skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's to stop your VCs from leaning on you to suddenly hike your rates up in favor of more profits once you are a de facto monopoly on payment services?

They don’t hold a majority of votes is one possible answer. Another is that they’re much more invested in growth than profitability. Why try to make as much money as you can in Senegal when the rest of Africa is right there? Also “Your margin is my opportunity.” If you’re the first company to provide a good service and you’re cheap and good what exactly are wannabe competitors going to do to oust you?

> If the answer isn't "They don't and will never hold voting shares and board seats", then why did they invest in your company at all ...?

To make lots of money. If founding team is really important and VC returns are power law distributed then investing in a much better team that is a lot less greedy can be a great bet.
> Just as icing on the cake, my advocate was a stunningly beautiful redhead.

relevance?
All-new Playstation Plus launches in June with 700 games
So prices of everything will rise and nobody on UBI can afford anything?
In my W98SE experience, by installing drivers and using some multimedia software (or libraries) would crash it often.
Both are vulnerable to phishing via malicious scripts. One could even argue that keys are more dangerous if the attacker can append their own key into authorized_keys one host at a time. Some might be surprised how incredibly easy it is to get a percentage of technical people on an email distribution to execute a script without fully understanding it and this is even leaving things out like compromising npm repositories. Said script can drop a key into authorized_keys or drop a custom key and create an outbound session invoking a gateway port allowing the attack to ssh to the host even if they have no inbound ports open. From there one can repeat the process as access is gained first at the workstation or laptop, then the jump host then build servers, repository servers, staging servers and ultimately production servers.

SSH is a power communications tool. It is equally powerful to both the authorized user and to attackers in my experience. It is often poorly managed if even managed at all even in the most sensitive environments in some of the most high profile organizations.
That’s interesting about the permissions. Should be mitigated to some extent by branch protection rules?
>people would have to pay to unlock them

see: Halo Infinite

Want to be black? that will be $10 please
> I’m struggling to understand why this is even scummy.

Y’know what, I edited that out.

It does seem to me that the new user preference should default to what the admin set previously. It looks like that may be what is happening though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841812. My original comment had assumed that the article itself, at least, was accurate.
I’ve only lived in the EU about 4.5 years. My phone is dual sim with a US number and an EU number. My US number rings with spam calls about 2-4 times per day and my EU number only rings when an actual human calls it. I get about 1-2 sales calls a month on my EU line.

Thankfully, my iPhone can ignore the spam callers and they can leave a voicemail (which they very rarely do).
Nvidia Releases GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: Ampere the All-Powerful
> USA shares their intelligence with significant delay

Very few people can credibly speak to what the U.S. is sharing with whom on what timeframe. Perhaps nobody.
Right. So in your opinion, is it irresponsible to write a project intended for production in C or C++?
Nitter has an autoload option, it's not enabled by default because it requires JS and it doesn't want to assume JS but once ticked it works fine.

In regards to celebrity gossip and such I guess it depends who you follow. With Nitter if you only associate with people that simply don't partake in those kind of discussions you won't see such discussions. On Twitter it's hell bent on trying to show you what is popular instead of what you asked to see so the same is not true.
Doesn't that feel more like it should be described as "not explicitly illegal"? Saying that the reason must be legal gives it the sense that there is a list of valid reasons you could fire someone when, as I understand it, that list doesn't exist, and there's strictly a list of reasons you can't. "You wore green shoes so you're fired" is a reason that someone can be fired, but to say it's a legal reason gives it weight such a frivolous dismissal doesn't deserve.
At this point the situation is so comical that carrying around a burner phone next to my laptop is suddenly seeming like a rational totally-normal thing to do.

Heh…as soon as I read this I glanced down at the little Nokia dumb phone I have next to my keyboard. $15/mo AT&T 4G prepaid plan exclusively for “when I’m suspicious of whoever I’m about to give a phone number to”.

Only ever gets “topped up” when I need to use it, and when it’s not in use it just sits in a drawer.
Having a higher than average amount of empathy seems to be a disadvantage in many ways. It seems in many cases to be correlated with anxiety and depression. It can be difficult for people with high levels of empathy to recognize the boundaries between their own self and the thoughts and feelings of others. As a kid I was highly empathetic, and it's something I've struggled with my entire life. It never really felt like a virtue, and mostly just brought me pain. I have less empathy now, but it seems to largely be the result of emotional numbing, which isn't pleasant either. Even now though, my mind seems to always mirror the thoughts and feelings of those around me, as if I don't have a self or personality of my own. It's rather odd, but I've read about a number of people with similar experiences.

