skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cross-border leakage with Bangladesh? Possibly. With Pakistan? Hardly.

All of these countries require a recent negative test prior to arrival. The Central Asian countries show inflection at pretty much the same time, barring Uzbekistan which is a week late. However, India has a lot more relative traffic going on with Sri Lanka and they and Maldives, both South of India, inflected a whole month later.
AFAIK, those are still managed by Verizon
Probably because Apple has an army of lawyers to protect against any problems.
If you have a stable team, cost of delivering new features are quite low. Tech improvement comes at much larger cost.
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Not too sure about Kanglish being the norm - I'd guess it depends upon which part of Bengaluru (making a wild guess here) you're in?

Where I live, that sentence would usually turn out to be something like "Naale inda lockdown, vahanagaLu yavdu Ache barubaaradu".
I think this will be attractive to the aging population, I have older clients who constantly complain about being unable to read text on their phones and a full tablet is just too big to carry around conveniently.

A properly-implemented folding phone that is 8 inches open but pocket-able when folded will get quite a bit of interest.
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Being a monopoly of any kind stifles innovation.

It's often better for the state to react to private monopolies/oligopolies by entering the space and competing with a bare bones service. This has worked in banking, telecoms, land development, housing, etc. It often works better than taking over the monopoly directly. It's one of the reasons (IMHO) Singapore has such an effective private market.

Often private companies lobby for laws restricting the level that they can compete - this is a signal that it's an effective tactic.

If USPS were given a mandate and the cash it could absolutely build a marketplace that could compete and it would probably kick start Amazon into being a better and cheaper retailer. Unfortunately it's being whittled down to a husk of its former self.
> They somehow have no other way to infer this?

That's actually the point. So what if they're using "anonymous" or other indirect data? If "Amazon.com" might be benefiting from AWS data of any kind then it needs to be investigated as potentially anti-competitive.
This is quite pendandic. When you calculate your tax rate do you also include GST(VAT)? Because this is essentially the same thing.
GitHub is awful for this. If you're not signed in, the whole page is taken up with a giant signup UI, then in the top right there is another signup button. Next to the signup button, there is a sign-in button, but it has no border and is so deemphasized that if you don't know it's there it blends into the other useless links in the top bar.
That diver started it. And he's an older white guy in SEA; a sexpat at least.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19734261

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazo...

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-literally-s...

https://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/9/19/20874818/amazon-allb...

I can't find the most recent set of posts about peering into customer's AWS instances to research what they could copy but consider that govcloud exists.
Well, the only reason why the throwaway user was dishonest was because they didn't use ellipsis to indicate snipping content in between.

They're technically correct. The app used a dark pattern and you responded by subscribing. From their intents and purposes, the dark pattern did its job rather well.
Upside decay, or “why some people never get lucky”
"Upside decay means that an organization doesn’t get any lucky breaks.

You’d think that being on the lookout for missing positive tail events would be enough to spot upside decay. But it’s too late to be useful. We need to observe an organization over a long period of time or have access to a generous chunk of its history. By the time we identify the presence of upside decay, it will already be far advanced.

What’s worse, upside decay has corrosive effects on organizations. Trying to connect with people becomes sluggish and hard. Things which were easy become longer, slower, more tedious. Problems that are left unattended will metastasize. Motivated people can still push projects through and deal with problems, but it takes all their time and energy and burns them out."

This has so many implications for organizations, governments, society, everyday life.
Send message to a WhatsApp no. without adding it to phonebook :)
I dunno, but google photos does an amazing job of taking a picture and then just allowing you to select text right out of it. Even text with a weird font (possible handwriting?). Kinda blows my mind.
I love me some pypi, but it's hardly a trusted channel. There's no approval process for uploading, and there's very limited code inspection (until last fall there was none). There have been repeated examples of typo squatting malware which has been resident on pypi, which is why there are tons of security products designed specifically to allow you to use pypi safely.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries...
> Noone pays $1000 for an IDE anymore.

