skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used to run the network for a large hosting company. Can confirm, I disabled all peering and transit on one set of border routers for maintenance, restored, and then did the same on the other set.

In both cases, I disabled everything, and then only restored IPv4. Took me a week to notice and restore IPv6. Not a single support request was received relating to the week long IPv6 outage.

This was when I gave up and removed IPv6 from my home network. I’m now behind IPv4 CGN, and don’t care. It works.
I generally agree. One thing to point out though, is that under zero tolerance policies, some victims who do have the ability to defend themselves are forced to work within a regulatory framework that would severely punish them for doing so, to the point that being the victim of a bully is less harmful or more tolerable than being a victim of the system. Likewise, those who don't have the ability to defend themselves would be less motivated to learn those skills if they know the system would punish them (why learn it if you're not allowed to use it?).
Also it is not merely a failure of people (in putting too much confidence in to these algorithms). It is also often actively marketed as such (fine print about culpability not withstanding).
Interesting, I wasn't aware of Fairphone. Here's their supplier list btw, in case anyone wants to check out:

https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/016_005...

Still seems to be mostly China (48 out of 65), but the fact they make it public is highly commendable.
Ask HN: S/MIME for email encryption in 2020/2021?
A recent frontpage HN article, which read more like a rant at the state of secure e-mail, made me think about what security options those of us have who choose to use common cloud e-mail providers. Considering the option of S/MIME, how would one get started using this signing and encryption method to exchange secure e-mail with associates? Is there any value in being the first to show an S/MIME signature and encourage others to jump on board? And what is the preferred vendor for getting an official S/MIME certificate at low cost or free? (Comodo's offering from past years seems to be gone.)
_Current_ rates are likely not worth worrying about, not this early on. Rates should be expected to increase fairly dramatically in the next weeks.
Copenhagen hospitals vaccinating more people than scheduled [0]

> Hospitals in the Copenhagen area are ahead of their COVID-19 vaccination schedule, according to the Capital Region’s vaccine taskforce.

> According to the taskforce, 20 percent more people than calculated have been vaccinated because each vial contains at extra 1-2 doses.

> The reason for the extra doses is producer Pfizer/BioNTech adding a bit to account for potential spillage.

> And so to attain the excess doses, health personnel must handle the vaccine with care.

[0] https://cphpost.dk/?p=121536

Edit: formatting
>> out of big cities

...in the NE and west coasts. This isn't out of the ordinary in large cities like Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, etc.

If you limit your search to Top 10 MSAs by population, you'll see that roughly half are expensive and the other half are not. More people live in Atlanta metro than SF, Seattle, or Boston metros but housing costs are fractional vs those places. (Salaries are not equivalent to SF, but IIRC most SF companies pay ~80%+ of SF pay. 80% of SF pay is "mansion money" in most US cities.)
Exactly. Since most people buy houses with mortgages, the demand curve for houses is not set by the price, but by the monthly payment.
I'm hoping there's a way turning off auto-archiving using archive.org? Seems to defeat the purpose of self-hosting to some extent, and I'd really prefer hosting my own archive, which would allow for interesting search possibilities.
That's basically what sites like Reddit or HN set out to do: aggregate the good articles, using the wisdom of the crowd. Of course that's not that easy, and not necessary what people even want
I believe the US military uses COD and games like that in their recruitment. I definitely think that part is real. I personally always liked quake and doom, disliked Counter Strike and Call of Duty, so this might be my bias, but it seems easier to use the latter to soften people's perspective on war and conquest while the former are just so cartoonish levels of violence that you can easily distinguish it from reality. That might just be my perspective.
Ask HN: Bootstrapping an Enterprise Startup
Hi HN-ers,

Wondering if anyone knows good resources or models of bootstrapping an enterprise startup? We’d prefer not raising funds at this stage but our market is primarily enterprises so product development could take a while with just a team of 3.
I took a look at your website. It’s quite clear, and I think a lot of people would love such an arrangement, but a word of warning:

BusinessInsider is not a reliable citation - I would try to dig up the original study. Similarly for Forbes - it has lost a lot of the allure since their website hosts a lot of low-quality content now.

Try to find more reputable sources, starting with the studies themselves, NYT, Time, etc
Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
One of the reasons Jobs cited as being an important factor for locating in China is the availability of skilled labor. It would have taken them years to hire enough industrial engineers to handle the scope and scale and volume that the iPhone required in the US, if they could even manage it at all, but only weeks to do so in China.

The supply chain is also important. One person who worked in Shenzhen commented that, as a manufacturer, if you suddenly discover you need a certain kind or size or shape or length of screw, you can have a shipment at your door the same day, because the factory that produces a thousand different kinds of screws is just down the road.

