jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One thing I think worth highlighting is the opening sentence. It is true that the internet and the government have been conflicting in various ways from the get-go. In point 11 he talks about the differences between industry inside knowledge and government's framework for reasoning about tech lacking in several ways. I think there is also an interesting intersection of the public's framework for reasoning about both government and the internet that is finally starting to be a stress point. Only in the last few of years have we seen the general public starting to become aware of how much government (non)action in the internet space is a big deal.

Recent stories on the NSA, Snowden, Manning, etc, and the Arab Spring have really pushed the awareness of government actions in the internet into the general public awareness. I remember previous things like DMCA and ECTRA did not make a real blip on the general public's radar. More recently however, things like SOPA were heavily discussed outside of tech circles.

Public discourse is really a place we should make our industry insider status heard as much as to/within government, and now is the time it matters.

Amusingly, the inverse is also true: more political articles have been finding their way to HN lately, because suddenly general political discourse is extremely intertwined with internet policy and tech issues.
Even if Apple allowed 3rd party vendors to make IPhone OS compatible phones, Android would still be free and Google would still push it as hard as possible, so the competition would still be there (which by the way is really good). Also, it's not easy to beat "free" from the vendors' perspective.

I think the iPhone will continue having a significant market share and I think Apple will continue innovating. In the meantime, the Android market share will grow, possibly beyond the iPhone share, but I don't see why it's necessary to only have one winner that takes it all. I think both companies, along with RIM, will do fine
All 4 strings share 15 characters at the same position, not sure if it's relevant though. (I doubt it since the clear string is 43 characters long)

The position/character couples are: 14: P, 20: M, 36: O, 92: 4, 137: ;, 158: >, 171: #, 177: U, 204: ", 207: S, 211: +, 276: ", 281: U, 364: U, 366: 9
this is not obvious to most people in America; Culturally, it's expected that we choose money over time.

On the other hand, of the last 5 years I worked for other people, 2 of them were working 3 days a week. Most of the time, if you ask (and are willing to take the hit in wages) /my/ experience has been that employers are surprised when you ask, but they seem to be happy enough to accommodate.

note, usually you have to work more than 30 hours a week to get employer-paid health insurance.
I added your blog as well as Jacques Mattheij's to the list--how could I forget? Let me know if I missed any others.
I have taught a series of lectures on the Trachtenberg method in high school. It has some cute tricks, but really this is not mathematics, it's arithmetic. Don't waste your time with it. If you're interested in maths, study maths not mental arithmetic. I promise it is much more interesting.
This is why I have my own CA. Too bad the router manufacturers don't do the same; let the router generate a key-signing request, paste it into the manufacturer's site (with a "real" SSL cert), download file suitable for providing to the router, enjoy secure VPN.

Oh yeah, but that would add like fifty cents to the cost of every $150 VPN router, and we can't have that!
It matters a great deal when and where you show things off. I don't even understand why this is a controversial statement. If you show off something really cool when people are watching you, you get great PR. If you show something off to an empty room, no matter how cool the product is, the net effect is that you convert some oxygen into carbon dioxide.
Same here, I imagine other industries are this way, but software (or maybe let's say clumsy giant enterprise software) benefits a lot from one person working 60 hours rather than 2 working 30 since so much of the effort is actually keeping the cruft and procedures in your head, which is a fixed cost. Clients want to meet with your development lead, who you also need to be doing actually development; and if meetings take up 20 hours a week, 60 hours is actually 4 times as many working hours as 30 not just double.

Not to say it isn't a little bit of a sad state of affairs.
Great thinking. Where do I find the job that pays me to sleep in until lunchtime and then spend the rest of the day drinking?
Let's put this to rest for once and all. The average radius of Earth is 6,371 km. Initial sats will be at 550 km height (many will be higher, many somewhat lower, but does not make much diff.) So the surface of the 6,931km radius globe is ~603,672,875 km2 (~604 million square kilometers). Don't have exact size for a Starlink sat, but a good upper bound is 3 x 2 m, i.e. 6 m2 = 0.000006 km2. Let's say there will be 40,000 such sats at peak, so altogether they occupy 0.24 km2 area. Altogether, they will occupy 0.00000003976% of the sky. QED.
How about reporting ”number of life years lost”?

