skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the interest of being an informed member of this discussion, I went to try out Matrix.

Per the top recommendation from matrix.org, I downloaded the Elements app for iOS. When I opened it, the very first thing it did was ask me if it could access my contacts for sharing them with my (as yet unchosen?) identity server.

Then, I registered an account and clicked the “People” tab. I was immediately prompted to enable contact discovery, via a modal called “Contact Discovery”. It specifically calls out finding contacts by email and phone number. There was never an option presented to select my own identity server, or change what info is published.

If “contact discovery” isn’t part of the core offering, it certainly makes a great attempt to look like it is. The only choice I had available to me is to decline sharing my metadata, which is the same option Signal makes available for SGX.

I get that due to the magic of open source and federation, Matrix implementations could technically use random numbers or favorite colors or some other identifier, and I’m sure there are other less recommended clients which let me pick my own identity server or only share certain slices of data. But if we can’t agree that the flow recommended on the website is the one that the vast majority of users are going to follow, there’s not much room for a productive discussion.
If we can't get the internet to be classified as a utility, we certainly won't get search to be classified as a utility. Even though, imo, both should be. They are central to everyone's lives. That's a utility.
Yes, no doubt. That's one thing that makes it so hard to have conversations about AI. The goalposts are constantly moving. :-(
The “true” is a little sensationalist though I doubt they were expecting anyone to care about their investigations. They were still going for “a more true”. They’re not accounting for retired 65+ year olds. That’s a little suggestive of just wanting to quickly look away.

They looked at people that are structurally unemployed or stopped looking because they were disillusioned after some time; they also tried averaging a national rent gauge (yeah, regional would’ve been better - so that means approving them grant funding) to better understand the cost of living and who can afford to survive off their wage/salary. So they drew a line across the chart saying people below $X can’t even afford surviving in America right now. There’s some PBS specials on rural American single moms unable to feed their kids mid COVID - enter school lunch funding issues - and Twitter also has its share of people posting their anecdotes of plight.
> We call on technology companies to [...] enable law enforcement access to content in a readable and usable format where an authorization is lawfully issued, is necessary and proportionate, and is subject to strong safeguards and oversight.

I believe the age of centralized services will soon begin to die out. Users are increasingly frustrated with major tech companies who host these services and laws like this continue to erode their potential. I don't know if the crown will be passed on to the likes of Matrix and Mastodon or new decentralized platforms I haven't heard of. Regardless, I think we're approaching a breaking point with centralized services and it's only a matter of time.
While I think fiber is technically better (if the last mile is passive), results are more important and by that metric Poland doesn't seem to be doing any better than its neighbors:

https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-by-cou...
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

In both of these Poland ranks similarly badly (31st/43rd) despite entirely different data sources. France ranks slightly better but still pretty bad. Note that the first site lists median speeds, while speedtest.net shows averages.
(looks around) no AMD here
For what it's worth, by the time I'd finished reading the post there were about 450 errors about "Cannot set property 'className' of null" sitting in my console. Assuming Makeswift are dogfooding their own product that's not great.
Ask HN: What values the most in a startup – Innovation or user base?
So when will they go after everyone else in this index? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Store_brands

Seriously what is with that talking point and how the hell did it get people conditioned to accept that novel nonsensical standard as "the way things should be"?

It is like an algorithim was run on random complaints against Amazon after it was told to filter on "item arrived broken" after it kept just spitting out the least helpful 1 star reviews.
For context, PBRT (a popular open-source CPU renderer) took a crack at it:

Total rendering time using a 12 core / 24 thread Google Compute Engine instance running at 2 GHz with the latest version of pbrt-v3 was 1h 44m 45s.
Thanks for posting this site. I was a bit confused by the recent dip in this chart:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTLL2564

Until I realized it's likely due to COVID-19 deaths.
September's update: only $24 MRR
Original story discussed two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817304 (1293 points/2 days ago/483 comments)
Maybe because the repo is 2 hours old, provides no actual information other than some hand waving. Also the author asks for $2 Million and doesn't seem to be a Python Core Developer. Given the repos age I'm probably answering to Mark Shannon himself.

Edit: This post wasn't supposed to be an hostile attack against anybody. Just found it odd to ask why an 2 hour old repo wasn't more known. I did not know that Mark Shannon is a core dev. Certainly did not pick that up from the repos contents.
Just GitHub codespaces that has built in support for vscode's jupyter notebook support. It's a much more general solution.
Zoho might be what I need looking at it, the price for premium looks to be $4 a month.
Is the text of the DoJ's filing publicly available?

EDIT: Ars Technica is hosting it at https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gov.u...
It is concerning that the top comment on this article is an attempt to divert the argument from the substance and implications of the article to numbers. It is the equivalent of responding to a statement that "the ship is sinking" with a detailed analysis of the technique to measure the depth of water.

