skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends if the creators of the show are targeting syndication. Star Trek is a good example of this - TOS, TNG, Voyager episodes are generally self contained and single episode reruns are viable. DS9 on the other hand had more long-running arcs requiring more context, making the syndication rights less lucrative. Rarely did reruns of DS9 air after the series ended.
Ask HN: Do you think the Russians did it?
The past few days my Facebook feed has been blowing up with people saying the Russian Hacks narrative, and now the Mueller indictments, are completely false.

The evidence that Mueller lays out in his most recent indictments can be found here [1].

I'm not a security or forensics professional, but from what I've seen it looks to me like the FBI has a strong stack of evidence.

Here's a quote from one of those claiming it's all lies:

"our alphabet soup agencies; they are paid liars, murderers, drug dealers and the enemies of the truth."

I don't think anything can convince those who start from that line to budge, but I am very interested in what the general consensus is here.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4599146-Netyksho-Et-Al-Indictment-Copy.html
I worked in insurance for a company with a reputation for being unusually ethical, etc. While working in insurance, I heard that it was quite common for other insurance companies to train their claims processors to look for a reason to deny, not a reason to pay. I was trained to look for a reason to pay, not a reason to deny and still sometimes found the bureaucratic process stomach-turning.

I generally am sympathetic to the conclusion of the author that the intent was to screw him out of his money. Having working in insurance, I have heard from reliable sources that this is a common tactic and attitude at most insurance companies and I believe that to be true.

Then, on top of that, issues for the insured are compounded by bureaucratic snafus etc. which I find abhorrent given that the industry generally runs on claims of being there for you when they are needed.

I have said previously that it boggles my mind that insurance is legal, especially health insurance. I think car insurance and house insurance and such make more sense, but health insurance strikes me as being like an ugly Running Man style game show called "You Bet Your Life" and I go through life shaking my head at the idea that the world is apparently okay with this state of things.
Also, the general sentiment is "Well, I'll/someone will worry about that later, today, I need to get mine (money&power)." See: decisions for short term stock price growth vs decisions for actual company improvement over long term.
If it does not feel fair emotionally, get out.

It sounds like you are unhappy with the amount of late nights and weekends you’re spending.

If you’re still spending backbreaking hours even after the product has been going for awhile, or simply used to like the idea but are not liking it anymore, it might be time to have a heart to heart with your boss. Different companies have different expectations, but at my own company, we’ve always had a strong desire to avoid that sort of intense and demanding work schedule. We’ve thankfully not needed to ask people to come in on a weekend... ever, I believe. We’ve had to fight a fire or two here or there, but it was typically a pretty quick troubleshooting session, and then taking a thoughtful approach during the workweek to figuring out a way to avoid that emergency scenario in the future.

Life is more than work, and it sounds like you’re feeling resentful of your employment situation. Life is short, so do something about it, whether better work life balance, requesting money that will make you happy (if that amount exists and the company is willing to pay it), or something else.
3 funding rounds later
Must have been people who ran away from AWS when Prime day overloaded the authentication system and possibly other parts of the control plane. Google got too many of them at once...
SC2 was simply an example. Clearly this is about the set of many RTS games more than just one game. And to be upfront, yes, "I want to play Starcraft but without micro" is a decent representation of my gaming desires.

I may just go ahead and make such a game sometime and, I suppose, we'll see if anyone likes such a game dynamic. It would definitely introduce a very meta game where creating and tuning your "loadout" could matter greatly.
> Thankfully, ACPI is now appearing on higher end ARM stuff (servers like ThunderX, workstations like Overdrive, hopefully the new Microsoft always-connected laptops?)

I can't believe anyone would be thankful about ACPI. Is there a machine with ACPI that isn't broken in some way? My brand new Lenovo, which multiple sites have crowned the "best" PC laptop, ships with a LTE card that can't properly power down, and causes PCI-E ASPM to be disabled. Even Microsoft has f--ked up power management repeatedly in the Surface line.

Power management on PCs is such a disaster that it calls into question the very idea of doing power management for computers built out of mix-and-match components through standards like ACPI.
why calculate poisson and binomial when both are ultimately gaussian?
I don't know why the OP posted such a terrible link. I found an alternate one:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2969365/security/lenovos-ser...

It says the Thinkpad lines were never affected by this
> As an aside, I cannot tell you how angry our direct-to-consumer drug advertisements make me. Especially the ones that are marketed to people with terminal diseases offering them hope (but in the small print offering perhaps 3 months longer life, not guaranteed).

