skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Followup question: does the sharding happen within the app that talks to the DB, or do you shard traffic before it hits them? In the former case the total number of DB connections required presumably grows something like n^2.
Yea if FSF wants to be respected, they need to stick to the facts and refrain from political terminology.
Remove yourself from the gene pool asap (ideally also from society).
So what, deprive these kids of the possibility of choosing something? Why not give them the choice?

Let them become adults, and if they want to later inflict neurological damage upon themselves, then fine. But don't neglect them treatment.
The full quotation from the page you linked to is,

“So the Zodiac actually emerged some months after the song was finished – but, as we’ll see, Garcia immediately made the connection between the killer and the song in live shows that October, when Zodiac frenzy gripped San Francisco. (He was recording pedal steel in the studio for CS&N on October 24; and on October 26 he mentions the Zodiac and “paranoid fantasies” onstage; so his memory of driving home in fear seems to be quite literal.)”

Is a song, especially a Dead song, finished when the pen leaves the paper?
I don't believe "only download data through an Apple proxy service" does much for user privacy/control of data.

A seemingly benign request that appears to simply request information can encode a user's private, sensitive data in the request URL, e.g.

I think there's no real distinction between your 2. 3. and 4.

There's a place for no internet access at all. It would be good if they had a permission for that.
vice.com is not a reputable source of medical advice.

There's a lot that is still not understood about autism. We don't need to get our pitchforks out while the science tries to figure this stuff out.
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I can’t speak to Belarus but we have a straight answer in the US: Congress.

Feeding that answer is the Electoral College.

The Electoral College is appointed by the 50 State legislatures and the District of Columbia.

The voters tell them who to select.

In an absolute worst case scenario where the results can’t be certified, we even have a Constitutional fallback: the House elects a President and the Senate elects a Vice President.

For all the noise around what happened in January, the actual lawful process is extremely cut and dry. The former President’s lawyers brought their best legal arguments to bear in jurisdictions across the country, and even the Judges he himself appointed, even the ones that were most forgiving and way more than fair basically laughed them out of the courtroom.

Our election system is solid. It’s messy, it’s debatable, it’s possible to dispute, but it is reliable, lawful and legitimate and we elect the mooks we deserve, not necessarily the ones we would like.
Please don't rub the services, it causes unnecessary friction, and wear & tear.
Ex-Citus here. The open sourced shard rebalancer blocks writes to the shard being moved. Online rebalancer (closed source) uses logical replication and doesn't block writes to shards being moved, except for a brief period. Everything is the same except how shard moves are implemented.
Agreed! We have subsidies for electric vehicles under a certain price, but imo prices just get inflated to "what the market is willing to pay" + "value of the subsidy"
I feel like everyone ignores scale here. Facebook is an of magnitude larger even before considering Instagram and WhatsApp. They have nearly 3 billion active users.

Twitter is a fraction of the scale/influence, especially outside of english speaking countries.

WhatsApp is the de facto communication platform in some countries. Facebook is the internet in some parts of Africa. India has nearly as many Facebook users as the US has adults in total.

Even if you don't use Facebook yourself, society around you uses it... a lot... and that impacts you.
As an autist who's done sales (yes, I hate it, wouldn't ever choose that career), this is bullshit. I have adhd(inattentive, formerly ADD) and am high level on the ASD specrtum.

Sure, my life gets fucked up a lot by my brain over analyzing things, or hyper focusing or just not focusing on anything at all, and I miss a lot of queues from loved ones, associates, etc.. but I also have movments of genius that everyone else seems to lack, I have passions in things and see stuff others miss.

When I'm on my ADHD meds, I mostly function okay, my executive function even works a large portion of the time. Could I be more successful? Certainly, but do I feel like I'm missing out on opportunities because of it? Nah, not at all. I also didn't know I had ADHD or Autism till i was 38, I just basically learned to cope in life as a normie, but learning has given me just some extra tools to become a bit better at coping through the hard stuff in life.
Ransomware and Federal Law: Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Vanilla cloudformation is bad, but so is terraform (for my use case anyway). We wrap our cloudformation with python, you need something similar for terraform to make it less terrible (cdktf, terragrunt, terrascript).
agreed. I was taken aback that the first issue in the article being discussed is efficacy rather than ethics concerning the rights of the autistic child in question. Autism is not merely a disease and the question whether these treatments infringe on the identity of a person should be paramount before anyone is subjected to them.
> underfunding public institutions in ways that drive them towards other sources of funding and outside influence by those with power and capital is not accidental, it is intentional.

You fail to address the question in my earlier comment: what's the difference between:

1. a company being forced to pay taxes to the local government, and the local government using that to fund the police

2. a company being forced to pay the police
> How large is the Oil Fund these days

They got a "live" counter here[1], so yeah around 1.3 trillion USD give or take. Estimates for corona spending is around 80 billion USD[2].

