skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The slimy marketing around centralized VPN services is why I consider it a point of pride to include the following as a "feature" in the AlgoVPN readme (

> Anti-features

> * Does not support legacy cipher suites or protocols like L2TP, IKEv1, or RSA

> * Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers

> * Does not depend on the security of TLS

> * Does not require client software on most platforms

> * Does not claim to provide anonymity or censorship avoidance

> * Does not claim to protect you from the FSB, MSS, DGSE, or FSM

It's incredible how quickly services that massively centralize bulk consumer web traffic were normalized. This is not ok. Further, most of these services are located in "exotic" locales with uncertain legal protections, anonymous or psuedo-anonymous owners, and make barely enough revenue to hire more than 3 or 4 staff members to maintain and secure their own infrastructure. This whole industry is a slow motion disaster.
Right, instead of abstracting away the database I think it makes sense to invest in making it attractive to use. Putting an abstraction layer (like ORM) on top of it basically hides it's amazing features.

PS. maintainer of mammoth here. Thanks for the mention.
> You could sure them under wiretapping laws of they did.

I assume you meant "sue", but, no, that's not actually a guarantee, because companies can require that you "voluntarily" agree to mandatory arbitration in order to get any service at all.
You could be a vue expert in only a few months if you already know programming and web development. In my experience vue only adds a few things on top of javascript which are incredibly helpful but not complex to understand.
You can think of Prisma as the next version of ORM technology. Prisma shares the same goals of an ORM (make data access easy), but takes a completely different approach than past ORMs.

Prisma uses introspection to generate a feature-rich, type-safe library around your database's schema to reduce or eliminate most of the downsides you traditionally associate with ORMs.

Type safety

Today's ORMs rely on query builders (e.g. await select('users').where('id', 10)) or hand-written classes (e.g. class Product < ApplicationRecord) to map an object to a row. Prisma looks to the database for the information about types and relationships to generate type-safe code specific to your database in every language (e.g. prisma.Products.FindByName("Sponge")).

Bugs caught at compile-time

Another downside of today's ORMs most of them break at runtime, rather than compile time. By generating type-safe database clients, Prisma eliminates any opportunity for breaking database changes to go unnoticed and end up in production.

Better performance

There are a couple advantages of Prisma has over traditional ORMs and raw SQL queries:

• The core of Prisma is written in Rust to have predictably high-performance and flexible caching.

• Prisma is written by database experts and administrators who have seen every database schema under the sun.

Fewer Leaks

Because Prisma has a holistic view of your database's structure, Prisma can generate an API that is better tailored to your application than a traditional ORM. There may be times when you still need to write raw database queries and Prisma will support these escape hatches, but those times are rare and are becoming less common every day.
Ray Dalio - Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed (Parts 1 and 2)
Of course one has to wonder how much of that "poor OPSEC" is actually just parallel construction. The linked article doesn't sound like it. But on the other hand with the way mass market VPN software generally works, how many people are going to be absolutely sure that all of their traffic definitely went out the tunnel?

The FBI having access to an NSA-provided tool that takes some IP addresses and returns other "associated" IP addresses (from trivial packet correlation on PIA's upstream) would produce a pattern of investigation that essentially looks the same.
It seems unlikely that if we genuinely tried to re-engineer the system to make it better that it would turn out worse. The fact is that our problems - the ones leading to revolution - are pretty straightforward and have been solved many times in other countries, including this one.

The most obvious one is public healthcare. This is probably the number one problem facing most Americans - everyone encounters problems with health care, and the terror of medical debt keeps all of us chained to our jobs. But this is a solved problem - health care is twice as large as a share of the economy in the US, with worse outcomes, as it in other OECD countries, which all - ALL - have functioning public healthcare systems.

And this isn't fucking rocket science - there are a number of perfectly fine functioning schemes available. All you have to do is be willing to face down the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The only problem is there are not many politicians in America willing to do that.

That, by itself, would probably take care of a good deal of income inequality - pharma, e.g., is basically a tax of 1.5% of GDP, taking money from average people and putting it into the pockets of the very wealthy.

If we want to go further the next no-brainer is simple: break up the TBTF banks. We should have done it in 2008. Instead we got Obama shielding the banks while they foreclosed on millions of Americans, not to mention perpetrating several other notable frauds. This is basically "income inequality, the industry" - it is full of vampiric individuals who keep trying to find new criminal schemes for enriching themselves. Putting a stake in it is not that complicated - break up the big players and a financial transaction tax would do it. But again, finding politicians willing to slay those demons is tough.

