skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propaganda 1928 is just my favorite book ever, it is written in such a tone as to both be a perfect introductory and a hard authoritative first hand source and compilation of Bernays experiences

Excerpt
> “Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.”- Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda
From what I understand, Huawei got "ahead" in 5G by stealing Nortel's IP and running it into ground by the way of spycraft.
My Spotify account is the last 10 years of my musical growth and experience, and I can share a song or an entire playlist with anyone at any time. My physical book library is spread out across 3 states and I tend to get back about half the books I lend out. I'm not about to drop the books, but if I could trade them all for a PDF library tomorrow it would be hard to say no.
Heard from where? Got any numbers for this "clustering"?
Not part? Wasn't it one of their execs who was impersonated?
It's not so good everywhere.

Where I am there is one Tesla charging location (with 8 charging stations). It is roughly 20 minutes away from any of my usual work/shopping/dining destinations. The next closest superchargers are over 50 miles away.
Next you will be telling me that git is already a blockchain!
Yeah, I never understood why people don’t treat Facebook just like email, where you can have a throwaway account unrelated to anything.
I feel like they will.

Eventually, the market for EV will be so large that they may as well try and get everyone they can on the chargers, the same way that iTunes on Windows was primarily to grab a huge chunk of the digital music market.
Just look at nortel networks. Totally kneecapped by having their products stolen and then their deals.
Sorry. How do you know the miner is owned by Christopher Harborne?
It’s exciting!! It will be interesting to see if this product can be further expanded into Cloudflare Workers so that you can process inbound emails in workers for custom logic / storage and maybe also handle outbound email delivery from workers
hint: it's the same people who are now saying covid is fake/not serious/vaccine is poison.

e.g. standard anti-science conservative bigots.
Hey All,

I am the original author of the app. This is an update to the project.

Cryptogalaxy [0] is an app which will get any cryptocurrencies ticker and trade data in real time from multiple exchanges and then saves it in multiple storage systems.

Currently supported exchanges : FTX, Coinbase Pro, Binance, Bitfinex, BHEX, Huobi, Gateio, Kucoin, Bitstamp, Bybit, Probit, Gemini, Bitmart, Digifinex, AscendEX, Kraken, Binance US, OKEx, FTX US, HitBTC. Total 20.

Currently supported storages : Terminal Output, MySQL, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, NATS, ClickHouse, S3. Total 7.

All feedback is welcome.

P.S Created fun twitter bot [1] using the app.

[0] : https://github.com/milkywaybrain/cryptogalaxy
[1] : https://twitter.com/moon_or_earth

Thanks,

Pavan
I mean, not to discount the value of working hard or anything, but you describe this as a self evident truth when it can't possibly apply across the board. I am an existence proof. I've had to work relatively little for my success, including in interview situations. Again, this is not to say that I believe hard work has no place, but to frame hard work as some kind of self-evident key to success is exactly the disingenuous framing I expect from leadership seminars.
Tesla switched to CCS in Australia without being forced by our government. Completely voluntary.

IMHO Tesla shouldn’t just ship a dongle. They should put CCS + Tesla plugs in the charge port of all new North American vehicles. Even if the latter is hidden behind a second manual door. They already put dual sockets on Teslas in other world markets, so it’s totally doable.
Use the highlighted source code coverage report. It's especially good if the language calls out uncovered branches.
This article hits close to home. I was a very late-term dropout from a doctoral program in a hard science. I had neither the good sense to quit early on, nor the mental fortitude to complete my dissertation and ended up wasting years of my life in the process.

Among my many regrets, I wish there had been a professor who could have been honest with me about my ability to succeed as well as the consequences of failure. Unfortunately, by the very fact that they were professors, they had never experienced anything like the misery that I did.

I did miraculously salvage my science career, but any time I get the chance, I strongly discourage anyone from pursuing a graduate degree in my field.
I have maintained for a long time, that this will be regarded as an outbreak of mass hysteria of truly historic proportions.
It depends on how much of that extra expense you can capture as your own pay and how much is dead weight costs (e.g. union overhead or additional costs imposed on employers), as well as how likely it is to mean you can't get a job in the first place. So it depends very much on things like overall economic growth, how the union cooperates with management, etc. In Europe, unions collaborate with management whereas US unions have historically been more adversarial. In the US, for example, managers can't be union members whereas in some places in Europe union reps have board seats and are partners with management in trying to get the company to grow.
> You can't do that with code. If you load a backdored code, you can't argue "this is unfair" to a court of justice.

