skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s no shortage of security people who will tell you that passwords are broken. It’s also not a coincidence how many of them sell products to supplement or replace passwords. (Microsoft Ruined Passwords, Now Aims for a Passwordless Future: https://puri.sm/posts/microsoft-ruined-passwords-now-aims-fo... ).
The unhealthy posturing near Taiwan, the repression of minorities and the "social contract" between citizens (you get materially better lives) and ruler (no questioning of the ruler)... When things are built like that and crack, they crack deep.
Any suggestions of good 'prerequisite' courses on data structures for this?
Good questions.

I am not that old, so 30 years is a reasonable span of time for me to recognize the difference.

I think the notion that "my grandparents had far fewer concerns 30 years ago than I have now" is inherently biased because we live today. (caveat lector: I know I am not expressing myself sufficiently in English as it is not my native tongue.)

Current generation, whatever the generation without fail always thinks their generation are the most complex, most advanced, most burdened, most enlightened, most troubled, and so on.

But, is this true?

Do you worry about cholera, diarrhea, or pneumonia killing you or where your food will be coming from and if it is edible, or some political leader killing you? My grandparents had to. Most likely you are concerned about other things, that did not even "exist" in their realm of thinking. But, it is simply replaced often with something less stressful, and older generations' troubles are forgotten.

In my opinion life is better and is less difficult than in my grandparents' time.
There is the alternative of an object based interface like Windows offers.

I thought it was an interesting idea until I actually got around to experimenting with Powershell recently. The ergonomics are more akin to Python than any of the GNU tools. I can’t help but wonder why not just use a language like Python rather than a heavyweight scripting language if it’s a similar LOE (speaking in general, I’m aware of CLR)? The benefit of the text based interface to me is the expediency of performing one-off CLI actions. I inclined think an object interface actually impedes this goal.
No, and probably not this either (which cites both piracy and padding to the higher-bandwidth edge of the CD).

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/08/13/crash-bandicoot...
The maven documentation is worth mentioning here. It it's useful for my area of Android dev and has also made me laugh with it's bluntness.
I was expecting this to be about Duktape <https://github.com/svaarala/duktape>, but heh, for sure no. I'd bet $1 there's no way youtube-dl would switch, but I wonder if yt-dlp would?
M-: (info "elisp") RET
Yep - if they're your bank, you're not checking in the supermarket to see if you're about to hit your overdraft.
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
Have you looked at the list?

The majority of major WebAPIs are supported and working in Firefox.
If you look at inflation numbers between 1968 and 1981, it did happen in the US -- just not by 2/3.

Those sorts of massive bank controls, though... no, not yet, in the US anyway. Let's not talk about Canada.
Yep and thusly also turns into somewhat of a spaghetti monster.
> And how thoroughly is that prohibition enforced? Do you scrape libgen, for instance? Coursework on university websites? Mathoverflow?

No idea, I'm not involved with that effort. I did see a question I wanted to ask get banned because it was leaked in a private interview prep group. And I saw questions get banned for being, at their core, too similar to leetcode ones (despite not having the same problem statement).
> TCP/IP etc.

Fun fact, that was building on earlier work on switched packet networks at the UK National Physical Laboratory during the 60s, which is also a public laboratory.
With such a large portion less than 1000, it would be nice to see it broken down more. Was it more 20, or 900?
Wrong, even with HTTPS & secure DNS, your ISP can see every site you visit in plain text from SNI requests.
There are plenty of folks who are comfortable with KYC but also want to use dollars as cryptocurrency.
can’t beat this service!
Consumption seems like a never-ending treadmill of its own. I'm quite the foodie, but I've made peace with the fact that there will always be more restaurants out there than I can possibly hope to dine at during my lifetime. You could say the same thing about music, art, etc.

It's like Bud Fox said in the movie "Wall Street"- "How many yachts can you water-ski behind?"
Death by a thousand spams? ... a.k.a. Kill a service by making it undesirable?
That's a bullshit cop-out if I've ever heard one.

'Don't mind us destroying society, we are just following incentives!'

Swear I've heard that somewhere before though...
Ask HN: Safe Note and Data Room
A few years ago I raised a seed round for my first start-up, and it was pretty simple, and pretty quick. We didn't raise much. The investors saw the product, the deck, had a call with us, and that was pretty much it.

I'm now raising a seed round for a new company. A few investors have asked for access to the Data Room, which I haven't set-up, one asked for an "Investor Memorandum", and other such things.

In our previous company, we were only raising $350k, we now have a hardware company and are raising $2M.

Is it common to have a Data Room and other supporting documents when raising your first Safe Note? Is it a function of the amount we are currently raising? Or is it a sign of the types of investors we are speaking with? I know one of them has not done very many investments, and is very quite green.