A death of healthy new born would mean 80 years lost. Death of elderly person maybe 5. You could simple stats by comparing to general life expectancy and more detailed by considering the health condition of the person.
Arguably the same after WW2, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a new generation of 'boomers' if our societies go through that kind of phase again. Pure speculation though, and I'd personally rather hope that aspects of our society can reform without a major death toll.
I am not an economist but by virtue of working in the fintech space for many years, particularly in credit, feel this specific point acutely-

"economies and democracies cannot idle with incurring enormous financial costs"

This is what worries me about this crisis more than the myriad other issues, like-

-the end is unknown bc we dont have an antiviral treatment or vaccine, and we dont know how long immunity lasts

-we have generally awful, sociopathic high level leadership (I am in the US) and while local leadership may be exemplary (I am in NYS) the ongoing contagion factor means there is no isolation

-so many entities have already been broken that will never return and the implications from which have not begun to be counted

-we have such an awful information availability and consumption imbalance, which will perpetuate bad decision making

Those issues above I believe CAN be dealt with over time, with study, process, mobilization, etc in the course of this pause.

But that work has to be FUNDED.

We DO NOT KNOW how to fund this without

a) creating future "costs" / "obligations" that will weigh on future flows for decades

b) destroying current asset stores in a way that increases uncertainty

I mean, this is what "assets" are for- they are there as a store to create future flows. So for instance I am in favor of a very long block on evictions and foreclosures- 2 years- because many renters have lost jobs and will not be able to find them, in order to force landlords to, where necessary, waive rent and themselves take out mortgages to pay for their own flows. That is what the "value" of their property should be used for, and in times of strife, drawing down on asset stores is sensible.

But that imposes future costs- the mortgage- and even if the mortgage is at 0% there is still principal that has to be returned. And debts are the highest priority obligation.

IOW, we dont have an economic and accounting system where we can just stop, timeout, change the rules, get back on feet, and start again. In our current model the timeout still has to be paid for in the future. And while history is full of debt foregiveness regimes, those were all local. We don't have even the beginnings of a model to institute a global forgiveness regime.

At any rate, the human side of this looks very challenging, though I have optimism that good wins out- but I worry about the accounting side. The rules have to let good come through.
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The whole point of cold storage is that only some coins are swept into it (and some remain in a "hot" wallet which is used to process transactions) so I don't think you can read what you have into this statement.
Oh my god. I wish C# had this.
Osmo | Computer Vision / Machine Learning Engineer | Palo Alto, CA or REMOTE USA| Full-time | www.playosmo.com

We are at the intersection of digital and physical play and learning. We make educational toys and games for kids. It's a little hard to explain, so I'll let our website do the explaining (www.playosmo.com).

This is a great opportunity for working in a small (5 right now), driven team and come up with creative solutions for CV tasks. We work closely with industrial designers and game developers to create a tightly integrated system that can detect toys placed in front of the tablet and make them come alive on the screen.

Osmo was acquired by indian edtech company Byju's last year, but we still operate as a scrappy, hyper-focused startup with our own product line.

Looks like the job post isn't up on our website yet, so feel free to email me with your resume (email in bio).
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https://reason.com/2020/03/17/italian-daily-death-rate-up-20...

The evidence is overwhelming. Questioning it is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I won't comment further.
It is probably the same factory making it.

For example, Andrex (apparently Cottonelle in the USA) is owned by Kimberly Clark, which also sells commercial products.
At one point docker was the only way to do this, I think. So if you start searching the internet for how to do static linking with musl you're very likely to find links to the docker'd approach.
A lot of people are eager to say chloroquine is the answer and say, "forget the small details, look at that p-value!". But this article raises a bunch of important points. The important ones IMO are:

1) 6 / 26 of the individuals in the experimental group got removed from the stats because their condition got worse and the treatment ceased. One of them died.

2) The metric used to test the efficacy is viral load. You can get a negative on this and still have the disease. This is going to be a function of how long you've had the disease, which isn't controlled in the study.

If you have a gripe with the author because they're not a medical scientist, read the peer review comments here: https://pubpeer.com/publications/B4044A446F35DF81789F6F20F8E...

They are easy to understand as a layman I feel.

Other noteworthy takeaways:

1) The combination of HCQ and AZ was hyped as superior because all 6 patients did better. But looking at the data there is no significant difference in viral load outcomes between both drugs and just HCQ.

2) Many of the author's claims of statistical significance disappear if you use more conservative estimates for when people were supposed to be PCR positive except for Day 6 (now 0.01 instead of 0.001).

3) The paper turnaround was incredibly fast, with less than 24 hours for peer review. One of the authors of the paper is an editor of the journal in which it was published. Could be indicative of poor study controls.

I hope this turns out to be useful. I would not be surprised if it did not. Regardless, the best case takeaway of THIS information does not inform us about how the drug performs in the most critical area (severe ICU patients).

