skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With my synology it was faster to back up the array, break the volume, recreate it and copy the data back than it was to swap the 2nd of 3 disks I was trying to upgrade. The first ding was 6 hours, the second was on track for 48 hours, and I had another one to go. It shouldn't be like this.

I'm not convinced, in the specific case of a consumer system, that every track on every disk needs to be touched during a build/rebuild. It amplifies the read and write traffic at exactly the point where any traffic is a ticking time bomb waiting to take your data away (which is exactly what happened the first time I tried to upgrade the Synology - a drive started reporting bad sectors during the verification after rebuild, but before marking the array healthy).

In a production server you might be more uncomfortable with a drive array that experiences an amortized cost spread over every read or write operation, especially one that upticks every time your total storage exceeds the previous high water mark. But even there, I think I could make a reasonable if not airtight case for that as well.

Last conversation, I believe someone told me that the cost of resilvering a ZFS array is proportional to the contents and not the capacity. I don't know if that would be true in the case of the patch being discussed.

The best any of us can expect is for the costs to be similar to the kind of service disruption you get when adding or removing servers from a cluster that is using consistent hashing with m-way redundancy. There are always m machines involved in every write, and you are going to have to move 1 to 2 nths of the data every time n changes, and that may be as high as m/n reads and writes. But 2/5th is a lot smaller than 3 reads, 1 write, 3 reads per block for 100% of the blocks in the volume. But I haven't seen a system that is anywhere near that minimum cost.
For me it is not the missing add-ons, and I even like the bar at the bottom. But how on earth do I read some sites while coming back to my favorites? Tapping the address bar gives me a big back screen with the bar at the top, that is where I used to find my most used sites. Now instead I have to tap the small tabs icon, tap + and then choose a site. This leaves me with a lot of tabs open. I used to open things for reading in new tabs in the background, but those now get lost in my huge list of unused tabs opened solely to get to my favorites. I can't find the option to start with an empty session after closing so I now have to manually clean up al those tabs every now and then. Oh, and I can't find print and the downloads button anymore... Any advice on alternatives? I just picked up my laptop to avoid FireFox mobile :s

I my most used sites were simply available below the address bar after tapping it, that would be really helpful to me.
From a TechCrunch piece[0] a few days ago based on leaked financials:

> The company’s top three customers — which aren’t disclosed — together represented 28% of the company’s revenue for 2019. Its top twenty customers represented 67% of total revenues, with each one of those customers averaging $24.8 million in revenue.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/leaked-palantir-s-1-shows-...
These financials are awful for a software business. Gross margin of 67%, even with pilot costs lumped into Sales&Marketing. If you add these pilot costs to COR, you'd get better numbers manufacturing furniture.

-- 2019 Financials ('000s)

Revenue: 742,555

Cost of Revenue: 242,373

Gross Profit: 500,182

Sales and Marketing: 450,120

-- Sales and Marketing includes pilot costs

"Sales and marketing costs primarily include salaries, stock-based compensation expense, and benefits for personnel involved in executing on pilots and performing other brand building activities, as well as third-party cloud hosting services for our pilots, marketing and sales event-related costs, and allocated overhead. The Company generally charges all such costs to sales and marketing expense in the period incurred."
kafka-gitops [1] is another declarative topic/acl management tool that enables a planfile/apply strategy.

[1]: https://github.com/devshawn/kafka-gitops
I agree with the case analysis, but disagree with the implication that the code needs to be runnable (which is seems to be the point of the discussion at hand). In many cases having source code, even if it no longer runs, should be sufficient.
> The local IP is the only item on here that bothers me, though I couldn't find any other local network information that would be problematic.

It seems that the author is not really that surprised with the amount of data being collected.
I do miss Redirector, Leechblock NG and Redirect AMP to HTML. I hope they are available soon.
How does the broken stick get off the field of play if you're not allowed to carry it off?
You're presenting the shining example in the corporate world of responsibility with customer data, Apple, with every other company and saying that everyone does it this way?

Most companies hide it in legalese. Some companies claim they're not sending any data and then send it anyway. Looking at you Philips Hue lights.
Will also add that all the other benefits (a single application package is great! signing things is great!) are true! But those do not hang on this aspect of WebBundles
If you're reading a PDF then you're not looking at their ads.
>Epic has had the choice to conform

The developer you are talking about didn't break the rules of the app store. Epic -the one with the development of Unreal Engine- is an entirely different legal entity than the one that broke Apple's rules - the forthnite developer. X broke a rule, Apple got pissy and punished both X and Y because both have the same owners. As the judge also acknowledged in the ruling.
The intro (letter from the CEO) is interesting, distancing themselves from Silicon Valley:

"The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software. But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires.

Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.

From the start, we have repeatedly turned down opportunities to sell, collect, or mine data. Other technology companies, including some of the largest in the world, have built their entire businesses on doing just that.

Software projects with our nation’s defense and intelligence agencies, whose missions are to keep us safe, have become controversial, while companies built on advertising dollars are commonplace. For many consumer internet companies, our thoughts and inclinations, behaviors and browsing habits, are the product for sale. The slogans and marketing of many of the Valley’s largest technology firms attempt to obscure this simple fact."
> * Some form of port knocking

Variable port knocking ie a different sequence tied to rules can help expose compromised networks making up the internet.
Say you port knock from your mobile phone, use one port knocking sequence, if port knocking from a different internet connection use a different port knocking sequence. This can help highlight those networks with taps, but the identity of who is behind the tap can still remain a mystery, unless you set other traps. You also need to trust your devices, which no one can legally do as copyright prevents people from examining the code on their chips and some OS'es like Windows. NSA still provide the tools for examining code for free https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ but as always Resource Burning is something to take seriously when trying to secure your systems. Sometimes its best to view servers as disposable, so automation can be your friend even simple PXE boots can be useful. Its also worth noting you can run at least two different ADSL connections down the same copper wire, they do here in the UK at least, most people dont know this, but the TV & film streaming services use this, some ISP supplied routers can give this away if you examine the backup config files.
I'll start caring about chilling effects on speech again when local governments quit encouraging the police to just let riots wear themselves out, damage and deaths be damned. Until that happens I don't really care if the federal government is engaging in these tactics as long as belligerantly violent groups are actually charged and receive jail time.
Why “work for hire” could be limiting your company and yourself
Amazon does rural deliveries. My parents live in a rural area, over three miles from the nearest town (pop. 1,563), and yet regularly receive parcels from Amazon-branded delivery vehicles. They're not limited to major metros.
It's still a huge problem. Only dTrace runs everywhere: BSD, Solaris, Mac, windows, Linux.
BPF only runs on Linux.

In userspace everybody has dTrace probes, nobody has bpf/stap probes.

Additionally dTrace is secure, BPF is insecure.

It really looks bad, but these Linux jokers still think they rule the world.
I thought that was clear: prior to HFT, the seller would have made the deal with the buyer without the intermediary HFT because if the latency. HFT exists because of speed. Very hard to say "High Frequency Trading" without saying "High Frequency".
I quite like this comic, it offers some perspective http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Exactly! Ars Technica usually does a pretty good job.
Do you used favorites? How do you go through a list of you sites of interest?
Oh, the worst part is that our system doesn't even require that people be convinced to give the wealthy more wealth. The relationship of State governance & powerful trade unions with the "world banks" functions like an insurance scam, whereby private losses are foisted upon an unwilling populace through all sorts of very fancy sounding financial tools. It's a charade. Why do you think they are so resistant to letting housing naturally crash? Can't have those plebs realize they can live and provide for themselves without debt, gotta inflate, inflate, inflate, so they'll be forced to work where we want, salary tiered by what we need. Hey, I wonder what happens if you do that, while at the same time ensuring that no one has access to capital? $10 bag o' chips. So much faith in our brave and fearless "leaders." Oh hey, look, someone's nephew is running for office. They are just so darn deserving. We've really come so far since feudalism.
Looks interesting. One thing I found slightly confusing is that the Try Demo button goes to Login, but doesn't show a direct way to signup.
You're arguing income inequality has worsened in spite of free trade, which is fine, but I think the original comment's point was that free trade carries some benefits, which is a separate argument altogether (that is, they are not asserting free trade is a panacea). It could be the case that some other cause has led to increased income inequality, which then would not affect the free-trade-has-benefits argument.

Here is a Brookings report that explores whether global trade has directly contributed to worsening income inequality: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/worsening-american-income...
Well, some people just love their chains. It is ok, I guess, their right to agree to bondage. But why do they insist that everyone else should be as enslaved as they are themselves?

And yes,I've seen Macs of average users. Never saw anything really wrong there. You are exaggerating the issue.
only?
What's truly incredible is how much is spent on Sales/Marketing. It's not like they're marketing to millions of small businesses or hundreds of millions of consumers.

They have 125 customers. Even assuming everey single one of them came online last year, we're looking at millions of dollars each?

