skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has been working on an honest web hosting review site for a decade now. You're totally right. I see the same pattern in this article talking about fake review sites. The biggest offender in hosting was Endurance International Group who owned so many major brands and gobbled them up. You'd often find any ranking full of the brands they owned (BlueHost, HostGator, iPage, JustHost, Site5, Arvixe, etc, etc, etc).

Since you're really skeptical, I'd love to hear your take on what I've done (and been doing) in terms of trying to create an honest system.

The gist is, I scrape Twitter data, filter out spam, affiliate links, etc, and use sentiment analysis to see which brands people actually like. My hypothesis was that reviews are fundamentally a weird human behavior. The real 'reviews' are embedded in normal conversation when you talk to people. With enough data of these signals, you can get a much better picture of what people really think. The results seem to line up basically like an NPS measurement.

https://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare has all my data if you want to see how the rankings actually look. Not every company has an affiliate program. Many smaller companies aren't listed because I can't get enough data.
Note that although 'Aztec' sounds super old, they were actually a civilisation from as recently as 1300 to 1550 or so, so not nearly as long ago as it sounds, and actually relatively contemporary To Elizabeth.
They occur at different layers:

> OpenZFS native encryption splits the difference: it operates atop the normal ZFS storage layers and therefore doesn't nerf ZFS' own integrity guarantees. But it also doesn't interfere with ZFS compression—data is compressed prior to being saved to an encrypted dataset or zvol.

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/a-quick-start-guide-...
Some security people love to hand-wave and issue prophecies of doom for attribution and attention. It’s great chum for writers — easier to run with some guys grievance than research a more substantive story.
One of the strengths that Amazon has in this space, is that they are both advertiser and seller, so they can A/B test their ads in a way Google cannot, because they have perfect transaction data tracking.
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No single language is ideal for all tasks, so often new languages get invented in order to optimize for a particular sort.

Developing a new language is a significant investment, though, so it's natural for companies that do so to want to commercialize it and get it used by as many people as possible.

>Instead of delivering the value and focusing on the task, on the product we spend half of the time just learning yet another new super puper technology.

You shouldn't, in the vast majority of cases. You should choose the language that is best suited for the task at hand and use that. Chasing after the new & shiny is tempting (it's fun!) but it rarely actually makes engineering or economic sense.
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> Is there a study or report why all these social dramas are always coming from the FAANG companie?

Because these companies have the highest status and social justice outrage is a form of intra-elite status competition. You'll find that this stuff becomes more intense in academia as you move up the university prestige ladder.

Peter Turchin has written a lot about the general dynamics of intra-elite competition and elite overproduction: see https://www.amazon.com/Secular-Cycles-Peter-Turchin/dp/06911... for example
>struggle for the words to describe it because words we ascribe to "the best of things" like "awesome" just doesn't compare on that scale when we also use the same word to describe our favorite ice cream flavor.

Mandatory Eddie Izzard bit on exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVqN0prMro
> Isn’t this an objective data driven problem and we can decide what’s better for short / medium / long term?

No, such questions never are. Even if you could remove the prevailing strong emotional responses from the debate (humans aren‘t always rational), you would still find that at heart, the debate is not about technology but about values. What targets are we actually aiming for, and why? If you can‘t agree on what the problem is, you aren‘t going to find a common solution. And worse: often such issues pose multiple problems, the solutions for some of which may actually make the others worse. So how do you deal with these trade-offs? What do you prioritize?

Nuclear power is a hard problem not because we don‘t know the solutions, but because we can‘t agree on which problems are the most urgent. And again, that’s not a question about technology, but about values.
That's very far from the truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...

In fact, the only other country with a population of more than 200,000 people with a higher obesity rate than the US is Kuwait.
> It's good to see Netflix hold strong against the woke nonsense

You spoke too soon: https://nypost.com/2021/10/12/netflix-reinstates-worker-terr...
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Change wallpaper to some crap. Take a screenshot of desktop. Change wallpaper back and open screenshot with crap on the background in fullscreen mode.
I am feeling really dumb for asking: the punchline of the comic is clearly that there is something terribly wrong with the typesetting of the business card, but what is it?
Nah, it's not about having strong options. I've been around nerds forever, that doesn't bother me. Yours might be the impression on recent HN, but if you look around he is all over the place, attacking people on various platforms, while promoting some conspiracy narrative; derailing, gaslighting and manipulation. Whatever is going on with that guy, something is definitely going on. He doesn't inspire trust, he probably needs therapy.
From your very own linked Wikipedia page:

> In 2010 the International Panel on Fissile Materials said "After six decades and the expenditure of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars, the promise of breeder reactors remains largely unfulfilled and efforts to commercialize them have been steadily cut back in most countries".
I think stuff like this will come up with increasing frequency.

