skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this in HN in regards to education. Education in the US leaves much to be desired, and there are many ways we could improve it, but the complaints here rarely touch on the most dire problems e.g. comments like "what we really need to do is bust the teacher's union" which is an insane complaint compared to the fact that most schools teach reading wrong as policy by mandating the three cueing system be taught instead of phonics[0].

[0] https://fivefromfive.com.au/the-three-cueing-system/
I would love to become a crypto dev for these people.

Me: Hey boss the code is to spec ready to deploy? Just need my payment in USD.

Crypto Entrepreneur: Yes, here is your 50k, I will now turn my 100k into 5M, with my smart contract.

Me: actually it looks like your money is gone. They used feature X that you requested in a way that you didn't expect.
Seeing as I have 2 kids and plenty of kids live in my neighborhood, none of them are walking around like damaged zombies - it's hard to take you seriously.
Except it's Skype for Business, which is actually not Skype at all.
Some subreddit somewhere. [https://thedailywtf.com] is good for reality-based humor.
Probably not but the TikTok has to pivot before they loose steam and start being a coglomorate otherwise they Will eventually fade so it depends on how successfully they execute this. Meantime Facebook just needs to catch the next TikTok to be relevant again.
The markets reward predictable businesses and guidance often matters more than the current quarter, assuming management has any credibility. Whether that predictability is from the companies own guidance or analyst estimates[1] is fine. If quarter after quarter and year after year a company can't meet or beat (or switches from consistently beating to only consistently meeting), then the stock is often punished. If it misses the current quarter and guides down, the markets typically re-calibrates valuations downward which is what appears to be going on here.

[1] For example, Apple used to play a sandbagging game with their guidance. After a few years most analysts caught on and if Apple didn't beat their numbers by a consistent amount, the stock would get hammered on earnings despite the fact that they beat guidance. When a company consistently sandbags (i.e. basically gives themselves an easy target to hit for the coming quarters/year), analyst estimates tend to matter more.
That's a very good question. Where do they get a quarter of a billion dollars on short notice? Do they have that much of their own capital? Or are they taking this out of some other fund that nominally belongs to others?
I think the original title, Iowa man convicted of lottery rigging scheme granted parole, works better.

He was a software engineer who worked on rng software for state lotteries. And he was charged with installing code on lottery computers to predict winning numbers. It sounds like a legitimate conviction to me.
Meditation has been a big help to me when I wake up in the middle of the night. But sometimes letting thoughts go isn't enough. I've often found that the muscles in my body simply don't want to relax enough for me to be able to fall asleep, so I need to put extra effort into helping them relax.

This can be anything from the traditional 'body scan' where you start at the crown of your head and work your way down, focusing on relaxing every part of your body (head, neck and shoulders are the big ones for me). Or I sometimes imagine getting a full-body massage, and that can do the trick. Of course if you've never had the experience of a full-body massage this likely won't work.
Hey this looks great! This next sentence is gonna be a mouthful, but the alternatives to SaaSHub listed on SaaSHub seem much better than the alternatives to alternativeto listed on alternativeto. Interestingly, SaasHub doesn't show up as one of the top alternatives to alternativeto on alternativeto
Does anyone else find this on the level of batshit crazy insane? Meta, are we really going to divest so far from the physical world that the a virtual reality is worth that much? I mean VR is realistically a video game. I just don't see it but I do see desperation from FB.
I've heard that when AMZN goes up, Amazon will actually take that into account and reduce your refreshers
I was just curious - do managers and I guess non-developer roles face this same kind of competition? Or if you're a developer should you just shoot for some other role so you can be safe and load work onto the developers?
Is HN "small"? Political discussions at HN (which are quite rare) seem obviously low-quality compared to the rest of the site, but still rank well above much of the Internet. I assume that the same would go for many niche-focused spaces, where curiosity and intellectual interest can dominate.
My thoughts exactly. My overall takeaway from sleep research is that although there are some health risks with undersleeping, there are (possibly greater) health risks with oversleeping, plus the prevalence of sleep deprivation is greatly overestimated.
Capitalism. The market speaks with their time and money. If you cannot keep them, someone will innovate on your idea and the herd moves.
It can form films, which they tested because coatings for things like solar panels and cars and tools are profitable.

