skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you point out that TOR fails in its primary purpose:
non-attributable access to information or communications in totalitarian regimes you get scorn.

It's my understanding that the subjects of totalitarian regimes use software such as Ultrasurf [1], and not TOR. I agree that TOR is not very useful in practice, but it seems misleading to state that without mentioning the success of the alternatives.

[1] https://ultrasurf.us/
To each its own. That is my list.
A Natural Theory of Needs and Value
Most every (analytic) RDMS database system can model sparse arrays. A sparse array is modeled by defining a clustered index on the table "array" dimensions and defining a uniqueness constraint on that clustered index. This works well with columnar storage because the data needs to have (and assumed to naturally have) a total sort order on the dimensions. Ex. Vertica, Clickhouse, Bigquery... all allow you to do this. TileDB allows for efficient range queries through an R-Tree like index on the specified dimensions.

Most real world data though is messy and defining a uniqueness constraint upfront (upon ingestion) is often limiting, so for practical use cases this gets relaxed to a multi-set rather than sparse array model for storage, and uniqueness imposed in some way after the fact (if required).
This^! It looks amazing.
Some good comments about Pessoa have appeared on HN over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Thanks for working on this.
right makes sense - noob here
Another reason is it takes months of negotiations and 5 figure $$ sums per month to get leased lines in to the various exchange networks across the globe. Every exchange also has its own protocol, or variation of a common protocol, connectivity quirks, market model, data quality and normalisation issues etc. etc. Maintaining all this is expensive.

Market data is an expensive game to get in to.
The OP was critiquing the media reporting on the study not the study itself so I think your suggestion that the OP misunderstood the point of the study is off base.

The OP did not claim that the study sought to answer the questions posed. The article does answer the question 'Is it safe?' with the word 'Yes' so I believe you are actually in agreement with the OP and the OP did understand that it is really early to say that, hence the critique.
Congrats on launching Reflect. Looks solid!

I soft launched something eerily similar ~6 months ago and got zero feedback (probably because no one was able to actually try it since Google took forever to approve the extension).

TestFront.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22130590

Ran out of money though and had to pursue other things so I put it on hold. Maybe I'll resume work on TestFront at some point and you'll have some competition. ;)
There are studies underway in other countries (e.g. Germany or the UK) as well, and they are also looking for volunteers (though often not as openly). Where are you located?
There's a paragraph endorsing various HTTPS form solutions that are not Google Form midway through the article, including the specific comment:

> The specific implementation of that form really depends on your circumstances, I am not trying to sell you Google Forms specifically.

Based on that and the surrounding context, the author understands that a Google Form is not always the right solution. They do tend to suggest centralized solutions rather than self-hosted ones, but that aligns with my perception that DIY sites are exponentially more likely to be hacked than Google or Zendesk are.

So it seems like you're combining the argument for PGP when the argument against centralized solutions, but your footnote walks back the argument against PHP as long as the solution is not centralized. Do you agree with the author of the post that an HTTPS form is more effective than PGP, but only as long as it's not centrally hosted?
I've always interpreted this message as "don't assume that everyone you're interacting with has all of the same context as you" and be proactive about sharing relevant context whenever you communicate. Not "send people the same message over and over or annoy people to make it seem like you're staying busy"
I use it for APIs when an item gets marked as deleted, vs actually deleted... depends on the underlying data though.
The Strongest Argument for Decentralized Tech May Be Security
To be fair, the visualization mixes store values (eg. Fed's balance sheet) and flow values (annual military spending, annual USA deficit).
> and there is not a lot to discuss or vision to communicate in that case.

Agreed. In those cases, I explicitly say as much when writing up the card. I say "We have no specs or mockups, but here is the need - make it happen." We typically start from there and have a few discussions to work through details, but I have zero problem letting my engineers be free to do their own jobs.
Or a vim plugin. :)
naïveté ;)
This list jibes with my experience (been a software PM for 19 years, coach lots of PMs as a service[1]).

But I find it incredibly surprising that the word "customer" appears only once in this post in the "Leader your Team" section:

> The game you’re playing: Your vision for the product, your product’s value to the customer, your competitive advantage, and how you’ll win.

In my experience a PM's job #1 is to know their customer. Specifically things like:

- Their pain points

- Their workflow (and how your product fits into it)

- Why they love your product

- What could be better about your product (and why)

- Who the buyer, user, and champions are

- What types of customers/pains your solution is best for (and who it's NOT best for)

Basically, a great PM can't be great without being the best-informed person in their organization about their customer.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Set up systems to funnel customer insights to the PM[2]

2. Set up systems to schedule customer calls, ideally automatically[3]

It's still surprising to me how many PMs have "talk to customers" buried somewhere on their list instead of it being at the very top.

