skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally, I was (also) going to jump in this thread to say that at Fitbit we never employed even near 2800 people.

Of course, per the standard corporate model nowadays, Fitbit in its time as an independent company didn't directly employ the people who do the manufacturing, logistics, retail sales, or front line customer support (nor of course the people who do janitorial services, security, food service, etc for those folks.)

So I don't think it was fair of GP to say:

> All your comment really shows is how little you know about how many people it takes to run a large business

Although perhaps it was more fair to say:

> you don't really understand what Peleton do

Personally, I concluded from the headline that there must be an interesting story there.
Have a google for BIP-32, about Hierchical Deterministic Wallets. A secret key is nothing but a number, so it's not too hard to generate more numbers from that seed. If you have the seed and the parameters for the child numbers, you have all the private keys you want.
But in this case, accessing the billions in BTC was impossible too, so for all intents and purposes, that number wasn't real, since it wasn't usable.

The question is perhaps what is the most one can use and how to do it. Privacy coins probably play a part in this equation.

You maybe could slowly, and methodically convert it out of the privacy coin into a spendable form when needed.
How does step 1 work? My understanding is that the ID from the master tells you which volume server to write to. If you're generating it randomly, then are you saying you have queried the master server for the number of volumes upfront & then just randomly distribute it that way?
This is intentional (although may change in the future), for one main reason - I believe that email is personal, and webhooks are a much better way to notify _teams_. Strongly believe that SSL expiration handling is a team effort!

Thanks for this feedback!
Who is doing hyperbole here?

Any Google Maps user can switch to Open Street Map on a whim unlike feudalism peasants. Arguably, the current best economic theory basically says that because exchange takes place assuming users are rational enough, the exchanged value is identical.

One would need a stronger argument than calling it "work for free" here, when it is obviously not free.
I think this is a benefit from using a framework in general and there are some good alternatives in the PHP space.
Man, I swear sometimes I feel like I’m on a forum full of wanted criminals, state actors, and/or felons.

I’m not saying I’m against privacy. I am all for not being tracked, but we are approaching absurdity.

I really want to see all of you who praise “privacy” go fully offline and use only cash. No cards. No bank account. Nothing.
Salary? Cash, because earnings could also be sold and used for advertising. Groceries? Cash. Gas? Cash. No checks also, as they can be tracked /s
Also, while we are at it, no Android, no iOS, no Windows or Macs. Only Linux, because we can’t trust UE vendors.

Really, maybe we should start spending our energy in convincing legislators that PII should not be sold along with transaction data/histories. Matter a fact, let’s rally for universal privacy laws. How about that?

Let’s not go 50 back in evolution just because “visa bad”. I’m happy not to lose cash or reach for my wallet anymore.
I'm not sure whether this type of marketing being legal in the US is as relevant as is this type of marketing legal in Israel since it is an Israeli company.
Why not just reveal that hypothetical car so we can actually verify instead of buying marketing claims?
Intel, once king of microchips, is now far behind competitors
> "Web apps" in this context should just be thought of as "apps"

Why? Native apps aren't webapps, and do have access to push notifications.

> There is a small but significant group of people that I've only found on HN who seem to claim to just not use notifications at all on their smartphones, but this is not how most people operate.

Why do you keep conflating webapps and apps? I certainly use notifications in native apps, but the thought never even crossed my mind to enable them in webapps. I click "No" faster than lightning when websites prompt me on the mac, so why would I want it on my phone.
You have to delete them all and let God sort them out.
books bad
change bad
books about change doubly bad, unless its the bible
Other than mailing list and shared inboxes it also seems that every oncall system and enterprise chat tool has support for receiving email. Email is just the standard protocol, people can consume it however they want.
Rob Pike wrote up his version of its inception almost 20 years ago.

The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003): http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735958
There can never be, for two simple reasons:

1. Making the whole world agree on something is inherently slow so there is limited capacity.

2. Every decision has to be made by a computer so the only solution available is some variant of auctioning to the highest bidder. Some number must compare larger than another and the only number you can't lie about is wallet balance (directly or indirectly via resource waste for PoW).

These are fundamental properties of the tech and one reason why these systems can never actually be usable for anything except a playground of a few wealthy hobbyists.
A signature doesn't hide information, it only tells you that it hasn't been modified. All the information that's being signed is by definition already in the payload given to the merchant.

