skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps things will come roaring back in the USA quickly – the linked article is very American-centric. But considering that some European governments have been hinting that COVID restrictions will last throughout 2021, since it will take all of next year to vaccinate a large enough portion of the population to stem infections, are there any grounds for claiming a worldwide economic recovery before 2022?
I do think Twitter is making an effort but they need more rigor. How do they classify what is misinformation. What is the guidelines? How do they identify information from misinformation?

Fighting misinformation needs a lot more structure. Otherwise it’s a slippery slope of censorship. I hope they keep on tweaking it until the majority of public can trust it.
I'd love to see some data that can tell if speeding to the hospital (by random people, not by a trained ambulance driver) has a net positive effect on the outcome of the patients, as well as what the risk of car accidents happening as a result of the speeding.

I also wonder if maybe by forcing cars to go slower we could: 1) reduce car accidents by a lot and 2) reduce current spend on emergency response by a big enough amount that could then allow to use it to cover faster response times (e.g. sending a helicopter)
That and in 1999, if you were writing cracks, very few people were doing that in the demo scene at that point. The demo scene and the scene split up. In 1996 RNS started this change. By 1999 pre nets were already up, as well as top sites.

I miss the 90s. I was 12 years old in 1999, but I started disassembling code when I was 8, so as you can imagine, people online thought I was an adult with all of illegal things I did. I even broke into PayPal and bragged about it. lol embarrassing today.
Fair enough. I could imagine that if the work were billed by the hour or said research firm hired multiple people it would be easy for costs of the work to run up to $75k - it's within O(20k). I'm not qualified to price these though - I certainly would abhor having to pay that cost if I were a small company.
An important thing to keep in mind is that viruses do this type of thing in your body all the time. Your cells are constantly being programmed by viruses to generate proteins that are used to build viruses, many using messenger RNA (like coronavirus).

Obviously this will be the first wide spread use of a vaccine using a mechanism viruses have used for millions of years. So although care, caution, and respect are clearly justified, I’d just like to see a little more public education on how viruses work in the first place.

It’s easy for the public to hear “the government is programming your cells” and not even understand the basics of how cells or viruses work in the first place.
Define spec.

Implement spec.

Refactor spec and implementation.

The details after that are problem specific. These frameworks drive me nuts.

Software is not a car. I can do the same stats on a reasonable data set with a bit of C or UNIX tools.

The only thing that’s different at scale is businesses trying to do it for us, for their financial gain.

Forcing humans to move and bend like they’re robots in order to minimize risk to private finance fiefdoms is some thought policing nonsense.
https://archive.is/XynZW
https://archive.is/Evjls
I've lived that life with Datadog. I was the dev who was the most into logging so I got voluntold to be in charge of the Datadog rollout. Told everyone it was not a good idea and presented cost estimates to why, we're better off just keeping our own logs and using one of many open source projects that let you pull in logs and analyze them. But all the cool kids were on Datadog, so onto it we went.

What killed us was the combo of the desire to really aggressive log on the staging-master and release-candidate environments (five envs total) and keep the logs for more than 7 days so the QA team could compare the logs from the current release candidate to the previous release candidates. Between the volume of having all the services set at the info level and the desire to keep it more than 7 days, Datadog was >30k a month.

Which at least finally got me permission to set up an open source log manager and switch everyone over to that. Once the initial panic over the Datadog bill died down.
New theory reveals fundamental building blocks of the universe
This is amazing, but.... I just wanted to point out, the latest "dance pads" are basically a giant touch screens so they are far more flexible than just 3x3 buttons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kksXU42lEBY

love the "no camera" sign right in the middle :P
My 65 year old mom was scammed via a Facebook ad, she thought she was buying a quilt
Question: Why?

Answer: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/china-cen...
Your chances of finding someone to invest in your seed round by posting here on HackerNews is probably very close to zero. Are you in the U.S.? You should try AngelList, NFX, CrunchBase, and local accelerators (who often have good connections).
Sure! I don't mean to deny the importance of the insight; a lot of people do have seriously mistaken beliefs about how social and economic facts come to be, and learning a bit of political science is a critical part of correcting those mistakes.

The problem is that electoral politics, at least as practiced recently in the US, rarely has much to do with this. I'm on a few donor lists, so I got a lot of political fundraising emails over the past year, and out of the candidates I can remember only one was focused on society and how we can make it better. The other candidates talked primarily, if not exclusively, about how terrible their Congressional opponents are and how useful my help would be to defeat their villainous ways. Whatever term you use to refer to this category of activity, I don't think someone with an earnest interest in improving the world would choose to regularly participate in it.
Sure it does. But does it matter?
Antikythera Mechanism – Evidence of a Lunar Calendar
> I don't think so. Those people get paid whether or not you focus their attention on a perimeter-exposed RCE bug.