They also tested bulk plastic. It takes a long time to set, with hours in a gel phase, so epoxy-like mold pouring, flooring, and other bulk plastic applications are likely.

It might be awesome for bullet proof armor, safety equipment, and lightweight cordage and fabrics.

The synthesis is simple - it's an advance using polarized light at particular wavelengths in novel chemistry, probably inspired by the recent discovery in electrochemistry that can impose specific chirality on well known reactions.
If you want to do set thread-core affinity in a cross-platform way, hwloc is a good approach: https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/doc/v2.7.0/a00166.ph...
Does this mean that only one person reviewed the code or that he was able to hide the predictable algorithm so well it passed review?
They lost 3 million active users out of 1.93 billion active users.

That's 0.15%? As countries are opening up more. And that's newsworthy?

I don't see how that justifies the stock crashing -25% in 15 minutes.
Google doesn't understand Enterprise. They expect enterprises to use features or solutions that they think is the best way or highway. AWS/Azure bends their back to introduce whatever features enterprise needs.

Next is poor support. I worked in a team that used DialogFlow enterprise for a voice app. The NLP engine was way way better than Alexa. But if you face an issue their enterprise support will tell you to post in StackOverflow !! As an example of why they don't get enterprise, DialogFlow didn't support mTLS for authentication and had no plans to build that feature.
Best description of the hack I have found yet. The hack is on the solana side not the ethereum side of the bridge https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616

*edit: another good thread https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1489044939732406275
Fascinating analysis, but sigh having to read it in individual tweets.
Self moderation was and still is a way out. If there were better tools to allow users to say "I don't like this person, I don't want to hear more from then" and "Bill likes this person, maybe I'll hear him out." or "I don't want to deal with this kind of thing in this room, can you talk about it elsewhere"? The tools we have for those things are not nearly as sophisticated as what exists in real life with body language, facial expressions, physical distance, symbols, demeanor, conversation timing, etc. Our tools to self moderate and separate into amicable groups which still permit crossover in real life are much better.

The major problem with most internet platforms is the boundaries and user controls are non existent. Everything is open for everyone to see and no one can control who is in their network. Only a handful of moderators and platforms have control over both visibility and membership/rules, and those controls are limited and primitive.

Feeds which magically select content users are supposed to like and the attempt to eliminate user settings to make platforms more accessible and magical contribute to this problem. Creating effective and easy to use self moderating tools is a difficult enough problem on its own; when you also have to fight a lot of entrenched design philosophy, it's even harder.
Before railroads and 18 wheelers farmland near the city must have been pretty valuable.

I wonder if those mansions were for summering (or wintering? Not sure which would be more desirable) outside of the city, to avoid illnesses.
I think Sevii means brain drain from other industries in to tech.

E.g. potential doctors and lawyers deciding that being a programmer has way better ROI than all the years and debt involved with medical school or law school
Apologies, == instead of &&.

false == false
But newspapers can't ban you permanently from ever reading again (including bans that track you via device or IP or other factors) for a one-time mistake like a drunk rant where you said the wrong thing. Imagine a hormonal 16 year old makes a violent (but ultimately just them spouting off with no real intent to follow through) threat against a local police department.

In the modern world, they basically lose digital citizenship for their mistake. There's no route for reconciliation or re-entry into society when it comes to major tech platforms and bans. With prison, you theoretically pay your time and then can re-enter society. Not so with online bans.
I'd like clear qualifying of what a login means. Does that mean I goto facebook.com or open FB app at least once a day? I imagine "daily login" could be artificially inflated in all sorts of ways like having fb.com tab open on my browser and never actually going to it as one example.
Speaking as someone who lives in a farming community... Usually there are very few/one option for that size of (tractor|combine) in the area, and if it's JD, that's what you've got to get. As others have said, you can't wait for days when the crop is ready to harvest while a part ships from a few hundred miles away. Well, sometimes you still have to, but you want to minimize that.

