skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Censorship "theory" is sound. And that's what is so pernicious and dangerous about the idea. The idea of removing content that could cause harm makes total sense. If the people making the censorship decisions were widely respected experts in the field and ideologically neutral, and used extensive and rigorous processes to determine what should be and what shouldn't be censored based on actual harm not political leanings, and were also accountable, then it could in theory be a useful tool.

But censorship practice is utterly corrupt. It's based on ideological goal-driven thinking, a form of thinking most of us use most of the time (unfortunately). The decisions are made by non-experts who are nameless, faceless and unaccountable. The result is dangerous and divisive.
It is, there is no doubt about that.
> Your argument for lockdown is unfalsifiable.

If you want to get down to epistemological arguments, then we should be clear: we can't know ANYTHING about the real world for certain and all no claim about the natural world is falsifiable; the only claims we can make are those that are tautological or conceptual only. The scientific method itself does not stand on anything more than epistemological sand.

Obviously, that's a ridiculous way to think about the world and not helpful. What we CAN do is see the changes in trajectory of the virus growth rate caused by the lockdown; and extrapolate based on the data that we've seen about how it would grow without the lockdown. This is what a large number of domain experts (including data scientists with domain knowledge) have been doing, and they believe the lockdown has been necessary (and will continue to be, at least in part).
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You haven't been around long enough, at least under the same name, to remember when there was an implicit time limit on the comment reply page, inflicted by those stored closures silently timing out. Having long comments so often eaten that way was actually the specific thing that annoyed me into first installing It's All Text.

It's an interesting approach, as attempts to force statefulness on a stateless-by-design protocol go, but I don't know that I like how it scales.
This seems wildly off topic.

Redis has 342 contributors on GitHub. The SourceHut repo, which I assume is one of the most popular repos on SourceHut, only has six contributors with more than one commit in the last year: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/contributors

Github is an order of magnitude more popular than GitLab and Bitbucket, which in turn are an order of magnitude more popular than SourceHut.
It's most interesting to investors because the entire value of the company is also divided by the arbitrary number of shares to get the share price, so it makes it easier to compare one stock to another by looking at the ratio of EPS and share price.
The bit about memory leaks is probably a comment on the effectiveness of the .net GC more than anything else. COM objects are reference counted. When the .net runtime GCs a wrapped COM object it bumps the count down. My experience from years ago is that can take a long time or not happen at all. There is a manual call that releases the object, after which it is no longer usable from .net.
What’s wrong with a corporate death sentence in the event of such egregious mistakes? There must be a severe enough punishment in order for a company’s risk department to take things seriously.
Ask HN: Sources of remote work that gives you a chance?
Hi HN,

I've been reading this board for many years now and have a serious need for your help right now. I'm in Ecuador and there are no jobs hiring here now and my wife, son, and I are getting into worse shape financially. I have looked at sites like Fiverr and Upwork but they haven't panned out at all. Nobody there has any serious work (it all looks like little 50 dollar jobs that would still take many days if you account for the sales/fielding questions component, etc) and you need a lot of reputation and time/skill for sales to get what is available. I don't have 3 months to do slave rate work to try to get reputation built up. I have a good bit of industry experience and will work very hard for a remote contract, but feel like there just isn't a path to get that, sills or no skills. Does anyone have any sources of remote work that will give someone a real chance to prove themselves? I would be happy to build someone a website or backend service, or anything really. I learn new tech great and can pick up most any job if given a real chance. Here is my LinkedIn if anyone wishes to see my CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erdos4d/ Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate any help you guys can give.
I wonder how many devices already do this.
This is fun to look at!

Computer and Information Technology Occupations:

Computer Programmers: $86,550

Software Developers: $107,510

Web Developers: $73,760

I think the difference in pay is because they state Web Dev requires an associates degree, the other two a bachelor's.

Of course, this data is generalized. I am an SWE, with an associates. I make a little more than their "Software Developer" role. Also suggests there may be a lot of devs who don't respond to salary threads.
If only PayPal were as accessible and responsive as stripe. There is a serious regression in their API right now : it is so bad and obvious it shouldn't of even made it past their internal testing stage. Been there for 2 weeks now. You think I can get anyones attention at paypal? They don't even seem to have a decent issue ticketing system to track it.
I have a xiaomi rednote 8, how to block more privacy leaks?
In the sciences out of SF and NYC? It’s very easy.
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Sorry, I should've been clearer! Beginner to ML? Stay away from SVMs.

This tutorial looks good, and well written.
Who Invented Radio: Guglielmo Marconi or Aleksandr Popov?
Found I have the same issue. Customer facing folks have it even worse.

As much as I love the solution what I really want is a cli that’ll spit out my meetings OR my free time.

