skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the author really finds having a partner to be necessary. It sounds like this could be substituted with keeping a journal, recording what happens every hour. You'd get the bonus of having a written record of your day.
> I'd also caution about "arguments from growth", given that it's totally possible that given better decisions it might have grown even faster.

Anything is possible and that's conjecture. Not news. Argument from proven growth/data/etc is far better than "argument from hypotheticals/what ifs/etc".

> There was a quite funny article a while back how it led to school children deleting whatsapp because they thought facebook was "uncool" but didn't even know it was a product of the company.

Seems like another of these manufactured nonsense from the industry. How many children? How old were they? Care to share the link so we can all have a good laugh?

> It'd be better to address the substance of the article.

So why don't you? You didn't mention anything substantive from the article in your comment. Is it because there is no substance. What objective, factual, relevant information did you take away from an article which is mostly subjective, gossipy and pointless.
Adventures with Memory Barriers and Seastar
depends on the death lag, if you are in the exponential growth stage of the outbreak that it.
This doesn’t line up with my experience in startups. Security is never taken anywhere as seriously as all of the best practices (including this one) suggest. Same for cicd, etc.
> I believe that Windows will soon 'do an Apple'.

You are comparing apples with oranges, 'MS doing an orange' will be decades slow and will result in a two faced monstrosity that they will probably rename to JANUS or something of sort.
> advertising is a social good

I’d say it’s a social negative because it makes people unhappy. E.g. https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
> Still a non-starter in my book

Nothing should be a non-starter without an examination of the other side of the balance.
This is pretty typical (along with milk) for people who are scrambling their eggs over moderately high heat, under the belief that it makes their eggs fluffier.

What it actually does is make wetter eggs. By breaking the yolks and mixing before cooking you are breaking down the various proteins, and by adding liquid you are just making the eggs wetter. (Much like how a custard can weep if you hit it with high heat.) If you like a dry scramble, hit those eggs in a ripping hot pan with some oil, but no water.

I strongly recommend folks cook low and slow with their eggs, agitating them regularly to build up a small, creamy curd.
With this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sino-Soviet_Border_Agreem...
I think border disagreement already solved. Besides, I believe they realize the contention between them only strengthens NATO over them.
I think the possible conflict nowadays is influence over central Asia. However, they might share the influence with China got the economic influence and Russia got political influence.
It is interesting to predict this balance post-Putin though.
You can make flatbread without yeast. Flour + water + salt + oil.
Here's an idea: let people have a public advertising profile they have personal access to. I'd do a lot less adblocking if I knew advertisers were picking off a defined list of my interests. New iphone? No. Android flagship with a headphone jack and a telephoto camera? Oh yeah I'm interested. Allow people to make it known they're interested in classic computers or new rifle accessories or LEGO videogames or books from John Scalzi. It would be nice if advertisers knew enough about me I could cancel all my Google Alerts.
A friend and I built http://gamecraft.live

It's a multiplayer codenames-like game.
Testing people without symptoms would likely result in getting nothing given the limited sample size. The point is that the sampling was done with less bias, without the preconceived notion of who may actually have it (at least among fever patients).
I really hope this conversation is mentioned on n-gate.com!
I read recently (maybe on HN) that koalas have fingerprints just like humans do. Crazy, isn't it?
And they cheerfully admit as much [1]. Who downvoted you, I wonder...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
If your developers, at their core, have been building secure and reliable systems for years, then they can make the new system reliable and secure far faster than a team that always said “there’s no time.” It’s like every skill - you can go amazingly faster, or better, after it gets deeply ingrained after a few years
Latency is a problem indeed, I am lucky to be close to work and have massive bandwidth all the way to my dev box. Without that the experience is pretty poor, and I used to make it work by dropping bit depth to the minimum bearable level.
It wasn’t meant to be funny.
They removed the e2e claim after criticism.
HHVM, didn't expect this (PHP yes, HHVM not really).
Coal still employs a huge amount of people. Besides, coal Barrons are very rich and influential as well.
I have to assume the guy who says not to do this is from a country with universal healthcare.
> This started as me labeling an action as theft.

That's what I mean with the rapist example too. If you have sex with someone, do I have the right to call you a rapist first and withhold judgement until I have more information? If for me a rapist isn't necessarily a bad act.
Would antibodies that can attach to COVID-19 but were produced from a different viral infection potentially make you immune to COVID-19?
I've been a Basler customer for over 15 years. They're pretty good to work with.
Is there a Linux alternative that allows me to film portion of the desktop and do neat little arrow annotations live and everything?
Show HN: Multiplayer Codenames game using socket.io
My friend and I got together to build this Codenames game online to play with your friends. We usually play twice a week and voice chat over Facebook.

Might be useful to some of ya'll!

