skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to know someone like you, who thought they were the best programmer out of anyone they had ever met. They used to brag about how good a programmer they were, how they "aced" every tech interview they ever had, how everyone else at work was so incompetent and they were the only one who knew what the company should be doing. But it turns out that all of this superiority was just in their head. Everyone else thought this guy was just barely competent, and he kept getting fired from jobs because he insisted he knew more than everyone else and could not accept that he did not.

It's very likely that everyone around you is simply measuring competency/success by a different rubric than you are. It's irrelevant what your college peers think, but the fact that everyone at your intership cared about different things than you do should tell you that what you think is important isn't in the real world.

And you know what? That's normal. Most recent graduates start their first job thinking that they know better than their older fuddy-duddy coworkers, and discover the hard way that most of what they learned in school doesn't apply in the real world. On the job, you will rarely have the time or resources to do things perfectly; the quality of the work doesn't matter if it gets the job done; it's a waste of time to solve for future problems instead of just dealing with the problems you need to address by the next deadline.
maybe one more interesting detail worth noting:

c) private equity firms are buying up insane amounts of real estate, being able to outbid regular home buyers and (don’t quote me on this b/c I’m not 100% sure) pay cash for the properties they buy.
It's essentially the same kind of security kabuki that we know from the TSA. Impressive, a nuisance at best, frightening at worst, and perfectly useless.
I very much doubt the old parts are re-used. Refurbished Apple devices all have brand new screens and batteries installed, even if they were as-new returns.
Taiwan needs to consider removing the quarantine now that it looks like omicron is going to run its course there just like in Korea and Japan. One reason they are not removing it is because the government does not want to be seen as being "wrong" about covid policy. Even China's much more draconian lockdowns on Shanghai will probably not work to prevent the spread of omicron in the future. In both cases, it's a huge waste of resources and damaging to the economy and peoples' liberties.
I was just questioning the "trending up" comment that was given without much of a justification. You can add "by 33% (20kUSD) to the "down from its peak" if you prefer.

> IMHO the recent volatility is mostly due to political factors rather than the market.

If that's accurate, that would indicate that this volatility is not bound to disappear anytime soon.

Still, given the incentives to manipulate the market for a profit and the presence of actors such as Tether, I wouldn't discount manipulation as a big part of this volatility.
I never bothered with the details. But it was recently confirmed in EU ruling C-55/18 [1]. Plus the government sends someone to check my documentation every 4 years and then they'll calculate their expected employee salaries down to the penny and force me to issue refunds if that diverges from my company's calculation, so I know from experience that they are super strict about it.

[1] https://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-55/18
Which of the following would you put money on: 1) that if he goes to the airport and there'll be FSB/police that will refuse him boarding and arrest him; or 2) that he'll be free to board and fly?

If you pick 2), which would you put money on: 3) that he'll be free to walk out of the airport at the destination country; or 4) that he'll be met by Interpol agents that'll arrest him and start the process of delivering him to USA?
Ask HN: Facebook's Future and 3rd Party Cookies
As someone who owns a bit of Facebook stock (please don't shoot me!) I am interested in the company's future prospects.
As we all know Facebook's main income comes from advertisers, and much of the information Facebook gathers on users comes from the infamous "Facebook Pixel" - a tiny iframe that websites around the internet plant that reports to Facebook (along with our data) whenever the page loads.
This has worked wonderfully (for Facebook) until Apple recently started blocking 3rd party cookies on iphones.
Google has announced plans of doing the same on Chrome yet so far it's been delayed.
This has caused a serious drop in Facebook's share. While the IOS hit is big, Chrome doing the same can be disastrous as it has a huge market share.

