skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago, I ran a tor relay (not exit node!) on my stable home internet connection. I forgot all about it for months and months, and then when I was trying to update a home insurance claim, I kept getting weird site errors. Pages would half-load, I'd get 500 errors submitting forms, etc. I wasn't _using_ tor at all, just normal Firefox like always.

I peeked at the failed AJAX calls and I saw that the site was denying my traffic because I was classified as a high risk endpoint. The name of their WAF/filtering vendor was in the error responses or headers, so I found a free way to query that company's threat database for my home IP. There it was, my IP was marked high risk because it was associated with a tor relay. It's a silly threat correlation, in my opinion, but it was enough of an annoyance that I stopped running the relay so I didn't have to worry about flaky firewalls.

The ironic thing was, I could have probably fired up Tor Browser and tried new exit nodes until I found a fresh one their system didn't know about, just to finish updating my claim! I actually just tethered my laptop to my phone, I think.

PS I forgot to ask: does anyone know if Snowflake is as detectable as a normal bridge or relay node? If so, there's the risk that your home connection gets a risk/reputation strike against like mine did.
Where did you get "you don't speak for me"?

It's "I can tell you that to us you're all the same" vs "You don't speak for the ~7.7B people not in the US."

One person is trying to speak for 7.7B and the other is advising against that.
"Has there been a noted decline in his skills in the past few years, or has the content or style of his lectures changed?"

Yes, and yes.

"WSN also accessed student evaluation records for courses taught by Jones, which showed that his scores had been consistently low for years — long before the spring 2022 student petition. In the past five years, Jones’ co-professors teaching the same course typically had scores around or above 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, while Jones averaged around 3.3. In his final semester, his evaluation score dropped to 2.4.

"They were part of an experimental semester, one that was forced to combine the in-person with the online, and Jones was not considerate of the need for change. ... Students said they spent 11 to 19 hours per week on the course — a course that traditionally takes up 10 to 15 hours per week." (https://nyunews.com/opinion/2022/10/05/maitland-jones-nytime...)
To me it's interesting that the Americans did not in fact edit sex out of any of the writings.

In the case of the wife in the bed, it seems like the American editor was trying to punch it up and bring into focus what they believed was more salient. Mistakenly maybe, but no sex was edited out.

In the case of the balcony scene, it's hard to guess what the editor was trying to accomplish. Maybe enhance the realism? It's a well known fact that most women do not orgasm via penetrative sex alone. But this is rarely shown in media, written or otherwise. I don't really see the need for the edit, or how the edit is characteristically American, because unrealistic depictions of female orgasm are by far the norm in American media. But perhaps the editor is trying to improve the situation?

Maybe the author means the Americans are making their writing less sex-y?
I'm not even going any further than HN comments on this one.

NYPost (and also SFChronicle) were constantly talking about this 'exodus' during COVID. How everyone was leaving; how the U-Hauls were cheaper in the egress direction. Seemed like complete and utter BS. I'm sure they made a lot of revenue from ads though.
> By uploading your list to Twitter ads

I never have twitter ads experience, but this is a useful info. Is it a secret or already well-known?
CA is the future. Transplants are just exporting it to your area.
You can buy at if you are a Resident-Alien (for tax purposes) in US with a valid SSN. I bought it and I am on a non-immigrant work visa.
It's interesting since as a SDE in India/Bangalore, I would absolutely love to work in California. All the reasons citied in the article applies to Bangalore as well?

For example similarities include, cost of living / rent in Bangalore is high but it's also the city with most tech jobs. The public transport infra is weak and there is an acute shortage of Uber cabs and yet it still is the most fun city for the youth to be in.

I guess what I am saying is that the grass is always greener on the other side. There will always be a tradeoff to make.
I know well how strong feelings run on this.

But there is zero experimental evidence that memories get recovered, and lots of evidence about how easy it is to create false memories. We have lots of cases where recovered memories contradict objective evidence. Memories "recovered" tie to the therapist more than anything else (one will specialize in satanic rituals, the next in a series of terminated pregnancies). And so on.

