skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not related to the article, but the comments.
In all my years on the internet and on internet based communities, this community never ceases to impress me on how supportive members are of each other. I too have experienced some severe bouts of depression in my lifetime, and to a lesser degree still am experiencing one.

While this community is pretty diverse, I find some solace in reading comment threads like this one, as I sort of assume that most of the people who gravitate towards HN are in a similar mindset as myself. Maybe we’re a group of people who have lived through the evolution of internet and social media, maybe we are all to some degree attempting to practice some sort of limiting our media inputs to those which provide a more meaningful experience in this world, or maybe there are just more realists in this community than the others I’ve been exposed to.

I’m not really sure what it is, but I find these comment threads incredibly helpful to my situation. I’ve limited my “social media” intake to only HN for the past few years, and while I find myself on some days wishing there was something more magical to spend my time on, this community is the only place where I am reminded regularly to go out and do “Something” not because it will make me richer or more attractive or more popular, but simply because I will live a more fulfilling life. Thus being a “magical” community in and of itself.

Thank you HN community for being the way you are.
> each has chosen to work elsewhere because they found better pay

The candidates don't control the comp you offer. Claiming that those darned candidates have the upper hand because everyone else pays better is a bad faith argument. Not that you can tell your boss that, I'm sure.
Really interesting.

Also a throwback to the infamous "barefoot bandit" who learned how to fly a plane by:

"It is believed that he learned how to fly small planes by reading aircraft manuals, handbooks, watching a "How to fly a small airplane" DVD, and playing flight simulator computer games."

He stole and flew a Cessna 400 and a Cessna 182.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colton_Harris_Moore
CT is a PKI ecosystem thing, not a Google thing. Google hosts one of the CT logs for HTTPS certificates, but so do other major companies: Cloudflare and DigiCert come to mind. Let's Encrypt even has one.
Walk out of a meeting is one thing. start doing other work in the meeting is different
Appreciate the advice.

>There's a chance that doing so might increase the likelihood of harassment again in future

I'm probably already at max likelihood already. I am detained 4+ hours everytime I enter the country. In 2015 I fought alongside the Kurdish militia YPG in northern Syria against ISIS, and ever since the CBP has targeted me. There is a flag on my passport that basically says 'harass him' as best as I can tell.

>if you can, find the relevant anti-corruption agency and report the events to them.

Still in the process of filing the complaints against the relevant medical professionals who violated patient consent. I am currently working in order of operations from where I expect justice to be most likely (complicit medical workers) to where I expect justice to be impossible (CBP officers).
why not build a youtube channel with a set of tutorial on how to build the features in the pro version from the fee version. That way if people can't afford the free version they can sit down and code the premium version with tutorials.
Yes, but that's always true and the rising spread of inequality is a problem of the last few decades.
Pretty sure on both of those /sbin is just a symlink to /usr/sbin. If the static thing was ever true I suppose once you've moved everything in to /usr you wouldn't bother anymore.
What write throughput and latency can we expect from this database?

Are there any limitations, for example on the number of tables or size of the database?
I wouldn't say that's a YC-specific issue. Look at Nasdaq, this is a general issue with tech stocks right now, just this immense selling all across the board.
It might explain why WASM stagnated for so long.

To be honest, google and apple probably want to kill WASM. Those company lose money because of good standards.
Checking blind spots isn't a distraction from safe driving it is part of safe driving, the same can't be said for these other things. If I want to appreciate scenery I just pull over and enjoy it. Particularly worthwhile places tend to have designated spots for this. As for billboards I can't really see why I'd want to be looking at advertisements in the first place, let alone looking at advertisements over looking where I'm driving.
Who is Sandy Loam? Who smudged the dirt docs?
I think there's also an element of overestimating how much power "people in power" actually have. Unless you're at the point in the org chart where you can actually move money and people you're stuck trying to keep your little zen garden clean inside a massive constantly shifting system you have no control over.

Power in an organization should probably be measured by "resources they have unilateral control over" instead of "authority." Because if all you have is authority you're a glorified manager.
Of course, as we all know, using electricity is the real danger.

Nevermind how it's produced, it's the configuration of transistors and how they are used that does real damage to the environment.

Coal? No no no, GPUs are the real killer!
What is a fair share? And what's the point of giving even more money to an entity that wastes most of it?

