skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "attacker has a private key" is an unreasonable threat model to protect against, not least because the key is so much harder to crack than port knocking. The benefit to port knocking is against information disclosure ("this server is running Apache httpd version x.y and sshd version z"), brute force, noisy logs, and pre-auth vulnerabilities (things like heartbleed and shellshock). While in theory I suppose wireguard could be affected by pre-auth vulnerabilities and maybe a completely blind bruteforce attack, it's a listening UDP port that doesn't respond until it sees valid credentials, so it's completely invisible to an attacker.
How has nobody figured out Apple’s 2010s trackpad technology?

I think because the focus is so much on the trackpad technology itself, which may be a misplaced focus. My fear is that the solution may involve rearchitecting the entire application-GUI stack to get it working on Linux. Why? Because Apple's trackpad is not a mouse emulator, it's a first class input device all the way up to the application. Trying to make the driver really smart is fruitless if you throw out all of that rich information and try to reduce the inputs down to what a mouse is capable of.
If you thought “A Modest Proposal” sounded pretty fantastic, you must have read a different essay by that title than I did. And saying that communism sounds good in theory is also a pretty superficial reading of Marx and others.
> power would concentrate and it would start putting pressure on the state

The state itself is a concentration of power. Industry wants to co-opt it for that very reason.
Any screenshots for people who don't use Facebook anymore?
Yeah, but the IG founders didn't want to put ads on the product at all. It was not a sustainable business while in their control.
> If Go's paradigm is considered OO then what would you consider non OO?

Classic, pre-object Pascal. C.
Very little new in the last few decades, because OOP is a very influential paradigm.
Yes, this was a central point addressed in the article
Ironic. Back in the days when IE was king, we thought that all that's needed for a truly open web is open standards. Now Google has demonstrated how you can have open standards, but still create and maintain a monoculture around them, simply by evolving them so fast that any competition can't keep up.
Is there link to code anywhere?
Because clicking on a link is different from reading a poster. I think we just have to agree to disagree.
Yes. The filibuster is allowed to exist because of a mutual consensus to reserve it for contentious issues, and not to simply filibuster 100% of the time. Republicans broke the disarmament agreement by filibustering (essentially) the entire appointment process, so the Democrats re-armed. It just goes to show how important norms and not breaking them are to the functioning of society. If you insist on living by the letter of the law in contravention of the spirit, expect the law to change.
If our patent system didn't exist, the drug would have never been developed in the first place.
Yeah that could be it. But in that case what's the big deal? The data is a messy bump on a log, the fit is a smooth bump on a log. That kind of fit is useless for prediction, but they say so explicitly.
They even have a ~~missing features~~ comparison page:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7638428?hl=en
What’s the best resource to learn Swift? Should I grab a Bluetooth keyboard and go through Swift Playgrounds on iPad? Or is that more for children brand new to programming?
No OP, and I don't know much about game development, but "without any change at all" is too strong. SDL only does so much, and you still need platform-specific APIs for file access, networking (if applicable), threading, etc. So you'll still need platform-specific code until someone writes those abstractions in Swift.
Just for Kids – Rugs That Rock Their World Around the Clock
Tested thoroughly on threads and the front-page, some notes:

Upvote arrows blend with white instead of transparent, giving a weird look.

The orange goes well with black.

Not all users might want #000, but for OLEDs it's gorgeous.

The @media selector requires a OS/Browser support, to extend that a simple way is programatically add a .dark class to <body> (edit: based on a checkbox in their profile), and add selectors with .dark.

Some colours on the site are hardcoded, like the orange asterisk on your own comments, and newbie green. They both go fine with #000 imo.

Edit: tested on the other pages, looks good imo. Login/logout don't have CSS, which'd be a bit jarring.

It's a bit sad there's no distinction between the #hnmain and the background anymore, I think if that were desirable I'd probably change <body> to #111 or so.
So, what's next they will buy? :D
In corporations, yes. Corporations are like communist governments without authorization for coercion -- relationships and networks determine your impact.

If you sell a product, there is a different calculus for ascension.
Why do you assume that? They could be modeling 20 year sales.
> "Most of the time, I end up using restaurant menus listed on UberEats or Doordash instead of their own websites before I call them for a delivery because it's just impossible to find their websites."

The trick is to look them up on Google Maps using their address/location and usually their website is directly attached to their map entry.
Play Nintendo Switch via WebRTC+WebSocket
So, what's next they'll buy? :D
Well done... I nearly downvoted you from the rage I felt before realising it was sarcasm...
Better make one for Linux :)
How is cryptocurrency worse than cash for complying with court orders? If cash is no better or worse than cryptocurrency in regards to complying with court orders, then why single out cryptocurrency?
Fashion Watches for Children
> But no specific evidence, just first principles reasoning. It is hard to see why it would do badly.

