skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I've got all the baseball cards I owned as a 10 year old stored in a persistent database too, but that does nothing to give it value.

That's a strawman. I was merely making the point that its existence as information in a persistent database means it's not "imaginary".

As for what confers it with value: that's the market. It has market value, so it is not "monopoly money", regardless of your various theories as to why it shouldn't have value.

>>All the drivel about mixers and zero knowledge proofs is the sales pitch of snake oil salesmen (and people who bought snake oil to a point they feel invested in it's value)

I made factual points about its similarities to cash. Your critique is knee-jerk hostility based on ignorance of the technology and your preconceived notion that it's a scam.
The Soviet economy really was more efficient than ours--their shelves were empty decades ago!
Tell HN: Potential hashed password leaks from Slack workspace invitation links
Hi hn, today I received an email from Slack explaining an issue with one of the invitation links I created to invite others to my workspace, which apparently included my hashed password, I'm pasting the text I received.

When you're connected to Slack, we keep your client updated using a websocket. When you have Slack open, the websocket is an always-open stream of behind-the-scenes information, specific to just you and your account, that we use to push new information to your Slack client. When a new message is posted, a new file is uploaded, a new emoji reaction is added, or a new teammate joins, all of this information is sent to you over a websocket. The raw data streamed from Slack's servers over the websocket is processed by the Slack client apps, but is not directly visible to users.

One of the hidden events we send over the websocket is a notice that a shared invite link was created or revoked. The bug we discovered was in this invite link event along with the information about the shared invite link, the hashed password of the user who created or revoked the link was also included. This information was sent over the websocket to all users of the workspace who were currently connected to Slack. The hash of a password is not the same as the password itself; it is a cryptographic technique to store data in a way that is secure, and cannot be used to log in as you. We use a technique called salting to further protect these hashes. Hashed and salted passwords are secure, but not perfect — they are still subject to being reversed via brute force — which is why we've chosen to reset the passwords of everyone affected.
I am honestly not sure what is the difference between iMessage and Messages. Is iMessage still a thing? I think I saw it somewhere just recently.
We used to really enjoy a long elaborate joke setup with a let down as the punchline in college.

My favorite was "A patron sees a whale sitting in a booth at the bar". You go on and on about him coming back day after day seeing the wale, describing the beverage, etc. Just improv it. The key is going as long as you can while keeping the audience, but still getting that frustration and tension from them.

At the end the patron gets up the courage to talk to the whale explains to the whale that he had seen him for days, was amazed, etc. Then the whale looked at him and responded [insert best whale noise impression].

Since he passed I've seen a bunch of Norm Macdonald videos of this. He really was the best. The moth joke and others that go on for ~30 mins each on Conan are amazing.

He plays them dumb but is basing them off like Russian literature tropes that go way over the audience's head. The repeated build up, let down, and then finally just a silly punch line that could have landed in 3 sentences is incredible. And his ability to play off Conan's occasional shots...
Google's latest earnings were less bad than most of it's competitors - Facebook and Snap choked hard, while google just slowed a bit (and less than was expected), so it's not just the stock that did well.
I didn't say racism requires malice - I said it required intent, most of the time that intent is malice but not always. The current pop culture version of racism isn't often racism, it's prejudice or stereotyping or most often simply ignorance.

Two people can make the exact same remark and one can be racist and one can be based on innocent ignorance/curiosity. A young white child is spending time with a black person for the first time and says "your hair is weird", is a vastly then if that same person said it while in high school and was bullying the black kid in class. The former isn't racist and the latter is.

I don't rail against social justice, progress is good and I think everyone of every creed / sexuality / gender / etc should be free to express themselves and live their best lives without being judged for who they were born or identify as.

