skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, they fully control the library they’re using, as they have their own x509 library and API in Core Foundation. But it also supports CRLs so I’m somewhat circumspect this is the reason.

More likely it’s the server side: CRLs have fallen out of popularity because they don’t work well for the scope of most CAs. On the web OCSP doesn’t have the drawbacks it does in this situation because servers themselves can staple OCSP responses instead of forcing the client to fetch them itself. Obviously the same doesn’t quite work for binaries sitting on a user’s disk.
This is one of those polls that could swing anywhere between 0 and 100% depending on how loaded the question was.
This seems like an obvious play for donations.

I find it hard to believe the author really doesn’t know that they can host their Wordpress site anywhere, yet they say “I don’t know what treehouse 2.0 will look like”, etc. The comments are full of “I donated” messages, so I guess it worked. Wordpress seems to have helped this enterprise’s wallet rather than deplatforming anyone.
I agree, I didn’t mean to give Twitter as a completely analogous example, there are definitely differences that arise from the different services offered
That was a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing.
I would imagine lamborghini and ferrari contribute to the italian GDP in ways that make this more practical. :)
>How is it possible to maintain an average speed that high on public roads?

It's national highways (kinda like "interstates") from Padua to Rome (something like Portland, Maine to New York), not some city roads.

Unlike in the US, in some European countries like Italy and Germany you have very high or unlimited (Autobahn) speed limits, and roads good enough to maintain them.
> If the internet service business doesn't generate revenue the launcher side will see a majority of its launch manifest evaporate

Can you clarify this? I don't know much about it but can't see how they relate.
There's this soccer field, which is about 600ft away from the hospital. https://goo.gl/maps/fVNDsTCvrrArVn5i7
The difficulty in fencing such extremely rare items must be immense. The Transylvania University Audobon heist springs to mind:

https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/the-real-life-heist-caper-be...
"it's not "every minority and immigrant group", it's the poor ones."

Except Jews in Europe in the first half of the 20th Century (and in other places and times) were targeted for being poor and being rich.

When they were wealthy they were envied and accused of getting their money through immoral means, like usury and stealing it from their poorer neighbors.

When they were poor they were accused of being dirty, and poor because they were lazy.

And when they were neither rich nor poor, well then they were hated for just being Jews.

Even the ones who had fully assimilated weren't safe, because the racial laws meant that who your ancestors were mattered more than who you were.
> Consider this: median age of COVID death is currently 78 years old. US life expectancy as of 2018 is 78.9 years. That is, approximately half the people who are dying of this would die anyway that same year.

You are confusing life expectancy at birth of 78.9 for life expectancy at age 78 of 0.9, that's not correct. Life expectancy at age 78 is 9.43 years for males, 10.98 years for females.
> giving the government the ability to say "you must carry this speech" is just as tyrannical as giving them the right to say "you must not carry this speech"

Don't we do exactly that with the phone company and the post office?
>As your average user, I find the user interface on windows nicer

Yes, especially the ads, they're so colorful and shiny !

/s>
San Francisco. Hands down. I mean c'mon. This is not token diversity - San Francisco, with its many many cultures and immigrants from all over the world constantly intermingling and its many industries is far more diverse than a midwest town. Even if there are more of one type of minority in that town.
Maybe the op was using a LEO constellation? Somehow. With military birds. Doppler would cause all kinds of weird stuff to happen I would guess.
All these database companies focus way too much on benchmarks and not enough on simple stuff like docs, autoscaling / serverless pricing models, examples on git, permissive license.

Redis is a sad example. Nice open source library but the Redis Labs stuff is pretty much a joke, because to get the modules like graphs, JSON, search, it costs thousands of dollars. And the “source available” license is stupid, “you can’t use this” - the Open Source equivalent of “look but don’t touch” ... not to mention they have so many different pricing levels it becomes a massive decision which one to use (high friction purchase) ... but hey, it’s fast, right?

FaunaDB is much more compelling than Redis Enterprise because of serverless pricing, but uses some custom query language, yikes. Likewise DynamoDB has nice pricing but way complicated / proprietary interfaces. The Cassandra service could be cool.

Nice benchmarks will never make up for craptastic / complex pricing models, lame license, bad docs / examples. Too many nerds think if they post higher numbers, it makes up for massive failure at simple business. Need more nerds who keep it simple, documented, autoscaling, easy to sign up, etc

The fact there is no great serverless graph db and so few viable auth services in 2020 is a shameful travesty for the industry... </rant>
From https://www.rsa.com/content/dam/en/misc/rsa-data-privacy-and...

> Tracking online activity to tailor advertisements: 17% of those surveyed viewed it as ethical, and 68% find it unethical.

...

