skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn’t sound like a botnet so much as a (possibly Russian) child of Stuxnet.
I take my backpack [1] on my daily 1.5+ walk. Typically, with just an iPad, and a water bottle, but when I get to the destination in SoHo (Manhattan) it gets stuffed with fresh baked Bagguete, and some other minor daily grocery etc.

[1]: https://projektco.com/products/gravy-silverado (can't recommend this high enough.)
I mean I’m deliberately neglecting to mention all the European restaurants like L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, LPM, Gaia, COYA, Zuma, Cipriani and so many others.

Most of these aren’t my favourites, but they’re definitely well loved in world class cities like London.

Do I think Dubai is a world class city? Nah. But it’s not very far.

Personally I’m really not a fan of the place, I’d only ever visit to meet with lawyers. Too warm, too much sand, most of the restaurants can also be found in much better cities (Monaco has most of the aforementioned within a short distance, and vastly better beaches)
This data needs to be a liability for companies to hold onto rather than an asset
I don't think tests like this one are calibrated by those who happen to take it online. I believe they calibrate these tests by looking at a known test taker's results and comparing them to other test results. The other tests would be the high quality ones used in psychology that have a much larger, less biased selection of test takers.
And yet how many people do that and ditch their grid connections? The reality is having as much electricity as you can use whenever you want for 10 cents a kWh is not something solar/battery provides.
Just put it in your wallet and/or luggage. Without your account name and password, it's useless to any potential thief.
Software engineering is no longer considered engineering these days. People mash abstractions together without even trying to understand what's beneath those abstractions. Knowing what you're actually doing seems to be a big deal in software development now.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Botnets are almost entirely ISP router/modem combo devices.

Hashcat was proposed over 20 years ago. You really think out of all the tens of thousands of security engineers working on this problem, nobody has ever considered it? Get a grip.

I hate how this website incentivizes people to try to make posts that sound smart instead of posting stuff they're actually knowledgeable about.
>They are consistently 10+ years behind the times in terms of multiplayer and online. That they are still so popular is a credit to how divorced from reality multi national corporate mega giants can be and still succeed

have you considered that you might be the one divorced from reality and the average consumer does not care about this?
I think a huge improvement to zoom and other conferencing systems would be to place the other call participants in virtual 3d circle around each person. The human auditory system is great at reconstructing directional audio even just from a stereo source.

You don't need a VR meeting room to simulate the same idea, it'd make the call so much realistic and easy to follow.
Thanks for the response! Haha, love that you got the naming reference.

That sounds good. I do have a Discord, but I've only ever used it to make voice calls with a friend of mine...but I think I'll definitely check out these public servers. I know my old university has some too but they don't show up on Discord search, so I'm guessing they're private.

Thanks again--appreciate the response. Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur by how out-of-the-loop I am: Telegram, Discord, etc.
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When I was at Microsoft about 15-16 years ago there was a fairly big poker setup. Where I was, and I'm sure across the board, the advice that was given was that we were free to have tournaments on company property, however, one of the rules were that you could never actively bet truly blind, i.e. you had to see your cards first. According to whomever decided that, that was sufficient to keep your poker game a game of skill, and not gambling, since if you didn't know your hand, you were just relying on luck, not playing odds.
I have to say that if you’re planning on running Kodi, it can really be a dog on underpowered devices. I like the recommendations that the guy who runs mediaclients.wiki has on the homepage. The Apple TV is probably the fastest set-top box you can get to run Kodi but you have to sign it yourself or pay a signing service. In second place comes the newest fire tv cube which runs Kodi even better than (my third place) Shield TV.

Also, if you want to have your mind blown look into plex media server “shares”. I love Kodi but it’s just no contest vs the polished commercial app, and it even does the recommending thing you miss from iptv land
Fire?
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Is using POP3 intead of IMAP not an option?
Don’t hang too much on IQ, it’s mostly pattern recognition and understanding vocabulary. What you do with the brain you have is far more important.
There's a leaked report from the US Supreme Court that they might vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, a landmark court decision tied to abortion rights.

The Twitter thread poses a scenario where if the decision were overturned, law enforcement might be able to acquire data from period-tracking apps and combine it with location data (as sold by Peter Thiel to the government in the past) to infer when women may have gotten an illegal abortion in order to prosecute them.
Sure, but HN audience is primarily rich tech workers, entrepreneurs and temporarily embarrassed versions of those.

