skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As an engineer with a CS degree, I still barely understand what it's talking about (what's an "identity attribute"??) without some digging.

It's not really ready to be used widely at this point. Given that, the fact that the documentation is currently more oriented towards developers working on identity software is fine, I think.

>Even if the value prop was well-explained, it's still very high friction compared to "Sign in with <Service I Already Use>". Why would a user download an installer and deal with managing all of their accounts? There's a secure, anonymous, easy, centralized option that does it all for you (Sign in with Apple). That service does it so well that you only have to click a button to log in or sign up. Nothing else required. That isn't achievable without a central authority managing everything for you.

Sure, installing software is higher-friction than using a centralized service, but it's not that much higher friction. It's not like people don't install software all the time. (And again, this is something that could easily be preinstalled by your OS vendor of choice, which would make the experience very similar to the centralized providers'.)

>Your local machine is a major point of failure. If you lose your local machine and haven't backed up your accounts, you just lose access, right? The only solution is either set up a server with periodic backup (too much friction for regular users) or a centralized authority that stores them for you, which defeats the purpose of all of this.

Yes, this is a big one. No, I don't think those are the only two options. You could sync them between devices if you have more than one (phone/laptop?), you could store them on a user-specified data storage location (think MIT's Solid), etc. I acknowledge that it's a problem, but I think it's a tractable one.

>This project, to me, falls into the "cool technical stuff category". It's obviously built for "geeks" (lack of a better term) and not for people.

I think you're looking at the project as it is, and not as it could be.
Don't know why you're being down voted for this your completely correct!
Can you describe this a little more. How did the verbosity enter the culture?
That's what the shadow scheduler is measuring. If you run a superset of the AI- scheduled set, you can compute how well the AI is doing. Even if you don't run a superset, you can infer the results from following test runs (on a tree with the changeset in question, plus a few more, applied. You just have to be careful to make sure you don't blame later breakage on your changeset.)
Single use plastics are such a red-herring.

I remember flying Lufthansa, where the crew asked us to reuse plastic cups for water in the name of being eco-friendly.

The hilarious thing was that we were onboard a giant 747-8, that was 70% empty.

Obviously it's not an either/or situation, but that banning single-use plastics is anywhere near even the top 10 things that we could be doing is laughable. I doubt it would even make the top 100.
Sounds like more work to me, than just accepting that PR
The effect of noise on focus and productivity is super-interesting and one that I've only accidentally come to realise recently myself. I live in an averagely noisy part of the city and built myself a room-within-a-room sound-isolated studio as a fair chunk of my work is audio-related. I was quite surprised by how much my focus has increased since starting to work in the studio (even on completely unrelated work). Since then I've noticed how easily my focus switches at even the slightest noise (the fridge compressor kicking in, a car driving past etc)
Oh thank you Moxie for finally letting us turn off the PIN nagging UI!
I don’t get why exactly this is bad. The listed competition, namely Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm are all American multinational corps. More competition within the US means more innovation within the US, no?
Everytime I am reminded of this event, I remember the rage... and it cuts just like it did when it happened 7 and a half years ago. It actually makes my stomach wrench and my eyes swell with tears... this is what injustice looks like. this is what a failing society and culture looks like. this is tragedy. this is heartlessness. this is evil.
Basically half the messages have an emoji in it, so I would not describe it as "text only"
I used to do long personal emails.

I've recently started engaging my Facebook friends, Instagram followers, and new Tinder matches with daily installments. Not really a long letter, but the content is somewhere between a long letter and a short memoir. Many people are weirded out and confused but there are a number that really love it so far. I explain the concept in this video: https://youtu.be/zUC2aFkBHiw
> It's not like I'm predicting that airliners will fly slower and Nazis will take over the United States, is it?

The latter wouldn't be a prediction in 2017, but a reflection of current affairs.
How does this scale with increased inflation or demand? I'm betting it doesn't; it just feels like another way to keep wages down if the company refuses to update their pay 'algorithm' against the current labor market.
> Built for individuals, I recently launched Keyoxide which uses cryptographic keypairs to accomplish decentralized identity verification. While it doesn't (and shouldn't!) link an account to a person in the physical realm, it links accounts across platforms.

I'm glad to see this! Although it seems to be hugged to death right now :( I had been using KeyBase for this, but after the recent sale to Zoom, I've backed away.
Banks have a capital cost. The central bank does not. I was talking about base rates. Banks mark up on base rate to cover the risk to their capital
There is no Nazi revival.

