skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a very recent case which, at least for some types of data, found Cloudflare is not adequate: https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/census-2021-p...

It looks like the court decided SCCs were not sufficient as Cloudflare is subject to US surveillance laws so they wouldn't be able to provide adequate guarantees.
Why would they be? The terms of service make it perfectly clear that those are okay but this isn't: "Donations that are political in nature are only allowed if they're in alignment with our own political viewpoint".

(/s, in case it wasn't obvious)
Yeah TikTok has yet to convince anyone I know that there is a globalist plot to replace white people with Jews and blacks for um, reasons? One of these is more malicious and has already been more abused than the other.
I am a university Prof and a statistician. I'd love to get these data into my courses if you are willing to share it. It's a great example that students can easily relate to.
Sure, but to the second point, the vaccines also don't materially reduce transmission
Didn't say we should privatize the gains. I just don't think that it's useful to tear down a bunch of infrastructure on principle. I would not have minded just nationalizing as much as would have been needed either. And of course bailing out a bunch of homeowners would be extremely ideal.

Gov't intervention when systems are falling apart are not a bad thing (well, at least when they actually do helpful things).
>But without the pressure of having to be up on a schedule, 99.99% of the time if I went to bed at 11pm I'll be up at about 6:30am or 7am without an alarm and feel good about it.

For me it's even a step further, because with no set schedule I'm more likely to fall asleep at 9 than at 11.

The schedule anxiety can creep into the morning if I have more time than I strictly need, which leads to my sleep schedule being mostly a (semi)subconcious attempt to minimize excess morning time.
I believe you are wrong about both statements in your first sentence.
I'd love to agree with you, but having engaged with local school board trustees on a number of tangential issues, I'm pessimistic. I think there's a lot of people who have permanent scar tissue as a result of the last two years, and aren't likely to ever go back to normal.
I tried Chromecast, but Google Home (app to configure Chromecast) required location. Without enabling it, I couldn't complete (or better: start) configuration…
My GF attempted to transfer money to a CEX that was verified and her money was frozen abritartly for 3months by her "bank" until they "investigated it thouroughly".

Banks are nice until they arnt. Crypto is a wild west but its the future of investments. The older traders will die out, those who had the money and the advantage will be replaced like the older bootleggers turned into multi-nationals.
I use it because I hate vim and need a decent CLI based editor when I ssh into machines.

That is becomming less and less common though with good deployment tools.
My understanding is that (one of) the point(s) of Bitcoin was to de-centralise the control of the currency so that "banks getting a bailout" isn't possible since the currency control of Bitcoin doesn't allow printing it out of thin air for handing out to the businesses that caused the crash that seemingly necessitated the bailout.

Secondly to that, I find it amusing that the cause of the GFC (amongst numerous other large-scale issues) is both poor regulation and ineffective enforcement of an industry that's over a century old. Proving, basically, that the regulation of cryptocurrency is a pure talk-fest (or that any US regulation is a pure talk-fest). It will result in the honest folks doing the right thing and getting screwed in the process whilst the dishonest still do the bad things because the US' will to enforce regulation is weak.
Looks like system-wide blocking is via DNS, which would leak DNS requests to AdGuard's DNS server? The same could be accomplished with a local PiHole device.
Perhaps surprisingly, bulk titanium is only twice the cost of steel. So the expense must be in working it.

Titanium is distinguished from steel, besides its raw strength/wt, in that it can be stretched a great deal without ever developing stress cracks.

People were very impressed when Russia took to making whole submarines out of titanium.
I'm from Australia and free AOL CD's were everywhere by the late 90's, but I knew absolutely zero people that had ever used it.

Likewise, everyone was familiar with the 'Prodigy' and 'CompuServe' icons on our desktops with earlier versions of Windows, but nobody used them.
Kiwi skin is good, the contact point of the fruit and skin is an amazing tart flavor. A semi-aggressive wash can get a lot of the "hair" off the outside if the texture is what puts you off.
Can you elaborate a bit on your background? I'm myself working in biotech and am very interested going down the strategy route. Mind if I contact you?
I generally only use private cryptocurrencies with low fees and fast transaction times, like Monero and PirateChain. If I have to use Bitcoin or any other surveillance coin, I am well-versed in "cleaning" my coins, but that's not desirable for a number of reasons. Perhaps you're focusing on co-opted surveillance coins, but privacy coins are amazing.
Robinhood's crypto offering is just a shit product. You are just buying shares in their crypto holdings, not the underlying coins.

