skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is no decent reference available, IMHO the knowledge is useless anyways and might as well be deleted. Can anybody prove me wrong?
I can only guess about the distinction our legal department sees.
Yeah its fascinating that quick payments probably is more of a problem than a benefit.
Considering that 99.9% of the people arguing on the internet have 0 influence on international performance, I'd say no.
Yes. I agree. I grew up in a household that was extremely "Free Market is the Best Market; Regulation is for commies and baddies". It's taken me a long time to heal from that. I still prefer as much free market as is reasonable, but my sense for what is and is not reasonable has shifted a ton. I'm now a big advocate for sensible regulation. (Most is sensible in intent, but sometimes non-SME write huge swaths and it gets botched). These days, my biggest complaint about regulation is that the right people (SMEs) aren't consulted as much as they should be.
Gelman makes a distinction between p-hacking and choosing the test based on your data.

p-hacking is confirming your preferred hypothesis - just try again.

the latter let's you write a paper.

(test power is different: if there's really an effect, would you detect it)
Why Are Developers Moving to Barcelona
The main issue is with 3rd party cookies which GA sets specially with countries like France and Italy.
I believe Scotia/Tangerine are still 6-digits only for passwords. Really. And I have yet to see any Canadian financial institution (whether bank, brokerage, credit union, etc) that supports anything else than SMS for 2FA.

The situation is quite rough indeed.
Man I hate this. I'm terrified of Zelle (and, even worse, Venmo). There's no reason at all to use these things - except that everybody around me insists on using them. My kids Venmo with their friends all the time. My wife and her friends Venmo constantly. More and more services won't even take a check, they'll only take Zelle or Venmo. And every time I use these fragile services I'm opening myself to having my entire bank account wiped out with little recourse. (And, of course, the people I owe money to like the lienholder on my car and my mortgage broker will sure as hell still expect their money).
> code words

I'm not sure that's a great measure of bias. It's easy to write in an unbiased tone, yet still be biased.
This is the biggest point of friction. I spent the better part of a year trying to get a postdoc admin access to his machine.
I suspect we could have learned that low contrast text was bad without tools that track every single interaction. I might even say we haven't learned that lesson, despite the prevalence of such tools.
Can you please share those bookmarks? I can search hn.algolia.com but don't know much about who to follow on other platforms.
sure, but to truly observe what is actually happening, one must acknowledge that essentially nobody ever tries to truly observe what is actually happening, rather, everyone continues to willfully participate in the kayfabe delusion that elected officials Actually Do Stuff when by and large they Just Pretend To By Making Meaningless, Yet Applauded Gestures. which the not-truly-observing electorate then takes as reason to reelect them. over and over again. and nothing changes.

this reality of the situation simply must be acknowledged if ones wishes to truly observe how these systems actually operate.
right, but massive scale production use in the google crawler to index the entire internet when that was at the bleeding edge was state of the art before the art was even really recognized as an art.

i don't even think they called it ANN. it was high performance, scalable deduplication. (which is, in fact, just fast/scalable lossy clustering)

collaborative filtering was kind of a cute joke at the time. meanwhile they had lsh, in production, actually deduplicating the internet.
The fundamental problem here is monetization, and the perfect solution is ads. Apparently this was discussed and rejected because people would instantly move to another server[1].

Not so. Ads on twitter don't bother me much, and ads on a mastodon server would give me some confidence that the server would stick around, and not beg me for money.

Monetization with ads would also give people an incentive to market their server.

[1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8913
Quite popular to the point where it has it's own dedicated subculture that runs tournaments all around the world. This summer's EVO tournament in Vegas had about 8k attendees with 9 featured games (including the newest Mortal Kombat, MK11), along with many side tournaments for older or less popular games. The Twitch stream had a peak concurrent viewership of 250k as well.

Besides those dedicated enough to fly to tournaments and compete with the best, FGs still seem to be generally popular among the mainstream; SFV sold 6.6m copies, MK11 sold 12m, and GG Strive sold 1m. The 2010s were a total revival of the genre, which had a bit of a dead period in the early aughts.
Yeah, its not like the bank gave access to your account to the wrong person and now they're not paying you back. You did something with stuff you legitimately own and control and now you regret it. That's a big difference to me.
Like all metaphors, the pets vs. cattle one started to break down if you poked at it too hard. But it came from a place where individual servers were highly valued and were often at least somewhat unique. Standard operating environments had been around for a while but the "monitor the server's health and nurse it back to health if something's wrong" sentiment was still pretty widespread.

