skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just thought of this as an interesting add-on to the above.

A friend of mine has a company that installs holiday decorations, mostly for large businesses. Think everything from CNN to Disneyland.

The other day he was telling me that for years doing any fabrication work on site has had so much red tape that it is incredibly expensive in time and money.

If, for example, they have an aluminum rod that needs to be cut a little shorter, they are REQUIRED to get the Fire Department, Fire Marshall, Security and other groups involved. I asked what the theory might be. He said sparks and fire. To which I replied: "Aluminum doesn't spark, even steel won't spark unless you are using a grinder. Even at that, the sparks have virtually no energy and only fly a few inches." It doesn't matter, he said, that's the rules and we have to abide by them or we can't do business.

He explained that one of the consequences of this is that the cost of some of these projects is massive. They have to do a ton more planning and work in order to avoid any fabrication work on site. Even worse, because you can't plan everything perfectly, any fabrication requires taking things down, bringing them to the shop and then back to the site. It ends-up being cheaper than getting a small army involved to make a small cut on a a 1/4 inch piece of aluminum rod.

This is a drop in the ocean when compared to totality of the California "experience" if you are in business here.
Along similar lines, John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" from 1996 is something I make a point to read often.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
>We ban accounts that do that. It has never been acceptable on HN,

I think he meant that it was an acceptable methodology, not that the various platforms condoned it. I don't think any platform has ever condoned that sort of use, or at least none that I can recall.
What's a big struggle you've dealt with in ecommerce lately?
Either paid marketing, email marketing, apps or any other tools.
It's not up for debate whether or not what I wrote is an interpretation, what might be up for debate is how valid the interpretation is, and even still, you could strike all reference to the phrase from my comment and the point I made would stand.
No advertising is really untargeted. Even billboards tend to carry ads for the type of driver that passes by them and broadcast TV has ads for the type of person that watches that show.

Ads targeted to an individual without that individual's consent should probably be banned. In addition, the law should make it clear that when a company does hold data about individuals, the individual should have some rights to that data including the ability to block the sharing or transfer of that data.

So, when Google buys FitBit, every user of FitBit should have to explicitly opt-in to their data being transferred to Google.
There are two things it helps solve, but doesn't solve completely.

1) connection security, by which I mean, the DNS packets can not be actively manipulated. DNSSEC in theory helps with this too, but there's no way to distinguish in DNSSEC between a response that doesn't have any DNSSEC data vs. one that was modified to remove the DNSSEC data for nefarious purposes (i.e. allowing the response packet to have other unsigned records to be inserted in the response). DoT and DoH (and DNSCrypt before them) prevent this form of data manipulation.

2) Privacy, which you mention. This one is a little shaky, it protects you from the ISP or others monitoring the network traffic, from seeing the DNS request and response in the raw. If the next connection is TLS (for a website), until SNI is encrypted in TLS 1.3, then the name of the site is potentially disclosed in the raw on that next connection. Even so, the IP itself discloses a significant degree of information about that connection, though as more sites sit behind CDNs, the value of that information goes down.

At the end of the day, with DoH and DoT, the privacy and data authenticity responsibilities are being passed off the the chosen resolver, which the article mentions as Google or Cloudflare in many cases. So now you're trusting those entities, for better or worse, with all that information.
> “For them it was just work and that’s it.”

Is it? If someone's job is spewing cleverly provocative, disruptive, toxic, and intentionally negative messages all day ... does that edgy skill and behaviour not leak into their home or personal life?

I understand, these workers need jobs and I'm sure some get quite proficient at trolling. But my gut says there will be personal side effects from reinforcing and working your brain and interactions like this all day. :-(
I know. It's just an analogy. You can replace it with a better one if you want.

