skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and if it’s a toss up between the JS powered 3MB+ websites and endless shitty electron apps or WASM, I’m going to elect for WASM.

I don't know why you think the situation would improve with WASM.
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Softlayer runs two separate networks, the public network, and the private network (vlans per customer, but also Softlayer tools are accessible from customer vlan, and customer vlan is accessible to Softlayer tools). The BMCs are connected to the private network. My understanding is that access to the BMC via the network is password protected, and customers don't get a password with enough access to flash via the network. Of course, older versions of the Supermicro BMC firmware had network accessible vulnerabilities, and current versions may have vulnerabilities as well. But impitool from the host can configure the BMC, and I suspect either flash the BMC or at least configure the BMC with a user that can flash it (or Supermicro tools can likely be run on the host to flash the BMC)
> you are not going to sell it.

I don't know why someone would posit this falsehood.

You are going to sell it to EVERYONE you can (legally and sometimes not). There is no ad-tech company that does not take this stance. You get information about Honda buyers, you're going to sell it to Ford, then take what you sold to Ford (exclusively) and sell a repackaged format of the data (summary) you sold to Ford and sell that to Subaru ALONG with the data Ford asked for in the future.

Data management platforms (DMPs) are an entire concept built around selling the data. Every adtech company (that has any tech) sells the data that is collected, outside of using it for internal targeting. The number of demand partners and amount of useful targeting data to leverage for them, is necessarily a smaller set than what you collect.

Edit: This is experience from multiple senior ad-tech positions.
I read the article you recommended. It is interesting in that the authors include feedback to simulate loops and have explicit split and merge operators, where their + operator is used to create tuples in the stream. The text is dense so I haven't fully grocked their purpose, but it is nice to see the same concepts presented in a different formalism. If you have other links, please send them along.
While not a celebrity, I recently met a woman whom spent $XX,000 on psychics to try and understand where life comes from. She was raised Christian, started "branching out" to find the answer and spent over a year of time in doing so. I asked if she ever found the answer.. her response was "no" and that she returned to Christianity. I was flabbergasted with how casual she was about explaining psychics as her choice to better understand the Universe.
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> But reporting them not because their product is impossible, but simply because you think they’re selling it too cheaply?

I'm talking about stuff like a supposed 1TB generic MicroSD card going for $50, when a legit item would sell for ten times that. Here are some examples:

https://www.amazon.com/1024GB-Micro-Memory-Adapter-Camera/dp...

https://www.amazon.com/FidgetKute-Micro-Memory-Storage-1024G...

https://www.amazon.com/Generica-256GB-Micro-Memory-Adapter/d...

https://www.amazon.com/Generica-400GB-Micro-Memory-Adapter/d...

There's a 99-100% chance these are fake, and I don't have to buy one to tell.

It took two minutes for me to find them, by the way. A company as rich as Amazon should easily be able to pay someone to search for fakes like that full time, and even purchase cards to verify their fakeness.

> Seems abusive. I could report my competitors for selling cheaper than I do and hope they get banned.

Offering these things for sale is abusive, reporting them as fake is a public service.
Agreed. I have tried to supplement a primary drive that is too small and I/O is definitely the bottleneck. So much so that you can't really watch HD video straight from an SD card because it will drop frames or cause other issues due to slow throughput.
It might be, but using the benefits of a very different thing to launder the reputation of something that people have very legitimate concerns about isn't nuance - it's dishonesty.
> when it comes to potable water piping/fixtures, "lead free" actually means "0.25% lead"

It's a fucking farce that any lead is ever allowed to be purposely added to plumbing materials labeled "lead free". However, nowadays most such labeled materials actually are lead-free. All the big brass suppliers -- Concast, Chase, Viega, Mueller, others -- produce actual lead-free brass and bronze, with no more than trace and incidental amounts of lead.

> AFAIK there's no regulation in US that will force reformulation with lead-free compounds

Correct, nothing nation-wide, although companies that sell stuff to the EU often make RoHS/REACH compliant lead-free products for all markets, simply as a matter of efficiency.

You're also right, Prop 65 is a great example of smart and necessary idea that was crafted into a useless law. Labels without any actual market restrictions are an invitation to gaming by manufacturers, and apathy by consumers.
If there really was a psychic, it would be much smarter for them to keep quiet about it and become a billionaire stock trader. Thus, even allowing for the possibility of psychics, the ones that are advertising their services to consumers for money are either stupid or fake.
For someone who doesn't visit, you are a pretty active participant
They should just use Previento
> Yet, I still find many people that have no idea what it's supposed to taste like.