Well, okay, but the opportunity cost (ie. the other valuable things they could be doing) is surely something that could have a $ value attached?
This dives me mad. There needs to be a max bill per month setting. If you’re near the limit, bells and whistles go off, If you exceed then new things aren’t spun up. GCP refuses to write to storage or run compute. Or they absorb the cost.

If SpaceX can send massive starship and bellyflop it, sure a company with 40,000 engineers can figure this out.

This just says Google will not focus on a thing that gives shitty experience to a user but helps them make money.
> We'd all like to think there's something special in all of us and that the world will benefit from the light of our creativity if it was set free. Truth be told, very few people are capable of much past mimicking and repeating what already exists. ...

> No, given the proper "freedom" to be "earnest" you wouldn't be the next Picasso or Steve Jobs.

There's a premise here that unless you are Picasso or Steve Jobs, you have nothing to contribute - and that if you aren't changing the world in a significant way, you are mediocre. People change themselves, their families, their communities, their friends and neighbors lives - most of what we get from the world is in those micro, personal interactions. Friends have done infinitely more for me than Jobs or Picasso.

There's also an assumption that "very few people are capable of much past mimicking and repeating what already exists", which doesn't at all match my experience of people.

I find that almost everyone has much to offer, but you need to give them space and confidence to be earnest. You need to listen, and each one has so much to tell - perspectives that open up new worlds. If your attitude is the one you describe, it's self-fulfilling.

So this should be good news to you. Why is it important to you to advocate for bad news?
Also OSSU. See this earlier discussion comment - response by creator of OSSU on OSSU vs teachyourselfcs.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21067697
I'd be all for university debt cancellation if it was in the form of universities not getting paid. Because as you say, they provided a shitty product. And as a parent poster said, if they get paid they'll just keep or raise rates so this is the best way to correct the root problem as well.

But I'm against debt cancellation if it just means that we get to pay for their shitty schooling, and we both know this is what they're pushing for. Increasing the tax burden on those who didn't get loans and didn't go to fancy schools.

Why shouldn't they just be allowed to go bankrupt? Then people who made bad loans would suffer. And they wouldn't be able to buy TVs and other crap on credit for a few years which for this specific demographic, might be a lesson.
it's also a matter of size. lores graphics are 1k (they usually compress at least 50%). There are 800 backgrounds in the demake. You want to fit this on a reasonable number of floppy disks, in this case it fits on 3.

If you use "hi-res" (140x192x6 colors) the graphics are 8k, 8 times bigger, so you need 24 disks which is a bit much.

Also with double-buffered hi-res graphics you waste 16k of RAM which is 1/3 of all available RAM on a II+. Double-buffered lo-res only takes 2k.
better yet, we ought to just put chips in people's brains. make illicit thoughts impossible.
And acquisitions, which are are frequently paid in part (or entirely) with stock.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to look it up on Wikipedia. The board form factor itself didn't have a name, but it was tied to the bus that was used. The PDP-11s used the Unibus, and the LSI-11 and its variants used the Q-bus.

They also have a picture of the 11/03, and it's indeed much smaller than I remember. Perhaps I was thinking of the 11/23.
P vs. NP, and other unsolvable million-dollar problems
Photographer says Instagram censoring her body-positive images
IANAL, but:

The classic situation of blackmail is demanding money from someone, or else you'll reveal some embarrassing fact about them, report that they committed some crime, etc.

Saying "Give me money or I will publicly disclose a bug in your computer systems" – that fits the classic situation of blackmail straight on.

Saying "Fix this bug in 90 days or I'll publicly reveal it" – doesn't fit the classic situation of blackmail, no demand for money involved.

Now, not all cases of blackmail fit the classic situation. It is possible for a person to commit blackmail without demanding money, if instead they demand something else of direct value to them – for example, saying to a university president "Offer my child a place or else I'll tell the media that you are cheating on your wife".

But, in the case of Google Project Zero style "Fix this bug in 90 days or I'll publicly reveal it", it isn't clear that the demander is actually demanding anything of any direct personal benefit to themselves. Generally speaking, the direct personal benefit to the security researcher of the bug being fixed is going to be negligible. If I demand you do something which doesn't directly benefit me (or my family or friends) in any tangible way, I don't see how such a demand could legally count as blackmail.