After reading an related article (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/) a few weeks ago, it's no surprise that the market has answered the calls of those who really do want doctors to do everything and anything to prolong their loved ones lives. The selling point for these medications are hope, and I agree that it'd be sensible to regulate advertisements so consumers can truly weigh the benefits versus the costs before they in an emotional state.
I agree with your premise that the article was a complete strawman.

I suspect most people here know someone who qualifies as an incel (the harmless kind) and so I don't think it's such an insignificant minority. I know I've had dry periods when I've gotten too busy with work or life. The difference is that I know how to get back on the horse. Incels absolutely have no clue what to do. Their growth is stunted.

Too bad, it's a topic that should be discussed. Previously, societal shame forced people to get married and stay monogamous (or at least give that impression). Once this no longer existed, the incel was born.

It's just evolution, IMO. But young men with no career/family prospects and no sex are quite possibly the most dangerous kinds.
> Capital can mostly go where it pleases

Historically this was not the case at all. It's only during the modern neoliberal era that this is true.

Thing to remember Capital isn't a primary resource like energy, infrastructure, materials, and labor.
Is "Google bombing" the name for this particular brand of manipulating the search algorithm? I hadn't heard that one before.
I worked quite a bit with SSL certificates in the 90s. They were expensive back then, there were only a few CAs to choose from. Then Thawte entered the market and was cheaper than the rest. I think they were $200.
> Ergonomic aids would help people to convert their thoughts into real game plays without limiting them to their body's capabilities.

StarCraft is physical - that's critical to the entire genre (RTS/MOBA/etc). Without it, it's not StarCraft.

Improving your dexterity is a real part of improving your skill in a game like StarCraft. So using a program to do this for you instead is cheating.

It sounds like you want to play something like Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, or any other 4X-style genre game.
Self-driving car startup Zoox is raising $500M at a $3.2 bil valuation
Fun read, but the whole time I was reading it I could hear Nassim Nicholas Taleb making exasperated noises of outrage.
Agreed, multi-cloud is rather costly and means only using infrastructure services like VMs and storage.
sharing the altered code. If you share the code and its invalid it can be traced back to your account. Which you can only create if you are part of that chain as a registered user. That fingerprint changes as soon as someone tries to use their account and tries to validate against the chain. It does not stop the cheater, but it stops it from spreading the cheat and it is easy to identify the cheater.
That is about 300000 Dollar per Amazon Employee (assuming 500000 employees). Maybe it‘s time to pay Amazon employees some dividends?
The State of Browser Push Notifications
There's a barrier to entry and a requirement in regards to education that are intrinsic in the stock market. You also need liquid cash you're willing to part with, and in large enough amounts to matter. And in between the stock market and the worker are a ton of predatory "advisers" who would rather suck someone dry with fees than ever see the worker profit.

I'm finally at a point where I have enough liquid cash to finally start investing, and I'm finding the whole process very daunting. Trying to get enough information to make the "right" decision has filled me with analysis paralysis.
Please just go now.
> There's a lot I don't like about Trump, but I think his tariffs really will make America great again (if they aren't just repealed by the next administration). Because we're finally doing something about this situation.

The tariffs are at best misguided and most likely highly counterproductive. In the steel sector, the main problem boils down to China massively overbuilding steel production in the past decade and dumping (subsidized) steel on the world market. Building a coalition of nations to confront China on this matter wouldn't be very difficult... but Trump manages to make it about attacking Europe, Canada, and Mexico instead. And the fact of the matter is that there are far more jobs in manufacturing sectors that are at risk because of sudden increases in raw materials brought about by tariffs than there are job prospects to be brought back. On top of that, the resulting trade war is going to cause more pain in the labor market in unrelated segments.
Zoox, a once-secretive self-driving car startup, is closing a $500 million at a $3.2 billion post-money valuation, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Prior to the deal, Zoox was valued at $2.7 billion, Zoox confirmed to TechCrunch. The round, led by Mike Cannon-Brookes of Grok Ventures, brings its total amount of funding to $800 million.

Confused by that. It's valuation increased exactly by the 500m amount, so no per share price increase?
Reviving supersonic passenger flights to harm environment
The anticheat team at a videogame company might not know/care about this. This has definitely been the case with past European data privacy regulations.
My vision is far from 20/20, and I have trouble discerning road signs at a distance, but I can see how pixels are square on most 24" FHD displays.

