skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't have "root" on your own body in a rule-of-law democracy.

Maybe if you live on that Face/Off prison where everyone wears metal boots on a magnetic grid. But in the real world rule-of-law is quite fragile because everyone has "root" over their own bodies. The obvious benefit is an ability of the public to revolt against a corrupt regime.

Regardless, it's a fatuous metaphor because nobody is advocating for mandatory metal boots nor the little Harkonnen heart plug thingies from Dune. Some people are, however, quite vehemently demanding that all software/hardware be designed by law to give root to a trusted third party. That's fatuous and dangerous and therefore requires different metaphors.
>It’s a sort of “sensible contrarianism”, designed to appeal to the vanity of readers who view themselves as being above the fray.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/atheists.png
Trademark law, as far as I understand, is to prevent customer confusion. Customers should be able to trust their intuition on who made a given product.

Misspellings should be covered. But hostile uses should not.
The Sunlight Manifesto: Desktop Linux Out of Darkness
Tata Communications owns and operates a public blockchain node
I personally believe there are four great-filters. We're moving through the 3rd, with no solution for the 4th:

1. Water bearing & warm planet.

2. Plenty of time for eukaryotic cells to develop.

3. Intelligent life doesn't destroy itself (by whatever means), and is not destroyed by highly unlikely events.

4. Heat death of the universe.
> It might be that the L type is the more lethal type which killed so many people in Wuhan, and the S type is the more silent type that is spreading around the world with a lower mortality rate.

I suspect this is the main reason we're seeing divergences in different countries, with South Korea getting the "good" type and Italy getting the bad one.

> but one thing that often happens with viruses is that over time, the less fatal versions spread more effectively

The key here is selection pressure more than time, with no controls in place there's no selection pressure until it runs out of hosts, until then it's highly successful and does not need to adapt. In this case we've added some artificial selection pressure.

If there are places with only the bad type of the virus I wonder if we could ethically introduce the good type? On one hand your saving overall lives but you'd be purposefully infecting people with something that potentially has life long effects.
The problem of infrastructure is that low level interfaces are always consumed by higher-level interfaces.

And if you want to run a process, but you want to distribute the apps and run them as process containers, and you want to run them in an automatically configurable cluster of COTS computers communicating through a virtual private network...

Don't you understand where and why are there abstractions?

If anything, having people naively complain about how things are layered and abstracted is a testament of the huge success of the whole teck stack, because complainers formed such a simple mental model of how to distribute, configure, run, and operate collections of heterogeneous services communicating through a virtual network that they simply have no idea of the challenge of implementing a workable system that does half of this.

But with docker+kubernetes it only takes a click, so it must be trivial right?
I use this too but on linux, I am constantly hitting cmd-k and control-l in a sort of futile attempt to reset the screen correctly.

I think this needs a solution -- a keymapping and a function that resets the terminal need to be consciously united.

actually, I think I need a full set of keystrokes for linux. Somehow on ubuntu pressing the command key leads to all the windows rearranging like expose on mac.

sigh.
I never claimed this was a sustainable strategy for most Americans. Where did you ever get that idea?

Someone on this site probably has a good income in the software sector, and can afford a plane ticket out of the country to stock up on inhalers abroad.

Maybe you should try not getting outraged about every comment that doesn't propose somehow creating utopia.
Great, that's one example. Now name 50 more. Remember, there are 538 people in Congress. One example is an outlier.
IPFS, a YC company, is trying to censor Open Source competitors? Interesting. What are you scared of?
Metaverse artist sells bronze copies of her virtual world sculptures for $600
On one hand, giving big companies the ability to force domain name providers to unmask their customers continues the SV mantra of eroding privacy as much as possible.

On the other hand, a customer was selling weed! How dare they!
This might actually be the solution. I think the most effective thing for me was a motivational speaker, the Tony Robbins type. It runs for more than the budget of $100/month but it's up front.
Improving Bazel performance in a CI environment
The Unix hater's handbook was never intended to be taken seriously.

It was written by Unix gurus that have the quirky hacker sense of humour. It's just a Unix roast.

X was always awesome.

