skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So on the US side of things (EU is better):

You're going to need a hell of a lot of freetime to do all that.

I think it's a fucking travesty how quickly society rolled over on privacy and tracking because a bunch of short sighted people think its ok for companies to buy and sell your data, but it's such a common practice, and it's not like ANY of the above things are going to change shit.

To be blunt:

1) This going to be AFTER a daisy chain of emails/calls/both to get to ANYONE who feels like giving you an answer, and it's basically going to boil down to "oh its part of the TOS. Sue us or fuck off". The TOS is likely bullshit, but I hope you've got millions to prove it.

2) Again, even getting to this point takes a dizzying amount of time, and for what? To know they're greedy fucks selling your data to the highest bidder? You knew that the moment you got spam.

3) Uh huh. The kind of people who care already know. My experience with informing others about this has mostly been "so what". I spent waaay to long convincing people who HATE the current administration (from literally either side) that maybe it's not so great that amazon/facebook/etc knows damn near every single thing about them if they're one government request away from having it the hands of the people they despise. It's preaching to the choir at best.

4) Or you can just give out a junk account to start with and let them send as much spam as they want. If you really want to actually hurt them you should probably write a small script to hit a vpn, then open the email, then delete it (as clickthrough metrics are what they're looking at).

As for what "naysayers" want, well i can only speak for myself, and it's "real legal options". I think a lot of this is "security theater" with the amount of fingerprinting and other nonsense going on. You can spend all day trying to be the invisible man on the net and still have MORE than enough known about you because a friend or family member can't be bothered to care.
After actually reading the article, I feel like the title is misleading. Seems like a case of correlation being interpreted as causation.

Lots of people getting laid off. One of them happens to be "also the volunteer president of LGBTQ+ at Tesla." Instant dramatic headline.
Correct on both counts. The profit model just isn't sadly there yet. But it also wasn't there for Bitcoin in 2009 or ETH later on and people still bought hardware to mine.
Cool game! Doesn't really work for me on mobile because the second box is obscured by the SET button.
Sure. The most relevant section would be the "Error Resolution: Unauthorized EFTs" FAQ section in the link in my previous post, especially FAQs 4-8.

(Also, just to clarify how Plaid works, Plaid does not share account credentials with Plaid's customers, so you wouldn't be sharing your password with Mint via Plaid. Instead, Plaid provides token-based access to data via an API.)
I’m extremely sceptical of fitness For VR, at least with the current hardware available.

- sweaty and nasty as hell on the headset
- no substitute for a proper gym or run or swim, there only so much stuff you can do on the ground or punching the air, jogging on the spot
- conditions you to only be active in VR, which coddles you in an environment that does not mirror real world applications of your body

Im happy to be debunked but those are my impressions. I’m very fit, frequently go to my nearby boxing gym, i just couldn’t see myself doing this
I sweat - a lot. Especially if I'm carrying a backpack during the summer, my whole back is just one wet spot. A cotton T-shirt is a big no-no, when one gets wet it'll be wet and clammy for the rest of the trip. I tried the technical shirt kind and while they do dry fast, I'll be freezing while it's doing that.

I discovered merino wool T-shirts about a decade ago and don't wear much else - except for a few nerdy print shirts on occasion.

Merino wool is cool even when wet and dries really quickly. It's also pretty much self-cleaning due to the lanolin (a type of fat) in the fibers, and smells don't stick to it for the same reason. Even after the sweatiest hike, I can just hang it out to dry and it's good to go.

I can go on a week's trip with just two shirts, alternating them on different days.

If you do wash a merino shirt (which you shouldn't do too often) always use a wool detergent that has lanolin in it.

And all of the above goes for all other merino garments. I've got a hoodie from a merino wool mix that I wear all around the year. It's warm during the winter and not too hot during summer nights, if I get caught in the rain it'll be dry in no time.
I would say the notion of something being first-class is that you can manipulate it in the same way as a regular value in the language; in particular, you can use an expression that evaluates to such a thing in all the same ways that you can use a built-in version of that thing. Certainly Java does not have first-class types: you can pass a value that is sort of a representation a flattened form of a type, but you can't use that kind of value in a "new" expression or as a function return type.

AIUI Rust's async/await still has quite a lot of special case support. IMO concurrency is only really first-class in languages like Haskell where you can manipulate async actions the same way as a user-defined type and implement concurrency-related operations in plain old code.
As someone who recently started working on a project, that requires a lot of domain knowledge (database internals), I can definitely say that the code may be perfectly readable (variable names, patterns, even comments), but still not self documenting, because you need to have so much context, crammed in your head.
For those wondering like me:

> Fulminant is a medical descriptor for any event or process that occurs suddenly and escalates quickly, and is intense and severe to the point of lethality, i.e., it has an explosive character.
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Case A can also be achieved with straight forward gambling.

