skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine did a virtual escape room at work recently and he said it was a good experience.
Idk about in tech, but often these types of bonuses are (1) highly targeted and (2) come with some sort of agreement to stay.

E.g., there's a 5 person team responsible for a critical component. 4 of them leave in the space of 6 months. So management says to the last one "we'll give you $200k at the end of 12 months." That person then leaves in exactly 12 months and a day - which is fine, because they trained the new team on the critical component.
I'm talking about after the fact, after they've been told the reason for the ban. In his followup to his ordeal, his only insight at the end is:

> So, the lesson is that sometimes when technology fails us and algorithms go wrong, humans can step in and make things right.

So sticking to my original point, something more aware would sound like: "Oh, I see how my activity could have been perceived as spam. Luckily humans can step in and help when algos are overly aggressive".

The fact that they're so quick to dismiss this issue as purely the technology's fault is what irked me. I think it was fair for them not to know ahead of time.
I recently decided to refresh my statistics knowledge after about 10 years of not touching it. My last experience with stats was during my (non-math/stats) undergraduate degree when I took some statistics coursework and ended up working fairly closely with a statistics professor during my thesis. Please keep in mind that the following recommendation comes from this amateur level of knowledge.

I read a HN comment that mentioned "Hypothesis Testing: An Intuitive Guide for Making Data Driven Decisions" by Jim Frost and picked up a copy. This book is part two of a three book series by Frost, first of which is an introductory statistics book and the last of which concerns linear regression.

I'm about 3/4 through the Hypothesis Testing book and am so impressed I just ordered the other two in the series. This book is the companion I wished I had during my undergraduate work. Reading it, I realized how much I partially digested or glossed over during my stats course. It also is a good way to reassess those statistical practices that I was taught during non-stats courses as "just how we do things." Frost is good at concisely explaining the appropriate uses of different kinds of statistical tests and their pitfalls.

What it lacks is implementation details- the book contains very few equations and no code (although I believe there is downloadable example data available). For my purposes, this works great as I most needed an overview of the different hypothesis tests and their suitability for different situations. I now have more confidence about choosing and understanding a test at a high level and can dive into specific implementation details in other sources as needed.

To be perfectly clear, I have no designs on becoming a professional statistician and I'm re-learning stats just to support a couple side projects and generally broaden my capabilities. Someone whose primary interest is the math and implementation of statistical calculations will be better served by another book.
I maintain a somewhat extensive Emacs config, and I've kept a lot of the default key commands. I find them incredibly ergonomic, and as a bonus you'll find it's the default in most terminals.

I use the side of my palm for C, it doesn't take long to get used to and allows you to keep your fingers on the home row. Obviously this transfers to CUA or any other standard/config that utilizes C.
> Lawyers, doctors, and therapists (also technically doctors) do not need to share and cannot be forced.

This is not quite correct.

Lawyers, doctors, and therapists (who very often technically are not doctors of any kind), spouses, and clergy have various privileges which limit the scope and circumstances in which they can be compelled, which limits what court orders should be issued and may be raised on motions to quash such orders after they are issued.
Were roads legislated before they existed?

Did they serve the public interest (as in, did everybody benefit from them) when they were starting to get built?

That's precisely what will happen with what I proposed.
1) Emails are decentralized and the telephone network is much less so. It's controlled by a relatively small number of companies. I can't run my own server and connect it to the VoIP network and start sending packets. The major companies can all agree to ban caller ID spoofing and block any carriers that allow it to happen, or at least block any of them for domestic numbers. But they don't.

2) We actually have kinda solved the caller ID problem with email. We have SPF and message signing and the Telco industry seems to be dragging their feet to implement equivalent caller ID verification technology. Imagine if you could block a spam caller and report their endpoint on the telephone network. They'd at least have to purchase a new number each time this happens, rather than just impersonating as they do now.
If the stock price for the company goes down, the value of your unvested stock goes with it.
I dont know that its hyperbolic to be irritated that MS couldnt get an upgrade right on their own hardware, especially when it was installed by the use of dark patterns.
Most writes only take tens to hundreds of microseconds and you can perform those writes from different processes serially. As long as you set WAL mode & a busy timeout then you should be fine:

PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL;

PRAGMA busy_timeout = 30000;
Stripe is way more than Series C/D at this point. Their last fundraising was a Series H that valued them at $95B. That's more than Ford or GM, and more than the big-4 U.S. airlines put together.

