jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
These seem to have been "technical" bugs, mostly in the client-server communication of the self-service websites.

But hosting management also has a whole lot of potential for logical errors. I work at a B2B ISP that is also a managed service provider, and every now and then somebody calls for more self-service. I'm not against it, but it's full of landmines.

It starts with such simple things as account creation. We allow accounts with the appropriate roles to be used for several different customers, which means we cannot namespace them by tenant.

We used to give accounts usernames based on the first and last name, but that makes it very easy to leak which other accounts exists (when "John Doe" becomes "johndoe4" instead of just "johndoe", you can infer the existence of other accounts, and thus that other "John Doe"s are among our customer base). We had to change that, which isn't as easy as it sounds for a company that has been doing things a certain way for 25 years.

Potential logic errors and information leaks lurk in all places where you cannot namespace things because they are not fully under your control, which can be IP addresses (big customers bring their own address spaces, and IPv4 address space is too small for generous segmentation), Domains, email addresses, phone numbers and so on.
No.

If I were laid-off, I would receive a maximum of $1600/mo from unemployment in my state for 6 months.

So, the trade-off is either COBRA or mortgage payment.

I doubt the US medical system will get better in the short term.
Leverage should be a column as many companies that are highly levered will not have the resources to outlast this crisis.
It's a studio apartment in an old building :)
More than 50% of Americans making less than $50K say they can't afford to miss a single paycheck.

About 30% say they have absolutely zero emergency savings.

I would expect that the number of working Americans with emergency savings to cover even six months of expenses is fewer than 1 in 10.

Granted, there are options such as HELOC, tapping 401k, etc.

But most of us are grasshoppers, not ants.

Granted,
Really? I understand that Trump is pushing a lot of anti-chinese rethoric, but outside of the US the optics are pretty different.

https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-company-donates-tens-thousa...

Chinese companies are sending stocks of masks to help Italy to recover.

https://mobile.twitter.com/heylauragao/status/12386016724542...

China is also sharing the expertise of their medical team with Italy...

Compare with the US:

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/03/us-air-force-flew...

They deprived Italy of half a million testing kits, in the area in which they are most needed!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-a...

And they're trying to deny the vaccine to other countries...

If anything, I expect people to be furious at the US, after this whole event will be over.
68% of Americans dont have enough to cover a $500 surprise bill [0]. A lot will rely on credit availability which will worse that impending crisis.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-...
Don't they _need_ the private keys to mine all your messages for data on which to base the in-chat ads? This shouldn't be a surprise after recent announcements.
I assumed that basic ML was similar to the statistics I already knew, and that deep learning was inherently different. It had to be different, given how people talked about it. It is just an illustration of how the fuss made about AI at this time impacted researcher's minds with no expertise in ML. This is going down, fortunately.
I'm not aware of any facts supporting Elsevier's accusation, and I would characterize it as intentional disinformation.

Elbakyan runs Sci-Hub.
> Trump's side and Twitter's side are both very far from what I see as moral.

I happen to feel the same way about his predecessor. But I always supported Obama‘s use of the bully pulpit. Even though I agreed with very little of his core politics, I feel it’s the right of the president to use freedom of speech, period.

Also, regarding morality. Because I believe in freedom of speech, I support the right of people to write and say immoral things. Even reprehensible things. And if we choose to suppress such speech, we should expect it to go underground and fester and explode painfully at the worst possible time.

Much better in my view that these things be examined and rebutted in the public sphere.
Last I heard, 50% + 1 is the definition of "mostly". 93% is "overwhelmingly". To be clear, any property damage or loss of life is a tragedy but "mostly peaceful" isn't just accurate, it's an understatement.
And what then? Never use hardware?
And yet, there's incentive for somebody (say, in soccer) to try and score a goal even tho it's not their role - because scoring a goal is rewarded to the individual.

Individual coders/contributors' compensation don't scale until they are shown to "score a goal". And yet, to do so, they may have to stop contributing in their usual, assigned role, but go "above and beyond" - such as redesigning the system, or to make their mark on the product and be recognized as such.

This, i find, is probably what the fundamental problem/friction with teams are.
You have an unusually poor grasp of history if rioters forcing lawmakers out of the US Capitol is something you view as “a media frenzy, nothing more.”
it's just missing the Dollz and DBZ characters blasting scripted macros everywhere to ruin the experience of others through audiovisual spam.

man I loved The Palace. I wrote a ton of IPTSCRAE as a youth for it -- both server side and client side.

The Palace quickly taught one why it was a bad idea to allow clients to draw programmatically. Many a rooms ruined by script kiddies that got taught how to ruin every bodies day with an array of seizure inducing redraws.

