skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US McDonald's workers strike to protest workplace harassment
I like the hedge fund + side pocket model way more then

About time that these big VCs are catching up to it

The side pocket is a private equity fund, and limited partners can always create additional subscriptions if they want to invest more into the main fund as long as they meet the minimums
France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
Bitcoin incentivizes miners and energy companies to use otherwise wasted energy. It incentivizes them to innovate in the energy industry unlike other networks bitcoin is able to pay the people that innovate and build better technologies in the space.
How do these sources support vaccination being "murderous"? Saying it's only a bit worse than the flu is also a bit odd in this context, given the CDC recommends flu vaccinations for "everyone ages six months and older"? "reliable sources" should also support the argument being made.
Love it.

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That is a lot, although we ignore traffic deaths, we kill a lot of people with cars.
Google and Amazon speak differently about Matter
That's money given to people and businesses. Secondary effects could go into the stock market but not directly and I definitely would not call that dumping into the stock market considering most was probably used to keep business and people afloat.
Actually, the use of the preposition with each item makes this perfectly clear and unambiguous without any gratuitous added punctuation.

“in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname” (aside from any issue with conventional use of “on” for the former) would be awkward.

Since its a two-item list, an Oxford comma would never be appropriate, so it can't signal the need for it.
>If there were 100 good search engines the price for advertising would be 90% lower

Would it really be that much though?

I thought search ads were auctions - i.e. competition for impressions/clicks directly correlates to the price of advertising.

If you have search users distributed across 100 platforms, the competition for impressions/clicks is going to be super low on all platforms, but you'd have to advertise on 100 platforms to get the same level of engagement, adding it all back up but with 100 middle men this time.
I don't think there is consensus about that unfortunately. I see plenty of pre-prints going both ways.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v...

I think the only conclusion that can be supported truly at this point is that you seem to be less likely to get a severe disease progression.

And before anyone jumps on the whole political thing. Yes I have taken two doses of the biogen vaccine.
Thanks for this call-out. I'll personally get this updated this evening.
There's no way anyone wants to use metaverse that's controlled by FB.
bastoid

bas·toid
a large round or rounded fist-shaped organ, especially one that curves in front or near the anus

"I found what looked like a giant bastoid tattoo near the entrance to the office"

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Around 7-8 years ago I built something very similar into the data subsystem of the Low-Code platform I was working on (triggre.com). All fully generated, and fairly performant.

The nice thing there was that the entire data subsystem was designed to be lossless through the lifetime of system through normal use. So as you changed the datamodel, no data would actually be removed. For the target use-cases (small scale departmental systems) this is extremely powerful.

Kind of miss working there, I still have a huge list of really cool awesome things that you could do which would pull our industry forward kicking and screaming.
I guess you'd rather see something like:

Yo dawg!!! You'll never guess what happened to me when those bizsnitch little lawyers tried to sue me for some whack azz shiznit yo! Yo! You gotta call my bro the bizsnitch laywer asskickin mofo! Just smash them digits 555-212-0420 and he'll go to work for you yo!

Or maybe somewhere in between?
Yeah but what about the year after?
I make heavy use of this technique. I use it to display an audit log to users that tells them what’s changed on the entity and who did it. I set the application_name to the currently logged in user id so I can display it back.

I find this lets me punt on a lot of fine-grained permissions for different roles within an organisation. With the audit log, it becomes reasonable to say “just ask them not to do that. If they do, you’ll easily be able to see what happened and we can reverse it, then tell them to knock it off”

I’ve also gotten pretty wild using it to reconstruct state in migrations. Like adding a “created_at” field to a table, then mining the audit log for creation events to set the value on existing rows. Or changing a table to a soft delete instead of an actual delete, then repopulating past entries from the audit log.
I like to think I'm doing my part as a sharehholder.

Every so often I'll google something like Criminal Defense Attorney, send money, or file taxes and click on the highest ads.
He is cringe. Also this is literal class collaborationism
> Although I like the spirit of this idea, I don't know that I could trust it in practice as it will be companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that own the actual hardware.

At some point, Microgoogazon transitions to being manufacturers and/or operators of the hardware, and the (perhaps nominal) ownership devolves to some variation on a public utility like electricity.
Amazon's warehouse workers in Staten Island file petition for union election
One thing I have wondered about is the number of multi-arity functions that individually specify 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 argument cases in 3rd-party library code. Is it a result of people thinking that’s idiomatic, or is

([a b c d])

performant enough to matter in library code instead of using

([a b & more])

? I hope it’s the former.
I'm okay with approving it for kids but mandating is a whole different story.
Completely agree with the final sentences in their conclusion/recommendations:

"In a world where our personal information lies in bits carried on powerful communication and storage devices in our pockets, both technology and laws must be designed to protect our privacy and security, not intrude upon it. Robust protection requires technology and law to complement each other. Client-side scanning would gravely undermine this, making us all less safe and less secure."
I don't know.... How can a competitor to Pax even know how the Pax servers are being handled internally?

