skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think at this point, it is dangerous to use Google; there are so many phishing websites that are trying to scam you in the Google Search results that it is not safe anymore to use Google. Google blackbox ranking algorithms are here to blame because they act as a positive feedback loop hell e.g. more SEO spam, better rankings, new blackbox Google ranking algorithm update, again more spam because SEO spammers and scammers are brute forcing what works and what does not work. And all this is fueled by ad revenue which incentivizes both parties to keep on going.
In my opinion, especially when it comes to individual employees "productivity" is overrated.
Splitting hairs could be a reasonable expectation but at this point right after the FTX debacle it's not warranted.

Any sufficiently complex system can have minor benefits while overall be considered extremely harmful. Cancer can make you lose weight. Nazi Germany built great highways.
I use a Chemex drip coffee maker and get pretty good results by halving the amount of grounds I use for subsequent cups. No idea about the caffeine content but the taste is not noticeably different.

With my grinder, a 12 second grind gives a good first cup. For the second cup I keep the spent grounds in the filter and add another 6 second grind. If I go for 3, another 6 second grind.

That works out to a 25% or 33% savings depending on number of cups (18/24 seconds vs 24/36). I've never tried carrying them over day to day.
The same reason people don't report sexual harassment - and there is another reason on top of that: whistle blowers are potentially going to blow their career. Damages should be in the millions. Especially when the pattern is going to be younger people get harassed, so they have more career left.
Here is a list of services that accept crypto directly

https://kycnot.me/
When I had to use Asana, pronouncing it Ass Sauna seemed entirely appropriate.

(Putting the miserable sauna behind an Instagantt wall helped.)
I'm too old and conventional, so "men as part of the entertainment" had me only picturing Chippendales. Femboy-hooters is much better.
They might ask Russia for help
>"Forced to share a bed with someone" could also mean...

That's an extremely gratituous reading of the situation that is unwarranted.

You were not "forced" to share a bed, because nobody would give a fuck if you opted out and paid for your own hotel stay.

>Not saying that's what happened here, but

...you're implying it was a possibility. Why defend the corporate here?
> If Google stock were really worthless, someone could buy all of it for pennies

Nobody is disputing that it has market value. My argument is that it has much less intrinsic value than some people would like to believe.

> A single Google share isn’t really worth anything on its own. But its value is tied to the collective value of _all_ Google shares, which _are_ worth something.

Not really, unless there's some non-zero chance that Alphabet will be bought out. By my understanding, that chance is pretty close to zero. Am I wrong?
Yeah agreed, though I do think a lot of places have a wordless expectation sometimes.
Is probability theory a branch of mathematics?
At least there is now precedent for breaking these contracts now too.
This 50 minutes-old post with 145 points has been nuked from the first page. And the second, and the third. lol.
Dear Ones, the proverbial horse has long bolted,

rss feeds and easy site scraping has long leaked all your stylometry data which long ago was leached up.

What is the point of deleting your HN account, if multiple third party copies all ready exist?
>You assume correct. Obviously this stuff can't be written down in the description but it is still the employers responsibility to IMPLY that this debauchery is expected as part of team bonding.

If one is so open about it, like about firing employees for not drinking like the boss likes, can they post the details of the company you work at or run?

Should be no big deal, right? It's an acceptable social thing, and not sociopathic madness, so should bring no ill consequences if it's made public...
> We have the same problem in the EU.

Then how does that explain why increased road deaths are exceptional to the USA?
And people complain about Apple taking 15-30%!
Clarity and coherence will matter more and more - having everyone not doing anything for fear of offending just leaves the way open for more clear minded companies.

This is not of course a pass for people to be offensive and obtuse, as it is usually interpreted (see for example Elon at Twitter). But still it's a difficult path to walk
There is no guarantee that copy will always be available or that they won't remove data.

