skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I feel like governments should pay me to stop posting stuff online because I probably mess up their PsyOps on both sides.
Just paying people to keep doing what they're doing is going to be massively easier, and have a lot more uptake, then trying to move everyone over to some new company. Plus there's no guarantee you'd get enough of the original company to actually keep producing engines.
I myself have to remember to ease up on colleagues and that the phenomenon, at last where I work, is one of largely silent suffering.

When you work with computer code that obeys logic and that we have the power of telling the computer what to do, it’s easy to forget that humans are different, they have a dash of irrationality and emotion.

Also that many times, we just don’t have all the context behind why someone may be doing/not doing the things they are.
You can hit the space stations repeater with a $40 boafeng radio. Line of site baby!
Is it possible your card infos have been leaked anywhere?

My only thought would be that your card is on the darkweb and these services are seeing it tested using their systems, blacklisting it and related accounts

Pure guess though, I can’t think of much more that would affect you across services like that
I don't know what you should do but I'm rooting for you.

Also, don't underestimate the number of people with money who are just trying to make an excel spreadsheet work for their time forecasting, budget, team vacation time, building depreciation schedule, etc.

They are really struggling to make sense of a digital world and you can help. Whatever you do, it won't be giving up.
One of the founders is Ukrainian and the company is considered by some to be partially Ukrainian[0]. You aren't going to win this one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab
I can understand and relate quite a bit to your problem. Your skills are pretty valued when applied to create business value. In fact, you may be technically advanced for many profitable software business opportunities.

I wish there was a way for sales/marketing guys could team up with talented technical guys like you.

The usual advice here, although somewhat cliched, is get a cofounder, find a business partner or figure out a way to hire one.
Ukraine conflict: Growing numbers of firms pull back from Russia
Ukranians interested in this now.
You need to be honest with yourself. It's not going to work at this moment. HN is filled with bias for the success stories, but you never hear about those that don't make it. I have a friend who is brilliant, Berkeley grad and Stanford PhD, who wasted 11 years trying to start his own startup. He gave up a job at Google and beats himself up every day for literally giving up millions, probably well over $10M had he just stayed.

Go get a well paying job, and start a family. Stop chasing the startup dream, luck has a lot to do with it, and you didn't get lucky. But it's okay, there's no shame in that. You gave it your best shot, but there's more to life than making a startup. You can be extremely happy having a well paying job in tech and raising a wonderful family.
The fact that the idea isn't validated was also the red flag to me. I read the lean startup recently, I would recommend that to learn about validating product ideas as you build as to not get to a finished product that no one will pay for.
Why is collimation important?
The FCC and telecoms know robocalls can be stopped – now you can know that also
John Gray: The Western mind no longer understands Putin
See the CIA's "Thinking About Thinking".
Rising demand for Afrikan software developers
>I know the scope is different, but

This is the hinge on which false equivalences turn. The scope is different, they shouldn't be compared, and being able to correctly grasp and differentiate different scales of moral offense shouldn't be interpreted as "I guess they don't know bad stuff happens elsewhere." Those comparisons do more to obfuscate than clarify.
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If you're using the same email address across all these, it might be something in the email address that's setting these off. Companies do periodically scan email addresses to remove accounts they think are malicious or do not represent an active user.

I had an email *junk*@gmail and it was sometimes flagged.
He's the philosopher that critiques the belief in Progress and not the pop psychologist who wrote about sex and planets!

His idea is that progress / liberalism and western democracy doesn't naturally occur due to education and evolution, but it's something that needs to be actively defended. He warns of countries resting on their laurels. Laurels such as "progress in inevitable, therefore this other policy is also inevitable, you dont want to be on the wrong side of history".
The other wheels weren't round enough.
> I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it. And then there's the task of marketing/selling it, which is way outside of my skillset.

This is why you're spending years and years spinning your wheels getting nowhere. It's a classic mistake pretty much everyone makes.

Very fundamental rule number one: Only build something AFTER you sell it FIRST.

The only time that rule doesn't apply is if you're doing a hobby project / labor of love and you're okay never making money off it.

