skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

You can block ads just by editing your hosts file. There's no need to depend on any browser's particular functionality in order to get rid of them. Nor on extra hardware (Pi-hole), for that matter. I have a cron job download a prefilled copy from a popular github repository [1] daily.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
About Keep multiple browsers and devices in sync when building websites
You could always set up a VPN and make the Plex server only available on the VPN's interface. But then you have to be on the VPN on whatever device you want to watch on, so it can be a bit of a hassle if you're not on your own devices.
And smartphones runs mostly Android, that is Linux kernel.
> he didn't expect anybody to do a lot of work to convince him of a basically worthless fact.

Being Satoshi seems like the exact opposite of a basically worthless fact.

Gavin was just being gullible. Being a good early developer on an important project isn't mutually exclusive with being gullible to social engineering.
Mozilla makes it easier to install extensions on the Firefox browser for Android
The rise of these variants shows that we have to do a much better job with genomic analysis and surveillance and we have to be willing to be more proactive about shutting down travel to/from regions where these variants show up. I'm just not sure we have the political will to do what the science would suggest - we didn't for the original covid-19 and as it spread around the world political leaders of all stripes were slow to listen to the scientists. I guess I'm not sure that's going to change.
Well, the Windows API is "unsafe" by design, is C-based, you pass pointers around, datatype sizes, etc... How can you avoid "unsafe" in this scenario? You're asking for a new framework or an API rewrite
Dentists take the Hippocratic Oath just like doctors. First and foremost, this wasn't just a moral failing, this was a major professional violation, regardless of any government incentives. They put patients in unnecessary risk of complications and likely caused harm in some cases, in direct violation of the one of the most important oaths in any profession. It is the job of healthcare professionals to cater to the health of their patients, not their billing departments.

You can't write all laws like we're living in a Mad Max dystopia - some laws will need to assume that other laws are functioning correctly in order to be practically implementable as a law - just like software has dependencies that must uphold some invariants for the interface to work. The issue isn't subsidizing healthcare, it's unethical professionals abusing our trust.
i will add that part later. That would be a stub for the email subscription. But for now all it really does is loop through the links in `db.json`

https://bitchin.net
Yes, a lot of containers start in less than 1 second. With SSDs it's not as bad as it used to be for VMs, but it's still a lot longer than a container.

I also find the workflow of creating Dockerfiles to be much smoother than cobbling together scripts for a VM.

Plus Vagrant was a real PITA to get working on Windows (at least it used to be - I think I eventually gave up trying to get something running on Windows 7).
I am confused. What part of "We’ve reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time" seems reasonable? Personally this kind of content moderation seems to be the most important and it is absurd that Twitter should wait to remove this content until they are contacted by law enforcement.

Certainly the best thing might have been a "both/and" approach where the victim contacts both Twitter and law enforcement without waiting to hear back from either. But, contacting Twitter directly should be the fasted way to get cp removed from their platform....
Oh wow. I have not heard of or seen tucows for ages. The last time i visited their page must have been 15 years ago because it looked like https://web.archive.org/web/20050715014500/http://www.tucows...
why are you downvoting? Cause there is plenty of evidence of blue team's son RAPING CHILDREN!!!!!
The sign up link on the main page goes to apple.
I think you lost me. How can we have an unfettered economy, not limited by lockdowns AND contain mutations regionally? These two statements you have made seem to be at odds with one another. Or am I overthinking/underthinking this?
Jassy didn't propose, code, or solely invent AWS in any way.
You've effectively answered your own question sport.
Sometimes they do, but they just don't care that certain (or even all) employees are as productive as possible. They might even have a fancy graph showing how they're optimizing for some unit of productivity per unit of cost, so making employees more productive isn't worth it.

One of the best pieces of advice I got early in my career was "Whatever you end up doing, make sure the company sees you as a profit center rather than a cost center, because companies are much more free with their checkbooks to the people they think are directly responsible for making the company money," and though things aren't nearly that black and white, it's definitely been a good general principle.
This isn't AI. It's a random forest with FOUR inputs and ONE output. The fact they put a huge big blue AI brain in their paper to represent this algorithm tells me this is mostly hype.
It would be an entirely different judge in a different case that would have to have him committed, not a judge in a lawsuit in which he's a party, no?
Question: How would this affect severity? My basic understanding is because this is a new virus humans have very little existing immunity, which is the problem and why we don't die from colds. Over time our bodies get better at dealing with the virus and the virus gets better dealing with us.

I read a paper on hn to this effect a little while ago, I'll provide source if needed.
Interesting... the common cold and the flu also tend to mutate to be resistant to past immunity. I wonder if we’re on a the cusp of finally finding cures for these types of rapidly mutating viruses.
If you COORDINATE lockdowns and everyone works in harmony they can be very short.

