skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these information sources can be sanitized so that the entropy they give off is reduced. See efforts by the Tor Browser and Firefox on reducing the effect of fingerprinting. Additionally, your MAC address is not exposed over the internet, just to the next hop.

I'll repeat what I said:

> Thus, it is not sufficient reason to force the implementation of a dystopian surveillance machine.
The US government is supposed to first and foremost take care of US citizens, not just allow them to be pushed out of jobs because corporations would rather import cheap labor.
If you were a CEO, you'd often be set up for life with some level of financial prudence, and everything else after achieving that level of wealth seems like it'd just be for a lark or some pursuit of satisfaction/happiness.
From Tristram Shandy:

"Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a man’s sense or his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motions and activity, and the different tracks and trains you put them into, so that when they are once set a-going, whether right or wrong, ’tis not a half-penny matter,—away they go cluttering like hey-go mad; and by treading the same steps over and over again, they presently make a road of it, as plain and as smooth as a garden-walk, which, when they are once used to, the Devil himself sometimes shall not be able to drive them off it."
Well I don't think it's a good fit for regular service, exactly how do you handle 2 replicas of the same service talking to the same DB?

The fact that it's just a file on disk limits the usage.
he has a very well funded social media platform of his own
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Ah yes. Although that doesn’t seem to be new either? Of course if something is completely off (bedroom missing) they have to give you a refund for the remainder of the time.
The opening paragraph reads "Today, we're excited to announce D1, our first SQL database." read: first

and well R2 and D2 would make for a great naming scheme.
No financial incentive to do so. Nobody is organizing to boycott over bigotry towards majority groups, and news media won't cover it. There's very little upside for corporations to censor them. On the flip side bigotry towards minority groups will get tons of media coverage and potentially some significant boycotts if they do nothing about it.
I was thinking the same. The dataset is way too small.
> Since coinbase isn’t FDIC insured, it makes sense that if coinbase goes bankrupt, the customer currencies will go away as well. And they aren’t SPIC insured in the situations where crypto is a security.

Is Coinbase "loaning" out the Bitcoin users have deposited in it?

The reason banks need the FDIC is that they loan your deposits out instead of throwing it in a vault and sitting on it, so if they go under they don't have those assets to distribute in a bankruptcy. Given how immature and non-economic cryptocurrency is, it wouldn't surprise me if Coinbase was sitting on all/most of its users desposits. So it's possible the users might get most of their deposits back after a bankruptcy proceeding (assuming the reason wasn't massive theft of assets or something).
>The problem is that the disclosure of risks is written in such a way that captures the existing situatio nand makes it hard for a valid crypto firm to not post... exactly this.

Because ... they aren't FDIC insured nor do they provide any reliable protections for their user's money?

It's hard not to post it, because it is true.
Leaving doesn't have to be rude. If there's no reason to work on your interview skills, you can simply say "I appreciate your time, but I don't think I'm a good fit for _company name here_." You don't have to give any further reason. You are the boss of your time and effort, so don't waste it if you don't have to.
Should twitter update it's ToS so that it doesn't have to?
I don't really get why this annoys the author though?
This is an emotional subject. I've gone through this but come from a country that has a relatively easy path.

The source of the huge delay for Indian-born people is these four facts:

1. India has a population exceeding one billion;

2. Green cards have a diversity rule that no more than 7% of applicants can come from a single country;

3. Your category is based solely on country of birth not country of citizenship; and

4. H1B visas have no per-country caps or quotas (beyond the total annual quota).

The companies that are really ruining this for anyone are the bodyshops like Tata and Infosys who direclty benefit from the situation. As the article mentions, if you have a pending I140 petition you can stay beyond the 6 year limit and changing jobs is dangerous. So employes get to hold this over employees creating an indentured servant type situation for 10+ years. These bodyshops flood applications and create the lottery problem.

There are numerous problems with all of this and (I really do hate to say this but it's true) the only administration who even made noises about reforming the H1B system was the Trump administration like basing H1B on salary (these bodyshops pay low for software engineers). None of this came to pass.

Here's one big problem: children ageing out of the system. If an Indian national has a pending green card petition and their child is born outside the US and that child gets to age 18 before the petition is approved, they are no longer eligible to receive a green card as part of their family's petition. Given how long Indian delays are, this may mean deporting someone to a country they left when they were 6 months old and have no memory of. They may not even speak the language.

Prior to the pandemic a couple of bills floated around to fix this backlog, most notably S369 [1]. These all ultimately went nowhere and (IMHO) had a lot of problems. For example, this didn't really increase the annual caps (it did, kinda, by only counting the petitioner and not their family against the quota) and eliminated the per-country cap. But what this would've done is made things terrible for everyone else for a transition period of years.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31338329
240V isn’t supercharging. That’s level 2. The difference between level 2 and supercharging is 17 kilowatts vs. 140 kilowatts.
The public's interest is a weak argument. I can say it's not in the public's interest to have someone who lost the popular vote in office at all, but that is only my opinion and doesn't speak to the original point.

