skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two decades ago, most people thought Stallman was alarmist... but he was right.

because it’s become increasingly clear that unquestionably running code that can steal or destroy user data and especially code with kernel access is a catastrophically bad idea in an always-connected world

...and over the years I have increasingly become convinced that "security" is simply a convenient and difficult-to-oppose excuse to take away freedoms and push society towards an authoritarian dystopia by spreading such fearmongering paranoia. There's enough sci-fi around to show what that could look like.
After reading Outlaw Sea I think even the maintenance that is required on container ships is frequently skipped or corners cut, at least by smaller operations.
Including de-capping the chips and having a look at the floorplans.
Agreed.

But if you look at twitter, WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, Aljazeera, Lancet, and the BBC you start to see a picture not really consistent with "only" 30k people sick.

After all CDC reported on a fairly normal flu season in 2018-2019 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6824a3.htm?s_cid=mm...), not as bad as the previous year. 43M sick, 647,000 hospitalized, 61,200 dead. The world didn't notice, no factory closing, no global supply chains halted, no stumbling economies, no rush to build hospitals, no halt of airlines, and no $174B injected (like last Monday) into the economy to stabilize things.

Somehow under 30k infected and 565 dead is a big deal? Should we ignore every crematorium in Wuhan running 24x7?

China is keeping a pretty impressive lid on it, but the cracks are starting to showing. The official numbers are a joke.
Nice work, very comprehensive， ‘A’ for effort, good for citing in reviews.
The results are well known from other studies (eg sequencing cancer precursor lesions) and theoretical predictions over 40 years old.

They try to elevate the significance by saying the results could be useful in early detection, but the companies doing early detection through circulating tumour DNA have already moved on from looking at mutations to methylation and other epigenetic changes.
What did they expect? They don't really offer a valuable service besides a one-off test + results. At some point you're going to hit everyone who wants to use the service, they'll use it exactly once, and you'll have no more market.
Does anyone have any idea what outdated technologies they're using (notably the the ones that are sixty years old)? It would be interesting to learn which software has managed to stick around for so long and what it does.

Two anecdotes:

1) I know someone who deals with legal documents for the Canadian federal government and she has multiple word processors (of various versions) for these documents. Since minor changes can affect the meaning of these agreements, they are only edited or amended in the software in which they were originally created. She is understandably very excited for when the ones created in old versions of Word Perfect expire and a new agreement is created in newer software.

2) Only in 2019 did the US Nuclear Command transition away from their own 50 year old technology: floppy discs from the '70s. [1]

It always fascinates me to see what sticks around, for what reasons, and how it affects people's work. I've heard stories of developers creating fancy UIs to cover up ancient Fortran software, so that it's less painful to work with, but they don't need to replace the underlying software.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...
they were excised
Which is why I used "You say that as if...", because it would be very easy to interpreted your comment that way.
An idea of how to solve that problem: connect a user to the closest person if there is nobody in their radius. Use Disjoint Sets to sort of glom people together like pieces of cereal in milk. Everybody in the same glob can hear each other.
there is a strong case to be made that Epstein could still be alive.

Per interviews with the victims he video recorded EVERYTHING at his properties. Pinhole cameras, CCTVs in bedrooms/showers etc you name it.

Chances are in order to protect himself - he had blackmail material on people we all know. If acts described by the victims were secretly taped then those people are royally (pun intended) screwed.

Now the real question is - who in the world is capable to pull off an escape from a prison / suicide / body double swap?

“I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”-Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami.

So the answer is - CIA.

Epstein's buddy Bill Clinton has a "dirty" drug / CIA connection from his Mena / Arkansas days going back to the 80's (it was widely publicized, refer to the book "
Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation").

CIA is the only organization capable to get Epstein out and safe / get him new identity and help disappear.

The truth? We will never know.
How to partner up with big companies when you are a startup?
Hey guys,

We are GiftChat: Venmo with gift cards. It's a new way to send a gift card. All you need is to create a gift post with text and a gift card, and your gift will be delivered immediately in the app and with SMS outside the app, so to receive a gift, you don't have to be in the app.

The question is how to partner up with gift card retailers like Starbucks, Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc? They will benefit from our partnership, but right now, it's really hard to negotiate with them through cold emails.

Maybe we should try to find someone from the staff on Linkedin, and we should try to talk to them?

Or maybe it's best to start in an "old school way" by buying gift cards in bulk and by selling it to our users with no profit just to launch our product?

Tim,
I’m allowed to be happy.
Yeah, that one has been sad to watch. I worked there several years ago and thought it was a great place, but it seems like things have gone downhill a bit lately.
As noted elsewhere in the thread: indeed rkt is dead.

https://github.com/pascomnet/nomad-driver-podman is a WIP Podman driver. We're discussing creating our own containerd-based driver, but there's no plans yet.
I think that the real message is that a little political finesse (some call "social IQ") goes a long way, and the lack of it can hold you back.

