skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a legislative/governmental issue not a technical one. In jurisdictions where privacy and anticompetitive laws are enforced (EU) regulators have the ability to regulate with fines of real consequence which is not the case in the US. It does not always lead to perfect outcomes but it does give greater protection to most people.
I know I know...just posted to show what they are saying and their people are reading
Here comes the mandatory, weekly, coincidentally very organic Tailscale post on HN frontpage, just like every other post on their blog (with one exception).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652797

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22571597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22408269

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22192588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21708483

According to dang who admitted that most early upvotes come from the same users, this is totally natural and organic. I understand that Paul Graham posts are mandatory for some obvious reason to be on the frontpage, but what's the deal with this company?
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I was unaware of ActivityPub. Will explore
I missed this. What’s the fiasco?
They have 100% hypervisor access. To give them zero knowledge, you need full homomorphic encryption which is impractical at this point (and likely for a while).

You may trust them not to abuse hypervisor access, but they still have network “meta” data - it could tell them how many transactions clear against credit processors (though not the actual amounts if encrypted), a good idea general distribution of page views With respect to time and user ip (though not the exact pages), times of day, demographics of users (Geo locations and ISPs, for example)

If you don’t trust them not to peek at what they can, don’t use them. He is perfectly right.

There are other cloud providers who aren’t competing with B&H and would be a better choice. But amazon is a direct competitor to B&H, even if they do have an IT barrier - they cross subsidize; any $ paid to Amazon helps it against B&H.
Unfortunately, unless you go door to door knocking... you're gonna get biased data.
How can they stay on the line if you hang up?
Zen 2 was a big uplift in single-threaded performance.

Ryzen and Threadripper 1000- and 2000-series, and Ryzen Mobile < 4000-series are all on Zen or Zen+ architecture.

The current gen Ryzen and Threadripper 3000-series and the Ryzen Mobile 4000-series are the ones running on Zen 2. This is where AMD is competitive with Intel on single-threaded workloads, largely across the board.

Parent mentioned a 2990WX, which is a Zen+ part.
> How is a random fraudster going to suddenly get the top Google result

They pay for it. Most people can't distinguish search ads from search results.
That's what I always told my older family.

If it is about finances, YOU call them at a number on your billing statement that you know is correct, or just go to the bank.

Never make a decision / give info if "they" called you.
;-)

Awesome! FWIW I dug in and found a comment from you on the community forums and found collective.energy and your site, so it's not as bad as I thought at first.

I also want to add that you and your work and community seem really great. Cheers!
In the Bullshit Jobs book, he quotes then president Obama as defending not streamlining healthcare because millions of jobs depend on it's inefficiencies.
(1) it's not just about generic products. Amazon uses the same approach to decide what non-generic products it should become a direct seller of, potentially (and normally) negatively impacting 3rd party sellers.

(2) HD and Lowes have almost no generic/store brand stuff at all. There are a few exceptions, and they likely do represent fairly profitable sections of their overall business. The main ones I am aware of: lighting, ceiling fans, toilets/sinks, flooring. That leaves huge sections of these stores without generics.
They play the sound of someone hanging up, then play the sound of a dial tone, and you dial again, not having hung up yourself.
No, but that's what it sounded like you were doing.
Because some resources have mature security controls around them, and some don't.

Why do you care if someone can see your bank account number? In the end they're just numbers.
Ask HN: How do you take notes on things you read online?
Hello guys, I was wondering how people take notes from webpages ? For example if you read an article on Medium, how do you save snippets you like or your personal notes?
Call me crazy but doctors are over paid and given too much status in American society. Before computers you need highly intelligent doctors with the ability to hold huge amounts of medical knowledge in their heads at a minimum. Now you can google most. The value of a doctor in our society is objectively going down, the job is easier now more than ever. Not only that, the absurd rates of mal practice need to be given a critical eye. We need transparency about patient outcomes.
And to clarify, that 13.9% of New York state residents. In the city it's surely higher.
How close are we to breaking encryption with quantum computing?
> College degree provides a convenient filter for us in hiring.

That's a damn shame.
I don't agree with it at all, but can understand it.

To OP - if you want to work for these types of communities and decide you want the piece of paper, why not consider community college or a cheaper state school to finish out?
In the end, the most valuable learning will come from self taught or job experience.

Imo 60k for zoom lectures is totally not worth it, but I also think that all degrees are overvalued, so ymmv.
it doesn't contradic Ioannidis at all. He might be right in the end, and that would be an incredibly bitter pill to many.

