skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO Mozilla have made a bad call justified by misguided security.

People _are_ using a different browser.

People _have_ forked, (mostly webkit based)

When everyone has stopped using FireFox, will Mozilla conclude that the Internet is finally secure?

If we see an uptick in Firefox usage we can presume Mozilla's value judgement was correct.
As far as I remember it was a filesystem limit not couchdb limit. It was a problem that file always grow and couchdb crashed when limit exceeded. Can't find particular issue, but googling show some issues [1] that make me think that we should be very careful with db size.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40752578/couchdb-views-c...
> If you've been on the receiving end of hate speech or discrimination, you tend to be in the second camp. If you've lived a relatively privileged life in terms of 'fitting in' to the world around you, you tend to think people just need to grow thicker skin.

As someone who fell into category 1 for most of my childhood, I think you have the labels reversed. I think it takes a tremendously sheltered privileged life to get offended by such weak words, especially when they're clearly in jest. Thick skin comes from being exposed to the realities of the world and having an idea of the magnitude and context of e.g. those memes compared to actual hate speech such as I experienced.

It's not a case of 'people who never experienced hate speech think its ok', it's a case of 'people who experienced real hate speech can differentiate it from crude jokes and shitposts'

If anyone remembers Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, the American couple who went to Tajikistan and started video blogging to show that 'all humans are kind' and promptly got murdered by ISIS because they had no idea how dangerous the country was? That's the kind of sheltered privileged demographic that gets offended by shitposting. They have no clue what actual hate or actual danger looks like.

Political correctness and victim culture are pretty unique to the wealthier segments of the West and Europe.
> but they don't recommend random people who are nearby

I think that's probably true. You need to spend sufficient time near someone--like within a few feet or so.

I had an interesting experience where Facebook recommended me as a friend to someone I sat next to on an airplane, with whom I had a conversation with. My phone was in airplane mode. Not sure how that happened, TBH!
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Well, TCP/IP was the military version: the international government version was the misbegotten OSI protocol stack (yes, before it was in irrelevant model on every IT certification exam, OSI was an actual collection of protocol standards), so governments can produce pretty nasty technologies too.
Monopoly is about land, and monopoly teaches people a correct view of land: land is a zero-sum game.

It is striking how much real-life has mirrored monopoly: when the game starts and there is plenty of land to go around, there are no problems. After a while, the land runs out, and the wealthy hoard the land and charge the others for its use. The wealthy then get wealthier and the poor get poorer.

We are now in the later stages of the real-life monopoly match.
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> I spent a year there after they downgraded it to a medium security facility.

I don't believe you.
I imagine there's some advantage to fully owning the land the establishment sits on. It's probably much easier to outlast the local competition when a lease isn't eating your margins.
Cloudflare aren't the only people running a DoH endpoint
I applied for a position (Backend Engineer in Search) that I felt I was a great fit for. I was rejected without even a phone screen.

I am very early in my career, so I’d bet whoever handles the leftmost phase of the hiring pipeline saw that and basically immediately binned my resume.

But I was still pretty bummed. Since Gitlab’s development is out in the open I could see the tickets in the team’s backlog and knew that I would be able to work them. In my cover letter, I said that I wanted to help them architect and scale global code search for the gitlab.com instance.

Anyway, that’s a reality of applying for a job without a referral and so I’m not bitter about it. But man, I was so impressed with the notions espoused in Gitlab’s handbook. Principles like being a global optimizer and prioritizing unblocking others fit my natural working style very well. In fact, I’d used that exact terminology (global optimizer) to describe myself to my manager at my previous job.

Anyway, it would have been a great opportunity. And the position I’d applied for had been open for so long that I’d hoped they really wanted to fill the position. Since I didn’t even make it to the screen, I didn’t expect any feedback, and naturally didn’t receive any.
You are part of the panic stocking problem
I always tend to have enough food at home that would last me two weeks easily. I would fill my bathtub in case things start to get more serious. That should be enough drinking water for some time.
For a simple example, here's a map of Africa from just before World War I started: https://i.imgur.com/XZU6R0S.jpg

It would be pretty hard for, say, people in the Congo at the time to have started or continued lasting businesses when they were still getting over the whole "spend eighteen hours a day tapping rubber or they'll cut off the hands of everyone in your family, and even if you do they'll still kidnap your children and put them in schools where half will die of disease" thing that had been officially ended only six years before, and were still subject to wildly oppressive taxes and labor drafts that made getting out from under the weight of the Belgian overlords impossible.
there seem to be a ton of assumptions in this comment.
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But the HDF5 library does not really support multi-threading at all. Compiling the library with the "threading" option just locks around every API call, so you're back to a single thread whenever you enter (compiling without it will just crash your program).