To move to the US, they'd either have to replicate most of that manufacturing in the US, which would take decades and be extremely expensive, or deal with a week of latency every time they need a new or different part as they get it shipped from China anyway, making most of this process moot.

Yes, Apple should do something about this issue, and yes it's horrible to imagine them profiting off this with their "nice guy" image, but keep in mind that if they did this and increased the cost of the iPhone, other companies wouldn't, and it would put Apple at a huge disadvantage.

One thing we've seen over the last century of western civilization is that cheaper wins over better. Cheaper toasters that don't last, cheaper fridges that break down after their three-year warranty is up, cheaper laptops that come infected with bloatware and adware. If Apple refused to manufacture in China because of forced labour issues, then they'd lose out on sales to companies who kept benefitting from it, because consumers, as a whole, just don't give a shit.

I mean, if anyone cared about what it takes to provide them with cheap products, they'd be enraged that Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world even though the workers that run his company are subsisting on food stamps and burnout quotas.

That said, Apple is working on moving production to India, and I'd wager that the more they can do that and expand their operations there, the less and less they'll deal with China for manufacturing, but right now no one who manufactures electronics in large volumes can do so without involving China.

In the meantime, they can work on cutting this supplier out of their supply chain; the article is talking about only one of their suppliers, though a long-term supplier, and not actually people working for Apple or manufacturing iPhones directly, so hopefully they can draw a line in the sand and force Lens to either stop using forced labour or lose the contracts.

Fingers crossed.
In your example, the tax code is simply the abstraction layer one level down that you have no control over. So to translate your example, HTML specs would be essential complexity and all authored HTML would be accidental complexity to a front-end web programmer.

But this makes complexity a matter of context.

A browser is built using a programming language and uses interfaces provided by the OS and other libraries. This makes the browser accidental. And you can take this all the way down. Assembly is accidental with respect to the processor being essential.

But now we see how complexity flows through each layer. Just as the accidental complexity of the tax code becomes essential complexity for the accountant, the accidental complexity of HTML becomes essential complexity for the web programmer.

And a popular pass time is complaining how much simpler everything could be, only if.

(not sure if this is what the original article had in mind but this model seems accurate)
Definitely - I realise I am missing a lot of knowledge on the internal power structure of companies. I still think it has value given than 57% of people would prefer to work a 4 day work week, coupled with how difficult it is to hire devs

Do you have any recommendations / how would you try to get companies interested? Do you think its merely a case of "changing the pitch", or the idea has no value?
I must be dense. I don't understand what you're saying. Why does the distribution matter?

If anything, yes, I agree the thresholds should be set much higher than they are now, and should be dependent on local CoL, but $13K/year is going to be a problem no matter where you live.
This is really cool! I've been following your open stats page for a few years, so it's exciting to see the overhaul with new visualizations.

I've started adding revenue graphs like this to my monthly retrospectives,[0] and your page was a big inspiration for me.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2020/12/#stats
Yup. It's stupid. You shouldn't hold back 0, but >50% is too much.
Loot boxes work for convincing unskilled labor to work below minimum wage.
Archive of article: https://archive.is/uIhxK
It's not quadratic if the way reduce() and JS inlining work together causes this:

return prev + DOMPurify.sanitize(mastodonComment);

to end up behaving like this:

reduceValue = reduceValue + DOMPurify.sanitize(mastodonComment);

which ends up behaving like this:

reduceValue += DOMPurify.sanitize(mastodonComment);

which ends up being a sequence of in-place string appends.

In any good implementation, a sequence of repeated appends takes linear time in the total length of all the appended strings, like join('').

I've just tested this theory in Safari 14.0.2 with a JS console one-liner. On this browser, both versions take linear time not quadratic, and the test corresponding to the first version even runs slightly faster.

The time difference is small though, and you're right, the second version is explicitly linear time. If I had tested with a much older browser (maybe IE8), I think the first version would have taken quadratic time.
You could say Ebola is designed to live in another more competitive ecosystem where it’s abilities are rendered less effective thereby maintaining an equilibrium. This ecosystem is the illusive reservoir that epidemiologists are looking for. The suspicion is that this reservoir is bats and that bats have an immune system that can easily pacify the virus.

When the virus is introduced into humans it arrives as an invasive species overloading the habitat and destroying itself.
I wish there were more information available there. I've looked for trying to buy from restaurants that have fair wages, but there's not a lot of info. The best I've come across is the very sparsely populated ROC United app (sparse at least in my region).

https://rocunited.org/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roc-national-diners-guide/id57...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.rocunited....
Yeah, but what does it mean?
To revoke ownership of the company from its owners? Who then gets to own the company and why?