Why not? Assuming the miner and you are in the same jurisdiction, what prevents you from suing them? Seems relatively straightforward.
Headline is heavily editorialized, can we change it to the real title?
As I understand it, doing high-level medical research requires an enormous amount of training - think of it, if you will, as on boarding into the insanely complex and poorly commented legacy system that is the human body. As an engineer I would much rather just throw it out and do a rewrite, but of course that’s not how any of this works. Probably there are very few careers where this amount of training is meaningful.
I'm well aware of when/how Scrum was invented, hence "tinfoil hat".

The point was that whatever the origins and intent, Scrum benefits Big Tech (who largely avoid Scrum as per OP) by hobbling smaller competitors who adopt it.
Except the commenter I quoted and directly replied too...
This is also how nation states work. And it takes probably far fewer people, less time, and can be done in secrecy when the US wants to enact a sanction and freeze accounts than it does to hard-fork ethereum.
In the US, toasted and hot "sandwiches" are commonplace. At Subway (the fast-food franchise with the largest number of franchises) the process for making many of their "sandwiches" routinely involves toasting them during the preparation process, notably the sweet onion chicken teriyaki. Similarly, a "club sandwich" has obligatorily toasted bread, although it also includes cold ingredients, and a Philly cheesesteak sandwich is always hot, as is a French dip, any other kind of roast beef sandwich, or a grilled cheese sandwich.

I'm curious if these "foods" exist in the UK, and if so, what they're called!
I work in an industry that is more merit-based than most (tech startups) and being good in your job is heavily dependent on hard work and success. This is across the board in all departments. If you find a job that pays a very high compensation without any hard work, I think you hit on the very high-end of luck.
So static analysis will not catch private API usage, so is mostly useless for protecting the users, it is interesting that such a rich company could not hire a team of competent developers to produce an actual secure way to give applications(and users) access to the private APIs.

Does Linux/BSD sandboxing system offer such protection?
And the hypocrisy of companies to make employees read & sign "code-of-conduct and ethics" and shitty training sessions on integrity and values.

If execs and top leadership simply walked the talk it will do far greater good.
Furhat Robotics
That wasn't really what I was talking about, but it's a good point too.
Kids express themselves through Music
Yes and Ford caters to both markets. You can get a bare-bones F150 work truck with only federally-required features or you can get one that's as fully appointed as a Cadillac with comfort accessories.
Interesting insights and refreshing to see large scale providers still relying on „old-school“ tech!

What I did not fully grasp - isn’t Vitess it’s own database system built on top of a K/V store similar to e.g. CockroachDB? Here it sounds like they only use pieces of Vitess in front of regular MySQL primaries with sharding?

It’s also curious that they sharded based on domains. I assume at some point the QPS on specific domains (e.g. Gist) will be so high that partitioning no longer is effective?

edit:// Looks like Vitess is indeed a set of tools on top of MySQL that allow for these type of scaling operations. It is not re-implementation of MySQL using different underlying technologies.
Before I clicked that I was thinking “I hope that isn’t tactus”. They tried to make a phone case with the tactile touchscreen and never got out of production hell. They laid off everyone involved and pivoted to making coatings for other screen manufacturers. The struggling startup I was working at at the time hired one of their engineers after the layoffs. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for it.
There are several assumptions here. Here are a few I can immediately think of.

* You are smart enough to keep doing this.

* You do not get burnt out, more chances of that with boring work.

* Your job does not get effectively automated.
He even says "I could get it down with practice", it's quite astounding that he doesn't get the importance of preparing for this specific type of test. I've been doing competitive programming in highschool, was decently good at it (got to IOI, got some medals). First year in uni they wouldn't allow us to compete in ACM, by the second year I felt like I was competing with my hands tied due to the lack of practice. One year of pause is all it took.

There's _some_ truth in some things that he says though, even though HN doesn't appreciate it. Like, anecdotally, I have a friend who refused a Google offer (when Google was much smaller but still a big-ish name) and went for a startup because the interview problems at the startup were very difficult and he thought they were going to have interesting problems to solve. I took note of that and made sure my interviews were as difficult as the candidate could take it - like, go progressively harder until the candidate is stuck, then back off. This works fairly well especially with just-out-of-university hires, there's a certain type of people that notice it and like being challenged. And they're often very good employees. (of course, what the author suggests in the article is WAY over the top, I'd agree his process is broken).
It needs someone who cares which us a thankless job but it’s useful as smote tests run nightly / weekly.