That said : Man, we're moving backwards in a lot of ways on software. The Palace didn't have rich media embedding and webcams, sure -- but the server software was free for anyone to run , with many large broadcasting groups hosting many hundreds of people at once.

I understand the need for a marketing plan and idea -- but it feels weird when a brand new pay offering can handle less traffic for more money than a solution from the 90s.
Thanks for the final push I needed FB, to stop using WhatsApp.
People who are willing to pay to remove ads are usually the more valuable eyes.
And over the last decade or so this has "trickled up" due to the interview process: experienced and even senior engineers are essentially funneled into the areas of focus you mention.
I still think mainstream news have a larger role in this, social media are followers. People share news stories as if they are true, with context often omitted, manipulated or outright fabricated. But people still trust their news.

CNN, NYT, Washington Post, HuffPost, Vox, Fox News turned into extremely biased sources of disinformation and blatant propaganda.

E.g. a fabricated story in The Atlantic magazine, citing anonymous sources, was repeated and amplified by all these major media hubs and then further by social media for weeks. It's like a giant wave after wave of misinformation and rumors presented as facts. The burden of evidence apparently no longer applies.

The bias is mostly on the left wing of political spectrum, but the right wing are not too far behind.
1. Scams. Romania had a lot of banks defaulting.

2. Yes, the number of loans and mortgages was minuscule.

3. Do you think anyone gave out fixed interest loans? :-)))
There is a big difference between two-way speculative volume and one way long term directional volume.

If AAPL trades $15 bil per day, that doesn't mean that you can easily buy $1 bil without huge market impact.
It's pretty lame they didn't name the app, it's clear some programmer(s) somewhere needs the wake up call.
Any real value analysis of Bitcoin that doesn't take Tether into account isn't worth much. As long as the whole crypto market is built around a currency issued by an unregulated and unaudited company with a mile-long list of past controversies, any unbiased take on the future of Bitcoin has to allow for a significant downside risk.
1. You don't decide whats a waste of energy or not.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYYh4aPXAM

3. Bitcoin Mining will make investments in renewable energy a lot less riskier as you can scale up as much as you want and always have a buyer. This drives out fossil fuel miners

4. Once bitcoins true price has been found, holders will spend to consume as much as they need/want to. Just like every other currency, except without the inherent need to spend(fixed issuance)
I've always loved networking and recently implemented an IP stack just for fun. It doesn't take that long to be able to write ping yourself and ping Internet hosts. I was going to go as far as TCP but haven't gone there yet.

I think it's now time to read this and find out all the stuff I got wrong and cement the stuff I got right.
It seems like most of taxes goes towards medicare, medicaid, social security, and the military.
It’s fascinating to watch MLM logic sweep the tech world.

Get in on the ground floor of this opportunity, then convince all of your friends to buy in, then they convince all of their friends...

Once the speculation upside is gone, why would anyone want to buy Bitcoin? That’s the real question.
If no one can transfer bitcoin out of the PayPal system then the only way for you to sell it for $47,000 is to find someone else on PayPal willing to buy it for that amount (or actually a bit more because of the spread). So PayPal don't lose anything.

Admittedly this doesn't sound right to me, but it's what the parent commenters seem to be saying.
Money. Receiving money is the fundamental difference between lobbying and discussing policy with constituents.
Thunderbolt is basically "external PCIe" so you wouldn't want to plug in anything that you wouldn't plug into a PCIe slot on the motherboard of a desktop... it's not like USB where communication has to go through a special controller that requires drivers, this is the raw system bus itself.

As cool as the raw power you get from Thunderbolt is, I wonder if externalizing an internal bus was a fundamental design flaw. PCIe descends from PCI, which descends from ISA, bringing along all sorts of backward compatible cruft, including the Option ROM support used by this exploit.
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It's a big hit, not a complete erasure of profit (setting aside simple inflation, because that's a big elephant in the room here). When you rewrite the tax laws so that I can effectively be forced to sell because other people would make more productive use of my land, well, regardless of how I feel about the idea, that's a reasonable argument.

But if you tax me for the increase in the value of my land while I still own it, and then tax me on the profit I made from selling it when I decided I didn't want to pay those taxes anymore, that just seems like double-dipping. Isn't the whole point of the LVT that it makes buy-and-hold speculation unprofitable via the LVT itself? So if someone pays their LVT until it becomes so high that the expense of moving is less than the expense of saving, haven't they already effectively paid for their share of the increased value?

I think LVT's are interesting, but the practical considerations involved are enormous.
>2021 data or the 2020 census? The latter is frankly poor quality data. I wouldn't use it as a primary source.

What arguments do you have suggesting it's poor quality?

