skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if profit is removed technology will still remain and shackle producers to production lines for the benefit of others by stripping away the autonomy of every individual though.

I don't think it's just "profit" that's the problem.
Unicode search is not searching for byte equivalents. Unicode characters can be composed in different ways, with different bytes. What you see is a á but internally it can be composed of different bytes. the single a with accent or with a mark, a plus accent.

Unicode search needs do be optimized to normalize characters, and similar problems exist for case folding, grep -i

These problems are also security relevant btw. Many unicode strings are now identifiers, like names or file paths. that the stdlib still provides no functions to search and compare strings is a much bigger beef. grep is just a symptom of a much bigger problem
It's 100% reproducible. Just check out the previous to last commit on master on the github repo I linked to and run the tool with any command that invokes the nsi crate.

Eg.:

> rdla dump foo.nsi

should produce the segfault before exiting the process.

Is there a jemallocator ticked where to attach a report for this?
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Parent said relative to the rest of the world. Is that also false? You referenced inflation only
Just like any other cryptocurrency: you lose your keys, you lose your coins, end of story. That's one of the many reasons crypto is utterly worthless.
If all countries had early community spread, then our knowledge of when death rates "should" measurably increase would be similarly delayed.
Free at walmart's expense (with some refund from the government for products already in stock- and walmarts doesn't have to pay wages or rents either) but new orders towards the supply chain are also free. I understand it's almost ceertainly unfeasible, but the rationale is preventing a situation in which labour and small businesses are bled dry while capital (from rents, etc.) keeps accumulating. Costs should be distributed as evenly as possible across society.
hahahaha, that's beautiful.
I think this is a natural reaction to advice being over prescribed and totally agree that in your free time you should do whatever it is you want and this is solid advice.

BUT I think we should also acknowledge that everything that slows you down in your free time has a reason for existing and most of that is communication or knowledge sharing within a team. Naming conventions, unit tests, and general documentation all exist to help other team members keep up with the pace of changes in the repository. If you're not planning to do something in a team setting or for this to be consumed outside of the work that you do then you don't need these things. But if you want to share with everyone else it's important that you don't totally ignore these things because it will come back to bite you in the long run.
These issues arise when the culture the company portrays to employees and public doesnt align with actual culture. For companies that align their portrayed culture to employees with actual culture its not really an issue as quiting over a non missalignment is quiting for personal reasons. That said there is still behaviour public wont like even if it aligns with company culture (Uber). Quiting over that would still have affect in the court of public opinnion (vindictive behaviour, sexual abuse etc).

For local hot button issues the best a company can do is act locally on those issues and in line with local law and legislation. But what really matters to a global company is what its global potential client base thinks and this will trump local issues if they cant be accomadated.
Or, years before, NFS: the NFS permissions model trusts the client and server implicitly. In many environments, that meant that getting root[1] on any system quickly cascaded across all of them if you could write to, say, someone's shell profile, SSH keys, or a shared binary in a common location — which was not uncommon at all when people were trying to conserve storage costs by only installing things in one place. No suid, nodev, and the various options for preventing uid=0 access were all attempts to bandaid around the lack of a better authentication option until people started switching to Kerberos.

1. Or, if they didn't require trusted ports, any account at all using https://github.com/NetDirect/nfsshell
On the other hand, if I remember rightly some researchers tested a whole bunch of people who thought they had Corona-like symptoms in that time period using antibody tests, and didn't find a single case.
>shackle producers to production lines for the benefit of others

so, for profit?
Are we sure this isn't a false positive?
I have been beating this drum for a while. I feel like I'm shouting aliens. The CFR for sixty plus is staggering. Below sixty? Still crappy, but not shut down the world. Below twenty? We wouldn't even notice.

The problem is not whether this is more or less scary than the flu (or anything else), it is both. With no solutions aimed at buffering nursing homes/elderly.

Am I just insane? This narrative seems completely absent in all of the coverage.
Yeah there are three other flus going around. Folks forget that.
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Someone reading this thread would wonder how Apple is still in business.
> the real achievement of the 21st century?