There are concrete examples of worker-dominated organizations: schools, public transit entities, etc., where powerful worker unions dominate policy. They are almost universally unsuccessful, as worker interests take precedence over delivering a product to the consumer.
Not to be confused with IPFS!
Here's a version based on the one by ldd. Unlike the others I've seen posted, it maintains the original contrast, the orange header, and doesn't make the upvote button ugly.

https://0x0.st/iLYb.txt

EDIT: one problem. The header image on pages like[1] doesn't look good. Can you change the white background to transparency?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
A global currency, as administered by a global govt, would be better.

Einstein is often quoted as saying "The only way to world peace is with world government"

It would have to have ultimate say and the power to enforce, even against the US and China, with a globally elected reps & pres.
It's troubling, I agree. I think more systems thinking helps to address this kind of mindset. Take into account not only the direct costs but the indirect costs, and much of the economic activity we take for granted evaporates. Just as an immediately obvious example, I think most of the direct profit from the petroleum industry is going to end up allocated towards climate change remediation, at least within an order of magnitude.
Would be nice to have!
Not all lawyers are specializing in the same area in which they need a representation in court; this is how an accomplished OS kernel engineer may hire someone to build a good Web frontend.

If everything you build should be built to last in order to ever be exposed to public, the rate of experimentation will slow down a lot, so finding a product-market fit would become very hard. Look at the glacial pace of progress in, say, light aviation where Cessnas with engines from 1980s still rule, because certification of a new engine is so hard.
I guess I just don't get how this is different / better than making a desktop chrome shortcut that opens into a new window? It gives the appearance of running as an independent app.
Sorry to shock you, but not every piece of text on the internet holds water mathematically.

Plot a cubic polynomial in time, at^3 + bt^2 + c*t + d. Use Excel. The curve either diverges to + or - infinity at each end, or it's a constant. That's not the behavior of the dashed red curve in the OP.

What it could be is some kind of cubic spline. But it is not a cubic polynomial in time.
Definitely agree, this whole affair has a real rashamon vibe to it. it feels like everyone involved (the article, philipson, and furman) are talking past each other. As far as I can tell, everyone agrees forecasting and curve fitting are different things, and that a cubic fit (red line, allegedly) would be a bad representation of what the future will hold. The disagreement seems to be:

- furman believes (or claims to believe) the original tweet was being deceitful by presenting a curve fit as a curve fit but leaving enough ambiguity that casual viewers might interpret it as a prediction of future deaths dropping to 0 by mid may

- philipson believes (or claims to believe) furman thinks that curve fitting and forecasting are the same thing, does not address whether the original tweet was attempting to be coy or deceitful

- article believes (or claims to believe) that philipson believes that a curve fit actually is a good prediction of the future, then goes super wide with it to make some vaguely related point about academia

I believe no one is lying or stupid, but everyone is finding the worst possible interpretation of events so they can dunk on each other.
Yep, came here to suggest exactly this. Especially because then it works for all sites, not just HN. I can also second Dark Reader specifically; it's nicely tunable, supports per-site toggles, and lets you set a schedule to automatically toggle dark mode in the evening. I think my only complaint is that it might be the reason why my Firefox on Android gets really slow / hangs occasionally, although that might be unrelated; haven't gotten around to testing (and it might also be the old-ish hardware and >>100 tabs, so grain of salt).
> Amazon's problem is in the use of data metrics on its giant store to create products that compete with its partners. The Amazon Essentials line is anticompetitive IMO, because as the operator of such a large platform, Amazon has a responsibility to the US economy.

Curious on your thoughts about Kroger/Great Value/Archer Farms (Target) brand items? At least Amazon marks them clearly as house-brand, Archer Farms is practically camouflaged at Target among the brand names, and it's placed pretty prominently too.

Personally I think it's hard to draw a distinction between the two cases - either they're both fine or they're both not. My line would be closer to: if Amazon noticed a certain thing was selling really well, created their own version of that thing, and then de-listed the original thing from their store, that seems like the point at which it becomes anti-competitive to me.

Store brands are an age-old practice so it's interesting to revisit them in the context of mega-corps like Amazon. Although WalMart+Great Value is probably a similar scale.
DI frameworks only encourage bloat, e.g., 1-to-1 interface to concrete classes. You know, for "unit testability" or "just in case" we need to implement the interface with a different concrete class later.

They can help simplify what is essentially a problem of complexity that is self-induced by the original decision to use OOP. But it's rare that they don't also introduce tons of additional other complexity, e.g., at runtime. Debugging these applications is one of the most infuriating things I've ever done as a programmer.
The same as when you put money in a bank, you're giving them money, no one's stealing anything.