You could even schedule them in advance.
AFAIK, for ordinary snail mail ownership goes to the recipient in most (all?) European countries: You can't claim copyright on a letter you sent to someone else. Can't see why the same shouldn't go for e-mail. If you wanted something to remain “private”, don't give it to someone. (At least not without having them sign an NDA first).
> How often do you know someone die of cancer?

That depends on how many smokers and ex-smokers you know. It makes it all the sadder because the death was preventable. Which puts it into a similar headspace with Covid.
SMART is a liar sometimes. I have first hand experience with faulty Seagate firmware and Equallogic SANs - where errant statistics caused disks to be ejected from the volumes before you could finish a rebuild. Nothing like watching 40TB of data disappear on multiple installations over the course of a few weeks!
It will never be the new normal and there ate no reasons for it to be.
Mods please
Variadics in Rust
The domain itself isn't fundamentally unsafe, only the way the C API has been designed. You're right that meaningfully different abstractions (instead of a one-to-one translation) may be required to make a safe API, which is why I suggested that could be a possibility.
The current headline (“strongly resistant to past immunity”) is editorialized and not what the research here shows. It’s resistant to donor antibodies, which is definitely unfortunate and concerning, but there’s more to immunity than just antibodies, and even more to antibodies than just the ones donated. Preliminary research [1] shows that vaccines are still effective, at least, and likely that implies natural immunity is still effective too.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.426911v1
They're still supported by most if not all wallets.
Where, exactly, are we today? With per-capita deaths in the ballpark (or lower) than developed countries with more strict, and far better enforced, lockdowns, and at times severe travel restrictions (UK, Italy, Spain, France) [1][2]? Where states with no or fewer restrictions, like Texas or Florida, are doing barely worse (or better) than states with draconian restrictions, like California? [3] With one of the highest vaccination rates reported among large developed countries? [4]

I forgot to mention another good thing about 2020, I really feel good when I do something that annoys holier-than-thou busybodies; living in a liberal city it is typically hard to do, but 2020 was a great year for that activity :D

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#global-counts-rate...
[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
[3] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#compare-trends_new...
[4] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
We've banned this account for trolling. Could you please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with? You've done it a ton, and it just destroys this place. That's not in your interest. The idea of HN is to beat the internet odds (if possible) and have a forum that remains interesting and hovers at least a little above the suckage line. If you keep pushing its head underwater, that just kills it for everyone, you included. How does that help anybody or improve anything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there a what’s working and what’s not working list?
Ask HN: How to find the energy for side projects after day job?
I started doing a remote job and as I don't have to commute anymore, I have some time left after work hours. I'm a software developer, and most of the days are fully packed. Considering the few hours I'm getting, I am thinking about being productive on side projects after my day job, but most of the days I feel too drained to do anything.

People who are successfully at being highly productive in side hustles after demanding jobs, how do you do this? Any actionable advice?
I'm a bit doubtful of this. It's possible but Microsoft uses Live for both business and gaming, but they've only had a track record of forcing Live account adoption onto users in the gaming sphere. It may happen, sure, but I don't think it's likely.

That all said I didn't think it was likely that Minecraft would switch over to using Live accounts since Minecraft is so famously cross platform and Live accounts have struggled with that in the past.
Also worth noting that scalability != efficiency. With enough NVMe drives, a single server can do millions of IOPS and scan data at over 100 GB/s. A single PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD on my machine can do large I/Os at 6.8 GB/s rate, so 16 of them (with 4 x quad SSD adapter cards) in a 2-socket EPYC machine can do over 100 GB/s.

You may need clusters, duplicated systems, replication, etc for resiliency reasons of course, but a single modern machine with lots of memory channels per CPU and PCIe 4.0 can achieve ridiculous throughput...

edit: Here's an example of doing 11M IOPS with 10x Samsung Pro 980 PCIe 4.0 SSDs (it's from an upcoming blog entry):

https://twitter.com/TanelPoder/status/1352329243070504964
I'd wager many of us need rehab despite any apparent injury, but rather due to years of abusing our bodies by sitting still for the majority of our waking hours, and sitting with poor posture. Specific targeted exercises at the start can get people into a condition where the compound movements and other exercises are even feasible (that is, sustainable or less likely to cause injury).
This is either barely getting used or not used enough (or maybe too hidden). Because I had only seen single XEP lists for both clients and servers I looked at.
Or you could just wear a mask and social distance and not congregate indoors with random strangers for long periods of time
No, this is a software problem, not a hardware problem. The replacement would exhibit the same behavior.
I personally use Jellyfin's music integration of my selfhosted music streaming. It works fine, but still has a few kinks to work out. FunkWhale seems like the way to go if you're just looking for music streaming.
That doesn't scrub all advertisements without also going full-nuclear on certain social media sites and video services.
They may rely on the ACID properties of their database. Which makes everything simpler, easier, and safer.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-acid.html
indeed. The replication crisis occurred in peer review media.
Please note, that neutralization by antibodies is only one of the many possible ways how our immune system can take action. Antibody recognition is still possible with the found mutant:

"To determine whether 501Y.V2 is still recognized by non-neutralizing antibodies, the binding of polyclonal sera (from Fig.2a) to a recombinant 501Y.V2 RBD+SBD1 protein and an RBD+SBD1 from the original lineage was assessed by ELISA (Fig.2b). These data revealed that binding of polyclonal plasma to 501Y.V2 RBD+SBD1 was only substantially affected in a minority of cases (14 of 44 with ≥five-fold reduction, 32%). Most of the convalescent plasma/serum suffered less than four-fold reductions in total binding activity (as measured by area under the curve), suggesting a considerable non-neutralizing antibody component are still able to bind the 501Y.V2 spike antigen"

Its also worth to note that only 44 plasma samples were used from individuals out of a population where the virus probably originated.
Seems like existing whistle blower incentives could be beefed up and better publicized.

A new "moral heroes" national holiday celebrating those who uncover fraud. More resources dedicated to investigating claims, more leeway to fine corporations for bad faith activity in order to increase the incentive to blow the whistle.
That's not entirely accurate. His solution was to increase the block limit [1], and use faster computers [2]. Note that Bitcoin Cash is currently implementing this, and succeeding at scaling to 1,100 tx/sec on testnet. (Bitcoin Core supports 3 to 7 tx/sec.)

[1] "It can be phased in, like:

if (blocknumber > 115000)
maxblocksize = largerlimit

It can start being in versions way ahead, so by the time it reaches that block number and goes into effect, the older versions that don't have it are already obsolete. When we're near the cutoff block number, I can put an alert to old versions to make sure they know they have to upgrade."

~ Satoshi Nakamoto, on bitcointalk.org, October 04, 2010, 07:48:40 PM

[2] "Hi Mike,

I'm glad to answer any questions you have. If I get time, I ought to write a FAQ to supplement the paper.
There is only one global chain.

The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide. Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost. It never really hits a scale ceiling. If you're interested, I can go over the ways it would cope with extreme size. By Moore's Law, we can expect hardware speed to be 10 times faster in 5 years and 100 times faster in 10. Even if Bitcoin grows at crazy adoption rates, I think computer speeds will stay ahead of the number of transactions.

I don't anticipate that fees will be needed anytime soon, but if it becomes too burdensome to run a node, it is possible to run a node that only processes transactions that include a transaction fee. The owner of the node would decide the minimum fee they'll accept. Right now, such a node would get nothing, because nobody includes a fee, but if enough nodes did that, then users would get faster acceptance if they include a fee, or slower if they don't. The fee the market would settle on should be minimal. If a node requires a higher fee, that node would be passing up all transactions with lower fees. It could do more volume and probably make more money by processing as many paying transactions as it can. The transition is not controlled by some human in charge of the system though, just individuals reacting on their own to market forces.

Eventually, most nodes may be run by specialists with multiple GPU cards. For now, it's nice that anyone with a PC can play without worrying about what video card they have, and hopefully it'll stay that way for a while. More computers are shipping with fairly decent GPUs these days, so maybe later we'll transition to that."

~ Satoshi Nakamoto in correspondence with Mike Hearn
Excellent run! It's been ages since I've downloaded things from Tucows, mainly late 90s and early 00s. The era of PlanetQuake and all the other sites. Hmm, off to the IA for a nostalgia browse...
None of which invalidates the importance of peer review. If anything, it means that more should be taking place.
I think there are tradeoffs available there since it's mostly tx count and not currency value beings moved that dictates network fees. Potentially gift cards backed by BTC solve the issue of both slow TXs and expensive TXs.

I'm sure there are better solutions, but that's one that comes to mind.
That's a good one, thank-you.
> Old sites are a maintenance challenge and therefore a risk.

Hard disagree unless you want/need to update it. They’ve moved it to internet archive, so I’m happy, but still a dumb statement.
I would expect highly advanced civilizations would have nanotechnology that makes complex chemical synthesis fairly trivial.
You should continue to wear a mask. You should continue to social distance. You should continue to avoid congregating indoors with strangers.
It's also about what a Mozilla intern would get paid ten years ago.
'Fact-checkers' proposed for Nobel peace prize
This was only the second joke I liked in this thread, reading sequentially. First one was about the balloon.
mommy, mommy, help me!!
SMART seems to be extremely useless in practice. Manufacturers don't seem to expose actual failure statistics through it, likely for fear of making their product look bad.
Does the yubikey "security key" series (the ones that only do u2f/fido2) support the necessary extension?
There's never been a stable release for this tool in 3+ years. As far as I'm aware, the "latest" version only supports Discord.
You're right but Andy, for lack of a better word, willed AWS into existence: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-...

