skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I've found that I've had to avoid hate and misinformation just about anywhere I go on the internet. I think there's a tendency for people to get used to the hate and misinformation that's acceptable for their in-group and become blind to it, thinking that their corner of the internet is devoid of it.

For instance, many posts here about geopolitics appear to me as xenophobic and full of false information (particularly when they're countries that I'm familiar with). But it's hard for people to see that, or even think anyone could legitimately feel that way, when it's considered by the in-group to simply be "common sense." Heavy handed moderation about a subject (rather than simple topicality like with Hacker News) can lead to the entrenchment of these in-groups, which can both increases the level of these comments and leads people to think of them as nothing more than common discourse. It also increases bifurcation, so you have competing "destroy all Pepsi" and "destroy all Coke" forums, both of whom think they're merely bring moderate common sense ideas forward to oppose the extremists on the other end.

Having said that, the forums I'm talking about seem to have a lower level of this in general, since they often focus on a particular niche. Similar to how the rules against political discussion let's Hacker News have better discussions than in general, but when political discussions do slip through then tend to be closer to typical internet discussions.
All the signs were there. If only we had eyes to see them!
> To say they don't consider asset prices

I didn't say that, though.

I contextualized the role of those prices as intermediate and instrumental rather than ultimate goals (and, as such, they are targeted for what, in consideration of other circumstances, they appear to indicate about the things that are mandate goals.)
That's true now. Used to be the case that they'd recommend random or high-entropy parts of the keys go at the beginning to avoid overloading a shard as you described above.

From [0]:

> This S3 request rate performance increase removes any previous guidance to randomize object prefixes to achieve faster performance. That means you can now use logical or sequential naming patterns in S3 object naming without any performance implications. This improvement is now available in all AWS Regions. For more information, visit the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3...
The conspiracy part is that freezing accounts related to illegal activity, a really common thing to do, is somehow related to the downtime. We all know that some people who have been funding illegal activity are getting their account frozen; that's not the disputed part.
Just goes to show what a vague evil "money laundering" is. How do the golden visas aid money laundering?
Great question! Unfortunately on the App Store app for iPhone (as opposed to iPad) there doesn’t seem to be any support for search filters, making it even more opaque and near-impossible to filter searches by language.
Profit is a lagging indicator, you can't set your prices based on what supplies used to cost and expect to stay in business.

My local pizzeria had their best 2 years ever during the pandemic, yet they still raised their prices this year due to labor and supply cost. I can't really fault them for not wanting to lose a bunch of money this year to somehow make up for that.
While I'm glad that the US has finally approved the headlights that have been in use in Europe for a while, I'm skeptical. It relies on computer vision to not blind people, which means that camera needs to be working and unobstructed and the software needs to be bug free.

My minivan has a sensor to automatically turn on the brights when no cars are around. Now that the car is over four years old, suddenly the brights just start coming on randomly, so either the sensor is busted or obstructed, but the dealer says they can't replicate it so they can't fix it. And that's just a simple sensor.

I hope these advanced lights have much better sensors and long term viability.
> communism/collectivism is once again the wolf in sheeps clothing

Authoritarian communism certainly is, no disagreement there. But in America, everything left of the GQP is branded as "communism" these days, including stuff that is considered a basic part of the system in Europe like public, affordable healthcare.

If Americans were able to debate the successes of European policy - and that includes even part of what the former GDR did, like providing access to childcare for mothers so they could work, or provide access to safe abortions - on face value, without resorting to "but that's communism!!!", your life would be so much better.
Your comment can be summed up as:

"Either you share my twisted view of the world or you don't. I choose not to believe that others can objectively evaluate evidence, and there's the risk that they may not come to the same conclusion that I did."
JetBrains seems to be indeed very popular among HN users.

Could you share some of your favorite features in WebStorm? Curious what would the pitch be if you would recommend it to a colleague.
But, by the law of nature, not all kids are prodigy. The normal distribution curve still holds, and the current society is putting too much pressure on them. Last time I visited India, I was shocked that parents were forcing their kids to learn IIT related thing in class 6. I encountered same thing in US, where kids were being prepared for competitive exams like SAT etc… Parents expect their children should go to prestigious universities like MIT and standford. The case is worst in China.
You simplified to an absurd level that does not reflect reality in the slightest.
You did that to sound smart, and refused to concede when actual domain experts showed up to slap you down.

