skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often hear this and let me just pose this question...

Damn near everyone in America, at least, has access to YouTube or other streaming services. I learned how to program in R from The Teaching Company Plus' (now Wondrium)'s "Learning Statistics: Concepts and Applications in R". 24 lectures. 12 hours of content. Resources available for download. It was the springboard that allowed me to seek out deeper resources and expand my knowledge. Total price, $10.81 for a one month subscription.

You can probably find a lot of equally good free courses at other websites.

My point being this. The information is out there for people willing to seek it out. I came up poor. Really poor. Like, we're having mayonnaise sandwiches tonight for dinner poor. And if you're wondering what's in a mayonnaise sandwich, it's in the name. Mayonnaise. Bread. Period.

Now maybe we need to cultivate a sense of curiosity in our students, so even the ones who end up as warehouse workers at an Amazon can one day aspire to something greater, but at some point, people have to take some responsibility for how their own lives are turning out.

It's really easy to point the finger to society, to the government, to the person next door to you, but at the end of the day, most people have the tools (smartphones, cheap laptops), and they absolutely have the time. But the drive is something that no government program or no private initiative can give them - that you have to pull out of your gut yourself. And if you can't do that, you're doomed to a life of mediocrity.

Choose your hard.
Friends drove in very recently, and had a great time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkT1oRVACc
It seems rather harsh to brand them as pure snake oil based on a hypothetical situation that applies to basically every single piece of software and hardware ever invented, but fair enough.
> I write my own firmware for all of my ESP devices and I can confirm, those definitely are the bulk of the work.

I was doing that too for all of my projects. I was developing them as if they were products I could potentially sell. When I accepted that I wasn't ever going to do that, I gave ESPHome a try.

> took less than an hour to write since I was able to copy-paste all of that boilerplate from a previous project.

It would probably take 5 minutes to configure from scratch ESPHome, less time if you're copying from an existing config. In addition to that, you get automatic logging into Home Assistant and deep integration for free.

Using Hypfer's discovery[1] that you could read the raw values from Ikea's Vindriktning using an ESP, I wrote an ESPHome script for an ESP01 that pipes the data into Home Assistant. Now when I'm cooking and the air quality gets too bad my HVAC fan kicks on to clear the air. It took longer to solder everything up than it did to "code".

YAML:

esphome:
name: air-quality-sensor-1

esp8266:
board: esp01_1m

# Enable logging
logger:
# Disable logging
baud_rate: 0

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:

ota:
password: !secret aqs_ota_password

wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password

# Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
ap:
ssid: "Air-Quality-Sensor-1"
password: !secret aqs_hotspot_password

captive_portal:

# Setup Ikea Vindriktning PM2.5 sensor
uart:
rx_pin: GPIO3
baud_rate: 9600

sensor:
- platform: pm1006
pm_2_5:
name: "Ikea Vindriktning PM25"
filters:
- sliding_window_moving_average:
window_size: 10
send_every: 10

[1] https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...
Being able to hire brilliant people is a difficult skill too. I don't suspect Adyen have the same ability to hire great people that Stripe do and while they have a lot of complex problems a payments API is not the most glamorous of companies to work for.
> It doesn't matter to me whether or not they only use the advertising data internally.

Okay, but it does matter when you say something significant that isn't true. Do you understand that?
Used to be Russia until early March.
>Why, though?

Not US based for starters - definitely willing to pay a premium for that.

Nor five eyes or any of the other [0] eyes.

> extol virtually meaningless controls like "it's hosted abroad"

There is no value in abroad in itself, what matters is how trigger happy countries are with warrants etc.

I'd like to be in a jurisdiction where it is possible for law enforcement to get to the data...but I'd like the logistically/legal hurdles to be rather high so that it is only done for serious concerns not trawler net catch all surveilance operations. Switzerland seems to tick those boxes

[0] https://protonvpn.com/blog/5-eyes-global-surveillance/
> So this would be a very HN thing to do, but what about building autonomous turrets that identify birds and shoot them with something that scares them away?

Indeed it is a very HN thing to do:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642632
Nevertheless, a large number of US citizens committed to the defense of their right to keep and bear arms simply isn't "a minority of radical extremists", regardless of the vehemence of your disagreement.