The general point I am making is: these are not trying to measure actual job tasks, but instead measuring something that (they hope) is closely related to, or correlated with one's ability to perform the job. The idea is that if one can do these sorts of problems, one can probably do the actual job at hand.
Vehemently agree. Monoculture is a huge risk to IT generally right now. I love Linux and must use it for some things, because nothing else is really supported, but I really worry about a world where all the servers run Linux.

I think the thing I miss most about the 90s and early 00s was that different unix-like systems took big, bold, and divergent approaches. Computing felt less “nailed down”... like there were more possibilities.
The move to columnar databases for BI and data science has thankfully eliminated a lot of this type of performance cruft. There are different issues now, but needing to add indexes just to run a new type of query is something I haven’t thought about in awhile.
Well, one of them is illegal. Also, the foreign variety advances the possibly incompatible goals of the foreign country while the domestic version tends to be between individuals with differing but legitimate visions of how the country should be run.
Do they need to know where they are at every given moment, and collect data on each customer in association with where they're coming from and where they're going?

No, they just need to know where they are when:

1. They run a collection routine
2. The bike/scooter is low on battery.

There is no info they need in association with the rider's trip. Or at least not, as the GP states, info required "by nature". That perspective is true of ride sharing (the driver needs to know where to pick up and drop off) but false in relation to bikes/scooters (no need to know start/end points, just need to know where the bike is during collection or low battery, and not in association with a rider).
It's very weird for me to see people acting like Apple is "becoming" anything. They've been pretty consistent about their spot on the user freedom/paternalism spectrum, for at least a decade. This is in line with the choices they've been making since at least the launch of the iPod. Ease of use has never been exclusive of user freedom, and Apple's desire to control users has never been about the user: any half-decent interface is capable of hiding power behind an easy to use facade.
I think the line integral of curvature (changes sign based on concave / convexness) along perimeters remains the same under cutting / pasting; and it's different for squares and circles, so doesn't work out.
>it seems like a new danger that foreign governments are now trying to manipulate voters

This is not a new thing. Take for example, Poland historically used to elect a monarch. Various European powers would try to influence who was elected. In 1733, this famously culminated in the War of the Polish Succession.

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

Going back even further, Persia would back different Greek politicians.

This game of influencing foreign elections is a game that has been played for centuries, and is likely not going away any time soon.
In addition to the making-money thing, I think it's often a class-interest thing. As a recipient of the harms of paid disinformation, I'm perfectly happy to ban it all, and with stiff legal penalties. But if you're a billionaire (or work for one), then banning paid disinformation means you're giving up a tool of power, and taking power away from the people you regularly hobnob with.
Apple is no longer a product company - they haven't focused on their product quality in years. They've become a cult, and customers like you have become their true product. Here's some highlights from that list of great dev machine "features"

* No ability to run kernel level debugging tools like dtruss without completely compromising the security of your machine.

* Unreachable battery that requires a one week maintenance window to replace. If your battery is part of a defective batch, you have to give up your work machine for an entire week to replace the battery.

* Super flaky logic board that's completely separate from the main board, with zero ability to troubleshoot or debug any issues with it. It also causes lots of unexpected issues, like the haptic feedback failing, resulting in a touchpad with no click.

* Absolutely no user land documentation at all. If you need to figure out how to configure or use some piece of software, good luck looking through random message boards and blog posts.

* Keycaps that wear through after a few months of heavy use.

* Designed with insufficient cooling, running at near full load will cause the CPU and GPU to massively throttle to reduce heat.

* Only has proprietary Thunderbolt 3 interfaces, without even a single standard interface (the headphone port doesn't count for much)

* No standard USB interface type, and charges massive markup on the required adapaters to allow the use of existing devices.
This seems a bit pedantic. I'm certainly not a mathematician but it does seem obvious that you cannot cut a circle into any number of pieces and rearrange it to be a square, as a circle has curves which would prevent you from making the square a solid without gaps
New stealth company backed by Slack claims to improve developers productivity
I think the only clocks I need to manually adjust are the ones in my cars and the microwave oven. Everything else sets itself based on NTP or radio signal (for the radio clocks).
EDIT: OP corrected comment - read below only out of idle curiosity!

