skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another piece of USA infra that is just miles behind most western countries.

There are massive holes in most government institutions. You just need to encounter them.

Just one example from many of the Australian government failings:

You may receive a phonecall from Centrelink. It'll be from a private number, so there's no need to even spoof it. They ask for your date of birth, Centrelink ID and address to validate you, which just also happens to be everything you need to steal someone's account.

If you refuse to identify without them first identifying, or if you ask if you can call Centrelink directly to be reconnected, you'll find, you can't.

I received a call from Centrelink, in a week when I also received three other calls purporting to be from Centrelink. I can't tell you which one was the legitimate one, just that I was punished for refusing to communicate over the phone, and had my account closed.

(An account that it took the Minister of Health intervening on my behalf to open - Centrelink are incapable of assessing my illness, and thus my account always ends up in a limbo of processing, without me receiving benefits, whilst still being incapable of most work.)

Similar things exist with the Tax Office, the security puss that is mygov, and so on.

I've had similar stories from friends out of the UK and France. Governments don't know how to deal with situations where they cannot just say that they are the authority.
But AWS tells you to not overlap them, and likely keeps that behavior for legacy reasons.
But that overhead was largely marketing and they bundled discount prices into marketing expenses.
Feels like ordering food in this situation is too frivolous.

Rest assured, your neighborhood restaurants would beg to differ.
I can't decide if C++ has a grammar at all.

Please have a sense of humor.
Of all the "facts" flying around, this one is not only one of the most powerful by itself, but is also (even if it is in some way false) a great distilled example of all the unimaginably strong incentives pulling at the world right now, which I hope gives people an appreciation of how little they can actually know for sure.

Even with such a fact slapping you in the face, I mentioned this to someone and the response was basically "hospitals and doctors exist to help people, they would never take advantage of the system like that". There was no continuing the conversation from there. Who knows how reality works, but at the least we've had radically different life experiences if you don't think this could cause the case count to be pulled strongly in the upwards direction away from the actual number. And I'm sure there are other influences pulling it back down, so maybe all the forces are balancing themselves out.
> believe some outdated policy than the CEO's recent interview

One is an actual policy that the employees follow. The other is just a quote taken out of context. The interview wasn't about launching a new policy. Instead, the CEO mentioned what YouTube was already doing in passing in a broad-ranging interview and did so loosely.

It's really not that hard to understand. You're acting like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Been homeschooling my teenager for a few years. First year or two were huge learning experiences for all of us. It took a lot of work and prep and, among the adults, a bit of negotiation to cover the topics.

It would be tough to suddenly have to take on, or cover, someone else’s curriculum. Just understanding the requirements, time intervals, and external expectations can be a real challenge.
Cool page, that was a fun read!

I found this particularly interesting: Fulgurites are homologous to Lichtenberg figures, which are the branching patterns produced on surfaces of insulators during dielectric breakdown by high-voltage discharges, such as lightning.
Yes, and worse if the teachers die, since they're obviously at a higher risk of being in that extra 2-4% of deaths if schools do not close.
YouTube has the right to censor anything it likes. It's their platform. If you don't like it, don't use YouTube.
Market has never been wrong, bandwagoned or knee-jerked before.
I don't know if it kills off those things, so much as make things unpleasant for people possessing them. You can very well end up with those traits intact at the other end of a high school education, you just won't like it. Then thankfully, the format and contents of a college course tends to be a little more amenable to those types.
Copying the cheat sheet over for reference:

Find out what dependencies are missing with ldd <executable>.
If you don’t identify them, you can check if they are direct dependencies by running readelf -d <executable> | grep NEEDED.
Make sure the dependencies actually exist. Maybe you forgot to compile them or move them to a libs directory?
Find out where dependencies are searched by using LD_DEBUG=libs ldd <executable>.
If you need to add a directory to the search:
Ad-hoc: add the directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
Baked in the file: add the directory to the executable or shared library’s rpath or runpath by passing -Wl,-rpath,<dir> (for rpath) or -Wl,--enable-new-dtags,-rpath,<dir> (for runpath). Use $ORIGIN for paths relative to the executable.
If ldd shows that no dependencies are missing, see if your application has elevated privileges. If so, ldd might lie. See security concerns above.
Ask HN: Looking for early adopters / beta testers for a new bookmark app
Hello everyone

My name is Charles and I am building a bookmark app + browser extension. The app will be a bookmark service with the ability to store links as well as snippets and notes for your links. I am also building the chrome, Firefox and Safari extensions to allow adding notes, snippets and bookmarks easier

I am currently doing customer interviews and building a small list of early adopters. If you are interested please send me an email at charles@charlesthecoder.dev

Thank you!
Yes I wonder the same thing - I think about Apple and how many engineers they have which also seems crazy for their "output" in terms of product variations. Uber is on a whole nother level, at least from the perspective of the average consumer.
Tripadvisor lays off one-quarter of its total workforce
Amazon has to be in colos for their network infrastructure to interconnect with their peers (private peering and internet exchanges) and transit providers. Direct Connect also in there for similar reasons (to be closer to customers). This is all public information and peeringdb.com shows what locations they're in.
Is an online class with a diverse crowd a sufficient replacement for actually going out, interacting, and being next to people of various racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds?

