skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they were going for an association with Allen Ginsburg's Howl (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl) instead?
>Nintendo's never competed with other gaming platforms on a technology basis

Do you think the Wii was their first console or something?
Working on it. Edit: ok, comments merged thither. Thanks all!
Is that really that important when email data will often be the primary target of the attacker?
Agreed, I don't think the average American knows who Schultz is, at least compared to Cuban
The Chrome Web Store has a delay of about 1 day. I posted the latest stats on my journal entry today: https://www.notion.so/dkthehuman/Day-108-HN-Aftermath-d9e824...
Probably, yes.

Personally, I don't think too uncharitably of Patreon's founders; I genuinely don't get the impression that they started the service because they thought it was a way to make oodles of money, but that they genuinely saw it as doing good for small creators. But I think they let themselves be talked into the idea that they could be the Next Big Thing if only they took enough VC money to follow the "ramp up, get big, and then figure out how to pay for it" model that a lot of startups during the last decade took. The vast majority of those startups failed while they were still small, and the vast majority of the rest only ended up "successful" by selling out to someone else before the bills started coming due... but that's not the story that most of us wanted to hear back then.
The islands, hill next to the harbour, and hills around the city are quite unique and as visible now as they were then. The major change that has happened is that the trees are now all gone.

I'm thinking that the view looking to the south end of the city, with its striking hills, would be instantly recognised by any local from the Greek period.

I agree, though, that the harbour itself would most likely be unrecognisable, not only because of the extensive urbanisation but because the shape has been seriously remodelled.
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counterpoint: I like it and owls are pretty rad
> it often takes a lot of fiddling to get what you want

and yet, for any nontrivial operations, opting for a few simple K:V stores instead means one basically ends up implementing an unrolled SQL engine processing loop to do the application-specific select statements you would otherwise need.

there's a reason SQLite took over from dbm files ...
Madurai in Tamil Nadu state, India, may be one, I think - partly.
Area of lanes around the Meenakshi temple probably look somewhat like they must have n000+ years ago.
Flower, idli, dosa, parotta, sari, clothes, etc. shops, knick knacks, man-powered rickshaws, tame temple elephants blessing humans with trunks, etc.
This was certainly meant to toe the line, but mostly tongue in cheek. I don't attribute malice to educators. I respect the hell out of the good ones. But at the very least, lies of omission are common.

It's more of a commentary on how humans think and learn, not a judgement on how they teach. I think there's an interesting philosophical debate to be had around whether it's ethical to bootstrap knowledge through a lie, later discarded, if that results in more efficient knowledge transfer than the straight truth.

It's parallel to what I've heard about the trouble with history bring. You just never know exactly where to start.
> SQL stood the test of time. SQL is widely adopted.

I'm highly dubious of "it is widely used so there" arguments. I think in the case of SQL, the fact that ORMs and SQL generators are ubiquitous are evidence that a huge proportion of engineers would rather not write it, and part of why it is still widely used (most of the time, most people can avoid actually touching it).

> I would argue that countless productivity has been lost to learning yet another query language for yet another NoSQL db. Mongo has its own query language. Cassandra has its own. Neo4j has its own. What not. Guess what, few engineers need these to solve their actual problem.

This is exactly one of the points I addressed in my comment... none of those are even relational databases. And this is where the discussion ends up every time someone says SQL sucks.

> Is english the best language? No, not even close. Should one learn it? Probably.

The vast majority of the time, when you are using English, you have no control over the receiving end. The vast majority of time, when you are using SQL, you / your org grabbed an SQL RDBMS to use.

Furthermore, I don't see why a modern, reasonable query language couldn't transpile to SQL easily when necessary, making all path-dependency / adoption arguments void.
It's not too late to change the name of Python 3, just as Perl 6 has changed its name to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). :-)
That's a charming belief about C which is only true if you work on the same operating system, processor, and don't do anything complicated. If those are not true, as I've experienced many times over the years, you will learn otherwise about things like differences in floating point behaviour, memory allocation and access patterns, which filesystem and/or locking semantics, etc.

In other words, it's about as true as it is for CSS and SQL, where that kind of simple use is also stable.
This sounds like an interesting quarantine challenge. Do you have any examples of sounds that haven't been recreated? Giorgio Moroder or Kraftwerk come to mind...
Rust has compile-time warnings for when you don't use the result of a function whose return type is marked as #[must_use].

