skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of how small and untransformative Google would be if only middle and upper class people afforded or bothered to pay for it because it charged a fee for its sophisticated services.

Think how useless social media would be if it primarily connected together wealthy individuals that can pay the upkeep needed to operate a sophisticated global network while those who most need a voice cannot.

Think of how much worse society would be if news required an unpopularly high ad-free fee which meant that the best news organizations catered first and foremost to wealthy and already-educated patrons.

The illusion of a service being "ad-free", without serving the broad but lower class foundation of society, would ultimately just destroy the impact and democratizing power of technology. It's not just a machine for a small portion of wealthy, educated Hacker News elites to pay and keep for themselves.

Advertising influence is surely not all positive, but there is no silver bullet here, and I would consider the wet dream of those who want to get rid of advertising without a practical substitute to be a massive regression. I consider the alignment of profits with breadth of access to be one of the biggest engines of progress in the modern age. A poor child in Detroit and a simple mother in a third world country use the same web browser and internet as the most powerful political leaders and heads of industry. That's the world I want to live in.
Why not include a percent? Are we talking about 10% of cars, or more like 80%? Is it mostly recent cars, or are cars from several years ago also affected?

It's not a terrible headline, but it could also be improved.
I remember someone describing the appeal of Robinhood to millennials - they said that buying some stock and having it go down was like "dropping your iPhone in the toilet".
I get my news from a variety of sources, both left and right. (Bonus: Read 'RealClearPolitics' for both at once.)

I sometimes read Breitbart for a right-side source. I've seen lots of definitely conservative content, but never anything that's off-color or out of bounds. I'm just curious why you cite it here? Can you point out any examples of anything that would be considered taboo, etc?
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> "The dataset does not contain the personal information of patients."

As far as I can tell, 'personal information' is potentially the only thing this data set contains. Further, the information is so personal that the Australian government hoped that it would be infeasible to cross-reference it with other data and use it to identify the persons involved.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my toes."
You honestly do not see the difference between your story and this one?

You do not see the difference between being actively observed, vs having your movements recorded 24/7 to then be gone over in retrospect weeks, months, or years later?

Really, there is no difference in your mind here?
Yes, DNA is a programming language and ribosomes are the interpreter.
Proxies, built-in retry semantics in many clients, code complexity for dealing with the mandatory flexibility in HTTP, the presumption that GET is safe for, say, prefetching or spidering, etc. I think REST is often worth the cost (I might be the only person on this thread who has written an HTTP server in assembly), but if you're not using REST, using HTTP will tend to cause you a lot of headaches you could have avoided, for little or no benefit.

“But firewalls!”
For medical news, Medlineplus [0] is a U.S. National Library of Medicine website with reliable information for the 'layperson' in English and Spanish. It offers links to many related, fact-based sites. Many state governments also have up-to-date -written- info. I've also included a URL for King County, Washington (advice in multiple languages. [1] Your elderly relatives need to know that it's essential for them to avoid exposure.

[0] https://medlineplus.gov/

[1] https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/communicable-disease...
This reminds me of a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote to the effect of:

"Walk into a bookstore and look at the number of books on a topic. The more books on a topic you see, the less we understand about the topic."

There's a lot of clashing perspectives on computing and modern software architectures so I'd say Hamming is on the dot.
It’s really disappointing to see that after all the crazy stuff done by the current administration, even after senators admitted the guilty of the current potus and declined to remove it, after he put in charge of containing the Coronavirus the least qualified person to do so while removing qualified people, there is still someone that has the nerve to say that both sides suck.
It’s okay to admit it, you probably didn’t follow so much what happened in the White House and in the world in the last three years.
Another one I dislike government programs that are “cut” when really they just have a reduced rate of increase, rather than a lower gross amount.
Covid-19: Analysis of 391 cases and 1,286 of their close contacts
and you would still run a tank through a house to solve that problem, and then refuse to pay for it, leaving the innocent homeowner to face the same police force in the courts?

there is not a single situation where the police acted in good faith here.
Thanks kind stranger!
One of the ways people have tried to solve this is with legislation that requires the public defenders office to be funded at the same level as the Prosecutors office.

it will not eliminate the inequality, for sure, but it would be a step in the right direction and in some area's the public defenders get less than a dime for ever dollar the Prosecutors office receives in public funding
And some by bacteria. Helicobacter pylori for example
"Stocks can also give substantial capital gains"

They did, but if dividends are higher than bond yields, that could be nature's way of telling you that future capital gains will be roughly zero or less.

If you look back like 40 years, the long term bonds ended up returning about the same as the stock market. So maybe the current long term yields are telling you what stocks will return over the same period of time.
Running AV software seems like not the best mitigation here.
I wish you had too! The Pebble Round was still my all time favourite gadget, and I loved the UI that had been built
https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-wire/

Worth a read
They used to run an IRC relay, too, but got rid of it years ago.
Have you heard the term "General Warrant", in Colonial times general warrant was issued by the Crown granting law-enforcement broad discretion or authority to search and seize unspecified places or persons.