We are getting closer and closer to the flu fatality rate.

from 5% to 3%, then 1% now 0.5% - smart money (and common sense) would bet that the rate will continue to drop,

I would expect that people living in healthier environment than NYC will fare even better. No way NYC IFR is the upper bound for the rest of the country. You could just as well expect it to be 10x higher than other places.

the flu rate is 0.1%, thus we already hit the order of magnitude.
Patches? Mightn't the protective effect come from the fact that smokers are inhaling poison into their lungs?
What? 38 out of 100 infected in US die?
ahem Machetes.
Was unaware of ActivityPub, will definitely check out PixelFed. Thanks!
> clear majority

In the section on the federal government, he identifies the senate filibuster. The filibuster means you need a supermajority of the vote in a deliberative body that's already not representative of the majority of the population.

You can argue that minority veto power is a good things, but the senate is definitively not a body that represents the "clear majority" of Americans. Even prior to a fillibuster, the senate is not even intended to be a body that represents "a clear majority".
i had the same thing happen. if i remember correctly the email+label@gmail.com plus signing on the web made it throw error.
Ideally Google would have a search filter that lets you block paywalled sites from your search, if that's what you want.
>besides Amazon and a few other weird server implementations

One of those 'few other' was Scaleway, but they recently buckled up and ended their ARM server lineup abruptly[1]. They were running Marvell ThunderX SoCs(Upto 64 cores, 128GB RAM).

So, Amazon might soon takeover ARM server market i.e at-least till Tim Cook does a Satya Nadella and brings in Apple IaaS with ARM CPUs.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925
OP said:

> "The solution is to create regulations & laws that prevent this behavior."

I'll take a slightly contrived and simplified set of examples to illustrate why a lot of free-market advocates don't agree with this sentiment as being correct.

1. We identify this "market failing" behavior of Amazon. I.e. Amazon does it a few times and after a while, public starts to

2. Legislators make it illegal for a platform to sell the same products as their suppliers. Easy, right?

3. Amazon alters products to not be technically "the same" so they skirt regulation. E.g. Renames "Plain Artisan Soap" to "Amazon Artisanal Soap", never mind that the product they "copied" was called "Joe's Plain Artisan Soap", and Amazon's product is advertised as "cheap alternative to expensive artisan soaps".

4. We notice and we complain.

6. Amazon complains back (maybe even a few court-cases along the way?), says certain products aren't the same. E.g. Supplier sells artisan soap, but Amazon argue their white-label "soap" isn't the same, it's just soap.

7. So to be fair, legislators start coming up with a reasonable system to identify similar products, which forces amazon to identify "similar" products in order to get them off.

8. Legislators followup and create reasonable rules and exclusions how Amazon can market their branded soap, or how closely the soap can resemble an existing product.

9. Amazon happens to also have a bunch of their own genuine products that it manufactures cheaply. Perhaps a byproduct of some sort of warehouse process they have, and they use their idle machines to make it, or something. But new suppliers come on that happen to sell something that according to regulations is "similar" to those products, and Amazon gets into hot water.

10. Amazon has to put rules, processes, maybe software algorithms to identify such a case. Remember, at Amazon scale, they have thousands of new suppliers and orders of magnitude more "products" that get added each day.

11. Regulators realize it's too difficult to figure this problem out and go to court over it. So they come up with a complaints + arbitration system to address it fairly with a "human in the loop". Think DMCA, takedown requests, etc.

12. Above regulations require paperwork, and you have to register as a platform if you get requests, you're obligated to address complaints of "similar products", etc.

Amazon implements all these rules at each stage, neverminding the "good-faith" interpretation of the original and subsequent laws put in place each time. I.e. "We just don't want platforms abusing their power to undercut genuine businesses." But at this stage we've, through genuine and honest market "interventions" and reasonable rules that seem straightforward and simple and cheap to implement, created regulatory costs that by default get applied to every new "platform" that competes in a space similar to Amazon. You've now successfully put in place regulations that inhibit and prevent competitors manifesting to compete with the existing monopoly or oligopoly.
Where did anyone, Bernie included, say that private hospitals would not be allowed to exist?
> But numbers can change (lapses of mergers), is website would be best as card info can become stale over time —and enterprising outfits could scoop up that number.

How long are bank cards valid? I'd say they expire within 5 years? Also, if there is a merger, wouldn't they send you a new card with updated branding?
My comment was sarcastic if that wasn't clear, pointing out the massive irony of the entire current development ecosystem that's often highly centralized yet built atop a system designed at a fundamental level to be decentralized.
The major methodology problem with the Stanford study was not that they recruited participants through Facebook.

The major problem in the Stanford study was that they ran a test that has a 3% false positive rate, and found that 3% of the test-takers tested positive. (And that apparently the asymptomatic COVID-19 rate is 90+% - which does not square with the Diamond princess data).