How many minutes per developer per day before that level of expenditure pays for itself inside 2-3 months?

Who cares? The premise is false, you can't buy it. There is no "fast tools" you pay for. Every decent shop got their devs an SSD at the first available opportunity because it paid for itself really quickly, cost you money _not_ to buy them. The very definition of a false economy was "no the devs aren't getting new shiny sportsmode SSDs for their boxes."

We all use gcc and clang (for relevant languages), for example because everything else you might pay for sucks a lot harder. Whatever the ideology you claim or deny. Intel literally damaged their customers' products to try to make themselves look better than AMD with theirs! They're a non-starter after showing themselves willing to do that but if you must, yes, their compilers still suck exclusively on intel more than gcc. How is microsoft's compilers standards chasing going? In the 21st century yet or /still/ not? (Oh come one, we're mostly there but for ... yeah). Compiling template heavy C++? Does developer time matter?

(But just quietly, terminals & cmdline tools feel a lot more productive than IDEs to me and I use both in differing circumstances).
I'd also version the DB in the URL, else you could end up changing the file out from under someone who's already got the page loaded, with who-knows-what results depending on how different the file is. You could just prefix a head to every range request to check for changes, but that adds overhead and doesn't actually completely close the gap, so it'd still be possible to read a file different from the one you intended. Cost is more disk usage, depending on how many copies you keep around, but at least keeping the most recent "old" version seems reasonable unless you're skating really close to the quota on whatever system you're using.
I agree it was stupid for Yahoo to not go to Microsoft at the time. Maybe Microsoft and Yahoo search and ads would be stronger today. Pushing against Google and FB more. But it doesn’t appear bad enough for a valid lawsuit considering Yahoo got more than $45B back since 2008.

Yahoo sold half of the Alibaba stake for $8B and $40B in 2012 and 2019. Yahoo Japan stake for $4B in 2019. And Yahoo itself for $4-5B around that time.

Of course the people who would have taken Microsoft stock would’ve made a lot if they held on through 2013, 2014. Microsoft stock was 10x less in 2008 and rose 50% before the end of 2014. The shareholders who would’ve taken cash wouldn’t have been better off without knowing how that cash would be used.
Gwynne Shotwell runs the day to day at SpaceX.

She hasn’t gotten a ton of press but it’s clear she is a key reason for the successes you described above.

Which Musk can take some credit for—-hiring well and not getting in her way.
If you use WSL, you can get the same functionality as "open ." with

explorer.exe $(wslpath -w "$PWD")

It's a bit lengthy so this is always aliased in my .bashrc when using WSL
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I do get the feeling of an underlying crypto play marketed on the old brands AOL/Yahoo.

I didn’t even think about something as simple meme stonk. It may sound like sarcasm and a joke, but look at the meme stonks or Doge ($11B+ market cap)...sure the kids on tik tok might not know what yahoo or aol are/were but that actually makes them fresh to the new generation, mixed in with a little nostalgia from those slightly older that would love to jump on the next rocket going to the moon...it’s seriously just 1 Elon tweet from a doubling in value.
I make every reasonable effort I can to avoid using the USPS. I have for decades. It's terrible, and has only gotten worse. This article is not surprising.
That's the official one from the all numeric date... but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Cana...

All of the following dates are valid:

3 May 2021

May 3, 2021

3 mai 2021

2021-05-03

And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

> ISO 8601 is the only format that the Government of Canada and Standards Council of Canada officially recommend for all-numeric dates.[28][29][30] But, their usage differs depending of many contexts.[31][32]

> All three formats are used in Canada for long format.

> For English speakers, MDY was preferred form (mmm-dd-yyyy) (Example: April 9, 2019) and used by nearly all English language publications and media companies as well as majority of English language government documents.[citation needed]

> For both French and sometimes English speakers, DMY are used (dd-mmm-yyyy) (Example: 9 April 2019/le 9 avril 2019) and also used in formal letters, academic papers, military, many media companies and even some governmental documents, particularly in French-language ones.