Depends on how you look at it. It could be the achievement of powered, controlled flight. The Wright Bros invented the process of a directed research and development program, consisting of a series of prototypes each designed to solve a particular problem, and then combining them all into a successful solution.

The Apollo moon shot adhered to exactly this process.

It works so well it's part of the common wisdom and people overlook how revolutionary it is. Before the Wrights, people tried to develop the end solution all in one go.
I can’t imagine another outcome from working in this industry other than disillusionment. That is the only reaction that makes sense to me.

After a while, you realize “well, this is about the best I can do”, and you get actual fulfillment from other parts of your life- I think this is ultimately healthy. I don’t want to be overidentified with my employer, I just want to do my job and focus on the rest of my life.

The industry is good for a paycheck and that’s about it- all the “changing the world” stuff, pheeeeuuw.
> it's not about whether people actually like net neutrality, they clearly don't.

I disagree with you here, those who are informed are are for net neutrality, not against it.

No one wants ISP (or in fact anyone) deciding what sites they can visit or not.
Interesting, why not hand pick the questions?
Personally, I believe democracy is a lie unless people are well educated. People are so easy to be manipulated by media nowadays. Education can teach people how to think, how to question things, how to justify themselves.
> the job of your security team is to strike a balance that is better than that.

There are two ways to strike a balance. A cooperative way, and a competitive way. A cooperative way is when all sides get together and hammer out an optimal solution, and then implement it in agreement. A competitive way is when everyone pushes to maximize their interest, and through the fighting, an equilibrium establishes itself[0].

I think GP is complaining about security teams that approach their job in a competitive manner, instead of a cooperative one.

--

[0] - You'll note that this is how competitive markets work; this both makes them a robust decision-making mechanism, and an incredibly wasteful one.
Kubernetes The Hard Way on Azure is optimized for learning, which means taking a not so long route to ensure you understand each task required to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster. The original long route is shortened with the help of Terraform and Bash shell scripts for semi automated deployment steps (fun for learning) and also fully automated end to end deployment along with scaling of Kubernetes cluster on Azure.
CloudFront or Cloudflare?
This makes a lot of sense, actually. Definitely great for learning.

You could do it the way Duolingo does it - on desktop, it allows for "Hard Mode", where it lets you type the responses freely. On mobile however, it doesn't let you do that (unless you're using the app).
Debian's tech committee had their infamous vote about the default init system for Jessie in February 2014. Earlier, in October 2013, Josselin Mouette, a GNOME packager for Debian, wrote this:

"GNOME in jessie will need systemd as the init system to work with all its features, just like it needs the network configuration to be handled by NetworkManager."
You can read more than one book at a time. Just keep track where you are with a post-it note. It's OKAY.

Take notes online or offline or both. Just write down what you learned in prose and store it in plain text files. Don't worry about organizing it, you can always add a full-text search later (if you wanted everything to be interlinked, google "Sublime Zettelkasten").

Knowledge sticks best if you get practical and use it, too, e.g. by writing some code. But the day has only 24 hours, so you won't be able to try out everything in practice. It's OKAY.

There's no need to finish one thing before starting the next one, but you ought to keep moving forward at least a little bit with each book that you are pursuing, or you'll end up having 25 books with only one chapter read.
This is NOT okay, but don't worry - if you notice it, just prevent yourself from letting yourself start a new book as long as k are still unfinished. Don't worry about buying more books than you can read. Always good to have a personal library of good books in case there's a lockdown e.g. due to a pandemic, and it's OKAY to postpone reading them until you have finished the one you are working on right now.

It's a great idea to have a project, and to learn all those things that your project needs (= that you need to complete your project to your satisfaction). This is useful because it delineates what to read/try/master/experiment and where to stop. If you work as a developer or scientist, you normally have one or more projects given to you or self-selected, and focusing on these keeps you grounded and avoids you getting lost.
Having a project means you do not just CONSUME knowledge but that you will also PRODUCE something, which gives you fulfilment.

YouTube is a useful supplement and it may speed up your learning, but note that there is a lot of overlap both in books and online. Focusing on one book per topic gives you a sense of where you are (x% complete), which may be helpful for orientation and self-motivation, too. It's OKAY to supplement with additional reading and videos, but I'd suggest stick to one text book as your master source to have that orientation.