Let me know what you think!

http://gamecraft.live
Can't tell if sarcastic.... squints

How about this: everyone already knows what they need and where to get it.

That really reduces the infernal waste of advertising completely.
He did say he'd pick a woman of color.

Warren would have to re-assert her native American ancestry.
This isn't about the merits of excel over sheets, it's about employees coming on the board and lying to promote their company. Google makes 1.61 million in revenue per employee. Honestly it's only going to get worse, because if you see the videos of the company meetings, Sundar was always the super loyalist that would say anything to protect Google or run interference for senior leadership. And now that he's CEO they will start aping him.
Just pay them, e.g. 500USD each, or however much is enough to reduce the number of refusals to a negligible proportion. It's cheap compared to the cost of making incorrect decisions because you don't know how many people have the virus.
Yes, I agree with all of that - but you are misreading my point.

In the OP people are talking about 'the models'? Well, who's models exactly? What is the official one? And which ones are going to get widely communicated and have authority in the eyes of the public.

I am not indicating that some group of University researchers, somewhere in America are 'in cahoots' with Donald Trump's political team, for example.

IHME, for example, surely will just publish whatever they think, but this is not 'communication' and not at a national level. The plebes are not reading their data.

What information the government collects directly, the information they chose to highlight in press briefings, the information they want to be communicated in their talking points, how it is presented ... this is controlled and filtered.
AWS just last week upped the read throughput speed on EFS pretty significantly (4x). That probably won't solve all of your speed problems and its still not as fast as EBS, but it might be worth giving it another try if your workload isn't write-heavy.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/amazon-el...
Agreed. Call it a corporate profit good and that's fair. Social good? Fuck those *s promoting such propaganda. Mark their aliases in your blackbook and forever look at them as absolute demons. Doing their thang.
Well, have you noticed it uses 'cool' futuristic lettering instead of Facebook's actual logo? They know how uncool they are, they know the Facebook brand doesn't work with WhatsApp.
It was incompetence that they then corrected. Should the whole company be disbanded for a few employees' corrected mistake?

Meanwhile, crazy old man has never retracted any of his conspiracy theories, instead repeating them over and over. One is a reliable source of information, and the other is a reliable source of misinformation.
Does targeted vs non targeted really have an impact on sales? And if targeted was gone everywhere would it really cause a drop in revenue?

It seems (from the little I’ve seen over the years) that targeting doesn’t have much impact. And that advertising budgets are pretty fixed as a percentage so revenues wouldn’t go down if everyone had to stop targeting.
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo Also supports it.

Have been using it for personal VPN deployments, very easy to use and each time I notice they have made moves to be more secure.
Why Greg Egan Is Science Fiction’s Next Superstar
>and their life is improved

Is it really though? How many times is it more like, see the thing they don't really want or need, are swayed by an advertisement targetted based on a profile created through data harvested through their phone, their credit card, their social media, their email, etc., they buy the thing, experience a temporary endorphin rush from having the new thing that makes them feel good for a while, get bored of the thing and move on to the next thing provided by targetted advertisements?
Does that mean your company doesn’t care about security? Looks crazy for being a “fintech”!
It's definitely stalking. There is absolutely no question whatsoever about that. Please disclose how you benefit financially from the stalking so we can all be level here.
That didn’t happen a ton before the Internet anyway, because even if you can’t profile individuals you can profile a readership accurately enough not to make a mistake that bad very frequently. That just requires having a decent guess of who’s reading something and where it’s distributed, not tracking every individual reader. Ditto billboards and such. Don’t advertise your European product on a highway sign in Wyoming and you solve the geography problem. Post your for-sale ad for a tractor in the ag paper you see at your local feed shop. Doesn’t take tracking anyone to do that.
No one cared because not enough people looked past the initial headline. Gruber is doing a service to everyone, including honest journalists and their publications, by reminding us.

That particular story wasn't quite as fraudulent as Newsweek's exposé of a random retired Japanese-American guy as "Satoshi Nakamoto" a few years back, but it's close.
If somebody was in a hurry, which sections of which book should they start with?
>> everyone already knows what they need and where to get it.

You're overestimating people ability to know what they want, and moreso where to get it.
Who do we believe a bullshit artist at the economist or Bob Wachter Chair, UCSF Dept of Medicine.

> @Bob_Wachter
> 3/ Another interesting #: @ucsf, we only test pts w/ symptoms, who all think "I have Covid.” But only ~4% of our tests are +, meaning most folks who think they have it, don’t.

https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1247722427620012032
I'm sure the decision tree is complex, and there are branches where what you say is absolutely true. However, given the testing kit bottleneck, if identification of "something treatable" is crucial, it might be better to test for those treatable diseases that are likely given presenting symptoms.

