skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that. The goal is to design a system that prevents abuses. A technological solution to the ape problem would be helpful.
So generically, who should I be more worried about having my information and having more power? Google to advertise to me better or the government who can take my stuff based on a vague suspicion via civil forfeiture and has the power to send me to jail?

More personally, as a Black guy living in the mostly White burbs in the south - ie looking suspicious for living my life - who should I worry more about big tech (that indirectly provides for my livelihood) or the “justice system”?
Fair point - I did the calc all at once and screwed up my parentheses. My point still stands. How realistic is it to manufacture 500,000 x2.5 = 1.25 million wind turbines, needing 27 trillion kWh to do so, in 10 years?
That would certainly incentivize pharma to develop the next antiviral, wouldn’t it?
Correct, web accessible is what I was referring to.
The US is only 4.29% of the global population. Massively over paying for medication in the US has limited impact on research budgets as much of that is eaten up by advertising etc.
Killer Acquisitions
A lot of automated trading is arbitrage and market making, where such a trade would not really be an issue.

Regardless, option trading tends to have human traders behind the wheel, and they're trained to figure out what's going on (trading options is similar to playing poker).
Right, Google is going the "regulatory capture" route of standards, where they're the only place capable of meeting the standards they wrote.
Trusting the government is solvable - simply don't give them any more power than you're willing to let them abuse.
There is a place for shorts i.e. as price discovery mechanism, and in many cases, as a price correction mechanism to reveal fundamental weaknesses in a company with overpriced stock.

Shorting stocks to take advantage of a disaster strikes me as one of the most unethical, immoral things one can do. People still do it, but it doesn't make it right.

(apologies for the moralizing -- my sentiments are not directed at OP who was merely musing and shooting the breeze -- but at amoral Wall Street types).
Well, they're literally called expert systems.
> just look at the ground next time you're walking outside to see all the cigarette butts

Amusingly, this is more of a result of anti-tobacco campaigns. I have recently visited Prague and one of the things I noticed were the ashtrays everywhere and very few cigarette butts on the street. But in NYC, where I live, there are no ashtrays and so you get cigarette butts all over the place. Because smokers are not going to quit smoking simply because you removed all the ashtrays.
My success as an architect or senior dev or supervising senior dev or practice lead (all hats I've worn just like the knit beanie I wear every day) all depend on a senior management team above me that remains relaxed, open to new ideas, and collaborative. I need them to view me as a flexible resource that works just as hard to understand their needs and concerns as I do to understand those of the engineers at the firm.

That's why I wear jeans and a tshirt when I'm meeting with internal teams and I put on a suit and tie (or at least a cashmere sweater and slacks) when I meet with clients or mostly senior management teams.

I need openness and collaboration between peers who frequently and stubbornly misunderstand each other and by signaling that I'm not explicitly playing for either team I foster that openness and collaboration.

Often managers smirk or chuckle at my casual attire and engineers are wary and look askance at my Tie Bar wool ties and designer shoes when I am attending a workshop.

I dress for the audience, not for me. Stubbornly adhering to any other standard is dumb.
i wonder if he never switched it to fiat if he would have gotten caught on the IRS/Fed side. If he kept it Bitcoin or if he had some Bitcoin to Cash side hustle that he could keep under wraps from the IRS he might have gotten away with it.
>CouchDB is awesome, full stop.

The problem I had with CouchDB is integrating it into a framework like Rails. CouchDB on its own does so much cool stuff. The "free" HTTP API and client replication via PouchDB are the two huge ones. But it just wasn't smooth enough to get the data out, use it where I wanted, and then save it back.
Quoting an author: In our "Killer Acquisitions" paper we document the same effect in pharmaceuticals where dominant incumbents acquire small entrepreneurial startups and then kill the innovation because it would otherwise cannibalize the profits of their own existing drugs.

There are also other papers that show that increasing concentration is terrible for innovation in pharma (https://econpapers.repec.org/article/eeeindorg/v_3a63_3ay_3a...): horizontal mergers not only decrease the innovation intensity of the merging parties, but even the incentive to innovate of other competitors.
The best policy is a balance between total government control and total private control. An individual can own land, but the government can tax it, or allow easements, etc. Governments can own land and allow individuals on it. So it doesn't have to be one or the other.
I have a ton of trouble recognizing peoples faces or names, especially out of the usual context. But I can remember programs I wrote in detail 10 years ago, network protocols, RFCs/IEEE standards. I think I have decent recall and pattern matching in some areas at a great expense of some other things. It took me until I was in my 20s to know what order the months are in a year. Another anomaly, my hobby besides computers is cars and I can identify every make and model and most years of almost every car on Earth. The name of my neighbors? Not so much. Brains are weird.
Apparently Bayer was able to manufacture and ship an order of 300,000 chloroquine phosphate pills in 24 hours. I don't know exactly what that means, but it's definitely good.

https://www.shine.cn/biz/economy/2002202403/
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2162276/1-pakistan-effective-dr...
Good question - the non-CEO founders should have a chance to meet the VC, but that usually happens as a final step to confirm that there's no terrible interactions.