That some small neo-Nazi groups exist is normal, and I would say, healthy. They are not Nazis, true Nazis have disappeared after WW2. They are just groups of people who are dissatisfied with current politics and believe that some ideas from Nazi Germany would solve problems. Especially since it is so demonized by the current system that is must be good: the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

They are the result of a free society, we all at some point in life, wanted to change society. You can be a hippy or a nazi, but it usually doesn't last. Most people realize that neither LSD nor the third reich is going to solve the world problems and then become more reasonable.
What’s the ethical failure here?

I would agree that it doesn’t look like good judgement- but shorts are literally betting against him and his company. It’s not obvious to me where that behavior (crowing against his adversaries) crosses a line into being wrong or evil.
This is a really good list of examples, thank you! I have collected a few other cases where master/slave doesn't make much sense:

-- In an active/standby replication setup, the master does all the work and the slave just watches and accumulates the results. This seems backwards.

-- In many replication setups (PostgreSQL and DNS work this way) the replica voluntarily connects to an upstream source. Slavery isn't voluntary.

-- In DNS zone transfers, the downstream replica is in control of replication; the upstream can't tell it to do anything. This is not a master/slave relationship either.

-- In a hardware bus system in which any device can be an initiator and can choose its target device, this isn't a master/slave system because the roles change from one transaction to the next.

--
Are you looking to offend orphans?
It's apparently forbidden to implement the API directly without using the SDK when developing a native app.

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1385#iss...
> There is no evidence to suggest that scenario is more likely to unfold with covid than any other illness.

And this is precisely the problem which you seem to have missed. There's no evidence to support that with the novel coronavirus because we don't know how it functions nor have there been people recovered long enough to determine what the long term effects actually are. Post-polio syndrome took 15-30 years after infection for the effects to actually be observed, so obviously there can't be any evidence because it's not even been a year since the coronavirus pandemic started. What we have noticed is that there is evidence of damage to the lungs and nervous system even in people that have recovered from the coronavirus with more we simply don't know.

The problem is that you're looking at things which we were only able to determine long after infection and then comparing it to a new virus which we simply cannot have that data yet. It's naive to assume that because there's no data that means it's obviously safe from any long term effects because I imagine people likely made that same assumption about Polio as well because these things tend to have a very long tail.
There is no money in Semiconductors. US owns the social media industry and that is where the money is, not computers.
Would anyone in that suicide prevention community suggest that whoever's actions inadvertently triggered the rapid onset despair should be held legally liable if the person succumbs to suicide?
Where did I say commercial bank lending rates would be Zero?
But doesn’t that mean if it gets compromised (which I think one popular one did a while back?), then you’re basically screwed for every site you used it with?

Personally, I always use email, plus 2FA when available. I don’t trust “single” sign-ins anywhere - I’d rather control the access to the credentials myself.
Totally get where you're coming from. I really recommend the Sam Harris "waking up" app. Really helped me and I think it appeals to the more skeptical and rational people you find on HN.
Dear readers: please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).
When driving in Manhattan¹, unless I could see an immediate opening for a left turn, I made three rights instead. Even if it wasn’t faster, it was more fun. And, if I had a passenger, the reaction was as if I was a visitor from Jupiter who was privvy to an exotic nonEuclidean geomertry unknown to Earth people.

¹I know, usually a dumb thing to do anyway.
HAProxy is a unique piece of software.

I’ve had the privilege to interact directly with Willy (the main developer for many years, still the project lead) on the mailing list, in person at the conference, and even though I’ve never paid a dime, the interaction has been the best open-source experience I’ve ever had. Willy routinely writes multi-paragraph responses on the mailing list to my hair-brained suggestions for how HAProxy could be better for my company’s rather unique needs.

I often feel bad that I cannot do more for the project, because it is so well thought-through and delivered.

The software cuts no corners and delivers at fractions of the TCO of competition (limited by my opinion and experience, of course). For instance, just last week, I spun a rate limiting solution in half a morning, that mitigated some annoying proxy bots instantly (and is flexible enough to automatically block offenders without affecting legitimate users).

The stats, DNS support, and integrations and many other featured are second to none among other load balancers.

It’s an impressive and refreshing project. We could all learn something from HAProxy and the team.
> On today's internet, the best we can do is make fully separated accounts, link them using technologies like decentralized online identity proofs and create our own online personas, with our own open tools that ensure we maintain ownership over them.

That's for sure how I see it :) It gives everyone the choice of what mix of real names and ~anonymous personas to use, and how to link them.
>...I said it's pathetic that people (like me) who make $500k/year pay less than $75k in federal taxes.

