skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the new IDM 2.0 strategy doesn't mean the end of the Platinum/Gold/Silver/Bronze branding. My local gas station car wash has for decades used the same branding nomenclature for their various tiers of car wash rigor, and it has been very successful for them. I can't imagine that central processing units should be any different from a car wash.
Why? There isn't a centralized message queue. Its just everything uses the same abstraction and is presented as filesystem or a file.
The transphobia in some of these comments is a true sight to behold. I feel like I've entered the equivalent of Stormfront.
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The difference is that the BBC is a customer of CloudFlare, and that contractual relationship provides a sound legal basis for CloudFlare serving the BBC's content. There is nothing of the sort between the BBC and Google in the AMP case, just a shaky implied-in-fact contract along the lines of "if you put AMP on your website, you consent to us pretending that we're you and serving it to people on your behalf".
Lets rephrase it in terms of product-market fit - what problem is post-quantum encryption going to solve for people to put effort into it?

BTW, the term post-quantum encryption is delicious because we had never had the quantum encryption era. Like the post-high speed era rail in the US ;)
Why we chose Cortex and Loki
You can certainly ask that about a lot of things, in the context of commodities. Human companionship is hardly one of them.
Honestly I live near the Times Square location and I never get free donuts
> “Many people anecdotally claim they do their best thinking when walking. We finally may be taking a step, or two, toward discovering why,”

Uh... there is literally nothing in this summary that suggests anything at all about why, is there? What are the steps or two?

I know we can all make guesses and have pet theories, not asking for that here!

Just annoyed at the scientists who seem to be over-reaching/over-promissing what their research reveals. It seems to be a step (probably not two) towards verifying that what many people intuitively believed is in fact a wide-spread phenomenon, that walking improves creativity. It seems to be zero steps toward discovering why.

Am I missing something?
Porsche is rolling out small scale testing of their e-fuel as well.

As an auto enthusiast, I’m all for it. EV and public transit for commuting — ICE for specialized and more emotional uses.
I've explored this space a bit, and I don't think the perfect solution is here yet. In my view, static checking should be the goal. It's harder to iterate quickly when your network dynamically fails 30 layers later due to some edge case where you forgot to take a transpose. Definitely much better than it silently succeeding if the dimensions happen to be the correct size though!

https://github.com/deepmind/tensor_annotations seems promising. I've developed a mypy plugin for pytorch that does similarly off of the "Named Tensor" dynamic feature (which isn't well supported yet), but haven't released it yet.

I'm also excited by the ways in which including this in some sort of "first-class" way could make tensor semantics simpler, which I'm assuming xarray allows? Many of the operations enabled by http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor are quite nice and similar ideas can let you write more generic code (ie. code that works automatically for on tensors with and without a batch dimension)
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Indeed I noticed the 2018 Macbook Pro became a much more useful machine for work and I was a lot more productive once I started using it clamshell-mode only with external keyboard/mouse/monitors.
Posting about Bezos and MBS's relationship really triggers Amazon workers I suppose. Nothing like working for a homophobe in-waiting.
It's been over 10 years, so my memory is almost certainly faulty, but I feel like I was nearly as fast with T9 predictive typing as I am with a swipe keyboard on a smartphone these days.
I recently saw an audio recorder that is marketed as automatically transcribing your meetings and sending the text to an app. As a non-native speaker of the language where I live this was appealing, until I read the FAQ. It said something like "what about security of my data? A: Don't worry all data is transmitted using a secure tsl connection" .. like that was the beginning and end of the data security story for audio recordings of your private meetings.. Some times I thinks this country still being in the paper and fax age is the only thing saving it from it's self..
Bestiality isn't any better, diaper freaks are pedos. Keep yourself safe
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So, by the same token, do you observe the galaxy you're approaching age quickly? On "fast-forward" if one could imagine that?
Please don't post ideological or political flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> We hear about some Chinese examples, but this happens also in Europe.

Indeed, fake paper factories are a thing in Western democracies as well. In Latin America, for example.
Cry more. YWNBAW
Looks like it'll still work:

> For sites that don’t yet support HTTPS, Chrome will fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS attempt fails (including when there are certificate errors, such as name mismatch or untrusted self-signed certificate, or connection errors, such as DNS resolution failure).

The name mismatch is the key point for those captive wifi portals that respond on HTTPS with an invalid certificate.
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This is awesome - Intel going head to head with TSMC effectively. Be interesting to see what changes need to happen internally/politically to see this succeed.

