skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This proposal seems ill-founded. The idea that the public sector takes on the risk of early development is a misuse of the word ‘risk’. No funding agency ever thinks of investment in terms of financial risk. The money allocated to an individual project is extremely small in the scheme of things, and research budgets remain a small proportion of government spending overall. Pharma in contrast spends 8-20% of total expend on research. The long term trends don’t support this narrative either, with government spending becoming less important and privately funded research increasing [1].

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-govern...
And for anybody interested in the previous Hacker News discussion on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956257
I always preferred sporty sedans. But then I became a (relatively handy) homeowner and a father. After I got my pickup truck with a crew cab, I couldn't imagine not owning one, even though (as the title says) it barely fits in my garage.

I work from home and drive maybe 6K miles per year, so the fuel costs and emissions aren't a significant consideration for me. But there's something in the bed almost every weekend, and even when there isn't, there's usually a kid or three in the back seat.

If you don't have a family, or you automatically call a handyman when something breaks, I can understand why you might not want or need to own one of these magnificent vehicles.

But for many of us, these trucks are carefully considered purchases that solve a lot of problems.
We self-host everything and have refused requests to update to subscription products. Our systems are our responsibility, so outsourcing to a SaaS that will die or get hacked tomorrow is enormous unquantifiable risk compared to the little opportunity costs of self-hosting.
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MMM's advice on trucks is sage:

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-does-your-wo...

In other words, you should have a truck if you're using it for work and drive it around loaded.
that sounds vastly overgenerous. if that were truly the case, then TEE wouldn't be built into every consumer system. if it were actually to protect against malicious cloud providers, then TEE would be only available for special (read: expensive) processors. see: intel and ECC memory. the goal of TEE is to benefit big corp and fuck the user, and just because it can in theory be used for other purposes is barely a consolation.
For my upgrade, due to having lesser vulnerabilities, I decided this year (after 20 years of only using Intel) to go with AMD. Had my doubts, but this article made me decide it's time to go AMD route.
Im just like you minus the headaches. I could drink coffee and nap right after and the morning jolt is a learned experience since decaf and non decaf has the same effect. I drink coffee to enjoy its taste manly. Acutally i used to drink 5 coffees a day and at the 5th i’d feel the unpleasant jitter in my body so cafeine does seem to have an effect in large quantities but I could still nap in those conditions as well
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> It was/is surprisingly bizarre, given the expectation that the posters would be more knowledgeable of future tech than other sites.

Is it? A few people got super rich, a few others did alright, and there have been several notable failures or downright frauds.

The huge amount of obvious marketing pitches also did (and does) make it sound super sketchy.

But I agree it's here to stay.
Keep in mind what the factories were producing - it was not luxury goods for the wealthy. It was textiles, clothing, pots, pans, all sorts of things that made life better for ordinary people.

This, in turn, is what made it possible for us today to enjoy a high standard of living unimaginable back then.
The name only loosely suggests it might be related, it doesn’t (at least to me) directly imply it.
It's actually somewhat surprising that mire people do not experiment more with their sleep cycles.

I recently had a lot of trouble sleeping due to stress and found a solution whereby I began listening to old TV shows while I sleep with earphones in bed.

It was miraculous. But one odd side effect is that I don't really dream anymore - at least not in the same way. Since the shows are playing, it's almost like they are dreaming for me.

If the phone stops playing the shows for some reason, I'll have dreams again - and often wake up due to some annoying thoughts about work.

I haven't noticed any negative effects. Certainly there was a massive positive benefit of just being able to sleep when I couldn't before.

... but these sorts of things should be avenues of research.
I use profile triggers to change the color scheme of the shell when I SSH to a production server. The color I chose is different from my regular scheme so that it reminds me I am in production and things can break if I'm not careful.
I don't think that I was ever explicitly taught it as a child but at some point I stumbled across it by accident it's one of my favorite ways to swim casually. As someone else mentioned above, it totally feels like a jellyfish swim :)
I'm not sure you grasp the absurdly low cost of running an IRC server even with the things you mention. You could probably support a nation-wide enterprise on a Raspberry Pi.

Bonus, unlike SaaS, you have complete control over the damned thing. New "features" won't suddenly get added to your tools that break your workflow, you can add new features if you need them without begging some vendor to whom you are a tiny insignificant nobody, etc.
Thank you for responding. I'll elaborate more in an e-mail, but it seems that it's more about communication. For instance, the difference in amount of data collection and sharing you do through the "business frontpage" vs. actual service is critical, and I think it should be communicated directly - with a working adblocker, your analytics on the frontpage don't impact me much, but your data collection and sharing policies for the service itself are critical for me as a potential customer.