In this context it makes sense to look at things from that perspective. On reddit it would of course be different.
Holy heck. What a coincidence. For the last few days, I was thinking about databases and was wondering if per user database can be possible. To be honest I was thinking about duckdb and sqlite3, with a mothership kinda postgreSQL database.

I was thinking having a "your very own database" could be a justifiable reason for a price bump from pro to enterprise version. Then I was thinking of the idea of SQLite being something like a web-deliverable database instead of JSON responses through an REST API.

Edit:

I would really love to hear about this database per user approach. The more I think about this the more I am fascinated.

Like for what amount of data-size justifies to have an SQLite3 db or something more bulkier? A CV has very small amount of data, so why not just use a JSON file? I wonder in that case if accessing a JSON file from a cloud storage could be more performant compared to SQLite3. You don't need to have the full set of utilities of SQL if you are just showing the entire data.
$40 and hour is still $40 and hour. Live like a Bohemian, pile up your cash for a year, two years, four years... and then bounce to something better. Learned helplessness and expecting a daddy to come along and fix everything for you is not productive.
yeah, um, my life is in tables (stats, finance, etc).

while csv is less than optimal, it's always worked out in practice for me (because we still have to validate anything of significant size and nothing finance or city/nation sized should generally be edited by hand anyway, and errors are everywhere independent of format).

honestly, my bigger nightmare has been people trying to put things into something like xml...

edit: not that there aren't huge problems with the csv/excel/database software and interaction: generally I just end up having to assume everything is text and defining type information my end afterwards on successful parsing
Well I know people who do exactly what I said so I think you don’t understand the situation as well as you think you do. It has nothing to do with contract renewal it is a forced 2 month break between contracts.

Also, they are not 1099 contractors they work directly under companies such as Aerotek or whoever and get a regular W-2. Those companies then contract them to Nintendo.
Doesn't have a great int64 number story, no native dates / date-times. If you want named tuples, then the names need to go everywhere, otherwise it's a serialization mechanism on top of JSON.
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The most impressive part is the way that individualism has become almost entirely a corporate creation. You "express yourself" by choosing and displaying products, all of which are either corporate or sold through a corporate monopoly (Amazon, Ebay, Etsy). The middle classes are allowed some artisanal choices, but only because they signal a more refined and informed kind of consumerism.

I think you are confusing the deluge of internet ads that tell me to 'express myself' and 'unleash my potential' by <buying their crap>, with how people actually express themselves. Maybe I hang out with the wrong people, but I've never heard any of my friends 'expressing themselves' in those ways.

They obviously make statements about their take on fashion through their purchasing habits (as do I), but I don't confuse what I wear with what I am.
>How much does it dull our ambitions to watch 2021’s The Matrix: Resurrections, where the most interesting scene is just Neo watching the original Matrix from 1999?

Perceptions are subjective, but I don’t know how anyone wouldn’t consider the most interesting scene to be the one where Neo (and therefore the audience) is told point blank: “our beloved parent company Warner Bros. has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy.”

I’m surprised it wasn’t quoted in TFA because it’s an unusual fourth wall break that aligns with exactly the points the author is making about the inherent emptiness of endless franchises.
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You probably have it, but it's just a feature. In this case, it's a default-off feature that allows contact tracing in a particular region if you actively choose to enable that.

Google ships features to my phone with every major update. This is just one more--completely opt-in--feature.
I made Kenji's Swedish meatballs recipe recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld5cECqIFU0

If you ever want to enjoy Ikea food again, I suggest you do not make this dish. It will be an unfortunate standards-raising experience.
Same. Over a decade as a loyal customer. Once my copy of 7 stops working, I'm done. Local vaults are a requirement for me.
GPL works on the honor system because its not a life or death matter that necessitates external enforcement. There are lots of things we in society used to do simply because it was the right thing to do. Nowadays everything seems to need to be nailed down by the letter of the law in order for people to abide by them.
From TFA: "If you think that your data showing when you last menstruated isn't of interest to those who are about to outlaw abortion, whew do I have a wakeup call for YOU."
The cases I've seen deploy relatively full binaries, not patches.

