skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if the database of what.cd has been distributed as well.

We’d definitely have the most comprehensive and accurate catalogue of the musical output of humanity ever created.

Instead now we have Spotify and Apple Music. We’ve only scratched the surface of the good that torrent technology can do.
What you need to become a graphic designer
I would hesitate to use any client-server setup that isnt also your primary data store. So, if you have an "offline aware, multi-tenant" store like CouchDB but you still need to sync to the primary store which is SQL, then you lose a lot of context and awareness around conflict resolution. If you are going to eventually sync to the other store, I would say only use Couch on the frontend, and do the syncing/resolution from the perspective of the client, since the client knows what it was trying to do and how best to notify on conflict.

The "better" option is to have an offline-aware client-server component (e.g. Realm) which is the primary store as well. This eliminates the sync and so all conflict resolution stays in the same system with well defined semantics.
> That's not to say it's impossible for this to fail, the biggest and sharpest dumps happen during liquidation cascades.

If it happens, it's not a black swan event.
>The verbal interviews (+personality tests) are formulaic, and one can rarely get past them without lying about their careers.

At least in my experience, this is ridiculously overblown.

I'm far from a fluffy personality, but to me the "culture fit" interviews are by far the easiest of the pipeline. I was never tempted to lie, nor can I see how that could possibly benefit the application.
Right, one can do distributed/federated apps w/o blockchain (see email). It's too practical to be exciting
We've spent years and years and years trying to train people to resist phishing. It doesn't work. Even actual literal security professionals fall for it. If you use a thing with such common known failure modes, it is your responsibility for using that thing.

Phishing is enormously more common than sim-swapping because, as described in TFA, it can be fully automated. Going from SMS to TOTP fixes a rare attack but does not fix a common attack.
I have 3 main sources:

- my first charity work in africa gave me a lot of contacts that knew what I could do, and that I could take a plane to anywhere to do it

- IT training companies that I spammed to work as a subcontractors. It was easy because they don't check reference and really need a lot of people.

- People that I trained. I can't be hired for training by them because I want to keep a good relationship with IT training companies. But people I trained sometimes contact be for dev work.
Highly recommend this Matt Levine article on how ludicrous that is

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-09-09/money-...

> Imagine writing the investment memo for “20% of a picture of a dog” and being like “the most we should pay is probably about $2 million because the whole picture of the dog sold for $4 million three months ago and it can’t realistically have appreciated more than 150% since then; even if the whole picture of the dog is worth, aggressively, $10 million, this share would be worth $2 milllion.”

> One model here is that everyone on earth wants to pay $4 million for a unique picture of a dog, so if you make one unique picture of a dog and sell it for $4 million you’ll get $4 million but if you cut it into 17 billion slices each one will sell for $4 million?
Tell HN: Thank you for making our analytic number theory book club a success!
Our analytic number theory book club that began in March 2021 as a result of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366464 is coming to an end today.

The book club blog at https://offbeat.cc/blog/ provides an account of the journey so far. The best part of hosting and participating in book club meetings like this has been the extremely smart folks I got the opportunity to interact with during the meetings. I learnt so much more about the beautiful subject of analytic number theory by interacting with them than I could have if I were reading the book alone.

A big thank you to the Hacker News community and the folks from here who showed interest in this book club, joined our meetings, and made this book club successful. We will have our last meeting on this book today. Everyone is very welcome to join it today (17:00 UTC) even if only to lurk! See https://offbeat.cc/iant/ for the meeting link and schedule.
You act like fucking up is the end of the world.

In my experience, when someone "fucks up", I can reflect on my rapport with that person to determine whether or not it was intentional. Either way, I can say something to them about it.

It is a sign of maturity to say "oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think that my words could be perceived in that way. My intent was.."

If your intent is harmful, that's great, because I can help you with #2 by not interacting with you in the future. However, if your intent was reasonable, then no harm done. I walk away having set a healthy boundary for our relationship and you got to keep me around and strengthen our rapport.

> I've taken #2 in almost all cases, because I'm definitely going to screw up because I'm human.

This makes it sound like you're not willing to accept the effort of empathy.
Wow. I had no idea that (for the first time) the options market is bigger than the entire stock market right now!

According to the article options are now determining the stock’s price (via self fulfilling covering), instead of the other way around. Seems crazy that the underlying asset is not the entity determining the proper price.

So much leverage and trading on margin, it’s hard to see how this can end anything but poorly
Part of the problem is that twitter is just awful. It’s really hard to find the relevant parts of the discussion. But it’s a fascinating research topic, so I’m quite enjoying the discussion. Thanks for laying out the links.
I actually like some of the things added; being able to write a map function that takes an already-existing function and applies it to an array con be more convenient than the for loop. Depends on the language, obviously.