You can easily silence such a warning by writing `let _ = f(...)`, though, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
> encrypted media extensions (EME) are only available on secure contexts, which means the page needs to be HTTPS

I didn't know that, but you're right. [0] There was a time Netflix didn't use HTTPS. [1] I guess they must not have supported HTML5 at that time, and must have been using Silverlight for in-browser viewing.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/#privacy-secureorigin

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/it-wa...
iVerify uses a variety of methods to detect if the phone has a security issue.

Some of them are deterministic and report with complete certainty. For example, the Volexity report about EVIL EYE includes IOCs for the exploit payload and we can detect and report whether that payload exists on your phone. (read that report here: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/04/21/evil-eye-threat-act...)

We also include more probabilistic, generic, or environmental checks that look for deviations from the known good for iOS. These are based on our deep knowledge of iOS and use little-noticed side channels to report information about iOS to the iVerify mobile app. These can possibly detect unknown jailbreaks. We walk a thin line to write our checks without violating Apple's rules (e.g., no private APIs).

It's certainly not foolproof, there are ways that a malware toolkit could avoid iVerify, but it's a great extra seatbelt to wear. It's also extremely effective at determining exposure to an attack immediately after IOCs are released.
Outlook has bugs in rich e-mail rendering, so it's a bad idea? Are browsers a bad idea?
I hate looking at weirdly formatted e-mails, but it seems to provide pretty good value to some people.
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The Segway actually launched and sold and delivered on its technical promises. The problem was that most people didn't want to spend $3000 on one.
Could partly explain why it seems like covid-19 isn't hitting developing nations as hard. They have more antibodies to other viruses. There's also the theory that the tuberculosis vaccine (mandatory in many developing nations but not in developed ones) helps too, and there are clinical trials going on to confirm that.
I’ve become extremely interested in this notion lately. When I have discussions about intellectual property with random people the dominant idea is that patent promote innovation. People get angry if I suggest that might not be true, as if they think I want all creative people to go bankrupt or something.

But its increasingly questionable to me. Open source software has shown the great wealth of innovation that occurs when we collaborate instead of hiding our work.

I think we could (probably) sharply increase the rate of innovation if we let go of intellectual property restrictions. I really want economists and other thinkers to take seriously this notion that intellectual property restrictions are deeply harmful to society and study it in detail. Unfortunately entrenched interests benefit from the status quo (naturally) and I feel they would be in opposition here. But we can still work to open source our output. It’s harder when open source competes with closed source, but if we can learn how to use open source to our advantage we might be able to win.

In any case I think it is desperately important that we take seriously the idea that IP laws might be doing more harm than good. Most people I speak to take it as a given that we need them, and I think we’re shooting ourselves in the foot.
Well, its an informal interview. As the dude say, in the mornings they review data and do an analysis with experts.
I'm not an expert here but I believe the argument is that because it's consumer driven if a patient wants antibiotics then they can just shop around doctors until they find one willing to prescribe. Plus of course, drug manufacturers aggressively pitching their product to doctors.
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This author is spewing fake news, in contrast to her assertions, French Nobel prize winning scientist Luc Montagnier has studied the genome with a colleague and confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from a lab.

Professor Montagnier who co-discovered HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) has documented the presence of specific HIV segments in the genome of the coronavirus Covid19.
I’m seconding the request for any literature on the subject! I’m very interested in the harm intellectual property restrictions might be doing to our rate of innovation.
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Yes, I write fairly boring applications. But the point is that C is mostly cross-platform for those boring applications, whereas the the "cross-platformness" of CSS and SQL fall apart for even the simplest of tasks.
I had somewhat similar experience with event-driven systems. I figured microservices would flame out a lot faster as they ran into the same class of problems.

We do have some slightly better for managing the logistics though. Small force multipliers can add up to quite a lot in aggregate.
...and it's not always simple to practice/apply mental models after reading them in a list. I used to be a member of Farnam Street until last year. Most of the members weren't sure how they could apply the mental models per their internal forum. The top answer was to use the list of models as a checklist.
This is a really good argument for carbon taxation to appropriately increase the cost of dirty energy. Send the correct price signal everywhere rather than making your own software do the equivalent of looking out the window at the weather and trying to decide if it’s a sunny or rainy or windy or clam day, and thus if solar or wind generation is making the grid cleaner. Or if instead those are likely offline and the grid is dirtier today.

Best thing. Then you incentivize a cleaner grid overall and you don’t even have to worry eventually about this kind of thing.
Was using chrome. When I last checked again, it is working again. Keep up good work!
C++ has the nodiscard attribute for this now.
A UI that can change layout to accommodate your window size and in which UI elements don't confusingly jump around when you click something but transition is bad? I'd like to read about your idea of a good UI.
On the contrary, that mental model was only useful to your 8-year old because he had contextual experiences and was situated in a reality where he could easily explore its consequences. Most conversations about mental models are far less tangible.
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> There's usually not a relationship that goes the other way though, for example, developers don't tell DBAs to pick up code so they can write the models in our language in addition to the underlying SQL. This highlights a trend of increasing responsibilities pushed onto the developer.

