skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your argument can be better if you qualify your assessment of risk for Australian women with the temporal constraint of "for now". Because transmission is low in Australia they may be better off waiting for a safer choice. However eventually travel will return and it is highly likely that the virus will still be around.
It's hard to agree with you without an effective counterexample. How many lives have been saved, improved, or created by the staggering economic benefits of a car based economy?
Maybe they do, but that's sort of the point? I've had to file numerous 
bugs
 support tickets with cloud providers which amounted to something like "99% of requests to S3 are failing and your status page is 'This is fine.' HALP"; and the response comes "oh, it was just your shard/node/backend/puzzle piece", like the fact that it was some private implementation detail really matters to me, a customer, when I'm seeing basically 100% failure.

But if you measure something as a percentile, and it's just my "shard" or whatever, I'm like 0.0001% of S3 traffic, so you'll never notice it at that scale. A small constant stream of errors is somewhat acceptable, so long as they're just the randomly distributed noise that is random failures and bit flips. But persistent errors that block forward progress or some customer having 0% success is what causes SWEs to ask themselves "I wonder what GCP is like.", and it becomes very clear that their monitoring doesn't indicate when the service is on fire for someone, only when it is on fire for everyone.

Azure had an outage yesterday (that was only visible to customers / wasn't reflected on the public status page): there's apparently no more capacity in West US for certain VMs. And, well, it is sort of a basic supposition that our cloud provider can provide a cloud, when asked. And region hopping is not simple: a whole host of resources just aren't compatible if you're not in the same region. (E.g., a vnet requires the VMs be in the same region.) (And that was "elevated" error rates, or something, again. Where, as a customer, "elevated" would appear to mean "100%".) Not a great start to the week.

Someone posted Rachel-by-the-Bay's "Your nines are not my nines" article in a sibling comment, which is basically this. People way discount the TCO of the cloud, IMO.

I'd also add I've worked at companies where every 5xx was hunted down. It was easy to get complacent, chalk them up to "oh, probably just a network blip" and we thankfully had a staff eng. who was very good and log diving and showing that no, it wasn't a blip, it was a bug in our code, and we should fix that bug.
I'll turn the tables here:

1) Why should Iran come to the negotiating table if the previous deal was scuttled so quickly? What even makes American treaties reliable any more? To put it another way, why should they even trust any treaty with the West? Why is Iran asked to turn the other cheek, vs America asked to provide concessions for overturning a treaty, or put hard checks on their client state, Israel.

2) If you have more to give up, wouldn't you have a stronger bargaining position? There's not much the West can do at this point in terms of tightening sanctions, and they, with the exception of Israel, have no interest in another long war in the Middle East.

3) Why should Iran not be able to develop a nuclear deterrent? It is surrounded by American bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, has Saudi and the Gulf monarchies against it close by, and is an enemy of Israel, which is known to have dozens to hundreds of nuclear warheads. Clearly, given MAD, launching nuclear weapons offensively is untenable. So, a nuclear deterrent might protect Iran from foreign attack. A deterrent means the US or its client states aren't allowed to unilaterally bomb Iran any more, which is the right they are currently claiming.

I'm simply asking you to consider their view, without considering them irrational or chaotic or evil a priori. Certainly, a great deal of prejudice, jingoistic nationalism, sectarian religiosity, and macho posturing are at play on their end, as well. I can say it's similar on the end of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the US, as well. A more balanced view, understanding the motivations of all sides, may help arrive at an actual solution to this awful standoff, where innocents bear the brunt.

I sincerely wish all the countries of this region, and across the world, disarmed themselves of nuclear weapons. It's too easy for disaster to occur, accidentally or at will, and we forget that this guillotine is hanging over our head at every second.
Have you seen the internals of a Macbook? There is no single battery, it's a few batteries (wired in series I believe)[0]

Making the battery removable would compromise on other parts of the design. Personally, a replaceable battery is very low on my list of wants.

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-...
Their companion CDN (and namesake umbrella parent company) is also a first class part of Snowpack.

However using CDNs in the browser has some big trade offs. Besides obvious concerns sending any data to consolidated third parties, it’s actually a performance detriment now that browsers are caching per origin.

Used to be, using a CDN got you more likely cache hits and better perf on N+1 requests. Now you definitely don’t get that plus you get the extra DNS lookup and whatever performance characteristics of that CDN.
Plenty of replication deficient things cause cancer, for example asbestos or igf-1. I highly doubt you can rule out accidental crosstalk between elicited immune antibodies and every oncogenic human receptor.
I asked "what is the biggest gap between primes?" and I was delighted by the returned results.

[https://quantasearch.club/#what%20is%20the%20biggest%20gap%2...?]
I work part-time and I am also an electrical engineering graduate student. I often watch lectures while exercising, for example, and simultaneously take notes.

