skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>people would lie

Possibly. And the IRB review process may allow for non disclosure under circumstances of that sort.

The problem is not merely that the IRB allowed non disclosure. It's that the IRB also granted an exemption from full review as human subject research. If the researcher expected that human behavior might change based on secrecy vs. disclosure then it is fundamentally not passive data collection.

But debating the secrecy issue or limits if what constitutes a human subject are all besides the point: the research protocol had an adverse impact on humans involved with the study. Not matter any other considerations, that makes the research defacto one that should have had full IRB review. Evaluating the potential for adverse impact is literally one of the foundational reasons for the existence of IRBs. The presence of an adverse impact is defacto proof that an exemption should not have been granted and that a full review should have been done to determine how the protocols could be tweaked to mitigate the issue.
Hire a butler.
You're not being hurtful. :)
I'll send you an email too, but because others are raising this:

Good point and it's a potential trap of tools built from developers for developers.

There's this fine line between finding it useful and being willing to pay for it. Being honest to my self:
Do I find this useful ? Yes
Makes my web scraping easier? Yes
Would I pay for it? Maybe... but the problem is I've never paid for a scraping tool either.

But other people may pay for it.
To get to that point though I'll probably need a few more hands on deck, who need salaries and for that you need external funds.
Not very impressed with those Lisp benchmarks that I examined.
> What is being said is that war is a means to an end, the end being political sucess. The goal of war is political, and war is successful if it achieves its goal.

That is not what you said. You said "the US military is incompetent."

Please do a better job of engaging honestly.
No matter how good you are at Python, if you need to build an SPA, it'll be far faster to go with Javascript. This is true even if you have to learn Javascript from scratch. If you're an expert at Pascal, good luck trying to use it on the Arduino.

The hardest part of learning a second and third programming language is overcoming your own frustration. Yes there are some pretty gnarly concepts in languages like Haskell. However, most mainstream programming languages are very similar to each other.
I am not. Although one of my direct's decisions to setup a parent pom to manage versions across all our apps is paying back dividends this week.
I'm doubtful that 'reads like English' is 'expressiveness' because language is nuanced and imprecise.

That's not what we want in a software language.

In fact, we should not even call them 'languages'.

If by accident of history we called it 'Machine Instructions' - would anyone have ever tried to make it seem like Enligsh?

Clear, concise, unambiguous is I think what we want. Just enough overhead to keep it clear but not so little that it's ambiguous.
I recently saw the NYT has a paragraph in their CCPA document that speaks about the DNT header, although without using the word header. They say the text in the footer changes based on the opt-out so maybe they're handling that server side, but I haven't checked it

https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice
Yeah on the digital side, it doesn't matter much. It's when you get to the analogue side where quality matters. Although this is not mentioning the fact that past a certain point of quality, human ears can't discern the difference and it becomes more of a placebo.
I'm not sure I've heard that argued, and would generally agree that a President can own interest in foreign companies. However in an effort to avoid clear conflicts of interest or an actual emolument from occurring, it would be wise of them to divest of them. Otherwise a foreign state can use it against them in some way, either to attempt to extort, or to visibly promote it to create the air of conflict. And then the President would be unable to do anything without the taint.
Hey prelifecrisis, I’m from Germany too and I have some friends who experienced windfalls in the 2-10 million range (some of them in crypto, some of them selling their businesses). I can connect you to them so you have trusted people to talk to in Germany that have lived through exactly the same stuff. I think talking to others who experienced this who can relate is really important (with friends and family it’s usually not necessarily useful advice). I see a ton of not-that-useful advice in this thread already.

> I have no idea what to do with the money.

Set aside €50k that you spent freely on whatever you want for half a year (for traveling, small things you always wanted to have). Put it in another bank account and live with it for half a year and have fun. Maybe take a break semester (Urlaubssemester), especially if you feel low right now.

Don’t do anything with the remaining money for the next 6-9 months - just hold fiat (I’d suggest holding CHF instead of Euro/USD), don't worry about inflation - it's about you now. Don’t spend it on luxury items to fill any holes you might feel inside right now. Then after that time you can still invest in conservative assets and real estate, but now it's about you and your well-being. - I really don't like the comments here talking about the money and what to do with it, please don't listen to it. It's secondary to your situation.

> And I also have no idea what to do with my life now.

> I start to feel fatigued

The fatigue is most likely happening because your mind is enumerating all the life options - it's working very hard right now and that's why you're feeling down. Before the windfall, it was all focused on building a startup and getting successful which is a very clear goal. Now that you've attained wealth, you’ve lost the clear goal you’ve had before.

