skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook also banned a U.S. marketing firm named Rally Forge, which it said had worked with conservative activism organization Turning Point USA and a self-proclaimed environmental body called Inclusive Conservation Group.

> Accounts controlled by Rally Forge attempted to influence public conversations around news events by flooding the comments section of news articles from prominent outlets, Facebook said.

Wow, a literal American 50 cent party-like effort.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/19/meet-the-chinese-intern...
Readable version of your [1]: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1314372114946895873.html
Rusts type system is able to carry a lot of information it can use to verify the memory safety of programs at compile time.

For example, the type system includes a piece called the borrow-checker, which is able to guarantee that pointers are still valid when you use them, which eliminates use-after-free and buffer overflows.

In a similar vein, the type system includes information about in which ways types may be shared across threads, and by using this information, the compiler can guarantee that there are no data races whatsoever in multi-threaded programs.
OpenFaaS: On découvre l'écosystème serverless open-source
A hierarchy of caches is not the core idea. This is a common misunderstanding, but it is not how the DNS works.

There is a hierarchy of content, content DNS servers serving up their portions of the overall DNS database with delegations pointing to subdomain content DNS servers, and resolving proxy DNS servers stitching all of this content together (combining a bunch of partial answers from different content DNS server into an overall full answer) as they perform query resolution. Content DNS servers don't even have caches, as they serve up content directly from some kind of back-end database source.

That is the core idea; distribution of content around the world's content DNS servers, rather than having a giant replicated /etc/hosts or HOSTS.TXT file. Indeed, the headlined interview begins with this very point.

And yes, there has been at least one significant change in implementation. It was about a quarter of a century ago, when people began to realize that not having the same single DNS server perform multiple rôles was a good idea, and indeed best practice, and the whole RD/AA thing turned into mostly a hangover from old poorer practices.

So if you were about to retort that some content DNS servers (e.g. ISC's BIND, Microsoft DNS server) also doubled up as caching proxy DNS servers and did have caches, you should notice that even the "Cricket" Book has been recommending proper separation of rôles for many years now. This was a major change, reflected in the designs of newer DNS softwares than ISC's BIND, such as Bernstein djbdns, MaraDNS, PowerDNS, and nsd, which do not mix the rôles in a single program. And it's page 321 et seq. in the 2001 edition of the book.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-server-roles.html
AWS US East EC2 issues for 8 hours now
I am pretty surprised that AWS reported in their status dashboard that since 1:48AM PDT they have had issues with EC2 instances, and 8.5 hours later, it's not resolved.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/ and screenshot at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ftwkqe3ileec98m/screenshot_2020-10-09_06-07-21_pm.png?dl=0

We pre-emptively redirected some of our traffic away from that region some time ago to ensure customers are completely unaffected should there be capacity issues (https://status.ably.io/incidents/710), but I am surprised this is not being reported more widely.

Would be nice to know after this much time how things are going and what the root cause is.

Are any of you experiencing issues too?
Apple is 'protecting' you from what they are going to do to you if you don't do what they want and pay. Much like the government and IRS.
> Maybe this is overly simplistic... eventually the COL in SV will start to equalize with other places in the country like Chicago, won't it?

Chicago with an actual winter will likely never have the demand that California with it's year-round outdoor weather will have.

If costs were completely identical, would you rather live in Illinois or the Bay? How many other people you know would say the Bay?
You Don’t Need to Buy 1 BTC Directly, Consider Bitcoin as the Best Savings Plan
Why does hyper pull in hashbrown? Isn't it identical to std::collections::HashMap?
I doubt the scribes of Sumeria bother doing the tablet themselves. They were among the top of society, they probably had people making the tablet for them (at least the clay preparation, apprentice modeling the tablets from it). You don’t create a piece of paper from scratch either everytime you want to write.
There's a lot of reasons they're not done that way on the internet, for starters it's reverting back to requiring people in the loop for ad sales which is expensive on both sides of the equation. Add to that that the 'personalized' ads are, if the targeting is functioning properly, worth more to the buyer [0] than simple placement ads and you can see why automatic targeted ads dominate the space, human approved/sold, non-personalized ads are both worth less on a per impression basis and more expensive for the buyer and seller to use.

[0] For example a make-up company really doesn't really care about putting an ad in front of me a man who doesn't wear make-up.
How long can you use COBRA for after leaving an employer? I tried to find that answer, but the info was conflicting on the Internet. Is it 18 months?
Sorry, I was trying to make it fit the character limit :(
As much as it costs for employees to be paid sufficiently.

It seems awfully dangerous to think that we should pay people less because otherwise things would be expensive.