If it's actually encrypting information (not just signing it), then that's another thing entirely, but signatures don't hide data.
Which benchmark is that?
Here is the most likely approach: https://xkcd.com/538/
Android had that, just yesterday a merchant accepted my payment.
Relevant: https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2005/08/12/the_head_first_girl...

I've noticed this stock photo on various flyers over the years too
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A new dev can start writing code immediately by looking at any existing file, as almost all of them do the same thing: include a shared header, get some input from the user, do one or more MySQL queries, return the result.

The backend is completely separated from the frontend (so the PHP application just exposes an API to work with), so any code written there does exactly what you expect with no side effects on the client-side.
It seems to me one of the worst problems explicit imports help solve is forward compatibility of code with respect to the modules and the standard library. And this problem seems worth solving.

If you require user code to explicitly import functions from modules, you can safely add a function to a module or to the standard library without risking to break someone's code.

Importing the module is not sufficient: really, the functions (or any other imported objects) themselves need to be named. (or, the function needs to be qualified with the name of the module; actually, Python seems to do a reasonable job at this)

As a text editor user, it also helps me discover where such or such function is defined. The alternatives are:

- using an IDE that will consume a lot of CPU cycles and memory to resolve the functions

- grepping, with the risk of finding another function with the same name so I would also need to check if the type signature matches.

I'll gladly spend the time to write my import statement to solve all these issues. It does not bother me. It's not where I spend my time when I program.

It's okay if IDEs hide those import statements or produce them automatically (and it does not mean it's the wrong approach). The point is: code should not break (compilation or runtime) if a module or the standard library evolves and add stuff that could have otherwise clashed. The work being done automatically and the result being hidden by default does not mean it can be done the same way in the future and therefore should be avoided; that's because the environment can change, so it has to be done at the time the code is written, manually or automatically.
Wow. I haven't kept up with pro-vaccine media (I got mine, seemed like a good idea, just haven't paid attention to the messaging very much aside from health official guidelines and such) but damn that's bad. No wonder BSABing this issue is so effective.

Some of that's excusable by "the best information at the time was wrong" and some of it's not even wrong but the usual thing I've seen a lot of the last couple years, where some people take a limited statement as absolute or saying more than it is and then claim the original was wrong (when it wasn't) but a good deal of that compilation appears to be indefensible.
I got a bit confused here. It appears the author talks about explicit imports vs. implicit imports.

Ofcause it would be alright to not import anything in a module meaning that it would have no external dependencies.
> People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them.

No, that's wrong model.

Authorities have always misled us. There was no time in the past when authorities would be truthful.

What changed is us, our access to information and our ability to shout out whatever you want and reach another person on the other side of the world.

> That's not to mention that it's gotten easier than ever to falsify evidence using technology

Again, not true. It is easier than ever to point out untrue. With so many data points on every event it is very difficult to completely falsify a piece of information. You can fake somebody saying something publicly but you can't easily ensure there were no 50 other people who have recorded it in some other way.

You say you can fake photo. You had NO photos back in the past. Police did not have cameras on them. A lot of events were not recorded or the records were not easily available.

There was only a very, very short time where data was easily available for everybody but the tools to subvert it at scale were not yet usable.

What happened is that there is more information noise that completely overwhelms most people who don't have "mechanism to sort true from false". In the past you would have other people sort true from the false for you (say television or Catholic Church or whatever organisation you have trusted) but there were not too many of those organisations. If those organisations lied and were caught it was possible for enough people to remember that.
Are you under the impression that moderation is just a Chinese thing or something?

I don't think that makes any sense.
I don't think I fully understand the question.

I think I've gotten a lot from spending time online... often in situations where there was a moderation system in place.
You can't count all the requests wasted on assets when comparing the requests/day metric.
Only under the assumption of no legitimate reasons for privacy. Is using https evidence that you're a criminal?
> He asked whether one could accomplish the task by chopping a circle into a finite number of pieces that could be moved within a plane and reassembled into a square of equal area — an approach known as equidecomposition