Yet I ask - how hard is it for Facebook to gain this data (or similar?) with other means?. They already have a Conversion API - basically it's like a Facebook Pixel for the backend. So every shop/website that wants to use Facebook ads simply integrates this onto their backend (Afaik there are ready made integrations for Shopify shops etc, probably Wix/Squarespace/GoDaddy will have pre made integrations). Any serious advertiser that owns his own website infrastructure probably has someone technical enough to throw a few lines of code onto their server. Facebook can build integrations to the main web frameworks for example.

So in short - my theory is everything will be reported from the backend. The people who can't make the integration due to lack of technical knowledge are probably not big ad spenders anyway. As an investor it makes me think the market is being irrational or simply not understanding the underlying tech and how Facebook can navigate its way well enough.

What's your take?
When the war started, most people expected that Russia would overrun Ukraine in a matter of days or weeks. That didn’t happen. It’s been two months now, and with the length of attention spans, that’s apparently long enough for people to forget those prewar expectations.
Im in Eastern Europe so situation here is complete opposite.

+ emigration of nurses to Germany
I see bunch of people around me that want to run their own k8s.

People somehow magically forget that then they will need to run their own servers to host k8s and then deal with k8s and then deal with their app deployment.

If I can deploy app just like on Heroku and not have a server and not have to deal with orchestrator that is winning deal for me. Other way I will stay with my VPS setup and install apps directly on these.
PFAS Linked to Liver Damage
About ten years ago, I started to track my life in a diary, recording when I got up, all my traveling, what I made for dinner, which pages I read and such. I started doing this because I felt time was flying. I have the feeling that it did a little to counter this feeling. But it also made me aware of the amount of procastination (web surfing), which at times has been kind of depressing. It did me give a good sense of time and how long it takes to get somewhere. It sometimes has been useful to recall what I did on a certain date. But that is all. I have thought about putting all data in database and make some graphs of it, but so far it feels like the effort does not weight up the benifits. One thing was also about what details to include and what to leave out, as there also some intimate details in there that I am note sure if I want to store in a digital database.

I also keep a personal website with some list of things I did and this has proven useful to serve as my backup memory.
> There seem to be 0 news sources

Try https://join1440.com/

You won’t regret it.
> I work with the Congressional Records dataset, that is: Everything that has been said or done on the floor of the U.S. Congress since 1873.

I guess this is probably one of the big cases for no sqlite, as your db is more a record of texts than a columnar db. Or am I missing something?
> If you need an engineer that can do audio dsp programming, embedded bare metal and/or firmware bootstrapping + development, OS design, compiler/VM design, etc; you'd be hard-pressed to find a bootcamper that could do the job without extensive training

Because there are no hardware/embedded bootcamps.
> though this could have horrible incentive problems

I hear this argument, but I don't buy it. What's the incentive exactly?

That people will hurt themselves, so they can go to the ER for free? That's nonsense. Nobody wants to get hurt, nobody wants to get sick, getting hurt or getting sick is not a good. The fact that they don't have to pay to "get hurt" isn't an incentive. Perhaps a few people feel this way and are insane, but those people probably need to get help at government expense either way, before the government ends up paying for them to be in prison or institutionalized anyway.
I got out well before you :) but when I was on my boat IT was run by FTs.
> This is more akin to building 80 money printing machines that each print a certain amount of money.

We should cut out the middle man -- and the middle step -- and just print money. We can start 100 digital currency initiatives and play the lottery, one of them is bound to take off...
The Sun is basically a comic. Quoting it as a reliable news source is ridiculous.
I can only hope you feel the same way about a 2nd Amendment written when a single fire musket that took 10-30 seconds to reload was the peak of "arms". 5th Amendment "Papers" could use a bit of rethinking too.

