skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear Liberia is nice. They speak English and persons of black color have held key political positions for over a hundred years. Former slaves held a great deal of the power there so that should be a great leg up for anybody who can't wait for the slow movement of the wheels of progress stateside. They've also codified white people can't be citizens, so that's one less worry in ways white folk can upset the country.
I guess that's funny in Russian. However the Soviet union is no more so who's laughing now.
I've been meaning to do a showhn on this, but this is pretty much exactly what I've been working on. https://www.reciped.io . Sort of a wikipedia of recipes, everything in markdown, add recipes to your recipe book, and then it's drag and drop weekly meal planning. Grocery list gets autopopulated by the meals in your weekly list and sorted by section in the grocery store (produce, meat, dairy, spice aisle, frozen foods, ect). Grocery list itself is built for mobile, so you just swipe the item off the list as you grab it at the store.
Yeah, but why are Chinese considered privileged now, when before they were not?
How's that working out for her? If she has a functioning uterus than I hope she has backup plan for what to do when the government dictates her gynecological care.

> I suspect that many Republicans are in this camp.

They are delusional. At this point thinking that "fiscal conservativism" is coming anytime soon is about as rational as believing that the rapture is right around the corner. They should open their eyes and see what is actually happening in their country right now, not keep praying in front of the photo of
Ronald Reagan in their personal shrine.
I missed the part where complex numbers are convincingly “number” or convincingly “real”. Maybe you’re making a different argument than I thought. Just because the full philosophical understanding and development of irrational numbers is recent doesn’t (to me) result in complex numbers being as natural as a scalar quantity. Vectors can be real numbers with a physical analog, and arguably a more natural algebra, and are more widely used than complex numbers. Does that have any bearing on what you were trying to express?

> Zero was introduced to reason about the question of what remains if you have n sheep and give all of them away.

Hmmm, why do you think this? I have a doubt. We already know that language had ways to express having none of something long before zero appeared in math.

> Does it make sense to have 𝛑 dollars or apples? Tangible quantities are integral or rational.

We aren’t talking about what’s tangible, that wasn’t your original claim. Yes absolutely it makes complete sense to have pi apples, it’s a completely natural concept one can easily imagine, whether it’s tangible or not. It does not make any sense to have 2+3i apples. Not only is that not tangible, it also can’t be approximated and has no physical analog. I can easily obtain 3.14 apples or dollars, a rational approximation to pi. As you know, the rationals are a subset of the reals, so for the purposes of this discussion I’m even fine with talking about only finite reals or rationals. If you’re trying to make a point about an infinite irrational number or that I can’t have exactly pi apples, then I suggest that’s perhaps a straw man argument irrelevant to the question of whether 2+3i apples makes “number” sense. Pi apples is easy to imagine, easy to approximate, and easy to draw a picture of, while 2+3i apples is not.
It completely depends on what you doing. This was pointed out in the first paragraph of the article:

> By thinking about the real operational considerations of our systems, we can get some insight into whether we actually need distributed systems for most things.
You're projecting a very specific SV bubble. More than enough decent developers exist outside of it, willing to work for a fraction. It's the fat profits and the big boys' eagerness to poach talent that got us this far, which subsequently inflated the QoL in these tech hubs, in turn creating the current standard.
What do you mean on purpose? To counteract cheating?
That's true and the reason why the real answer is dealing with the resource constraints. Economic growth solves a lot of problems.
The support case says:

> Even if I try to upgrade and manage payment it says I don't have access to perform that operation

So no.
These days it's pretty easy on a phone. I take a picture with google lens and copy the text.

Easier is finding the same recipe on their website and importing that directly.
Ignore that background too then. Just use parental or individual income and have some sort of scale, done. This isn't rocket science and the fact that we have to argue about blatantly obvious racism and favoritism just shows how much we've been gas-lighted, and we've had our good intentions twisted and actively exploited by those that benefit from this.

Many years from now, we will be holding these black people accountable for the generational harm and un-earned benefits they've stolen from our current generation's youth.
I would suggest looking up how OpenVMS works for example.

Why learn a Bullshit OS (fuchsia) when you can learn ~unix and cover 90% of usage.

Again Students are not stupid they can read and learn for themselves after learning the basics of a OS...what Xv6 is for.

But maybe you are that hidden genius professor from MIT that could teach everything much better. But then, why do we even talk, right?
> In the US, race is very much tied to socioeconomic status and class.

Great! So looking at socioeconomic status will also address socioeconomic status caused by racial discrimination. Glad you understand and agree with the parent.
Maybe not even then? GDP dropping while employment, spending, and demand increase indicates an economic expansion coinciding with a decrease in labor productivity, which is extremely weird and not at all like a conventional recession where the economy contracts. Different terminology might be required.