What I do rail against though is the use of manipulating language to bully and harass people because a social credit / status / clout of trying to always be finding demons to expose is the norm. I personally believe that people who do this (often the "social justice warriors" so to speak) are root for most of the radicalization of BOTH sides of the political spectrum in the western world right now.
> Maybe this tech won't be cost-effective in 50 years as solar continues to get cheaper

As we replace base load with less reliable sources we need to come up with some way of expressing a penalty for availability. Does it matter how cheap solar is if it isn’t available when we need it and storage is not practical?
They can make - aka pay for - whatever games they want, but in terms of allowed software, ideally the platform should be an open system instead of one with a hard whitelist. That would be best for user freedom and autonomy. I'm not discussing the online store side of things either, they can run that as they wish, and that can be their whitelist for all I care.

Countries have laws and ratings systems that govern content. We don't need to be subject to the patronizing whims of corporations to boot, creating useless, single-purpose, locked-down hardware and moralizing on our behalf.
> Do you have any recommended materials for gaining skill in organizational theory?

Absolutely.

First, start with Manager Tools [1]. This is my go-to for stuff a couple of times a week. Start with their "getting started" page and they map out how effective relationships work within an effective organization.

Second, have a look at Peter Drucker. Depending on where you want to go, he's probably literally written a book on the topic. The Effective Executive [2] might be useful, depending on your job. I haven't read his others.

Third, tangentially, is Good Strategy / Bad Strategy, by Richard Rumelt [3]. It's not organizational theory, but its adjacent, in that it pretty ruthlessly dissects good and bad strategies for various organizations and entities, and tries to summarize what a "good" strategy looks like if you have to form one, or what a "bad" strategy looks like if you're subject to one. I link to a video here because the guy's a great speaker, and for us here, he looks (in 2011) at why NVIDIA was dominating the market at the time. :-) Skip to 47m 06 seconds for the NVIDIA bit. As an aside, the way he explains the 3D marketplace, and -gets it right- makes me trust everything else he wrote. He explains how 3DFX was crushed. Along with everyone else. He explains how NVIDIA's simulators, and driver expertise helped them to fundamentally disrupt the market. And then continue to stay ahead of it, and eventually become multiples bigger than Intel, who at the time was the behemoth in the space.

[1] https://manager-tools.com/get-started

[2] https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-effective-executi...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZrTl16hZdk <-- 90 minute video, but he narrates a lot of the points from the book.
What I was trying to say is that I don't think it would have as much success as it did then, if it were released today. The number of "lifer" employees with no aspirations is vanishingly small compared to 20+ years ago.
I would suggest that humor itself evolves. That we enjoy flavors of humor which are novel and new and specific to our cultural moment.

Internet humor is big on surreal non-sequiturs. I suspect that while it may have existed as a style of humor before the internet, that it may not have existed 3000 years ago as a style of humor.
> Into adulthood I find it very difficult to say whose intelligence is "better" in anything close to an objective way.

Intelligence is difficult to quantify and define. BUT: peoples abilities on a wide variety of tasks are positively correlated. This strongly implies there is some kind of underlying factor that makes you better at "all things", and this is what IQ tests attempt to measure.

e.g. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)#/medi...

Of course, the correlation coefficients are not 1; so of course someone can have a lower IQ than you but far outperform you in one of these tasks.

The results from IQ tests seem to be very strong predictors of many outcome measures later in life-- indeed, more than parenting seems to predict these things.

edit: from the wikipedia article on g factor:

" Research indicates that tests of g are the best single predictors of job performance, with an average validity coefficient of .55 across several meta-analyses of studies based on supervisor ratings and job samples. The average meta-analytic validity coefficient for performance in job training is .63.[76] The validity of g in the highest complexity jobs (professional, scientific, and upper management jobs) has been found to be greater than in the lowest complexity jobs, but g has predictive validity even for the simplest jobs. Research also shows that specific aptitude tests tailored for each job provide little or no increase in predictive validity over tests of general intelligence."
That's certainly true for Newcomen's atmospheric engine, and possibly true for Watt's steam engine, but certainly not for an Otto cycle engine. You would at the very least need a lathe and mill to make the precision parts necessary.