Even redundancy tended to be hardware-based to a significant degree. How much did the IT industry put into things like failover Unix clusters (and VAX/VMS etc. before that) over the years?
Retired people have lots of free time.
Is Zelle really like using cash? It seems closer to an electronic transfer than withdrawing dollar bills. With cash they have no way to know what I'm doing with the money but with a transfer, they know a little bit more and so they have more responsibilities (IMHO).
> You don’t need a security staff to keep a bitcoin wallet secure, that is a very odd comment.

The "Bitcoin rich" are vaulting their BTC in tens or hundreds of wallets, mostly cold (hardware and paper), and those have to be managed, backed up, and secured.

> Cryptocurrencies are not about making poor people rich and rich people poor.

Agreed, crypto culture leans to wealth redistribution from suckers to grifters.
Having worked in 3 startups that were AWS-first, I can say that you've learned the completely wrong lessons from your time at your cloud providers.

Building on AWS has provided scale, security, and redundancy at a substantially lower cost than doing any on-prem solution (except for a shitty one strung together with lowendbox machines).

The combined AWS bill for the three startups is less than the cost of an F5, even on a non-inflation adjusted basis.

The cloud doesn't mean that you can be totally clueless. I've had experience in HA/scalability/redundancy/deployment/development/networking/etc. It means that if you do know what you're doing you can deliver a scalable HA solution at a ridiculously lower price point than a DIY solution using bare iron and colo.
First parent applies to revert, too (with the -m flag):

git revert MERGECOMMITHASH -m 1 # revert to first parent of merge (revert changes of second parent/other branch)

You can include good descriptions in your PR merge commits including discussion comments and everything. Some PR tools automate that, some do not. I don't know any technical reason why any PR tool automation would create better squash merge commit messages than normal merge commit messages.

(ETA: Also you may want to reconsider your workflow if you rely on reverts that often. I had to look up the command argument, even though I knew it existed, because I haven't needed to do it in a while and I'm very thankful for that.)
Ugh, SAFe. My group has been trying to implement this methodology for well over a year. My observations:

* Program increment planning is absolutely painful. Three full days of meetings, and rarely do the stakeholders come with fully refined features. And, typically, what plan emerges is changed within two weeks because of emergencies or an executive seeing a shiny bauble we absolutely need to have.

* Two week sprints seem too short, at least for a group working in a highly regulated industry that requires a ton of manual testing and paperwork. I will also admit that we likely have trouble writing appropriately sized stories, but part of that circles back to the need for massive validation efforts.

* We suffer from lots of turnover in product management (and perhaps too many product managers). If a PM leaves, their features tend to die on the vine, even if some executive has decided they are important. That leaves us with a massive backlog.
Love Barcelona. If I was still young, I’d move there.
The neighbour offered to accidently back his tractor in to it...
I have definitely seen some bad science promoted for trans rights. But I don't really think "science" tells us what a women is, that's a social issue.
And maybe we also underappreciate apocalyptic nuclear war for the eradication of human hunger.

Just because something works to solve a problem, doesn't mean it should be used.
Funnily enough I have a pet peeve with Grafana's picker (which is overall quite nice) - I can't copy and paste the whole date range from one window to another in one go. I'm often punching in varies specific datetime ranges across multiple dashboards so this comes up all the time every day. Sure I've added data links for the cases that I use most frequently but I can't do that for everything. The "recently used ranges" (which is a neat feature) doesn't seem to work across dashboards and seems to require a page reload which baffles me a bit.
> Never ever hold a balance in this account

Impossible to _never_ hold a balance, since every employer wants to do direct deposit... your only hope is that you can get your money out of there before some scammer gets it. The chances of that happening are low, but not zero.
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It's very common to log when a button is clicked. Which means we can already reconstruct a user's session because we know what coordinates buttons have. We might miss out on the random movements and such, but that might not be a big deal if we also log the timestamp when a button was clicked.

Again, if I designed my site to use a websocket instead of event handlers - the result is the same. Are we proposing we outlaw this? Or inversely, placing in law the only accepted method of website design? That seems foolhardy to me.

Your car collects huge amounts of data about your driving habits. A Tesla, for example, might auto-report that data, but your "dumb" car also provides that data to an ODBII reader. In fact, that was the premise for those Progressive (I think) Car Insurance things they wanted you to plug into your car to "prove" you were a safe driver. Any time your car is in for service... this data can be freely read. Your insurance company will also obtain this information after an accident in some cases as well.