I think it's definitely a good direction - esp with all the sabre rattling from China/Taiwan that could jeopardise global chip supply.
I've read that article today. As far as I understand, the main issue with docker performance in macOS is shared file/dir sysmtems. I was hoping shared file/dir systems were the problem, so, atm, I'm testing my setup without any volumes that are read from or written to. Performanse is the same :(
6 Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage-Based Pricing
6 questions:

- does value increase with usage?
- does throttling usage reduce value?
- does throttling usage go against your growth strategy?
- is usage predictable for the customer?
- is the pricing axis large scale?
- is your buyer used to buying usage software?
Cloudflare also doesn't shove their own UI into the top of your page and hijack left/right swipes on your page.
Are they saying the countries will pay their debts, or are they saying that they know that they can turn around and sell their bonds to the Fed whenever they want?
Are there areas of the world where that isn't the taught approach to the visualization of time? I've lived in only a small variety of countries but that's been pretty consistently taught from what I've seen. Some people may mentally model it in a different way but society seems to have settled on that specific approach and so most of the graphs we'll see and publish will follow it.
Major flaws found in machine learning for Covid-19 diagnosis
Show HN: Collection of tiny C ELF program with graphics output
I take a bunch of BJJ classes, get in a fight, do it wrong, get my ass beat. It clearly wasn’t BJJ
Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky Will Return to AWS as CEO, Replacing Andy Jassy
I am not thinking about printing pentium at 7nm in your garage, but something like 130nm?
What are the technical blockers?
True, that would work as well. Though I believe it's recommended as a best practice to simply drop packets as not to help port scanners.
Mostly working with https://miro.com/
Eek... Is there really no responsible way to deal with this? It must be possible to clean the water somehow. I assume it's contaminated with radioactive particles which could just be filtered out. Expensive I'm sure but they should clean up their own mess, not dump it in the environment.

If it's just heavy water (like water molecules with deuterium/tritium), those are actually a commodity. So I don't assume this is the case.

Also, any technology developed for this purpose will help cleaning up future nuclear disasters. There's several naval nuclear reactors and some weapons rotting away on the ocean floor and even some in orbit waiting to fall down eventually.
You are projecting your own understanding of how and what religion is, and then attacking it. That is a straw man
I never see AMP using Kiwi Browser with its "Remove AMP" privacy feature.
https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=5cbGNJsQwN&
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Focus was on a "user first" - NOT developer or hacker first approach.

So a ton of the stuff that HN folks demand (being able to do dynamic third party javacript ads and tracker loads, DOM modification after render - gone - you just are totally blocked.

If you try targeting AMP (or just consuming AMP) you'll pretty quickly get what they are going for.

For example - AMP websites really do not reflow that often (or at all). I've never I don't think had something move when I was going to click it even early in page load.

I've found a lot of complaints about AMP are developed / hacker focused complaints. If you switch your mindset to users, including non-tech types, the value becomes more obvious.
Yeah that's a good point about questioning authority. I don't know.
I think what will happen is that visiting `vcap.me` will open `https://vcap.me`, which would fail with a cert error, so Chrome will automatically (without showing the error) open `http://vcap.me`, which would issue a redirect to `https://vcap.me`, which would fail with a cert error.

If you were navigating to `localhost`, Chrome would directly open `http://localhost` which would do the redirect.

It's unclear if Chrome is smart enough to know that `vcap.me` is a localhost service, but we can imagine a remote host which would behave the same way.
Two sides of the same thing. Vilified and sanctified, depending on the group/context.
I'm not sure about your 'half' figures, but that's how Apple positions itself. An iPhone is a status symbol as much as a phone. Macs are too, but to a much lesser degree. Also their entire line up is not luxurious, but some items are nakedly luxury items like the some of the watches.

One of the reasons for Apple's success is that it's managed to pull off mass-market luxury better than anyone else.

Arguably, luxury items doesn't have to be exclusive, just overpriced.
I’m routinely amazed by this too. Honestly when I see that this is the sole privacy or security disclaimer in anything but the most trivial of websites’ FAQ, I run the other way. Nothing on privacy, nothing about storage at rest, nothing about access controls and what customer data staff can access. It just comes across as indicative of a security-through-checkboxing view on security and a “heh, yeah sure buddy” approach to privacy.
While agricultural practices may be to blame, most of the farms in the region are smaller that the ones out west. You won't find 40,000 acre cattle ranches for example.
Global trade will probably only be significantly impacted if the canal stays blocked for more than 2 weeks, which is when it starts to become a reasonable option (time-wise) to go south instead and round the cape. A backlog of ships on both sides will start to be really significant after 4 days of blocking, with longer blockade implying ports increasingly further down the routes being impacted as well. Currently, the worst that probably is happening is that the local logistics sector (train, truck, etc.) is in re-booking hell to handle the suddenly delayed ships.

src: I work at a container-logistics software company, and we've handled and seen similar situations (sudden loss of a main class of transport for a few days).
Do brokerages even have a fiduciary duty?
The survey you're citing is from before I was born. Things have changed in the intervening 25 years.