I use two methods for coding/typing/notes: voice and specialized keyboard. I generally use a specialized braille keyboard, that I can sweat on, however I do wear gloves (see: https://www.atguys.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_inf...).

I know multiple braille codes backwards and forwards, and I generally use a standard 8-key braille keyboard to type English language, computer code, and math. I have a print-related disability, that does not affect visual acuity, but does affect my ability to read (severe convergence insufficiency). So, when working and exercising, I use text to speech feedback when typing with braille code.

For coding with voice I use Dragon Naturally Speaking and VoiceCode (https://www.voicecode.io/). For math and voice I use Mathfly (https://mathfly.org/).
How many would there need to be in order to justify proceeding to use the vaccine? Proclaiming that there could be others is worthless without quantifying what you're willing to accept. Just saying to wait is a decision that will kill people.
I've just recently started to use 1password and here're my thoughts:

- Amazing support and fast response on their forums from the reps

- Works across Linux (my desktop), Mac and iPhone and Safari and Chrome browsers

- Has CLI

- Syncs instantly (unlike Chrome and iCloud Keychain)

- Supports TOTP (no - it does not completely defeat the purpose of 2FA, there are multiple aspects to it)

I am also aware of the risk I'm taking by trusting a 3rd party commercial company with my credentials.
"The only peace humanity every knew was within the border of some empire. Otherwise it was constant war."

This is a bold claim on a very much debatable subject, where it would come down to what "war" is, if it is the same with armed conflict/incident (like opposing force against a robbery), and so on. There are many countries, even neighboring ones (like Serbia and Romania), that say that have never been in a war against each other.

As to the commendation of living within an empire, that is just helplessness against empire's overpowering forces, which is far from the general idea of "peace" as in Wikipedia-defined "societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence".
To be fair, that text does not actually appear in the license; it appears in the suggested instructions for using the license (which you are free to ignore when licensing your project). In practice, though, most projects tend to use those suggestions as-is.

This distinction is actually important, because the GPL forbids adding more conditions on top of the license while still being GPL-compatible.

The FSF does agree[0] with you that code licensed "GPLv2-only" cannot be included in a GPLv3 project.

[0] See table at http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq
lol this is true, I guess they meant they didn't replay it as much as they'd like to, or those replays weren't as fun, but to me it seems that playing a single player game multiple times over, doing different things each time, seems like pretty darn good replay value.
>The question is, how do you stop Capitalism from subverting Democracy and the Media to perpetuate itself?

You craft a set of rules that Capitalism must play within. We have a pretty good set of rules now. No murder, no slaves, no obvious pollution. But there is room for improvement.

My suggestions are... 1. More media diversity (Media ownership rules). 2. Cap political donations to something that everybody can afford. (Say for example no more than $500 per person per year, no company donations)

I also sometimes suggest that the media (and social networks) should be held more accountable for the things they print and broadcast. (it's an unpopular opinion)

America is a lot bigger than where I am in Australia. Here, I'm optimistic that we can see small incremental changes that will help us balance power. regardless of the opinions of the super rich.

With a diverse media, enough pressure can occasionally be applied in key areas.
I feel like the results of this research are pretty obvious.
/s
dosemu does exactly that. It even has a dumb terminal mode for this exact purpose (-t).
My initial thoughts

And what happens if they break something while patching the exploits? Just seems odd that somehow the FBI is the best server admin here?

I feel like I’m missing the full view of the implementation specifics.

Shouldn’t the disincentive for admins to run unpatched just be monetary damages once/if a damage occurs?

Why are my tax dollars paying for lazing email hosts? Seems like a lot of other issues (unless I’m missing something)
There's no good reason to deploy into us-east-1 with us-east-2 available and much more stable.
And the audio calls. It was bad, it’s still bad while crypto is being added. I knew when I started aggressively trying to move friend’s family to Signal that this benevolent dictator thing will backfire someday. I didn’t expect it to happen so soon.

Now I still don’t want to use WhatsApp but I don’t know which other messaging app will replace it. I think none.
Voltron – extensible debugger UI toolkit written in Python
worth noting that traditionally, harshly moderated SomethingAwful didn't develop issues with fascists using the site as a grooming ground, while unmoderated sites like 4chan/reddit/twitter did.
The problem with a comment like this is that it actually commits the sin you're complaining about (i.e. not talking about what the article is actually about) worse than the comments being denounced. That can't help.
Not sure, as for example here on HN, if I viewed a link from one container, and come back to the main page within another ( new and otherwise unrelated ) container, new tab and all + logged out, the link I viewed will still show in grey. Can someone explain how that works by the way ?
High Performance Web Pages – Real World Examples: Netflix Case Study (2008) [pdf]
Which describes radioisotope thermoelectric generators in spacecraft, prototype small sealed reactors, and nuclear submarines. The last is obviously military use.
Fortunately, FAANG interviews are more than just a couple of CS interview questions.

