skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a number of skeptical commenters that raised various issues at the time. I definitely came away from reading that comment thread skeptical that the issue had happened exactly as described. We eventually had https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CydeWeys come in a confirm that the domain had always been premium.

I'd say that HN did a pretty good job of pushing back on the outrage machine and correcting the misinformation. We even get a follow up article clarifying things.

What we can do better is to continue to downvote and constructively respond to comments that jump the gun and use the current topic to push outrage over broader unrelated issues. As we train and remind each other to read more carefully and critically, the quality of HN comments will match that effort.

Edit: If I had a personal hot take, it would be that twitter threads in general seem to prompt this type of outrage bandwagon behavior more than other mediums and perhaps should face ranking penalties for appearing on the front page. (But I'm biased here because I simply hate reading them.)
That's 300 000 units in 7 days since launch if I understand it correctly. Even if we consider (I don't know if that's true or not), that theses 7 days are going to be the best ever for them that's still only 7 days.
Just as a note, since I made the same mistake initially, the person you're replying to didn't make the post from which you are quoting "impossibly complex".

It seems, to me, that boc was criticizing the unnecessarily dour tone of sillysaurusx's previous comment and not the technical aspect of the achievement.

The whole thing seems to come down to whether one interprets the announcement as an attempt to deceive the public at large or simply a celebration of a milestone that many in the fusion research community have been trying to achieve for a long time. I can understand it being interpreted both ways, but I think the more charitable interpretation is that science reporting, in general, doesn't usually properly explain the levels of nuance of various achievements and, as such, something that is genuinely exciting for those in the community is not necessarily as exciting for those outside of it - which comes across as deceptive.
I mean, sure. But at the same time they were constrained by the tools of their time, had no internet for instant information access and spread, and scientific collaboration has never been at a higher level than it is now. There's no reason to believe that people who grow up with instant lookup and massive computational power will somehow be less capable than people whose only tools were pen and pencil. What is possible now couldn't even be dreamed of back then.
> but posting salary ranges for new employees has other downsides - e.g. it might tilt existing employees.

Fucking good.

It's absolutely scummy to secretly pay new hires more than your experienced existing employees.

It's also extremely short-sighted. You'd rather deal with attrition costs of losing a trained, experienced employee and having to find new candidates and train someone new, than to just give your current employees the pay raise they obviously deserve?

> Sharing salary range basically reduces the knowledge advantage of a company in many ways.

That's the fucking point.
It’s worth sharing the entire paragraph:

On 12 June 2020, Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison. According to the presiding judge, Ronnie Abrams, "the scope and severity of Mr. Le Roux's criminal conduct is nothing short of breathtaking. I have before me a man who has engaged in conduct in keeping with the villain in a James Bond movie." However, she also added that the sentence reflected Le Roux's cooperation and the danger he faced.
Hi all - I'm looking for someone to join my org to help us design, build, and run our cloud database infrastructure (a monolith, in GCP, layered on MySQL with a big effort underway to modernize a lot of our stack including a move to split up key parts of the monolith into microservices).

I've worked a bunch of places, and I really like the culture/environment here. We're a company that does sports management (think registration/membership, facilities, communications, uniforms, etc.) with a huge focus on enabling youth sports activities. Definitely a sports-team feel around here, and we do lots of stuff that makes it fun to work here.

I need someone to join my org (platform team) to own our database infrastructure, and I envision this role at 50% infrastructure work, and 50% (maybe more) working with our engineering teams to think through how to best use the database technologies (indices, queries, best way to store stuff).
The ideal candidate has run/managed databases in the cloud (GCP) and is familiar with replication, IaC, Security, but can also work with developers to better design and use our database infrastructure.
It would be great if you had some familiarity with NoSQL, Graph Databases, and/or geospatial databases, as these are all in consideration to handle specific requirements on our roadmap.
Link to the role above. Happy to answer any questions you may have about the role, or you can reach out to me directly at (remove spaces) j vanden bos @ leagueapps.com
You know what. You are right. This is an excellent critique and I'm quite literally quivering in my boots at the sheer intellectual dominance exuding from your comment. I've learned my lesson and in the future will consider my opinions to be irrelevant and not useful. Please continue enlightening the world with your critical thinking prowess. I look forward to reading your future work.
I think it's not that people in Europe prefer sturdier stuff, I think it's that all the wood has already been cut down, so timber construction is not priced cheaply enough to offset its disadvantages vs. masonry.

> Something that won't rot away or creak in the wind.

