skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy Possum is a rewrite by a former Privacy Badger dev and goes beyond what Privacy Badger does. https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum#why-not-privacy-ba...
Yeah I mean there are many many parts of rural north america that do not have easy access to broadband. I grew up in Wisconsin - I just simply couldn't give someone coins when I'm up in the Northwoods.

Here's a quick example: https://www.vox.com/2017/6/20/15839626/disparity-between-urb...

Edit: If you give someone a coin with the private key on paper, technically you can give them coin offline, but the rest of the networks have no clue this happened, and you can't spend unconfirmed monies.
Yup. This is certainly one problem that we are dealing with.

JIRA - so that non-tech folks can be on-board.
Documentation is virtually non-existent - even though there's wiki on git.

git for DVCS, but done in a haphazard way.

Bug tracking on JIRA, as tasks.

Operations/customer success/top management still depending on excel sheets for reports.

End result: cognitive load on apt way of tools usage is very high, and also puts a high barrier of entry and adoption in the right way.
Which is a separate app and doesn't leak much to the people you talk to (does it? I don't really use FB or Messenger anymore, I don't remember if you have to be friends to get messages delivered)

Obviously, it leaks loads to Facebook.
They already have a huge impact on performance and in my experience most people don't care which filesystem they use as long as the performance is good.
Not to be pedantic, but websites don't break up marriages. Married people break up marriages.
Port to OSX?
If you're targeting non-CPU designs--such as GPUs, FPGAs, systolic arrays, TPUs, etc.--it is very much the case that you have to write your original source code differently to be able to get good speedups on those accelerators. It has long been known in the HPC community that "performance portability" is an unattainable goal, not that it stops marketing departments from trying to claim that they've achieved it.

LLVM/Clang makes it much easier to bootstrap support for a new architecture, and to add the necessary architecture-specific intrinsics for your new architecture, but it doesn't really make it possible to make architecture-agnostic code work well on weirder architectures.
> More folks should write compilers

It's on my TODO list. After, of course, I finish that x86_32 preemptive multi-tasking kernel I started writing 20 years ago and never finished. Plus the 16-bit CP/M clone for the 68000 that's gathering dust. Or maybe after my half finished Z80 emulator or my half finished Z80-systems-in-Unreal-Engine project, or my mostly-but-not-completely-working VT100 emulator. Sigh. How do people ever finish this stuff?
Wow, and to think of all the times I've held myself back colouring within the app guidelines. Meanwhile other app developers are abusing the apis to no end.
I remember when I tried to run Doom on my old 386 HP and man was it slow haha.

I think nowadays, these online arena games take forever to load. Back in the 90s it was all about loading and performance. Quite the shift in gamer expectations.
I also used Life360 to geofence my kids and get notifications when they leave school and return home. It actually caught my son running away from school one time, and when the guidance counselor couldn't find him, I was able to locate him outside the school wandering around the streets.
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who are then chased by a prehistoric sea creature that was feeding off the energy.
Obviously lots of science doesn't have practical applications (astrophysics anyone?) but I am skeptical "does X benefit society?" applies any better to much (maybe most) of what people actually do. I might turn it around and say that (nearly) all of what humans do doesn't benefit our societies, so much as it doesn't destroy them.
Except a horoscope is based on your birthdate and not any manifesting characteristic of your identity.
We’re working with banking partners to originate the loans. We’ll fund some of these loans ourselves, and we’ll also work with investors to help us extend even more capital.
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> So basically a huge pump and dump

Softbank have been transparent from the start. When Uber did its split round, even on HN, a number of commenters were convinced the spread was legitimate. That the top-of-the-stack pref was actually worth 2x the next-in-line pref. The media fetishised the post-money valuation, and the details got lost in the conversation amongst uninformed investors.
A filesystem is a KV store; if you can solve a problem by storing data in files, then you can use a faster and more scalable KV solution.

I think it makes more sense to think of KV as a minimalistic distributed filesystem, rather than as a limited kind of memory or a stripped SQL database.
What does Life360 provide that Apple's own 'Find My Friends' app does not? That's what my partner and I use to track locations.
> Makes me almost wonder if intel was purposely holding back 10nm until it really needed it.

Why would they do that? Intel didn't need to knock it out of the park, but they'd make more money doing yet another incremental improvement on 10nm just to get all the upgrade money. And to add in those laptop improvement features (wifi 6, integrated thunderbolt 3).

I'd understand them holding back large IPC improvements just to trickle it out, but holding back 10nm entirely doesn't make sense. Especially since it'd let them do even higher core count Xeon chips which make stupid huge profit.

> AMD beats on IPC, intel suddenly fixes their garbage?