If you're a non-bio programmer please try to recognize that saying the current paper is good enough to justify mass distribution of chloroquine tablets to everyone is about on par with the cliche clueless product manager making bold decisions about how to move forward with your codebase despite having no clue how it works themselves.
Not saying Google is an angel, but at least I don't recall them collecting phone numbers for 2FA while promising to not use them for ad targeting and then silently doing so.
I find it incredible that the justification for action should be "a complete prohibition was appropriate because Thailand, China, and South Korea have already enacted severe restrictions or bans of their own." The American government has a document that outlines when it should take action and on what grounds. And that document makes no mention of consulting other countries or deferring to their sensibilities. It is outrageous that a senator thinks that that would be a valid starting point.
A lot of place literally just need to man-power to lift boxes around and help distribute food to clients.
The "silent majority".
Sardines are also a fantastic source of calcium. They're a super food. And sustainable to boot.
Hmmm interesting, so what are you searching for today?
Doesn't work well with geometric objects. Look at the swords, shields, the letter 'A'.
Can't rake in the karma without toplevel posts making broad and vague complaints about unspecified comments.

It's a common pattern both here and on reddit (because top-level meta-commments really are effective for farming karma), and it should really be against the guidelines. Best case scenario: the complaint is 100% valid and on target, but because it is a top level comment and correct it will rise to the top of the discussion while the offending comments will be downvoted and buried at the bottom. Refutations for shitposts should be buried with the shitposts^, visible to those who decide to read the shitposts but out of the way for everyone else. We don't need all discussions "bookended" by shitposts and comments refuting shitposts.

^ Not buried by being downvoted of course (accurate refutations of shitposts should generally be upvoted), but rather buried by merely being the child comment of a downvoted post.
I'm quite happy to see that wheels are already in motion on something like this. Pinging you.
> Which people without fixed address do not

They do, according to the statue I literally just linked. There is no legal requirement for a fixed address. If you disagree, you're welcome to cite the relevant text from the ga code.

O.C.G.A. 21-2-217 section 15, specifically, gives county registrars broad authority to accept people based on exigent circumstances, including homelessness.
Has anyone tried to create something other than a simple blog, like an actual web product with with users, using only the HTML+CSS stack?
From what I can tell, Tether's recent printing volume is consistent with that of its FINCEN regulated equivalent USDC ($4B marketcap).

If money came out of thin air from tether's side there should be a big discrepancy between the daily increase in marketcap
Google uses stack ranking only for calibration across the company. There's nothing like "bottom 10% get fired", and in a team of high performers it's perfectly okay for everyone to get a great performance review, so there's no politics involved in that way.
Could have done this years ago, but instead wait until it's confirmed he's going out.

What a bunch of spineless opportunists.

I honestly don't know how people can work at facebook in good conscience these days.

Nothing wrong with working for a paycheck, but it would definitely keep me up at night.
I don't think this advice applies to startups.
Police handguns aren't very expensive. The Glock 17, a very popular model, is about $600 and I wouldn't be surprised if police departments get discounts.
I agree that TEPCO is not earning itself any medals, and the Japanese government is not earning medals in terms of checking TEPCO's foolery.
It gets worse. If your adversary believes your missile defense system is highly effective, when in fact it is not, the adversary will be more willing to launch a preventive attack. You don't want nuclear-armed adversaries to think they're in a use-it-or-lose-it position unless your system is about 100% effective.

Israel's Iron Dome is one thing. They're destroying small, short-range, generally unguided missiles carrying conventional warheads without decoys. The US's anti-ballistic missile systems (e.g. GMD, SM-3, THAAD, Patriot, etc.) are unlikely to provide meaningful protection against ICBMs even from relatively unsophisticated enemies for one reason: it's substantially easier to build swords than shields. If North Korea builds a missile that can carry a nuclear warhead into the US mainland, they can build the technology to stuff decoy warheads into the payload (eg balloons with the same signature as the actual warhead).

You really don't want a nuclear enemy overestimating the effectiveness of your missile defense!
A small personal project of mine was flagged as compromised or something and taken down. Support couldn’t tell me why, I suspect it had something to do with updating regularly through git? To this day I’ll never know though, moved it to an aws ec2 instance.
Acquiring an ID is typically a very lengthy and tedious process in most states, which entails:

1) knowing enough about the process to find all the documents required to get an ID (usually includes birth certificate and SSN card if you don’t already have an ID, which not everyone is able to keep track of)

2) taking a day (or multiple days) off work to go to the DMV, depending on wait times and if you’ve brought enough documentation

3) paying $40+

4) waiting days or weeks for the ID to come

All for what? If you don’t have a car, and you don’t really interact with the government or banks in any meaningful way (you would be SHOCKED how many people are in this position) you basically don’t need an ID at all to function. So if the ONLY reason to get an ID is because it’s required to vote, this ends up being a MASSIVE hurdle. All that effort just to vote? And you need to do it many weeks before the election? Of course that will suppress turnout from populations who don’t already have IDs!