Also, you don't have to be "Big Ag" sized to need a 6 figure piece of equipment. Not at all.
I actually don’t feel the discussion on any topic on HN is any higher quality than other sites with a similar age demographic. And yeah, HN is kinda small by internet standards.
Except there are 2 major differences:

1. Even if FB isn't forced to divest their recent acquisitions, the regulatory environment will make it much more difficult to do the equivalent of buying Instagram in the future.

2. Any good ideas on how I can short "The Metaverse"? I still think the Metaverse is bullshit and will continue to be bullshit for the near future. The very first time I got on Facebook I was pretty enthralled - I was connecting with friends that I hadn't seen in years, and I really liked reconnecting. I have heard basically nobody say they are looking forward to the Metaverse, besides aging tech giants trying to push it.
Residential last mile ISPs are highly unlikely to offer bgp as a service. What you'll get is default route DIA.

If you actually do find a cooperative fiber based last mile ISP that will set up bgp with you in your house, I'd be shocked if the service quotation for such a custom weird thing doesn't start from a floor price of $400 a month.
Residential customers don’t use anything close to maximum bandwidth regularly.

It gets better as you with faster connections and more users. At 100Mbps you can roughly do 20:1 over subscription, bump that to 1Gbps and 50:1 generally works fine. StarLink is aiming for roughly 50-100Mbps connections so this likely represents around 20,000 to 40,000 customers per 100Gbps link.

“SpaceX - Starlink (AS14593) has added 2x100G bringing their capacity to a total of 2x2x100G. They are connected to the route servers.” In other words they hit 40,000 to 80,000 customers and are preparing for another 40,000 to 80,000.
Where is the intent other than in the contract?
Transit is very cheap these days if you're buying 100G ports.. the economics of whether to peer or not aren't as clear cut as they once were.
+1 for the appendix reference to Scout Mindset. It's a really great read, with practical steps you can take to start down the path of scout mindset thinking.

https://www.amazon.com/Scout-Mindset-Perils-Defensive-Thinki...
Amazon has contracted firms to produce boxes for their facilities which include 'gait recognition' code.
What would you consider spectacular? Social network app that delivers crack cocaine by a drone? The grail of immortality?
Can you link to the code. This seems bizarre to me that someone would write it this way.
>walled garden

>links medium blog post which can only be accessed behind a login
I found that 288 characters minimum for adding a new module is a little bit much. even the example is many less characters. perhaps that was supposed to be a maximum?
Etherium Cofounder: Synthetic wombs would remove the high burden of pregnancy
Just because you think the choice needs to be framed that way doesn't make it true. This reminds me of the political mailers that the Canadian conservatives used to send out: it was something like "do you support our reform of law X or do you support keeping child molesters on the street". Its a pretty low form of rhetoric.
I think the trippiest bit of cryptocurrency economics I have ever witnessed is how Ethereum and Ethereum Classic forked after the DAO hack and both chains were still worth considerable market caps. It blew my mind.

What matters is the order book. How many bid/asks are there on it. The contracts and debts outstanding in it. That's all there is. Everything else. Store of value. Whatever. Doesn't matter. Cryptocurrency is people persuading each other to do things in an organized fashion, believing there will be reciprocation at some later date.