Now that you have enough money, you are left alone with the question that most success-oriented people would rather avoid: Who am I? What’s my motivation for doing things? What do I really want? I really like the waitbutwhy articles to help with that [1].

Let me know if you want to connect, these friends of mine are really great and have battled with the exact same questions. It's not easy to find people who can relate to this situation, most non-millionaires can't imagine the tension the money brings to relationships with friends and family and stuff like that. Trust issues etc.

[1]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html
Nah he just needs to cut his expenses and live frugally. Buying more shit will just limit his freedom. OP buy the next book you want to read then throw it away when you're done with it. Do that with everything. Buy the next few items you need to work on a project and focus on them. forget owning a million different things and being scatter brained like the rest.
From an economics perspective it's hard to say.

From a user perspective I can confirm that the internet and life generally is good without advertisements.
Google Analytics should be on the default list, I didn't have to take any explicit steps to block it other than select whichever blocklist the pihole developers recommended.
Do SSDs do background reads to refresh data as the charge slowly leaks or catch any other sort of corruption?
Specifically I had something like this in mind.[1] Granted that article is about reusable aluminum bottles but stainless steel can have its own coatings like teflon. It's not unreasonable to believe your stainless steel bowls are a safe choice but it takes a surprising amount of effort to verify if that's the case given precedents like these.

1. https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20110712/some-aluminum-water...
I believe they are aggressive only to the extent of defending their territory or defending their pups.

In fact, all carnivorous animals can be aggressive. They are not aggressive like how a lion or tiger is to humans. Their main diet consist of fish, invertebrate and shellfish.
Here's what I don't get: What is so complicated about logging that you can't implement the necessary functionality in your own codebase, and instead have to adopt a third-party library?

The latter option represents a liability, which in this case (as with others) has shown can be a tremendous risk. Is the time saving really worth it, at the cost of risking disasters like this?

I get that the tradeoff it is worth it for complicated things (e.g. crypto libraries). But logging, really?

Software development culture today is too quick to adopt a huge tree of dependencies of unknown quality, rather than thinking about how to minimize dependencies to only those truly necessary. The leftpad fiasco was but an extreme example of this, but I see it all the time, and it seems probable that there are hundreds (maybe even thousands) of similarly severe problems out there in widely used dependencies that we just don't know about yet.
We can share it between me and you, so that none of us gets passed the full burden!
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> If you can't trust the origins of pottery on Amazon, why can you trust the origins of anything on Amazon?

Because many (most?) categories of goods are consolidated into an effective oligopoly of reputable brands, where these brands push competitors out of the market in basically every respect — in brand-recognition, in advertising payments, in number of reviews, in review score, in "link juice", etc.

So even when there are garbage Shenzhen e-waste products being marketed on the same website, in the same category as the thing you're looking for, you won't see them if there are real products to be had, because the first five pages are all the real products. (Unless you're doing very specific searches, using very unusual keywords that the well-known brands would never think to buy.)

This is why the experience of shopping on Amazon is a different experience than shopping on a site like Wish or AliExpress: Amazon has both the e-waste and the stuff from well-known brands, and if you stay "on the happy path" of using the site, you'll end up mostly seeing stuff from well-known brands.

The only time this falls down is when there are no reputable brands in a category. Such as in the category of kitsch stoneware. For those categories, Amazon and Wish/AliExpress become effectively the same site.

> And if you can't trust the origins of anything, you can't count on safety regulations and standards that you take for granted.

I mean... most of the things I buy on Amazon, I'm not putting in my mouth. What's the worst a christmas ornament is going to do to me? Get glitter on the floor?

I do understand the cases you're referring to — electronics and such — but in those cases, there are import regulations that actually prevent things like "burns your house down" electronics from coming into the country, with actively-maintained blacklists of products. Some few dangerous items might slip through the cracks and get imported anyway (especially at first, in unusual+novel categories like "negative-ion wellness products"), but one email to US Customs is usually enough to get these things sorted out, and the whole category will disappear from the store the next day. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0)
I can highly recommend backpacking, OP. Especially if you haven't travelled before. Solo exploration of countries and cultures is a constant source of wonder, and you'll meet amazing people along the way. Setting your own agenda in a foreign land and putting responsibilities in your own country on hold is really liberating. It will give you an opportunity to assess what's important. Hostels are full of people doing the exact same thing and you end up making close connections with folk.

