skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Howdy team!

What do you consider to be your core differentiator over other profiling projects like Pyroscope.io, Datadog, and Google's StackDriver?
indeed. akin to "data driven"
And, your outrage does nothing, because people who mistreat others professionally are quite used to the complaining, including yours. I am not at all surprised at this article.

I enjoyed your post until this sentence. The article describes a situation gradually deteriorating into a crisis. The barrier between people complaining and things actually happening are indeed high but I still believe taking note of a crisis is a first step to acting.
That's surprising that is still happening nowadays.

My brother is a Merchant Mariner. I think he is officer first class now but he worked his way up from AB.

He just left out, he is probably going to be on the ship 8 months, maybe more depending. It used to be 3 months on 3 off.

The contract he had gotten back from was supposed to be that but because of the world right now ended up being 6 months. I think he was only back for 3 before they called him back.

He was the health and safety officer on his last outing, said that people were going crazy. Kept imagining they were getting Covid when they had been to sea after a month, said that there was a suicide on another vessel by someone who thought he was sick.(either was worried everyone was going to hate him for spreading the disease or afraid he would spread it to others.)

Hope your cousin is staying safe out there. Don't know your nationality but the hopefully he can warn others quietly about that, the US is supposed to have a guild/union but I hear they aren't always the best.
Without food, you can’t survive, therefore everything is implicitly about food.

This line of thought is absurd. Words have definitions and boundaries for a reason.
> The SHA-256 algorithm is now supported for HTTP Authentication using digests. This allows much more secure authentication than previously available using the MD5 algorithm.

Lol wat?

For reference - in a password hashing context, you generally don't care about about collisions. Its not really a relavent attack.

What you do care is speed and memory hardness. Generally you want a slow hash, like bcrypt or argon2, so that in an offline attack the attacker can't bruteforce very quickly.

Sha256 is almost as bad as md5 in this context.
Industrial networking can learn from military strategy
demanded that I agree to never again create tools that interact with Facebook or its other services.

How is this legal in any shape or form? It is a browser extension, running on users' browsers, installed intentionally by his users. This is insane. The level of arrogance and entitlement here is mind blowing.
Just because you're part of what is called "Labor aristocracy" in Marxist discourse doesn't mean you can't recognize the exploitation inherent to the system.

You don't need to be on the losing side of an unjust system to recognize the system as unjust.
Exactly, Facebook cannot dictate what software one can make or run. They can claim a terms of service issue and ban you from their service but they cannot stop you from developing software.

If it were me, I'd be tempted to martyr myself just to show how fucked up Facebook really is. What is the worst that can happen? The guy goes bankrupt. Life goes on.
> How could something be so negative in the press, but turn out to be incredibly positive with every stakeholder.

The question of our era! Certainly "every" is misapplied in his quote, but his core message of overwhelming private positivity in light of negative press is worth pondering.
Why not install WinSCP then? It handles FTP fine.

https://winscp.net/

You can also use the portable version without running an installer first:

https://winscp.net/download/WinSCP-5.19.2-Portable.zip
Really looking forward to Hubris and especially the design decisons made in building it. Like Bryan says, the why behind it all.

Cheers.
"1. I still don’t know very much"

I've been in the game for almost 30 years. I often feel like I know less than I thought I did 25 years ago, and that I know less as time goes by. I'd also have this as my #1 on the list because it just feels so surprising. I think most of us start out in our 20s thinking that in 30 years we'll have mastered the field, but it definitely doesn't feel like that, not even close.
This seems like a gross abuse of the phrase "mission focused" to mean "operating for profit with total blinders on to the wider world". With a very appropriate photo of the 90s Bulls being a group of self-serving egomaniacs who put winning above everything else. My current employer (a non-profit) uses the term "mission focused" to mean "we are serving the public good even when it isn't profitable and acknowledging our role in society". I think the latter is what younger employees are increasingly embracing to some degree. The former is still creating the most successful companies because they operate without a conscience.
Voice of Peace
Hard disagree. Sometimes being apolitical is just a desire to not get involved and has nothing to do with supporting status quo.
He said this on Twitter, and I believe Coinbase employees are allowed to say whatever they want on Twitter?
Seconded. I listened to the audio book. Eye opening to say the least.
It could be worse; they could have taken over via conquest (war).
https://github.com/everett1992/npm-esbuild-audit
My reply was a deliberately harsh reply to what I perceived as an (undeliberately) harsh/cheap critique of the work presented here.

