skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those "anti-science" people are a minority and they aren't really anti-science. They are only anti-science for the few things that conflict with the way they -want- the world to be. They are fine with the other 99% of science, though they won't likely be contributing much to it.
You'd have to attest a lot of things to get this to work. Who else has the access to the database? Are there backups -- and how are they protected? Are you sure the server's private SSL key is not shared with other, non-attested servers? Are there any unsafe CDNs that are used?

You can kinda make it work with things like Protonmail which have heavy client-side encryption -- but this approach severely limits available features (for example, in Protonmail, you cannot search in message text).
I have a suspicion a significant amount of their income comes from exactly that kind of extortion, and (very much relatedly) from tricking people who aren't Good at Computers into clicking ads that they think are search results, not from any machine-learning magic. At least as far as search ads are concerned.
I think Apple is probably the least-worst-offender amongst the FAANG group right now, but I'd definitely argue Apple is a monopoly by this definition. Nearly every business industry has to have an app these days. Imagine a bank not having mobile banking available from iOS in the United States. They'd literally lose customers over it.

So for many industries, you must have an iOS app, and to have an iOS app, you must go through the App Store, and you must give 30% of your app revenue to Apple.
World's Biggest Landlord Buys World's Biggest Genealogy Website
Hi Matt,

thanks for the AMA-like availability, really appreciate it.

One question from me: how would you pitch "new Sites" for a potential new customer willing to use it, but afraid his/her/their content might not last the next "modernization" sweep?

In other words: would you try to sell new Sites to a customer that values - and worries about - long term visibility of his/her/their content?
If no: what is new Sites' value proposition, in terms of target market?

Thanks again.
I was really excited about this (super expensive) keyboard in the mid oughts.
https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/
Not an Invenian, but my understanding is that they gradually transitioned away from a mix of MATLAB, Python, and C.

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/invenia.html
And the backup section in this "awesome" list might be outdated, it still lists Attic which AFAIK is abandoned or rather has a successor in Borg, which is not on the list.
The $600 per week is definitely sustainable as are all the other payments that are going directly to people. If we can afford all the unrelated stuff you mention and a ton you didn't, we can afford to help people directly, which is the absolute number one priority.

The real pandemic is people dying and being disabled, not debt. Saying it's debt is callous and cruel as people are dying and becoming disabled all around us. How is it possible to have no empathy at all like this?
I edited my post. You absolutely must rebind caps to control. One of the best changes I ever made, and I regret that I didn't add that to my post after so many people have seen it. Thanks for reminding me
Total newbie here: Are there any similarities between Elm and Rebol/Red?
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails, by N.N. Taleb
>If we find proof that there's no dark matter then there must be something else like dark matter that behaves in the way that dark matter has been described (something with gravitational pull).

Or...we completely reconfigure how we understand gravity. That solution seems more likely to me, as we know far less about gravity than we do about matter and relativity.
Building a Mini IBM ThinkPad 701C Model Kit[video]
I don't really understand the point your are trying to make? You state that "insurance is about pooling" then correctly observe the dollar amount they charge you is just some sort of risk rating assigned to the individual.

Also if you ever have a large claim paid, you'll quickly discover it isn't about pooling at all. Every insurer will simple decline to quote you or simply quote you some insane price. Even without accidents I once got a quote that was obviously a response of "please do not purchase this policy" when I tried to get basic liability insurance.
If we were to extend the first graph a bit more to the right, the linear improvement would quickly trend downwards into negative latencies, a sure sign that it's not the right answer. But if linear is impossible, then super-linear is just as impossible. The line the author describes as such is clearly asymptotic.

If we were discussing overall latency, and not just queue delay, then an asymptotic decrease towards zero could correspond to a super-linear increase in throughput capacity. But that's not what's happening here, either: because average latency is bounded below at one second, total throughput can never exceed c. There is no super-linearity to be found here.
> Figuring this out will probably be important to or related to understanding the mystery of dark matter.

The physicist in me would replace "probably" with "hopefully" here. :)
Globalism is and always was inevitable and has in fact started already 200 years ago. It's also not a problem. A problem is how countries deal with the middle class and how they transform their society when there are shifts in production. For example, it's not China's fault that the average salary of a US CEO was 361 times higher than that of a factory worker in 2018, as opposed to only having been 20 times higher in the 1950s.

What we see right now is really just the emergence of China as an economic super-power, thanks to their gigantic internal market and their technological advances. This was predicted for the past 40 years or so and it nothing to do with the problems that the US is facing. These problems are mostly internal.
Looks fine to me. Did you miss the diodes?
>You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think).

