skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is this particular instance "corruption".

"Stop, drop and roll" and "look both ways before crossing the street", those are subject to debate now? If you corrupt your way to "majority consensus", you now magically get protected class status? Run in front of oncoming traffic, throw everyone else in prison?

Just don't add to it. Don't make it worse. If you do, don't do it. Go do something else. Cavemen knew that. There's prehistorical evidence of thieves being beaten and beheaded and amputated and thrown to crocodiles. You are grotesquely contorting people no different than you into something even worse than an animal.

> This is similar to a US-based person who is attacking Putin in the media.

There's censorship all over the world. Do those countries still steal from one another?

You missed the worse consequence. Humanity's natural state is actually really nice. Mutuality. Honesty. Happiness. Teamwork. I would be a fool to give porcine kidney transplant technology to bin Laden, or event horizon telescope technology to marxists, or covid vaccines to pandemic Russia. You thieves would only laugh and point at the fool who sold his own noose. Hands off free markets are the only hope for the world. Do it or die in your own criminality.

It's a bad idea to be a thief and look for other criminals to save you. Those people are bad at their job. The price for you decreases each day. There's not enough money in the world for my government to sell my head. Your crooked self can be bought off with a bag of year old synergies and pills we give to horses that even junkies won't touch. TTFN.
Your comment tells me you have never used Google My Business. I cannot imagine it having even one satisfied user.

Google lets anybody "suggest" that your opening and closing hours are different than what you, the owner, have set them as. Enjoy receiving calls from irate customers because Big G decided that 'customer feedback' knows better than you do about when the store is open. Fix it, and Google will put it under 'manual review' so the incorrect hours continue to be shown for 2-3 more days.

There are a million other problems with GMB, but this is by far the most glaring.
You can sense the petty jealousy seething between the lines of this piece.

At best, much of his life was only of passing notoriety—or so one would have thought—and yet the legend lives on, as tenacious as ever. How to account for it?

Two things we can say about Hemingway - he wrote fairly prolifically from his teens until the end of his life, although some of his later work was only published posthumously; and his life was eventful, filled with first hand experiences of primal human activities like war and hunting and physical suffering and philandering, excellent fuel for a writer, fuel that most writers simply lack. It's not hard to 'account' for the legend of Hemingway, between his actual life and the quality and influence of his works.
Show HN: I built a bot that finds investors and gets meetings with them
You're talking about a letter from a U.S. Senator citing published reports in e.g. MIT Technology Review and concerns raised by professional organizations. I think dismissing that as “wild, unsubstantiated” would require at least some discussion of the linked claims.
His other buildings weren't so wildly divergent from the consensus about good building design either. The closest seems to be his University of Michigan graduate housing. In the building he does have windowless dorm rooms (often complained about) but there's only 7 of them off a shared kitchen and living room space instead of 70+. He took the design of Munger Hall and scaled it up almost directly with some rearranging and scaling, each room on the somewhat successful [0] UM Munger Dorm becomes a new pod of smaller rooms.

The designs are so different the relative success of the UM dorm shouldn't transfer much credibility to the design of the UCSB dorm. Going from sharing a lit common space with 7 people to 70 people is a massive change in the dynamics of those spaces. At a very basic level the UM space is owned and controlled by few enough people you can call it semi-private. At the UCSB level it's just a full public space which is a different dynamic.

https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2021/11/03/heres-what-its-like-...

https://i.redd.it/81yfb7wkxby51.jpg

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-univer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__cfVWiAxSU

[0] I say somewhat because people hate the windowless individual rooms it has enough amenities that they still rate it highly. He's fully banking on the fake windows making the new smaller rooms palatable. While massively increasing the number of people you have to share your nearest source of natural light with. edit: even that conclusion isn't universal some people had a pretty bad time living in those dorms https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/qkmp5h/i_wa...
As noted in the parent, in the given scenario the phone number provides absolutely no improvement in security or verification that the person who enters the phone number is actually the owner of the account. At best, granting Google the benefit of the doubt, it is security theater.

So, since it isn't effective for its stated purpose, are there other reasons it could be in place?
When I was fundraising for my previous startup, finding investors and getting meetings with them became my full-time job for almost three months. Because I had some experience building chatbots, I thought I could make one to automate investor research and outreach.

After 9 months of idea validation and development, I introduce you to Shizune. It can do two things: a) find investors tailored to your startup b) get meetings with them by automating warm intros and cold emails.

First, Shizune finds all investors who invested in companies similar to your startup. Then it researches all of them, scraping data from over 20+ data sources. In the end, it picks the most active investors in your industry, stage, and country. This approach helps us to make sure that the investors will be interested in your startup and have already invested in startups like yours before.

Once the list of investors is ready, Shizune can reach out to people on your behalf, ask for intros/send cold emails, and schedule meetings.