Come to think of it, a video series about bootstrapping a 19th century machine shop from a 15th century blacksmith's shop would be extremely interesting.
Maybe i'm just lucky, but every link I tried was not only live but updated reciently.

Though i'm still disappointed they are not updating.
I wish I'd done something like this. My dad passed earlier this year. I don't have any video recordings of his voice. Only memories. I had no idea what it would be like this side of his death. I think you made a really smart move.
We wouldn't need to build new highways for this. We'd just be changing how we use existing ones (replacing existing road traffic with more efficient road traffic).
Your task could be trivially done with EasyMorph (https://easymorph.com). We've designed it exactly for such use cases.

Data needs of non-technical people have long been neglected. It was believed that any data wrangling should be done by IT people. So all non-technical people had was Excel. Luckily, the no-code movement finally started addressing that issue with a varying degree of success.
See the Japanese cherry blossom data mentioned by someone else. It has blooming data since 600 AD.
That’s easy, just ask DALL-E and do an image search
...and purple? Huh? Why everything is purple? Seriously
My impression is that he often tries to 'steelman' the other side by purposely putting forth more simple-minded positions or questions than he actually holds. At least in AI territory it often seemed that way, noticeable when a guest mispeaks or mislabels a theory and Fridman corrects them, suddenly knowing the exact scientific term or implications.

I don't think he's necessarily doing a great job with this approach, but I'm guessing that there's some attempt of method behind it, rather than him being negligently oblivious to the subject at hand.

edit: grammar
Have you tried this one? https://neeva.com/

No idea how good it is, I remember it was posted here a while ago
iMessage is the e2e protocol used by the messages app if you're texting another iOS user. Messages is the name of the app that does that, as well as SMS.

It's really nothing that most end users notice or care about, as long as they get their blue bubbles and fun features.
Not having to submit to surveillance laws like KYC is a big step towards ending surveillance. No other form of electronic money provides the ability to transact without complying with such laws.

As for the traceability associated with public validation of transactions: that can be solved with zero knowledge proofs which I alluded to earlier. Indeed you don't understand the technology which is why you persist in these criticisms.
I concur with this. While Lex, IMHO, has FAR less personality than, for example, Joe Rogan, I’m not watching because of Lex; I’m watching because of the guest. I’m very happy to have the guest take over and, for the most part, lecture their thoughts and opinions. Lex allows this to happen.
For me it's not that he doesn't push back, it's that he often interrupts with some trite nonsense. So the guest is getting in the details of something specific and interesting and Lex will interrupt with something he thinks is profound that's meaningless and derails the explanation. The questions he asks I find similarly frustrating - like he's not really listening, or thinking about it in any depth.

I get the sense he's constantly trying to prove how smart he is, and at least to me - it backfires badly. Hard to describe, but I guess it comes across mostly as shallow bullshit and it's tedious to listen to him despite his great guests.
Buying a Costco membership doesn't mean you can only shop at Costco though. If Wal-Mart has a better price on X or if Mom and Pop shop has item Y that Costco doesn't carry you can still buy them.
Yes. And I can prove it to you.

Settings > Sync and Google Services > Other Google Services > Make Searches and Browsing Better.

Underneath the setting it explains, "Send URLs of pages you visit to Google".
Then use the old version of Linux that works with your hardware. Why other people should care about your ancient hardware. You can either fund work to provide support or write code yourself and see how easy it is.

I was using until recently Sandy Bridge platform, and It works fine. I am not expecting that it would be supported forever. There is a lot of performance and maintainability left on the table because of support for old devices. If anything, I wish for Linux world for more aggressive deprecation policy.

> People should not have to throw out otherwise working hardware because a bunch of nerds who weren't bullied enough in high school don't feel like putting in some effort.