This seems out of the ordinary for this type of thing investigation
Nothing in this article talks about a vax passport. We haven't even done that for adults, much less children.
Also https://distrochooser.de/ or https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Calling this vaccine "murderous" should earn plenty of downvotes, given that it has killed precisely no one despite a few hundred millions doses going out so far.
Banks print endless amounts of fiat currencies, meanwhile bitcoin is transparent and capped at 21 million. The chancellor can not print more.
What an absurdly idiotic thing to do. You can try this when you're WhatsApp or Google, and you have stickiness and network effects, but here? If you have more and more competitors every day (boox, kobo) and no serious moat, it is no time to turn into dicks (subscription for basic features).

I've recommended rM2 widely, and know of > 30 sales reMarkable made due to my recommendations. I will not be recommending it any longer.
I get it's not personal, but the comments I'm posting aren't flamewar. I'm simply telling people they are wrong, and they don't like it. But that's a huge benefit of forums like this I think, learning when you're wrong. And very often I am and I want to know why.
Also, who is flagging the comments and rate limiting users? It's not you, you can't possibly be reading all this. It's users past a karma score, many having an agenda of promoting or defending their companies product. New users can't even downvote. So think about this, users with a high karma can hide, flag, and rate limit newer users. You want to give them the license of free speech only so long as they don't dare use it. You can see this censorship at work if you compare the Twitter response to Worldcoin vs the HN comments. I couldn't find any criticism at all on HN. I'm not going to email and beg for my freedom of speech. Your system lacks an enforcement mechanism, I can make account after account and so happens I have a million proxies to hand. I'll never pass the karma threshold so it's a simple fix.
First year associates at the law firm I use charge over $500/hr. Senior lawyers/partner cost well over $1,200/hour in 2021 at many of the largest / most successful firms now.
The question isn’t whether you have 10k req/s now, but whether you expect to in the future. If you are designing a blog, then yeah, you probably don’t need to worry about it. If you are starting a social network or SAAS business application, then you probably do.
I think we agree on most practical aspects of this situation.

We both agree that this situation of expensive grid hookups in rural areas is simple economics. We both agree to make it affordable would require a subsidy. Rural residents seem to want this cheaper/subsidized, but several in the article are also happy to build their own infrastructure instead. I think that's great!

It seems where we may have disagreement is around wider political issues regarding perspectives on government, media, and culture. Specifically, I think we have slightly different perspectives and theories about the mindset and views of conservative rural residents.

That's totally fine! However, it feels a bit like we're both talking in circles without a clear topic / thesis or enough personal experience to provide strong insights.

Enjoyed the discussion though!
What browser are you using? Both Chrome and Safari seem fine to me on desktop and mobile for pricing links in the header and footer.
Django + Django rest framework ? A headless CMS ?
On the military topic, why would the military do something humanitarian for citizens? It was pretty clear the industrial military complex was voted back in with Biden, and that's better for business than something altruistic.

Generals make a living from becoming lobbyists for the complex, and without a commander in chief keeping them in check, it's business as usual. And obviously they can walk over Biden all day to do this.
And you also have a right to distance yourself from someone based on their choices.
yes. there's a hint on the ideology under attack in your observation. empowered users are dangerous to real-life systems. best keep such power in the hands of a select few properly credentialed engineers.
I think the 300C target is to support the article's assertion that geothermal could replace e.g. nuclear plants. Geothermal for heating can work well with a lower approach temp, but industrial processes/power generation needs a higher differential.
Sure.

And if you say no to the DTaP, HepB, MMR, polio, etc. vaccines, you may be finding a private school to go to in many states.

We've had "vaccine or fuck off" rules in a wide variety of scenarios for decades.
I mean since we're talking about banking:

- Generate a transaction number and associate that number with the respective transaction details

- Send this number to the customer's mobile phone with all those details, or other configured device

- the transfer is only authorised if the customer has entered the transaction number

That way, the customer is very likely to have verified the details of the transfer.
> Or, you know, just work with the ISPs to make it illegal, like with BitTorrent.

BitTorrent certainly isn't illegal in the UK; it might be in other jurisdictions.

> you're free to go use Mastodon and run your own node

Would it work behind a NAT'ed router on a dynamic IP? I suspect it might not.