To be clear, most investors are not asking for a Data Room, it's only a few, so I'm just trying to understand what is special about these investors?

Do I need to change my expectations, or watch out for something with the investor?

When did you set-up your first Data Room?
What year? I can remember around 1998? having difficulty with the foreign language IME and having to delve through the disks we got from MSDN or something?(I forgot the name) from our annual subscription to figure out the details of using it and finding out it was only documented with examples in a prior year we did not have and having to dig up the example files someone helpfully archived on their non Microsoft website (it was scrubbed from the Microsoft website for some reason). Then I noticed some other poor developer have the exact same issue (so it wasn't just me!) on usenet so I just emailed the files to him.
IIRC the first version of reddit and the Python rewrite were each more or less built in a weekend. They were neither scalable to millions of users nor heavily optimized to keep users on the site as long as possible.

The latter point is relevant to a variety of UX decisions across many products and services. Making it easy, efficient, and pleasant for the user to do what the user wants may not be the overriding concern in the design.
I don't know if it was the best, but one of the codebases that really helped me out in the mid-90s was XEmacs. It was portable to many kinds of systems and had lots of features that most applications never have to worry about (e.g., an embedded interpreter). I also got value out of GNU Emacs but XEmacs tried harder to be a good citizen on the X desktop and there were lots of lessons learned in there that I was able to leverage for the applications I was building at the time.
what about the ux side of things ? I love everything you mention about perf but I never ran into a single 90s era app that had interesting ergonomics. Web can be shitty or worse but there are some valuable UX aspects now.
Somewhat off topic, but I’ve been wondering: has anyone noticed that areas with a lot of scooters and motorcycles have particularly bad air? Like, Victorian England bad. Some European cities are much worse than an LA freeway during rush hour, and that seems odd to me.

Is it a design constraint, or are scooters just not subject to the same emissions regs?
Google used to be much better. If I could use the old Google, I would. I really do want content beyond the top 500 websites, and sometimes it was on page two. Now it’s not there at all.

Most daily usage now I use Bing for the rewards points, and it’s approximately as good as current Google. Never have I failed to find something with Bing I then found with Google, despite it being a regular occurrence.
For what it’s worth, I’m a developer who has worked on open source software and I agree with them, libre office is comically bad. It’s totally appropriate to talk about why, as long as you’re not expecting someone to go off and fix it all for you.
Regarding Mac and dock icons, I prefer an unobtrusive (but static) dock at the side, which results in rather tiny icon sizes. While this used to worked great, starting with ADock on classic Mac OS, with Big Sur this has become something like the following (on grey background and transparencies disabled): the terminal is the black, square blob, the calculator is the tiny bar I'd never associate with a calculator, Preview is the invisible one, Maps is the one I don't even see, the Bin is the one I wouldn't even recognise for its lack of contrast, weren't it not for its position at the very end, etc. None of these icons communicate to me in any way or sense. – Well done. (That is, if you were aiming for the heat death of your design universe.)
So if I'm a Canadian who values diversity, you're telling me I should roll coal?

"It's great! The more tar sands we extract, the better our restaurants get!"
Rethinking GPS: Engineering next-gen location at Uber (2018)
Those 330 million have highest spending capacity in the world so that makes big difference.

Are those Chinese movies making big revenues outside China? Until that happens they are just catering local market. So far Chinese movies successful in China or Chinese speaking population. I think it is just logical thing not world changing.

One can also read about Indian movie economics where movies with massive budgets sank like giant turds. Clueless directors in India are shocked that their successful formula of movies is failing so badly.

Kids today also do not want to be doctors, should I be worried that no one will be there to treat my old ass very soon?
The whole 2% makes 95% of all revenues doesn't just apply to books... it certainly is true for the video game industry, and I suspect, most of the industries being sold online.
The wiki page does not mention fasting.
> Although the Tailwind author hates @apply and says they shouldn't have put it in the tailwind in the first place (mainly because it's a hard feature to develop - i wouldn't be surprised it would be removed). I think going tailwind only is bad too because you loose many of the nice functions of CSS like theming/cascade.

I'd say that dropping the cascade, along with namespacing "classes" (through the build-step) is the main feature of tailwind. It's a departure from CSS - I don't think I'd recommend to mix and match.

I like CSS, but I also see how it's a complex tool that's often used poorly, even by experienced developers.

As for themeing - I'd say that is well supported within tailwind.
No, I do not agree with what the original poster stated.

I think it's possible to get too abstract in discussion with an idea of "documenting a system" since that can of course shoot for a level of detail that can't be maintained. Here is a practical example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Information_Protectio...

When this law was to come into effect, every company that does business in China had to audit where they were storing all Chinese PII in order to figure out what they might need to change. For large companies, this involved making everyone perform this audit for their own little fiefdoms.