Just because there happens to be a copy already, doesn't mean that the original can't be removed to prevent others from making copies in the future.
Banning driving on the pavement would go a long way into solving traffic problems in cities.
> Why was - and is - home computing such a boys' club?

Simple answer: Computing devices are more than computers.

Taking pads and mobile phones into account, home computing is definitely not a boys' club. Technology is evolving and it's end of 2022.
It is and must be more difficult to make changes than start something new. When one person alone starts something new it is easy to make choices to a vision. When something is popular you cannot easily make changes that all will agree on.

C++ has painful experience on what happens when you don't carefully consider all proposed changes and so miss something. Export is an obvious example, but there are others that seemed good until painful experience later showed why not. Templates would look very different if they knew then what people would do with them.
the only scenario that can be ruled out is one in which the total addressable market for technology first movers is the entire planet. yet this was the thesis until quite recently :-)

so we are moving from the short lived digital Pangaea (where an advertiser even attempted to issue a global private currency) to a planet segmented into digital continents. How many continents and how connected at the physical and informational layers remains to be seen. Evolution never stops and in silico it works much faster than with organic matter.
I just assume that I’m contributing to a variety of machine learning efforts when I post on HN.
> people on the freeway totally obsessed with their phones are easy to spot: lane drifting

Drift, JERK, drift, JERK. It's the mating dance of people who can't stop twittering, facebooking, or texting for even a second.
I travelled in to London on Saturday. I don't live in London, but was able to take the Elizabeth Line from Reading to the Excel, in just over an hour for myself and my daughter for about £30 return. 24 hour parking was £10.

I've been parking outside the zone and undergrounding it in for a long time, it's just now able to be further out than Hammersmith. I love it.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/whats-the-difference-between-s...

https://www.javatpoint.com/scripting-vs-programming

https://www.interviewbit.com/blog/scripting-language-vs-prog...
I think parent commenter's argument is that it's hard to get excited about crypto just based on the fact that it allows some people buy drugs online. While millions of investors lose a ton of money to crypto scams.
There was a variant of the 15 number sliding puzzle[1] that I really enjoyed on my Palm Pilot and have never seen replicated since, except by myself as a hobby project, and I've long wished to know who authored it and what exactly the original mechanics were.

Basically it just had a series of puzzles that got harder by adding special "walls" between tiles that either prevented movement or performed a reversible transformation on the tiles that passed through (invert colors, rotate by 90 degrees, embiggen/shrink the tile, I don't remember the exact details of the original game but those are the ones I used).

Sadly it's not listed here, I'm curious if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle
If Google decided to keep their profits on their balance sheet instead of paying dividends or doing buybacks, what would my recourse be?

I can't just vote in a dividend, because founders Larry and Sergey control 51% of the voting power. Shares don't entitle you to profits at all.
A company I used to work for had an interesting solution to this.

There was an internal market, and all services used had to be paid for. Sales people could keep everything after paying the company a cut and all the costs of delivering what they promised the client.

So if they over promised to get a sale, it all came out of their personal profit. Seemed to work quite well.
ActivityStreams are RSS. ActivityPub is Yahoo Pipes.
You are right about the general case (not everything is a ponzi) but you’re wrong about the example.

If you make money out of a piece of equity in Google, then somebody made that money but didn’t get it, either by buying the same amount of equity for more money then you, or by creating value through working at google but not getting that value paid in salary. This sounds like a ponzi with investors at the top of the pyramid and workers at the bottom.