[1] https://www.reemer.com/consulting/product-management-coach

[2] like https://www.savio.io (disclaimer: I run this)

[3] great example here: https://www.danwolch.com/2019/04/being-the-closest-to-the-cu...
Micosoft moving Windows desktop to cloud
> Worldometer says there has only been 600k deaths total corona related. Who knows if there statistics is even real though cause just last month, it said there were only 350k deaths.

That's what happens when between 4k and 5k people die per day over 50 days.
"The UK could be vaccinated for Covid-19 by Christmas, says Oxford vaccine developer" https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/matt-frei/coronavirus...
Yes. Devi Sridhar has mentioned it as a goal, fairly sure I have seen others.

We have only eliminated one virus globally (smallpox) but plenty of others have been eliminated nationally. Then to travel to those countries from a country where the disease is endemic you generally need proof of vaccination.

There are also many countries that have basically eliminated the virus at present. They’re not going to want to import the virus just because other countries failed.

Once you have two things the probable future becomes clear: a vaccine, and very fast tests. Combined, they will make it fairly easy for a well governed country to eliminate the virus.

Then, any entering traveler from an endemic country would require proof of vaccination and a quick test at customs to confirm. That would keep the virus out of eliminated countries.

After that it would be a global effort to eradicate the virus country by country, just like we’ve been doing with other diseases such as polio.

A key feature of sars-cov-2 is that it is not like the flu. Coronavirus spreads in clusters and this is containable.
Listen to Elon [1]. If you don't have $1,500, don't buy Tesla shares.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-sto...
I must disagree, and wish I had more data on how many sites host with cloudflare because it's free.
I just checked, fastly is $50 per month, and Akamai doesn't list pricing so let's assume it's more.

Cloudflare has had network affects from integration with wordpress and cpanel too I believe for some time now.

without cloudflare your site can be taken offline by any random person willing to spend $20 for ddos sellers.

The free plan is a pretty big moat imho, especially if 'half the internet can fail..' - I doubt 10% of those sites would be using cloudflare if there was a monthly fee pushed on them.

Admittedly, my cloudflare usage is only about 30 sites, so my data point is small. The few hosting and design clients I have and their budget constraints are not indicative of 'half the internet' - but I don't believe fortune 500 and SV sites are either.
I thought that was something trivially obvious stated about fully leveraging the benefits - that they don't control other's clouds and thus they can't use all of the same sorts of performance or efficency boosting tricks. (People would be way more mad if they did as it would require hacking into say Azure to gain root access.) Not a domain expert but it is my interpretation.

If you make the engineering decision to go multicloud for whatever reason those are inherent trade offs you need to be aware of. They have their own agenda of course in addition to any actual fundamental "real" in bulk efficiencies that price reflects.
> It is tightly locked down, you can't set it up to remote desktop into one.

That's not exactly right.

There are two flavours of the terminal.

Anywhere, locked to a user via biometric login but can be installed on multiple machines, though running only on on e at a time.

Open Terminal, locked to a machine but anyone can log into it.

Its true that the open terminal wont' allow you to RDP into it, but bloomberg anywhere will let you rdp into a machine running it. I do that daily when working from home.
> Maybe this generation in Europe trusts their government and thinks that its good.

Which is strange, since there are people alive today who's relatives were executed in camps by the democratically elected government of Germany. People who think that democratic government is somehow a panacea against tyranny are constantly being proven wrong by history. The modern example is Venezuela and the fact that Maduro's predecessor, Chávez was elected by the majority of the population.
There's a graphic novel of it that you may find interesting. You can probably find it in portuguese bookstores. It's available on Amazon in some countries.
Covid-19 Tracker with React
The cloud is marketing speak for what has been going on for decades. In the 70's, it was called time sharing.
My house is a custom one. It's substantially different from the usual pacific northwest home design. For example, the eaves are about 2 feet deep. This keeps the walls dry & clean, keeps water from getting in the basement, and shades the house in summer.

Almost no houses have substantial eaves.

Also, I have too much experience with rotted wood decks, this one is concrete :-) and it ever so slightly slopes away from the house. All in an effort to keep the house naturally dry. A damp house is a terrible thing in the PNW.

Don't ever buy a house where the driveway slopes towards the garage. You'll get a flooded garage/basement at some point guaranteed. Make sure your garage floor has a slight slope towards the door. It's the little things like this that count. (You can't even tell there is a slope on mine, except it's much easier to push the car out of the garage than in.)

