skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the tool side: there must be some services that do web scrapping and diffing periodically. Of course with additional filtering like diff only content from specified selector, ignore this, ignore that. Can someone recommend anything like that? Bonus points if it's just a thing one can run locally.
That's true, but there's a significant difference between a gamble on something like Bitcoin, and, say, putting your money in an index fund. My point was that even with that substantially elevated risk, there is a level where some will find it a worthwhile bet even in the middle of a massive drop.
Our financial instruments/primitives are horribly primtive, which makes them weak to outside attacks like these
I find universities forcing both research and teaching on the same people quite bewildering nowadays. Yes, you used to be able to get super fresh information directly from the people doing the research back in the day, but guess what, nowadays that's not what's in the curriculum anyway and your lecturer doing great research probably won't really translate into them being able to better teach the basics of their field.
No. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352602
This is amazing advise. People working in tech, especially in high tech orgs live in bubbles and often imagine that the whole world is like this. I know a multimillion £ business that probably gained hundreds of thousands in productivity by simply introducing shared mailbox. Some of those low hanging fruits are litterly on the ground ready to be picked up.
Of course it will be spent over time, but we are talking about a single weapons system, unproven in combat so far, that represents four times the overall annual defense budget of Finland for Army, Air Force and Navy.
the eame is true for bernie madoffs scam but nonetheless his customerd were victims.
Grateful why? They served to restrict our rights.
There are also people on that page who disagree with pg. Downmodding tends to make people disengage. That may be undesirable if you want a healthy debate.
Great follow-up reply! I was not aware of the draconian state of affairs for citizenship/PR for half-native Qataris. Only 100 per year... it just crazy in 2022. It seems now fully insane that they are hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2022. But I guess FIFA is so corrupt that they don't care about the human rights record of Qatar.
Indeed they demonstrated that, but don't underestimate the effect an existential crisis like this has. We will almost certainly see heavy changes coming to the Russian military. It could be that in five to ten years their military is actually capable, after both structural and strategical upgrades.

And the lines we now draw between NATO, Russia and China could well be the lines of a WW3 within a decade. Hopefully not though.
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There is also an amount of blame on our government and the shameful treatment of educating society. In a Capitalist driven country, as the USA is, the education system's complete lack of common sense financial literacy is a classic recipe for creating scams.
I have a graduate economics degree. I seriously investigated bitcoin and crypto back in '07-'08. There is no "there" there. Cryptocurrencies use an artful abuse of financial terms with their own separate definitions in the cryptoworld. The confusion is intended and part of the scam.
It's scary, because CSAM (child sexual abuse material) is very, very broad, and quite vague in its definition¹. My three year old son stayed with my parents for a week, and he was being taught to swim in their swimming pool. Of course, I get sent pictures and clips of his progress by a proud grandma, and of course, him being a toddler, he felt swimming trunks to be completely optional (and of course, they are at his age in a private pool).

That's not CSAM right? But who knows how the AI will mark those happy pics? Some quirk in its programming and training leading to them being pushed way up whatever ranking is used? It's a nude child after all, and that is most likely one of the few things such an algorithm can detect quite reliably.

The automated filter won't care about the context though, and if any of the recent failures of algorithms ruining peoples lives are anything to go by (the Dutch Toeslagenaffaire comes to mind), being flagged by the CSAM filter is a high risk event — even if you can clear your name later by human intervention — because now you are on a list.

1: People tend to conjure up horrific images of underage children getting raped by adults when they hear 'CSAM' or 'child pornography', but when you read up on the legal definitions used it becomes very vague, quite fast. A seventeen year old boy sending a dick pic to his 18 year old lover is producing child pornography and can in many jurisdictions be sentenced as such, and nudism of any minor can be seen as CSAM if the pose they strike can be construed as 'erotic' — yet there is no clear definition of what this means, falling squarely into “I'll know it when I see it” territory.
Salami tactics! Such a good scene.
This article made me so sad - the author really doesn't need to be as hard on themselves as they are!
> "build it and they will come"

I also used to think that build it and they will come was a big fallacy, but it's not really. The fallacy is, "build it and the whole world will fight to get what you built". That sure won't happen by itself or by chance.

But if you build something reasonably good, some people will come. That may not be enough for you to make a living out of it, but it will make it worthwhile.

> Learning things is valuable in itself.