These researchers spent seven months interacting child patients, some of whom were likely terminally ill, in an effort to make one of the hardest experiences of their lives a little less difficult. They would spend an hour interacting with and playing with the children via the robot. 90% of parents found the experience positive enough to request another visit.

There is plenty of room for valid critique here. Perhaps the kids would have preferred an Xbox. Perhaps the novelty will wear off quickly.

There is less room for critiques like "this feels sad and cold" or knee-jerk reactions about techies trying to solve everything with technology. If you had paused and asked yourself "Who even ran this study?" you would have noticed that the lead author is not even a techie but a doctor! Presumably they have some exposure to the problems these children face.

I was frustrated by your comment because you have allowed a misplaced cynical view to halt any curiosity you might have had about this study. Your cynicism allowed you to immediately dismiss it.

My comment was deliberately harsh. I think you should re-read your comment and imagine how Dr. Gabriel Oland or other members of the team might perceive it.
Something that I don't think is widely appreciated enough is that Coinbase Ventures holds chunks of many of these startups.
With brush tests you might easily end up hiring someone who excels at your tests and nothing else. Overfitting can be a problem even with subjects that don't actively try to adapt, and for Google they most certainly do (I read the "please take some months to prepare" suggestions as a clear indication that they want a level playing field wrt adaption, kind of cheap to leave that problem to be solved applicants)

In the long run you might end up with better results if you don't even try to identify the one optional choice and only focus on weeding out false positives, leaving the rest to a diceroll.

(I'd be surprised if what happens at Google wasn't a weird compromise Frankenstein of both)
Maybe it's just my personal experience, but I find the reverse of that is also true. If the music itself is novel, I find it much harder to focus on the task at hand.

I've got about 50 albums that I rotate through while I'm coding and I can focus on the task at hand fairly well with those on, but if I put on a new album by an artist I like, my ability to concentrate on code goes way down.
So the idea is that the low-level abstraction becomes more like a distributed system where different pieces of actual hardware coordinate independently, instead of where they all go through this single, central CPU that has the final word on everything? Almost like "edge computing" at the scale of the motherboard
We have 50+ years of history on vaccines, billions of doses, etc.

That history of research says this: If "symptoms" don't show up within 6 weeks, they don't really show up at all.

That is to say, with ALL other vaccines in existence, issues have shown up within 6 weeks.

Here is an article which explains it, but this is like common knowledge amongst epidemiologists: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/vaccines-...
I feel like websites shouldn't be able to just ban scripting. What if I have a disability and a custom script is the only way I can interface with fb?
“sir this is a casino”
"Nothing that the Polish people think is in any way relevant to the disgusting anti-foreigner media frenzy of the right-wing press prior to Brexit."

This is complete nonsense.

I've presented direct evidence that the UK is the least hostile to migrants in all of Europe - and would add these Pew polls (and other studies) are quite consistent among one another - and quite consistent over time as well.

You'll find that PISA test scoring (see 2018 results) shows that the UK stands alone in Europe whereupon immigrant children score just as well as UK born children, once normalizing for income (i.e. middle class immigrants do just as well as middle class UK born), while in Germany, Sweden, and even Finland which is noted for it's academic excellence, completely fail their migrant children, with migrants scoring considerably lower than locally born students.

It's counter rational and factual nonsense that the UK is hostile to migrants overall, or that the 'right wing' hates or is bigoted towards migrants.

It's entirely reasonable for a nation to want to have control over it's migration policy, even Quebec, a Province of Canada, which is not even a legal nation - has control over it's own migration ingress.

The purposeful conflation of the reasonable position of 'Controlling migration policy and having fewer migrants', with the more extreme position of 'Right wing rabid migrant hate', is one of the many 'Big Lies' of the EU authoritarians.
The author of the extension admits he worked with university to collect user data for some study: https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
Try Windows 10 LTSB if you can get a cheap license online.
What mission did they focus on and how did it go? All I see here is "I wrote a controversial screed and many people tolerated it and kept showing up to work." That's great and all, but what sort of new things did it unlock? How do you compare it to the world where you didn't write the screed? It all feels like a heap of bullshit to me -- if you're in the right industry, you can be the worst manager on the planet and your company can still do okay. He's just saying that his household name company in a booming industry did all right last year. We all kind of expected that, it would be nearly impossible to not make money in Coinbase's position. (Like what if nobody merged any code last year and didn't launch any features? They'd still be doing great!)