A better example of something that isn’t a ponzi are taxes (or any common funds), you pay into a common fund that then is used to provide services and infrastructure that anyone can use for fun and profit. Another example is a traditional savings account. The bank (actually a credit union is an even more pristine example) holds on to your money while you are not using it, and lends it to people that need it, they will give you a small interest as compensation (part of the profit of that money) but also spend some of it to buy insurance so that you will never be at risk of actually loosing that money.
Inflation resistance is meaningless for a currency that has wild fluctuations, and not just sometimes, but on a daily basis. You have to be joking to say that something that went from basically 0, to 61k, down to 16k and wild swings in between that is "inflation resistant".
We need people to fight, otherwise it become endemic. And not everyone is a programmer who can switch every 6-12 months into a new job and feel no effect on their career.
^^^THIS!^^^

Thank you for sharing this. Incredible bluntness explanation of our reality - and ourselves.
I hit the same problem, however it does attempt to explain why it needs each persmission:

Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history — Required to export data.
Store unlimited amount of client-side data — Required to save sticky note data locally.
Access your data for all websites — Required to load sticky notes on any page.
> there's always a pushy person asking you to make an exception, or a deadline, or "this time works for the CEO and we need you there." Never that simple without widespread buy-in

My OH has been on official sick leave and has been contacted by team members demanding input because "something was urgent" :(

Unless you actually go completely offline, it's rarely simple.
https://archive.ph/sEmh5
> fixed total amount of Bitcoin that will ever exist

It has a fixed supply. (Currently. An unknown number of miners could always increase it.)

> Bitcoin is not inflationary

Of course it is. One Bitcoin buys 75% fewer goods and services than it did a year ago. Taking advantage of people who mistake money supply for inflation is one of crypto’s scams.
There’s an important subtlety here though:

Centralized entities (ie businesses) that are holding people’s funds absolutely should be regulated, and certainly more than the current state. The scammers in this space don’t have any real connection to the tech per se, they’ve just identified a relatively friction-free way to scam people.

“Crypto” itself (the tech) can’t be regulated, short of coordinating all countries to confiscate mining rigs/validators and make them seriously illegal, thus breaking the network.

So regulating the businesses does not invalidate the premise—it just protects people as they onboard funds.
The Bright Side
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Cold brew is not just refrigerated coffee. That would be “iced coffee”.

Cold brew is made in the fridge with new grounds (no hot water involved).
This is ‘shrinkflation’, but for worker-hours. Like when you buy some potato chips and the packet is smaller, but you pay the same price as before.
One might have some questions about the ethics of profiting from drug trafficking and money laundering.
Yeah. In contrast, all the stuff you said - which you have copied word for word from the US State Dept. and US media - are totally true. Just like back in 2003...
Hi, welcome to HN. BTW there are a lot of smart people here who have dug into the mechanics of crypto extensively.

I look forward to a good argument debunking the ponzi scheme thesis. Saying "it's not" is not an argument, particularly when a good argument has just been laid out in front of you.

Edited to add:

> It's pretty clear that you haven't actually read the article we're discussing, it does not at any point attempt to explain how cryptocurrencies would meet the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

Yeah that's not a good argument either. Since I did actually read it -- and it does.
To be more explicit, this system is possible with a single free Gmail account -> https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282734?hl=en#zipp...
> Otherwise, you're just trading one Twitter for another, which is foolish, because it means you wrongly believe that history doesn't repeat itself.

I don't see how you can come to this conclusion. Twitter is not a protocol, is a corporation with a profit-motive, and sees itself as the town square of the internet with its design geared toward this function.

Mastodon is about as far from trading in for another Twitter alternative as you can come and that's largely what makes its design so difficult to grasp for Twitter emigrants.

Are there other protocols that fix some of ActivityPub's design flaws? Yes, like nostr and Bluesky's AT Protocol. But ActivityPub, being an open protocol, can also be massaged into a better one by its community.

Personally, I've found my corner of Mastodon to be a much kinder place than Twitter perhaps because it does not profess to be the town square of the internet nor pursues that status.

Ultimately, I think what we're seeing here is the transparent lie sold to us by Meta and Twitter and Instagram: that social media superapps that try to tie the world together are not forces of good to unite but ultimately weapons that serve to divide it. We are not equipped as a species for the cacophonous screams of billions, only the Bodhisattva of compassion Kuan-Yin, She Who Hears the Cries of the of World, can do this, and she arguably doesn't exist.