Also I'm not sure there's any good arguments. It's obvious covid restrictions easing in florida and texas quite early and might I say successfully will play a significant role in why this happened.

Not to mention the significant economic windfall that they will gain for having done so.
You bring up an interesting point. Having controls that stand out and grab attention is good when you don't regularly use them. But while working, in most cases you'll already know the interface well, and don't need it to stick out in order to use it efficiently.
Absolutely. We're working on that at the moment. It will be done after Christmas.
> My first thought for solving that problem would be to always have an odd number of nodes, but I'm interested in how Raft actually handles it, too.

You don't need an odd number of nodes. Raft requires that a majority of the cluster be able to communicate in order to make forward progress. In the event that a majority can't communicate, no changes to the cluster can be made. This isn't particularly unique to Raft; any distributed consensus algorithm that wishes to maintain consistency has this: if your cluster is split in such a way that a majority can't communicate, you can't both accept writes and prevent the cluster from becoming "split-brained", i.e., having two states, one on each side of the split. If a majority of nodes can communicate, you know that your side of the split is unique in this regard, and can thus keep going. All other splits, not having a majority, will not be able to accept writes.

A note about majorities: The definition of majority is "_More than half_ (50%) of some group"; in a cluster of size 5, this is at least 3. In a cluster of size 6, this is at least _4_. Because it is more than half (and not just half), even sized clusters are just fine in Raft: in a 3/3 split in a size 6 cluster, neither side has majority by definition.
Please don't break the site guideline against insinuations of shilling without evidence. There are simpler explanations for such accounts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> letting the term run out and having the president lose in a typical election is probably the least debatable way to change the president

Except that didn't work out, did it? Remember he was impeached for trying to cheat at an election. And people (lots of people) warned he'd continue on that path.

I mean, let's be honest: it would have been better in hindsight to have actually removed him from office.
I think it's also worth considering that none of this evidence has been through any sort of judicial review -- at no point in the Trump campaign's barrage of lawsuits did they litigate any election fraud, only procedural questions around the inclusion or exclusions of ballots.
I think it's social media amplifying the divisions through targeting. I also wonder if it's culture of corruption by both political parties that is beginning to come to light? In the old days, you wouldn't read about it in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, but now, on Twitter and other places, could could see just about anything. There is a difficult task of separating the truth from the fake news, but there is more information available, which was not available before the Internet explosion. Just my guess, though.
Exactly. Are you an economist per chance? Incentive logic runs rampant in economics.
Well said. You answered that sibling comment that I refused to answer.

I am not a fan of the specifics of the fairness doctrine, but I believe the current state in which media companies can freely and knowingly lie as long as they don't stray too far into defamation is not tenable.
Answer: The CARES act was the US government printing $2 trillion bucks and handing checks out to every resident of the US. Nothing happened (the chaos predated the money).

Also, it's important to realize that t-bonds and USDs are basically the same thing. A T-bond is, for all intents and purposes, high-denomination dollar bill that can be exchanged for low-denomination bills on an open market.
One person shouting ridiculous demands does not a coup make.
This is a very "Serial Experiments Lain" article
> How do you reconcile that with the fact that it was illegal to compete with AT&T?

It was illegal for some reason, you know.

> Once upon a time, Altavista was The Search and MySpace was The Social Network.

They never quite reached the monopoly level, though.
Textmate clone ( Windows & Linux )

http://www.e-texteditor.com/
Well I am willing to bet you are wrong. It just doesn't make sense. By your logic my only insurance against some Open Source project going bad on me is that it has a variety of contributors, at least one of whom would not be willing to relicense. That would make OS licenses completely useless.
Well, I don't think a bot became sentient and decided to make some money on online poker. Usually there are people writing the bots, and the poker site has to make sure they aren't using them, not that the people aren't bots.
I'm curious how a language with no compiler is "faster than C" since the speed of C is nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the compiler implementations which have been so heavily worked over the years.

I can believe it - I've made my own language and compiler whose results are faster in the niche area it targets than any C compiler I've ever seen - I'm just curious how this assertion is backed up.
nm, i see in the comments... so its a false claim then. nice. :/
Solution: Enable mobile phone SMS authentication for all transactions involving money sent from your account.
Awesome, just watched this two nights ago. fun to think even in 1992 it was still acceptable to show someone cracking a password by whittling down the passwords one character at a time. To their credit at least it was a bit better than war games, where it just locks in one character at a time. Where this one could maybe construe that it started with some hash of the pin stored on the machine and accessible via the card reader in reverse..., and they were maybe factoring it. Still an awesome scene and by far my favorite james cameron movie.
Then Signal screwed it up by hassling them to enter a pin code the whole time. Back to WhatsApp they went.
Linear does not mean "graph is a line". It means "graph is a line through origin" (in the 2d case).