The outreach part is still in development because the demand for getting meetings was low. Currently, we're experimenting with NLU and text generation platforms to prototype the MVP of this feature.

We launched the MVP a couple of days ago. Now we want to ship updates every 2 weeks, but my partner is part-time, and it slows us down a lot. The current plan is to: a) finish the core features with no-code to monetize the product ASAP b) focus on user acquisition to start making enough money to pay the salary for my partner. Any advice on this situation would be appreciated. :)
Putting away a little every month will get you better returns than having cash on the sidelines waiting for the dip, even if you know when the dip will happen ahead of time:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

Of course you don't know when the dip is going to come. So you have to pull out some time before (close to) the exact day that things start tanking. And then you have to get in on the exact day of the bottom, because the 'best days' for returns are often soon after the 'worst' days. And if you miss just a handful of the best days, your returns tank:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2019/02/08/miss-the-worst-...

* https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/04/11/what-happens-when-...

* https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/this-chart-shows-why-investo...

Of course once people are (usually completely) out of the market, they have a hard time jumping back in psychologically, and there's an opportunity cost to sitting on the sidelines:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/risking-fast-and-slow/

At the end of the day, even if you only invest at the worst possible moment, you'll still probably do just fine if you stick with things:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
I take it you haven't seen the new iMessage mac desktop icon. You may also be misinterpreting this as two color gradients that also came from the poisoning of flat design.
Some links that helped me understand the Hough transform:

* https://towardsdatascience.com/lines-detection-with-hough-tr...

* https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.2....
While yes, parameter names are usually longer than 1 character, I'm super disappointed that Ruby has introduced this. I hate hate HATE this in JS. Sure, it's easier to write, but my brain always has to do a small double-take as to what I'm looking at while reading as it looks almost identical to destructuring.

Also, how is this going to work in function heads? `def foo(bar:)` means that `bar` is a required keyword. Is it going to have to be `def foo({bar:})`? In that case, it's going to come off as a potential style error to many people.
Power is out in some parts of the Pacific Northwest, there were storms last night
I just opened 12 tabs including nytimes youtube slack youtube reddit and started a game. I'm now at 10GB. I'm not even using desktop apps for many things like slack spotify discord which would easily add GB.

If I only had 8GB changing from game to browser and back would require swapping NOW let alone further along the expected 6 year average lifespan. I think its safe to say that the trend has been that cheaper plentiful ram leads to applications that are more wasteful of it and that this trend is likely to continue.

The difference in costs between a 8GB and 16GB model is probably less than $20 bucks its not replaceable or up gradable so you can tell yourself that the M1 Macs start at less than 1000 even though the 999 model is a dog and kick them an extra $200 for the $20 upgrade.

This is called price bracketing. You are being manipulated and nickel and dimed by a multi multi billion dollar outfit.
I mean, it's an article about how a technology is negatively impacting marginalized groups, and cites research that backs those claims. It makes sense to cite the groups and practices most impacted by it.

You could read the research and refute it, or you could just bluster about things. I know you tried to expand on it in your comment below, but minimizing the specific concerns raised to "isms" and ignoring that at least two of the references in the articles linked and their references for the actual research addressed at least the socioeconomic portion of it, illustrates that you only applied your surface level perspective and criticism.
There’s always money in the banana stand
You can already do that. I already do that because I'm a furry. NFTs don't contribute anything here can't be replicated by a spreadsheet.
Signal does not protect metadata cryptographically; it protects it via benevolence of the Signal server operators. Things could change any minute.

Rollercoaster protects metadata cryptographically by optimizing an existing cryptographic technique called mixnets for the group setting.
> with call centers in supposedly "liberal" western states

Checkmate liberals
I don't think the situation is so different from pre-World War 1 Germany that we shouldn't be vigilant. You have to consider that, in the 1930s, we thought WW1 was so horrific that there would never be war again. There are concentration camps in China (A developed nation!) right now, for the Uighurs, yet you still don't see the horrors of WW2 as a possibility?

>Heck, you just made the exact same logical leap that anti-vaxxers are using to oppose vaccine mandates in Canada.

At least I'm consistent then. Can you point out where my logical leap is?
Careful with DISTINCT ON, it can be extremely slow, like 100x slower than a verbose and less readable alternative. But it might not matter in your use case.
Better readability -

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1458080369392209927.html
I was taking a certificate exam earlier this year, and looked into taking it via ProctorU or the old-fashioned way, at a testing center.

After looking at their system requirements and the draconian measures needed to just be able to take my exam (they also require you to have a webcam, which I don't have and to real-time broadcast your private room, where you will be taking the exam, which is a non-starter for me), I realized it would take me longer to set up correctly, than it would take me to drive there, take the test and be back home.