In the extreme case, if you require a ventilator right now or you'll die, nobody needs to wait on verification of the specific viral cause to begin treatment.
IgM and IgG are types of antibodies:

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/test-immunoglobulins.html

Specialized versions are produced in response to individual disease. They are similar to each other but not the same.
Is that just for new people coming in after the 50th? Or do they boot anyone who's logged in via browser once it hits 50?
Why not get your information from someone who cites their sources correctly instead of a crank who doesn't and mixes conspiracy theories in for good measure?
Is there a reason why anyone would choose prolog today instead of a library? Like racklog [https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/]. All the benefits of prolog, with none of the cost of using a new language and integrating it into your project.
OTOH, I think it’s weird to downplay or defend shitty behavior when a corporation does it.
Rust, Or: How to Run a Community
my pet theory is the malaria drug is actually working. we won't get the final say until the trials are over however.
I found the devops handbook was very wordy and was both not concrete enough, and also did not make its arguments as strongly as it could have. I wasn’t able to get into it
Some of what you say resonates with me.

I didn't vote for Trump last time (Johnson got my vote), but I do like some of his populist actions. I'm likely to vote for Trump this time.

Oddly, I also liked some of what Sanders said last time. (I think the populist thing.) But I lost a great amount of respect for Sanders when he knuckled under to Hillary Clinton after she hosed him out of the nomination. (The changed debate schedule, the emailed debate questions, etc.) I really hoped Bernie would stick to his principles, but he caved in and endorsed her. I wasn't as excited about Bernie this time around.
Additional friendly reminder that Bloomberg sees Facebook as the biggest threat to its existence and is extremely motivated to report negatively about them
The book "Deep Learning and the game of Go" from Manning walks you through the process of building an AlphaGo clone using python and standard machine learning libraries.

https://github.com/maxpumperla/deep_learning_and_the_game_of...

Play a demo Go bot developed in the book here: https://www.badukai.com/demos/static/play_predict_19.html
When did you last look at the current state of renewables? Even two years ago, the picture was completely different, but renewables are absolutely catching up. The change is fast and accelerating.

17% of energy production in the US is now renewables.
26% in China.
46% in Germany.

The economic case for deploying renewables continues to improve, and will soon hit a tipping point where operation of legacy generation systems will be more expensive than deploying and operating newer ones. Even in the US, who will want to be in the coal business then? The companies all know this, and are all pivoting from being coal|gas|x-companies to being energy-companies.
People in privileged positions tend to take opportunity for granted.
All these years running laps around everyone else doing MD simulations - what do they have to show for it in terms of discoveries?
Yes, thanks. R or R-eff is more like it, but for the sake of simplicity I chose to instead leave a footnote about inaccurate usage of R0.
> Imagine if you couldnt target advertisements. Imagine the waste.

Following your argument, the world 30 years ago (when we didn't have targeted ads) would have been a terrible place. Perhaps you should explain why it wasn't.

To me it only means that advertising in itself is not really advantageous, except if everybody else is doing it. It's like a prisoners' dilemma for companies and we are all paying the price in the form of more expensive products, but also in the form of more consumerism.
I see a lot of notes about EFS's performance in the comments. I figured it's at least worth noting, for anyone considering using ECS with EFS, that just last week EFS had its read throughput on its general purpose tier increased by 400%.

That probably won't solve all EFS performance issues, but it's a pretty big boost and a nice announcement to come alongside ECS support.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/amazon-el...
What is the focus of the others?
If they didn’t know they wanted it before an advertisement played on their psychology to make them feel they needed it, then they didn’t really want it.

And if they did know they wanted before the advertisement, then they’d go look for it at a store, online or otherwise, or in a catalogue, or so on.
The large businesses have priced the smaller businesses out of 99% of the market. They leave only the crumbs from the table and pretend that's how "advertising" works now.

It's not advertising, it's commodification of the machinery of advertising. It's worse than selling pickaxes at the gold rush: it's like franchising the pickaxe stores.
The article title is "British news outlets 'could fail due to coronavirus ad-blocking'", pot-kettle is the submitter's take on the story.

Please use the original title were possible.
What I learned at the Ayn Rand conference
yes! I've been using licecap for years now and can't sing its praises enough.
If you're ignorant or malicious the same thing happens: the government kindly informs you that someone is using your website to break the law, and then you can either do something or become clearly guilty of knowingly supporting them. (The government knows you know because they know they told you.)
Comfort with Small Mistakes
I believe that your point stands in the context of a large-capacity commercial airliner, but it is worth considering that in some fighters, this is actually by design. For example, the F-16 is not passively stable--even when the pilot lets go of the stick, the control surfaces are still working to keep the flight moving properly. However, there's much lower benefit when, you know, you're not designing a plane to dogfight with other planes in a life-or-death struggle thousands of feet in the air. Even then, I believe that the control systems are based on voting, where many operations occur in triplicate between various processors and then a consensus is reached for the action.