Until they don't give it back. That's the important part.
Reversing aging using young blood plasma [pdf]
When you're focusing on your own skills you're polishing an aging vehicle for value delivery, which is mostly only good when someone else glues you with other people. When you're polishing a social network you're engaging in a more amorphous activity with respect to value, but you're also investing in something beyond you, a kind of social coherency which will likely outlast your death.
Because Taylor approximations can lose accuracy very quickly as you move away from the point they are centered around.

There are available epidemiological models that are actually grounded in a scientific understanding of the problem. "Why not a cubic polynomial?" is a stupid question.
> I don't think the average restaurant owner who may not be very digitally savvy realizes how these companies piggyback on top of their brand. I predict that soon there will be a large class action lawsuit with thousands of restaurants going after the delivery services for these underhanded tactics.

This same thing happened to the hotel industry few years back, studying that would give us a good idea of how this is going to play out. I think restaurants are just going to have to adapt to the new reality.
This is a remarkable new paper on aging that lots of researchers are getting excited about. Basically, they give blood plasma from young rats to old rats, and then measure the effective biological age of the treated old rats against a group of untreated old rats.
They use an innovative way of measuring age by developing 6 new “epigenetic clocks” that allow them to quantify the aging process in a rigorous way that can work across species. The results of the treatment are absolutely phenomenal, with the old treated rats looking mostly like young rats 155 days later! The treated old rats can escape from a maze much faster than regular old rats, and their tissue (liver, brain, heart) looks much younger when stained to reveal signs of aging (senescent cells). Not only does it stop aging, it actually reverses it! Amazingly the converse is also true— if you put old blood in young rats, it causes them to age much faster.
If this works in humans as well, which I’m guessing it does, it seems like a huge deal. Rich people will start replacing their blood plasma with blood from young people and stay young for decades longer, amassing even more wealth and influence. Society will probably pass laws preventing parents from selling their kids’ blood (or using it themselves!). Aside from these dystopian fears, I find it funny that something so ludicrously simple and silly sounding actually works and might in fact be the “fountain of youth” long sought for.
Sure, but that brings me back to my original question: people's reaction to "Google wants to charge property taxes" has been nowhere near their reaction to "condominiums exist". I'm hoping to get an answer to my question that isn't simply "people are stupid and react based on buzzwords instead of a basic understanding of what they're talking about".
Lapis (1966)
I think it's just closed for new submissions of apps, right? I hadn't heard anything about extensions.
Here is a review of the article from another academic: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1259912928695857152.html
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A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Contact Tracing
Aw man that sounds really cool. I bet you’ll only need a team of 5 people to do it too.

What’s the tool chain manager look like for managing the build process manager?
I don't want to but there is nothing that I've found in c# other than a helper tool that will only translate objects to CSV rows.
@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){body{filter:invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg)}}

One-liner inverts the brightness and preserves the orange.
For the sake of simplicity, could we just serve up a subdomain darknews.ycombinator.com, same content, just different stylesheet?
> By "cubic fit" I infer that they mean some kind of low-pass signal filter.

It's literally just ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d, optimize a, b, c, and d to minimize some loss function (probably L2).
> your citation count, number of papers, awards etc quickly becomes insignificant compared to those who are

There are few metrics with which academia can judge how effective a researcher is. If you're not interested in getting as many papers/citations/awards in whatever way you can then you may be in the wrong game.
I've had the problem, too, and this change (the edit 2) helps a lot!

The size is not ideal, but it's easily possible to zoom if required and resizing the whole line would probably have a slew of required changes with it, so kudos for finding a minimal 80% solution ;)
"Why not a cubic polynomial?" taken literally is not a stupid question at all. No, it's not a contribution to understanding the problem at the professional level, but it is a fundamental and important question.

Somebody persists after hearing the answer (which you gave), that might be stupid.
Why felons make the best engineers
I know workers who could really use $166. That's a week of cheap groceries.
not OP either. but i think the problem is simple. apple said no to opengl, which any other platform out there supports.

btw, they are even deprecating opengl! i have no idea what that means for the tons of games written with an opengl backend. probably not an issue for the iOS ecosystem though.

so that's what is going on...
I have a counterpoint. OOP made simple things way too complicated and that resulted in more jobs in software development. Its the sad truth. Or the happy one, depending on which side of the fence one is.
Blending the upvote arrow is fixed with filter:invert(1), as in my solution[1]