I'm implying that the spirit of free speech should apply equally to all. If the president can come back after inciting violence, then everyone else should as well. It's not a selective principle that you get to choose how you follow.

If you don't want violent rhetoric to spread then yes, limiting free speech and universally applying those rules is a viable path to achieve that.

Otherwise, you create a regulatory environment that only applies to you if you don't have the power, political capital, or fanbase to yell loud enough in your favor.
For any future readers, I think this is the bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8281642
How much do they charge for this service? How quickly do they perform the transaction vs. a typical ATM?
Some more examples:
- apparently ancient Egyptians had this problem with their own past, but I don’t remember where I read this. If anyone has a source, I would be thankful.
- pre-indoeuropean language families in Europe, only Basque remained that we know of
While it seems to only be a temporary fix, the steps in this comment have fixed it for me so far: https://reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/qmpg3k/_/hw9zmgm/
Cloud business is driven by enterprise generally. Would enterprise be using SQLite?
It was a very early-stage startup. All the people in the company were interviewing me at once. There were no others.
Will they seriously challenge Azure, AWS and GCP eventually? Cloudflare is very innovative and what they are doing is really exciting.
This is an extremely good point, if you care a lot about no more abortions then start working and investing in the ability to create children without depending on a person with a uterus.

Until then, keep your moral outrage out of people's bodies.
You might wanna check the fine print on your Schwab brokerage account.
I get crackling on my M1 MBP 14 and now that I know it's there it's always very noticeable and distracting. I'm not buying any Apple MBPs in the future while this still happens. Even then depending on how long it takes Apple to acknowledge and fix it, I might not still.
But this strategic analysis shouldn’t get in the way of principles, unless you think “don’t be racist” isn’t a principle of all mainstream political perspectives.
Yeah, and at the same time avoid the "gentle" part. Being rude disqualifies them as gentle
That behavior is going to drive their company to ruin as they slowly poison their own well with bad experiences.
Switzerland is an example.
I’m sceptical, it’s too easy to cherry-pick data to make it look supportive of one’s political agenda. Not saying it’s the case here, I just wouldn’t trust too much "obvious" patterns and easy to understand maps from a twitter thread. More often than not, such threads are omitting data that doesn’t support the view of the author. Reality is rarely obvious and simple.
2 is described based on the government funding startups quite heavily and having heavy inheritance taxes and "no real classes," where rich kids "don't usually just live on investments." This is not how your average Western European economy functions. Yes, they have free education and healthcare, but startups are still very risky and unsubsidized, and rich kids do get to inherit a lot of wealth. Risk and income inequality (in other words, the important factors for wealth creation as in society 1) are very much alive and well in Western Europe.
what an exhausting but gripping example of how the immigration system is Byzantine and absurd.

I am in the grips of it now: my ex and I both filed to renew our green card within a week or so of each other in early 2021. She received her replacement card in less than six weeks. According to the USCIS web site I still have at least another eight months to wait.

Meanwhile I can’t even get a stamp in my passport to indicate my status (so that I can travel): I arranged for such an appointment but when they finally called to tell me when it was instead to tell me that there are no appointments available.
The US has way more than 10 "cities" with over 1M population, unless you ignore ground truth (metro area) and only count people within random city boundaries
They get used, during the day.
even recursive loops have a point of exit, in this case it would look something like

if ("promotes violence" && "has not been receiving violence") {
print ("this person is intolerant")
}
else if ("has been receiving violence" && "promotes violence") {
print ("this person is oppressed and is trying to oppose that")
}
else {
print ("this person is not within the scope of intolerance")
}

All rights have limits, often rights exist at the expense of other potential rights, our ancestors/predecessors and us have decided what those should be, how they should be handled and what exceptions/allowances should be made. Free speech is one thing but in twitter's particular case is bumps up against property laws as twitter although open to the public is private property. Similarly slander laws exist, and similarly there are other limits of speech that are not protected by the 2nd amendment particularly categories like: incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and threats. These exclusions always were intended to deal with the intolerant (meaning those who would perform or incite violence unprovoked). Can it be leveraged to silence opposition, yes our laws are not as air tight as they should be especially on the enforcement end of things, but was that the case here? I don't think so, this is a pretty cut and dry case of incitement.
> What i don't understand is why don't people create their own wallet and keep their funds there? Isn't that the entire purpose? Of course they could still use coinbase as an exchange. But if everyone let's another party "manage" their wallet in what way is it really decentralized...