Probably not, but like I said, that's not an option for them, so it's not a fair comparison. The local public schools would not provide significant interaction with or proximity to people or differing racial, ethnic, religious, or economic backgrounds. Is an online class better for that purpose than a public school classroom in Fairfax, Virginia? No, absolutely not. But they don't live in Fairfax, Virginia, or in New York, or in California, or anywhere else that's reasonably diverse.
Encoding servers, but not streaming servers.

The well-known US CDNs were used for streaming.

Also, the cloud they picked doesn't matter because:

1) They used their own ASG UI, Asgard, since AWS initially didn't have one.

2) With around 1,000 engineers, they could migrate clouds at any time at a future date (or build their own CDN. There was no silo politics as in most other companies.)
This would be a great voice processing effect for musicians. Want that Grunge Kurt Cobain sound to your vocal part? How about a Lennon?
Twenty, all in a single menu (I have set up no submenus), and all with a single word name in order that I can easily type it to use with a shell script that I use to launch the browser with loading a bookmark (the shell script uses SQLite to make a list of bookmarks if no name is given, as well as using SQLite to find the URL of the bookmark if the name is given). Occasionally I delete some, and occasionally I add some. I don't use the bookmark toolbar.
>First, parody is part of Fair Use, which means that it's an "affirmative defense": in a lawsuit, the burden is on the defendant to bring it up and prove it. That's in contrast to ordinary defenses or arguments around the facts asserted by the plaintiff, where it's up to the plaintiff to prove them to whatever the required standard of evidence is.

This is a misnomer.

Fair use is an authorized use, and consequently is “distinct from affirmative defenses where a use infringes a copyright, but there is no liability due to a valid excuse, e.g., misuse of a copyright.” Id. Lenz, 815 F.3d at 1152
HS student here. Our district made the decision to keep grades, or you can apply to drop distance learning if you meet certain circumstances. This is incredibly frustrating for me since 1) I can't slack off and work on my C++ projects ;) and 2) It's a ridiculous amount of work, and some teachers are not exactly being fair. Our school has the IB program, and I am in the "Precalculus" class before HL Math 1. The teacher is a bad teacher anyway in school, and yet out of school they are worse. We are given instruction in these obscure note packets that are basically a list of formulas. Every single time I need to solve the online problems we are given, I end up on Wikipedia, or Khan Academy... so why am I taking this class?

In other classes, the teachers don't seem to grok that we have other classes, and instead will give us one "trivial 1 hour" assignment a day.

I'm starting to feel burnt out, unlike during actual school which was manageable for me. I would rather we were given an assignment or two a week in each class, or shorter assignments each day. (Thankfully two of my teachers get this)

Also, google classroom can be frustrating if the teacher doesn't use it well. Let's say they post a couple announcements a day, along with assignments, and there was a project assigned on Monday. I have to go hunting to see if there was something. It gets buried in a big stack, and sometimes it will just up and surprise me on Friday when it pops up as "Due today". This I blame more on google than the teachers, since I think there should be a way to visually represent the assignments that isn't a twitter feed.
Fake News, Fake Money, and Living in a World Without Authority – A. Antonopoulos
but...waving hands vaguely, what about banks and "know your customer"? If it's possible to regulate them, why not Google?

Not making an airtight detailed argument, but I feel like you must be misguided because your tone suggests that a massive societal upheaval is necessary for the sort of controls we already take for granted in certain areas.
Philips heads strip unusually easily because the driver will fit, but then cam out damaging the drive, if you use the wrong driver size or too little pressure. Or if it's actually a JIS or Pozidriv, and you're using a Philips driver because you don't know better, or the proper sets are expensive, or the size and type you need is in the same place all your 10mm sockets are.

Most other drives don't have most of these problems. Even with the infamous Pentalobe, as long as you get the size right, it's pretty hard to screw up.
What bugs me is that you don't even need to use templates to run into syntax traps. Braced initialization is crazy and I don't understand it (having first touched C++ sometime in the 90's, done it professionally, and even writing in my own pidgin subset now)

https://twitter.com/timur_audio/status/1119160309573242880?l...

