skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To save dang the effort, we had this story when it came out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23774521

Of its 160 comments, this stands out:

> I'm in this same boat, but 8... EIGHT YEARS LATER! that competitor went out of business, and I bought them, their customers, and everything because I know the way I had more efficiently solved some of the same problems will let me run that business profitably.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775784
If you want to read it (ePub or online) I did a production for SE: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregor...
> Again, you're being pedantic in an attempt to dismiss people.

No, I'm being correct.

Netherland problems that are not caused by EU regulations, are not EU problems.

Deal with that.

> But somehow the EU, as in European Union, will be the exception, and we can't be skeptical of that.

Fale premise.

I never said that EU is gonna be an exception, just that this particular problem happens everywhere, tax fraud are probably the most common case of fraud World wide.

So implying that's proof of some potential problem inside a new EU regulation that has nothing to do with tax fraud is naive at best, but let's get real, you're being not naive, you're simply being biased.
If Akamai were smart they'd buy Fastly yesterday, because they're rapidly falling behind. Cloudflare is harder to see because of antitrust concerns. With Fastly's current position, they should sell, and someone should buy them for the network and progress on edge compute alone.
> “We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity,"

And ten thousand physicists sighed disappointingly.
I think a ban can work quite well as a deterrent. If ThePiratebay/PopcornTime was not illegal, we wouldn't have Netflix&co.

It's not perfect, but I think a ban can be very effective.

Also, I'm tired of hearing cryptocurrency-related stories at social events and in podcasts. If it were illegal, I believe people would be more reluctant in spreading these stories.
I've only ever "shipped" two independent projects, and they are the the best things I have ever done for myself in terms of development, both from a personal career growth perspective but even financially.

I work at a nonprofit and I had done some ABSURDLY SIMPLE data analysis on a relatively annoying public data set to consume. I'd done it for our institution, but it was sort of straightforward to generalize it to any institution for which this would be applicable. The code was... awful. Rather than doing it "properly," since I already had all the code I had written to do the analysis for my institution, I literally just ran it on the entire data set (10GB or so) for every organization that existed and then just put some result file on S3. My "site" would just let folks search for their institution, and present the data with a couple graphs, some nice visuals, and have them print it out. I was ashamed of it in a technical sense.

But I just bought a domain and tweeted at a journalist. Whelp, two weeks later, I had my picture in the city's biggest paper, my org got some positive press, did a service for other non-profits, had folks reaching out to me about jobs, etc. It took SO LITTLE effort, and every instinct I had was that it was bad and I shouldn't publish it. But the reality is I had already done 95% of the work... committing to just do the extra 5% was so hard to do, but in hindsight, so obviously amazing ROI, even if it hadn't gotten the attention it did.

Secondly, I built a reading app for a teacher at my school to let him do an activity where kids would jumble up sentences and paragraphs in order to help them understand transition words. The only reason I agree to try to do this was that I was learning React at the time and wanted to play with the React drag and drop library. After a weekend, I had it essentially working, and it was a success in his classroom. And here, too, it was to be the end of it... but I pushed myself through it, added a simple login mechanic, user account, etc. I had a small technical question as I was wrapping up, and I posted it on reddit. Someone who worked at a nonprofit mentioned to me that the app could potentially qualify for a grant that the Verizon foundation was running for learning apps. I applied... and we got it. The money award helped pay for my entire grad school tuition.

Really... just ship it!
I don't care one direction or the other, but for example Doctor Who is just fine without having to be redone and loved by people in America regardless of the accents. Is there a reason you'd love to see it redone outside of just having the show have more exposure in America? I can understand the sentiment.
I'm looking forward to JWST shots of stuff like this.
> optimal capacity

Cities to do not have fixed capacity.

> There are absolutely problems that only emerge with scale, and scale non-linearly with population and density.

The biggest thing that doesn't scale is private car usage. But private car usage is terrible. I have not heard of extant cities hitting fundamental scaling constraints in and other way.

> “Large and rich” aren’t the values that most/many people want their communities to optimize for.

Then why aren't rents lower?
Teenage Engineering's OP-1 Field is a big refresh with a big price tag
Almost as if they could be published as markdown files in git repositories, with changes visible as diffs like any other plaintext content? :)
The humanitarian crisis in Greece was caused by Greeks, not by a lack of Eurozone solidarity. And in humanitarian terms it wasn't even much of a crisis. No one starved to death.
What is this "escape" of which you speak? Do I activate that by shaking my phone?
From the essay:

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Hmm, okay, so what would be fair? Perhaps we want to give each party a fighting chance in each election? Isn't that fair?

2 districts each hold 100,000 blues

8 districts hold 50,000 blues and a 50,000 violets

So now the violets have a 50% chance of winning 8 districts. The blues are granted two districts automatically, but that is fair, since they are more popular than the violets. Each party has some chance of winning.