We use mouse/key movements for a lot of things, not just reconstructing sessions. Google's newer "I'm not a Robot" captcha's just ask you to click a single button for example. A ton of anti-fraud/abuse systems do this as well, particularly for credit card checkout forms (anti-bot measures). The ramifications of a bad decision for this suit are huge.
Heh I had a cat named Dog at one time (one named Rat also).
The marketplace of ideas is won not by conflict but by merit. In other words you can’t force people to have a narrative about something, you have to provide the superior narrative. The issue we’re facing right now, globally, is the inability to debate ideas on their merits. The microcosm of that can be seen in your peace talks example; the other side is trying to force their narrative onto the opposing side. That’s not how debates work.
Yeah going to do some even smaller projects first like retaining walls and building driveways. There are different license levels and they require different levels of capital. The lowest level mainly lets you build residential and has a limit on the number of stories for buildings and the full price of the project. One cool thing I've learned so far is how complex concrete is. Eventually will ramp up to commercial after things are running smoothly but the first thing I'm learning how to run a small business and it's new and exciting just doing that stuff.
times like those are the greatest opportunities for new things.
I have that too! : )
That is dedicated for the important things.
I don't claim it's worse; I'm not convinced it's better. Here they behave the same, and I think it's a pretty significant failure on both their parts. If I had to argue that IRV is worse than FPTP, I'd point out that voters already know what sort of strategic voting FPTP expects of them, while IRV is often sold on the premise that voters don't need to vote strategically and so is more likely to hit those failure modes in more damaging ways as we learn... but there's a degree of devil's advocate there. I do worry that it might be worse, but I do not claim that it is.
Dublin is pretty similar culturally and climate-wise to London.

People use combo washer-dryers.
The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court
Here's the thing about fraud, though: It's next to impossible to prove.

There is NO visible difference between "I sent my new friend thousands of dollars because she's trying to start a new business and I'm investing...but now the business has gone under and I regret investing so I'm just going to tell the bank it was unauthorized," and, "I just sent my new friend thousands of dollars because she's trying to start a business and I'm investing...but now I've realized she was really a liar and there was no business."

Proving account takeover (ATO) is easier. There's some new IP (unless you gave someone remote access to your own device), new mouse behavior (yes this is a thing some institutions track), whatever.

But when you're the one who signed into your own bank account and sent your own money, you have every right to do that, even if you're sending it somewhere stupid that you later regret.

It's not up to the bank to protect you from your own stupidity. They just hold the money for you that you want to keep. Telling you that you can't send it somewhere you explicitly want to send it because they don't think it's a good idea isn't their job.

That's what they're calling "fraud" or "scams" here, and there's no reason your bank should be on the hook because you did something dumb with your own money.
Well the title is scientific computing, which includes HPC but not only. Anyway the fact is that a lot of "HPC" in university clusters is smaller jobs that are too much for an average PC to handle, but still fit into a single typical HPC node. These are usually the jobs that people think to farm out to AWS, but that you will generally find are cheaper, faster, and more reliable if you just run them on your own hardware.
"Some regulation is bad, therefore all regulation is bad." is what I grew up with too.
I've always used Wikipedia as a starting point to lead me to other sources.
It's mentioned in the lawsuit
Specifically, more atomic commits make rollbacks easier when issues with a change are discovered after merge (e.g., in integration and user acceptance testing). In the very active code bases I've worked on, generating a rollback commit for a single commit is far more straightforward than having to deal with a merge commit that potentially includes other merges (e.g., with `git pull`'s default behavior). In fact, GitHub's pull request UI has it as a single button.
Sounds like it could be a ring of criminals who are connected to those who can buy copper.
One thing to consider:

I don't control my AWS account. I don't even have an AWS account in my professional life.

I tell my IT department what I want. They tell the AWS people in central IT what they want. It's set up. At some point I get an email with login information.

I email them again to turn it off.

Do I hate this system? Yes. Is it the system I have to work with? Also yes.

"AWS as implemented by any large institution" is considerably less agile than AWS itself.
Even if the bank is not offering recourse, there is at least a mechanism for recourse. Decentralized banking just has no recourse at all, so it really just seems strictly worse here.
Speaking as a long-time Gmail user who doesn't have a mobile, this is kind of terrifying. Sounds like I need to look into moving to Fastmail or somesuch pronto.
For large transactions this is somewhat solved by escrow companies.