I agree that the second case, illegal transactions in any form, is the only real killer app for crypto.
I had no idea this existed. This has to be considered masochism in software form.
Which is great in theory, until you realise that unions can and do exploit workers too. Collectives of people (whether corporations, unions, or entire countries) tend towards corruption as they scale. History has shown that large unions are similarly prone to exploitation and corruption.
No the argument is not about VCs putting class interests above profits, it's about them putting their profit first, together with a perception that unions decrease the amount of profit that is distributed to capital owners as opposed to labor, and decrease the strategic maneuverability of the business by diluting control over operations between management and unions.

> It still seems like the easiest solution is for all the startups to unionize so they don't have any choice: they can either invest in unionized startups or they can stop being VCs.

Yes. Or fight for workers' rights in the even broader sense (not just startups or tech).
How to remove 99% of JavaScript from main thread
But if the speculative use cases dwarf the normal ones, won't their interests come first?

Why would I want to hitch my wagon to that star? What will happen if the speculation dies down and the ledger isn't so widely distributed anymore?
The TLS 1.3 explanation (https://tls13.ulfheim.net) and others on the same site are also excellent.
It only passed as a 13 year-old boy. Do you want a 13 year-old boy making decisions for you on a global basis?
I would have thought that “what = context” and “how = code”
Actors must audition before they are chosen for a role. Sometimes several times..
I often have to ask people that have no code I can look at to do a take-home. I do not have a choice. What I do have a choice in is paying for their time at an above average rate I would pay a contractor, so they know I value their time.
Criptext: Open-source, private email service
You may be right, but... and maybe I'm being naive here... if HN can do it, why can't local social networks? The amount of people in the network is even smaller than HN. I suppose the problem is finding good moderators that keep to an ethical standard and that ethical standard is different everywhere. Well I think I answered my own question lol
The counter argument might be that Ford F-150s aren't particularly fungible.

A slightly stronger example might be gold, but people don't use gold as money anymore either.
They can’t show ads while in picture-in-picture mode.
Yp is NIS. It was renamed by Sun due to the trademark on Yellow Pages. Maybe you’re thinking of NIS+ (which was an abomination). TBH, they are both horrible for their own reasons.
This is typical of DeFi people. "Technically correct is the best kind of correct."

Your collateral would be other crypto. So it would:

- Be worth more than the house.

- Be completely virtual, so you can't use it to do anything in the real world.

- Be fairly liquid, as if it were already money.

- Be as difficult to obtain in the first place as the cash needed to buy a house without a loan. [EDIT: More difficult because of over-collateralisation!]
This happens to me a lot too.

The first one that really stuck in my mind is BetaMax and I suppose the collapse of Be, makers of the BeBox and BeOS, was the most discouraging... though I've seen a lot of other brands & companies I liked fail.
Having lived through a production datacenter meltdown due to software engineers throwing away TCP, along with stuff like slow start and congestion control, and obliterating ethernet switch buffers with UDP, I'm a bit concerned as to how QUIC is supposed to be used in order to avoid that?

If your fabric has end-to-end flow control this would be fine, but this seems like it could be greatly misused and should come with some warning labels.
> Because it avoided the central bank, they could avoid the stealing of their hard currency via the standard international payment system.

How much was paid in fees in total, from your currency to theirs (I assume VND)? If it's a USD stablecoin, I assume they still had to convert it to VND, or at least they'd have to if they were paid mostly like this (to pay their taxes).

Wise and others are quite cheap for the currencies they support.
<- true insert direction indicator but small

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Does it have to be a lower price if it works better?

Uber / Lyft is often more expensive than taxis, once the VC funding dried up.

That said, I still generally prefer shared rides cause it is an easy app to pull up on my phone.
Works for me with no drawbacks. I don't know from where you draw the arbitrary line about how many browser tabs I should have open. I perceive no "issue".
Interview their referees and look at work they’ve done.
Criticising 'smart weapons' got me banned from Russia [AI-powered landmines]
>But if the speculative use cases dwarf the normal ones, won't their interests come first?

They will initially but just as we saw the the early internet, a crash can wipe out the speculation pretty efficiently and what remains might actually be useful.
I agree, but if the assignment genuinely replaces an on-site and the recruiter and hiring manager make that clear, I'd consider it. If they don't, consider there doesn't seem to have been a technical phone screen, I'd assume it's just a first step, and I'd pass.
I see tests as documentation. They show you how to interact with a component and what the expected behavior should be.
In BDD, you go one step further and write down a formal description of inputs and expected outputs.