What I dislike are people who get on a high horse about it, as if they're programming "functionally" and it's better than what everyone else in the language is doing. They're not "programming functionally", because they can't be, the language doesn't support it. A single map call is convenient. Sometimes you can put a couple of them together. Huge piles of code in imperative languages written in functional paradigms is a mess, because most of the putative advantages of functional aren't present.

The one that I notice the most is that the "functional" paradigm embedded in imperative languages creates a barrier against refactoring. Sometimes it is simply that all the noise and chaff prevents programmers from seeing through to the underlying essense, and simply not realizing that if you have a recurring pattern of mapping the same three functions over an array in multiple places that you can in fact refactor that into a function. Sometimes, though, it's just not possible to refactor properly through inner platform you've introduced. Sometimes, refactoring is possible, but requires bringing in yet more firepower to get around the inner platform, like defunctionalization. By the time you're defunctionalizing something (by necessity, not choice) because of your inner platform to do something that would have been 4 lines of code in the original core language if you'd just used that, you're in deep trouble.

And what's worse, people will call this good programming. It's just the functional programming equivalent of frameworkitis that you see in languages like Java. "We need all this machinery to program properly!" No. You don't.
Where is the scam part? I don't need to use their crypto, its just built in, and its not dishonest in any way. There is no monopoly, and suggesting they should run encryption and servers all day with no compensation and free isn't sustainable, in fact that makes me even more suspicious that it is a govenment run system.

I prefer that I can at least see it being sustainable, and if its a P2P protocol it could be free, but if they paid the developers well I would feel even better for various reasons.
it s the same reason they got into vr/ar
I absolutely agree, however national or even regional level transparency reports are bullshit. It needs to be at the exchange / node level. The same ISP will have different levels of service between cities and suburbs.
Well I’m saying that this joke shouldn’t, in my books, count as sexist. I’m just saying it’s not that funny, or overly tasteful.

Like documenting a “shrink” function with “men won’t use it for fear of having their willies shrunk”.

If you’re making a joke about something, make it more funny than offensive. A very unfunny joke has a low tolerance on offence :)
I agree. I enjoy socializing, but it never even crossed my mind that my job isn't doing something for someone else.

This hypothesis is quite easy to verify: the sets of activities that I perform at work and in the time I have full control over are strictly disjoint.
yep, the name of the game here is misdefining: intentionally distorting words, terms and definitions away from their original meaning
Such a person should already be banned by the current CoC, and thus should not be subject to harassment. Furthermore, if he is being harassed by everyone, they already have no de facto power to begin with.

I absolutely understand this discourages people from harassing harassers. This is a good thing. There is a class of harasser who will target people who are socially weak in a given community, because they broke some sort of social norm, and even if they apologized and were punished will follow them around harassing them. The motivation to me frequently seems to be getting sadistic pleasure out of it while wanting to express their sadism in some sort of socially acceptable framework and somehow believe that they have outsmarted the system and are UNTOUCHABLE. If ever called out they will feign injury and go into paroxysms of outage over how DARE we target a concerned community member such as them when this harasser is STILL on the loose in the community and how they're the only one who actually CARES about upholding any sort of morality around here!

The end result though is they make an awful lot of trouble pretty much constantly and will eventually get tempbanned for annoying everybody around them with needless drama. This will usually fill the original harasser with glee that nobody wants to see, but this is really the fault of harasser #2 rather than the community. No code of conduct will ever change this sequence of events from happening, it happens again and again in online communities over and over.
Except it turns out the anti-racists are racist and the anti-sexists are sexist.
Unsolved ML Safety Problems
at 8000 each for hardware, that's 80 Million, plus the data plan charges for each line.

With that amount of money I'm sure the system would be able to grow to accommodate (including sending up more satellites) if only to make sure the money doesn't go to another competitor.
Happy to help. Good luck!
Don't touch ICMP, just don't.

http://shouldiblockicmp.com

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2015/05/15/pmtud/

> sniffing (and snooping?)

Nothing is new here. ND is basically what ARP was. You don't disable ARP, do you?
I'm in this boat with the product I'm currently hacking on but I just can't seem to commit to an architecture I'm happy with. Mostly due to what you mentioned here.

Essentially I want to build an opensource/hackable notes/tasks/calendar system with a central datastore and message broker for coordination between various systems/scripts/components/clients.