Honestly, if I was having dinner with someone who waxed on and on about how I haven't had Real Tomatoes and they were super enthusiastic that I try these tomatoes and those tomatoes and "don't you see what you've been missing?!" -- I'd probably say "oh, yes, wow, how crazy" to humor the hill they want to die on.
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I can tell you from experience, PICO-8 has enthralled all my children, especially my oldest, with how little is required to make a really cool game like Jelpi. Every time we realize yet another cool thing you can do with just cos, sin, and atan2, we're always floored. Maybe we're simpler people, but my children were aware of modern video games and web apps, and somehow they still are fascinated by it and the oldest one has mastered it by now.
Breakfast is relatively recent invention. It is simply against mother nature where we evolved as humans. Your body and brain need few hours of activity to feel hungry and find some food after night sleep.
IMHO a project with a trivial directory traversal vulnerability[1] is not ready for a shiny marketing site like this.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19256230
At the IndyCar race I was shooting from a parking garage roof and there was a guy who took pictures and videos of all cars and streamed them to the team for engineering analysis. this was new to me but makes sense.

What series do you work for if I may ask?
Questioning of Equifax CEO by Congress
current discussion on the sting exposing the "psychics" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19256805
This is my approach as well - a single terminal with tmux + vim running covering an entire monitor, and then my other monitor(s) for web browsers.

I tried i3 a year ago, and didn't find much value in it since my terminal is already tiling.
Rotten Tomatoes tweaks audience ratings system to thwart online trolls
> That said security-minded people are often inconsiderate and horribly untactful in their approach. That needs to change. You don't need to be overly negative to point out a security issue. Something like, "Cool start, but might want to point out that it's not meant for production!" would be a lot better IMHO.

Agreed, and I also agree that maybe it should have a tagline about "not production ready" or even "never production ready". Not sure what the end goals of Zero are. I will say I thought it was pretty evident that this was not for production (if only to the sheer amount of "magic" inside) but maybe that's just me and it should have a disclaimer to that effect.
Until you need to raise money, then you need to convince the VCs that they should work with you. I'd say out of everyone I've ever met, investors are the most classist.
Sorry, I had an unfortunate typo in my comment which inverted the intended meaning.

I was trying to say: Not that [gadgets] has been proven to make people any happier.

And the support I would be inclined to give for that is the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

By the late 1950s most households had washing machines and gas or electric stoves furnaces and water heaters (the old versions of these were coal or wood fired and required refilling) and most of the drudgery was eliminated from household chores.

This did, in my opinion, increased quality of life significantly.

However, I'm not sure much was gained in terms of happiness from going from Black and White TVs to 4K televisions with PVRs.

Pretty much the same entertainment value could be gotten from a back and white TV as with a hi def set. You could watch the hockey game on either, and the experience was basically the same.

As for my claims about real wages not having risen since 1970, other commenters have done a better job of defending that claim. (mbell for example)
What's frustrating about these boneheads is that they never consider that 'branching out' should involve an actual education. I guess that's too hard.
I found it somewhat humorous that at every level above Fortran in the diagram of language abstraction level there was an entry for Lisp.
As you aptly point out, affirmative action results in less productive workplaces in today's world.

I think we need to accept this fact, and at the same time, realize that it's not necessarily a bad thing.

It comes down to values. Which do we value more: productivity/economic output OR equality of opportunity?

Historically, we have pretty much placed productivity at the top of our value chain, but over the past couple decades, it seems like we're starting to value equality of opportunity more than productivity.

IMO, there's no right or wrong answer, but it behooves us to get on the same page so we don't feel conflicted.
That went up in one weekend! Using stock concrete slabs, I guess. Maybe the sort they use for bridges, given their size and shape.
People could take vows of celibacy, and you'd probably just say they were really, deep down, only doing it to have more sex. And I'll certainly call you a liar, if only because you are so willing to brand everyone else with that label.

Our brains evolved to make decisions. Yes, they were constrained by a need to survive and reproduce. But those two goals are not the same thing. And the existence of those constraints does not actually preclude any other mode of operation.

You're being absurdly reductive when you conflate any motivation with a need to reproduce.
I think it's likely, gradually at various levels of government.
And don't forget the browser plugins that siphon your data.
Look at all these great things I do -- over and above what normal people do, in fact -- so I must be a great person, right?

I've heard rumors of groups of people falling so hard into this trap that they start trying to one-up each other by randomly donating a kidney. "After all, you can mostly live with just one..."
Who's to say what an exceptional case is?
California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
Location aggregation companies, like Yelp and Foursquare, actually do have large enough scale in terms of always-on location trail data to legitimately attempt this type of targeting. Combined with the fact that you’re giving them free data about your visits to places, your tastes, your likely income level based on where you shop, your home location, and from this they could reasonably predict your gender and put you into all sorts of specific advertiser buckets, it’s frankly perfectly reasonable to claim you could use it for ad targeting or measuring ad campaigns, even with a low match rate against the advertiser’s actual list of customers (under 1% surely).