However, in this model, if 1 blue voter in each district changes their mind, then the violets end up with 80% of the legislature. We’ve engineered a system that is very unstable! If Katechon is like the nation of Hungary, where a 2/3rds majority can amend the constitution, then Katechon is now vulnerable to an authoritarian takeover, much like what happened in Hungary after 2010. And that's because 8 people out of a 1,000,000 changed their vote.
Yes, I’m skeptical that WT will incorporate his design, as it is a big design change. There’s no way to just “plug it in” somewhere, without replacing the beating heart of WT. It would be great if they did that though, and I’d applaud them for it.
Well at least it used to be user-replaceable, I replaced a Iphone 3G battery on my own, now it's much trickier, like you need a defibrillator and degaussing it, I'm making it up but it's actually worse than I make it sound.
First picture of the black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy
That seems like silly semantics. The "application process" is to express interest and ask for an invite.
Increased income is realized value. You actually have the income.

Imagine that instead, your income was taxed based on the government estimated income you could have if you switched to a new job that paid more, and you were taxed based on that hypothetical increase in your wages.

I see no profit from my home’s increased estimated value unless/until I sell and move out of the area.
Know when to walk away. Be aware of the signs you should, and heed them. When the people you respect are all leaving, there is likely a solid reason to do so, yourself.

And when you're leaving, if the company suddenly feels compelled to grant you more stock options, or increase your salary, keep walking away.
> My experience with the Germans not wanting to speak German with you while you stumble over everything, is simply that they want to exercise their own English, and its just not as fun for them to wait for your marble-mouthed nonsense to parse. ;)

As a German, my reason for switching to English quickly was always along the lines of "oh no, they're struggling to communicate with me! I feel bad. Let's make it easier for everyone and switch to English".

This applies especially when talking to English native speakers, but, weirdly enough, also for others - I feel better when I also have to suffer by talking in a non-native language. Doesn't really make sense, I know :)

I've talked to other Germans about this a few times and many of them agreed that this was their way of thinking in these situations.

I get that this behavior can come across as condescending and I absolutely understand the frustration about it when trying to exercise one's German skills. So nowadays, when this happens (which is quite rare anyway), I try to just stick to German.

I'm a bit puzzled why people would learn German out of all languages anyway, apart from living here obviously, so I'm always happy when someone does.

Also, I obviously can't speak for the whole German population and sadly there's definitely some xenophobia to be found wherever you look.
> They had a great 20 year run on the terrorism narrative, but they need a new nightmare, and they’ve apparently settled on child predators.

just a second, we've got the new Russia - Ukraine nightmare.
You can't even vote out people who keep bringing it in in the first place.
My Ford ui interface is v3. To get to v4 I have to buy a new car.

There are a few apps you can get for it. None work.
Shireen Abu Akleh: Why Israeli Snipers Killed Prominent Aljazeera Journalist
How dare the left want to replace armed officers executing black people in the streets with therapists and social workers!
At the time, like 4 years ago, I could make nothing work except poor screencasts. That functionality should be native.

It is easier to just plug a laptop into the TV than using a Chromecast.

Maybe I should give it another try.
What makes you think NATO nations wouldn't do such a thing, if there were a conventional war between them and Russia? War is essentially irrational, and it causes governments and the general population to desire ends that can only be pursued by harmful, immoral means. What makes NATO immune to this?
The argument isn't "we should let Russia invade Ukraine".

The argument is "if the US could be so wrong about the best path forward in Vietnam and Iraq, why are we so sure we're right about Ukraine"?

Instead of viewing everything from a US/Western European/NATO lens, take a step back and ask "If I were Russia how would I view this?".

The idea is that if not expanding NATO stops Russia from invading Eastern European countries, then that seems like a good trade off versus what we have now.

Of course the criticism is "Russia would have invaded anyways even if NATO hadn't expanded". And maybe that's right, but we'll never know at this point since that decision was never made.
It's basically all uncharted waters. Yesterday's freakout over Coinbase saying that all customer assets could be seized in the case of bankruptcy was basically them saying they have absolutely no idea what would happen because no precedent exists. In reality, regulatory agencies have broad authority and can seek more when needed to deal with unexpected events. If they think Coinbase or Tether represent a systemic risk, they will find a way to bail out investors because the downside risk of doing nothing is too great. It's possible some of the major crypto institutions have reached Too Big To Fail status regardless of whatever statutory authority exists to protect them. The biggest problem is simply that ownership is anonymous so we have no idea which countries have the most exposure or who to rescue.
Pacman/Rosetta
It does seem that the trade-off generally between handing a 3rd party access to content vs. improved functionality provided by plugins is rarely worth it. This not only applies to Trello but many other work/productivity tooling where the content is generally sensitive - eg. Slack, Trello, Gmail etc.