Pretty much every style guide on the wiki page since ~2010 allows or prefers singular they. This includes, as previously mentioned, the APA, the AP, the NYT, WaPo, and a number of other relatively large and formal publications. Perhaps the odd man out is the Chicago Style guide, which says singular they is fine for informal writing, but doesn't yet recommend it for formal writing.

While yes, some Baby Boomer linguists may prickle at the singular they, for many in Gen Z, its all they've ever been exposed to, and for many Millenials, they've now used singular they for longer than other forms, in both formal and informal language.
What is effectively a changelog of features for their new version is probably not the best place to start.

If you'd like to know more then this [0] is a brief summary of Uniswap and this paper [1] is a good introduction to the formalism of the `x * y = k` market making model used by Uniswap.

[0]: https://github.com/runtimeverification/verified-smart-contra...

[q]: https://github.com/runtimeverification/verified-smart-contra...
I'm not overly familiar with Plan 9, but a significant advantage of the filesystem as an API is that it composes well. You can put any service inbetween that consumes the existing file and provides a new file with the same API contract, but different behavior (e.g. a /dev/screen that's cropped to a certain area, or that inverts colors on everything drawn into it). Then you can make a new mount namespace where the new file is put in the place of the old file, so that the actual process consuming it has no idea that someone is sitting in the middle. With a traditional shared object, you'd have to engage in LD_PRELOAD shenanigans to achieve the same, or if the library is statically linked and does not have any hooks, you're straight out of luck.
A few oppositions to this view. 1) Reddit and AirBnB were viewed to have very little impact when they started. Nobody wanted to stay on somebody elses couch, and we had Digg instead of Reddit. 2) YC is investing in more hard-tech companies.

I agree, there are lots of things where you say "why would YC invest in that??" particularly with so many SAAS companies, but then they take a flying leap on things like Boom, Flirty, Coinbase, etc etc.

YC started in the early-ish days of the internet, so most of the outlier successes were in the internet space. The major internet companies have probably already been founded, so YC needs to focus on what's next. It seems to me their straddling both sides, like most VCs are attempting to do.
Not sure I like how transparency plays out currently in the US: "well, he's a moron but at least he's not republican/democrat"
Perhaps an Odroid, eg: https://www.odroid.co.uk/ODROID-HC4
A shame she didn't manage to kill him; the world would likely have been a great deal better off for it.
Driving does the same for me.

I'm paraphrasing here, but I've seen a neuroscientist say that some people think better when their mind is slightly engaged. So driving around engages your mind just enough that you can go into a more flow-like state.

I've probably butchered this explanation, but go watch Lex Fridman's first interview with Andrew Huberman if you want to see him explain it properly.
I'm certainly not rechecking on every update! More like once at install time, and every few years if it seems like things have changed a lot.
Haven 2021: The Dawn of Financial Freedom
Do these attacks take the same amount of time for one round of encryption vs multiple?
You're right, I don't tend to read comments on articles themselves. In fact I don't even know if many of the news sites I frequent (CBC, BBC) have comment section or not. But I can totally see that being a usability issue with AMP if that's what you're into.
I suspect it's not the use of the bomb that is the biggest concern.

I would think someone with a bomb on some kind of bulk Hazmat carrier and the threat of blowing it up would shut down traffic for a lot longer. Nobody is going to want to get close to do anything about it.

LNG or Oil are the two I can think of, but there's probably a lot of other bulk Hazmat carriers.
Paul Graham speaks out against cancel culture
Doing nothing does something?
No idea, I actually came to the comments for the same reason: looking for details about the storage.

In my opinion it's either zfs or netapp. Zfs can replicate datasets via zfs send, netapp has a snapmirror functionality that does basically the same.

Also, iirc, netapp is contributor to freebsd, so it might be zfs anyway underneath.

I wouldn't be surprised. Last time I had the pleasure to create a snapshot for a volume in a netapp it kinda felt like creating a zfs snapshot, in term of speed and ease.

I thought of netapp since they're running fancy 768gb boxes. If they spend money well on their hardware, they probably spend money well on their storage too.
A new machine learning approach for your Elastic Stack
Pretty much anyone on the wrong end of middleboxes. A lot of "security" folks and vendors are addicted to MITM of secure network connections. You'll likely find anyone working behind a corporate firewall will be unable to access your site, since most of these folks are determined to break/block 1.3.
> I came to (Jim Sinegal) once and I said, 'Jim, we can't sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends.'

I wonder how much it actually affected their bottom line
This was a great review. I started reading antifragile but the writing style really bugged me so I stopped, despite finding many of the ideas interesting - maybe I'll give it another go.

One of the problems with the concept of antifragility that I didn't see addressed in the book is that things are only ever antifragile up to a point. Enough volatility will overwhelm even the most antifragile system eventually, and probably without warning.

For example, exercise is antifragile right up until the point that you overdo it and blow your back out. Evolution is antifragile right up until the sun goes supernova.