How does someone making $500k pay less than $75k in federal taxes?
I agree but that’s besides the point. The point was that Intel relying on its moat of PC sells is not a great proposition.
Wouldn't it make sense that all manufacturers are doing the same thing then? Therefore it just becomes a case of who can juice their numbers best?
Meanwhile, "we address the predominant form of theft in the US with civil court cases, not criminal cases" :

https://twitter.com/djmckenna00/status/1269218616861437952
I was the same way. The problem with meditation is that it is like dieting/fitness/going to the gym. You will not see the results right away. It takes a while of consistent effort before you notice any results.

I took a 10 day meditation retreat (Vipassana) to get the hang of it. They make you meditate 6 to 8 hours a day for 10 days. This is one way to "get it."
Nice. Tip: add topics such as 'markdown' to repo for findability. I overlooked this on my recent GH search for markdown projects.
Slightly OT, we have several different kinds of services that need rate limiting, written in different stacks. We would like to have one solution for rate limiting, ideally that we could put in front of any service, that was light weight, but also could work with AWS target groups that are already splitting traffic across nodes inside a service - so I believe that means some sort of clustered solution or at least communication. Is haproxy a good fit for this? Maybe nginx (paid)?
This makes me wonder, are there any places in alaska where you can buy a lava tube as real estate, like the land it runs under w/mineral rights?
On Knowing the Winged Whale
On looking at my code that does file reads, and steveklabnik's suggestion - Vec<u8> makes reasonable sense. At least that way, if you want nice encodings you've got the same problem agnostic of where the "string" came from.

Aka... a nice abstraction.
> I just take a week off from work

A week...

Maybe this is article is only comparing daily meditation to the US version of a vacation? A week shouldn't even be called vacation.

I find it hard to believe that something as ineffective as meditation could be more beneficial than the 4 weeks to a month of vacation that you have in civilized countries.
I'd stick with AMD and Linux.
So I think the question is: when a group of people work together on something, can they generate ideas which are better than the best idea of any member of the group? If so, how much better? How does the effect scale as the size of the group increases?

An R&D lab certainly can do more work than any single person could do in their lifetime, but are the ideas fundamentally better? Can you point to an idea and say: "no person could possibly have thought of that"?
My websites have traditional email+password signup forms with Facebook and Google singup buttons beneath the form fields. Over 50% of new users use the social buttons instead of email.

https://hunches.app/login
Everything written in this article would have made perfect sense 5 years ago too, now look at the stock charts over the last 5 years. I don't disagree with it, possibly even want it to be right, but I sure would have hated to hold a short on either of those stocks over the last 5 years.
The same reasons why teenagers probably shouldn't?
Can confirm Algo works great. Easy to setup the VPN while still having the benefits of leveraging Wireguard.

Not OP, but maybe it makes sense if you already deploy a set of applications or services on K8s.
From what I understand, the basic problem is this. The way things are supposed to work is corporations take their profits and divide them up in two ways. Part goes to paying the owners, like dividends to stockholders. Part goes in investing in the future, like research and building factories.

The problem is that for a long time a large proportion of companies have been paying out an increasing portion of their profits to pay off massive and ever increasing debts. They still keep paying profits to the owners, and so they have ever less left for investing in improving the company. That in turn means poor growth and being less competitive in world markets.

And even worse when the economy goes through a bad period, many thousands of companies can no longer pay their huge debts and go bankrupt, with great damage to the economy.
I never understood "Login with ..." from a user-perspective. I'm
supposed to enter my facebook/google login-credentials on some random
website?

How does the user know its legit?
Prosthaphaeresis – an ancient algorithm for approximating products
Prosthaphaeresis is an interesting algorithm that was used pre-logarithms invention as a way to approximate hard products.
Emojis are used as avatars, they are not part of the posts
Are these really things people definitively think the tech industry invented? I'd say most people just think the tech industry popularized things like this. I'd also say they would be right.
What technique of meditation did you try?

There are probably dozens if not hundreds of different ways of meditating, and many mistakes one can make in implementing those techniques.

If the one particular way you tried did not work for you, I would not necessarily jump to the conclusion that no kind of meditation would work for you, or that there was no room for improvement in your technique.

Sometimes going to a teacher or experienced meditator with the particular difficulties you're running in to can help. Also, sometimes meditating in a group can work, as you're then all in it together rather than having to motivate yourself all on your own.

Something else to keep in mind is that meditation can take some time to yield results, especially if your practice is brief or sporadic. The more regular and extended your practice is, the more likely you are to notice some results.
To the best of my knowledge, it is.

