skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the entire issue with the phrase to begin with, there's no universal definition of what it means. It assumes a shared value system.

True it's not precise language and maybe could have been better, but I think that would require a much larger post. Still I agree with it based on my value system.

> Almost everyone who fights anyone else believes that they are right and has a reason for it.

Sure, but at least my value system will have me not only not instigating a fight, but actively avoiding people that do.

For clarity, I _never_ attempt to avoid a well reasoned argument. You've made good points, and I thank you for doing so. :)
Found a link with a meaningful type sample for each of the new possibilities: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-365/249574/microsof...
> If that were the case, somebody would have seen that, and work would have been spent on this.

I would think that the linked patch is good evidence that work is being spent on this.
Ah OK good, thanks for the link. Right, this seems like something _I_ could probably handle with a weekend or two's worth of research (meaning it's pretty simple because I'm no hacker).

And Broadcom _does_ note that they associate with Vault7 group via the whole picture, but it's weird they present the strings and dates data without noting that it would be trivial to fake, and don't give any specificity to the other data points.

I guess for this type of work the only thing you _really_ have is the code's intent, if you can figure that out.
Information is not property. That's the postmodern nonsense. Property takes up space. These are mostly thoughts being controlled under the rubric of property
The microbenchmark part is part of the article, no idea why the downvotes here.
I've seen more than a few cases when "a random person attempts to advance" human knowledge and was completely dismissed by the "experts" and arrogant jackasses who later found out that random person was right.

A great example is where the Monarch Butterflies gather in winter. The guy who came back from Mexico back around the 1980-90s and told others he'd seen them in the mountains in Mexico was called a fool and a liar by all the experts until he showed them the next year. Of course, the Mexicans who lived near the site had known they come there for many generations but no experts had thought to ask them, or they dismissed them if they were told about it.

All told I'd estimate I've spent around 30-40 days exploring Mayan sites and the Cahokia Mounds. How much time have you spent on that?
My city provides me clean water, treats my sewage, and picks up my trash. They seem to do a pretty good job at it, I would be fine if they provided Internet service too.
That’s a bummer to hear, and I saw other folks mentioning that on this thread too. Could you describe the climate in which you’re located? Maybe a humid, salty coastal climate will affect that differently than a dry, dusty climate.
For a while, he was dabbling with long form (rather than pure comic) writing.

https://what-if.xkcd.com

Its more than a dabble - there are 157 of them, but that's the type of thing that a paper looking for original content and writing would like.

The last what-if was published in May of 2018.
> the worker gets value because they get paid more than the the minimum they'd be willing to work for

I can't find technical fault with your comment, but I think we should be clear, very desperate people will work for nearly nothing.
Fitbit, Whoop and Others Are Measuring Brain Activity, Glucose and Sleep
>In hostile countries the google play store is usually not present at all

Isn't this a good thing? In countries like China you could force Apple to spy and censor users where Android users can side load applications from trusted sources.

>If Google tried to enforce more policy app devs would use other stores/side load.

What kind of policies ? Any example of such policies? GUI/UX stuff or you mean policies where you can't link to a donate page because Apple wants that sweet tax, I think you are not ready to admit that you are spreading FUD, reality does not match and you are still building a fantasy.
What are you talking about?

I have been using bpf in seccomp for non-root for years.

Maybe your distro patched that out. The stock kernel allows bpf for non-root.
I signed up for the HN replies fully expecting it to be pwned sooner or later. Actually, I assume pretty much every service to be pwned at some point, and sign up according to how it'd impact me. If I don't care at all about the association, I use my real address, if I care somewhat I use a "+something" gmail address.

And if I REALLY don't want to be associated, I use a relay email address.
Apple gets $10 or $3 from a user

Spotify gets $7 or $0 from a user

How is this not an advantage?
It's hard for me to see this as doing a good job of simulating film when it doesn't mention grains. Film has a granular structure where each "pixel" is a grain (crystal). Film is essentially already digital, but with a higher count of less regular pixels.
It'd be nice if there were a registry of cities/companies with a 2 or 10 gigabit residential fiber offering. Google has 2gbit but (for Atlanta) it's only at specific apartment communities:

https://fiber.google.com/2gig/

https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/#:~:text=Find%20a,Fi...
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Seconding the other comments, this was a great write up.

One data point for you, you can see how much Accenture got from the US Federal Government on USAspending.gov. ~2B over the past 12 months (source: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0...).
This made my day. I don't even care if it's made up, I choose to believe this happened.
> Most musicians don't get boatloads of cash or to perform in stadiums but instead the appreciation of a handful of people who enjoy their music.