It's like saying the internet is dying off because AOL's dialup customer base is shrinking.
A prerequisite to trust-but-verify is having the luxury of trust. What you describe is a scenario where you may not afford any. In that case it's verify-or-bust :)
The idea of the metaverse has happened over and over throughout the last few decades and has failed every time. It will continue to fail until the technology backing it is utterly incredible. Oculus is nowhere close. We’re talking about needing an F-16 and currently having the Wright brothers’ airplane. Give it another 40 or 50 years and maybe it will be viable.
I noticed how people tend to vastly underestimate a topic's complexity too, but I'm not sure what to do with it. I feel like a constant buzzkill when hanging out with people, and I do my best to hide it, but most of the time I end up thinking about how incomplete our conversation is, and how therefore useless/wasteful it is.

In my more charitable moments, I think that it's good mental exercise, but it's hard to think generously about someone else when you hear them say superficial "I could do better" statements like the topic of this article. How could they be so naïve, to think that they can, casually, upend an entire field? It happens on Reddit (and HN) all the time, too. Every community centered around a creative work is lousy with, "Why didn't they just" style arguments.

Also, not for nothing, but I've never heard the "building an airplane while flying it" analogy used to suggest software is harder than building an airplane. Pardon my cursing, but who the fuck thinks programming is harder than aerospace engineering???

Finally, I found this super duper hard to read all the way through, due to the lack of formatting. I'm assuming that decision is somehow intentional, but it's not a kind one. My eyes hurt. :(
> Right this second, one of my checking accounts at a "reputable" institution (efirstbank.com) is blocked from ACH transfers until April due to hitting an inactivity threshold they refuse to elaborate on. The only way I can move money out is by paying $50 per wire.

You can't... write a check? It's right there in the name.
Anyone know why telemetry is sent from the main process rather than having a separate reporter process?
Ha ha ha. Not even a debate? Why would something so non-obvious not be up for debate? Are you afraid to lose the debate?

What's next, telephone switchboard operators are better than VOIP? We went from paying $3 a minute for long distance audio calls to nearly free calls with multi-way high res video broadband, simply by automating away the infrastructure to get things done. Why can't the same be done with voting? Today we spend 16 billion dollars on a national election with shitty turnout, tomorrow any small organization can have a poll and vote about anything, in any number of ways, and turnout will be much better too.

There was a time that chess playing programs were laughably bad. And within a couple decades they are able to beat any grandmaster. Give it time.

About the 2000 election: I regret even mentioning the butterfly ballots, because the real point is that it took TOO LONG to recount the votes, BECAUSE it was paper ballots, and thus GWB was elected because the Supreme Court stepped in. Paper ballots and their inefficiency have consequences and downsides, you just might choose to ignore them in order to not have the debate of pros and cons vs electronic form.

(9/11 may not have happened if Bush had acted on intelligence like "Osama Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2513JFJsY) Agreed about the war with Russia over Ukraine, Democrats have their own issues, absolutely. (As do leaders of other countries).

> I disagree. Contracts enforced by the blockchain only have value when the entire context of that contract is on the blockchain. As soon as you leave that system you need traditional infrastructure and systems to enforce contracts and handle disputes

Even if that were strictly true, we can have all these applications on the blockchain today: https://intercoin.org/applications

But it's not even true. People don't need the entire source of truth in a byzantine fault tolerant network. They just need to secure that it wasn't tampered with. The key is that you can turn over control to a computer program + protocol rather than elected representatives, magazine publishers, librarians or telephone switchboard operators. And we have been increasingly doing that.
Intuitive Surgical - Onsite in Sunnyvale, CA and Remote

Internet famous for doing surgery on a grape: https://youtu.be/0XdC1HUp-rU?t=72

'Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from different walks of life. Our outstanding team, with diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and ideas, has helped pioneer—and continues to be a leader in—the market for minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgery. Our surgical and endoluminal systems serve a diverse and global community of healthcare professionals and their patients.'

Growing fast...
https://careers.intuitive.com/us/en/c/information-technology...
Alphabet stock's big day could mean a windfall for Nancy Pelosi's husband
> Any time where something comes up and I "must" be up at an early hour with alarm it affects my ability to fall asleep the night before. Usually the more important the thing is the harder it will be to fall asleep. Like ensuring I'm up to catch a flight or anything with a hard line on the time.