I think they still have pretty significant room to grow - Mastercard is worth almost $400B, Visa is $475B. I heard their stock grants are now a fixed dollar amount which converts to a number of shares upon vest rather than grant, though [1], which removes a lot of the upside. If you negotiate $300K/year at Google (as a senior+; I heard junior hires have a new stock plan) and the stock price doubles, you get $600K/year in stock for the remainder of your 4 years. If you negotiate $300K/year at Stripe and they go public at 5x the valuation, your existing shares are now worth 5x as much, but you're still getting $300K/year.

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Stripes-New-Offer-policy-on-R...
Perhaps I overreacted, but this is part of a deeper cluster of problems that decommodification deals with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decommodification

Vendor lock-in gradually erodes our freedom. I want to be able to use my own flash storage for expansion, I want to be able to replace my own battery without tools, I want a headphone jack. Times countless other questionable design decisions across their product lines, and those of companies which copied them, that make me sad for what could have been.
That sort of thing is usually not decided by the teacher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown

When it first happened the media framed it with the racially inflammatory headline:

"White cop shoots and kills unarmed black teen"

All technically true information. But what really happened (according to forensic evidence and credible testimony) could also be framed as "Convenience store robber attacks police officer and was killed in the process". It's hard to tell exactly what happened since we only have a few facts and the rest is witness testimony, but it seems the media definitely pre-determined that the framing of the story should be that the cop was the "bad guy" and the victim was the "good guy" and that the whole thing should have a racism angle.
just filter the data then: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...
A good number of people claim their kids as dependents but (unfortunately) don't take great care of them otherwise
Some good ones this year. Winnie the Pooh. Bambi. Hemingway and Faulkner
> A court order can't legally force someone to share incriminating information.

It can't force someone to give potentially self-incriminating testimony (not all “information” is “testimony”, and not all incrimination is self-incrimination.)
I am very curious about Facebook groups: did you find good ones? My experience with Facebook content has been total garbage and I'd like to know if my experience is just circumstantial.
‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All
Some of the mono-bi wheel tank designs people made models of

https://youtu.be/i4p25rzPDw8?t=932
Interesting. So I would ordinarily want to put a foreign key constraint on the user_id column of a UserSessions table (or similar). In general, presumably you have relationships across the tables that are in those discrete databases. Do you just enforce these constraints/do joins in code? It seems like splitting related tables across multiple databases loses some (possibly a lot?) of the benefits of relational DBs, so I'm curious how you handle/manage that.

That said, I love the idea this architecture. Might use it for whatever next dumb little web service I cook up! I love how this simplifies a lot of dev/deployment ops, perfect for a side project.
> Full stack ownership of a game is what can make it truly good art imo.

Good is not quite the nuance I'm trying to say here. Final Fantasy VII remakes are "good art" and good enough programming, probably top-quality music as well despite being made by a giant organization.

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Integration is probably the thing I'm trying to discuss, which is "good" in its own way. The Touhou games are probably the best example of that, but maybe that's a bit niche.

Supergiant Game's "Bastion" was probably the best "integration" I've seen in more recent years of art / music / sound / programming. The way the narrator responded to my button-pushes and actions was downright creepy at times (creepy in a good way though)

AAA games like Red Dead Redemption, try to accomplish the same thing but its just not quite as tight or as well done. I give them props for the effort (and getting further than most other AAA titles), but its just really difficult to compete with the level of integration that smaller teams can provide.
Their staff- who do the research and write the laws- are almost entirely under 30 though.
"Serves on the board of an organisation that provides funding and administrative support to" sounds like a degree of separation. Unless you were talking about Oliver North...
All a reflection of widening income/wealth gaps (but also technology consolidating many businesses). Macys used to have a purpose for middle class, but as fortunes have diverged, we are left with Nordstroms serving the 80th to 95th percentile, and then Macys and the rest fighting to retain market share of the bottom 4 quintiles that have been losing purchasing power.
> BoorishBears - What key is shared between you and the manufacturer here? There's signing keys and there's passcodes, which ones are you "not the only one with"?

because you don't even have the key? not sure where passcodes came from
> Then dutifully declares the income as the gains from illegal activities and pays his taxes

This part is where you want to not say they were illegal. The IRS is saying declare all income, not admit the source.

So for this thought exercise, one would take the fifth on the income report, and report the income. Say whatever you need to say for the bank deposit to not scare the bank's compliance officer.

You want to avoid denial of service and denial of liquidity. So its inconvenient to make a reason for the money to be frozen for some time.
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How to dodge transaction fees and internet sleuths in one pass: Put a bitcoin in a wallet and sell the wallet.
I have a tangentially related question: I’ve been toying with the idea of building some hacky night-vision goggles by popping the IR filter off of a CMOS (or similar) sensor.

