skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once saw a case on a conspiracy forum of a guy who claimed that taking worming tablets had cured his cancer. It wasn't a clear case to me, as he'd also been taking traditional chemo. His doctors apparently told him that the worm tablets he was taking were harmless and he could go on taking them, but the doctor didn't think it had any effect on his cancer.

The real issue I have with this sort of reporting is that the plural of anecdote is not data. If 1% of people with a given kind of cancer will survive, and some percentage of them take alternative medicines, then a smaller, but nonzero, percentage of people will believe they were cured by taking just about anything.

Controlled, double blind, randomized trials are the only way we can know whether these anecdotes have anything to them.
Why is incognito mode so difficult for browsers to implement? If the browser already comes with support for profiles, then isn't switching to incognito mode the same as running from the empty profile?

In particular, why do particular APIs need to be shimmed or disabled? In my empty-profile based proto-proposal, even if a website writes to disk, wouldn't closing the session cause any data written to be rolled back?
In his post he says his car is from 1993, which is 26 years old, not 10.
This is great, we all do this too.

Even when you try not to you’re still bombarded with ‘news’ all the time and can only invest so much cognitive effort to each. So we end up deferring so much of common knowledge to news sites. Only a small percentage of those are trained journalists with time and budgets.
Most landlords just paint the walls and cross their fingers on an older place. You've seen these dingbats in LA? Deathtraps and most are not to code at all.
There are definitely steganographic measures in place. Reality Winner is currently imprisoned because The Intercept didn't properly remove yellow tracking dots from a printed memo she leaked to them. Printed documents are easily tracked this way, and I suspect minor variations and invisible unicode, etc. is used for more widely desseminated digital material.

There is almost definitely 10 more martins out there... exfiltration is so diverse of a problem that any system with strict auditing and controls will still have side-channel attacks.

>I guess there's always the "you can't stop someone from taking a photo of your computer monitor" problem (forgetting the name rn), but even then you can use little things like spacing words slightly differently per presentation of the file, etc.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Nothing more postmodern than getting postmodernism wrong.
> Documentation can help some of this, but is often not enough or does not capture reasoning behind technical implementations.

Doesn't that create perverse incentives to not create documentation?
About what I'd expect from Quillette, which publishes articles on phrenology and calls it science.
One of those other options for the landlord is to leave the property vacant for a time instead of renting it to you.

If the landlord has only the one unit, doing so is probably a risky, undesirable option. Probably not so if they have 100 units, though.
I wonder how far they can go before they are told they can't buy anything more? I think they have too much right now.
It’s called Induced Demand, a very common phenomenon in everything from traffic to housing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Advocates of “more housing” in the Bay Area, for example, will be dismayed to see that tons of housing and higher density did not work in NYC, prices will remain high, so more housing is not the solution.
Obviously Apple can't prohibit you from having a website on the internet. The issue is collecting payments on their platform.
Thats a good point re managerial stuff. So did i and i always had to sit in a corner or somewhere secluded.
I think when it comes down to it labor conditions are in the details, and it depends on the work. External pressure can help workers get a better deal, but often, especially if there is a collective bargaining agreement in place, coverage that's more salacious than accurate can harm their ability to negotiate.

It's like the guy who had the made up story about Foxconn on NPR, with whole bits about how they were flagrantly violating child labor law. It doesn't mean conditions at Foxconn are good, but the lack of accuracy means the company can't and won't make concessions where there's a real problem.
I'm not sure why it wouldn't be a popular position. There are countless scientific studies demonstrating the efficacy of placebo. The human mind is a powerful thing.
Windows 10 Debloat Script
I knew someone like this. At the risk of being super rude, in a post bragging about their tax return and new Playstation, I asked why they weren't paying down the debt they were recently complaining about.

I forget the exact words but it was basically, "I'm paying down the debt on misery and depression."

It reminded me of some of the sadder parts of my time in university. Sometimes you need a little injection of joy and you try not to burst into tears as you type your debit PIN in, knowing this is basically all you've got left.
Americans are tremendous spenders. Pay someone 100k a year, they'll spend 101. Then complain it's their student loans that are weighing them down.

Seriously, since the great recession the American economy has absolutely boomed. If someone hasn't made money in these last few years, it's most likely going to be their own fault.
This will disable a number of different apps/services/features that are either useless or slow down the OS considerably.

The following script is even nicer as it comes with an UI:

https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

Both are written in powershell.
The Web is full of closed gardens as well, we call them SaaS.
I understand where this article and app developers are coming from. There is a big difference in what Google and Apple do in this ecosystem, however.