Having access to a group of students, e.g. at a university (research group, reading group) or meet-up, is also very helpful to stay motivated. Nothing stops you from forming your own if there isn't one for the topics you care about. Nowadays it could be virtual, too. People in groups can learn based on personal study and then congregate to discuss or they can teach each other different sub-parts of the materials that the group attempts to master.

Best of luck!
I just checked their block explorer[1] and it looks like 98% of the passports are Chinese.

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I despise oauth2 reauthentication requests in a mail client. It's insanely annoying.
You can't post like this to HN without evidence, because the vast majority of such accusations are pure imagination. I know that because I've spent countless hours over many years poring over data on this. There is lots of previous explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for anyone who wants it.

HN has millions of users on all sides of every major ideological divide. When a community is that large and divided, the appearance of a comment you don't like is evidence of nothing more than that the topic is divisive. To go beyond that in terms of accusing or suspecting others, you need something more to go on, and if you have that, you should be sending it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. You should not be tossing internet dross like these one-liners into the threads.

Generally speaking (not picking on you personally), when it comes to internet tropes about things like astroturfing, "pretty obviously" macroexpands to "entirely in my imagination", since if the users who post such accusations actually had anything to go on, they would be the first to mention it.

All this has been in the site guidelines for quite a while. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? Note this one: Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.

Notes for the troubled: (1) I'm not posting this because I love Amazon, hate warehouse workers, or for any ideological reason; it is routine HN moderation and the other side gets it just as well; (2) I'm not saying astroturfing doesn't exist—I'm saying we have to look at it with facts, not just loyalties. Running into comments that offend our loyalties is something we all experience on the internet, especially on a non-siloed (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) site like HN, where people can't self-isolate among the like-minded. There's a strong tendency to defend ourselves against the painful experience of the offensive by accusing the other party of being an abuser, a manipulator, a foreign agent. All sides do this, but it's fatal to the curious conversation that HN exists for, so we all need to coax ourselves out of it.
Sounds more like disillusionment with our quasi-free-market. In reality it's nothing but strongmen and subterfuge, and I fear America will ultimately lose whatever competitive edge it had left due to this.
Two specific points of note:

- This is the first year the audio reporting category is being awarded; This American Life seems like a perfect inaugural winner.

- Colson Whitehead (Fiction) also won in the same category in 2017.
Multiple versions of macOS. And Windows. And possibly other less known systems.

Besides, why would a discerning engineer put up with magit creating all these wasteful processes knowing that most of them are redundant, regardless of performance feel? If I was a magit developer, I would surely try to fix this.
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Thats exactly what i did while working on dreaded big data. Got myself a microcontroller, implemented a small arm console and write fucking low level C code optimized the heck of cpu cycles for tiny games, no code reuse, no interfaced, no deadlines, no refacto, no security, no network, no politics. Barely version control (with appropriate "update" commit messages). Kept me sane while doing those things at work.
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Really nice work. I had a lot of fun in that. Others have already mentioned the Backspace = page back issue where you could easily lose progress, but I played all the way through :) No need to purchase however as I already know SQL quite well. But really well done.
Certain OSes, one of them being SGI IRIX 5.x, used to ship with X security disabled. This meant your display was completely open to the world, the equivalent of running "xhost +"

In the 90's, firewalls were uncommon, so literally anyone on the Internet could sniff your keyboard or pop up windows on your display. Or, better yet, xmelt it.

This resulted in LOTS of mayhem.
I realize the appeal of it: it's just complicated enough it makes normal people think there's something to it. It's just full enough of tough technical challenges engineers have something to bite into. It's just futuristic enough to make everyone believe it's the future. And it's just ancap enough to inspire those fearful of the government and the world. Then it made a handful of people wealthy and inspired fomo.