Except AMD has beaten Intel on IPC and yet Intel has still not been able to fix their garbage. So much so they're doing yet another 14nm line of laptop SKUs (Comet Lake)
Making email drip campaigns, but for SMS
I mean the file size comparison doesn't really apply, because hardware back then had many limitations anyway.

We should be seeing much better load times than we are given current hardware, not incrementally better or even worse. Which is the reality, since no one optimizes anymore.
My company switched around the same time. Hype was primarily why we switched.
countDownfrom(n--) produces infinite recursion, which is arguably why you could call coutDownfrom(--n) clever (you have to understand the subtleties of those operators). I agree that "pointless" or "stupid" are better descriptors, though :)
> healthy competition between nation-states

Competition yes, but healthy? Only if you think taxation is all bad, and government should be as small as possible, period. It is a race to the bottom.

Personally I believe that healthy is when there is a power balance between democratically controlled government and privately owned business. They should be about equal in power. In many western countries, especially the US, the power balance has shifted completely toward business. Business can dictate law and make governments compete with one another for their money.

This is obviously the wrong way around, it undermines democracy (aka the people) and benefits business owners (aka the rich). Business should compete with another, governments should set rules for their markets. If a country votes for high taxes and generous public services, this should be priced in by business, not undermined and circumvented.
This was my impression as well.
I would be more concerned about those in Congress who are pro gun control would spin those findings to push for gun control.

It's not a problematic conclusion because a correlation isn't causation. There is a lot more to study and frankly just going direct from that kind of correlation to gun control is intellectually lazy.
Two of the best cases I'm aware of scientific viewpoints on a massively significant fact or theory changing involve the age of the Earth and the dynamics of continents.

As of 1800, the Earth was thought to be variously by mainstream proponents anywhere from 6,000 years (Biblical chronology) to "old", possibly even 30 to 300 million years old (geological chronology). A leading geological text suggested the actual duration was unknowable.

The continents were thought to have been in their present locations for all of time, though it was also clear that land had moved veritcally -- there were fossils of seashells and aquatic creatured found high on mountains.

What shifted the age of the Earth calculus most was discoveries in chemistry and physics, most especially of radioactivity and radioactive elements, and the fact of half lives, though also of spectroscopy and the first discovery of an element not initially noted on Earth: helium (named for the Sun).

Radioactivity provided both mechanism and clock to explain and measure a longer geological history. Lord Kelvin's calculations of the age of the Sun were based on conversion of gravitational potential energy to heat -- he had no other explanation for the Sun's energy -- and this would have been exhausted after a few tens of millions of years. Though that figure conflicted with geological estimates based on sedimentary deposits suggesting 100s of millions of years' accumulation.

In the early 1900s, measures of radioactive decay and daughter elements showed conclusively that the Earth was at least 0.5 - 1 billion years old, and likely more, whilst hydrogen-helium fusion explained a far longer life for the sun.

At the same time, the theory of "continental drift" (now "plate tectonics") was first proposed, and rejected (~1914).

Over time, more evidence, largely again from radioactive decay, bolstered by meteoric asteroid and later Lunar rock samples, pinned down the age of the Earth to 4.5 billion years +/- 1%, and increased evidence in the form of continental shapes, common geology, fossils, subsurface ridges, rift and convection faults, and more, finally proved plate tectonics beyond a doubt. The theory was finally formally accepted in the mid-1960s.

Radioactivity played a role in the latter as well as it accounts for roughly half of the interior heat of the Earth (the other half being residual gravitational potential energy of formation).

The story (most especially of plate tectonics) is told by Naomi Oreskes, science historian, in Plate tectonics: an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/plate-tectonics-an-insiders-h...

As a study in how science changes its mind, over profound differences of opinion and much institutional and social resistance, it's a fascinating story.

Plate tectonics is now not only a central theory of geology, but the central theory and the fundamental explanatory mechanism of the discipline. It's the idea which moved the science from a mere cataloguing and collecting phase to a theoretical and explanatory discipline.
If there is a need for an API, then I'd rather that API exist, rather than a VOIP API being used for non-VOIP things.
Local newspapers are in-site and can contribute with the roles of leader, moderator and organizer, as well as adding genuine content. All of these Facebook Users usually don't achieve in an articulated way
I Didn’t Want to Offend You: The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions
Hurricane Dorian aid: How to donate to rescue, relief, & recovery in the Bahamas
Completely agree, both the company and individual win here, no one wants to be unhappy doing their work. And no one wants to work with the person that is always complaining about how the company has changed.
Ask HN: How can I disable all Security alerts for my Google Account?
IE: I don't ever want for anyone to be blocked from login into my Google account. Because most of the time, I am the one being blocked. I get something like this: "Sign-in attempt was blocked for your linked Google Account".
Comments like this aren't helpful.