For what it's worth, I haven't personally seen this dynamic derail a deal.
Inexpensive, why?

I really do not want a world like mobile gaming where every game is free and designed to make you addicted to buy virtual coins.

Games cost a lot of money to make.
> One thing we may have to consider is a policy of bat eradication.

Holy crap! This is a bad idea. Just leave the bats alone. They serve as an apex predator to provide balance to the natural environment.
The user needs to be inconvenienced. Prioritizing convenience the way we do now is going to guarantee the we carry on right up until civilization collapses completely.
Oh that is sweet! Thanks for the tip!
h5py at least doesn't support zstandard. The basic compression algorithms built-in to HDF5 don't include ZStandard.

pytables might make it possible though, haven't looked.
Yeah, I'm still disappointed that the MongoDB API outpaced the CouchDB Replication Protocol in general adoption. As nice as Cloudant can be some of the time, I know that my IT group would be a lot happier if we could use Cosmos DB (and/or if Cloudant would just directly support Azure data centers again).

Every now and again I wonder if I could implement the CouchDB Replication Protocol on top of Cosmos DB with a presumably hairy ball of Azure Functions and hoping someone beats me to needing that to exist and scratches that itch for me. (Cosmos DB's changes feed is so almost right for the job it hurts because it sounds like it should be easy, and yet I assume it won't be.)
I find it hilarious that RSA Security campaigned against the Clipper chip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip#Backlash) when they were subsequently found to also be compromised.

Seems like open-source and peer review is the only way to ensure that crypto is not being hijacked.
Are you sure about that? This is already a thing in Southern California.
If most salespeople did that, then there wouldn't be a problem. But that's not what most salespeople do -- they're much more likely to push you towards products that will earn them the greatest commission, or will help them hit whatever sales targets they have.
Physical privacy vs virtual privacy are two very different things, so it's disingenuous to pretend they are exactly the same.
In 2001 US v Microsoft was still ongoing and Microsoft was just about to sign their consent decree with the USDOJ[1]. Those kinds of shenanigans weren't really possible for them until the consent decrees expired.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
As someone with an adaptive cruise control that has no problem seeing stationary objects, that last bit is just plain inexcusable.
Can anyone explain the strategy it's talking about?
Seconded. Based on my previous jobs working in retail fraud, most retailers are able to track and cancel gift cards when they can confirm them.
or check https://sivers.org/book for some great summarization from Derek Sivers
Someone started a cryptocurrency version of WSB recently as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/SatoshiStreetBets/
I often wonder if there could be a feasible system by which things inside a large company could be run by a market-like thing, and whether that could end up using work more efficiently.

I hear about some part of a company requesting another part do some market research on some topic, and then just entirely disregard the results, when the market research department could have used that effort and time and money to do some other more useful market research that would have actually been used,
and I wonder whether there could be some way to make sure that the requests to another department that something be done, have appropriate costs in some sense.

If one was better off by not requiring some other department do some work that doesn’t actually get used than if one does produce such a requirement for them, then presumably one would try to be less likely to produce such requirements, which seems desirable.

Is there a realistic feasible way to do this? I don’t know.
Just rename the company Tesler.
Yes, you're technically burning through your body's food supply when you fast. While that has survival implications, that's not really the point. The average American overeats like crazy and is addicted to junk food. Fasting helps to break that addiction so that you're more likely to use your crisis food wisely and not feel hunger pangs. When I tell people that I comfortably fast for 4 or more days, they think it's crazy and they can't imagine it, but it's really not that hard. That tells me that people are liable to digging into their food too early on in a survival situation.

The truth is that while I am gradually burning body fat intentionally, I've still got weeks worth of fat on my and probably will when I decide to reduce my fasting back to eating one meal a day. I'd rather burn that fat and eat minimally for the first week or two of a crisis before digging into my reserves. Let's say I learn that the supply chain will be broken for longer than expected; I want to have food around so I can calmly address the issue without having to panic about where I'm going to get my next meal.

