skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a long-time 23andMe customer, I remember the opt-in for this feature to be very visible and clear.

so it was visible a long time ago....
I agree entirely. It’s pro business to not foist necessities like healthcare on business owners. Unfortunately we have a patriarchal semi-feudal system where the most well off are expected to dole out benefits as the market demands or they can manipulate the market to not demand.
Just another reminder to the third world immigration loving establishment that you cannot man a first world system with the third world people.
DoH as a protocol has no issues with HOSTS files. The issue is browsers implementing DoH instead of operating systems. If browsers stayed in their lane, and let operating systems implement DoH, compliant with corporate IT design and systems like the HOSTS file, everything would be fine.

Microsoft has already committed to implement DoH in Windows itself. Browsers just need to stop trying to be their own DNS clients.
Huh. Anything with GPS freaks me out. Even WiFi, now that Google etc have mapped so many damn APs. Or cellular, of course.

But then, here I am on a wired uplink. I guess it's just that I trust my understanding of nested VPN chains in Linux. And that I trust the hardware and software enough.

Android and iOS, though, I don't understand or trust.

You make a good point about WiFi. Not going transcontinental with that. Except adjacent continents, maybe.
LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians
OK, for even more awesome, check out the site's console output when you try to right click an image (better with fixed-width of course):

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> e.g. Bohm and a few lesser known others don't have it.

Bohm is just MWI with a bunch of extra epicycles.

> Second, it's not clear Born is 'smaller and simpler' than the collapse of some other interpretations. e.g. in QBism collapse arises naturally from the theory and it would be weird if collapse didn't happen.

I'd be interested in hearing more, but from a quick look I'd argue that the notion of an agent who should evaluate subjective probabilities is more complex than objective probability numbers.

> Her point is that what MWI tries to derive everything from the Schrödinger equation alone, but it still needs to solve its equivalent of the measurement problem (why can we only get certain results on the evolution of this branch?)

That's not true though. The branching behaviour is inherent in the Schrödinger equation.
It could also be the case that it never happened but Super Micro doesn't know for certain that it never happened. They may be pretty sure it never happened but unable to rule out the possibility that some portion of their organization was compromised by an intelligence agency.
That's the landlord's responsibility, not mine.
Pentahedrons and cylinders are more straightforward to build to a given height, angled tops are necessary to prevent accumulation of corrosive water/ice cycling.
The days of free as in sabotage are over. Linux broke it.
If only there was a way to distribute the cost of preventative care, so overall costs would decrease...
That’s what’s in the news. No one publishes stories about companies who are bought by sponsors, grown and supported, and exited. They are often private the whole time as well.
Roku tends to have poor quality (outsourced) apps when companies have invested in a multiplatform system - brightscript doesn’t interoperate well with anything else so its usually an outsourced project.
Exhume dead cryptocurrency exec who owes us $250M, creditors demand
Listen: Derek's Sivers Essays
Except for the tendency for despots to be violently overthrown (relative to non despotic countries at least)
A user who is in control of their client software can just comment out the self destruct part.
It’s an open question if it is decidable to show that P=NP problem is decidable :). We may live in a universe where undecidable problems exist and it may not ever be possible no show that they are undecidable. Which imho is kind of beautiful. Even if we live in a simulation it is so incomprehensible that it might as well be God to us.
My argument was from the standpoint of consumer protection. If environmental protection is your goal, then I would point out a few issues.

Newer products are often more efficient. It's not clear to me that supporting older products is always better for the environment. For example, newer tractors may be orders of magnitude more efficient in fuel consumption and pollution control. I don't know this for a fact but I think there is sufficient precedent to make this assumption for at least some products. Many consumers will favor short-term gains (not having to pay the cost of a new tractor) over long-term solutions (upgrading and recycling equipment).

Leaving aside products that fit into the above category, lets look at an example of a product commonly discarded before it's usable life. Laptops, for example.

Here again it's not clear to me that legislating requirements for spare parts and security updates would make much difference. After 5 years or so all the laptops of average users that I've encountered are in terrible shape. Tons of spyware, extremely slow, and almost unusable. In this case I would usually just erase and reinstall. Now add a broken part to the list. Especially on cheap laptops, components are increasingly integrated so a single broken part could mean replacing essentially 50% of the machine. Laptops are so cheap. What do you think the consumer will chose: pay for the repair and cleanup of an essentially useless machine, or just buy a new one? So often it's the later.

The closed ecosystems that have sprung up thanks to the App Store have actually improved this, but still, in my experience, people tend to just buy something newer (and better) rather than deal with (and wait for) a repair.

I'm not claiming there would be no impact in legislating around this, but I believe it would be small, riddled with holes and problems, and that there are better approaches (to solving environment problems).