Therefore I concluded decades ago that we should presume recovered memories to be false unless there is specific evidence otherwise.

Now you say, Many CSA survivors today now say that the obsessive focus on "false memories" has been a significant obstacle to healing from their trauma and being able to discuss it openly. But who are you counting as "CSA survivors"? Those like myself whose memories were never "recovered"? Or people who claim to have suppressed their memories and then later "recovered" them? Because those two groups have very different sets of experiences. And often very different opinions. Particularly about the phenomena of "recovered memories".

Regardless of which definition you use, here is the most important lesson that I learned about recovery. What actually happened is not very important. The dynamics which enabled the abuse, come from it, and with which we harm ourselves ARE important. And these are things that exist and can be dealt with in the present, with no regard to our unreliable memories of the past. Indeed the act of dwelling on those past memories brings grief and unhappiness, and elaborating on them serves no useful purpose.

Related, I learned the hard way that what feels good for me, and what IS good for me, are often very different. As https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv... says in its backward law, "Desiring a positive experience is itself a negative experience; accepting a negative experience is a positive experience." Trying to place the blame for my problems entirely on an external abuser, no matter how real that abuser is, becomes a negative experience. By contrast accepting the ways in which I have perpetuated the experience of being abused becomes a positive experience.

Therefore while publicly rehearsing the details of a person's recovered memories may feel good in the moment, I firmly believe that the act of doing so CAUSES trauma, and works AGAINST healing. And indeed the belief that it is helpful is due to incorrect theories about therapy - the same theories by which false memories can wind up implanted.
I loved Michael Levin's thoughts on solving cancer. Kind of similar to immunotherapy but on a level of reprogramming the cells back that got 'lost' from their big purpose in their organ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU&t=8653s
You are a no account... I've lived in a totalitarian country disguised as "commies" as you put it, and there was no accountability, but only deep and institutionalized corruption.
But what is he doing?

We already have many decentralised protocols for a wide range of use cases. It's unclear exactly what WebFive brings to the table that is both novel and practical.
The one that tracks the democrats is called NANC. The one that tracks the republicans is called CRUZ. They are not available yet but they're in the pipeline.
LOL that's amazing. I'm definitely getting one of those. I may need to design a logo just to put it on there.
Citation needed.

It says what it does right there when you open it, and collecting data _and sending it to google_ would be pretty damn weird in incognito mode.

You're not invisible to websites, ISPs, ... and it says so right on the page.
Oh, the logicians are at it again :-)

I was agnostic for my young life, but as an undergrad, found God in mathematics (specifically algebra and analysis). Now I go to church regularly.

As an algebraist, I don't have the gall to assume I could prove God's existence. I guess that's why I was never fit to be a logician.
I really think the story of Percy Miller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_P) should be taught in business schools. Dude started out as a street-level drug dealer, and ended up becoming one of the most successful recording industry execs ever. He once paid Michael Jackson's lawyer $25K just to have lunch with him, so he could learn. He's not without controversy, but honestly, I'd rather learn about a true rags-to-riches story than a story about a slash-and-burn corporate tycoon.
Or not taking off their shoes...

What's with Americans wearing shoes on the bed? we're always shocked when we see that on TV.
Just stop growing almonds. That'll save 10% straight away[1]!

[1] https://californiaglobe.com/articles/blaming-almonds-for-cal...
Needs a 2020 tag
Land is cheap, water is expensive. Where would a new city get water from?
Research team treats diabetes using ultrasound
Motion to Stay
> How much do materials like these depreciate over 20 years? I'd guess in REAL terms not even 50%.

Historically (since 1975) metals have appreciated about 5x after inflation. Here is the 50 year price of scrap steel futures:

https://www.investing.com/commodities/steel-scrap-historical...