Or does it mean the company should cease to exist, and all employees should be fired immediately? We should deny honest people from getting their salaries?
I very much agree. And the annoying thing for me is that I spend much of my (work) life sitting in front of a full-size keyboard, yet when I want to respond to a personal email on my phone it's actually quicker to type it on the PC keyboard, mail it to myself, and then copy-paste it into my personal email on my phone. It's horrific.

What I've longed for is a bluetooth dongle (or something) that I can just plug into the PC or piggyback on the keyboard's USB connector, and which will let me use the keyboard I already have to type on my phone.
> The Manning leaks were hugely irresponsible. While whistleblowing is a vital activity, the data dumps Manning pulled from the military network and State Department were unredacted raw dumps.

WikiLeaks tried to get the Pentagon to help them redact documents[1].
They refused to do so knowing there would be people like you accusing WikiLeaks/Manning of wrongdoing here.

> I like Manning as a person, but state secrets exist for a reason and she deserved to be imprisoned for her crimes.

You do realize she shed light on war crimes right? Do you consider war crimes 'state secrets' that 'exist for a reason'?

The reason, oftentimes, is simply to hide wrongdoing, as was the case here. The fact Manning was imprisoned, (and tortured), while the killers of civilians and journalists she exposed were not shows that this is not a just system. It's designed to chill whileblowers and allow atrocities to continue, unpunished.

How anyone could support that is beyond me.

1 - https://www.salon.com/2010/08/20/wikileaks_5/
Boycott is a fine tool if we're talking about influencing the corner grocery store in a town of 100 people. You might actually put a dent in their business and cause them to change whatever you're boycotting about. On the other hand, boycotts are totally pointless vs GlobalUltraMegaCorps. If everyone on HN stopped buying from these massive companies, it wouldn't even be noticed. Apple sells roughly 200 million iPhones yearly. Do you think it's possible to get even 1% of those customers to act on a boycott?
They mean the stack depth is guaranteed to be statically apparent at each point in the control flow. In the JVM the class loader checks this with an analysis phase during loading.

(The JVM design makes this harder than it really needs to be, since it doesn't insist on reducible control flow, iirc. You could say OTOH that irreducible control flow is more valuable than trivial analyzability, which is a reasonable take, but conflicts with the above comment's design point of a stack machine being both very simple for an interpreter and not an obstacle to quickly compiling to decent register-machine code. Needing a fancier stack-depth analysis would be that sort of obstacle.)
Being black, female, gay, etc are not usually considered choices, but are variously correlated with lower pay, higher unemployment, increased interactions with law enforcement, disproportionately high penalties from the justice system, worse medical outcomes and so on. Then there's the luck issue. If you get in a car accident in the wrong place with poor insurance, that helicopter ride and subsequent treatment can completely decimate the finances of a middle or lower income household for a generation.

But yeah, if you're a white straight man and you're able to dodge any crippling medical bills, it doesn't take much more than responsibility to sustain a decent life.
Roseanne works at least part time right? At least in some seasons she worked as a waiter and at a factory where her boss was George Clooney.
It never dawned on me as a child, but a couple things jump out at me now as to what I was fed in elementary school.

1. Your drink choice was milk or chocolate milk. Both had artificial sweeteners. Apparently, we had no lactose intolerant kids in the whole school.

2. We were fed lots of bread and potatoes. Even the main dish was often pizza or similar, which contains bread.

3. Green vegetables were exceedingly rare.

4. A kid in Kindergarten and a 6th grader got the same lunch.

In retrospect my lunch diet was atrocious due to this as a kid. You don't need to feed kids sweetened crap all the time. It's especially hard to justify given that all the public schools had complete kitchens that were used every day.

Basically, public school was just state sponsored day care where I grew up. Not only that, it was awful quality day care.
Eh, I sort of ignored the plug at the end. It's not really what the issue is about, completely different scale.
Just copy the one that canada uses[1] and call it a day. Interestingly their old food guide[2] was similar to the food pyramid (emphasis on carbs, along with dairy as a "food group").

[1] https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/hc-sc/documents/services/p...

