skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? You'd think at Amazon's scale an additional PSU in a 1U custom-built server (I assume they're custom) would be a few tens of $ at most.

Actually, now that I type that it makes sense. Scaling a few tens of dollars to a bajillion servers on the off-chance that you get an inbound power failure (quite rare I'd reckon) might cost more than what they'd lose if it does actually fail.

So yeah, they're potentially just balancing the risk here and minimising cost on the hardware.

Edit: changed grammar a bit.
The part where you identity is linked to the wallet can be anonymous. The transactions are public, but if your identity is unlinked, that only matters so much.
He mentions a ball with string trick, here's a video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhnATlPdG6A
But, if it is 100 GB of data, Big Data tools are the wrong tools, because they are inefficient at that size. Most Big Data come with lot's of restricitions and complications which are fine if they are the only alternative. But don't ever think about using Cassandra instead of Postgres if you have less than 10 TiB. Even over 10 TiB it is not clear when to switch to something more scalable.
Very good, I am not a 4k-120fps-highest-detail kind of gamer so anything over 60fps at 1440p with high detail is quite enough for me.

I run RDR2, Fallout 4, TW series, and some indie stuff at those specs and I have no problems even with mods.

I see no difference from Windows but, ofc, you mileage may vary depending on your HW and what you want from your games.
Is it fair to say a quantum computer has more in common with an analog computer than a digital computer?
what is online mindshare? and why is it illegal for a country to gain it.

if tiktok was American would it be legal.

as a concept, it's not much different from vine which was owned by Twitter.

ethics-wise Facebook has probably done worse
I interviewed for the position. (They regularly posted the position in the "Who's hiring" threads for awhile.)

It's going to be an extremely simple browser. Their strategy is to use the HTML rendering component built into each OS. The way I interpreted it was that they're trying to make a browser that's simple enough to develop with a small team, "good enough" for most people, and doesn't have every feature under the kitchen sink.

> Will this be open source?

Doubtful. It also doesn't "make sense" to open source, as they're basically using the same rendering engine as Edge / Safari, with a different UI around it.

(Side note: If you want something like this that's open source, it's probably easier to clone it than to fork it. Every few years I write an experimental browser based on these rendering engines, and I frequently come across "simple" open-source browsers that provide great examples of how to use these components.)

> Will this support WebExtensions?

No. They are building ad-blocking and privacy functionality into the browser. To paraphrase what they told me, most people only install ad-blocking and privacy extensions.

> Will this allow ad-blocking and tracking protection?

Yes, that is the major feature they are trying to build. They have extensive blacklists already, as they already ship privacy-focused plugins for Chrome. (Their take-home assessment involved using a well-known privacy list published on Github.)

> Will this allow usage of other search engines within the browser, or are you locked in to DDG only?

We didn't discuss that. This is speculation on my part, but I think their motivations are to "keep it simple" instead of offer every feature under the sun.
'hatch like a bird' - when millions of years are at play causation vs correlation goes out the window...
Sounds like they don't love spending multiple person-years on ports + maintenance to expand their userbase by 1-3%. At their scale of operation I can understand it, even if I personally ship Linux game ports. Once they sell a Linux user a copy of <game> for $60 they have to keep supporting it.
The original Matrix was based vaguely on the ideas of Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. Baudrillard's work was a continuation of Plato's Cave which described civilisation then as being divided roughly in two, with most people living in darkness in a cave, watching shadow puppets projected by the educated class that live in the sunlight. To the cave dwellers, those shadows where reality. Baudrillard argued that over the centuries the shadow puppets had come to influence the puppeteers through a process of reflection. This created a hall of mirrors that was now entirely disconnected from base reality.

Anyway, I recall hearing about a letter Baudrillard wrote after the Matrix. He pointed out that in the movie there was nothing to prove that the AI was operating in base reality, and that it was possible, and he chose to believe that the AI was itself operating in an artificial environment, perhaps created by humans to keep the rogue AI distracted and prevent it from enslaving the human race. I always liked that interpretation, and it is fun to think about how that idea would manifest in the real world.
How do we know they didn't violate the terms of service or community guidelines? It's entirely possible to do so simply by uploading photos and filling out your profile. Since they provide neither, it's impossible to tell whether the decision is justified or not. There are plenty of things I can think of that they could have done that would have required zero interactions but been in violation of the community guidelines[0].

Also I have no idea who this person is, their about page is empty and Google results are ambiguous at best, so I have no reason to trust their account of what happened.