Additionally, with inflation at such a high level (9% or so), the last two quarter's real GDP growth estimates (-1.6% and -0.9%) are small percentages compared to the size of the error bars on the required inflation adjustment to compute the real GDP. Computing inflation is tricky and requires a lot of hand waving and boiling down different price changes across different sectors of the economy to get a single number, and if the calculation is off by even 1% (i.e. inflation is actually 8%), then the real GDP growth for last quarter would be positive at 0.1%.

This is also happening at the same time that the US dollar is getting increasingly valuable vs most foreign currencies, so measured in terms of foreign currency value the US real GDP is still increasing, which just compounds the weirdness.

Putting all of this together, I don't think the term "recession" is a good fit.
I'm actually pretty middle of the road. So, no, not exhausted.

What is exhausting is reading about all these people trying to get more women into CS, but then not realizing how many subtle signals there are saying "you don't belong." If you don't think that has an effect on people (women, in this case), well, you haven't spoken to a person affected by such things...
I never tried the trace viewer and maybe I should. It seems more limited than what you offer, no?
Don't do that. You're literally interpreting noise as signal. Look at the random wiggles elsewhere in the graph, they're the same size as the thing you're trying to interpret meaning from. Economics data just doesn't work on the timescale you want it to.
That's like saying each train robbery during the settlement of the west was getting us one step closer to ending the settlement.

If anything these heists prove interest in web3 remains high.
Stubbornness in supporting the direct to consumer business model. Talk is cheap, and other car companies can’t even do that, though this Ford CEO here is starting to crack.
I'm super interested in these ESL displays, but couldn't really find any (the few I found are very expensive per piece).

Are there any special keywords or sources for finding them in Europe?
Plan to Eat is pretty good overall. Cheap, good for planning meals and importing recipes.
You've got a point, this is like the buddhist idea that without suffering, there's also no joy. However, the "fuck you" in that context is said to managers, bosses, employers and overseers. Adams, as a mass-market artist, will have trouble if he says "fuck you" to his audience. They're only indirectly his employers. As the audience notes, email feedback was key in "Dilbert's" early evolution and success. If Adams says "fuck you" to his audience, they have a means to say "fuck you" to him in return.
Ask HN: High Biases in Stripe-Radar?
Following high (10.57%) USD-INR transaction fee on PayPal [1]. We, recently, implemented Stripe payments and found that the Stripe-Radar is hindering the subscriptions. Yesterday, we experienced 2-digit "Blocked" payments because of "High Risk". I upgraded my account to see the reasoning, after evaluating the failures it seems the Stripe-Radar is highly biased to the distance between payment-session-ip-address and card-billing-address.

A card transaction with an 11-mile distance & no history of frauds/disputes has a RiskScore of 87. The transaction is blocked as the account by default comes with RiskScore threshold of 75.

There are "Allow Rules" on the Stripe-Radar, that are disabled as the account should meet 2K USD/month. We have been consistently doing over 15K USD/month on other gateways, and Stripe doesn't want to consider the transactions statement to enable the option for new accounts.

Has anyone come across a similar situation? How did you handle it?

[1]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32228267
> In the US, race is very much tied to socioeconomic status and class.

In much of the world, really. The US isn't particularly bad compared to most countries that way.
How much are those failures attributable to issues with the policy and how much are they attributable to reactions from opponents in Taiwan, South Korea and America?
The focus on Asians is because the group that brought this group is mostly Asian-American. And that is true because, as you admit, Asians are being discriminated against more stiffly.

Now it is necessarily true that if we try to discriminate in favor of some group (eg blacks), we must necessarily give them an advantage over another group (eg whites). But the motivation there is arguably to help the historically disadvantaged, and not specifically to hurt whites.

But there is NO argument for doing what these universities are doing. To identify racial groups that they want to discriminate against because they are too good. I see no difference between policies to discriminate against Asians today and historical policies to put quotas on how many Jews got accepted. And I doubt that there is much coincidence about which universities engaged in both policies.
One thing people often miss is that fossils are extraordinarily rare. The general thought is that less than .1% of all species to ever exist have been fossilized. The conditions need to be perfect.

Honestly it's amazing we know as much as we do. It's not easy to preserve something for hundreds of years, let alone millions or billions.
but this ends the dominance cycle, making it possible for startups to hire talented devs again, even if for lesser comp. doesn't it?
Why is it real news? Why are you certain of this person’s story and motivation? What makes you sure it started a trend? Where are the other reports?
Ah we really should have something on our site that explains this - no, there's no dependency on the paid Cypress dashboard. A few teams use us alongside them, most others don't. We've recently added load balancing for parallelism, as well as some basic analytics based on user feedback to help fill in those gaps if you're using just us.

