skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're also ignoring the probability of success. This project is only worth $shitton ($30 million) if the project were perfectly executed and other market participants didn't dynamically react to this new entrant. This isn't the likely outcome.

The expected value of this project is probably only $5-10 million once you factor probability of success into account and thus not worth the time and effort at trying in the first place. A $5-10 million E.V. project is very much worthwhile for two founders who wanted to bootstrap though!

One reason VCs target billion dollar ideas is that you'll probably fail. But in the unlikely scenario that you succeed, it more than makes up for the 10-20 other projects in their portfolio that DID fail.
> If you run tests on a Zig program out of the box you won't have array overflows; that's not what you get in C and C++.

Build a C program in the right mode (also required for Zig) and you get exactly the same thing.
A major provider in rural parts of the country. Someone will snap them up then use the rural broadband government money to pay for it all. Pretending to provide high speed internet to all these "NEW" users.
I regularly download pre-release builds, their symbols, scan/diff for features, then upload the results to the repository [1].

For some background, highly recommend listening to Alex Ionescu + Gabrielle Viala talk about the undocumented Windows Notification Facility at Blackhat 2018 [2].

A friend of mine, Albacore, is doing the research and building tools around the next version of this system worth checking out too [3].

[1] https://github.com/riverar/mach2/tree/master/features

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybmgE95weo

[3] https://medium.com/@thebookisclosed/visiting-vibranium-veloc...
That's because European Aldi's gets their chicken from Europe, while American Aldi's gets their chicken from America. They don't ship chicken across the Atlantic.

The root issue isn't Aldi's, it's the quality of food on the different continents. Food standards are much higher in Europe, so any grocery store is going to have generally better food than stores in America, unless you only shop at high-end places like Whole Foods and make sure to only buy good food there.
We don't have any plan to record it currently.

But we will release the two other notebooks used during the workshop, and plan to write a blog post detailing the full content.
Search around here for Tesonet in hn.algolia.com and you'll see. Plenty other forums too.
>Leaders with a moral mission make decisions that sometimes sacrifice short-term profits with the intent to build an organization and a brand for long term.

Shortly before being dragged off the stage by the stockholders. Careers have been ruined over not over-performing enough, let alone leading multi-million dollar enterprises off into the desert.
The knowledge bank itself is available under creative commons. You can download it here (updated quarterly): https://archive.org/details/stackexchange or query it online here: https://data.stackexchange.com/

At least until current leadership kills it. But it was one of the things Jeff and Joel did to convince the community that that was not their goal, and the previous market leader, experts exchange was fresh in people's minds at that time for hiding answers behind signup walls.
I would also like an invitation.

This is how I felt when Gmail started.
I've just read the article you linked[1], as well as several others [2][3][4] and cannot find any information about this:

>all companies foreign or not must provide unencrypted access to data to the Chinese government and must do so in secrecy

either plainly stated or implied.

Can you provide a source for this claim? I don't doubt that this may occur, but I'd like to speak with _my own_ managers about my china & encryption concerns in an informed way.

[1] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/26/c_138505655.htm

[2]https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-security/china-enacts-enc...

[3]https://thediplomat.com/2019/10/decoding-chinas-cryptography...

[4]https://www.iflr.com/Article/3907570/PRIMER-Chinas-cryptogra...
The telemetry collection in Windows 10 has been reduced a lot. And MS are transparent about it and give you lots of control and switches in Settings/group policy to turn it off, unlike everyone else.

Many other corps collect much more invasive telemetry and users have no clue - e.g Netflix is basically a data collection service with a side effect of video streaming. Same for FB, Google ads cookies etc, every retailer etc etc.

But singling out MS has always been popular.
> Is the public health response to these diseases really so effective as to account for most of this difference?

Yes. The public health response to the common flu is 'You should, like, get vaccinated. Or whatever. Maybe take a day off, if you work a job that gives you sick days.'
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Those aren't CMS...
Worth noting that there are benefit corporations, or B-Corps, which get around this 'profits and nothing else' ideology. Some examples include Patagonia, Kickstarter, and Allbirds.
Oddly enough, they simply don't do that. IDK why, but they don't. Also, there is a bit more to browser integrity check than just the user-agent. But, yeah. You'd be surprise how often I saw attacks get mitigated that were using some obviously bad UA. The attack themselves seemed sophisticated enough, but the UA was still a 12 version old IE UA string or "1337 browser 2000" or something dumb like that.
The article make mention of flavour, and I don't think you need to try to scientifically rationalize what can be sufficiently explained by human cruelty. In fact, based upon these findings I'd expect eating tortured meat to be less enjoyable than that relaxed kind.
>Thanks for ruining the Web, Google.