Backpacking has been hit hard with covid though. As I understand it, hostels currently aren't quite what they were before the pandemic. And fear around this new variant will keep it that way for a while. Next summer things might pick up enough to explore Europe and beyond though, fingers crossed.
Thanks for that -- seems like you're a pretty good counterexample to my hypothesis. Totally agree that sending these emails to site #350,000 on the Tranco list isn't justifiable.

> I’m not sure how they claim to be analyzing my traffic in the first place

They wouldn't need to analyze your traffic to find out if you were using tracking technologies, they would just need to visit your site and examine what they were served. Companies like BuiltWith and Wappalyzer offer this kind of technology survey as a service.
say an advanced civilization learns how to time travel and walk the multiverse. trying to find us would be hard. the time scale is very small, yes, we occupy a small area, true, but also the scale of life itself may not be discussed much.

there's dozens upon dozens of orders of magnitude of space that a being could occupy. scanning for life through the multiverse and time, it would also be easy to miss us. too small and you see cells and organelles, larger we see organs mixed with bacterial cultures, etc, and at just the right scale we are visible.

there are arguments that earth is a living entity, and there may be larger forms of life going many orders of magnitude larger than planet-sized.

with such a large range of time, location and scale to scan for life, it could be argued we basically don't even exist.
Nope. I've had this exact page printed out an posted on my office cube at Navy military HR headquarters by 2018, and independently a separate Navy office had also been introducing this into innovation briefs they give.

But complaining about this has not helped us fix things quite yet either :-/
Interestingly, a large number of the people actively developing Pharo seem to be native speakers of French and Spanish. People from Inria are the lead devs, and it’s got a lot of momentum with South American universities too. I guess they see value in it as a pedagogical tool, at least.
Honestly, you sound very burnt out. You went straight through 3 failed startups and then a masters program with the goal of getting into a FAANG? I have to imagine you were only grinding to get into a FAANG for the money, but you already solved that issue. And master's programs can be quite demanding. Take a semester break from your grad program immediately and do some traveling. Don't look at a computer for anything non-essential for that break. Your motivation will come back. You've just been grinding for way too long, and it paid off. Just not the way you expected. After a semester spent recovering you'll naturally get back into working out and eating right. You just need to stop staring at a computer for a bit :)
His problem isn't keeping his money, it's what to do with his life...
Isn't one big issue that any website that has data worth scraping has ToS that disallow scraping? e.g. craigslist?

Would think this is a legal concern...
The millennial and Genz generations are so nihilistic.
Your problems may not be caused by the money. 7.5M isn't infinity, you know. Especially if you get married, try to buy a house and have kids, you'll discover that the amount isn't all that much (in sunny california, that is). If you want to start feeling poor again, just move to silicon valley :)
CIA was established in 1947.
https://www.cia.gov/about/
I hear these arguments over and over again. 'The fines are significant and surely it won't happen again!' And yet, the same things keep happening over and over and over again.

Please point me towards some examples where these types of fines actually changed how companies do business, because as far as I can tell they keep getting fined for the same things over and over again and they keep making record profits!

I can dig up examples where banks are fined hundreds of millions when they made billions. Why should I believe this is any different?
It's kind of weird to be talking about aluminum packaging in response to a question and comment about stainless steel home storage containers and serving dishes.
culling actually means selecting out from a group on the basis of some criteria.

harvested lobsters with one claw have less commercial value so they are separated out. They are sold more cheaply and called "culls". A difficult entry level university course in an academic department like Chemical Engineering could be used to cull the class of students down to only those who are serious about pursuing the field; in such a case, the culls are not killed.

it's the nature of metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy that the word cull can take on extra meanings depending on the context.
Autonomous drones with weapon systems coupled with sufficiently advanced obstacle avoidance, facial recognition, and other AI/ML identification based systems, could swarm cities and eliminate entire battalions or local populations with little to no environmental or infrastructural damage. Imagine Russia preparing to invade the Donbas region of Ukraine and ahead of that invasion deploying a couple of drone swarms to "clear out" a bulk of the Ukranian army presence. Drones could idle, lie in wait and silently hunt opposing forces. It could significantly lower the cost (number of casualties) of invasion for the attacking force.
Whenever I write C, the goal is to have no or very few dependencies. When I see projects written in C, one of the features is that it has no dependencies. This is a good thing. I do not know why we are steering away from this.
procedure vs function is weird too. And the period required at the end of the program.