If you're thinking to yourself, "but I was never the most socially capable," that's OK, here are some instructions for your logical-and-not-naturally-social brain to execute: Try to be positive with others, give credit where it's due (or will encourage someone else), withold criticism unless the situation truly calls for it. We all want to feel good about ourselves - a simple and easy way to be politically savvy is to be a source of positivity for others.
Everyone should read "The End of the Beginning" by Ben Thompson [1].

[1] https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/
Nvidia launches its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now
>There were no retail trading accounts at Knight.

The article states “The NYSE was planning to launch a new Retail Liquidity Program (a program meant to provide improved pricing to retail investors through retail brokers, like Knight)”

This pretty strongly implies Knight was a retail broker.

I assume I’m missing something- can you clarify?
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Or like staying with an abusive spouse. I don’t get it—why stick with a company that behaves this way, just to take part in a service that is frankly optional and unnecessary to life?

We get these threads a lot here. “Company X charged me for something they didn’t deliver and ripped me off!” So report fraud through your credit card and charge it back. “Bbbbut then they’ll ban me!”
How so? All of the deprecated APIs already have userland replacements, as described in the document. (And most of those replacements are newly built.)
I'd say this is actually a stronger argument for publishing reviews, as a persuasive argument might prevent venue shopping, potentially in multiple ways, depending on the when.
Come on man, be sensitive. This is people's jobs we're talking about.
I logged in..

Started getting only spam. Logged out.
The blackmailed would worry that there would be a "deadmans switch" set up that would automatically release the material if not periodically confirmed. Obviously Epsteins deadmans switch was either someone he couldn't really trust, was flawed, or never really existed. If he was smart it would release in steps and be totally digital and dispersed around to many places. If it was me I would have incriminating videos of someone lower on the totem pole released first so that people knew you were serious if they put you in jail. This is why he was locked up then killed after a period in jail, they wanted to see if he had a real deadmans switch. You would need something automatically released and they would need to be low enough so they couldn't get you killed when you burn them. This way everyone else would have to believe you had more automatic release set up.
Great point! And being able to see the results in aggregate is also interesting. It inclines me to share, because it becomes a two-way share, even though I don't actually have use for the information.
I don’t see how the west is undertaking this process. The west has adopted and successfully implemented classical liberalism and set up flourishing liberal economies. In order to support these economies and the form of government they prop up, the west needs a constantly increasing growth and workers. Given that birth rates are falling and westerners (read white folks) are not moving in search of work as much as they used to domestically and internationally, the west needs to attract workers from outside the west.

These workers allow the economies to grow and in turn demand they be treated as first class citizens.

I am not sure how this is “dismantling culture”
I'm glad to hear we agree on Coke's behavior.

As to marginal cost, I don't think you quite understand the term. Web servers are fixed costs. Hardware, setting up pages, electricity: all of that is considered a fixed cost. The marginal cost is the additional cost of producing one more unit of product. In this case, the actual cost difference between serving page 1,000,000 and 1,000,001. So, say 0.0007¢ in bandwidth for a modern, too-heavy page. Too cheap to meter.

It's true that the fixed costs have to get paid for, but there are plenty of ways to do that. And once that's covered, there is no tragedy of the commons. As long as the NYT has enough subscribers to pay their fixed costs and produce a reasonable ROI for their investors, they're golden.
Rockchip and Allwinner don't sound safe.
It’s not just Utah they have headquarters in San Francisco as well lots of people let go here too.
Agreed. Sciter notes is a gem. It's fantastically fast. C-smile, congrats on writing this masterpiece. I wish you best of luck. If you found a biz model to support it and add features, it'd be great. So much low hunging fruit in a world of electron apps and a crowd (HN) that mostly hates them.
Sure but now you are wasting significant human capital reinventing the wheel with substantially worse results.

So using your math, you’ve got humans, which have high environmental costs in order to... well... live... wasting their life and consuming tons of resources doing something that was done better for cheaper.

Humans cost tons of money to operate. More than data centers or anything else. Don’t waste them on stupid projects like writing shitty versions of AWS.

Your own logic should lead you to conclude all the people wasting expensive human lives reinventing javascript frameworks, deployment systems, cloud orchestration systems, database systems and AWS... these are the folks doing true harm to the environment. It is much better for the planet to lock yourself into AWS, Azure, or google cloud and exploit the shit out of everything they do than it is to piss away incredibly expensive resources building your own.

