skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as we accept that privacy is a technical problem, we consent to the legal impunity of people who vioate it. Tech is a poor substitute for freedom and associated rights. It keeps people distracted and believing that if only they knew more math they would be free.

We need to change the conversation.
My wife and I just bought a small commercial building 6 months ago (great timing). We have already offered rent deferment to our tenants (a restaurant, a bookstore and a few professional offices) with a gradual payback. We are all in this together.
TOSFKAMOSX. Rolls off the tongue almost as well as TAFKAP.
You cant statically compile in glibc right?
Why not both? Any time somebody suggests a legislative solution, people come out of the woodwork to say that bad actors will continue being bad actors despite legislation. Privacy should be enshrined both in legislation and in practice.
I agree with what you've said here. I'm curious if you have thoughts as to an underlying cause, or causes, that you would be willing to share.
Multiple round trips is exactly what I'm concerned about. Imagine a connection going from, say, Safari to the kernel to Little Snitch to the kernel to the NIC. It may not work this way though.

Anything tun-based tends to have the same problem.
Asterix the Gaul contains some of my favorite scenes.
Many people do experience GI issues before the lung troubles become noticeable. Another early symptom is loss of smell.
There's a lot to be said about WH-level leaders with the authority to corral and force action down the chain. It's bad enough that the CDC and FDA screwed up, but there was no urgency from the top-down that solutions had to be rolled out in a timely matter or alternatives had to be explored even in parallel. You see the difference now, when there's a sense of urgency, and we are willing to break rules, engage lots of different groups to work on efforts in parallel, etc. None of that happens without urgency from the top.
You can't be between leases easily in the UK as without actively signing a new lease the existing one rolls over into standard rental terms (one months notice from tenants, two from landlords) automatically.
I have greater confidence in our research community.

I think we’ll be back to giving hugs and handshakes pretty quick (<1 year).
As long as you're the one happily shelling out you can reasonably promote that idea.
You can't turn off and on the economy like a switch.

People need to pay rent and mortgages, or loans will not be repaid. If loans don't get repaid, banks fail. If banks fail, we have another financial crisis. The last one took a decade to recover from and there weren't even that many bad mortgages (as a percent of all mortgages).

Businesses right now are eating a bunch of costs. That can't last for very long before they run out of money, fire everyone, and throw in the towel. They will not have savings to restart after the closure.
> a) Publishers lose about half their revenue because ads aren't personalized anymore: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/disabling_third-pa....

I am on the demand side, and the thesis and testing methodology seems extremely flawed.

If you disable third party cookies on a test group of certain publishers our (demand side) bidders will start optimizing towards the control group; this is very obvious.

Also, was this analysis conducted on other ad exchanges? For example, Google ADX makes only ~30% of the global traffic we get, and the traffic has very different characteristics from the traffic we get from APPNEXUS, Rubicon, etc.

I believe this is an analysis for Google's internal conclusions, and not for the industry in general. Has this been made public before?
Wow, You are doing a great job. I just bought a few gift cards too.
Yeah, I'm not fan of "the corporations" but the decisions that would made by various corporations to leverage to the hilt came from the overall market conditions rather than individual enterprise decisions.

(not that I think much of the parent's idiosyncratic money-scheme but still).
Amazon warehouse workers test Covid-19 positive at facilities in six states
Seems strange to me to rush to write a retrospective about an ongoing crisis. I suppose if it were fiction or creative writing, I could understand the impulse, but it doesn't strike me as the case here and, so, smacks of hubris.

also

> knowing that we live because so many of them died

The people who survived did so because older people died? How so?
Shout out to Damien Doligez, a phenomenal engineer
I second that. It shows bravery. (Pun not intended)
This is why I'm glad Safari is doing this. Up until now, you were just a weird nerd user, and they could ignore you.

Now some huge double-digit share of traffic is going to encounter these issues, and force sites that depend on 3rd party cookies to re-architect themselves to support "normal" people on their iPhones.
Not each time that a black character appears in a book is about slavery.
you know .. you're correct, I misread his original post. He was probably conflating reactnative with something like Electron
I guarantee that is not an algebraic extension.

It's not even a finite extension
> it takes 3-4+ weeks from exposure to death

Up to 8 weeks though I haven't found typical distribution/median. The increase in deaths might exponentially grow for a while after new patient load stabilizes.
Reinvent the ventilator and have one sitting in a hospital in 14 days with no teething issues on production, training, deployment, maintenance?
A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
It's fun to play around with and learn on. If you can build a cluster from scratch with Pi hardware, you get a lot of knowledge of how things work under the hood for a real cluster.
Because at the end of the day you are a mammal and pretending you don't have visceral reactions to sensory input is impoverishing your options, and honestly, robbing you of motivational tools.