[2] https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/calgaryherald/wp-con...
I think Hobbes and Darwin would both object to being grouped in with Rand. Hobbes would say the world is violent therefore we should take measures to protect ourselves (with a neutral external force or Leviathan). Darwin would say that ruthless competition has driven genetic change, but would never say that this ruthless competition was intrinsically good or should be encouraged. Rand, on the other hand, showed casual disregard for human suffering and would glorify in winner take all competition (even though that’s not how societies best organize themselves nor how evolution plays out in the real world where cooperation is usually a winning strategy)
There are no consequences to dismembering people and killing scores of them? The point is comparing sex to violence. Violence definitely has terrible consequences, which is why it is socially taboo.
It's cute that so many HN readers consider this accusation to be true. However I'd like to remind you that China and USA are engaged in a modern edition of Cold War. I'd argue it's naïve to think that such reports can't possibly be part of this war.
Scientology has their own police forces, perhaps that would be even better. And they're more modern -- they have E-meters!
Can't disagree there... My home is apparently worth about 30% more today then when I bought (mortgage) it two years ago. That's just insane. Not to mention the price of cars as another large example car loans when I was a kid were maybe 3-4 years, now they're often 7+ on new cars.
Because it isn't. It's distinct from chattel slavery, which is not the only form of slavery. Bonded labor is the most common form of slavery today, and is also not chattel slavery.
While the NYTimes is based in NYC, I'm not sure you'd refer to it as a local newspaper. If you look at their media kit, they very much are focused on their audience being the US -- not just NYC.
Just us network administrators, who administer the networks that your IPs run on. It’s difficult to convince someone to make their own job harder, especially when nobody is actually asking them to, either.
It Took a Pandemic to See the Distorted State of College Sports
GrapheneOS being sued by company that has been harassing it
I posted this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/klbjhu/just_a_reminder_that_grapheneos_is_being_sued_by/
Other people provided more information in comments as well.

Donate to GrapheneOS here: https://grapheneos.org/donate

Copperhead, GrapheneOS's former sponsor, had been harassing Graphene developers. Recently, they sued GrapheneOS.

The thing is, CopperheadOS as it stands today is a scam for CEO James Donaldson to trick people into spending hundreds of dollars, on an OS which doesn't even offer many security patches, and TRACKS USERS FOR LICENSE ENFORCEMENT. CopperheadOS has also been stealing Graphene work.

Ironically, the lawsuit by Copperhead claims that Graphene is taking Copperhead's work. Copperhead is a proprietary piece of trash made by trash.
Ever since the split in 2018, Donaldson harassed Micay. Micay was/is a 50% shareholder-but Donaldson has all the executive power. Micay never was an employee of Copperhead. All work ever since the proto-GrapheneOS was created in 2014, has been the work of Micay and affiliated developers.

GrapheneOS needs help to cover legal fees and expenses. They also have a countersuit.
Please also help by spreading the word on social media, and on your own websites if you have one.
In case you guys want a source: grapheneos.org/#history

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1324434634864795650

GrapheneOS is an open-source security/privacy focused Android ROM.

Copperhead has been editing Wikipedia articles to suit themselves, and getting shady journalists to publish articles to cite, so they technically edit Wikipedia OK. grapheneOS users have tried to edit it back, but made it worse because they did not follow proper guidelines. Do not edit Wikipedia unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
Where Does Wealth Come From? [pdf]
Some clarification needs to be mentioned. Also, this is an issue with the industry. There are more companies out there than MFANG. Our industry should acknowledge other players out there.

Bing Maps and Facebook uses HERE maps under the covers. That's a company that has had the people to really knock mapping out of the park. However, you have some major mismanagement there and lack luster direction that made google maps continue to exist. (They have lead the way in offline mapping.. no joke in 2010 you could install it on your phone, fly from Europe to the US and drive to Canada and back without having data or having to micromanage your "offline data storage") Also, to add insult to injury.. you used to get here.com to point to your customer facing maps, now you have to go "wego.here.com" if you even want to use the consumer maps anymore.
> Windows needs admin rights (as of ~2012) to execute files having in name strings like "update", "install" or "setup". I've picked name VersionChecker to workaround that problem

Just..wow
I skimmed over the article.

I assumed a lot of it is stock-based?
Wow the desperation it takes to try to misdirect the conversation camps to the “war on terror”. Right out of a whataboutism propaganda playbook.

A citizen of any regime, from the best to the most brutal, can criticize China and it does not detract from the argument at all. It’s not hypocritical because citizens are not the government; and, even if it was directly from the government and was hypocritical, the substance of the argument does not change. Calling someone a hypocrite is just an ad hominem.
has anyone confirmed google does these? i personally haven't used google in years, dont hold a gmail account or use their services other than youtube which i do on a private firefox tab.
while i do have a unique browser fingerprint according to https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

>Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 327,358 tested in the past 45 days.

should i be concerned? now, if i use this same browser on any vpn, if youtube is doing fingerprinting then i am a unique user anyways so any ideas?
So ... it is slavery, but just slavery?

Well, I would say, the lines get blurry.
And when you have private prisons, where the owners have a incentive to exploit prison labour, while also keeping their costs low - you end up in something, too close to slavery for my taste.
Thanks, very interesting points!

Maybe I need to target companies who have just raised money and don't currently have policies in place i.e. companies who are more flexible. On the downside, these early stage companies usually look for employees who are willing to pour blood sweat and 60hr weeks into the company i.e. less likely to want to employ people on 30hr contracts

A tricky balancing act trying to identify the best market to target!