I don't think that would work thesedays. If you had a political post, I'd say you'd correctly keep it in its correct circle (based on you highlighting the feature here), but since Google+ was a thing, a new generation of twitter addicts have the mantra of "everything is political, even looking at a keyboard is a political act, politics affects everything you do, even if you just sit there, so that's why my political rant is in your model train collector circle #sorrynotsorry"

So they'd abuse the circles feature with that mantra as an excuse.
I'm fine with Ads. What I'm not fine with is:

- Intrusive Ads that either demand attention or mask themselves as something else

- Ads that are based on targeted information pulled from other sources, such as other websites.

- Ads that are just completely off topic. I'm fine with general targeting. "male" "computer science" "linux" stuff like that
Hello stagnation! Seriously that is the implicit arrogance that they will have all of the property ever needed or wanted and nobody else could do better. Not to mention the lack of improvements or investments. To be frank we have that approach in areas without strong property rights and the result is a shithole because nobody makes nice things if they just wind up taken.
Another funny thing with the accordion component: the icons for expand and collapse seem to my mind to be reversed (- for expand and + for collapse)?
Control-t to transpose also doesn't work in Firefox.
> It is a side-product of rumor spreading games that the intelligence community plays

It was a hit piece, who funding is now well known, it was political from the start. What it was not, and would not qualify as is an intelligence report and was never formulated for the purpose of intel. It is no different than the hit pieces being produced by the right to paint Biden as a pedophile. So I don't see it as a Strawman as the point was people are so far gone on their version of the truth that no amount of censoring or labeling is going to pull them back from the edge. Both sides are doing it, and at this point there is no gradient of less-bad.
In practice, I find I usually have to switch to -O0, as nearly all my variables are <optimized out> with -Og.
Don't want to be ride but that is yet more JavaScript fragmentation. That's it
2011 - 9.6 trillion.

2019 - 15.4 trillion.

2020 - 18.3 trillion and growing...

(M2 dollar volume)
I learned something recently about sea mines. and land based guided balistic missiles that render navy carriers and destroyers useless.
> When the author was born, black people were still being lynched.

The BLM movement would argue that they effectively still are.
I read the abstract and it seems kind of obvious: Yes if you have a trusted compiler you can bootstrap another.

But have can we know the "trusted compiler" is really to be trusted?
"c-u" only works in the terminal.
Trump has put the WTO out of action by blocking the appointment of judges.
There's a distinction between assistance to renters vs assistance to landlords: assistance to renters prevents them from becoming homeless, whereas landlords are usually not at risk of becoming homeless.

Mass homelessness would be hellish for everyone. While we are all naturally focused on our individual situations it's good to not lose sight of the big picture.
The day a company makes words taboo, is a good day to leave.
Many renters rent because they can't afford to buy. So landlords or flippers eliminating the bottom x percent of the market forces many into renting, at which point the landlords can determine the price. It's a self perpetuating system.

If tomorrow a law came about that said 'you can own no more than one home, full stop', watch how many renters buy their first home on firesale.
This seems like a good idea and the more open source static analyzers the better. (It really tempts me to eventually pay for GitLab high versions.)

Pysa is part of pyre-check and the documentation [0] seems like a lot of work to set up and hope it gets better.

I’m using to using safety [1] and bandit [2] and they are one line drop ins to my builds.

Pysa isn’t the same thing and seems much more powerful but I hope they get to a “Just give me something useful out of the box and I’ll customize my taint scans later.”

[0] https://pyre-check.org/docs/pysa-running
[1] https://pypi.org/project/safety/
[2] https://pypi.org/project/bandit/
Why is that a problem? Is tracking orange-faced empty-headed narcissists an essential military strategy now?
Wouldn't more velocity actually help the issue? Changing hands for profit repeatedly is how arbitrage works to homogenize prices and availability.
None or very few surface-level resemblances. Both projects live on the different planes of abstraction, have different goals, and take different paths in achieving them.
I hate to say it, but almost all of these sites/systems end up being far more annoying than useful. Why? Almost all the time, their alerts simply are not actionable. At best, they'll tell you that your username/email was included in a breach and often identify the breach itself by some nebulous data cache name that means nothing to you.

They almost never tell you which site was actually breached, nor do they ever give you any hints as to what password was actually compromised.

So really, when I show up in one of these alerts, I'm always asking myself:

- Was this a recent breach, or a redundant alert from something I dealt with months ago?

- What account do I actually need to update, if any, to be safe from this alert?

These questions almost never seem to be answered. As someone who uses a password manager and a different random password for every site, there's no way I'm going to proactively hunt down and change every single entry in its DB when I get the "alert of the week."

