skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's annoying. Here is what I meant to post, more or less:

Huh. So the argument to overcome objections to a system designed for ingesting, canonicalizing, normalizing, and correlating private data acquired via dubious means from dubious sources is that at least the access to and use of the data is controlled monitored and auditable, reducing the incidence of LOVEINT and similar abuses as compared to ad-hoc systems constructed on the sly?

That's really damning with faint praise, especially since Jevon's Paradox ensures that both the use AND abuse of such data will increase when you reduce the 'costs' of doing so, and that's assuming there is no unsanctioned/off-book/'black' use or egress of the data (which is far from assured, IMO, given what we know about the history of these systems and projects, eg. Total Information Awareness and Trailblazer vs. ThinThread).
No, meetings are usually not for thinking. They are for delivering status to an authority figure while wasting everyone else's time for the convenience of said authority figure.
While pointing out that factorio has bugs is factually true, its effectively just clickbait in terms of the duration of how long they impact players if at all. I'd judge that newsfeed into oblivion. But these articles are few. The main game sites only have glowing reviews.

Factorio's bugs are swatted at high speed with gusto and grace. How do I know this? I use the experimental version for gameplay. Any bugs soon vanish into the changelog history.
And you have every reason to be incredibly cautious. Were I in your shoes I'd likely err on the side of caution too.

Hospitalisation rate says nothing other than they were in hospital. It could have been because they were feeling a bit rough but utterly terrified due to all the scaremongering that's going around. Or they may have been close to deaths door. No way to tell.

The figures don't lie: There are vulnerable groups that can be severely symptomatic and even die from this but they make up a tiny tiny fraction of the population.
It’s not trivially verifiable for the average person and the average person is used to the rich just flaunting the law with trivial or no consequences.

Saying “but that would be against the rules!” means almost nothing for the rich. This is one of the downsides of not having a strong rule of law and the rule of law has been degrading steadily in the US
What about that Israeli military official who claimed that there was a Galactic Federation of aliens? Could this be one of their probes?
MongoDB Basic Shell Commands (part-4)
Anyone that's new to the industry? Non-technical folks that keep hearing about git hugs?
That makes as much sense as basing someone's salary on their zip code, as if living in a less wealthy area make them a less valuable employee.
You may avoid it, but hundreds of millions don't, so the point stands. "Cheap crap" is obviously one possible way to go, and companies like Walmart have grown very successful that way.
It's in POSIX because it has a specification and can be implemented independently. Perl can't be specified in a standards document. The one attempt was a failure.
Fantastic! I will give it a try asap but it looks super easy to get started and the documentation is brilliant. Amazing work! Regarding security, could you please elaborate how sensitive data can be stored (and protected)?
Does anyone allow review bombing?
> As a paying customer, you can negotiate whatever terms you want. They will want the ability to discontinue your service and you will conversely want that ability as well. However you can negotiate the exact terms as well as any notice periods, etc.

Theoretically, yes.

In reality, I’m too small an account to warrant anything besides boilerplate. The big boys may be able to negotiate. I cannot.
That wasn't my take. Good documentation doesn't equate bureaucracy.

20 years ago, Spolsky wrote a blog post about how good documentation need not be unreadably dry and soulless. [0] From which:

> Rule 1: Be Funny

> Yep, rule number one in tricking people into reading your spec is to make the experience enjoyable.

[...]

> if you work in a company where people will respect you less because your specs are breezy, funny, and enjoyable to read, then go find another company to work for, because life is just too damn short to spend your daylight hours in such a stern and miserable place.

I'm not sure I'd go quite that far - it seems a bit much to leave an otherwise agreeable position just because they insist on humourless documentation - but I think he makes some important points.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/15/painless-functiona...
Everybody talks about speed and how it affects conversion (since people don’t bounce for example) and traffic (since Google uses speed as ranking factor). But whenever I talk to site owners they seem to prefer new features over site speed. Is that only my perception or something bigger than that? Maybe speed is not that important in the end?
Lack of separation? If it turns out they did take any direction on this from anyone holding a short position in GME I would imagine RH is fully and completely screwed, as are their investors.

this is all hypothetical, which is why I used the word if. If they did what WSB is accussing them of, which I think is probably doubtful, RH is in really really big trouble...
Google delete 100k negative Robinhood reviews
I thought you were a troll the first time you posted some ridiculous bullshit to one of my posts, but now I'm sure.

The sad part is, you forgot your own rule. You got your feefees hurt (which was clearly bullshit also) and said you were "done communicating" or some such nonsense.

That's the great thing about a troll. They're also liars.
I can think of lots of things that started that way.

Like Science Fiction writers sitting around joking about starting a religion, then Hubbard goes off...