Stuff like composites for the turbine blades don't have a clear recycling/resale story yet, although there have be recent attempts to grind them down and turn them into other useful things:

https://cen.acs.org/environment/recycling/companies-recycle-....
calculated risk. the coalition doesn't look so determined. apart from US and UK, the rest seem hesitant. blowing up the pipeline makes sure there is not turning back, especially as hard times are coming (gas reserves will be empty after winter, then what?). if caught, US bets on EU turning a blind eye to this like they did when US spied on Merkel and others. EU doesn't have the strength to rock the relation with US, especially not now.
You still pay the latency cost, even though your data travels mostly inside CF's network. It's very noticeable when you're far away from the server, which you will be for most of the world if you sell to everyone. Perfectly fine if e.g. you're only targeting anyone from your region.
You can try it for yourself with Nvidia’s GeForce Now free tier. Just connect with Ethernet if possible.

My experience is that it’s definitely playable and beats a low power laptop with an underpowered video card. Latency in the 40ms range, and barely perceptible.
> But raw approval gives undue advantage to moderates.

If by "moderates" you mean "most liked" then I'm not sure what the problem is here. The point of voting is to find the most universally agreed upon ruler. You may call this unfair, but I would say that it is MORE unfair to give advantage to fringe groups rather than giving advantage to the masses. I thought the point of democracies was about having rule by the masses. If you think fringe groups should have the advantage I'd like to hear your argument.
so sad to hear that. he had both talent and hard work. best wishes to his family :(
Well, it's still better than 50s and 60s, when it seems married couples slept in separate beds (a scene from "I love Lucy"):

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ac/e1/f9/ace1f9037208231eebf5...
Avoid all these other types except Solver (we call it Fixer at FB). Anyone who calls themselves these things is weird, and will be hard to rely on.

Disregard levels. Disregard titles. Fix what needs to be fixed. Unit tests, CI, docs, there's no such thing as grunt work. Real leadership happens in the IDE and only code matters - everything else is overhead.
Reading this only reinforces my conviction to go with an AMD gpu for my next PC build (my last build was ~ 20y ago with an ATI 9700). Nvidia doesn't seem to be a good citizen in the linux ecosystem.
Water desalination + solar combo needs to happen for California. Couple that setup with drying flats for salt production and you’ve got a setup that has a very small impact on the environment.
A lot of the slowdown may also be due to rising interest rates.
Strictly speaking - 3 DC ties (from some cursory searching, they seem to only be used for power export) and 1 AC tie, that has only ever been used once. Texas is technically, but not meaningfully, connected to neighboring power grids.
Yeah. The homestead exemption limits tax increases to "only" 10% per year, but it will still be a lot for people who count on their home payment staying static. And, getting the homestead exemption isn't automatic, so anyone who forgot to file it will be ... surprised.
California almonds are absolutely delicious though.
Awesome. Please join our community on Slack too
The scan that indicated the 80% reduction was after just a couple of weeks, if I recall correctly.

Since you're talking about immunotherapy not typically being a first-line treatment, I'll share a morbidly interesting fact that underscores some of the, er... quirks of the US medical system. The oncologist treating my relative initially staged my relative's cancer in the electronic health records as stage IV, despite no evidence of metastasis (the usual criterion)--he explained that he did this specifically in order to pursue first-line Keytruda (which is indicated for stage IV but not stage IIIC) and have it be covered by insurance.
If you’re looking for truth, might I suggest looking at something other than the NY Post.
The things are not the color they reflect, in the same way your position does not include the ideas that you reject, and the rubber ball that reflects off a wall is not that wall itself. Things are the color that they are, whether perceptible or not, but the color that is reflected eliminates that possibility for the thing's actual color.
I completely agree with you. However, I'm responding to the OP's thesis which seems to be at least partially rooted in a critique of material conditions. I definitely think there's a deeper argument to be explored here around how we can be one of the most materially rich societies in history and also perhaps the least happy.
>> And why is that? Because Americans are puritanical.