Even in parts of the US that have a much harsher environment than any part of Europe -- extremely hot and humid weather conducive to wood rot, termite infestations, hurricanes and tornadoes -- people still build with wood because it's a lot cheaper. Sometimes I think it's strange, but it also makes sense, I suppose.
You’re missing the larger point. If people didn’t like it, they wouldn’t buy it. How you feel about it is irrelevant.
I worked with Paul before he went down the path of the criminal. He seemed really smart too bad he went bad. This would be in 1991 or 1992. I also worked with one of the programmers caught as part of the Madoff 5. I'm hoping that is all of my brushes with people who go bad.
ActivityStreams can be hosted in the exact same way, hence the "pull" model. It's not the same as ActivityPub, although the latter builds on it.
The simple solution is to not repeatedly drive a dump truck over your shed.
> And not within our lifetimes will we be in a situation where people stop being the citizens of the country on Earth they are from.

Sounds like you aren't familiar with maritime law. Slavery is still a common practice on this planet, due to a lack of jurisdiction.

https://www.humanrightsatsea.org/news/eradication-modern-sla...
Apple will 100% require notarization. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if installing anything from a third-party AppStore would disable a bunch of sensitive functionality, like ApplePay, FaceID, Find My, etc. with a nice alert that says: "Sorry, your device might be compromised due to unsafe apps. In order to use ApplePay / FaceID / etc. you need to restore your phone to factory settings first. Would you like to continue?".
In Europe, kWh is used for both your heating bill and your electricity bill. Since kWh and Joule are two different units for the exact same physical quantity, they can be used interchangeably.
Then my question is: Why do you believe that relaxing app requirements on iOS would cause mandated side-loading, given that it's not a problem for anything else currently on the market?
The music is great though.
I'm very curious where you are getting shingles at that price! I was putting together a budget for an outdoor sauna this year, and out here (Michigan) I was getting quotes around $200 per bundle (32 sq ft coverage).

PS thanks for your posts! The goose palace and the house build are both super inspiring.
Unless I'm grossly mistaken, it seems Shkreli doesn't understand the basics of cryptography because he's using incorrect terminology here.

The signature isn't encrypted at all, it's just a piece of data (a hash, if you will) that was generated using the private key associated with the wallet in question.

In order to generate the signature, you need to have a message to sign, and a private key. All Shkreli has shown is that the signature he posted is valid for the given message and the wallet (which is in fact an old wallet of Hal Finney’s). I’ve posted elsewhere in this thread about this, but so far I can’t find any evidence that the signature he posted actually appears in the blockchain associated with that January 2009 transaction. Until we have proof of that, the most likely alternative explanation is that the wallet’s key is compromised and someone is signing random messages with it that say whatever they want.
Huh?

There are on entire sections on each of these -- 1) how nails fell in price due to steam power manufacturing, and 2-4) how standardized lumber from across the country was available cheaply when local wood was scarce, due to steam power sawmills and railroads.

The whole point is that you don't need local wood, or high-skill anybody at all.

I have no idea how you think the author doesn't "connect the dots".
Yeah, at least the basics so you can edit files in a terminal over a crappy connection.
Compute is easy, memory is harder and harder
It’s on a million wishlists, and this game is evergreen, it’s going to get there.
I skinned my freestyle shed with metal roofing stuff. Heck yes it adds to the strength.
To me as a European it was completely mind boggling, why anyone would voluntarily use this service. Then I was exposed to US bank sector stuck in 1990s (in my case BBVA) and had no other option than to use PayPal.

PayPal will die when US banks will reach 21st century and start offering same products and services as European ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33971577#33972336
This also works:

fgrep -v -e THING1 -e THING2 -e THING3 -e THING4
It depends. It is enough to turn yourself into an experienced software developer, then you can get a job and afford the annual developer fee. But it sort of sucks if you are, say, retired and don't keep up your identity but would like to keep your apps.

I don't understand what risk they are mitigating by keeping the unverified developers to 3 days instead of one year. It is clearly an intentional action.

I guess you could have a business where you install unapprovable apps for people with a 1 year subscription and they have to physically come back to your kiosk and get an update from you each year.
> Had there been true competition, who is to say there wouldn't be more thriving and innovative businesses in Korea?

Given that Korea has outperformed most or all comparable nations, that seems implausible.
Yeah, my explanation is very much simplified.
I could be wrong about this, but it seems like it would change for most users since Facebook/Google/Amazon/etc have a big incentive to push third party App Stores: ad tracking. Apple currently limits it, so I would not be surprised at all if suddenly all of grandmas and grandpas favorite apps are now “third party only”.
If the police are asking you questions, they're not lying to you...they're just asking questions.

And if the police say something seemingly benign that causes you grief, you can look forward to a large-ish settlement to make up for your troubles.

People on HN rarely interact with the police and it seems they have an unrealistic, media-driven perception of how cops actually act. For point of reference, it's the same as how non-techies assume that every tech employee can hack their way into a bank account or rig together a go-kart from spare parts.
SEPA Instant Payments take Seconds and work with every Bank account in the SEPA Area. You also don't need one specific app for this, nor can you wire by accident the wrong person money because the Account Numbers contain Checksums
Large consolidated farms can outcompete them at scale and automation, so they either enter contracts with thin margins or they literally sell the farm, which will likely end up being part of yet another consolidated farm.