Somewhat counterintuitive, but that's how it's defined.
The same goes for hitting the back button in an Android app. Just because it's _possible_ for apps to misbehave doesn't mean it isn't good for those standard OS features to exist.
Not sure what you want in a spreadsheet, but the data is stored in text files. See https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/html_node/Units-Da...
This is probably a hard post to evaluate from the outside: is he right, or just overly sensitive? Earlier I would have been skeptical, but I've recently started on a project in R, and based on my experience so far I think he's mostly right: there are some real problems with R development. But I'd put less emphasis on individual "bad apples", and more on a culture that is dealing poorly with the approach of "development in the open". I think this recent exchange on the list illustrates nicely: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/PATCH-Makefile-add-support-for...

The R source repository is in Subversion. A new contributor offers a very small patch to allow source downloaded from a git mirror to compile correctly. The response (not from Ripley) is "I think we are unlikely to accept this change. Nobody in R Core uses git this way, so it would never be tested, and would likely soon fail." A reasonable position in some cases, but seems odd for a two line patch a Makefile that opens development to new contributors. Even stranger, it turns out that the patch is mostly working around a commit from several years ago (by Ripley) to explicitly prevent compilation from git: https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/4f13e5325dfbcb9fc8f55...

Even stranger, this commit is commented "trap HK Leung misuse", where Han-Tak Leung is an earlier mailing list participant who had problems compiling as a result of using the "git-svn" compatibility layer. The thread discussing that earlier issue concluded (not Ripley): "The generic point is that you are given access to a working tool that is internal to the core R developers. We are not putting restrictions on what you do with that access, but if you want to play the game by other rules than we do, you need to take the consequences. If things don't work and you start complaining about them being "broken", steps may be taken to make it clearer who broke them."

Considering the source repository and ability to submit patches as "access to a working tool that is internal to the core R developers" strikes me as a short-sighted approach. Spiking your source to refuse to compile if not checked out directly from svn seems like a bad strategy. Explaining the purpose as to "trap misuse" by an individual might be pathological. It makes me pessimistic about R's future.
The cynic in me says it's a lot harder to manipulate someone more grounded and experienced - someone in their 30s or 40s. Doesn't mean everyone who is 30+ is somehow automatically mature, but the maturity (emotional, financial, etc) tends to evolve as one ages.
Maybe - the early signs don't augur well. There's been a pretty long-standing cultural divide between Northern European economies and a supposedly profligate South (particularly Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal). Culturally, you could trace this back to Weber.

You could almost say that there are separate cultures in Europe - a culture of Western European economies, a culture of former communist states, and then the Southern European countries. I'm not sure you could ever develop a coherent single European culture without one culture dominating.
> Store money including the smallest possible subdivisions.

> For example:

> $100 US may be stored as 10000

Eh, the US dollar is often subdivided further than that.

Here's four examples, in different industries:

http://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/gas-pump...

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

https://finance.yahoo.com/u/yahoo-finance/watchlists/most-ac...

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol...
This hasn't been my experience being vegan. I actually feel great, vitality and everything. My whole family is and they're also fine like everyone else. We just make sure we eat good balanced meals.
Netscape went out of business because their browser crashed far more frequently than Explorer. I've heard all the sob stories, but I was sick of the constant crashing of Netscape, and so tried Explorer. Explorer crashed too, but not nearly as often.
I’m neutral on a legal intervention but I certainly agree parents should heavily educate and be restrictive until enough has sunk in. We do similarly with our family.

My main concern here is to explain why a young person’s use should not be treated like the use of a sophisticated social media user who is older and more mature.
Can someone please recommend the best method of filtering PFAS + Lead and other toxic crap from drinking water, is it a multi-stage filter with activated carbon and reverse osmosis? Or is it making distilled water + adding back in electrolytes and storing in a lead-free glass container? Someone make this into a startup and I’ll pay for verified toxin free tested water, is there a market for this?

I’m on a mission to get the purest water at home and there is so much misinformation and outright fraud and snake oil salesmen in the water filter industry it is beyond absurd how they prey on emotions to get you to buy their crap. They don’t list where the raw filter materials were sourced (usually “made” in China), where the materials they are using inside the filters are mined from... any toxins leeching into my filtered drinking water here?

No I won’t take your word on it, show me the safety data from a reputable lab with legit standards and what are all the raw materials used in production and methods to create these filters (injection molding high heat plastics? BPA and other chemicals here? otherwise it’s a black box I can’t trust.

So I just drink my black box “filtered” water and hope I don’t get cancer in my 50’s from the unfiltered toxic industry byproducts in the filters themselves + PFAS types of things that aren’t filtered at all.