I heard some people say we live in a high trust society, but that trust only seems to be going one way. If I don't trust a corporation, I have no agency or power to act on that. But if they don't trust me, they impose these insane draconian measures without any oversight that preclude me from progressing in life, professionally or otherwise. It's fucking insane.
Coronavirus boosters likely for years to come: Pharmacy Guild
Creating 3D Animated Gradient Effects with JavaScript and WebGL
I would highly recommend using some automatic gdrive backup system. If you’ve read HN for a few years, you must have seen how occasionally Google makes an automated mistake and locks or even deletes your account and its data.
Dreading the wave of shitty badly-thought-out library "updates" to include generics (and the wave of shitty new libraries from people who never learned how to use interfaces and now think they know how to use generics). It's going to be a year or so before the community settles down again after this.
As an alternative perspective: Writing a 'scathing take-down' is lazy BS; you don't have to know anything or even do anything. It adds nothing to the world.

To write something constructive takes thought and creativity (as in, to 'create' something).

("Agreeing to something while acknowledging its flaws" isn't the alternative.)
I’m just replying to boost your sentiment. Absolutely true.
Yes but web devs have an apparent need to load a bazillion of the latest js scripts to display a wall of text on their site. Its atrocious and a massive waste of energy, bandwidth, and computational power
This is why we need robot laywers that can Sue-as-a-Service for $5/hr. Just log into the website, type in who you want to sue, why you want to sue them, and it should take care of the rest. With enough proceedings from past cases it should be possible to train an algorithm to create the defense that is most likely to win.
Yeah, should be invocation, there's a nice example on the feature request (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14579):

def login(username: ENV["USER"], password:)
p(username:, password:)
end

login(password: "xxx") #=> {:username=>"shugo", :password=>"xxx"}
> For instance, inability to rename an open file.

That depends on whether the app that opened a file holds a lock or not. For example you can rename an open file in notepad or VSCode.
What's the future of IDEs?
From 1945 to 1971 the value of assets was increasing faster than the value of gold mined, and dollars were directly connected to gold, so everyone wanted more dollars, so the stock value of companies was low even though they were growing at a much faster rate than companies are today.

From 1971 to today, being off the gold-standrd, the count of dollars is increasing at a rate much faster than the value of assets created, so everyone wants more assets.

If you don't want to encourage rent-seeking behavior, you need to ensure that the count of dollars increases at a rate equal to the value of the assets being created.
> customer success was a secret weapon that’s massively overlooked and underfunded.

You are right about its importance, of course, but why do you say it is overlooked and underfunded? Almost everyone I know acknowledges that it is critical to success, and it get serious focus.
I'd rather have a non-portable SQL feature than an app-level "portable" implementation that almost certainly is slower and non-transactional.

Migrating to another DB will always take work, no matter how much you try to ignore flavor-specific features. Query planning, encoding and charsets, locking abilities tend to be very different. A query can run fine in MySQL and cause a deadlock in Postgres even though it's syntactically valid in both.
I have a SQL Injection tutorial on Youtube with ~150,000 views, that I recorded when I was 13 or so I think.

Had been doing code-stuff and hanging out on hackforums.net for a few years at that point.

My voice is prepubescent in the video hahaha:

"(Tutorial) - Hack a Website With SQL Injection"
147,745 views, Jun 26, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1rt9Y-ON0

I come back every few years to check on it, I found this comment particularly wild:

rispettoPrograms: 2 years ago
"this helped me to pass a Certified Secure test!"

Thought I wanted to do Cybersecurity stuff when I was young, but as it turns out, when you're a young teenager "Cybersecurity" just sounds cool.

Nowadays I build CRUD apps, and CRUD app accessories ;^)
Building our Data Platform: Why we have chosen Databricks over Snowflake
The role of repair is embossed into bluewater cruisers who spend a lot of time at sea. Things break all the time and the way to succeed regardless is by having lots of spare parts, tools, knowledge, a supportive community and by practicing preventive maintenance.

The rise of the throwaway product is a rather recent phenomenon. Our grandparents repaired everything. It's the only sustainable approach.
Every single time someone tries something like this, it becomes a bastion for hate speech and everyone else is driven away. It turns out most people actually like a moderated forum. If you joined a book club and every meeting had people just screaming the N-word at the top of their lungs the entire time, I suspect you wouldn't stay at that book club long. Yet time and time again we see people learning this same lesson. It makes me wonder whether everyone who is extremely anti-censorship really does just want to scream the N-word in everyone's face all day, deep down.

Good luck with your hate speech site.
The $15 billion merge with Alstom Power for turbines was also likely a net loss as well.
Hasbara refers to simply explaining the same way that Islam refers to mere submission. When people are talking about Hasbara with an uppercase H they are referring to government PR programs - ie, propaganda.
"suffering".

