skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If unions are indeed so positive why do they have to force people into paying them dues? (Aka NY teachers unions)

I'm sure many other organizations would love the power to force people into their subscriptions. And I'm sure their high ranking officials would come up with incredibly good reasons as to why they are absolutely essential to social justice or whatever
What are the other products?
Anything is possible. That's probably true for Apple and Amazon but those are the exception. That's definitely not true for Uber, who lost 8.5 Billion (!) from operations in 2019: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001543151/f272e03... Not true for WeWork either: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519...

Maybe those are exceptions too but seems like the most hyped companies have not brought marginal costs near zero.
Yep. Population density map: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/maps/isr... almost all the population lives near the sea.
If you feel like stepping back in time, check out a game called Hypnospace Outlaw. You play a moderator surfing around an alternate 90's like web space, investigating copyright, abuse, and other stuff. That gets that whole feel from when anyone could post up a webpage.
Why Japan Is Holding Back as the World Rushes Toward Electric Cars
Definitely agreed that CPU is a natural baseline. But there are promising results for implementing NTT on GPUs. Here is something recent https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/124

Nothing will beat an ASIC for NTT though.
Roblox (and Minecraft) have fulfilled the dream of products like Second Life.
He could find any number of grad students who would be happy to code up his algorithm for him, so they can be co-authors on the paper that "destroyed RSA".
From what I read in the Dutch news, they managed to crack about half the messages so far. That they haven't cracked them all indicates that it is not a vulnerability in the encryption itself. I suspect that the police managed to gain physical access to the servers and went from there. Opsec is really really hard.

Fun, unrelated story: apparently some of the intelligence operations managed to get their hands on the laptop of a target while it was at some maintenance store to get the screen replaced. They managed to install a physical keylogger inside it with its own radio, but hooked up to the laptops power supply. This is the kind of shenanigans you have to be aware of and defend against when you run a service like Sky ECC. The slightest slip up and you are doomed.
"This is not a speculation "

It's total speculation.
Red means "cancel" or "stop", which are safe actions, not dangerous ones. Red is the color of health and safety.

Blue is the color of danger because it means "confirm changes". Blue is the color of the abyss, and aliens would agree on this.
No, not necessarily a shareholder. Just in the reality distortion field.
Assume every App Store review is a lie
Report rehashes boring Zenz talking points, nothing original.

Most interesting tidbit.

Newlines is funded by FairfaxU of Virginia, a private school with ~150 students and ~60 staff (read: there's external funding). Newlines Institute is also rebrand Center for Global Policy (CGP), tradename for International Institute of Islamic Thought... linked to the Muslim Brotherhood [0]. And owned by Mar-Jac, a front for SAAR Foundation, a massive source of funding of extreme terrorism whose US proxies were heavily investigated post 911, including IIIT with a couple prosecutions. Hence the rebranding. Most of their US proxies are located in Virginia, a recent of Mar-Jac investments in private schools was linked to Turkish Gulenist, which Gulf council countries has designated as terrorists... including Saudi. So the most interesting extrapolation for me is that some wealthy Saudi group(s) is interested in pushing genocide narrative via US proxies despite Saudi support for China at UN and MbS purging major funders of terrorist groups. Western MSM is whitewashing this as "Independent DC think tank". Real question is if this is Muslim extremist groups pursing their own interests through obfuscation or if they're coordinating with US intelligence, it's Virginia after all. US was willing to delist Uyghur terrorist groups, they're willing to work with OG Al Qaeda funders to destabilize.

TFW MSM using "Independent DC think tank" label for front funded by the same groups that was responsible for Al Qaeda. Desperate times for propaganda.

[0] https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/11/12/new-musli...
That's how the ISO standards body works- you pay access for the spec to fund the ISO's development of standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAsrsMPftOI
I also believe Invisible Cities to be way more approachable than "if on a winter's night..".

I absolutely loved both, but I think the latter might out off some folks.

But given the HN audience, I feel that "Cosmicomiche" might be a very good choice too!
I don't think warfare will be primarily digital. Similar things were said about airpower, artillery, and naval power. Ultimately you need boots on the ground. If you rely too much on any one thing the enemy will route around it.
They’re linking a platform for web-based Godot games.
What in particular do they hate about twitch and what type of streamers are they? (top, emerging, casual, etc).

