skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I've recently been marathoning this show. I'd say your description is as dishonest as you accuse penn and teller of being.

In that episode, they mainly point to paper and plastic recyclables as being net societal losses in 2003 when the episode was filmed. They only talk about metal and glass briefly, because it's pretty apparent that it is efficient to recycle metal and glass.

For what it's worth I don't actually think you are being dishonest, just hyperbolic.
I wrote this article so thank you so much for sharing!
I would say it's also important to receive mail on RFC2142 [1] addresses as well. I usually set up abuse@, hostmaster@, postmaster@, and webmaster@ for idle domains.

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2142
Summary:

+ Reallocating the spectrum involved an auction that had a multi-year planning and implementation phase.

+ Existing licensees were incentivized to sell their spectrum into the government-run auction. All told, there was $10 billion in sales into the auction, and $20 billion in purchases from the auction.

+ The auction was well-designed in that existing licensees and would-be purchasers would simultaneously be bidding, and there were incentives for both buyers and sellers to price "honestly" i.e. based on how they actually valued their licenses.

+ The design assumed each license would be independent, so to speak, so there wouldn't be coordination/strategy problems. [My sense is this was a not entirely unreasonable assumption given the nature of the existing licenses.]

+ Private equity firms bought a number of small local stations to use as holdouts. The one the story centered on was bought from the licensee for $7 million, and sold into the auction for $20 million.

+ The holdouts raised net payouts by an estimated 7%, so private equity extracted an estimated $700 million (7% of the $10 billion spread).
When a giant like Apple makes a decision to disallow installing apps that were not downloaded from the macOS-app store (and by preventing me to open the app, what Apple does is basically disallowing the app; my retired father does not know how to circumvent this), then this is a political descision that effects the lives of thousands of mac users.

Computers have become a gateway to the digital world, which makes up a large part of our lives. And Apple is a huge player that has the power to shape the future of computing. Apple's vision of computing is on a trajectory where the end game is clear: Users have no control over their devices and will only be doing what Apple allows them to do. This is the case on iOS already, and macOS will be there in a few years.

Some say: Decide with your purse. If you don't like Apple's vision, then don't buy their products. But this argument is like saying "This is how we handle things in country X, if you don't like it, move somewhere else." Some of us have invested lots in tools and software in Apple land, so changing platforms will take some time. But even if we can change, Apple is shaping the future of this industry, in a way that it restricts freedom and limits options. And this is not a future we should accept. Instead we should be opposing and fighting it.
Did you mean Michael Jordan?
I think part of the issue is that the title is a bit clickbait-y. Sure, it’s technically a correct title, but at first glance it seems much more interesting than it actually is.
HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report
There are 19 bones and 20 dogs.

No matter how many training and reskilling courses they go on 5% of the dogs will remain unemployed.

The fundamental problem is a lack of jobs, because there is no market mechanism by which the private sector will create sufficient jobs to hire everybody who wants work.

It's time to restore the Beveridge condition. Jobs should wait, not people.
The idea seems interesting to me. A model that detects click bait / vapid content would probably be even more compelling. In both cases it's hard to put a finger on what exactly you're training the model for.

In any case - if you made it I would at least be interested enough to check it out and see what kind of content it blocked.

As an aside I use firefox mobile which has pretty weak extension support. If the extension worked with firefox mobile that would be extra cool.
It's also easy to imagine what the blog posts would look like if they did the same thing except over TLS--in a way that the harmlessness / purpose of the request was not immediately apparent.

I agree with you, though--it seems like they solved a valid problem with the most obvious, commonly-used solution. The real debate is probably just over whether or not the problem is a sufficiently large threat to justify the downsides.
A well-balanced diet will certainly make you healthier and feel better! If you are eating more energy than you're expending, you will gain weight. If you are eating less energy than you're expending, you will lose weight. This is well-researched.

I think, from my experience and from the experiences I've read of people who have lost weight and kept it off, the key is finding a sustainable diet. One that your future, goal-weight self can be trusted to follow even after you're done losing the weight. People tend to get to that point and then go back to eating like they did when they were overweight, which reverses all the hard work they did.
It actually goes back to the flat tax proposals to set the top rate to 28% with very few deductions.

The idea was that you don’t have some rich paying the top rate of 39%, and some paying near zero (cough, cough, Mr. Trump) due to a large discrepancies in deductions.
Don't Be a Success Addict
> it's a way to codify your sales and marketing processes

Are there no better ways to automate sales and marketing?

Once you start using Salesforce, do all of your leads get stuck in the platform, or can you export them and do your own analytics queries? How deep is their lock-in?

> Slack is a way for SFDC to codify another part of your business processes—communication.