Y, on the other hand, well.....
I have the same sentiment, I'm glad it's not automated.
BMW drivers never use the turn signal!
Given that PowerShell is Open Source, you can exactly see the telemetry code. Before we added the first bit of telemetry or when we needed to add more, we published RFCs for community feedback disclosing what we were collecting and why. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/5-F... and https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/blob/master/2-D.... We recognize that some users don't want to send any, which is why we made it simple to disable (completely!). However, opt-in telemetry also means we would receive very little making it not useful. Before any telemetry is added, we also go through an extensive privacy review to ensure no personally identifiable information is included (therefore all our telemetry is anonymous).
Oh shoot, thanks for letting me know. I'll fix that.
Cyber warfare by famous military strategists
I agree that SUVs are preferable for child-hauling, but if you select car seats carefully for slim ones you should be able to fit three across in a sedan. Specifically, I know a Prius can handle two Diono Radians plus an Uppababy Mesa. I recommend those to anyone worrying about fitting enough car seats in their car.
Extra context: a 55-year-old who gets elected for president twice would finish at 63, about 3-4 years short of retirement age (66-67 depending on birth year).
Very interesting!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/02/13...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?most_...
Interesting, they use Raft now? There's a Google paper from 2006 about Chubby, which is a Paxos-based distributed coarse-grained lock service [1]. It eventually inspired Zookeeper. I'd be curious about what changed to cause a shift to using Raft.

[1] https://research.google.com/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf
I think we fixed it! Looks like we had a specific block that we had lifted. Thanks so much for letting us know.
Well I hail from the similar ancestry, but while I was immune to cold in my teens, anyway sandals in winter snow and I have clear memory of traversing bitter winter drifts with nothing but summer suit and a Crombie overcoat, this almost fifty year old thinks the cold leis an diabhlaíocht.
I think the point is you cannot go infinitely far with that concept. Wealth allows you to get a share of the productive capacity of the world. Giving everyone a billion dollars does not automatically mean we have enough production capacity and land to have everyone live in a mansion.

Now we can certainly say that "hey maybe if these guys all didn't have such a big mansion or as many cars everyone else would be better off", but you have to be explicit about that. It's about taking away things people like and to put that effort elsewhere.
I've been overcome with sleepiness at my desk when watching video games on Twitch/YouTube with a calm narrator (no excitable screaming thanks). Something about it makes my mind wander and generating the visuals but not being in control of them seems to be an important step to falling asleep. Sounds similar to what you are doing and maybe I should try it.
If you like the upside down hack, consider the Fellow Prismo.

You can actually do the upside down hack right side up because the valve is sealed.
When I switched from macOS to Linux, not having ⌘-K really bugged me.

However I found out that most terminal emus on Linux also have this feature as Ctrl-L.

In gnome-terminal you have to press Ctrl-K to clear the screen, and then Ctrl-L to redraw the prompt.

The bash manual documents Ctrl-L as "Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen."
Lunches with 100 Strangers
How Google improved ads performance with stale-while-revalidate
A critique of this paper by some scottish virologists: http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-conti...
It's this sort of thing that makes climate change deniers even more emboldened in the conviction that they're right and that it's all a politically motivated hoax or whatever. It's extremely irresponsible. Especially because the headline directly contradicts the subheadline right below it.
It's more variable than just time; and really if you aren't matching the color, just pick one you like?
> If there are places with only the bad type of the virus I wonder if we could ethically introduce the good type? On one hand your saving overall lives but you'd be purposefully infecting people with something that potentially has life long effects.

Nah-- there's no way to know the tradeoff in lives lost, etc.

The "good" news is, versions that cause less acute sickness and death are going to be better at escaping quarantines and controls.
The median net worth of people 45-54 is $124k. For ages 35-44, it's $59k. [0] Keep in mind that includes things like home equity. It gets worse when you look at younger age brackets. Not so absurd now, is it?

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[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-your-net-worth-and-h...
Right.

And the credit crisis was good because it flooded the market with cheap credit... That did what, exactly?

God saves us from the real idiots - those that think they have all the answers, instead of humbly accepting how little they know, about what they imagine they can design

(Those idiots are unfortunately those that seem to be good at the game of: "heads i win, tails others lose"
What he advocates makes sense. Marketing for classical computers used to make hay about how fast the CPU was in Khz, Mhz, Ghz. This is done less now since people recognize that is just one of several factors when comparing devices. It's still mentioned, just alongside the architecture, ram, GPU, etc. It can be hard to compare if you're not up on all the differences.
Here's the substance of the criticism written up:

http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-conti...

"An analysis of genetic data from the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak was recently published in the journal National Science Review by Tang et al. (2020). Two of the key claims made by this paper appear to have been reached by misunderstanding and over-interpretation of the SARS-CoV-2 data, with an additional analysis suffering from methodological limitations."
What happens in your country if a foreign company wants to buy some land?
I have so agreed with this for years.

Not setting policy is what ALL of unix does... and then everyone is fumbling around for years trying to find a policy that works for them.

I'm reminded of that Lilly Tomlin quote: "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
> What did you expect Namecheap to do? Take your word for it and ban one of their customers, just because you said so?

What did I expect them to do? Look at the reported site they're hosting. Is it violating their TOS? If so, remove it.
Unions can have their downsides, but they’re also one of the few ways that workers can fight back against dangerous workplaces and expose those conditions to the public.