As for Github - no as well. We just have a Github app integration if you do to comment in on PRs. But we have teams using Gitlab/Gitlab CI as well. We print out our debugger links directly in your CI stdout or also add links into your JUnit report if that's enabled (ex for Jenkins). Though there's plenty of teams that just check our dashboard directly for test results as well! We just want to make it easy to access your test failure when they occur.
> Everyone is better off if we live in a society where you can do well and be rewarded for it, which is what affirmative action supports

Affirmative action is sins of they father by another name. It's judging people, and sending the message that it is okay--even righteous--to judge people not on who they are, but on from whom they are born.

It also creates justified racial animus between ethnic groups anew, and does so in a motivating way: by harming, or even just creating the perception of harming, their children.

> Why would you want to make education more elite?

Because we're defining an elite based on a mangled construction, where the kids of an Angolan dictator are given precedence over those of a refugee in the name of fairness. That's the construct of race. Meanwhile, the descendants of the slave owners get admitted on legacy.
I wonder is the same people would happily accept their months long wait for repair parts if it wasn't Tesla...
They were successful long before they had those public funds though.
The common element in the above is scaling and reliability. While lots of startups and companies are focused on the 1% chance that they are the next Google or Shopify, the reality is that nearly all aren't, and the overengineering and redundancy-first model that cloud pushes does cost them a lot of runway.

It's even less useful for large companies; there is no world in which Kellogg is going to increase sales by 100x, or even 10x.
It doesn’t have to cost that. You probably can hire people remotely. E.g. Almost nobody in the EU will cost you that much. Most good devs are less than €100k total cost.
If you're hosting on-prem then you have a cluster to configure and manage, you have multiple data centers you need to provision, you need data backups you have to manage plus the storage required for all those backups. Data centers also require power, cooling, real estate taxes, administration - and you need at least two of them to handle systemic outages. Now you have to manage and coordinate your data between those data centers. None of this is impossible of course, companies have been doing this everyday for decades now. But let's not pretend it doesn't all have a cost - and unless your business is running a data center, none of these costs are aligned with your business' core mission.

If you're running a start-up it's pretty much a no-brainer you're going to start off in the cloud.

What's the real criteria to evaluate on-prem versus the cloud? Load consistency. As the article notes, serverless cloud architectures are perfect for bursty loads. If your traffic is highly variable then the ability to quickly scale-up and then scale-down will be of benefit to you - and there's a lot of complexity you don't have to manage to boot! Generally speaking such a solution is going to be cheaper and easier to configure and manage. That's a win-win!

If your load isn't as variable and you therefore have cloud resources always running, then it's almost always cheaper to host those applications on-prem - assuming you have on-prem hosting available to you. As I noted above, building data centers isn't cheap and it's almost always cheaper to stay in the cloud than it is to build a new data center, but if you already have data center(s) then your calculus is different.

Another thing to keep in mind at the moment is even if you decide to deploy on-prem you may not be able to get the hardware you need. A colleague of mine is working on a large project that's to be hosted on-prem. It's going to take 6-12 months to get all the required hardware. Even prior to the pandemic the backlog was 3-6 months because the major cloud providers are consuming all the hardware. Vendors would rather deal with buyers buying hardware by the tens of thousands than a shop buying a few dozen servers. You might even find your hardware delivery date getting pushed out as the "big guys" get their orders filled. It happens.
Of course there's still a lot of freaky flag-flying happening. I just meant that now it feels like everyone's shouting in the same room — a room 1/3rd full of people trying to maximize the cash value of shouting and 1/3rd full of straight-up grifters. Whereas in the late-90s millennium fever it felt more like you were laying out the crazy foundation of some optimistic future.
> when conservatives don't like things they tend to do so outright

Going to disagree with you on that one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
This happened to me. In general, G has a terrible process - but I ended up getting a higher offer elsewhere.

Turns out my recruiter had been fired.
The numbers talked about in crypto exploits are in the hundreds of millions, if not billions. I would have thoughts the 'cyberpunks' chasing these would be completely outnumbered by state-backed information warfare groups.
Same behavior is reported by a lightly-paid individual user previously(use translators). Same story, account gets suspended, Oracle be “you take our words seriously and understand what you’ve done to us” and paths end there.

1: https://zenn.dev/shinshin86/scraps/022e44712274fd
What an odd rebuttal. "This field isn't sexist, it's just so toxic towards women that none of them want to be a part of it."

The gender gap isn't inherent, both India and China have a nearly equal percentage of men and women in computer science. The gap seems to be a mostly western phenomenon.
Increasing prices has nothing to do with scalping.

Just like Microsoft and Sony should of done with game consoles, but never did - Tesla has centralized buying which allows it to easily prevent scalping.
> Right now about 10% of all ETH is deposited on it.