You can just leave Linux community, nobody will miss you.
Senator Grassley to lead GOP effort demanding Google remove Gmail spam filtering
Cancel culture fear => Peer pressure hypersensibility => Monotonicity
There's some mix of people in here who weren't around for or forgot about when Google handled stuff like this brilliantly. In fact, one of the best ways to get search traffic was to write a quality article tackling questions like this. Google was thirsty for answers to the ever-growing number of queries it had never seen before and would shower traffic on anyone who answered them even if it was a bad answer. A good answer had staying power.
If you use the excellent Apollo for iOS, the combination of the Apollo Safari extension (free) and Amplosion ($5, also auto-redirects AMP pages) auto-redirects Reddit web links to Apollo. Highly recommended if you use Reddit on iOS.
What is the main lead gen for companies in UAE: events, word of mouth?
Who knows? Or where to find it?
There's also the two OneNotes. I got quite confused the other day when the OneNote on my personal machine did not look like the one on my work machine.

Turns out there's OneNote for Windows 10 and OneNote (which also runs on Windows 10...)
Ah I'm sorry. Well, the curiosity remains!
If by “solved” you mean destroyed what wasn’t broken, sure.
Real time also generally means your input sizes are bounded and known, otherwise the algorithm itself isn't realtime and malloc isn't the reason why.

But strictly speaking the only problem is a malloc/free that can lock (you can end up with priority inversion). So a lock-free malloc would be realtime just fine, it doesn't have to be stack growth only.
I was thinking about this recently, because at my business we're working on improving our SEO.

The big problem is that Google is the major way people discover goods and services. If you have a site that sells garden hoses, the best way to get eyeballs is to write blog posts that a potential user of garden hoses might search for. "How to install a garden hose." "What is the best garden hose."

This kind of content marketing can drive huge traffic and thus huge sales.

But only results on the first page of Google matter, and the farther down the first page you are, the less traffic you get.

Now, the 15 companies that produce garden hoses are fighting against each other to get the 10 slots in Google's first page for any given keyword.

With AI-generated articles, it's become a race to the bottom. Google rewards AI-generated, keyword-optimized blog spam. If you want to be one of the 15 companies that makes it into those 10 slots, you better believe you need to write AI-generated blogspam too. And when everyone has to do that in order to compete, all that's left is the AI-generated blogspam that has infested the modern web.

You almost have no choice as a business. Either write AI-generated blogspam that Google loves, or your competition will, and bury you in the search results.
Be careful what you wish for. AI capable of writing weird garbage nonsense content that looks truthful is coming down the pipeline, with a reward function built in for user engagement. In a world of effortless surreal content, authoritatively truthful answer will become more valuable. We're going to need encyclopedias again!
The Future of No Code Is Low Code
Sounds like the halting problem :)
> I don't see Netflix turning down an anime that Crunchyroll refuses to carry

Oh hey! I have a litmus test handy! Got a citation for Netflix carrying "Ishuzoku Reviewers"?
The point is to surface human websites and discriminate against content mills, click funnels and e-commerce.

For one I have a sort of budget for how much javascript I will tolerate. Some is fine, like your standard wordpress config probably will fly, but not much more. I also do a personalized pagerank biased toward the blogosphere. The likelihood your website shows up in the results is directly determined by whether real humans link to the website.

It's not a Google replacement by any measure, it's meant as a complement, but if you are looking for more in-depth content on a topic than you can find elsewhere, it's often a good starting point.
Check out Orion[1]. They claim to run web extensions on iOS. Apparently they ported many extension APIs to work with WebKit, which sounds pretty impressive.

I can’t vouch for their iOS browser (yet) but I’ve been using their Mac browser and it’s been pleasant.

[1]: https://browser.kagi.com/
It looks good, I probably would have pulled the trigger, but I'm going to be AFK for three weeks coming up with no electricity or running water... Did bookmark it to come back to it though.
I'd like to set something like this up on an Android tablet.