EDIT: BTW as far as marketing and selling being outside your skillset, it's outside everyone's skillset at some point far enough back in their careers. i.e. nobody is simply born with it. The point is you develop those skills through pain, trial and error. That, or you find a business partner to handle it for you.
There's an old dish antenna on the roof of my office that's pointed at a building we used to have in the 90s. I've wondered if I could get it to do anything cool, since my house is near the other building, but I don't think I could get an antenna high enough to get line of sight.
For net worth >$2M or pretty high average income tax liability in the years before expatriation. Otherwise it's just the $2350
This is a great read and I'm happy for Shawn. Things seem to be better.

I'm also grateful for the pointer to Gwern Branwen's site https://www.gwern.net/. What an amazing creation! I haven't even scrolled yet and already have half a dozen tabs open from it.
> some torrent networks insist that you have a 1-1 ratio

Yeah, it sucks. Ratio economies disproportionately favor users with good links. At the same time, it ignores the truly valuable user contribution which is decentralized redundant storage. Trackers should be trying to maximize the amount of copies available in the swarm, not bandwidth which literally doesn't matter past a certain point. What good is a torrent with zero seeds?
I guess why:

https://nitter.snopyta.org/MarkAmesExiled/status/14991264245...

No one is innocent here. On Spanish media they dared to use videogame images (Arma 3) as real footage, ditto with a Chinese civil explosion (causality/accident) as a Russia bombing strike.
64! (if you don't mind calling a variable).

<?php $pipe=fn($v,...$p)=>array_reduce($p,fn($a,$f)=>$f($a),$v);
I think in general all website metrics are just an approximation. Even "real" sign-ups are sometimes incorrect as some users might sign-up multiple times, bots might sign-up. Maybe conversions/purchases and money earned are the only hard metric, but that also has to take into account refunds, chargebacks (fake card used).

That being said, most of the time those approximations are good enough to suggest actionable steps.
Almost sounds like your email is compromised. Change password if you haven't done that in a while. You should also check the last account activity (gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/45938?hl=en)

Make sure you are using MFA for any account which allows this. Don't re-use passwords, get a password manager like 1password or bit warden.
Dude, I ain't no snitch.
I’m curious what the alternative is. People want their coffee hot. How do you serve them hot coffee without risk?
By line of sight, I think it means that it must be held in a tall enough mast not to be impacted by curvature of the earth. IIRC curvature of the earth limits line of sight to around 35km at 1.7m of height.
Yeah that image is exactly what I was thinking. I clicked the link in the post which was the download page which I mistake for the homepage.
oh hey someone is getting hacked on hacker news.
I'm surprised there is a market at all. Selling dev tools to developers can only succeed with massive investment into making an absolutely superior product. I can count on 1 finger the number of dev tools I pay for: Jetbrains. For everything else, open source tools are either the superior option or good enough.

There is a huge untapped potential for selling software and services to businesses...but for some reason most developers never bother to even learn anything about the businesses they work in, let alone the businesses they don't.
I've personally found with all the time I'm saving commuting I'm able to spend a lot more time with my friends.
I hope I'm misunderstanding something, because this seems like a baseless tantrum from DHH. From the linked post, this was RailsConf's message:

Hi David,

Hope you’ve been well.

With you having been mostly offline the last
year, the program committee has decided it
would be valuable for the community to start
sharing the opening keynote stage with other
contributors. We have a few in mind but if you
have any suggestions of people who have been
impactful this year, please share them.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

- Evan

It sounds like they just wanted him to share the keynote stage with some others? And even asked for his suggestions?