They could have ran that same study back in 2018, and would have gotten the exact same garbage results.
The percentage scales with the R0 of the virus. The more infectious the disease, the higher the percentage of infected people for herd immunity to take shape and effectively push the Rt/R0 < 1.
It's a small state with a lot of people packed next to each other. Lots of people use public transit... subways are less than six feet apart.
I've already tested my lewton project with this change, and not the tiniest bit of a slowdown.
Why Use BDD?
Actually, it is still true. Electroloysis split up Firefox into multiple processes, but not every site gets its own process. Work is underway to change this and achieve full site isolation in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission.

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but not on this)
>How much could Bezos actually liquidate tomorrow without losing control or tanking Amazon?

Unless he had a very believable reason to need the money that is fully isolated from Amazon the company (which is near impossible for a cult ceo/founder), Bezos selling any significant amount of stock right now would likely cause a heavy crash. The market is going to be particularly sensitive right now to the fact that someone like Bezos would only be selling if they know something big that we don't know.

The same applies all the time, but particularly in uncertain, volatile time.
I had a quick look at the C++ source code provided at https://github.com/ExaScience/elprep-bench/tree/master/cpp.

As suspected, everything is dynamically allocated and no memory mapping (see e.g. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html) is used. No wonder this is slow and eats a lot of memory. At the moment I have no information about why this design was chosen, if there is a justification for it, or if the developers only knew this option. Maybe I can find some hints in the paper. From what I've seen up to now it can be savely assumed that with optimal use of data structures and system functions the C++ results are at least one order of magnitude better.
What's New with OAuth 2.1?
There are some situations I have been able to pindown for when Instagram doesn’t like you. Two of which are not linking to a facebook account and using a personal domain (instead of gmail, outlook etc). Also instagram really hates it if the email contains insta@domain in any form or manner. Also you will have to hand over your phone number. No exceptions!
I'm talking about how the magnification for third party apps is often weird. SQL Server Management studio for me is almost always in the wrong zoom factor. RDP gets confused. Etc.

Most of these things have probably been fixed, but I'm not sure. Windows devs?
Banks should have a read only api available to access your account for financial apps like this.

I just can't understand giving your full user/pass for financial accounts to a 3rd party.
Ask HN: Looking for an interactive way to improve Linux debugging skills
I'm currently working on getting better in linux debugging [0][1]. Are there any challenges like high loaded VMs or something else to play with? Would appreciate something like Hack the box.

[0] https://netflixtechblog.com/linux-performance-analysis-in-60-000-milliseconds-accc10403c55

[1] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/docs/tutorial.md
Most of that is equity comp for engineers.

For government you have to factor in job security, generous pension and benefits, and guaranteed annual pay raises.

Engineers have none of those things.
Yep, this happens if you trigger the bot detection.
> You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it.

Last time I looked, snaps still had access to the X server. They were therefore perfectly capable of logging and inserting keystrokes, capturing whatever sensitive information is on screen, etc. Has this changed?

I don't think Wayland would solve this, because even if Ubuntu switches to Wayland, variants like Xubuntu (which inherit snap from the base distribution) still use Xorg.

This sort of thing is often overlooked when we talk about linux sandboxing technologies. People see the word "sandbox" and assume safety, but the fact is that most of these sandboxes are leaky in one way or another. Does it protect X11 abuse? DBus abuse? Shared memory? Microphone access? Device node access? The list is long, and the leaks are different in each of the sandboxes.
>enough people don't want to build

If the problem was that 51% of people didn't want those things, well that's just democracy. For a true veto, one person is "enough people." That's an exaggeration in this case, but the point he's getting at is that it takes a very very small minority to prevent things from moving forward. And there will almost always be some people invested in the status quo, or even just trying to block things in the hope of getting some kind of payoff in return (trolls, basically).
How about an example? Present a short COBOL program that is actually more concise than a (say) Java program? The example presented in this blog article seems a likely candidate, and yet would be much shorter in modern languages.

If you want to make the case that COBOL is still a good DSL for its niche (report generation?), it seems like there should be some straightforward examples. This is super easy to do with the aforementioned SQL or Matlab.
I don't think he's talking about paying favors to avoid the pitchforks. The idea is collaborating with the community so they improve their lives and the revolution isn't necessary. Some will do it out of selfishness, others from real believe in the community.
Text in Windows also looks like garbage. Code is easier to read on MacOS. Even a non-retina Mac looks better than a high DPI Windows. Not sure if it's the system font choice, anti-aliasing, font weight...

I also think that Apple's decision to only support 1x or 2x to be the right choice. It's the wild west on Windows when it comes to high DPI. Half the UI in windows is either scaled up to "retina" and the other half is tiny boxes or text. As a result, objects are always the "correct" size relative to other objects around it.
Is charity even the right solution? From what I’ve heard, pensions are a thing because c. 1900 millionaires didn’t — and possibly couldn’t — give enough to charity.