> You can't possibly think that's a reasonable product your grandparents would be able to use.

What I envisage is an SD card containing the OS + apps, you put it in the Pi, plug it into your router by ethernet, configure it via its web app, and you're ready to go. I think it ought to be possible to make it easy enough for the average person to install (certainly anyone who could install a router + internet would be able to).
I get the best of both worlds and use both. Windows has no place on my home computer. Im not gaming so Im good
You must live somewhere without mandates.
The Matrix bridge service is compromised (their infra has been successfully attacked before, and other similar platforms have had catastrophic data breaches as well)? That doesn't require a targeted attack, involves complete history disclosure and probably far more metadata than Signal even stores on their servers.
> I feel like if this were true we would be seeing a major decline in the sales of pesticides, at least on consumer-level volume. Has anyone dug into those numbers?

I just don't see the causative link as the pesticides are used prophylacticly. Fewer insects would tend, IMO, to reinforce the behaviour, not reduce it.
I've had a different year, as well. Fewer bees seemed pretty obvious, but more wasps this year, including a swarm of wasps that I didn't even know swarmed--they normally have 3 or 4 wasps on a relatively small hive.

But I've got lots and lots of mantises this year. One evening, attracted by the lights of my workshop, I counted 6 mantises climbing around my windows at the same time. I've continued to see them elsewhere, though one at a time. I've never seen more than a few per season, previously.
Thanks, you have reminded me I need to finish that book ahaha.
China launches world’s fastest programmable quantum computers
Don't see anything in there about government paying
Authenticator apps that use TOTP (all of them) don’t need an internet connection. The auth codes are time-based and generated on the device, online or offline.

I use authenticator app or hardware key if supported. Adding TOTP 2FA to a web site is easy.
I believe Delta is worse than Beta.
I will make it my mission to ensure this word comes to exist

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The fear that governments were going to take down bitcoin was always overblown. It has a basis in the libertarian idea that governments hate & destroy all good things, and bitcoin is a good thing, thus the government will hate & destroy it. Regulators were skeptical at first, but that quickly gave way to accommodation.

But this is what success always looked like for bitcoin. Most people want the ability to assign custodians to their assets; they want people to be able to identify their assets from other peoples' assets; they don't care about the ability to bury digital treasure somewhere. And importantly, most people invest with an eye on ROI, not for some philosophical purpose.

Bitcoin is mainstream, and has been for a while. And now the mainstream buyers are want mainstream financial management structures which are opposed to the views of the people who bought btc before it was cool.
Client side scanning of inappropriate pictures is of content you'd ordinarily be sending them as anyways as well. The proposal was only to do this if cloud services were/are enabled.
Businesses should not be forced to do business with someone they don't want to do business with.
Do we actually have a detailed document explaining how much of their component production is actually in house? It seems like there are A LOT of common components between Tesla and others while at the same time they are clearly doing a lot of in house things that others dropped decades ago. (eg. Seat Production, having metallurgy department to come up with better alloys etc.) These are things other OEMs tossed to the curb decades ago.
Some studies suggest that the risk of myocarditis/pericarditis among vaccinated young boys is higher than their risk of hospitalization due to Covid. The fact that this is even a possibility, and the data on it is changing so rapidly, should give everyone pause and ask what's really going on. Is it for the public good, or is it for pharma profits?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...
Who is we? The King County area in Washington USA is starting to enforce presenting proof of vaccination to enter businesses: https://kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/constantine/news/re...
Another (my favourite) recipe site:

https://clovegarden.com/

Not just recipes, but in-depth articles about utensils and above all, ingredients, too. And tips on where to buy them in Los Angeles ("Koreatown", mainly, as I recall).

Also some stories, about occasions (mostly gatherings of the site owner's music club) where the dishes have been served. But they're on separate pages; you needn't see them unless you want to.

Dunno about any RSS feed though.
Yup, it's kind of the analogue of: "Not your keys, not your coin"

So, something like: "not your chips, not your code"?

This also really reminds me of the absolute squandering of resources by "modern" systems - old x86 DOS systems with 1/16,000 the memory and processing power were literally more responsive for everyday use than the mountians of framework junk we run on today. There is a lot of headroom left to downsize and create very useful machines.
> I'm just hoping it doesn't get Hobbit-ed by making shit up to pad the time and introduce characters not in the original material.

Well, its being made into two movies instead of The Hobbit’s three, and the source material is about twice as long as The Hobbit, so I think the risk of that is a lot lower.

3-4 hours film per 100K words is probably reasonable [0], the cureent Dune is still very squeezed where The Hobbit trilogy was...very much not.