Yes, because as a developer you're the one who has the responsibility of implementing the business requirements of the app. There's no trend here; this is the way it's always been. The buck stops with development for a lot of things. The developer is in a unique position to respond to many incidents because they have an intimate understanding of how the business requirements wed with the technology in ways someone like a DBA does not.

DBA's have plenty of responsibilities of their own, such as handling a 3AM alarm that goes off when some part on the application starts hammering the DB from some poorly designed N+1 query problem in the codebase. Often times when the DBA tries to teach the developer it's because he's sick of getting those 3AM wake-up calls.

> But in some cases it's specialists designating what an expert developer should know. It's giving away control in some respects. This turns into new job requirements and a higher barrier for entry. The growth will need to stop at some point.

That's a strange mindset to have. Different jobs have different technologies, and as a developer you learn how to work with them. The specialists aren't designating anything, the job you're responsible for is.
It turns out that Elixir/Phoenix templating is, in general, astoundingly fast, and that diffing operations are highly optimized at the language level due to the data structure (IO list) used.

Here's some information:
https://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-do...
Kind of fitting for AOL though. I can name three startups that went to die there off the top of my head.
I’m surprised that you’re surprised that I’m surprised that people are still surprised about this kind of thing. Right below your comment (this answers your question “Where...”) is a comment that begins, “Kind of surprising.”
Is that really true?

I'm not a cryptographer by any means, but it seems like every time you transmit a chunk of video over the network, you could generate a single-use key, encrypt the video with that key, and then encrypt the single-use key with every intended recipient's individual key.

When the recipients get the message, they'd find their encrypted copy of the temporary key in the list, recover the single-use key, then decrypt the video.

That way the only wasted bandwidth is in transmitting keys, which is a lot smaller than video.

The recipients could give the single-use key (that they decrypted with their individual key) to someone who isn't supposed to have it, but that doesn't seem like a problem since they already have the decrypted data and could give that away.

For a small performance improvement, you could re-use the temporary key a few times (for, say, 10 seconds) if the set of intended recipients doesn't change.
I'm the author of Gleam, a statically typed language on the BEAM.

What you've said matches my findings. Messages can be typed, however hot code upgrades cannot be. For Gleam we've sacrified hot code loading in exchange for types, which I think is a good trade for most use cases.
> New Ideas also come from new technologies.

This may be why it seems like it's harder to find new ideas now. It was relatively easy during the waves of "do X on a computer", "do X on the Web", and "do X on a phone", but now we're waiting on the next transformative idea that will allow everything old to be reinvented again.
Not sure how realistically viable it is, but I hope that quantum computing will bring some of that freshness back. But again, it will heavily depend on how much of it is "legit" and how much is just hype.
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I think the basics of Elixir are easier to learn. The syntax is pretty straight forward and you don't have to worry about much more than functions and modules.

OPT, which is how you build supervision trees and other more complex Elixery things, is tricky at first but reading through Designing Elixir Systems with OTP, by James Edward Gray & Bruce A. Tate, and The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook, by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao should clear it up fairly well.

This is highly subjective, of course, but I've written code in C, C++, Pascal, Basic, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, PHP, Java, C#, Clojure, Scheme, Cobol, and Pick Basic (of all things). Elixir has been my most favorite language so far.
In short:

* currently the Jitsi Meet videobridge sees unencrypted conversations

* they're changing that using a new WebRTC API called "Insertable Streams"

* it's currently in alpha with an open RFC

* they plan to use the double ratchet algorithm for key exchange in the future
I don’t think these kind of comparisons are meaningful until we are out of it. It all depends on exactly when the outbreaks started at the different places and what the long term infection rate will be.
It seems to me that the gist of the article is to question whether mental models can be effectively transferred verbally, rather than their existence?
I agree with you, sometimes verbally conveyed theory is quite useful and can speed up building mental models.
But maybe the fallacy is just that people tend to overestimate the benefit of this aspect (hence buy self-help books etc)?
Not yet. Would you like one?
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The problem is it has to be that way because nobody includes hardware decoders until major players are using the codec, so it's chicken and egg.