You position is irrational and seems to be from a place of envy over other's wealth than actual societal benefit.
yeah exactly my question. LDA is probabilistic and very performant if you clean up the documents well. The approach using Bert seems pretty powerful given that you can now cluster based on semantics, not just word occurrence/frequencies as in LDA (though ngrams help). However using a clustering approach would mean that each document is a part of a single topic, rather than being made up of multiple topics. But this is a cool idea nonetheless.
[EDIT] quickly checked it out, seems like it uses some kind of soft clustering so documents can occur in many clusters (topics)
I heard the story on the radio this morning and they said that not only was the controller a certified instructor but he flew this specific plane so he knew how to direct him to everything on the panel! Really incredible bit of coincidence.
well you only get a depeg with huge volitilty. Luna dropped 97%, that's why it depeged. Synethic SnP, real estate is like 10% max which isn't high enough volitilty to lead to what esseentially was a bankrun on UST.

The problem is getting people to trust the underlying collateral. Also, you can take the Dai approach and be over collateralized. Dai is at 150%, instead of trying to maintain parity.
>If you’re building a product that billions of people will be stuck with, however, this can lead to a little stress. The history of the web is littered with bad APIs, ill-considered specs, and tangled piles of security vulnerabilities. Something a programmer puts together in a week can consume decades of engineering time in the future. WebAssembly could not and would not release as a half-baked or ill-considered spec because as browser developers we all understood the costs everyone would pay for that.

I don't understand how this is Google's fault? It sounds like the author had already hyped up the stress to insane levels before even working on the project. So it follows that everything they experienced within that context was also stressful.
My very first flight with a CFI had me do everything but the radio - the landing is perhaps the hardest part but if you have someone to talk you through it, and you can get vectored to the longest possible runway around, it's not that hard (you can basically fly level above the runway and slowly bring back power, which will eventually touch down).
It's not what you make, it's what you keep. That 300K+ in SV comes coupled to an extreme cost of living. :)
If they play dumb you can say, "this seems like a good time to ask, what is the company culture like when people have technical disagreements?"
Video of the landing, it's very nicely done. https://twitter.com/aviationbrk/status/1524410837414391809
Most software that does session recording also collect keyboard events.
That people within an organization wrap their careers around an idea is a huge hazard. There is so much incentive to present success, to project positively.

We talked about Jobs' "reality distortion field" but there's a much much more mundane almost sycophantic hyping up of the future & success that is deeply deeply deeply woven into most company's genes.
Four Tests for Choosing a Cofounder
Ask HN: Is it possible to train and improve your memory and recall?
When I search for ways to improve memory there are plenty of articles to do basics like exercise, eat well, get lots of sleep. Assuming you're already doing those things are there other ways to improve your memory and recall?

Ideally I would love to be able to easily recall something I read from a book, or easily recall something someone told me in a conversation.
Thanks. These points especially:

"Quality isn't, and often cannot, be known in advance."

"The idea of "too small to matter" of a micropayment is at odds with "deciding if it's worthwhile"."

"Content is frequently available elsewhere. Gate / turnstile jumping is far too easy."

"Virtually all payment systems create a data trail of what content you're accessing -- it's an Orwellian wet dream of identifying who is reading, watching, or listening to what." Especially that, for legal searches
Oh sure they did attack artists they didn't like. Unlike many other things, that one wasn't unique to the Nazis. So do people in the US. Both sides of the spectrum attack art that they don't like - in different ways. Just this month Dave Chapelle was physically attacked on stage because somebody didn't like his art. This is not the only case by far - people get "cancelled" for all kinds of artistical "crimes", and though physical attacks are thankfully still rare, threats and property destruction becomes more and more common.
Below that, in the legitimate field, there lies a long-standing tradition of art critique - which yes, sometimes harshly criticizes certain art. This is what Peterson is doing too, though it is by far not the most important part of his work.

Are all these people Nazis then? I don't think so. Not even the person that attacked Chapelle - he was a violent idiot, but likely not a Nazi. I think, instead, certain people - mostly on the Left - are abusing "Nazi" label to delegitimize their opponents and the criticism of any actions of their side, while keeping the right to criticize - and sometimes physically attack, destroy, burn and maim - from their side. Needless to say, it's not how political - or cultural - discussion should be properly held.
> He's obviously a hero and saved the lives of everyone on board, but it's still illegal to fly a plane while unqualified, right?

What, uh, is the alternative?
Good question. You are right in that it is implemented as a mapping from type → SVG in the Markdoc docs site. However, diagrams don't need to be implemented this way.

In fact, on stripe.com/docs we use Markdoc + https://reactflow.dev to render custom diagrams (with translated content and everything). There is a good example of this in action on https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/how-checkout-works, if you are curious.
Direct linking the Opportunity Atlas feature, as it's the meat of the report:
https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
The Promise of Open Source EDA Software
Ask HN: What blogging framework to use in 2022
I’m thinking about starting a new blog to be hosted on GitHub pages. I’ve been out of the blog game for a while and a lot of the old static site frameworks seem like they haven’t been updated in a while. What tools are other people using for their technical blogs?
For perspective, the previous president of El Salvador is in exile for his alleged role in the embezzlement of $300+ million.

https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-a08341e3810...