The truth is not a number, but a fabric of information. There have been frequent articles describing the large number of layoffs due to the pandemic, and a number of articles reporting that a substantial number of Americans cannot afford an unexpected bill of $300.

If you are one of the fortunate people who make a living wage as defined in the Axios article you might well consider what it means if in fact half or more of the people around you do not.
I mean do you know how Luxottica acquired Oakley?
Modding is definitely one of those things that has become harder. Often due to lack of availability but definitely in terms of skill level to get near a similar quality bar.

But at the same time it's never been easier to make a game from scratch in a whole host of different and easy to use engines.
> Alternatively, if ESB-fans started framing ESB-haters with child abuse imagery, then obviously that's a problem for the cops rather than the moderation list verifiers.

Also a problem with ESB fans.

Note: I came here because I assumed this was about the ancestor simulation we are all living in, I'm a bit disappointed.
I totally agree with this.
Oops. That's what I get for staying up too late.

I wouldn't wish living in SF on my worst enemy.
Point taken, although I did say "based on my experiences inviting folks to our server." :) I do think it is quite different than infamous Dropbox thread, however, where the top comment mentions mounting an FTP server with curlftpfs on Linux.

Our server (like many) is public, and allows anyone to enter without need for exporting your certificate or even creating a passphrase. The setup process is Enter Server Address + Port -> Enter username -> Connect, and you're done. For someone who has ever used an installation wizard before, it is not difficult. For very casual users -- I agree, it probably can be overwhelming.

I don't argue that Mumble is somehow as easy or easier than Discord. Discord has everything else beat when it comes to ease-of-use.

Also, in my opinion, Mumble's UI looks fine, and I appreciate that it looks native on whatever platform you run it on (as opposed to Electron apps like Discord). I also appreciate the lower RAM usage and system requirements in general.
Which would be a compelling argument if there were no other way to learn math or law.
Well it's a spectrum. Many of those who are happily retired would be willing to go back to work if someone offered them enough money. As wages rise the labor force participation rate also goes up.
> What truths do you suggest these "identity-politics liberals" are ignoring?

Hi, I'm happy to debate this sensibly. Two major areas in which the identity politics movement is inconsistent with how a scientific rationalist society should behave are these:

1. The movement to deny that biological sex is an overwhelmingly important factor shaping human biology, just as it shapes the biology of other mammals. See

https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/

https://quillette.com/2020/07/30/think-cancel-culture-doesnt...

2. Deplatforming people with reasonable, rational viewpoints. Richard Dawkins is an example. Look at the most recent deplatforming by a university historical society that has recently become identity-politics oriented (The Hist at Trinity College Dublin). They deplatformed him because "we value our members comfort above all else". So, that is an example of what I said, and that which you took exception to: the identity politics movement being less interested in truth than other things (here "comfort").
do they support JSON-LD? It would make sense
QAnon/8chan sites back online after being ousted by DDoS-protection vendor
The statistic they are describing as the “True Rate of Unemployment” isn’t that. It’s the rate of which society is earning a poverty level wage or less. It’s a useful statistic and one that deserves discussion but it’s not the “True Rate of Unemployment”. They are just different.
Retool Nears $1B Valuation with Funding from Sequoia
If those days go into all-nighters, you might have bipolar disorder. I went undiagnosed for years, and didn't believe it myself until I charted the moods with the help of roommates and a doctor. I began to notice being happy at inappropriate times (funerals), and sad at others (weddings). My moods would mysteriously cycle and I really had to take advantage of the upswings.

I went undiagnosed for such a long time because managers would often point at me as an example of startup dedication, and then when I crashed and they got disappointed I would jump to a new startup.

Now I stick to a schedule and never deviate from it. When I do, the monster returns.
>DOJ's antitrust suit against Google has been filed in federal court in DC, here's the complaint:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7273457/10-20-20-...

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1318560860680425474

UPD

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monop...
Google acting like this is a programming error. Any programmer would know this would have to be an edge case, perfect-storm type of bug for it to just magically decide google.com and youtube.com are not included in the wipe.

I call bullshit. Google is an evil company, this is nothing new.
> the French would show no mercy as he would struggle to communicate

I have experienced this (in Paris only, the rest of France seemed chill), and I don't even think my french was that bad at the time.
Would you make the same argument for PS/XBox/Salesforce marketplaces? They have similar restrictions.
We will need laws to forbid providers of web-based commercial services from making browsers. Google has made it abundantly obvious that control over both sectors is a net negative for the market.

In the same way, browser makers should be decoupled from hardware and OS manufacturers, which have a similar monopoly problem.
In every thread someone makes a comment like this. As though a duopoly is somehow meaningfully different than a monopoly.
This should be done in collaboration with all other countries who are claiming the same thing.