Information radiators make no sense at all if you view them from a purely objective standpoint. Wouldn't it be faster to just open the web page on your computer? They only make sense because of the way humans interact with the world (and I suspect in particular, the doorway effect).

The last demo I saw for Pi clustering, the guy fiddled with the blink rate and color of an LED on the motherboards. Sounds boring, as a demo it summed up a whole lot of crap into a simple visual.
sure you can:

$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
printf("hello world!\n");
}
$ gcc -o hello hello.c
$ ldd hello
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffff9da0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fed449d0000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fed45000000)
$ gcc -o hello hello.c -static
$ ldd hello
not a dynamic executable
It's been deprecated for much longer, it just stopped working in Catalina.
N°1 most harmful post on the internet : https://akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html

I am convinced that Drepper's insistence on dynamic linking has set the linux desktop useability and developer friendliness back literal decades.
> "we're in this current shit together, all of us."

So are you saying that we do not have to pay rent either?
What does this mean in this context?

Are we spilling ink for the sake of the owners of these retail spaces? Do you think they are going to be any better off if these retailers just stop paying rent, and go out of business, instead?

Instead of grousing, the landlords should be petitioning for their mortgage payments to be suspended for this time period.
Symmetric connection speeds we miss you, sorry about taking the internet and turning it into a few mega nodes, we'll learn eventually.
> Need I remind you that nobody went to jail over 2008?

First, this is simply false.

Second, can you name anyone who should have gone to jail and state the law they broke?

Congress had eliminated a lot of regulations that could have prevented or tempered the meltdown. There were not really laws to break. And the population happily kept electing said people.

The electorate had skin in the game. And they did not learn.

Skin in the game is not that effective.
Yes, this is a critical point. It’s one advantage of the fact that this is happening simultaneously across the whole nation. The entire commercial real estate market has no choice but to work out a single solution of some sort.

“If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If a million people owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem.”

The problem is, the landlord probably has a mortgage, and their mortgage has been securitized just like everything else. So modifying the terms probably has more of a ripple effect than you’d think. And who knows who is left holding the bag when thousands of commercial mortgage-backed securities suddenly get down-rated and start to default.
You can indeed use zig to make riscv32-freestanding binaries (in both zig and C). What is not available is `-lc` for this target.
Unfortunately I think Dyson is a blowhard (sorry about pun) and self promoter. This hack of a Decathlon Scuba mask is the sort of thing these manufacturers should be presenting to the world rather than their endless brand promotion.
https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/
If you say "Act of Congress" in the UK everyone will either not know what you are talking about or assume you are referring to the USA.
To be a little flippant about this... "money printer go brrr" (as the meme goes).

We can fund it through debt that we have to pay back (eg, issuing government bonds), but we can also literally print money.

Printing money can have inflationary effects because money is worth just a tiny bit less when there is more of it. But in a downturn this is generally a less important concern. There's no really simple answer for when printing money is fine and at what levels and when it is not, particularly since it is not a settled topic. The recent consensus generally seems to be that printing money in recessions is good though.
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Eastern latrines: the water and the dipper. Very informative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ
Your dedicated IP is going to get flagged as more and more users report it. I run phishing as part of red team exercises and have a constant need for new fresh IPs.
Boeing may reject stimulus if Treasury seeks equity stake
I'm holding out to see if a CM 4 with 4GB ram comes out before I commit to something like this.
No, there is a one-size-fits-all solution.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbtJGn7ida2IYNgwCFk3Sjhs...

Stop interest on all loans for 90 days. Defer principal on all loans by 90 days. In 90 days, payments start up as before (and just end 90 days later). Same thing bubbles for all contracts. Leases and rents are free for 90 days. Contracts switch from net 30 to net 120 terms. Etc.

You pause the cycle of debt.

It works for home mortgages, small businesses, airlines, and almost everyone else. And it avoids the need for a 2 trillion bailout / stimulus package. It allows much more targeted aid at a fraction of the cost.

It ain't rocket science.
How I structure my apps (in Rust and other languages)
Is not slouching meaning they have plenty, so warm weather is not a panacea. I live here, I know.
CCP deserves no credit for buying time. Any other government would have tried to stop the virus instead of trying to cover it up while it spreads far and wide.
Another nit, not all algebraic extensions are finite dimensional. Just adjoin an infinite number of linearly independent roots (square roots, cube roots, etc). Algebraic, but not finite
Not all rent is giant corporations. My mother is a retiree who basically pays her living expenses every month by renting out the first floor of her two-floor home. "All rent should be suspended" would drive her into bankruptcy, and ultimately leave both her and her tenant without a place to live.
Ask HN: Could a treatment for Sars-cov-2 get Medicine Nobel Prize?
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1. Property taxes are typically a small portion of rent.