I think there is a whole world of difference between 60,000 people singing along to something you wrote and having 6,000,000 visits to your Github folder.

Unless you are a robot the 2 feel and therefore are completely different feelings.

Matter of fact the first is a feeling, the second is an acknowledgement that your code works fine.

Businessmen seek to add monetary compensation to the aforementioned acknowledgement , because they know that the sole acknowledgement is not enough to propel future goals they might have.....including playing music in a stadium such as the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen did, or hosting a music festival such as Steve Wozniak US festival
Pro tip: If you are upset about paying for your Adobe Creative subscription, you can run this electron app and then open Adobe 3.0.5, from 1993. Totally free.
> But having done work in the past to do detailed analysis for the WMATA (they run the DC metro system) on various understaffing issues, the unions do contribute to issues with operations and maintenance. I will not and cannot comment on their issues with construction of the Silver Line.

As soon as you said "WMATA" I was going to ask about the Silver line. From the outside it certainly looked like it had problems, though I suppose tunnel boring wasn't one of them.
This is on the money. Tooling and cross platform ecosystem are a big reason I moved to Rust/Go for my server side needs.

A tar ball of something that can run on Ubuntu is simply not good enough.
A system with beautiful glass and well designed bodies that fundamentally will never win at the whatever latest camera equivalent of core count/clock speed spec sheet comparisons that sells cameras these days. A shame.
Maybe the real pigeons were the friends we made along the way.
> if someone can get a court order for any accepted CA to give them a valid certificate for your domain you won't notice a thing

Certificate transparency logs make it possible to notice. I'm not 100% sure, but I think all major browsers require certificates to be logged at this point; and there are several services that you can list your domain and get notified when a certificate is issued.

You (or your users) may still be MITMed with the rogue cert without notice in the browser, though.
I thought archive.today only uses a captcha when saving a snapshot of a page, not when viewing a given snapshot, which would mean GP's link wouldn't hit you with a captcha.
Not sure what you mean, can you clarify? How do other languages require cloud infra?
it wasn't clear to me that 'debt' was not the same as 'mortgage'. I entered 'debt', then a couple steps later, the 'asset' of house had a 'mortage' box below. this also doesn't account for second mortgages, but you're likely aware of this.

nice job overall...
It's time the crypto scam gets shutdown. But no one really cares.
Maybe it’s related to their decision to turn YCombinator into a “safe space” for very specific people; or the way YC takes steps to silence some voices while hiding the fact that they’re silenced. These are deliberate decisions that cause the site to work very differently than naive people envision it from working.

I’m not crazy enough to sue over that shit; but somebody might be.
Much of the Northern Front Range of Colorado has this sort of setup rolling or rolled out: Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins. I'm in the latter.

I'm one of the earlier deploys, but they plan to have the whole city deployed in the next year-ish. My office is expecting to be built out in around 4 months.

Pricing for residential is: $59.95 (landed) for gigabit (symmetric, no caps), or $299.95/mo for 10-gig. This is Internet only, they also have phone and TV.

For businesses, the pricing is different: 250M/500M/1G is $99.95/199.95/399.95. Pretty much directly competitive with Comcast Business pricing we've been paying, but with much, much more outbound bandwidth.
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The first meaningful Terms of Use seems to have gone live Feb 17, 2017. After that, January 1, 2020, and then January 15, 2021.

Pre-2017: http://web.archive.org/web/20161229045611/http://www.ycombin...

2017: http://web.archive.org/web/20170303015020/http://www.ycombin...

2020: http://web.archive.org/web/20200130013739/https://www.ycombi...

2021: http://web.archive.org/web/20210301143626/http://www.ycombin... (current linked)

I'm still doing diffs.

Edit:

2021 (left) v. 2020 (right) diff:

https://imgur.com/a/8LKXKNs

2020 (left) v. 2017 (right): Privacy policy was significantly reworked, not the biggest surprise considering CCPA, but n++ is choking on the compare. Some interesting TOU changes though:

https://imgur.com/a/q4zzm8G
well tbf, somehow their cloud fonts at least fixes a big problem.
if you are 365 subscriber and deal with people on windows who create word documents your online experience will lack, because of the missing calibri font. this will at least fix it.

I'm also pretty sure that word/excel/powerpoint/outlook for linux will be a big seller.
The alt text is quite poignant.

> The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
Outside of Manhattan this is unlikely, Paris is much denser than NYC and the difference in GDP or however you want to measure economic productivity is too small to make much of a difference.
The greatest ambassador to the space effort. Always humble and selfless.
So I think I'm wrong. I'm doing the math for selling the asset and donating the money. In theory just donating the asset shouldn't make any difference -- either it's a realization and that cancels with the donation, or you're donating at the original tax basis, and either way the net deduction is the original tax basis. Because otherwise it's double counting and you get all kinds of bizarre incentives and rich people not paying any taxes.

