skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s unfair to call Dyson a non-expert. Climate science was not his speciality, and he was humble about his relation to it and quick to point out that there are people more familiar with the current state of the field than him, but he was involved in important early climate studies. From Wikipedia:

> Around 1979 Dyson worked with the Institute for Energy Analysis on climate studies. This group, under Alvin Weinberg's direction, pioneered multidisciplinary climate studies, including a strong biology group. Also during the 1970s, Dyson worked on climate studies conducted by the JASON defense advisory group.

There have been lots of advances in modelling complex systems, but it’s notoriously difficult to find models that work beyond a short timeframe. Dumb simple models often work better than cutting edge, complicated, much more realistic ones simply because there are less variables to get wrong. And every time you make an advance, the assumed accuracy of the model’s long term predictions needs to be reset: if model A predicted 1 year accurately, and you improved it so model A.1 predicted the next year accurately, you don’t have a model that accurately predicted 2 years; there is still only 1 unknown year that was predicted, and A.1 was just as accurate/inaccurate as model A at predicting that unknown year whether or not it took that past year into account.

We’ve seen how easy it is for sophisticated and complex models of chaotic systems like the stock market to fail despite people’s faith in them. His point seems as prudent now as back then; I think some systems are a lot more complicated than we’d like, and that we should have enough hubris to acknowledge that and be constantly testing our assumptions against empirical data.

He didn’t dismiss the value of models in helping understand chaotic systems, he was just wary about their long term predictions. And that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re wrong, only that they should not be taken as Gospel for anything beyond a fairly short time frame.
This is fairly well-known stance and the intersection of consciousness and quantum decoherence is something people talk about quite a bit. Check out Sean Carroll's stuff for a lot of good discussion on this.
>> Everyone has a choice

> No they don’t

You misinterpret my point. Nobody is forced to use Reddit. It is a privilege, not a right or requirement.

> Have you ever thrown a small get together and everyone in the block called the cops because they just hate you and want to see your fun shut down? That's more what it's like it my eyes.

I disagree this is a better analogy. That would be more like Twitter/Facebook/etc wielding some power of e.g. regulatory capture to shut down Reddit.

But you do raise an interesting point. This is like the rule “if you run into an asshole on your way to work, chances are they’re just an asshole. If everyone you meet is an asshole, it’s probably just you that’s the asshole.”

If you really have multiple neighbors shutting down your house parties, chances are much higher you were fucking up, either with the party itself, or generally in your relations with those neighbors.

Same goes for T_D. It’s much more likely they are the assholes here. Split hairs all you want, they’re getting kicked out because they just aren’t pleasant citizens of the site in the opinion of the admins, which at the end of the day, are the only opinions that matter on their site.

I won’t hold my breath waiting for thedonald.win to adhere to your moral system of fairness. Nor would I expect them to with their own site.
Its seen as setting up a system similar to national ID cards.

Weirdly National Insurance numbers are not always unique, and people can have more than one. Also while they are used by for tax and benefits (HMRC and DWP) other departments have a different ID number, the biggest being NHS numbers, military service numbers, passport numbers and driving license numbers (DHSC, MOD, Home Office, Department for Transport).
So you’d need to unify it, under one of these, effectively creating a ‘National ID Number’, even if you don’t call it that it’d be spun as that by opponents (libertarians, big brother watch etc).
You’re probably right in that the public probably aren't too worried about it, and would probably be appalled to see the waste that goes on as a result of it not existing. But politicians and parts of the media will get riled up by it.
>> My dystopian-future fear is that that Web Assembly will be the end of ad blocking

The answer to that is to disable Web Assembly, much like a lot of people disable JS. The whole idea of running other peoples code on your machine is the problem, and it baffles me that browser companies are still trying to enable more and more of this. I don't want your code running on my computer.
Docker’s primary use case is also web services.
I would say this is considered an open question.
> the guy was a living legend.

And now he's a legend.
>When sites offer both, choose U2F. When sites offer TOTP only, use it.

This, 100%

In some sense TOTP, basically HMAC, seems like it would be harder to screw up than a public key system. RSA is amazingly hard to get right. I wonder if the order of preference should be:

1. U2F ECDSA/EdDSA

2. TOTP

3. U2F RSA
...
Infinity. SMS 2FA

No idea where ECDAA [0] fits.

[0]: https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/08/security-concerns-surroun...
That really seems like a high average, even for the Bay Area. I suspect median total comp is lower, even for FAANG. Also, the company in the article is in the Seattle area. Lastly, even at the extraordinary level of income of $275k, cost of living means that while you’ll be comfortable, you won’t feel especially kingly.

I’d add Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, etc. to your consideration. Comp is 25% lower, but cost of living is even lower than that.
Thanks - it's really nice to see the community sharing it!