Many farmers have gotten out of the game for that reason, so to answer your question, a lot of them got out of farming and whoever is left is taking the contracts.
Consistency also means that rules that state “pages” are meaningful limits, not something subject to unresitricted gaming, and that they retain that over time.
Epic will be able to give you games for free to gain market share, just like the Amazon App Store tried on Android and just like Epic is currently trying on Windows. The horror!

Then an app like F-Droid will come along and offer even more protections than the App Store. Confound it!

For my part, this is a step in the right direction. With a few more fixes, iOS might even become usable enough for me to buy a device that runs it.
(This is all based on my recollection) Pony does this through reference capabilities, ownership, and garbage collection.

Basically in Pony you can describe memory as:

1. Single Ownership, Immutable

2. Single Ownership, Mutable

3. Shared Ownership, Immutable

4. Shared Ownership, Mutable

If you're moving (1) or (2) that's basically free.

If you're sharing (3) you just need an atomic reference count.

If you're sharing (4) you need an atomic reference count and some sort of synchronizing primitive, such as a mutex (or maybe the runtime can understand how to schedule things such that they don't race, don't know).

In Pony these reference capabilities all have names that I don't remember and there are also ways to "recover" a capability, basically translating one into another, which was one of the more complex features for me to get my head around.

That's basically how I recall it working, although the reference counting implementation is very interesting and they wrote a paper about it (Orca).
>"We found a foolproof way of saving our money, which was to not sell anything for 20 years and then drop it all," Zach deadpanned.

Lol
You'll get no argument from me on that point. But you would get an argument from an ancap, and then you could have a discussion. A lot of people want to imagine a better world but can't imagine a world without capitalism. I think you'll find that lots of them have simply never tried, because they've never seen anyone else do it. They might not be as entrenched as you're thinking.
It's not an original idea. It was popularized a few years ago by Evan Ratliff, author of a book about Paul Le Roux, 'The Mastermind'

Convenient for the author to discover the link to Le Roux. Then talk about it on podcasts while promoting his book, and have articles written about him.

All Shkreli does is promote himself to get eyes on whatever he's doing next. You can't ignore the incentives. It's difficult to prove who Satoshi is or is not. Craig Wright made a succesful career out of it.

Also, Shkreli has been critical of Bitcoin. Picking Le Roux, a criminal, as Satoshi helps to paint Bitcoin in a bad light.
If Netflix decides to open their own store, and Spotify will open another, etc. it will be much more inconvenient for me.
Or the following if pipes or egrep make you nervous:

grep -v -e THING1 -e THING2 -e THING3 -e THING4 file
Fascinating! I had no idea. I stand by my main point, but perhaps German wasn't a good example. It's just the one that comes up all the time when people say "Did you know X language has a word for Y?", it's almost always German. Now I know why!
I guess we'll get to see what 3 billion dollars and a well connected mother can buy you; I doubt it'll be a free pass, but I'm not expecting anything that resembles justice here.
Week1 sales is a decent predictor [1] of Year1 revenue. They'll probably do about 1M unit sales by Christmas 2023.

[1] https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-the-state-of-long...
Majority of new Android code. Apple also has been writing parts of their operating system in a memory safe language, Swift.
No I’m not ok being allowed to buy only Ford gas. I’m ok to buy Ford cars that work only with ford gas if the deal they offer suits me.
As another poster said: ouch.
Out of caution, may some of these vulnerabilities be at all relevant to macOS?
It doesn’t matter whether they do. The anti-tivoization clause in the GPLv3 license (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#Tivoization) forbids developers from selling iOS apps that contain GPLv3-licensed software (the situation w.r.t. GPLv2 is less clear)
You can sign a message without broadcasting it . This message could have been created an hour ago for all we know.
> for the most part memory can be managed with simple RAII, and even refcounting (where multiple "owners" might be extending the lifecycle of a single object) really is quite rare

This is absolutely not my experience. I believe there is a bias here between developers using mainly low- or high-level languages, but these nested lifetimes are common in the former because these developers have learned to form such lifetimes, and are biased towards those.

In plenty of areas lifetimes are very very dynamic (any language interpreter/symbolic processing, but even web backends).
Nothing, they have been doing that exact stuff for decades.
Because there's essentially no way to enforce the rules.

All user data is processed in China and de software is also Chinese-made. There's no way in hell you'll get access and you can regulate all you want but in the end they'll simply ignore you.
Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no” - Betteridge’s law of headlines
If you create an impractical mechanism to prove out a scientific problem, you know it's then worth trying to fix the impractical mechanism. Maybe they start working on a way to direct the pellets into the correct path using magnets or something. But if you don't even know the scientific part works it's not worth going after the magnet solution.
…a simple histogram (the second proposed solution in TFA) runs "instantly", for both parts.