So yes, you are at the mercy of whatever server mods you happen to drift to on Mastodon but you are not powerless, like on Twitter.
Ah! Did they forget to mention that blockchain is a glorified linked list?
> I do think it would be different

Q: If a cow-orker isn't at work on a given day, for whatever reason (sickness, holiday, part-timer), why would one expect to be able to contact them?
I just want one binary to store metrics, traces, and logs
> If something only has value because you think you can sell it to the next sucker for more, it is a ponzi scheme.

Careful with that sentence. It is applicable to paintings, stamps, and collecting in general. True that on those other cases you have a physical object, so it has a value (as opposed to nft) but usually it's far less. A Pokemon card costs almost nothing, but some people are willing to pay millions for it, so it "costs" millions.

Disclaimer: I still agree with your comment, I just think that the reason is more complex than that sentence.
Speaking from my observations:

You can't make typical Python programs two orders of magnitude faster by rewriting them in C, but that's because those use many bits that are already implemented in C (data structure implementations, regex engine, I/O, databases etc.).

If however you would rewrite those bits in Python, which is what OP said ("that Python is now the only legal programming language in the world to code with"), things would become two orders of magnitude slower (when using the current CPython implementation to run the Python program)! A program doing low-level work (e.g. a B-tree implementation) is that much faster when written in C over Python (if you don't cheat and write bits of your Python program in C), assuming that the C program does take advantage of the optimizations that you can do (and typically do) in C. It might be more like a factor of 60, but on a logarithmic scale that's much closer to two magnitudes than one.

This is assuming CPython, not PyPy or one of the subset-of-Python compilers that work more like C.

PS. OTOH, I think a 386DX is more like 1/1000 of a modern CPU's speed (maybe 1/10000 if counting multiple cores and SIMD).
After-effects of WW2 still posing existential threat to us all..
Offensive, maybe. But you had said it was unfair.

When someone behaves like an asshole, and I call them an asshole that is offensive, but may still be fair.

Obviously it’s a subjective opinion so we don’t have to agree, but to me it seems entirely fair and accurate to describe Elon Musk as a troll.
"Holocaust survivors in particular could be re-traumatized when they see the symbol, said Shelley Rood Wernick, managing director of the Jewish Federations of North America’s Center on Holocaust Survivor Care."

How many Holocaust survivors are even left?
> unless you jumped through all the necessary hoops to also anonymize it

There's a single hoop, and it's Monero.

It always confuses me when people say that crypto doesn't excel at buying drugs online. Out of all the things crypto does and does not do well, that one shouldn't be in dispute.
> Most tech stocks fit the definition better.

The fact that the stock market has almost forgotten about dividends and bubble mechanics have taken over the tech sector isn't a real counter example. That is also bad.
> For a REALLY good primer on the subject, read Carrol Smith’s _Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook_ (aka Screw to Win).

+1 for anything by Carrol Smith

Back in my gearhead days Engineer To Win was a near constant fixture next to the toilet.
I'd like to plug riptables (https://github.com/rtosholdings/riptable), which is (more-or-less) a performance upgrade to pandas.
Honestly im kind of surprised that they are even that close. I wonder if this changes at scale when the intersection is larger.
How is abandoned projects and example of stock investing time horizons?
Or lead flashing, which is still popular.
Thank you for succinctly encapsulating what 'startup' means! I can now die in peace.
You don't and that's the idea behind gVisor.
Interestingly despite becoming "fully operational" in 1995, GPS was in use in the 1980s and played a huge part in the Gulf War in 1990/1991. "Fully operational" probably means 12 satellites in view at all times for any point on the earth between 55°N/55°S, but it's still very useful even at lower levels of service.