I.e I could say:
cli --free 60m —today

And it would spit out the 60 minute chunks (in my time zone). Would love to copy paste that but not sure how hard it would be to do with the google api
Microsoft has been top 3 in market cap, profits, and earnings for a while now. it’s not like there’s only one segment even if all the publicity and focus is on cloud. They’re making money in lots of ways still.
> Try linear methods first

This bears repeating.
Exactly and poor people rack up debt and can't even pay them back. How does that equate to good credit?
> why are new coal-fired power plants still being planned and built?

Because digging holes is all that some people know how to do for a living apparently.
I tried writing some of my own verses for this song, but I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with RPLACA and CDADAADR.

Speaking of consing every pair, here's a previous discussion about "The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) (iwriteiam.nl)":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16008239

http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaCAR_CDR.html
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I have lineage on my xiaomi.

The bootloader is locked by default but if you ask for it to be unlocked they will do it. The process is intentionally manual to prevent hacking, but ultimately smooth.
I have a friend who is a software engineer at one of these 48 hour background companies. Their own process never found his conviction for grand theft from 3 years prior.
Making a deal and then breaking it can dissuade employers from putting a person in a high trust position. Most business operates on trust, handshakes, and one's word. Contracts are a backup.

Trust is like glass - easy to break, very hard to put back together.
Your first part doesn’t follow the second

You could keep employee insurance. If everyone else has to sign up, you still get a diverse risk pool. Maybe not perfect but way better than what we have now.
> I know apple keeps on getting headlines for breaking privacy

Seems like they're mostly in the news for the exact opposite.
> After that I as a consultant get access to the network and apart from some test that a developer stood up nothing matches the glossy talk.

Or in my case recently... someone has generated a root certificate for the internal CA that uses an insecure crypto scheme, and Chrome still throws up a security error requiring users to click past the warnings to access the site.

"Can you generate and roll out a new cert please? This isn't really 'security'?"

"Oh we will get to it, can you just use the one you already have?"
But ads are supposed to be paid back by customers buying real stuff. And if they won't buy real stuff because of crisis, it just means that ads budgets will be cut soon.
True. But I still think this is changing for the better, just very slowly.
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Requesting best book(s) on probability estimation: techniques, model accuracy, and strategies in applying them (e.g. markets, marketing, business operations)?
Even if you did not have your identity stolen yet, losses from the breach can be as simple as "I bought an identity monitoring service due to the breach happening." It says so on the settlement's website: https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/

"Time Spent during the Extended Claims Period recovering from fraud, identity theft, or other misuse of your personal information caused by the data breach"

In this case, the "misuse of [my] personal information" is the fact that it was leaked by Equifax to an unknown third party.

> If they can prove that the data never leaked,

I don't know how this would be possible, considering they announced that it did leak: "In September of 2017, Equifax announced it experienced a data breach"

Unless you mean, prove that the data has not been used yet. Which doesn't seem like a fair stipulation to the ~150 million impacted people. And it also doesn't seem possible to prove.
Equity is passive investment once you own it whether you remain employed or not. It's capital gains once you own the shares, not ordinary income. You can also include anyone you want in the cap table at formation, not just employees -- if you wanted, you could easily issue your advisory shares at that time.

Not to mention, at formation, you're more than welcome to pay market salaries to your founders, that's your perogative as a founder.
I was super against abortion so much so that I got charged with a felony that I got reduced to a misdemeanor. But hey, that's only because I have strong moral reservations about abortion.

Good luck trying to explain that to any Valley company hiring.
The point I was trying to make is how many people use phones or tablets instead of x86 PCs. Especially as the iPad becomes more powerful and flexible.
FWIW, Clojure doesn't cons every pair :)
Without true creativity AI generated music would always sound like someone that creates music without creativity
Trashing your credit score, with unfortunate consequences for your ability to buy a car, rent accommodation, apply for a mortgage, and avoid predatory debt collectors, sounds like a superbly practical debt management plan.

And if you have a job with decent money, obviously it wouldn't count as outright fraud at all.

But even that is missing the point. These loans are an economic time bomb. They rely entirely on a functioning economy with adequate middle class job opportunities.

If those disappear - if, for example, an unexpected black swan event happens to leaves a smoking crater where GDP growth used to be - banks lose a giant pile of money anyway.