It doesn't sound like he's being asked not to participate. What am I missing?
Because someone is most likely using your dynamic IP address, aka the ISP you are on is possibly hosting a TOR node or perhaps spammers using your IP. I'd contact your ISP.
Also, solo founder. Consider working on your relationship skills. A cofounder can be a pain in the ass but also the best way to find sucesss.
Jack Ma is very much a entrepreneur for what he's achieved. Oligarch carries to much negative connotation and should be referred to someone or a family who controls a crucial industry because of sheer monopoly.
Super interesting post. Curious to hear what other’s opinions on it are? This dessus it’s a “tech independent” guide, but does your tech stack play a role in how you successfully scale?
32000+ participants is not that superficial.
"I am American, I live in a free country: I can go to a main square and call president (Reagan/Nixon/whatever) an idiot and nothing will happen to me!" - "Well, I am Soviet citizen, I also live in a free country: I can go to a main square and call president (Reagan/Nixon/whatever) an idiot and nothing will happen to me!"
Awesome! I'll be interested to see how my (extremely naive) implementation stacks up.
The International Paralympic Committee at first did not ban Russian or Belarusian athletes[0], but required them to enter without any national symbols. Which was how Russian athletes completed in the Winter Olympics. After enough threats of protests and boycotts that would have interfered with the games, it was decided to keep those country's athletes out.

Honestly, I'm not surprised. Though they were going to march under a neutral flag, they'd have still been emissaries of their governments. That's what the Olympics and Paralympics are for. Plus, the IPC's decision was probably easier because of repeated incidents of Russian athletes doping, which is why they were already under a neutral flag.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/russian-athletes-par...
Thanks. Maybe my issue was that the people I hired just weren't competent enough.
This might interest you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone
Did you do all this from the same phones/computers? My guess is you've got a persistent virus that's dedicated to staying with you whilst waiting for a big payoff or just proxying crap through your devices.

With something this persistent I'd also be open the possibility someone in your life is hacking you (room-mate, colleague, someone left alone with your tech) or maybe a very specific app you install on everything is compromised.

I'd get rid of most the hardware you own and start a new digital life from a coffee-shop nearby.
Honestly I’d be using it but I still don’t know the GDPR situation with p2p
For more than one enterprise I've seen, your mergers and acquisitions are bringing in new technologies (and incompatible systems that need integration) faster than you can trim the list.
You have an interesting setup, where both tasks and time allocation are given to you ("implement X, you have 5 days"). Do you have any say in how long something is supposed to take?
From a security perspective (and not a science perspective) we need to be able to make assertions about the security of a scheme, and provide some kind of evident proof for it. The entire history of cryptography is literally the story of persuading people they are protected by something they don't understand and can't reason about, and then having a backdoor into it.

Popular science articles aren't sufficient to reason about the science - but they are at least as rigorous as the product spec sheets people will make their security decisions on, so I'd propose pop articles are admissable in discussing the security of the scheme. It's not on the consumer to understand, but on the producer to demonstrate.

The issue with QKD right now is that the risk/benefit isn't there from a security product perspective. If I have something that needs quantum security, I necessarily don't trust a bunch of people who say, "trust me, it's science," as I am looking at where the risk goes. If I'm using crypto on classical computers, most of my risk gets diffused through standards bodies (NIST, essentially), and then my vendors, banks, insurers, etc. QKD and PUFs have the same problem, which is snakeoil risk.

The information theoretic security (as a function of entropy) of an algorithm is scientifically interesting, but when it comes to applying it to risk management (e.g. distributing accountability), there is a ceiling on that. Measuring security based on work or operations over a classical compute cost / complexity class, I agree, is an orthogonal concern with QKD, but security as defined by where the risk goes needs a definition it can reason about.

I agree it (the analysis) will look different, and if I were to equip my fellow security analysts with a tool, it would be to not be persuaded that their lack of a quantum physics background disqualifies them from interrogating the real security benefits of QKD proposals.
Reed College in Portland, OR has had a similar "commie bike" system in place for many years. At the start of the year/semester students go to goodwill, get a few dozen bikes - often children's bikes, since they are cheaper and less likely to be stolen - and then spray paint them red. The bikes are placed on campus and anyone can use them to get around.
You cannot let companies get away with this. Its bad for everyone trying to get a job in the field, and it makes you look desperate.
We'll see. I myself was sceptical of anti-china propoganda I'd seen until a few days ago and understood why business might think they can work within that environment.

But everyone is showing their hands now.