This is plainly a type of General Warrant, something that was banned under the US Constitution
Signal has worked without play services for a good while now.
Schools already close regularly every year if enough kids are getting sick, Happens all the time. With outcomes for COVID-19 potentially an order of magnitude worse school closures make at least as much sense for this too.
Not my field of natural science but I saw a very bright future for this a decade ago.

Quite promising equations.
The US and West were once bureaucratic but somewhat efficient societies - able to pivot beyond the average. But indeed, it appears things have degenerated to "what armies have done through the ages".
I explained it's not worth it in the last sentence. It's year of work and millions in cost, and now regulation prevents tying PII from your purchase to the anonymous IDs used in adtech. You're going to get new ads anyway, retargeting campaigns rarely last beyond a few weeks from the last product page visit.
Relevant article, for the curious: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/malcolm-turnbull-prime-mi...
> The cure for homelessness is a home.

"The cure for a cough is cough drops"

I feel it is important to idenify the root cause, not merely treat symptoms. _Why_ is the person homeless? How could it have been prevented in the first place? _Why_ is the person coughing? Do they have allergies? lung cancer...?
SaaS Pricing Strategy Learned from a Startup with $120 M funding
GitSpace: Know the space occupied by your public repositories
Right now, base salary is typically higher in the US for software engineers than in Europe, plus equity is better.
It’s interesting that the hundreds of AMD fans that seem to appear and gloat in every similar Intel thread aren’t present.
Not really ironic given that these airlines would choose to stop if the expected future profit didn’t make up for it.
> To be clear, Google has the right to demand location data as payment for services rendered.

I like the GDPR approach where you cannot force someone to pay with their privacy. If you want to demand payment, you can demand money.
>> collecting data from their users without asking their permission?

They do, but they do it in a way that seem innocuous.

Google is heavily vertically integrated, if you want to take advantage of many features in Android, you need to "allow" location tracking and collection. Most people want to use Waze, or Maps, or Reviews of Place, etc etc etc. If you do you agree to have your location tracked
You definitely still could if you feel the maintenance is manageable. This was just my experience :) I chose to go with something like Cloud Run.
OK, so the messaging app is a fork of Signal that uses arbitrary IDs instead of phone numbers. That alone is a huge win for me.

But what I find most interesting is its built-in anonymity. Like Tor, it uses an onion routing network where only entry nodes see users' IP addresses. Users are anonymous from the swarms that cache messages, and also from other users. Except of course for the ID, both that's not tied to anything in meatspace.

Edit: The onion routing network is Loki, which I gather is a fork of ZeroNet.
Underdog spirit
There’s quite a few libraries by amazing Chinese developers out there with lacking English documentation, but I can at least speak for swoole and say the code is usually fantastic and worth reading through. Hell, these days I barely trust actual docs anyway
Yes.

I occasionally miss the quality of landline phone calls, for one example.
The title is just horrible.
> Presumably all these kids are still living in dorms together and eating together in dining halls...

That's a lot better than scattering them to the wind.
SGH Capital/ Alexandre Azoulay – Any Feedback or Info?
Does anyone have info/experience about SGH Capital ? I got mitigated feedbacks about this VC. I got worried after reading a french article on Mediapart website (French newspaper) regarding SGH Capital and its founder Alexandre Azoulay.

It says (Google translate) :

"...SGH Capital, with no less than 50 investors who participated in the various rounds of funding totaling € 20m.

But since its creation, SGH Capital has not paid any dividends to its shareholders since the company has always been in deficit with a total loss of more than € 3.2m at the end of 2017 according to its accounts.

In February 2020, based on a report commissioned by the company Atwell, one of the members of the board of directors of SGH Capital, in a declaration to the shareholders, denounces a series of offenses which are allegedly committed by its founder Alexandre Azoulay.

The document mentions among other things the distribution of fictitious dividends for the benefit of Cynegy Holdings Luxembourg (personal holding company of Alexandre Azoulay), transfers of shares between SGH Capital and Cynegy Holdings Luxembourg without authorization from the Board of Directors, opaque transfers without link with the activity, or reimbursements of personal expenses of Alexandre Azoulay by SGH Capital.

The administrator of SGH Capital also mentions expenses that would be borne by SGH Capital for the company Fluid Amity (one of whose ultimate beneficiaries is Alexandre Azoulay) in order to issue tokens, Fluid presenting itself as a “Liquid Venture Capital on the Blockchain ”on his site.

In total, this declaration relates to more than € 3 million between 2016 and 2019.