Minor fact-checking / naming correction.

The CPU core architecture progression has been Zen, Zen+, Zen 2.

The retail consumer desktop and laptop CPUs have been designated Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 with model numbers to help guide you on performance, but starting with a 3 (e.g. 3800X) in desktop CPU indicates Zen 2, while a 3 in mobile or desktop APU indicates Zen+.

Current laptops are based on Zen+, including examples of Ryzen 5 3500U (low power/15W) and 3550H (medium power/35W) and Ryzen 7 3750H (high end).

Many of us are excited for the release of Zen 2 based laptop chips, though!
I saw an alarm clock like that in a hotel once -- it had a cheap 10 digit keyboard and poorly debounced keys, setting the time was harder than using the backward/forward button style, because typing "12:00" ended up as "11:11" more often than not, it took many tries and a firm press to get the time set correctly.
This doesn't mesh with my perspective of education. Universities are non-profits for a reason. yes, there are profit minded University of Phoenix's but that is not the historical norm and they are the worst offenders.

Not everyone should go to college. We shouldn't enable everyone to go to college. If you shouldn't go to college, going to college won't change that. You'll struggle and fail out or get a worthless degree because it's the only one you can pass enough classes to get.

We have trade schools. We have apprenticeships and on the job training. Lots of folks for home those paths are better, are turned off to them by social pressure, not logic. I've taken welding classes and vehicle maintenance classes and they have shown themselves to be valuable assets to me. I can connect steel at the atomic level. I can keep my vehicles safe for me and my family and friends.

There's no one-size-fits all approach to human evolution and we need all of us. Maybe I'm idealistic.

We need to stop doing stuff that only makes sense to the banks. They are entirely self-interested and provide negative value back to society. We are squandering our futures to the fat cats.
have a look here:

the requesting server that has been implicated,

https://sitealyzer.net/en/s/match.deepintent.com/

apparently thier domain registration expired early this year.

This seems to be chrome choking on an expired certificate.

This is what they are into:

DeepIntent's MarketMatch™ Platform MarketMatch™ is the only healthcare technology platform with a built-in identity solution. It matches digital IDs with clinical, behavioral, and contextual data in real-time so marketers can qualify 1.6M+ verified healthcare professionals and 250M+ patients.

and then theres this:

https://github.com/deepintent-ccs/DeepIntent

no endorsements apply here !

altogether it reads like some sort of mobile usage behaviour parsing platform with a dead certificate.
The week after the election was interesting because the trolls didn't have new marching orders. So it was suddenly just random people.
No one seems to care though

Strange that Saint Louis chooses not to enforce these equity rules. Chicago fined seven companies for not spreading their scooters around properly.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-issu...
Is it a great idea? Or does it not reliably exist for a reason: because it's in tension with banking regulations, and anyone who tries to do it without applying all the same KYC and AML regs that motivate stablecoins in the first place are going to be frozen out the same way Bitfinex was, to the point where they too will end up pitifully reliant on money laundering firms opening fleets of fraudulent accounts at tiny banks?
Does he speak any foreign languages? 20 years ago I had an internship in Germany. But I was also a German major. I got the internship via connections from my professors. The company helped with the visa.

Note most other countries don’t pay interns. So expect to cover your own expenses.
Most of the crypto market follows Bitcoin's price, at least roughly. If Bitcoin gets up 5%, Ether and other coins might rise 6,7,10%. If you look at the 30, 60 day, etc charts of BTC vs the others, it's quite clear. So the market following the Bitcoin part is plausible.
How does having more services result in lower col?
> I'd be fine with a clock that has a wifi chip, provided I didn't need to install a fucking app on my phone to change the goddamned alarm.

