skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss it in a nostalgic way too. Obviously we’re all >20 years older now and I don’t think I’d even have the time for it (I barely have time to read HN most days.) But yeah, the fact that most normal people online were doing it then meant you could really connect around shared interests. Nowadays, I assume if you’re talking to strangers you’re a weirdo or looking for something creepy because “A/S/L?” was creepy. Part of the reason I feel the internet is safer for kids these days, they’re only talking with real life friends for the most part or engaged in a voyeuristic behavior (celebs, influencers, etc)

FWIW, I have a couple friends like that. We bonded over some musical interests of our teens and occasionally check in on each other although most never met in real life. Maybe that’s still happening in game chat? But I can’t imagine something like yahoo chatrooms still exists.
refreshing to see a departure from something we take as entirely default - our system of time! A friend and I actually spent some time thinking about what life in metric time would look like a few years ago (https://yef.im/metric-time), so it's really cool to see it turned into a product that actualizes that way of thinking.
I simply don't understand how we managed to justify this patent and intellectual property mess in the capitalist system. Capitalism is all about competition and the right to choose the better product, whereas the current system encourages monopoly. I don't understand.
Are you talking about TCP over datacenter hardware Ethernet, or TCP over a software-defined network (potentially terminated on the same host)?
It's personality dependent. As in your actions have to align with your personality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_NEO_Personality_Invent...

Some people can. Some people cant. There are no general rules that work for everyone.
Only one of the justices (Sotomayor) regularly appeals to specific examples. The first amendment free speech clause would likely be the most effective argument, followed by the fifth and fourth amendments.
I don't think that's an effective counter argument. Sourcing journalism in the 21st century means living and working with 21st century technology. It's not reasonable or realistic to tell journalists to go back to using the mail if they don't like their communications being intercepted.
Not sure I agree with your examples but I think I get your gist.

Saving a little might not be worth the labor costs and risk differences between two solutions. Paying a bit more to contract out a class of problem could be the thing to do.

Though probably not in Zoom's particular case. If this were Patagonia, or Home Depot, sure. Pay someone else's IT nerds to deal with the problem. But Zoom is IT through and through. They better understand the low level details of how their stuff works, or when they get into trouble they won't even see it coming, and we will wonder very loudly why not.
Sorry about this. It seems to be a bug with angel list on mobile.
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Ah okay. Thanks for clarifying.
> It is not self aware

It's a bold move to encode that into law when we don't know if that woll hold true in some decades.
I do remember but I'd like to add that "some" means "less than one percent of German people who download Firefox from the main page".
Urbit was literally designed as feudalism. This is how Yarvin was discussing it in 2010, before multiple passes of bowdlerisation: https://github.com/mbrubeck/urbit/blob/1bc9086a3fd62594e8bd6...

3. Fort allocation - digital feudalism

Lords are only one class of fort. A fort is always an atom.
It is classified by the size of that atom:

>= 2^64, < 2^128 : wolf (wild fort)
>= 2^32, < 2^64 : pawn (civil fort)
>= 2^16, < 2^32 : lord (civil fort)
>= 2^8, < 2^16 : earl (civil fort)
>= 1, < 256 : duke (civil fort)
== 0 : pope (trivial fort)
As an NNT fan I knew about Universa long ago, and would have loved to have used it. Sadly however as a lowly "consumer" investor of normal means the minimum investment to gain access to funds of this kind is just astronomical. A serious tail risk hedge of NNT caliber that members of the unwashed like me could use would be a great thing.

And I lack the technical knowledge or patience to manually do all the necessary option trading to build this kind of tail risk hedge.

The Cambria Tail Risk ETF was my next option, and it did give some positive returns over the Coronavirus crash, but sadly nothing like 3600%, so it didn't do all that much good as a hedge. I assume this is because being an ETF it is liquid, and therefore the entire point of buying options ahead of time is defeated.

edit: grammar.
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As sad as this is, if after a few years of trying their best they [0] weren't more compelling than a website that removes image backgrounds [1] (just a random popular website I stumbled across the other day) then I hate to say it but they never had a chance to begin with.

I've seen obscure personal blogs with more traffic than they garnered.

I know they built a privacy first browser as well that probably had no affiliation whatsoever with alexa's data collection department, but if they were of any use at all they surely would have spilled over into non-privacy centric browsers.

Just look at duckduckgo [2]

tl;dr it wasn't covid that killed them off.

[0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cliqz.com

[1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/remove.bg

[2] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/duckduckgo.com
Inner tubes are like $1.50-$2 and with some commuter-friendly tough tires like Schwalbe Marathons or Conti Gator-skins you probably avoid most punctures to begin with. I would not recommend shoving a second inner tube in your tire, that will probably not seat well and may adversely affect handling.

Real tube patchkits are also very inexpensive, there's no reason to bodge something together with old tubes.
The company I work for (FoxyProxy) provides them with many servers — for their web crawlers (“the human web”) for their vpn app (called Lumen), and other projects.