The coding problems are part of the interview, but they're not the entirety of the interview. You can't pass a FAANG interview by cramming CS questions, unless you're maybe applying for a new grad position where previous work experience isn't factored in very much.
Their reasons are completely valid honestly. There's nothing that feels like you have no power than using a chat app with none of your friends on it.

Only way to really take power back is make an app better than what's on the market, and have it respect your privacy. A very, very tall order, but I think it's the only way we can really take power away from big tech and give it back to the people.
This seems nice, but it would be nicer if there was a cryptographic way to be sure that the site couldn't obtain your id from the registrar.

Is this doable? Or maybe these requirements together are contradictory?
I don't know how to break this to you but, like SSL and logins.
SA does eventually permaban people
Yeah, the parent comment asked about "the best way to convince people you are the peaceful victim," but Iran isn't necessarily (wholly) emphasizing that narrative. They probably don't primarily care about being believed. If convincing people they're a peaceful victim were the strongest position to be in, they'd likely pursue that more seriously.
I have a CSGO inventory worth over $40k.

They also do little for scamming and impersonation. People send me and I've even randomly come across profiles that have cloned my own name/picture/profile page in an attempt to scam people by impersonating me (using my inventory page to lure them in, hoping they won't notice the URL).

Virtually every friend I have met through CSGO that has skins has gotten scammed out of at least $100. Any time I give friends a knife to borrow or to have, they immediately get dozens of friend requests from scammers. The first time I gave a friend a knife it was stolen within two weeks by a fairly sophisticated scam.
A private currency still provides added privacy guarentees even assuming the steps you've outlined. Private payments would also be useful in a number of countries outside of the West.

Currency volatility is obviously unsolved but remains an area of active research - Algorithmic stablecoins like Dai and MakerDAO are obvious candidates but live on the public Ethereum blockchain. Private smart contacts chains like SCRT exists but are mostly under explored. Most privacy cryptocurrencies also have secondary OTC, P2P or will have atomic swaps.

This is all to say that a privacy preserving stable cryptocurrency is possible.
If "might makes right" was the only viable dynamic, the human species wouldn't exist. It's one very important dynamic, but hardly the only one, and not the principle dynamic upon which human civilizations are built. It's why North Korea is still a sh*t hole, while China increasingly relies on nationalism and other social mechanisms to manage its society. Force or even the threat of force doesn't scale very well.

History is important but not determinative. The emergence of the Westphalian doctrine was a novel civilizational development; novel in how deeply and quickly it spread. It's sort of like the concepts of monotheism or "human rights"--decentralized, self-perpetuating, viral organizing principles which can't easily be put back in the box once they achieve critical mass.

EDIT: To be clear, the problem with a nation-state like the U.S. flouting national sovereignty is that the "United States" is a construct predicated on the international sovereign order. Undermining that international order undermines the very identity of the country, an identity undergirding the legitimacy of its institutions and the willingness of its people to promote them, not to mention the legitimacy of its external relationships. So even though there are counter-forces--often very powerful counter-forces--the forces for maintaining the logic of the nation-state order are exceptionally powerful and at work at all levels. Mechanisms like plausible deniability (where plausible implies something that can be tolerably overlooked) are like pressure relief valves for contradictions that threaten the normative order. Someday the nation-state order may collapse, overwhelmed by stronger organizing dynamics, hopefully establishing a better civilizational equilibrium, but so what? The point is understanding the reasons for how and why countries act in the particular, peculiar ways that they currently do.
Node didn’t introduce the Promise API. Although it definitely instigated it. Node, with its async IO model, was just littered with callbacks. There were a zillion different approaches to async APIs that could ease that. Promises were, well, the most promising. But years of iteration and competing standards came and went before Node adopted them as the preferred API. And they did so right along with browser vendors and web standardization bodies.
https://rentmycpu.azurewebsites.net/download has a little more info
Don’t want to be cynical (and appreciate your more constructive feedback), but i’m surprised by the kind of stuff that makes up to the front page these days.
That’s true. But there’s another problem with something like Matrix. It’s not to be adopted by the masses by design. The clients/apps are miles away from a nerd/tech savvy person would like to use and another few miles away from the UX non-nerds would want to see. So that’s dba anyway - dead before arrival.
What? That makes zero sense.

If you book in advance and your plane is delayed by a whole day, your ticket is void. That's it. You're done.

...In which case you can just show up to the station and buy an unreserved ticket and ride, like everybody else and like I mentioned is the better idea.

My point is that reserving in advance has no purpose because of reasons you're giving to somehow justify it. If you don't book in advance, there is zero chance of missing your train due to a delayed flight since you're buying it 5 minutes before riding.