There is not much political will for more gun control right now.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/16/democrats-...
I don't have much use for such a thing anymore, and I don't know what people use instead of Spyglass/Fortner Transform anymore, but it was really nice in its era.
> got incredibly lucky with entering the market at the exact right time

I also found this to be a somewhat shallow analysis, considering their sustained success over a decade.
My next job I want to travel again. I spent three years traveling to not-sexy places in the USA an UK, and a year going between US and China. Despite note being hot destinations in any of the countries, it was still fascinating. I quit a year before the pandemic because there was a loneliness about it, and I was never going to find a significant other if I was always gone.

During the pandemic I took up Mountain Biking and that is now becoming my excuse to travel post pandemic. I'm exploring all sort of new places and taking my mountain bike with me. Looking to do some "destinations" once a year, like Saalbach in a few weeks, but next year I hope to have the skill to do something like Whistler in Canada. Even in the USA though there's so much to explore: Winter Park, Bentonville, and many more.
I would be willing to bet the CEOs of these ultra-large, ultra-powerful tech firms provide far more than 700x the value of their average worker.
> here in the United States

That's my point.
You basically described the adult world. While our justice system isn’t perfect, it helps to curtail the chaos caused by the “thousands of weirdos and anti-social” adults.

I don’t claim to know the intricacies of this problem but it seems directionally correct to have such a thing rather than not.

The goal shouldn’t be to necessarily punish kids but to better identify issues and rehabilitate kids. The school systems are currently turning a blind eye and letting problems fester and compound. That is not the way to go.

From what I understand, there are legal implications for teachers who intervene and this prevents them from doing anything even if they wanted to. We can definitely do better.
sex tourism was also probably a thing back then
You can reach out and join us at Stashrun– we're reinventing charitable giving and letting our users take action on causes/nonprofit-backed campaigns without spending any of their own money.

Beyond bringing in new donations, the nonprofits receive more money per dollar, and it scales. It is truly a three-sided marketplace that benefits all parties
As the article states, they were forced to by Swiss authorities. They tried to fight against it, but in the end no reputable provider is going to put the whole company on the line for 1 user against a lawful order from their government.
On the other hand, what do you expect them to do, not train officers on that stuff so they don't get an antagonistic view of the public? That's like not having pilots read accident reports so they don't get spooked about losing power on takeoff; it's a real threat, so they should be prepared.

I agree that antagonism between police and public is a big problem, but I'm not sure what the solution is to the particular problem you point out.
Completely agree, I also had this problem but I guess that is one downsides of using a language that isn't particularly mainstream. Still with thousands of programmers it would be worth the return on the small investment.
What does "encrypting" an email mean to you? If a Gmail user contacts me on Protonmail and Protonmail "encrypts" the message to me after receipt - what problem have we solved?
Same. It was also obviously not working for at least 18 to 24 months before the failure. In the most recent case, the founder was stubborn, wouldn't pivot, kept trying to put lipstick on a pig. The technology worked, the business model didn't.
Except that you rested your laurels on the last word: taxation.

Taxation is not and will never be in a place that serves the commonwealth, rather it will always align with those closer to power.

Have you not been paying attention?
> Should definitely not be more than FIVE times what he makes. Because you're not 5x smarter, efficient, or important as FIVE (5) janitors. Period.

Again, it doesn't matter if I'm smarter, more efficient, or "more important" than 5 janitors; what matters is how much money I can help the company make and how hard I am to replace. If I'm enabling the company to make 10X more money than the efforts of a janitor could yield and I'm very hard to replace, then I see no reason why I shouldn't be paid more than 5 janitors combined (granted, this isn't a great comparison because a janitor is more of a cost center, but you get the point). It has nothing to do with who the janitors are as people or who I am as a person, it's purely about money. Also where did you get the number 5 from? Why not 6 or 4? This is what I mean when I say this is very arbitrary.

> but in my earnest (peasant, non-leet) opinion, I think I can draw a straighter, truer, more direct corollary from a persons idea of what fair is (no matter how opaque) than I can from whatever bullshit he types in as a reply.

You seem to believe that companies exist to provide good paying, "fair" jobs, when infact they exist solely to make money. People are paid based on their ability to contribute to this, full stop.
Using specialized instructions not always turn into performance improvements. Processors are pretty smart these days and the generated u-ops may be the same
> If the Schrodinger equation describes a density of universes,

It doesn't (see below) but even if it did...

> doesn't that undercut the argument in the blog post?

No. It's really very simple: the SE is linear. The BR is not. You can't derive a non-linear result from a linear equation.