Apple basically says that any digital goods purchased through an iOS app needs to pay Apple's 30% fee. This includes things like subscriptions and in-app purchases. I really noticed this with Audible, you can search the store but are not able to buy anything in their app on iOS.

My issue with apple is not that this fee exists, but that it is truly anti-competitive. Apple does not allow users to install apps outside of the app store. They also are holding back things like PWAs from being viable alternatives for very similar reasons (I'm looking at you Web Push notifications!).

Google's ecosystem on the other hand is more open. You can install APKs from anywhere and there are even third-party app stores like F-Droid. I honestly don't know if the play store has the same rules as Apple does, but even if they did i'd be ok with that because users and companies do have other options if they don't want to use Google Play.

The argument for me is do you want to be on the App store for the exposure/convenience of disribution or do you do it because there is no other alternative. The former is a marketplace with an audience and the ladder is a monopoly.
You can come back to market price between tenants. Rent control doesn't discourage new construction: https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/242/docs/Rent_Matters_...
The Gell-Mann thing is dangerous pseudo science, stay away. It's not even invented by a scientist. It's the excuse people go to to disbelieve something they see in coverage, or to win arguments about "the media" or "fake news". If you want to dismiss something as a falsehood, you have to do it with evidence, not quips. This article is an excellent example.
Admittedly playing around with the definition of "legacy code" (and I get what you meant - I'm just playing with the words!), this particular set of code is legacy code from 2009, but I think I could argue that some of the world's legacy code was written yesterday, and there is code from decades ago that is not legacy code.

This particular set, though, was legacy code pretty much the week after it was written :(
I doubt they have any negotiating power. Negotiations are always based on leverage, and second-best option. They have none of those. What can they theaten? To not take Visa or Mastercard in the Play Store? That they'll only take checks my mail?
A new car is usually a bad financial decision, especially if you're at your first job.
In Germany, Switzerland, and several other European jurisdictions, Bußgeld/Ordnungsbusse (fines) are distinguished from Geldstrafe (penalty? amercement?).

Depending on the gravity of the offence, the law (or court) determines the amount to pay, and it is in units of money for the Bußgeld, but in units of Tagessätze (daily fine) for the Geldstrafe. Now, how much money a Tagessatz corresponds to is determined in a second step based on the income and wealth of the offender.

So, for example, a banker in Switzerland that went 114 km/h instead of the allowed 80 and overtook on the right several times was fined 450,000 CHF (around 450,000 USD - yes, half a million).

I find that quite sensible.

https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/zuerich/halsbrecherisches-...
There's only so many computers. Graphic designers deliver an end product regardless of this. The end result is all that matters. The business of Uber is conveying people from point a to point b safely. Their contractors should have the ability to use whatever vehicle safely conveys people from a to b. If they don't have a choice then they are employees not contractors.
Not really, since they are single events you don't know anything about the frequency and how it compares to the frequency in other locations.

The law of large number causes unusual events to happen every day, which means the more globally your news operates the more freak events you can accumulate. Your town newspaper regularly reporting that someone had to work next to a corpse would be concerning. BBC world news reporting that this happened somewhere in the world might be statistical blips.
A concrete example of why a 3rd party pw manager is useful- git(hub/lab) credentials. On both sites, I can easily want to enter account credentials in a terminal as well as the browser. Not every password will exclusively be used in the browser, and 3rd party managers are handier outside the browser.
Well, a big company can work to make money on all their productions, like when they make a ton of money with a few big shows like say friends. I have a vision that a lot of money goes to the endless division of licensing to all those middlemen negotiating small different broadcast allowances, that have to be implemented, enforced, checked, have lawyers on both sides, produced etc. That's overhead must waste a lot of money. What if every programmer had a middleman negotiate your wage and take 15%? That wouldn't make it more productive, but would pay for a lot of useless businesspeople in the middle.
>We’re also rapidly working on open sourcing the core tech behind Quark.

The github repo is the website code only (https://quarkjs.io/FAQ/license.html).

Looks like lots of work has gone into the project, but so far it's a black box. Is the goal for this to be a commercial product?
The major downside of fission isn't fission products or transuranics. Would that those were! The major downside of fission is that it's too expensive. Fusion would take this, THE showstopper for fission, and make it worse.

It's an example of not focusing your problem solving on the actual problem.
How to Find Movies
I use the same idea when stacking firewood.
No any company that deals with people in the EU (even non-EU citizens physically in the EU) needs to obey GDPR - simple site explaining it simply here: https://www.compliancejunction.com/countries-subject-gdpr-pr...