The point about big tech seems tangential and isn't exactly a novel insight. As for this: "Of course, they cannot name you the reason as this could be later used against them and their proprietary algorithm. How could they?" This is not a problem with "big tech" but with lack of transparency and is a consumer protection issue. The GDPR for example requires automated rulings to offer the option to appeal and have the ruling be reviewed by a human. It would be trivial to change the law so consumers would have the right to be told which part of the ToS they allegedly violated if a contract is terminated over a ToS violation. But there is nothing about this problem that is unique to "big tech".

[0]: https://policies.tinder.com/community-guidelines/intl/en
The biggest irony of Bitcoin and similar schemes is that they actually commoditized money-printing and caused massive inflation, despite the libertarian claims that come along with it about how deflationary they are, and how we need to prevent government to do so.

It is pretty counter-intuitive to understand that you can have two transactions between three parties, where everything is properly accounted for with double-entry check, and yet, more money is created in the system as a whole.

So people, of course, in this gold rush, run the money printers 24/7. Of course, if Bitcoin replaced normal currency, it could be conceivably deflationary (probably for worse). But it doesn't, it just adds to it. I don't think humanity is fully aware of the amount of inflation that various crypto-schemes caused around the world.
> terrifying to see the true scale

Not as terrifying as the number of people who defend it.
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Yes but the current title sort of implies that the earth's magnetic field had an effect on biblical history, which is a lot more tantalizing and attractive (pun intended) as click bait.
I am a non-native English speaker. My English is far from perfect, both with regards to grammar, style and pronunciation. However, having lived outside of Italy for about 6 years now I must disagree with the premise of this blog post. I feel more fluent expressing myself in English than Italian. Especially but not limited to the discussion of technical topics. I learned many words and phrases that I have to routinely translate back to my mother tongue because ironically my vocabulary and phrasal verbs are not up-to-date with my English counterpart. My vocabulary seem to have developed primarily due to the fact I have been constantly exposed to the culture and living in an English speaking country. Aside from the understandable phonetic and pronunciation difficulties encountered by antirez, this is entirely debatable and down to personal experience. Living abroad has tremendously helped in that regard
Your argument is that IP law should be equally observed by everyone because it protects individuals and corporations alike:

> Nope. Because these laws also protect people who make such websites from the corporations they're commenting on, too.

My response is that your assumption is very obviously wrong: the law does not protect individuals and corporations alike.

That’s all.
By the sounds of it, this happened before Andrew started doing "pre-interviews". Now he has one of his team members speak to the person to suss out their story. Andrew just just wrote a book about his interview process – it's called Stop Asking Questions, and I thoroughly recommend it. He shows you how to get interesting material from people, rather than platitudes like: "business is a marathon, not a sprint".
>> That's called shadowban in the case of OP. Bumble started doing the same practices a year ago (which makes sense as they have the same founder)

Not arguing with the point you're making, but Bumble and Tinder founders are definitely not the same.
Maybe they'll just find themselves DDOSed by the sudden influx of visitors? As a small example, i think HN was slightly slower when FB had their outage.
“Computer vision” doesn’t seem to bring back any relevant comments.
Amazing, but how often do you transfer your entire wealth across borders? Because if we’re talking about thousands of Euro then I’m not impressed
Pretty sure you can still do a chargeback with a debit card if the purchase was made “on credit” as all online purchases are.

But wanted to add another thing, chargebacks are for cases of fraud, so the cc network actually charges the retailer a not insignificant fee for each chargeback, it’s why BigTech will shutdown your account if you do a chargeback, bec 9/10 times if it’s on your account you did mean to spend that money you just forgot about it. If you didn’t you better be ready to prove it and still burn the account that you chargeback on (i.e. lose your gmail account bec someone compromised your account and bought stuff on android)
It doesn't work like that. Delta and original existed at different times. Testing was way more advanced this year than last. So you would expect a larger denominator.
The real world is the play. Words are just catching up.
That's pretty much literally what an OS is! An application that lets you install and run other applications.
I wonder what China's exit strategy is, given they've committed themselves to lower-efficacy vaccines and must now be permanently on guard for infections.
I'd engage with a business broker ASAP. https://feinternational.com/ is one I've heard of, there are others. They'll take a cut, but can guide you through the process.

