skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you outline, only a partial blocking is possible when google services and applications are on the phone (today this includes most apps from the g-store).

A "pure" analytics service may be blocked when reaching to a known spyware server. Bundled spyware and telemetry (is that "google core") are unfortunately not blocked.
Because time is a social construct and humans have no business having any form of social norms or social rules. It's not like humans are social creatures. Abolish all the social constructs!

I know, it's the weirdest thing calling folks. People pretending like calling others with a phone is the purpose of them. Jeez, the audacity. Not following social rules of using a phone. People need to construct some socially agreed concepts to help cooperate with each other.
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'By the last day of August 2020, 310 employees had added their data to the spreadsheet. Microsoft employs more than 150,000 employees around the world.'

You don't say.
The bottom 50% owns nothing (paycheck to paycheck lifestyle), the top 1% owns 50% (so they get half of the total sp500 growth while contributing nothing to society) and the middle 49% own the rest 50% (but their wealth would evaporate rapidly should they stop working). I think this is a more accurate picture of wealth distribution.
That's a good point. I guess the worst situation would be almost herd immunity, with the majority being vaccinated but a minority of unvaccinated people constantly circulating the virus. The vaccinated population then represents verdant fields:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybsSqcB7mE
I am unsure whether or not GPUs are good at work involving arbitrary precision numbers. My intuition was that they excelled at doing massively parallel operations for which accuracy is not a high concern.

I would probably look into using some sort of large integer sieve if I were trying to search for an example. Thinking about it though, I am even unsure whether it is decidable that N is widely digitally delicate.
Um, how does that gel with thousands of engineers who work for FB?
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Wormhole.app: E2E encrypted filesharing with a link that automatically expires
Yeah, this name collision is kind of odd.

From what I see elsewhere it's a custom implementation, but it feels like it wouldn't take much googling to find existing literature (i.e, magic wormhole).

Considering there's already a few MW clients, this being not compatible is... likely going to be confusing.
Every family on a quarter acre was not a sustainable plan anyway, I'm not sure how much of a "shame" it really is that the economics are crying out for more compact, walkable communities.
I'm trying to put it in terms this audience might better understand, since said audience doesn't seem to understand it when presented plainly (as has been done already, by various others). Though in hindsight, there's a better analogy:

So when you run a program on your computer, your computer doesn't directly execute that machine code right from the disk; rather, it loads a copy of it into memory first, and then executes that copy. If something changes that running copy (for example, by loading a DLL, or by using something like Cheat Engine to tweak the process memory), the original copy on the disk is untouched.

Likewise, when cells make proteins from your genetic code, they don't do so by "executing" the DNA directly. Rather, they make a copy of (a.k.a. transcribe) the DNA - this copy being "messenger" RNA or mRNA - and then that RNA gets tweaked and spliced and such before eventually making it to a ribosome to be "executed" - i.e. matched up to amino acids to make proteins.

An mRNA vaccine therefore works analogously to a DLL plugin: just like how loading a plugin doesn't change a program's binary as it exists on-disk, the vaccine's mRNA doesn't modify the DNA in your cells' nuclei - it instead goes directly to the ribosomes and gets matched up with amino acids to make proteins, leaving your DNA alone.

mRNA, like a running program, is short-lived; eventually it'll finish running, and then that's that. Since no actual DNA was modified, that's the end of it: the proteins that mRNA coded are all that remain. If more proteins are needed - e.g. for another round of training your immune system to attack SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins - then you'll need a second shot of mRNA, which will again go right to the ribosomes, get matched up with amino acids to make proteins, then that's that.
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This looks very cool! And some of the ideas look very interesting!
Well it depends on the system, doesn't it? For filing taxes, it doesn't matter that much if there's downtime as long as you have a plan to move the demand around (i.e. don't fine people when it's down), but for 911 calls you're going to have a lot of fairly niche infrastructure that you need to plumb in any way, so the actual cloud parts should be comparatively easy to replace.
Everyone will die someday, a large percentage will die in a very painful manner.. If you had a way to make sure everyone dies at the same time but in the most peacefully painless way, wouldn't you be saving billions from future pain?

Also dying at the same time, they'd never have to witness their loved ones die which brings emotional pain.

Now, hopefully most would see this as idiocy and immoral, but there's someone out there who's a closet Thanos, thinking this is a brilliant idea.
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You don't need 100%. There are parts of the world that have contained the virus (and may have eradicated it) even though essential services operated, even though people were permitted to leave their homes. Of course it can come back into those regions, but managing the spread is much less difficult once numbers are low enough for tracing. It becomes an exercise in public health regulations and targeted shutdowns.