That's a lot of…bribes? Idk even know what could cost that much.
Uggg...please don't hijack the standard scrolling or the Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown buttons. When I see this, I just leave immediately.
You seem a little out of the loop. You might want to go back through the past few months worth of news.
It's more that they moved to a new codebase that is not yet feature-complete. It will gain compatible functionality over time.
I'll ask The Information if they'll unlock this article for HN readers, which they sometimes have in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Otherwise it's behind a hard paywall and therefore off topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
The previous Spanish government, not the current one.
Yeah thing is people now routinely have their first kid at 36. Just everything has shifted forward and you’ve no frame of reference for it because you’re living it. Your generation is going to do everything older.
I indeed heard about it, a long time ago, yesterday's update took me by surprise though.
Yes, because it's going to return a small float for anything that Google thinks is "suspicious" (including using Safari or Firefox) and websites will block it as if Google returned "no", except Google is absolved of the criticism that they return bad results for people who value their privacy ("if you don't like it, you should set your confidence lower…")
This lawsuit is taking place in the United States just like most of my business. It doesn’t matter what’s happening in the rest of the world.
> If Apple refuses at that point Epic would likely win an injunction to force them.

Also, Apple has been repeatedly inviting epic to do this, so there is no reason to believe Apple would refuse anyway.
Stylish and Ghostery are two of the other addons that I like, at least on desktop.
This is just super wrong. With WebBundles I can call 2 different things, in two different WebBundles https://example.org/good.js, and that can be different from what the wider web sees as https://example.org/good.js.

Random URLs are just an example of the capability they are not the fundamental problem
Believe it or not, Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
The net effect of people hearing "Black Lives Matter protesters clashed with police again last night" on the news for an entire summer is going to be a giant step backwards for whatever BLM is actually trying to achieve.

That is true whether or not the riots have actually been geographically widespread.
Look into Gravitational Teleport.

They have a cloud offering in beta where they'll manage the proxy/bastion.
the app is also available for android
Custom Events in Vue
The CEO's salary is nothing to sneeze at:

- $2.2M in salary ($225k base + "stipend" + "parental benefit" + "salary adjustment")

- Bonus of $21k (?)

- $2.5M in stock

- $11.3M in options

- $25k in "other compensation)

All total $16M.

The COO got $26M.

This is all "compensation paid for the year ended Dec 31, 2019".
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Yes, naturally. That doesn't change the fact that Amazon does handle their own deliveries in rural areas, not just cities. FedEx and UPS operate under the same constraints.
Almost no one at Jane Street wears suits. The tech-driven buy-side of finance is very different from the sell-side you seem to be familiar with. It's much closer to small tech companies.
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I think they mean that bringing in $742M and losing $579M is a pretty terrible ratio. The raw numbers are large, but looking at dollars in vs. dollars out, you're damn far from making any money.
See this economist article with some analysis of the numbers:

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/08/22/initial-public...

(Discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232199)

TLDR, comparing the year-to-date, tech IPOs are on the high end historically, but not outlying the historical range (I make it just in the top quartile for IPO count). Considering all IPOs (tech and non-tech) though, there are more than any time in the last 15 years.

So yes there are more IPOs, but that doesn't explain why there are more tech IPOs being posted on HN.
Actually the post says that we won't be able to block ads and read the rest of the page anymore. I can understand how Google benefits from that but I hope you understand why I wish that this standard will fail and you start working on something else, maybe in a different company.
Alberta government gives green light to Calgary-Edmonton Hyperloop project
>how would the closure of Epic's Apple Developer account impact others (with their own valid Apple Developer accounts) from using their engine within an app they published to the App store

Correct. My understanding of the situation is that developers who include third party code in their app do not involve the author of that third party code when submitting their own app.

I used the Facebook SDK as a frequently seen example of third party code that is included within iOS apps as they are submitted to the App Store.
Gotta edit the PDFs to put full page ads in between pages
Jane Street is a finance company, but it's a finance company run by nerds. No one wears a suit. It's not corporate at all.
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Class F stock has a variable number of votes? Is that a standard way to keep control amongst the founders?
That's not true. The number is just the number, though it can be more than 16 digits. The initial six digits identify the card issuer. Expiration and CVC/CCV are security checks, but only work in combination with the number. Name is generally not verified, though is often used in fraud assessment. Address verification is uncommon, and almost unused outside the US.
This is a fascinating look inside the academic system.

Eric, a question if I may:

Is there room for a modern PhD that values breadth over depth?