But building a system like that is difficult, unnecessary for a craft like the 737 MAX, and crucially didn't come close to meeting the same level of redundancy, since I believe the crashes were traced back to single-point failures in the angle-of-attack sensor. Boeing tried to have it both ways, and ended up killing hundreds of people as a result.

Anyway, I thought it was worth pointing out that sometimes fixing aerodynamics problems with software is actually used in airplane design to good effect. The problem is that no one should have thought about or signed off on doing so in this situation.
NY and California are as different as two countries by most measures despite sharing the same language, culture and federal government. The way the pandemic is playing out in NY seems much more similar to Europe.
You Don't Want to 'Boost' Your Immune System
Do you (or have you) worked for Google, Facebook, or any company that derives a significant portion of revenue from ads? Perhaps we should question the value of services if people aren't willing to pay for them.

Tracking people as they use the internet should be a crime. It's not something most people are even conscious about, and I think they'd be outraged if they knew someone was always looking over their shoulder.

The longer we let this go unchecked, the further our privacy erodes and the claws of the surveillance state sink in.

Succinctly: fuck tracking.
> One of the more insidious elements of ReCAPTCHA is its propensity to challenge users who have robust cookie blocking in place... ...So good on Cloudflare.

Just to be clear: Cloudflare is only changing the _provider_ of CAPTCHA's. They are not changing the _criteria_ for showing CAPTCHA's.

So users who have robust cookie blocking in place will continue to be penalized.
I'm genuinely interested in the rationale for this.

I fully understand it is just creepy, and lots of people want the option for this alone.

I'm also wondering if it is to do with notifying people you hope think your number is dead that it is very much alive (people you have ghosted).

Any other reasons? Perhaps this should not just be an option, but an opt-in one.
That's why these features are on every single one. They are cheap. Their costs went down over time... And just like digital, there are only a few manufactures.

Have digital ad costs decreased over time as supply as increased?
I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too
I Don’t Use a Static Site Generator
I really wonder why Mozilla employees think it is acceptable to do that without informed consent for users running Windows. No one would tolerate Mozilla installing a binary in ~/bin/ and configuring it to be run via user crontab on Linux.

Oh well - time to go clean up my Windows installs. sigh
Does anyone else think NY called their peak prematurely? It seems like there's some periodicity in the data and there's always a slight two day drop every 7 days. This makes sense since many people are still working mon-fri in the city.

This is for NYC specifically (last few days of data are incomplete): https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

I wouldn't be surprised if NY continued surging in the coming days.
The coronavirus crisis shows that the cyberpunk future is about to come true
Same here. I put in Carsick Cars, Spacemen 3 (Gnod didn't have The Men), and Sun City Girls. What I got was Moonbell, Water Fai, etc. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 was close to what I was looking for, but only in the way a Hot Pocket is like a burrito.
No one really needs anything except oxygen, food and water.

Everything else is a want.

Sometimes people invent things that others want, but that others don't know about yet. That's what advertising is for.
The Lathe of Heaven, too.
It makes sense. Doesn’t hangouts work for this purpose?
How do you reason this?

The overlap of the two businesses is likely counted in single digit percentages of revenue.
Even with targeted ads how often is it that someone actually (1) wants the thing and (2) buying the thing is net good for them and for society?

I'm sympathetic to the argument that ads could reduce information asymmetry, make the market more efficient, and thus count as a social good. The problem is that advertisers' incentives aren't the same as society or the consumer's.

Look at it this way: Google exists. If you know you want something, it's not hard to find online. Ergo, if you often find yourself buying something because you saw it in an ad, what does that say about your rationality as a consumer?

In practice, corporations buy ads to manufacture demand because their products are neither things consumers or society actually wants, nor things consumers rationally choose to seek out.
I can also recommend Sleuth. We use it at our company and the integration is very good. Their team is constantly working on new features, integrations and better UI.

Hi Don :)
Your reasoning is based on the belief that Google is sacrificing productivity by not giving all employees office. GP is directly contradicting that line of thought, which makes the rest of it fall apart.
It would be easier if families stopped the rat race and stopped sending two parents to careers. career minded people could pair up with home-minded people instead of striving for dual incomes. In good times those home minded people could use their free time to be pillars of the community.
Why NZ PM's coronavirus response has been a masterclass in leadership
This is cool, although after playing with it and a bit and doing some Googling, I like:

https://gist.github.com/andyrbell/25c8632e15d17c83a54602f6ac...
I believe the author of this theory is working with some groups to run tests. Let's re-visit in five years?
Are these books suitable for a software engineer who is new to security, or is it an advanced text with pre-reqs?