skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, I’ll try to see if I can visualise that based on the logs that I have.
These trends tend to be "local" to some extent. Sometimes country based, but I've heard of cities where different schools had different messengers (back in the ICQ/MSN etc. days). In the end, people use what their circle of friends uses.

In Switzerland for example Threema is popular. In many countries you still can't really exist without Whatsapp. In China, Wechat. In Taiwan I believe you use Line if you want to have any friends (or reach businesses). In the US, iMessage with a fallback to SMS is popular, while it's rare in Europe because the SMS fallback would bankrupt you due to per-SMS charges.
I think it's a bit more complex than that.

If you genuinely believe that society is a zero-sum-game, where any winner comes at the expense of some loser somewhere, then ultra-successful people must make you sick.

You can hear a few whispers like "Tesla factories aren't the safest places to work at" or "An Amazon worker had to pee in a bottle" and it all lines up: these are horrible people who only got ahead because they abused others.

The absolute iron-jaw of that concept is that it explains ones shortcoming in life instantly. Any success you missed? Well that was just due to the lack of evil in your heart. If you were ruthless, surely you'd be just like "the rich".

It's a genuinely scary line of argument, and I have yet to be able to cure anyone of it, even a little. Taken to it's ultimate logical conclusions "Eat the Rich" can be taken literally. It's terrifying. Unfortunately, history is full of grey areas. Actual evil and wealthy people - and their possibly justified consumption by the mobs do exist.
Not really, the lightning didn't cause the flood, whereas the storm did cause the atmosphere expansion
Most business requires data analysis and planning. Under the hood regression models and/or some sort of component analysis is used.

Deep learning is a cool feature to differentiate Alexa from competing home electronic gadgets.

But if you want to forecast Alexa sales, or understand market segmentation, or the portrait of a typical Alexa buyer then you need something other than deep learning because neural nets utterly failed in this domain.

The business metrics problem is vastly, vastly more important than the "making cool gadgets" problem, and huge resources were poured into making deep learning a thing in this space. The money was mostly wasted. (A negative result is still a result, but still the misallocation of resources is staggering.)
It is not the same. The Kelly criterion is for when your capital is required to make you money; without capital you can't make bets so you'll be ruined forever.
Without insurance you risk losing all your money, but if you have a day job, you'll eventually make it back again.
Same here, started with Timex 2068, now realizing this basic stuff needs to be clarified.
That would be VS Code for me. Genuinely great software.
I wonder how much bandwidth a hn hug normally is. 50 mbps sounds like a lot to me unless you have heavy images/movies/not text, but i'm out of my area of expertise.
When used to visualize relative importance, it has the great advantage of an implied, absolute scale: you can see what's 50% without having to guess from the axis what the value is. You can even eyeball a majority, as in chart [1], although the colors of two adjacent parties happen to be very similar to my vision. You would not be able to do that with a bar chart such as [2]. The pie chart should not be your go-to chart, but it has its place.

[1] https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...

[2] https://blogs.ft.com/the-world/files/2017/09/bar-chart.png
Personally I obviously have never ever done this, but this friend of mine and his friends, throughout the aughts, have had to give trivial bribes to cops a few times. It's like real-life microtransactions. Usually with something like smoking in a non-smoking area as a pretext, the key is that cops would immediately go for the bribe schtik - they would tell him how they now need to bring him to the station to write up the protocol, and probably nobody would bother with such a small thing and they'd just let him go eventually but the mayor or whatever is not there right now, he's out on some assignment, so he'd have to wait for him to return for a couple hours for the protocol to be written up properly, and hey he is from the neighborhood and so he knows the station is actually a 20-minute walk too, completely out of the way, so maybe he can, like, go buy a pack of cigarettes, and as he opens it, absent-mindedly stuff the "change", let's say X, into the pack?.. and then they'd ask him for a smoke as he returns from the store and he gives them the pack and he can go?..

This is just poor student level; I bet others paid much more, Moscow road police were legendary, although I didn't drive so cannot confirm.

That said I think it's a separate issue from unprompted ID checks, although one could facilitate the other.
I disagree.

The article makes some valid points. I did a year and a half working as a "digital nomad" traveling through the middle east, Europe and Africa. It was an incredible part of my life - just an incredibly dense stream of experiences; some good and some bad, some fun, some challenging, from pure joy to wrenching heartbreak and everything in between.

There was a lot of superficial joy and excitement during that period. And as the article says, there were times when the novelty of going somewhere new, seeing the sights, meeting new people wore off, and that was really depressing. I felt the lack of roots: of having people who really knew me around, and having the chance to build things which take time and stability.

At the same time, there were a lot of real experiences that time. I faced and overcame certain challenges, and I met certain people, and I had certain experiences which fundamentally changed who I am and how I and how I approach the world. And just that project of living with something approaching to absolute freedom for an extended period allowed me to choose who I want to be in a way which would not have been possible otherwise.