I doubt the delay itself has any direct legal relevance. Going to someone and saying "I'm going to report your crimes to the authorities no matter what, but if you don't pay me I'll do it tomorrow, if you pay me I'll wait until next week instead" is probably still blackmail. (Getting one week's notice is invaluable if you plan to flee the country, for example.)
So true! If the tool can’t be used by everyone on your team, then it is unlikely to be used.

I’ve experienced this many times.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, and especially not in response to someone sharing their work. That's the fast track to a toxic culture that none of us wants here—especially in Show HN threads. Anyone sharing their work like this is putting themselves in a vulnerable position and we don't want a culture in which they get stomped.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: while I have you, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines as well.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Gentoo user here! But to be honest i use flatpak and snap, not just portage. I dont care if it works
So in this case he actually changed someone's password - don't they have a policy saying that you have to only do this kind of stuff with your own account or in a sandbox? Or is this exempt because such a thing is not possible since it's internal?
What a load of rubbish. Driving fast to overtake will not make a significant difference, unless you are one of those assholewz weaving between cars constantly overtaking.

It is ridiculous how blaze most roads users take speeding.

And yes, most countries have a point system.
Most probably this would be something to do with the key prop. Or how conditional components are being rendered. I can't make any judgements without seeing the final code though.
... and they are all radioactive. ;)
"Make mistakes and learn! Being wrong isn't a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something." --Feynman (b. 1918)
Ahh, so we're assuming eternal universe implies that the entire universe is in thermal equilibrium. This makes some sense, but it feels like cheating. Because then the paradox is broader: "how can anything be at a different temperature to anything else in an eternally old universe?". Nothing really to do with night skies.
Public Assemblies in Early Cities
"Fixes" that are moral hazards often don't fix anything.

The schools wasted everyone's time and money, from inflated rates to useless courses. If anyone should eat the debt, it's them.
Is it just me, or has the WSJ become quite sanctimonious recently
If violence only includes harm to humans, I think you could probably reasonably say that destroying an empty hospital is still violence since the direct effect of destroying the hospital would be to harm the people who would otherwise be treated there.

Tbh though I think destruction of property reasonably counts as violence; the more important question is whether that violence is justified. In this case it seems justified.
Coincidence that the people at these companies hate the President with a burning passion and many are caught on tape saying they train their AIs to look for things like guns and God and the crucifix when shadowbanning because "who talks like that?"
A modern lecture on memory allocators should have covered aspects to developer ergonomics w.r.t memory safety features like leak detection, use after free etc and allocation statistics in general. These are must-have features of any memory allocator library.
That's really incisive. Just as with rental housing, the responsibility for the maintenance gets shifted, not just the responsibility for building. It seems to me like software maintenance has gotten more and more important relative to software building over time... but it might just be an optical illusion. (I mean, Windows 3.1 didn't update itself overnight...) I wonder if this is true, and if so, what's driving it?
I am not seeing where he played a role in ARPAnet.
Gravity is not the metric, but it does interact with the metric (well, gravity is what we call it when mass or energy affects space time). The presence of mass/energy causes the shortest distance between two points to no longer be a straight path through space. The path an object takes through space time is always the path with the shortest space time interval among all paths (in that sense the path is “straight” the same way that in flat space, a straight line is the shortest path between two points) — this distance is given by the metric tensor — but gravity makes this path appear curved in space.
I think this is a worthwhile exercise but the years make no sense at all. CSS was proposed in 1994, not 2015. It's off by literally 2 decades. Also XHTML was released in 2000... By 2010 it was almost obsolete with HTML5 coming out 4 years later

I stopped reading there
also note this will run fine on a stock system from 1980: an Apple II+ with 48k RAM (1MHz 6502) and a 16-sector 140k DOS3.3 Disk ][ drive.

If you're a commodore person, you should be comparing this with what you could do with a PET or maybe a VIC-20 in this timeframe (not a C64).
Consider that while you may care about maintaining something, whoever comes after you likely will not. Just like writing and documenting good code, solutions should last beyond a single engineer.

So yes, your skills are too valuable. All engineering skills are. That's the point of buy vs build.

If you truly feel you aren't being allowed to work on the the things you care about, it's possible you're simply in the wrong role or company.
I don't deny that there's a gain for nearly all of the spectrum in, say, China alone, but at the very bottom there's virtual slavery. Globally, this has been persistent (and recorded) for millennia up until the present day. This doesn't go away unless there's incentive for companies to pay them more than they absolutely have to, and treat them better than they absolutely must.