I worked on a ballistic missile tracking software that would calculate areas of uncertainty given coverage of various defense mechanisms.

It very much involved rocket scientists from JPL.

You are wrong in every measurable sense of the word.
What on earth is Google Pie?
My parents were similarly middle class. They bought an enormous asset on credit and spent ~4x its purchase value on interest payments. This was pretty normal back when interest rates were high.
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> only allow ever losing 1 second of data

For a database this means that every transaction will take a minimum of 1 second, otherwise you can't guarantee durability.
I think you're missing that the punishments he got were extremely light, likely due to his connections. He never had remorse nor reform. He and maxwell continued to do what they're so infamously known for throughout the 2010s. The conspiracy is that this could probably have been stopped were it not for "someone" getting in the way.

From the article you linked, here's just a few snippets that showed he was not treated like he should have been.

"After a contested hearing in January 2011, and an appeal, he stayed registered in New York State as a "level three" (high risk of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation.[122][123] At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney argued unsuccessfully that the level should be reduced to a low-risk "level one" and was chided by the judge. Despite opposition from Epstein's lawyer that he had a "main" home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the judge confirmed he personally must check in with the New York Police Department every 90 days. Though Epstein had been a level-three registered sex offender in New York since 2010, the New York Police Department never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance is a felony."

"On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18,[117] he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was after 3+1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours."

" According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims.""

And yes, this is all has been known. What's not known is why, which is the conspiracy. The why is extremely important because of the likelihood that some of the world's most powerful are involved.
Buying a house is usually done with a mortgage which is also borrowing money
Collaborative filtering ... has issues. Most simple or single-factor fixes don't address the larger problems.

Much of the time, it tends to amplify interesting, and diminish nonproductive contributions. Spam, trolling, clickbait, and vacuous responses seem to get quickly downvoted and flagged on HN, which is good. Comment voting has numerous other connotations, however.

- Simple and short expressions tend to be disproportionately upvoted. They're easier to assess. Sometimes they are insightful, most often, only tapping a common sentiment.

- Controversial views tend to be downvoted. Sometimes controversy is flamebait, sometimes it isn't. There's not much distinction made between the two.

- Truth isn't a popularity contest. HN often, but not always, avoids this trap. True expertise in complex topics is rare, but at times necessary. An epistemic system should reflect this to a greater extent (though also be aware of misuses of such claims of expertise or authority).

- Topics strongly shaped by remunerative interests, ideological alignments, and tribal allegiances tend to perform most poorly under popular voting systems. There is a List of Things HN Cannot Discuss, and most of these seem to fall under this umbrella. Dang has voiced frustration with this on occasion, and I've had numerous email discussions with him about this ... more in the past than recently, I think. HN is guided to an extent by its moderator team. It is not directly steered by them. And the overall philosophy is broader than critics of the principle current political tribes seem to admit.

Collaborative filtering / the wisdom of crowds was all the rage in the late 1990s / early 2000s. Whilst it has some uses, there's been an overreliance on it.

I'm not entirely sure how best to patch the system, though I have some thoughts.

- Bounding ratings to a range rather than a simple sum seems more useful.

- Weighting individual's ratings by their own assigned mean similarly. If someone always hands out 5s (on a 1--5 scale), then those are re-scaled to a median score. Rescaling ranges similarly: someone offering only 1s and 5s might see that rescaled to 2 & 4 repectively.

- Factoring in expertise, or rescaling based on other factors such as truth, tone, conciseness, accuracy, references, etc., might help. Goodhart's law applies. But sometimes, what you want isn't the average opinion of the passengers, but a competent pilot.

Another point is that HN doesn't aim simply to be a place where truth is sought, but a conversational platform. Excessive strictness would probably diminish this.
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>The police have at least to date done nothing wrong.

The complaint this time isn't about the police using unnecessary force to brutalize the public. Our complaint is that they haven't upheld the law, and are acting like 'buddies' with the people that they are supposed to be ticketing/incarcerating.