Anyone can now buy a high-res motion detection camera that can perform 24-hour surveillance for ~$25 with sufficient storage (motion-only) for years. Very easy to completely remove someone's privacy unless they keep their curtains/blinds closed at all times.

A slightly more expensive 4k or 8k cam is enough to surveil an entire skyscraper worth of people/families at once. Is it illegal?
The problem is actually high heat combined with high humidity. Sweating fails to cool you down and you cook. Broiling is very high heat and low humidity.
While I don't find this surprising at all, I do find it interesting that a company like Netflix, a studio where most of their originals are overwhelmingly pro-LGBT, still has this issue when one of the biggest comedians in the world pisses off some tiny segment of their workforce. It seems that this segment of people are never going to be happy.
Interesting that this article uses the "latinx" terminology. Here in Colombia where I live, I have only ever met one person who supports the use of this terminology whereas many people I talk to find it explicitly offensive that a bunch of foreigners think they get to rewrite their language.

It's ironically an incredibly culturally insensitive move wrapped in the veil of self congratulating cultural sensitivity.
Manipulating pointers as numbers. And addressing arrays out of bounds.
Oh, God. This sums up one of my coworkers. Smart, productive, generates lots of LOC that almost always do the right thing, but oh my God, the "Extra." Dig into any of his code and you'll always find something Extra, like the front end is built in SomeObscureLanguage.js, or the business logic is expressed in a custom DSL implemented by macros, or some piece of the app seems to be mysteriously absent, until you discover it's injected via a custom plugin for the build tool.

Everything he does can be theoretically justified by DRY or some other principle of software engineering (it's almost always DRY, and when it isn't, it's type safety) but the payoff for the extra complexity is always an order of magnitude away. Like, the custom build plugin would make sense if we had a bunch of apps that were structured the same way, but we only have one. The custom DSL for the business rules would make sense if there were a hundred rules, but there are only a dozen or so. Using SomeObscureLanguage.js might theoretically (for the sake of argument) give us an edge that would be worth it if this were one of our reputation-critical consumer UIs supported by dedicated team, but it's an internal tool, and the bugs never get fixed because there's only one person who knows SomeObscureLanguage.js, and he's always doing something more Important.

I don't disagree with the article. Extra will distinguish you more than More, and if done right, it can speed up your team. Just be sure that all the Extra you do makes your teammates Extra productive, and that you aren't adding Extra burdens that slow everybody down and make software development Extra responsible for the slow pace of launching products for new markets.
*opinions. Sorry can't edit.
Jetbrains IDEs have hooks where you can run the ide local and execute code on an external machine. You can also host the IDE on the server and use the ide in a browser although I've never tried that before

https://lp.jetbrains.com/projector/
Multiple Calendars in One Place
They could just be laid off under the present circumstances. If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Edit, since HN is throttling my response to the bigman433 below: I absolutely agree with you. Much like music industry, to paraphrase Hunter S Thompson, movie industry is "a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs." It's just that now is not the best time to effect change there. Think of it from the standpoint of the owner: you have a venture which is barely making any money at the moment and is not projected to make a lot of it at any point in the next few years. And that venture is starting to cause you legal, PR, and labor problems on top of that. You'd get rid of it at the drop of a hat. Now, if you actually were making money hand over fist, and the flow of money suddenly stopped, that's a MUCH better leverage to make a deal. This presupposes, however, that they'd actually like to solve their problems, rather than just stay angry, which is how it often is. Problem solving is less profitable to the agitators than constant, simmering anger.
This thread is already full of people who didn't read or understand the critique of Netflix as presented in the article. It's not an issue of "Dave Chappelle thinks a bad thing and should be punished" it's "Netflix promotes an equivocation that actively harms people".

> “This is not an argument with two sides. It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don’t want us to be,” Field added. “This all gets brushed off as offense though — because if we’re just ‘too sensitive’ then it is easy to ignore us.”