When does the mass-migration to DuckDuckGo go mainstream?
Both these things are directly written in the Agile principles.

“Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.”

“At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.”

So based on your description those teams were Agile in the sense meant by the manifesto.
I would like to see bounties offered no questioned asked too.

That way someone on the payroll of nefarious inc. my decide to share it with Google or Apple the same time as their boss.
> In fact I seem to be one of the few people on the planet who seems to have actually dug into this exact issue while others only offer the typical FUD we've seen about how Apple's encryption works in China.

I think instead of researching how Apple works in China, you need to start doing some research on how the Chinese government works and their track record on legal matters and rule of law.

Also, the segment in the Senate hearing you referenced shows a senator who obviously does not have a good grasp on encryption technology asking bumbling questions about encryption. I have paraphrased the section here:

> Senator: Do you sell phones in China? Are they encrypted?
> Apple: The phones are the same and all of our phones are encrypted across the world

Yes, obviously all phones have encryption but the Senator did not clarify what was being encrypted here and Apple took advantage of this in the response.

> Senator: You're telling me that they [China] allows you to sell devices without you allowing them to breach the encryption and gain information about the users?
> Apple: You're 100% correct

Once again, the question posed was incoherent. Of course there is no "breaching of encryption" here - the Chinese government just asks for the keys or the data. It's all about language here.

If this Senate hearing is your case for why data is safe in China, I honestly fear for all the political and religious dissidents that are trusting Apple for their safety.
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The Spanish Flu was almost exactly 100 years ago. Recent enough that we think of it as being in modern times with relatively modern medicine and hospitals. My grandmother lived through it, so this isn't the distant past.

Current estimates are that it killed up to 100,000,000 million people, as many as the black plague.

We have much better medicine now, thankfully. But we also live in a much more deeply connected world with millions of people flying every single day.
I feel that where all Aldi’s are relatively comparable, for Edeka it seems to depend a lot on the shop. Where I live there are two Edekas within a 3min drive, one is a bit more fancy than the average Aldi, however the other one has 50 different types of quinoa and people that make you sushi on demand. It is a totally different shopping experience.
They could fix this for publishers who point a subdomain that way. Or url rewrite the address to the publishers.
Typical users who may care about privacy were definitely misled by Apple's public pro-security and pro-privacy stances. I have family who fall into that category.

The difference between E2E and 'yup we're encrypted!' isn't understood by laypeople. Let's not do ourselves or the average folks out there a disservice by letting Apple off the hook for bad communication and the intentional misleading of users.
Windows 10 LTSC is great - it doesn't have Cortana or the Windows Store and it even has a nifty search icon beneath the Start menu which says "Start typing to search..."

Not that I would recommend it but you can purchase LTSC on Ebay for about ~20 to 30$. That is where I got mine... Sketchy? Yes, but worth a chance in my book
LTSC can be purchased individually legally. But it is indeed expensive.

Luckily, there are also all those shady eBay “key resellers”. (They are all cracked of course, but they also work, so it’s worth it.)
If the parent commenter is francophone it's possible he used the word "mitigated" because it looked similar to mitigé, which basically translate to "mixed" in English.
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I personally think it depends—there are multiple levels of knowledge that you can store in a notes app. I personally would love something that could store my lecture notes and provide me the freedom to take them any way I want to.

I wouldn't care if a company had access to those things. But yeah, definitely not personal data.
> Let's hear some real solutions.

It's by no means a full solution (there likely is no single full solution), and it may even be a bad solution -- but lately I've been trying to think about what the Internet would look like if we didn't have a massive arbitrage potential around server requests.

Part of the reason why everyone is trying to detect bots is because bots will very, very rapidly eat up your bandwidth and CPU time. We're used to offering our bandwidth/CPU for free to humans and either swallowing the cost if we're running a free service, or making up the cost in an adjacent way (ads, subscriptions, etc...). It's not bots that are the problem. It's that when someone asks our servers to do something, we do it for free. Bots are just a big category we can ban to make that problem smaller.

In many (but not all) cases, we shouldn't care about bots, and the only reason we do is because our systems aren't scalable to that level.

So I've been wondering lately what a server-defined per-pageload, or even per-request fee would look like on the Internet, maybe one that scaled as traffic got heavier or lighter and that was backed by a payment system that wasn't a complete rubbish privacy-disrespecting dumpster fire.

My immediate thought is, "well, everything would be expensive and inaccessible." But, the costs don't change. You still have to pay server costs today. Businesses today still need to make that money somehow. There are almost certainly downsides (all our current payment systems are horrible), but I wonder if it's more or less efficient overall to just be upfront about costs.