Would agree that the higher level documentation (diagrams, process interaction, etc.) can be written down once the dust settles.
Darwin does it, NT does it, and Linux can do it (I use swap on zram, there's also zswap). Nice to see it widely (if quietly) used:)
Like I say below: it's worth getting one email a day. No more than that. If they had an option for a weekly digest instead, I'd probably take that.
Would you actually say "zwanzig Juni" in German? I'd expect "zwanzigster Juni", i.e. 20th June.
Maybe it has support for typed arrays. Even for high level languages, usually on a micro, the main loop doesn't use any memory, or at least doesn't allocate.

Not splaining u, I am familiar with your work.
Medium, Devto, Hashnode, Others?
What is your preferred platform to consume developmer oriented content? Would you recommend any other? What are other places you consume development content on?
This is mostly true, however there’s a major caveat with chrome: your ticket can’t be too large. Too many group memberships and kerberos fails in chrome.

The lack of support for spnego in edge for linux isn’t entirely surprising though I am curious what the excuse is.
Small talk is difficult, it feels awkward. I used to have massive problems with it. But I stress this, you will get there. It's as simple as asking questions. You need to learn the difference between being overly probing and showing an interest. For example, ask what a colleague did over the weekend. They tell you they went to the local zoo, you say wow amazing did you see any red pandas I love red pandas.

Admittedly, small talk is only part of the problem. There are other aspects such as eye contact, tone of speech and so on. Read a book like 'The Charisma Myth'. Practice on 'peripheral' strangers, those who you encounter regularly but are not close to. You'll be anxious, you'll feel awkward but I promise you that you will get better. Quite often now it's natural to me, but I can always fall back on learned patterns when I'm feeling awkward. People now tell me I'm very easy to speak to. 6 years ago I would have been described as awkward.

I recently was diagnosed with ADHD, primarily in attentive. Honestly, this explains my 'naturally' poor social skills. But I learned anyway. You can too!
Firstly: I’m annoyed that crypto now seems to be synonymous with “blockchain”, rather than cryptography.

Secondly: Most of the blockchain use-case feel a little like the argument for Bittorrent. It’s not that you can’t use it for sensibel purposes, but when you do you’re solving problem most people don’t have.
How about an (actually small but ES6 feature complete) JS engine for general computers? QuickJS showed so much promise (especially given the pedigree) but it's been dead for a year and it never really delivered on the promise of being small (I guess the code is small, but at runtime it takes more memory than engines with full JIT like V8 or Chakra).

Hermes looked interesting, but it's clear it will never be an actual JavaScript engine, it's more like a React Native engine that interprets some subset of JavaScript.

Duktape struggles with larger bundles and especially with deep call stacks (same as QuickJS) and the C API gives me strong Lua vibes (which may be a positive for some).
It is kind of entertaining to see how many profiles on HN still have their keybase identity in them.
Ask HN: What do you do to receive honest feedback for your products?
Hey HN,

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

If you are a solo founder/ bootstrapper, what do you do get honest feedback on your products/ideas?

Especially when you're just starting out, and have no users yet.

Who do you ask?

- Friends and family
- Other founders in communities
- Twitter

Anyone else?

Would love to know your approach or if something that worked for you.

Thanks
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Has AWS fixed the mounting of EFS under Windows based EC2s?
So basically what Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Java, Perl, Python and Ruby have provided before Go was a thing.

Many of the Go features are only a win when the competition is C.
Go to the dentist in France and they will warn you that without sealants you might get cavities. In the US most dentist don't even attempt to offer to adults the simple and cheap treatment that prevents 80% of cavaties.
Except now the IRS will be watching bank accounts for any transaction totaling over $600 to combat this loophole. Good luck!
I work in Europe and can assure you people take GDPR very seriously.
There do not seem to be text direction controls. I see it does basic heuristic text direction guessing, apparently based on first strong LTR or RTL character in a paragraph, but this is often not adequate for determining text direction correctly, hence the need for explicit control, at least at the paragraph level, ideally also at subparagraph level. Any plans to add such controls? There are about a billion users of bidirectional languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, Yiddish, et al).
The argument about a third party is trivial in my opinion. Someone responds correctly in Chinese, and the onus just falls on that element of the system to be conscious or not.
It's another argument and I don't even see how this experiment is particularly enlightening in that case. I think in that case, people just confuse it with the Turing test.

Instead, the core matter is about form versus meaning - something that is indeed not observable from the outside, and yet is a distinction to the person inside the Chinese room.
>LTT makes almost all of it's money from floatplane, youtube premium, and youtube advertisements

In the recent video they did on their most profitable videos Linus explicitly said money from YouTube is only a small fraction of their revenue. I don't imagine Floatplane is much of a profit centre either...
Yeah, these are called technical interviews, and they usually take an entire day. I spend at least a two weeks studying for these before every job search.