We just want the police to do their fucking job.
So they're transferring billions of venture capital money to people that use these services. And that's bad because...
In this game and others in the Wordle family, for each square in the guess, you get green, yellow, or black feedback specifically for it. In Mastermind, you'd only get told the total number of greens and the total number of yellows per line, not exactly which squares they came from.
Same story here with MacOS and Arch Linux; and Apple doesn't make their hardware easy to run linux on!

I've found that overall my linux systems require more prep work to setup (planning bootloader, partitions, init system, background tasks) but the payoff is leagues better than what is even _remotely possible_ on Apple/Windows systems.

Perfect example: I have a python script which watches my downloads folder for new items. Obviously the .zip => folder already exists on MacOS, I built that for myself. But because python code is python code, I can also do .tar.* archives and it also moves "commonly named files" (minimum 3 to find a prefix) into a prefixed folder; so if I download "ProjX Plan.docx", "ProjX_code.zip", and "ProjX Finances.csv" I don't have 3 items in downloads/ - I have "ProjX/{ProjX Plan.docx,ProjX_code/<contents>,ProjX Finances.csv}" which is pretty awesome.

The other thing I loved building was a quick "notify me" command, which pings my phone. I often run commands that take ~2-3 minutes and rather than just looking at a progress bar I tack on "./slow-task ; pingme 'slowtask finished!'" and go do something else, returning when the machine needs me.
S3 does too, now.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3...
I use a password manager for the hundreds of accounts I have where security is not super important. Mostly as way to not have to reuse passwords (credential stuffing now makes up a significant amount of attack traffic), nor fight the varying password requirements ("shoot, did this website require a special character?"). Tbh, it's nice to have one less thing to worry about. For the increasing number of sites which require 2fa, it also let's me keep a totp token accessible from all my devices.

My most secure accounts use their own individual, memorable, secure password.

I do fear that even if my self-hosted password manager is secure today, there's nothing stopping a malicious update to that software which could exfiltrate all of my passwords.
Fetching and updates are rebindable operations that you can overload for specific types (well, like most languages properties), for everything on some part of your code, or even on the standard library.
This is the best one so far!

This is like when I discovered calcudoku 12x12s and now sudokus are dumb and boring. Just a lot better.

May the NYT acquire you for the level-up option.
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It's also worth mentioning that every developed nation has a heavy interest in the value of the dollar, because of trade with the US, petrodollars, etc.
Houston has zoning under a different name.

It is illegal to build in Houston properties that would be legal in Japan or Europe.
"Whether this leads to toxic culture is a different question and up for a debate"

And here I was thinking this whole thread was about that question ...

"My point is a company that offers top compensation can and should demand top performance. "

Anyway, sure they can. But no company can expect from me, to put the company over my self. A good company has those goals aligned. I get money - and they get performance. Win win. But I will not work to death for them, as then all my money would be worthless.

That is - no for-profit company can expect this from me. A non-profit on the other hand, that has truly utilitarian goals, that really benefit humanity - I might consider putting myself aside. But why should anyone sacrifice himself, so a company makes more money? That doesn't make sense to me. But of course it makes sense, that companies want their employes give everything to them.
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>> Wealth inequality did this

No. Just like the student loan crisis, when you make borrowing money really easy it drives prices up. Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. Student tuition well that's even worse because the risk to the bank is zero (because the government is backing those loans).

Unfortunately some people think they can spend their way out of problems without making worse problems - I'm looking at congress here.

As they say, when you're in a hole the first thing you need to do is STOP DIGGING. For personal finance this involves cutting up credit cards so you can't go further into debt. For the loans they need to stop talking about the government paying them off (or some of them) and STOP guaranteeing them - then we can talk about the people who are already fucked. For everything else we need the Fed to increase interest rates to a good 3 percent or so. Yeah that will tank the economy short term, but I say so what it's already going to crash lets get through the pain and straighten things out.
I agree with you that people often overlook the complexity of tying changes to their database, with enqueuing jobs in a completely separate system.

https://www.betterment.com/engineering/delayed-resilient-bac... does a great job explaining this.
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I’ve made great choices my entire life and have a 200k salary in my twenties. I’ve been outbid on the last four houses I put offers on, including one that sold for 1.4 million, wait for it, in cash.

It’s nice your life has been so easy. Really. But please don’t use your rose-tinted glasses to accuse everyone else of being “dumb” - aside from how pretentious it comes off, it’s a wholly incorrect view. Does it factor in covid-related job loss? Inflation? Anything other than your dated experiences that no longer apply?

