skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this push for regulation of cryptocurrencies. Just let the mathematics govern. It'll either work on its own, or as people lose their money to trickery and/or carelessness, there will be less and less to regulate as people stop participating.
Excuse me for the dismissive tone, but this looks a dog chasing his tail. Does anyone REALLY believe that "things don't work"™ because the systems put in place are flawed? No sir, the systems in place work flawlessly for those who put them there, enjoy the benefits of those systems and make damn sure these systems keep benefiting them no matter what. As long as one doesn't acknowledge this very simple fact, they have no hope of drastically changing society, not even conceptualize a solution IMHO
Trusted consumers are better. The original page-rank algo was organic and bottom-up. But now it's the person not the page. Businesses compete for interaction not inbound links. So if you can make a modern page-rank that follows interaction instead of links and isn't a walled garden then I'd invest.
Microwave wavelength lower than visible light. It interacts with atoms differently by interacting with magnetic fields in atoms more.

There is:

- lines-of-sight propagation in free space,

- reflect from the surfaces like light (spectacular reflection)

- microwaves can be channeled trough tubes (think sound waves). If you fold a conductive material like tin foil multiple times, it can still work as a wave guide and escape.
UI is much slicker, faster and no full page reloads between pages. Waiting for docker image ;) Congrats
"Dying is easy young man, governing's harder."
Something like that.
Perhaps vote on results like on Reddit posts? Gets the junk sites down (and out of the index eventually).
> the first actual violent insurrection in 15 decades.

You're off by quite a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_States_Senate_bomb...
A useless generalization which you could apply to a lot of things or people. First, they ignored Trump, then they mocked him, then they fought him, then he won.
Value != price
There is a deep partisan divide at this time in our country. Are there really that many people in the middle, the undecided voter, who were going to vote for Trump but changed their mind and voted for Biden because people online were nice to them? I have a hard time imagining this.

I agree that the level of discourse is at an all time low, but I disagree with a lot of what you're saying because it paints with a super broad brush and also treats base insults and sneering as though they're the sole domain of the "modern left". It is a mistake to confuse the loudmouths on Twitter (where I presume you're seeing the majority of the chest puffing and punching down) with the actual humans behind the movements you mention.
> The average hotel room in any medium/large hotel chain probably includes a shaker as a standard item as part of the minibar

I've stayed in dozens of hotels all over the world, and never once have I seen a cocktail shaker in the minibar?!
There is, but it's pre-pandemic data and about the general public, not the HN crowd:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...
Those are only certain types of fraud. There are others that are not covered. For instance, someone stole my wife's credit card information and bought nearly $3k worth of stuff from various stores. The company refused to cover it. Apparently once your loss exceeds a certain amount, they suddenly become much less willing.

If someone somehow lost 11.6M due to credit card fraud, I seriously doubt they'd get their money back.
I do see some FB engineers sometimes, but mostly working on open source projects there.
I think AWS knows that the best it can do is offer so much combined value that people don't want to leave the ecosystem. It's the same play that Amazon has used for Prime. If Prime were just shopping, people could leave Prime for Walmart+ or Target/Shipt. Instead, Prime is a service that keeps lots of touch points. You essentially get a free streaming service in Prime Video (included with your retail shipping thing) or you get a free shipping service (included with your video streaming); you get some perks on Twitch; you get a music streaming service that doesn't include all music, but has a lot for free (with no ads) and the potential for Music Unlimited for 20% less than Spotify/Apple Music.

If you can get the same value from another ecosystem, you might leave for a better price. If you can't get the same value from another ecosystem, you won't leave. If you're locked into proprietary AWS systems, it might require a lot of work to migrate.

I do get where the author is coming from with RedShift and Snowflake. I think it's reasonable to look at AWS's data warehouse position and Snowflake's success and see a bit of a failure on AWS's part. However, I think that Snowflake represents a threat to AWS. If all services above the infrastructure became like Snowflake, I could more easily move from AWS to GCP or Azure.

I'd note that it isn't just about companies who will switch cloud providers. It's about whether a company can credibly threaten that they might switch cloud providers. If I'm negotiating with AWS and they see that I'm using SQS, Lambda, RedShift, Timestream, Kenesis, and other proprietary AWS stuff, they know that my threat to leave AWS is hollow. I'd have to rewrite too much infrastructure. Sure, maybe I could replace SQS with Kafka, but it isn't a drop-in replacement. Sure, there are other time-series databases than Timestream, but it's going to require engineering time to migrate.