I remember learning Pascal and C around the same time coming from BASIC and assembly and Pascal didn't seem particularly easier only more verbose. New concepts like types and pointers were much more of a hurdle than syntax.
My comment is getting downvoted but I still stand by my opinion that otters are not inherently aggressive like how a lion or tiger is.

Extra care should be taken when dealing with wild animals, even if they look small and adorable.
Running into a pack of wild animals is not something anyone should do.
The metaverse has a groping problem
I guess I’m not up on the state of the art with respect to the JRE’s ability to determine whether arbitrary code has side effects. That’s quite a broad problem. If I write fizzbuzz but use log.debug for output, does it optimize my main() to be empty unless I run it with debug enabled?
> or you are playing it cheap

Shouldn't we assume all this mass-produced pottery found on the shelves of Walmart and Bed Bath & Beyond is being made as cheaply as possible?

I don't know about you, but the only time I see non-MADE IN CHINA pottery these days is used, at the thrift store. New stuff isn't generally coming from some domestic artisan who cares about poisoning their neighbors more than a bigger profit.
I am thinking of website like 512kb.club. That is the trade off I am struggling to have a firm opinion. Because I want both higher quality and crazy fast web site.

Outside the context of Web, JPEG XL win hands down. To the point I think all HEIF on iPhone should convert to JPEG XL.
This is very exciting; one more library making use of the amazing features that come with Scala 3.

It's a beautiful and simple language, more so than Scala 2 and I cannot recommend it highly enough for many productive use-cases.
€7.5M is a lot, but as others have said, it's not so much that you can't spend it all and be back to where you were before. The Bogleheads page on managing a windfall is highly recommended. And congratulations for cashing out and paying taxes is in order.

With that out of the way, assuming you are a reasonable steward of this money, you probably don't need income from work to have a good standard of living going forward. That offers you immense freedom; if you come accross something in your graduate studies that interests you, but has no commercial or academic applications, you can still work on it yourself, because you can.

If you want to benefit the world, you can work on being one of those open source maintainers that works on critical software without a lot of (financial) support --- because you don't need any financial support. Or you can jump from project to project and do things here or there.

Personally, I'm working on a hobby OS that makes me smile, and raising a kid and helping with our hobby farm, and that's enough for now. Make a list of things you think would be cool to do, or that you think would make you feel good about yourself and work down those. Getting your masters seems like a concrete thing that you can finish, and three semesters is plenty of time to have an idea for what's next.

You can still aspire to work at big tech, there's opportunities there that money can't buy. If you want to poke at sites and services and applications with hundreds of millions or billions of users, you kind of need to be at big tech. But, when/if you get there, you don't have to worry so much about trying to get glowing reviews and what not, because the salary isn't needed. Teaching/mentoring is also good for the soul and not usually good for the pocketbook, but your pocketbook is fine, so if you're up for that, it's something to look into.

One thing to think about is a lot of people's identity is tied up in their profession. When you're no longer a student, you'll need a socially acceptable cover story; because being wealthy and a loafer gets you negative points in a lot of situations.
I did so for years, scraping university press releases, obscure government data (like the Federal Register), jail/prison rosters, Reddit posts/comments/users etc. Companies like LexusNexus have been doing it for far longer than the digital world, offering it as a clipping service. If you can find a niche, it can be a regular subscription income stream.
No, it has the opposite effect on me, a bank employee, to immediately report everything weird because even if I do nothing wrong, want banks to behave legally, and have never personally traded a stock in my life, the appearance of impropriety is just as bad as actual dishonesty.

Never did it make me think I could just as well front run clients with a secret account since forgetting to disclose an old account I never used was bad too. I declared late that old account and apologized instead, for instance.

I think these rules are, like all rules, also mostly to draw responsibilities in case of trouble: they do nothing to prevent a criminal to crime, but once the crime is done, he cant claim he did everything by the book if the book was so clear.
Many analogy questions suffered from requiring cultural context, and it's hard for a question-writer to know which ones.
I had partially forgotten the pixel graphics style of 80s - 90s Macintosh scene. Damn, it's crisp and graphical compared to Amiga and PC graphics.

It would be fun to read about the similarities and differences between it, PC, C64 and Amiga graphics scenes as the aesthetics are quite different and limited / moulded by the graphics peculiarities of every system.
Ask HN: Why complicating onboarding stuffs so hard?
I think the hardest job a developer is not working on issues to solve issues.

It's the dev environment setup. The easier to get environment setup done LOCALLY, the more productive developer becomes.

I joined several teams last months, and most of the issues is due to complicated for nonsense reason development setup.

Do you have similar experience ? Just curious in this case.