To your point on "in a few seconds"... We're currently trying to build out more libraries as fast as we can so people working on apps in lots of languages can easily integrate it - we've done Python, Ruby, NodeJS, JS, Go and PHP, and an API for the rest. Feature requests for new libraries as issues in the repo (https://github.com/posthog/posthog) very welcome.
It takes more than a single bit--there are Huffman codes built into the spec, but it is certainly possible for the bits to degrade enough to render a sector or even the whole disc unreadable.
That's an issue of scoping, not capturing. The x in the lambda isn't scoped to the lambda, it's scoped to the surrounding environment.

So the x closes not over the lambda but the outer scope. So it's as expected given shadowing.

Edit: Since I'm getting throttled:

No, I'm saying that scoping rules are different in python and rust.

In Rust (and cpp) there's the concept of scopes/closures as a first class feature. This concept doesn't exist in python (python has namespaces, I guess, instead, there's no good terminology here).

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295290/what-do-lambda-f.... This is due to weird scoping, not name mutability.

Second edit:

Well ok on second thought I see where you're going here. I was trying to avoid thinking about copy-on-scope-change behavior, but you actually do have to consider that and you're right.
AI ethics backed by Pope and tech giants in new plan
I work in the financial industry and even if the CAC is really high (100s of dollars) it still pales in comparison to the income we get on average from the new customers.

I don't work in marketing but even if I personally hate ads, they unfortunately work really well especially in combination with facebook/googles profile on everyone and the fact that they seem to learn who clicks a certain ad after a few days and only display it to that group.
page not found. Presumably this one?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...

It's worth noting that this document does not make any claim that it cannot spread prior to symptoms. It says this:

" - People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest).
- Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this occurring with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads."
I've used Google Authenticator for a long time, but the lack of backups is a really serious downside. What I would really like is encrypted backups using a strong passphrase that I can write down on paper (like Authy), but from a trusted source like Google, and with no other features to widen the attack surface (no internet access, no SMS).

Without backups, having a phone die or get lost is a very frustrating experience. If you use backup codes, you have to go re-register 2FA on every account with backup codes. And of course some don't offer backup codes.

You could screenshot and print out the QR code at registration time (I've done this for a few accounts), but shared printers apparently retain history of everything they've printed, so you'd need to own a personal printer, which seems absurd.

You could write down the TOTP secret on paper instead. Ideally with multiple copies and then move them to different physical locations. That's a big hassle to do for each new account registration, which seems to happen every few months.

Encrypted backups solve this easily: you get one key, which you write down once and distribute to different locations if you want. After that there's nothing new to do for new accounts at registration time. And restoring onto a new phone after one dies is also easy.
Young children are not at risk, unlike the flu.
He has ten Euros a week in donations. If he can't come up with solutions and find more resources, there's nothing crazy about predicting "The path I'm on could actually end in my death in the not too distant future."

Is everyone on HN this oblivious to that fact? Do most well-heeled people just find it impossible to recognize that "I have no money currently and no means to reliably make money and it's been a persistent problem that isn't resolving." is, in actual fact, a life-threatening situation and this isn't hyperbole?

Because, wow, if most rich people are that amazingly obtuse, that might go a long ways towards explaining the horrifyingly callous treatment I've been subjected to over the years.
This is mostly Intel's fault. The day Ryzen came out, I almost quadrupled the computing power of my similarly priced Intel CPU. If I were to do so again I could get an eight times more powerful CPU for that money.
I think I can only half-agree.

People who don't have adblockers are willing to put up with a heck of a lot. Agreed.

But if someone is not technically sophisticated enough to use an adblocker, they're also probably not technically sophisticated enough to find the actual content on a page and just give up.

I see this fairly frequently; someone with limited computer literacy goes to a website from Google, doesn't see anything relevant immediately (because of bad UI or really bad ads), and goes back to Google. Often the site even had relevant content when I look later, they just couldn't see it because they aren't as good at parsing website content.

There are so many websites with equivalent information, if you click on one and it's just garbage at first glance I think hitting "back" is more likely than "read and click on every ad and give them your SSN before downloading their virus scanning software".
“Don’t form a company” means you are personally legally exposed. I’m not a lawyer, I may be wrong, but this seems risky.
> the decoding software is very common.

[Citation needed]
TIL. Wow. I guess I missed the web is not HTML anymore.
Broad St Chlorea outbreak, the birth of epidemiology.
The only blocking I do is turning off video autoplay in firefox (that sites like Tumbler somehow get around).

Yet the Washington Post blocks me as using an ad-blocker, possibly because I'm using Linux, possibly because of no autoplay. But altogether, it seems like anit-adblock efforts are going to start having more and more collateral damage.
Presumably there's a spectrum for the closeness and duration of contact, which determines who gets tested / isolated / etc.