There are a lot of first actions that need to be reexamined in the 21st century.
Cool work! Good job - I love projects where asking "why?" a good response is "why not?", but I gotta ask... why? Also, how long did it take? What was the inspiration?
Multi-DBMS SQL Benchmarking Framework via JDBC
An interesting program
BenchBase is a multi-threaded load generator. The framework is designed to be able to produce variable rate, variable mixture load against any JDBC-enabled relational database. The framework also provides data collection features, e.g., per-transaction-type latency and throughput logs.
Some corrupt government in CAR are scared BTC dropped bellow 40k and want to pump it a little bit, that's probably what happened, they already struggle to deliver electricity to their people/industries, promoting BTC sure is the right logical move :)
paperback sells better
If you don't specify I can't help. If marketing = 3rd party then you can block these using the hosts file at the domain level, which I do. This blocks >95% of crap cookies. A clear question gets a clear answer.
I mean restarting hardware once a day isn't going to hurt the hardware (indeed its the norm in some places to shut down many racks after business hours), and software will probably only see less bugs.
many of my books have been there for years.
it's not only about outages.

cable customers routinely see service degredation (reduced bandwitdh, packet loss) at peak usage hours, because the lastmile topology is a shared resource (ring/bus) with an oversubscription ratio >20. (tbf docsis 3.1 did get it somewhat under control)

most (non gamer/tec) customers don't bother/notice unless it's so bad that their voip or netflix craps out. isp support will shift the blame to wifi (also shared resource) and noones the wiser.
AirBnb in NYC is also a fertile ground for scams
That was the first thing I checked whether it supports data masking. And it does, via transforms, as evoxmusic already pointed out.

However, there may be times when data masking must be nuanced. Suppose some random email/domain pair is bad and you would rather replace all "example.com" domain instances with "fake.com", and not "random1.com", "random2.com", etc (for ML, 3rd party random analysis). Out of the box I don't see it is provided, HOWEVER I see that you can write custom transformer: https://github.com/Qovery/replibyte/tree/main/examples/wasm and fulfill your needs.

Excellent :)
Chips don't need to know but knowing information about loops is really important, so some structure or metadata can go a very long way.
> The article describes it as a measure of hidden information in a system, which is a good description. But that's not a property of the system itself, it's a property of the observer, from whom the information is hidden.

Was hoping to see someone point this bit out.. I wish references to entropy included this piece of information more frequently. When I was first trying to understand the concept I kept thinking of it as something objective, but as you say it’s a property of the observer
Information, like fast food, is easy and cheap to produce today, mostly horrible for long-term health

Worse, I fear most info increases our confidence in decisions while reducing critical thinking

At this point, I'm very selective about my media diet. There are only a handful of sources I read weekly (https://every.to/, https://www.productlessons.xyz/, https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/); all my other free time is spent on hobbies I enjoy
It was largely the same situation in Belgium, Germany and the UK while I was there. Masks only seemed to be required while travelling, and even in that case the UK only had requirements for international travel. Vaccines have largely taken the burden off the healthcare systems, particularly ICU, and so the virus can run its course for now.
"The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil."

Eccl 12:13-14
> IOW, if I build a system with yocto for an embedded system, which is also a very useful candidate for a read-only system image installation, I cannot use this feature for this use-case because ...

I agree that this is precisely a nice use-case, but why is this a problem? I agree with Lennarts reasoning that it makes little sense if the files are arbitrarily split between / and /usr. In any case, Yocto has had support for usrmerge for a while now[1].

[1] https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/features.html?highl...
I've used Spotify since the invitation phase, in 2008 or so, and never have I used it for discovery. Not to say that there isn't value in it, but there's more than one way to swing a sword.
> would be to store about 16GB of research data efficiently since it was becoming extremely slow to work with on her own computer. Almost immediately the idea was brought up to simply drop everything into an SQLite database. And to that I immediately had to respond “No!”

> The data will now (probably) be transferred to a sharded MySQL database cluster and that will speed up almost anything by large margins.

A sharded MySQL cluster for 16GB of data?!!
Wow big week of lay-offs between this and Robinhood
Sorry, I got something wrong. He actually has Asperger's, not Autism[1].
It's not used as an excuse from serious people, but you maybe are aware of the fanboy-armies on social media who dismiss every criticism against their Savior. Since he admitted that he has Asperger's I saw this being used as an excuse in very weird ways.