It's worse than that. You have to create an account. I facepalmed reading that. I hate companies that create such garbage.
My experience is that the Dell setups _are_ Linux friendly. Could be that enough of the hardware exists to be targeted or maybe they're submitting fixes themselves. Intel employs folks to make Linux compatible with their new hardware.
> SUV/pick-up boom

Not sure why but I see the same here, in Berlin. There is even a meme circling about SUVs being just mothers (usually talking on a phone) driving their kids to school.
It makes sense if Tether buys BTC with USDT that it just created out of nothing, then sells those BTC later for real dollars. Those real dollars can be used to collateralize the USDT "after the fact", and if the price went up between the two transactions, Tether keeps the difference.

It's sort of like an uncovered short of USDT - they take a negative position, buy BTC, sell BTC, then cover the negative position. (Except "cover" in this case really means "collateralize the USDT that someone else is holding".)

EDIT: I have no idea if that's what they were actually doing, but that's my interpretation of the author's interpretation of the lawsuit.
> RAM is now soldered

Wow, really. Hadn't heard that. Complete bullshit.
Intel hardware accelerators sit on the PCIe bus, and burn just as much memory bandwidth as software encryption. The dataflow is basically:

- disk DMA writes page from disk into DRAM
- CPU (or PCIe crypto accel DMA) reads page from DRAM
- CPU (or PCIe crypto accel DMA) writes encrypted page to DRAM
- NIC DMA reads encrypted page from DRAM

Nothing changes from a memory bandwidth standpoint if its the CPU or a PCIE device doing those middle 2 steps. With "NIC TLS" (eg, inline hardware TLS) accelerators that sit on the NIC, those 2 middle steps can be eliminated, and condensed to the pre-crypto dataflow

- disk DMA writes page from disk to DRAM
- NIC DMA reads page from DRAM to NIC
5+ExercíCIOs+Para+Deixar+Seu+Bum+Bum+Maior+|+Ainda+Neste+Verão
Remarkably, a government of the size and complexity of Los Angeles is able to do more than one thing at a time.
What rights does the rest of the non-US/non-EU world have?

In New Zealand we have some data privacy laws, but they only have teeth for New Zealand organisations; we don't have the political clout to have any outcome similar to the impact of the GDPR regulations.

Meanwhile businesses in other countries have few regulations to restrict how they treat me, because I am a foreigner.

I guess I should try and get a dual-citizenship in the EU so I can protect myself a little...
Came here to say the same thing. I have an "old" T480 with 32GB of RAM. There is no way I'm buying a new laptop with half the RAM. I just don't get why the memory needle is not moving with manufacturers.
It isn’t new at all. Foreign countries have been doing it since the invention of democracy.

You can see this very vividly demonstrated in any classical histories, like Thucydides, all the way up through history, with all types of elections, from actual every-single-citizen democracies to the just-the-Electors HRE.

This is also true in American history from the very beginning, when French interests, for example, worked against Adams. Or more famously, when the British strongly intervened to ensure the re-election of FDR.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/when-a-forei...

The Kennedy election was also famously the target of Russian interference.

https://time.com/4851449/trump-jr-russian-kennedy-history/

Simply put, there’s no foreign country in world history that wasn’t or isn’t interfering in domestic elections they have any kind of interest in. It would be very foolish not to. It’s a game that has gone on since the invention of democracy and will always go on, because every incentive is aligned with it and there are no norms against it.

In general, you have to be very careful when people claim something is new and unprecedented. Sometimes they just don’t know and lack the necessary context, but often they’re constructing a narrative that relies on historical innocence/ignorance of relatively mundane detail. This has been a major problem with our news media that has been getting worse for decades: they don’t do the very important job of putting things into historical or even a current cultural context. Instead, they create narratives that are easy, get people fired up and consuming more news, and often inadvertently (or sometimes advertently) serve a partisan purpose.
Given that most (yes, most) students at the University of Chicago receive financial aid, what you're seeing is a sticker price. The school is using the high sticker price + financial aid to perform very efficient price discrimination[0], so they can get a lot of money from people who can pay.