Huh. The Banach-Tarski theorem ("you can chop a sphere into a finite number of pieces and, by moving them within 3-space, reassemble them into a sphere of double the radius") strongly suggests this is possible. What's so interesting about the revised question?
Ask HN: What should I do with my content site?
I have a web property that generates 200k impressions on Google with about 3k click-through to various pages (monthly). I have no idea whether that is a lot or a little, and whether I should care about this number or maybe even try to monetize these clicks in some way. Can someone provide a reference point? Is it worth growing, and if so, what is the target where something interesting could happen? Thanks!
Or Apple fitness @ $10/month (per person).
I assume Square makes vastly more on fees than on hardware, so the opportunity to make fees off more merchants who have a smaller barrier to entry is probably beneficial, even if they don't buy hardware.
In restaurants it just so happens that not all of the people are on the books and neither is all of the income.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_number

That is the definition of "constructible". In order to perform (with straightedge and compass) the squaring of the circle, you need to construct a line of length sqrt(pi) in a finite number of steps. However, since sqrt(pi) is a transcendental number, that's impossible.
We're decidedly a "low-code" or even “yes-code” tool. You use the drag-and-drop interface to design the app, while all of the app's logic is written in an in-browser text editor environment. Everything is multiplayer from day 1. It's an IDE in the style of VB6 / MS Access / FileMaker Pro, but built with modern web technologies at the foundation.

We're building for early-stage technical teams and independent developers that want to reduce the iteration time on prototype -> production apps.
My concern is that western leaders agree with your assessment, have studied the strict information controls that governments like the Chinese CCP have implemented over the past 20 years, and concluded that model is the only strategy for western governments to move forward as well.
Yep, Android and tap-to-pay cards will work too.
> So now we're living through the societal equivalent of realizing that we've been storing passwords in plaintext and have been hacked.

Or perhaps, we see everyone else around us has their passwords in plain text, but we haven’t yet checked our own.

It’s easy to call out low hanging fruit like QAnon or /r/superstonk but harder to personally introspect which major, identity-defining beliefs that I have can be attributed to the global hive mind, and in which ways that made me subject to strange influence by motivated actors.
>> People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them.

> No, that's wrong model.

> Authorities have always misled us. There was no time in the past when authorities would be truthful.

> What changed is us, our access to information and our ability to shout out whatever you want and reach another person on the other side of the world.

I think actually both are true. Authorities have always misled, and people have a deteriorating trust in (especially political) authorities. The reason is because the frequency of lying to the public increases with an authority's access to the public. Before 24-hour news and the internet, there simply wasn't as much motive for leaders to lie with any real frequency. Now they do so constantly because they are in constant dialogue with the public, and are susceptible to frenzy.
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Clicked expecting a web page and a file was downloaded immediately. Not nice.
What kind of protocol offload capabilities it has ?
Part of the candidate's job is going to be interesting on those problems.

Your ideal candidate is going to be interested in solving those problems, and possibly have experience solving that kind of problem
Will do. Examples directory isn't terribly helpful as documentation as it mostly contains real code with problematic syntax (and compatible licensing) that tripped up ssort when I ran it on a copy of my pip cache. I will move it into tests to avoid confusion
Maybe this isn't on-topic, but I figured HN users would appreciate it given our obsession with efficiency.
I upvoted you, even though "never" is a big word, because though I think about history a lot, no counter-examples readily come to mind, sadly. Except me, I'm usually right. Just ask me. Right? :)
> Well, who changed it? God? No, man did.

Huh? Maybe we read a different Genesis. Yahweh cast out Adam and Eve so that they wouldn't eat from the Tree of Life and become like him and the other gods. The humans didn't change anything.

> The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden

Genesis 3:22
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As other people point out, 2-space is not 3-space. Only weakened version of B-T work in 2-space (e.g. infinite number of pieces).

Tarski, of course, was familiar with his work of the year before formulating the B-T paradox when he posed this question.
As a runner, I just do…not…get Zwift. I could see using it, maybe, on a bike (though, as parent points out, the bike version isn’t exactly all that). But running, it’s just watching a cartoon avatar run down the road while getting passed by bicycles. I well and fully admit that I could be missing the key element that makes Zwift a draw, but as I see it I’d do just as well to stare at the numbers on the treadmill’s LCD screen.
That poll has it 47% to 43% Clinton when the actual results were 48.2% to 46.1% Clinton. The only real discrepancy is they overestimated the vote totals for 3rd party candidates. The numbers they had when excluding 3rd parties was 49% to 46% Clinton. Do some blending of those two and they basically nailed it. Is this really the poll you want to call out as fundamentally flawed?
I don't like that it doesn't understand that the equation doesn't change if I move stuff.