This isn’t even considering populations who have pretty deep-seated (and reasonable!) wariness of giving too much information to government institutions, when historically that information (especially demographic) has been used to oppress/discriminate in things like housing policy, policing policy, etc.

If America issued a federal government ID at birth for free that auto-renewed, maybe these laws wouldn’t be as insidious. But that almost certainly will never happen.
It makes sense if you consider your company sending you propaganda to be additional information relevant to whether you can trust them, and so you review your decision, which is a perfectly rational response.
Here's a recent USENIX talk on the topic of memory unsafety and the choice of programming languages: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/ga...

Slides can be downloaded. I hope the talk recording will be available as well.
For what it's worth, I can tell you I'm being completely sincere here and I just wish the literal most privileged people in the world would look a bit around them before claiming to live oh-so-horrible lives.

I say so being a third world inhabitant who has spent some time in the first world and noticed people there simply do not know how much they have it good.
What's sort of interesting is that there aren't too many overwhelming reasons why someone couldn't come up with a piece of software that autodetected a binary format and translated it to something readable in a GUI.

I mean we know what the binary layout is of things, so I never understood (outside of the time that it would take to build such a utility) why I've never been able to find something that says, "Oh yeah, that binary string contains three doubles, separated by a NULL character, with an int, followed by a UTF-8 compatible string."

Such a tool would be incredibly useful for reverse engineering proprietary formats, and yet I don't know of a good one, so if it exists it's at least obscure enough for it to have escaped my knowledge for well over a decade.
There was obvious insider trading, with large dumps of coin just before bad news broke. Someone was doing it.
Well, I never said moderates. I guess I primarily meant 'pro-regulation', specifically when it comes to currency, who tend to inhabit the left side of the political spectrum. I've seen quite a few others who find the whole thing interesting, but also a lot of hate, so it looked like it was being used as a proxy to hate on libertarians. I'm just intrigued by the whole thing, and have a few friends who made pretty good money by mining up coins early (made money in spite of burned out graphics cards).

EDIT:

Should I have used the phrase pro-existing-regulations-or-more? That's basically what I meant. I'm personally a fan of some level of regulation when it comes to my legally recognized 'can pay the IRS this and they will probably not send you to jail' kind of tender.
The attack is not on Baidu, but via Baidu.

Whoever is the attacker appears to control the great firewall of China. Who else would that be but the Chinese government?
I use tac file |less often to start at the end of the file..
China is a huge place, and I would agree with your definition of "erratic control" in the context of various non-industrial provinces...

That said, the reality is that most of what you are referring to is representative of "controlled dissent." It's not "martial law" or some kind of truly orwellian mind-control scheme... it's just the product of very tightly controlling the country's written/perceived history, with a significant focus on nationalizing "information" (ie, parse everything that comes in and out of the country via digital channels).

Once you see the way they handle the lesser-publicized issues (ie, Uighur/Han unification, Tiananmen, and Taiwan), you begin to realize that they do have the power to whitewash history on a generational scale, and considering that (as you mentioned) they take a fairly lax enforcement approach toward the "general populous," I'm curious to know what perceived ideological threats their best and brightest are working to mitigate. And how many people have simply "disappeared."
Besides the productivity aspect, its a reflection of single dimensional focus of Zuckerberg. If facebook continues to be a platform of social collaboration between people, then the team building it has to live it as well. Given that the developers spend major part of their day at office, this idea would be unconsciously forced into them every day. They would be more social and collaborative in presence of other human beings (or will learn to be). This is what facebook is about.
Perhaps not, but it's indicative of the mindset of the person behind the pseudonym.
T-Mobile opted me in to a content filter by default. To remove it, last I saw I needed to give them my SSN (!!!). So, I live with the idiot filter, which actually scans for keywords in websites and blocks them. SSL obviously makes this sort of filtering useless, which is very useful.
+1 on the interactivity aspect. Not having to go through a bunch of compiler configuration (C/C++ land) to get a basic GUI up and running is a huge plus. And HTML is a lot easier to understand for people with no experience than a bunch of tkInter classes.
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Once it reaches a certain size, many tech companies grow a department called "business development". This department always seems to contain highly paid people who take a lot of meetings and promote various big ideas, but who hold no actual operational responsibility or revenue accountability. For this reason, they only tend to be fired during massive cost-cutting campaigns, because otherwise the value of their work is entirely in the eye of the beholder. They are like human Bitcoin.
If you had asked any epidemiologist in 2019, they would have told you that respiratory viruses that spread through droplets can't be effectively controlled by lockdowns and that the evidence for universal masking is weak. If you remember the early controversy over the UK's response, this is what it was about; the government wanted to follow their pre-established protocols for handling respiratory pandemics, against their advisors' advice that this was completely different and couldn't be handled the same way as flu pandemics.