At the same time, Alexandre Azoulay is the subject of a preliminary investigation by the financial brigade following a criminal complaint filed by one of his former partners of Wijet."

Article here:https://blogs.mediapart.fr/capital-risque/blog/070320/le-capital-risque-en-france-opportunite-et-opportunisme.
You could do an idea pull request.
Cool!

Does anybody know if there are plans to fix the .deb size limit? It's a bummer that .debs can't be more than 10 GB. That number seems big, but I've hit it before when packaging custom toolchains for internal use at my company.
Yeah somebody made a "PornHub Style Logo Generator": https://github.com/kasuganosoras/logo-maker (You can also found many of them online as well)

I guess that's where the logo was generated.
My 2005 Dell dual Xeon 3.9Ghz box with 8GB RAM is floating around, we used VMware and more memory than that though and the nvidia card has half a gig and my box had four 15k 146GB Fujitsu drives on a LSI R10 with iirc 1GB BBU RAM cache , this was fiscal 04 iirc
How do you sculpt an elephant from a block of stone? Just chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant...
No profit in letting accused off.
Covid-19 and AI: A Virtual Conference
He didn’t. He was conspiring with Boeing to avoid grounding the 737 max. And as proof the 737 Max was not grounded after the first crash, it was not grounded after the second crash, it was grounded only after pretty much every other flight security agency on the planet grounded it.
Do you have any examples of retroviruses that cause the common cold? I did a quick search but couldn't find anything, but that sounds like something that would be really interesting to read up on - the classical retrovirus isn't necessarily something that can go away after a couple days of sniffles and I'm curious to know if there are long term consequences to colds caused by retroviruses.
That's because looping was an afterthought. I think the project was initially supposed to be a purely declarative language, with Hashicorp pushing back against proposals for common functions.

Then they succumbed to demand with HCL 2. As much as I like Terraform in the general sense, their obsession with this weird DSL bothers me immensely.

Alternatively, I'm really enjoying the AWS CDK and hope Pulumi garners some more traction here.
On the contrary, there is a lot of skin in the game. They need to maintain and justify their employment without the pressure from a free market. Which means their jobs must be harder, and require more funding through the most tenuous of reasons.
Quarantined kids in Wuhan get homework app taken down with one star reviews
How to query geographic raster data in BigQuery efficiently
Browsers should make Reader mode the default.
INFOCON – a DoD threat-level system simialar to DEFCON, but for IT
I've tried all the ways I've read on the internet to equalize ear pressure, but I'm not sure what "properly" is supposed to mean - should it always work? Should it be easy? Should it hurt?

The valsalva maneuver seems to work the best for me but it doesn't always work and is often painful.
Looks like it's exponential growth and Italy just started early.
I think the jury is still out on that one.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-adult-brain-d...
Pervasive functional translation of noncanonical human open reading frames
Apple has a minority share of the mobile market. Antitrust law hardly applies.
I feel like there's been more dumb money going to tech, lately. Some PE, pensions, Saudi via Softbank's Vision Fund. Now add Europe's old money.
Oh, of course! If Linus wasn't special nobody would tolerate his style. Women have to be special for society to tolerate sarcasm from them. I'm unsure how old I'll be before a woman like Linus will be recognized rather than shoved aside.
Yes but we're not talking about the prevalence of these in general, just on HN
Apple is not the only company, that gives a shit about privacy. And if they are pnly marginally better: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017
The article is rather fancifully written (and by a non-scientist) but as a professional genomicist, I can assure you that the human genome is full of viruses, the remnants of which are almost entirely non-functional, but are interesting in the way meteor craters are to geology.

Here is a review (nearly twenty years old from when the human genome was first sequenced)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138943/
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.aay0262
Can't you just create a dependancy and split it up?
Google has Project Zero (a team dedicated to finding exploits in competitor products). The end result is safer products all around. I think it's better that your competitor finds flaws in your products and use that for self promotion than a 3rd party selling exploits.
In my opinion, they are not so much pro privacy as anti user-rights. You can see that as pro-privacy yes, or you can also see that because they limit what users can do as much as possible. The privacy part just seems a side effect of the anti user-rights policies.
> perhaps under a Sanders administration

I'm curious why you felt it necessary to add this bit, given the innumerable OPSEC blunders of the current administration.
Regex is equivalent to Finite Automata
Show HN: From a “hello world” project to a complex messenger
> employee equity in particular in startups isn't really as unambiguous as the term suggests. Given how many startups die out you may as well interpret it as a creative way for company owners to shift risk on employees. After all, the failing startup is the norm, by a huge margin.