(FWIW, I once worked somewhere that somehow had access to a far better version of this data than they'll ever let the public get access to. That system actually did generate alerts that were actionable. I only wish I had a way to get useful alerts like that as a private individual.)
You could let the editor soft-wrap the lines in place of horizontal scroll. Done well this could be the best of both worlds—adaptive to different screen/editor sizes, and the viewer decides how to indent or align the wrapped lines according to their own preferences. However, proper expression alignment would require solid language support from the editor. (Wrapping with simple indentation wouldn't be too difficult.)
What is the link to source code?
Which is impossible, which is why no new shells have caught fire.

In order to preserve compatibility, you must handle quotes, namespaces, etc in the same way as Bourne-derived shells, because they will be expected to run scripts that use nested interpolation, or string declarations without quotes, or whatever. Shells that use a more robust syntax, like Fish or Powershell, can't ever be compatible.
>China's navy CANNOT project power into the strait of Hormuz to secure their oil supply. Any one of the regional middle eastern powers could cut off their supply if they wanted to.

A quarter of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Three quarters does not. Oil prices are at record lows and many oil-dependent economies are desperate to sell their production. China has made a lot of friends in parts of the world where America has made a lot of enemies.

China has oil pipelines supplying imports from Kazakhstan and Eastern Siberia, in addition to two natural gas import pipelines. China is the 4th largest oil producer and has an exceptionally large strategic reserve of around 400 million barrels.

China does not want a conflict with the US. Any conflict would be massively detrimental to both parties, but there are many reasons to believe that the US is socially and politically under-prepared for coordinated action in the national interest. Is this really a fight you want to pick? What does "winning" even look like?
> they are 100% lip service

Do you have first hand knowledge of this or are you just repeating what you think you know?
True, but c-k also works and so does, c-a, so with c-a, c-k you can get the same effect with not too much more effort.
In the energy sector alone:

The first full scale fusion reactor: https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines

Europe is striving to be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...

Both of those projects/initiatives “render entire industries obsolete” and “challenge cultural norms on a fundamental level, etc.”
> I will say that the vast vast majority of these sites (unfortunately I can't disclose the number) have not received edits or even visits for more than two years

I'm having a hard time understanding why that would justify deleting that information forever. If anything, that suggests that providing static access would be enough and nearly zero-cost. Storage costs are a fraction of what they were.

I do a lot of searching for computer-related historical information, e.g., looking for rationales of "why something happened". Once information is destroyed it's often impossible to recover. No one might look at it for 30 years, and then there's only one retrieval but it was an important retrieval.

We've had a tremendous loss of recent information. This isn't the only example, but it's an important one. I'd like to see information retained, not lost.
Aggressive inlining keeps coming up.

There's Spiral [0]: a language where inlining is the default and also a first-class concept, much like immutability in new popular languages like Rust.

As a bonus, the commit messages contain a whole journal worth of notes.

[0]: https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language
NoSQL to PostgreSQL – Adventures in Migrations – PostgreSQL Tutorial
Lit has been doing this for a while it's from that Polymer project.
https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/
Web Components is a huge deal, you can do just web components on plain notepad and not need any build system for something very simple just using module based packages on the browser this is really cool.
Snowpack for me was something huge, getting away from webpack was like getting back hours of work.
But I don't know, till now for me I still see the Lit-Element and stuff as being more flexible than this one, the beauty is for example you can have a component in react and another on in Vue, it doesn't really matter and another one in JQuery. You can have whatever works best for you for each case.
Yes. This is a money thing and has nothing to do with the discussion here, which is ” Why should I, as a private ISP company, be forced to pass through racist content, russian disinformation or anti vaxxer propaganda?”
Right, 'asymptotic' is a better description of the behavior. I've updated the post.
I like all the proposed solutions in that thread involving brandname keyword bans and giving ad accounts time-outs for violations and such when the actual fix is to go back to putting ads somewhere other than inline with search results, and making it very clear that they're ads. The move away from that was pure evil, but I'm sure it's made Google a lot of money. It's crazy it doesn't count as some sort of fraud.
>> Hardly anyone knows X. Let's replace it with something nobody knows

By that logic no one should make anything new to replace the incumbent.

In case of Perl, PHP came and it replaced Perl as mainstream web development language.

In sysadmin stuff where Perl used to be mainstream, now significant chunk is taken away by Python.

These days JavaScript appeals to younger people more. Times change and with it the tools people use also change.