Of course as a committed anti-capitalist, I don't want to stop there. But the fact is that capitalism can do just fine, as far as staving off revolution goes. The US did it for decades, and only part of that was because of the Palmer raids and COINTELPRO and other such things. The vast majority of it was because of decent pensions, job security, and productivity growth. It just requires a modest commitment to make sure that the vast amounts of wealth we are constantly generating are distributed somewhat more evenly.
Attendance proves nothing at all. We've no idea if they are comfortable or not. Many appear to have come to think of it as a necessary evil.

Millions of people were eating adulterated food every meal prior to food regulations. Political process and advertising was rife with corruption prior to attempts to instil a semblance of fairness limiting what was allowed and when. Yet people attempted to vote before this.
I don't think this is the biggest factor. Men's income relative to women's [1] and the lower amount of steady jobs [2][3] could be somewhat more important for long-term relationship though [4]. In the 18-30 age range, women make as much as men.

1. https://www.payscale.com/gender-lifetime-earnings-gap

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/business/economy/volatile...

3. https://blogs.chapman.edu/crean/2015/09/29/new-research-anal...

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/upshot/when-wives-earn-mo...
All of that plus social media presence. A personal brand, if you will.
i'm confident i've hit an NP complete problem once. I don't remember the nitty gritty details, but it had something to do with optimal rendering of boxes on a screen. kinda like bin packing. I've been asked a few times, but this one stands out.

usually, my spidey sense kicks in, and i inform my manager what they're asking is hard, like multiple people for years with no guarantee of success hard. Mostly, they cut the feature. rarely they say keep poking at it for a while. I've probably messed that up a few times. But at least once, i felt that the problem was 3sat. i'm not a doctor. i'm not a moron. the problem seemed really hard, and i think i mapped it to 3sat. Perhaps i messed it up, and it wasn't really np-complete. Either way, it's not like i could look up the answer in a book.

nobody wants to pay for original research. Very few people should do original research. I'm not a person that should do original research. I think i saved the company a lot of money by cutting the feature.
I love yakiimo. The pears are hit and miss in the taste department. However, being a southern boy I still love me some yellow Georgia peaches.
Maybe the illustrious members of HN should stick to their strengths and come up with a technological solution to the following two:
- how can a nation achieve equivalent ability as this without actually destroying a satellite
- how can such debris be rendered harmless
Keeping an apartment empty ... should be cripplingly expensive.

It is? I mean, if you owned an apartment that could rent for $3000/mo, then keeping it empty is a direct reduction of your income by $3000/mo.

The problem seems to be that offering an apartment under a rent control regime creates an opportunity cost, so maybe the owner thinks it's worthwhile to "spend" $3k/mo to achieve a future return some other way.
At that point it's probably just cheaper to get a plane ticket to a country that does not patent or enforce a patent for the treatment.
If you use Chrome browser or Android phone then Google is already able to build a profile on you. They have multiple ways to ID every session and individual browsing tab to link them back to your profile. VPN is completely irrelevant in their game.
> You could sure them under wiretapping laws of they did.

Has this ever worked though? Cursory searching, I don't see or know of any examples of lawsuits that have actually succeeded on this front. And it's not like ISPs have never given consumers an opportunity before.[0]

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-draws-fire-for-monitoring-...
Well sure you can. But what about all those surveillance cameras? And the license plate cameras? Me, I wouldn't count on those giftcards.
He's still at university so the experience will be useful (provided he doesn't quit his uni work to do it). The investors are cretins. Get him to buy you beer :)
I don't know how you came to these conclusions, but they're fundamentally incorrect. Video has been one of Facebook's fastest growing advertisement categories in recent years, particularly after their acquisition of Instagram. They absolutely have a business purpose for understanding video and if they didn't they wouldn't have invested so heavily in it with features like livestreaming. Furthermore, I don't know where the idea of government regulation as an incentive came from in this thread, but it's illogical and ridiculous. Facebook doesn't need an incentive to try and prevent objectionable content like mass murders from appearing on their platform because they're well-aware of the damage they can cause their brand. That's incentive enough.
Sixth Tone isn't a propaganda outlet though, every media source in China has to get their news approved before they can publish it. The stuff in there is there because it had to be to get published.

And I quote: "For instance, in November 2018, Chinese authorities wrongly accused entrepreneur Dong Mingzhu of jaywalking after a streetside camera identified her face in an ad on the side of a bus." - this is clearly not the work of a propagandist.
I appreciate how the word using the word 'are,' though done because of a difference of how other countries refer to organizations, drives home the point that facebook is not a monolith.