I'm on a different project now, and I don't think I will be disappearing for a year and a half any time soon, but I still find travel to be an incredibly valuable tool. I like to set up trips which include the right mix of planning and improvisation to put me in that mindset where I have to be open to possibility and really engage with the world around me. Almost like an experiment where certain parameters are set in order to test myself in a certain way. And I have found that during a trip, or coming back from one, is often when I can think the most clearly about my life and make important decisions.

Travel will not solve your problems on its own, but it can certainly help.
For some people, travel aligns perfectly with photography.
And of course when they retire, plenty of time to do travelling.
Securing Workloads Against Side Channel Methods
Actually two spaces.

Of course four or more work as well, but they add extra indentation that you don't need.
I've moved a lot as an adult, and I can confirm that this is true. It's nothing to do with how old you are, and all to do with how much your life changes.

Last time I stayed in the same place/job for a few years it was a blur.
I spent some time playing around with odyssey and it seemed like every other situation not explicitly experienced or anticipated by the author would result in a segfault just like that.
If all you do is visit art museums, then sure. While I lived in Thailand I saw:

-- The British cemetery for the POWs that worked on the death railway (The Bridge on the River Kwai) -- and saw that many multiples of Thais died for every western soldier who died
-- The awesome canal boats, that stop to drop people off and pick people up in under 20 seconds.
-- Malls with endless 5 foot and 10 foot shops -- MBK mall has 3,000 shops in it!
-- More more more malls: MBK is across from Siam, which is next to Central World, which is across the street from Gaysorn, which is next to The Market, which is a block away from Platinum, and it goes on and on.
-- Thailand's air and space museum, where they proudly display the remains of a U.S. plane they shot down in WWII, along with a bunch of their own aircraft.
-- Amazing beaches -- of course.
-- The Thailand Museum of Science and Industry, which was awesome.
-- Street food, so much street food.
-- Shops selling nothing but electric fans, shops selling ancient typewriters, shops selling vintage cameras, and oh so much more.

And so much more, of course. Every day was an adventure. I was there two years and I miss it.
> How do this people landed in this place without a road and electricity? Rural homes must have roads to reach the city to buy fuel and food.

They might rely on generators for electricity, and access might involve a boat, or a quad bike trail that would need enlarging before you could bring construction equipment in and run a cable along it.

> There are also wireless terrestrial ways to transmit internet too.

I mean ultimately the proof is in the pudding; if it were practical to run internet some other way they would already get it that way.
There are interesting experiments using torrent streaming, tor, and riffs on ipfs exploring the possibilities of distributed data storage. The existing tech is resilient and resists censorship at the highest level of skill and resources.

Blockchains allow structure and incentive beyond the data in itself. If someone published all the leaked pii of us citizens from the last decade to the bitcoin blockchain (which would probably exceed high 6 figures in fees,) the financial incentive would effectively permanently protect it. It's about as far from ephemeral as data can get. Governments could hamper the use of bitcoin, shut down exchanges for fiat, but it's effectively impossible to get rid of the data once it's published to the blockchain.

Non blockchain distributed data systems can theoretically be censored, but in the same sense that tor users can be tracked - the resources needed aren't trivial.

Building in a consensus based way of eliminating garbage from non-functional blockchain data might prove legally necessary, as bitcoin nodes are effectively hosting all sorts of nasty and illegal data even now.

Transaction size limits and fees prevent meaningful abuse or use of bitcoin as a data sharing platform, but there are solid cryptocurrencies designed for arbitrary public distributed data. I'd love to see a scihub blockchain, or a better steemit type system.

It'll be interesting to see how cryptocurrencies evolve, and how long it takes governments and cultures to adapt.
What framework is the UI built in (the emulator, not Palm itself)? I don’t know if it’s like this because I’m on an iPhone, but it’s the most app-like web UI I’ve experienced.
Okay but ascii only covers English. Doesn't even cover all European languages. There is probably something between ascii and utf-8 where you could cover prolly like 90% of people's needs with English Chinese Japanese Korean Greek Russian. Weird languages that need ligatures and combining symbols are the exception (and in some cases like Korean there is a very finite amount of combinations)
> I've used both the original MS/DOS and IBM's CMS, but never made the connection between both of them using drive letters. It just seemed like a natural way of concisely referring to disk devices.

I've used both of them too and in the case of CMS the one thing I didn't like about it was the lack of tree-structured directories. You couldn't easily explore the filesystem without them. Also, if I remember correctly, the drives addressed by letters were virtual drives - certainly our IBM 4381s did not have 26 physical drives :)

Still, I wrote a lot of useful software in CMS, so perhaps it's not that important.
Not run SW is possibly last resort, or not an alternative at all. But selecting, proposing FOSS alternatives, or run it in the browser if possible are two ways of trying to make the situation better.

