skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sorts of optimistic beliefs that all people have some inherent good inside them, and that good-faith attempts will rule the day, never seem to survive any actual economic incentives.

Some lessons from neoliberalism are worth considering here. Sometimes people want to be fed trashy content. In those situations, planets offering trash will be popular enough to pay for the cost of (renting) the planet. (And make no mistake, rent and landlords are an inherent part of any real-estate offering!) So there will be spam, but it will look and taste like the offerings of Disney and Vicom, of Hasbro and Mattel, of Unilever and GSK.

Some lessons from other distributed systems are also worth considering. Technically, messages are always delivered by peers, despite the fact that the messages may have been composed by faraway unknown senders. This leads to local topological reasoning, and webs of trust based on peer-to-peer acquaintance. This can offer better performance and resiliency against attacks than Urbit's top-down neofeudal hierarchy of reputations.

I don't really want to support Tlon. If this is truly federated, then there ought not need be any corporate control over the system. History has shown that a few extremely ethical and competent hackers are more valuable in terms of software quality and usability than any sort of corporate planning.

I do appreciate that, by explicitly embracing blockchains, Urbit has demystified one part of its design: What makes Urbit property valuable? Only the hidden cryptographic keys at the base of Urbit's own signing system give any scarcity, and thus any value, to otherwise-uninteresting bitstrings. In other words, it's as valuable as ZCash or Bitcoin or any other digital gold; it's a Satoshi scheme.

u'i n'ae lojbo .i ku'i ka'eku https://zod.that.world/giveaway/
Ask HN: Do you think Librem One could become what it's trying to replace?
I have great expectations for Purism and Librem One. If done right, and supported by the community, it could change the game. We need these kinds of alternatives in this day and age

Do you think Purism will stay true to their goals, or have to compromise privacy of their customers to achieve greater success? Will it become another Walled Garden, unless it isn't already?
Last year was my first year and I loved every second of it.

I strongly recommend using AoC as a tool to help learn a new language. Many people, myself included, use it to learn Rust.

The best part about AoC is the community. Everyone is super helpful and kind. The daily Reddit thread has solutions in every language under the sun.

My better half is a designer and is going to participate this year to help learn JavaScript.
looks contradictory: "The obscurity and inaccessibility are classic cult tactics" with "If you actually dig into the technical details (and yes, I did) you will find that there is no there there"

Is inaccessible but you dig into it, is obscure but are pieces of code written in C.
I vaguely remember the pineapple from HAK5 can do MITM stuff. Not sure whether that could be used to unveil encrypted traffic from your devices to their homes.
> or are Americans/Asians really buying intel over AMD still?

That's possible, brand loyalty is a thing. Not that I have good data about this, but I definitely saw people not even considering AMD because they always bought Intel. Same for Nvidia with GPUs.

In France I saw PC shops that had not a single AMD motherboard or processor. That was during the FX era, but still. Ryzen will have changed that situation a bit, but I doubt it's complete. During the same time AMD was still surprisingly popular in Germany.

Markets are often not reasonable.
The one good thing about this is that, if it's a popular textbook, the problems are likely already there. Though of course your proofs might be different and/or take a different approach.
I think what he's trying to convey necessitates such an introduction of mathematics. He's trying to convey the true nature of mathematics rather than the "applied mathematics" most programmers/people are familiar with.

Such an introduction requires conceptual and foundational understanding over a full blown computational application which will likely hinder understanding.
The fall and rise of a spyware empire
Agreed. Matt Parker and mathematician James Grime are out and about in London today and have been upset by 8-sided "snowflakes"

https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1201186337493258240
Of course it's business, but it invalidates the premise that people chose "mostly" because of the quality. If that was the main driver, Google could just pay zero, 9 Billion for few hundred million users is quite an hefty sum.

The other option is that Google does not pay to get the Apple users, which might come otherwise, but to prevent Apple to try something funny, either directly or indirectly.

In any case, the "build a better product and people will come" mantra is flawed when companies in the space pay each other billions for distribution.
I think you misunderstand. When the parent says "designed to run on metal" they don't mean "designed to be cross compiled to produce binaries that run on metal", they mean "the compiler, editor, etc. are all running on metal."
You have to be patient and read past the inaccuracies and hyperbole in these physics reports. This is the first I've heard of VO2 and this surprising behavior and I think it's an amazing advance.
Oh right if it's just an Iframe. I found for my sites that some copycats do simple Iframe whereas some do url rewriting or content injection.
"Plus, you're underestimating the percentage of queries that google has never seen before."