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this way, so perhaps consider describing the privacy aspects of the service itself somewhere on the front page.

EDIT:

I had a productive e-mail conversation with 'tomsayer which alleviated my concerns about the data processing surrounding the service itself. I look forward to the improvements on the site!
I like to think I can stand the cold relatively well, but what always gets me is my ears. The rest of my body will be fine but my ears start hurting in minutes, which then translates into quite the headache.
Trusted computing is such an ambiguous term.

Intel alone controls the certificate chain for the CPU I own? I don't trust it, and it's user-hostile. Users won't know that it's because of Intel that, for instance, their legacy apps don't run any more. Or their Mac's NVMe drive cannot be recovered (though, yes, this is Apple's Trusted Computing chip, not Intel's).

I take it as the tech community's responsibility to clearly point out who violated their trust on this one.

Trusted computing could be "not user-hostile," or perhaps that's what "user-friendly" means? But to not be user-hostile the certificate chain must be surrendered at point of sale.

It's ironic that sysadmins for large corporations _are_ enabled by Intel's management tools, and _are_ aware of the purpose of these trusted computing tools. But end users _are_ _not_ enabled, _are_ _not_ aware, and are thus treated hostilely by Intel and cannot do the things they absolutely need to do with their own PC.
Anecdotally, I experience the same thing when I'm on keto. I have much more energy during the day and I'm not groggy in the morning. Otherwise, it's nearly impossible for me to wake up even if I've had 8+ hours of sleep, and I often sleep through my alarm.
Is slack etiquette different from that of Skype?
I prefer to greet and then send in my message(in one or many chunks depending on complexity/feedback) after that.
> rentals are exceedingly cheap from numerous places

It is $100+/day out the door around here. Where are you where it is "exceedingly cheap" and what is your definition of that?
The money to pay for UBI doesn't come from a mattress, either. It comes out of money that was invested.
A Panopticon society is a dystopian society. Privacy is a right, giving it up is not a solution, is a crime
You can also do this survey in a parking lot. For bonus points, check the bed liner for wear, which is a good indication whether they ever haul anything in their truck. Many are surprisingly pristine.
This perfectly illustrates why I never bothered to learn bash syntax, and always just google for examples.
I would say that a distributed filesystem is a solution looking for a problem in most cases. Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage address some use cases, and Google Cloud BigTable is a direct drop-in replacement compatible with the HBase API but having dramatically better performance and reliability. There are other use cases that have other alternatives, it all depends on what you plan to do with the data on the filesystem, how far you need to scale it, and whether you clients are in your own datacenters or in vendor clouds.
> The people who can leave... do

I left the first job I got out of college because the place was so horribly broken. The code was awful, impossible to debug, broke almost randomly, and if a customer asked for a feature - even one that didn’t make sense - they were promised they’d get it in a few days (which meant we’d be working nights and weekends… again).

I stuck it out for about a year - after a year I was the only person left who was there when I started. I followed one of the other exiting programmers to my second job. I was hoping it would be better. It wasn’t. Similar problems: nobody could describe what they wanted, but they knew they wanted it by the end of the week. Just a year out of college, I was saddled with a huge legacy codebase and nobody else to help.

I stuck it out for another year before the constant criticism and ridiculously long hours got to me. But this was the late 90’s, jobs were easy to find. I found another one. It was somehow worse than the first two. I had managed to refine some of my people skills and learned how to avoid a few of the landmines that the “business people” laid for unsuspecting programmers, but this third place had the same high turnover the other two had and in no time I was maintaining undocumented software whose intended function nobody even fully remembered.

I moved on to my fourth job in as many years. It was no better. We put together a desktop application and it worked pretty well, but they wanted us to port it to Citrix so that they could distribute it. They expected that to happen in a couple of weeks. Everybody but me quit.

It was then that I realized one of two things were true: either every software organization is ridiculously unreasonably dysfunctional, or the types of software organizations that would hire me were ridiculously unreasonably dysfunctional.
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It seems to me that as far as domain registration is concerned, Namecheap's subsidiary Whoisguard is technically the domain owner in this case. Of course, they're doing this with the intent to be a proxy, but technically they are the owner and so it seems that it would be appropriate to sue them for the misuse of that domain.

I.e. "We found that Namecheap’s proxy service, Whoisguard, registered or used 45 domain names" - it's not that 45 John Does have registered these domains and we want their identities, we know who is the official owner of these domains is - it's Whoisguard; and it's up to Whoisguard to either accept full responsibility for the [mis]use of these domains or provide some arguments why someone else should be held responsible instead.