I can understand having crazy syntax for rare and exotic things. But variable initialization is not one of those things...
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By this logic, any language with metaprogramming is undecidable because you can write undecidable programs as a metaprogram. Execution is not the same as parsing.
Or maybe we just have the wrong teachers, who are unable to do anything but blindly follow lesson plans and structures designed for in person classes?
Realistically, you can't start testing everybody for every new cold or flu. People won't tolerate it.
This is why you need something like a price on carbon emissions to actually fix global warming. Who can keep track of all these factors creating emissions? Price signals propagating through the economy could fix this, whereas a programmers optimising their JS frameworks and runtime performance to account for their carbon emissions will never happen.
What's your argument for why it's security theater in the context of banks?

It would be an obvious self-serving thing to say, for anyone opposed to similar regulation in other industries, but is it true?

Saying a system isn't perfect isn't the same as saying it has little effect overall.

If the banking system wasn't well controlled, why would people complain so bitterly and frequently about the effect of sanctions?
I see your brother in law (way to draw grand conclusions based on a sample of one, btw), and raise you an article in nytimes, which might be, just might be, a bit better researched https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf...

The article isn’t recent, and I challenge you to find a more recent record that paints a less gloomy picture for him, but I doubt you’ll find it.

Alex Jones is a non-entity now compared to his heyday. Deplatforming works, your extended family notwithstanding.
Now would be the time to mention that he’s been donating to the synagogue for X years. If donations are too cold and abstract, then starting an organization that fights hate, or somehow getting involved seems doable. He is a wealthy person and had the resources for it.
What's truly new here is that they are letting people downloand the stuff for free (some restrictions apply).
In China the cloud provider pricing model is that you have a slider bar to select how many Mbps your instance can scale up (maxes at 100 to 200 Mbps). But that has more to do with controlling customers ability to burst whereas most other providers do the GB xferd. Some of the China provides have adopted the GB xferd recently, though.
Amazon launched and killed a video project several years before prime video
Answered in nearby comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23014548
True, he merely suggested it _could_ be injected.

> And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds—it sounds interesting to me.

But getting hung up on whether he gave a direct imperative to inject bleach, or merely floated it as something that could be worthwhile is a case of not seeing the wood for the trees.

It doesn't help that the Venn diagram of people who were already self-medicating (or worse, medicating their children) with bleach and people who support Trump probably has a significant intersection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/health/drinking-bleach-au...
Get to profitability. I’d treat 24 month runway as a 2nd step. Profitability would allow you to get better terms, so it’s worth working really hard in the next 2 months to get profitable. Then raise whatever you need. Investors can still smell weakness through a Zoom call.

Also, a candid perspective from Charles Hudson: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22985423
There's attorney client privilege the whole time. It does not require money to change hands or an explicit agreement of representation before kicking in (as some others have said).

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/does-the-attorney-cl...
There was a guy that tries to sort of bring it up when the doctor first starts talking about the New York numbers, but he doesn't do a very good job and the doctor just sort of claims that the sample bias doesn't matter because the sample size is large.
AFAICT, D requires the C++ types be exported, included any predefined template objects or functions. E.g. you can’t dynamically wrap `std::map<K,V>`, unless it’s already been instantiated in C++ library you’re linking. The same in Rust as well. See D Lang manual:

Note that all instantiations used in D code must be provided by linking to C++ object code or shared libraries containing the instantiations.

Whereas Nim is one of the few languageS that can dynamically wrap C++ template types into its type system. Maybe Zig can do it too? See Nim manual [2].

type StdMap {.importcpp: "std::map", header: "<map>".}[K, V] = object proc
...
var x: StdMap[cint, cdouble]
x[6] = 91.4
...
std::map<int, double> x;
x[6] = 91.4;

This makes it nice to wrap C++ libraries. :-)