This is exactly why/how wealth is moving up and up to a smaller proportion of people at the top
we don't use any replication, Also in almost 5 years we only had one server crash which was due to file-system corruption, and we overcome that as well, it was a few leveldb files which got corrupt due to which the whole XFS file-system was went down, but we recovered it. Just one drawback was: We never used the same filer for saving files, and Get speed was also quite slow on that one, but with time, the volume compaction and vacuum, everything works fine on GET requests.
I think one of the most interesting observations here is that the informal structures described always exist in an organization regardless of the formal structures. The formal structures should exist to hold explicit power and keep informal power in check but that's not to say that informal power isn't still at play.

> The rules of decision-making must be open and available to everyone, and this can happen only if they are formalized. This is not to say that formalization of a structure of a group will destroy the informal structure. It usually doesn't. But it does hinder the informal structure from having predominant control and make available some means of attacking it if the people involved are not at least responsible to the needs of the group at large.

I've found that understanding how informal power works in an organization is extremely important if you really want to get something done - especially if that organization has dysfunctional formal structures.

This article is the best description of the nature of those informal structures that I've ever seen.
This got me curious about how using xcompmgr causes flickering. My intuition would tell me the opposite would be true.
Bummer, one of my reddit ads in 2010 - 2012 outperformed anything I'd done before / since.

I was advertising officially licensed Minecraft merch (cardboard steve heads, foam pickaxes) and it did extremely well in MC / Gaming subreddits.
Multiple RCTs have been done where HCQ was given as a post exposure prophylaxis. Didn’t do anything significant in terms of reducing infection.

It’s not just about doses or timing. It doesn’t work.
At least he can pay his bills with his books.
If women on average prefer to work less hours isn’t the concerning thing the people who seem to want to force them to work more? Especially when it’s oftentimes men that call this a “problem”?

It seems unless you have some data showing their preference is to work more but they are limited by something externally forced on them, and you’d need data not opinion, you shouldn’t be concern-trolling.

Women buy more dresses than men, is this a concern we should address?
This is this same sort of group that would say "trickle down economics doesn't work." It's funny they'd expect productivity gains to trickle down to wages.

Productivity is a ceiling on wages; once wages raise beyond a certain point, the company will take a loss, even after passing down the cost of labor to customers.

Wages not keeping up with productivity gains isn't just on the low end. Seeing how well they tracked before 1970, there was an overall labor shortage. Around 1970, that changed, and there was more labor than the market needed, so wages were kept low enough that it's cheaper to pay someone minimum wage to take your order than to install an order kiosk.
The UK Government is creating a catalogue of all its open data APIs
I'm sure it's not so simple. You do the tasks you are told. There are departments you never heard of tell you "we need a backdoor in the event of an Emergency"

That department doesn't realize they were told to do this by a director who knows the true purpose is propaganda.
>Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions.

This is probably the worst thing you can do to online advertising. It's probably one of the only good things about the online ad industry. If you book time slots, only the biggest players will be able to compete for that slot. Essentially killing the entire selling point of online ads, which is giving a chance to smaller players a chance at the game. I don't want to, ever, see online ads transform into TV ads.
Targeting would be okay if it was done properly. In its current state, it's unethical and probably should be illegeal. Advertisers shouldn't know what I like, they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics.
Thank you for taking time to do this! All of the responses are really great.

Can you share why some companies may split stocks 51/49 between two founders, instead of 50/50?
One journalist get arrested cause he had a camera: if you throw the camera, then it can hurt people, so he had a weapon and could get arrested...
> The pro-HCQ

This term alone makes me highly skeptical. Honest researchers shouldn't be "pro" or "anti" anything. Coronavirus doesn't have an opinion on HCQ. It is a virus that either responds biologically to HCQ in vivo or it doesn't. Pro or anti are political terms that change the conversation from scientific to propaganda based.

If the research indicates that HCQ has a powerful prophylactic effect against Coronavirus in a double blind study, then let the data speak for itself.

However saying that you're "pro-HCQ" or "anti-HCQ" immediately discredits you in my eyes because viral pandemics don't have emotions and therefore can't care whether you are pro or anti anything.
Thanks, that answers the question.
Accept or except?
I believe this is almost table stakes for an ad platform these days. Marketers expect ever-more precise targeting to get better CPCs/CPAs/ROAS. This is especially true as an ad platform becomes more popular and CPMs naturally rise due to increased competition in the auction. When a company like FB/GOOG innovates in the ad targeting/measurement space every company will follow suit because their customers (advertisers) are going to ask for it. I believe market forces will continue to drive innovation in ads targeting until someone steps in and draws a line in the sand (eg regulation via the governement).
My non technical friends and family do not like targets ads. Anytime they see specific ads for a store the just visited (online or brick-and-mortar) they think the microphones are on and being used. There’s a difference of an ad for a generic pet product you may like vs an ad for the exact product you viewed on another site. They do not understand how two completely different sites share their information. They do not like when they do a google search for an illness, view a webmd page, and then see ads for their illness on the phone apps.