It tends to be better for broad concerns which trigger somewhat rarely, tend not to be otherwise caught, but can be quite concerning. Crater is a good example of that, it’s infeasible to build & test every public crate on every CI check, but it’s a useful sanity check when release arrives or when messing with the more subtle aspects of the compiler.
>The people that are tech leads already do much of what is in these meetings. Whether it's team/product alignment or the one on one's, I don't see much happening here that isn't already covered by a leader on the team. The curious thing is that, often, the tech lead isn't working side by side with a manager -- they work for that manager.

This is exactly right! A "Tech Lead" (i don't care about the label as much as the person's responsibilities) IS a "Manager" in any "Tech Company".

In a "Tech Company" there should be as few levels as possible between an Engineer doing the work and the CTO/CEO. The CTO/CEO should always have a "Open Door Policy" in actual spirit and deeds. This in turn implies that they are knowledgeable in Business/Technological/Communications domain (in other words; "earning their pay"). This is the only way to ensure that crucial information is not lost as it is compressed and sent up the hierarchy and the company/business objectives are very clear as it is sent down the hierarchy.

In my entire career i have had only two Managers (that i can recall) who i had judged competent and respected. All the others were mere "paper pushers" who i had just tolerated/managed to get my work done.

It just doesn't have to be this way if people realized that the need for "Standardized" Models of Management (ala Peter Drucker) does not exist for most "Tech Companies" below a certain size and where it is needed, has to be tailored to the Domain i.e. no "Cookie-Cutter" Management Techniques.
There absolutely are work trucks, but it's also true that Ford has variants of the F150 for people who want the "look" of a truck but will never take it off road or onto a job site.
Art of Assembly Language Programming and HLA by Randall Hyde
I think you're just wrong about how merit-based our industry is. I don't think it is meaningfully more merit-based than other industries, nor is it more challenging, despite the fact that it is often presented as both of these things.

I doubt there is anything I could say to convince you of this, so I guess we should call this one a draw.
Okay, so you have a train carrying 100 shipping containers of varying goods. These goods might have very different densities, weights, and values. Do you tax by weight? But the CO2 is proportional to distance and weight in this case. Do you tax by distance? Some combination of both? Is that combination an accurate representation of the actual CO2 emitted from the transport of each good?

What if it's a giant shipping boat with thousands of containers?
It's quite bizarre IMO. It's ridiculous, but not so far fetched as to be amusing.

I don't know what to make of it.
Practical Uses for Apple AirTag
Anything that asks for thousands of dollars to the early adopters, for nothing in return, is a scam imho.

Now the founders could of course have idealistic goals in mind but we might never know that. Realistically there is no market giving that currency a value and they're asking for literally thousands of dollars just to support the onion routed network.
I believe last time this happened, it resulted in The Big Bang.
Where I live a car makes an average of 60km/h, outside of a city. It's often faster, and does no in-between stops. So it's 10min. And I do commute by train. 8km. And it takes 45min door to door. These are real-world numbers. Living in the city and using the train costs me more than one hour of additional commute each day.

For comparison: It takes 25-30 min to ride by bike, depending on effort, weather, etc.
Perhaps the Bolt is competing for people who do actively do not want Tesla's autopilot. I would put myself in that camp. I don't buy new cars but I might consider an EV if it was just a standard manually operated one.
While this is largely caused by production lag due to coronavirus, the trend towards renewables at the expense of oil & gas has the potential to make this a recurring theme.

Pushing hard for renewables makes the gamble that capacity can be grown fast enough to offset decreased oil & gas exploration and development. If that doesn't happen we're going to have continued price spikes. Some people say they're fine with that because they believe the threat of climate change is worth it, but I don't think they're factoring in how high energy prices trickle into every product.
Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack (2012)
Italy's economy is almost an integral part of the EU, so Italy leaving would probably end the EU as a whole. Italy's economy would hardly survive both being cut off from the trade union and its major trade partners taking a plunge.