In theory the hardware vendors could notice that Google is developing a new codec which they could be reasonably expected to start using and then include hardware decoders in their devices before Google starts using it, but they don't really have the right incentives to do that. "Our device has a hardware decoder for a codec nobody is using" isn't really something customers buy phones based on. Meanwhile if the vendor doesn't put it in this year's model then they get to sell you a new phone with a hardware decoder next year after Google flips the switch and your battery life tanks until you buy the new phone.
Sweden: 1,937 deaths. 50 fewer seasonal deaths than expected.

Norway: 187 deaths. No increase in seasonal deaths.

Denmark: 384 deaths. Seasonal deaths unknown to me.

Finand: 149 deaths. Seasonal deaths unknown to me.

Sweden has approximately twice the population of the other Nordic countries, so per capita they have between ~2.5x and ~6x the Covid19 mortality of their neighbors, who have stricter preventive measures.

Honestly, I can't see how Anders Tegnell and his colleagues can sleep at night with the uncertainties they are powering through. By rights they should be terrified that they've gotten one of their assumptions wrong.
It's typical to see displays such as [1], even in the basements of cafeterias in Athens. This one is from the Syntagma metro station.

By the way, in settlements were people are living for thousands of years, they usually build on top of what there was already there.

[1] - https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/10...
Even in the natural key's playground (in my mind) of data warehousing, you still have to manage changing dimensions, and the inevitable reality that your fact table was actually another dimension table all long.
Valve can unwind any item transaction that occurs within their marketplaces under fraudulent circumstances.
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The market is a little more dynamic than that, wholesale bidding into the ISOs is still the biggest option but many utilities run load shifting programs of various sizes as well.

Still, the conclusion is like you said. There's basically no real-world scenario where it makes sense for a residential customer to go it alone, because they can make at most a couple hundred bucks a year. So makes sense for their device companies or someone else to figure it out with utility and pay thousands of homeowners to agree to participate. Ohmconnect has a cool service in California.
Ah no - but I will now!

Still, usually what I need there is the ability to leave a line or two there but don't stage it.
Hi, have you thought about hosting for this yet? I've got a similar site which I originally tried on AWS Amplify but it got too big for the artifact size limit so I opted for S3/Cloudflare instead however build times are slow and more of a manual process currently.
> Well, that's just a bunch of bullshit. Your everyday IT user (including me who has worked in the business for a LONG time) doesn't see that difference.

Regrettably, you're right. That's why we're employed.
I think they encourage the adoption of big data projects, then sell storage per gigabyte via their cloud division.
Again, I think you're viewing this through the lens of relative experience. I have seen tons of C code which required substantial fixes to work portably (bonus points when this was exploitable) and I have plenty of CSS and SQL which hasn't had to be touched in years.
I grew up on a farm. It was common knowledge that when a calf, or a lamb was born they needed to get that first milk from their mom. The first milk looked different and was called colostrum. Colostrum contained a large assortment of antibodies from the mother that were transmitted to the newborn. If there was some health issue, the mother died or the newborn couldn't drink, we had colostrum in the freezer. If we didn't give it, the odds dropped dramatically of the newborn making it more than a few months.

So, yes, mammals, including people, get immunities to germs they have not been exposed to.
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I disagree with this almost as strongly as I possibly can. I've only ever encountered people with middling or mediocre skill in a subject express this attitude. People that are good, are good because they know precisely where the line between good and bad is, AND they've practiced "good" a LOT. Knowing is enough to articulate it. If you can't, you probably don't know it as well as you think.

This leads to a bit of a paradox. The things I'm best at are precisely those things in which I feel I still have the most to learn. Why? Because I know the difference between what I'm doing and what good would be.
It's an inside joke to the Deep State that actively needs captures of network data, AOL... is a Verizon company after all. In these discordian times, even Eris would blush.
I totally agree with you. I think for the foreseeable future, people will be very risk averse. Going with a larger organization that is regulated, likely has more standards in place for safety, better training, etc. will be a natural choice for people.

A similar example that I've seen recently is the restaurant industry. I have been trying to support a local restaurant that switched to take-out. They really are trying, and I'm rooting for them, but... I've seen an employee almost use her mouth to pull the cap off a pen for a customer to sign their credit card receipt. I've been at the takeout window paying for my order while they called up another customer to come sign a credit card receipt - obviously negating any distancing we were observing in line.

Contrast that to Burger King, which I stopped at the other day on the way home from buying groceries. Their contactless drive thru game is much better, I'm sure because they have people in an office dedicated to creating new procedures, training staff, etc.

When things open back up, expect to see lots of hotels advertising and touting all of the cleaning precautions they are taking, new checkin procedures, etc. Airbnb will not be able to offer any of those assurances.