It feels too freeform to be automated. It's just chat with a so-so search interface.
interesting. thanks for sharing!
"Capture the energy". They haven't even looked at that step.

Laser fusion is about the least promising, most impractical possible approach to building a power reactor, even if you do manage to get ignition. Since at least the early 1980s, the word on the street has been that the talk about power is just a politically palatable wrapper for the weapons application. And let's just say that some of the people I heard that from, back in the 1980s, were in enough of a position to know that they probably shouldn't have said anything to some random kid like me.

Not to say that there aren't a few benighted souls working on it who've managed to convince themselves it's a power source, but notice that nobody but Livermore has ever bothered to put much into inertial confinement... and Livermore is a weapons lab?
> It is an organizational problem.

Of course it is. But nothing happens in isolation.

Rails requires a lot more effort to keep a team in sync than an equivalently sized codebase in a typed language.

To get the same quality deployment in production we needed extensively customized linters, a broad suite of tests, and much more frequent QA review with Rails.

None of those are bad, but they're a lot of effort to corral folks away from the (sometimes awesome) but usually frustrating amount of variety Ruby allows in expressiveness. Plus you need the testing/qa to stop a larger and larger number of bugs, particularly in cross cutting concerns, that are introduced by the lack of type checking.

Rails is 100% the "Solo developer goes 'Brrrrr!'" framework. It genuinely starts to be a drag compared to the alternatives on large teams.

Of course you can make it work. But generally companies "Make it work" as they migrate to a more serious solution.

When I was younger, that tended to be Java/C#, but lately seems to be more towards either Typescript if performance isn't likely to be an issue or GoLang otherwise. Recently worked with a Rails team looking into moving to Rust, but they eventually settled on Elm instead.

Would still love to get information about how Sorbet is going. Seems like it might be a viable answer at some point.
Do you think it’s still worth going into the “recently legalized” business? May I ask how you got started and got the correct licensure?
Not if you count world cups.
They _are_ orthogonal, you’re just saying that you can have some of both which is exactly my my point about them existing on a spectrum.

And it’s not as simple as encrypting data. You have to trust somebody to determine what good integrity looks like and to then verify the integrity information is fresh. The same privacy concern exists if you run OCSP against cypher-text as it does plaintext. You still have a stream of all the things people do. Bad for privacy.

Running a decentralized system means you have to trust all the nodes to not to store data or collude. Same problem in a different way. You simply cannot achieve integrity verification if you don't trust anyone to do it. And this is why they are orthogonal. Trust is not compatible with doubt.

The issue here is that Apple took off the shelf OCSP and applied it in a way it was not designed for. So there _are_ actual problems with their late implementation. They should be fixed. And personally I think OCSP is kinda dumb because it mechanically defeats the advantage of certs (you don’t need a cert if you’re going to phone home for every invocation, just check a hash), but meh.
You claimed to write about “false information that has real world impact, like yelling fire in a crowded theater.” That example is from the real world when the government acted against private parties that engaged in what the government characterized as sedition. Do you withdraw your example?
I mean sure, all the tech elites in the US get the best medical care out there, far better than those in so-called "welfare states" such as the Scandinavian countries. However such conditions are bound to their job and thus not applicable to the general cases. Don't think this is what the "narrative about US healthcare" is about. If you work in big tech in the US you live in a paradise-like condition far removed from the masses, this is pretty much widely known isn't it.
That's why I said that profitability represents not only what's ethical, but how important it is for people in their particular circumstances.

Also, isn't ethics always dependent on circumstances you're in? For example, stealing is wrong - but many would argue that stealing to save you or your kids from hunger is ethical. That's the same kind of choice you're making when you choose to buy cheaper eggs when you can't afford cage-free.
I think a lot of the anti-mask crowd uses a lot of arguments rooted in sociopathy and the assumption that people should only care about themselves: “it only kills the old”, “it’s only a problem if you have a preexisting condition”, “the nurses are making more money anyway”, “we need to sacrifice some people for the economy”, etc.
Yeah it's sad people feel pains.

I'm also unhappy that those same people have used Regulatory capture to increase their wages at the expense of public health.

Deregulate medical and there will be less burnout, but the pay will be cut in half.
These days I have more confidence using Microsoft products than Google

Google's erratic roadmap, less than stellar enterprise support, and shady privacy practices from their ad tech side just drive me away
Edward Snowden on Silicon Valley Censorship, Biden, and Press Freedom Dangers
It’s not a useful contribution: overwork is always a problem and especially important in healthcare where it’s not “our project launches late” but “someone died due to error or lack of attention”.

