skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not really a slippery slope anymore: the world has gone down that slippery slope since the web has been created and operated and it's been great for everyone so far.

Overall, the benefits of the "free bits" have enabled anyone to be a creator and create a audience for free, has enabled companies to become global in an instant reach potentially everyone with access to TCP/IP and DNS servers. But creators and operators are trying to shoehorn the global world into a handful of brands (YouTube, ig, fb...) and a handful of business models.

If you were content creators before this age you had to suck it up to several layers of middle men, to get your content on tv, on cinema, on a CD. Now, the free bits lets you operate single handly from your bedroom. But is has a cost: you rely on gatekeepers to distribute your content and track your audience in the name of ad optimization and those users who they are trying to track - who are sovereign over their devices and software - can and will decide how they engage with the bits that reach their hardware and software.

There are alternatives: aol used to operate a walled garden. Many countries try to operate their own walled gardens. I'm not making a judgment call, I know where I prefer to spend my time on. But people do have to climb down their high horses pretending the power dynamic on the open web is only favouring consumers and users
> #5 in Music
> Stream any song from YouTube

Wow and it's been up for years! Do they scrape YouTube like NewPipe? How come Google didn't go nuts about taking it down?
This is patently false. 11s work. You know know how you can prove it? There’s less than a handful of chapter 22s (11, followed by an 11).

Fundamentally it’s better for society for capital structure participants to get wiped out, including most non-wage perpetuation liabilities than for the company to just die.

Greenspan wrote a sweeping history of American capitalism over 3 centuries (great book) and his belief was that American bankruptcy was one of the greatest contributors to long term economics growth. which is what roughly drives American average wellbeing (give or take).

Sorry but just not true.
Indeed, it's a powerful weapon against anyone who depends on general public popularity for their power (for example many/most elected officials). This is in fact one of the things that is highly investigated for getting TS/SCI US government clearance. They don't want to employ anyone who possibly has dirt against them in the open.
That's good. The NY Times did not help this situation, or the hundreds of other potential situations that may or may not evolve in the future, with their breathless coverage of this "likely the work of a professional" job.
Also that Candide quote: «in this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others»
A typical ingested dose is close to 200mg or so which is still a fifth of a kg of raw leaves. (A 200mg dose lasts longer than insufflation, about 4-6 hours, and during that duration is about as strong as insufflation.)
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Why no black bar for John Lewis
> ... even the Mexican government won't touch them.

The distinction between government and gangs in Mexico is subtle. Just as in the US, many former military become mercenaries. But unlike US mercenaries, Mexican mercenaries operate domestically.
Because that’s the best option america has to offer
I would, but Google disabled my YT account with no reasoning or explanation. So now I'm a bit hesitant to pay for their services on another account...
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Hah...I remember guessing this might happen a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633584
Google paid him $175 million in bonuses in less than a year. And then he quit, stole all the source code, accessed 30+ Google Docs after he left, and convinced 16 co-workers to leave Google too.

That's just asking to be sued.

In fact, the major requirement for him to be acquired by Uber was that they indemnify him. He knew he did something wrong.
I read X ~ p(x) as "X is distributed as p of x"
> Bubbles are what users want.

I disagree; however, I believe we have reached a point where we simply disagree with each other on foundational matters and no amount of discussion will sway the other. Please enjoy your content.
Wait, this isn't how internet arguments work...
I think you overestimate how many executives think bankruptcy "could happen to them." It's almost as if you are mythologizing them as some omniscient, conniving villains. In any case, this is a very strange justification for doing nothing (instead of advocating to fix chapter 11).
John Lewis has died
Potentially. There's still a significant difference in quality between inexpensive and expensive chairs, so the expensive chair should last you longer in addition to being more comfortable. I bought a really nice leather chair about 6 years ago that is still in very good shape. The leather is still perfect, the cushions aren't deformed, and the mechanism is in good shape. It only needs to last another 14+ years before I break even :) The real reason I bought it is comfort though; my back was starting to hurt after sitting in my old chair for an hour or two, and this chair doesn't cause that problem at all.