The thing I'm struggling with is to define which features are supported in online and offline mode. Every feature that gets added to offline mode adds tons of duplication and complexity. I'm almost at the point of just saying I don't need offline-mode except for viewing already-cached data and maybe very basic creates/updates, with all the processing happening on the backend once the client comes back online.

edit for more context: The old-style native apps (for example OmniFocus) usually have all the logic only in the client and use "dumb" cloud storage for synchronizing between clients. The difference with what I'm trying to build is that I want that central hub to be "smart" and always online so it becomes easy to hack/interact with the system from cronjobs/scripts/external services.
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> Unless you happen to hang out with the Web3 community in Hong Kong, San Francisco, and London

Pretty funny. I'm sure NYC and Seattle have blockchain dev scenes than London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers#Glo...
You can make erroneous money transfers and it doesn't automatically count as a gift, the receiver can be liable if the amount makes it obvious it's an error for example and she won't return it. I'm sure this differs between jurisdictions in the details though..
> If you're not violent during the arrest and don't resist, they shouldn't(and usually don't) use violence to arrest you and transport you to prison. There is no coercion to pay taxes by beating you up like the mafia.

The key part here is "not resisting". The fact that it needs to be specified is in it self saying that there is a threat of violence. "You don't pay taxes, we will attempt to arrest you. If you don't comply we will, beat you up." All laws are eventually backed up with the threat of violence. If they weren't, you could literally just ignore them without recourse.
Without inflation, people would naturally hoard their money for safekeeping. But money that isn't changing hands effectively doesn't exist. An economy is made up of the movement of money, so inflation is used to ensure that people keep the money moving.
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It turns out my memory is incorrect. The lithium-ion batteries damage itself when the under certain voltage due to how it works. The control chip is there to stop the battery from having too low voltage. However they can't help with self discharging caused low voltage.
I get the same benefit commuting allegedly provides by working a strict 9-5, taking an hour off for lunch, getting my work done within 7 hours, refusing unnecessary meetings, and turning off my company-issued devices outside of working hours.

It isn't necessarily a good idea if you care about your career, but I never wanted a career. I never even wanted a job. I don't dream of labor unless I'm having a nightmare.
Yes, which lobbying groups do you like? I myself just suggest more sustainable practices and do my best, haven't been on a plane in over a decade. You use your voice though, what would you tell others to lower carbon emissions?
think of the metric/imperial example above. The distance isn't just a number. Holds for most other things, too. Typed is key. Be it either static or dynamic.
This is really neat. Not so long ago I happened upon a disk image containing FIG-Forth for the Atari 8-bit computers and had some fun playing with it on an emulator for a couple hours - poking registers to toggle on the hardware sprites, dumping the display list and modifying it to create custom display modes, etc. Unfortunately this was some stripped down version in a single EXE file that was missing the editor or anything stored in blocks on the disk, so it wasn't practical to really write anything interesting with it.
I moderate four LGBTQIA+ communities and support spaces on Facebook, totaling over 395k members. I cover both my local scene and international communities.

Without the online spaces, most members wouldn't have friends. The bulk of the work is managing the news feeds and the main task is to approve posts individually. So we see them all.

Many would otherwise be totally isolated. Teens in rural America are among the most affected by this isolation. Many users create threads describing their lack of support in their physical lives or thanking the online spaces for existing, stating that prior to their presence on the group, they had no support network.

While the population of LGBTQIA+ people is concentrated in urban areas, they are primarily adults who have the freedom to move around. Teens are stuck in their hometowns and can only move around after they reach adulthood and connect or build support networks online. As you said, the US population is around 5.6% but even states like Alabama still have 3.0%. This demographic is especially relevant in this topic as its suicide rates are higher that the country's average, with trans people (without support) having rates that go as high as 40 to 50%. Online spaces provide enough support to reduce that number significantly.

There is a meme that goes something like:

"Why are you on Facebook? It's for older people.
- It's because your friends aren't queer."

The LGBTQIA+ internet is similar to what the internet was in the 90s. Close-knit communities where everyone knows each other, sub-communities, sub-cultures, and lots of blogs and personal sites.

I would even go so far as to say that comparing the average social network usage to LGBTQIA+ social network usage is the equivalent of comparing apples and oranges.
On the plus side, I think this is an easy rebrand. Blue Origin: out of this world coffee. Charge $10 for Milky Way lattes at a flagship store on the Amazon Seattle campus and call it a day.
Do you have any good examples? Genuinely curious (particularly about the kind of market they're located in and what happened to the "original" business).
It's a scam, but only in the sense that it's become completely controlled by central banks. Since 2008, any 10% drawdown, regardless of how stretched actual valuations are, is met by panic at the Eccles Building, followed by anything from dovish jawboning to unprecedented asset purchases. This results in valuation expansion regardless of underlying GAAP profits, particularly for stonks in the "growth" category. Equity (and bond) markets now only ever go up.

