skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why I want to see a virtualized web browser is because it is becoming an insanely complex piece of software with an insanely large attack surface.

I do not want my browser to be able to talk to Bluetooth devices that are connected to my desktop. I do not want want my browser to be able to access random files on my file system simply because it is accessible to me. I do not want a web browser have ability to have GPU access outside the specific virtualized section of it that can only access the part of the screen and off-screen buffers associated with the window of a browser.

I started localizing different web browsers into dedicated VMs that have just a minimal operating system and a web browser. It works well enough for my use case ( i can playback youtube video almost like I could do it on my 2015 laptop ) but it is definitely hacky.
There is a strong argument for doing a challenge trial, using young people, on this candidate.
Then the first thing you need to do as part of setting up a VPN program is to figure out a software update process/policy that lets you push updates within hours and ensures you always do have the ability to patch (i.e., that you either know where you're getting updated binaries from for every client OS that connects or you know how to build them yourself). If you build a system where updates are part of the process, it works - take a look at say video games (which have far fewer people caring about their security than, like, the average corporate VPN), where having people on the latest version is just part of the expectations, and it works fine.

Otherwise, what's your plan for a Heartbleed-style scenario? Wait months for everyone to upgrade?
The cleaning fees charged by hosts are not optional. You cannot opt out of them. If Airbnb wanted to empower users, they could permit enabling/disabling those fees while querying.
Then society should supplement their budget through social safety nets. I don't think its acceptable to risk the health of the grocery store employees because some people can't afford delivery (they don't even need delivery, just store pick up)
Surprised ?
Also, you choose to give the data by using the platform.
Terms and condition apply.
You could combine it with an extension: "Please call me back using the number on the back of your card and extension NNNN"
If the tip is visible before the services rendered that should be separate as its basically bidding on the services not a tip. A separate tip should be editable and hidden until after services are rendered.
You mean the same CDC that is part of a hilariously corrupt US government?
So why not simply declare Taiwan to be a country de-facto, despite a bunch of governments who suck up to China pretending otherwise? Who gets to decide what a "country" is?
So if you made a video a few weeks ago recommending people wear masks then your video would be banned.
You missed the whole point in that uncalled for attack on my education. No one here is talking about preventing all competition. Then you went on repeating an economic principle without understanding it fully. I know that because you consider it absolute while it's in fact not. In the real world, it is very rare to find an actually efficient market with perfect and instantaneous discovery where those simplistic economic laws apply correctly.

The general point is that it is generally possible to keep fair competition flowing between a smaller group of companies, as long as that group is large enough for its members' respective interests not to align completely.

All other things being equal, there can be only one cheapest pack of toilet paper in a given market, which immediately disproves your argument. After all, having 5000 toilet paper manufacturers all competing among themselves is certainly no guarantee of any improvement to the consumer for that particular criteria, because 1000, 500, 100 or even 2 would have sufficed barring collusion.

Now we can add many other qualities to toilet paper that make discerning customers keener to see past price when they're buying between competing suppliers. However, in mature markets with proven, stable demand, there comes a point where adding more actors does not bring value. Those additional entities are merely tapping into existing market value without providing marginal benefits and without forcing others to improve.

Do you believe the toilet paper industry is so ripe with innovation that its warrants as many competing manufacturers as possible, with as much competitive spirit among them as possible? Nope. In a supermarket, the pack of toilet paper that's put in shelves slightly above eye-level will be chosen way more often by consumers than other packs located a bit below. Companies do not compete on the quality of their products, they compete on the amount of money they pay for their products to be stacked the right way on the right shelves at the right location.

Back in the real world, across many industries, going from thousands of competing companies to a few hundreds is definitely not worse for the consumer.
Hey wait, that's just Duff's... Oh.
Yes, and then almost the entire US press spun the 3.4% figure as the real WHO-confirmed fatality rate and sub-1% numbers as a Trumpian lie as part of a stupid, cynical, partisan attempt to get Trump. There's been a lot of that. (The UK press, meanwhile, happily quoted the 1% figure - if I remember rightly, some outlets like the Guardian with both UK-facing and US-facing sides pushed both narratives to different audiences at the same time.)

In reality, the WHO number was just confirmed deaths divided by confirmed cases, which was of course almost completely meaningless.
An hour for 3 weeks, what the hell.
If the results from this NY study hold, the numbers are basically exactly in line with the Imperial College study. That study assumed an IFR of 0.9%, and the NY results imply an IFR right around that.
The main reason is that in C, "indexing" an array is purely syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic, which itself is commutative; that is. ((A)[B]) is equivalent to ((A)+(B)), which itself is equivalent to ((B)+(A)) (assuming one of them has an integral type and the other a pointer to complete object type).