My controversial opinion is that companies like Apple and Amazon did well in spite of their leaders' quirks. AWS would have been a great business even if Jeff Bezos didn't fire people recovering from cancer. The iPhone still would have been a hit if Jobs didn't bring someone to tears over a bug in their code.

I think you can make great products AND be nice to your employees, and maybe even let them discuss how black lives matter at work.
very cool!
For a project I used
https://github.com/ranaroussi/pystore
to stored TS(time series) data. As TS are mostly read-only so I try to avoid OLTP for certain use case that it's perfect for Parquet/DASK type of storage. I used Pandas to explore the data. This seems to be suited for high volume, query rate.
Huh?

I assume he is a westener, so just tell customs your held against your will and the guy with passports goes to jail.
How does Power BI with Dynamics 365 Business Central benefit your business?
I think it is great the company went the direction they did and I'm glad Brian is happy with it.

The commentary that I find frustrating is about the "retaliatory and intellectually dishonest hit pieces." The press does suck in many ways, but when you're own a massive chunk of a $65B company you should expect some negative press and be prepared. It makes him sound like he isn't open to dissent which is an incredibly privileged stance.
Or you can talk to them, gauge their trustworthiness, and ask around about their reputation.
Lots to see, like ads from "trusted partners" in the address bar. Funny how that wasn't a "highlight."
I appreciate you have some sort of issue with me from our other comments, and for that I'm sorry.

It's not always clear when talking about complex domains, what is obvious and what isn't. My first comment in this thread explained why a simple USDT/USD short is not a good idea. I thought I had explained it in very simple terms, to help people with less experience understand.

HN has a wide spectrum of users, and obviously some people still needed more info, which I was happy to provide. I thought I had explained it plainly but obviously I hadn't. It's easier said than done to imagine a good explanation for something like this without having any experience in the area.

I may have just gotten it wrong.
> It's an ominous admission that western democracy is now unable to operate as it's meant to and set policy in a way that reflects the desires and interests of the citizens.

That comes off as a little hyperbolic to me. Those governments are supposedly already taking choices they feel reflect the desires and interests of their citizens which means entering into this tax agreement is such a reflection.

There’s no world government enforcing that states remain a member of this agreement so they can always leave them later if their citizens feel that way as well.

It’s not like this was done entirely out of altruism from states looking out for their fellow man. Nation states are pretty nakedly self interested hence the phrase “nations have no friends only interests”. They all must feel they are getting something from the deal
This is a different issue from monopoly capture, as the VC money will eventually run out. This is more a "US con-man" thing, and in a way it is very traditional and lindy. Similar things happened during the railroad era or the oil boom. Without shady figures financing Las Vegas or Hollywood, those industries wouldn't exist today. Stopping those things would have caused much more damage than it prevented.

Maybe the scale is bigger today, because the markets are flooded with money and there is no easy return on capital anymore, which means assets are ballooning and there is more temptation to inflate stocks. The end of it will not be pretty.
Not getting involved always means at least tacitly supporting the status quo.

To think otherwise is just an expression of privilege. There is no being apolitical.
That seems likely and probable.
Probably a similar analogy to the way a lot of AI/ML will impact labor in other sectors. You can easily see how existing natural language processing tools are great companions for copywriters right now, for example, but might readily replace junior copywriter roles at companies entirely in the not-too-distant future. But the long-form journalist, like the live musician, probably doesn't have as much to worry about, in that regard.
>"a society governed in large part by the free market"

I disagree and have a much more simple explanation. Activists naturally want to involve as many people as they can in their cause/struggle. By framing everything as political, they open up opportunities to proselytize in areas traditionally not appropriate for 'politics'.

If you couple that with a cultural expectation that people must take a side, and, that simply not being a [bad thing] is not enough, you must be actively anti-[bad thing], and you've got the current climate Brian Armstrong is trying to avoid.
Make it 14 days and I'd call that my last vacation. I spent most of it partying like it was 1999. I read books on paper. I listened to heavy metal albums on CD. I talked to people in person. I got more sleep. I chilled the fuck out and even got laid a few times.