The real purpose of Bitcoin is to speculate on the roller coaster. Everything else is basically woo that's needed to fuel it. The "future of money" where people by their coffee with a super-secure private wallet is a lie.
Humans are wierd.

They'll overvalue some little things, like the "free pizza in meetings", "childcare discount" or the "airport lounge access", while not paying anywhere as much attention proportionally to the $150k of salary.

That (and tax breaks) are the only reason for employment to give any benefits apart from raw salary anyway. In an economists world, the employee is always better placed to decide what to spend their compensation on, so it should all be money.
Yes and to add: if an SMS’ sender ID successfully spoofs another number, the message would appear threaded into an existing “legitimate” conversation.
Replace *count with this->count and you can see why this can cause pessimization.
>Our PM looked around for teams willing to use our service, and found the Gmail team very receptive. A few engineers integrated it in about a week and we launched that "send money" button on Gmail at Google I/O. Could never get over how Gmail had "send money" but Google Wallet didn't. (They eventually changed their mind, of course.)

Thanks for the insight on why Google makes so many braindead decisions. It's so frustrating I'm ready to abandon them entirely.
and then goes out to buy groceries for family that cost 50% more than a year ago.

and then has to fill up on gas but decides to just walk
How do they know what the difference is between a keylogger and auto-complete?

I use auto complete A LOT and my customer's love it. On the back end I sure could be storing that information (I don't)...

There's some good use cases that easily could be a keylogger, but aren't, or at least we don't know. Even if they store something that isn't auto complete it could be legitimate "hey are people stumbling over those stupid dashes all the time?" exploration of how the users do things.

Real dark patterns, and legit features tend to intermix sometimes and the devil is in the details...
As Douglas Adams says "Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."
> There's the pesky issue that any chemical weapons found are likely to have had "made in the USA" stamps on them.

Yeah, that's the old joke "We know how many WMDs Saddam has. We still have the receipts."
Honestly, this entire thing is ridiculous. The logic behind Dorsey's comment on this is essentially "I don't think Trump should've been banned for his actions but I didn't feel comfortable saying so at the time. So I banned him, waited for the fuss to die down, and now I'm going to change my mind because I've got political cover".

The only good thing I think that will come from this deal is that Musk will be direct about his absurd position where Dorsey was two-faced. It's absolutely wild to see Dorsey essentially publicly admit that he disagreed with most of his own decisions running twitter.
As a fairly experienced interviewer, having administered well over 200 both as an employee and an independent... these guys dropped the ball - hard.

If you are interviewing somebody, you are not there as 'yourself', you are representing the company and their engineering org, and by my understanding, it is exceedingly poor form to present the company as inconsiderate and to burn bridges. Even if you're having a bad day and the candidate is a poor fit, you suck it up and remain professional and collegial.

The one who walked out should be removed from the interviewing pool. Maybe they're a good engineer, maybe not, but if they act that way consistently then their attitude and self control are not cut out for interviewing.
Can anyone vouch for whether Grindr has improved its privacy and security policy/execution?
The US has 50-60 cities with 1+ million people. You may be conflating administrative boundaries with cities.
How my pet cat taught me a lesson about validation data for image classification
Doesn't the US have tax agreements with most countries? You still have to pay tax on US income.
Show HN: Trying to solve the “too many tabs” problem
It's not really an accurate description anyway. Most shells will only perform the PATH lookup one time per command, then store the found fully-qualified file path in an in-memory hash table for quicker lookup each subsequent invocation. This is why you need to blast the cache if you delete or move an executable. Plus, many common utilities are replaced by shell built-ins anyway and they never require directory traversal at all.
Amusingly, I have gotten exactly that question - or rather, "what's in an inode." I answered "data about a file object, but none of the actual contents of the file, which are stored elsewhere" and failed because I didn't mention the magic words "metadata" and "permissions". Fair, I guess, but this wasn't for a systems development position at all, so I can't imagine it would have been critical to the job!

Another favorite of mine, for a web development position, was "what happens at the network level when you load a webpage" where I got marked as getting it wrong for skipping explicit description of SYN/ACK step of the TCP connection. Again, fair, but probably not relevant.
I wonder if things are going to change significantly with all of the covid related movement.
No, I don't get a less stressful life, I'd get a much more stressful one. One, maybe two years I earn a lot, and then 2-5 years next to nothing. I must plan my life according to the needs of my mental health, not fiscal calendars of some social engineers who can't understand that one size doesn't fit all and can seriously hurt some people (yeah, even those who earn a lot some years are still just humans, and sometimes sleep on the street another year too).

And it's a life where I am forbidden to do useful things that others want me to do and I am willing and able (which is not always, or often) - just because someone said "you did enough in this arbitrary period of time, give us your money or don't do it at all".