> Nobody likes advertising (a finding that aligns with last year’s analysis), as it interrupts digital browsing and content consumption. Consequently, many consumers feel misled when they read ads masquerading as articles. Our survey results reflect consumers’ view that targeted advertising is an unethical use of data.

I think https://www.rsa.com/content/dam/en/e-book/rsa-data-privacy-r... is "last year's analysis" though I don't see advertising explicitly covered.
Yes, good point. The different services offered might have different implications.
China Has Caught Up to U.S. in AI, Says AI Expert Kai-Fu Lee
No, I would not feel the same way... I would likely boycott the company. I don't think there would be a legal issue, though.

I always hate this part of these comment threads; there is always a lot of conflation between legal and moral responsibilities.... I hate that people who think this sort of censorship is ok (and I am actually one of them) try to argue from a legal standpoint.... I am pretty sure almost everyone agrees that Wordpress isn't breaking the law here, so why argue that point?

As for the moral argument, I don't think I am being hypocritical to say it is morally ok to censor some things but not others. Not everything is the same.

In fact, I think even the most die hard free speech absolutists are ok with anti-fraud laws. No one is arguing that is ok to host a typo-squatting website pretending I am amazon and harvest login credentials. No one would say we can't take down that site because of free speech.

So, what we are really arguing about is degree; how fraudulent does something have to be in order for it to be ok to censor?

Personally, I think the decision should be made on a combination of the certainty that the content is false, along with the harm the content can cause. Fake amazon site is clearly false and clearly harmful; automatic censoring.

Flat earth society? Clearly false, but depending on what the site is advocating, it might be mostly harmless.

Part of the harm determination is also going to be based on evidence; how many people have we seen be tricked by the false information?

Basically, I don't think this is one of those issues that you can have a clear rule for, which is probably why programmers have such a hard time with the concept and default to saying we shouldn't even try.
Even if it was running at something like 12mpg it would have made it on a single tank, and it was probably running at something like 15.

If they were closing the roads ahead, or if the driver was like a racecar driver it's totally doable with a bit of luck. If they did both it's even like, reproducible.
The bent pipe nature is why globalstar was a dismal failure in the aviation and maritime markets, while the second corporate incarnation of iridium succeeded.

I don't doubt that SpaceX will figure out satellite to satellite high capacity trunk links within the next 5-6 years. But for now they are definitely proceeding with building medium sized starlink earth stations in the same general regions as where the CPE will be located.
Yep. Only Slack ever had that problem for me. I reopen it again after every resume, when I have to work with my customers. I don't use Slack for anything else.
Yes, but frankly, C would still cause more havoc because even if the mainframes somehow continued to run, they would still be effectively inaccessible over any network.
Bah easy, the flat earth is accelerating through space at 9.8m/s/s ;)
On the contrary. Who are young still work through the night. If work keeps you up it means that you can’t make trade-offs quite well enough.
Sounds kind of sleazy.
> It gets a bad reputation because there is of necessity a significant amount of memorization.

Ah, the joys of having to memorize all the counties and then all 50 states and their capitals. Never again.

> And I really hate to be one of those the-US-is-really-terrible-at-this guys, but it’s been my experience that the US is really terrible at this.

We could do better but it's not like we don't learn geography. We learn state and national geography. I supposed world geography could be emphasized more.
But then you are paying for both private and public healthcare, so it isn’t really competition.
> The real question is not, "Is this allowed?" but "Is this good, right, and proper?”

I guess I’d say that the real question is kind of in-between those two. We need to permit somethings to be allowed, which are not good, right, and proper.
This is so unbelievably stupid and highly doubt there is any legitimate reason for police officers to have supercars in their fleets. This is clearly a cross waste of money, is dangerous, and totally pointless. Just use a helicopter and as another poster noted, there's totally fine place a helicopter could land close to the hospital.

The Italian people should be outraged at this profligate (and self serving) waste of resources. Especially in a country that doesn't even have monetary sovereignty.
Definitely this was probably "fun" for the driver. But I do suspect something wasn't above board here. I know it was mentioned in the article, but the choice to not use a helicopter was... putting a lot of people at unnecessary risk. Which is pretty stupid since you're trying to save someone's life.

Hopefully someone does this with a copter in the future.
I think there is a difference. In the dropbox case I have to trust those that are counting. I don't think we can get away from this trust level. In the hidden/automatic dropbox I have to trust the counters and the machine. I can't verify that the machine prints the same thing for me and the dropbox. Without that verification it, to me, undermines the entire point of a receipt in the first place. Maybe you see something I don't? I'm certainty not an expert so I'm open to me misunderstanding something and don't take my word as expertise either haha.
Yeah that sounds about right /facepalm
Trade in opium was illegal, and the merchants operated by bribing imperial inspectors. The government's desire to stop the trade in opium accomplished absolutely nothing.