The modal startup company fails and any equity grants or options are worth nothing. The modal employee of a company that is extremely liberal with equity because it was a startup before it found product market fit is AppAmaGooBookSoft, Oracle, Stripe or Uber. AppAmaGooBookSoft must hire at least 50,000 software engineers a year between them. YC may have funded that many founders in its entire history. Possibly over YC’s entire history all the startups whose equity went to zero have had 500,000 employees though that seems high. Google alone has over 100,000 employees right now. If AppAmaGooBookSoft don’t have half a million employees who get substantial portions of their compensation in stock right now I’ll be very surprised.
SMS leaks gps and tower triangulation data
I don't believe I suggested getting rid of the MAC address altogether. Ethernet isn't going away anytime soon.

The suggestion is simply this: Don't embed your MAC address into your IPv6 address because it's a unique identifier that can deanonymize you even if you shift networks.
Your points don't help your argument.

- That most Americans 'couldn't survive in the bush' is obvious, but considerably more North Americans already live in very remote and rugged areas, definitely more than in Europe. There is almost no 'open country' in Europe, whereas maybe 1/2 of North America is wide and vast. Living in rural Montana has essentially no parallel in Europe.

- That trucks are 'status symbols' is beside the point - 'everything' is a status symbol (even back in the day), certainly cars are in Europe. The point is they are trucks not cars and they are by and large used quite a lot for 'moving stuff', and travelling on somewhat more rugged terrain.

- Obesity rates are irrelevant.

Obviously New England has been as urban as Europe since basically the Englightenment, but most of the rest of America is barely tamed.

My grandfather was born at the start of the 20th century, most of his relatives and family elders would have lived in the late 19th century when much of North America was still very wild. So much of 'frontier' and 'far rural' North America is just beyond living memory, it wasn't that long ago.

My great-grandfather was still clearing trees on the family farm, before plumbing, electricity, radio. They were several days ride from the nearest village of more than 1K people and there were no waterways or rail. He passed away not that long before I was born.

The ethos of 'way away from civilization, on the family-owned farm, you'd better be self-sufficient' still colours much of the North American attitude today.
And a clock three seconds fast is never right.
My journey of becoming an iOS developer begins in the summer of 2019. Back these days, I did not know anything about programming at all, so it was hard for me even to understand the most straightforward code. As a big fan of Apple, I decided to learn something related to iOS; therefore, I chose to learn Swift. Since there were a lot of tutorials on YouTube, I decided to start learning there. After a week of intense studying, I gained fundamental skills, which allowed me to enroll in Udacity Nanodegree program. With every new project, the difficulty increased. Luckily, my motivation allowed me to complete it successfully in less than three months. With all the experience that I got from this program, I decided to build my first complex app. Since I've always wanted to build my own messenger, I decided to create it as my portfolio app. Due to the fast speed and flexibility of Firebase Database, I was able to create a complex friend network for messenger users. Besides that, users receive data almost instantly, which makes a messaging process more enjoyable. Also, mChat uses a Mapbox API, which allows users to choose custom-designed maps. Overall, this messenger presents a modern design with lots of animations and custom chat color designs.
Skype uses Signal protocol and allows call records deletion. AFAICR a email address registration will suffice instead of a phone number
This item: "The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or wildcards as package arguments, use patterns (see New Features)."

Seems like a pretty big breaking change.
Sorry, I was referring to https://getsession.org/ and not TFA.
That's not an entirely accurate picture. There used to be buckets of economic cash.

Total aid to Israel is around $230 billion for the post WW2 era (primarily in the 1970-2020 time frame). Of that, $34 billion was economic aid.

In the 1970s and 1980s the US was funding the equivalent of 3-5% percent of Israel's economy directly with economic aid (their economy only crossed over $100b in GDP as of 1995; if you go back to the 1970s and 1980s, they had a relatively tiny economy, so that $34b in economic aid was outsized in relation at the time it was being dispursed).

Israel no longer needs the economic aid they used to, so that component has declined to being routinely zero.
No TAOCP or even The Mythical Man-Month?
Switzerland probably remains the champion.
How it is not? If your app offers its own login and any of the social logins you must implement Apple login as well.
Congrats on the launch! This is definitely a real, big problem.
Train of thought while reading title and comments:

First: Genome cannot physically contain a bio-virus, so this must be genetic code, acting as a "computer virus"

Second: Oh they're talking about viral genome embedded in human genome. Got it.

Third: But wait, bio-virus genome embedded in human genome does not by-definition imply that there is something wrong with that human genome. It could just be an innocuous part of the viral genome.

Fourth: Parts of human genome that could act as "computer virus" (i.e., be malicious to the human), and parts of human genome that come from a bio-virus may have some overlap. But you could have two other options too: (a) part of human genome that is malicious but not from a bio-viral source, (b) part of human genome that is from a bio-virus but is not malicious.
The circadian rythm thing is so egregiously absurd that it's easy to overlook the other spectacular claim in that sentence. Some people could argue that viruses are alive, but that's far from the mainstream interpretation and to say that the statement is wading into some potentially really be controversial territory is an understatement.