> I don't think "puritanical" is the right word in this case. Unless you are implying that smoking being considered unhealthy is something based on Puritan or other religious values.

We Americans are puritanical, and that's in the sense of being able to imagine that our values are universal because they are good and correct, having been arrived at only after a great deal of thought and even spilled blood; and that anyone who disagrees is at best thoughtless or ignorant, but quite possibly crazy or evil.
Something tells me that most of the people who want to leave Silicon Valley don't think that India is where the grass is greener.
Second this, also stemming from this tend to fall behind technically speaking on the “bleeding edge”
If I am not wrong, this is an antitrust suit, meaning it is about what they are selling, not what they are developing. If the product has been launched, there literally cannot be a monopoly.
Yup, and aircraft engine parts
$WEED The Cannabis ETF
Oh, totally agreed. But I think this is one of those things that kinda crept up on us, and so status quo bias may mean they can keep getting away with it.

As an example, look at the flu. It kills way more people than drunk driving, [1] [2], but society has been pretty casual about that. The massive covid-era drops in influenza deaths show that it was always possible to do much better; we just never cared much because we were used to it. Similarly, I think we're used to Facebook and Twitter being Facebook and Twitter, so there won't be much outcry for change unless they do something especially bad.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html#:~:text=Figu...

[2] e.g., https://www.valuepenguin.com/drunk-driving-statistics
> It should not be almost 400 ms from Amsterdam to Virginia on an existing connection.

Exactly, it should be much closer to 100-150ms.

My production server is in AMS and I'm in central Mexico (QRO). The response is around 200ms, often less than that.
To be fair, I did leave during COVID and it was actually impossible to get a Uhaul (September 2020).

Moving back to SF in the next month for a new gig (after the startup I was working for ran out of cash and laid everyone off).
Why are things the color they absorb?
Yeah the Church Committee in the 70s really reformed the "intelligence community." They learned their lesson and never violated peoples civil rights ever again. And there's so much oversight now!
Ask HN: How to Name ORM for APIs?
Hey HN, you know that naming things is hard, so I'd like to ask for help. We (WunderGraph: https://wundergraph.com ) have built a tool that can eat up any kind of database (postgres, MySQL, Mongo, etc), grpc, Kafka, etc. and expose it as a unified GraphQL API. Now we've realized there's a lot of appetite to interact with this layer (we call it virtual graph) using just typescript.

So, the end solution is a typescript query builder that allows you to interact with this GraphQL layer. The end user will not really notice that it's GraphQL behind the scenes. It'll just look like an ORM, typesafe, fluent query builder. Like a Uber SDK.

Now to the problem. We usually like to do fun names that play well with Wunder, like WunderBase for the serverless SQLite based database we've built.

Do you have any cool ideas to name this ORM thing? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
I don’t know about the better to look at part. It takes a lot of work to manicure a pollinator patch to look good.
I interned at the GE Wind division in Greenville, South Carolina. It's under GE Energy, and it was a complete and utter disaster.

This was around 2005 and the entire GE Wind division was recently acquired from the Enron meltdown. Part of my job was to sort through a bunch of Enron manuals that had water damage sitting in the Tehachapi desert for 3 years in a warehouse. Surprisingly, the work done at Enron was quite good and bluebooks were really well done. They had already worked on a 5MW version of the turbine and had plans for 8MW. I'd say a third of it was water damaged and impossible to read. But, GE's management was a trainwreck happenning in slow motion beyond that. I worked a little bit with their Bangalore team that was working on wind turbine conceptual design framework. Essentially, GE's internal simulation tool for determining a whole bunch of design envelopes. There was little coordination between the US and Bangalore software team, often stepping on each other's toes. This program ended six months later after my internship. Basically, GE's wind turbine division at the time was Enron's zombie dressed up with nice clothes and trying to stand straight. Idk if things improved after that. I hated that internship so much, part of which was sifting through nasty boxes of molded design docs and then scanning them on a xerox machine.
This post is a draft version of the released version at [0].