But the great thing is that you can participate in the scam just as easily as the next guy. Just buy the index and wait. Jay Powell's got your back.

I used to be a "hard money" guy who raged against the "injustice" of the "rigged" system. but think practically - you can either be mad, or you can join in and benefit. One is better for your mental health than the other.
"The move comes after a Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to the internet service provider for network usage"

Any additional info on why the courts said so?
It seems to be exactly the opposite. In digital age you can consume stuff without buying anything and people care less about ownership per se, but "people who don't get it" buy stuff like NFT.
> They have to know that people know how fraudulent and awful the whole cryptocurrency space is, right?

unfortunately not, as this was on the front page for a while

Cryptocurrency mining using integrated photonics (tue.nl) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28715881
The problem with political-correctness isn't that it's trying to be sensitive to people who have been harmed, it's that it's yet another form of centralized decision making, and thus bound to be wrong about many things.
I kinda hate NFTs: But, the analogy to a "certificate of authenticity" for "real pieces of art" or "memorabilia" is reasonable. It's not "actually the art".

the "centralized platform" blocking you is kind of immaterial. The point is that other people can see that the token matches. Though one difference from CoAs is that the "centralized platform" could remove the art. I don't know how opensea works, but one could in theory hash the digital content, drop it onto bittorrent (or whatever, use the bittorrent hash id) and lock that up with the token. Is that how opensea works?
> The entire issue is a fund was allowed to short shares they did not have.

Has this ever been demonstrated?
Multicore OCaml: September 2021 - Effect handlers will be in OCaml 5.0
https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm... tells some of the story of Dave Cutler and his 20 headcount he brought with him from DEC to MS. Their influence on NT runs deep.
People do this because they think Roblox looks like shit and they can do better.
https://lenses.io/ Kafka UI is pretty solid. Nice to see an open source alternative here.
Show HN: Tenproblems.com – Literature Reviews for Inquisitive Minds
This barely ramen-profitable content project at https://www.tenproblems.com was started in early 2020 as a pandemic lockdown effort, aka a way to keep the mind busy at a truly difficult time for we all. Now that some of us are luckily, slowly going back to business as usual, side time is becoming scarce again and it remains to be seen where to pivot this thing for 2022. Here enter you proud HNs, the lions, a tech-savvy world audience from many backgrounds and lifestyles, and that’s my question in the form of an informal survey. I basically have two simple options I can pursue in my spare time: A) just open a blog on the same home website and carry on with exploiting mostly unknown academic sources while adding comments, articles and pages for a bigger audience and SEO purposes. B) switch to software by aggregating and customising existing resources, related with any booklet in the tenproblems series, so that words can be followed by implementable actions. Of course, the level needs to stay low-but-not-too-low, say near the undergraduate entry bar of the spectrum, and implicitly aimed at dissemination and education. What would you pursue then? Thanks.
Now how about GitHub itself?
Most people have discarded his ideas and success as toxic waste but a lot of people are still drooling over Jack Welch. "A good manager can manage anything!" ...and similar pronouncements. People learned this years ago in the context of unquestioned success. And like the rapidly changing circumstances usually involved with things like communicable disease spread and business in general, these people have not updated their understanding in light of new information and so continue to act on the aforementioned "wisdom."

Who can blame them. They got an A for repeating what the professor repeated.
Looking into packagecloud.io pricing, I'd be in the $700/month plan based on transfer alone. $5 -> $700.
Does anyone else feel that the user hmdne is being completely sarcastic in this thread?

This reads 100% like irony, and yet this suggestion[1] by hmdne has 5 "hearts":

> I suggest we also remove this point from the conduct guidelines:

> * Participants will be tolerant of opposing views.

> Some people may have views that when expressed, may be harmful to the interest of particular groups of people like big corporations. This has to be taken into account.

[1] https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690#issuecom...
Maybe I missed it, but is anyone actually stepping up to maintain a fork? The wording, "consideration must be given to forking the project", does not sound like someone who is volunteering to do it.
There are people who would do anything to make a FAANG salary. Acting like sitting in meetings is hard shows exactly how much of a bubble you are in.

Imagine explaining this to a dirt poor Hatian:

"You will have unimaginable wealth, but sometimes you have to sit in a meeting and do nothing. It's really hard"
It seems like you're not thinking clearly then. Everyone has a vested interest in making sure no party is willing to flip the table rather than continue to play the game.