I had x+y+x=z and it won't accept y+x+x or x+x+y
It is the same thing as with Wordle, when there is only one letter missing and you have to iterate over the possibilities. In words, however, typically there are only 2-3 correct choices.
Ask HN: How are you preparing for the incoming recession?
Hello, guys.

I hear a-lot of negative sentiment regarding an incoming recession. I hope it doesn't happen, but I don't want to be a sitting duck.

Just want to know how fellow hackers are consuming this news.

- What do you anticipate?

- Do you have plans incase you get laid off?

- Savings? If so for how long?

- Are you sitting on an inflation hedge?

- What business plans may thrive in a recession?
> no real-time tracking/spying

You'll want a Faraday cage for any contactless cards.
Ilya is a good guy, I don't think he's guilty. there's gotta be a misunderstanding

everyone thinks this story is about me
I think the biggest question to ask is how big the project is.

Wikipedia, Facebook, Etsy and other huge platform are written in PHP, but I doubt they use a framework like Laravel and not some in-house built platform.

Very tiny projects probably need no framework.

That leaves medium-sized projects, but again, it's hard to define what "size" means. I think a project is bigger if it implements various functionalities instead of having hundreds of different files that do a similar thing.

I can see Laravel being used more by out-sourcing companies. Custom frameworks or no framework being used more by companies building their own product.
Seems like it's big on dividing money into "out in the open" or "with the government" and its movement between those two states?
If you’re pulling libraries instead of using a framework, you’re basically just writing your own framework. One that’s simpler but also it’s unique so you lose the ability to bring in a seasoned Laravel dev that can get going right away. You have introduced a learning curve for all new devs that didn’t need to be there.
No, it was just shit :D
I’m not sure I follow. Is your issue with Wayland that it’s not like x11 with a separate server and window manager? Someone can come along and write that in the future if that’s your preference.

As Wayland is just a protocol itself, the client doesn’t care how it’s implemented. Thus I see Wayland providing the extreme flexibility to implement its protocols how you see fit. Right now wlroots makes it easiest but if in a few years another implementation proves to be better, all those client programs aren’t going to stop working. For now the scene graph allows a whole bunch of compositors/window managers to be easily written that replace x11 ones. And better designs can be further iterated.
You see another funny effect like this in voting.

A rough list of voting one can do, in order of likelihood of it affecting anything in the real world, most-to-least:

1. Voting in local party elections/primaries/et c.

2. Voting in local elections.

3. Voting in state-level party primaries.

4. Voting in state-level elections.

5. Voting in national-level primaries (that is, conducted at the state level but for national offices)

6. Voting in national elections.

7. (Largely as an effect of how US Presidential elections work) Voting for president, specifically.

Note that this is damn near perfectly the inverse of participation rates in and media attention given to these activities, and that people will shit all over you for failing to do #7 while they themselves mostly ignore the lower numbers. Meanwhile an hour a year working with/for your preferred local party may very well be more effective than all of that voting. But "you didn't vote for President, so you don't get to complain and are a bad citizen". Horse-shit.
Richard Murphy is a proponent of MMT and certainly leans towards the left.

He explained recently how he feels QE 2008-16 (which led to asset price inflation) is different to QE in covid times.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/02/06/reversing-qe-...
cs is a dominant topic on hn. cs is definitely physics and math adjacent
What's shocking to me is that the hack was actually real and not just an inside job by Bitfinex employees
National electoral politics is largely a busy-box: "There so much wrong in the country and it's always getting worse, but at least I have a say in it!" Every 8 years we 'throw the bums out' yet the policies never really change.
And people wonder why Uber killed the whole taxi industry overnight.
its about so much more than simple censorship, they also more heavily push certain information to certain people… this kind of thing can influence where you shop, who you’re friends with, and who you vote for… and most people aren’t even conscious of it… this kind of opaque algorithmic feed should be illegal
> While Amazon is

Not a wrong comparison at all. His point is that Amazon was a place that sold books. They took risks and grew into a marketplace for selling everything. One mismanagement of their AWS development or platformization and things could be very different.

Peloton is a manufacturer of fitness gadgets AND a content provider of fitness classes. What they could grow into if they take risks is an open and interesting discussion.
No one wants to sign a bill pulling back TSA, and then see the headline "TSA would have stopped this terrorist."

Voters are not reasonable, and the media fans those flames.
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bitcoin developers have taken a crack at it: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-003...