skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel bad if Uber takes a bigger hit. Earlier, I loved the potential of Uber to make transportation better but it hasn't materialized (for me at least). I had an "animal farm" feeling about Uber when I was trying to find a ride from the airport around midnight. They would match me, then cancel the ride and then match me to a ride at a higher rate. This went on for an hour and I eventually paid the same as I was paying for a cab before. At least with a cab, I could have reached home quicker. So as a consumer, I lost in every way. Yes, I hate the cab drivers and their behaviors but Uber wasn't any better for my particular situation.

I have also had similar experiences with UberPool. I was charged extra because the route was longer. It wasn't worth for me to complain about $10 but I stopped using UberPool later.

I have tried food delivery a couple of times and the extra cost was so expensive that I just didn't feel like it was worth it. I get that they need to charge a certain amount for the service to be sustainable/profitable. I didn't find it to be worth it.

They also played a lot of games with the Amex Platinum credits. So I closed the Amex Platinum card as well. It was not worth playing the games to save $15 a month.
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Similar happened to friend a week ago, he sailed right in instead of the hour or more wait he expected.

Not giving details, but he turned out to be just fine.
So service contracts on any of those?
They have some nicely detailed docs! Thanks :)
24 hour urgent care would reduce the load on ERs.
I get the reasoning, but I don't see this applied to some platforms. Reddit and Discord allow you to both delete and edit older comments, and there's no limits on how far back you can go (so you can, if you wanted, edit or delete your entire history).

Under the GDPR a subject is allowed full erasure rights. If I say I want you to delete my content from x date to y date, or a particular post, or everything entirely then that shouldn't be an issue. A request may be bothersome, but that's what happens when you don't offer that functionality natively.

I noticed a few days back you didn't like it when a user made a new account, except with the internet these days and how everything is archived for all time, throwaway's are the only option. Building a comment history is extremely dangerous, especially when you might forget what details you may have posted or how meta-data can leak through (such as what subs you post in, any details you posted that could identify you etc).

You can't have it both ways: no to multiple accounts and also no to control over your data. I might have 50 accounts, dislike it? Give me proper control over my comments. (to be honest, it may just be worth making a new account for every comment for maximum privacy, it's extreme, but it's a viable option).

If I want to delete them, that's my choice to freely make. Your thoughts or concerns are not relevant to me, thankfully, the GDPR agrees.
I'm application architect at enterprise-type org. We have a few SaaS applications, but all the big dogs, including custom dev, run in-house on a dual data centre vmware environment. It's cheaper for us to spin up more VMs in-house, so there's no real cloud driver for things that just live on VMs. On the other hand, our ops team are still working on network segmentation and self-service, but I regularly get a standard VM provisioned in less than 20 mins. If we had to buy new data centres it might be different.

But the real reason we're not deeper in the cloud is that our business-types insist on turn of the century, server-based software from the usual big vendors, and all the things that integrate with them need to use 20th century integration patterns, so for us migrating to the cloud (in stages at least) would have drawbacks from all options without the benefits. It's only where we have cloud-native stuff that we can sneak in under the radar for stand-alone greenfields projects, or convince the business types that they can replace the Oracles and Peoplesofts with cloud-first alternatives will things really change.
Move slowly with unstable infra.
You beat me by a couple of minutes.
Dear Facebook: Please move slower and break fewer things.
Thank you very much.
> Then again, I guess a chip reader doesn't stop people from putting in a skimmer that just reads the card number as usual through the magstripe.

I'd imagine it would do though, as many chip readers only need you to insert your card far enough to read the chip, which isn't far enough to read the entire magnetic track and thus skim the track (am layman though)
Isn’t that 2010s issue? We have both challenger and old-school banks either running 100% in cloud (Monzo - kubernetes, microsevices, linkerd) to hybrid workloads
I don't think this analysis is correct. No one's going to offer a service if it's cheaper not to, yes. But if there's only one class of service, you have to make $X on each order to cover your fixed costs. If there are multiple classes, the cheapest class could end up being $(0.8X) and still allow you to make more money overall.
Great that's also not the point of the article, that heart attacks and strokes aren't being seen at the same rate.

Your point is orthogonal to the point of the article.
Most people don't have easy remote-ok-browse-hacker-news-at-4pm jobs.

They are at home, watching their debt grow and wondering how they will be able to find a new job to pay their bills.
> $700 24 core Xeons on eBay 2 years ago

Can you clarify? I don't think such a product exists as a single chip at that price point. The Threadripper 3960X costs $1400, and that released less than a year ago.

Edit: Looking up Intel chips on Wikipedia, I think you might be using 12-core/24-thread chips...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Xe...
And documentaries with titles such as The Power of Nightmares
> The political damage caused

Renters outnumber landlords. Easy peasy.
Why do cases matter? It should be the death rate that peaks, and that's measurable without testing. In fact it seems to be over-attributed since many deaths are now being classified to Covid even if there are many other factors.
Mindfulness.