[0] E.g., the first season of Game of Thrones, roughly covering the plot of the book A Game of Thrones, and which hewed pretty close to the source but still cut a fair amount, was 9.5 hours for ~300K words of source material.
If people do or don't want to get vaccinated, that's up to them. But with kids it's harder because parents expect a veto. Reddit is full of adults whose parents have gone nuts because they choose to get vaccinated. Imagine the same with under 18s. So good luck with that...
> If there were 100 good search engines the price for advertising would be 90% lower

Why do you think that? The revenue is determined by the number of searches showing ads, the click-through rate, and the cost per click. The total across all companies would clearly not change for the first two metrics. Would the cost per click change? Given it's determined by an auction, I don't see how it could change. If you have an incentive to bid $1 on an ad on a single site with 100x traffic, you'd be equally willing to bid $1 on each of 100 separate sites with 1x traffic.
No, computers typically have a service life of 5 years, but depreciating them faster gives you more loss to to write down against your income.

What you are seeing though is the trick they used to make 'net income' pop. Let's say they had a million servers and a server costs $5K each. When depreciated at 3 years that is $1.6 billion dollars a year of depreciation. But you stretch that out to 4 years and now its only $1.25 billion dollars in appreciation. Since depreciation is subtracted from revenue you just "bumped" up your revenue by $350M and you didn't have to do anything at all (except change how you treated your assets).

That they had to resort to this level of shenanigan to get their revenue numbers up is interesting to me.
What may be interesting to discuss is if one can regain the integrity that was perceived to be lost in the first place? I have done things I am not proud of. Sometimes it was due to ignorance, greed, selfishness or indifference. For those that condemn Facebook employees as being unethical, is there a path forward?

Regarding Facebook, I would like all employees to quit. I will also hire former Facebook employees. I know we are capable of remorse and can change for the better.
Deaths are being covered up, you're not looking very hard.
https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/45-year-old-fbi-special-agent...

go ahead and flag this you liars
That seems like fraud, especially if you were to do it at scale.
To what specific end and what is your evidence?
The FDIC Chair is a woman, Jelena McWilliams.
The module federation story was a bit complicated pre-webpack 5. Are there plans in the roadmap to further support module federation?
I misread this as “the operators G, A, and M” rather than “their”, and thought that this was going to be about some like, combinators of some kind allowing for expressing something about what computation (on what data) you want to outsource the running of run, in terms of 3 operators.

Like, some sort of verifiable computing kind of deal.

Because I hadn’t read the quotation carefully (as otherwise I would have caught the part about depreciation notices before reading the article).
Ask HN: How have you as a founder secured an investment?
I have an idea for a new software business and an early prototype, but I do not know where to start looking for potential investors. I have plenty of engineering experience, but I am not well connected with VCs. What is the best way to break into the venture startup space?
Missed the "or a negative test" bit?
The parent is responding to the grandparent comment

> Generally hedge funds are private investments.

I take your point that HFs come in many flavors. And, "private investments" is ambiguous.

Though, in "general", the parent is right to say the claim (above) is not accurate. I think of HFs as "generally" playing with securitized, public assets, regardless of investment mandate.
It might have a bad risk/benefit ratio. The preliminary evidence I've seen suggests a good risk/benefit ratio.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x

>Those who had recovered from COVID-19 months before receiving their jabs harboured antibodies capable of defanging the mutant spike, which displays much more resistance to immune attack than any known naturally occurring variant. These peoples’ antibodies even blocked other types of coronaviruses. “It’s very likely they will be effective against any future variant that SARS-CoV-2 throws against them,” says Hatziioannou.
Oh I don't disagree that the "best of gpt-3" on twitter is automated hyperbole machine.^ But I think at least in HN, a lot of people have looked at somewhat more objective sources too. The standard way to prove a trick shot is to film yourself do two or three in a row. I agree these are tricks, and a lot are unproven. Some are proven though, FWIW.

Anyway, if the damn thing can do me 10%-60% of the time in a non trivial context... IDK, maybe this just becomes the default standard for "non trivial." and it's no big deal. It is disconcerting though. In any case, assuming GPT-3 progresses... there might be uses for software that does just the first of those things.

All my above comment really means for sure is that NLP can now participate, simulate and perhaps instigate flame wars better. Flame wars were always one of the easy targets, so that's not much of a standard. Who knows though, maybe the road to AGI is a gradual refinement of a flamewar bot to a dialectic philosopher. Cheating on essays is gonna start getting fun.

^If a person uses the Tom Sawyer fence trick to automate a task, is that automation? If the machine does it, is the turn tables?
Better question: why not Lisp?