That's gotta count for something.
I hesitated to post that because it would be interpreted that way.

In the case I described, the issue was literally that having an MBA put you on a lower payscale than being a mid-tier engineer.

The problem was that we had several people who invested years of their lives and six figures into post-graduate MBA education with the expectation that it was a cheat code for moving them up to the top of the payscale. It was a shock to land in a company where that was not true at all, and furthermore that it was codified into the payscale.

Having an MBA is certainly not a negative signal like HN tends to suggest. The bigger issue is resistance to the modern dual-track career ladders. Many people still want the management title (or an MBA credential) to guarantee them higher compensation, and they're resistant to any system which doesn't match those expectations.
... or rapid iteration of vaccines.

The Moderna vaccine was ready in approximately a day, at least as a first draft. All of the work was in regulatory, validation, etc.

My hope is that we can validate and approve minor tweaks to the vaccine much more quickly.
That's still a very common pattern if you need maximum performance, and can tolerate small periods of downtime. When designing systems, you have to accept some drawbacks. You can forgo a clustered database if you have a strong on call schedule, and redundancy built in to other parts of your infrastructure.

Galera is great, but you lose some functionality with transactions and locking that could be a deal breaker. And up until MySQL 8, there were some fairly significant barriers to automation and clustering that could be a turn off for some people.

Everything has it's pros and cons.
Assuming one knew what the resulting salted hash was. Though with all the breaches out there, I guess that is not an unreasonable assumption.
Looks like I was wrong! That's a great news
I noticed they call their groups "pods" and I thought that was poor naming because that's what Kubernetes calls their groups. Then it hit me and I looked up what a gathering of whales is called, and sure enough, it's a "pod". It gave me a little chuckle.
If a person sees it at all. Twitter and Facebook are far too large to moderate effectively with humans. Most things are caught by automated image recognition, but that doesn't work for images not yet in the database.
If I find a different instance and I want to follow that instance or become a part of that community, I have to sign up on it.. I don't see a way to follow a single instance and filter it out of the federated timeline. Perhaps I just don't see that option?
what about opensourcing the project and let people contribute it will help growing the wiki :)
It's way less than I made working in the IT departments of medium-size non-tech companies.
And even newsstands can choose not to carry a paper.
It won't replace all employees.

It'll just replace some.
Also in the FAQ:

> How does Substack make money?

> Substack takes a 10% fee on all paid subscriptions. Substack will never run ads or sell user data.
It just goes to show that effective assassination markets need to be centralized and corporate, not distributed and anonymous.
> In this letter, they claim Craig owns the copyright to the paper, the Bitcoin name, and ownership of bitcoin.org.

Isn't that basically asking for a lawsuit in the format of "Prove that you are Satoshi or be charged with perjury" ? Why is CSW still able to play these tricks?
Exactly my point! Consider a group of college students living together or an average family and we start to realize that its not about a single activity but the multiple parallel needs for the same shared pipe that causes congestion.

I find it surprising that so many seem to disagree that this is ridiculously low.
eternal 2020
You can flag it yourself, too, if you click on the time of the post.
I filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities (about the trips to Fiji, not the iPads).
No aliens required, just sales tactics that seem to be endemic in this industry.

Just about every week I comb through my inbox unsubscribing from all the companies' mailing lists that I most certainly did not subscribe to.
Ask HN: Software engineers, thoughts on solo projects?
I recently joined a medium sized tech company, and my team works in a way where individuals are tasked with seeing projects through from beginning to end (in regards to the engineering work). This is my first time working like this, and I was wondering if others have worked in this manner, and if so, how they rate it.

To give a little context, here's the typical workflow: An engineer is tasked with accomplishing task A. The engineer creates an RFC and circulates it with the rest of the team. Once the RFC is approved, the engineer writes ~95% of the code to accomplish the task.

Here are some brief thoughts I have after working this way for 1 year:

Pros:
- Move faster

Cons:
- Tribal knowledge
- Minimal collaboration
- Code quality is "unknown" (code reviews become difficult when you're not in the weeds)
One affects the global economy, the alternative affects a local economy, for example.
Just goes to show how much a single SQL server can scale before having to worry about sharing and horizontal scaling
I am explicitly not saying the vaccine does this, but I am personally more concerned about it having effects on the fertility of young people - it is not something we would discover in a relatively short trial, but it could spell disaster in a few years.

Mind you there is no scientific reason it should do this, so why is my mind trying to make the worst possible scenarios?