It’s also misrepresenting the few who can travel with the much larger group who can’t take those gigs - especially important when you consider what life is like for anyone with kids right now. Put in HN terms, do your 80 hour weeks get better if you learn that some consultants are temporarily billing $500/hour?
My experience with The New York Times was abysmal, I have never encountered a more unscrupulous journalist than the one they sent to me.
This is what's known as essentialism, the idea that your characteristics like skin color, gender, etc are essential to your function as a human being, and that these are immutable qualities that will govern how you behave.

I see this philosophy from liberals much more than the left. They weaponise terms like 'sexism' in inappropriate scenarios to manipulate others. Businesses pretend to be woke so they can make money, and those are definitely not run by leftists.

The idea that the fringe group of marxists on twitter are dominating the world's discourse needs to stop. It is primarily your average every day liberal that doesn't understand essentialism or true social justice.
Rip slack.

Damn good exit though. Who woulda thought a chat utility could be worth billions
The official Queen twitter account posted this beautiful photo. It speaks volumes:

https://twitter.com/QueenWillRock/status/1331645705392451590
I assume hprotagonist meant ethnic Jews.

Charity and economic justice are different.

Even the Salvation Army and many religious hospitals discriminate against LGBT people.
For what it’s worth, dmarcian has allowed inactive domains free for many years. I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear from the pricing description.

We’d love to have you try us out again.
You can also use a screwdriver or a nail heated up by a gas stove, blowtorch, even a lighter... yeah, I love MacGyvering shit out of nothing :D
I come from a largely nursing-based family.

Yes, the choice of going into nursing is largely a strategic choice, much like other life-long decisions (going to high school, going to college, getting a house. going into nursing, etc. etc.). In fact, a huge part of the calculus is knowing that US Citizenship is offered to nurses at higher rates (due to the nursing shortage).

Ironically: being a doctor is not a strategic choice despite making more money. You need to sacrifice another 10-years of your life in school and additional training, and going into virtually any other field will result in more money in most situations. Especially if you become a general practitioner: the most needed doctor (but the one that is paid the least).

Run the numbers of 10-fewer years of 401k savings in your youngest years as a 20-year old... as you go through additional schooling + residency. There's not a lot of money to be had here.

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So you have a point: money, citizenship, and more are offered to nurses and doctors. Because the roles are important and a lot of people (fortunately) agree that the role is important.

But that's not really how nurses / doctors think on the day-to-day level. They usually are thinking "Patient X doesn't listen to me. X would be in a better situation if they did Y".

Doctors / nurses can easily make more money by selling unnecessary prescriptions / unnecessary surgery / etc. etc. That's just the position of trust that they're in. The fact that they usually DONT do that is due to a sense of duty and Hippocratic oath. Doctors / nurses, if placed in a "pragmatic capitalist" setting, aren't to be trusted actually. Its due to culture and soft-reasons (a sense of duty. A sense of morals, a sense of ethics) that they remain ethical.

Not all doctors/nurses are ethical. But the vast, vast majority of them are ethical. Seeing things in a "greedy pure capitalist" way in the profession is grossly frowned upon. Because most people don't really see doctors / nurses as an adversary offering health services. A doctor / nurse is someone who is there to help you when you need help.
6,000,000,000 (chicks) * 0.03 (weight of a chick in kg at birth) = 180,000,000 kg

180,000,000 kg / 10 (average meat consumption in North and Central Africa) = 18,000,000 people that could eat for a year.
Zoom is a must have during the pandemic

Slack has many alternatives including using email
We should, but it is much harder to get my family and friends to use Matrix.
Reproducible builds are a step up but remember that it requires you to build with the exact same binary-identical toolchain. If that’s already compromised your guix challenge isn’t really doing anything of value.

Again, I’m not saying these aren’t valuable things that make attacks more difficult/expensive but the uncomfortable truth is we haven’t figured out how to truly establish zero-knowledge trust. So on that spectrum, ultimately Guix + OSS is closer to WhatsApp than where we’d like to be.
Isn't this just pointing out that farms follow a Pareto distribution, like a lot of creative domains? It's a really common emergent pattern. It doesn't diminish from the observation the article makes, but it does make it somewhat less surprising when you're used to seeing Pareto curves all over the place.
>Nope, most news outlets were very critical about the iraqi WMD story

This isn't really accurate. Most news outlets repeatedly published the government's agenda without much critical examination of what they meant. This study on the issue details events well.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268330903_Media_Cov...
The people who want humans to live with as limited a footprint as possible, their standard of living be dammed
Working with Salesforce for the one project that required it, was an absolute nightmare. Opaque APIs, needlessly complex implementation requirements, useless documentation.

It reeks of different services consolidated via acquisition (or one-off services kitbashed together), and adding slack to the mix will just add yet another variation to the existing APIs.