A 2% speculative investment in an emerging technology is a drop in the bucket compared to what El Salvador has been through in the past 30 years, with multiple past presidents arrested or fleeing the country following corruption charges.
By multiple verifiable metrics(homicide rate, covid response, gdp growth) El Salvador is in a far better place now than it's been in decades.
Just build a tiny application alongside an open source Varnish instance, and use it as a local backend. It's "free" if you have decent latency to the area of Internet you care about. For example, my latency is just fine to all of Europe so I host things myself.

If you want to go one step further you can build a VMOD for Varnish to run your workloads inside Varnish, even with Rust: https://github.com/gquintard/vmod_rs_template
To be fair, I imagine the original IBM PC team in 1980 kept repeating "replacing our mainframes is NOT the goal", too.
I used that once a few years ago with a very rude CTO/VP Eng. They had given me a "coffin" problem (e.g. expected to fail) during the interview. I was working on it overnight while sitting with my elderly mother-in-law in the hospital. I spoke with them that next day, with 0 sleep, but still gracious and apologetic that I'd not finished every element of the problem. I didn't tell them why.

They didn't like the not finishing part. I got an email later on saying thanks but no thanks. I asked them if they wanted to see the work they asked me to do. That piqued their interest. They then asked if I was still interested.

I said, "No, I think we are done here."

Assholes are a major red flag. You really need to avoid them. Your life will be much better without them. Look up the companies on glassdoor, search for the people you speak to ahead of time, see if there are any major issues. You'd be surprised at how easy some of these are to find with careful digging. Though you need to be adept at filtering disgruntled people seeking reputational revenge versus specific critiques.
- `/home/username/bin` and for binaries installed under that specific user

- `/bin` for everything except the above, including binaries installed under root

- same pattern for configs, auxiliary and transient stuff

change my mind
That's actually so much of why people feel underpaid. Pay varies incredibly widely. The job also varies quite widely, but when you're not in the job, IC sounds a lot like IC. You could be an IC with a total compensation of $80k (and actually getting $80k), you could be an IC with a TC of $300k (and actually getting $300k), and you could be an IC with a TC of $750k (and actually getting something like $200k-250k because your employer is private and your equity is all hypothetical)
And yet a consideration that, in my experience, rationalists ignore at their own expense is that human factors like familiarity weigh in to the thinking of the typical layperson. Many people might bristle at, and feel "told" or "admonished" by this line of argumentation.

I'm all for methods to encourage greater rationality. I'm all for a world where, someday, folks are doing this sort of calculus more often in their lives.

We're not there, yet. The approach you are taking here falls short in being a persuasive, and thus effective, argument. imo, more awareness and effort needs to go into the rational community itself trying to get more in touch with what sort of, well, let's call them "less rational", methods work effectively for/with/"on" the general populace.

I know, dark arts and all that. I'm not suggesting to outright lie to people. I am suggesting that falling into the typical mind fallacy is a sort of highly visible antipattern exhibited, in my experience, by rationalists. I'm suggesting that a world where a person helps save orangutans and rainforests and acts as a conscientious, charitable giver is better than the world where they don't. I'm suggesting to focus on that good, and then do work where you can to make the world even more better.

Perhaps a look into the works of David Chapman [1] could help, here. Perhaps a greater appreciation for the complexity and subjective reality of other humans' thought processes and rationalizations, to them, would help you make better use of empathy and prosociality to become even more effective.

[1] https://meaningness.com/deconstructing-yourself-6
I think you are paying for the store front, the personal shopping experience, the models showing off the goods on runways far away. Advertisement and branding.

There are plenty of costs involved in luxury goods, not all of them goes towards material.
If it were just two extra button presses then it would be fine. The problem is that if you try to use a sideloaded accessibility app without pressing them, the error Google gives you tells you that it's completely impossible, and doesn't mention the button presses.
> Is Coinbase "loaning" out the Bitcoin users have deposited in it?

I don't understand how they would loan it out. What denomination/form will the loan be transferred in? Bitcoin? If so, how are they creating the Bitcoin to loan out?

They can't take it out of their depositors' wallets because by design that would result in a lower balance for the wallet on the blockchain.

They can't make a copy because Bitcoin prevents double transactions. Likewise, Bitcoin can't be "created" like banks create fiat currency on their balance sheets.

If they are loaning out fiat cash fractionally backed by depositors' Bitcoin, who are they borrowing that cash from, and how can they guarantee to their creditors that the Bitcoin backing the loan are available as collateral?