Now, of course an array type isn't a pointer type, but as "indexing" isn't one of the very few cases where an expression that has an array type isn't converted to an expression with a pointer type, you aren't really indexing an array, but a pointer to its first element.
For sure, but usually this comes down to "manufacturer picked a slightly cheaper wifi chip with no linux support", "manufacturer is doing weird shit with ACPI they shouldn't", etc.
Doing that can get you banned from a lot of projects on GitHub. Citing specific humans by name as having undertaken specific actions on specific dates is sometimes seen as aggression or harassment, even if you stick to pure factual statements. The actions of people at work, socially, are often seen as “actions of the company”. Mentioning people by personal name is frowned upon.

I’ve actually had comments deleted for discussing things in this mode: Human X did thing Y.

I think our society doesn’t like it when we highlight personal responsibility for things people are only choosing to do to get a paycheck to pay their bills.

It’s easier for everyone involved to say “Google developed AI software that allowed military drones to decide who to kill” than to say “John Smith developed AI software that allowed military drones to decide who to kill”.

Not that I think we should not use both forms. Individual choices matter, and facts are facts.
In comparing the COVID-19 IFR to the flu IFR, it is important to remember that flu vaccines are widely available and limit the spread of influenza. For example, CDC retrospectives for 2018-9 estimate that 35M Americans[1] got influenza over the flu season, or less than 12%.

By contrast, the current COVID-19 infection rate in New York (from these data) is already higher than 12%. So COVID-19 has the potential to infect a larger proportion of the population than the flu usually does.

(If the CDC data is correct, the flu shot may save around a hundred thousand lives per year. Don't skip it!)

1: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
I see this as fine for the case where someone is saying "it's fine assemble in large groups" or other negative contradictions.

But it's not ok for cases where someone is advising being more restrictive or cautious or other positive contradictions.
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We can all debate who is right or wrong as much as we like, but you can be certain of one thing - right and wrong are not what drives the decisions of large companies like Google. What matters most to them is potential profit vs risk. Allowing their platform to be used for dissemination of potentially harmful advice puts them squarely at risk for lawsuits and bad press, both of which have very highly potential costs. At the same time, it presents relatively little potential profit. If someone is harmed following the advice they found on their platform, YouTube was just following WHO advice. The finger is pointed and the risk transferred elsewhere. From a business perspective, it becomes a very easy decision for them.
Try opening Lyft on iOS, hard crash on boot. I don't wish to be someone working on that right now!
I’m not so sure about that - Zapier has a number of use cases that are completely unrelated to AWS.
Isn't it more like "corporate" speak? The thing that makes me want to blow my brains out is when politicians or government representatives do this on TV and the "journalist" interviewing them just sits there and nods...
Does amazon allow seller sites to have lower prices?
Agreed but it will also expose many who simply can't work at home also.

I am a advocate for working from home. But I know plenty of people and roles who are suffering a great deal from working from home.
From my understanding, the prices are set by the store, which can be corroborated by the DoorDash/Uber Eats models. It's impossible for Instacart to handle the prices for all these stores, so they unload that responsibility to the individual stores. The store probably forgets to drop the price, or will mark up volatile prices so they won't have to do weekly updates. I can bet you that you can also find some items that are under priced.
That's very cool! Congrats on getting to a great place in your career.

I just started doing embedded work, and would love to read your blog if you're open to sharing.
How can you even compare the two? Comments like this are truly insensitive.

Denying the holocaust is banned for good reason. It happened.

Denying the Holocaust negates millions of people their identity even into death.

On the other hand questioning the blurred lines of advice to live healthily and not potentially hurt another due to a virus has everybodys best interest at heart and is generally positive.
How is it preventing people with adblockers to use instagram just like they did before? The experience will be exactly the same as before, regardless of adblockers, as long as you are logged in.
Admittedly, this is a huge weakness of Cap'n Proto. The C++ implementation (which is the one I use and work on personally) is mature. There are pretty solid implementations in Rust and Go, too. But it falls off after that, with most implementations being serialization-only and at various levels of (im)maturity.

There's not a lot I can do about this. Cap'n Proto adoption doesn't directly drive revenue for anyone in particular, so I can't hire an army of engineers to throw at it... People who want better Cap'n Proto support in each language need to step up to help make it happen.