Nope. The ETH is just in a rather simple write only deposit contract on ETH1. [1] It is also not 'all' ETH, since there is no hard cap on the total amount of ETH in existence.

It is also a bit more complicated than just looking at the beacon chain. That beacon chain has zero value tied to it. So while it has been running just fine, there hasn't been a reason to attack it. It also hasn't been used to actually do anything really... and now there is a use. There is also a lot more communication going on between nodes that didn't exist before. All of these things become attack surfaces.

[1] https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000219ab540356cbb839cbe0...
The problem is that the wealthy and powerful can fake socioeconomic class. In fact, they already do for financial aid. I recall two of my classmates got accepted by Harvard. One was the son of a doctor, and the other was the daughter of a lawyer. The doctor's son said that he was turning down Harvard because they didn't give any financial aid. Meanwhile, the lawyer's daughter said she actually got a lot of financial aid from Harvard even though her family was much richer.
There’s a lot of good advice here. Though I’ve learned from doing many years in daily support that you reach a point where you just need to stop doing support. For me, that was when it took a toll on my mental health and too much effort to protect my mental health. It was when I couldn’t easily empathize with customers anymore. Killing someone with kindness works, though customer support abuse begins to take a toll no matter how much of these strategies you employ.
I've got a real hankering to build one of these that punches (or lasers) actual paper tape. There's quite a few examples of DIY tape readers, but I can't find any for tape punches. Heck, even obtaining the tape seems to be a real PITA.
> competitively provide residential
> Internet service to offset costs.

I uh. Providing residential Internet for an apartment complex feels like an entire business in and of itself and wildly out of scope for a small business? That's a whole extra competency and a major customer support commitment. Is there something I'm missing here?
Raj's work on scientific machine learning in epidemic modeling is a treat for those who haven't seen it (https://youtu.be/YiDODWjpACo) (bias: I am a co-author on these studies, but he has really cool animations!)
Could confirmation bias affect your analysis at all?

How many companies went cloud-first and then ran out of money? You wouldn't necessary know anything about them.

Were the scaling problems your single-server customers called you to solve unpleasant enough put their core business in danger? Or was the expense just a rounding error for them?
I think this is a reasonable argument, but I also see the other side. Having a racial underclass is bad for society. It leads to children of the race subconsciously believing they aren’t capable of achieving their full potential. Empowering black people is a worthy goal in my opinion, even if they’re rich, because the optics can make a big difference in the lives of children who know believe in themself.
I don't know. Are we still adding 370,000 jobs per month? What kind of GDP contraction are we talking about? 1%, 3%, 5%? Is the GDP contraction increasing or slowing from the prior quarters? If we went from -1.8% to -1.5% to -0.9% and we still had robust job growth I would probably say it's not a recession.

But again, what does it even matter? Seems like people are only arguing about this to score political points. If you think we're in a recession, you might be right. If you think this is transitory, you might be right. If it weren't an election year we might not be having this conversation at all.
Some people also have insights from their astrological readings.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again. Doesn't mean it's less blind.
Don't think the Apple thing was as impactful to Google as it is to other players. I think the primary problem is that attribution becomes difficult, not that impressions plummet.
Intel 4 Deep Dive
In France you have a strong president that combines the role of a monarch and prime minister, but the role of "constitutional gatekeeper" is shared by the Constitutional Council, Supreme Court and Administrative Court. The latter three are actually entities that use their power.

The idea of having two houses of parliament is common in most large countries, and it is also common for those houses to be segregated from the executive (EU etc...).

The US is a political and cultural mess, but a lot of those issues aren't inherently due to the political system involved.
> Good luck winning any kind of lawsuit against Oracle also.

They don't always win, but it can be hard to see if the case does not go to trial. Settlements typically include confidentiality provisions to prevent publication of the result. [0]

[0] https://www.upcounsel.com/confidential-settlement-agreement
Even Google search has gone down apparently, for five minutes in 2013:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-goes-...
This is exactly the OPs recommended solution:

> One Server (Plus a Backup) is Usually Plenty
Surely it is more efficient to store the braking energy in cars for acceleration, which then reduces the amount of fossil fuels burned in the first place? (AIUI this already exists)

In fact i'm not sure why that wouldn't also apply to the trains...
Don’t forget that the President and Senate are both elected on the basis of land, rather than population. And the presidential allotment is winner-takes-all for most of those land areas. Definitely doesn’t disenfranchise large population centers, it’s fine.
Socioeconomic diversity is almost certainly the best way to improve societal outcomes. But it’s hard to track and is less outwardly visible.
But what’s missing from your steelman is why returning to racial discrimination will solve the problems of past racial discrimination — rather than making them worse, by teaching a whole new generation to be racists.
You’re thinking of Winston. Parliament is a funk band.