Geo location for IPs is a very inexact science so they almost certainly are processing EU citizens' data. Hell I can access it with a VPN while sat in the EU so yep, they are liable if they store anything about me (apparently IP addresses are considered PII in terms of GDPR too)

No idea how they'd enforce it - various murky-references to "international law" are floating around. I guess these sort of things are covered in trade treaties etc like with patents and copyright etc.
Side Note: Google has been the champion of PWAs which main use case is to be able to bypass an app store and install an app directly from a website. This gives Google less control over the app ecosystem but has the potential to be beneficial to users.
What you're describing is simply detecting attention, not conscious thought (e.g. inner voice), which is what I was referring to.
No worries! Feel free to PM or reach out if you're in Boston / NYC.

Another tip is to never speak negatively of anyone you've worked with as an intern to other potential employers. Once you're a professional, I'd air on the side of neutral if someone asks why you left a startup or your opinion of a specific ex-colleague.

You never know who you're talking to also knows... Been burned by that one when I thought I was just "being honest".
I think the way the forward looking CFO positions approach this (that keeps development velocity high without the 20 layers of paperwork to get CFO approval in old system) is as follows.

New feature coming online, team sits with cost/acctg side and says, we expect our budget needs to go up by $X / month.

Either third party or now AWS budgets for a given tag/project/account are prepared daily.

If the daily / hourly rate > expected, inquiries as to why are made, discipline if needed (rare).

Many CFO's are so happy to be out of the CapEX game, out of the Oracle audit game they will probably put up with a fair bit of a tradeoff there.

Those same CFO's have had a lot of trouble when a project doesn't work out under old approach. Now they just spin down everything in AWS over a few hours.

Govt side in particular, the datacenter buildout costs are CRAZY and the utilization often terrible.
Well, the install base is way bigger for Android, and the general state of patching in 2019 is far more frequent than it was when older platforms were operating.
Thanks for the clarification, I agree we can do more around cost, we do offer advice here that should help
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Cost-O...

As an engineer I would prefer to see a workload work well on a single vendor, before adding the complexity of running it across multiple vendors. Complexity is rarely your friend in Reliabilty or Security
Absolutely.

The courseware runs entirely in the browser; gives great feedback; and helped me level up in a jiffy.

Such that I have no qualms mentioning it here.
That business is called "power of attorney" -- you sign over your assets to someone you trust. Problem is the person you trust could steal from you, or just charge a lot for their time and effort.
> The PC will be used for gaming. Performance on any single thread is critical. So AMD is not considered and the highest Intel consumer end CPU Core i9-9900K was selected.

The author has this to say. Given that Linus from LTT endorsed the latest Ryzen CPUs for gaming and said they were the only choice for anyone doing real work, this seems like a dubious choice.
Counter intelligence is FSB's pretty much the only job. If they do intelligence, it's in CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries such as Belarus or Kazakhstan. It's SVR and GRU that are Russia's intelligence agencies.
How do you sell the reverse engineering?

How does "the business" feel about this situation?

How does the team feel about it?
Documentation is enough if you actually allocate time for it. All problems in software come down to rushed jobs or cheap hardware. And then these problems are compounded with no documentation on how the system currently runs. So now what you have is every time a problem happens there is some time taken up by relearning the structure around the problem.

If you document you will usually see the problem happening.

eg: This report generator runs every 15secs for every customer. Currently at 500 customers we probably want to shard at 750 customers.

I bet the seniors at most companies harp about documentation because of the exact reason that they dont want to be the institional memory. They rather think about fun things rather than store all the ugly rush bs code.

Or I bet they have their own personal docs because they want to keep that job security to themselves. The most challenging thing in software is dealing with the fact that there are humans involved.
You could use ungoogled-chromium to circumvent the Google-parts.
I am living in India now and I realize how many things are very hard to get here. If India had a market like America, I am pretty sure most people in India would love to go into debt to experience the products and service which market has to offer.

Here if I've to get something, either I've to import and pay import duties and IGST which effectively doubles the price of product and it's headache to deal with customs. Often it's not possible to find interesting products on local market as a techy.
That's "Keeping up with the Joneses".

The way out of it is with cognitive training / therapy to have a healthier outlook on your life, and/or learn to hate everyone trying to sell you stuff.
The story I hear is that NSA doesn't pay enough. So one path for people is to quit then work for one of the military contractors which then end up doing contracts at the NSA but get paid a lot more.

But maybe that is unrelated since if he would still ex-filtrate data even if he worked directly for NSA.
MSR/LFTR are fission, produce a fraction of the waste, and would require a fraction of the investment to make them market ready.

Don't get me wrong, happy to see fusion advancing. But we need lots of power, today, market-ready, outside the lab. No, not the US or Europe. China, India, Africa. They want to grow, now, and we don't want them to use coal/oil, nor outdated PWR/LWR/HWR.