I have Termux installed and there are a few options for running a simple webserver (e.g., via Python). I've yet to look into hosting my own homepage and directory there, though ... it would be nice and useful to do this.
Ask HN: What are you doing to get Fridays off? (4-day work week)
heh, sorry, a wink or /s would have helped. the problem is that i believe there are people who actually think that way. reality is stranger than fiction.
Steven here, I'm Ahana CEO (Managed Service for Presto) and member of Linux Foundation's Presto Foundation
Since you asked about an alternative to AWS Athena, we offer a free-forever in-VPC Managed Service for Presto on AWS, which keeps up with the latest Presto releases.

Note: the original Presto continues to run in production at Meta (fmr. Facebook), Uber, and recently ByteDance TikTok data platform talked about running 1M queries a day with tens of thousands of cores. Some reasons to stay with Presto:
- Reliability and scalability per above
- Cutting edge innovations only in later versions of Presto: multi-level caching (project RaptorX) to boost query performance by 10X+ and table scan improvements (project Aria) to name a few
- Only PrestoDB is hosted by Linux Foundation, giving confidence to community users that future releases will remain open.
Ali here, with a perspective about the split. Disclosure - I work at Ahana and am an active member of the Presto Foundation. When I see things like this, it appears that Trino/Starburst wants to continue to push the narrative that Presto is a Facebook-driven project to keep the communities fractured which is pretty unfortunate. In reality, Presto is a community-based open source project housed under The Linux Foundation and has dozens of companies actively contributing to it and using it - Uber, Bytedance, Intel, Twitter, Tencent, and many more. There's no reason why the 2 communities can't coexist peacefully.

For all intents and purposes, both projects are active and lively. It seems that Trino is more focused on federation and building out connectors. Presto is more focused on being the engine for the data lake/lakehouse. Both projects are doing well and solving different problems. There's been a lot of innovative features in the Presto project over the last year that are only in Presto, like Presto-on-Spark, disaggregated coordinator, Project Aria, etc. In fact we just hosted a fantastic user conference a few weeks ago that showcased a lot of that innovation and how companies are using Presto at massive scale today (if interested, check out the sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8i7eHqwyw&list=PLJVeO1NMmy...)

Long story short, Presto is alive and well, is not solely backed by 1 company (quite the opposite of Trino/Starburst), and has a lot of tech innovation on the roadmap. We're excited about the future of Presto.
Shady Streets
I don't think infinitely large integer constant area construct that makes sense.

As far as I'm aware, there isn't an instance of an infinitely large integer, even in mathematics, there are finite integers and there is the concept of infinity. (And size_t is defined as an unsigned integer type)
"received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process,"

So, all good in HN land.

Made my day, thanks.
I know it’s of low value to ask, but who really gives a shit?
He = Fridman. Armstrong was much more clear and eloquent.

Fridman really seemed to be going for applause lines from a very specific crowd, not anything particularly coherent. I think he's realized that his growth as a podcaster comes from the demographic that frequents hosts like Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and Ben Shapiro, and the more he can get them engaged the higher his numbers will get. But the topics that demographic cares about aren't AI and ML.
>The correct result is to return pages containing "Croatia" AND "Koh Lanta".

But that isn't the correct result. "Koh Lanta" is being used by the OP to describe the vibe of a place "having tourist amenities without being touristy." It isn't a common English idiom, but one they made up based on their personal experiences as a tourist in Thailand. Results which simply contain the text "Croatia" and "Koh Lanta" aren't going to reflect what they want.
Nextjs in a Binary
Try to find a hobby that has something of a social aspect via an organization of people that do the thing. For me this is astronomy, model rocketry, archery, and, in the past, whale boat rowing.
Sounds super useful!

Where did you get the data from?
Do you still have the code somewhere?
I like the way you roll, anonymoushn. Gave me a good laugh.