And the library does quite a lot of work when you call into it; chunk lookup, decompression, and type conversions all happen behind that lock. You can use the "direct chunk access" functions (H5Dread_chunk?) to bypass a lot of that work and do it yourself, so you get back to using multiple threads again, and that can be a big win, but having to do it sucks, and I don't think h5py exposes this functionality at all.
"essentially nobody other than the absolute political fringes of society is going to complain"

I very much dont think that is the way this plays out in the western world.

In China, they welded the doors shut on entire residential buildings leaving the people in there to either die or survive on their own. They bagged and gagged people with elevated temperature and force quarantined them. They had crematoriums working over time.

China has complete military control of their population, this is going to go very differently in the West.

China's process was very effective and probably greatly reduced the rate of infection but there is no way people in other countries are just going to sit silently while the same actions are carried out.
>Restaurants are a tough, low margin business

That is only common today when you have high rent. Most of the older business tends own the property ( Like early days McDonald ) and it will remain a competitive advantage.

That is of coz assuming your food is good enough.
Have a look at the plot [1] from the excellent plotting tool [2] of the American Association of Variable star observers [3]. You see a strong dip in the U band (U for UV, 365 nm plus or minus 66 nm), B band (B for blue, 445 nm \pm 94 nm) and V band (V for visible, 551 nm \pm 88 nm). But in infrared (only the J band had enough data to make it worth plotting) at 1.22 micro (plus or minus 212 nm) the light curve is really flat.

1: https://imagebin.ca/v/5DhzHxxS3Eq2
2: https://www.aavso.org/LCGv2/
3: https://aavso.org/
According to this real wages have been rising for the last 30 years:
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/are-wages-rising-or-flat/
Backscatter. It sounds like it needs two adjacent networks. One network transmits something, and the device backscatter-modulates its signal to be received by the other network.
> I'm aware libertarians believe it's the principle of the thing, dammit, but I'm truly weary of arguments which boil down to "Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is philosophically indistinguishable from a call for nationalizing all industry."

First, while some wealthy people remain wealthy, I'd guess there's a much larger impact on people who are becoming wealthy than those who are already super-rich.

Second, as you said, it's the principle. I've got an objection to seizing people's stuff to then give away to others. There is no reason government should supply anything that is not a pure public good, and it should supply precious few of those, too. Remember that every act the federal government takes is backed up with the threat of death. If you don't comply, a bunch of agents will bust down your door at 3 AM and haul you away (see the disturbing number of paramilitary groups many federal agencies now possess). If you resist, you get killed.

This applies to income tax too, by the way. I couldn't care less how much good you think you can do with it, no one gets to take someone else's stuff because he wants to give it to someone he deems more deserving.
Another alternative to smoking is Swedish Snus! It also falls in the "probably not risk free, but certainly not nearly as bad as cigarettes". As an added bonus, you don't have to go outside to use since nobody else is affected (unless they want to kiss you or something).

But of course, although snus is a credible safer alternative to cigarettes, it is banned in every other EU country while cigarettes remain completely legal.
I imagine you consider yourself an "owl" because keeping "larks" awake longer at night to you results simply in them waking up later the next day.

That is not the case: if I usually wake up at 6am, I will again wake up at 6am if I had at least 4h of sleep. So a "lark" will be similarly sleep deprived in circumstances you describe (eg. in young adult life and lots of nights out).

The reason while early-risers had more success getting their schedule accepted throughout history is because they needed no artificial light source to perform whatever they needed, and artificial light was costly for a long time.

However, the solution in a global world today is simple: move to a timezone where your productive hours will align with whatever the societal norm is, and do remote work.
> Money increases when you pass start, and cards drawn are on average a source of money.

Money itself is of value only if it can be used to buy stuff. The assets in Monopoly are fixed - more and more money chases the same assets, meaning that the real value of that money remains the same.

Zero-sum.
How is urban farming a serious problem to solve?
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>It really depends on what your life experience is to determine which camp you fall in. If you've been on the receiving end of hate speech or discrimination, you tend to be in the second camp. If you've lived a relatively privileged life in terms of 'fitting in' to the world around you, you tend to think people just need to grow thicker skin.

In my opinion this is backwards. You can have people who lived an extremely privileged life, they never experienced that many hardships at all, and so when they see someone being called anything that could be slightly offensive they overreact in defense of the other person, because if they were insulted in a similar manner they would really feel it strongly.