I too hear a lot of complaints about Twitch too but I feel that most of them have nothing to do with the product, but the zero-sum and competitive nature of gaming streaming. It's just difficult to succeed as a gaming streamer (or content creator more generally) and the vast majority of people who try will never make any meaningful amounts of money, so frustrations tend to be attributed to the arbitrary quirks of the platform, even though that's just the nature of any content business.
SEC Goes After Analyst Foreshadowing
there is also the fact that companies might see a smaller operating expenditure vs a larger capital expenditure as a benefit as well. depends on the situation of the company but it could be an easier sell.
I think this is especially annoying on the app stores, as there is no way to filter for a specific price (range) or in apple's case for apps that don't sell your data to everyone and your neighbor
IDGAF.

just kidding, it's the same from what I hear and see. usually 8200 have it better, it's supposedly most "elite"... but other units have it easier so...
> I'm pretty sure there is some serious intelligence operations in the background, why would they leave this to chance?

Yeah, they're not gonna leave it to chance. It's pretty wonderous to watch, really. They're gonna pull every card they have. Take these, for instance:

Amazon got in touch with the city and changed the traffic light patterns to make traffic worse for union voters:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-w...

And even installed an official postal box on their site so they can monitor who is voting for later scrutiny/intimidation:

https://www.al.com/business/2021/02/mailbox-stirs-controvers...

Oh, and Amazon sponsored their busy employee's working time to make them attend mandatory sessions on why unions are bad:

https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/alabama-amazon-employees-pus...
Right, between flagging and downvoting and moderation we don't get those sentiments showing up at the top of the discussion here. It gets buried.

C2 suffers from being editable and generally staying linear in flow (people added downward, and less frequently edited the top portions). There are some clear trolling/flame war content that was moved, there was also a culture of avoiding deletion though so even when it was moved it wasn't removed.
This change is being sped up by the fact employees don't actually deter anything anymore. If there is shoplifting they just call the police. In fact, intervening will usually get them in trouble.
Having productive team meeting by using controversy
They raised wages to head off worker organization.

Just to start: maybe they could get bathroom breaks!

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...
I recently had to just disable the Gmail spam filter using a custom rule [1] because the false positive rate was awful – 90% of the stuff in my spam folder was legitimate, including Google Calendar invites and normal GitHub communication.

Unfortunately I'm starting to get the feeling that Gmail is no longer a high priority for Google, and so it's slowly bitrotting like so many other Google projects.

[1] Matches: {(to:me) (deliveredto:myaddress@gmail.com)}
Do this: Never send it to Spam
Show HN: A note taking application that encrypts in the browser (2015)
It would be nice if a precedent had been set a long time ago for having to double click or click and hold for actions like this.

A prompt saying "are you sure" is obnoxious. But I wouldn't mind if big scary operations required me to click and hold for 1 second instead of just tapping the thing.
Tesla rebounds, on track for best day in a year
Today, to say the web is a “bad” runtime is to ignore the preferences of hundreds of thousands of companies. It may be true, but only along some metric that apparently nobody cares about. Maybe no one listens to this viewpoint because it’s wrong. The web is a fine runtime, not perfect, but solves a lot of the problems that matter (like distribution and cross-platform support). In the 90s, this was a different story, reflected by the industry’s and consumers’ overwhelming preference for native and terminal-based applications.
Slightly unrelated, but ripgrep is probably the best improvement to my day-to-day workflow in years. Thanks so much for making such a great tool!
Slightly off-topic, this website has a collection of a HUGE number of retro GUI screenshots.

(I can't help but feel interfaces were more usable those days, being a millennial)
Exactly, and I don't need to keep them active to watch one or the other. When i'm done with Disney+, i cancel. When i'm done with HBO/Showtime, I cancel.

The only ones I keep are Hulu+ an Netflix simply because they're so affordable and have so much content that i don't need to binge a show to cancel because there isn't anything else I want.
LOL, sounds like if Google or Palantir weren't even pretending not to be evil.
I completely agree. We are still new and we need to earn this over time. Our uptime so far is 100%, but that's easy to achieve as a new company... :)

This is something we focus on though, and as part of this focus, we will focus on earning this trust and making it as transparent as we can.
I've run into a similar problem in Sweden with parking. Many places have app-controlled parking, I have the biggest apps, but some parking places have other solutions. One place had removed the on-site machines that took card payments, and only had a phone number. I called the number from my Swedish phone number, entered my Swedish personal ID number, and then the automated service informed me that they couldn't process me because I wasn't a Swedish resident... So there was no way for me to pay for my parking.

Non-swedes would be even more shit out of luck than I was, they wouldn't even be able to navigate the phone service. So weird.
LinkedIn pauses member sign-ups in China while it works to ensure compliance
Not here in NZ. The wetlands were being plundered and trashed with all the raw logs shipped to China. The tax wasn’t the issue, it was getting paid.
I love how the options spread traders are flying completely under the radar.

I have never seen a more lucrative spread market.

Every time these diamond handers have this thing range bound for a few days, spread traders are making like how many percent? A hundreds?

Sure these occasional blow offs can wreck the position, but its limited risk.
“For every 'normal' webpage, there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer”
Library genesis has a standards section, although for some reason it's spelled "standards". And it's not that standard-rich.