But if you want a more literal example of winning battles with the emperor, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koxinga .
Firecracker is a virtual machine that exists to provide a container-level interface. It is not designed for nor capable of running a full virtual machine. GVisor is even less virtual machine like: in fact it originally only worked via a ptrace sandbox and added a KVM-based interface (without a real Linux guest kernel) latter to improve performance.

I point to snap and flatpak because outside of browsers they are AFAICT the only attempts to sandbox user applications on Linux. It would be disingenuous if there were some other apps or distribution channels doing a better job that I hadn’t mentioned, I’d love to hear of some.
Or all the posts saying the won't accept the results of the elections no matter what, and will do "whatever it takes"

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/president-tr...
I imagine there's some exaggeration here, but someone drove across the US in 25 hours averaging 110 MPH [1]. Given that, 143MPH for 2 hours doesn't seem that crazy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
The incumbents will do everything possible to avoid paying for their own R&D. Nobody is subsidizing SpaceX's starship development.
I like the fact that the BBC felt compelled to add pictures to this story at all, for the benefit of readers who might be unfamiliar with what a swimming pool or glass of water would look like.
Hey looks interesting, thanks for pointing me to this! I’ll get back to you once I’ve had a read of the paper.
Yes, and a lot of those 78.9 year old COVID patients will survive, although of course their probability of death is much higher. The point is not that. The point is it's dumb to pretend that the CFR is going to be uniform, and that just because it's 2.2% in the US at the moment, it can be linearly scaled up to the entire population (which is what would need to happen if we are to compare it to the flu, which easily 60% of people get in any given year), given the underlying demographics of fatalities. Downright dishonest, if you ask me.

Again, it is more dangerous than the flu. But nobody knows by how much, and nobody is even trying to find out as far as I can tell. Seems like a crucial question that needs to be answered, no?
Don’t confuse familiarity with greatness. Of course if you wrote the damn thing you can demonstrate technical virtuosity.

Edit: Maybe I read too fast. Anyways, intuition is sort of the precursor to greatness. You know those designers that pick out colors innately? No amount of color theory studying will get you to that level. You are probably describing someone with an intuition for debugging.

One of those things in life everyone has to learn eventually. Don’t fight the tide, find the waves that are certainly for you.
Tulsa is more Black than SF. Also, more White than SF.

SF is more diverse (even just racially; ethnicity and national origin just makes that even more clear.) There's more to the world that White and Black.

(Also, in the Bay Area, Oakland is 22.7% Black and about the population of Tulsa, so if you are looking for concentrated Blackness, the Bay Area has Tulsa beat on that as well as diversity.)
The military uses a hell of a lot of iridium, but from context it really sounds to me like he's describing the low end of the COTS C/ku band ISP market.

Until very recently you have not been able to move more than 2400 bps through an individual iridium link, limiting it to very low data rate IP networking and single user at a time per device.

The military itself uses a lot more geostationary than you might think at first glance. They don't have their own iridium sized low earth orbit narrow band networks. There's many series of DoD satellites in geostationary, and they also lease a lot of commercial transponder capacity.
> It'd probably be fine for gaming though.

Yeah, that would be the good case.
I think you're misinterpreting the definition of hosting — I believe the grandparent was referring to web hosting (not a site "being the host of" specific discourse).
I feel the complete opposite way. I’ve had to witness my grandfather’s Windows 10 laptop just be absolutely trashed by malware that used all the saddest tricks like fake “log in to Facebook” windows. It’s absolutely horrendous and in my opinion rather inevitable.

Are there even a single example that anyone can point me to of this kind of borking happening to Macs?
Google Workspace (G Suite) vs. Microsoft 365–Which is better for your business?
Any evidence for that statement? Since we have modern society, or capitalist markets the world population has doubled over and over again, while overall consumption has actually increased and absolute poverty decreased.

Non of it is unsustainable we have not run out of anything, ironically outside of few renewable resources those can actually run out. Things that used to be worthless rocks are now valuable things. Other things that are now rocks will be valuable in the future. The difference between a resource and dirt is technology, more humans in our system leads to more technology.

In fact, the total amount of resources we have and no about now is probably 1000x more then 100 years ago.

Rising of sea level happens slowly, not in one big wave and can be mitigated in many ways as well. The same goes for climate in general.

Technology has been replacing workers from their job with the same speed for 100s of years, the tractor replaced far more jobs then anything we are inventing now.

But I guess this inherent pessimism counter to all evidence we have about similar predictions over the last 250 years, is somewhat systemic.

I just hope to convince people to not take it as far as the 'population growth is bad' people in the 60s when they said the US shouldn't help India so fewer of them can starve now, rather then more later as mass starvation in India was of course inevitable in their minds. Just one of their many brilliant plans for population control.
Don't go to Texas and vote for the same type of garbage policy makers and expect it to stay nice.
The first sentence could be true. Probably not, but it's possible. It's certainly closer to the flu than most people realise.