Just a wacky example but consider the following.

Manufactures typically design for a particular lifespan (such that no more than a certain % of devices would fail within a specified number of years). The idea is to reduce the amount of devices being trashed, so perhaps we could create tax incentives to encourage (a) longer life spans and (b) better recyclabiltiy.
Before, and during my college years, I worked some pretty gnarly manual labor jobs. From decent blue-collar trade jobs, to downright digging ditches, longshoreman, to a gopher on construction sites.

I can tell you this, there were some recurring themes at those places:

- Injuries

- Work never stops, no mater what weather

- People in their 30s getting college degrees because that's the only way to get promoted in a company, unless your manager just happens to kneel over in the near future.

- Constant stress of getting contracts. Blue-collar work can be extremely seasonal.

- Did I say injuries? Yeah. Stress injuries will start popping up sooner or later. I don't know a single electrician or plumber that hasn't had some type of injury related to their working positions (shoulders, neck, arms,etc.)
That depends. If it’s “bring your own key” then there’s nothing they can do.

That said - I’m not familiar enough with how they’d build that infra at scale to make it cost effective.
It agressively pushes all the other products Baidu has, like every other Chinese big app, but Baidu's reputation is especially bad, think about it as Baidu's Wechat super app. You can try Tencent Map.

If you are using Android, then get ready being asked for all kinds of permissions as it's Chinese apps' tradition, some apps even outright refuse to run if you decline it.
Maybe I think too much like a programmer but then again I think maybe everyone else should think a little more like programmers too... especially legislators.
> Why the insurance companies has a privilege to deny a medical test

They aren’t denying the test, they’re denying payment for it from the insurance company. Also, many times, the insurance company is not making its rules, but they are implementing them per the payer’s instruction. The payer can be the government, who outsourced Medicare and Medicaid administration, it could be employers that self fund employee’s insurance, etc.
That makes as much sense as thinking it matters whether the volume of a barrel of oil is measured in US or metric measurements.

You can, like, exchange one currency for another. How do you think people buy oil with every currency other than the dollar?
You do not need an API gateway for an HTTP triggered Azure Function. You do need a storage account, because that's where it stores the files that back your Function.
The market forces did deal with it and created entities large enough to perform regulatory capture and here we are.
Built a Monthly Business While Traveling the World
Do you find it similarly interesting that a 5 year old account with 3 other posts and a few comments posted a 1.5 year old article and managed to get over 300 upvotes on it?
Iirc the bios interface was inherently slow: output was a character at a time, one bios call each. It’s been a long time, though.
Lesspass
https://lesspass.com/#/
Don’t agree at all.

Make is the standard and available everywhere, Bazel is not. Everyone can/should be able to debug Make. Bazel is yet another adhoc solution in a problem space full of adhoc solutions. Which is great if one needs the features that Bazel offers, but I dare say that the vast majority of projects out there do not and are better served by Make.
You seem to be confusing the first amendment with free speech as a concept, but that's depressingly common. Free speech is the natural right to communication; the first amendment is the US government's recognition of that right.

And you're right, if Facebook is exercising their own speech rights, they don't have to relay the speech of others. But that doesn't mean that that refusal doesn't go against the concept and general principle in question.
Estimation is a very useful skill.
Should be "You are what what you eat eats."

Chaining more also works nicely: "You are what what what you eat eats eats," or, "You are what what what what what what you eat eats eats eats eats eats," and so on. All of which are true in some small proportion, of course.
What browser are you using?

The link below works for me in FireFox:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3457802
Your comment resonated with me. Sounds strange, but - any advice on finding a worthwhile bootcamp?

I'm in in the middle of a career-transition effort myself. I'm a ChemEng & do fine financially so the motivation is not money-based. Honestly though, the faster I can switch the better.

I completed a Graduation CS Foundations program (5 courses at Master's level university credit) and now I'm starting a Master's CS program.

I originally explored bootcamps but my impression (purely online based, no friends in the industry) was that it could be hit or miss and all were not created equal. Plus, the cost seemed high compared to other options. The online research leaned a bit more to the doom & gloom side but I figured reality was closer to neutral.

At this point though, I'm exploring all options to make the move as soon as possible so curious if a bootcamp might help speed up the process. The MS program will take 2-3 years since I will be working full-time in my current position (which I plan to complete regardless). I'd really prefer that my after-work efforts be more closely tied to my day job as I continue with such a workload the next couple years (not to mention the synergistic benefits).
you're missing the point. Google has a bad habit of shelving services that people use. If it's never happened to anything you use, good for you, but if I was in a position to make a choice like that I'd be very hesitant to go with a company with such a history of shutting down services.
"Lowest black unemployment of any administration" has a certain ring to it for a certain crowd.
Chloe Xie published a research paper [1] on exactly the topic of how hard it is to profit despite advance knowledge of earnings results. It was summarized by Matt Levine in his aptly titled "Knowing the Future Isn’t That Helpful" [2].