Literally nobody is claiming the results are solid evidence for anything other than that one small study had an interesting and unexpected result.

And the results aren't "nearly meaningless" - they're an indicator that maybe a larger study should be done. I doubt anybody gets funded for big studies shooting into the dark, so smaller "what if..." studies like this are valuable.
It's an interesting study in terms of how they conducted it, but isn't it obvious? If political ads didn't swing votes, no one would run them.
Tell HN: Please Remove SMS as a 2nd Factor
Hacker news is a place where a lot of individuals congregate that have influence over major websites and services.

SMS "2nd Factor" was well intentioned. The problem with sending people codes over SMS is that SMS is trivial to spoof and intercept. It's trivial to port/sim swap/steal someone's phone number, as Jack Dorsey just found out. SMS has no reliable guarantees on latency, duplication, or even transmission.

SMS "2nd Factor" is just delegation to another company for authorization, except the communication channel is insecure, unreliable, and malleable.
Discrete FIDO keys, U2F keys built into phones, TOTP apps/keys, or even apps that shake the user's phone asking if they just logged in are vastly superior.

Let's put it to bed. I'd ask the Twilio like sms gateway companies start to discourage the use of their services for 2FA and the companies that rely on it begin phasing it out immediately.

Thank you,
> They are moving all drivers to user space.

probably you mean 3-rd party drivers? or even apple internally?

[edit] i couldn’t tell that from the slides mentioned below, but maybe i missed something

> All the ones corresponding to the former IO Kit do require C++

yea, which leads me to believe if apple was to rewrite the kernel, they probably would go with c++ ... or maybe it’s just that swift doesn’t have its embedded chops up to snuff yet...

relevant slides:

https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2019/702vygot...
> In their infinite wisdom, ethernet decided there was no need for speeds between 1GbE and 10GbE. They finally caved to reality with 40GbE, 25GbE, and 50GbE.

I’m not sure that’s accurate. There were no intermediate steps to get to 10GbE, it was a straight jump from 1GbE and it was relatively easy.

To get to 40GbE, it involved running four lanes of 10GbE. To get to 100GbE, it involved running four lanes of 25GbE. 50GbE is just two lanes of 25GbE.

We’ve gone from a single serialised stream to multiple parallel streams in order to reach next order speeds. This is magnified when you start looking at 400GbE and 800GbE services that operate on 8 lanes (QSFP-DD or the confusingly named OSFP).
It's irc but fancy. So I guess they created the fancy?
That doesn't work with average users. Basically Android did that - apps started to ask for admin permissions, accessibility features and other dangerous stuff and users just click Allow on anything.
Always hack with a safety shell!
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I gave you an upvote because you are clearly from Wisconsin and that I need a resume template with more space.
> Inflation has a cause, and often that cause is beneficial to the working class

While what you are saying might be applicable at other times, it does not follow that inflation can only be caused by things good for the working class.

Current inflation seems to be the result of an ongoing housing bubble, and other mandatory finance-based expenses. This is decidedly bad for the working class, or really everybody who doesn't already own the inflating assets.

This inflation also seems like the direct result of the overt policy to erase the natural deflation of manufacturing and technology to keep everyone working "full time", when human labor is needed less and less.
Yeah, sure! And how about the dental decay vaccines that have been promised for, oh, about 40 year now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine

This gel will come out as soon as either

a) Hell freezes over or

b) dentists get a monopoly on the gel.

"Medical progress" is an oxymoron.
What would a RAID-equivelant setup look like over this archetecture?
Perspective: The remarkable interaction between glyphosate and soil
> in 500usec it would be lucky to do a single float^float power operation.

The rest of your post seems OK, but this claim is almost certainly off. 2000 float^float operations takes a full second? Even on a 486DX, no way.
One thing I haven’t seen in any of the reports, is this afflicting folks who took a single hit or who have been habitually smoking (whatever adulterated substance is in there)?
Probably, should have seen this coming and had that ready with today's announcement. I actually find this concerning because it's a glimpse at the bubble they must be in if they thought this announcement would stand on it's own, or if they thought that it would be welcomed with applause.
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Previously on this same topic, 29 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20629567
This is a very personal thing. For some people (I would guess most people), it matters, and they -- at the very least -- present a different face when at work vs. out with friends. Many people have further stratification.