No. I am highlighting that 75% are queries that they have seen before. Note also that the 15% is a figure that is declining, based on what it was in 2007.
I can totally relate about that particular one, I remember that it destroyed a good part of a weekend for me, and I wrote that about it on Twitter, back in January of this year:

"I have thought about the particular challenges of this year's Advent of Code (which I greatly enjoyed once again, with some intermittent mixed feelings), and my conclusion is that some problems might very well be of similar difficulty levels, but with nevertheless very dissimilar frustration-inducing levels. And I think the frustration level is strongly correlated with the feedback signal one can use to debug. Case in point: Day 15, which was almost impossible to debug, once you had a working solution, versus Day 17, which was actually fun to debug, since the visual signal you could use was so strong."
BBC is not allowed to show ads in UK. It's likely that the journalist who wrote the article is totally unaware that the page has this kind of spam in other countries. Hilarious though.
renameat2 is meant to be atomic. From the man page:

If newpath already exists, it will be atomically replaced, so that
there is no point at which another process attempting to access
newpath will find it missing. However, there will probably be a
window in which both oldpath and newpath refer to the file being
renamed.
Many thousands of times per day, since modern credit cards are smartcards.
The US has the most advanced research on this, yet possibly the worst education policy (pick whatever state you like).

Schools are funded incorrectly, schools end up Segregating on income, which sadly ends up segregating on race.

This ends up with rich schools and poor schools. Rich kids get good outcomes poor kids get bad outcomes. The cycle continues.

We know what we need to do, just no political will to do it.
I just searched for “free energy” with both google and bing and with both engines got a combination of the use in actual thermodynamics plus “omg free energy device exist coverup!” type results.
Soviet Life Lessons needs to be its own site or at least video series. I'm being serious as someone who lately has been reading up on the Soviet and realizing that its people developed amazing survival skills to deal with the trauma of daily life.
Ham radio for one.
That sounds really strange to me. Even amongst major vim users and proponents I have never heard anyone say vimscript is good.

Maybe I don't get out enough.
Published chemical syntheses are described in very great detail. Physical chemistry/spectroscopy papers likewise describe apparatus, collection, and analysis often down to the nuts and bolts. I don't see how to open source work requiring a femtosecond mid-infrared laser or a prep requiring a synthesis lab with all the reagents, labware, and safety equipment. Buried in the open source PR is the unshakeable underlying belief that science begins when the data are in the can and ready for analysis.
Your link describes the Milan airport captive portal putting the MAC in the URL (don't do this). The referrer is automatically attached to any requests the page makes. This is a comically broken configuration, not something at all common.
> Remember there’s a time and place

What is the time and place to discuss politics? Apparently I can only discuss it in my head, with myself.

Why don't politicians, activists, media, celebs and other propaganda tools just stop discussing politics in public? That'd help to resolve some tensions.
The book assumes you are already a programmer, then in most chapters it begins with a comparison of programming definitions vs math definitions, sometimes will model mathematics in java code, but for most of the chapters the programming content and examples disappear and it just becomes a math text, which for me was fine.

The title should have probably been changed to something like 'A Programmer's Guide to Calculus and Linear Algebra' to avoid confusion. I hope there is a second version, where an editor mercilessly omits a lot of the decorative medium-esque blog text in some of the intros, and cleans up the jacket description or the title to prevent more bad reviews on Amazon and the like ("I thought this would teach me how to pass interviews! zero stars!").

The best part of this book is the 'culture of mathematics', where he is handing you grad school advice like how you should be reading a math text by writing your own examples whenever a definition is dropped in the book.
What Is IIoT? Discover the Power of the Industrial Internet of Things (IioT)
You can't include Baidu in the list and say Google has 90% market share. Saying Baidu has 1-3% without specifying "in the USA" is misleading. They've got a billion users in China.
The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest
How does the Unbundling work if the Services you are Unbundling runs on AWS?

I dont understand how Craglist and AWS relates? Craglist.... is a .. list or a market place. AWS is literally like a Fortune 2000 business that is in itself fully vertically integrated from Hardware to Software and Network.

And then you have economy of scale, and Good enough is enemy of Best. The barrier of Entry to recreate Craglist is less than a rounding error in recreating AWS or even any part of its sub component.

I dont have any numbers to back me up on this, so take this with the biggest grain of salt. I do think there is a Market for provider that sits underneath AWS or GCP, something like DigitalOcean. AWS or GCP are like Enterprise product with millions of features being offered to all, while DO is like a simple to use product that is scaling up its feature offering.
And it offers the essential of Cloud Hosting with Better experience. ( Comparatively Speaking )

Or Heroku with their own Infrastructure, ( or Cheaper Pricing )
FWIW, I've had puppies discover ice in the outside water dish, and work out that if they bring some inside it should go into the inside water dish. I don't think any have figured out why it vanishes then.
all hetzner servers are guaranteed 1Gbit
A genuine revolution in so-called healthcare needs to fall outside of the fields of medicine and insurance.