[1]: https://www.nbim.no/en/

[2]: https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/regjeringen-advarer-oljefo...
I’m sure like most models, the weight of your submission will largely be determined by multiple factors, such as the age of the account, how much money you’ve spent, whether you’ve spent money on the app being reported, how many devices are connected to the account and for how long, etc. Not all complaints are created equal and it allows them to attribute a “trust factor” across several metrics.
The fundamental problem is that the more technology that is in voting, the more distrust there will be because most people can't understand how it works. Blockchain only complicates this further, misinformation will be rampant.

Paper is still the best way to vote in governmental elections.
For some startups, that makes sense, yes. For other startups, it may not. See pg's classic essay (that I'm not 100% sure I agree with, but, we're on hacker news) for one example of why you may want to use a more niche langauge: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Ruby on Rails was created for Basecamp.
While that might be a great idea, Apple is a competitor of many of the companies in the App Store. I'm not sure how they'd feel about their largest competitor having access to their absolutely-valuable-and-secret source code.
It sounds like no other technology (including Rust 1.0) met their performance and concurrency requirements at the time though.
I take it to mean that this person is complaining (a point I often agree with) that these consent management platforms often resort to dark patterns to drive users' consent rather than attempting to truly inform a user before they consent.
That's what my parents tried to avoid for the first 15 years of my life. Finally, in my junior year of HS, they relented. My live improved 1000% overnight.

There's a reason why they're used. Because they're effective for the vast majority of people.
What Startups Need to Know About Regulated Markets (2018)
Thanks! I couldn't figure out how to read the content after deleting the div with id "gateway-content".

Deleting the 'class="css-mcm29f"' worked. Don't know if it's okay posting these work-arounds here, let me know.
The maximum theoretical efficiency of ideal rocket engines is much higher than 50%. At very high expansion ratio in vacuum the gas can become so cold it condenses, so almost all the internal energy of the initial hot gas will have been converted to jet kinetic energy.
Quite easy/cheap to pass that bar - have your 100-1000 sockpuppets spend a few $$ on a subscription (which may or may not be money coming back to you in some fashion), then buy competitor apps and report them as scams.

Possibly negated with some form of (even Apple-internal) web-of-trust measurement of account validity.
Incel is a portmanteau for involuntarily celibate. That is, men/people who are (conceivably) biologically unable to find a sexual partner. The opposite of this would be a slut - a woman or people who are biologically unable to stop themselves from rejecting potential sexual partners. Slut and incel are two sides of the same token.

You can easily find women proud to call themselves sluts, both online and in reality. However, one would hope that a news organization would use more specific and less degrading terms to describe groups that they are (theoretically) neutral toward. I've certainly never seen an NPR headline use the word "slut".

However, if you look at this NPR article[0], you can be sure that it would seem silly if it read "Police Foiled An Ohio Slut's Plot To Kill Women In A Mass Shooting, Prosecutors Say". One would hope that they would use a word closer to what they were meaning to say like "4chan-viewer" or "prostitute" or "shut-in". You've gotta figure that you'd only ever use a word like "incel" if you were a biased news organization...but, of course, NPR is above that.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019089834/police-foiled-an-o...
> Well, apart from all the religions that have lay priests, such as the Methodists (who predate Australia as a country), Budishm (same), various indigious religions and so on.

The list of recognised denominations I shared – https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L01607 – includes four Methodist denominations (Chinese Methodist Church, Methodist Church of Samoa, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connexion, Wesleyan Methodist Church; and also the Uniting Church, which is the successor to Australia's historically largest Methodist church), two Buddhist associations (Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils, and International Buddhist Association of Australia), and a group based on indigenous spiritualities (Spirit of the Earth Medicine Society). Given that, I don't think your point is correct.

> You can get around that by not treating one religion special and just let everybody register with the state as they want to. Then it is up to the couple what, if any, religious rites they want (or they can have only the religious rights, and not register with the state).

Australia has civil marriage too – if couples do not want a religious ceremony, they can be married either by a government official or a professional civil celebrant. But, if they do want a religious ceremony, if they have a government-recognised religious ceremony, there is no separate civil marriage ceremony – the government recognises the religious ceremony as its own.
This is awesome. More companies need to do this. And customers should demand this more as well.
> The radiation to earth varies already, sometimes we're farther away from the sun and the output of the sun isn't constant either. The earth seems to handle that just fine.

That sounds remarkably similar to "how can there be global warming if we still have a cold season and a hot season".