For development, a lot depends on the quality of font antialiasing and hinting, though; Linux used to provide superb font rendering in this regard.
I do not deny that the game mechanics would vastly change. The strategy would shift away from "How can I micro these roaches" vs "How can i effectively attack burrowing/unburrowing roaches" to "How can i ensure I get roaches" vs "How can I frustrate/prevent my opponent from getting them in the first place"... As an aside, ANY change to a game is going to disrupt the equilibrium in some manner and I assume would require human intervention to re-establish a "fun" gameplay.
And multi-DNS provider. :)

Everyone always forgets about DNS, until Dyn dies.
I haven't been able to make an ELB target be an external IP. What did you mean by "ELB's application load balancer seems to able to point to AWS external IPs"?
If more and more people are realising that command line interfaces were the right thing all along and shunning GUIs, what is actually the point of Windows any more?
The billing problem is mentioned, but just left dangling. I wonder if anyone has done any interesting work at fixing this?
I dont know for certain. I'm almost certain it was Verisign. They might not have been using that name yet. There was a bunch of phoning around to see how this was even done. Asking Wikipedia isn't helping me much just confirms that all this was new back then. I also didn't handle the money for us so it's possible we where invoiced or someone sent a check that I didn't know about. I dont even remember why we felt we needed it at the time.
Not that unusual. Almost all vanilla is grown in northern madigascar, etc.
As the article also states, it's possible to remove those write barriers by hashing. I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be possible to use the same scheme for copying generational GC.

The most important point, though, is that you don't know whether the hypothesis that Go wouldn't benefit from generational GC is true until you test it. Nobody has tested it. And there is plenty of indirect evidence to suggest that this is not true. For one, Go programmers have a habit of manually microoptimizing short-lived allocations to keep escape analysis "happy", which is something that becomes much less important with bump allocation in the nursery. Another simple observation is that .NET has the same situation regarding value types as Go does, and .NET uses a copying generational garbage collector. A final observation is that certain situations, like indirect calls [1], cause objects to be spilled to the heap unconditionally.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/964639cc338db650ccadeafb74...
book is available for free, another post got the URL.
This is probably a PR stunt to print book with a nice design-ish front cover.

They want to grab the mindshare of devs, and they are doing the right PR stunt to do it.
Isn’t Twitch bought by Amazon years ago? Would be surprised if they’re using GCP.
Because the seller still needs to sell it. And their reduced cost of goods sold compared to USA is low enough to sustain a decrease in margin. How much, I don't know.

Devil's advocate: who else will actually buy that steel?
A couple of publicly available alternatives I'm aware of include:

- Girder: http://girder.readthedocs.io

- Intake: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/intake

I haven't used any of these, but I agree that the idea is quite compelling.
A good solution will not only generate keys for each player, will even generate different keys for same player each time that player starts a new gaming session. Start game->generate keys for session->play game->throw keys away.
And good luck proving that you were let go from your job because you went to vote.
> No, people who have serious health issues are the ones who tend to prefer the more complex treatment options, shorter wait times, and customizable interventions that multi-payer systems have to offer.

This statement shows an utter lack of experience navigating the insurance/medical complex with a serious health problem.
i love bulma css
I've always thought TTL less than 60 seconds should be avoided, as some upstream DNS resolvers will ignore values less than 60 seconds and use a default long value. You are saying this is not true and a TTL of 10 seconds can safely be used?
I use the plain notes plugin for Sublime for notes that I need to keep around for a while, and pen and paper for more ephemeral notes that I go through and toss once a week.
If you live in a location that has poor selection of GPs then it should be your choice to opt out without denying yourself access necessary medication.
Pachyderm founder here. We're not really a data hosting provider, although we may offer that in the future. Right now Pachyderm is more like intranet data hosting for companies. You have to spin up your own Kubernetes cluster and deploy Pachyderm on it. It's also not normally used to download data onto your local machine for processing because it has its own computation layer which allows you to run code at scale and tracks the provenance of the data to keep things reproducible.
Most of these comments here just list the names of the podcasts. Please include a description and your personal comments so that others can consider if they might also be interested.

I will just mention a few:

Hardcore History: The name is pretty good description of what it contains. If 2-4 hour episodes that dig into the why and how of a particular topic in history is not for you, then neither is this podcast.

Dan Carlin focus on ideas and not so much on dates. His pods are infrequent and long.

Martyr Made: Started out with the best, most indepth description of the history of the creation of Israel (from about 1880 to 1949) in the form of over 25 hours of content, some of which is seriously depressing. A good showcase for some of the worst humans can do (on both sides of the conflict). Best enjoyed with a pause button and so not for children.

Joe Rogan: (only added here because others have mentioned it). I subscribe but have only listened to a couple episodes. My main complaint is that they are way too frequent and the title is just whomever he interviews so if the name doesn't ring a bell you will have spend a couple hours figuring out if it is worth listing to.