2. In many municipalities, they can be deferred for a long time, without serious penalties, even when we're not in a state of emergency.
I agree but I think us folks in tech could be overly confident about our continued employment.

Yes, companies have cash, but ad spending has dropped tremendously overnight.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/facebook-twitter-revenu...

And Apple, well, all of their stores are closed and I highly doubt they're selling a ton of expensive luxury goods right now -- as millions of Americans fear unemployment and a deep recession.

Cloud is dependent on large corporate spending, which may be in for a contraction as companies cut back or go under.

Startups may find deals harder to land as investors flee to safety.

Perhaps we'll look back and see WeWork as peak bubble, and Covid-19 as the impetus for a sever pullback.
All government help will go to those with an overpriced mortgage.

Renters are going to get screwed over! Again. They get nothing. And most of them are going to lose their jobs.

They’re talking about spending $8 Trillion on bailouts for large businesses. Government Motors. Government Hilton. Government Boeing.

Instead, they should just pay everyone’s rent for the next 2 years as a universal basic income, until this blows over.

At this level of insane money printing, then what is the difference between $8 Trillion vs. $10 Trillion? Nothing. It’s just a decimal point.
It’s any recommended consumer lamp for out there ?
If only Half-Life: Alyx were multiplayer, it’s got pretty nice digital markers

https://gfycat.com/opulentkaleidoscopicflyingfox
I think many businesses will discover they don’t need to pay for an office. Would not want to own an office building right now.
As I said, drugs just have effects. Humans then look at the results, decide which are good and bad, and then label the bad ones "side effect". So I think the real question is: why do you think 100% of the novel effects will be later put in the "good" bucket?
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Would they have even been there if not for the terrorism?
I also wonder how much of this is caused by poorly tuned home WiFi setups. You have congested airwaves, poor channel choices (what’s this channel 2? Nobody’s on that!), and the tendency for everyone to run their access points on MAX power to increase their “range” - all ways to totally demolish real world multi client WiFi throughput.
As a precaution, I've been spraying my packages with diluted bleach and letting them sit for 48-hours before opening.
Thanks for your productive contribution to the discussion
At least for me and many other people, I suppose, when I saw what happened to Italy is when I saw what was going to happen here. It has been painful. It is like watching a train wreck happening in slow motion, and you are in front of the train.
I think you're mainly describing the optimal culture for the organization or workplace, but either collectively or perhaps even just the leaders, they must recognize the importance of their decisions and the possibility to cause deaths. That's why research like what you mention is important, it shows how organizations and leaders with "skin in the game" can achieve success.
This is a recipe for bank failures and a financial crisis.
I couldn’t find one myself, so I’m working to have one manufactured in Shenzhen.
Sure you can. You stop rent. You stop mortgage interest. You pause mortgage principal. You do that across the board for every rental, contract, and debt obligation in America. In 90 days, it expires, and everything starts back up again.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbtJGn7ida2IYNgwCFk3Sjhs...
There is no spiral. C's pointer declaration syntax is arguably backwards ("declaration follows usage") but fundamentally follows normal precedence rules. The so-called spiral is total nonsense misinformation.
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App bundles on MacOS and iOS are basically big containers, though there is some limited external linking through Apple's frameworks scheme.

And obviously video game distribution has looked like this since basically forever as well.
I run an SMB. These things would be valuable for my business right now:

1. Grant for R&D projects. There is a lot we could do while WFH that would make our products better after this. It would be great to not need to worry about customers atm and just work on innovation.

2. Low/no interest loans for 3-6 months of expenses. We have a lot of outstanding receivables. All our customers are holding payment. We’ll get it later, but we need that cash now. We also have a lot of customer opportunities in the pipeline. Most of them won’t go away. But they will be 6-12 months delayed. But we’ll need the cash 3 months from now not 9-15 mo this from now.
Storefronts in NYC routinely stay empty for years waiting for a large corporate client to come along, because the long-term stability and rent beat the pants off of any smaller tenant. Losing the stability and rent, I think they're okay with waiting again.
If I had to guess, it is similar to why people spend small fortunes on diamonds - despite being a horrible financial decision and having superior/cheaper alternatives, a series of a societal pressures (mainly advertising, at this point) has resulted in people making a behavioral decision that is far less than optimal based on any reasonable metric. Also, people are bad at changing habits. Really bad. And as ridiculous as it is, a huge portion of the US thinks bidets are for the French, gays, and women... all of which are thought of as pejoratives. I am not as familiar with the ignorances and stupidities of other countries.
> A recession will hurt Trumps re-election chances

The DNC is nominating an establishment guy _with dementia_ who sniffs people without their consent, talks about kids rubbing hair on his legs, and walks off screen during live broadcasts. I don't think an asteroid crashing into Earth would be able to hurt Trump's election chances at this point.