I don't say space-based solar arrays are necessarily a problem, but arguing that earth handles variations, as if the net total doesn't matter, is a little blinkered.
Because it's impossible to ignore 50% of the market using iPhones. To do so would be to doom your company.
you can do that already. just issue a chargeback and poof.
This is exactly why I want to see more info about the cipher they solved (that and my innate interest in ciphers.) The claim is that when you remove all the letters of his full name, there is a 2nd message hidden there.

This is exactly the sort of thing I would immensely like to get ahold of and apply some stochastic models to, in addition to just knowing more of the specifics.

In any case, if they have truly deciphered a message that implicates him, it would be significantly more than circumstantial.

What really pains me is the paucity of substantial information backing up the claim, that and the story seems to have been broken by TMZ, ugh.
Perhaps I am showing my (youthful) age here, but was there a time similar to this, where it was expected by the manufacturer for consumers to open up and repair their own products?
I feel silly asking, but you're joking right? On it's face it's nonsensical, but then "serverless" is kind of nonsense, too, given that it still runs on servers, so IDK.

You did remind me of Tim Berners-Lee's SOLID project, not that it's "storageless" really.
I wish Apple phones wouldn’t constantly crash when loading WebGL graphics libraries. I’m working in BabylonJS right now, and not only will the page crash on iOS Safari, but there’s no way to debug it. It (frustratingly) runs fine inside of the iPhone Simulator on MacOS, which is the only way I’ve been able to access devtools or crash logs.

And I’ve successfully rendered BabylonJS on iOS in the past, so I know it’s not just me.

I’m working on another website at the moment using pixi.js, and I’m dreading the battle I’ll be facing with Safari.

Does anyone here have advice on how to better deal with WebGL + iOS debugging? OP and I seem to be faced with the same problems…
Speaking of those stadiums, when there's a large event, the city asks the event holder to compensate them for the amount of overtime it will cost the city to man the event. It's already quite normal, tho I agree with you in principle.

If taxes paid for any and all necessary police protection, Trump wouldn't owe the city of El Paso half a million dollars.
Here’s one: they advertise “family” accounts: you buy an app and your purchase also covers your spouse.

But your spouse has to know you (or which family member) bought it and click on their name in “family sharing” to get it for free. Else spouse will pay for it again.
It's not. It's a counter to the justification of 'we did it before.' We didn't, not really. If you want to raise the marginal tax rate now, it needs to have its own justification independent of historical marginal rates since it's not an apples to apples comparison.
This is the kind of engineering that it's almost impossible to screen in interviews (particular for HR-minded pals) and is a big part of what makes a 10x-100x engineer (which definitely DO exist).

Obviously not this thing just by itself, but this sort of knowledge, applied to everyday decisions that get compound over time.
How much oil is needed to produce a single electric vehicle? What I am getting at is we will need oil extraction for a long time. While we can move away from burning it for heat, we still need it for the production of most plastics. This doesn't even begin to touch on oil's use in the extraction process of all the other metals used in car production.

We also need oil for road building. I don't see that changing anytime either. After all, asphalt production produces far fewer greenhouse gasses than cement. Concrete roads have their place but the vast majority of road miles will be made with asphalt for the near future.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28772865
All of them. if you don't like a subscription and don't care about burning a bridge, issue a chargeback.
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Apple admitted that? They've never claimed it's perfect. Just that it's better than not having it.
I used to really enjoy reading Lifehacker, but their quality went down over time, and I stopped following them completely when they posted a map showing where to get abortions.
I would assume that attacks similar to these could be checked against device ownership - for example if a user has been the first registered owner of an apple device, their reports may be deemed more trustworthy. If they see a device being reused to submit similar reports, that could be a signal that reports are fake.
> Outside of Jane Street OCaml has scarcely been proven to work in the industry now.

I think it depends on what you're working on. If you're building anything that looks like a interpreter/compiler, it's probably one of your best bets. If you're working on stuff that needs a lot of libraries, and relatively obscure ones, it's probably one of your worst bet. If you need good interaction with Windows, it's probably not a great choice either. The businesses I know, which are mostly SaaS, would probably fall under "not the best choice, use with caution". If that's the general case, I agree with you.

> The actual reason OCaml's risk profile was much lower was because it effectively has the backing of the French government and academy, which is quite the boon.

I wonder how much Jane Street benefited from that. The classes préparatoires are still using OCaml to this day (or at least were 3 years ago), and that's usually the best students of France. I've also heard that Facebook recruited quite a lot, for Hack and Flow.

> And remember that it was the year 2000 - Perl was basically the only language with the sort of library ecosystem (CPAN) that is expected of languages now: poor community support was much less of a liability then.