The icing on ththe cake is that you responded to someone else calling them “dishonest.”
> Or become a citizen of a country that is not hostile to its population.

The U.S. spends 1% of GDP on public support for tertiary education: https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF1_2_Public_expenditure_educat... (page 2, panel B). That's right in the middle of the G7: less than Canada, France, and Germany, but more than the U.K., Japan, and Italy.

What's extraordinary about the U.S. is how expensive tertiary education is overall: 2.5% of GDP, the highest in the world. American universities spend a lot more money per student on administrators, student services, facilities, etc.
Clearly correcting the market would help resolve inflationary pressures, while not seriously dampening the jobs market.

So if your supposition is correct, they should engineer a decline in the market and real estate to achieve their price stability mandate.

Yet everything they do is dragging their feet to support asset prices. So I agree with your assessment in theory, but don't see them living or acting by that logic.

They could have ended QE overnight in January, for example. Why not?

They continue to pursue low volatility when the times of today warrant higher volatility and less risk taking/speculation.
I trust the one I wrote for myself. I would have a hard time trusting a 3rd party tool without a lot of insight and feedback as to its design and implementation, and credible assessments of its trustworthiness.
I wonder the same. If I have a loan, they still get cash from my bank.

I don't know much about the US house buying process, but from what I've read about it it sounds insane. Fees everywhere, two realtors involved etc.
If you're going to selfhost, use Vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden - way lighter version that implements most of the features
It's a beautifully quiet design. If I want to check if someone came back I can, and sometimes I don't have the energy to look. The quality is the effect of all these little things, and not something one could affect top down in another design.

I suspect there is a ton of sophisticated stuff going on behind the scenes, but even if there were, the effect is still too good to complain about.
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That's what Windows 11 Enterprise is for! Microsoft values its big enterprise customers far more than it values you, and they will make heroic accommodations for those customers' needs.

There will soon come a time when buying a general purpose computer will need to be done on a big enterprise account -- all "consumer grade" devices will have a signed code path from power on to end-user code -- and they will need an internet connection to download the latest keylist and upload telemetry.

Oh, and buying a general-purpose computer that doesn't have remote backdoors is something only government agencies will be able to do.
I'm sorry, but documentation is a waste of time. It is never complete, never up to date, never easy to find something in, etc.

Spend the time to make whatever you are doing self describing. Write cleaner code, use infrastructure as code, ci/cd, automatic service overview, proper sprint planing, etc. Anything that improves everyones day to day life, even if they have all the information, experience, etc.
> posting negative but true things about competitors

Amplifying maybe-negative (see below) things about competitors when many of your own products are comparatively awful ripoffs by specification? Yeah, that was not good. People inside the company were ashamed of it. Astroturfing alone was pretty sad.

I did QA testing on their latest tech, straight out of a reverse-engineering & design contractor in Taiwan. The hardware sucked and they also played proprietary refill tricks. And this is saying nothing of the bundled software...

> The issue is that their printers refuse to work without one.

They publish the fact that you have to use their labels. Their refills use RFIDs for verification. Who is enraged, what are the details? It's a logical use of the tech. Why is this an issue unless they mistakenly ship a refill without an RFID tag?
The number of guesses are fine IMO. While I needed one more guess, I also had made an unnecessary guess by mistake.
for those who dont know. Read about "Cantillon Effect", it basically means whoever gets newly printed money first benefits the most at the cost on whoever gets it later.
You're making my point for me. 2013 MacBooks were great. New ones, not so much. IIRC, 2013 was around the high water mark for MacBook quality.
As the writer of the post, I would love to hear Apple's side of the story. The reason I didn't include more quotes from Apple was that they never cited anything other than "resembles Wordle" and "leverages Wordle" in their replies. But clearly, given that they don't apply these rules when it comes to other apps (such as Scrabble, Minesweeper, Tetris, etc.), there is something else going on.
Relevant bit of related humour:

"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6"

https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/21/verity_stob_ipv6/

Choice quote:
"'Do you NATter with your Neighbours? Don't squander the nation's resource!'"
I think this is good. If these guys hoard ipv4, corporation will be forced to ipv6. Isn't that a good news?