexit. For some, the shock of reality is so devastating that it deeply wounds them and they start massively freaking out when they see a tear in the fabric of their self-constructed reality.

Note that I am not arguing against self-constructed realities. It's necessary, but you have to keep in mind that

1) odds are most people don't share your views

2) odds are that you yourself will change your mind later in life as you become wiser.

3) odds are very good that your grandchildren will repudiate your views.

The number of views that we have that we can think are truly universal and will stand the test of time is very small, and almost all of them already have existed for a very long time.
A charitable view I hold on days when my mood is good is, for each of us at any given point in life, there exists a magic sequence of words that will make a concept stick. That may be a story that hits one "right in the feels". That may be a sentence, the right sentence, that makes a complex concept finally click in one's head. So all those books, each talking about the same thing, each repeating an article's worth of content 200 different ways - they're maximizing the amount of readers that find the magical uttering, for whom it all falls into place.

On regular days with regular mood, I say it's just easy way of milking people, and that self-help genre died soon after being born, i.e. back in the days of Dale Carnegie.
Understanding Latent Space in Machine Learning
I'm still confused by google's "Chromebook Megathread" ads. with comments disabled.

It's vexing.
Benioff, the Salesforce CEO who owns Time magazine, is just another guy trying to get a leg up on his competition through rent seeking.

The "disinformation" that he wants to suppress is another person's information. Let it all hang out. I think people will figure things out.
As somebody who has those sorts of projects, all I feel is guilt when I look at the unfinished ones. At least with code you can shove it in a folder and forget about it…
I'd rather get hit by a wench than a wrench, if I am gonna get hit by something. Death by Snu Snu is preferable to death by blunt trauma- at least I get something out of it.
We use Azure at work and this article hit home hard. As we just have been burned recently by Azure pricing. I am in the same spot as the author: liking Azure but being put off by all the weird stuff sometimes they are doing.

In our case, all we wanted was a static IP in front of an Azure Container Instance. Easy right? Let's put the container in a vNET, place a NAT Gateway in front of it and we are done. However, for some reason NAT Gateway is not supported for Container instances, instead, the official documentation suggests setting up an Azure managed firewall in front of your container that starts at a whopping 600EUR/month. That is a steep price increase from your ~30ish EUR/month for a basic container instance and it doesn't seem to be any other official alternative.

I have opened an issue with the docs team [1] about it and I hope there is another way of doing this that doesn't incur a doubling of our Azure monthly spending.

[1]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/81274
Pay them for their labor, and don't force them to do it if they don't want to. Forced labor and incarceration are two different things that don't depend on one another. You can incarcerate people without forcing them to work.
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Apple won the case, they don’t have to accept the Fortnite changes. In fact the court ordered Epic to follow the rules, if Fortnite goes back into the store.

How would letting Fortnite back in the store, and taking their money, reduce their revenues from other developers? You’re not making any sense.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", except for the "promotions tab", that was clear malice to increase their ads revenue.
I have a funny story about Azure. Our company was looking for a cloud provider, and Microsoft sent a couple of salespeople to talk to us about theirs. Their salespeople were very condescending, talking like they'd be doing us a favor by allowing us to become customers and failing to take any of our questions and concerns seriously.

I think it's because we aren't a large corporation in terms of headcount.

In any case, that meeting ensured that no further consideration of Azure would take place, and it's very unlikely that it would be considered in the future.