To boot, Foursquare at least, and probably Yelp too, does data swapping and SDK agreements, like some thing recently announced with Accuweather (gross) and with Hilton Hotels.

I think people sincerely fail to imagine the real scope of this type of egregious trust violation and surveillance business model.

You can dress it up with whatever language you want about providing value to the user that makes them agreeable to the data collection terms, but I’m sure half of Foursquare users or Yelp users don’t actually know if they have the background location tracking disabled or not, or what other innocuous-seeming apps are silently feeding location pings to build a Foursquare data history about you to make you targetable for ads.

Frankly, I’d personally advise anyone to absolutely delete these apps or anything like them, and essentially vote with your wallet / vote by boycott and just refuse any apps that rely on this kind of business model.

[0]: https://www.adweek.com/digital/foursquare-will-fuel-accuweat...
A new laser-toting disaster lab aims to save lives by saving data
It works well for me because I'm not hungry first thing in the morning whereas I'm usually pretty hungry at the end of the day.
Maybe in ad-tech, but many organizations have lots and lots of real information.

Insurance companies are a great example. The data providers for pharmacy and automotive are another.
If I had psychic powers I would just get the numbers for the next lotto draw, play it and keep a very tight secret on how I did it.

(Or just any investment that is improbably without insider info, that works as well)
LOL I have a "Don't Want" section on my resume that says no Windows. And I found such a job! I program on a Mac.
The possible explanation of this (Peto's paradox) I mentioned was something I read on SlateStarCodex once, and it's from this paper: https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/47/2/317/719209.

I don't think this hypothesis is widely accepted, but I remembered it because it's neat, and fits the game-theoretic model of cooperation/defection perfectly - which also makes it extremely useful for drawing analogies.
A court official failed to click a box – and a witness paid with his life
Makes me wonder the extent to which the rolling surface would affect the outcome. A harder surface would cause more bouncing. Would more bouncing increase or decrease the relative fairness?
If nobody is downvoting their comments, I suppose they are good comments?
Otherwise, HN blocks low karma accounts for hours after writing two or more comments within XX minutes and receiving a downvote on any of them (I know because it regularly happens to me and I can't reply to anything).
>I don't know why someone would posit this falsehood.

lol

>You are going to sell it to EVERYONE.

Exactly. And you know what you end up with? I checked lingerie website yesterday to buy a present for my girlfriend, this data was sold, now I'm a women in some DMP. I've bought a bottle of Talisker, now i'm wealthy man in the same DMP (even if I can only afford Talisker one time per year!!!). I've also bought some drugs for my grandfather, and now i'm +70 audience and I'm getting "senior discounts" ads while not being even 35 years old.

This is the problem with data platforms. Take data from everyone, mix it, and you have /dev/random. It's totally fine to milk advertisers for their money (which original article is all about), and not fine for anything else.

Advertisers finally start to understand it. And this is why GOOG and FB are getting all the money and ad-tech is slowly dying.

EDIT: And since -- as you correctly noted -- everyone is incentivised to sell ALL data to EVERYONE -- this is how you end up with a pool full of piss instead of water. Because everyone sold everything to this pool.
And give away the game? Never.

However, it essentially boils down to what people perceive as that effortless alignment to power. The difference between real and fake is how effortless it is and why.
> Folks with your type of opinions act like there are such axioms

No, I agree with you that there are no such axioms which is why the value of social "science" is near zero.
Yeah it seems like the parent is thinking that being rude and blunt is the only way to maintain integrity. It’s actually surprisingly easy to maintain integrity and be a likeable person.
Seeing articles like this remind me why I donate to EFF on the regular and recommend others to do so, too. They're on our side.
As a mtg player, I really don't get why can't we use spin-down dice as high roll at the beginning of the game.
I often compare that to the professional approach of picking correct tool to solve a problem.

If client doesnt need extensive security i would strongly advice him to make compromises to push his product out faster.

Professionals should put client needs at first place and help meet them without making the client run out of money running after some Utopian image he does not even need.

There is a saying which also expresses the same intent: "life is a series of compromises".
I found this paper on the hypertumor hypothesis:
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/47/2/317/719209

The BBC article you posted looks like it has results that are 1) derived from actual animals, and 2) more directly useful, but I'm just a little disappointed that tumor cannibalism isn't their explanation, if I'm honest.
Yeah I'm not good at detecting that, especially not online where people say all sorts of weird things :)
Why AI is a threat to democracy–and what we can do about it
But when CBC is used correctly (with authentication), then one could just as well use CTR and get a nice performance improvement. The differences between these two (IV reuse, malleability) only become relevant when they're used incorrectly in the first place.
How is having a significant number of users be served the wrong language for every site they visit, then having to navigate and create a profile and set the language for each site individually in a different way, in any way an acceptable solution either?