Good furniture is usually worth spending real money on.
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The technical process doesn't matter; they'd be entirely within their rights if they only sent your client a "watch token" after the 5/15/30 seconds it takes for you to watch an Ad. You don't owe them anything as long as you're fine getting nothing in return. The only reason they don't do such thing is because they know a large amount of people watch with blocked ads (blocked, as in preventing Google from getting your client to show ads) and doing so would destroy brand reputation and PR.
This isn’t the right math.

Executive XYZ (say a CMO) commands $X00k in the open market. His/her comp is 25% cash / 75% equity. At bk, the existing equity holders get wiped out given the fulcrum security is lower in the capital structure.

The options the company (the debtor, in this case) to emerge (aka retain jobs via an 11 vs wind down via a 7) are: 1)
- do nothing. Exec leaves. Hiring new exec costs $X00k x (1+Y%) as its MUCH harder to recruit in BK.
2)- do nothing. Exec leaves. No new CMO. Company dies.
3)- pay incumbent exec something.

So nominally it optically looks terrible. The executive above looks like he/she is double dipping PLUS they seem to be getting a wage increase when there’s a down turn, etc.

But all-in.... it’s not that sweet of a deal.
Time to start doubling down on my understanding of automotive electronics and start creating bypass kits
I assume they are deprecating "motherboard" as a gendered term, but the replacement of logic board also replaces a bunch of other names for the same thing.
Look at American business composition statistics. Most businesses are small. A few people totally matter.
Possibly unrelated, but I love the simple an clean layout of the website. Does anyone know how to create something similar to this?
Yeah, I don't think the situation is too complicated. Fadi Chehadé used his position as ICANN's CEO to try to complete a transaction that would enrich himself and make the public poorer. Now he's counting on the public to ignore that he tried to do this, or at least not prosecute him for it, and he's probably right. I wouldn't be surprised if Fadi to was invited to the White House as a special adviser on the internet, or something like that.
This would cause unreal job losses. Why in the world would you burn down a house just because someone bought it at too high of a price and now can’t afford the mortgage? How is that societally beneficial?
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This is what Ralph Nader would call a "deferred bribe".
I had a very similar pain in my chest and increasing my vitamin D intake made it stop. I would get your levels checked.
Their comment regarding the late update here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878496

> Because of the way we securely connect to StatusPage.io from most locations where our team is based. The traffic got blackholed in ATL, keeping us from updating it.
You can do that. Start the torrent, click to expand, unselect the files you are not interested in.
Please don't spew falsehoods and add 'general concesus' to it.

There are reports that the French team that traveled in
October in Wuhan for mil. sports games, got infected by it. So, that it was at circulating in Wuhan at least since October, even most probably: early september.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/08/covid-19-pandemi...
Fun, I got hit by this since I use cloudflared behind my Pi-Hole. I was able to troubleshoot the issue, localized the cause to Cloudflare, found the partial outage in various regions and assumed I was affected, switched to using Level 3 DNS temporarily. I'm glad to see it's back up and this is a great retrosepctive.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYm3TbVNf-o

(some (punk?) bands piece about that in 1980, has lyrics)
You might want to give more conditions for the claim that the self-information gives the length of the shortest possible code.

In particular the condition isn't only that it's the shortest code, it's the shortest self-delimiting code. In your example with probabilities {1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8}, someone could come in and say let's code it as {0,1,01,00}, which would appear to encode the latter two outcomes 2 bits rather than 3. The problem, of course, is that {0,1,01,00} is not a self-delimiting code: after you receive the bit 0, you don't know if you're done or if you should wait for another bit to form 01. But the code {0,10,110,111} is self-delimiting, because after you get a 0 or a 10, etc., you know you're done.

I've found that when I teach this material, if I don't mention the self-delimiting condition, then a clever student in the class always thinks of the {0,1,01,00}-type code. (This can be a good way to identify clever students in an intro information theory class!)
Look at the Bain 2020 annual “private equity” report. Back of the envelope math, at 10x purchase price and 7x leverage, 10 to 15% of revenue goes to debt coverage costs and a 5% revenue decline triggers the bank covenants and causes a technical default. It’s the executives fault that happened?

Maybe it is, but the capital structure and the operating team are separate and distinct things.

It’s also important to consider, if the bank debt can’t convert to equity via a ch11, then overall availability of capital will sharply decrease. Which in turn hurts every business around.
> Or, instead, should we wait for publication in a trustworthy source about "we were able to successfully repeat experiments, earlier reported from China, which demonstrate..."?