We're talking about UCSB students here.

It's a school where wealthy, well-connected parents and administrators collude to skirt the rules to get their children admitted. It's a school where wealthy Chinese nationals send their children, because admissions is less competitive than the Chinese university admissions process and offers a better chance for their children.

It's ranked 5th out of all public universities.
None of those kids are suffering and I would suggest you reevaluate what suffering is.
Efficient Distance Querying in MySQL
That's not a fair characterization of the guide at all. Did you even read it?

There's tons of useful information (fully available on the website, no need to download) for anybody who's building / working with a customer success team for the first time, which is much of the audience on HN.

And yes, our "marketing" is trying to be generous with our knowledge and experience. That doesn't mean it isn't useful.
My bad, the example illustrates in a function head. So how are require keyword args going to work now?
The iMessage mac desktop icon, the Preview icon using real 3d elements, System Preferences keeping beautiful 3d icons, are all giving me hope that we can back out of this nightmare.

> Sadly, true.

Any additional context you can give here?
Not only for developers :)
Every designer or product manager will find this tool helpful!
Robinhood: steals from rich, gives money to poor

Poor: "I'm rich!"

Robinhood: narrows eyes - "You're what?"

Edit: Oh, this is markdown, isn't it?
Big Head from "Silicon Valley" actually coded a working MVP of Nip Alert.
I invite candidates to "error out" to internet resources and use their own professional judgement about what is and is not okay.

To set people at ease I tell them up front that only one candidate has crossed the line (googled the solution) and everyone else has made perfectly appropriate choices; "elseif or elif?" and small details like that.
You are buying something unique, but what you're buying is not art. Instead it's more like... a receipt? A signed copy?
Coming soon: The University of Austin,focused on 'the intrepid pursuit of truth'
Don't forget police, its part of their job to lie to the public
I've automated my meal planning using a command line app I wrote in python (https://github.com/steven-p-walsh/menuplannercmd) The app tries to estimate the best menu based on what I like, what I have, what i've made in the past, and something I call slots, which let me give myself more or less time to cook. I also add some randomness to keep things fresh.

As i've built the app, I realized I almost never care about anything more than a rough estimate of the ingredients needed. Even then, I really only care about a few key ingredients. Here is an example (https://github.com/steven-p-walsh/menuplannercmd/blob/master...)
I've never used social media like Facebook or Instagram and I'm a better person because of it.

Probably sounds provocative for people who hang around there, broadcasting every experience in their lives as "amazing" but it's true.
Haven't spoken to the farmers, but I know there's a number of fields around me that are still full of soybeans shockingly late. The cotton is just now coming in too which is not farmer owned hardware, usually. We've seen old gear making rectangular "truckload" bales instead of the round ones, for the first time in ~20yr.

Luckily it has been unusually mild and dry this fall so there's not a lot of loss yet so far.
Largest Collection of Cigarettes
From another (non-paywalled) article: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/09/tim-cook-owns-cryptocur...

> Despite the company's lack of "immediate" plans to get involved in the world of cryptocurrency, Cook did say that it's something Apple is "looking into." Cook said that Apple has no plans to invest in cryptocurrency given his belief that "people [don't] buy Apple stock to get exposure to crypto. So if they want to do that, they can you know, invest directly in crypto through other means."

> Speaking on the growing popularity of NFTs, Cook says it too is also "interesting" but that it will "take a while to play out in a way that is for the mainstream person."

Any tech company that might be in a position to profit off of providing crypto-related services is, of course, going to keep tabs on it.

But this does seem like journalists are reaching deep to twist Cook's words into the opposite of what he said. Crypto headlines get clicks regardless of the underlying content.
The difference is this happened simultaneously to several large populations. The Bay Area alone has a larger population than most states.
AFAIK the signal protocol makes no guarantees about metadata. Signal the service makes claims about what they store (I.e., very little) but no properties of the protocol guarantee metadata anonymity (user X communicated with user Y). At the very least I believe signal metadata is vulnerable to traffic analysis which is in scope for the threat model for some alternate systems.

Vuvuzela would be something closer to providing metadata guarantees (observer cannot determine who I communicate with). Tor has some similarities.

A quick Google for “metadata anonymous chat” brings up these papers, which can point you in a good direction:

Small survey (vuvuzela, pung, tor) and discussion of performance/privacy trade off.
https://www.mit.edu/~yossigi/metadata.pdf

Stadium (similar to vuvuzela, tries to optimize required cover noise): https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/tyagi-stadium-e...

Dissent/Riffle are also in this vein, although I haven’t seen much work on those in a few years.

https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/

Rollercoaster seems to operate in this space, where computational overheard required by DC/mixnet solutions grows very large with large number of users. The novel contribution appears to be reducing that overhead without reducing guarantees provided by comparable systems.