[1]: http://chloexie.com/pdf/ChloeXie_JMP.pdf

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/knowin...
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> That'll open up an instance of _VSCode_ in a web browser and you can start coding

GitPod actually runs https://theia-ide.org/, not VSCode, but Theia is compatible with VSCode extensions, and they've themed it to look practically identical, so it's definitely not super obvious.
I don't think you are right but if you are then I don't think those economists are right. There is a balance to strike. If your country is behind them protectionism can be powerful.
Those are both perfect examples of places that lack geologic diversity. I can't think of a worse form of torture than living 12 hours from real mountains.
You are very welcome!

Cheers,
Carl
This post highlights why many start disliking Google - its that vibe of superiority that comes across often. These days Google workload (e.g. qps) isn't that unique anymore...

Moving Borg to Kunernetes will eventually happen because it doesnt make sense to help maintain two systems that solve the same problem. And because Kubernetes is open source it will eventually be superior, because of diverse group of contributions.
> The fact that no mainstream consumer OS runs a local recursive resolver should be a clear signal to you that people disagree with you about this; in particular, because doing so eliminates DNS caching, which is something most people want.

Doesn't DoH eliminate caching as well? It means all your queries go out to some server on the internet with perhaps 20-50ms of latency, instead of a local cache potentially on your LAN with <1ms. A DNS cache on the LAN would also merge queries from multiple devices, concealing which device is making the query and in many cases preventing the query from having to be sent over the internet at all.

The best thing might be to have internet gateways run a DNS stub that itself makes queries via DoH/DoT/whatever and then caches them for every device on the LAN. The gateway is typically the DHCP server so it can hand itself out as the DNS and requires no configuration as well. And then it works across all devices and applications.
> many will only allow captive DNS

That's an anti-feature, something one shouldn't even call internet access. Engineering entire protocol stacks around it sounds like enshrining it as if it were good practice.

It's reinforcing an inadequate equilibrium.
That is what the First Amendment is about because it's part of a document establishing a government. That doesn't mean your freedom can't be impinged by private entities.

If a private citizen locks you in their basement are you going to argue that your freedom is not being restricted because it isn't the government doing it?
I didn't get a clear sense from her side on what happened. Or maybe I did?

She ordered something and it was lost during delivery? Some system flagged fraud and then as penalty for this she lost access to essentially everything LEGO. Later she found out about this ban via an email that closes all communication without any path to further followup. Now she can't shop or use her LEGO Account for anything.

Surely I missed something.
http://archive.md/JOe8F
It’s not clear to me AdGuard’s uptime avoids the “is the internet down?” scenario either.

I observe normals hitting same “WTFs/month” rate with AdGuard, NextDNS, Zscalar, Cleanbrowsing (built into Ubiquiti UniFi), as any other ad blocking DNS offering.

I personally had to give up on Warp+ and even 1.1.1.1 — which to be clear does not block ads or trackers — due to instability with enterprise, airline, and hotel portals.

By contrast, NextDNS shot up in reliability over past couple months across all kinds of connections, to where I’ve begun recommending that option to tech friends (not yet to normals).

I have had no issues with OpenDNS Umbrella now Cisco once I turned off their typo-squatting, but it also is a “security” product not anti-tracking.
As a general rule, the jobs you listed aren't making $120k+. The ones that make that money are working long hours with poor conditions. Developers making $120k are very privileged compared to labour roles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21816479
Yeah,
The market is called 'board portals' and it's a comparatively niche product offering. There's a couple of other companies beyond Diligent and Interlinks that offer the service. Board Intelligence is probably the best one imho.
> Local timezone setting.

Why in bashrc? Isn't it just a matter of soft-linking a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to /etc/localtime?
Dude, You're comparing apples and oranges. It makes no sense to compare GCP in 2017/2018 which is when the article refers to this conversation to AWS which predates it by 10 years. You don't think that AWS execs and Amazon execs had conversation about profitability in 2006?
I like where this is going...

"Silicon Valley Man found doing insider trading with buddies."

"Silicon Valley Man is pumping the blood of the youth through his veins."
Mongoose 101
I second that brother!
Not so much when it comes to WPedia, IME. Although it depends on how many editorial eyes visit it (which may be proportional to its impact), a WP article is likely to source any expressed opionions, and smooth over biases (because of colliding reality-tunnels).