You also may want to read this: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... as it is a detailed walkthrough of selling a business

And listen to this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/08/26/kalzumeus-podcast-episo... an interview with the founder of FE International
> Tinder has an incentive to keep the paid users paid my making sure it is difficult for them to find a match

An evil data scientist would put almost exclusively users on your screen who you are interested in but they are not interested in you to boost your spendings and would mix a small portion of good bidirectional matches just to make his purpose less obvious. Fortunately evil data scientists does not exist... I mean I definitely wasn't paid to do anything like that. Never.
"some times the left arrow to move the cursor doesn't work". Same bug in Windows. Select the button with the three dots "...", and hit escape when the menu pops up. Arrow key will start working again.
I certainly hope that institutions run these kind of simulations. It's one of the best ways to identify critical flaws in preparation plans that need to be mitigated.
So much of screen real estate is wasted in 16:9. I have vertical taskbars on my monitors because I would benefit more from the space available in Y-axis than on X-axis most of the time.
> running your own stuff becomes more of a challenge pretty quickly. Factor in 2-3x growth a year, and the challenges just mount.

What challenges are you thinking of? You buy a full-rack in colocation and then just buy servers/hardware when required.

If a company has the budget for AWS or some other cloud provider then they would have a budget for colocation; which in long term is cheaper. I see no additional challenge other than maintaining X amount of hardware than just one.
Yes but if you have reliable power from two different sources then the biggest risk (I'd imagine) is the failover circuitry! Something that should be tested tbh.

Also, there are banks of batteries and generators in between the power company cables and the kit: did they not kick-in?

Again, this is all pure speculation: I have absolutely no idea of the exact failure, nor how their infrastructure is held together - this is all just speculation for the hell of it :)
I have all of these issues as well on macOS. The left-arrow is typically the most frustrating one to me.
Too small? According to this site [1], market share is about equal to Safari and Edge+IE. If you are supporting Safari, Edge/IE there is no justifiable reason not to support Firefox.

[1] https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/
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As OP says - "It’s fine if it’s tinder, but what are you gonna do when the same will happen with your bank application or a messenger that you use on a daily basis"?
Nothing hurts the HNer more than feeling less smart.
From what I saw only old versions of the software I need run and when they run lots of little things are missing.

I would call software with that amount of quirks and performance issues pre-alpha quality.

So, I can use my MacBook for Adobe for now until they come to their senses.
We simulate all sorts of plausible scenarios. They're only valuable if the scenarios are realistic enough to be applied to potential real-world stuff.

The risk of a pandemic was clear enough that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film) got made about the same time. It ticked pretty much all the boxes - China as origin, people thinking it's a bioweapon, contact tracing, politicians reluctant to take quarantine measures, panic buying, unrest, bat-borne virus, conspiracy theorists and antivaxxers, etc.

It's a hell of a movie to watch in 2021.
As long as we're on the fasz topic, there's also the phrase "faszt érdekli", literally "only the dick's interested", which is a pretty confrontative way to tell someone that you're not interested.
Yep. And Tinder seemed so useful just a few years ago. More recently, perhaps some management there has got together and changed to exactly the sort of strategy you speak of. I barely use it anymore.

But back in the golden days of Tinder... (say 7-8 years ago or so-- 2014ish) Tinder worked really well to deliver many matches. These days... very few matches compared to Bumble or Hinge for example.
As a woman, Tinder is fine if you wanna find a fuck buddy and don’t take it seriously. I see a lot of people (men and women) get wrapped up in the swipe game and that’s really not how it works. You can’t take anything that happens on that platform personally.

Unfortunately, rule #1 on tinder is “be physically attractive”. If you want tinder to work for you consistently as a man, get your personal hygiene in order and hit the gym. That’s the main reason I swipe left; well, that and conservative politics.
I certainly don't want to pay for a syscall to do string encoding.

Also, a lot of the time the problem isn't that people are using fundamentally incompatible string libraries, but that there isn't one correct answer to the question they're asking and they chose different ways to convert the question into code. A reasonable question to ask is "How many extended grapheme clusters are in this string?" The answer is "It depends on what font you plan to use to render it." Not great!

Some programmers would still like to e.g. write a reverse() function that returns ":regional_indicator_f::regional_indicator_r:" unmodified (because it is the French flag emoji) and returns ":regional_indicator_i::regional_indicator_h:" when given ":regional_indicator_h::regional_indicator_i:". If such people want to avoid having nonsensical behavior in their programs, the only solution available is to decide what domain the program should work on and actually deal with the complexity of the domain chosen.
> However, if a cyber attack does happen a few years from now that takes out the global financial system... it'll definitely make me a little queasy.