You seem very, very confused.
Agreed, if that logic is applied with the same intensity everywhere, the world would be painfully bland.

Obviously we've made some mistakes and possibly have gone too far in one direction on that axis, but particularly with regard to personal safety, people need to be willing to draw a line as to what is "good enough". Cars at this point are extremely safe by any reasonable metric, even if the absolute totals feel large.
I love pass but I have been having very weird issues lately with gpg agent taking ages to ask me my password to decrypt the database. Really annoying and googling has not yielded fixes. Worse the dev doesn’t use GitHub so getting in touch is a giant pain in the ass.
Ben, can you address what is going on with the password save UX / convert to login flow?
games/videos on 3:2 is just huge black bars. Definitely not for extended gaming.

I used (and still have) the original Chromebook Pixel in my closet with a 3:2 screen. amazing for browsing documents, but YouTube videos always felt off.
Yep. There are a lot of exercise apps for the Oculus Quest 1|2. People sweat in them all the time, and they are OK with the possibility of breaking them. You can buy protective barriers to add a layer between the headset. However, the humidity will probably eventually ruin the headset.
I will do at some point. But I don't like to spam HN without something for the community here to actually try.
Is he on Spotify? I can promote his music on https://volt.fm.
It's quite true that nobody knows the long-term consequences of these vaccines (which I don't think it is accurate to call gene therapies), but likewise you have no idea what the long-term consequences of COVID exposure are either - it's not a simple die/survive binary as some people have mild symptoms but develop chronic problems.

You obviously have strong feelings about this because you came into the thread with big broad claims, but you seem to be taking disagreement from others very personally.
At least whe have "globalThis" now.
Why was this flagged?

This is a discussion of a serious issue that will have very real consequences in American society ten years down the road.
Focusing on effect sizes!

It's much much harder to lie with effect sizes. For instance, in genetics there are entire careers built on an association of certain genetic polymorphism with a particular phenotype. Even if the p-value can be reproduced with huge sample sizes, the effect size of the association is usually tiny.

In other words, if you carry the risk allele the odds of developing a disease are usually only slightly bigger than if you didn't. But this is often not told to funders! Focusing on effect sizes would drive research effort to things that actually make a difference.

You can do effect sizes with something as simple as a confidence interval, or with a fully fledged Bayesian model that tries to estimate the posterior distribution of some parameter.
Reminds me of Firefox and Pocket. It’s been years since that. Somehow I still can’t use Firefox the way it was - my only browser. I try once in a while and somehow or the other it doesn’t feel right anymore.

Signal has done it repeatedly as well (no federation etc) but I’ve always ignored it and let it slide but for f’s sake this thing is not even open source really!
Still a lot of work to be done, what I do know is, I have a family member who went to a friends party and got infected, he was sick for a few weeks and recovered without hospitalization. A few months later, the genius decided to go to a Casino near Reno NV and got infected a 2nd time and was just as sick.
So if a criminal is running from the police and breaks into your home to hide, what your saying is that the police shouldn’t go in and remove the criminal from your house because that would mean the police are committing a crime by entering into your home?
CORS is not the end all be all of security. You should have a reasonable CORS policy of course, but assume that you have malicious clients who disable it in their browser to see what your backend does or, even simpler, they just use get.
y, it sounds like a bad idea to me.

I have never understood why don't banks offer READ ONLY api/access to accounts for 3rd budgeting apps/expense trackers or even verifying you for a mortgage.
Your view of the average user is unnecessarily uncharitable and antagonistic. People want privacy, but they also want to talk to their friends: that much is given. But…to basically any normal user, an app that offers privacy but doesn't let them talk to their friends is useless. Not everyone has the time or ability to go around proselytizing their acquaintances to switch to a new app to talk to them. To be honest, a lot barely have the time to figure out how to use a new app…
None currently work well on Gnome 40. Leaving such basic, widely used things to third parties, it is what's bound to happen.

Dash to panel in particular breaks often because of Gnome changes.
This is a stereotype of journalists I have not seen confirmed. Most journalists I know are happy to admit when they are wrong, if it means they are closer to the truth.
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A server with an ostensibly American IP can easily be physically located in another jurisdiction.
It's not me using it, it's all my friends and family that's the challenge. Whatsapp isn't just marketing, it was better than everything else by being super easy to use, required no sign up, looked just like text messaging so my parents liked it too. They did everything right (up until they sold it!).
Thanks for the merge. As you pointed in the PR you're only measuring the latency of the first query so it will have no effect in the benchmark. I'm guessing the "current request" latency will improve though, no?

I have to say the latencies you're getting are much higher that I've experienced with Fauna. Obviously it's expected for a KV database to be faster, but I'd be surprised to get more than 100ms of 50th percentile.