As others have said, Jitsi is a for many meetings a good FOSS alternative. And if that does not work, use Zoom in the browser.
Open Source software is not immune to backdoors, and can also be hacked. I am afraid simple solutions such as “use only trusted software” just are not good enough in 2022.

We need defence in depth, and a physical switch would be one of the best protection mechanism.

Just like developers learnt the hard way that user input should not be trusted, users need to realise that software should not be trusted either.
Interesting. I like "sum of two double digit numbers = double digit number." In Wordle I usually hunt for vowels, which I guess the equivalent thing here would be hunting for operators. But somehow it feels like knocking out digits is more useful here -- I guess because of the increased chance of repetition.
For reference, by 1972, 3449 satellites were launched to space. I'm sure many had deorbited by then but it still might be more than you thought.

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/osoindex/search-ng.jspx?lf_id=
you don't think coins that are not used by anyone are increasing 1000x every year in value is justified? or that a reference to jpeg of a monkey hosted on centralized servers is not worth 10 million USD? Good Lord, such a boomer mindset!
I regret to inform you that possible negative outcomes of falling from a cliff include life-long pain, paralysis and brain injury.
Good point! I'll be adding docs and explainers to the landing page in the coming days.
In other words, your doctor could have been losslessly replaced with a rock that says “apply a steroid cream”, and that heuristic would have harmed you.
I live in EU but not in the country of origin. But I keep close eye on it. People are tired of some regulations (I could not call mask requirement a restriction, it is mostly common sense to wear it currently) but the overblown optimism about mildness of omicron makes me worry because of older people who are still not vaccinated (an there are plenty of them) have similar risk to end up in hospital than before but it is completely not discussed at all. If they were vaccinated, it would be really possible to leave this damn thing behind at the moment regardless of high infection rates (it will still hurt economy when too many people are on the sick leave but it would be a different problem then).
Precisely. The split between bandwidth and iops is what remains largely absent from discussions on ZFS and also from benchmarks.
https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/22/a-tailor-made-therapy-ma...
Software Engineering Idioms You Should Know. Which one would u add to the list?
The first time I encountered Kelly Criterion was when I was scouring books on trading.

It got mentioned in one chapter in a book that happened to be a collection of interviews of traders, out of about 30 books on trading that I had read.

Bet sizing can be used for money management and risk control for professional traders.
Plus $500 sign up fee ;)

This might all seem reasonable in rural America but it’s hugely expensive for internet in Europe.
How to automate the news and when not to
I don’t think thats quite the whole story though. The feds would have no obligation to make you whole but you would almost certainly have a civil cause of action vs the buyer for the full amount, if you could ever collect. So don’t do business with people who can disappear or avoid court judgements.
Soapboxing your random opinion and thinly veiling it as if it's in context here is pretty tasteless.

Any store you visit has cameras, websites might too. Recordings aren't necessarily associated with identity or used to track or invade privacy, it can all be anonymized and deleted.
Your complaint would be as if someone didn’t know that “thunderstorms” caused rain in addition to lightning and thought someone was claiming lightning flooded their garage.
The storm was the only cause, so it is in fact “of”.
There is zero link between a hardware wallet's private key and the original account that purchased the wallet.
Nice to see a translation, but its English is far from perfect.

Ideally, the author should have used the YouTube closed captioning feature, and enabled community fixes.
> Widespread use can only help if that widespread use leads the State to accept it and that it should not insist on production of secrets from PDDBs. However, how likely do you think that would be??

Not likely.

At this point, if you want to hide secrets from the state, I think you'd be better off finding some place to stash a micro-SD card. Those things are so tiny and easy to lose in the best of circumstances...
I've read the linked page and skimmed the comments and I still don't know what "PDE" is supposed to mean.

From a quick search, my best guess is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_differential_equation?
Probably more like "Welcome to zoombocom" :D
Haven't seen this myself, but it's such a battery-murdering app.

I can view full-HD video without the fan even making a sigh, but joining a Zoom meeting and turning off everything except incoming audio makes the fan scream.

What's going on? Is that app doing crypto-mining in the background?
I can assure you Zoom is not doing anything that would legally constitute "recording." In all US states and probably a lot of countries, recording is illegal without the consent of at least one party to the conversation. In the US, in some states, all parties must consent to recording. If Zoom were even skirting the line here, their lawyers would put the kibosh on it real quick.

Hmm... but, then again, there was that thing where Amazon Alexa was recording people without their knowledge... hmm.
The funniest thing is that Telegram's group management tools blow anything FB has out of the water by a nautical mile.