1: https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html#cpp-templates
2: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#importcpp-pragma-impor...
Wasn't hubble basically just a repurposed spy satellite? We made lots of those.
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You have to do some clever accounting for it to relevant in some circumstances. Some data centers are entirely powered by hydroelectric power, and use of that power does not cause any carbon emissions.
Well, we're always happy to answer specific questions and there's no question we aren't willing to answer. In that sense we're pretty transparent. It's true that there's no facility that publishes a log of everything that happens, but that's for reasons I've discussed many times (and could probably dig up links to if you care).
I see this rebuttal all the time on HN and I'm not clear on if people realize it's a weak rebuttal or if they just don't care. So what if they're within their rights? Does that remove the public's ability to object or invalidate their criticisms? We'be lived long enough to see the role of social media in the arab spring, the #metoo movent, and #blacklivesmatter. It's no longer a defense for companies, especially the Megacorps, to be legally within their rights. If people feel like private corporations are undermining the spirit of freedom of speech principles then they should be encouraged to organize and voice their feelings in the same way that we encourage any other group to. If the internet were invented fifty years earlier would it have been ethically acceptable if them to censor civil rights activists for associating with a movement which was frequently accused of inciting violence and causing maybe? Would it have been ethically defensible when they silenced the LGBT movement for advocating against'family values'? I constantly see criticism of companies who cooperate with the intelligence community here, even though that too is something within their rights by definition, and yet when the the freedom of expression crowd comes around they get tested like they also must be secret racists and bigots because for some reason no other explanation makes acceptable sense.
Night Mode in Firefox for iOS (works on HN)
Elon seems to think the "docs make good points" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1254495050228260865
A large percentage of people want to be in the workforce and are not forced to be there.
Based on my own rock-bottom experience ( a very first-world rock-bottom problem ), I'd wouldn't identify them by some kind of 'objective measure of misery' litmus test. Instead I'd identify by saying, "a problem where my existing coping mechanisms no longer enable me to cope."

That's why some of these rock-bottom experiences can be great turns in life -- it forces you to do away with now-unhelpful coping strategies and find better ones.
RPC/gRPC are certainly possible use cases for the QUIC transport protocol. But no, we have not yet explored the use of QUIC in this context. For now we are focused on workloads that will benefit the most from the tail latency performance and security improvements that QUIC brings.
Certainly it would be necessary to ensure people are of sound mind and understand the risk they're taking. That said, if we're talking about young, healthy people volunteering, and given they will be monitored throughout the trial, I would guess their risk of death would be on the order of 1/1000, if not better. (Based on recent estimates of overall CFR on the order of 0.5% out of NYC and such.)

That's not a risk I personally would want to take, but it's on the order of the risk people take when donating a kidney. (And of course for most people the process will be much less arduous than a kidney donation.) We consider that acceptable to save a single life, whereas a faster vaccine would save many. So my prior would be that most people volunteering for something like this are simply altruistic, similar to a kidney donor, rather than mentally ill.
Agreed, but the entire usa non government retail banking system is behind Europe.
i bet Hitler never once forgot about the period of time between 1911-1915 when he was impoverished, unemployable and homeless.

it's funny how a cruel and exploitive economy tends to backfire when the one wrong guy is crushed by it, and then dedicates his life to overthrowing that economy.
"Overtly idealogical" doesn't have to mean falsehoods, it can also mean selecting only content that reinforces a specific narrative.
People will point out the handful of facts that have convinced them that the situation leans one way, without realizing there's likely a boatload of facts on both sides that are simply too numerous for any one person to gather and make sense of. This is fine, but when people start acting as if the evidence is settled, one way or another, I can't help but despair.
actually GDPR forces You to have option to delete all data and not just d8sable user
As far as I can tell, Searle's physicalism takes the form of regarding mind as a property of physical brains, analogously to how water has the wetting property.

It is certainly true that a purely digital model of a conscious brain could not perform any of the physical actions that a conscious person can do, such as actually move chess pieces, but the addition of actuators for such interventions in the physical world is not conceptually problematical, and clearly beside the point.

Talk of properties, without inquiring more deeply, was pilloried by Molière in a rather well-known comment:

"It is asked what the cause and reason are of opium's making one sleep.

"To which I respond: because there is in it a dormitive virtue whose nature it is to put the senses to sleep."

It also tends to give rise to positions such as a disbelief that iron ships could float, on the grounds that iron, unlike wood, lacks the buoyancy property. The generalized fallacy here lies in taking a lack of knowledge for proof that something is necessarily the case.

There is no need to feel bad about disagreeing wth Searle - he is not lacking in self-confidence, and I imagine he would laugh at the thought.
>What gives Google/YouTube the justification to silence them?

The fact that it is their platform.

>Fauci can defend himself,

Fauci is a 79 year old man busy working 20 hours a day trying to stop more people from dying, he doesn't have the time to debunk garbage on the internet.

Youtube is completely within their rights to remove dangerous disinformation from their platform and I hope they take an agressive stance going forward.
Thought You Couldn’t Ever Play Street Fighter V, Huh?
The fact that YouTube will remove any video for its content should concern everyone. It is especially bad because YouTube has effectively made public agencies like the WHO control what views and opinions are permissible when those same agencies have been late or wrong numerous times just during this coronavirus crisis. Reddit quarantining or banning various subreddits, Facebook deleting protest events, Medium censoring/deleting covid posts, are all signs of big tech becoming untrustworthy authoritarian rulers of a digital public square that only has a few at its helm.

We need decentralization, and we need it now. We need to also reconsider competition laws so this stale cartel of tech companies can be challenged.