Being as this wasn't the kind of thing one can have lawyers go challenge in court, there were two options:

1. Actually do an audit (and if you're not dealing with exceptionally poor engineering, this should not have been as hard as keeping track of dependency libraries), rebuild everything from scratch (wasteful), or nuke absolutely anything that might have a chance of having Chinese PII (...unlikely from a business perspective).

2. Lie (internally / externally) and thereby break the law.

People in these comments seem to love the phrase "socially acceptable fiction" and I want to be very crisp that we are dealing with a clean dichotomy. You do the audit, or you lie and break the law.

Yes, I understand there are some among us who have so little integrity that they'll shrug at the latter option, that they'd fake the VW emissions test, that they'll cheat and embezzle and tell themselves that it was all inevitable anyway and anyone in their places would do the same. But this is not actually true. We would not all do this. Pretending this is normal variance gives cover to scummy people.

I therefore object to the root comment's characterization of this kind of thing exceeding real understanding as a natural consequence of scale/time. Yes, in terms of how it can come about that no individual knows this stuff, it's accurate – but only in the absence of the institution itself caring to pay attention. I object to succeeding characterizations that it is an inevitable attribute of social systems that meaningful control is impossible, because even educated and carefully hired professionals can apparently only be expected to behave with the ethics one might expect of a sixth grader who would rather let Chegg write his book report.

From the article, this is what FB is saying:

> “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose,’” the 2021 document read.

This may be accurate about Facebook; I would not know. What I do know is that it is not an inevitable consequence of scale and lifespan.
It's very cool to see Blender grow bigger each year and moving into the mainstream movie production.

I can recommend Blender Bob's YouTube channel, he has worked in the VFX industry for many years and primarily uses Blender and shows how VFX is made:

https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderBob
In function overloading, like in Java or C#, the method is picked at compile time based on the static types of the parameters. In multiple dispatch, the function is chosen at runtime based on the runtime type of the parameters.
tvtropes is fun, but it's the cultural analysis equivalent of overfitting a model.
Yes he has paid for some of that stuff but I was planning to pay him back for all that.
Tim Cook's notes for Apple board call December 17, 2018
Dynamic mutliple dispatch takes into account the dynamic type rather than the static type as you would in say-C++ style function overloading. The single dispatch equivalent is function overloading vs virtual calls.
> the handful of men who invented photography — only wanted to capture images from light reflected on a solid surface

There’s absolutely no need to portray someone like Daguerre as merely a uninspired technician. I’m genuinely baffled why this is the narrative tack the author took.

From wikipedia:

> Louis Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France. He was apprenticed in architecture, theatre design, and panoramic painting to Pierre Prévost, the first French panorama painter. Exceedingly adept at his skill of theatrical illusion, he became a celebrated designer for the theatre, and later came to invent the diorama, which opened in Paris in July 1822.
Modern "design" seems to revolve around cost-cutting and letting people who cannot design to LARP as "designers"; Thankfully I can still install a skeumorphic theme and icon pack.
The idea of essence and accident comes from Aristotle, while essential and accidental complexity is new by Brooks.
Apple has always been “behind” on some aspects and “ahead” on others. It boils down to the fact that they have their own priorities, which are different from what Android OEMs like to emphasise, which are also different from what people on Teh Interwebz like to go on about.
I think both you and Walter make good points, and both of your comments reflect ways that mine could have been better: notably by creating a false categorical arrow referencing a very I’ll-defined term (“very smart”) and a still imprecise but much better-defined term (“articulate”).

I seem to have recklessly kicked off a red/blue/left/right thing, which was stupid of me.

The much more interesting thing to me is the epistemological failure mode of conflating modern liberal-inflected, coastal-inflected literacy with any other capability, a conceptual error that is well on its way to becoming institutionalized and is perhaps one of a very small handful of fundamental, avoidable mistakes driving a relatively very high level of divisiveness in society.

It’s more than a little meta that the fundamental conceptual error that you’ve highlighted (the siren song of the Central Limit Theorem: everything’s Gaussian until proven guilty) has caused more nation-level financial catastrophes than any other fallacy.

I think there’s ultimately a very compelling case for optimism here that I myself couldn’t have articulated prior to reading your comment in the context of mine: there are known, demonstrable, identifiable, and changeable epistemological practices that are sending shit into a tailspin (and have before), and right in this comment thread there are two of the big ones plain as day: conflating high-status articulation with other forms of merit, and shoving phenomena into convenient but wrong probability distributions.

Those are going to be tough habits to kick, but I see no fundamental reason why they can’t be.
This “fact-checker” headline template is quite tired by now.
I did not enjoy Topre at all
I know some US startups that hire Argentinians (Scale AI, etc) and pay them in USD-T or USD-C. Not sure if they pay any taxes in the US, but they certainly don't pay the income tax or take the currency conversion haircut in Argentina. Pretty good deal.