This is happening right now with the nurses’ union in California, who are exposing the CDC’s stonewalling and failure in testing for COVID-19 and the danger this is posing to everyone:

https://act.nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/files/graphics/N...
Hmm. Maybe we'll just cut it to the minimum viable title.

(Title was "Facebook sues Namecheap for registering phishing domains", then "Facebook sues Namecheap for registrants of phishing domains".)
What would that accomplish? If you want to exclude differences, use AND.
> If there are places with only the bad type of the virus I wonder if we could ethically introduce the good type?

You're presuming that infection with the good type confers immunity to the bad type. So far as I know, that is not yet proven.
Of Norwegian and Irish decent, I have the same thing. My roommates have always been so confused because I prefer a 60 degree house with short sleeves. Even in -10 or -2 degrees fahrenheit I’ll often just wear a light jacket and feel totally fine.
No, my entire point is about morals!
> In that case the company should not be obligated to pay you.

Perhaps not, but in California the company is never obligated to pay you except for labor you've already done.

> There's a good chance your employment contract contains a clause allowing your place of work to change at any time (within a certain distance of where it is when you join).

In California, you don't have an employment contract period. Even if you did, I doubt the requirement to (for instance) maintain an Internet connection at your home so that you always have the ability to work from home would be an enforceable clause.
I was at the Sydney launch event for Assange's implementation[0] in 1997. It is amazing that, after all of this time, it is still apparently such a major theoretical touchstone within the open source cryptography landscape[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
I'm also over ten years on Anki, and I've racked up 2/3 of a million review during that time. I've taken too-long breaks several times over that time period, on a variety of subjects (decks in Anki). Sometimes years.

Each time I've gone back to a deck, I've just slugged out the few days of heavy reviews and let Anki take care of the rest. The stuff that I've forgotten, Anki will nag me with. The stuff that I've retained for years, stays retained.

One thing that I do suggest is to limit the maximum interval to 365 days, and to remove the review limit. I also tend to use the "hard" answer on cards that I've retained in decks that I've ignored for some time.
The frontend you see is RGB due to the internet and the display you're using. But on the backend (the manufacturer's system, no idea what the web site employs) the color science is all in spectral data. The xyz color matching functions [1] can be used to determine human response to that spectra, and then to 'CIE L* a* b*' for unambiguously referring to the color. The typical white in the paint industry is CIE illuminant D65.

You're right to wonder about "what is white" which gets into topics of 'chromatic adaptation', 'color constancy', and 'discounting the illuminant'.

If you get a perfectly diffuse white tile, what color is it when illuminant by incandescent versus fluorescent? And there are more than a few CIE F illuminants, and more proprietary ones. And hence each application tends to standardize on, and thus assume, an illuminant. You can use some other illuminant if you want, but then you're in custom territory and it wouldn't surprise me if some companies are doing that, secret sauce.

In special cases like automotive and textiles, it's common to see multiple spectral values due to different colors at different angles, and thus spectrogoniometry.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
Thanks for the reply. I see what you mean, but I'm not entirely convinced that knowing trivia is really helpful, except maybe to impress your friends (I tend to effortlessly remember all sorts of crap from Wikipedia, the more useless the better recalled, which makes for fun conversation... sometimes).

As for my nitpick, it was a tangential point I couldn't resist making: that trickle down economics is not exclusively an 80s thing, but (sadly, in my opinion) remains very relevant today.
It is still possible for websites to access indexedDB by using Web Workers:

new Worker("data:application/javascript,console.log('indexedDB: ', indexedDB)")

This works since userscripts only run in top-level websites and frames, but the above code runs JS code in a seperate thread with no attached DOM.
Funny, this Californian ran a half marathon in northern norway rain (during the summer, though, so it was about 45f). I inadvertently tested this plastic bag theory.

My luggage had been lost by the airlines, so I didn't have my rain shell, just the most basic running clothes that I wisely chose to put in my carryon.

I ended up running the race in t-shirt and shorts covered by a free plastic poncho handed out by a restaurant. I quickly saturated my clothes from a combination of sweat and rain getting in, but it functioned like a wet suit in that it prevented the fresh rain and wind from cooling me evaporatively, while my body kept my wet clothes warm.

While it was a bit stuffy, I was afraid I'd get cold very quickly in the wind and rain if I took it off (which I did in the last few miles, and yes, it got cold quickly). As soon as I stopped running, even with a space blanket, even going indoors, my temperature plummeted EXTREMELY rapidly.