I'd be curious to know how many people work at companies that allow 3rd party plug-ins for these kinds of tools.
> This will sound crazy from our perspective this year, but from the perspective of the essay 31 years ago, Lisp dominates software development today; we just spell it without parentheses.

It is true that some good ideas originate from Lisp. However, by saying that 'Lisp dominates software development today', you are giving the false impression that the Lisp heritage is the only one that matters, as if Lisp were some sort of linguistic asymptote toward which all other programming languages must inevitably converge. I take issue with that. Creating a new programming language involves copying the good ideas from previous languages and rejecting the bad ones. The notion that this or that modern programming language is a 'dialect of Lisp with slightly different syntax' completely ignores all the bad ideas from Lisp that were not copied and all the good ideas from other languages that were.
For that to be true, that coin needs to abide to the same laws as real currency.

If I say that "1 dollar = 1 virtual thingy" and suddenly there are a lot of virtual thingies and their price fall, then what's the crime aside me personally being a lying f*ck that can´t be trusted anymore?

I don't see how "legitDollarCoins" is legally more legit than, say, lootboxes.
Thankfully, an acceptance of blind coffeeshop psychological evaluations from random strangers is not one of them. Also, no irrational war-/blood-lust, nor xenophobia, in spite of a continued association with such clearly inflicted individuals.
Scalingo is mostly a clone with some twists

https://scalingo.com/
When in Spain: a quick primer for KubeCon
It's not a big deal, but I find it annoying when people call something an OS when it's not an operating system. Like how xfinity has their "Entertainment Operating System" or whatever it is.
Modules confuse me greatly. I was trying to have both a lib folder and a main.rs and I couldn’t figure it out in 15-30 minutes, so I gave up and just put the module in src as a sibling to main.rs while I got stuff done - come to think of it, I’d like to revisit that.
What do you do? Are you always stuck inside?
A Slovakian sees US suburban architecture and ... has questions.

Title adapted from text as more descriptive. Original is "I just watched this video from Not Just Bikes on YouTube, I have few questions"
> In English and particularly American English, “the government” is understood to encompass the justice system as well as Congress/parliament

That's only because in USA the justice system depend on the elected president and elected representatives of the State.

But that's not true in Europe.

Law enforcement forces and justice system employees only have to obey to the laws, not to the politicians in power.

They can't be fired at will.
Wow that's just... special. WTF?
>Time is a continuum, not discrete; analogue watches demonstrate that, while digital ones do not

While obviously true, we often treat time as discrete to an appropriate level of precision. Timekeeping in sports is essentially all digital these days for example. And generally speaking (at least for some contexts), 10am really does mean 10am, not 10ish.

I actually normally use an analog display on my Apple Watch but I think it's mostly to have something different as pretty much all the other clocks I use, including the watch I usually wear, are digital.
> in elementary school, they require entire lesson units in school on telling time from a clock face.

I'm not sure our age difference, but as a millennial I'm pretty sure we did when I was in elementary school as well. I don't remember which grade though, I didn't learn about how to read those watches from my parents. Digital clocks became so common that I never cared for it. Same with cursive, because of computers making cursive really pointless, I don't know how to write in it outside of my own signature.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244775
> on a new unproven system.

How are you qualifying whether or not this system is proven?
I don’t see it, tbh.
this is likely a toxic work place.

as a candidate, you are interviewing the company as much as they're interviewing you.
There are some paid users of Twitter, called Twitter Blue [1].

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue
Dude, it's at 99.5 cents.. it's dipped this much before.
50+ years of Japanese concept cars (2010)
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Are you saying Turkey should have gone against the rules based international order and blocked Black Sea based ships?

Turkey was under no obligation to do anything. Yet they closed the straits to Russian ships to the extent that they possibly could.
Yeah, I totally understand why Google did that (though, it's a WiFi provisioning app... it's literally an app that connects you to a previously untrusted WiFi network. I get you gotta draw the line somewhere but that's debatably just as much of a privacy risk). That said, if you decide that it's not allowed to be changed by an app, you gotta let the user be able to make the change...
This is a plausible explanation considering that the drop in market share is not that big. It would be interesting to compare the numbers from the past two years.
Yes, IR better penetrates the dust cloud hiding Sgr A*, so here's hoping.
It is true technically, and you get some points wrong :

- 10 billions is nothing for a currency.

- I don't think there has ever been proof of a collusion, if you have one I'm happy to read through it ; besides, some other people bought the currency, you don't sell to nobody ; had they be right in buying it and benefiting from a subsequent deflationary crisis, they still wouldn't be responsible for it, would they ?

- A currency weakening is actually good for asset prices (btw Soros bought UK stocks and shorted DE and FR stocks at the same time as part of this trade), in particular from in-debt people (most home-owners) ; the fact that some lost their homes have to do with the recession which caused the collapse of the currency in the first place, NOT Soros' trade. In fact, the consequent inflation actually helped the UK to recover after that.