It is a collection of thousands of morally bankrupt liars, each willfully using their particular skills and experience for evil every single day.
The unemployment rate is misleading. Are there really more men with well paying stable jobs? Or are there just a lot of Uber drivers and delivery people now? In other words, lots of people with contract work that don't have benefits but also don't count as unemployed.
So why not fault the ISPs for allowing this?
Indeed. Instead it falsely implies that you don’t need to, by glossing over the limits of what HTTPS encrypts and what it doesn’t. And it encourages users to avoid VPNs, making them subject to data collection by their ISP whether they know it or not.
What VPN provider would you guys recommend?
I agree with your first statement that it's clearly human error but I disagree with the argument about burn outs. Static friction is an entirely different mechanism than kinetic friction. The force needed to stop the car in your first scenario is kinetic friction. Burn outs work by static friction. In general, static friction is the higher of the two.
Comparison with UK is going for an easy win. Dutch should compare their trains with German or Japanese trains. Then, they suck!

If you use them occasionally you think they are amazing and much better than most other networks but if you rely on them everyday then you quickly realize how bad they are. Lots of random delays and unpredictable behaviors. Smallest change in weather causes disruption. And they are actually expensive even in comparison. (I cannot find the EU report that showed that, I’ll update the comment with it)
Unemployment figures are not a true measure of unemployment. We all know this. The metrics they use makes the assumption that people are voluntarily dropping out of the workforce and hence don't count as unemployed, when the reality is that while many might not be seeking employment, it's not for lack of want, but rather for lack of confidence in the ability to become gainfully employed. This goes hand in hand with the mental health crisis facing this country. Even with health insurance from Medicaid, you have a damned difficult time finding a mental health practitioner that's accepting new patients.
Could their argument not be applied to Google Cast? Almost any device can implement that protocol without certification from google afaik.
I think we’re all just frustrated down here with the lack of transparency and employees literally sleeping on the job. I remember getting out of my car on Broad St in August 2017 during the flood and arguing with people in traffic in front of me about whether the pump house in front of me was working - they thought it was just another excuse for the city to take their money.
That's awesome. A fourth display for Slack/Email would be great, but I've run out of space above due to putting my centre speaker there. :)

All through USBC daisy chaining? I have three display ports on a 1080TI, but it's fascinating to see how much flexibility Type C allows.
I think one word would shed light on such anecdotes: deliberate practice. Countless literature and researches have pointed out that simply doing more would not bring much improvement but find out what is missing and practice it to perfection then move to another weaknesses is the best way to achieve top performance, be it in sport, in music or other fields. Like someone who want to learn chess; simply plays a lot each and every day will improve his ELO slowly but it will stall after a while (say at the level of a club player) and he can almost certainly never attain the mastery. In opposite, someone who seeks guidance, study and practice to fix his weaknesses and perfect his technique will improve vastly more in the same amount of time. Effective practice and coaching is also the only difference between merely very good players and grand masters. I can’t imagine why it should be different in the field of programming and software engineering. Someone who writes thousands sloppy games might have learned how to do them faster (and maybe better) but he still learned nothing more about complex systems or secure systems. Only with intense study and practice he can master such stuffs effectively.

The Talent Code of Coyle is a good book to start reading about deliberate practice.
If you don't have the ability to control your premises, or employ enough security, perhaps you should not be permitted to operate those premises.

So we should shut down the mosques in New Zealand because they didn't control their premises and keep the shooter out? Should we shut down banks because they didn't have enough security to keep a bank robber out? You are shifting the blame away from the perpetrator. Every crime ever could be blamed on the victim for lack of security.
Note that Oregon's new rent control law is at 7% + inflation per year which seems like a very mild restriction and unlikely to cause bad long-term effects?

I would guess this only guards against sudden, extreme increases; eventually, someone on fixed income will have to move somewhere cheaper, but at least they know what's coming and have some time to figure it out.

It seems unlikely these studies say very much about mild rent control.
The lower amount of steady jobs is what I am talking about.
Those clauses are illegal, much like indemnification by you of a big ISP. Even clauses of choice of law are very suspect.

Relying on such a clause to attempt to prevent a civil suit is stupidity, if only because people are not properly informed of what the clause meant, making it void. (I could quote a few cases. But I am not a lawyer. Microsoft and EULA comes to mind.)

And by EU law, they are completely null and void by just being illegal.

That said, most of those suits do not reach court by means of settlement, not arbitration.
GDP, unemployment, and real wages are all averages (well, technically GDP is a total, but per-capita GDP is an average).

GP's point is that while the economy as a whole is doing great, nearly all the gains are concentrated in the top quintile, and the remaining 4 quintiles have seen real wages stagnate, older men drop out of the labor force, and young men fail to enter the labor force, all while watching other people pull ahead with fortunes they could only dream of. All of this is consistent with women partnering with the portion of the population that's actually doing well economically and ignoring everyone who's struggling.
You're claiming simultaneously that we have no idea whether these users are comfortable or not and that most of them think of it as a necessary evil.