And cow clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker

I'm sure there are other great examples...
I agree on the crashes part, I did solve most of my crashes by (ironically) going from stable releases to compiling from master, but I trust that it might just been a hardware configuration thing. In fact, in the last 4 months or so I've only had one compositor crash, which also wrecked the framebuffer until I restarted so I assume it was an amdgpu bug.

I do not use Firefox so I cannot comment on that, I'm using Brave (which is based on Chromium 88) and the ozone backend is working fine after a rocky start. The only application that gives me trouble is Zoom where it likes to crash on start and I need to fake being in GNOME through envs in order to enable desktop sharing (and even then, I have to do it through the webcam interface).
Of course. But there's a difference between studying or being involved in an industry to formulate your model and being confident in that, and being confident in pure conjecture. Mental models are great and they're really all we have to understand the world, but they should be based in some kind of observation.
It doesn't matter if it "actually censorship". Why people always argue about definitions and stuff while the real effect it has is obvious and its completely irrelevant if it ticks all the boxes for the definition of "censorship". People use the word because there simply inst a better one. Maybe its just suppressing or consensual temporary censoring who tf cares. Its not about definitions or whether a law was broken its just about the effect it has.
>> Who

Newbies!

You used to be a newbie to. Remember?
> Unfortunately

I guess it depends to whom.
True. All this stuff was old-hat when the Tulip Mania "ended" in the 17th Century. There is even a tale about olive presses that reads a little like a futures contract's lifetime [1].

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/a-brief-history-of-stock-o...
The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2010)
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Also the results of this vaccine isn't that difference from just using 1 shot of another vaccine.

It looks like as long as it's safe to do it, the 2nd shot is worth it.
> an outsider can't simply declare something to be true by dint of being an outsider.

you must be new to the internet.
As is nearly always the case with these types of conspiracy theories, never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

More charitably, you can explain most of these actions (maybe excepting Robinhood's actions) by the mods of these platforms and locations being roughly as surprised by things as Melvin Capital.
Review bombing is non customers with an agenda leaving reviews.

Not a company doing something genuinely bad and real customers stating their dissatisfaction.
I use them all the time in Chrome dev tools where there is a nice GUI for them and they actually work properly.
I think it depends on whether your experience was positive or negative. If positive, I think your description applies. If negative, I think people really do want to impact the rating negatively.
Replying to myself to avoid edits.

The other reason that listening and not spouting fiction is a good idea is that it is a lot of effort correcting people d that effort could otherwise be spent elsewhere. Folk have good will, but there's a finite amount that shouldn't be wasted! Once that's run out they look to use their time effectively. Correcting you /again/ won't be up high on the list.
Not below, but somehow balanced?

This explosion of growth we are seeing is relatively recent, and is due not only to advances in technology, but also to cultural changes which may perhaps have been more important to enable this relentless expansion.

What was the most recognized traditional means to become rich if not by pillaging and military conquest? The idea that you could (and should!) become rich by individual economic effort was not common at all. To the contrary, it was frequently taken to be immoral, like the Medieval condemnation of usury, or the ostracism of rich people in Ancient Greece.
And just in time article

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16462/hands-on-with-the-asus-...

I guess I should submit this on HN as well.

Edit: I was getting too ahead of myself I thought these are for TR Pro with Zen 3. Turns out they are not out yet.
The purpose of reviews is to inform others what they can expect from the app. If they have a negative experience it will be expressed as such.

F*k Google. * (1 star)
Weird diet flex but OK
Ah, yes, shell history ftw. Of course you should ensure no filesystem is mounted or such:

root@awork3:~# echo 4 > /sys/module/nvme/parameters/poll_queues
root@awork3:~# echo 1 > /sys/block/nvme1n1/device/reset_controller
root@awork3:~# dmesg -c
[749717.253101] nvme nvme1: 12/0/4 default/read/poll queues
root@awork3:~# echo 8 > /sys/module/nvme/parameters/poll_queues
root@awork3:~# dmesg -c
root@awork3:~# echo 1 > /sys/block/nvme1n1/device/reset_controller
root@awork3:~# dmesg -c
[749736.513102] nvme nvme1: 8/0/8 default/read/poll queues
You might end up with strains that could survive in humans, but those wouldn't be the strains being prescribed to people.
Sometimes it's about optimizing wall time not algorithmic complexity.