Let's say that somebody travels back from Italy, and stops by the office for 5 minutes on the way home, to pick up something. The people at the office are going to be about as exposed as the people who were at the airport that day. I presume we don't try to track down or isolate everyone at that airport?

(To go a bit further, as far as I can tell, in none of the Swiss cases is there any kind of information that would let the public reason about whether they could have been exposed. E.g. about which trams or trains the people with an infection took.)

While if somebody spent a full day coughing at the office, went to the cafeteria for lunch and dinner, had a few meetings, etc. Well... Seems like you'd want to isolate a lot of people. And that's not a decision the company gets to make, it'd be done for them by the authorities, and a lot of people would know.

If no details of any sort have been released to employees, it kind of suggests this case was at the first end of the spectrum.
The co-evolution of plants and humans
This is what Statium and Urlito are for:

import ViewModel from 'statium';
import stateToUri from 'urlito';

const defaultState = {
foo: 'bar',
qux: {
time: Date.now(),
},
};

const [getStateFromUri, setStateToUri] = stateToUri(defaultState, [
'foo',
{
key: 'qux.time',
uriKey: 'time',
fromUri: time => parseInt(time, 10),
toUri: time => String(time),
},
});

const Component = () => (
<ViewModel initialState={getStateFromUri}
observeStateChange={setStateToUri}>

{/* ... */}
</ViewModel>
);
Freeman Dyson exposed and explained Richard Feynmans genius to the world, but he had better blue thoughts (see my other links in this discussion) than Feynman had ("Plenty Of Room At The Bottom"), on a par with Alan Kay's blue thoughts.

He imagined the Dyson Sphere that set me on my path to Science, Carl Sagan just gave the last push.

He imagined the space chicken and the Kuiper belt/Oort cloud plants.

His carbon cycle ideas have still not been researched seriously.

His essay on the origens of life (started by Gödel) are still ringing in my brain.

His view of big Napoleon versus small tabletop science is a very valid analysis of our current crises in science and his solution is to be kind to the mad scientists and heretics.

By far his best interview is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjVHLBEsHI&list=PLzLGaX_Jvm.... It is also on bittorrent and Peertube.

The rest of the Glorious Accident series is worth it as well, especially the group discussion at the end.
> iXSystems mentioned to avoid AMD for FreeNAS

This seems odd. Long ago FreeNAS on the N54L microserver was a nice setup and it had some AMD chip. I suspect it might apply only to some bleeding edge stuff...
55mph roads with intersections, are all over the place in Kansas and Colorado, both in urban and rural. Some intersections have traffic lights, many don't.
Yup, nailed it
I have copied all the 2FA strings in a separate keypass database, with a different password, only in my memory.

I also went through writing a simple javascript page to import all those keys to Google Authenticator via totp:// protocol. It takes a csv of all strings, and spits out the html links with totp://protocol. All using local storage only. So whenever I change phone, I paste the csv from keypass to google keep (pretty safe), open it on the new phone, copy it & paste into my html5 app, and click each link and it auto adds itself to Google Authenticator. Then I select all text in Google Keep and delete it.
For the company, yes. But the government can overrule that in these scenarios.
I have had the same setup been tested by two different pen testers, so yes, I would not mind that bet.

If you break the law however, which is what happens if a pen test a system without permission, then it doesn't really matter if you hack or use rubber hose tactics. Breaking the law is breaking the law. The police don't look kindly to bets under those situations.

I will also say the same thing I wrote to those two pen testers that tested our system. If you find any vulnerability I will happy help write the CVE report. What I did not tell them but will mention here is that I also happy take part in getting those bug hunting reward money that zero days exploits usually rewards. If you have for example a working exploit against current stable release of latest SSH then I am sure we can turn that in somewhere for a pretty good amount of money.
I think even more interesting is when I wake up before my alarm and actually get up/out of bed I feel like I had proper sleep. However, if I decide to go back to sleep for the short period of time before my alarm, I usually wake up by the alarm and feel like I got terrible sleep.
> Was hoping that this could be reasonably secure... and that I'd be able to install xul/xpi extensions.

These two objectives pull in opposite directions. The more you get of one, the less you're going to get of the other.
Austerity is effective when it is achieved by cutting spending. The cases where it hasn't worked were because the spending cuts were accompanied with tax increases [1]. This shouldn't be a surprise because tax increases tend to decrease GDP [2].

[1] A. Alesina, C. A. Favero, and F. Giavazzi, Austerity: when it works and when it doesnt. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 2019.