For example, if you bought $1 of a stock that appreciated to $1000 and they increased the capital gains rate to 60%, you wouldn't pay any taxes. The IRS would take in less money from the higher rate. Because even if you don't care about charity at all, you'd donate half the stock to a charity when you go to sell the other half and keep 50% of the money instead of 40%. The IRS would get nothing instead of whatever they got at the lower rate.

But the tax code is full of bizarre incentives and rich people not paying any taxes, so apparently this is one of them. (Which at least has the benefit of encouraging charitable donations.)
Whether or not you agree with the notion of intellectual property. It isn’t a postmodern concept.

https://txpatentattorney.com/blog/the-history-of-intellectua...
interesting. as an american, I have just about the opposite impression of mainstream american businesses. most retail stores seem have the bare minimum number of employees to ring up customers and stock the shelves. and grocery stores are trying to eliminate the cashiers. the exceptions tend to be higher end stores or, for some reason, clothing stores. I can barely walk five feet into a gap without someone trying to help me shop. I only see valets at nice restaurants or garages that are too tight to allow customers to park their own cars.

the walmart greeter is an odd exception. why do they pay someone to stand at the door and say hello but have almost no one out on the floor to help me find things I want to buy?
It might be carrier related but the carriers seem extremely uninterested in solving the sms/mms problem at all.
Losing weight.

The equation is pretty simple. Not too many variables.

But the execution is not simple, at least for many of us.
Yep, that's how the system works. I have no qualms with forcing the richest company in the world to play fair. You may be under the idea that computers are optional - they're not. Almost everyone has a mobile device, even homeless. They're required to participate in government and business. It's how we rent apartments, pay bills and operate in society. The market has become a public problem by apples hand. Markets no longer belong to their creators when they of their own choices create matters of significant public issue. Apple is not special.

We have plenty of precedent from microsoft being forced to allow software before. Apple and friends have lobbied (bribed) heavily for antitrust and antimonopoly to no longer have teeth. If it were 30 years ago apple would have been put through the meat grinder.

If we need the legal right then we'll legislate it.
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Thanks for the clarification.

Part of my thinking assumes Bezos himself counts as an Amazon employee so all by himself he heavily affects the difference between average and median employee (he might be the only billionaire employee, Andy Jassy is presumably one of the wealthiest employees and he's below $500m).

Since Bezos is also a shareholder (I assume the largest individual shareholder), he also distorts that average. However, since I assume there are orders of magnitude more shareholders (through their stake in pension and retirement funds) than working for Amazon, all those additional data points smooths the difference out more.
Excluding some portion of sites from a user’s cohort calculation doesn’t necessarily make a user less unique if a nontrivial number of sites doesn’t opt out.

I wrote more about this on my site: https://seirdy.one/2021/04/16/permissions-policy-floc-misinf...
If This, Then That
Nice video.

> There's a company experimenting with these along highways to get energy from vehicles driving by.

Those turbines will be slowing down the windflow, causing extra resistance for the traffic. The video doesn't mention that. Does anyone know if that effect is significant enough to reduce or even reverse the overall benefits (especially given the large % of ICE vehicles)?
Not to get too reductive or anything, but the reasons are very similar to why people have the authority to compel public expectations based on the arrangement of atoms (e.g. you aren't allowed to stab me, etc.). Namely: those with the power to enforce those rules think it's a good idea to do so, and the public continues to support that configuration of the legal system.
A large amount of the functionality is also available through the "My Phone" application which ships as part of Windows 10.
In other words, you’d have to subtract everything of value and leave only the shares themselves.

The reality is actually even more extreme and bizarre.

The company would have to avoid providing any real overall value to society while consuming large amounts of energy in some cases.

Crypto is a financial wonder; a virtual black hole that sucks in money and resources under the weight of it's own gravity.
Three Decades in the Making, China's Space Station Launches This Week
Hi, GCS engineer here. GCS offered a lot of consistency from the beginning, but we didn't have strong object listing consistency at the beginning. We got that somewhere around 2017 when we moved object metadata to Spanner. See https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-google-cloud-...
The only thing you can truly do is look for anomalies in network traffic, processes, files, etc. This malware is not immune to that unless it has features specifically to hide from monitoring tools.