And I am more than happy to boldly assert if you are working on a project that aims to re-invent AWS for your company... you are a waste of human capital.
Show HN: Svgbob added an ability to style diagrams generated from ASCII
Also, indulging in cheap puns is reddit's central dogma.
Building a command line tool to visualize dates
The layoff was pre-programmed via apoptosis.
Tried it on mint (LTS).
uname -a (base)
Linux q 5.3.0-28-generic #30~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 17 06:14:09 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I get:
/opt/app.twinkle.notes/twinkle (base)
dist:/opt/app.twinkle.notes
var:/home/q/.config/twinkle
dist=/opt/app.twinkle.notes var=/home/q/.config/twinkle
* Twinkle Lisp 2020 *

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:16780/devtools/browser/6d2dd982-a67d-4915-8517-83d4394054a3
error: file '/opt/app.twinkle.notes/lisp/lib/sqlite3.l': position 13622: line 386: invalid number
#1: /opt/app.twinkle.notes/lisp/init.l:42: (load "lib/sqlite3.l")
[2020-02-05 23:23:09,394950 init#0] finished due to run time error

This is the deb file on your website.
> Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there.

Part of the problem is that people might get (subtly) shames/shunned for being out and about with a cold if they turn up wearing a mask. So they get pushed into the less obvious but more pernicious solution. (A measure that is managed ceases to be a useful measure)
I like the idea of being able to use the same variables in css, js, and the rendered components, like you’ve achieved in this language. It seems like a problem everyone’s trying to solve in different ways but there still isn’t anything that feels just right. My gut reaction, without having tried this language yet, is that lacking finer grained control over everything the browser is capable of, there will come a use case that this language can’t handle (or can’t handle as nicely) as native browser languages would and such limitations will be major in any sort of complex application. That said, I’m excited to give this a try. Always appreciate novel approaches to the problems I face in my everyday work.

Side note—your site doesn’t render well on a mobile device. The whole left side of the page is cutoff. Might want to look into that.
Paracetamol is even better and more commonly available
Students who make good use of the initial momentum in school are best candidates for academia. It's hard to self-start or do alone. Very few succeed in pushing boundaries alone.
Also women have lower body temperature than men.
Describing reality is not a partisan issue and I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican.
It doesn't appear that data transmission rates or quantity of users had anything to do with issues with the app. It was a bug in the code that was probably not apparent until being used in a live environment.
The NHS Choices blog's purpose is to critique the news's coverage of health research. It uses excerpts of other newspaper's articles to refer to those articles.
Do you use ad blockers, VPN, etc?
FLIR is the most well-known thermal IR camera
I realize this is probably political grandstanding, but if they actually wanted to solve this it seems like an appropriate solution would be to allow individuals to release their DMV information to DHS at the time they apply for GlobalEntry or sell a car. As a fan of privacy, I kind of like the idea of it not being shared automatically.
Is it feasible to implement it for GNM / PlayStation, for instance through adding that target for gfx-rs? I've heard for example Godot engine can't even target it, due to it being very hostile towards anything open (requiring NDA for any kind of integration).
This articles refers only to CVD risk, not total morbidity which is influenced by multiple risk factors.
Right, everything sold in a bar environment needs enough margin to offset the overhead of dealing with people at their worst behavior.
Ummm. The reviews are only published for the accepted papers - and everything is optional now. So rejected papers can still submit to another journal.
Probably 2 things:

1. Bulk collection of millions of people's habits and data.

2. Misleading "click bait" style ads.
> I think your argument would be more valid if systemd weren't establishing stable dbus interfaces, and instead were inventing all sorts of snowflake, constantly changing interfaces, but that simply isn't the case.

This didn't _used_ to be the case, but then I just looked it up, and… Yay, it actually is now! † I just want to say thanks (to the whole systemd team) for that!

† https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/ — the last time I checked was when the freedesktop.org page was still current, so it had been a while.
> citizens in US

I don't think this is any better elsewhere. If anything, the higher concentration of tech in America might make some of her citizens better prepared. But most everyone doesn't care beyond "making the darn box work."
This thread is nuts. I can't believe the connections.
Find a cofounder for your startup with this business networking app
I read it wrong at first, but I think the point is that the wind turbine is producing about 2 orders of magnitude more power per kg anyway, with assumptions biased towards natural gas.
> it seems like an appropriate solution would be to allow individuals to release their DMV information to DHS at the time they apply

What exactly does the DHS need from the DMV for implementing TPP that they don't need for issuing enhanced drivers licenses that are REAL ID compliant? The whole pretext doesn't even make sense.
Out of tree foss drivers are still not affected since you could most of the time just recompile them to work with the latest kernel.

Also when I said linux made proprietary drivers crap I meant that as a good thing. It lead to open source drivers where there otherwise would not have been. Some OEMs like AMD eventually went open source on linux while remaining proprietary on windows.
Yeah, I need to figure out a way to mitigate this. For now lowering range and locking it works.
Even the smartest scientist would probably have better odds of getting in via the EB3 category than EB1.