Still, these people want USD, not really a crypto. I figure some lost their shirts in UST.
...no?

I have lots of tabs open, and every other site I use chooses a legible width.

You think I'm going to resize my browser window narrower every time I switch to HN, and resize it wider every time I switch to a different tab?

Sites are designed. Legibility is part of design. Appropriate characters per line is part of legibility. Full stop.
If you plot difficulty to read against optimization, I'd expect to find a u-shape relation between the two.

When code is easy to read, it's easy to find and clean up redundant operations, which naturally makes it faster.

On the other end there's some optimizations that require dealing with lower abstraction levels and additional special cases.
Have you viewed the alumni of the B.J. Fogg Behavior Boot Camp? [1] Have you considered why people fork over a hefty sum to attend those bootcamps? What do you think their behavior design goals were?

Simply echoing the OP comment for B.J. Fogg as well. Nothing more.

His book Tiny Habits is a decent read actually. That does not however lend support to your initial unrepresentative statement about his work in persuasive technology.

His sense of research ethics is beyond the scope of this thread. But since you brought up that dimension in your reply, you might want to consider the fact that he worked as an assistant [2] for Philip Zimbardo [3] who conducted the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment [4].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/school/behaviordesign-bootcamp/peop...
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Fogg#Education
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
I'm sure they are being completely genuine. They completely miss the irony that they are essentially saying "the most serious threat to free speech in the US right now is the free speech of people I disagree with".
Are you using free or paid Wrap ?
Paid wrap hides your original IP (unlike the free) and generally the IPs have good reputation (no CAPTCHA).
I wouldn't bother trying to reason on this.

I'm an Android developer, but use an iPhone. I've noticed some Android users really need their wins against Apple. It's almost like a Linux user trying to convince you how awesome and slicker the dev experience is, vs how bloated and slow your Macbook is: the point isn't to inform you, it's to reassure themselves.
This is a known fact: PM 2.5 causes irreversible inflammation of the specific cells, leading to an immune cascading effect that may go unregulated. The timing of the news is with the Oncology conference, so it attracts more attention. It is rehashed news. It requires an environmental clean up, but must be balanced by the costs. It is usually difficult to reverse sunk costs for prior human activity. Often, it requires careful deliberation around vehicular pollution.
:).

Someone once wrote this. If someone gives you Excalibur, you don't fucking ask where it came from, who made it, etc. Just go use it and have fun.
Because people have friends?
Looks like you can direct link to claim

http://ipv4.games/claim?name=whatever

I expect you could do an img tag or iframe, buy cheap ad traffic, and win. Tor is an option but last time I looked the exit node count is in the thousands. You could probably use any feed submitter or preview functions (Google docs insert URL, Facebook insert URL, etc).
Yes we're all collectively paying for poor software design by having to compensate with excellent hardware. That should tell you that "good" software is really hard to make but "good enough" software is not if you have sufficient hardware.

If you think that's bad or it makes you think that most developers can't write good software, that's the price we have to pay for innovation. As an analogy, it'd be great if manufacturing was always priced at mass manufacturing injection molded costs, but someone has to 3D print and hand assemble prototypes to prove that the idea is possible and worth making. In software, we just stop at the prototyping stage and make that the product hoping eventually we have enough time and money to redesign for mass manufacturing scale.
Agreed! I remember going from mainly writing PHP to Python many years ago and being specifically irked at how Python's core docs, unlike PHP's, didn't "clearly" (in my view) list arguments and, importantly, examples.

PHP's one-page-per-func just seemed like a better way of focussing on/laying out everything there was to know about one function. This page [0] looks like it hasn't changed much in the last 15 years and absolutely brings back memories.

[0] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-ends-with
Plus (paid) tier started giving anonymous IPs.
Stripe always stood out in terms of SDK documentation. Never had an issue from start to finish.

I always appreciated Maven documentation too. Always verbose and you'll find more than enough information rather than none.
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The pedantry was intended to point out that there is plenty of room for publishers to mislead when they don't detail how the data is collected. When you don't have access to the data, it is usually the best one can do.

Even the comment by Kristen McLean has limits, though they are much more forthcoming about what the data includes. That said, I think they summed it up best when they said publishing is a gambler's game. That being said, whether the outcome is good or bad for a gambler depends upon how much they invested and the return across all of those bets. Their data does not venture into financial aspects. At best, it gives us an idea of the minimum number of units sold in a particular subset of the market.
I always considered Argentina part of "the west" - it's in the western hemisphere and the common language is Spanish, along with other cultural connections to Spain. What definition are you using?