The only thing that is even a tiny bit complicated about this is figuring out where the Deutsch-Wallace argument fails, because Deutsch and Wallace are not idiots and they hid their questionable assumption very well.

So... why does the SE not describe a "density of universes"? It's because the SE does not describe universes at all! Deutsch and Wallace specifically acknowledge this, which makes their argument all that much more untenable. The SE describes the behavior of a function called "the wave function". The wave function is not a description of anything physical. The domain of the wave function is not physical space, it is configuration space. This is the reason entanglement seems weird to us, because we live in physical space and the wave function does not.

In order to get anything physical out of the wave function -- particles, universes, anything resembling our classical reality -- you have to add some additional assumption, and any additional assumption that you add will be in some sense isomorphic to the Born rule. There is no way around this. Trying to derive the BR from the SE is like trying to prove Euclid's fifth postulate.
Doesn't that happen often anyway?
yeah! And what's wrong with plain old Ron too?!
I believe it's 14. (Birds feet have 4 toes and their wings have 3 fingers)
Your link outlined that unregistered securities don’t have oversight by the SEC and outlined how you better be careful what you’re getting into. It didn’t outline how the SEC regulates them beyond limits on what you can do with them without registering them. They wouldn’t be generally involved in non public shares agreements.
This is really cool, where is SnowBall earth at ~700M years ago though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
> It should be easy to always stay on the latest language version

With perl you can upgrade your language version whenever you like, and do it reasonably safely, because there's a lot of emphasis on backwards compatibility.

Perl may actually have a "always gimme the latest features" option, but I don't know what it is, because things like that aren't really that popular in the perl world-- we want old code to keep working the way it always has.
Yeah I wonder if, after seeing how the sausage is made on payment processing (and making $95B of sausage himself), he doesn't want exposure under some other (to him) shitty system.

It could also be some petty competitive instinct to stiff his competitors even a few cents or dollars in revenue.
I was backpacking around Asia in '94 .. my connection to the rest of the world was my trusty Sony shortwave radio (ICF-SW1) .. anyone else remember those glorious days ? :)
Obviously any provider can be a honeypot in theory, but I don't understand the following either:

- How can ProtonVPN be free and why is it in Lithuania?

- Why does a Swiss privacy company get EU funding if the EU wants to erode privacy all the time?

- Why is a cell phone number required for registration?

- In general, how do they make money? Other free providers like gmx are full of cheesy advertisements.
Clickbait title, 'nuke ethics overhaul' really means shareholders turn down activist proposal.

And this thread turned into mostly envious ranting pretty fast. A lot of folks aren't even trying to have actual discussions, just mindless ranting past one another, behaving like crabs in a bucket, etc...

It even makes me doubt if it's all organic or if their are paid trolls from competitors as well in the mix.

Considering that Amazon, and Jeff Bezos, are not known to give out lavish comp. packages willy-nilly, it seems like more could be learned investigating why this guy is worth $21 million a year.
Keep reading.

> Each September the Academy's Economics Prize Committee, which consists of five elected members [...]

> Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economics derives in part from its association with the Nobel Prizes, an association that has often been a source of controversy. Among them is the Swedish human rights lawyer Peter Nobel, a great-grandnephew of Ludvig Nobel. [...] saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econ...
> Yeah, Wired, they only did the spying during the Bush era... edit: I guess it was less secret after the Bush era

I don’t understand - it never ended. In fact, Obama ran on a platform of protecting whistleblowers and cracking down on government overreach. But, once he took office, he legalized the Presidential Surveillance Program that Snowden whistleblew and doubled down on pursuing Snowden.
aurora serverless pricing is not based on cpu cycles. this is just not how ACUs actually work or scale or are priced, at all man

anyway i gather the answer to my question is that no, there are no other examples of managed sql dbs that bill the way you do. my complaint is this is inherently not transparent because it violates user expectations. users try comparing to io based provders and fail to understand the pricing math comparison (on io pricing 1 read = many rows) or caching implications (on io pricing, cached rows dont count as io)

as for denigrating rds, look to your ceos past hn comments. i would link to it, but last time i did that i got flagged, despite it being a recent thread that i was directly participating in
Ask HN: What are your favorite home workspace hacks?
Since we're working from home more often than ever these days, many of us have started to take our day-to-day workflow/experience more seriously, and have improved our personal workspaces as a result.

What are some of your favorite hacks for improving your day-to-day ease and comfort?