And they don't typically even have a REPL, as doing brain surgery on a satellite (that's already in a bad way if you're debugging something) is rarely the best option. So lots of telemetry logging, with 'feature flags' to turn on different logs. Then a change and code push once root cause is found, or a new build with new telemetry gathering if it's still not clear.

I'm sure just about every model for code structure has someone doing it though.
Fair enough, swap out "ignorant" if you want. The learning curve for Internety-thing is pretty steep, which is why people like "Find us on Facebook!" so much.

But what I was doing was comparing Fedi @somebody@some.thing.com to old-school bang paths. It's unlikely to take off among the masses until significant time passes. Heck, even email addresses baffle enough people to make me doubt whether all of this Internet stuff was worth the trouble.
Developers sit in a place of privilege at video game companies (I say as a former developer at a video game company) but the experience still sucks - there are far too many star-eyed fresh college graduates willing to work for peanuts for anyone to make a decent living working sane hours.

Indie companies are the absolute worst - there are occasional success stories (like, say, No Man's Sky) but they always involve insane overtime and fiscal risk - Sean Murray sold his house to keep the company afloat. And No Man's Sky - even with all the controversy - is one of the biggest recent successes (with the last one to go as mainstream being Minecraft IMO). If you make those fiscal and health gambles and lose then you're SOL - there are thousands of games made by passionate people that could have been good that just never hit the right PR vein or happened to have a buggy v1.0 and got written off by the community.
Don't get me started on the original (the later omnibus is way better) official english publication for Inuyasha... even ignoring flipping the reading direction and not updating references to which hand someone is using (so referring in text to a right hand, but visually a left hand) the amount of translation errors and swapped text bubbles was just maddening.
Manga does pretty well with fanlations since there is less overall text. It's when you get into webnovels / light novels things get hairy and you pretty much have to lower your standard to the proper nouns being consistent and nothing else.

But the alternative is to wait 2+ years for yen press to ship (Overlord addict here).
It’s not actually $40 an hour in my experience. It’s closer to $25 and even then the amount of stress and responsibility you have is absurd for being a lowly contractor.
I mean maybe. The CDC is just an outlet or a tool that was appropriate at the time. I'm sure they didn't come up with the eviction moratorium on their own, they were told to do that, or at least it was authorized by another group. They also knew it would be overturned because they have legal council.

Just because it's the CDC doesn't mean there aren't strings moving the arms about.

"The principle of a court overruling a public health judgment by a qualified organization like the CDC is disturbing in the precedent that it might send.”
One idea for getting stuck in consumption mode - Set a timer for 5 minutes when you go to do a search.

I'm have been using RescueTime[1] to rebuild my deep focus. I think it can help for two reasons:

1. It blocks websites, which might help with the consumption mode
2. It automatically tracks deep work, so I can see daily and week over week improvement.

[1] https://rescuetime.com
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>If you took the whole tradable US securities market and said "what doesn't correlate with these price movements?" it doesn't mean anything.

If it did, I would ask you, "What explicitly do you _think_ this means?"

Caveat: I'm an idiot and just trying to understand from a layman's perspective.

Wouldn't you be able to use this to invest when you think the market, as a whole, is overvalued?

For example, if the tool showed that a 30-year treasury bond (or similar) was negatively correlated with the S&P 500, wouldn't it suggest it was a good idea to buy bonds (or similar) when I thought the overall equity market was overheated? The idea being there are certain industry/stocks like maybe precious metals/mining that do well when the rest of the market is tanking?
Cool project & pretty interesting stack. Congrats on the launch!

I have a few questions, though. Your FAQ says:

> A company is looking for someone with a skill that you have. They find your CV on this website. They tell us they're interested. You get an email from us asking you if you're interested as well. Only if you are interested as well, we'll share your email address with them.

That's fine... but thinking purely from a candidate's/job seeker's POV, I might need certain questions answered before I can say that I'm interested. For instance, I normally don't agree to interviews until I know if a job is fully remote, and until I have at least a ballpark idea of compensation, benefits, contract status, length etc. Will I be expected to communicate all these questions directly to the companies themselves on a one-on-one basis? At that point, what's the value proposition for me as a candidate here? It's just LinkedIn lite with a far smaller reach. I'll still have to do the same song and dance as if I were dealing with your garden variety LinkedIn recruiters.