Yup, this is me. It's one of the driving reasons why I've endeavored to not have to wake up at any particular time most days. Paradoxically, I wake up earlier.
"A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters"
TARP was profitable for the US government. The “bailout” loans were paid back with interest.
Some Havana Syndrome Cases Likely Caused by Electromagnetic Waves, Panel Finds
This is the reason I went anti facebook years back not because of privacy implications but I felt with facebook the web will become less open. As most business will make a facebook page instead of a website accessible to everyone
Electrical power engineer in generation and control systems $150-$190 cad/hr
> it's possible Skia has some mechanism to composite GL textures it's not responsible for too.

I'm pretty sure this can be done in Skia in C++, so it should be possible with WASM. I think it possible to create a Skia surface using an existing GL texture buffer object.
We've reverted the title now. Submitted title was 'Iowa man convicted of defrauding lottery with predictive code granted parole'.

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> A is correlated with B implies that A implies (causal) B or B implies (causal) A (note that this is false, with a plethora of different types of counter example).

I think it's even worse:

implies:

- strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated)

- (of a fact or occurrence) suggest (something) as a logical consequence.

Unless your "implies (causal)" is a reference to a domain specific variation of the word (which laymen won't know anyways), your false conclusion is actually incorrect.

After googling, this seems to be the case:

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

>> In casual use, the word "implies" loosely means suggests rather than requires. However, in logic, the technical use of the word "implies" means "is a sufficient condition for".[3] This is the meaning intended by statisticians when they say causation is not certain. Indeed, p implies q has the technical meaning of the material conditional: if p then q symbolized as p → q. That is "if circumstance p is true, then q follows." In this sense, it is always correct to say "Correlation does not imply causation."

> This is probably the most commonly exploited false implication by hucksters, and, perhaps more importantly, is a very common source of false beliefs with no malicious intent at all.

True, but then it's extremely easy to find large quantities of people on the internet who speak as if (I infer this from the surrounding text of their statement) correlation rules out the possibility of causation.

I would love to know the magnitude of confusion/harm the (typically unrealized) ambiguity and other issues of the English language causes in the world, especially considering how causality links so many things together (often in ways beyond our awareness).
Facebook : boomers

Instagram : millenials

TikTok : gen z

snapchat is sort of irrelevant from what I can gather.
I mean... add text and you can describe most of the internet and digital information in general. I don't think it's a useful way to make a comparison at all.
75-85 EUR/hr for Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, etc. in Netherlands.
This calc doesn't include payroll tax
The central problem of modern UX is the same existential crisis architecture had in the 1980s -- whether it's a discipline of artists or scientists.

Nobody wants to admit they're a scientist who follows experimental data at cocktail parties. Everyone dreams of being introduced as a creative genius.

That yearning metastasizes into hubris, which ultimately leads to people making arbitrary changes, just because they can.

Which isn't UX's, or architecture's, fault as a discipline, but is to say that the scientific process runs perpendicularly to our egotistical, flawed selves. And that the only way to avoid it is constant vigilance and pragmatism about what's actually driving a change request.
Feel free to steal from me. ;-)

As a practical matter: If I were a full time consultant I probably would charge more, but I would also be spending some of my time making sure I had a full pipeline of gigs lined up. The fact that my marketing process is about as lean as it gets -- people send me emails from time to time -- means I don't have to cover that sort of overhead.
The Worst Day of Mark Zuckerberg’s Reign
Is the implication of your comment that the solution is for everyone to just stop committing crimes? I'm not sure how realistic that is.
Yes, FAANG job always looks good on the resume, compared to no-name companies.

But staying for less than 12 months may look suspicious.
I suggested an alternate to something, and it said it was approved. However I dont see the suggestion if I refresh the page. So are the suggestions just meaningless, or whats the deal?
Very good point. Democracy can govern banks. Democracy cannot govern cryptocurrencies. That is both why it is hated and loved by different groups of people.
Um, no. Do you expect people who use banking apps to understand bank-level security, elliptic curve cryptography, key generation and so forth?

You just give them a freaking app, to scan their vote on a website, confirm it's voting for the correct thing, and sign with their private key. Then they can check that their vote was included in the final tally (don't mention Merkle trees). OK?