[0]: https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes
I saw the term used to describe the various interconnected states but I think it's used because federal regulations can apply if one states connects with at least another, hence national
> The point is that the poorest Bitcoin wallet is as secure as the richest wallet.

I stand by my point that crypto disproportionately benefits the rich far more than fiat.

In my view that extends to wallet management, since the rich have security staff dedicated to keeping their Bitcoin secure.
Your making my point far better than I could, thank you.
Or, at the risk of a Schizoid Embolism, becoming an adventure hero who
saves a mutant Martian race from an evil slave owning corporation and
restores the 'Blue Sky Over Mars'.
You do realize that most VC-funded entrepreneurs "lose control" of their companies already, right?
I wish this was actually true. I'd love to live in the best climate in the country if it was affordable.
Hopefully this will lead to more people actually going to the polls instead of braying "both sides are the same."
Why do you think you need any privacy statements at all?
No True ScotsCoin.
> Imagine trying to complain that the "information density" of The Tonight Show Starring Jim Fallon--or hell: The Howard Stern Show ;P

those are largely comedy though right? Comedy is too dependent on timing to worry about information density.

It also depends on why you tuned in. If you start a podcast in order to hear a bunch of people chatting and joking for an hour that's one thing, but when you hit the play button with the goal of learning about something it's more like a lecture that contains 20 minutes of information padded out to an hour.
Watching from Spain, what do you mean "vote and live exactly like they did in CA"?

Here in Spain more and more northern europeans come. I guess many of them are going to settle here (I get lots of questions about taxes and dealing with the spanish state, candid souls), so they contribute to the housing problem but I don't really see what they might import here that can worsen the situation besides their purchasing power.

Also, being Sillicon Valley one of the most productive places on earth, why companies don't involve themselves in politics about housing and city planning?

If I was some top head in such companies I woudl definitely consider it, as it goes directly against my floating line. If I manage to convince mayors that copying the netherlands onto the land around my offices I wouldn't need to pay so much and my engineers would be happier anyways.

They are basically swimming in cash, so IDK, they are involved in politics anyway...
And whatsapp
Yes, also nipples.
>Even more bizarre is that he feels the same! He agrees that this phrase needs editing and is still confused that it was flagged by his editor.

Yeah, it's not like he spends 10 or more subtle paragraphs explaining both why he feels the phrase was important (despite needing editing for other reasons) and why he felt the shame (despite knowing he had not done anything shameful, except under a puritan gaze: he felt the shame because he was forced to view his prose under a different culture's understanding of sex).
That’s the typical pattern in SF: young 20s & 30s there, move to the burbs/San Jose after marriage and kids.

Due to the high cost of living and high incomes, the other local wisdom is: [get in early, once you leave, you’ll never really go back]
85m hahaha google probably has had larger rounding errors
I’m a 30-something transplant that happily decided to stay in San Francisco, but I have a lot of empathy and understanding for those who decided to leave.

The thing that had the biggest impact on various quality of life issues (and why I stayed) was moving from
the Mission to a quieter and safer SF neighborhood. I bike everywhere, don’t have a car, and can walk to work and several beautiful parks, including one that opened this year.

If I had kids, don’t think it would have been possible at all to stay.
Try enforcing this
As a director in a previous job a few years ago I almost introduced apache eclipse orion to our organization strictly to reduce issues with onboarding and junior devs.

I love when senior devs can set up their workspace how they like, but juniors and onboarders often need lots of handholding. Being able to spin up an IDE with exactly what they need with zero effort is incredibly valuable. We lost days and days of productivity because some developers didn't understand how to manage having both a jre and jdk on their machine.
Reminds me of the 2000s dot com bust, there was a funny meme that got shared in a chainmail (remember those?). It was one of those "Top Ways You Know You're From the Bay Area" lists, maybe twenty or thirty bullet points.

The one that got me was: "People are leaving due to the economic downturn. But you're not, because you're already home."