I wish we had someone around who really understood currency at a deep level like F.A Hayek to write about crypto economics in a painfully cerebral careful way that avoids all handwaving. There is something very deep going on here that is entirely new or very old and never quite clearly elucidated.
Over time it will become extremely robust
does anyone know where to find that website they mentioned??
That makes sense/get your arguments now. Had similar thoughts.
No, it's not, you can fit an absolute shitload of individual 1 gigabit per second symmetric last mile residential customers in the actual usage of a 100Gbps transit port, before it starts hitting 65Gbps in evening peaks and you start thinking of needing to upgrade.
Interesting ideas...the author writes that you don't "need VR" but what about new and interesting types of sensory engagement this enables?

This would include the additional depth perception cues, the additional sensory feel and wayfinding affordances of a world, as opposed to the intuitive feel...

To me that's a pretty substantial difference that might even allow one to skip typical rest/withdrawal cycles and remain in-universe longer, while still getting the needed rest. So the medium itself may in fact be more persistent than say a text & keyboard-driven world, in effect creating a more persistent universe which would probably then feel more real, and more engaging.
+1 on iron. Iron deficiency has surprisingly widespread effects.
Reddit stopped using shadowbans to ban actual users a while ago, it's only for spammers now. Of course, it still happens now and then accidentally, but it's not meant to be a punishment for real users that break sitewide rules.
The total crypto market cap is just over $1 trillion. The two biggest hacks alone have made off with almost $1 billion. That’s just under .1% of all cryptocurrency stolen, with no recourse for those on the losing end. When can we acknowledge that this is an absolutely insane basis for a financial system?
There never has been middle ground. Why do you think the ACLU defended KKK members.
I want to hear about everything that my friends want to tell me so long as it requires a slight modicum of effort on their part.

Facebook turned everyone into bulk junk mailers. They pay the postage and then slap ads on the flyers everyone sends out. People get to spam their friends with basically zero effort.

If Facebook can weed out zero effort, low value posts from my friends with a high degree of accuracy that at least blunts some of the damage the platform itself has done.
The first time I found a computer to have Insyde BIOS it was instantly plain to see these were to be completely avoided.

So much worse than anything that ever went before.
They traded Tether for other kinds of money, and the money went... somewhere.
I played this game on an Apple III! I thought it was called “Hammurabi.”
Yeah, I "log in" a few times a day to answer messages. I don't think that should be considered a user since I'm not consuming anything facebook-related, just responding to messages because everyone is on facebook
why can't the U.S President do something about it? or does it have to be through congress?
> budget something like $2400-3000 a year to be serious about it what I described above...

Companies like Vultr can provide cheap BGP services (free in the case of Vultr) which can be combined with cheap VPS instances as gateways that back-haul your subnet to a home or office server. This type of setup is mentioned down thread. You could easily end up paying more in ARIN fees than infrastructure costs.

> One of the main purposes of having an ASN is to be truly multihomed

For me the main interest in having my own ASN is IP portability across hosting providers. Unfortunately, IP reputation is a thing, especially for e-mail. If I had a portable subnet I wouldn't need to sweat how and where I host my infrastructure. In my case, I could change my office ISP from Cogent to AT&T without worrying about losing e-mail.

EDIT: I'm probably overblowing the risk of being blocked by GMail, Office365, etc, after an IP migration. Don't let me dissuade any aspiring SMTP admins. Nonetheless, my overarching concern is maintaining control of my digital presence (personal and business), no matter how hard Google, Amazon, and others try to squeeze all the small players out of the space.
They have to invest in something if they want to remain relevant. They make loads of money from their ad revenue. They may not be able to acquire the next Instagram or TikTok when it comes.
And? Are racists really worse than other types of bigots (misogynists, intellectuals, anti-intellectuals, eugenicists, radical anarchists, religious zealots, anti-religious zealots, republicans, democrats, etc.)?

There are definitely approved forms of bigotry that are tolerated on just about every social media platform. I’ve never seen a post promoting death to unvaccinated moderated, for example. I really hate the idea that because a site has racist users that it would be considered a racist platform. That’s throwing the baby out with the bath water.