If there's no way to know in advance how much volatility an antifragile system can endure before it reverts to being merely fragile, the idea has a lot less practical value.
Or you could right click on the address bar and select "Always show full URLs"
> By contract he had to buy grain from Tyson and sell them the chickens.

I’m assuming a contract he signed

Edit: similarly you could say by contract Tyson had to sell him the grain and buy chickens from him
You can stretch it, but would you risk five hundred billion dollars on the judge agreeing with that stretch?

I wouldn't.
100% the opposite is true. Svelte stores are extremely elegant and not belabored with boilerplate like Redux.
Your accusation is unwarranted. The repeated unsupported use of this now-common epithet does not fit the times or situations it describes. Does any challenge of unstated premises constitute flamebait to you?
Pretty sure everyone saw this coming and we should expect the same from substack and all the others.

[1]https://medium.com/@doctor_island/medium-isn-t-building-comm...
I hope right-to-repair passes first.

Only the tech industry is so brazenly authoritarian about breaking things that used to work.
But wouldn't the experiences of an actual trans person be much more relevant to this discussion than our cis asses?

We're never going to have experiences of our own that can inform our judgement on this, so shouldn't we just listen to and trust trans people to work out how to best to make their way in the world?
Given how much they get in profit off an average shopper, I cannot imagine it did (at least not if 25c extra could fix it).
NYT's Kevin Roose on Microsoft eying Discord for $10B deal
I think the problem with that concept is that it's not possible so long as he's actively sharing his opinions and having those opinions amplified by supporters. Ignoring that problem won't make it go away, and I don't support preventing him from using his personal resources to share his opinions. Drawing additional attention to his opinions may create more stress in the immediate term, but for the greater long-term benefit of discouraging similar attitudes from growing in prominence within the community.
You're gonna want to switch to http://neverssl.com, with is designed precisely for this purpose. The new Chrome behavior will not break this site.
Are there any specifics that you'd like to know?

In context this is an accoucement of what is effectively a changelog for future features in a financial smart contact. Acronyms and specific knowledge are to be expected.
This reads to me like an admission that Substack is succeeding at Medium's original goal much better than Medium ever did and that they need to make changes to try to keep up.
I don't think it's changed that much since a few decades ago when I was in my 20's, perhaps men are more truthful with online surveys.
From the very beginning of the article, there were four “successful assassination attempts” but only one “ever came close to succeeding?”

I’m very lost.
I feel like I somehow hit the lottery with fan noises on my work issued MacBook. I got the late 2016 model, the first one with the touchbar and those horrendous clickity clackity keys, and have used it 40+ hours per week for four years.

I have probably heard the fans on it twice ever?

I use Docker to do all my Python stuff, regularly watch YouTube videos or have heavy data visualizations going, always with 2x external monitors. There literally isn't a moment 30 seconds after startup where all of the following are not open at once:

* VPN software

* Teams

* Docker running a Jupyter server

* Firefox

* Chrome

* Alfred

* ITerm

* Corporate self-service backup stuff

I used to run Virtualbox daily, but haven't since the pandemic started. I also occasionally run screen capture software, Vim, Excel/Word, Zoom, and so on. I wonder whether the model I got is just somehow more bulletproof than the earlier (and later?) models, or if what I do is just not as much as what others folks use their MacBooks for. If there's something I can tell folks about my system that will help you improve yours, let me know and I'll gladly share.
Getting a car at 16 is only a thing because it means freedom from having mom/dad drive you everywhere. If alternate transit existed, this would resolve itself.
I disagree, the next paragraph says only one came close to succeeding. I think it should have said “completed” attempts at least to avoid this obvious confusion.
It's also only looking at the US, cherry-picking a country that has had an unusually good run of stability for the past few centuries.

Ask Germans or Russians what the worst rate of return for a 20-year period was in their country.
This is fascinating. I wonder if it really was solidly trapped if they would resort to essentially scuttling it just to get it out of the way faster.
Whenever something like this comes up, I think that a closely-related topic is replication of scientific studies. One of the best articles I've read on this was by Stuart Buck here [1], which I think offers a great starting point.

I also think it's really relevant to this particular discussion; the added emphasis on attempted replication probably wouldn't prevent paper mills from working period, but they could drastically increase the cost of good forgeries and create an environment of accountability that could potentially make their use by researchers much more risky, which might drop their use even further. Of course, publishers could help as well; maybe only the most innovative papers that have been replicated by unaffiliated third parties that have been provided with the pre-print or low-impact initial publication get re-published in the higher-impact journals, and those that can't get watermarked with with "unable to be reproduced x of y times."

[1] https://worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping-sciences-paradox/
Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board
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I MITM my own connections too, to do content filtering/adblocking/etc., although in my case the proxy upgrades lower versions to TLS 1.2.