It won't be easy to get traction because actually eating better and exercising etc get dismissed as "not really healthcare." Nevermind that study after study after study say diet and exercise play huge roles in many deadly medical issues, including heart disease and cancer.

It's vastly easier to get traction with insanely expensive orphan drugs (drugs for so-called orphan diseases) and organ transplants. If you have certain conditions, people are vastly happier to turn you into Frankenstein than to preserve the function of the organs you were born with.

It also is tough to become a unicorn. Stuff that actually gets you heathier tends to drive health-related expenses down. People looking to get rich quick hate that. This is part of why utterly insanely priced drugs and surgeries have so much more traction.
> Knowing what the most common questions are doesn't help you find the corresponding answers. At best you can find the result that users click on most frequently

I doubt that users have a strict expectation of finding the correct (interpretation of "corresponding") answer. Even if the most clicked answer[s] are still not correct, they may still be the ones who suck less, which can still be acceptable/desirable.

Keep in mind that in this perspective, the concept is similar to Google Translate - Google built a translator that, at least originally, doesn't understand language, instead, it applies (applied) a static model on a large amount of documents. While they certainly poured a large amount of money on it, it's success can't be centered purely on the economical factor.
I doubt it’s brand loyalty as much as value for euro. As an expat here in Germany I miss all the really good deals I took for granted while in the states. With import taxes and sales taxes things are just expensive. So when AMD is giving you about 90% what you get with Intel but with many more cores and features not behind silly paywalls designed as SKUs its a compelling story.
Are there any negative externalities from this? If ad fraud is a self-contained cat-and-mouse game between Google and bots, I'm fine with watching from the sidelines.
Let's assume a police officer costs the state $88,0000 annually (including salary, training, healthcare, equipment, etc). So $88M is 1000 additional officer years.

It's possible a camera and its installation will cost up to $500,000 (it's a government contract, after all). That would mean a camera needs to last 6 years to make it naively cheaper than an additional officer.

So ... I think the cost argument is more or less a wash. Cameras might last longer than that. Or be a bit cheaper than that. They're probably able to detect more offenses than a human, given their positioning.

I think there are more effective arguments to be made about the reversal of the onus of proof, about security of the video imagery, etc.
I've built a few different types of search engines over the years.

The first attempt was in 1999, i built a meta search engine using coldfusion.. I didn't have any server to run it on so it was on my dialup running locally. Worked pretty well, i was a big fan of metacrawler at the time.

The next time was back in around 2003.. I had a server running on my adsl connection at the time. I wrote a crawler of sorts that indexed word positions to search by proximity. At the time, Google didn't do this, it was a feature i was looking for. Eventually, the project died. If i had a 200k startup fund like google had, it could have probably turned into something.

I did build it on mysql and perl but it needed more servers.. Something i didn't really understand back then with only about 4 years web experience.

Then, i built another a meta search engine, ran it on a hosted server, gained some limited traction around 2011. Died as the sources for the api dried up or became too costly. It did make some money from advertising at the time, which is a pretty big deal. The coolest thing was the fact that i kept the searches open, each search had an rss feed that you could use to keep track of certain keyword sets.

Something i need to say about Google is this: it seems simple, but there is a lot going on in the background. Its doing a lot of things like checking for malware, spam, link farms, etc. but also its running the page in a real browser. Its pulling in data from google analytics and clickthrough/bounce rates, its always split-testing result sets, showing results based upon geographic location, language recognition, date recognition, etc. They use machine learning with real humans training those models, that's not to mention their internal systems for managing servers.

I think you shouldn't try and copy what they are doing, in the end it doesn't matter if you do.. Look at bing, its kind of like a joke compared to Google.

Facebook did the right thing, that was to bring the community and data onto the site itself. Identity is the future. Reddit is pretty good as well, you can talk about any link on the internet.

User-moderated content is the future, as AI/ML can always fool another AI/ML but not a human.

You only have to look at this site hacker news to tell that.
You may feel this way, but the society you live in does not.

http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Gricean_maxims

I find it unlikely that you really abide by this stated disregard of implicit assumptions - it would make communication impossible. The amount of information required to convey even basic facts is encyclopedic if you and your conversational partner don’t make use of assumptions about what the other already knows.
Google also managed to get rid of passwords a few years ago, and of course this also decreased phishing attacks.

I've also implemented a PKI-based smartcard authentication system at some organizations.

The US DOD started getting rid of passwords before the rest of the federal government/HSPD-12.

Hopefully other organizations can get rid of passwords soon as well.
Ask HN: Connected Wireless Bose Headphones
Is there such a thing as connected headphones? I was listening to Audible with my wireless blue tooth connected Bose headphones...