To put it simply, I don't think most people have the discipline to not pig out on their earthquake kit or their pantry if they're stuck at home during a pandemic. There's a bit of a caloric tradeoff in gaining that discipline, but I think it's worth it.
Oh I am not doing any SEO either. I am still writing emails and making calls, just not the kind that start a 6-month long sales process ending with cigars :-)
How much money do SREs make?
Important to remember that older and immunocompromised people are not always the only vulnerable ones. The Spanish flu had an unusual mortality pattern of killing young adults [1]. It also had an overall morality rate around 2%, which caused multiple years of health catastrophe around the entire world. We don't have enough information to say whether COVID19 will match the characteristics of something like the Spanish flu, but the signs are ominous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Patterns_of_fatali...
Understanding the metagame implicitly happens from experience and skills. Even if you played simply, you still used your metagame based on your skill and experience with that unit.
People like to forget. It helps pretend government research and alliances always produce the best outcomes.

Your example may be a bit too old. Even novell netware, token ring etc won't ring a bell to many people.

Try a simpler one instead: Do you guys remember about the various wireless standards before Wifi?

The Orinocos and the Intel 2011 PCMCIA were IIRC among the first ones of the 802.11b - quickly eclipsing everything else.

Also, what about DECT from about the same period? Some companies (mostly in Europe) tried to make an equivalent of Wifi, but using DECT modems. Some devices even made it to the market!
There are two ways of doing this that I know of:

1. FUSE filesystems. This means sending really slow queries to S3, and so you're much better off using compression to get better performance.

2. Syncing to filesystem with AWS DataSync. This would work, yes, but it's a S3 specific feature and not all blob storage systems have it.
Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor
For a Cloud Functions like project, OpenFaas seems like a promising project that I’ve been watching but have not yet had the chance to use.
And you trust the courts not to rubber stamp police requests?
Not trying to be a jerk but the phrase is "Case in point".
> I doubt it will be many (from ones that are buying games right now). If you expect quality entertainment you should be willing to pay for it.

There's no question that video game piracy is huge.
The Wheels on the new Mac Pro don't have locks. They cost $550
> 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

One of those is not like the others.
I like your thought process. Thanks for sharing, and good luck!
We've recently migrated to them from github + jira + self-hosted jenkins + self-hosted private npm. Do you have a specific gripe? We definitely have fewer issues with them than those other services combined.
I think the point is that reading more will improve you in many ways both in and outside of work. Of course if you have young children or ageing parents to take care of that's a different story but for most people the time spent looking at social media or playing games could be better spent reading.
It is a thing. But I suspect that people do, in fact, get pretty angry about it.
> Why not just disable notifications

Many apps provide useful notifications but some genius somewhere realized they can get more eyeballs if they abuse the notification system. So you have to take the bad with the good or throw them both out.

What’s worse is some apps provide “fine grain control” which is supposed to allow you to decide what types of notifications you get. Some other genius had the idea to be very loose with what belongs in what category.

And yet another genius had the idea to spam email if phone notifications are disabled.

And they’ll let you disable that too... but yet another genius had the idea to “accidentally” forget all these settings.

So... I don’t know. Disable them, sure. It’s the advice that keeps on giving, I guess.
Why can Disney even block John Oliver? How did we get to this point?
Blackstone’s ratio is where that principle originally comes from, at least in modern law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
I have a US and UK passport. I would probably end up in Singapore or a Nordic country? I always figured I would evaluate my options if that time ever came.
You act as if the government isn’t the “bad actor”.
I know I know...but it worked. "Everyone" is on FB and they are worth a gazillion dollars.
If this stuff is working, why haven't we seen the death rates start falling?
Not really. Because strong encryption is like having everything in envelopes only you can open, and weak encryption is like everything passing without an envelope, because you don't know who has compromised the keys (and just like it traveling without an envelope, you have no idea who is seeing and meddling with it).

There is no "only the government can remove the envelope, if they get permission". If we had the capability for that, we wouldn't be having the argument; the problem is people think this exists and it's technical company intransigence that is preventing it from being used.
And books are not all the same. No matter who you are, it's going to take you longer to read Ulysses than it will take you to read Hank the Cowdog.
But I really am gonna finish cryptonomicon one day damnit!
OK, I won't. I've spent a great deal of money at GOG over the years, and I haven't yet felt a desire to seek a refund for anything. I don't expect the future will be any different.
"Our router can route an astonishing 2,000 packets per second! No other router can offer you this sort of performance! Blockchain. Go ahead. Ask our competitors if they can match this. You'll find their jaw drops and that they'll tell you that this level of performance shouldn't even be possible on commodity hardware! Our experts hand-tuned the multi-billion parameter neural nets our product uses. The competition wouldn't even dream of putting neural nets of this scale into their routers. That's how far ahead we are on this. You can't get this sort of performance from anyone else in the business!"

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Given making an account is free, expect way more new "customers" now.

This is not theoretical. There is a lot of people that enjoys not paying for anything, if they can get away with it.