I mean, shouldn't we wait for that always rather than reporting unreproduced findings to people other than those who might reproduce it?
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> there was literally nothing different occuring at the time that could have provoked any evolutionary changes in any virus to be more evolved in infecting humans outside of normal human density levels.

There is now, though. We're selecting strains that aren't as concerned with masks and social distancing. Back in March, I remember reading some anecdotal accounts of cities' responses to H1N1, but it wasn't widespread. We've never actually stopped somethings this widespread, so it's not clear how these measures play out long-term.
The ideology does align with mine, so therefore it must be fake news.
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I won't comment on the rest of your post, but I'd like to point out that there's no evidence Ben Franklin said that. That quote is commonly misattributed to Churchill, but that seems to also be a misattribution [1].

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
This is one hell of a Friday night news dump.
:/ how are you green tag?
They could add a deadman switch to their status page.
> Chip superiority is everything.

The Chinese didn't get to their current position via chip superiority. They got there by being a low cost producer of a whole pile of other things. Clearly chip superiority wasn't everything to them.

In fact also by definition most countries don't have chip superiority. Not the UK (home of ARM), not Japan, not Germany, not Canada, not Australia (who happens to be a medical powerhouse). Yet they all have dynamic successful economies.

It's a big world out there. Being master of one trade doesn't make you the master of them all.
>Mexican military has the 17th most active duty personnel in the world

Most of whom are regular conscripts who are not worth anything in anti-insurgency, urban guerrilla style of warfare that's happening.

> employ 450,000 people and make $25 billion annually

most of whom are not security personnel. It's better to compare $25 to mexico's GDP, which is astronomically larger.

Mexico could slow down the drug trade, but why bother, when the damage would be greater than letting it run.
> "There is no widespread vote fraud problem. There hasn't been for decades"

This is absolutely unproven. And absentee ballots are not the only way people vote, with prosecutions are only those who are caught and convicted. Here's a list of 1071 proven instances (more than twice) from the very first search on the subject: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...

There is no way to know what the real votes are supposed to be unless you confirm with the person who voted.

Whether you want to call it election fraud or voting fraud, it's the same problem because you don't know it occurred unless you have the ground truth to check against. There is no mass confirmation stage for votes to be able to gather this data and thus it's completely unknown.
so far we have what appears to me, to be a series of victimless crimes
>For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool.

Yikes. Pretty much a confirmation of the speculation that the hackers would have access to Twitter DMs. Question is, which accounts?

edit: For reference, here's what's included in the "Your Twitter Data" tool [0]. There's some other info that may be of note than just DMs. I wonder what risks there are to knowing, for example, the past IP addresses and geolocations that VIP politicians access Twitter from? Hopefully they're behind a government VPN.

0: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/accessing-...
I know, i've tried a bunch of them and have several C compilers installed but AFAIK none has removed support for gets or VLA (or anything else they bothered to implement). When i wrote "none" i wasn't referring to the standard but to the actual compilers. I do not care what the standard says is deprecated or to be removed, what i care is what compilers actually do since that is what affects existing code.
So what’s the key takeaway? That COVID isn’t going to be over by Christmas nor can we ignore it? Yeah I kinda feared it might not, like hopefully we’ll settle by mid 2020s?

I guess there are something important to be said but information wise not sure if anything’s new.
So hertz, which was leveraged with a decision maybe (maybe!)outside and preceding the CEOs tenure, in a low margin industry, should shoot the (maybe good, maybe bad) CEO just because?

Would you join a company in a 363 process without even knowing who the new owner would be, or if you could compete on emergence, or if you could emerge in a commercially viable way? Where are these amazing industry turning executives that are willing to take market comp for way above market risk for their career? Where are these self sacrificing martyrs?

Would you have joined RIMM versus Apple in 2013 at the same (or likely lower) level of compensation? If no, then why would someone want to be part of a BK turnaround.
Cloudflare is experiencing a bit of karma and a bit of Murphy’s Law.

They slung some mud not long ago and now it came to bite them. They were a bit righteous on their reliability. However, anyone in this game long enough knows it’s only a matter of time before shit goes down. If they didn’t have any graybeards over there to tell them this, then hopefully they earned some gray.