We would be happy to provide them free of charge for several months, if that would help.
I’m from America, but I visited Copenhagen a few years ago and was amazed by how many bikes there were. On top of it, most bikes were parked with only a wheel lock and not chained to anything.
It’s like religion - one of the reasons they say Christianity won over Judaism is because they didn’t require one to circumcise before the initiation. Yet both are equally rejecting of any other religion.
Not over here. Belgium is the world taxation champion, but it has no capital gains tax on equities. As you can imagine, accumulating etfs are quite popular here...
OK, I see a little better where you're coming from now. Knowing that you have some expertise in this area puts your first comment in a different light.

For what it's worth, I did read your comment carefully. The reason I took exception (and reacted strongly, I fully admit) is that since the article addressed the bag thing, that makes it a red herring, so I would have expected you to filter it out of your list. Maybe that's overly rigid or overly literal of me, but that is why I reacted how I did.

This device definitely intends to be less than a full-featured ventilator. On the Pneumatics page (http://op-vent.stanford.edu/docs/pneumatics.html) it explains their goal is to produce kind of a stripped down "simple ventilator with the features needed to treat COVID-19".

So they believe it can be useful even though they know it lacks features. Whether they're right is certainly up for debate. They mention several optional features, which is interesting because maybe it means they're just trying to be flexible or maybe it means they don't really know what is the minimum necessary to have a net benefit (save more people than you kill) if we run out of full-featured ventilators.
There's very little money on the hardware space... plus if you're not charging an ongoing premium it may not be worth it.

What upsets me is seeing this hardware just become e-waste. I really dislike seeing perfectly functional hardware become unusable just because the company folds or something newer comes out. I ranted about the iphone 4 and how it's no longer possible to build software on that platform, especially since it's low power and could be used for any small project. My old Nexus 7 is still kicking (just slooow)
I was just thinking that Automattic should buy the domain and just point it to theirs. I guess it doesn't matter though, most people don't know what Automattic is, they know what Wordpress is.
Wow. This is hard to believe. Big-time Automatic user - have been for about 6 years. The crash-alert feature provides peace of mind in a somewhat older vehicle. If anyone else knows an alternative, please share!
Highlighting the potential issues for journalists makes sense, as there you can consider it an unconstitutional violation of the right to a free press.

Thiugh I feel it would also be a violation of a combination of the right to free speech and the Tenth Amendment, that line isn't as clear cut.
Great, so I suppose it's metastasized. How about the rest?
The feeling that the legacy press class would suffer under this legislation is probably a selling point of the bill, for much of the public.

Reminds me of my elementary school French language teachers, when I would ask them why somebody would want to learn French in Anglo Canada, and they say "you can get a government job!".

The core problem with this is that it concretely undermines the basic privacy of every American.
Good advice. I usually like to put the ticket number at the end just because it makes autocomplete a little easier.
The way it works is your software tools let you write the basic RV64GC code, and you use a bit of inline assembler for your custom instructions. Usually the custom part of the code is small and hidden behind a library.
Fear-mongering wins elections. It is a sound bite. "Senator Mark Warren thinks we should protect criminals who exploit children!!!!!" The general voter doesn't care about the rest of the details. People are afraid to be on the wrong side of it. If this doesn't pass, then even a single case is proof that we should have voted yes on EARN IT.
Because actual capitalism was co-opted a long time ago by large powerful corporations who don't like to lose and have the money to stifle human creativity and general societial progress by lobbying authorities to ensure they never lose.
true but for 98% of internet-protocolley things the network's gonna be the bottleneck, at least, IMO.
That's not quite true, they let go of multiple strong performers.
There’s definitely a shortage of doggerel in this field.
Emacs. Other than that, none really. The level of software popularity you're used to has long passed the Lisp family of languages.
Sure. If I'm overpaying to the tune of 3 FTE's salaries due to an overpriced vendor that's not very good, but I can rationalize it. I might even be able to make a story about productivity. It's not great but what's the opportunity cost of fixing it now?

If my traffic goes up by 10x and now I'm overpaying 30 FTE's worth of cash, I am going to have a hard time stomaching that fact, and now the opportunity cost situation is reversed. What could I do with another team?
Just the other day I was defending EM that he has the freedom to express himself. Today I deplore him for making the tweet that impact the stock price and hence financial well being of shareholders, without sufficient explanation. Why is the stock price too high? Or are you just kidding? How should we be interpreting this riddle?
If 'googol' is in the general public's lexicon now (doubtful) it certainly wasn't back then.
Everything past HTTP 1.1 has been a waste of time and energy.

Everyone involved in making these protocols (HTTPS/WebSocket/HTTP2/HTTP3/etc.) are just victims of:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair
If a potential source is too afraid to reach out, did that source even exist in the first place?
"TempleOS, but on the blockchain" is a succinct description, but makes Urbit sound too interesting.
The auto industry has been imploding in general. You were a fool if you longed TSLA. I didn’t and am very bearish on it.
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You may not find it reasonable, but you're responding to somebody reasoning it, an argument like this is actually pretty common at court. “it seems kinda crazy” is a losing argument.
haven't heard that term in ages :-) pretty much not since my first computer science lecture given by Wilfried Brauer :-D
Y's data is obviously the data and X's data is obviously the key. It doesn't matter if you can tell that just by looking at the data or just by looking at the key. What you can tell just by looking at the data is irrelevant, that is what I am saying.