If you have a batch SLA of 1 hour, and your currently spending 50-70 mins to complete the batch and 20 minutes of that time is spent date parsing and you can reduce it to 5 minutes that's an big win.
Available on youtube and definitely worth watching, it's a fantastic tour of a multi-exploit stack, from electrons to electron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnxcPeemHSc
has google updated their apps yet?
It helps to re-frame "slippery-slope" as "establishing a precedent".
Yes, this was my intent. It's not that security researchers don't publish this kind of thing... it's just that there are a million rabbit holes to explore, and probably only like 0.1% of those dead ends get written about.
The utility comes from the utility of having the chance to sell your IPO shares on the day and date of your choosing. That liquidity makes the shares more valuable to the buyer, who might find herself in a "oops I have to sell now" situation.
Hands-On with the Asus Pro WS WRX80E-Sage SE WiFi
Fascinating - there's a video from the paper in a book format they did here https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~schg/t-paper/wordpress/t-bo... (2015)

Looking forward to cool applications, though it's probably going to be leaflets & magazin ads with sound first
Nox Archaist – New role-playing game for the Apple II
Geofencing on vehicles could do that, but we're not there yet.
If something is impossible to prove wrong because of inadequate data isn't that a strong suggestion that further research would be a good idea??
No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy
When I find a good product and review it, it's because I want to benefit the developer and help other people find it. I am trying to affect the overall rating.
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Robinhood’s plan to “democratize finance” hit a GameStop-shaped speed bump
This JPGs-in-a-SVG thing is grotesque, an example of how web development often seems like a Jenga tower of hacks. Why not find minimally-perceptible pixel changes to the image that allow it to compress better as PNG?
I would absolutely be interested in joining a worker cooperative in the tech industry.
It would absolutely not be surprising for people to be downloading the app to leave a 1 star review because they're an angry redditor.
You are papering over the fact that even cash accounts require Robinhood to have sufficient cash to cover amounts liable until the trade is actually settled. There is an entire web of relationships between DTCC, robinhood, bank LOCs, etc. that make robinhood's capital requirements explode when GME stock explodes 1000% up and becomes the most traded share in the entire universe of stocks.
"IoT Protocols" is a really wide area to try and cover, because the devices do so much. There's CoAP and what not, but even that's really not going to cover everything. Then applying "Security best practices" to that just makes it an even larger multiplier.

So yes, it's happening, but it's many many many different wars on many many many different fronts.
Reviews are always published by corporations for the benifit of corporations, not consumers.
A parent comment mentioned Redstone, of Minecraft fame. Redstone, as a thing that the developer created, is not on its own very complex. But the things that user can make with Redstone are insanely complex. That is not true for most gameplay in games, but it is true for Redstone in MC and Factorio in general. That's not to belittle those things, they're both great. But if you compare the dev time required to make Redstone in MC vs the dev time to make other stuff, other stuff frequently wins. Hell, I bet just making skeletons took more time than making Redstone. But obviously that doesn't mean Skeletons allow for more interesting gaming than Redstone.

"Simple gameplay" does not mean that the experience of playing the game is simple. Chess has very simple gameplay (basically just: learning how 6 different piece types move, pieces capture each other, and protect the King) but the emergent complexity from those simple rules is truly impressive.

Compare this to say Monopoly, which has a lot more rules than chess, but is mind-numbingly not complex in terms of strategy and the overall play experience.

That is what linkdd is trying to say.
> It seems only natural to me that public schools should be handled by the municipality's government, or maybe the provincial one directly.

At least in California, school districts are independent from cities, and while most are wholy within one county, some aren't. The school district is the municipality. California municipal districts for the most part have elected boards, although the elections don't have to be run if there aren't more candidates than seats.

Pay attention when a California mayoral candidate says they're going to fix the schools. That's a sign that they either don't understand how schools in California work, or they think you don't. School districts aren't subordinate to cities, so mayors have no power over them. With a slight caveat that because San Francisco is a unified city and county, the mayor of SF is also on the SF county board, and counties have some power over school districts, but not a whole lot.
This is a great initiative to help scientists take the jump to start their own companies. How many startups will be in the first batch?
A Primer on JSON Web Tokens
Is there a simpler solution as compared to using a VPN. As it is work from home right now and internet speed is not that great for few folks in our organisation.

I was thinking if there was a tool that could proxy connections only to database.
I just checked my logs, and none of Samsung's consumer NVMe drives have ever supported sector sizes other than 512B. They seem to view this feature as part of their product segmentation strategy.

Some consumer SSD vendors do enable 4kB LBA support. I've seen it supported on consumer drives from WD, SK hynix and a variety of brands using Phison or SMI SSD controllers (including Kingston, Seagate, Corsair, Sabrent). But I haven't systematically checked to see which brands consistently support it.
Completely agree, while proprietary what Audinate has done with Dante is nothing short or a miracle. With their PCI-E FPA I have less then a 2ms round trip latency with my Hilo interface at 96Khz resolution. Additionally the virtual sound card can do 4ms latency in one direction with most modern CPUs.
are there hundreds of millions of enterprise customers for your SAAS product?
But then you're the newbie and destroy the quality of those sites!
So if you were to leave a 1 star review on the facebook app on the google play store, you actually think you're impacting their overall score in a meaningful way?
GME's market cap (~$25B) is more than the entire AUM of Robinhood (~$20B). It's a game of chicken between pros at this point.
It's funny, because I was visiting Gamestop's website last November trying to find a Pink 3DS and remember thinking, 'oof, Gamestop's website is in bad shape'.