Similarly, you can have people who receive a lot of hate and don't fit in, grow a thicker skin because of it, and then tells others that they should do the same because it worked for them. Those people might have some combination of personality traits that allowed them to grow a thicker skin in the first place, so their advice will work for some people but not others.

From my life experience these two modes happen much more often than the ones you described.
This is always the excuse given, and it seems to me to be just that - an excuse.
Semantics aside, if FB isn’t allowed to use the math behind E2EE, they’ve effectively been stopped from using math. Just trying to avoid getting into the weeds.

Similarly to you questioning my faith in the matter, you’re ignoring my argument, ostensibly not in good faith, either. I’m suggesting to build a better mousetrap. It may not be perfect but might help maintain and improve civility in society.

Alcoholism and alcohol aren’t really a great analogy.

I understand math better than you may realize. You said that you don’t believe there’s a better way. You’ve effectively conceded that the existing key escrow solutions with the known risks are the best that can be done. I’m suggesting to do better. Find a better compromise.

Three party access in current incarnations may have flaws but the statement isn’t factually false. It’s simply undiscovered.

Conflating ideals with beliefs can be tricky..
P&D happens with penny stocks, where a small amount of interest can yield very real change. You can't P&D with any big cap.

And the best part with P&D is that most everyone involved knew what was happening, but they played along hoping to get out before it peaks.

And it was very real. You could get the emails pimping whatever the OTC stock was and watch as it pumped up, pumped up, pumped up, and then crashed to nothing.
If you pay people enough they can easily be brainwashed into believing what they are doing is right.
Wasn't the US government trying to kill him? I guess it will be easy once they have it in their soil...
The key difference is that "AlternativeTo" has voting from users, whereas "Opensource.builders" has voting (stars) from developers... not sure which is better, probably a combination of both
Yea makes you wonder about the bozos at Wi-Fi Alliance who designed that shit... How can you make a blunder like that?
Any information about the usage of these chemicals in Australia?
This supports recent hypotheses in the last couple weeks that the dimming is from expelled dust. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/new-image-shows-bete...
IARPA, DTRA, SCO, DIU. The DoD spends like 50B a year in research and development.

NIH and CDMRP grant programs is several additional billion.
Matt Levine's take: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-02-26/money-...

I'd really recommend subscribing (free, email, don't think there's RSS) if you don't already (I got the recommendation on HN). He's prolific though, rarely a day without an email, and often two or three - it wasn't long before I couldn't keep up; I just skim and read more thoroughly those that grab my attention now.
Fair enough.

Is it killing a significant amount of non-immunocompromised people? I haven't devoted a lot of attention to COVID-19, but would assume it doesn't have a high casualty rate among healthy people who practice the basics (rest and hydration)?

I guess one way to look at it is that it's a model for handling a much deadlier bug. And the world is doing a mediocre job at it.
I will buy this handbook as a real book. It's great content. I know it changes all the time, but buy it as an Nth edition will be great.
> If you want to start a company working on a better way to build homes, gene editing, artificial general intelligence, a new education system, or carbon sequestration, you may actually be able to get it funded, even if you don’t have a degree or much experience.

Is this actually true? I have plenty of "hard startups" that I would love to work on. But these hard startups require far more investments and manpower, even to get to the MVP stage. As someone with minimal prior-startup-success and investor-contacts, I get the impression that no one is going to bet significant sums on me and my unproven idea. Am I wrong?
It also plateaued in China IF you happen to believe the numbers they are reporting are genuine, which I would wager they are not.
> If your immune system was able to beat it once, it is primed to quickly take it out the second time (probably before you even have symptoms.)

This isn't always the case, chickenpox can lie dormant for most of your life and reactivate as a far worse shingles. There are some sources claiming reinfection is possible and that it's worse than the initial infection for coronavirus, I'd take that with a large dose of salt for now, but it's not safe to assume you'll be immune once you beat it, even if it doesn't cause long term damage.
Yes. Just bought quite a bit of canned food and bottled water today. May pick up a solar-based generator (100-200W).
>The amount of misinformation on e-cigarettes/vaping nicotine has been absolutely infuriating.

I wonder if tobacco companies are behind most of the misinformation about vaping. While I'm sure most if not all of them have e-cigarette product lines, the margins have to be terrible compared actual cigarettes. Folks into vaping aren't buying their nicotine and flavors from these companies.
Suppose A has contacts B and C. If A chooses to share contacts with Facebook, and Facebook suggests B and C to A, I can see why you'd say that's not an invasion of privacy. If Facebook suggests A to C, that's arguably an invasion of privacy. If Facebook suggests B and C to each other, that's unarguably an invasion of privacy.
Yes, I agree. I use basscss for a ton of small projects, and my personal sites. It's so small, it's trivial to include even when I'm using larger frameworks like Bootstrap.
Please do not put paywalled links as direct targets.
The oldest company in the world on this chart (Kongo Gumi in Japan) is not in Business anymore. It seized operations in 2006 due to bankruptcy.
Classic question is what happens if you decide to change all gray text with the blue one? Do you end up having the class named text-gray that is setting text to blue, or you search & replace class names...
You sure about that?