- Besides, people losing their homes is always bad but it also makes for a good headline and it's always good to have a bad guy to point at, but pegging the currency meant spending all of the CB reserves for years and nobody (amongst those unfairly blaming Soros) seem to be questioning that, whereas it's actually the core issue at hand here.
What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
I actually read the Wikipedia article you provided, including most relevant references. (for the context, I'm from Russia, and @stoltzmann's accusations of shilling certainly go against the spirit of this forum, they are made in bad faith as well, so I downvoted them).

The statements made in the article is that the CIA worked with their relevant counterparts (direct financing is unconfirmed) to establish a network of stay-behind organizations in Western Europe, that was supposed to resist the potential Warsaw Pact invasion. It peaked in late 60s at the height of the Cold War, has been substantially cut down since 70s and finally dismantled in 1990, being deemed harmful as the weapon caches it made were often plundered by criminals and domestic terrorists. Details differ from country to country but it was similar in principle everywhere.

That organization seems very typical for the Cold War, but I absolutely don't see how it supports your claim that CIA instigated the post-Cold War NATO expansion with this operation, could you please point me at the specific part?
I completely agree. A couple months ago I received the same "Ship It" advice on a HN Comment.

I did, but no one came. Marketing feels like an orthogonal skill but can not be overstated enough.
Annoyed with who?
I think there’s something about British narration of nature docs that makes them more relaxing and engaging for American audiences. Especially those who grew up in an era of Discovery Channel and PBS where the narration was usually British, or South African, or Australian, or in the Commonwealth-tinged flavor of English of that location. Perhaps it’s nostalgia.
Unfortunately JWST won’t come close to being able to resolve Sgr A*. They measured its diameter in micro-arcseconds, whereas JWST’s limiting resolution will be measured in 10s-100s of milli-arcseconds.
An inspiration that I just needed.
as an interviewer myself:

a) I think as interviews as auditions rather than exams.

b) I try to find someone's edges, so that the hiring manager has better information. In other words, if I were to give a candidate full marks, I've probably failed as interviewer.
Nokia Opens Cybersecurity Testing Lab
Is authoritarianism not the end result of blind trust in authority?

Which is more dangerous, Internet dissent on the topic of Antarctic National-Socialists or a steady backslide into actual authoritarianism?
Ask HN: What are some good inspirational and uplifting books?
Hey HN. I'm in a bit of a rut. Feeling with no sense of goal, unmotivated to do basic shit, and falling back into dangerous old habbits. I have a nice job and still perform well on it. I'm just trying to became inspired as opposed to "smarter", which is what the technical books I usually read do.

And yes, going back to therapy is on my line of sight :D
> There are also tax implications: Depending on where you live, crypto-to-crypto profits are not taxable. You will be taxed if you sell crypto currencies for USD, but not if you sell crypto currencies for a stable coin.

At least in the US, this is not true.

e: Not sure why I'm downvoted - crypto to crypto conversions are taxable in the US.
> >Some of us are still incensed by the lies that were trotted out though.

> this is the only point i'm trying to make.

And it's a bad one. Because:

> suppose tomorrow biden comes up and wants to invade iran for example. will american public lap it up like they have for the last so many decades,

The very line you quoted told you that many (most?) of them didn't "lap it up" then either.

You're really not very good at this, are you?

> its fine when usa takes revenge but russia cant defend its borders?

Russia ISN'T "defend[ing] its borders"! Holy shit, how often do people have to explain this so you Putin-Versteher will get it?!? NOBODY WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK RUSSIA.

> i am not a troll

Even if you think you aren't, you're walking and quacking like one. Which in the end means you are one.
Brief collapse of Internet connectivity in Iran
Stablecoin tether breaks its peg and drops to $0.95 as panic hits
Ever seen the 24h analog clock? :)

https://m8y.org/images/24.svg
Anything automated that has the potential to ruin people’s lives should first be checked by humans when flagged. That’s why this csam thing, if used, will cause crazy amounts of human work, and/or, after first ‘convicting’ a bunch of people and a lot of bad press, will then be toned down to only go after already suspected individuals but now their data can be scanned without a warrant.
It was at 95 cents about six hours ago.

Not entirely unexpected to see a dip of that magnitude due to limited liquidity at nighttime when most USD payment rails are offline (market makers don't have infinitely deep pockets), but also not exactly confidence-inspiring.
Tether isn’t a real company operating in a country that applies laws to it. That’s the whole point.
It could provide some level of scarcity, so if there was demand you could achieve some sort of value. It wouldn't be stable though - you couldn't make a stablecoin on proof of work either AFAIK. I guess it'd have an upper bound at $1 (why buy it for $2 if you can just burn $1), but no lower bound. So.. maybe it is a stablecoin :)