From the same author:

> Open source, writing blog posts, and playing with tweaking lint settings and editor themes all day are completely fine until your landlord knocks on your door or you're at the checkout at the grocery store. You're doing a crazy 2-hour commute every day telling yourself "well at least I'm learning a lot about SVG". Fuck that.

https://kitze.io/posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent

(I am actually, currently learning a lot about SVG and love it; but the quote is right that it's not paying the rent.)
Don’t wait for the storm to pass; dance in the rain.
> Whether you agree with Finland joining Nato or not, I think there are good arguments to be made on either side. But to say that there has been any real discussion is a stretch at best. This process was rushed.

Saying that this process was rushed ignores the 75 years leading up to that decision. Finland has been very careful even during the Cold War to keep the US and the Soviets happy and present themselves as a truly neutral nation between those two powers. Finland already spent all this time “arguing the other side” by not joining and keeping everyone at arms-distance. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and hostile rhetoric toward Finland and other countries are markedly different from the last 75 years in the post-WW2 era. So no, it’s not really rushed. Finland had the debate you are talking about already and has had this debate for 75 years. You just didn’t know that they already had the debate.
https://appharbor.com for .NET (though not many recent signs of life).
You can do it! HN believes in you.
> Larger districts give you less accurate representation, not more, as you lose the opportunity to granularly represent the populace.

Not if the smaller districts are gerrymandered and/or you have a winner takes all system.
Would be nice to think about how it compares to something like Pandoc which -- as far as I can tell from the Tutorial -- has all the expressiveness Nota has without being tied down to a particular output stack.

Also Nota doesn't absolve you of having to learn React, JS, etc. which is fine. Lightweight markup often winds up being a DSL over some more powerful underlying stack. But the goal is to separate authoring from styling. I.e. at the authoring stage you don't need to specify how a sidenote or a definition list would be implemented. Nota seems to mix these up.
> And you had to be very greedy indeed to convince yourself that 20% interest is a safe investment

I think there is more nuance that this. People have been burned by many 'safe' investments over the years (housing, stocks) that they incorrectly view the risk profile as similar so look for higher returns. Much has been written on how we under appreciate actual risk, especially in 'safe' investments.

There's also some YOLO here, but in a calculated way. A safe investment making 1% still means the wealth gap is widening and that person is still eating ramen. Why not swing for the fences, otherwise it doesn't matter anyway.
seems like maybe a better approach might be to require software developers to give parents/guardians features that allow a comprehensive view into the online activities of their children.

although unclear, that creates more visibility than has ever existed and could cause problems for kids who have different views from their parents.

we're in uncharted territory, really.
You're sort of describing the overall conundrum of the PaaSs starting about 10 years ago. A lot of especially individual developers liked them because, as you say, they were mostly drop-dead simple. The problem is that individual developers mostly don't pay and enterprise app development for good (and bad) reasons has a whole bunch of other requirements which has led a lot of the industry to adopt mostly Kubernetes based container platforms. Which are a lot more powerful and flexible but are also a lot more complex that the original PaaSs envisioned.
I can't tell whether the UNIX people have lost their way, or just the demands of modern shell scripts cannot be met by typical shell philosophy - that is, piping together the output of small, orthogonal utilities.

The emergence and constantly increasing complexity of these small, bespoke DSLs like this or jq does not inspire confidence in me.
Airwars tracks civilian casualties of war. These casualties - war crimes and crimes against humanity - are committed by NATO members and aligned states almost every single day. NATO bases are used to launch the attacks. NATO resources are used to cover up the crimes.

Clearly, you're not asking for this information in good faith, or else you'd have discerned this already, even with a casual look at the Airwars reports, which details quite descriptively the nature of NATO involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

As far as your glib understanding of Wikileaks, I suggest you really, really study the material.
Kinda feel the app that managed to ship deserved a shoutout in this. Your idea is already out there, the value is 0.
Assess your investing strategy, goals, timeline, and position.

Can you meet current cash obligations? Can you do so for the forseable future? You have little to worry about.

If you cannot, then look to reduce expenses, increase income, take on debt, or liquidate securities as a last measure to do so.

Investing is like navigating an oil tanker. Responses to inputs are slow, the planning horizon is distant, but mistakes can still be exceedingly catastrophic. Usually you don't want to make sudden movements. Occasionally your hand is forced. You goal first and foremost is to avoid those circumstances.

Look at your asset distribution. Most people should not be 100% in on equities, though the number who are is ... surprisingly high. Many are stubbornly resistant to suggestions to change this distribution, even at points in their investment career where they really should be reducing risks.

One of the classic problems in investing generally is that a sufficiently large market drop can take out otherwise solid investments, as those who'd either leveraged positions elsewhere or rely on balance sheets for other investments find that they are short on cash. If what you need is cash, then what you sell is everything, no matter how low the price. John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash: 1929 covers this and numerous other elements of financial crises in clear and piercing detail. The book is a short and excellent read.