One thing I am looking at doing is making it easier for per-language serialization implementations to bind to the C++ RPC implementation. This might make a lot of sense, since the serialization implementations have wide APIs but shallow implementation details, while the RPC implementation is a pretty narrow API with very complex implementation. And it turns out Cap'n Proto messages are super-easy to pass between languages since the in-memory format is by design the same across languages -- passing around byte buffers tends to be pretty easy.
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Urination isn't really private in most of the world outside the West.
Companies that have the ability to price according to the strain on their system, like FedEx and UPS, are presumably far more robust in this scenario. Here's the rub: Amazon Prime is a contract for services at a certain annual price between the customer and Amazon. Amazon cannot easily just ask for more if their end of the deal ends up more costly to deliver than forecasted.
Right, but I think some of that suicide rate comes from the lack of "purpose" (it's silly that we rely on our jobs for purpose but we really do), or more broadly the desynchronization of one's internal schedule that many of us have experienced (which leads to worse sleep and therefore higher mortality).

I also think that given we know about the level of competence of our government, it will be very difficult for "real" safety nets to be put into place. That's not even getting to the partisan divide inherent to our system.

So in my eyes, we had one big problem, covid, and turned it into two big problems, covid and an economy in ruin. And these two problems affect a greater set of individuals than either one alone. Since a huge number of deaths from Covid are those who weren't working because they're 70+.

Lastly, one of the most "famous" social safety nets in America is social security, which is a farce that is known to redistribute money from the poor to the rich. (It is an eternal frustration of mine that the Left in America is so heavily in favor of social security despite it being flawed from its inception) [1]

[1] See Milton Friedman's excellent take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCdgv7n9xCY
You can constrain your statements to only objectively true things and still be confusing and ambiguous. This is a perfect example of that. It warrants criticism.
How many software engineers fit the mold of the bearded male craft beer connoisseur vs how many are trying to shoehorn themselves into it?
Is charging on the right or left side of MacBook better?
Not sure if I agree or disagree, but I don't think the article fully understands its thesis & conclusion.

The problem mentioned of the article IMO, is that of bureaucracy. The problem with bureaucracy, is that it's inevitable as an organization grows (and every type of one at that). The larger an organization is, the more bureaucracy is needed (i.e. administrative checks, balances, and communication), the slower it becomes to change and act as a whole because of it.

The only way to remedy this problem is to simplify communication and decision structures in the organization, which the article suggests. However, there is probably some theoretically optimal structure to have. But no matter how you rebuild the communication and decision structures an organization, some level of bureaucracy is needed, and as it grows more of it is needed, and the slower it becomes to act together.

Basically there's only so much rebuilding an institution can do.
Apple is operating on the bleeding edge of design, that doesn’t mean their thermal engineering is bad, it’s best in class - they’re simply pushing the margins.

I wish they’d make a thicker laptop with more room inside, but that’s just not what they do.
I feel Bitbucket has been remarkably stable this year.
The difference between the Github Statuspage and Bitbucket's is night and day.
Of the two recent issues I can see in the last month they look like minor glitches and not outages.
Bitbucket had an unfortunate series of interruptions for a couple of days in October last year, but Github has been having major outages every few days for 3 months now.
Amazon borrowed the lambda name for serverless (derived from lambda/anonymous functions)...not the other way around.
> If it supports WebSocket, it should be relatively easy to layer Cap'n Proto RPC on top of that.

How would the new streaming functionality be implemented over WebSockets? WS has no flow control. You can check bufferedAmount but I found it to be fairly useless[0]. Maybe it's improved in the last 1.5 years or I was using it wrong.

> HTTP is fundamentally a one-way, FIFO request-response protocol, whereas Cap'n Proto is multi-directional and asynchronous. Starting a separate HTTP connection for each call -- with connections initiated in both directions -- would be pretty ugly and have lots of issues with synchronization and routing.

I think you could get a long way using HTTP/2 and server-sent events.

[0]: https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/492

EDIT: added link to bufferedAmount issue
"We're doing X because of coronavirus."

Yep, your argument is sound.
Early on in the COVID crisis, Amazon was giving long delivery estimates and then delivering quickly anyway. That has since changed to their estimates matching reality.
Who gets to decide what is nonsense. What happens when society thinks YOU are the one with nonsensical beliefs?

"Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and to clear his name of heresy."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-convi...
Same experience here (SF Bay), some items with moderate delays are on time (3-7 days), items with very long lead times (15-30 days) end up coming much faster. Still happy to not have to go to the store.
Except that this "atomic" operation over shared_ptr's in the C++ standard isn't actually required to be lock free, and is in fact not lock free in common stdlib implementations. So they're not actually gaining anything over, e.g. RwLock<Arc<RwLock<T>>> in Rust.
I would hope that the WHO only tweets statements that they find credible. Newspapers repeating what a celebrity says feels different
Agreed. ZFS is Much better in this release.
The WHO de facto recognizes Taiwan as well.
It's called the Nocebo effect [1]. It's discussed on Mind Field S2 E6 The Power of Suggestion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
The age distribution was also significantly different then.
And I'll repeat too - does YouTube gauge their censors against what the WHO tweets?
You're bringing up the exceptions that prove the rule as if they disprove it.
Criminal conspiracies by corporate execs are not all uncommon in the history of business

Actually, they are quite uncommon, which is why they make headlines when discovered.

I'm not taking a side here, just pointing out a fallacy.
> Hydrate data lakes

The power of metaphor right there. Although I've never seen that phrase before, I know exactly what it means.
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> If we rewound to ~2010, froze Facebook at its then-current feature set, and had Instagram (2012), WhatsApp (2014), Oculus (2014), and the myriad of other aquhires still in existence as independent companies, society would be a better place

Sure, I can see that.

And if Facebook the product went away, society would IMO be in a worse place (until it's replaced :), because Facebook the product is delivering value every day
Only ever happened to me once, and with SSD. They initially sent me 1 instead of the 2 that I ordered. Then they sent me two more instead of the additional one.
Dude has more patience than me.

I tried running powershell on linux a few times, and every single time the second command I run is not supported on linux.

I don't even remember what the commands were, PSremoting was one for sure and I think another was Invoke-WebRequest.

Powershell on linux is a nice idea but in the current form it is in name only, as nearly nothing works.
My company expense card is from pnc. I’ve had many bad experiences with it that make them seem very unprofessional and not competent technically. First time I needed to update my pin to use the card and their databases were down...

But yeah their fraud detection is lacking and reporting it was a pain, and they are slow to resolve anything. They did not detect the fraud at all.

Your experience reinforces my impression.
The problem is, hash map isn't that effective in modern hardware, the overhead cost is greater than the benefit. If it's consists of clustered network connected computers, it may be, but not for the single local computer for the most of problem.
Macs Fan Control, I basically never encounter hot temp, with these sane preferences

https://imgur.com/a/d2IckFs
That point is entirely true but doesn't really change the policy implications unless you believe that we can actually contain this thing indefinitely (i.e. that a given individual can avoid being exposed to it indefinitely)
Names have symbolic value beyond the intended referent. Typically, wisdom dictates choosing names that aren't immediately offensive out of the gate.

I won't speculate on whatever led you to such fatuous conclusions, because ad hominem is a bad reasoning.
these are the economies (efficiencies) many large corporations gain when they use (often low-wage, high-pressure) call centers to substitute for real customer service/sales.

they suck away power/information from both sides of the transaction (low-wage worker & customer) and use arms-length arguments to shield the managers & owners from the complexities and cost of genuine, trusting human interaction. it's dehumanizing all around.
No takers? :-)
Rather reliability of sum is a product of reliabilty of constituents (unless redundancy was applied) where reliability is in [0,1.0] range.
With typescript growing more popular fewer have the same complaints -- things are changing
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They were "bankrupt" before. They just selling what is left of the stock.

I was always impressed by the quality of their products. It is a comparatively "old" company, they produce their stuff in Eastern Europe, not Asia.

Why they did not sell?

1. Their webpage looks like from the 90ies

2. No marketing. I think I can solve this, I also have contacts with some small travel agencies. I am sure they would be interested in some affiliate scheme.

3. Has also some niche products where I have contacts in the US (Military, dogs etc.)

Biggest problem is to convince the guy to either sell or take on partners.
The challenge with very specific filters with Airbnb is that you will get a lot fewer results. The prices are not exactly standardized since the host's set them.

Without dates, you cannot see the true price because prices fluctuate between dates and ranges. If set the dates, and number of guests, you can see the total price and breakdown on the search page. The search page price doesn't include the taxes (I guess it's a common practice in the US), but you can see it on the listing page. The prices should be the same on mobile and web unless you search different days and the prices have fluctuated or there is a caching issue.
Credit cards typically expire after some number of years, and mergers will typically include those phone numbers. If for some reason the acquiring company decides it wants to sunset its acquired phone numbers, it just needs to do so after the expiration date for the last card issued with that number still printed.
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