As to the point of obligating your future self to honour any contract that you have agreed to, the point is that you yourself chose to enter said contract voluntarily. The strength of the whole philosophy is that it seeks to deal with potential sources of conflict by presenting a minimal set of clear-cut rules and leave the rest up to the participants. As you cannot choose to be a participant, because the mere fact of your existence forces you to be one, it simultaneously tries to maximise your freedom of choice from there on out.

Many words have been spilled about the "social contract" as legitimisation for the state. Yet how convincing do they really sound in the face of Spooner's pithy rejoinder that "I didn't sign any contract, so I'm not bound by your laws and regulations."?

BTW, I don't think you will have an easy time to argue that any other set of a priory rules does a better job of maximising freedom. The toughest critique of libertarianism that I know of rather seeks to dispense of a priory morality altogether in favour of a consequentialist point of view. Scott Alexander Potter has done so in his anti-libertarian FAQ, just in case you haven't already read it (not saying you didn't, just mentioning it).
This guy is taking his 15 minutes of fame to seize the message currently popular. Spot on.
> You can justify anything by claiming you are "looking out for the future of humanity."

You're right, you can.

That being said, in context I dispute your low effort implication that what he did was wrong. As far as I'm concerned his actions were unquestionably the right ones from the perspective of the greater good.

It is with pure glee that I watch SciHub's continued success and Elsevier's impotent attempts to stop them. The academic literature is rightfully a commons.
Arguably, the ability to divide labour and ability is precisely human. That said yes, it is super-individual intelligence and it does scale incredibly well.
I love HA Proxy, but one thing I'm confused about is why the http-tunnel feature was removed in this release (and deprecated in earlier 2.x releases). http-tunnel allowed you to start a session with an HTTP request/response, then keep the socket to the backend alive without further inspection of the protocol.

This is useful for things like RTSP where you kick things off with HTTP but then stream lower level TCP content over the same socket. There are also lots of other custom protocols that benefit from this type of set up, including one that I'm working on wrangling HA Proxy to work with now.

Does anyone know if there's some replacement way to handle this in HA Proxy that I'm overlooking?
>> What do you think is going to happen if you increase minimum wage to the point where it makes automation a more affordable alternative?

>This is going to happen anyway.

Changes that occur more slowly are easier for everyone to adapt too. Why do you think we should force this trend to accelerate?
How is "converting the entire mass of the solar system into dollar bills" conceptually different from "converting the habitability of Earth into dollar bills" or "converting the health problems of human beings into a maximal amount of dollar bills", which is precisely what many corporations _actually do_?

The "corporation as AI" metaphor isn't about some abstract future possibility, it's an explanatory mechanism for how the world is so thoroughly messed up _right now_.
>Geekbench is super misleading

SPEC is the industry standard for comparing performance across platforms.

>Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
Is it really the x86 architecture that's driving costs up and not core micro architecture and process? From where I sit, what we're actually seeing is a 7nm (and impending 5mn) TSMC process destroy the old 14nm process Intel has been hung up on for too long. I mean that's a square increase in density right there. If Intel could fab a 7nm chip right now, I'm pretty sure it would compete in the power department with any arm chip on the market. Just look at the latest Ryzen 4800U. It's a 10w 7nm x86_64 chip that outperforms the a12z. I don't want to downplay the proliferation of ARM we've seen lately due to the smartphone market, and having another architecture is good thing. But I'm not convinced the author isn't scapegoating x86.

https://gizmodo.com/so-just-how-powerful-are-apples-new-lapt...
Seems like insurance couples the driver with the vehicle for risk management though.

For example, an expensive vehicle will have a higher insurance premium than a cheaper vehicle because repairs will be more expensive. But a better driver behind the wheel of that expensive vehicle will minimize the chance of a payout. There could be instances where a bad driver of a cheap vehicle is paying close to what a good driver in an expensive vehicle pays.

i.e. [Higher payout but lower risk === lower payout but higher risk]. So it's not just enough to put insurance on the vehicle or just the driver. Both must be used to calculate the premium.

Still, what you're saying sounds interesting and would be an interesting experiment if insurance companies could offer that as an option.
Or a Masterclass in Culture and Diversity.

https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/education/professional-lea...
Maybe for a $1200 bottle, but not a $120 bottle. Even my local BBQ spot has a $200 bottle and there it's self service except for drink and food orders. I'd say most of my frequent spots ($20-30 for most expensive entree) have at least one bottle in the three figure price range.

However, tipping 20% on a $120 bottle would be more than half of what I tipped the last time I went to a fancy place where the staff folded the napkins every time someone got up to go to the bathroom. That was a 40% tip on a $100 meal for two (with corkage fee) where I felt the service was excellent and included far more than just pouring a few glasses.