> In fact, for any data block A, and random data X - there is a block Y that combines with X to produce A - any/all A, any/all X.

That is true with basically any encryption scheme, the only peculiarity here is that key and data are the same length (which is irrelevant to the legality of the situation anyway).
Yes, I'm hoping that the outcome of all this is a more open "work where you want" policy, with support for people to choose what they want.
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I use bluetoothctl and don't need to fiddle with any settings (anymore, don't remember having to make anything weird though)
You want to make a new ASIC for some application and you don't want the hassle and cost of having to negotiate a license with ARM. Recent RISC-V chips that I've seen have been used for machine learning for vision in cars, camera controllers, crypto co-processors, hard disk controllers, massively parallel co-processors (also for ML), GPU controller, "hard cores" embedded in FPGAs.
Did you have to pay Kyle for him to test your database?
For multiple rounds of XOR for encryption and a reused one-time-pad it would not be so hard to reproduce the files if needed.
The snake oil side of the industry supports an industry of honest people who need tools and data so they will be believed when they say the snake oil side doesn’t work.

If you ignore SEO, someone in your organization will eventually bring in snake oil SEO to fill the void. It is indeed amazing.
I think the real difference here is that pc has had morals and a moral biz model from the getgo. He doesn't have to try to half-apologize for something that is incredibly damning but essential to the business model. This instance was mostly just miscommunication, and he took quick, calm, and excellent steps to address the miscommunication.
Perhaps next time someone on HN is complaining about "yet another subscription" business, send them to this and 10k other posts as a reminder how good businesses die without proper revenue.
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Branches have names regardless of if they're public or not. Every branch name was determined somehow and having shared conventions for that somehow can enable better tooling, developer interoperation, and even just personal organization.
I can back this up. They were so concerned about anonymizing telemetry that they purchased reverse proxy servers from us, FoxyProxy, in order to anonymize the IP addresses and other info about the client sending the telemetry. There were at least 100 of them, maybe more, and they scrubbed headers and such IIRC.
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I'm not interested in this but ... if they had to pay millions in back taxes, something must have been going right, right?
Average life expectancy based on age and comorbidities of the people who die is around 10-13 years. That is not an insignificant lifetime reduction.

0.5%-2% of the people who get it, die. That is much worse than the flu that kills 0.04-0.1% of the infected. The flu itself is already pretty deadly and this is much deadlier.
That's one way to look at it.

Another way is if it takes a couple CPUs to run my application, a CPU or two to drive the storage, and a CPU to do TLS, why would I also spend a CPU on TCP if my network card already has one that does that?

That's a little bit like what programmers are talking about when they are talking about "multi-core programming", except those are general-purpose "cores", and (presumably) these "cores" can only handle doing TCP.
As a side note, I always found it annoying to use “feature/123” instead of “features/123“. Just like in REST APIs, the slash brings to mind a collection or a file system directory, both of which should be pluralized.
Thanks for the info, sorry about the outcome. I enjoyed having mine.
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Most startups rely on industry growth. If you have 100 drivers today and 110 tomorrow, you will have the climate for startups. If you have 100 drivers today, and 90 tomorrow, you only have room for the entrenched players.
Have fun in your HTTP 1.1 world.
> "Why does my typing on a keyboard in the office bring more "value" than when I type on a keyboard at home?"

the same reason why you sometimes have to call someone or talk with them in person instead of typing them a text.
The study says ~25% died and ~70% remained at the hospital, shouldn't we assume that a percentage of those will also die and raise the final mortality figure?
Bold claim. Let me guess: it's not gonna be backed up is it?
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Source for their own index?
No, I think this whole thing makes it impeccably clear which blocks are the data and which blocks are the encryption pad since all of that is in the URL.

There’s no philosophical argument here, in my opinion.
From what I understood, with ARDS, it was necessary to medically induce a coma/paralysis and, in order to have highest chances of survival, required staff to monitor and posture patients every 8 hours.

Even if ventilator supply was not a constraint, would there be other constraints caused by staffing that would limit effectiveness of ventilators?

Note: I am NOT a doctor or involved in health or medicine in any way. My source for this information is this MedCram lecture on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okg7uq_HrhQ
Your original comment is incorrect though, it did tank 10% immediately after his tweet, it was literally the catalyst.
i dunno, i found it pretty good for making a big 3d datavis- shameless plug: https://somestuffforyoutolookat.ml/pages/hourly_carbon_la.ht...
I visited the valley of the kings ten years ago. This is a really good recreation: before I went I had no idea how well preserved the paintings in some of the tombs were. It's an amazing place to visit.