Yes, even in a world where all the software is the same on top of the infrastructure, it would take time and money to migrate to a different cloud, but it would be less time and money. That "less time and money" means that AWS needs to be more price competitive and it gives me more negotiating power. The harder it is to leave AWS, the more leverage that Amazon has in negotiations. Companies like Spotify and Snap spend hundreds of millions on their cloud services each year. They ink major deals that they negotiate. If they rely on lots of proprietary AWS or GCP systems, it makes it a lot harder to leave - which leave the cloud provider with the leverage when the contract comes up for renewal.
The rest of the population is protected. It's problematic to have both the disillusioned scammed and scammers running around with freshly acquired capital to do more harm to other people.
Would Blizzard and the IOC be closer to the WTA here, in that their are also hosting tournaments and events?
This. DDG is my primary search engine now and has been for awhile.

I don't use Google anymore to search unless I really need to. The algos they use today are not the same classic ones that actually returned results.
China removed Lithuania from its customs registry
I've had extensively dealing with Cloudflare. They have a complex whitelisting system that is difficult to get on, and they also have an 'AI' system that determines if you should be kicked off that whitelist for whatever reason.

Furthermore, they give Google preferred treatment in their UIs and backend algos because it is the incumbent and nobody cares about other smaller search engines. So there's a lot of detail to how they work in this domain.

It's 100% Cloudflare's fault, and it's up to them to give everyone a fair shot. They just don't care. Also, you are overlooking the fact that Google is a major investor (and so is Bing and Baidu). So really this exacerbates the issue. Should Google be allowed (either directly or indirectly) to block competing crawlers from dowloading web pages?
Lockdowns were implemented to prevent the collapse of the medical system. Lockdowns have been repealed with the advent of vaccines. Why? Because those vaccinated who get COVID get much milder cases and don't typically require hospitalization, and for the few that do, they don't require ICU. Lockdowns weren't implemented to reduce case counts per se, they were implemented to prevent medical system collapse.

The vaccines have been instrumental in getting back to normal.
Just be aware that just like mainstream media (and alternative media) it probably has a pretty huge bias.

The reason I mention this is that just like with mainstream media and unlike alternative medias and newsletters it seems easier to forget the bias of search engines.
By every measurable metric, Humanity has gotten better. Longer lifespan, lower child mortality, better education, easier access to basic life neccessities and goods, (ironic to say at this time but yes even) better health, etc etc etc.
We live in an age where every problem is weaponised and we are hyperaware of the problems now so that we don't see all the progrees that is done.
https://www.openculture.com/2020/05/16-ways-the-world-is-get...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
DDG doesn't have their own index (they're getting their results from Bing) so not really relevant to this question.
I believe value is transferred to the government by inflation similar to a tax, not actually lost.
Fascinating. Thanks
What about antibodies? How will Pfizer get paid with your antibodies?
You sound ridiculous.
In dollars, but purists would argue that's irrelevant when transacting in bitcoin
Why was the headline on this article re-written in an obviously biased way? Wasn't the original, factual headline good enough?
The substantial difference that I experience is that it is incapable of utilizing hardware acceleration for youtube videos using an nvidia graphics card in a linux environment, and that I don't get tab-to-complete search in the bar.
In a stunning surprise move the head of regulatory body announces he is in favour of more regulation!
Right, but society has accelerated. 50 and 100 year precedents used to make sense. Now it seems like they need to be updated at least every 10 years, because that's how long it takes for society to fundamentally change at the current rate of progress.

Regarding government, if you don't like your current government, then if you think hard about it, what you really want is either 1) additional regulations or restructurings that prevent the government from having the bad traits it currently has, or 2) the removal of existing regulations that are preventing the government from being better in your eyes.

If your statement is "I don't like the current state of the government" then you are simply for transforming it into something you do like. This can be done through a regulatory framework.

If you don't trust the government as it is, then you are one more voter for regulating X, Y and Z such that you do trust the government.
What is an example of Google using a similar tactic to grow Chrome market share?
I certainly self censor like this on a different subject: I'm one of the only people who thinks the tech interview process is actually pretty good (I'm also very good at it, so that could be why). But anyway, only an idiot wouldn't know that a positive statement about tech interviews would garner a thousand downvotes. People seem to think HN is some sort of bastion of free speech but really it's just an echo chamber of slightly different opinions than, well, other echo chambers.
Heh, I guess you mean "trawling" - trolling the entire web is something very different :)
Ideally shouldn't the credential be rolled even if you delete the message?