... Except when it comes to biographies of anyone well-placed and/or notorious. I've watched carefully-researched details about such individuals get scrubbed away. (There are outfits that specialize in this.)
> A measurement process is mathematically speaking an operator which acts on the wave function in Copenhagen interpretation and the collapse of the wave function is a projection onto the eigenfunctions of this operator. What would you be missing here?

When and how does that projection (which is non-unitary and otherwise ill-behaved) happen? What causes it to occur or not occur? How do you explain the results of the quantum eraser experiment, where the exact same physical process retroactively turns out to constitute a measurement or not depending on what happens in the future?

> Besides that, there is one point I don’t get about many worlds and entanglement theories: assuming that “measurement is just entanglement”, there are many possibilities how the observer gets entangled with the wave function it observes. How is it decided which entanglement (or which world) is the one we actually observe?

No, there is only one possible way to get entangled with what you observe. If you observe a spin-half particle that's in state (1/sqrt(2))(|up> + |down>), then afterwards the you-photon system is in state (1/sqrt(2))(|up>|you after observing up> + |down>|you after observing down>), exactly as if you were a normal physical object obeying the normal laws of physics.

The question you can and should still ask is "what should we expect the subjective experience of being in this state to be like". And to a certain extent, why the Born rule applies is still something to be explained (though I'm not aware of any alternative possibilities that would be well-behaved). But that's a much smaller and simpler question.
Actually, because of the nonexistence of Gödel’s proposition I'mUnprovable in strongly-typed theories, the computational undecidability of the halting problem can be used to prove inferential undecidability (incompleteness).
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There are a bunch of seasons available free for Prime members on Amazon Prime Video. I've been watching it with my kids the last few weeks, and it's held up well!
Seriously, you’d think that an IT guy at a security company would know better than that.
> a la Quark Style sheets

Quark Express, those we the days!

That was the first software that made me realize how powerful computers could be and how they would change the world.

Macromedia Director was the second.
Amazon has been profitable since the 90s, which is also when they went public (1997). This would be useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Amazon

The key thing to remember is that they expanded aggressively. People who didn’t do their homework - like most pundits and media stock analyst/entertainers - would dismiss them as another unprofitable .com without recognizing that they were becoming profitable in each new market a few years after entry and could halt expansion if they had a cash squeeze. The other point was being comfortable with low margins: that disappointed people who wanted a rapidly climbing stock price but that wasn’t the company they were trying to build and they’ve left quite a few once-hot companies in the rubble.
That's the question I have; can you access the remote login screen with realvnc? My understanding was you couldn't do that with vnc on windows, have to use rdp.
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Would it hurt the really good craftsmen who prefer to do it manually for higher quality? I wish I could get a pair of shoes that are custom made for my feet by a shoemaker. I’d pay more since they are better quality, last longer and are serviceable, the soles and the heels are still replaceable and there are still, luckily, shoe repair shops around. The thing is that it’s almost unheard of, at least here in NYC of a shoemaker like that nowadays. Automation killed them long time ago. Along with that we did lose some quality with it.

Whoever specializes to automate doesn’t care about the craft or quality as much as quantity. We’re in a better place now, luckily nobody goes barefoot these days, but I wish there was a solution where craftsmen could continue doing their art and craft the way they are used to without being pushed out by automation. I wonder if a compromise could be reached to meet that halfway such that automation becomes merely a tool in the hands of craftsmen, a solution where man is still at the center of his game and uses tools to enhance their game.

But the general consensus is that everything will be eventually automated away and the only things left for people to do is entertain eachother or something to this tendency.
My engineer neighbor picking weeds in his yard while sitting on a low beach chair, “I just work on the areas I can reach, then move to where there’s more to be done”. It took me a few years to understand how powerful that is as a strategy for completing big tasks.
If Satya Nadella could get Microsoft to move beyond its Windows-all-or-nothing pathology, someone in charge at Google (including the two founders that vote-control the entire company directly - they can de facto hand Sundar the power to act as he needs to) can trivially put a stop to the relationship commitment issues at Google.
Gödel's proof of inferential undecidability (incompleteness) does not work in strongly typed theories because his proposition I'mUnprovable does not exist.
What's the best colour lighting for sleep?
Eh I’d expect a used item to be sitting in some secondhand store or someone’s basement but not literally next to a pile of trash covered in cockroaches and rat poop.
Not better, just lower prices.
I suspect I am not losing very much at all by preferring to click AMP links.
enter baby
I set this up to force myself to stop SSHing to boxes all the time and trust in my own automation. It took some effort and setup is frustrating but it ended up being a net positive.

I baked everything with Ansible and did last touch setup with user-data, and deployed it all with Terraform.
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