I've read some interesting things about how in many cases schizoid personality disorder may be the result of highly empathetic children who later withdraw in life because interpersonal contact was a source of significant suffering for them. I seen to exhibit many of the signs of SPD, but I've never been diagnosed. (If you're not familiar with SPD, I'd recommend looking it up. It's likely not what you think it is, and not directly related to schizophrenia.)
It's a dumbed down RouterOS (afaik they use the same base but I'm not certain) with a lot of features stripped out to focus on just basic switching features. It also has a vastly simplified webui. As the other commenter noted you lose a lot of the remote management features and of course it hides lots of the stuff RouterOS can do, but that's the point. If you only need set it once and be done basic switching, SwOS is vastly simpler.
Nobody posting it on HN anyway, and those that do know realize how vitally important secrecy is.
Less work isn't the optimisation goal, though. Reliability, trust, verifiability, secret ballot, etc. is what it is about. If things can be made more efficient without sacrificing the primary goals ok, but if I as a citizen can't verify the results anymore (by watching the count etc.) the purpose isn't met.
Conurrency instead of parallelism.
Pretty disingenuous. You can ask a representative sample, then assume people follow that. If you ask a few hundred people and 99% say they don't want it, then you make the default that they do want it, you're doing it "wrong."

I say "wrong" because actually their optimisation isn't doing what people want, it's whatever makes them money, and this makes them more money.

"the people's wills" doesn't figure into the decision at all. So why are you even bringing it up?
No. I don't lie. But I also never say that I'm always right. That would be arrogant. Nobody has patent on truth.
I agree, and I think it's yet another symptom of the hypercapitalist society we live in.

Kids are bombarded with media telling them that success is when you get rich and famous, or when you reach the absolute top of your field. Then again, at school, we're drilled with the lies that college is required and that you need to be in x percentile to get into x school to get x job. Finally, once we get into the workforce, we all judge each other based on our initial salaries, positions, and career trajectories.

As long as there is unequal distribution of resources, anyone with an opportunity to further cement their family's socioeconomic status by taking advantage of the system will tend to do so. We need to be able to offer houses, leisure, and fulfillment to everyone from hyper-privileged techy college grads (like a lot of us) to housekeepers, bus drivers, social workers, teachers, etc.

I'm ashamed at how easy it is to do so little and 'win' in this system while so many others suffer. And there's nothing I can do with my smidge of resources to help more than a few people at a time which makes no meaningful trajectory change to the millions (billions?) that need help.

Sorry for the rant.
>shell

>universal

* laughs in Windows, then cries *
Android had no chance if M$ hadn't made stupid moves three times in a row.

Gmail was actually way before Android and I was one of the few early testers got invitation directly from Google. Unfortunately from day 1 the newly registered email address(not even started using it) got spams. Asked quite a few times for ability to block certain senders, the answer had always been "Nah, our spam filters are good enough, you don't need to block any spammers at all". Of course I do. So I never use gmail as my primary email address and I'm glad I didn't.

I ditched Chrome a couple of years ago, so currently the only thing I don't really have a substitution is search, but giving Google search result quality is deteriorating pretty rapidly, I guess soon it would become no issue. By which time I would happily block all Google related stuff from my Pi-Hole.
What's rustup and how do I install it?
>Except for the fact that poor immigrants from Bangladesh or Africa do not suffer from the same problem in the first generation

Give them a a couple years or so, and many of them will want to live the American lifestyle - eating out every day, and stocking their pantry with snacks they see on TV. The ones that don't face the consequences of being obviously foreign.

In America, marketing and psychological hackery are second only to law in terms of "forcing" people to do things.
Like the idea :-)
Your advice is good until billionaires blow up our emission reductions.

Huge mansions, private yachts and jets with huge carbon emissions, luxurious high cylinder cars, etc.

But still I don't advice the opposite. This advice is good as long as it doesn't really affect your life necessities.
Kind of looks like a lens flare.
Except that they fully didn't, since C# 7.0, Microsoft keeps adding the System C# features into C# as means to make it more competitive with C++ workloads.

Span, safe stackalloc, readonly structs, bittlable structs, native delegates,....
Interaction is a two way activity. Different team members at my workplace interact differently with me than to other people, and I with them. That's just down to months of important, casual, subtle interaction and boundary setting.
> No obviously means no

If only YouTube understood this
> Having an ecosystem of batteries + tools is great. The question is which of the endless ecosystem options (ryobi, dewalt, milwaukee, bosch, etc.) to pick

Dead dinosaurs is basically the universal tool battery for larger tools.
His Wikipedia article claims that the Russians were trying to "match his voice signature", which implies being able to listen to the call itself somehow.
IIRC, voter databases NGP VAN include phone numbers and emails. (IIRC, the big GOP one is called Voter Vault.)

https://www.ngpvan.com/

Parties maintain these datasets and then selectively share with candidates. There's always misuse and abuse.