The other question is: what are the alternatives? We didn't even have a vaccine prior to December. Now that we have a vaccine, there are the logistics of immunising everyone willing. Once the willing are immunised, we don't know whether it will be enough to stop the spread and mutation of the virus. On the other hand, ignoring the problem won't protect the economy. High absenteeism due to illness or self-imposed isolation of high risk individuals are the best we can hope for. There are far worse scenarios. Ignoring the problem won't protect the health care system. Even if it could handle the increased numbers without impacting mortality rate due to covid, many procedures could not be undertaken since the risk of infection would impact the outcome of those procedures.

The reality is that we are in a difficult situation. There is no perfect solution, simply solutions that improve outcomes. While vaccination may be a better long term solution, it is not a 100% solution. Also, the simplicity of lockdowns is about more than having time to get more prepared. It is about making the situation manageable. May it be through vaccination or isolation, creating a manageable situation is the key component to eradication.
By that time (4th of July) most people in Europe will be vaccinated as well.
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I'd like to second this. From where I'm sitting it feels like Microsoft is prioritizing marketing more than engineering.

It seems like most larger customers that use Azure do so because management got shiny presentations from Microsoft and now it's their "strategical partner".

A lot of overselling with huge discounts gets them their in. Already seen this at multiple companies. Azure is a nice platform for your Windows administrators to shift some load to the cloud. But to build large applications on?

Edit: And I kinda feel bad for saying this, since I assume that there are indeed pretty competent engineers working on Azure. But somewhere something isn't right.
If you speak Japanese (or can tolerate a machine translation), Yusuke Endoh, one of the best IOCCC winners all time, is writing short summaries [1] of every winning entries over the course of this year. Recommended as a starting point.

[1] https://mame.github.io/ioccc-ja-spoilers/
yeah i see u
yeah wtf did u do anyway?
You're shadowbanned, looks like about 7 months now. And you can just email the mods using the Contact link at the bottom of the page: hn@ycombinator.com

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> If their whole business model is predicated on the success of crypto-currency shouldn't the whole world of fiat currency be completely irrelevant and a distraction?

I'm not following this line of logic, where are you getting this from? Why would the success of crypto-currency imply the demise of fiat, if that's what you're saying? Or why would you have no interest in fiat just because crypto-currency turns successful?
I don't want to speak for the other poster, but school lunch programs are a pretty stupid place to exercise this preference.

Kids do better in school when they aren't hungry, there, we don't need to discuss what incentives their parents should have because there is a good reason to feed them.
Sure, double my budget and I’ll get right on that.
> and the AZ trial was kind of a mess

Also AstraZeneca keeps getting suspended due to blood clots. I think we're up to 7 or 8 countries now? Canada was the most recent I remember, but I think most have resumed now.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/rare-clotting-disord...

The running theory appears to be that in rare cases, that vaccine results in antibodies that attack platelets, causing a weird reaction that results in clotting.
Huh. I wasn't aware. Thanks. I'll have to see if there's a sensible way to get the results in a format that can be used to progrmatically cull a build output.
I think there are reasonable martian terraforming timelines that take a couple hundred years.

I don't think you need a dyson sphere level of energy output, or even a single millennium to terraform mars to be human habitable.

It's a big project, to be sure, but if we were dedicated to it I think we could accomplish it in <1,000 years.
Tech employees get share compensation too, even though HW engineers get paid less than SW.
Imagine there being 59 empty homes for each homeless person in the country. That's the US, not China, BTW: https://www.self.inc/info/empty-homes/
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Nuclear armed countries fighting direct hot wars will be decided in a few hours. It's astounding to think that some people still subscribe to this idea of a gentleman's battle with both sides agreeing to not use their full capability while the other is killing their own.
Real-life 'Zombie Wars'.
This is why zoning is dumb. How do most cities zone? They draw borders around what is already there and make it a zone based on what is there. The first effect is to freeze those areas how they already are.

The places that are not built up get borders around them too. Those places are zoned for a particular use based on the wild ass guess of some elected officials. Since those elected officials cannot see the future, those wild ass guesses are often wrong.
Fiber slows the absorption of sugar so that it gives you longer lasting energy instead of spiking your blood sugar all at once.
Cool. Distributed and asynchronous programming made me think of non-locality a lot, just looking at the clock isn't good enough to determine a sequence of events.
is there any reason to not just sell to zerodium and then report to apple afterwards?
Just to clarify. The concept of words having an origin and evolving over time is nonsense?