[2] C. D. Romer and D. H. Romer, “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks,” American Economic Review, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 763–801, 2010.
Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Was there today - it was definitely not in shutdown mode. There was a few people wearing face masks in the airport, some of which were staff of the shops.
I've never understood the goal of it. It feels like they claim it's to help those in the public eye that might frequently be targets of harassment or fraudulent copy-cat accounts, but AFAICT it's just a way to declare someone "popular" (or just blatantly handed out to people who have friends at Twitter).

It's just another way to separate people arbitrarily for no real reason.
Crates.io incident report for 2020-02-20
Ask HN: How are moves made in a predictable market?
We are currently witnessing significant shifts in stock markets, perhaps "corrections" due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I'm not seeking financial advice, rather more interested in the theory. I'm basically confused as to why everyone and their mother isn't currently trying to short the market. My expectation is that the short-term direction of the market is so obvious and predictable that things should have already settled down, some kind of consensus reached. Are the opinions of how bad things simply clashing with predictions of how bad things can get? To me it feels too easy to make decisions within the market right now. Perhaps I am just completely misreading the level of predictability?
Show HN: Alfred 4) Synonyms n Antonyms workflow to help with variable naming ️
"The word" being gods megaphone, bridge, bond, transmission, or link between oneness and humanity is great and all, but it doesnt explain why there can only be one. Why cant Oneness have multiple Words inhabiting a universe, a planet, a city, spreading her message at the same time. It might give the Word some more amplification, credence, or authority to be the only one, but why would Oneness limit itself to such few vectors of transmission of its words.

>if you really believe that we are the logos

Sounds like we are the consciousness of the universe observing and experiencing itself. Are you saying Jesus was different, or we are all equally Jesus? Why do we have to believe we are the vessel through which the oneness communicates her message, to be the vessel through which the oneness communicates its message. Is a boat not a boat if it doesnt believe its a boat?

But I think I get what you are trying to say. Its the same as a cell in my body saying it will live forever, even if the cell dies off the body continues to live. We are cells in the logos, and even if the individual cells cease, the being continues. I dont think thats what people really want to hear when they are told "THEY can live forever." It also sounds like encouraging or needing ego death to really absorb/grok.
I just watched the press conference where someone from the swiss federal council was asked this exact question. The reasoning given was that a) an office is less packed b) it's easier to follow hygiene procedures, such as regularly washing hands or using sanitizers in an office setting.

But frankly, the real reason is probably just: economic damage.
I trust LastPass's security as much as I trust any company's security. I'm not worried about MITM attacks, but there are many other ways that someone could get access to an account.

The biggest security issue is that they hold the keys to my entire kingdom. So if someone somehow gains access to that account, I need another layer of protection, no matter how small the chances are.
No, they just want to squeeze out every penny they can not thinking of the users they end up losing in the process. Personal experience time!

I ran a pretty popular wiki for Dungeons and Dragons homebrew on what used to be called Wikia. At some point they decided they available needed to have some terrible new skin that was stuffed with ads and unbelievable ugly. We pushed back but they were adamant about forcing it, so I took all the content and all the users and self hosted it for almost a decade afterward. The Wikia site was completely dead. Sucks for them but their choice.

I paid $10/mo or $10/mo for the site depending on the year, and never ran ads. At one point I got an offer from a company in the same hobbyist space to buy it from me. At that point I was extremely sick of being my own sysadmin and worrying about security vulns so I accepted it. Now some time later they're trying to pull the "stuff it full of ads in the worst places!" routine. Users are getting pissed and starting to ask me about taking all the content...and users...and going off to a server adminned by me again.

If I do this, it will be completely devastating for the site and tank their traffic. Do they care or realize? Guess we'll see.
Intel and TSMC's business models are built on top of Moore's law continuing, and them maintaining an edge over the lower-end manufacturers. The end of Moore's law is an existential threat to their viability.

At the same time, businesses that design specialized architectures, or work on alternative devices have been publishing things about the End of Moore's Law for a long time [1], since it means that their 2x improvement of the day won't be obliterated by next year's Moore's law jump.

[1]: E.g, this article from 2000, saying that the "End of Moore's Law" is why their research is relevant https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-306-47013-...
Kubernetes Federation Deep Dive
WHO: Promote regular teleworking across your organization
There is a great paper on the arms race between Ads and Ad Blockers out of a group in Princeton.

They propose a perceptual ad-blocking scheme where ads are always rendered in a DOM, but elements only displayed to the if they are not "ad like".
This is makes it much easier to evade ad-block detectors, since your browser appears as if it does not have an ad-blocker!
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/ad-blocki...
Regarding browser ads; consider installing both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger extensions!
Or just a way of maintaining the integrity of your own internet experience.
I'm honestly _more_ concerned that the FDA is dumbing things down so much that smart people have trouble understanding it.
There's probably a guy who broke his leg and stayed at home wondering, why everyone at the office hates him.