And at the moment, it sure looks like China is supporting a dictator on the march to a major war. Trillion dollar funds are writing off their Russian investments at the moment. How long before China is seen in the same way?
In a time of active war, people's opinions shift. I wonder if this is a temporary or permanent ban. It seems like a short-term solution to keep a lid on Russian propoganda, which seems sensible if it is to be lifted after the conflict. Seems silly not to fight in the same propoganda battle Russia is so willing to engage in, it's like not developing cyber weapons when your opponent is using them against you.
The only thing that is (kinda) better IRL is impromptu debug sessions, or that initial couple of days when you are bootstrapping a new project, so it's nice to sit with person(s) who are working on this.

Even those are easily matched in quality with zoom/slack and draw on screen features.
It’s about crippling your economy slowly or quickly. We are definitely getting away from Russian fuel as soon as possible. Work has already begun.
Do independent news outlets really matter if the vast majority of people get their news for ABC / CBS / NBC / CCN / Fox /PBS?

Again, I agree that the US acted in a different way than Russia does right now, but the situation itself is also different. The US did not need to take the actions Russia has to take, because the majority of people in the US where pro-war during the invasion, with only 17% strongly opposing the illegal war [1].

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-america...
> I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it.

You seem to be creating solutions and looking for a problem. After 20 years you ought to know where the painpoints are in software, build something to fix those. That's what people will pay for.
I'm a little confused how the census just "found" nearly a million more people than expected. How does that work?
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that's right, its a bank to bank messaging service. Significant mainly because its a monopoly but totally replicable, just no one has really had much reason to. Though US sanctioning targeted states has made more countries aware of the vulnerability. This episode will see a mushrooming of alts as each significant economy builds at least a failsafe - failure to do is would be gross dereliction of duty at this point
There are companies in which the process is organized in such a way that taking responsibility and doing a quick fix can put your career at risk.
I can not enumerate the list of possible threats but at the extremes would be plans use molotov cocktails on police cars up to plans to blow up public buildings (think Oklahoma City level). Anything between these extremes is possible and in a situation as hot as the Floyd murder protests, the police are expected to protect the public even if they caused the problem to begin with.
I think of the roaring 80's when Microsoft's developer tools (BASIC) were baked into ROM on most micros and when Microsoft sold premium compilers for FORTRAN, BASIC, C, etc. but you had Borland coming in with innovative high performance products at bargain prices (Turbo Pascal, Turbo Assembler.) and also a market for cheap compilers like Tom Mix C.

When GCC came out the market disappeared for the cheap C compilers and even Microsoft got pulled into the discount market such as the MSDN subscription which entitles you to a lot of software and is an astonishingly good deal if you really use it.
I think this is likely the issue. If so you are not being given a reason because when you are rejected by certain kinds of compliance rules (e.g. anti money laundering) it is illegal (in many jurisdictions) for them to tell you that.
Nice. Some very different results returned.
You do realize if you use credit or debit card, your banks gonna know, so therefore your government? Let's not pretend using WeChat/Alipay is somehow better or worse for that matter.
They ended with swan lake, which is rather apt.
I have thought a bit about this myself (although others here seem to know a lot more) so Ill give my 2 cents:
- it already works w/o P2P, Youtube has worked pretty well for 15+ years as client-server. If you have Google scale, it wouldn't make sense not to use it
- Installing software is a harder onboarding than opening a website (I think you'd need more than a browser for this?)
- security implications of P2P?
- the biggest one for me: Ignoring internet technology concerns, its an extremely hard distributed systems problem with Byzantine concerns, nodes coming and going at any time, where to store unpopular videos?

I hadn't even thought about the telemetry concerns (how do you sell ads efficiently?).
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Genuinely Curious want you mean by useless. As In low amounts of good farm land?
Go get a job. Worst case scenario you can come back to this in 6 months.
Well in France on se stationne dans un parking, but in Quebec on se park dans un stationnement.

C'est la vie.
Teach us more science facts, professor!
This war can easily mean sudden influx of 13 milion new refugees in EU. (just a guess by taking the same percentage as with Syria, except most of those are not in EU by a long shot)

Makes me think EU and allies want to stop this war as early as possible, for some reason, and all these reactions is how they think that will happen.
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The German scientists that came to the US after WWII were trying to avoid "going" to Russia or staying in post-war Germany.

If these scientists are mostly happy in Russia, neither applies.