For example, in my case, I finally invested in a real DESK, with drawers and everything, as opposed to just having a simple manufactured rectangle table from Walmart. And to improve storage so everything's within arm's reach most of the time, I bought some adhesive-mounted hooks from the office supply store and mounted them on the inside facing plane, under the desk where my knees and feet are. Now I can keep my BT headphones on a hook, my scissors are there, and a hat for when I don't feel like combing my hair but need to be on a webcam :)

I fully admit that's underwhelming at best, and that's why I'm asking. I'm just looking for ideas to improve my workspace beyond the obvious like "buy a nice chair", "new monitor", "input switch", etc. That stuff's all well and good but having already done that, I'm curious to see what others have come up with. Things that didn't even occur to me, that I didn't know could be improved, that sorta stuff.

So, what are your favorite hacks for your personal workspace? What's made your day-to-day more enjoyable?
It's true, unfortunately the lack of lambdas in C makes this pattern cumbersome. You could achieve it with a macro instead, I suppose.
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Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal
I think that this is not just a story-telling problem.

It is a wealth-sharing problem as well. I don't know much about stripe, but think of Bezos as a pretty good example - to a O(n) rounding he has 100 billion dollars and 1 million employees.

Why is he getting 100,000 from each employee ? Not because those employees send him a cheque. But because of particular outcomes of share capital, and corporate law. Decisions made in UK / US legal circles since before the USA was a USA.

These decisions have been part of 200 years of the most phenomenal growth in global human wealth ever, so there is a lot of baby in the bathwater. But look at say the German mittelstand - a different approach to local business banking. And compare european social-democracy to US welfare states.

There is a lot of room and flexibility between "totally dampen growth and human innovation" and "more equal sharing of life's burdens".

Oh and lest we forget, it is in the main scientific advances that have bought us the last 200 years, not founders or entrepreneurs, and those advances were funded almost fully by government out of ... tax revenue. So the last 200 years of growth can be seen as a story of government funded and directed scientific achievement, given reign to rollout in a benign business climate, and the workforce provided via mass education and health programs, all of which funded by taxing the successful companies.

Is that an over simplification - hell yes. But so is "young founder has great idea and works hard".
Should have joined crypto startups.
I'm no expert, and I know that banking is a lot more complicated in practice, and that reserve requirements in the U.S. (even before they went to zero) were apparently not a significant factor in what actually put a ceiling on banks' ability to lend. There were apparently all sorts of tricks banks used to not be bound in practice to reserve requirements.
I can condemn the Haitian indemnity for the injustices they were. But I worry that unnuanced articles like what the NYT has been publishing will cheapen those past injustices by attracting critics who believe that disproving some of the articles' claims then disproves all of them.

The thing about this is he's not challenging the bare facts - that France was the force taking resources from the Haitian people. That agreed. He's challenge the conceptual framework; "if France hadn't done this, someone else would have". Whether one agrees or disagrees with this change, it's not a factual question and so his hand wringing about disproofs seem basically disingenuous.
Go right ahead, spend $5-50K of your own money and let us use it for free.
Including the Sun itself.
tl;dr: The climate is heading towards the best option being to need as little privacy as possible.

Corporations and their employees have learned clever techniques to get away with "complying" without really complying in instances where they're sufficiently motivated. It's not always politically feasible, but is in many cases.

A quick (and ironic) Google search for "google lawsuit federal compliance" turns up many instances:

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170104

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monop...

These violations are all calculated risks on their part. Internally, they intentionally keep certain communications off of email to ensure it will never be discoverable through a legal process.

It's not like Big-G is the only one, do you think this is ubiquitously commonplace across the megacorps in virtually every industry in the United States?

Here's what happens when they come for your / our data:

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/google-resists...

> even as three of its competitors agreed to provide information

> Rather than seeking data on individuals, it says it is trying to establish a profile of Internet use that will help it defend the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law that would impose tough criminal penalties on individuals whose Web sites carried material deemed harmful to minors.
If all you own is shares in a company, you are not rich, you can be homeless. If you sell your shares and make money out of that, then is the moment to pay your taxes, not a nanosecond before that.
I also have similar experience with people in leadership roles.

My theory is that technical leads have a narrower distribution of quality, while not technical leads vary wildly, from crazy good to nuclear winter bad.
None of your suggestions work, animals are smart enough to figure them out in time. They work for a month at best.

Traps are the best bet of your list and are a lot harder to use. And then you still need to kill the animal, release is cruel to the animal and harmful to whatever is naturally where you release it