For now Google seems to do the standard-pirating job better, partly because it indexes Baidu's Wenku ;)
Computers are easily a thousand times more powerful than they were in the year 2000, and Electron apps still cook my thighs. They use more RAM than my computer had hard disk space.
If you can de-incentivize a behavior, you can prevent it. But just 'banning bribery' has already been done. Banning any and all perverse incentives from the justice system is actually very difficult to the point of near-impossibility. Hence the current system.
> it's one of the most studied quantifiable concepts in pyschology.

A McDonald's hamburger is one of the most studied forms of food in gastronomy. That doesn't necessarily make it worthwhile to eat :)

See also: Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, which describes at length why things like IQ and craniometry are fundamentally flawed due to their fallacious and unscientific insistence on reification and ranking - neither of which have been adequately proven to be applicable to something as complicated as human intelligence.

See also the very existence of the Flynn effect, and the fact that IQ is defined such that 100 is always the average IQ - making the comparison of IQs across time periods meaningless, since 100 IQ in 1900's America means something different from 100 IQ in 2000's America which means something different from 100 IQ in 2000's Norway which means something different from 100 IQ in 2000's Nigeria.
At the expense of forcing people that would love to use GCC to produce open-source tools and research, into using LLVM.

See the email thread I linked for several such examples.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

Most compiler research and tooling development now happens in the LLVM ecosystem, precisely because they dragged their feet for so long.
Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers
It’s funny, I didn’t really fully know they were there either, I just had the feeling that gmail was really quite cluttered.
Similar for ISO 8601: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401497
Upgrow: A sustainable architecture for Ruby on Rails
What does "most hyped" mean? Why does WeWork matter at all in this discussion? They got destroyed for having weak prospects when they tried to come near the public markets.

I'm looking at this list of the S&P 500 companies, and they mostly have very solid earnings and fundamentals:

https://fknol.com/list/market-cap-sp-500-index-companies.php

I went through the top 100 companies, and the only one that is a "bet" is Tesla, except they have many, many cars on the road and have been delivering product that people want to buy.

If anything, I'm even more bullish for all these huge companies, as absent any government action (which I doubt), who is going to take them on? They will continue to go vertical and eat each other's business, maybe. But that doesn't really affect you if you're holding the whole index fund ETF.
great as in big, not as in good (what's good anyway?). it's idea inception for the masses, same for military, same for religion...

it's all about intentions. when you do it, you know your intentions. when it's foreign interest it's another story.
I'm fairly sure you're aware that more than 9 out of 10 kids would find Robux-free Roblox immensely more appealing than whatever economic simulations your preternaturally moderate children are taken with.
The pandemic forced a remote-work experiment. Now comes the hard part
The neverending reality of the Edigerian nipple.
Unions are given rights due to asymmetries in power.

Professionals with credentials have some power in the market, they can command a price.

Unskilled labour cannot. Without regulations, they would be paid $2 an hour, i.e. what the market will bear.

If you thought the 'Dollar Store' was cheap, imagine the '25 cent store' - where people survive on extreme minimums.

Favellas and tiny illegal homes pop up, without plumbing etc. and entire mini-industries are created around the ultra-low working class.

A $1 Trillion dollar corporation has 'all the power' an individual has none, and it's existential: 'work for just enough wages to barely keep you alive or die'. That's what the market will push towards and a lot of people will think that it's fair.

The market allocates money based on power. That's it. In a purely market based anything, if you don't have power - you die, or close to it.

People living in favelas with no plumbing can't hope to send their children to school etc. so it creates generational problems.

This is why we have minimum wage, safety laws, anti-discrimination etc.

That said - unions can often be a detriment and their power can be good only for the members and nobody else. It's not a black and white issue.
I don’t know about that. Just look at the performance difference between NPM and Yarn: both built with JS, but for me at least Yarn is way, way faster.

I’m sure it would make sense to rewrite certain things in Rust or Go (then possibly pull them into Node as native modules) but they’re not magic. Good engineering will win out no matter what.
That story was from 2015. Was there ever a resolution, 6 years later?
velocity in scores can be expressed with arbitrary precision simply by the composer annotating it - a quaver annotated with "akin to a velocity 50 grand piano on a 1988 roland keyboard" is still a valid western-tradition score
Strange.. I went to check this out in an incognito tab and it trashed my tab to holy hell!

Edit: Having hardware acceleration disabled doesn't help. :facepalm:
At least they don’t leave unremovable or untraceable binaries, configurations, and databases in your system directories and registry.
Facebook is employing third-party vetters to limit scientific debate
How would you expect children to spend money in game if not by convincing parents to buy something? Of course she received a series of 40 second lectures on how that works in life in general, and why I don't want to enclose her in virtual fraud simulation - she'll have much better ways to do that.
Nah, the term "open standard" is so vague that is probably does.