During my time at Apple one of the big things they impressed on new hires is that there are things we can do with technology, that may even be beneficial to the user, but will be perceived as creepy. For instance, Starbucks could use facial recognition to greet you by your name at a location you’ve never been to. They could have already started your drink with a high probability it is what you order based on time and weather. But these things are “creepy” to much of the population and should be avoided. Ad networks do not care because their customer is not the end-user.
Show HN: OptDuty – PagerDuty scheduling for distributed teams
Happened to me as well, I had to back through 3 articles to get back to HN
Isn't this only first-order labor? If the butcher needs to pay more for labor as well, you're still experiencing an increase in price that's labor-related, just hidden.
I imagine that it's there because it is older than that happening. HashBrown's README says

> Since Rust 1.36, this is now the HashMap implementation for the Rust standard library. However you may still want to use this crate instead since it works in environments without std, such as embedded systems and kernels.

I don't know if that use case is important to Hyper or not.
Reminds me of https://www.samueljscott.com/2020/09/08/linkedin-ad-fraud/

Online advertising is a giant scam.
You've failed to interpret the comment, and you are making the poster's point for them.

Tail wags the dog.
Exhibit A: https://ooni.org/post/2020-iran-dot/
Does HMRC provide those free of charge? I'd be curious to have a look at them.
Paul Stamets is great! I've watched his Rogan episodes 4 or 5 times each.

(2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ6Ym719urg

(2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
Unfortunately the following happened according to Wikipedia:

"The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate". The Pakistani government removed "Muslim" and left only his name on the headstone. They are the only nation to officially declare that Ahmadis are non-Muslim."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam
Hi HN, This is side-project of mine.

OptDuty manages PagerDuty's schedule in a smart way with vacation info and dev's preferences (timezone, lunch time, etc). It uses Discrete Optimization with MiniZinc's help. For now scheduling optimized for one specific usecase, but with Discrete Optimization - it's easy to expand. If you're interested in technical part check out introduction to MiniZinc for the scheduling problem https://optduty.com/blog/2020-08-29-schedule-optimization/

Working on project I focused on Privacy. 0 extra services used, no analytics, trackers, no external resources on pages, no welcome email, no emails without explicit agreement and normal delete button to delete the company account.

I'm not a frontend developer, so to make this part fun, I've used ClojureScript. Actually it was really nice and smooth experience.

I'd appreciate any feedback about idea, implementation, design (I know it's ugly).

Thanks!
"... other planning/decision mechanisms, such as Operations Research ..."

https://github.com/microsoft/maro

"Operations research (British English: operational research) (OR) is a discipline that..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research

So ... it is a mechanism or a discipline?
There’s a “how to draw an owl” meme at this part:

> When Dimon finished from Harvard Business School in 1982, he placed a call to Sanford Weill, then chairman of the executive committee of American Express, to ask for advice.
> And the RJ45 connectors are not designed for that kind of dangerous voltage.

Right, there will be a voltage where the pins will arc, and a lower potential where a dirty connector will arc.

We rented an office that had previously housed some sort of telecom equipment, so the whole place was wired for, I believe it's 40 volts rackmount equipment. That runs at lower current (thus watts) than computers and so we had to run new electrical and AC into the server room to use it for IT equipment.

Cars are trying to switch to 48V because 40-50V is a range where touching a live wire gets your attention but won't do too much permanent damage (eg kill you). Or if you went with 20v you might be able to reuse equipment designed for USB power supplies.
Unfortunately, the Vice and the peer-reviewed articles contain numberous misconceptions that could have been avoided if an Arabist or medievalist were consulted. I’ll focus on three that seem to be persistent on Internet but that originate in the 19th cent (more on that later)...
#1. The 𝐾𝑖𝑡𝑎̄𝑏 𝑎𝑙-𝐻̣𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑤𝑎̄𝑛 (Eng. The Book of Living Things) of al-Jāḥiẓ is not a work zoology or biology. It is a literary bestiary. Jāḥiẓ is a Muʿtazilī theologian and an accomplished belletrist. He wrote his Ḥayawān a compendium of stories, anecdotes, ...
maxims, and poems that organized under the rubric of animals. In terms of genre and content, it resembles, for example, the 𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑠 and its medieval successors.
#2. The Arabo-Islamic scholars mentioned in these articles are heirs to Hellenistic tradition and ...
its views on nature, much like the medieval scholars of Latin Christendom and Byzantium. Ideas depicted as precursors to Darwin in these articles are, in fact, a part of the reception history of Aristotelian concepts like the “ladder of nature” and ...
the Neoplatonists' “Chain of Being”, which were popular among monotheists at least as early as Philo of Alexandria (fl. 1st cent. BCE). The views of Jāḥiẓ no more resemble Darwin than does, say, those of Thomas Aquinas.
...
#3. The peer-reviewed article contains many howlers that a competent Arabist would spot immediately. Most egregious is the discussion of 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑘ℎ (المسخ), meaning “metamorphosis”. This idea has more to do with theology than biology...