There might be some merit to Baumol's cost disease, but I'd wager the studies that support the theory were limited to domestic economies in wealthy countries (orchestras in particular are a weird example because they are propped up often by sponsorship and government arts funding). Even still, consider now the growing wage disparity in the US, a 'wealthy' nation, where people are earning less almost across the board excluding tech, yet a sliver of the population is gaining wealth exponentially. Gained advantages from production efficiencies are being routed by globalisation - the claimed 'uplifting' force for the poor. And on the other end, China had to find slaves from somewhere to fulfil demand at the lower end, and suddenly a bunch of 're-education' camps pop up and commandeer the most politically expendable population as extra human resources.
from an engineering perspective, it is hard to design a car that can safely travel at 60 mph and accelerate to that speed in a timely fashion without giving it the ability to go much faster. a car with a drag-limited top speed of 60 mph would become a road hazard any time it merged onto a freeway.

it's possible to program a car to cut the throttle when it hits a certain speed, but most people take a dim view of having objects that they own be programmed to disobey them. would you like to use an OS that prevents you from installing any software that could enable illicit activity?
There are no child prodigy realtors because very few people are willing to take a child seriously enough to buy a house off them. The learnable part of realty (as measured on the realtors exam) is far outweighed by the bullshit part of looking the part.

Astronauts per se no. But there are pilots as young as 16.
Problem: Software projects often discover large new problems late in the cycle.

Solution: Do the parts of the project you are worst at first and save the easy safe tasks for last.
https://pastebin.com/xJSGGpZi
> There's not really a plausible mechanism that could cause problems to happen long after the fact.

Well there are some limited circumstances, but I don’t think they justify not going forward with the vaccine. For instance there is a possibility in some individuals that the mRNA itself (not just the spike protein) as well as the lipid encasing it to protect it and transport it into the cell can cause an immune response. It’s theoretically possible that in some individuals that could result in auto immune responses to other forms of messenger RNA in their cells. [1]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5906799/

From the article

“A possible concern could be that some mRNA-based vaccine platforms induce potent type I interferon responses, which have been associated not only with inflammation but also potentially with autoimmunity”
I find Perl to be good for these things.
> In law, everything is textualism

Everything should be. But 95% of everything is really people decrying textualism and actively choosing their ideology.

> it's nonsense used by people to make themselves think they are smart

What nonsense did you use?
> And we (Australia) blackmail drug makers: sell your drugs to us at a certain price and the Government will heavily subside it and you’ll get big sales. Refuse and it will get zero subsidy and nobody will buy it.

The blackmail version is actually "Refuse, and we'll produce a generic version locally and perhaps even export it to any country that wants it."

https://www.wired.com/2006/12/indiadrug/
A few key points from the seeking alpha article that seem to not get the attention they deserve:

- “over the last decade, as the Federal Reserve and government have pumped more than $36 trillion into the economy”

- “for each dollar of economic growth since 2008, it required $12.67 of monetary stimulus”

- “during the last decade, economic ‘growth’ was a function of population growth“
Yep. It supports several "integrations" [0], but I typically just send notifications (to my mobile devices) from shell and Python scripts running on my machines -- they even have examples on their front page.

It supports acknowledgements (for "emergency" messages, at least) but I'm not sure about arbitrary "responses" (although you can include clickable links in the notifications).

Pushover's awesome -- and made by @jcs [1] who, among other things, works on OpenBSD.

--

[0]: https://pushover.net/apps

[1]: https://jcs.org/
Ask HN: What's the best non-Safari web browser on macOS?
I recently got an M1 Mac, and it's got me thinking about web browsers. I want to reduce my dependence on Google Chrome because of Keystone, but I also want a web browser to use in case Safari causes problems (it already has on some pages). Can anyone advise me on what fallback browser I should use?
It's interesting how some basic permutations (not being a pure rectangle for the second chunk) and mistakes (paradice) likely inadvertantly made the text more robust against computerized cryptanalysis.

I wonder if a number of previous efforts were just a few steps away but their computer program rejected it interpreting the mistakes as an incorrect guess
I feel similarly. I find the most satisfaction in maintenance of an existing system, as opposed to greenfield development. Finding the optimal way to add new features inside an existing system is deeply satisfying. Improving tooling and infrastructure that leads to quality-of-life improvements across the team is very fulfilling.
DKIM signatures were valid. Chain of custody doesn’t matter.
What this doesn't mean, though, is Buy Everything. Buying everything is also how you get poor quality and poor process. It's important to recognize what's core to your culture. It's why I prefer discussing this as a what is core vs commodity decision.

If there's a general rule for making these decisions, I haven't found one. What's helped me, though, is asking whether or not the problems my team has is any different from most other teams. Sometimes it's true, like when I was at an entertainment company working on asset management. Sometimes it isn't, like when I was at the same company figuring out an AB testing solution.