The real question is, how do you make sure each person has only one vote (see this for example https://www.geekwire.com/2015/the-next-fraud-wave-when-banks...) without revealing the identity of every voter to the government. And also how do you prevent the final tally from being revealed to anyone until it's all ready? That last one is the hardest one (and we fail at doing it in our elections, the media already predicts the winner before the polls close).
The bank bailouts were ultimately profitable for the US government. Banks paid back the loans with interest.

https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/19/news/companies/government-b...
Which is funny because you always hear how fast crypto transactions are. What everybody seems to leave out is that fully settling on the blockchain is slow and costly.
The answer is "yes"… from online pharmacies that ship it from India. Whether you get the real product or a counterfeit version is anyone's guess.
Related ongoing thread:

Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185214 - Feb 2022 (436 comments)
Once you learn the shortcuts it's hard to unlearn them. And they work in every text field on Linux if you set the option.
Given how rarely you were using it before, I'm surprised you rate the impact so highly - how come?
To #2, as typical consumer walking in to buy a scratch-off, it's unlikely you will know the results of a in-use pack.
Related ongoing thread:

Facebook loses users for the first time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30186326 - Feb 2022 (395 comments)
I, and perhaps other people, believe that there isn’t such a thing as a spoiler for a work of nonfiction. Is the aforementioned podcast presenting a factual account?
The "cost to rollback blocks" is a cost in computational power (to run a 51% attack), _not_ the cost of the block rewards
> there is no circumstance where it's unsafe.

Famous last words
>because we've never had a proper experiment to verify this and most likely won't ever run one.

Isn't it trivial to drop something out of an airplane along with the same thing but with a parachute and measure the impact velocity?
I once inherited a software product that had an incredibly complicated data import process that non/semi-technical users were supposed to be able to use. The training for the product spent almost half a day on learning this process (before anything else in the software!) and it was often in the top-3 of user support issues.

I set about analyzing the problem over a period of a week or so and documented my findings with some recommendations. It ultimately boiled down to far too many settings, most of which were footguns, and no sane defaults that served most users most of the time.

In the end, I instructed the development team to make a number of changes which were mostly around picking defaults, or having the import process use some heuristics to make a reasonable guess, but letting users override them if the software did something wrong -- we modeled very heavily off of various MS-Office import processes, particularly MS-Access and MS-Excel. We ended up getting what was something like a 40+ step process down to 3 clicks that more or less eliminated the support tail and turned training into a 3-5 minute show and tell.

One of the problems with lots of software IMHO is the lack of sane defaults, the blizzard of hard to grok options and settings, and the multitude of ways of doing nearly-exactly the same thing.
Healthcare end-to-end product development and staff augmentation.
Hourly rate usually around $150/hour.
$200/hr long term contract if it's new tech

$300/hr if it's something I've done before or the billable hours are low

Senior SE Full Stack in SF Bay Area
Discord then
But is also makes for a story to tell at the next party you go to.
Cloud security reviews and audits, either by account/resource numbers which has a minimum of $500 for a single account with a reasonable number of resources or by the hour ($500) for which I have a 4 hour minimum. The small biz stuff is a breeze to audit and create reports on so I keep the lower rate available.
I also do insider threat specific IR work which is typically done on retainer and starts at $10k but averages the $15-20k mark per incident. That work is rare but time sensitive. Hours spent can be as little as 5-6 for initial triage but I usually spend about 12 in a single stretch on average with a few hours of debrief for the client. That work is exhaustive and exhausting but is rarely boring.
they'll just get handed a bale of tether & everyone will just go on pretending
It also assumes that everyone wants to do the exact same thing with your software. Sometimes people want to do different things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182466

110+ points
Thanks for this, FFVI is my favorite soundtrack and some of my favorite music of all time.
Here's the data through ~October of last year. ~500MB.

https://docs.zohopublic.com/file/pze38c35faf87eb654907b51890...

I'm using it to power https://scratchoff-odds.com right now.
Alphabet reports big fourth-quarter beat; stock pops
Plenty still in place in Canada
Ethereum is a Dark Forest:

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest
Great analogy, thank you, ive been struggling to put this across
Anecdotally, I know several people who shifted from Facebook, with its toxic space for arguments, to Instagram in the last few years.

I stopped using Facebook a few years ago, when it was mainly for a few topic focused groups. I wish there were a way to download all the group posts and comments (or at least the ones I participated in) in some kind of an open text based format I can store locally and refer to. If you know of any such tools, please share.

There’s so much information locked into the platform, and with no way for search engines to index and no easy way to even lookup information within it (Facebook search has always sucked), it’s a huge loss.
> something that was unknown to be unsafe

The call they were using was deprecated and marked unsafe a while ago:
https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/7ba57e7a7c87fca96...
Yes, this is why I said it