It is effectively a sliding scale fee [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_scale_fees
Interesting quote: "...they will continue on their trajectories long after they fall silent. "The two Voyagers will outlast Earth," said Kurth."

The Earth will be totally fried and maybe even vaporized in about 5 billion years from now when the sun swells up.

By the way, I couldn't find a date on that article. Anyone? I suspect it may not be fresh.
I'm glad to see they mention one of the major reasons r/science is so successful... good moderation.

Through some combination of random chance and volunteer effort, that sub has a (relatively) consistent, fair, and active moderation team. Possibly it helps that the subject is not part of the usual "peak popularity" curve for subs there, where sub activity is more tied to groupthink and fads than substance.

Many good subs elsewhere on reddit have not survived long term, and many of those failures are due to bias, bad behavior, laziness, or outright corruption on the part of their moderation teams.

Reddit seems to leave good moderation to chance in the name of allowing subs the freedom to be their own communities.
I could not agree more. Among some of my professional contacts I am the person they go to for Linux advice (a role I am not sure that I deserve, to be frank). I try to help nonetheless, and over the last few years my attitude of "Well [this] could work or [that] could work" approach to GPUs has hardened into two hard-and-fast recommendations:

1. For laptops: Don't bother with a separate/discrete GPU. Or if you must because you dual-boot Windows to play games or what-not, just keep the dGPU disabled under Linux.

2. For desktops: Unless you need CUDA, get an AMD GPU for the drivers (a phrase that, once upon a time, I never thought I would say).

I cannot speak from experience on AMD drivers for mobile APUs. However, their desktop GPU Linux drivers have impressed me the last few years, which gives me hope they can achieve the same level of stability for APUs, even if it has a time lag (e.g. Linux drivers get features 3-months after Windows-based Laptop SKUs are released).

I'm still hanging on to an old Broadwell-based X1 Carbon. If Lenovo releases an X-series or T-series Thinkpad with the upcoming Renoir APU (Zen2-based) I'm am very likely to finally upgrade. Add an option for 32GB of RAM and it enters "Shut up and take my money" territory.
Which thinkpad is that?
You can travel to another continent, set it there during the day, and bring it back.
> Up to 16GB of LPDDR3 memory at 2133MHz

Excuse me, what year is it?
Gemini created an audited, 100% reserve stablecoin; no one uses it. This suggests that there is no genuine demand for stablecoins and that Tether has been entirely scam and hype driven.

Dollar amounts in a litigation complaint and headlines about "sued for $X million!" are not usually that meaningful; remember your Gell-Mann amnesia.
No, the US is one of the most densely connected countries in the world. Fiber was over-provisioned by the functional Bell monopoly, railroads, and a smattering of upstarts in the 1980s and massive infrastructure capital bubble in the 2000 dotcom crash which was more about this infrastructure than software or computer hardware.

If you hear people in the US complaining about their internet connection, it is because the local duopoly of telephone and cable company is failing them. In terms of industrial fiber, the competition is fierce and you can light up Nx100G to almost anywhere in the country.
So the system she despised was functioning to her benefit as intended.

That seems like an even more damning indictment of her philosophy than simple hypocrisy.
For the record: I finally did receive the confirmation email, two hours after making the initial request.
I actually went back to an old school casio watch recently because my Fitbit refused to connect to my phone. It had the incorrect time on it and you cannot set the time on the watch itself (Must be via the phone app).

I get that a fitness tracker is kinda worthless without syncing the data up. But I was happy just seeing my daily steps and being able to tell the time and I couldn't even do the latter.
A similar argument could be made for banning running on sidewalks

When there's a rash of people being hurt by inattentive runners smacking into them, that will be addressed, too.
3. Increase my confidence that the article is actually real.

I have no way of verifying anything in this article so as far as I'm concerned it's fake. I need a picture or at least a make and model so I know the alarm clock in question actually exists.