Global monopolists have to be handled globally.
Well, not exactly. If there is something fishy behind it, Luxotcca definetly deserves a clap on the fingers at least.
Another relatively new addition to the python statistical sampler space is Austin[1], that has a lot of similar features to py-spy. I haven't made a direct comparison yet between the two.

[1] https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin
But isn't the elements song itself a parody of "Modern Major-General" which has plenty of non-rhyming words (although of course with a lot of rhyming words too)?
The problem with Signal is the savior complex of its creator, who insists he and only he can correctly implement secure messaging, and it can only be done if he's permitted to handle all your data himself.
For those curious, here's the discussion about this article from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20739629 (1198 points/410 comments)
This reminds me of Unladen Swallow: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/

(So not holding my breath.)
Interview Question: What Is the Temporal Dead Zone?
You could say Webflow is a direct competitor, yes. The way we see it, though, Webflow is a tad too complex for non-technical users and you end up just shifting the bottleneck from developers to the "Webflow expert". Heck, they have a whole Webflow University for learning how to use the product.

We believe there is an opportunity to build a website builder that is much more flexible than the usual template-driven ones, but not as complicated as Webflow. I would say Makeswift is to Figma like Webflow is to Photoshop.
Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Google
Honestly, it’s an insultingly bad lie on Google’s part.
I'll use this as an opportunity to ask: What am I missing, having ditched Chrome ~3 years ago and switched to Firefox? I am very happy with Firefox, and it fulfills 100% of my requirements for a modern browser (must have sane browser dev panel, must perform with >50 tabs open, must be extensible with a huge extension ecosystem).

On my Android phone, I'll just go ahead and claim I'm not missing anything and it's not even close - Firefox is so much better just for being able to run extensions like uBlock Origin.

But on a workstation (macOS) - I'll keep an open mind.
> It's not "market share" or "barriers to entry" or even engaging in "anti-competitive behavior" anymore. But more about how corporations can control the free flow of information.

But that's really the same thing. If Google bans or interferes with Fediverse apps because they compete with YouTube, that's anti-competitive behavior. If they don't and those apps gain share with people whose content keeps getting censored on YouTube, they're not very effectively controlling the free flow of information.

Censorship by an incumbent is a market opportunity for a competitor, so a corporation can only really sustain it through anti-competitive actions against the challenger(s).
py-spy is absolutely invaluable for the attach-to-process feature. also, nothing beats the adrenaline rush of attaching to a prod process and leaving it in a paused state after collecting a profile (true story! SIGCONT is your friend).
Just Write the Parser
There is something liberating in having cheap stuff: I wasn't scared to park my old beat-up Jetta in sketchy parts of town; who's dumb enough to steal that POS?

But there is also an enjoyment to be had with nice stuff. Just be aware that that enjoyment often comes with a "duty" to care for it. The trade-off might be worth it, might not. That care might even be part of the enjoyment: my dad _really_ enjoys cleaning, waxing and polishing his Mini Cooper S (a special edition John Cooper Works model).
Debunking the False Claim That Covid Death Counts Are Inflated
Really nice set of articles. The curator is so dedicated, he apologizes when an issue is late or irregular. I really don't care when they show up. I just appreciate another set of eyes keeping watch for interesting things in our diverse field.
Very interesting! I've spend many moons optimizing postgresql configs and queries, never ran across this before :)

Pretty sure I have some targets to try this on even
I personally think it's a bit premature to talk [edit: for the developers to talk] about it - they're attributing 2.25x to the addition of a JIT, which generally takes a long time to develop and tweak, adds a significant complexity, and makes the performance profile complex (ie. slow start, slow first requests, etc.).

I like though, to see the JIT wave across interpreted languages (see Ruby). I'm also curious to see what's going to be the implementation.
The source is public and the version history too, so you don't need to assume, you can look. If you don't see anything particular, you may assume that it's a bug and wasn't easily visible to the developers either.
There can be significant impact from off-page types (VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX), VARBINARY(MAX), and the deprecated TEXT/NTEXT/BINARY) in SQL Server, and presumably other DBMs, too.

Though one key difference is that SQL Server doesn't compress the off-page parts as this article states postgres does. In fact even if you have the table set to compress using either row or page compression option, off-page data is not compressed.
Scholars of literature sometimes speak of "juvenilia", the work a writer does when beginning. This can be quite readable--Jane Austen's are very funny--but not up to the standard of the mature work.
What's the distinction between "lawful access E2EE messages" and "backdoor for the intelligence agencies"? How is the service provider supposed to ever access an E2EE message without a back door?
I'm surprised the site doesn't convert a dupe post to an upvote (if the user hasn't already upvoted).
The clients are OSS. Does the protocol have any backdoor?
Your pipe dream is thought of and echoed by many, but the problem I see on an all-too regular basis is that many/most worthy projects never seem to reach critical mass. It's not as if we don't have enough people to make it grow and achieve liftoff - we just seem to lack the impetus to all push at the same time.