But at the end of the day it's just a negative-sum solution in search of a problem, riddled with holes big enough to drive a dump truck through, wasting the world's resources, likely created by a Bond-villain-esque racist narcotics trafficker to move his money around [1]. And all the "pricing" of every single coin is controlled by a giant fraud perpetrated by Bitfinex and Tether that bagholders are intrinsically disincentivized from exposing -- all to avoid anti-money laundering / AML/KYC regulations.

It's twelve years of solution in search of problem, with nothing legal to show for it. Except Sia, I guess, I dunno, that's what some people have told me, but that still seems better solved by AWS to me.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...
When his run at the FCC ends I think history will remember Pai as the big telco tool that he is. His leadership (sic) at the FCC has been appalling. I can’t wait for him to be gone so that, hopefully, the damage can be repaired by someone else.
I've seen a lot of people claim this. But it reminds me of what was said about the Falcon Heavy before its development got underway. That rocket turned out to be much more challenging than expected, despite being "just" an iteration on Falcon 9.[1]

That said, I watch progress on Starship with interest and optimism.

[1]https://www.defensedaily.com/developing-falcon-heavy-rocket-...
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That doesn't address the the question. We have seen a significant increase in deaths that correlates with our best understanding of when widespread community spread started. If it was "actually" circulating earlier than that, why did the deaths lag significantly?
Stop lying
I've been wondering about the UK contact tracing app because they seem to be deliberately misleading saying that data is secure on the phone, yet it's a centralised model, and they are using bullshit terms like "clinically secure algorithm" to describe the one-time codes;

Is the source code of these apps something that could be FOI requested from NHSx seeing as it is publicly funded by the tax payer?

Also they've already started moving the goal posts;
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/04/uk_covid_app_human_...

This* came from NCSC - that image about the NHS version worries me greatly.

* https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/security-behind-nhs-contac...
Get the Air then. More than plenty horsepower for regular office work, even thinner and lighter and quite a bit cheaper and prettier (do they still have the gold one? I wish they'd offer that on the Pros...)
If someone buys a Pro for some Excel and web browsing, I'd imagine those $200-300 didn't break the bank. People sometimes get one even though the Air would have been fine precisely because of the Touchbar (says my little bit of anecdata.)
Besides, I guess the Touchbar would be especially neat exactly for those people who never use Spotlight, because it's extremely discoverable. With Spotlight, you either need to know it's there, or discover it on your own (which is going to be hard); it's similar with keyboard shortcuts. Tap "Search" on the Touchbar? Way easier. You don't need to be good with computers to find out how to do that.
Is it a wake up call?

You can clearly see from the comments that many people here are still very much on the "but they're employees ... why would they have any rights? if they complain just crush them into paste to oil the machines" camp.

The occasional high profile person quitting one of the big tech companies because of their constant illegal employee/whistleblower abuse happens regularly at this point. Is Tim Bray's particularly different in some way I'm not seeing?
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. We both got really sick in January. We had a few of the symptoms that could be just a regular flu. My wife had one symptom that stood out the most was while she was sick, she lost her sense of taste. Not just lessened, but gone.

Oh and also from KC.
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Does anyone know if there is currently a source, or if there would be a way to calculate in retrospect, outbreaks in nursing homes? There are hundreds of nursing homes where a sizable portion of the community died in a couple of weeks which is very abnormal.

The only reason I'm confused about stories like the one above or the few about Covid-19 in California in January is that wouldn't we see such data inevitably?

A lot of people have stories about getting the worst sickness of their life in February which I understand but am also skeptical of (with bias probably 10% of the population gets a self-described worst flu of their life every year and Bayesian thinking would suggest almost none of these were Covid). However, it seems like nursing home data would be concrete.
It could also be a different strain that was spreading before it mutated into the more deadly and viral version. The virus spread is weird we can get a super spreader that can spread to 60-70 people like the church in Korea. At the same time I know personally of a family of 8 where 1 person got it had it for almost a week before getting tested positive and then sent to quarantine none of the other family members was infected.
I too would be interested in interesting static code analyses (that are beyond linting).
And I think it's important to realize that this is all under a managerialist culture, where companies construct internal class distinctions. It's pretty obvious from history that a significant fraction of humanity really likes to have people to look down on, to control, to mistreat. To feel better than.
Most employees are not executives.