It's pretty amazing that a system like that could be envisioned in the 1970s and be fundamentally life-changing by the 1990s. Truly a modern marvel of engineering that we rely upon for precise timing, power grid synchronization, navigation, and a lot more.
i've popped 25 - 30+ blockchains. from anecdotal experience i suspect that there could be something here and need to see it through with a sync'd node and more firepower. you seem overconfident.
IANAL but I don't think it matters whether the purpose of collection is specifically to facilitate paid features. From the European Commission:

> The GDPR applies to:
[...]
> 2. a company established outside the EU and is offering goods/services (paid or for free) or is monitoring the behaviour of individuals in the EU.

Assuming account names or the content of comments constitute personal data within GDPR, I think YCombinator falls into this group.

Edit: I forgot HN collects an optional email address too, which is definitely personal data.

Details here: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#:~:text=Hacker%20News%20I...
This. Some of us still remember Punch the Monkey.
Have you checked out the PFR library (perfect flat reflection)? I've coupled this with the magic-enum library to good effect.

PFR can be rewritten in very little code, assuming c++14(?); magic-enum is long enough to just use.

I generally have one TU for just serialization, and don't let PFR and magic-enum "pollute" the rest if my code. This keeps compile times reasonable. (The other is to uniquely name the per-type serializer: C++'s overload resolution is O(n^2)). I then write a single-definition forwarding wrapper (a template) that desugars down to the per-type-name serializers. It strikes a good balance between hand-maintenance, automatic serialization support, and compile-time cost.
Aluminum is popular because it can be formed into seamless gutters of any length on the job site.
The restrictions on indefinite RV living center around habitability. Sewage is a big part. Off grid sewage needs to be managed properly to avoid spreading disease. For example, you might need a proper leach field, which is addressed as part of building code.

Everything I’ve read leads me to believe theft will remain a problem- it’s a very poor area, with limited employment options and a weak law enforcement presence.
When I moved to East TN temporarily years ago, I opened the door to the rental to see a swastika on the doorstep. My first thought was 'oh come on, really', as if every stereotype was right. It was small and in red, maybe lipstick?

So I googled, and realized it was backwards. And that was the apparently the symbol of the article.

I called the owner just to let him know I didn't do it. Really old 'grumpy' white guy. He said 'oh, some sweet Indian family lived here before you, they asked if they could do that and I told them it's theirs to do what they want. You can leave it or clean it off.'

Learned a lot that day, and busted a few common stereotypes in the process. Ended up being an area with a lot of really good people.

FWIW, I ended up leaving it after reading about it. As mentioned, it wasn't big nor offensive looking. I wonder if the next family went through the same thing.
I think this is a case where the French parliamentary system doesn't map onto American institutions very well. IIRC, the Conseil Constitutionnel intervenes at the time of ratification of a law; it's a forward-looking body, unlike the US Supreme Court that judges law ex post facto (like the Cours de Cassation).
I look at this issue and see a market failure. Maybe it is not corporately profitable to provide the pile of services that a population aging in place need (welfare checks, transportation, food, housing...) but it should be possible to build the infrastructure to create the raft out of parts of a solution. Maybe a mix of formal (paid-for) and informal (volunteer, value-add) services. I see this as a necessity for people that do not at the moment face this "cliff". After all, spouses die, children leave and/or live far away. Any person in a stable situation at the moment could easily find themselves in need of these services.
The GDPR applies to the data of people residing in the EU. The location and profitability of the organization collecting the data isn’t a factor. (Though it may introduce questions of enforcement.)
The dream is over. How we came from Satoshi to here is just one more example of how our civilization is weird. In one hand we create great technologies and at the same time, we have already people working to complete destroy it.
Yeah, but I didn't. I profited from speculators who thought the same way but got in late.
> but I really struggle to understand how working fewer hours will not result in loss of productivity

Microsoft Japan did 4 day workweeks and saw 40% increase in productivity.

https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-japan-4-day-work-week...

Its likely because a 3 day weekend allows people to totally disconnect from work and rest. It even allows you to travel, visit family etc.