When I get the FOMO urge I think about how BBY just sucks as a store, how much better Netflix is than AMC, and how airlines regularly go bankrupt.

I believe that GameStop has a future as they have a lot of mind share and goodwill. But they need to get rid of their brick and mortar stores.
It's strange, because I'd expect that someone can take a look and type something in the body of the message, not the subject.
As a math person, I’ve never heard “gamma” to mean the derivative of a change (a delta). For example, I was always taught that speed is v=delta-x/delta-t (distance over time). I’ve never heard gamma to mean that.
AstraZeneca/EU contract
There's nothing all that new about this. Read "Extraordinarily Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", which is over a century old. It describes all the classics - a pump and dump, a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme, a "bubble", "tulipomania", etc - from the first time they appeared on a large scale.

These are mostly 19th century tricks. That's when finance and newspapers got big enough to make them work at scale. The SEC was established after the 1929 bubble got so big it took down the whole country.

Meanwhile, the latest thing on Reddit is pumping Dogecoin.

In all these things, the people who get in late and don't get out early are the losers. It's zero-sum, after all.
> For final tests, I even disabled the frequent gettimeofday system calls that are used for I/O latency measurement

I was knocking up some profiling code and measured the performance of gettimeofday as a proof-of-concept test.

The performance difference between running the test on my personal desktop Linux VM versus running it on a cloud instance Linux VM was quite interesting (cloud was worse)

I think I read somewhere that cloud instances cannot use the VDSO code path because your app may be moved to a different machine. My recollection of the reason is somewhat cloudy.
That's a fair point, but it brings a few thoughts to mind:

1. What about putting a GPS tracker or similar on each animal and just let it roam. I'm not sure, but maybe it could work.

2. Zoo's can profitably contain Rhino's and Elephants. My local zoo lets people pay the zoo to feed some of the animals! So maybe a tourism angle could help move the needle on profitability.

3. What if it was a government-run operation with out the need to be profitable? Current anti-poaching operations don't bring in any profit, so maybe this angle of attack doesn't need to either.
You can see it in statistics. When the hospitalization starts dropping while case counts are going up, it's because more cases are being managed at home.

Prioritizing critical care is normal when care is in short supply, but it means that you are more likely to have to deal with COVID at home when the local healthcare system is overstressed.

> on Nov. 1, the Covid Tracking Project’s seven-day average showed about 80,000 new cases — which we would predict should lead to about 2,800 new hospitalizations a week later, by Nov. 8. Instead, there were 2,600, a little fewer than expected. On Nov. 15, we had 146,000 new cases, which should have resulted in about 5,100 new hospitalizations by Nov. 22. However, there were fewer than 3,700. This pattern of declining rates of hospitalization continued through the end of November.

> What is happening is pretty simple: Because hospitals are filling up, they are admitting fewer and fewer people. Any doctor or nurse will tell you that as the demand for beds soars, the threshold for admission rises with it...

> The decision on whether to admit a patient depends on two things: clinical judgment and bed availability. Critically ill patients will always be admitted. But as hospitals start to fill up, those who are less sick — younger covid patients, or those whose oxygen levels aren’t yet dangerously low — get sent home. These patients would be safer in a hospital bed, but there isn’t one available for them anymore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/07/covid-hosp...
I don't think it's credentialist. It's not short for no reason. Even a layman can piece together GS business model doesn't have much life left and so the stock ought to have downward pressure. Hedge funds are pursing that strategy. You may disagree but it's a rational argument with a rational arbitrage. They may be wrong, but such as life.

On the other hand, WSB is basically saying, "So what? We don't care about the argument, we don't care about the true value here, we're just exploiting a market dynamic (probably illegally), and collectively interfering with the ability of hte market to price this efficiently, and we just want the number on the price to move so we can cash out."

The history of financial markets is littered with the bodies of unsophisticated investors participating for non-fundamental reasons. Tulips, .com, real estate bubble. Every mania in history follows this pattern of being driven more by the emotion and inertia of the game vs. the underlying fundamentals, this looks no different to me.
A lot of successful businesses adapt constantly but they don't grow in size. If you define "growth" as constantly changing to adapt to circumstances then you are right. But if you define "growth" as becoming bigger in size, I don't agree.
https://xkcd.com/2270/
Tend to agree with this. People seem to be pushing this as the moment the little people took control.

This is a flash in the pan.

And don't get me wrong, I almost always support the underdog.
The market needs the retail investors but if bad things happen to retail investors often enough, they will retire from the fray. Enjoy your always-toxic trades.