I do get what you mean, though. As I've gotten older, I've found that maintaining different personas is just exhausting and not really worth it. But I also don't have anything in my life that I'd be embarrassed about depending on audience, and I don't consider myself a member of any underrepresented groups or subcultures that the mainstream would consider "weird" or somehow undesirable. So it's easy for me, which isn't true for everyone else.
It sounds like Slack is drinking their own Kool-Aid.
Not a parent, but a recent kid, and I’d hate my parents having that kind of control over me. Though I guess I’d just turn off the phone. Which then makes me even more unreachable than if the tracking had never been instituted in the first place.
Does someone know for any equivalent for Ubuntu Desktop? (or any distro for that matter)
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This study would also indicate that political polling has the ability to influence elections?
Black Mirror isn't supposed to be an instructional guide...
Biological immortality in plants and animals isn't unheard of.

Take Jelly Fish, they are biologically immortal, been around 500 million years, not to bad. They were the first animals to evolve nervous systems, not sure the timeline of the biological immortality evolution, but they must have continued evolving because there are different species (some have evolved eyes and others not) and I believe all species are biologically immortal.
That era started before SSDs went mainstream, and it's not over. RDMA has much lower latency than NAND flash, which is why NVMe over Fabrics is getting so popular. Fetching data from a locally attached SSD isn't much faster than fetching it from a different server in the same rack.
> serve the public interesting

Define public interest. People pay through this through taxes; not really different than paying for spacex whatever via $$.

> less investment

So if SpaceX can do it better, maybe get the bureaucrats and the three-letter alphabet-soup agencies out of the sky, already.

> prioritize the needs of the public institutions

Public institutions have needs and wants. Why is this a need and not a want? This wasn't a military satellite. Why are bureaucrats more important? They accomplish little of significance or merit.
Quick question - does this model expand to multi million dollar advances, assuming the cash flow warrants it?
Are you sure? "People named Robert" is about 1% of the relevant population (15-25 year old men) since ~0.5% of people born in that birth range were named Robert, and while AR-15 pattern rifles are extremely common I'm not sure what proportion of them are actually called that.

From this data [0] there were 248 people killed by rifles - all rifles, of any kind - and 660 killed by "personal weapons", a category that includes "hands, fists, feet, etc." in the US in 2014. Assuming people named "Robert" kill people at the same rate as other male names, that would be 6.6 murders - so let's round down and call it 6 to account for the occasional "not hands" killing. That would mean that for AR-15 murders to match "Robert's hands" murders you'd need ~3% of rifle murders to be with that gun.

So it seems plausible to me that the two are closely comparable.

0: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/06/fb...
It's pretty weird how the article doesn't even bother to mention that Apple has an official API for doing encrypted notifications, and I really have no idea why these apps are abusing the VOIP stuff instead of using the actual encrypted notification feature. The article quotes someone as claiming APNS isn't reliable, but with zero evidence, and it seems pretty darn reliable for all of the non-encrypted apps using it.
They already have: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
Last commit is from Oct 2018, is this still maintained?
It's massively OT for this thread, but it's interesting that you consider anarchy the natural state. Aren't humans absolutely hardwired to form hierarchies and seek leaders?

It seems that we're just as compelled to create presidents, kings, and gods for ourselves as pack animals are to follow their alphas. The lone wolf is the vanishingly-rare exception in the animal kingdom, just as the anarchist is in the realm of human politics. NTTAWWT as far as having a lone-wolf personality type is concerned, but any model of human interaction that seeks to exalt the lone-wolf nature in each of us seems bound to fail. (Small-scale egalitarianism is just a separate case of that, since the same hierarchies will inevitably emerge between groups.)

If this condition isn't "natural," then why do things always -- virtually without exception and never sustainably so -- turn out that way?
Ok, so then you rotate that list through your friends. They might make it tedious to go through all my friends, but if I'm determined enough, I can do it.
Is there a reason they wouldn't get Mozilla to help out with a FF mobile port? Seems like the obvious and symbiotic way to get this done.
>All data necessary to reproduce the results are available at https://github.com/jplotkin/InformationGerrymandering

>For example, when just a few yellow-party zealots were deployed strategically among a larger number of undecided players in the purple party, these bots were able to sway the majority opinion towards the yellow party. This was true even when the parties had exactly the same number of members, and when each player had the same amount of influence.

I'd like to know a little more about the experiment, specifically how much information was available to individual voters. Did they know the votes of specific other voters? Of their party specifically? Or just the overall polling situation? Were they allowed to communicate, like through a chat box or something?

Without knowing these details I'm finding it a little hard to understand how these few 'planted' zealots were able to influence the result that strongly.
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Hm. I think I'm already seeing SMS/VOIP apps show bugs that are trying to comply with the changes. Google Voice app keeps showing last missed call notification every time I open the app. (I have the app set to do calls over circuit switched instead of data). I also noticed there was a recent move on T-Mobile digits to move to data calling in their app on iOS.

It's definitely causing problems now on 12.4.1 because it's a behavior shift that app developers have to get done before 13 drops.

Apple forum thread on behavior: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/118607