If for historical reasons Accept-Language needs to pass through the OS locale, which is wrong and can't be changed, why not just standardize an optional User-Requested-Language(s) header, that only appears if the user explicitly sets it in the browser?

The current solution is awful and improving it doesn't seem like rocket science but there seems to be zero interest in fixing it. Stuff like this is why closed platforms like Facebook probably have a brighter future than the open web.
I liked Shockwave for the year or two it had the Havok physics engine. But Macromedia didn't keep up the payments and had to take it out.
Same here. Worse, I've even observed my body has difficulty producing enough heat to warm my bed. Also, when I do an important sport effort I often have troubles sleeping the next night.
> Yet, VisualWorks could load its runtime faster, if you tweaked things

For the same reason that Emacs loads quickly: the "image" is (an abstracted, runtime-dependent equivalent to) a memory dump. Perl has to parse Perl code when it starts up; Smalltalk just "is" Smalltalk when it starts up. Like booting up a DBMS where the DB already has data in it.

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised more modern languages/runtimes don't take this approach. The Smalltalk approach would work exactly as well for e.g. Ruby.
>What about if I'm caramelizing onions for a dish? I shouldn't be using sugar, I just need better quality onions?

Not to detract from your broader point, but no you should not be using sugar in caramelized onions. Add it at the end if you want them sweeter perhaps, but cook with it and you've got onions in caramel, not 'caramelized' onions. Which should probably be called Maillardized onions.
"We’re starting to see the negative effects of the tension between doing research that’s in the best interest of humanity and making investors happy."
Does anyone have a list of instances where a warrant canary was _succesfully_ used to signal government surveillance or other court order, that the company involved would have been otherwise legally forbidden to communicate?

It's been at least a decade since the 'warrant canary' was proposed. We _know_ the government has been doing all sorts of things by sealed court order in that decade. I'm not sure it has proven useful. I'm not sure the courts _would_ allow you to communicate via canary. The warrant canary disappearing can be a _mistake_ often enough, that even if we see one disappear, we don't know whether to lend it much credence.
Not sure why something can’t be extra work and a core feature at the same time.

Security, privacy, or accessibility are also core features for some startups but they add more work. Hell actually an accessible website is easy for Google translate to automacily translate, you might avoid doing i18n yourself completely if you have limited resources.
No. It's a virtue signal. Which is fine for him, just not a value shared by you and me.
Basically, he needs a pepper pots.

Incidentally, I think we should have referendums (local, national, scotland..) to ban leaders from twitter. Maybe Jack Dorsey could be sold on this.
For plenty of people, apps can still get background location data.
> Oh definitely, GCM (or another AEAD cipher) is a much better choice

GCM is only a better choice if you have hardware support for it. I'd recommend Chacha20-Poly1305 for anything that might have to cope without hardware support.
> I don't quite understand the fascination of the HN crowd with intermittent fasting.

Well, have you tried it? Unlike many fad diets there's nothing to buy, no long-term commitment, just one or a few days where you don't eat. You can do some reading to find tricks to make it easier, but all it really takes is willpower. Maybe it will do something for you, maybe not.

> a handful of flawed or limited studies

As much as we worship high quality, large-population, peer-reviewed studies, ultimately the only study that matters is the n=1, yourself - only you can find out what works for you.
trees for the forest
Ask HN: Which Google research papers are considered?
Google publishes lots of research papers. Which ones are considered landmark papers? I currently have Google File System, MapReduce, and BigTable papers on my list. Which other papers do fellow HNers recommend?
> Say what you like about Trump, but dull doesn't really fit.

I'm not actually talking about him, just pouting out that if widespread problems with executive function and impulse control resulted in a tripping of the murder rate 1960-1990, stands to reason there would be knock off politic effects as well. You have a voting public that makes bad political decisions.
Here we go. Zero conf :-)
I tried without it and it really improves my mood. I can sleep better, I feel much better. The only problem is withdrawal which takes several days and can be very painful depending on how long and strong you are on this drug.
Stay busy, distract yourself with interesting things.

I have done 3-4 days water fast a few times out of curiosity. In my case, the hunger cravings diminshed after 48 hours or so.

However, I've never feel better, worse, or different from the experience. No extra energy, no extra ability to focus, no changes in sleep, no excessive fatigue, etc. Other than the hunger, I felt normal.

I am convinced that fasting is a fad and may have placebo effect if you think it will.

Addition: I have used a 48-72 hour fast as a precursor to a longer-term low carb/keto diet (for weight loss). The fast will get the excess sugar out of your system and you'll be able to get into ketosis quickly.
Maybe it needs air on one side? (No knowledge here, just conjecture.)
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