What I'm trying to say here is that skill-matching is only one part of the sourcing and hiring process. And that it may well not be enough to provide enough information for either party to ascertain if it's worth investing a significant amount of their time.

I hope you'll take my questions in good faith as they were absolutely meant in that manner. I did sign up and will definitely keep an eye out as the platform grows. Good luck!
Isn't there a difference between repealing a law by the legislature and the judiciary changing the meaning of existing laws?
The problem could also be said to start with software. Particularly Apple and Google for allowing specific location information to be used in the same app as advertising. The problem is that all apps are granted access to the internet.

Nip those two things in the bud and the problems will slow down, I think. But it's a pipe-dream, I know.

In the early days of Android, I remember reading that Android was Android because you had to jump through all these permission hoops with j2me (Java 2 Mobile Edition). Hence, Android was better and more easy to use than j2me.
Here we are, 15 years later with exactly the same set of permissions problems... with one exception, Android still gives out internet access without permission. Many devs here would be aghast at the idea of an app not being internet connected.

I believe Google did it that way because Steve Jobs had done it that way in the iPod and iPhones. (I presume there's some HN'ers here that can refute this?)
I remember my colleagues at the time remarking how refreshing it was to not have to deal with permissions (because customers disliked all the modal permissions that popped up in j2me)... and we all jumped on board the iPhone and Android development train, not knowing the problems that we'd have down the line.
Right, because micro computers have had decades of investment and development, when in 1982 they were like 15 years old (microprocessors anyway (HN correct me)).

Now the excitement is probably something that new or newer.. drones, recent ML, AR/VR/XR, wearable, or something that I don't know what it is. It's gotta be something where most people think it won't even work.
We've had XML for decades and the default interop is still tabular data - probably in large part because unless you go into non-standard extensions, tabular data is the easiest thing to get from a database query.

Spreadsheets haven't exactly gone away either.
Yeah agreed. The arc of learning seems to be…

This is interesting -> this is the best thing in the world -> here’s how this could be better

The “use the platform” people have been making this case for web components for at least 5 years now. The reality is WC will take off when and if they are a better alternative and even then they’ll need to be paired with some sort of framework. They may even make their way into React one day.

The only thing that bugs me about these takes is React is using the platform. It works great in all major browsers, it’s not some extension like Flash. It’s the platform.
What's crazy is how far we've changed.

The whole opinion of roe v Wade was predicated on the fact the government had no right to people's health information:

> In January 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in McCorvey's favor ruling that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion.

Now we have vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, and CDC surveillance.
I think the problem is that there is no clear standard or convention for how to do this. Indeed there are many ways to represent tabular data. Most large software projects probably have at least one bespoke file format that they use internally. The trouble is the lack of such a format that everyone agrees on.
It's quite dated at this point (14 years since the first/only edition) but Real World Haskell was written to be such a book and a lot of it still mostly holds up despite being dated: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
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Heh. “I think you're overfitting here, no?”

“That may be, but as your insurance agent, I recommend getting rid of the bird to save money on your premiums.”
Since when is Mario Odyssey a failure? From wikipedia:

In the United States and Europe, it became Nintendo's fastest-selling Super Mario game ever, with 1.1 million copies sold in the US within five days.[120][121] According to the NPD Group, the game was the best-selling video game of October 2017,[122] and was listed by Amazon as the online retailer's highest-selling game of the year.[123]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey#Sales
> Is there enough money in high finance to support the development of sophisticated tools to rig trading markets?

Yes, but a well timed economic WMD on countries heavily reliant on efficient capital markets would greatly distract them from interfering in international events.
This seems like overstated personal opinion. Market data, the consumer and the critic all disagree.

The Switch platform has been a stellar success and isn't stopping any time soon. As a business, Nintendo is thriving.

Nintendo franchises stay pretty fresh relative to other franchises. Is your issue with the concept of franchises in general? Every platform/ecosystem has them.

For Nintendo, the first party platform and franchises have always been the central focus. They remain a hit, decade after decade. So, it's not clear what your beef really is.
> Google is constantly tracking your every move by default without you turning anything on.

They are. And you decided to take issue with a default-off feature instead. Of all the tracking features your phone has, this one seems like the least creepy. It's not like they're "asking consent" for every other feature they ship.