If "internet standard process" is that they should do something else other then sue Namecheap - well, that works as far as that other thing works faster/better/cheaper than suing Namecheap directly. If it does not, then the legal process is that they can sue Namecheap if it feels more effective.

In essence what seems to be happening here is testing in a court whether the current practice of domain "privacy proxies" can be done without the proxy accepting any liability for the domains they're shielding. Such services were implemented in the notion that they don't intend to accept any liability, but as far as I know it has not yet been tested in courts whether they can get away with it.

It's worth noting that in many other similar aspects (e.g. copyright issues for user generated content, etc) the default position was that proxies can be held liable as accomplices, and that changed only when specific laws were passed saying that such proxies are immune from liability if certain conditions are met (e.g. common carrier, dmca, etc, etc). So, depending on how the courts rule, it's plausible that we might get precedent that domain privacy proxies do have to bear some liability if they happend to protect the anonymity of criminals, which would de facto mean that those proxies won't exist, that all such services would shut down.
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Could you elaborate on the ways that people are being screwed over by TPM?

I do see that the existence of both trusted and untrusted systems could exert some pressure on consumers to adopt the latter, due to the unavailability of certain services on the former (e.g. DRM, banking apps on rooted Android phones etc).

The danger here is a loss of "freedom to tinker", which I do appreciate very much, and I share that concern. But has that actually happened with TPM?
I come from an old Jewish family that's supposed to come King David, and I recently met a girl who comes from another family like that (rabbinical sources describe a dozen or so families with reasonable claims to Davidic lineage). We used to joke that we're longest removed siblings ever, and now I'm curious about what that natural logarithm would actually look like.
I won't quibble too much with the precision of the $10k number, which will vary widely.

But it's pretty obvious that a basic "customer support" combo like Office 365 + Okta + Zendesk + Intercom + Slack + Zenefits starts to add up to a meaningful percentage of the employee's take-home compensation. (Remember these are positions where $20/hr is a good rate.) And remember, the comparison figure for managers over 50 is roughly $0, which approximates the spend on these functions as far back ago as 2008.
Contacts of 1m Virgin Media customers left on unsecured database
Perhaps obvious but have you tried sleeping in pitch black and/or with eye cover? If you need natural light to wake up you might be able to sleep very well in the dark and mimic it with an ambient light alarm clock
Wouldn't you need three? Or, better still, do a bitwise 3 of 5 / integer median on the pixel values.
No, it looks from the wikipedia page like they have contracted with producers so they are causing new production. Also planning to add their own capacity.

Edit: adding the wkp quote: "By the end of 2019 Civica had 18 medications (28 SKUs) in production, and plans to bring over 100 medications to market in five years through various manufacturing approaches such as partnerships, developing ANDAs, and building its own manufacturing capability."

Plus the fact that it is about a concept. In vague terms, I'm thinking it is better to act (doing, producing, finding alternatives, maybe and using monopoly laws?), than to try to restrict what someone else does.
Cool.

If sleep is something chemical it may be easier to improve than if it was something psychological/neurological.
Yeah, it's really weird. I've always noticed that the top 3 best seller of vehilcles in the US were pick up trucks. and articles talk about them like their somehow aspirational. I've always thought of them as big, ugly and dorky: about as far away as cool gets.
That's not that different. The PSP is basically AMD's ME.
the risk of this workflow is that PRs will languish for too long, and the work required to rebase them when they're actually needed will cause friction and mistakes. this will often manifest when your software reaches a certain level of maturity and you have established a release model that distinguishes between a release that includes only bugfixes and a release that introduces new features.

you definitely want to get your PRs merged in to _something_ as soon as they are complete, to avoid bitrot. but just because they're complete doesn't mean you want them included in the next release.
That's pretty much a US-only problem. The same drug companies are active in most parts of the world, where they somehow manage to behave. What is it about the US that seems to turn them into money grabbers?
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I've been struggling for a long time with discipline : started exercising, but didn't last long before canceling my gym subscription. Couldn't commit to a diet. A bunch of unfinished side projects and ideas waiting for me to work on them. And a lot more.

I read a ton of self help books, tried many Todo apps and planning strategies, nothing seems to work. I couldn't create the necessary habits to change my life and become more productive.

This is a real problem, and I'm sure is faced by many people. I realised I'm wasting time and it's costing me a lot. If you could offer a solution that works, I would be happy to pay for it, up to 100$ per month.
Legacy applications are somewhat blurry when moved from high-dpi to low-dpi, but anything modern works perfectly well. In my experience, X with current gnome or KDE is completely unusable in the same scenario. Either everything is huge on the low-dpi screen, or tiny on the high-dpi screen.
> but companies wouldn't be buying them if they weren't providing more value than they cost

Companies do stupid shit all the time. It only takes one person with authority to spend money to sign up for a service. Personally I've seen many software subscriptions that are complete garbage.
> Space requirements for families have also increased.