There is no guarantee that any new project will succeed but you won't know unless you try.
Ask HN: If money wasn’t a problem, which Masters or PhD degree would you choose?
And why would you choose it...
I am very, very confident that this is true. I do not think people who actually know how the ad revenue is generated would like the public to know what percentage of Google's revenue is built on exploiting senior citizens' tendency to click on scammy ads, and trademark squatting such as this.

I spoke to a Googler a few days ago here about how a scam ad was being constantly perpetrated against seniors on Google's ad platform, screenshots included, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24044837
This seems like it would still leave a vulnerability: There are many passwords that are commonly used, e.g. "password". If I submit "password" to haveibeenpwned, it hashes and sends the range "5BAA6". It seems to me that now anyone in control of haveibeenpwned could reasonably guess that my password has a decent chance of being "password". Using this methodology for the top 100 or 1000 passwords would presumably uncover a lot of passwords.
> What? Which part of our immigration system is reciprocal?

China and the US reciprocally offer certain kinds of 10-year visas to each other's citizens.
Because most times people aren't "just right", they're just unwilling to widen their point of view, and/or they turn the issue into a way to assert their own importance and intellect over someone else at the expense of those they work with.

I don't need some coworker getting into some drawn out battle about how MD5 is fine to use when we can just use SHA (or CRC32C as that person did, which is more obviously non-useful for security contexts) and be done in 30 minutes. The auditor is there to do their job, and if what they request is not extremely invasive or problematic for the project, implementing those suggestions is your job, and arguing over pointless things in your job is not a sign of something I want in a coworker or someone I manage.
edit - to thank everyone who took time out to explain what's going on - I'm still cynical but it all makes more sense now. I also like to think the ignorant guy asking the ignorant questions (in this case me) can sometimes be valuable for others who aren't in the club. Previous rant intact below for fun and hijinks.

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As a jaded old web developer I've seen so many frameworks along the way all promising this and that.

Can someone who is familiar with this answer me this: Does this framework automatically sort out ARIA standards for me? Like tab ordering and stuff is dealt with automatically?

I know it seems I am being lazy but I am just fed up.

"FAST is a collection of JavaScript packages centered around web standards, designed to help you efficiently tackle some of the most common challenges in website and application design and development."

COOL! (/s)

"Have you ever needed a reusable set of UI components that you could drop into your app and have an amazing experience? That's FAST."

UNIQUE! (/s)

"Have you ever needed to create your own components, and share them across your company, including across groups that use different, incompatible front-end frameworks? That's FAST."

<record scratch>

Different, incompatible front-end frameworks?

So like, this shit is magic that will let me streamline components between my Oceania team's WordPress and my German team's Magento frontends?

And I don't have to learn any new paradigm to make this work?

I don't have to use their specific, custom HTML in order to leverage it? https://www.fast.design/docs/components/accordion

SWEET! (/s)

Come on. We'd have to re-write everything to use this library specifically, and train our teams.

Honestly this is to me just another bunch of shit that will get tacked into projects and have to be known and supported, because some sprightly young thing will convince management this is the panacea to seemingly redundant development work.

What's the actual selling point here.
.. except in this product, the software to "remotely validate it is running securely" is provided by the same party that is running the cloud.

So it increases your trust in the cloud from P(cloud provider is screwing me over) to P(cloud provider is screwing me over) ∪ (only "cloud ops" department in my cloud provider wants to screw me over, and they cannot get help from anyone else in the cloud provider)

Not a very big change if you ask me.
I'm not sure. I think a lack of metals makes a star less stable and burn out more quickly, but I could be wrong on that. There's some episodes of Astronomy Cast and Ask a Spaceman that I think would answer your question about pop3 stars more reliably than I could.
People are downvoting this, but I think you point to a real problem.

Yes, people are generally good and want to do meaningful things and contribute to society. But we're also lazy, selfish, and good at convincing ourselves to make short-term choices with poor long-term consequences.

I think with UBI, there would be a whole lot of couch potatoes. I don't think that's necessarily morally a bad thing, but if the ratio of couch potatoes to people producing economic activity that pays into the UBI fund is bad enough, it can make UBI simply economically unsustainable whether you think it's a moral good or not.

So there is a balance between:

A. Keeping UBI low enough to incentivize people to produce labor such that UBI is financial self-sustaining.

B. Keeping UBI high enough that people who do not work are not destitute.

I think fans of UBI have a tacit assumption that A is well above B, but I am not so certain.
Related: China can finally manufacture ballpoint pens.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
How about salaries and pensions? California spends more on their sweet-heart pension package than they do on education.

Also any service that is temporarily furloughed because of shelter-at-home should have their employees furloughed as well. In other words they should experience the pain the same way as the rest of us.
The linked XKCD article on "Lethal Neutrinos" is great https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/