Another element of investing is that the well-capitalised, reasonably-hedged invstor tends to have a greater capacity to weather volatile markets than smaller investors. This tends to result in a transfer of wealth from less to more wealthy, which can ultimately be problematic.

And, especially if you're early in your career, though I'd argue this applies at all ages, look to pensions reform. The notion that individuals presuming market knowledge and absorbing both independent and long-term secular risk is the most sensible way to provide for old-age support is proving to be desperately false, and will be among the largest crises many developed countries face in the next 50 years, with many seeing serious strains now. Corporate pensions made sense in an era of lifetime employment. That world no longer exists. But a new set of institutions which takes on and manages that risk is necessary. This will be a major political battle, and many will suffer tremendously.
There are a ton of replies with counter-examples, but all of those are not exactly like the OP-1: a fun, easy to use, ultraportable, immediate music creation sketchpad.

Many other grooveboxes are quite painful to use. Here I’d include the Korg Electribe which is terrible at inputting musical notes. Or the several trackers which look more like scientific calculators than musical instruments.
My MPC live can run circles around most grooveboxes, the OP-1 included, but that’s because it’s a computer: quite a bit heavier, takes time to boot, requires you to manage projects and adjust many parameters.

The Model Cycles doesn’t have a battery. Can be powered by a portable one, but that makes it just a little bit awkward. Elektron did launch a handle battery but it tended to catch fire in rare circumstances :-) Elektron boxes are in general considered difficult to use, even if the results can be impressive.

The Novation Circuit doesn’t allow full editing of the synth parameters. The synth parts are more like preset editors. Expect having to manage them from a computer.

The Deluge has a cumbersome buying process, where one has to basically buy from the manufacturer (NZ I think). I actually can’t but it from my/any local store. In reviews I’ve read that the interface is not that user-friendly/immediate.

Then there’a the multi-device set-ups consisting of Volcas, Rolands, etc. These can be nice, but it requires wiring them up every time! If I had to wire together 3 devices before I could make music, I’d rather do something else personally.

And so on and so forth. The new OP-1 is overpriced though. Maybe at 1500€ this would make some sense, but at this price point most people would rather deal with the disadvantages of other devices or device combos.
History has taught us a lesson. The USSR was hell on Earth, as was Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

Privacy of communication is such an essential part of modern culture that any kind of power trying to prevent it is suspect.

Communications can only be suspect under a judicial order: otherwise the government is omnipotent because it can prevent anything.
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Any illegal clause of a contract can't be enforced. However, it can be litigated and I don't want to be litigated by a tech company.

That's the real sword of damocles: not the illegal contracts but of the combination of concentrated wealth and its ability to selectively enforce its own rules.
Miners put the price (in dollars) in the blocks, and the medium price is taken as the price. You get penalized if the price you put in is 1 standard dev. or more off. You get 1% less of the block award you would get normally.
Sounds like a fun evening experiment, how many levels deep of webception can one go?
E-commerce flash sales, DDoS/spam prevention (where you're looking at the content, not just blocking traffic), data analytics. Not only for the e-commerce site but downstreams systems like payment processors.

There's also downstream infrastructure, too. If your website scales, you now have a bunch more log and metric data--what do you do with that?

A lot of times, data analytics "can be slow" but a human is sitting around waiting for processes to complete. A boost in speed usually means a boost in productivity.

There's also IoT. I think ~2012 GM was dumping terabytes of engine sensor data per airplane flight. Being able to process that quickly could mean the difference between being able to adjust engine fuel efficiency between flights, for instance.

I think telecom/voice/audio processing have pretty tight latencies. Even "second" latencies are probably too slow for those types of systems.

In addition, reducing scaling time potentially means reducing scaling cost since you're paying for compute you might not necessarily be using (depends on the billing model).
Im a strong proponent for storing everything in the url that makes sense. Before hot module replacement and fancy hacks to improve developer experience, developers were naturally motivated to do this as (auto-)refreshing the page while working would reveal all the state that would be lost. Now this is often just ignored even at bigger sites like quora and creates very annoying user experience when sharing links or apps/ tabs get nuked or when tabs reload after session restore. As a side note it is really surprising how many native apps also lose important UI state after being in the background.
1. Verify that co-founders are emotionally committed to stay. For my first startup, I lost half the founding team when things started getting stressful. Needless to say, that made things even more stressful.