If fusion is 20y and $1T away, and we can have hundreds of MSR/LFTR 1GWe plants by investing $1B over 10y years, desalinating water, making aviation fuel out of sea water, and recycling fission waste from older reactors, I'd stick with fission for now.
$1/mo each doesn't pay for the show though.

If all you care about is a single show, buy the show on iTunes. Each episode costs $3, or you can buy the whole season for cheaper (seasons are usually around $30, though it depends on how many episodes are in the season).
Farage is as controversial as any of the recent populist leaders, otherwise we wouldn't have the rivers of ink his outbursts command. Trying to paint one as less controversial than the other is just an attempt at making him more acceptable.

> You didn't point me at anything objective.

Want more? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11465505/Nigel-Far...

Refusing to accept that Farage's campaigns are fundamentally based on discrimination, is just denying reality.

> Well UKIP's manifesto of 2015 is a 76 page document

Yeah, and no UKIP supporter would likely be able to describe any of it, except the bits on discriminating foreigners and closing borders. Because, frankly, that's pretty much the only thing they care about. Farage's latest outfit, the brexit party, smashes together old marxists and capitalist cronies, in single-minded pursuit of discrimination.

> They don't mention who they are whistling at and what terms they are using to do that

Because it becomes tedious to do that after a while. The targets of dog-whistling are almost inevitably minorities, because they are the ones who cannot be attacked directly without falling openly into discriminatory language - commonly known as "racist".
Right, same with deanonyming Tor. That’s only useful for catching people/software trying to hide themselves which is more counter intelligence than purely offensive.
“Show HN” is what you’re looking for. Try it!
hacked into SyTech's Active Directory

Sure, why not? Active Directory doesn't really scream top-secret security to me. Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in here: Is AD really considered best of breed for what it offers, esp. in terms of security? Or am I not giving it enough credit?
Is Psoriasis a bowel disease? Successful treatment
with bile acids and bioflavonoids suggests it is.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2018.03.011

Fwiw: The article actually suggests that Psoriasis, (and IMHO, by extension, potentially autoimmune disease in general), are associated with liver dysfunction, driven by bowel disease.
...How is this not practically tyranny?

People here show concern over digital privacy and net neutrality etcetera but that's just tightening the noose, because apparently they've already put one on the bare basics.
The argument involves the comparison with fission.

With the current LWR/HWR fission reactors, where core is solid.
I think this model is on the right track, though I'd change "quality of life" to "positional goods and signaling games". Not all of quality of life is from doing better than other people in your reference set, else FIRE would be an unreasonable goal for middle-class workers.

It's interesting to think about how to reduce the prevalence/cost of these games.
Do you use two-factor authentication? Staying logged in with the same trusted browser/device is a big benefit for security. It makes it a lot easier for companies to spot suspicious login attempts.
Most fallacies weren’t coined by scientists, they were coined by philosophers. This one was coined by a writer. That makes it intrinsically invalid?

Your criticisms of the effect are pretty vague, can you give an example here where it’s been misapplied?
Schools in my area stopped teaching driver's ed decades ago. The community college offers a few classes a quarter. They sell out in about 5 minutes.

I wonder why our accident rates continue to rise year after year.
That University disconnect is powerful and cuts across issues.

I remember hearing a freshman lawmaker talk about transitioning from other fields into politics. The first thing campaign advisers did was cut all references to advanced degrees from her website, replacing them with stories about how her grandfather was a farmer.

30 Rock's Duffy--a caricature of someone unrelatable--described his politics as "Fiscal liberal, social conservative" in one throwaway joke.[0]

I thought it was pretty clever at the time, but the college-educated writers of 30 Rock and I probably underestimated the relatability of Duffy's position.

I read a political attitudes survey a few years later that contrasted beliefs of constituents with representatives. It found that Republican constituencies are far more sympathetic to large government programs and redistribution than their reps, and Democratic constituencies are far more supportive of morality-based restrictions and social regulations than their reps would suggest.

Maybe most of the population is far more like Duffy, but education operates as a filter, making you either passionate about fiscal responsibility from econ classes, or passionate about social freedom and tolerance from liberal arts classes, or some mix of both.

That is likely to cause some friction.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/30ROCK/comments/88ztl8/dennis_duffy... He naturally meant liberal in the American sense.

[1] I've done a quick review of political attitudes lit and sadly can't find the study at the moment, will update if I find it and would welcome anyone pointing me the right direction if this sounds familiar.
> It is not super fair to tell people eating out is a luxury they cannot afford.

The entitlement in this statement is absolutely gobsmackingly absurd. I suppose this is want comes from being born after the survivors of the Great Depression are mostly dead.
Indeed, contaminated fuel would do it.