Wouldn't that be offset by the falling birth rate in the US? [1]

> So a family that needs to fit three kids across

The size of the average household or family hasn't appreciably increased or decreased since roughly 1985.[2]

> People have good reasons on a whole.

They're cheaper than anywhere else in the world, and people feel safer in them. They're reasons, but not especially good ones.

1. https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723518379/u-s-births-fell-to-...

2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a...
> One of the greatest joys of k8s for me was always "it abstracts docker away so I don't have to deal with it, and it drops pretty much all broken features of docker"

It also offers portability away from docker via the Container Runtime Interface; we use containerd and it has been absolutely rock solid, without the weird "what happens to my containers if I have to restart a wedged dockerd?" situation
I can't provide numbers for this, but many things are more efficient for dense settlements: transportation, any last-mile distribution (food, water, electricity) and collection (sewage, garbage).
> I've met a lot of entrepreneurs and small business owners, and I have heard of almost nobody starting from "I have started a business, now what should we do" being successful.

None of them told you that this is how they went about it, because it's a bad story.
I enjoy my sleep thoroughly and I sleep 7-8 hours a day. Still, I think it’s a waste of time, and I don’t mean work productivity, but life. You sleep, wake up, and surprise, a third of the day has just gone by and you didn’t even notice.

I recognize the need to sleep, but I personally just wished we could develop a way to keep going with your day without sleeping. If that were physically possible, I’d just meditate some few hours daily instead of sleeping 7-8 hours.
Flat, simple logo design has nothing to do with "going digital" - all the gradients and chrome shit layered on top of the existing logo are far more "digital" than anything that came before or after.
Because transaction-bandwidth is Bitcoin's dominant inefficiency?
> Unable to move far in the deep snow, his plan was to stay put, which under the circumstances was not a bad one.

It is almost always the correct decision, no matter what the situation. At his home he had access to all sorts of materials, and was clearly visible from the air.

And a shelter in the snow is pretty warm -- regardless of how cold it is outside it will pretty much stay at 0 C. The problem is that you can't be seen from the air (or by someone walking by!) when you're in the shelter and little sound will likely get through either. So you need to make a useful marker, which is slightly touched on in this article.

I have taught numerous people to make these emergency shelters out of material at hand (I'm a wilderness and snow survival instructor) and have been told that it has saved at least one life.
Yes, but the way it boots and is hooked into the system is completely and totally different than ME.

It fulfills the same abstract purpose, but that's where the similarities end.
There is very small subset of people who actually need an SUV or Truck. Most cars now days can comfortably fit 5. Most cars can fit 2 car seats with a booster seat. Most get them because they like to sit up high so they can see over traffic. That doesn't help when everyone else drives an SUV or Truck.
The rise of the Platinum F350 as a luxury vehicle is something I wouldn't have predicted. It's crazy how much money people are willing to spend on an impractical vehicle like a full-size pickup.

That being said, I really like big trucks. I guess it's selfish to want one, but I still do. Of course I don't live in the city, where it would be more hassle than enjoyable.
Do you have any narrative of how to do key recovery safely without an enclave or a human in the loop?

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this and I don’t really know how to do it without one of those two things.

Edit: like I hear you saying there are possibilities in a distributed computing world, but I don’t have any idea what distributed computing enables for key recovery (except possibly k of n schemes but that’s just replication, not safety).

Edit 2: also, presume that users suck at key management and can’t remember long password strings, 24 words, or be trusted to store a key for a meaningful period of time.
We shall see how French uber drivers will fare in future but I don't share your optimism.
Users will buy hardware they don't have control over anyway so Intel doesn't have to worry about them!

I want nothing more than for Intel to stop acting as awful as it does, but the market doesn't care about what users want for goods that are almost mandatory.
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It seems like you’re being thoughtful about your approach. Another question that comes to mind - how will you curate your providers? I think that’s been a challenge for similar models in other areas - they end up with a ton of providers ... too many initially to serve the customers they have...
A bottle of isopropanol, prior to this event, cost approximately 79 cents.

The only change to resource allocation we need is a psychological one: specifically, to accept the idea that prepping, even at a very small level, is not insane.
Has nobody here done snow sports?

Just a few weeks ago I was snowboarding in deep powder snow with temperatures down to -20 C and I was overheating to the point of being seriously worried about heat stroke. I had just a ski jacket and a thin under-layer.

A few days before that I was "freezing to death" while standing still in a queue outside. It was +3 C and I had three layers on!

The level of exercise makes all the difference...