Stuff was down long enough for Googles and OpenDNS caches to expire, and to take down DigitalOcean in some respects.

Thankfully CF can afford to learn and make improvements for the future. Not all organizations are that lucky.
> I read a lot 'entitled' opinions in this thread pretending that the whole world should ignore their circumstances

Come on, how many of the HN users bragging in this thread about blocking YT ads are in a similar situation? I'm glad you've come up with a convincing justification for your behavior, but you've built a mighty strawman there, no one is arguing that people who cannot afford a modern smartphone are the problem.
I do have an Android and don't like it as much.
Apple's OOB pairing works on their own hardware only. When used on non-iPhones the experience is the same as other generic BT earphones.
> Most of my findings indicate that the benefits of opening safely outweigh the the risks and the adverse effects of school closure (to the children, families and society) outweigh the benefits.

Did you read the original-original comment? This is exactly what they're talking about man
Decimate means you kill 1 out of every 10. It's probable that we decimated the virus and more. It's just that doesn't really make a difference.
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I still use a HM Aeron that's about 12 years old. Surprisingly it has held up well. They aren't super comfortable but I like the fact that it breaths. My kids have Aerons also and sit in them way too much. They love them. My wife likes Humanscale (she has one at the office). The Steelcase Leap is popular also.

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There is a look back cause for executive compensation. And it claws back. To make it worse, it’s also very reputationally damaging to have your name dragged through the mud for a payment like that. So not best practices to do something like that by experienced management.
They just do it unobtrusively in other places.
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Nothing prevents an X-server from running within Wayland. BDF will live forever for those who need it.
Foreign policy is weird, countries don't give up on even trivial disputes without some concessions. Even seemingly trivial matters can be used for later negotiations. See the current list of US/Canada territorial disputes for an example notably Machias island.

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It is interesting to think about the origins of Covid-19 with Bayesian statistics in mind. We believe that the virus originated in Wuhan, and the two competing "mainstream" theories are whether the virus came from a wet market or a bio lab.

I don't know exactly how many wet markets exist in China, but I would guess that there are thousands spread across China. A wet market is simply a place where fresh produce/meat is sold (think farmer's market). "In Hong Kong, for example, there is a widespread network of wet markets where thousands of locals shop everyday for their meat and vegetables. There is one in almost every district and none of them trade in exotic or wild animals." [1] Of these $\Theta(1000)$ wet markets, probably a few are located in Wuhan.

Notably, there is only one level 4 bio lab in China, and it happens to be located in Wuhan. [2]

You can't conclude anything with absolute certainty doing this kind of probabilistic analysis, but this line of argument swayed me to seriously consider the possibility that the virus originated in the lab.

And, of course, note that we do not have to assume any malicious intentions. It's easy to imagine a virus accidentally escaping the lab, regardless of whether it evolved naturally or with some human intervention to facilitate research. A State Department cable from 2018 wrote that the lab "has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.” [3]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/china-wet-market-coronav...

[2] https://www.livescience.com/china-lab-meets-biosafety-levels...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-depar...

Footnote: Yes, I know that $\Theta(1000)$ just means "some constant" from a mathematical perspective. But I think the idea is clear, even if the mathematical statement taken at face value conveys no information.
I just spent a few hours at an elderly relative's house checking over her computer.

She had her screen lock and a message on Chrome saying that she needed to "Call Microsoft" and she wasn't able to close the window, etc. So she called and "John Henderson" was able to talk her into installing LogMeIn. He then started about charging her $149 and she came to her senses and called me.

I'm 99% sure that she was served some Javascript via an ad network.

I installed uBlock Origin on both of her browsers. I tried changing her DNS to Adguard but it turns out that Comcast hasn't let people change DNS on their routers for many years. Even if you change it on your personal device, they'll force DNS on you.

I have been debating putting ad-blocking on their computer because I've worried about something like this happening. I'd also worried about some site not functioning properly because of ads being blocked. But we'll deal with that if and when.

Sorry but not sorry to sites that are doing 3rd party ad networks that they don't audit.
I wish they mentioned what kind of social engineering attack it was. It could be a case study for any such incidents in the future.

P.S. I feel bad for the employees who were manipulated to give away the info.
Every time I see an article about the growth of data usage, I thing that data usage in bytes is increasing much, much faster than data usage in terms of end-user utility.
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