And I wanted to share with someone else in another room. I thought it would be cool to listen to audio books together and then pause/discuss books chapter by chapter. Is there any app for that?

These Bose headphones have both Alexa and Google Home connectivity ..neither of which I am signed up to..

Here is my idea: amazon/audible and bose can start a networked online bookclub. Is it possible/feasible?
The google result is exactly what I want.

Yes, when what you want happens to be the lowest common denominator - in this case, the most recent Spiderman movie. When the next movie in the franchise comes out in a few years and you don't like it so much because the news guy is now played by someone else, you'll be complaining that your preferences have stayed the same but Google no longer handles them as well.
That's pretty judgemental for a 10% difference.
Pretty sure there someone suing in Britain years ago after getting to see comments about him support agents had left on a company forum. They weren't nice comments. I thought it was Demon internet but I can't find it.

Now I'm remembering accidentally seeing my customer record in a mobile phone shop. I was a "Silver customer". At that point I had been with them for 10 years or something. Silver? What does it take to get Gold??!

Basically, I'm saying if you do this not everyone will be happy.
This is really cool.

One trick I used to use to keep code small, was to take advantage of the fact that CX always equals 00h upon exiting a loop (when there are no short-cutting JMP related statements before it, of course).

Same goes for when you know what the registers will be set to after a particular interrupt has been triggered, such as if it has counted characters or loops or whatever. Not all of the return values are standardized, but a good lot of them are.

I've noticed sometimes people preserve registers a lot more often than they have to, like this:

enter:
push ax
push bx

mov ax, ? ; whatever value
mov bx, ? ; whatever value
int 21h ; for example....

pop bx
pop ax

exit:
mov ax, 0h
mov ax, bx
...

... to me this is really stupid code, but I see it a LOT in assembler. Instead, they could do something tinier like this:

enter:
mov ax, ? ; whatever value
mov bx, ? ; whatever value
int 21h ; for example....

exit:
; now stuff the regs to what you
; want them to be, keeping in mind
; the known exit values from the
; interrupt

I used to have a lot of tricks, since programming on the 8086 pretty much ensured you needed to know at least a few of them.

It's a rabbit hole, but a fun one to follow if you are trying to shrink your code. And if AX is already zero, use INC AX instead of MOV. But those kinds of things I'm sure you already do in your code. I haven't reviewed it all that thoroughly.
Why use a strong violent word - "Attack"? This kind of journalism bothers me. "New research questions Superconductivity Theory" should be sufficient. "Attack" is a poor word choice IMHO.
It is almost exactly relational modeling. Instead of having an object that maps to an entity, you only have relations that hold information about various aspects of what you are modelling, and iterate over and join as needed.
The cybertruck can cyber black holes into the beam where the eyes of the other cars drivers eyes are.
> Europeans have less brand loyalty as a whole

Fake news, we are conservative, we love our local/national brands

you fuckers americans, all retarded, if you are not american, you are one of their denuted dog
Just about 3 times as population and migration.
The Most Important Things I Learned as a CTO and a Technology Leader
When DDG doesn't yield the results I'm looking for, I will frequently try Google, but more and more I find that if DuckDuckGo can't find the results that I want, then neither can Google. What Google can do however, is annoy me with results that it knows to be wrong, because it is excluded the most specific part of my query. Google will remove the bit that absolutely had to be in the query, to get more hits on the majority of the remaining words.

In the end, I think most people could use either Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo and be happy with the results. It's just that we're stuck on "Google is the best search engine", and while that may be true in some technical sense, many of the other search engines are just as good for most of us.
Maybe not in larger organizations, but in smaller ones those recordings really do get used for training purposes. And to verify claims about what agents say. I don't think the intent is to intimidate callers, but to let them know that something an agent says to them can be verified. I know it saved me before when someone claimed I was threatening them and using inappropriate language.

>Is that legal?

For the most part yes.

>Obviously, the caller should just record the call and tell the other side they are doing that. I guess most people don't know how to record calls.

Yes they should. It's even better to take notes on things you miss by listening to the recording.

From experience, though, the people acting like "Dangerous Professionals" are just dangerous to my psychological well-being because it's almost impossible to distinguish them from any run-of-the-mill ass hole.
This is... Kind of true, kind of false.

The AMI marketplace is probably the biggest and most long running example of a marketplace where others are selling services (software licenses/support), but privatelink allows people to make a SaaS and not only sell it on a marketplace on AWS, but also do so with an endpoint in your VPC so you don't have to go out over the public internet.

I have no idea how well utilized that sort of thing is, so in reality it might be similar to there not being an option in the first place, and I'm sure in general Amazon sells far far far more services themselves, but it is possible for people besides Amazon to sell services on AWS.