I misinterpreted your "Don't bother, nobody has any sympathy for autism here" comment as a way of saying "People are so hard on him, even though he has autism", so my bad.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57045770
I did put in work.

I am lucky.
If you follow MS people on twitter, you can guess what the sentiment about Teams is, not unusable, but not perfect either

They are dogfooding it, wich is the way to go, however, the client is pretty poor quality, some people behind it left the company recently btw
> "They're everywhere" doesn't mean they innovate, it means they're cheap and good enough.

I'd argue that in the case of the Prius it means that they were a successful innovation.

And the original claim was 35 years, not 20 :)
Did We(B Development) Lose the Right Direction?
I don't want trust. I want to download my favorite html files over https. Why ruin the internet further?
Yep, you're perfectly right of course. My "solution" was mainly to address the problem "how can I return a String from a const function"... the answer is that you don't have to :-)
>Build up your emergency fund to at least 6 months of living expenses.

If you're able to do this, you will not have a problem and shouldn't be concerned.

For most of us this is an absurdity. I can't imagine having enough emergency funds to survive on alone for 6 months.
have you seen an analysis of SELinux against the recent set of breakouts? That'd be interesting to see.

Definitely the CRI-O one (which is most likely to affect Red Hat based systems) was able to exploit a default OpenShift cluster in my testing.
Except he's working every day over 6 years. That doesn't sound very passive
No, 20 years fixed rate on a 30 year mortgage.
It's practically impossible to get fixed rates in europe.
> The really sad thing is that people have discovered that "completely objective" doesn't sell very well.

"Discovered"? It's always been this way. Controversy sells. If it bleeds, it leads. Etc...

I remember, when first doing academic publications, my supervisor told me controversy sells. It was true then, it's true now, it was probably true when newsletters were printed in cuneiform on stone tables.
Show HN: Elon's Shenanigans – now on your Homescreen
Hey HackerNews! I'm really excited to introduce... Elon's Shenanigans, the first-ever no-code metaverse NFT web3 app. Now available on your all devices here: https://install.page/elonmusk

What does it do?

Elon's Shenanigans is a real functional app you can install on your Homescreen/Desktop/Dock to get quick access to Elon Musk's Twitter feed. You can install it on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Chrome OS from the universal installation link above.

The problem we're solving

None, really. But Elon Musk's Tweet feed is so entertaining in and of itself that we reckoned it deserved its own app.

How much does it cost?
It's completely FREE, forever and ever, until the end of time! We want to focus on user growth right now and think about monetization later.

Our future plans include collecting as much data on you as possible and a $499/month subscription for dark mode.

What's the market for this?

Elon Musk has 80 million followers. We calculated we can acquire 10% of them. If half of those users need dark mode, that's $328 billion ARR. Humongous TAM, SAM, SOM, TOM, and MOM.

Who are our competitors?

We don't have any. But it wouldn't really matter anyway since we have 5 pending patents.

What's our ask?

We're looking to raise a $50 million Pre-Seed. If interested, fill out the Google Form on our website and I'll get back to you with my Calendly link whenever I have time (you'll have to sign an NDA before the call).

Who is on the team?

I'm a Former Facebook CEO, Forbes 70 Under 70 Awardee, Two-Time Nobel Prize Runner-Up, Olympic Squash Bronze Medalist. Also an Internet Evangelist and Uppercase-Letter Enthusiast.

My 6-year-old daughter is in charge of design. You can see a sample of her work on my personal page (she did the graphic design, I wrote the code): https://kevin.tw

Thank you for your support, HackerNews, and see you all at the IPO ceremony!

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Neat. Was last updated 3 years ago though - at least expand out the readme?
Vivek failed repeatedly to answer the question if they intend to address their unjustified DMCA strikes against other projects.