1. https://0x0.st/iLYb.txt
That's very true. I have an example to do with government. Previously client organisations would have submitted paper forms containing hundreds of fields and then at the government end these had to be manually read and entered into their software in a time consuming data entry process. At the client end, the tediousness of data entry had generally long been eliminated by their own software overprinting the forms, although periodically the government would issue new batches of forms which for no good reason altered the margins/fonts or whatever, necessitating software upgrades. Then government had the bright idea of moving the process online. The new "improved" setup involved the clients having to fill in an online web form rather than a paper one. This obviously solved the data entry problem at the government end by transferring it to the clients. No allowance was made for client software with any kind of api or anything like that, it all had to be done manually with usernames and passwords and confirmation of T&As boxes and screen after screen of boxes to fill in, manually. The automated logout ensured that login had to happen every single time a form was entered and for good measure a captcha was added to "add assurance that the forms were submitted by humans".
Doubtless this was all viewed as a great success at the government in terms of increasing efficiency and offering an enhanced service to their clients
This is lovely. Thank you.
PS... I just switched to FF after countless years with Chrome.
It was the container tabs that finally won me over, and the rest of the pros are icing on the cake. Wonderful.
As time goes on, things seem to line up with what Michael Levitt has been saying for a while now. Namely, that populations are reaching "saturation" pretty uniformly. And while he hasn't a clue what's causing it - he's ventured a guess at some type of innate immunity.

Back in mid-March:

> In Wuhan, which had the highest number of infection cases in the Hubei province, everyone had a chance of getting infected, but only 3% caught it,” he explained. “Even on the Diamond Princess (the virus-stricken cruise ship), the infection rate did not top 20%.” Based on these statistics, Levitt said, he concluded that many people are just naturally immune to the virus.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3800632...

In retrospect we know that the Diamond Princess numbers are wrong (the Chinese numbers are likely wrong too). Asymptomatic spread is probably much larger than what we could initially tell.

This study claims half the Diamond Princess infections were undetected - the infection rate was double.

https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/asymp-transmission.ht...
I'm sad to see this happen. But even 15 years ago they were having problems - some stores had talented buyers and would stock good clothes, and others were not much better than a K-Mart. I haven't been in a "good" Penny's since then.

Starting around 2012 they entered a steep decline which can only be blamed on the poor leadership of Ron Johnson, the former Apple retail exec. He tried to take them up-market by switching to name-brands, and changed their name to "JCP" (for some reason). But the typical Penny's shopper just wants good clothing at a reasonable price, and to save some money with a coupon. He totally misread the customer base.
I think you misunderstood what I am suggesting.
Give it a few years

As you age, other life aspects come into play - life partners, kids, taking care of your health, your parents' health, etc...
Most of the top comments in this thread are badly missing the point. This is probably partly due to the title -- the point here is not whether connections and reputation are important.

The point is that at the very highest levels of US government, when they have brought in an academic advisors from elite universities, they have ended up presenting absurdly wrong child-like nonsense as their best attempt at analyzing Covid-19 data.

Rather few people in this thread have managed to get beyond the title and the slightly opaque columbia.edu blog post to see this. An exception is ahdeanz.

It is an extremely depressing and valid point. Yes, human connections will always be important, but we MUST as sensible democracies, ensure that when science needs to be done, it is not left to the those who have been so involved in the world of human politics and dinner-party-approved conversational topics that they can't even vaguely think about something technical.

I expect he has many flaws, but Dominic Cummings in the UK Conservative party is on the right side of history here, in wishing for a new era in which politics is not dominated by those with law and humanities degrees.

https://dominiccummings.com/the-odyssean-project-2/
That’s pretty much my point. If you strip this away, what is left to distinguish it from other paradigms? Inheritance?
Most solutions seem to be aiming for a quick fix. HN’s classes and HTML probably rarely change, but using css variables would lead to a more maintainable solution than duplicating all the selectors.

(I’d contribute a solution but currently moving across the country with only my phone available)
Exactly, now you see. The exchanges are also the enemy. Bisq is a start at trying to make something like Local Bitcoins WITHOUT a central authority. Coins that aren't centralized in a single location can't be stolen in the first place. Hence "Not your keys not your coins". People should take control of your coins, but that's difficult in practice. In this regard, the Bitcoin doesn't actually need new users--it just needs the users in the ecosystem that understand this. However, every halving there is a bull cycle that leads to the same ways that people lose money (exchange insolvency, loss of money on shitcoin speculation, exchange hacks). But, exchanges, who do all of the advertising in the space, don't want you to even think about that. At best, they think they actually have control and drink their own kool-aide.
I screw up ceasing and desisting all the time :-(
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You overcame burnout by working less.

Thats what came to me when I saw the title.

When i read the article, it seems you overcame depression with exercise and diet.

So the real problem was depression?