My local (legislative district) party requires candidates sign a contract. We're one of the few (because we have geeks on the executive board). And even then, there's always some yahoo abusing the data.

I'm not aware of the relationship(s) state & national parties have with their large fund raisers. I assume the abuse is rampant. Just like with every other outsourced fund raising operation.

--

I've long been totally against voter profiling and ballot chasing. Harassing voters is another form of disenfranchisement (thru alienation). I've door belled, worked the phones, and done fund raising; voters HATE us.

But every else is utterly opposed to the alternative system. Universal voter registration, compulsory voting, and massively curtail campaigning.

In other words, be like every other mature democracy. But we couldn't possibly have that. Because Murica! or something.

TLDR: Burn it all down. Upgrade to genuine democracy.
That's a great question, and I don't have a general answer--maybe there isn't one--but in this instance, the admin wasn't turning the tracking on or off, but was making the service available or not. If the service was turned on, it was up to the user to turn tracking on or off.
With only basic knowledge in the domain I would assume it is hard and ugly. If the file is malformed, there is almost certainly an infinite number of possible edits to make the file adhere to the grammar, hence there can not be any algorithm that just provides the one and only correct syntax tree. This in turn means that you have to come up with heuristics that identify reasonable changes which fix the file and that is probably not easy. Also, if you do this online in an IDE, the problem becomes probably easier [1] - if you have a valid file and then make it invalid by deleting an operator in the middle of some expression, you can still essentially use the syntax tree from just before the deletion. If, on the other hand, you get a malformed file, you might have a harder time.

[1] And also harder because if you want to parse the file after each key stroke, you have to be fast. This probably also makes incremental updates to the syntax tree the preferred solution and that might align well with using prior result for error recovery.
Thankfully not Ballmered
Java had it first actually, because P/Invoke was one of the extensions Microsoft added to J++.
Top comment calls out why. Tesla is a luxury brand, not a mid range car. Price differences bring different expectations.
This is getting out of hand. I had a call with github enterprise sales yesterday about this. Best they could offer is a blog post link and taking more of our money.

Hoping to migrate away our little chunk of github to a private island by end of next week.

Hackernews talks a lot of shit about how big boys can run their computers better than us lowly startup peasants. This is a fortunate situation where that stale argument starts to fall apart really quickly. I have many other systems with far higher availability than what github offers in their public cloud or even as part of the contractual 99.5% enterprise SLA.

Sure, github is really complicated and hard. Yes, it's an incredible tool. No, it's not OK to rest on your laurels and let COTS database technology kill your product when you are a billion dollar technology company with the ability to write your own systems from scratch several times per year using parallel teams and other investor money furnaces.
Spring Boot is the go-to solution for Java where I work. And definitely Intellij as IDE.
80% of incidents, but each incident can have multiple victims. 2020 for example had one unfortunate case of 39 people being found dead in a truck relating to human trafficking.

Anyway here’s Criminal court statistics up to 2019 that’s showing real downwards trends. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> I hate apartments, they are cramped, noisy, I don't have a private yard

Is this something that can't be solved by building codes?
> conventional symbolic rules

CFG like rules, such as used in programming languages. The famous one that opens many introductions to syntax is S -> NP VP. That is: a Sentence can be rewritten to a Noun Phrase followed by a Verbal Phrase. That covers a large part of everyday English. In fact, the previous sentence has an NP + VP, while this sentence doesn't.

> Statistical modeling

Language is very ambiguous. Adding more rules to cover more cases makes it even worse. Collecting statistics is a way to use rules such as above (or more complex variants) and filter out the most probable analysis.

There are other forms of statistical models. E.g., for tagging (assinging categories to words), the Markov chain (often representing n-grams) was quite popular.

> Conditional Random Fields

A statistical method that can take context into account.

> custom tags, not just "noun", "verb"

One approach to adding meaning to lexical and syntactic analysis was having more semantical categories. Early attempts are features such as "living/non-living", "abstract/concrete", etc. for nouns. The NY ingredient parser seems to have categories like quantity, unit, name (the actual ingredient) and comment (such as fresh).

> a ratpack parser in the language of your choice

Ratpack is perhaps too specific a name. The more generic term is PEG parsers. They are flexible and easily programmed, and available for many programming languages; Python might even have one built in (PEP 0617). You can write grammatical rules in code. Set up a notebook, and you'll be able to test your rules against input samples with the click of a button.
Honestly that just seems crazy. Unless management/HR are stupid, how exactly do you prove you were let go because of X protected thing instead of Y? You hope they settle out of court? And of course, not everyone will have the time or resources for a potentially multi-year legal battle.