Both global pandemics and cyberattacks are plausible events. This is the true cause of both the simulations and the events occurring. It is incredibly improbable that the IMF thinking of them and simulating them had anything to do with them happening.
> Get a burner SIM card with a new number and create another profile. Easy as that.

People keep saying this without realizing a lot of people practically can’t these days. In an increasing number of countries, getting an SMS/phone-capable SIM can not be done without KYC/ID verification. Where I live, for example, you even need to be a resident; all prepaids are data-only.

And before you tell me to find a homeless drug-addict and make them get one for me, it’s not that easy and no one should have to do that in the first place.

Same restrictions apply for SkypeIn and similar VoIP services (which BtW come in a separate prefix that most of these services blacklist anyway).

There’s a reason why those dodgy “receive anyonymous SMS” sites all only provide the same handful of countries.
Have you heard of "cultural differences"? Author is from Kiev. Now, I'm not Ukrainian, but in Polish refering to "women" as "dziewczyna" not "kobieta" in romantic setting would not be any weird.
The founder of Bumble is one of the founders of Tinder. But others founders of Tinder are not founders of Bumble, this is true. Also we could argue that Bumble has two founders, but this is insignificant anyway
Often it’s just a humble brag.
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Agreed. Let's get rid of ice cream next. I find I don't like the flavor, it uses a lot of CO2 to create, and it has some negative side effects. I also hate how people are big ice cream boosters, how annoying. Also people are making money from selling ice cream. I'm not making money that way, and don't think other people should, either.
I love parser combinators. It's a much more natural 'format' than parsing with regular expressions which I have to do at $DAY_JOB.

One aspect that I see discussed less often is the idea of 'builder combinators', which are kind of the inverse of parser combinators. There are multiple libraries in Haskell which make it very easy to write HTML/SVG/... this way:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-html

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-svg

I haven't needed to do the same with SQL but I imagine that this already exists as well
Coffee nerds will probably want to kill me... but I find Nespresso solves all my coffee problems.

I have a simple machine with a milk-frother that has lasted 5 years so far, you don't have to worry about bean storage and grinding, you can choose different beans for every cup you make, and it makes an absolutely consistent cup of coffee.

It might only be 95% as good as doing it all yourself, but it's only 5% of the effort required and that's a tradeoff that has made this problem "solved" for me.
> Pumping so much stuff into the browser makes it an impossible task just trying to maintain feature parity nevermind compete on quality.

To compete or gain a market doesn't mean you need to have all the features. Doing things differently can and does work. The more I read books like Competing Against Luck and The Design Of Everyday Things the more I'm able to see it and even work on projects that do that.

> the second your browser stops working with Amazon or Ebay or whatever else your browser is finished

This is why standards are so important. Why it's important to have Firefox and Safari in the marketplace. Apple using Safari on iOS and iOS large market helps keep the standards ecosystem in check with Chromes dominance.

The lack of modern tech communications standards is causing problems for consumers. While I don't always like the HTML, CSS, and JS specs... the fact that we have specs and multiple implementations is a benefit to people who want to try and compete.
Sure, I would love to buy grocery with bitcoin.... What a joke.
The datacenter we were in had dual-sourced grid power (two separate grid connections on opposite sides of the block, coming from different substations) along with a room of batteries (good for iirc 1hr total runtime for the whole datacenter, setup in quad banks, two on each "rail"), _and_ multiple independent massive diesel generators, which they ran and switched power to every month for at least an hour.

And to top it off each rack had its own smaller UPS at the bottom and top, fed off both rails, and each server was fed from both.

We never had a power issue there; in fact SDGE would ask them to throw to the generators during potential brown-out conditions.

Of course this was a datacenter that was a former General Atomics setup iirc ...
Reading this makes me think of dark patterns of things like cookie banners. The modern day magicians are trying to grift you out of a lot more than a ticket to their show.

Exploit pattern recognition - This is the big one, of course

It’s hard to think critically if you’re laughing. - Yeah you're probably not laughing when you come across a cookie banner, but you might be distracted by something else, like your desire to get to that recipe, how-to answer, etc., or maybe a huge pop up ad.

Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth - good luck trying to change your cookie settings after you've set them

If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely - it's really a misleading choice with how these banners are designed.

etc.
Is there a single dating app that doesn’t do that?