Lately I've been reading/listening to Eckhart Tolle.

I'm a recently retired (IT Exec) and wish I'd have adopted some of these ideals earlier in life e.g. stop fretting over the future and dwelling on the past. Stay firmly routed in the moment and savour it.
I hope that this incident and the Zoom incident will motivate app developers to remove the Facebook SDK when possible.
:)

So, cryptographic login (i.e. consolidating login password and recovery passphrase) is a fairly challenging task, which is why we descoped it from E2EE-by-default. For instance, we need to make sure we don't break clients which don't want to do cryptographic login (e.g. Riot single-sign-on, or those who don't support E2EE). We also need to make sure that users can reset and rotate their passwords without losing their E2EE history. We'd also have to completely rewrite the registration/login process in Riot (again). We can't commit to timings on it, but based on the feedback from E2EE-by-default it'll be pretty high on the todo list.

TOFU is much easier, and hopefully we can sort it out as part of incremental fixes having now gone live. We almost snuck it in before release, but it'd have pushed things out even further. https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/12719 is the bug to follow here.

But yup, these will be the difference between today's 1.0 and an (even) better UX.
Even though I don't agree with this person, I think labeling what they said as "dangerous" is silly. Who exactly is in danger?
it will probably take time to propagate (edit: though i didn't expect this much time, still crashing!)
I love that speech. But I had the notion I shared well before encountering it :-).
wow, i sure feel dumb about this now! thank you, sibling commenters who actually know stuff :)
"fixed by public policy"

Public policy right now is to stay home or die of Covid 19. Many people are scared to even go outside or go to a hospital if they don't have the virus.

Starting to open businesses again and requiring social distancing would definitely help with the fear and more people would actually go to the hospital for non-covid health issues.
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Because people have been scared into thinking that hospitals are overrun and if they step outside, they're going to get the coronavirus and die.
> Still crashing 30 minutes after your revert. Are you sure you reverted the right thing?
That report says there was a drop of 0.2% in labor participation in March. That's not a lot.
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Russian propaganda agents actually infiltrated furry Tumblr pretty well; it seems to have been one of their more successful operations in terms of reaching a wide audience. It just didn't get so much media coverage, probably because (as you'd expect for an operation targeting Tumblr and furries) the political messages they used to weren't ones that fit the existing narrative about Russian interference.
So we’re just going to gloss over the 36 year Franco dictatorship?

During the 1800s most of europe was under some form of monarchy or dictatorial rule. Its not a relevant timeframe for this discussion.
Inkscape is amazing. I am using it for years now on all three major operating systems. I am a complete amateur as far as graphic design is concerned but I just used it to add a text to cartoon that designer did in...wait for it....Inkscape.

Very user friendly for easy tasks but I am struggling with more complex edits. But that is just because I never upgraded my knowledge since both Gimp and Inkscape provide everything I need.

Thumbs up to Inkscape from me!
I don't know if you are in on this, but...

https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/38-of-new-yorkers-a...
It seems to me like they're not trying to bring on-prem to the cloud, and that's very much the point.
We have mostly switched to, or are in the midst of switching to, the cloud.

Services that we will continue to run on-premises (as an exception to that rule) are some machine learning training clusters (where we need a constant, high-level amount of GPU and cloud provider pricing for GPU machines is very far off the mark of what you can build/run yourself) and some file shares for our production facilities where very large raster files are created, manipulated, sent to production equipment, and then shortly afterwards deleted.

Most everything else is going to the cloud (including most of our ML deployed model use cases).
Dropbox has outgrown AWS. I’m not sure it’s a good example.
Brazil using coronavirus to cover up assaults on Amazon, warn activists
Nah, we already did mainframes in the 1970s. Renting CPU time only makes sense if you don’t need CPU time or you like wasting money.
The most important thing to know about your tasks is WHY you need to do them. Connecting my TODO list items all the way to Maslow's categories of needs has resolved all of my task motivation, categorization and prioritization struggles.

Corollary, which you hear sometimes in investors' blog posts: not all problems are worth the effort, only valuable problems are.
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Nice post, good for a certain degree of "dissecting".

I assumed however that we'd be going all the way down to the bytes. I spent quite a long time with "A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER" as a close companion, though it looks like letsencrypt has created a friendlier intro: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/a-warm-welcome-to-asn1-and-der/

While it's relatively rare that you'll have to understand the encoding, it can be a lifesaver to have that skill if you're looking at some raw dump of of a cert (or other BER/DER encoded data).