2. Don't trust big companies to take you seriously. I've been burned by "lets use market leader XY" and then later "why won't market leader XY return our calls" and then "we're offline due to market leader XY not responding to support ticket AB" more often than I can remember.

3. Never commit to support stuff outside of your control. That means you don't guarantee uptime ever unless you have your own datacenter and your own admin team. Otherwise, always scope contracts to say "we will be online 99% of the time that cloud X is error-free".

4. If stuff goes to shit and it's not your fault, announce that loudly to your customers. Otherwise, they will blame you simply because you're the messenger bringing them the bad news. People just love to shoot the messenger (metaphorically).

5. When you need money, banks will ignore you. When you have too much of it, you get flooded with additional offers for cheap credit. Plan accordingly, so you need to borrow long before you start the project and borrow enough to get you over the cash flow shortage. If you wait until you actually need the money, terms will be horrible.

6. People are suckers for social proof. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". Make sure you have your top customers featured on your website and update that list regularly. Go to conferences so that you can invite your top customers for dinner and people will talk about it.

7. Some people start drinking when stuff gets tough. And some people change their character 180 degrees when they are drunk. Not sure how to defend against that, though.

EDIT: 8. Research the market in advance. I once had a product that people loved, but my customers going bankrupt produced serious churn for us, reduced customer LTV, etc. Building stuff in that market was lots of work for little benefit.
Do you really think that asking a $1B cut from $6B revenue is OK? That's a cut of 17% for what? For licensing a name? As a gamer I'd rather save $10 on the price and have it named something else. We already have to put up with the clubs names BS anyway... because they don't have the licenses for using the real team names in the game.
In case anyone is wondering, the only role of covid here is that shutdowns prevented technicians from being able to fix the issue in person.
This. Exactly this. In some ways, this mirrors the current student debt crisis.

Only 13% of the US population holds student debt, and 80% of student debt is held by earners in the upper 20% of income. But suddenly, we are supposed to cancel all that debt. ?????

Same thing with the market crash in 2008. Oh, we have to bail out all those banks because otherwise pension funds will lose value. Not close completely, but lose value. So a bunch of people with no hope of ever having a pension have to be taxed to bail out existing pensions (in effect). And then AIG having the gall, after effectively failing, and only being propped up by Federal dollars, complaining ten years after that the government unfairly held back some of their profits because the government backing came with stock holdings to back the loan, and AIG had to buy the stock back.

So yeah, Crypto is an issue, but the major banks are also an issue, and people that are stupid (or greedy) about money are an issue.
Because the situation is far more complex than this, and it's typical of governmental institutes to throw a blanket solution at it to increase resistance when it isn't at all obvious whether they will abuse their knowledge and power later in time.

You can teach these kids to take precautions, but you can't prevent them making mistakes if they still want to. Now you're weighting privacy and autonomy against lifelines to keep the ones who don't heed warnings from going off the deep end.
> inauthentic voice pitch

That would be a "wannabe" professional speaker, not an actual one, imho.
I can't help myself. Everytime I see "CSAM" I read it as SCAM. Because thats what the legislation is.
I saw one startup whose "launch" was a splash page with a logo, description of an imaginary product they hadn't built yet and a Hubspot signup form that you sign up for news. These guys had it right. Get customer insight while you build features. In fact, they were building something that has been solved since before the computer was invented, they were just going to have a splashy brand.
I wonder how much of this decision was due to the hack leaking everything they had.
Unless the product you are selling is defective.
Yeah. If that happened in Berlin, we'd have WW3 by now.
> The HN attitude on anything touching privacy with a ten foot pole is awkward.

Because the power it gives is basically limitless. Once these things are implemented there will be no going back. It only kind of works when the government acts in good faith, and even then not really.

France passed laws against violent demonstrations, they ended up arresting people 200-300km away from Paris because they were suspected to go to a demo and potentially cause problems (because they had swimming googles and yellow vests, which are mandatory, in their cars), even though they didn't commit any crimes at the time. They also passed laws against terrorism, which ended up using them against the yellow vest protesters. Once the pandora's box is open you're fucked, forever, laws will be misused and abused

What's the next step ? 24/7 video monitoring ? Microphones in every room of your house ? That would also prevent crimes, do we want to prevent crime at all cost though ? We could just preemptively all live in jails, that would solve all these problems
Yes, NATO-aligned states do currently commit war crimes and crimes against humanity at heinous scale - with seeming impunity - and there is nothing to indicate this would change in their battle against Russia. Sanctions - factually, crimes against humanity since they collectively punish an entire nation - are already evidence of the intentions of the West in dealing with Russia: to see its destruction.