> The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation

The Left is playing games. So is the Right of course. But this sentence is too strong.

The Left wants power, they are doing power moves. But there's no underlying plan. They are getting a strong footing. It will allow them to implement social change. But it's not that tied together.
> It'll be a rock solid 492ms

Note that may be true for one bird in Afghanistan, but the path length isn't exactly the same everywhere, nor are the delays of all modulaiton schemes.
Linux got virtio-fs[1] capabilities as of Linux 5.4, and a driver for Windows guests was released recently. Along with VFIO passthrough, you can have accelerated and nearly native speed Windows guests on Linux if WSL2 isn't working out.

[1] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
Remember the people selling rafts are the customer, not you.

You are a person plausibly "interested in rafts" and you made money for someone else, probably many times over 3 weeks.
No, they do not. There isn't even a consensus on what "great" means.

You play basketball in a very static environment. The rules don't change from game to game, or team to team. The duration of a match is constant. How well the team performs is a well known metric.

People do not do engineering in a static environment. The needs asked of one changes from team to team. The quality metrics vary from application to application. The people he/she relies on varies even when you stay in the same team. An engineer who is really useful in one company may be harmful to another one.
> 1143MPH for 2 hours doesn't seem that crazy

It does to me.

Edit: typo corrected.
An embargo does wonders for that pesky disposable income
Suppose he's just spending time where he can take advantage of the labor force to make him rich(er).
and their biased support was for anglo names?
As a CA native, I feel weird and out of place when in any area with a single overwhelmingly dominant ethnicity. Whether it’s the Midwest or Shanghai, it just feels weird like something is off. I’m just too used to very multicultural areas.
> Too bad there aren't any NHS competitors.

This comment in a nutshell reveals the ignorance of US consumers. Just because you think something should work the way you want, doesn't mean that's reality.

There is no "health insurance market" in the US, since you can't actually negotiate with any entity in the insurance industry.

Even for most companies, come Jan. 1, they switch providers to the lowest-cost they can find since there is no ability to negotiate with their current provider after the inevitable and compulsory 20%/annum increase.
Being old I have noticed that a lot of people swear they didn't learn this or that in school. Even though they were to the same school as me. I think it's down to selective memory, it was just not registered because there was something more interesting at the time. Youth only being humans after all.
Not quite that high, but you'd be silly to believe there's no difference in speed at all.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27574548
No it not when it is 'inevitable' its when an alternative becomes more viable.

> The problem is not technological, it never was, but a matter of priorities.

The growth of humanity from 100M to 10B was 100% based on technology improvement.
> Technically electrons barely move at all (on clock-cycle timescales); it's the electric field that moves at ~2/3 speed of light.

Yes.

> Compare eg, wind speed (particles) versus the speed of sound (field).

Huh? The speed of particles in the air is even faster than the speed of sound.
Use approval voting, which captures all the advantages of score voting at scale anyway and is dead simple to count.
As per the article, that was too far away so a lambo made the most sense.
So much ridiculous here.
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610

Hope (Days) = Calculated Est. (Hours)

1 day = 8 hours

2 days = 8 + 13 = 21 hours

3 days = 8 + 13 + 21 = 34 hours

H(days) = Fn(6+days) hours, where days >= 2
My experience with targeted ads pretty much comes down to this classic tweet: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/724817086309142529

> Amazon is a $250 billion dollar company that reacts to you buying a vacuum by going THIS GUY LOVES BUYING VACUUMS HERE ARE SOME MORE VACUUMS

For a personal example, some months back I bought a pair of identical first aid kits (one for home, one for car), and Amazon still thinks that endlessly recommending me tourniquets, splints, medical scissors, and tactical trauma kits is somehow going to result in more sales.
Nah man it isn’t life unless it’s summer in Austin. Back in my youth I would still bike everywhere, I would just plan my bike route to hit every public pool possible, like the main character in John Cheever’s ‘The Swimmer.’ And then I would eat some amazing Tex mex on a patio and then hit the springs for a night swim. Of course, nobody is doing that kind of thing these days anyways. I miss Austin. I miss my youth.
Such a silly choice. If some people really hate a group won't the new self designated word become a racial slur too? What then?
WhatsApp did bring Android up to speed in terms of video chat. I can understand that.
I’m not sure of the distinction you’re drawing here. Originally Amazon used the Linux namespaces, cgroups, etc. for isolating Lambda invocations, but they only did this at the AWS account granularity (i.e. your Lambdas only shared the same VM with other Lambdas from your account) for security reasons. They built FirecrackerVM so they could run Lambdas freely on the same bare metal machine as others without having to group by tenant VM in this way. Obviously they found using the Linux primitives to be insufficient for maintaining isolation when dealing with hostile native code.