Is HN aware of any good camera modules for such a purpose?
I mean, it's certainly worth trying out for a bit. Even if you don't hang around for long enough to vest much of the RSU, their base salaries are pretty good too. It shouldn't take over a year or so to make up for any RSU you forfeit when leaving your previous job. And you get good leverage if you decide to boomerang later. And who knows, you may find that your preconceptions were wrong, and end up liking the job.
i agree with the sentiment, however, it’s wishful thinking.

Bitcoin exists in a space within game theory where everyone is in a constant adversarial relation with everyone else. it’s an explicit design, and that relationship is the only way we really know that the software and cryptography are sound. but you can’t completely isolate the protocol from its surroundings. the adversarial challenge of trying to break the bitcoin protocol is going to leak into the adjacent challenge of trying to de-anonymous the person who explicitly wanted to remain pseudonymous. in a twisted sense, if SN remains pseudonymous under the extreme pressure of thousands trying to de-anonymize him, that’s the only way we can really be sure that anonymization is still possible in the modern age.
Yes that is unfortunate. It appears that President Roosevelt forced the current expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause by threatening to pack the Supreme Court with political cronies if the justices ruled against his New Deal legislation. Hopefully some day the Supreme Court will have the courage to overturn those precedents and limit federal government power to what the Constitution's authors originally intended.
> they're coming from different places with drastically different intentions

Are they or is that just your perception of the person who put them up?

If a person that puts up a LBTBQ flag is doing so just to show that they support equality but isn't actually LBTGQ themselves...is that different than putting up an NRA flag showing that they support the NRA organization (or at least parts of it...I don't think most people can get behind all of it)...or a BLM flag showing that they support a cause even though they don't agree with everything done in the name of BLM. Who makes that call...or should anyone be making that call? Is it easier to remove any possibility of politics or conflict from politics from classrooms as that is not why kids are going to school.
> but anyone in between is going to be doing a LOT of pasting incantations they don't understand into terminal windows.

This thinking is really obsolete and couching everything as grandma or graybeards is really ageist, anyway. Last I looked, you have to do this on Mac more often than I'd like. On Windows, it's open up CMD as administrator and paste this command or download and install this little app and run it (that does God knows what as administrator).
"Naked Statistics" by Charles Wheelan is a very approachable entry level book. As opposed to a textbook, it's something that can be read casually in a relatively short amount of time, while still building a solid intuition on the subject.
That’s about 3x too high. The gov should function on 10% of the nations income or less.
That's not resisting the government, that's resisting a foreign invader. But if it's close enough that it lets you believe...
Yes, there are significant downsides: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/10/2053/2010/acp-10-2053...

The short of it is that since wind exists because of temperature differentials, each wind farm increases them.

>Using wind turbines to meet 10% or more of global energy demand in 2100, could cause surface warming exceeding 1 °C over land installations
'field maturity' could perhaps say something about the likeliness of trustworthy information/advice overall, but says nothing about the trustworthiness of the expert themselves.

in fact, the nominative 'expert' is a political injection, practically begging for appeal to authority to shut down critical thinking. expertise has little correlation to trustworthiness, given that it typically gets overwhelmed by the politically-interwined 'esteem'.

there is no shortcut to doing the hard work of triangulating the best information out of many biased opinions, including so-called 'experts'[0]. this is true of news, reviews, and commentary of all sorts.

[0]: similarly noted in a different context here, along with it's grandparent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678221
This is a bit tongue and cheek as sharing just that random bit of information on a true SCI program about the customer would cause “issues”. The customer is obviously DoD/DoE, however bug did not come from the SCI side. If Cray/HPE is the contractor to the customer in supporting this system and the software being used then it is their issue write the fix or pay for a bounty to fix it WITHOUT reveling the customer. Even as a joke as the customer I would be upset.

Any large tech vendor likely has some dealing with certain government agencies. It has been my experience that those customers are NEVER referred to by name in any communications by the vendor and always given generic names like “customer blue”. You may see a bug tagged as customer blue in your bug db, but you did not know what agency that mapped to.
Playing only one song from a list in Spotify
You (you "You" and royal "You") need to recognize that industry/developers have been making these kinds of decisions for decades, but in the last two decades that I've been paying attention, matters have grossly accelerated to the point that some tech platforms are basically entirely driven by industry desires, and not users.

In fact, I'm getting to the point I may start deprecating "Users" in my lexicon, and replacing it with "victims" upon whom technical implementations are "inflicted".

Because I can't honestly say that industry has been looking out for anyone but industry in a looooong time.
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> I do wonder, though, if approaches like this discourage people from paying and instead encourages hedging their bets to see if everyone else pays.