Try it. You might like it.
Just want to say how ridiculous this is from a European perspective.

I know nothing better than for any company to be mission focused. You go to work to do work. And you do so with a degree of neutrality, as you can't pick your colleagues, yet still need to cooperate with them.

This doesn't mean you can't say anything at all, it means you shouldn't be overly divisive or confrontational. A company isn't your personal Twitter playground.

If you do have something political to say, a grave social justice error in the company's policy for example, you can still be reasonable about it. To mention it respectfully and proportional to the issue, rather than going nuclear.

I work in a tech hub in Europe that has 80 nationalities, people from all walks of life. Any ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, religion and political conviction you can think of and we all get along just fine with zero tensions.

It's a joy actually, to work with people wildly different from yourself, whom you normally might not meet if it wasn't for work. We don't even have rules on politics, because they're not needed. Nobody brings politics or activism to work.

This brand of aggressive identity-based political activism really is a manifestation of the deplorable state of US politics. It's really quite rich to take home 200K a year and feel oppressed. Such a thing is only possible in the US, the rest of the world laughs at you.
Never heard that being an issue. As long as the crew is sticking together. Back in 199x my father worked on a fish trawling fleet which consisted of a former USSR ships "privatized" by a "New Russian" businessman. The fleet at various times - depending on success/failure of negotiations with whatever warlord would happen to control given territory on a given morning - was based at various places in Mozambique and Somali. The fleet owner having no laws over him and being otherwise very shrewd and unscrupulous and being perfectly able to reach say our family in Russia (though that would really be against his interests) had never even delayed payments to the crew as that would mean angering 20-30 able bodied men who are in control of one of his ships in a place with practically no laws (and with the crews of the other ships definitely not in support of the owner on that issue).
pomodoro, being italian for tomato, what is a 30m interval of it? minutes i'm guessing rather than meters, but who knows...
Because it’s historically been one of the most important parts of the political sphere?

It’s a very new thought that work should be apolitical.
https://archive.is/eZx6m
Ask HN: Best CS learning material for self-taught programmer?
I’ve been programming for over 20 years, but never studied computer science. I know C, C++, Python, Rust and a little bit of a few other languages.

If I’m approaching a problem, I essentially visualise how I think the data should be organised in my head, then turn that into code.

So far this approach has served me well but I feel like I’m missing out on many useful data structures and potential shortcuts (by not reinventing the wheel) due to my lack of formal training.

What are some good resources for someone like me to fix my foundations?
This nation is extremely divided. I don't think you can run any organization that is political effectively.

Even completely political organizations will have to control political discussions at workplace. US Government is moving into that direction and we are seeing a far less political Senate and Congress that is rarely focussed in any discussion as a joint entity. The two teams in legislative bodies rarely 'talk' to each other on political topics. Most discussions are now procedural and political debate in almost all public forums is completely dead.
> * the pact includes provisions to ensure that multinational companies pay tax where they generate sales and profits, and not just where they have a physical presence*

Will be interesting to see how Alibaba and other Chinese multinationals deal with this.

If they aren’t fully into this, then the whole thing will not work as intended.
have you considered going through the HealthyGamerGG coaching program or doing their course?
Coinbase’s stock is currently approximately equal to the IPO price and the IPO was six months ago. Coinbase and Robinhood (another rocketship) both experienced a pop after their respective IPOs and later dropped back down near IPO price. This isn’t a particularly relevant metric, in my view. At the IPO, the rocketship factor is already priced in. Look at the company’s trajectory over the decade it has existed.
Sociotechnical Lenses into Software Systems
I'd assume that ~trillion dollar company can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Especially, if you look at Facebook history, siphoning data from there (that this extension was also doing) brought them one of the biggest scandals (cambridge analytica).
They're on track with their Mars mission program, and the side effect of the vehicles they're building - and predicted drop in kilogram-to-orbit price tag - will be opening up the whole cislunar space for industrialization. Think in-orbit mining, resource processing and manufacturing. Optimistically, the potential market will explode in size, and ultimately (say, in a century) will be greater than the whole economy of Earth today. So, if you're bullish on space exploration and exploitation, then SpaceX's market has no limit in sight.
Anyone know how they compare, feature wise?