I commend those devs that work with Salesforce on a daily basis!
I wrote one of these in 2002, back in college, after being inspired by Icon and SNOBOL. From Wikipedia:

s := "this is a string"
s ? { # Establish string scanning environment
while not pos(0) do { # Test for end of string
tab(many(' ')) # Skip past any blanks
word := tab(upto(' ') | 0) # the next word is up to the next blank -or- the end of the line
write(word) # write the word
}
}

I really think we lost out when we went toward regular expressions rather than SNOBOL/Icon syntax, but I don't think a direct substitute is as much the issue.
Let's hope Biden reverses out of the nuclear weapons race that Trump has tried to start!
I've read this multiple times that AWS us-east-1 region is the one that has the highest number of outages. I am eager to hear others' experiences here.
Ah yes. It's the annual AWS Thanksgiving Holiday major us-east outage.
In Argentina there is a religion where Maradona is seen as a prophet, the Maradonian Church.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana

This is a video about it by Vice:
https://youtu.be/knRo_1xrJ2A

They perform baptisms and marriages. Members usually use Diego for their children's first or middle names.

They also spell "god" as "d10s" (dios + 10, where 10 is Diego's jersey number).

There are many songs dedicated to him, such as https://youtu.be/EAk-l1VHzBw

...and a museum, I think.

Maradona's immortal play is "el gol del siglo": https://youtu.be/jOz2uGMTA2w

The atmosphere during that match was pretty tense since Argentina and England had an armed conflict 4 years prior, the Falklands War.
Some tools and OSs make it easier than others. I used to do a lot of work from my IBM 43P AIX workstation (great graphics card, huge monitor, model M keyboard) that actually ran on a more mundane Xeon downstairs. X made it even practical to browse the web on the 43P. It attracted some really confused looks in the office.
> My hope is that we see the moderate Left and moderate Right come together and form a new political party around common ground like free speech and fiscal responsibility.

That already exists, it is called the Democratic party. The moderate right won, people like Biden, Pelosi or Warren, the moderate left (AOC, Sanders, etc) played second fiddle. The tension between the 2 groups is clear and if it werent for a common enemy (Trump/GOP) they would split in a second.
0day in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Gets a Micropatch
>That would violate the non-repudiation properties of the Signal protocol,...

Signal achieves non-repudiation by allowing forgery of messages after they have been transferred and verified by the receiver. It is not possible to undo that. You would have to make a special exception at the time the message was transferred which wouldn't be practical in this case.

This all assumes that you believe that establishing forgeability actually achieves non-repudiation in the first place. Facebook might want to pass along the signature information anyway.
Some possibilities: Slack revenue will increase on its own. Salesforce integrations and cross-sell will improve. An app discovery service that offers competitors can be brought in-house and managed.

It could certainly be a mistake, though.
Many applications – Including Anchor, Adobe Spark, Flickr, SiriusXM and Roku reported disruption caused by this outage. https://news.alphastreet.com/huge-aws-outage-affects-a-wide-...
I was thinking of this passage when I took some mandatory online corporate “security training” a few weeks ago. They required scrolling through all of the text on each page and looking at it for a minimum amount of time (a few minutes) before you could click through to the next page.
It's getting downvoted because it comes off as "Yeah, but..." which absolutely detracts.
Indeed, one of the articles cited by the article that this discussion is about (https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...) links to a paper saying that GC needs 4x the memory to match manual memory management and then makes a huge wacky leap to say that ARC could achieve that with less. It can't. ARC will always be slower than manual memory management because it behaves the same way as naive manual memory management with some overhead on top.

On the other hand, that same paper shows that for every single one of their tested workloads, the generational GC outperforms manual memory management. Now obviously, you could do better with manual memory management if you took the time to understand the memory usage of your application to reduce fragmentation and to free entire arenas at a time, but for applications that don't have the developer resources to apply to that (the vast majority), the GC will win.

I'm not saying that better memory management is the reason Android wins these launch to interactivity benchmarks because the difference is so stark relative to the hardware performance that memory management isn't nearly enough to explain it, but it does contribute to it. (My own guess is that most of the performance difference comes from smarter process initialization from usage data. Apple is notoriously bad at using data for optimization.)
Please do not misconstrue me or my ideas as being part of or sympathetic to the "anti-mask" crowd or as an endorsement of sociopathic thinking. The "crappy unit tests" part was an attempt at humor which I expected more people to get around here.
Facebook should definitely make it explicit that by reporting, you share the last N messages with that account with Facebook and make them accessible to Facebook employees/contractors.

Regarding the iMessage backup thing, I fully agree with you that it's a major problem. But it's a different thing.

Also, again, the feature already exists. You can already make screenshots and share them with facebook, with the world, etc. There are entire subreddits that publicly share IM histories with people. This is nothing that facebook can initiate. If the feature gets changed to something that they can initiate, I would agree that it's bad. But this isn't.