On sites like reddit, I can ignore hateful subreddits just as easily as other topics I’m not interested in. I don’t think it’s reasonable that there is an expectation that every platform police everything that might offend someone and I don’t know of any platform that attempts to. Certain bigotry is just less tolerated by admins than others.

r/conspiracy is an interesting example. Opposing views on just about any topic are accepted and there’s genuinely a lot of critical thinking and research that goes into many of the comments. Sure it’s filled with crap posts, loonies, and paranoids, but constructive, respectful discussion is had about topics considered too taboo for most other subreddits. And they are maligned by most of Reddit to the point where certain subs will ban you just for subscribing or posting to it.

Disclaimer: of course racism is awful and stupid. I’m not advocating promoting racists or misogynists or any other hate group. I just think the benefits of open, free discussion out way the drawbacks of hateful, stupid discussion.
Their purpose is to defend the company against humorous comments.
In 2022 you have the choice of a) "suppressing free speech" or b) "platforming racists"

There's a great example of the False Choice fallacy. "Free Speech" = "Racism" is the implication of your choice -- one which authoritarians would indeed embrace. The Soviets considered free speech dangerous, too; and so does the CCP.
I am interested in the virtual reality space, and started posting because I was frustrated by the spread of misinformation/propaganda. Ironically, there is a lot of misinformation about Facebook. I'm sure my contributions are mostly meaningless, but it has at least been interesting to follow discussions.
Imagine how many other world problems we could have solved of cryptos were not a thing. No scams, rugpulls, or bounties.

All that money could have gone towards world hunger and climate change. Would that have been a better use of it for marginalized people?
Maybe they are just trolling, and it's a large inflatable.
As for me, people have learnt that they can't reach me most of the time instantly. You don't have to answer the phone calls either. You can say later that you didn't see it and your phone was muted (which is true). People get used to it pretty quickly. I guess, for most people it's just a few family members or other very close relations anyway. Romantic partners are the worst, of course, in this regard. One has to be smart to set the expectations at the very beginning. (I guess it can be done later too, though.)
I've heard a lot of people say they're still waiting.

Musk seems to have figured out that he can collect deposits for way more people than he could possibly deliver to, leveraging it as free operating cash. The cybertruck is a great example - millions of people gave him money for something that hasn't left prototype stage and will never be produced because it couldn't possibly meet federal vehicle standards in the US or Europe.
Read through the takeaways in this thread written by the handful of HN users who attempted similar ideas. These ideas can be generalized and applied to real-time online communities -- have chat & status sections to indicate who & how many people are available, some notion of scheduling so that users can meet online at the same time (i wonder if there's a less-friction method than explicit scheduling), tie user to a profile to discourage undesirable behavior like flashing.
Sounds more like he was able to install software on the same computer to use the same RNG as the lottery. In essence not doing anything to the original code, but using known information about it to get similar enough results.
Is it? Last I understood, most games have no real locomotion to prevent motion sickness. Is it really the pinnacle of gaming if you have to teleport from A->B all the time?
Pretty fun got it in 3 tries. Only annoying UI thing was that I couldn't go back and change entries without deleting everything upto that point.

Played on mobile
Workplace practices leading to workplace injuries.

A gentle reminder: Gulf Syndrome - found to be due to 'protective' measures. A pity that the injuries resulting from the 'cure' was just as bad (worse??) than the thing that the troops were being 'protected' from: nerve gas.
We are working on an insurance product for crypto. :-(

The more we dig into it the more scams we find. Everywhere. Wash trading, click baiting, pump and dump, code is law, etc.
You will find the biggest bazaar there is in the crypto world. Biggest than the Nevarro bazaar.

The anonymous ecosystem is a paradise for scammers and money launderers. And a terrifying "crypto lord" on Telegram or Twitter may just be your nicest coworker.

I am not sure we will ever find a backer. So far we are working on the private risk management side of the venture.

I would expect more mainstream users, and they will hammered day one. Look at what is going with NFTs, all the wash trading pushing price ups (source: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-repor...)