I bet if you showed up and tested positive for COVID-19 you'd be given an entire floor to yourself. Definitely your own room.

At least for now...
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Because I don't want that cognitive overhead of even thinking about what the selector should be. Then what if I have another sub-sub text? Do I make that an h3? An h4? I don't want to have to think about that. I just make it "text-xs" and move on.

I don't even need to move over to my css file at all - I stay within my template and stay within my flow.

It seems crazy and counter-intuitive at first, but I find that it makes me a lot more productive.
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And the proceeds still go to the landowner. The times that high rise buildings had cheap rents are long gone.

So what is the point? Get out of your bubble and see how poor people are. Typical Caltech brat.
In his original message right after "it's" he put "(I believe?)", implying he was unsure about the usage and inviting feedback so I responded to that. If I misread, my bad, but I thought he was specifically asking.
help!!!! I can’t close the thread. I need a jannie to stop this talking!!!!!! help!!!!!

you’re fucking pathetic. log off you fucking pussy.
What I gathered from my quick scan of their PDF:

An attacker can trigger a dissociation between the device and the access point. The dissociation causes the device to zero its temporary encryption key called the TK (transient key), which is the key used to encrypt traffic between the device and the access point. Unfortunately, some data frames still on the device could then be encrypted with this zero key and sent anyway. Because the key is known to be zero, the attacker can decrypt these few data frames (a couple of kilobytes) trivially. Since the attacker can trigger this at will, they can leak an unbounded amount of data.

It's essentially a race condition in hardware between clearing keys and finishing sending off the last few packets inside the transmission buffer. Nasty!

This is going to require you to patch your firmware.
All models of the Gameboy Advance including the front-lit SP and Micro variants, are able to play all of the original B&W and Color carts. Even good ol'Tetris which spends a pretty lengthy amount of time in my SP.

The DS won't play them the original cartridges though--it will however play the Advance carts.
I think this is fair.

It is also a supporting argument for a public forum, square, something where the people can gather and benefit from the First Amendment.
Poker is mostly luck. Elite players sometimes lose for months at a time. It takes a LOT of hands before you can expect your real world results to converge to your EV results. It is certainly possible to win in the long term, but results from a single session are very loosely correlated with skill.
> the pre-colonial population maybe didn't have a culture of setting up long running businesses

This assumption of an entire continent as having a single culture is something that I find cringy at best.
I find these 'Valley Koans' popularised in the last long while to be a little troublesome.

Things like 0->1->n
Do things that don't scale
Andreesen Horowitz bit on 'The Good Ideas That Seem Bad'
Paul G's essays.

They all have nice little nuggets of wisdom, but what the almost always lack are good examples and concrete evidence.

Funny that many HN comments are better researched than a lot of these 'Deep Thoughts'.

Since these guys have access to startup data like nobody else, golly, wouldn't it be nice to see examples and break-downs?

i.e. here's 1000 YC startups, and how they categorise in terms of 'hard/simple' problems. Here's their trajectory. Here's some mitigating factors etc..

The reason I write this is because of my flinch on this note from Sam. He's worth listening to, absolutely, but that doesn't mean we can't disagree.

The problem with his thesis is that YC makes all their money from very regular businesses.

There is no 'magic' to Stripe. It's a really great product that did mostly what previous products did, with a much cleaner API that devs loved. This is not koolaid/AI kind of stuff. For pragmatically minded people, yes, it does seem like it could 'really help change the world', but really ... it's not sexy.

AirBnB because it's more consumer, yes, I can see some koolaid about 'sharing' etc. but again I don't think it's in the category of 'tough problems'.

DoorDash, Instacart, Dropbox, Faire, Brex, Flexport, Checkr, Mixpanel.

So many of the big YC companies are solving regular kinds of business problems, in big market places.

The 'heady' startup would be 'Cruise' but that was an odd man out for a few reasons.

All the things it would seem to me that Engineers would really like to solve are not quite on that top list. The 'coolest tech' YC startups aren't really the big hits.
3) You don’t need to have complete data to report what you think is a market manipulation scheme to the SEC for investigation:

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Average has, median has not.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...