If I have 4 jobs in my pipeline that assign me 4 hours of homework each, that's 16 hours of bullshit I have to slog through in addition to my study time, prep work, and a solid week or two of whiteboarding. This doesn't include the recruiter's technical trivia screen and the codeshare screen. No thanks.
The only caveat I'd give on liquid dish detergent is it's often way... bubblier. Rinse it extremely well, or you'll start getting small foam/slickness when you sweat(from personal experience in a soft water area, sadly).
Msquic can be built as a driver. https://github.com/microsoft/msquic/blob/main/msquic.kernel....
That’s a very expansive view of a state.

So in that case would a drug cartel that excludes the government from enforcing its sovereignty over a piece of land be recognizable as a state? I won’t argue, but I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest to you that maybe while a fiefdom could in modern parlance be considered a “state” if it were large enough or managed to make it into the present day with internationally recognized borders (like Liechtenstein), not all fiefdoms were states. I’ve made that mistake too so I won’t knock you for it, but a State as you and I know it is a very very recent invention that entails a bit more than Capitol Hill in lieu of a lord. France prior to their revolution and France post-Napoleon provide the starkest contrast between a feudal Kingdom and a State (in both Kingdom and Republic flavors because they’re restless like that).

> If the State can deprive you of your "private" property, then how does that not in and of itself demonstrate rather plainly that the State is the thing from which said property derives? By what authority do you get to claim a piece of land as your own except with the State giving you a piece of paper saying it's yours?

Well you dropped the due process provision I put in there. Did you know for example that Bills of Attainder are illegal under the Constitution? This would be a legislative instrument where a parliamentary body can simply vote to declare someone guilty of a crime, and simply take their property and even life by majority vote. Those have existed at various points in time, but they are off-limits to Congress (and the States too).

But also a title is not just a piece of paper from the State. Think of a title as a record or evidence of the transaction. It is the agreement between buyer and seller that transfers property rights over a piece of land between two parties, but there isn’t a step where the State steps in and says “I approve this transfer”. The contract is between two parties, not two parties plus the State (unless the State is actually one of the parties to the transaction). Where did the buyer get the rights from? There’s a record of that too, and the State’s role is to keep a record. Maybe it was originally a State grant, but the State forfeited it’s rights with the transfer.

That said, yes, there are ways for the state to take property, so long as due process is followed. This might follow a criminal conviction, or maybe someone died without next of kin and it was determined there was no one to inherit the land, or it was debt collateral, or it was compensated for after an eminent domain action. It isn’t arbitrary.
The article makes the distinction between transgender athletes being on two years on supression or less.

While you are right that there is a developmental advantage (which is why men are tested out of competition too), I am sure you don't have the experience of being without natural testosterone for a prolonged period either (I do due to testicular tumours: 6 months until I started TRT): you might not lose muscles outright, but even for those that remain, they put too much stress on your joints and the rest of your body (a couple of tennis sessions, and I had plantar fasciitis, only recovering shortly after starting TRT). I don't think I'd ever be able to fairly compete with men regardless of being a pretty strong, sporty male beforehand. (Without TRT ofc: testosterone replacement therapy mostly covers that, though it could also be used to my advantage if I train hard 1-3 weeks after administration when it's at peak levels which are above the normal range until it goes down to the low end at 10-11 weeks, but that also means that I've got 4 weeks when training wouldn't be very effective)
Good question. I'm actually working on a project to address that. Stay tuned.
Woah this is amazing, thank you for sharing.
Adding to B, it's also great for money laundering and avoiding sanctions.

If you are a Russian oligarch, it's great for being able to pay your superyacht crew.
I’m extremely deep in this space, so I will provide some more anecdotes.

A lot of the Chinese crypto engineers (of which there are many) are paid in USDT. This avoids all of the capital controls and knowledge the state has. There is an entire subculture of Chinese who operate their businesses in USDT, mostly digital ones but it has bled into the physical world as well. In Hong Kong duffel bags full of paper currency would be swapped for USDT by various money changers.

A lot of people look at crypto and see what’s on the surface. The easy, instant movement of essentially unlimited money without government oversight and intervention is scaring many authoritarian governments. See the total ban on crypto by the Chinese dictatorship.
That was the issue for me though. It would often be years between usages since the only time I needed it was when a computer stopped booting or I was repurposing a device. Neither being things that happens very often.
Small, 20 people maybe, but a lot of remote people that had their own small "domains" within the project. Sometimes one "domain" had multiple shifts (e.g. shipping). Communication between shifts was just done by writing yourself an email.

Granted, such a thing would not scale up to infinity, but for that size it was perfect and extremely hackable (just email + SMTP after all).
what does a geospatial PBC do?
Only if you already had the money equivalent in the first place. Whatever you used as collateral will be something the other side would have gladly bought for the same amount. It's a speculative transaction between you and the other side that is completely unrelated to the house.

In real life, the collateral for the loan you use to buy a house is that house itself, something you did not own before (and arguably not before you are done paying back to mortgage).