In fact, it has a qurʾanic pedigree: the Qurʾan speaks of God punishing the wicked – especially Jewish violators of the Sabbath – by transforming them into baser creatures, such as apes and pigs. This has about as much to do with evolution as Kafka’s 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠...
This is like saying the pre-socratic Greek philosophers "discovered" the atom. Their "discovery" was just vague speculation.

Darwin didn't just say "evolution happens", he demonstrated it. Before him no one else demonstrated it.

Surely, a lot scholars speculated about evolution long before Darwin. One of them was Erasmus Darwin, Charles grandfather.

But that misses the whole point: no other scholar was able to embed a theory of evolution into the scientific body of knowledge. More than discovering it, Darwin's achievement was the clear and irrefutable formulation of it.
Apple Silicon Macs to launch as part of another Apple event in November
Cool tip, thanks!
In reply to both of the comments above, okay, perhaps my driving example wasn't the best. It was the first thing that came to mind, but I think my underlying point remains valid and applies to many other choices that one could commonly make in a life that isn't completely sheltered which nonetheless carry certain catastrophic long-tail risks. Life is by default risky, and all the more so if one lives it with some sense of adventure. this twirls all the way down into a whole series of sub-decisions that you could make inside a single larger decision. To worry too much about catastrophic long-tail risks throughout is a recipe for worrying far too much sometimes.
Doesn't Barnes and Noble sell ePub versions? (They call them "Nook Books".)
Can u share any approx pricing/click-through rate ?

We are considering driving some traffic into very basic sites. We dont really intent to monetize, so cheap trashy visitors are ok
This way to studying the effect of a molecule is very narrow.

The problem is that they are implying that absence of positive effect on a late treatment on very ill patients can be extrapolated.

This is not the case.
Well here the law is sufficiently vague so they used it to arrest journalist because they had a camera or a helmet, or arrest many protestors without clear reason. Most of them are out 48h later, but still spent 1 to 2 days in "jail"... A way to deter people from protesting...
I want to see a gas canister that say oxygen, that is tested and proved to be so.

I want to see a gas canister that say hydrogen, that is tested and proved to be so.

Then I want the gases put into some sort of container, where some sort of process is undertaken, and water is poured out.

It should be straightforward, with no trickery or slight of hand trickery.

It must be simple to do that surely??!

Feel free to post a video.
As a counterpoint to your underwater welder example - the underwater welding industry doesn't have recruiting offices around the country in low income areas or recruiters stationed in high schools, nor do they have an arrangement with movie studios where they can use their underwater welding equipment for free in their movies so long as the movies portray the underwater welding industry in a positive light.

It's disappointing that as a society we seem to be cool with (mostly poor) people with undeveloped prefrontal cortices having to make a choice between incurring significant high interest debt (which they were probably never given the tools to make informed decisions about in the first place) or risking their lives for something that's free or at least attainable in the rest of the developed world.
Seven central banks and BIS publish report on digital currency
No way to side step the 2 year requirement, many have tried.
> areas of the brain correlated with working memory and encoding new information were more active during handwriting

Doesn't that suggest something more than just the complexity of data entry?
I had an experience slightly like that at first where I was surprised to only be going 1-2x faster than my old MATLAB, but then I realized my code was full of trivially avoidable type instabilities and got another 100x speedup in Julia.
Such a well written piece that articulates a lot of things I’ve talked about lately with friends, family and coworkers.

I said just yesterday to someone that there are always politics, it’s only a question of how formalized they are. The less formalized, the more the workplace is probably being bent to the whims of the best manipulators.

So when someone says there are no politics, they are either clueless or pulling the strings themselves.

Same goes with the claim of “no ego” workplaces. OK, either you have only robots working there, or that’s how you treat your humans. But it’s an admission that they can’t or won’t deal with real human problems. In a thought labor industry (I’m a software developer) this is disastrous; imagine a construction company with no protocols for preventing or dealing with physical injury.
Yes. But only computer scientists are interested only in the language itself. I am an engineer so I have to deal with practical aspects of it.