Possibly, but for the people who really want it, they'll pay, and exactly two entities should be controlling this whole apparatus - the people who want it and the creators, not advertising or bloated-overhead distribution pyramids. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't.

No, it's not going to produce the same volume of output as mass-market music, movies and TV that we have currently.

Some people who are very passive media consumers may miss the old days and refuse to consume media that isn't handed to them on a silver platter, but the old days are dying anyway. US culture could be fracturing to the point where mass-market movies and TV may be impossible, something that was really obvious at least in music in the early 90's.

> Similarly, without any content control, there is little incentive for anyone to sign up for streaming services

This is only true if the experience is much worse than torrents, filesharing programs etc. and if people know someone who can get that in their preferred viewing/listening format. If there were no such thing as music copyright I'd still pay for a service where I can have a guarantee of getting specific music I want rather than rely on the goodwill of someone with that song to be connected on a p2p network.
You could look at the pi noir cameras, which already have no IR filter, I use one for a wildlife camera and IR lamp.
For people who don't know, this tool was created by the CTO of Figma and the creator of ESBuild
Wealth is not a zero-sum game.
Is there some "legal process" (subpoena, etc) that could reveal this?
Matrix?

But good luck moving people off email
The ability to send messages is perhaps the less interesting role of email. I think maybe the real value comes from providing globally unique, federated identities. It's not perfect, but it's pretty dang good.

If for no other reason, this is why no closed system will never supplant email. Even the biggest walled gardens like GOOG and FB bow to the power of email identities in the end, as the preferred (maybe even only) way to recover an account.
Whoops, corrected. Thanks.
If you have PostgreSQL or MySQL on the same machine as your application, you can use UNIX sockets; they won't have much latency at all (I think Linux also optimizes TCP on localhost to skip all the pointless protocol overhead).

In terms of latency it'll still be difficult to beat a database that lives in the same process as your application, but it won't be as bad as going over the network might be.
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I think Arkane, Looking Glass, and iOi have come pretty close. This is coming from an experienced oil painter and novice programmer.
> How is this setup fault tolerant?

It is not.

> What happens if there is a hardware failure?

The product would suffer a total outage until manual intervention takes place. A restore of the VM from snapshot would be carried out by the customer. Some loss of the most recent business data would occur (i.e. between latest snapshot and time of failure). All of this is understood and agreed to by our customers.

> How do you partition access in a way that means an extremely active user doesn't impact availability?

Partitioning is not applicable. Our entire product fits on 1 machine and dividing the I/O along any dimension does not add much value to the performance equation.
If you claim to be a scientist, then it needs to be scientific. Or else you’re a charlatan and need to be called out. If you’re claiming things that go against the scientific understanding, it needs to be called out too. Whether people follow the scientist or not, it’s another problem. Not that it really matters since obviously everyone involved in this is much more interested in the money they are making than in stopping to lie to their readers.
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I think we should bring back a version of fairness doctrine [1] or right of reply [2] targeted at platforms.

There are other ways of pressuring them at different levels as well: demanding moderation transparency, regulating them as we do for utilities, supporting competitive alternatives which respect free expression, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_reply
> This is not a TOR exit node which implies that this is the IP address used by Satoshi on 2009-01-10

How do we know it was not a tor exit node in January 2009?
I mostly agree with the article, but the devil is in the details. Just as there are good and bad technological applications, there are good and bad ways to decrease consumption.
They link to this which shows the gravity gradients in play. I could have sworn they charted the velocity involved but I can't find it now.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Lagrangi...
All big tech companies have a problem: once you are on top, growth is hard to do by innovating and having a superior, more useful product. It's easier to acquire other businesses and find ways to leverage your existing customer base. MS has been great for the last couple of years because they were doing the hard thing and innovating (playing nice with open source, VS Code, etc...). Eventually, though it's easier, and lower risk to just leverage the customer base.
> Unfortunately the invention is causing a global climate crisis.

This is straight up bonkers. Yes: humanity's energy consumption is likely the cause of climate change. But the energy consumed goes into a lot of outputs: shelter, transportation, entertainment, commerce.

You could legitimately regard proof-of-work as an inefficiency whose cost keeps increasing. If proof-of-stake is sufficient, then it's remarkably inefficient. But it produces something useful.

Let's have some sense of perspective [1] about energy consumption before you put bitcoin or proof-of-work as the culprit for Earth's climate problems.

[1] https://www.otherlab.com/blog-posts/us-energy-flow-super-san...
What among us teaches us about byzantine failure