Imagine if I could put up a blog on a cloud service anywhere with scalable infrastructure. Then a post goes temporarily viral. Imagine if my server could detect it was under heavy load, detect that it was getting hit by bad actors, automatically increase the prices of requests by a fraction of a cent to compensate, and then automatically ask my provider to scale up my resources without costing me any extra money?

For a static site, suddenly I don't need to care if people or bots are hammering it, I don't need to care about anything except whether each visitor/bot is paying for the tiny amount of hosting costs they're hoisting on me. If bad actors start pushing traffic my way, I don't need to ban them. I just force them to pay for themselves.
I do believe that there was a point where HN was using CF, but that hasn't been true for a while if memory serves.

As for the support@ not being on those error page; decent feature request. I image the reason they want to avoid that is many of these errors are delivered at request of the site owner or related to the site not working (404s, 503s, IP firewall blocks, etc) so they do not want to funnel people into Cloudflare support for issues that are not specific to Cloudflare.

Determining which errors are the site owners responsibility and which errors are Cloudflares responsibility can be quite tough.
Yeah, I think I was unclear. Given a need to refactor, it's a bigger help on a bigger refactor.

But a large refactor on a large project is still a pain. By the time you get there, you still want your model stable and/or flexible enough that you don't need to do that much.

On a small enough project, every refactor is easy enough that you can lean into it. Make a bunch of assumptions you're not confident about, setting up the types so you're sure you'll know what needs fixing when they're wrong. Then you test those assumptions as you write - and run - more code.
Do they really? Wouldn't a "strong SEO" site be ideal for their spiders?
It's not worth anything like $100m to facebook.

They pay barely enough to say they're willing to pay, but they don't really care.
They can't really kill it, right? The content itself is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, Version... uh... well it's definitely Creative Commons.
Stack Overflow has been trying VERY aggressively to monetize the site lately. In just the past 12 months:

- They’ve backpedaled on their formerly strict ad policy, now allowing animated ads [0] and trackers [1], and their quality control has become very poor [2].

- They changed the homepage to market their new SaaS product instead of the Q&A site [3]

- They replaced their CEO (who was a cofounder) with a new one who they described as “ someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth enterprise software company very quickly” [4]

- They fired and defamed a well-liked and well-respected volunteer moderator without cause, in a misguided attempt at virtue signaling, and refused to make any attempt to rectify their mistakes until the moderator in question got a lawyer [5]

- They fired/laid off two longtime and very well-respected Community Managers (employees whose job was to manage and work alongside with community) [6]

[0]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/213770/258777

[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/332297/258777

[2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=“Inappropriate+ad”+i...

[3]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/386505/3476191

[4]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/24/announcing-stack-overf...

[5]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/258777

[6]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/342039/258777
Got mine on Ebay
I aggree with your point #1, if you search for an specific term / domain it should always appear first if there's a direct match.

but for #2 there's a pro-competition argument here. If you search for Expedia and all you ever get is Expedia and expedia pages underneath that, in theory that's good. But what if you don't know about other online travel sites? You'll never see them, so it kind of makes sense that you are shown other sites in there.

Google should recognise that a search for Expedia is either:
a) For Expedia
b) For a travel holiday

and let other competitors rank for b), showing Expedia as the biggest and main CTA on the page.
Valve also contributes with Proton, I'm not sure how much is upstreamed though.
Can you clarify what you mean by "supply and demand matching is terrible" for dog walking platforms?

It seems like if the primary qualifier on marketplace success is the ease at which two parties can cut out the platform, dog walking would not pass.
An update in the thread says this only applies to public officials, not to the general population.
I get candy crush in my Win10 Enterprise, each major upgrade...
Its not worse. Not anymore. And arguably better in many desktop areas.

But LOTD is not any easier for your average non techie.

And it was never about ease of use, its about adoption, presence and marketing.
A website is pretty different from the word processor that your OS comes with.

Ads in a word processor are like ads in your house's wall.

Ads in a website are like ads in a football stadium.
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Turns out the dumbest solutions to effectively solve a particular problem are the best.
Yeah and doctors get free vacations from drug reps and that all gets expensed. Everyone finds ways to minimize their tax exposure.
Is this something a President or anyone in government employ should care about? A private citizen using a commercial app on a private phone granted that app some permissions he later regretted. Why should USA taxpayers care about that?
It slowly moves a little bit more each day.