That line of reasoning leads to the need for political change, and not necessarily revolution.
That has the Java and C++ versions. Here's the Go version:

https://github.com/exascience/elprep
I think there is an even simpler explanation: the massive bureaucratic mess that the government has become is ineffective at allocating resources.
I don't do Asian scripts, just latin and cyrillic, but I still use WPS office, since a lot of the options are in exactly the same place as they would be in MS Office, it's so nice not to have to go searching for things.
I hate when sites don’t accept + modified email addresses.
No more than any other cattle.
I imagine anyone doing this seriously would have a spearate system for building binaries. Obviously if that system was compromised, you would not be in a great situation, but it should be much easire to lock that down.
well yes, the whole first part of the article before he gives opinion on how to fix it is what he believes (I think rightly so) the root cause is - institutions of power giving more say to those who wish to slow or halt change because they are afraid of what will happen if something they don't like comes to fruition. NIMBYers are probably a good example of this many people here would be familiar with

his suggests reforming institutions to be more responsive to what people want, not minorities who have a vested interest in the status quo
I had a few bad experiences with Amazon.

1st I got an item from a fraudulent 3rd party shipper. Did not get my money back and amazon claimed they don't know his identity

2nd Packet got stolen. Amazon claimed based on statistical analysis this packet is assumed to have reached me. Delivered to "mailbox". Paid with CC, made a charge back, closed my account.

You know what is a pretty good competitor? eBay. As a business it may be terrible, but as a market place it is quite good.
I wouldn't call it worse. Google maps entries seem to receive less scrutiny than search results, but I also suspect that nobody use as a phonebook. Most people would use google search, or the back of their card.
Sorry this is the post I'm talking about. I first saw it yesterday and then tried to change up my configuration of USB C cables hooked up and it's been better since.

I have 3 cables hooked up. First is for the apple TB3 to TB2 adapter so I can reuse my TB2 hub. Second is a USB C to DisplayPort cable for my second 4k monitor (cuz I couldn't run both 4Ks off the hub), and the third is power.
Bayes' Theorem should be getting taught with quite some emphasis in high school, imo.
> if you want to get out of the pit, you should stop digging.

Great quote, I'll try to remember that.

Also, folks forget how times change. Ten years ago most were still trapped on Windows. Today a lot fewer are.
> USB-C ethernet interface adapters are cheap

Well, I know what you mean, but... I have a macbook for work and when we all converted to work from home, I needed to buy a USB-C ethernet adapter, thunderbolt adapter, and a USB-C to "old" USB adapter, and was shocked to find out that each one was $30-$40. I guess that's cheap in the grand scheme of things, but it would be nice if this stuff was still bundled into the computer.
I'm going to gander a wild guess and say the combination of temporary email address, proxy IP, and false UA string are likely to trip up fake account detection ML algorithms.
Top Secret Recipes
50% is not the death rate, but the fraction of those who are an infected and have died to those who are infected and who will have died (since there is some lag between infection and death).
Hey Lain, thanks for posting about us! CTO/co-founder here--OP is a good friend. Happy to answer questions. Also working to see if we can get my co-founder/CEO David Eagleman on here as well
With all the face filters and deep fakes these days why didn’t you just send some fake photo?
> if these antibodies actually mean long-term immunity

This is the big unknown that seems to be largely ignored, thank you for bringing it up. I am frequently seeing "herd immunity" thrown around without any qualification on the durability of the associated antibodies.
population density. you have the density of Asia without the propensity to wear masks.
I used to feel that way until it bit me my own self. I had to trash an iMac with a bad graphics card that was past warranty. That was a lot of cash down the drain.

Then add the silliness (thankfully behind us) with the butterfly keyboards on the MacBooks.

I can’t speak for the rest of us, but between the glitchy (for me) experience with Catalina and some of the unwelcome (to me) changes around SIP, I definitely feel less and less happy every time I sit down to do work on my Mac.
1% would imply an unrealistically high-fatality rate, so that can't be right.
Pinterest is awful in this regard but what makes it even worse is that so many other sites followed in their footsteps. I know why, I just dont like the process or the idea of having to offer up my info and "join a club" before I've even set foot in the door or peeked around a little.
Because they're not on a mobile. Landlines don't disconnect until both parties hang up.
It has become clear during this latest crisis that if we do not have the ability to make things inside our own borders we are sitting ducks. Its not accurate to think that when we need PPE and all sorts of other medical supplies we can suddenly build factories. Its not just a matter of keeping jobs in the USA its also a matter of security. Its a matter of self sufficiency.
Even typical Americans struggle with this sometimes if they have, say, hyphenated last names. I've encountered plenty of software out there that will reject or fail on even such a common case as this.