How it began: Stories of how we got particular techs, from refrigiation to computers. Contains music and background sounds so it fells more like a radio documentary than a podcast. Highly recommended, have listened to several episodes multiple times.

Contex: Same author as how it began, but simpler in production and focuses more on the context of something: like Guns Germs and Steel; the wealth and poverty of nations and so on. The podcast is only a few episodes in.
> Does anyone seriously think that's legit?

Yes. Supply/Demand. Price discovery. Visibility. And critical mass. They all can make ridiculous valuations.

But back to money laundering: If you consider tax evasion as money laundering too. Then the legit economy is a subset of the money laundering economy.

Tax evasion is huge. Very huge. In the Trillions. Then you have drugs, arms, illegal stuff, governments, international corporations, etc... This huge flow of money will certainly pump to everywhere money runs (App Stores, Games with virtual cash, Crypto, Digital Goods, etc...)
Cancel the gig.

You can not fix prior mismanagement with technical means and definitely not by bringing in an outsider who probably also does not speak the local language.

In addition you will be limited in who you can hire locally if this is the first time you are moving to a particular country. You will not have connections that are necessary for identifying and retaining high quality staff, should it be found that there has been some sort of acrimonious interactions between the CEO and his/her local team which has impacted morale, which essentially requires you to replace the entire team in order to fix.

So in your situation, you might be forced to try to fix the local team which is a coin-tosser (50/50 chance of this working out), and entirely not acceptable if an artificial deadline has been established.

Cancel the gig. Save the money you would otherwise have spent, and go on a vacation in the same country if you must.

Now, if you’re mad and still want to proceed, you might do well reading https://www.marshallcavendish.com/marshallcavendish/genref/T...
Those were decisions made a lot of time ago, when there was only a single region/datacenter, since that was what you were running your servers on. And then they remained.

AWS has a similar issue internally, IIRC (oncall around DST switching times was fun with teams in three continents), but they are making baby steps to fix it. It's harder to fix than it sounds once in place though...
But Steven Pinker and Bill gates said things are better than ever before.
> Yes, definitely.

In that case, as I said, I see your point, and I think we merely disagree on fundamentals, which is fine.

> If the parent comment that I disagreed with had come with huge disclaimers that it was only intended as a technique to be applied precisely in the OP's use case

At the risk of breaking the HN taboo of bringing up voting as well as potentially sparking another meta-discussion, I'll say this:

The consistent downvoting combined with the lengthy sub-thread with the OC insisting, in essence, that the context was sufficient to convey intent (and subsequently confirming original intent), in the absence of disclaimers, suggests that your position here may be tending toward the unreasonable.

This isn't to say that you're categorically wrong and that nobody else could possibly intepret it differently, just that it might be beyond a "reasonable person" standard of interpretation. Personally, I prefer being required to exert extra effort to gain context, so as to have writing be more succinct and free of disclaimers.

Perhaps most importantly, though, your belaboring of this point had, at least for me, distracted from your main thesis. It probably still does for some readers, and I find that unfortunate for HN, as diversity of thought is something that I believe helps us all.
You're fortunate to have both the intelligence and the time to do that effectively. Not everyone has the capability to assemble, decipher, and fully understand that information.
Interesting - do I remember that macOS 10.12 (or maybe 10.13) was supposed to allow for per-app VPN access? Does that use this API, or something else (assuming it actually exists)? Also, quite the cliffhanger on VPNStatus, which sounds promising (any chance it could also support Wireguard?)
Is this approach similar to ones used in VAC (valve) or easyanticheat, or battleye?

Some of the above are notorious for consuming client resources. Easy anticheat is known for banning players in unrelated games that they cheated on. (E.g. cheat on pubg, get banned in a different game that you didn't cheat if both games use easyanticheat)

This is a great writeup but I'd love to see how 3rd party anticheat programs work
I'm guessing you go in with that attitude and then whine when you get treated like shit.
> It really just boils down to understanding your title's threat model and mitigating the threats.

Well that can be said for every product ever...

I do agree though, I did expect a little more real content. Not the "how anti-cheat works" because then we can find ways around it more easily, but like you said: reliability, performance, etc.
We are paid a lot but I heard somewhere that even though we should have crazy bargaining power we still are capturing less of the profits than would be expected so tech isn't fully immune to it (especially if you aren't working at one of the more famous tech companies)
> That is a really disingenuous reading of Arrow's work

You say so, but provide no examples. So your argument is an unsupported conclusory one.
Quantum computers are not faster computers that we can use to write lazier code. If they were you might have a point.