Not useful results will change habits.
Suddenly favicon optimization is going to be the hot new trend, and some nonsense far will impress us all with an atrocious one that catches the eye. Bright red arrows, green arrows, red stars? Hmm what will it be!
All your recycling questions answered
HN is among the most technologically-literate demographics in the world. Using HN as a control group to say that it's been 'known and talked about' is a bit disingenuous when we're the proverbial 1% who are in the know. Meanwhile, the other 99% are left trusting Apple's advertising.
It cant, the forces have to linearly increase per FARs, so MCAS has to be a thing, same type certificate or not.
They can only kill the license for future content, not for the existing content. And that would be a very clear sign that they're going to put up a paywall, and create a huge amount of pushback.

But the most convincing argument that they won't put up a paywall to me is that there simply isn't enough money in it. You won't get enough people to pay for it, and it will cripple the amount of answerers.
What mode would that be? The various fsanitize options? C doesn't have slices. Zig also allows turning on safety on a scope level. Not to mention the powerful comptime polymorphism/introspection mechanism that allows working in a more typesafe manner than C, while still being much simpler than Rust.
End to End encryption doesn't work very well when the government nationalizes the servers with the end data and the keys to decrypt it.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in...
Although I don't use PHP, I'm impressed by its staying power and the improvements in speed (which are substantial compared to other dynamic languages). It has almost universal support amongst web hosts. It can be deployed by simply uploading your code to a directory on your web host. It's a widely criticised language, but still accounts for the vast majority of server side code (80% according to some sources).

And in 2020, it's still the only language that gives your users a relatively easy method to self-install web apps or products. (Sorry, but Cloudron, Sandstrom, Docker etc will never match your customers definition of 'easy'.)

Having a ridiculously easy web app installation process for servers would unlock countless opportunities for developers to reach more users or customers. PHP is closer than most. No other language has tackled it (or cares).

This is an excerpt from a blog post by programmer Jeff Attwood:

"If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever code that runs on virtually every server in the world with zero friction or configuration hassles, PHP is damn near your only option. If that doesn't scare you, then check your pulse, because you might be dead."

To broaden choice, Attwood argues we should:

"build compelling alternatives and make sure these alternatives are equally pervasive, as easy to set up and use as possible."

That was written in 2012 (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/).

It's 2020 and none of the alternatives are 'as easy to set up and use as possible' for server-side installs as PHP. Why?
Was thinking the same thing, I don't know what the original posters career goals are but this is a perfect opportunity to launch into management. If one where so inclined they could explain to the management at the subsidiary as well as their boss that they need funds to hire and build a team to manage the workflow. Prioritize said workflow by getting agreement by all parties and then managing that workflow out to the team.
This sounded plausible until I read the first sentence. Why would MBS be the one executing the attack, and using his personal account to do it?
How big a group of routers is this? How does one get smart enough to go into the advanced options to enable remote administration, but not smart enough to set the root password first?

I partially blame Tomato for this. It shouldn't allow you to enable remote admin until you've changed the passwords.
Agree but the point was to try a light version of the challenge and you may get the determination to do the full version. Sure, running or any high impact sport can do damage to joints.
And hopefully it will stay that way!
Had the exact same thought. Had to double check the domain name twice since it looked so fishy!
And it's not the only one!

modelzoo.co is good for finding the best/most-used models but remains far from being a complete zoo and lacks a sufficient list of models for certain tasks.

For a while I liked the GAN Zoo which was specifically for GANs, but I guess there got to be too many GANs so it is no longer maintained.

https://github.com/hindupuravinash/the-gan-zoo
20 years ago, I was looking for a SCSI card, direct from the manufacturer and knew it should be like $250-$300. However, no price was listed. I figured if I added it to my cart and went to checkout, theyd have to tell the price. It showed as $0. Proceeded to checkout, paid $7. Thought for sure theyd cancel the order, but nope, it shipped and arrived in about a week. That card was awesome.
Just according to superficial stats, it looks like the flu kills orders of magnitude more people than SARS and MERS.

This is the "ratio vs. number" distinction: the seasonal flu, despite seeming to have a mortality rate on the order of 1/1000, killed more people just in the US than estimates of people who contracted SARS at all anywhere in the world.

Flu stats: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

SARS stats: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/

When H1N1 was spreading while I was in college, any people who were confirmed cases would have to undergo two weeks of house quarantine. That's a lot of people saved from potential contact. I imagine Washington State's procedures for quarantine aren't too different.
==That said, I have read health experts say that shutting down borders won't be effective at stopping pandemics.==

So what/why are you arguing?

Former CDC Chief: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/cdc-chief-why-i-dont-support...

World Economic Forum Executive Director: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2014/11/why-travel-bans-will-...
I think otherwise.

If there is one government that can tackle this, it will be the Chinese government. It is much more powerful and effective to enforce crowd control than other countries.

And you better hope it succeeds, for your own benefits.