That's one of those American things that when you first hear about them, they sound weird/wrong or "okay, why not", but on second thought are just downright crazy and screw over the common people. Like no paid leave by default, even for maternity.
Well tbh who can blame them? the service stinks, the employees <at least at my local> are so rude as to border on the psychotic and they refused to allow us to put our mailbox at the end of our drive...we are the only house in our development where this is the case. they routinely refuse to deliver our mail and even when they do its ripped, dirty (at least i hope its dirt) or purposefully missing (yo anybody seen my socks i ordered over a month ago?) and its a never ending saga. she (the local pm) is awful to us all the time. whole checks have gone missing and needed to be reissued.

i had hopes of Thiel/OUTBOX but they went about the implementation a*backwards.
the machines the invented to scan the mail: check. the mail they wanted to scan: fail. instead of scanning the important mail (bank statements, insurance etc) they should have been scanning the junk and making the marketers pay for enhanced delivery to 1234MainStreet@ups.gov. customers could then just go through digital versions of offers etc and set it up to purge at various intervals. the pizza place, valpak now no longer need to print things thereby saving money and trees and we throw away less paper etc. they already have the EDD software and zip code db this was just one little step and it would have released the full value of the USPS. The royal post in the Uk and the Japanese post both posted record profits at at time when last mile logistics are a BIG deal...and we cant even deliver a postage stamp without problems.
Nokia Under Elop (2013)
The UK had its own space programme once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_(spacecraft)
Have a look at https://www.qubes-os.org/ It is a Free Software operating system with the focus on security.
Well, once you stop trying to get people into exclusive clubs, you start asking crazy questions like "why don't we just educate everybody to a high level rather than place arbitrary cutoffs based on century old social clubs to maintain an artificially restricted elite?"
> so much as due to the fact that they _used lead salts to flavor food_

I believe it was also common to sweeten wine by leaving it in lead carafes.
Based on the galaxies inside the ORC, it's probably at z ~ 0.55. With those distances you don't get much detail, everything is mainly slightly squashed smudges.

The observations covers the range of 880 MHz to 1680 MHz (with some gaps to avoid RFI, see their table 2), find a spectral index between -1.9 to -0.9 with a median of -1.6. Also the image is an interferometric measurement.
Honestly, I went to the site, tried a few questions, waited a long time for it to “think” and got back pretty poor “answers” which were just links to the same huge websites that run ads on Google.

Not going to go back unless it makes some serious waves on HN with impressive improvements to share.

Good luck, hope this happens for you.

UI was not good on my iPhone 8 screen. Not everyone has the latest and greatest huge screens.
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And if you literally do not have a cellphone...?
It's interesting to hear how many spam texts you're getting.

I've got a private phone and a work phone on T-Mobile. My private number gets maybe 1 spam text per month, but 2-3 robocalls per week, while my work phone gets 3~ spam text messages per week and about the same number of robocalls.

Overall, the number of robocalls I've been getting has gone down somewhat, but not noticeably. It's probably decreased by something like less than 10%.

I had no idea anything had been done to robocalls, I really hadn't noticed any sort of decline.
Unless they're using their personal cell phone, this should be a basic feature of the hospitals phone system, it is a feature decades old. No reason the caller ID should be set to the DID of the doctor.
"Climate apocalypse"? Is that what we're calling it now?

Global warming --> climate change --> climate crisis --> climate apocalpyse

What models are you looking at that you're seeing doom and gloom in the next few decades?
Maybe you want for some votes to be public and some votes to be private. Putting "all votes should be {public,private}" in the constitution prevents that.
> What about the remaining four orders of magnitude? I've already factored in the 90% -> 99% reduction in my comments.

This thread started with a statement that satellite thrusters are at "first thought ... about 7 orders of magnitude less" than coal power plants, but where did that number come from? Others are noting that some proposed constellation would have emitted more mercury than the US, which contradicts that thought:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841820:

> The US emits 52 tonnes/year into the air, apparently. The article claims _hundreds_ of tonnes for one constellation. Which does seem concerning if correct.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30840666:

> Apollo Constellation Engine designed their propulsion systems for mega constellations to use mercury, which is what got PEER involved in this. Popular Mechanics also reported on their plans. Even if Apollo changed their minds since, that's a pretty significant 'near miss'.

> https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/111998371507/11_19_18_FCC_compl...

> https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25242578/apo...
Exxon Eyes Expanding Program That Fuels Crypto Mining with Natural Gas
It's a binary decision.

The only way to properly poll that is either rank choice voting or a second vote after voting to change or not.
Delicious word salad anyone?
I picked your write-up on that unstructured attempt of making a page of definitions:
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/About-the-IMGUI-paradi...
Thanks!
The suggestion to use emojis gratuitously and frivolously to break up text is a joke right? Meant to go in an April 1 blog post? Those kinds of messages/posts strike me as parodic and obnoxious.
Although I can see this as a way for a remote manager to break the ice with a team
Didn’t Lysistrata have the exact same joke?