If you only need the one channel and you need to manage a 100+ people, Telegram is by far the best tool. For "communities" Discord is a bit better, since you can split stuff to multiple channels. Anyone with basic knowledge of the internet can also install bots on both to manage dozens of different things.

Signal on the other hand is SUPER SECURE (although you will be giving your phone number to everyone), but no bots and no real ways to manage hundreds of possibly unruly people on a single channel.
What could possibly go wrong... I don't expect Facebook or TikTok to oppose this very much, having credit cards on file is conveniently closer to making more money.
You have over-simplified to the point of being incorrect.

The Alamo is one of many battles during the Texas revolution which primarily occurred due to the move of Mexico to a centralized power instead of a federalized one. Texas had already endured a constitutional change, increased taxes, immigration being made illegal and changes in the legality of slavery.

While Santa Anna blamed "illegal immigrants" heavily, he also was basically conscripting anyone and everyone to form his army which likely tied into his continual set of losses.

The Alamo is the first to fall when the Mexican army, coming from the heart of Mexico, re-enters Texas. During the fighting, Texas formally declared independence from Mexico. The Alamo falls. A few days later the Texan army catches up with the Mexican army and crushes them, with claims the men are shouting "Remember the Alamo".
> A better question is why are hard drives still being assigned drive letters?

Backwards compatibility. I agree it is unfortunate.
agreed, the giveaway is the label "far right" to describe anyone who doesn't agree with their politics.
I think you are misunderstanding the concept of EMH. EMH doesn't say markets price some mythical society wide shared understanding of reality which only fails to be correct due to the speed at which it propagates. it simply prices all of the information (orders) into the market according to who is willing to make those orders, and at what volumes, which is generated entirely by individual actors who have assymentric information like the contrarians from 2008 you seem to be implying don't count for some reason. The information of those contrarians was efficiently priced at every point and yet the market was wrong for an extended period of time. there were financial institutions publishing this info as research. it wasn't some big secret. the market didn't price it because people didn't understand the arguments and therefore didn't act on it, just like today.

>This isn't comparable to the information we all have

there's no set of information we all have. plenty of people don't believe covid is real, and that russia is run by reptilian aliens. Markets efficiently value their "knowledge" just as much as anyone else's.
The thread is about CO2 emissions.

The entire total carbon emissions of producing and flying the second stage is non-trivial.
I think the key difference between your narrative and the authors is that you kept moving. It seems like when you were a nomad you never stayed in one place for too long.
That pays for the antenna. The antennas are expensive now because they are new technology, never manufactured on this scale before, but that is changing fast. The fee will get smaller soon enough. Ground-based infrastructure will not be experiencing any analogous rapid cost reduction. And in rural areas it costs a lot more than $500 per residence already. What infrastructure exists is heavily subsidized.
I have seen that research too, and I believe it. However running is bad on joints for many people, including me.

I believe the difference that makes the difference is how good your joint alignment is before starting. If your alignment is bad the running can chronically damage the joints, if your alignment is good they will get only slightly damaged and regrow stronger, leading to the results shown in the studies. Survivorship bias means only people with good joint alignment will actually run enough to be included in a study.
In pre-Brexit Britain we were promised less friction on the internet because we wouldn't have to accept cookies [1].

Who would have thought there would be more friction for just about every part of British life? /s

[1]
https://preprod.metro.co.uk/2021/08/27/no-more-cookie-pop-up...
Is "ported" another word for "stolen"?
…and I still use this.
Good burn, the difference between what permission modals say and what Apple and Google allow you to do with the hardware you paid money for is a valid point in 2022.
Will they reenter the atmosphere and burn up, or remain as space-debris? Some are even saying they were space-debris the moment they were launched, due to SpaceX's lack of concern for other satellites up there.
I mean basically going back to get the watch is what saved his life cause after saving Marcellus there weren't any hitmen looking for him, although there was the loose end of Vincent's dead body in his apartment - hopefully the Wolf cleaned that up.
That is not true at all. Crypto stands alone in its ratio of effort and money invested to value produced. It has been around for so long, and almost nothing of actual use to society has come out of it. Other tech fads do not have this characteristic.
An other good question: why is dropbox scanning abd opening files outside of the dropbox folder?
> you have come to the conclusion that the business you're engaging in is fraudulent [...] then you don't deserve any work in tech

I do believe the whole tech industry is nothing but a giant scam, selling snake oil at a premium. You are as much the problem as I am.

We very much live in a world where you are either the sheep or the wolf, and I ain't gonna be a sheep. I won't back down to bullies of your kind.

> I for one would never hire you.

At least, I don't pretend I'm gonna save the world from itself.
JPMorgan is a well recognised authority on crypto value. why don't they just keep it to themselves and short btc?
At which point the system will helpfully switch to the built-in mic.