The debt will be sold at cents to the dollar to collection agencies who will hound the victims, and anyone else who gets in the way by sharing an address, or having any form of financial connection - for the rest of their natural lives.
It doesn't ignore that at all, the whole point is to move the heat from the tiny CPU to a big radiator with a lot of surface area. Air is a terrible conductor of heat compared to water, which pales in comparison to metal, but even metal doesn't move heat as well as flowing water.
The secret way to beat depression
Making an OS for RISC-V in Rust: http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/
I don't think I understand your logic, could you expand on what you mean?
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Checkm8 is a tethered exploit, so probably not super useful if you want to sideload another OS and not have a bad time.
Coding in C++/WinRT (similaly, C++/CX) is in my experience a major mistake when targeting WinRT/UWP using C++. The primary use case for WinRT/UWP is making apps for the Microsoft Store, where most of the time you're going to be sharing code also targeting Google Play and the Apple Store given those markets are vastly larger (and have viable ad-platforms; Microsoft is shutting theirs down on June 1st).

The C++/WinRT and C++/CX language projections are incompatible with compilers that target Android and IOS due to WinRT reference specific syntax and keywords such as the '^' reference indicator.

As an alternative, it is possible to access all of the same WinRT/UWP platform functionality in pure C++ without the C++/WinRT syntactic sugar extensions, allowing you to cleanly abstract the WinRT/UWP platform APIs relative to Android and IOS. This is not well documented but by far a superior option for folks familiar with COM and Windows internals.

Furthermore, avoiding things like '^' reference operator syntax gives you tighter control over object lifetime as C++/WinRT and C++/CX hide to some degree the mechanics of COM object lifetime and gives a pseudo-environment much more like C# on .Net.

Microsoft does provide the WRL pure C++ template library, which is in many ways a spiritual successor to the ATL COM template library. WRL is in my experience the best way to interact with COM objects surrounding WinRT and UWP.

(Source: developer of several top 10 apps (at times) on Microsoft Store).

Glossary of Microsoft terms:

WinRT/UWP (WinRT (Windows Runtime) the old name used in Windows 8/8.1 for what later was renamed to UWP (Universal Windows Platform) in Windows 10). WinRT/UWP was originally intended to be an object-oriented replacement API for Win32 but hasn't lived up to its charter due to only being useful for Microsoft Store apps and being significantly less capable than Win32.

COM - Component Object Model; an object-oriented API style used by some Win32 APIs, this style was used near-exclusively as the basis for the WinRT APIs. COM can be unweildy to deal with so there are several C++ template libraries like WRL and ATL to make it easier.

C++/WinRT (and C++/CX) are Microsoft specific C++ extensions that require MSVC and hide the complexity of dealing with COM relative to WinRT/UWP APIs.
How do the authorities "win" when they demand backdoors for individual citizen's activities/devices but companies are expected to protect their activities at all cost and access can only be theoretically gotten through court order?
Windows 10 PowerToys v0.17 Adds Automatic Updates and More for Power Users
I'd much rather be tracked by Google than CPC
I don't recall seeing such an amazing response to a critic blogpost from a company, ever. This is another big +1 for Stripe on my book. I am not a paying customer (yet!) because of life but already want to throw money at them!
Good idea! We definitely need a pricing page to highlight the free forever plan.
> In contrast, Stripe collects also data from webpages that are not payment pages.

Like recaptcha, whether the Stripe code is included on a given page is solely up to the author of that page.

While I may tend to agree with OP's requests for increased transparency, that desire does not lend its support to other claims about how Stripe's code works. Putting it on every page is not required. Unless I am mistaken, putting it on every page is not even suggested by Stripe. Why anyone would put Stripe or any other third-party code on every page indiscriminately, without considering whether it was necessary, is beyond me.
You are correct, I was unaware of the German case! In fact, it seems that many European countries do have a credit score system. Some do have other systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score#Germany

Here are some countries within Europe who do not have a credit score system:

- Belgium has no centralised credit score system. However, banks can ask the Belgian counterpart of the FED for all loans held in your name when you request a new loan. The national bank keeps a register of all loans.

- United Kingdom: There is no such thing as a universal credit score or credit rating in the UK. Each lender will assess potential borrowers on their own criteria, and these algorithms are effectively trade secrets.
> Researchers in China and the US find that the virus that causes Covid-19 can destroy the T cells that are supposed to protect the body from harmful invaders

> One doctor said concern is growing in medical circles that effect could be similar to HIV

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3079443/coro...

Also, some of the evidence from https://project-evidence.github.io/ supports this idea, including this incredible quote from a paper associated with Wuhan virus researchers:

> Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as its receptor for cell entry. A group of SARS-like CoVs (SL-CoVs) has been identified in horseshoe bats...In this study, we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2 molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/
The url has space was username and password, pretty much from day one.
Thanks for reading!

>I in no way believe that Stripe had any intentions of doing anything wrong, however it is good to hold people accountable and ensure that what they do is above board. I have personal examples of companies caring very little about users data, except when they might be caught out for it.