I had a co-worker once who was famed for having a BER/DER decoder in his head. He'd look at a hex dump and point to a spot somewhere in the middle and declare something like "there's your problem: the cert signing bit isn't set in your key usage extension".
I would guess that approximately zero banks own data centers that are operated by their own employees. There might be a few exceptions to this, but the reality is that most banks don't view technology as part of their core business. So this largely gets outsourced to IT consulting firms like Infosys, IBM, Wipro, etc.

The big question is - how much do you trust these providers, and do you think they are more competent at security than Amazon/Google/Microsoft?
Not really. It's often "convenient" relative to all the places that aren't open, and they won't turn you away until they've assessed your situation.

What's wild is that we structure payment and regulatory models where a walk in at the ER costs more than a walk in at the urgent care located literally next door. Gotta self assess how serious the situation is if you don't wanna contribute to the high risk revenue pool.
I'm sure it will be a long road to practicality, but that it ionizes all of the air and drives it out is fascinating. Of course it also then requires strong electric drivers since it's basically driving the engine with the magnetron.

I can kind of imagine improved transistors and other technology making scaling the magnetron easier, hopefully all that work on fusion containment has helped us understand plasma better here too!
Github has had a built-in editor for almost a decade, you just had to click the Edit button in the file: https://github.blog/2011-04-26-forking-with-the-edit-button/ (the button has since changed look to a Pencil icon)

This is not to disparage you, just to note that it may not have such a great effect.
Fascinating blog post of yours, thanks for sharing it!
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So is crafting such an attack. Given that the attacks are obvious, and I haven't seen much word on defenses, the result seems inevitable.
I feel that both you and the commenter you've been arguing with are making mostly reasonable statements. I also think that for this particular industry you're probably part of the 20% of customers who cause 80% of the problems, and that this is why you're being booted from these platforms. Note that I have not made any statements about the ethics of the platforms' advertising.
even those two reason still make sense for car.
Saying this, as a HUGE Lakers fan, and almost as big an electronic music fan.

Kobe was incredible basketballer and story-teller, but his passing has no business here, there are plenty of places to remember him.

Florian was an engineer, a technologist, a hacker, a massive influence on many of us and how we approach our work. This is absolutely the right place to remember him.
Engage your core when doing any physical activity.

Might be the difference between success and injury.
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if you go to the ER, is it still the case you could up alone in the hospital without ever seeing a family member? and possibly die alone?

i wonder if a “bad death” is also a deterrent if you thought you were dying. or if emergencies don’t come with those kinds of calculations. not sure if/why covid calculation would be any more likely, though.
Depends on the person, their interest and the textbook. I've read a few college textbooks over the years in areas I'm interested in. Some, I just read specific sections/chapters. Others, the whole thing. I don't generally do the exercises unless I'm not comfortable that I've got the material down. I usually find out pretty quickly if that's the case, since I typically apply the knowledge shortly after reading.
Sure. But it's not about scalability.

This is about Walmart using the huge online grocery waiting times, and this service as a solution, in-order to educate wealthy shoppers to stop associating Walmart's low price with low quality , and stop looking at the Amazon app as the default way to shop.
True, its probably easier to collect rent indefinitely on websites rather than convince Microsoft/Google/Mozilla/Apple to change their browsers.
From my link in this thread:

> MUSC, a major stroke center, averaged 550 calls per month over the past four months about possible stroke patients from the 45 to 50 emergency rooms that refer patients. But it has seen just 100 in the first half of April, said Alex Spiotta, director of neurovascular surgery.

This is not just happening at ERs, this is happening at the places ERs will refer you to, usually after checking whether you do in fact need immediate care.
Why is facebook spyware part of Spotify. I signed up to Spotify via email not facebook login.
There's a reason why it used to be that only landowners could vote. The powerful typically owned land and they knew if non-landowners could vote, they would outvote the landowners.

When the right to vote became available to everyone/most people, the landowners shifted to using their wealth in order to influence government/politics in their favor. This has worked out well for them, since as a general rule people either are too naive or politically apathetic to come together to outvote the landowners. Despite being grounded into dust by them, the common person still feel that they have much to lose by going against them. This reminds me of a fictional gambling game from an anime I've watched called E Card.

"The game is starts with each player holding five cards, four of which are Citizens and the last being either a Slave or an Emperor. Who holds which card is decided beforehand, and is played like that for three turns before switching. The game lasts for a total of twelve turns, meaning each side gets to play Emperor twice. The players choose one card from their hand (Emperor side lays first) and place them face-down on the table. They are then flipped over to reveal the winner of the match.

The three card types are Citizen, Emperor and Slave.

The Citizen card represents the common man, and cannot defeat the Emperor who sits at the top. It can, however, defeat the Slave, who resides at the very bottom of the system. Two citizen against each other results in a tie.

The Emperor represents the one at the top of society. This card can defeat the citizen, but will lose to the Slave.

The Slave is presented as the one at the very bottom of society. Seeing as how it has nothing to lose, it can overthrow the Emperor in one last attempt at revenge. This card will lose to a Citizen, but will win against the Emperor card."