Even then there will almost always be evidence if you log network traffic. But obviously this is very difficult.
Real languages, and especially phonetic drift over the centuries, do complicate the analysis somewhat. But the fact that some English phonemes in Latin script require the use of digraphs instead of single glyphs or there are multiple glyphs with the same phonemic value doesn't change the fact that the Latin script is providing glyphs for both consonants and vowels.
Statement from his family: https://twitter.com/AstroMCollins/status/1387438495040348168
And it didn't sound the least bit familiar from any similar Swedish word...?
So okay, fraudulent transactions exist. That doesn’t tell you whether a particular transaction is fraudulent.

The shipping industry is useful and using it to ship bricks for some fraudulent scheme doesn’t change that. The value of a physical action isn’t inherent in the action itself, but rather depends on what purpose it serves.
My recommendation for AMD is a buy.
this hyper manipulative misinformation, you people are fucking retarded
I like this, curious if the interpretations are legally survivable but still very cool.
The Drakon Language
Unless it's changed, I remember that there's no agree checkbox on the sign-ups page. How enforceable is this?
The Island Is Idyllic. As a Workplace, It’s Toxic
And there isn't a thing he can do about it, because bitcoin is "secure".
Free Snake
The standard acronym used for the Blue Screen of Death is BSOD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death
And I love them for it. But I want humans on the Moon again.
Would be great to see either high res snapshots or high res demo.

I love viz space
Phones in China are owned at the network and software level - you can’t safely side load anything. I’m not sure Apple is safe here either, but I’d guess the security is better? Just guessing though based on reading what security people have blogged about the platforms.

For the policies - things like requiring better ID auth or blocking tracking or requiring IAP. I agree that the tax is bad and stated so elsewhere.

> “ I think you are not ready to admit that you are spreading FUD, reality does not match and you are still building a fantasy.”

This kind of rhetoric when you disagree with someone isn’t helpful and doesn’t change minds.
Show HN: Spring WebFlux REST Controller – Getting Started
It's not a contradiction. The two sentences are perfectly clear to me. Of course futex() is itself a system call, but in case of no contention you don't need to invoke the system call. That's why futex() is an improvement. The key phrase is "only when" in the second sentence.
I'm guessing that doesn't really gel well with the $10k SALT deduction cap in place at the moment.
It would be good to add a way to toggle that layer too.
I agree with owning your personal financial data.

Very few people I know understand and appreciate double entry bookkeeping for finances. I learned about it recently from beancount [1] and it was a revelation. I don't go overboard with detailed transactions and keep it high level with around 5 accounts salary/mortgage/cc/investments etc.

I now personally keep my raw data (monthly income/expense/balances) in a spreadsheet. I have 1 html file with js embedded that does my homegrown calculations (works great on a phone). Spreadsheet is updated monthly. I add data from my monthly bank statements (same day I pay my credit card bills so I don't forget). Run the calculations whenever I need to (so far has been very rare).

My takeaway: discipline around personal finances is more important than what tool, services or process I use.

Looking at my income/expense/balances and mapping to what happened last month, looking at trends is valuable. For me that comes from piggybacking on the critical routine/ritual of paying my bills.

1: https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m...
In other words - different business environments create different equilibria.

In Chinese/Soviet/1920s America equilibrium, with an insatiable demand for construction work, the profit maximizing behavior is to be done quickly in decent quality, then hop on to another project.

In the modern western equilibrium, where projects are few and far between, the profit maximizing behavior is to extract as much revenue as possible from any single project, employ lawyers, ask for extensions, attempt regulatory capture, create an opaque chain of subcontractors, etc. - as it's not clear whether there will be any new opportunity to do so in the future.
Startup CEO says he was fired for microdosing LSD at work
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This actually creates 1BTC.
What do you mean? In South America Corollas are considered to be far more reliable than equivalent Renault, GM and Fiat competitors. They cost a few thousand dollars extra, which is not a small deal for many people.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, former CIA Director

That said, I think the safest default assumption is both that any large national intelligence agency lies all the time, and also that any entity that a national intelligence agency has the means and motive to compromise is probably compromised. So Kaspersky is probably an FSB asset (but so too is Amazon a CIA/NSA asset) but the CIA is probably lying 99% of the time too.
Wrong project.
Cybercrime is (still) (often) boring
Unless all the tax money is used for subsidies/grants etc for companies owned by the elite/.01%.
Sure, but isn't that true for any intelligence organization? CIA, NSA, FSB, MI5, Mossad, BND, etc?
Yeah, that's a tricky one! We were thinking how to do it correctly and I think we will add a "collapse" function to the code editor on mobile, so you'll be able to collapse / expand it on demand. Would it work for you?
Tesla's Bitcoin Bet Pays Off