That's a good point. I think OCaml still has a better package manager and build tool than some really popular languages (I'm thinking specifically about Python), but it's hard to beat the ecosystem.
> So I can allow the initiation of deletion but never actually completely delete the account… and my app complies. @TedDoesntTalk

If the users that are requesting account deletions see that your app is purposely not complying, I don't imagine your app will be available for long in the app store.

Your response is why Apple is implementing this change in the first place.

Screw AOL and all of the rest of you making things impossible to delete, cancel, or otherwise NOT have an account.

I sincerely hope you change your tune, and if you don't then I hope you receive a permanent ban from Apple's App Store.

Seriously. This kind of bullshit shouldn't exist. If I can make an account easily, then I should be able to delete an account easily. If I cannot, then your business model should collapse around your fuckin' ears.
Hearsay evidence can be good evidence, too.
Yeah, bringing up abortion here? original conservatives were actually in favor of abortion because it the government did not have the right to tell you what you could do with you body.

It wasn't until early '70's when G.O.P. figured out they could win the ultra religious voters by catering to this specific issue. Noam Chomsky has an excellent dialogue about this
The reason I didn't give any more information on the password above is because you don't have any extra information on a dump of hashes from a twitch database either. If a password is only feasibly brute forceable for a specific algorithm by reducing the search space by many orders of magnitude, it kind of shows that there's not really any risk even if the passwords are unsalted for a person who hasn't reused a password.
In this case though it can flag a human review.. unlike something like Amazon where it’s harder, more expensive, and takes longer to check if something is a scam
Bravo, this is true comedy. Punchline: Trustpilot is essentially a paid referral service.
Why was this downvoted? ;-(
Why? I probably do produce more than 6 times value. Their work only impacts one individual customer at a time whereas mine scales to over a billion customers.

They can retrain and join my megacorp if they want reducing the supply for their job and increasing it for mine which should theoretically reduce the pay gap.
...by replacing meritocracy with seniority?
It works as sabotage on Amazon listings because Amazon uses reviews with certain keywords as lead indicators for product contamination or other issues. So if you want to sabotage a competitor's vitamin pill the day before Prime Day, you have an entire building full of people leave variations of "taking this made me feel nauseous" or "this gave me a headache" and "weird chemical odor" after purchasing the product. Either the automated systems will flag it or complaints will flag it for review.

Software can't actually poison people in a physical sense, so generally the software marketplaces care less about signals from reviews like those.
Well, bear in mind, the hacker also has the exact code Twitch uses to salt it's hashes.
Dunno why you would think that. Want to provide an example?
The product Wallaroo is building sounds really interesting, (It's so appealing I honestly checked out their open positions), but it's really difficult to get a feel for what exactly it's like to use their product now.

The description and outcome statistics make it sound _excellent_ and their technology stack makes their claims seem viable. However, and I say this as someone that is currently running an MLOps RFP, after looking at every page of their site and all their open job postings I have no idea what it's actually like to use their product.
California students still stuck in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover
How was this data compiled? There is very little information on the site.
Apparently there was also a paint-splattered watch recovered at the Bates killing scene (tied to ZK in 1975 by FBI) and he spent decades as a house painter. There was also a recovered boot print from that scene that apparently was a match to him.

I guess we'll all have to wait for all the true crime podcasts to spill the rest of the beans.
Which is a political decision made in a democracy, not a law of physics. Norwegians chose to do this. (Yes, a relatively small subset of people are actually empowered in a democracy, but it's the least-bad system known, etc etc).
I still don't get it. You cancel the account, it should be gone like it never happened. Poof. If you make a new account with the same email, it should be a new account with no relation at all to the old account since that one has been deleted and is gone forever and there would be nothing to impersonate here.
It's not about the max travelable distance in the country but the max distance actually traveled for most trips. The higher density (and population concentration in the south) reduces the latter and makes maintaining a charging network much more practical (their high adoption rate also help a lot with that.)

Edit: The reason why this is the important measure is because what people care about is how often their trips require N charging stops not the maximum number of charging stops they might have to make.
Ok Im glad you were able to do that and that you can still have a good life. If we could fix it though, more opportunities would be available, maybe you'd have enjoyed it and could have it as a career you liked. There are also a lot of other people not so high functioning that literally just couldnt, and others who can't even live on their own as adults. Maybe you dont need a treatment like this but there are people where it would change their lives.
Site/System to track fundraising, send/colllect SAFES, etc.
Any recommendations for a site to track fundraising efforts, send and collect contracts (SAFES), Captable, valuations, dilution, etc.?
Thank you!
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> I'm not sure why you'd mention "reinforced" concrete. I thought all concrete required reinforcement of some sort?

Concrete can be tuned for brittleness and strength. Some versions become very hard and impenetrable after they completely cure. They need more powerful drills and longer drill times since they simply resist the drill bit. It's akin to the difference between stainless steel and armor plate.