Houses around here on the north slope of a hill are cheaper than on the south slope. There's a good reason for that. Hello mildew!
Unpacking Cambodia’s Nuremberg Moment
That seems fairly reasonable for speed running - most speed runners are doing countless practice runs and the time spent running is dwarfed by the relatively small amount of time I imagine is required to start a keylogger and hit record on a camera. Additionally if the speedrunner sets a new record there are probably a good number of people happy to check the video and if no record is set then it's not really relevant.

With a multiplayer game that lots of people are playing online in multiple rounds that's a lot less feasible. Would you ever want to watch a bunch of videos of people playing a turn based strategy game to make sure they're not cheating? Even if you did put these requirements in place, if you suspect someone you're playing against is cheating and ask for the video proof that they're not what motive do they have to hand anything over? For the hypothetical speed runner they need to prove their record so they can lay claim to something which takes a lot of time and effort to pull off. For the Worms player they get to confirm that they didn't cheat when playing some stranger on the internet? Then they have to do this again next game in 10 minutes time? It's just not practical.
Why is a website a good medium for preserving someone's legacy?
I see people saying this over and over again, with nothing to back it up. I could say the same about the human mind.
Word of warning on The Peripheral, it's quite a plot to wrap your head around at first, as is usual with time-related stuff, but once you get rolling with it you won't put it down. It's typical Gibson, which I love.

And Agency reads like a hot knife through butter. I can't wait to see how he wraps it up in the third one, if that's what he's going for.
I would think it would depend on specific instances, the age of the server in use and any bugs that may exist, or the motivations and access to administrative tools.

It could be easier and harder to target celebrity accounts, but would again depend on the specific hosts.
If this was a hit/ attempted hit by a party that is worried what the Epstein case would uncover something more incriminating then I would think would serve to intimidate any future judge put on the case.

To be clear though I think judges, prosecutors and law enforcement face threats on a regular basis and many of them have the guts to do the right thing. Granted with Epstein case this is a bit more scary then the usual cases. Its connected to such powerful people.
There is this contact tracing framework in iOS and Google Play Services and that causes a few errors. Some users get a message like "not possible in your region" and some get some random error codes about rate limits and such errors, which bubble up from those frameworks and can only be fixed there.
Why would they though? If their customer retention is already super high, the only reason to make an onboarding curve more shallow would be to acquire new users.

Given there's already a social appeal to getting a Bloomberg Terminal, why would they invest the development time/dollars? What's their ROI?
You should checkout the template from YC [0]

[0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/sales_agreement
They have the command CRYP<GO>.

You can query real time feeds for instruments like BTC, ETH and LTC.

They have consolidated data feeds from about 8 exchanges.
I think the post is more about not contributing more to a closed source system like this. Play the game all you want. They are suggesting supporting an open source project instead of well funded commercial software...
Navy Veteran Had a Question for the Feds in Portland. They Beat Him in Response
Is this thing extendable? I.E. are there tools built around it helping cool kids do even cooler stuff or game the system?

I got the impression that it should be vulnerable to microsoft’s EEE.
Thanks for the interest! I’m in the process of stripping the tool out of the online service so it can easily be self-hosted or run locally. I’ll make sure to enable email auth in Discourse once the source is published.
Shadow Mode: The Dark Side of Outsourcing That Nobody Tells You About
I think it’s already clear that a fake video isn’t necessary for people to believe something they already want to believe. You could just distribute a badly-compressed screenshot of an unrelated video with a caption explaining the fake story behind the video. I think that would be more than enough, and I doubt a full faked video would provide much marginal utility.
Most books lose a bit of their magic when translated. However books full of neologisms and regional dialects are nearly impossible to translate without butching it. That's the case of Grande sertão veredas. You can tell the same story, but you'll probably miss the most important part of the book, which is the way it was written, the names of the characters, etc.
This thread talks about their implementation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10197197
Podcast about student entrepreneurs (including YC-backed) – looking for guests!
This certainly tickles my fancy:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/ancien...

I tend to think that these weird helical structures are the product of two metallic crystals being extruded from a rock under pressure, at serendipitous angles to take the form they do... but it's way more fun to think about aliens, time travellers and prehistoric civilizations
"By"

I'd suspect a writing/editing mistake here. But nobody is spying on our law enforcement.
In fact, they seem to be so confident that anytime someone does look into their affairs for whatever reason, unconstitutional attitudes and practices just show up all over the place.
This is much like the premise of the pre-contest materials for this year's ICFP contest. A series of images (as decoded from audio) that translated into examples of numbers, math/logic operators, and combinators.
I completely agree. People have a hugely inflated opinion of themselves. It's already better at writing articles than your average human.
> 50-100 millions

Relative to other COVID-related economic damage this is peanuts. It's acceptable to throw a few tens of millions at a wall and hope that something sticks.
For a few years, I was looking forward to newspapers embedding navigable links to the sources of their reporting. I figured that we just had to wait for the pre-Internet generation of journalists to retire and the next generation would cite better.