One possible parallel is that we have many roads/highways all essentially built and controlled by centralised authorities and this is used not only by law-abiding citizens but also by criminals. By criminals you could also include people that don't have the same ideology as the State.
Do you have plans to expand to CCPA requests as well? Some US companies will loudly and vehemently not care about European laws, but are beholden to California laws.
> And why didn't Facebook get sued too?

"The rumor is that a suit against Facebook will soon follow" [1] said Matt Stoller in his latest BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly and finance. It takes a lot of resources to file those suits, so don't expect them to be announced at exactly the same time.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-would-president-biden...

PS: Since it contains quite a bit of interesting and relevant information about the cases against GAFA, I submitted this particular newsletter at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837931
If it’s humans making observations in the data, changing (non AI parts) of their software stack, and reanalyzing the data it sounds like there’s no supervised or unsupervised machine learning going on, it could be, but the article is too hand wavy for me to be sure. That’s why I think a more accurate title is “companies realize most of the work in AI comes down to feature engineering and data prep, not algorithm design”
Apple is barely a monopoly, despite their horrible behaviour. Googles complete stranglehold of advertising is much more damaging.

- Sent from my android
For everyone who doesn't work in the MS tech stack, this is pretty standard for the company.

I get the sense they're taking a "Manhattan project" approach to grabbing cloud share. They find every promising technology they can, and either try to re-implement in their ecosystem or support it.

Some of the stuff they're throwing at the wall sticks, and some of it doesn't.
I would like to point out that in our current world it would be very very difficult to end up illiterate under just about any circumstance. Reading and writing don’t need to be explicitly taught unless you are under extreme time pressure (like the need to get the pupils to be able to read their texts on their own so you can increase class sizes and decrease the cost of schooling).
It's at #18, below Wikipedia, live.com, Zoom, Yahoo, the usual suspects (Google/YouTube/Facebook/Amazon) and a bunch of Chinese websites.

All this proves is that the Alexa top N isn't a good metric of determining who is or isn't a monopoly. It's completely ignoring mobile apps (so Instagram/Whatsapp don't make an appearance), and it has no visibility into revenue. Reddit's current total valuation is in the small single digit billions. It doesn't deserve consideration in a conversation about the true gorillas in the field, i.e. the ones that are worth three orders of magnitude more.
I agree that the timing is weird, but the lack of action against Amazon actually weakens the argument that this is political in nature. Trump hates Bezos and has been threatening him for a while, so to leave his company out is noteworthy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836520
That's a distinction without a difference. Why would anyone run closed-source clients for federated networks when there are open-source clients readily available?

One could imagine a scheme where endpoints run some kind of zksnark-wrapped computation against a hash-list of "unlawful" content, proving with mathematical certainty that one is not transmitting contents that are on the list. But this mountains of effort both because of complexity (protocol needs to be structured in some other way) and limitations of snarks - they do not handle this amount of computation well.
Oh, so is the point that in Zig, functions with comptime parameters are more or less identical to regular functions in that regard?
Hah! Nice catch there :)

This is actually not part of the core Makeswift code, but a custom snippet we added to this blog post to tweak the navigation. It sets a class on scroll, which is why you saw so many errors in the console.

I just fixed it. Thanks for letting us know!
I believe if you write tests hooking up your tests with the test allocator will effectively prevent all blatant UAF and memory leak events. More subtle ones that happen due to spooky action at a distance and wierd incomposability might be out of reach.

(Not at op, who does write tests:) You are writing tests, right? ;)
You've got this right IMO.

I'll agree that Amazon is Scarier. But I also think that Google's behavior is a lot easier to scrutinize/prove in court thanks to their actions in/around Android and Search
> interoperate with fewer people

Quality, not quantity... ;)
Every language has overzealous fans, when a language is new this is likely a largely percentage of the community. If you use that as a reason to avoid a language you will likely just end up avoiding new languages.
No most of the COVID-19 deaths were in the older cohort. That wouldn't significantly impact the civilian labor force.
I was kind of caught up on comment "if (m2, m1) and (m1, p), then output (m1, (m2, p))". When input is [(m2, m1), (m1, p)] and is pairwise switched and joined with unreversed input.

If m2 manages m1 and m1 manages p then m2 manages p via m1, but I could not quite understand what this example output should mean. M1 manages m2 and p? M1 is managed by m2 and p. Neither seems correct.