At 45f in the dry I'd typically use long sleeves (and I repeated this experiment this past weekend in Napa) although, again, it's really just to keep you warm while you wait to start; once you're running, it's no problem to get by with only short sleeves and shorts.
Your comment prompted me to look for images of chimpanzees sleeping on google. A lot of them are putting their arms under their head just like we would because of their shoulders. Others find a root or rock to rest their head on (and they are also able to build temporary beds/nests in the tree at an incline). So I figure it'd be mostly the same for us.
Ask HN: How did you learn a foreign language?
Where did the weekend go? How work stole our Saturdays and Sundays
Facebook's hypocrisy, as noted, is rich. But phishing impacts innocent users, not Zuckerberg and his cabal of blood-sucking c-suite plutocrats. Namecheap isn't an innocent. See https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/bad-men-at-work-please-d.... They court this demographic through a business model which is entirely their own choice.
According to my httpd logs, between 50 and 100 people[1] are fetching my (not particularly popular) blog via RSS daily. That's enough people for it to be (personally) worth ensuring that RSS continues to function.

Whether that meets the standard of being "alive" is probably a community judgement.

[1]: The exact number is hard to get, since a lot of feed hits are for RSS services and not all of them announce their subscriber count in their user agent.
I got this post on HN via RSS via Reeder app.

Conclusion: not dead.
Sometimes, but not in this context.
Show HN: I created a free SaaS/Admin template for React
Last year I made a bulk photo management software using this exact UI pattern. It’s very effective.
Yes - all of our providers are mandated reporters. We also have manuals and trainings on this process and procedure (but as licensed professionals, they are very familiar with this process, as it is a required part of being a licensed provider).
land ownership is no different than whoisguard. It is possible to own land via a company or other designated agents.
Yes. I think if homomorphic encryption existed in a way that was super fast, we would be using that. It’s real far as far as I can tell.
Yeah me too. Occasionally I get clarity but rarely energy. The warm soothing drink makes me sleepy.
Lawsuits don't always mean monetary damages are sought. It could be an injunction (do this thing or stop doing that thing) or forced turnover of data.
>study published last month that found that men who own flashy vehicles are more likely to be "argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic."
According to that survey of 1,892 drivers by the University of Helsinki, those deemed to have more disagreeable character traits were "more drawn to high-status cars.

I mean, this has such a long history as a stereotype that it isn't really surprising, and I think it has probably reached a 'meta' stage a while ago where people are avoiding 'high status' cars and actually go for environmentally conscious cars or even avoid using cars as a means to convey genuine status. Seeing someone in a flashy expensive sportscar these days is almost consciously douchey.
RSS is not dead, but it's not cool to ship RSS clients in new projects. It's consumed far and wide, both directly and indirectly from readers, leechers, and listeners; it's used inside products and projects ranging from enterprise to mom-and-pop shops.

Do I need a list? Nah. If I did, it'd be more telling about me than RSS anyways.
> I dont understand your point about my point (the article not being about 80's economics). Are you saying that because it is important, the article should have elaborated on it?

Not the person you're replying to, but my feeling is that if you're writing an article about a system to use to usefully remember things, if you're going to then cite an example of something you've remembered, you should focus on what is actually important to remember about that fact. Saying "I remembered that 'trickle-down economics' was 'important in the Reagan administration'" does not do that, and could demonstrate that this memorization method is actually teaching you to remember the wrong things.

It doesn't matter if the post is or is not about 80s economics, but if you're going to use an example out of 80s economics to prove that your method is good, then show that your method actually helped you remember something important about 80s economics, not a piece of trivia that not only isn't useful, but is counter-productive to learn about if you don't remember the meat of the idea, and things like whether or not it was a good idea.

It's possible that the author did actually know and remember the useful parts of those facts, but did not actually demonstrate that his method helped him remember actual useful facts... which is kinda the point of his article.
As a SWE, I have 20 productive hours a week, approximately. The other 20 are wasted, and I would be better off just not being at work and relaxing. Unfortunately, "that's just not how things work".
It's like CUDA, but not owned by NVIDIA. AMD's entire ROCM stack is based on OpenCL. That means that if you run tenserflow on amd gpus, you are using OpenCL. By corporate environment, if you mean day to day IT, probably none. It's useful for high performance and parallel code.
Does feedity allow me to generate an RSS feed for sites that do not provide it?
Thanks for the suggestion! We do have a single call option, and you can purchase those on an as needed basis without a subscription (but the "pack" idea is really interesting!).
I don’t think Korea has a less lethal strain, they’re just testing a lot of people and capturing more mild cases.
The general idea here was to take on the challenge of only using Excel cell equations to simulate Go. In Go, a set of stones on the board is considered a group if all stones are path-connected to each other along horizontal and vertical lines (not diagonals). While conditionally coloring the cells was not hard, determining which stones formed what groups was non-trivial. I had to implement breadth-first search in Excel by duplicating the board state a number of times equal to the maximum stack size, and having each copy of the board state iterate/depend on the last. A lot of cells were used :)

Also looking for feedback from experts as to how I could have made this better/more efficient! Thanks!