But now it is apparent that newspapers have no interest in doing this as it would encourage readers to go to another site and deprive them of advertisement revenue.

I would really love to subscribe to a newspaper that prioritized readers/subscribers.
I wish there was the same for Linux packages, there's been many times where I needed to reference a file that a package installed on another distro, but don't want to go through unzipping it and reading it, especially on mobile.
Colored e-ink displays are discussed at around 8:00 in this video; there are probably better sources, but this is the one I'm familiar with, so I figured I'd link it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw

The microcapsules are not individually wired up to anything, so I don't think it's feasible to make each color channel independently addressable. Instead, a grid of wires behind the capsules are either positively or negatively charged, in order to attract or repel the charged colored particles in each capsule. There are only 2 charges, but by using different sizes of particles for different colors, you can finagle it so that the color you want ends up on top.

If they could address capsules individually, that would also increase the possible resolution of a black-and-white display; they'd do it if they could. But since the mechanism is about attracting and repelling charged particles, there's probably a pretty hard limit on how much you can increase the resolution before there is interference between neighboring pixels.
I dont see why the identity providers couldnt pass trust ratings between each other.
My Diplomatic Life – The True Stories
It doesn’t sound like the worst way to hire model builders.
From farm to phone: A paradigm shift in grocery
A space probe like Voyager might be our best bet. It's easier to detect an object traveling through space than one on a planet. Something on the moon will eventually become buried due to impacts.
I don't really have anything to contribute to this, but I found the article super interesting.

Perhaps a thing I could add is that Part 2 [1] is available, which wasn't immediately obvious to me.

[1] https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/designing-a-new-old-home-pa...
I think the question is more, "why not set up in the northern part of Salt Lake valley to be able to pull in people from Davis/Weber county?"

There is certainly plenty of people that live up there, seemingly just as many as live in Utah County. Is it that there is a dearth of them that have the skills tech companies are looking for? Are there governmental/policy reasons keeping companies away? Is it because BYU is in Utah County and WSU/USU are that much worse at providing potential hires than BYU/UVU are?

I don't know the reason but it does seem weird to me that there is so much push into Utah County and seemingly nothing to the north.
> And frankly nobody thinks "wow, Germany has a working COVID app"

Small exchange from the British Parliament:
https://youtu.be/atAy8NGOoiw
You think US intelligence doesn't have access to other major airlines' back end databases, or things like major hotels' reward programs, airbnb, uber, lyft?
Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
It's a weird way to do that, since the words have the same exact meaning in Russian as they do in English.
One thing I dislike about deep eaves is that they tend to come with a very shallow roofline that for some reason screams 1980s to me.
A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email
In this case a dispute.
I would personally phrase it pedantically as not that the natural monopoly is good but that it exists because they are good. A fine distinction and a baked in assumption admittedly that if they were to no longer be good they would no longer dominate. Technically there are some other variables like if an extended stay on top would atrophy any competitors or not and the time scale operated upon.

On a century scale individual murderers aren't a huge concern to society because they are either dead or infirm by then.
Why does the refresh time depend on the size of the region updated? Forgive my ignorance—I'm imagining that the limiting factor would be the time it takes for the grains to physically flip over, because they all flip concurrently.
Funnily enough “un dijo” is short for “digestif” in french.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apéritif_and_digestif
Who designed these ‘eye’ things anyway, sounds like they took a lot of engineering shortcuts and amassed a metric boat-ton of technical debt
Aside: 2b2t is the most notable of MC anarchy servers. Whenever I read about it, I'm amazed at the machinations of the people that play there. It's kinda like reading Eve Online after action reports of their big battles. I've no inclination to play on 2b2t, but it's great reading all the same.
I don't have a problem with it.

Maybe you should turn your brightness down or add some more lighting in your room? Pure white shouldn't be blinding you.
SARS-CoV-2 Nested RT-PCR Testing Inaccuracy [PDF]
From the perspective of UX of a power user, you’d need to convince me that all of these Electron apps is “progress”.
Also I have live tick by tick fx, interest rates and bond prices in the bloomberg terminal. But I have to go to yahoo finance for live equity prices...