Unless slack hard deletes messages, but my guess would be soft deletion. Even then it's not really designed for sending sensitive credentials
Memory corruption doesn't always trigger segfaults. I don't believe it will be obvious why some random other part of your program will start giving intermittent errors even if it is in Rust.
Data Access Objects are going to save us all?

EDIT: I am apparently too disconnected from the crypto crowd. Or depending on how you look at it, appropriately disconnected.
When you go back thousands of years, it's pretty easy assertion to make. How about the last 40? Are we really better off in totality or just different? I can think of some things that are better, but I can think of a bunch of things that are much worse.
I don't think that's how the western world works. If someone or something doesn't want regulation then we look the other way. Crypto became so big that we now have to protect investors that doesn't know what they're doing. Overall we have to reduce scams, increase trust and liability
Video didn't kill the radio star but electric cars might
This comment reads like you've never lived through a browser monopoly. Sure it's great now, but do you think Google will work as hard and dedicate as much budget if there are two or even worse - just one - viable browser?
I've had a lot of "weird feelings" about the visitors on HN over the years. Enough time elapses and you realize most of it is in your head and typically leads to a dark forest of subsequent thoughts.

This attempt to bind HN participation to employer is confusing to me. Is this not a (mostly) anonymous board? I usually have zero idea who anyone is working for at any given moment unless explicitly mentioned in whatever comment.

A more likely middle ground conclusion is that you are partially correct - perhaps most FB employees who post on HN just don't disclose who their employer is at the same frequency as others, so the aggregate perception is that fewer FB employees frequent this board.
I get that for general-purpose searches this is a good idea, but it would be nice if there was an easy way to disable this when you know you don't want it - for example, for most programming searches, if I type SomeAPINameHere the most relevant results will always be those that include my search term verbatim. I don't need Google to helpfully suggest "Did you mean Some API Name Here?", which will virtually always return lower-quality search results.

Early Google was a breath of fresh air compared to the stemming that its competitors at the time did, but nowadays even putting search terms in quotes doesn't seem to return the same quality of results for these types of queries that Google used to have.
Edited headline:

Guy In Charge Of Regulation Says Regulation Is Good
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> but arguably it's better to support 10 LGBTQ kids

Why? You just engaged in elitism, by putting LGBTQ above everyone else.
I couldn't really follow this thesis. This observation popped out to me:

> [Redshift] was a brilliant move by AWS, because it immediately lowered the bar for a small company to start doing analytics.

Every sales organization I've ever seen collected too much data. What the kids today call "analytics".

And these orgs don't know what to do with it all. So much so that they delude themselves. Convincing themselves they're divining wisdom from noise. I have no idea what this phenomenon is called.

In fact, most recently, my last gig had decades of data hosted on Teradata, was migrating to Redshift. I worked on the Recommendations team, which was trying to evolve into Personalization.

Teams of data scientists. So much data. A cultural legacy of batch processing hidden behind ML pipelines. So much effort.

It took me a while to figure out most of the "work" my team did was completely fictional. Our most effective recommender algorithm was just showing people what they'd already looked at in the last 6 months. But this simple truth was hidden behind a massive rube goldberg machine.

So. What was true of CRM and ERP systems in the 90s remains true today. Collecting data without purpose, without a working hypothesis, without experiments validating the effort, is just wasted effort.

In my time, I've worked with two very smart marketing people. Knew how to design a survey, how to crunch the numbers, validated their own work. Once you see how a pro does it, you realize most everyone is just faking it, fooling themselves along with every one else.

Pretty much just like every other discipline.

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Oh. How does my cynicism relate to the OC's prediction about a cloud shuffle?

For the users of cloud stuff, making data collection, aggregation, and analysis easier and more accessible is a net negative.

Which I suppose is great for cloud providers.
For everyone reading this article who agrees with it, I would encourage you to start reading some history, especially ancient history, late 1800s history, and the history of colonialism.

Society, once you look at inputs and outputs, is predicated on "the masses" abdicating intellectual responsibility to leaders who leverage them for their own benefit. This has happened since before recorded history. It is codified into our mainstream spiritual ethos. We glorify it every day by simply perpetuating the system we exist in.