And no, I don't like entertainment industries that claim a lot of losses in the press and ask for subsidies or lobby for laws. But it is certainly real that there is a lot of software piracy.
Incident Command System(ICS) – managing incidents end-to-end from Slack
Joe Biden Loosing His Memory: OR Does He Have Higher Motives?
Facebook has a patent for using dust and scratches on photos to track which camera they came from. But they claime(d) not to be using WiFi or Geolocation for the PYMK feature - https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-th...
You actually can refund movie tickets. You can take physical movies and games back to retailers even if you loved them. You can send them back to Amazon even if you copied them. Digital purchases are required to be refundable too in many jurisdictions just like physical purchases have been for decades. Refunds are your right in many places. Someone else fraudulently refunding stuff doesn't affect your right to a refund.

If your account activity deviates a lot from normal usage it will be obvious. GOG are still in a position to evaluate refunds on a case-by-case basis and can prevent fraud by looking at account activity and can prevent fraud more efficiently as they identify common behaviors.
People do want that, though they might not admit to it. I think this would backfire. In general Western democracy is inconvenient for most people today.
IceSemulator
Internal Combustion Engine Sound Emulator is collection of software and how-to manuals about assembling system to serve as safety measure addition to EVs.

Project link:
https://gitlab.com/vlindos/ices-emulator/-/blob/master/README.md
Is there a proof of concept out there yet? Also, does this require a firmware patch, or can it be mitigated via software?

edit: I can't reply to the comment below about iOS updates because the comment is dead, but I just would like to interject that iOS and macOS updates can, and sometimes do, contain firmware updates for hardware. The release notes for the macOS update that contains the fix doesn't specify if the fix is in firmware or software, but I suspect it is in the former.
LinkedIn does the same thing. The first week of my new job I even started getting the spouses of my new-coworkers in my LinkedIn "people you may know" feed.
Well to start, one's a parasite and one's a virus.
I don't know if there are people who can learn complex topics by reading a book, but I certainly can't. Without any context, I can't keep enough of it in my head for long enough to build a mental model of the whole system. At best I'll come away with a vague familiarity with some of terminology. I have to actually implement parts of it to retain it.
We down-truncated on process exit.

I'll take a look at the symas LMDB source code, thanks for pointing that out.
Why does astronomically priced remdesivir take precedence in most mentions when, from the chart, chloroquine seems to have a similar inhibition rate, a slightly lower cytotoxicity, and a much lower cost?
In a previous life, I did some consulting for newspapers and used difficulty of cancelling as an example of how they’re out-of-touch w/ customers expectations of a modern, subscription-based organization.
>The plans you're suggesting as too idealistic don't require the cooperation of every human being on the planet.

Every human being on the planet is part of the problem. And yes, turning the Sahara into enough tidal pools as outlined by that Y Combinator page would be the largest project in human history, the most expensive project in human history, would require more power plants than currently exist on the planet to be constructed solely for powering the project, would create an unimaginable amount of brine that couldn't be dumped back out at sea as it would kill all of the costal life of Northern Africa, would require construction efforts in 11 countries...

Solar has a very limited range of latitudes that make it effective and would require massive amounts of batteries to replace power at night/during periods of less than cooperative weather.

Wind is even more limited in where it may be employed, you need consistent wind but not too much wind.

Hydroelectric requires dams and flooding large swaths of land and are pretty limited to where they can actually be constructed.

Writing some code that makes a process work a little more efficiently doesn't make a meaningful impact on overall power consumption.

Etc etc, so on and so forth.

All human beings are causing the problem (even primitive, uncontacted, tribes as they're likely generating more carbon from their fires than they are actively sequestering) so all human beings need to participate in retarding, and reversing, their greenhouse gas emissions.
I was wrong about the season flu being less deadly.
However if we look past lay press like CNBC or The Atlantic because this is cutting edge/developing research, and into the academic press, we see that the mortality rate is significantly lower than other outbreaks like SARS & MERS (9%,35%) https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/199362642/dyaa033...
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa033

So it seems prudent to reiterate that the only causes for social disruption & need to prep would be to have unjustified panic and run at stores like the behavior seen in Italy.
That's where I fell into love with the CouchDB world. Building offline-first databases in PouchDB, and letting that sync to any HTTP address that speaks the replication protocol is sometimes a dream. In practice there are so many hurdles, sadly. (CORS, CSPs, firewalls, not enough things speaking the replication protocol that should, ...)
cannot literally go... sideways

what about box spreads? it’s foolproof!
There'd have to be some kinds of checks in place to keep automated accounts from bulk buying and refunding games.
Say, an account that's been open for several years and has already made several purchases without issue, or accounts who are active on the forums.

(Even though GOG's entire catalog has been posted on the torrent sites for years now)
I'd love to understand the mechanism of action of chloroquine. Does the paper touch on that?