In its laxest definition -- endorsed by ISO itself -- it's just a standard managed by a nonprofit standard organization. In the more common definition it only requires royalty-free use plus the org. Requiring free access is unfortunately an extreme in the spectrum of definitions.
Roblox is a game engine, though. All of the games hosted on Roblox are made in Roblox Studio, which is comparable to the Unity editor.
Incorrect title. Nothing in the title about workers elsewhere being inspired.

Wapo title: Amazon fights aggressively to defeat union drive in Alabama, fearing a coming wave

Subtitle: Amazon’s relentless push to beat back a union drive among warehouse workers mirrors the company’s past efforts to oppose unions in Seattle, New York, Canada and the United Kingdom
Git Clone Vulnerability Announced
The hidden message of the mantra "just self host your own" is that it takes you time to set that up. If you aren't familiar with that process from past experiences, you now have to get those man hours somehow for selfhosting, and suddenly that free self-hosted solution is not so free if you value your time over $0/hr.

That's where I think services should come in. Only with no phoning home crap or cruft, just give me a hosted version of a bare bones cli app that I can access anywhere from any device. Give me my own instance of tiny tiny RSS or something else that's very lightweight and commonly selfhosted for $1 a month, and I'll happily pay up to avoid having to spend a few hours vetting hosting options and setting this up myself.
Investing in Technology vs. Investing in Business Models – Part 1
Twitch in essence is a giant ad for Prime. That's it. It's doing exactly what they want. It's a terrible business to try and make profitable as its own silo, which is why mixer et all have failed.

The only thing happening with GME is some opportunistic behavior around their sudden unexpected ability to raise speculative capital. Jeff Bezos himself could take over GME and there is zero chance it's going to become some sort of online ecommerce competitor to steam. They have absolutely no comparative advantage for that. All that's happening is GME management finding every way they can to redirect this influx of cash into their bonuses.
Off the top of my head Dreams, Crayta, The Sandbox, PlayBytes, RecRoom, Hiberworld and so on.
Excerpt:

Facebook this week appended a Wall Street Journal op-ed “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April” by Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary (Feb. 19) with the label “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” According to Facebook, “Once we have a rating from a fact-checking partner, we take action by ensuring that fewer people see that misinformation.”
The amount of Bitcoin hate on Hacker News is astounding.
Why is there no https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_BMW ?
Or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Ford_Motor_Comp...
This comment is legitimately terrifying.
The cold war never ended, it just moved to cyber space, might as well call it world war 3.

also, we made peace with 7 countries that's excellent news! and more to come.
> What in particular do they hate about twitch and what type of streamers are they? (top, emerging, casual, etc).

Everything and everyone. Seriously, even the people making literally millions on twitch hate the DMCA takedowns, the completely capricious bans, the ridiculous barrage of forced ads which twitch has straight up lied about, the fact that Amazon streamed anti-union ads on twitch and then pretended it was an accident, the fact that titty streamers get special priveleges...and that's what I thought of in just 30 seconds off the top of my head.

twitch is fucking awful because it's owned by Amazon. It was great before the acquisition and shortly thereafter.

I never said it was easy. I'm saying twitch fucking sucks and when somebody makes something that doesn't suck it will instantly be an 11 digit market cap company. Right now the most likely contender is Gamestop, even if I'd only put that at about a 1% chance of happening.
NIST does this on the regular with ISO standards that they're involved with. That said, having a reference implementation with a test suite doesn't work around anything. Someone needs to have access to the standard to create the reference implementation. Not really a "loophole" but those on the committee that develops a given standard typically have free access to draft versions, often even the final version ratified by ISO.
Of course Bitcoin can be taken down with enough (according to the article worldwide) concerted efforts.

Compare that with the parliament of the most powerful nation on earth being overrun by a few thousand morons.
Also a good read - History of Glassblowing, Who Was First? By W. Joe Wheeler ( https://asgs-glass.org/history-of-glassblowing-who-was-first... )

I know of him through his work at the Chemistry Department at UW Madison.

An article on his son retiring in 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17240776

And then an article on his granddaughter (3rd generation glass blower) https://kjzz.org/content/535871/asu-third-generation-scienti...

... And for a bonus, a RPAN stream of a glassblower - https://www.reddit.com/rpan/r/TheArtistStudio/gf518v
I watched a piece a couple years ago about a super talented glass blower that was working for a university. Something something dying breed and he was the last of his kind. It's actually a pretty interesting career opportunity because of all the intersections it has with materials, science, design, and art. I can hardly believe there was a vacuum there, I'd jump to do it if I had the opportunity to actually learn the trade.