Very much agree. I think Stripe is demonstrating responsible behavior here, and the best way to further encourage that is to show that people actually care what they do and will raise alarms when they overstep, even inadvertently.
Why would they go to all that trouble? Just
1. keep sending any and all data without any obfuscation
2. blanket denial of any wrong doing, regardless of how obvious
3. decent hardware for zero down on a contract

profit!!!

your way is so much more work...
Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Prog Lang?
Starting with PGMs would kill 99.9% of aspiring ML practitioners. Classes related to PGM at Stanford and MIT are considered to be some of the most difficult ones. I'd rather recommend to start with something they are enthusiastic about and once they become sufficiently advanced, to naturally learn (H)PGM.
I have a hard time telling if I admire your mindset more than your work or the opposite… :)
meh, just use plain cpus; see dpdk

https://fast.dpdk.org/doc/perf/DPDK_19_11_Intel_NIC_performa...
Is there a way to write and use your own allocator, or is it off limits to everyone outside the language design team?
Today's expert is tomorrow's outcast or loser.

Experts have a vested interest in protecting the prestige of the knowledge they are expert in. If an upstart comes along with information the obsoletes their ideas - just look at what happened to Galileo or any number of other people.

And note, that an expert doesn't even have to be wrong to be wrong. What I mean by this is that an expert in epidemiology may be completely correct from that point of view, but that viewpoint does not include all of the other fields of expertise that might be relevant when making decisions at a national level. Tunnel vision is a crazy thing, and causes normally smart people to do silly things.
What's your data integrity policy like? In particular, what's your privacy policy? What technical measures, if any, prevent misuse of uploaded data?
Off the top of my head here are three different offerings from Microsoft that enable cross cloud applications:
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-arc/
- https://dapr.io/
- https://keda.sh/
Except, for so many of us who have studied hard science, the idea of a career in quantitative finance is the exact analog of the purebred racehorse who breaks his leg on the track and gets taken out back for an acute brain-scrambling.
to be a little more explicit: there are ARM chips that are affected by meltdown.

People shit on Intel like it's their particular mistake, but POWER, ARM, and basically everyone's out-of-order cores except Ryzen were affected by Meltdown. It's some oddity of Ryzen's cache predictor that make it immune, basically everybody else was affected by it.
I wonder if constellations like Starlink will make these efforts superfluous? The extraordinary cost of broadband expansion in rural areas is due to building out the infrastructure which will never be directly profitable.

Satellites I assume don’t have the same problem. You add coverage at latitudes not zip codes. The military can fund the build-out and end up saving money overall because they are primary high-value users of a global network of this sort.

I think the biggest factor is getting user terminals cheap enough. There was an article today about the number of people who are wasting $150/year renting a cable modem. I wonder what the ASP of the terminals will be once production has scaled up?
My account was reset. I've been around since day two. :)

You're right, it has some downfalls. But a lot of the time it simply doesn't matter. All the links at https://www.tensorfork.com/tpus are dynamic, and the speed you gain by being able to whip up a feature in 10 minutes is worth the pain of an occasional dead link.

On the other hand, I did some work for "deduplicating fnids": http://arclanguage.com/item?id=20996 which the site is using, so the links possibly last much longer than the early-HN links.

(Basically, we calculate the fnid key based on the lexical environment, rather than using a random ID each time the page is loaded. So each link gets a unique ID based on the code structure rather than a random ID. Meaning, instead of millions of random links to store, you end up with a few tens of thousands.)
Covid-19: Equatorial Guinea acquires Madagascar’s herbal drug for ‘cure’
I suspect GP meant a tiny inventory.
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There is no "free market system" here. There's an organised debt slavery racket run for the benefit of parasitic rent-seekers who operate with federal sanction.

College loans have taken point on this for the aspiring middle classes. In a very literal sense this system is the exact opposite of genuine freedom and opportunity.
Looking forward for this as well. I've used Xara Extreme version 4 (released around 2008) couple of years after they have released Xara Extreme LX, and I've still got the CD with me. It's probably the fastest and the most intuitive graphics editor I've used. It seamlessly managed to integrate raster and vector graphics editing for the masses.
This. This is what we think about, constantly. How do we maintain the low to zero config teams ask for flexibility. We are a few apple engineers on the founding team (I'm not), and they really want to follow the approach set by Mac OS. Overall, Tara won't be for everyone, but it's a fine line between balancing the intuitive simple design and use case adjustments/workflows. Could be considered a matrix with several trade-offs.
I find the text a bit hard to read (and it seems at least one other commenter mentioned the compressed line-height).

What I do notice is that the site loads very fast (sub-1s w/ cache disabled via devtools to simulate first visit, and sub-50ms otherwise). That alone deserves big props.