In the end it all has to come down to trust. If all transactions were easy to reverse, we would see the opposite problem: scammers who pay people money and the. demand it back, claiming fraud.
Notion remains founder-controlled and enjoys favorable terms with investors. For example, we closed a tender offer for employees at our peak valuation after the market downturn: https://www.notion.so/blog/sequoia-index-purchase-shares-fro...

What is the "free" stuff you think would go away? The public API? But, we need to have a public API for many of our customers to be willing to pay us. It's an essential feature.
Ask HN: Favorite Unique Business killed by Covid-19?
What unique business was killed by covid do you wish someone would bring back?

How might they go about researching it?
Watch out for prostate cancer.
Such types of analytics tools are useful for certain purposes, however I do think we need some sort of regulation, or monitoring to decide where the line is, and how far any company should be able to go with this type of thing. It's a bit disconcerting because without such technical regulation, where does the line get drawn? Will be the norm transition to discreetly recording audio/video as well?
Why need a "push" sprint for that, a "pull" priority queue like XP is just fine. Then demo every few weeks plus or minus, when there is something tangible to show.
Just reminded myself of Jonny 5 needing input…

https://youtu.be/Y9lwQKv71FY
It is very evident that most MBA “managers” don’t understand a fundamental concept that just reducing cost doesn’t necessarily mean profitability. You have people requesting small, reasonable increments to their wages as their tenure grows. Instead of giving them that, most managers would instead prefer letting them go, spend time and money hiring someone new, who most likely will be paid the same or even more (because usually your wages stay lower if you stay in a job than if you jump around), spend time training them and still not get the same level of productivity as the person who left.

Ultimately they may end up reducing wages or saving some money on paper, but it comes at a huge cost to the company in terms of productivity and profitability.
>A much less critical or important thing but underlines the bad attitudes: I just tried to renew my cancelled Netflix membership yesterday. I am not allowed to do that without providing a phone number (I used Netflix for ca. 8 years without it).

If you've got some spare time, have you considered taking them to small-claims court for refusing to cancel your membership and still charging you? It'll cost them a huge amount if they show up, and if they don't then you get a judgement against them by default. Or if you signed some contract agreeing to only use specified some Netflix-specified legal intermediator, use that.

If everybody who was screwed over by tech companies took legal action against them, it'd cost the companies a huge amount of money and they'd have to improve the way they treated people.
In fact, the "customized feed for you" does one thing really well. It treats you exactly like it learned to treat someone "like you" from the past. So what it really does is regurgitate an old, stale, pattern. In some sense, it prevents you from finding new experiences, keeping society frozen in time, repeating the behavior sequences of those before them, the pioneers and trailblazers that define the relationships early.

Im a broken record with how often I cite this article, but any chance I get where it is relevant it is worth exposing people to. And this thread is that moment. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...

The other thing algorithmic feeds, and even some sites like buzzfeed do, is generate strings of nonsense. This isnt quite a new phenomenon, but started in the 80s with MTV. "Whereas variety shows and televised concerts in the 1960s and 70s provided context and structure to the music they presented, MTV instead gave viewers a rapid succession of wildly different sounds and visual accompaniments to those sounds, without any logic connecting one video to another."
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used... Compare America's funniest home videos, with a host, callbacks, and even a basic narrative structure to tiktok. At least Tiktok accomplishes SOME of the culture missing from prior products on the market in the last decade by inviting people to remix videos with the same audio.
Killing someone is not illegal; it's just illegal for folks like you an I. There's a whole school of thought that asserts that The State holds a Monopoly on Violence [0] (which includes killing). It's been discussed here on HN periodically. [1]. But you're totally right: it's a sort of regulation of the market.

(Note: 'Murder' is killing someone WITHOUT legal justification. With legal justification, killing someone is not murder, by definition. By definition, something that is illegal is illegal).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I did have to chuckle a bit because, working on HPC simulations of the pandemic during the pandemic, there was an awful lot of "This needs to be done tomorrow" urgency.
Intel had one CEO without a technical background who came in after the previous guy, who started off as a process engineer, ran their fab division into the ground and caused them to lose their technological lead due to dumb decisions. The MBA guy turned the fab division around and then stepped down for a tech guy to take over for rebound on the technology side.
> if everybody has iPhones, Apple's Cash functionality is good

and google pay? this may surprise you but in my immediate family only 1 (out of 6) has an iphone. we basically use zelle to transfer cash around. I personally will not use paypal or venmo, but I do use google pay.
Indeed, there is a certain hardcoding that can efficiently synthesize language. Doesn't that beg the question... what is the missing hardcoding for AI that could enable it to synthesize via much smaller samples?