My thought is that we have a large population of people who have been fooled into thinking they are the Citizen, when they are little more than Slaves. They believe that they are different, more than Slaves. So they have something to lose. Thus they can never go against the Emperor, and in fact, play their role as the Citizen in keeping down the actual Slaves who could do something about that Emperor if they actually got together.

Now do I think people will wake up and realize they are the Slave? Probably not, but there's a non-zero chance, depending on how the government decides to act during this crisis. Most likely though, the Citizens are going to be given some scraps, just enough that they have something to lose and keeps them under the illusion that they are more than a Slave.
Since the late 70s consumption growth has outpaced productivity growth. The gap was plugged with debt. You cannot roll that debt over forever, even if you are Jerome Powell.

The older people who hector young graduates about paying back their student loans are precisely the people who voted for deficits with no intention of ever paying off the debt.
Seems like a pretty subtle and non-acute thing. Maybe even analogous to smoking: something that gradually erodes your health, not something that suddenly kills you.
> But it's not a hint to the compiler. It's stating a fact to the compiler. It'll stop compilation.

So, if I type out that something's a Banana, and the compiler stops and tells me it's actually an Apple, why did I need to type anything?

> Did the other languages (C++, C#, Java) get it wrong?

I can only speak for Java, but here goes. Here's something that compiles without warning and crashes at runtime:

Fruit[] basket = new Apple[] { new Apple(), new Apple() };
basket[0] = new Apple();
basket[1] = new Banana(); // Crash here

You and I know Dung doesn't belong in a basket, but Java sure doesn't. It will not warn about me comparing Fruit to Dung, nor is there a way to ask the compiler to warn me that I forgot to handle Banana:

void handleFruit(Fruit fruit) {
if (fruit instanceof Apple) {
System.out.println("Apple");
} else if (fruit instanceof Dung) {
System.out.println("Dung");
}
}

Here's another one:

void foo() {
Fruit[] basket = new Apple[] { new Apple(), new Apple() };
handleFruit(basket[0]);
handleFruit(new Apple();
}

void handleFruit(Fruit fruit) {
System.out.println("Do I get called?";
}

void handleFruit(Apple apple) {
System.out.println("Or do I?";
}

In the first code sample we established that the basket could only contain Apples, but now when you handle something from the basket, it's apparently any Fruit.
And when you handleFruit an Apple, there's no warning that the compiler is making a choice between the two acceptable handleFruit functions.

Anyway, just like me, this Bucket<Dung> is full of shit. Time to dump it all out. I could put it in the compost, or in the veggie garden. Anywhere that contains Dung. Likewise, the Fruit could go in a Bowl, or a Cupboard.

Here's a first pass at it:

interface Transfer<F, T> {
void dump(F from, T to);
}

class FertiliseGarden implements Transfer<Bucket, Garden> {
public void dump(Bucket from, Garden to) {
}
}

class PutAwayFruit implements Transfer<Basket, Cupboard> {
public void dump(Basket from, Cupboard to) {
}
}

It compiles, but it's missing the only safety check I really cared about - the contents must match (even if the containers vary!) Let's introduce another type variable X to assert this:

interface Transfer<F, T, X> {
void dump(F<X> from, T<X> to);
}

Now it asserts what I want it to assert, but it doesn't compile.

I can't call how Java handles the above stuff as 'wrong', since that's stating it too objectively. I can only say I disagree with the above design decisions (if they were deliberate) or I find fault with them (if they just turned out that way).
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We own infra because we need to own and control it and also because it's just vastly cheaper at the scale we use.

Besides, we do have things like our own S3, k8s and other cloud-ish utilities running so we do not miss out that much, I guess.
Really happy to see this. I once wrongfully (and stupidly) assumed that my authenticator codes would be saved by Android backup, and lost all of them. I was able to regain access to almost everything, but there's one account I'm now locked out of forever.
Can you share what issues you've had?

Been looking at this.
Yes. Three major reasons:

- Cost. It's vastly cheaper to run your own infra (like, 10-100x -- really!). The reason to run in cloud is not to save money, it's to shift from capex to opex and artificially couple client acquisition to expenditure in a way that juices your sheets for VCs.

- Principle. You can't do business in the cloud without paying people who also work to assemble lists of citizens to hand over to fascist governments.

- Control. Cloud providers will happily turn your systems off if asked by the government, a higher-up VP, or a sufficiently large partner.

EDIT: I should add. Cloud is great for something -- moving very fast with minimal staffing. That said, unless you get large enough to renegotiate you will get wedged into a cost deadend where your costs would be vastly reduced by going in-house, but you cannot afford to do so in the short term. Particularly for the HN audience, take care to notice who your accelerator is directing you to use for cloud services -- they are typically co-invested.