Yes a points system is obviously better but can be manipulated, particularly in developing countries without consistent school quality. As soon as a process to get visas is created it becomes an adversarial game to beat the system. I wouldn't rate their degrees equal. India's "engineering" degrees, for example, in my view are more akin to associate's degrees in engineering technology or such. It's all multiple choice and cramming. Even if we ignore how easy such an approach is to cheat, it doesn't teach them useful skills anyway. So if they were really assessed accurately I wouldn't expect many from India to match graduates from Germany, apart from those who attend school in the west.

China has a lot more solid schools, at least in my area, though a lot of rampant cheating and everything else too.
The US virgin islands are part of the US
I'll bet there are quite a few people on HN that have never dialed 411 or 1-<area-code>-555-1212.
I used to read this blog, until I realised every article was:

"This study is limited and warrants further research. This alone does not warrant a change to dietary advice. We encourage people eat per the Eat Well plate, as we've done for 15+ years."

At which point I stopped reading newspaper articles on diet, nor their critiques, and spent that time on following their advice.
Users has to be the worst unit you can possibly use, there's just to much variance between projects. If it's 100k users for a timesheet app people use once a week you've got very different scalability requirements than a 100 user app that people constantly interact with day in day out. Even then there's big differences depending on the domain, 100k users inserting data into a single table looks very different to the same entering information across 30 tables. You can't just pretend there's magic numbers that apply to everyone.

Many of those steps are reduce scalability if they're applied prematurely, splitting out the API and database layer at 1000 "users" is going to use more resources serializing things across the network than keeping it in process would. Same for seperating out the database, it's great if you need it but there's a cost if you don't. I worked on one system where we pulled out the API layer after realizing that this was where ~50% of our CPU time was being spent.

It also seems to focus on vertical layering more than horizontal splitting, being a photo sharing website I would have thought there was a lot of CPU intensive photo manipulation or something they can split off to services on the side that doesn't need to be done in real time.
Take a look at boinc there are many cancer related computation projects
Unix as IDE: Introduction
Thank you! No, I'm using Byte's assets for everything which is why it looks like the real app. The stars on the Spotlight button is a gif background.
Every-time a PR comes out like this I see this sort of comment. Is there any evidence that layoffs are engineering based? I always assume the first to go are marketing/admin/etc rather than developers.
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
Short summary -- because NY DMV is now required by state legislation to block DHS/ICE from accessing certain driver's license / ID records, the Global Entry / Trusted Traveler programs are being denied to new enrollments or renewals by NY residents based on lacking the withheld information. Also a blocking of used vehicle sales out of the US. Not familiar enough with the DHS/ICE procedures to know whether this is being done "by the book" or as a sort of discretionary retaliation for withholding personal data from being shared.
I believe the following assumption was the one simonh disagreed could be made:
"I certainly assumed they were claiming the same/similar risk for both red and processed meat"

I agree. Headlines should be suggestive of content, but cannot contain all the nuances.
got me: no idea. I would think giant thick steel plates would be reasonable protection against fallout but I’m no expert on that matter.
Go compiler 1.14 eliminates greedy goroutines
Visualizing the Geometric Phase of Light
Those choices were made by AWS, unfortunately: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-http-apis-fo...
Most comments here seem to be about "what Shadow should have done", making it obvious, given the distribution of HN users, that Shadow really should have used a different systems approach. But I'd like to focus on a different aspect: they used the systems approach that they did (given budget and deadline), and the outcome was poor. Is it difficult, using their approach, to accomplish what they accomplished? Seems like a single function call is the likely culprit. What exactly caused this... A race condition, database sharding? What's the cause of this issue, at a technical level?
Indeed that irony will be completely lost on most (western) readers.
> * Do you think Einstein wouldn’t have gotten his revolutionary work published with the current system?*

We'll never know without a control group of current Einsteins...

But yeah, that's the kind of thing I worry about. Einstein did stir up quite a bit of resistance at first.

Below is an interview with a scientist who got his idea "borrowed", and his paper shanked in peer review by the "borrower", who eventually got a nobel on it.

Not that I'd expect anyone to listen through a 2 hour podcast. It is pretty dramatic if you're crazy enough to go for it!

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY2...
This is from memory and may be off, but I recently read somewhere that in the UK coal went from 70% of power to 3% in something like 30 years. Politically I guess it must have withered away.

Also, WV is stereotypically coal country, but isn't a lot of coal mining now done via open pit mining out west, like Wyoming? Not sure that's closely divided or matters much for the Presidential elections.
Exploring x509 by creating a toy PKI