Went into the special before it hit the news because I like some of Chappelle's other work. I liked a few parts, and I didn't like others. I think it's totally super neato that Dave Chappelle has his personal opinions on trans people, but publicly playing the "just asking questions" game costs putting giving both sides on equal footing beforehand.

This is an irresponsible thing of Netflix to do, and silly to conflate with censorship. Yelling "I think there's a fire" in a crowded building causes as much harm as yelling "are we sure the building's really burning?" when it is. Absolutely think and say either if you want to, but know that when you amplify them it causes real social harm.
I don't understand this inclination to take away credit from anyone that people don't like or find objectionable. What level does it end at? There is no rocket launch without Bezos, he started Amazon, and built it then used those funds to create blue origin. He employed millions of people along the way. You can argue that there are things he should have done better but there is no way that the credit does not belong to him. Its possible to be both super accomplished, responsible for many great things and a flawed human. People are complex.
So if I'm understanding this right -- if I have a stream of numbers coming in forming a squiggly line, and I have a bucket of these wavelet shapes, I can pick up wavelets and stretch and squeeze and resize them and overlay them on my line, and ... use them to characterize that squiggly line? Working as feature recognition and also serving as a way to compress it? So instead of 20k data points, I have a sequence like 'mexican hat, mexican hat', and maybe elements in the sequence are different sizes and overlap?

(a) if my intuition is super wrong I'd love for HN to correct it, heh. (b) long shot, but anyone have links to code? It's HN after all -- maybe some commenters in this thread are aware of cool/idiomatic/simple/etc uses of wavelet code in open source software.

(I know of a bunch of cool uses they've been put to, from JPEGs to the spacex fluid dynamics presentation about using wavelet compression on gpu, but I've personally never used them as a tool for anything, and it'd be fun to learn about them with code!)
Countered with the deflation of getting more capabilities for the dollar. Even a current lower-tier iPhone is much more capable than many flagships from a few years ago—never mind things that weren't even dreamt of, like 1TB of storage.
But radiated concrete from the reactor housing doesn't burn that well.
I imagine the argument would be that the person that writes code at a corporation is not the same person who writes it for hobby. Even if they share the same body, one is just doing it for the cash and the other for fun.
It's not a tax, it's a protection racket. You wouldn't like it if someone looking for Williams Sonoma saw results for
Sur La Table, would you? Pay up.
:) There will be recognition if you perform tasks that continually uplevels your team. There is only so many buttons one can push in a day (doing more). What the author calls "Extra" is often called "Glue" work (think improving test coverage or isolation, creating a bank of interview questions, improving onboarding documents).

If you ask for "money first", response will often be "IDK, we're not too sure about that". If you improve the organization, there will be money & promotions. There will be a gap in this reward.
https://archive.ph/6cI2F
Yes, the situation is that whatever you don't source from renewables, you have to source from something else. Assuming that in both alternative scenarios (some nuclear plants shut down vs. all existing plants kept in operation), the nuclear generation levels are approximately constant, this means that any decrease from renewables has to be compensated by an equal increase from non-nuclear sources (since the nuclear contribution is constant from year to year in both scenarios, assuming no Chernobyl/Fukushima like situation where a nuclear source suddenly goes away permanently).

For sake of a simple example, let's say you have nuclear, renewable, and coal power plants, and you have 600 TWh of electricity consumption in a year and you have 200 TWh of nuclear power contribution and 200 TWh of renewable power contribution. You then need to burn coal worth 200 TWh to compensate for the rest. The next year the nuclear power contribution is the same at 200 TWh, since it's weather-independent, but weather variations allow you to generate only 150 TWh of renewable electricity. You now need to burn 250 TWh worth of coal; 50 TWh worth of coal more than the last year.

Let's assume that you shut down 100 TWh/y worth of nuclear plants a few years ago. Your energy needs today are the same. You have 600 TWh of electricity consumption in a year and you have only 100 TWh of nuclear power contribution in this scenario, and 200 TWh of renewable power contribution. You then need to burn coal worth 300 TWh to compensate for the rest. The next year the nuclear power contribution is the same at the decreased level of 100 TWh, since it's weather-independent, but weather variations allow you to generate only 150 TWh of renewable electricity. You now need to burn 350 TWh worth of coal; 50 TWh worth of coal more than the last year.