Would they take their users' wallets' private keys to pay in the event of a default?
I always want to do this but health insurance always keeps me from never going a day without being employed. Im fortunate to be able to have that kind of job stability but the anxiety of being out of a job and then needing any kind of medical care is real.
It's not the 3D that kills you; it's the sudden 2D at the end.
While I think even the colossally tone-deaf FAA wouldn't try to prosecute this guy under these circumstances, there's an odd gray area here, where a certificated pilot can deviate from any regulation to meet the need of an emergency [1] -- so I think a twist of logic would allow a non-pilot to be allowed to deviate from the "must have a pilot certificate" rules to meet his emergency the same way while acting as pilot-in-command of this plane.

Not a lawyer, am a flight instructor, I think 91.3 is how this non-pilot gets to use pilot regs to get out of pilot jail :)

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.3
> as long as it’s not tracking people

I'm sure some sites don't do this, but plenty do.

Check out FullStory. It's a drop-in Javascript snippet (aka accessible to any marketing/design folks) that records the DOM and rebuilds it as a playable video in their backend as if you were doing a screenshare and recording it.

https://www.fullstory.com/
I know it's good to always hedge against risk. But to hedge against technological progress is shorting humanity as a whole and is a dark place to go. Arguments of type "let's reduce population" nonetheless stem from that line of thinking as you eluded to.
I’m pretty video games saved my life while driving, too. Once I was driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour and the car in front of me stopped on a dime. I always maintain a good distance from the car in front of me but I knew for sure if I would have just hit the breaks I would have hit him. I wound up swerving into the next lane with a reaction time of under a second only to drive by a six car pile up which included the car that had been in front of me. It is one of the scariest incidents I have ever had in my life while driving.
>I want to quit and stay unemployed for a while, but that's frankly just scary

I don't know you, but if you have the savings to do it, I'd say go for it. I've done it and it was wonderful. The day I realized I could just quit my job without having another job lined up a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders. I couldn't manage to find the effort needed to go through a job search while still employed, and taking a six month sabbatical also was great for doing a lot of new things I didn't usually have the time for.
like equities? from a macro level, dividends on the s&p500 is like 1.3%, so the difference between productive and nonproductive assets isn't very high, not nearly as high as it once was. munger and buffet come from an era when dividends were still 4.5% or higher. those days are over, with the sky high valuations we have now.
Possible upsides include catharsis and helping create a better known world, helping give us a more accurate image. Of what many probably perceieved as an immensely highly skilled part of the world, doing unbelievably important & relevant work.
> data-driven approach to our investments

This is as absurd as saying "data-driven approach for finding out successful humans".

I am kind of aggravated to see drivel like this from VC's. This is similar to algorithm trading on stock market and not funding deserving startups. This 'data-drive' garbage is how you end up with more grocery delivery, food delivery and pet walking startups.
Maybe some feel underpaid because some of these companies work environments are terrible. Amazon’s dramatic increase in base pay is almost an acknowledgment that it is not a very nice place to work.

People are generally willing to accept less pay for work/life balance, job security, and non-toxic work environements.
Stop the multiplication of humans sounds authoritarian. Is that how you meant it? A recent experiment along those lines didn't go so well.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1008656293/the-legacy-of-the-...
It is very much the case.

Circumstantial evidence is indirect evidence that does not, on its face, prove a fact in issue but gives rise to a logical inference that the fact exists.

Most criminal convictions are based on circumstantial evidence, although it must be adequate to meet established standards of proof. The fact that she blocked access to her social media tells me that she has lots to hide.
The constant popups have been removed almost eight years ago, right now you get a little (i) in the notification shade that says "this network may be monitored". This is the same warning that shows when you enable a VPN.

The warning is wrong when it comes to EAP certificates, of course, but far better than the constant unnecessary popups warning you that you did in fact load a CA cert.
Frankly, I’m not super surprised? I had a few hours of flight instruction before I dropped out (it just didn’t fascinate me), and what struck me was that you’re doing a landing during the first lesson.

As long as the landing strip is long enough, you can take things very slowly.
Maybe 20 years ago the system worked, but it does not work currently. While I was incarcerated all of the decent COs quit or descended into drug/alcohol abuse if they had to keep the job. One was like 2 years from retirement and he just couldn't work in such a messed up system anymore. We had one counselor who actually helped people. They demoted here to a horrible work situation because she was helping people with COVID release paperwork because we had no access to the law library due to COVIDE. It was actually part of her job description to provide that help with copies (and optionally charge us per copy depending on if we were indigent), but that didn't matter. She was too helpful so she had to go.
The supposed scenario is manual landing, don't know if that was mentioned in the op
Definitely not illegal in an emergency situation like this.
Airbnb experiences are cool but for every other normal vacations, I prefer hotels. Turns out regulations do matter.