If history is any evidence, things will always continue to get worse in this part of the cycle, then we will experience a collapse and rebuilding period.
Ah, forgot about pypy!
I'm no political philosopher, but I'd say, for example, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution says the government's purpose is to “promote the general welfare." Phenomena like bank runs harm the general welfare, so the government has an interest in preventing or mitigating them.
This should be a "Show HN:" post (I think you can just edit the title)

Looking forward to the script once you release it.

thanks!
The rest of the population should be made aware of the risks before participating
I do find it silly - but have never liked how Google promoted their browser on their properties (with factually incorrect speed and efficiency claims - which seem to work since plenty of people here parrot them whenever possible.)

I see Google prompting users to download Chrome on Google.com similar behaviour to Microsoft using Windows 95 to push Internet Explorer.
I’m really interested in this as well. I use DDG and whenever I’m doing research I tend to add “.edu” because there are so many spam sites.
"The most simple one, that women engage in far fewer numbers explains all observable effects in my opinion."
> Well yes. But why do you think that is? If OSS is, in general, hostile to woman (and I would suggest that it is) than obviously fewer of them engage with it. Of course that same problem is reflected all the way up the chain - fewer woman become programmers because computing is hostile to them - a trend which starts at school and has been the case since about the 1980s.
Hm. I wouldn't say that the claims are unfounded.

The 'Kenosha Guard' were formed in response to the George Floyd protests, so race can't be excluded here as a contributing factor in the formation of the militia. There is also evidence that the Boogaloo Boys formed at least part of the militia, who can be generously described as 'white-supremacist adjacent'.

On the day of his 'not guilty' plea, he met with Proud Boys in a bar, and was caught displaying the 'OK' symbol on camera.[0] I don't have anything nicer to say about the Proud Boys than the Boogaloo Boys.

This wasn't admissible at trial, but is nevertheless true, and leaves little doubt in my mind that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist, or at least associates with white supremacists.

I think it's important to remember that these events didn't occur in a vaccuum, and the backdrop of the protests/riots/unrest/whatever you want to call it is one of the shooting of a Black man in questionable circumstances, so which 'side' you are on is important.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
Every time this comes up I'll see a few people talk about how the results aren't relevant but it has not been my experience. I've been using DDG as my main search engine for a few years and never have to go beyond the first page. I really curious why that is.
It's annoying, and kind of sad, how bad Microsoft pushes Edge.
Germany classifying certain groups as undesirables and restricting their movements. This seems very reasonable.
I mean, it's trivial to say, but big platforms have lots of users and that results in larger exposure which you're dependent on as an artist (given you haven't made it yet). All you really can do is accept the game but play by your own rules. If you're financially dependent on your work, there's sadly not a whole lot of room for ideology I fear.
> Mozilla ... has introduced a lot more dark patterns than Chrome has

What are you referring to?
Woman that makes a living making up stories about North Korea gets a video demonitized.

Why is this riling up HN?
Where did you read that google/alphabet owns part of Cloudflare?
> That means it's susceptible to idiotic government decisions right?

That's the point. I'm not sure why people think that crypto is just going to be allowed to exist outside of government control. Of course government is going to want to get their hands in it. And while the technology might be resistant to that, there are still other things the government can do, just like they do with fiat, to gain control of crypto. For example, putting you in jail I you don't do what they want. Exactly like they do with taxes in the US.
GNU Sed Gotchas and Tricks
I would bet the explosion in cryptocurrency values over the past 5 years has been more from "everyday people" who care less about the philosophical underpinnings of cryptocurrencies and more about investing the best performing asset of the past few decades. so when they start getting scammed and raising ire about it, of course regulators will step in - that's their job
Ditto. I created my own startpage, just a plain HTML here and CSS there. Took me a week to learn how to do HTML and CSS (well... took me three weeks to figure out how to use CSS).

I went with static HTML because I want something easily editable and my memory is shit. So I need something that I can easily edit it and portable. I have several desktops, so I have my html page in my OneDrive and have my browsers to use it as the homepage.
In terms of leverage on China, I think Apple has a lot, since they employ a lot in China. Although the next question is, can they afford (of the order of) 1/3 of their revenue?
And then there was GEM, the other 'other' windows. I worked for a year doing PC support for a local health authority here in the UK in 1989 and a few of the secretaries used GEM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)
You may want to use secrets like this:

earthly \
--secret-file config=/home/user/.aws/config \
+build

But yes, Earthly optimizes for reproducibility, so implicitly pulling in ENVs is not something it does.
You don't even need to manually set it, the date and time is encoded in the tones.