Attendance absolutely proves something when it comes to social media. You can't make a comparison between social media and food because one is necessary for survival and one isn't (I'm sure I'm going to invite a ton of comments here on how 'Facebook has become so ubiquitous and powerful it's now synonymous with survival!') If the negatives really outweighed the positives people would be leaving Facebook by the droves. It's only on HN and in the news media that this narrative is being spun.
Hey, this is fine, I love single mothers.

The guy who's fucking three or four girls will leave three or four single mothers ready for me :)
Would sample size be an issue? An algorithm can recognize that a video is about someone discussing the latest Marvel movie because there are a lot of those types of videos.

But can an algorithm recognize that a video is of someone committing a real-life atrocity? Those are comparatively rare.
Oh come on now. The US Government forces tech companies to share information all the time.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/us-government-threatened-yahoo-bi...

They certainly can, and will, go after any company they want to, without referencing any specific US legislation.
Doesn't the steering column only lock when you remove the key?
The Steam thing makes sense. However I don't see how Netflix Originals is different than Steam.
Of course it's not but VR porn is a big step from video porn. There will be a percentage of men who will be satisfied by it just enough to wait longer (at 30+ it could become easier for them). Don't you think that this could lower the destabilizing effect?
Unlike small molecules, gene therapy isn't something that somebody can just whip up in a lab. Similar to biologics, there are often some trade secrets involved in the manufacturing that require a lot of time and money to figure out.
FSM == Flying Spaghetti Monster?
>In most circumstances, VPNs do absolutely nothing to enhance your data security or privacy.

>Acting as they do, and promoting commercial VPN providers as a solution to potential issues does more harm than good.

I think this ignores the fact that some users have different threatmodels, sometimes the privacy threat model of a user does include their ISP for various reasons (think China).

>

Starting with the obvious, if you pay for a VPN service, they have to keep your user account and associated payment information and your payment history. So, unless you are using a fake identity and an anonymous credit card (is that even possible these days?), your VPN account will be linked to your actual identity.

Depends on the VPN, some VPN providers actually don't keep that kind of history or provide options to operate and pay an account anonymously.
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I think “social” is the key. If you are using a carrier to facilitate private conversations then I feel you should have a right to privacy. But a forum or online group is by its nature and intent a public platform and the provider should be responsible for policing that space.
You can do much better than just a type alias in TypeScript, and get specializations of primitives that type check and compile away.

type Path = string & { _brand: never };

const Path = (s: string) => validatePath(s) as Path;

const p1: Path = Path('/foo/bar.js');
const p2: Path = '/foo/bar.js';

Here, p2 has an error because a string is not assignable to a Path.
Ahh.. looked at the wrong numbers.

Regardless, if Alberta had done the same as Norway (100% of royalties), they still wouldn't have as much money in the fund.
this article does indicate rent control works for the renters

Current renters. Future renters get locked out.

What are the arguments about who it doesn't work for?

By discouraging development, it creates an environment where the only people who can afford housing are the rent control lottery winners, and the very wealthy who can outbid everyone else for the few remaining units. In other words, San Francisco.
I see a lot of complaints about the PDF format here, what's the alternative though? Is there another format that achieves the same goals which people should rally around?
Just curious given PDF's ubiquity.

(For the record, I had to deal with text encodings in PDFs, and yes, it was a pain)
And a lot of money to a lawyer who will sue the ISP under privacy laws if it comes to light.

It has to be clearly stated in the signed contract that your data will be shared with third parties, in what way and how they will be processed. The company involved would definitely lose any Privacy Shield provisions for the EU and potentially peering rights.

Losing enough peering is identical to being disconnected.

Class suit of this kind is easy.
> As the article points out, young men are having sex less often, but young women are still having sex at nearly the same rate.

No, the article points out thar fewer (proportionately) young men are having sex, while the same proportion of young women are having sex. That's not the same as the less often / same rate description you give.

> I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men.

Social acceptance of homosexuality has increased, and every study I've seen shows that it's higher among women than men (and I think also higher for homosexual behavior by women than by men). Why do you assume that women must be only having sex with men?

If we assume that people with homosexual orientation attempting to conform to a heteronormative society would tend to have more trouble maintaining stable relations and thus cycle through relationships more frequently (which I think is plausible though not necessarily true), then a greater reduction in the number of members of one sex trying to conform that way would result in the kind of unbalanced drop seen in these statistics.