To me it looks like a well calculated PR action. I'll change my mind when they make it up to other teams they wronged.
Why not

old_divider = (SpiRegs.CONFIG_REG >> SPI_CONFIG_CLK_DIVIDER_POS) & 1;

Slightly cleaner IMO.
Very interesting, I thought that Spectre made L4 irrelevant but apparently it can hardened with no/little performance loss depending on the HW.
Attrition sucks money. It is just not on the spread sheets for the bean counters.
A dual path (along with the other changes made to the MCAS implementation) would not have required simulator training.

(With dual path, MCAS would have simply turned itself off if the two inputs disagreed.)
All of the demos are of men with similar looking short hair. Seems suspicious.
You can always use the $9.99 books you sell on amazon to upsell the pricier books you sell on your site, problem solved.
You can help out with volunteer work or donations, you can vote instead of in your own interests but tactically to help others, you can undermine oppressive laws with secret acts of kindness. It's amazing what one person can do.
1. Venmo is part of PayPal, and can use visa, but they don't need it.

2. Same with square and Mastercard.

3. No, there's plenty more ways to pay across the world, eg.: https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/payments-in-japan/ or another comment mentioning Indian UPI.

4. My argument is that there are more, and further that fintech was helping proliferate options, including the possibility that new processors spread. Eg. Apple Pay could be its own processor instead of falling back on just card networks, just as square+cashapp started doing.
For cookies to have a cost they would need to be visible first. Brave does that right, by not only blocking lots of them out of the box, but also by showing you how many it blocked straight in the address bar, without any extra clicks. Firefox in contrast doesn't do that. It doesn't even give an easy way to inspect the cookies, it just has a "Clear cookies and site data" button that doesn't even tell you what it has stored or what it is going to delete.

Simply put, browser could to a lot better job at preventing this.

As for legitimate use, I don't really see much. Login handling is the obvious one, but I'd argue that login handling itself is in dire need of a rework and should be handled by a proper Web standard, not site specific hacks and "Save password" guesswork.
Well, moving sensitive data or PII to development environment for any developer eyeballs to see doesn't sound good and may introduce trouble if data leaked. Development env (where random npm dev scripts get run or whatever) doesn't usually get protected as good as production.

Anyways, if you are single or handful developers where everyone get access to prod, you may not care. Still, data hygiene and risk mitigation shouldn't be overlooked.
Explain. I thought finding a high rated host is enough?
It's not in the Netherlands. Practically everyone has fixed rates here. Especially in the past few years with the low interest rates.
You can buy the class B shares if you want.
What did she eat? There's a massive difference between gorging in meat and vegetables or donuts and fries. Not all food is the same.
Well you gotta release the stuff for people to listen to it

You can’t get successful keeping it to yourself for sure
Absolutely! Noticing that it usually takes ~20min for me of getting into the groove was a profound revelation for me a few years ago. I noticed a pattern that if keep on powering through those initial 20min, there is a good chance you can continue being productive for a few hours or even the whole day.
The line of discussion started out with a frankly confrontational tone and had so far not yielded incredibly interesting results. I read this question in the same tone when I probably shouldn't have, that's fair.
I'm not saying you are saying it's impossibe to save money! Please, no straw men.

I started this dicussion by making a specific but limited claim that learning about £30/year money saving tips that are easy to adopt is worth it for some people when they learn several and add them up. You are trying somehow to claim that if the tips are not identical in character to turning off devices that my claim is invalid. This makes no sense.

Regarding the more vegetarian meals point; No it's not obvious to me that it is life changing. Having more vegetarian meals that it saves you £30/year is about as effortless as it gets. It's far far less effort than turning devices on and off almost every single day compared to maybe 10 times in an entire year to substitute meat with something plant based in a meal. Nothing life changing there. Just prepare a handful of meals little differently.
This kind of things will never get FCC approval ;-) I would be curious to see the spectrum around the transmitter on a spectrum analyzer :-)