Don't even start about me owing the society, because in my view the society owes me a lot for the pain it caused me, gave me nothing of value, and tries very hard to keep me from obtaining the little I have. And the bill keeps growing. The idea that this should not only prevail but continue to worsen gives me chills.

Sorry - nothing personal, but I really, truly hate every bit of your idea of the world. From the beginning where people "should earn less so we are equal" to the end where it's "perfect that engineers work less" and the bit where you just assume I'd lead a less stressful life, even though you know nothing about me - typical of people of your opinions.
Hey hackers,

I built this tool over a couple of weekends, it helps so you don't have to open a new tab just to get a tiny piece of additional information.

Let me explain. If you're reading an article and it mentions "jason calacanis" you can just highlight his name and search using this tool to get a summary of the guy without you leaving the page. It works well for notable persons/companies and even terms like "blockchain". It's basically similar info to what you'll find in a Google knowledge panel.

I have added support for twitter links, so you can have a small twitter popup similar to the one on the twitter website when you hover over a twitter handle. Instagram doesn't make this easy so I've put that in the backseat for now(not priority).

Some things I'm trying to figure out:
- cases i must include (e.g summarising finacial data for $TSLA/$APPL/etc, dictionary terms(?))
- Legal web scraping or workarounds that won't get me in trouble
- Best sources of public information (currently using search engine data which doesn't work at all on unpopular companies/people)
- even if you won't use this specific product for whatever reason, what would your ideal use case be?
Recent Intel processors have "fast rep stos" which basically allows the compiler to always inline memset (which they couldn't do in the aliasing case).
Why can't you download this in the UK? My question is sincere, I'm surprised to read that.
>It's sort of irrelevant if they're official

>It's time to stop pretending they are not official

I literally didn't understand your previous comment, because it makes no sense. If you could clarify that would be great, otherwise I'm not going to keep responding.
Flag of Ukraine is still on Azovstal in Mariupol...
Recently I started buying replica sunglasses. Work just like the real thing and a fraction of the price. Worth it especially for sunglasses that I have to replace every year. I'm thinking of trying to pick up some other accessories like belts next.

One other interesting thing about reps is it feels like they provide the most utility to those who can afford but don't want to pay the full price. If you are a kid decked out in full designer gear, people will call you out. But if you mix and match with some real pieces, people will just assume they are all real.
Manually sliding the slider in that example is particularly fun!
> you can't use portably use `char` to hold a UTF-8 code unit

That's not true, in C++ a byte is guaranteed to be able to hold a UTF-8 code unit.

https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4868/intro.memory#1.sen...
>they've already made a few cents off you just from the ads that were served

A few cents, for one page load?! lol
I hate to break it to you, but saying your favorite language is Scheme would get A LOT of interviewers to laugh, especially in the enterprise world where Java and C# are dominant. These aren't usually Hacker News browsing people, and if they have any association with Lisp, it's through a college course, rarely independent interest.

Are you sure he didn't just walk out because he had other things to do and knew the others could take over?
If you imagine it's nonsense, then you probably don't understand it. You deduced a false conclusion from assumptions you've inserted.
Most people don't even have a lawyer in the same way they have a dentist. And the fact that I might just be a few Google searches away from finding one doesn't change the parent comment's point about the fee still stands.
meh... 64bits! :'(
Pure observation, no judgement about whether that's positive or not.
They don't have 100% of the funds on hand, same as most real banks.
I see. Thanks for the info and thanks for creating/sharing a great tool!
I think your statement about the idea that Coinbase isn't living on the float about as likely as the notion that nobody in crypto is desperately trying to create a fiat currency fiefdom. As such, your views come across as the kind of statement that are illegal to distribute concerning regulated investment.
> Rates directly influence broad-market multiples, which Google will track, but "market goes down and Google goes up...priced in" isn't an intelligent thing to say.

Right.. which is why people should ignore "priced in" comments and instead read them as "I don't know what I'm talking about whatsoever".

There's no such thing as "priced in" - it's a contradiction and only used by people who are religiously inclined to talk about events that are random and don't have an explanation. If someone says "oh that was priced in" that's an extremely clear signal that they do not know what they are talking about.

> Google is profitable and trading at a below-market multiple. It's a poor rates play.

Did you intentionally miss the point or were you genuinely confused about what the discussion was about? It's very clear that I was not providing any sort of analysis about Google and interest rates rising (or lowering) and was talking about how people just say any action is "priced in" once it occurs.
DuckDB comes to mind, but I can't speak to its differences from SQLite.

https://duckdb.org/
Cold-Stimulus Headache
Of course. How is this relevant to whether it's "right" or not?
Terry Pratchett – Cockbill Street