I have so many more questions if that's what you're trying to say here.
> Now we are at the end, and the signal? companies are adding bitcoin to their balance sheets. The cycle of finacialization is complete, paper is no longer required and you don't even have to outsource your production, not that you have it anyways, as all you need to post profits and pretend you are a good CEO is buy crypto and hodl.

This literally isn't possible because of how GAAP accounting rules work for bitcoin. You can't count the value going up if you hold, but you have to mark it down if it goes down. It's only bad for you.
No, that's just tyranny of the majority. Just because you've decided to assume CO2 risk doesn't mean I have to consider it ethical (being carbon neutral). It's obviously ethically untenable that just because you guys have decided human extinction is okay, I have to accept that.
This or something like this is very much needed
I laughed at that a lot more than I should have. After a long day, thank you for that.
There's no relation to magic-wormhole. wormhole.app is an independent design and implementation. It's a similar in spirit to Firefox Send (and uses the same ECE streaming encryption that they did). Our design supports instant streaming (instant share link, downloader can start downloading before upload is finished) and peer-to-peer transfer (based on the WebTorrent protocol, which I created).

The word "wormhole" seems to be used in many different tools. For example, try running `brew info wormhole`. You don't get magic-wormhole or wormhole.app but something else entirely.
But every base is not described in the base most commonly written for human reading as "base 10"
How? I can't find any connection between "ok" and "poppycock", but it's hard to search the web for.
How do you tell?
If you turn strict off, you can have

doIt() or die screaming

as literal code.
Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters
They click things because people pay them to, for a variety of reasons. Were some of the people paying them engaging in fraud? Probably.
Can we pull Pamela out of retirement? Sco did entire stock offerings to fund this and still ran out of money
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The vast majority of retail banking institutions do not run their core. They outsource it to the major core vendors to ‘protect themselves from themselves’.

It’s atypical motivation but one of the few verticals I know of where the cloud is largely out of the equation.
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> Mars won't be a powerhouse of industry, commerce, or culture; at best there will be some modest scientific output. It's a tomb world.

I wouldn't go that far. Yeah, the habitability sucks, but it does have plenty of natural resources. Combined with the low gravity, I suspect it could be a useful manufacturing and refueling hub, especially as a pit stop on the way to the outer planets.

That said, I think Ceres is a bit more viable for that, due to closer proximity to the asteroid belt (since it's in the asteroid belt) and due to it being a giant ball of water ice and hydrocarbons (water and hydrocarbons being pretty crucial for both refueling operations and human colonization). If the gravity on Ceres ends up being too low for human comfort, that just makes it easier to build centrifuge habitats, be it on the surface or in orbit.
Effective arbitrage is required for efficient markets. Again I'll repeat: the sheer fact that this is all decentralized/identity-less is already a novel aspect.

The specific DAO's I linked to build products that allow for shared arbitrage profits and an autonomous decentralized stablecoin respectively- the utility is found in the effective distributed markets they help optimize.

The very fact that you can trade coins or earn interest on a loan in a decentralized manner is the utility. Composable financial legos are pretty useful.
Having a fully up to date status page is what prevents useless repetitive cases during degradation or an outage. If I'm having issues but you show all green, I'm submitting a case.
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They could be technically correct. Most crimes follow a pyramid of sorts with lesser level offenses on the bottom and the impressive stuff at the top (e.g. there are many drug dealers but very few kingpins). They probably have some sort of low level "soliciting a minor" type of crime to criminalize grooming and of course most of that is going to happen over whatever the dominant communication mediums are, Facebook in this case
I think the core of it is the belief that error handling is no less important than "happy path" code. In some domains, this isn't true. In mine, distributed systems, it is. So I don't want to relegate errors to some ghetto, I want them to be front and center, equal to everything else.

Another small part is probably how you think about the error values themselves. I almost never want to pass an error to my caller exactly as I receive it, I almost always want to do something to it first, most often decorating it with relevant context and metadata where I receive it. Sometimes, obscuring it, if I don't want to leak implementation details.

But ultimately it's about explicitness, obviousness. `?` is easy to miss, and permits method chaining, the outcome of which is incredibly easy to mispredict. And in imperative code, which is the supermajority of all code, `?` gives no meaningful increase in speed-of-reading -- which is a bogus metric, anyway. So for me, strongly net negative.
Or, why the endless money we give to our military for toys isnt nearly enough and you will all end up in Chinese prison camps if you don't double the military budget.