Part of the meta-game to AoC is knowing that you can limit your answer to only the requirements in the combination of the question and input given. If the naive solution runs fast enough, and is vastly quicker to implement, that's the one you want.
But even being jailbroken doesn't affect Apple Pay, their own Apple Card service, or FairPlay[0] (which is the most surprising to me). Maybe it's sent as a heuristic / weak fraud signal for Apple Pay, but no functionality is removed in the OS, so I don't see why a notarization-approved third party app would trigger any other broken functionality.

0: https://developer.apple.com/streaming/fps/
Federal courts accept (and often have rules requiring-by-default, for most purpose) electronic submission.
>Why do people continue to tout this as some sort of gotcha? Android has multiple app stores yet this doesn't occur.

Maybe not yet specifically with Meta, but it absolutely does happen. Fortnite is the most obvious example.
> without an injured party.

I'd argue that premature death leaves your whānau/family an injured party.

(I would say "and the health system", but then I read an paper which concluded that smokers and their propensity to die younger is actually saving the health system a lot of money, as the longer you live, the more healthcare you need.)
Most of my examples of that size are AAA game source that I can't share however, I think this is a project using similar files that is based on unreal. It should show if there is any benefit: https://github.com/CesiumGS/cesium-unreal-samples & where the .umap binaries have been updated and in this example where the .uasset blueprints have been updated https://github.com/renhaiyizhigou/Unreal-Blueprint-Project
The market will decide that. You aren't alone. Why would an app move exclusively to some alternate pain in the ass store if the users don't want it?

They'll probably just be on both with some perk incentivising a switch.
That's true of current implementations, but the spec is flexible enough to allow much simpler ones. You can have an outbox which is a collection of activities (that could even be statically generated) and software could poll the outbox just like RSS. Existing software requires a push-based model, which means handling follows, which means a database, but fundamentally there's nothing stopping ActivityPub from being pull-based.
I agree, it's a weakness (maybe not for the same reasons you give, but who cares).

Anyways, my prediction is that if SBF is convicted, he is going away for all time.
I guess I'll have to buy a laptop to bring with me on my weekend trips...
That's definitely possible. Going based upon the output of something like Catawba, that looks like ~3 nuclear plants. I bet that could be done for less than 100B, though I'd just be guessing. I also don't know anything about operations costs for that.

Also, I estimated solar at $1.5/watt. That's probably at least 50% too high.
> My point was that people have different cultural backgrounds, and with that different expectations from academic degree

No. Read again what you wrote. It wasn't a qualified statement about different values in different places, ie "in this culture X is more like Y" it was a general claim with no background:

"A bachelor's is a glorified dropout. A master's is the primary academic degree"
While I agree that the article doesn't do well to expose the reasons behind these bans. I think transparency and due process are the correct things to focus on. If we had both articles like this could not exist.
In what ways does drywall make a house worse?
To be blunt then: your comment does not add to the discussion in a substantive way.
Which tons of people signed up for a yearlong simulation of run by NASA. Granted, I bet a lot would drop out if presented with the actual prospect of spending a year in a bubble with 5 others.
> What I don't understand is where the signature came from -- I do see a Jan 2009 transaction involving that address on various blockchain explorers, but that particular signature is nowhere to be found. This could absolutely just be me not understanding how all of this works, but in order for this to be "really big news" I think you'd have to show proof that the signature given was posted with the transaction back in 2009. Otherwise, it just means that Hal Finney's wallet is compromised and someone has been signing random messages with it.

This.
When I think of vintage computers I think of computers old enough that they have no concept of virtual memory. In particular, the Atari ST, the Amiga and the Acorn Archimedes - on all of those platforms the user interface wasn't merely another task running among dozens, it was the most important thing the computer was doing - and while it's hard to describe, the feeling of immediacy is noticeable (even if the task your mouse click set in motion takes minutes or hours to complete - the widget will give you instant visual feedback when you click it) and its absence on more modern machines is also noticeable. (If a modern machine's thrashing the hard disk - especially on spinning rust - it can take seconds for the same feedback to happen, even if the machine itself is thousands of times faster.)

Yesterday's topic about the memory footprint of desktop environments touched on this - the fact that if a memory-hungry process triggers a swapstorm it can take minutes to regain control of a Linux desktop.

I call that sense of immediacy the feeling of "having the computer's full attention" - and ensuring that nothing required for interactivity gets paged out is the only robust way I can see of creating that feeling - but instead we use the somewhat crude, brute-force approach of throwing more RAM at the computer until the swap-outs stop happening!
I'd say for $10 per domain that it actually surpasses the price of Twitter Blue which Musk claims will prevent bots.