The goal of completing a Ph.D. program is to become the most knowledgable person in the world about a specific topic. While this is a valuable goal for disciplines that reward specialization, it does not provide enough flexibility for autodidacts with a range of interests.

A P.h.D. typically takes between 3 and 6 years of self-directed study. If candidates spend between 35 to 70 hours per week, this amounts to 5,250 hours on the low-end and 21,000 hours at the extreme end.

Of course, not all of this time is spent on research. In fact, modern P.h.D. students spend more time than necessary dealing with administrative functions like teaching, grading, and paperwork for the university.

What would you recommend to someone planning their own "personal PhD"? That is, four to six years of self-directed research on a specific topic.

This is something I think about often. Many citizen scientists like Franklin, Edison, and Darwin were not the result of PhD programs but instead curious professionals who conducted independent research.

Other specific questions:

- What is a suitable replacement for the role of advisor? Is there a representative person outside of academia who would provide the same type of advice?

- What type of fields are best suited to personal PhDs? Low capital investment (ie, no expensive lab equipment) seems like a constraint?

Like I said, I think about this often and have written more on the topic here: https://sundayscaries.substack.com/p/the-lifetime-curriculum...
Technically, they do, they are forced to remain the Republic of China (and also lay a claim on Mongolia) because any change of status would be interpreted by The PRC as a declaration of independence. So yes, while it's quite clear they don't care about the mainland, they have to de jure still keep the irredentist clauses in their laws and statutes in order to avoid war with the Chinese.
the three-legged stool of rhetoric is comprised of logos, ethos, and pathos, and if you think that just because you’ve got a really really strong logos leg that it’ll work out fine and everyone will agree with you without any trouble or difficulty, you are sorely mistaken.
Not exactly, you can already do this using monitoring mode on your normal WiFi card. This is using SDR(software defined radio) to create a WiFi card from scratch. Technical speaking you can recreate any radio signal using SDR, with some limitations of course.
Understanding your situation: you're imagining running a website that wants to include fingerprinting JS? So the site today looks like:

<html>
...
<script src=/fingerprint2.js>
...

The blocker sees ".*/fingerprint2.js" and excludes it. So far so good.

But your site could, with minimal effort, do:

<script src=/asdf23f23g.js>

randomizing the URL on every deploy. This would circumvent url-based blocking today, with the downside of preventing the JS library from being cached between deploys.

Web bundles change none of this. Just as you can generate an HTML file that references either /fingerprint2.js or /asdf23f23g.js, so can you generate a bundle. Unlike your claim in the article, this does not turn "circumvention techniques that are expensive, fragile and difficult" into ones that are "cheap or even free".

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
When OTP lacks the attribute of randomness
You need to look at https://hnnotify.xyz/
> With WebBundles I can call 2 different things, in two different WebBundles https://example.org/good.js, and that can be different from what the wider web sees as https://example.org/good.js.

I can also do that on my server based on whatever criteria I want, just by returning different content. How is this significantly different than the problem you've brought up?
What use is per-capita GDP if it's not getting to workers through real wage growth?
Do you have any offers for that estimate? I've seen numbers that peg estimated fatalities on the order of thousands of people. I am very confident what I said will hold up. I grant that radioactive contamination has widespread non-fatal effects that are detrimental to longevity but that's true of natural disasters, as well.
> [since quantum] They really did fix most of the bugs and speed...

I mean that pre-quantum it was slow and buggy. Post quantum it is fast and not buggy.
Nice, thanks for that writeup
I’m curious why people say not to have ssh exposed if you only have key auth enabled. It seems to me that every single other password + some other number of protections is inherently weaker than simple old public key auth.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/fda-commissioner-bot...
It still works great, has any functionality been removed?
You're basing your assumptions on very little information. In particular, my position was with a buy-side fund set up in the last 5-10 years. It was definitely not "old wallstreet".
The parent offered rural areas as an example of where it might not be profitable to deliver. Not a be-all-end-all analysis carving up profitable and non-profitable areas.
unfortunately any time anyone brings up medicare for all there's a huge pushback from half the country, so yes, people do mostly "like their current insurance" in practice. Or at least like it enough to not want to change the system.

(and no, "just have everybody buy their own policy" is not a realistic answer, virtually every society addresses this on a public policy level because individual purchasers simply don't work well.)

So, if you want your weird gig economy "independent contractor" nonsense, push for medicare for all, it's pretty much that simple. That's the only way having wage slaves be independent contractors isn't going to result in an immediate and massive drop in the quality and availability of health care. But oops lolbertarians don't like that either, they just want to be able to pay someone $0.50 per hour because "free markets are better".