See how in both scenarios you need 50 TWh worth of coal more in the latter year because of weather variability? The argument was that the nuclear shutdowns changed the coal uptick. The shutdowns clearly didn't cause the uptick, or even affect its size, unless they happened inter-annually (which to my knowledge they didn't).

As for increasing RE contribution, that is happening in Germany regardless. In fact shutting down the most expensive-to-run old nuclear plants might liberate some money for extra renewables expansion, although I'd have to check on the exact numbers.
DAMMIT. You're right. It totally was. How did I mix up those two movies?!
They weren't bidding on keywords, though, just airtime.

That's an entirely different advertising model and market.
What, BO turned my highschool library into their control room - I thought the school had thrown out that brown particle-board-plastic-veneer desk ages ago.
The font on the business card is Papyrus.
Well, if anyone has a laser etcher, I'd like to go into a 50/50 business with them (where I'm the "Ideas guy"): we (you) buy the blank keyboards from Framework, etch the keycaps and sell them, and then we split the profit /s
> $(language of the week)

Rust is 10 years old. See, such knee-jerk reactions are exactly why many people have trouble taking the anti-Rust arguers seriously. It's like you people defend religion or something. How about we stick to facts?
This is true, and how we should all live our lives. I cancelled all my kids birthday parties because they did not accomplish getting a year older by themselves and if the father of the 3rd grade teacher that tutored the nurse that delivered my kids could not be there then no one gets to celebrate. After all they did not deliver themselves. /S
Looks like this is only for Macs with Secure Enclaves. Does Apple's own Keychain app not do this? I would have thought that would utilize Secure Enclave too.
I feel like the people who do "extra", never feel like they're doing extra, they feel like that is part of the job.

The example of "creating two screens", you make the screens, and then look at them and think...is this the best I can do? Is there a better way to protect the security? Is there a way I can reduce the boilerplate? Can I refine this so it's easier for somebody else to maintain later?

That's the job, as far as I'm concerned. It's the same in many other professions.

I like Ryan Holidays perspective on this in Perennial Seller. As a writer, you're not done when you write the chapter. That's the start, now you've got editing, and re-writes, promotion, sales...that's the work.
Absolutely, we plan to support several additional languages. Java is currently under development and coming soon, so stay tuned!
Calling your guide the ‘ultimate guide’ is disingenuous marketing. No single guide can cover all security concepts in all contexts. Every time I see that sorta wording I just assume the writer doesn’t actually know what they’re talking about
That would be "grilling" in most parts of the world
Doubtful. There's a notorious shortage of workers in every industry right now, the striking workers will be particularly hard to replace due to their timing, and their strike is probably going to be particularly effective because of that.
...which is a quite distinctive font that has shipped with Mac systems for years, so someone typeface-conscious is very likely to recognise it on sight.
You’re kidding! A single click costs more than a dollar?
As I understand it ad spend is good if you want attention right now. In the long term organic traffic is cheaper and more desirable. In addition ads can be good for exploration.

So it's only natural that after some time organic traffic exceeds paid traffic.
Typesetting is related and has a similar effect. Being able to spot every document authored in Microsoft Word and its, frankly, ugly decisions is not that fun.
The typeface is Papyrus [1], which is… not exactly adored by people who care about such things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_(typeface)
How did an artifact for communicating with other worldly beings that was an ancient and sacred artifact, which originated from the Aztecs, who lived on the other side of the planet, get all the way through Spain to not just anyone, but the head Astrologer to the Queen of England? You have to ask the question, could the connection be that the go-between for the Aztec empire and the Queen of England was brokered, even indirectly, by extra-terrestrials? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

I would say, no, it was by boat. But Smithsonian just giving up and mixing archeology and the occult may signal a defeat, where they were like, "the only way we're going to get young people into the field is if we address this stuff, because that's what they're interested in. Post that Queen's astrologer and Aztec magic portal thing, and let's A/B it."
You're correct that institutions are imperfect, just like individuals...

But there is another factor here: trustworthiness or credibility.

If an institution or an individual is caught more than once being dishonest, putting their agenda above the truth, etc., should they be trusted again, or should anything they say or do be treated as a curiosity and thought experiment at best, until it is agreed with by someone credible and trustworthy?
Hah, fair enough.
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Theranos device “made a bunch of noise” but did nothing else in Safeway demo