> Trump administration did nothing except claim news about the virus was fake

Verifiably not true. The Trump administration has set up the task force on Jan 29 (a few days after the first case was identified) and shut down flights from China 3 days later, and from Europe shortly afterwards, all while you were howling about Ukraine and impeachment.
Can you expand on thst WW3 reference - it's not a story that made the rounds here.
> I'm constantly frustrated how it considers it a fail if I only click a link vs entering in credentials

That is a failure. There is currently a Windows font parsing vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild just like this. If you click the link, you are subjecting your browser and OS to an attacker crafted payload.
It's the same with pyramid schemes. Essentially all "Direct Marketing" businesses of any significant size are just a pyramid scheme of course, but governments are reluctant to try to jail people for it, since of course these people will have all the resources of their bogus "company" to throw at the court case. So they mostly limit themselves to trying to force these companies to "explain" their "Direct Marketing" company in a way that should help more victims to spot the scam before they lose their life savings.

For example they might oblige the company to tell (albeit not necessarily very obviously in headline fonts) its new "independent business owners" that only 0.01% of such "independent business owners" make any money at all in a typical year's operations. That's the sort of sobering statistic that might persuade some other gullible people to reconsider. Or not.

But just going in and shutting down the business - they're not keen. After all, the same victims will likely just sign up for another and perhaps even more predatory pyramid scheme.

My favourite scheme (I used to research these) had a setup where they sold basically mediocre fruit juice as a health product, and it's a pyramid scheme but then the extra genius is that the product sold through this pyramid scheme is itself bogus. So even the underlying business, ignoring the pyramid structure, is crooked anyway. The corporations were set up such that if the pyramid scheme is busted it has no money, all the "real" profit went to the notionally separate company making mediocre fruit juice. They can claim ignorance of the pyramid scheme and of the bogus health claims, everything, and they keep all the money. Brilliant.
You know what I'd really like from Apple: a per-site option for disabling JavaScript and another for blocking even first-party cookies.
> I believe we will see tremendous innovation in health sciences over the next decade, and a corresponding decline in some of the frivolous stuff that VCs have been funding. And that would be a good thing for everyone.

This. These are the problems worth solving and investing in. The 2010s was the wild west of useless tech in a race to an IPO gold rush. Rinse and Repeat cycle to scratch ones itch. When something like a pandemic or privacy violations happen, little to no startups bothered to solve such problems for years until a scandal or a global disaster happens.

So yes to actually solving difficult world problems using tech, rather than creating frivolous 'tech startups' only for them to greedily raise billions from VCs for a IPO flotation.
It seems to me that Cantor's diagonalization fails here because of the very different nature of descriptions vs (for example) decimal notation. Every possible string of digits is a valid, unique number. That does not apply to descriptions.

I'd assume that every number that can be precisely described by some symbolic notation can be described in that notation in multiple ways, and likely in an infinite number of multiple different ways. E.g. the number 2 can be described as 1+1, 1+1+1-1, 1+1+1+1-1-1, ad infinitum.

Furthermore, I'd assume that not every string in that symbolic notation constitutes a valid, precise description of some real.

So Cantor's diagonalization produces some unique description of a number that differs from all of the descriptions - but it's possible and plausible that the description refers to a number that is in the list but has been described differently; and it's possible and plausible that the constructed description does not describe any real whatsoever.

Or am I completely misunderstanding you and you did not intend to apply Cantor's diagonalization to the descriptions?
Tech is everywhere so it depends on what industry you're in and how your contributions of tech are funded.

With that said, I think were going to see pressure everywhere. As a recent switch to a new employer, I'm concerned, even if our source of revenue currently appears solid.
Really? It's clearly a work of fiction, set in the future.

It opens with "It’s been a couple of year now, since the 2020 Coronavirus disaster"
> I wonder if all the companies that used their money for stock buybacks are kicking themselves in the foot right now.

The outside shareholders of these companies: absolutely

The executives and board: lol, no
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Why?

Banks get payments 3 months later. They can also get 0% interest loans from the fed.

Why do they fail?
Yes. This. Incredibly desperate times here.
It won't go back to the early web, but it will certainly survive. Much like life, people find a way. If there is demand, innovators will find a way to meet it.

The webs continued existence is not dependent on surveillance capitalism.
Similar bottlenecks occur in FTTx/DSL networks. For example, uplink congestion on a DSLAM or L2 aggregation device.