And the point of "net transfers" is to build up markets in less developed parts of Europe. No European country benefits from what is happening in Poland right now.
Malloc (YC S21) takes on mobile spyware
> taking less effort to consume than text (it's really hard to get people to engage with more than the headline in written content)

Why would someone for whom reading requires little effort want to engage with people for whom reading requires too much effort?
Cisco has so many backdoors that they can not be there unintentional. Also an extension of national policy.
I think my favorite "you put cleverness where it didn't belong, and look what it got you" is the Xerox "oops we stored your scan compressed and our compression matched some characters as identical that weren't so the thing we scanned has characters substituted in the image". [1]

Honorable mention goes to:

- the Dell switch with the changelog note "if you had a device with a MAC starting with these bytes plugged in, the last N ports on the switch will stop working"

[1] - https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
Could this also be a critique of the ever changing web “standards”?
It is difficult compared to most other jobs, and within tech startups the people who make outsized returns are the executives / VPs / upper management. Getting a job at that level is not easy, or at least in my experience at a mix of failing / middling / successful companies, the successful ones have a very high bar.

I think compared to other industries, you can make a comfortable upper-middle class salary by being a fairly competent person. But to succeed in a very high way is as brutal as any other industry.
The current build of SimulaVR[1] does support workspaces, accessed via Super+number keyboard shortcuts. I use them like a higher-level alt+tab, to switch between a set of text editor windows (super+1) and a set of browser and terminal windows displaying test output (super+2).

[1] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/tree/dev#usage
Happens to me, but not only on days-scale also on weeks-scale: sometimes a week is very inspiring, intense, and the next one is relaxed, almost lazy. Usually happens after a big task has been completed though.
Why do you discourage ANYONE? Surely it is great for some people? Why not urge caution? Let people know it isn't for everyone.
IOI contestants (and people that can memorize lots of difficult algorithms) tend to have high intelligence. If you're looking to hire really smart people and you don't care about false negatives, it's a good way to approach the problem.

The entire point is to hire people that 1) are interested in exploring algorithms on their own time (i.e. they're interested in more than just getting paid for a job, they're interested in interesting problems too) 2) are competitive and want to win 3) are hard working and intelligent (i.e. they had to study for these competitions and do well in them).

You might miss a lot of smart people but it's pretty likely if you ask really hard algorithm questions that you'll filter out any not smart people. If you're reacting badly to this style of interview, that's because you're not their target talent pool.
> If you want to get a holistic picture of what these systems actually cost, it comes down to up-front investment vs ongoing costs.

That's one angle to look at it. As I said, in a country that has more or less static travel routes, railroads will win over airports for the medium range. Because sooner or later the investment into the many tracks will pay off. But long-range and dynamic routes favors the airport.

But my point was that taxing energy usage heavily will bite back. You cannot build infrastructure if energy is too expensive. So either you have cheap renewable energy, for cars as well as trains, or any mechanized transportation (and much more) will become ridiculously expensive.

> gas taxes have not been raised to account for inflation

Are gas taxes absolute values in the US?
That way of looking at things is mostly wrong, but it is a belief that suited the winners, so it is a wide-spread belief.

I'm not keen to rebut it at much length because my previous comment already leaves the wrong impression: my point is less about the morality of the past few hundred years than the stupidity of the narrative we built around it.

If I did expand on things, I'd list off the usual examples (Conquistadors and gold, Chinese opium trade, slaughter of native Americans, ad nauseum).

I don't know how to make those points without sounding like I'm appealing to emotion. The actual point is that - though the Steven Pinkers and Hans Roslings might disagree - people subject to those conditions clearly are worse-off than before (and than today, compared to the nations who plundered them).

To the original point of the thread, the colonial powers attained such obscene wealth (ie: by stealing gold, oil, farming cotton with slave labor, etc) that even the poorest among us, until the past decade, was rich compared to the rest of the world.
Discovered Etruscan art during a random walk that led past a small museum in Rome. It is elegant, unique, and weirdly anachronistic for its era; has a futuristic feel to me.
It’s actually now pretty hard to create fake FB accounts. You will at least need a phone number, but often times they will also ask for ID scan if the detection mechanism will mark your account as fake.
I have only 40% acuity in one of my eyes, is a typical VR headset still a good experience?
No problem at all. I use these: https://vroptician.com/

Custom lenses, appropriate fitting for every major headset. The inserts don't seem to limit the field of view at all, and they even serve as an extra layer of protection against scratching the headset's particularly delicate lenses.
The high prices in europe add significant political leverage (on the Russian side) to the much critized Nord Stream 2 pipeline. [1]

It is saddening to see these carbon intense fossil fuels expanding in the world’s largest economies during times of rapid and visible global warming. How are we ever going to stay below 4 degree C?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/kremlin-nord-stream-...
Also sent a bunch of money to that guy who shot like 20 people. Sounds like they figured out the American playbook.