> Federal regulations for shelf life dates on perishable goods mandate a year/month/day format, but allow the month to be written in full, in both official languages, or with a set of standardized two-letter bilingual codes such as 2019 JA 07 or 19 JA 07.
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Would you prefer that the USPS join the public pension crisis? It is not scandalous to force a public organization to fund their employee retirements. What is scandalous is the massive unfunded public pensions that are going to wallop the economy over the next 10-20 years.
Certain signing algorithms such as ed25519 do not depend on the collision resistance of the hash function when signing the message. They do however when signing the hash.

"It's always signing a hash.", sure, but S(m) and S(h(m)) is a different operation with very different properties.
This is also a silicon valley problem. Lots of people move there to get the big job and make money. It attracts a certain kind of people. People who prioritize their career and income above other things. You also have the challenge that a lot of the people moving to SF might only stay a few years, so you have lot of turnaround. People are not focused on building long-term friendships and relationships because know that they or others might leave. You also see this on the dating scene. I found silicon valley to be an unhealthy living environment on multiple levels.
Yeah they've had a strong display partnership for a long time.
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Since I started using facebook (2010) until today, it happens to unfocus and is very weird. If I go to login page, start typing my email very fast, it lose focus after 1s even before I finish typing.
The town of asbestos in Quebec (which they renamed last year because it was too shameful) had one of the largest (the largest?) asbestos mine in the world. It closed in 2011 with plans from the government to inject close to 60 million $ to reopen it... it didn’t go through because the party that promised it lost the elections to the party that promised NOT to do it, but note that the question of whether anyone would still buy asbestos never entered into consideration. So yeah all this asbestos must be going somewhere if it’s still profitable to mine.
> It's a dark pattern because the usual reason is to be able to gather more data from the user

Is it?

This seems like something you can’t know without corporate espionage.

It really could be as simple as wanting to focus support on one platform.

I agree that data gathering and surveillance capitalism is pretty much evil.

However to just assume that’s all every decision is about makes us incapable of understanding the complexity of what is going on.
I think the solution has a more fundamental flaw. Reasons why people are no longer logged in:

1. The website timed them out.

2. They pressed “log out.”

3. They/their browser deleted their cookies.

4. They are on a different device.

5. They are in private/incognito mode in a new tab or window (say after clicking a link to confirm their email address at signup).

To the extent the solution works at all it only works for (1) and (2).
In my niche this is reporting. We agonize for YEARS about what to do.

Just thinking in what I need to do for this do "properly", ie: I plan to make a language as the base!(https://tablam.org).

Eventually I just install https://www.metabase.com and thanks to sane table + view design the end-users are nearly support-free.
This book

https://www.amazon.com/Political-Economy-Dictatorship-Wintro...

expounds a framework in which politicians have a certain amount of resources to spend on preserving the system (e.g. spending on legitimacy, welfare, police and military) vs resources they can spend on their own priorities.

Addressing inequality involves real money, as does improving security.

"Culture war" offerings on the left and right are free or very low cost so they are popular with politicians.
>it makes no sense to have private businesses running the entire delivery logistics network.

When you consider how much of US logistics is done by private companies, I'd say we're pretty much there and always were. Even if you dig into the USPS by itself, how much is done by private contractors? ..especially upstream from the local office.

That last mile of to-the-house delivery is a non-trivial thing but I'm not sure how essential it is.

Restated: it makes no sense to have private businesses running the entire electricity generation and delivery network. Yet here we are.
Spreadsheets and finance has tremendous value!
Was there an understanding in 2008 that Yahoo... couldn't just "be Yahoo" going forward without falling behind / fading away and would have to really change dramaticly?

I ask because it seemed like there were attempts but they were sort of fits and starts and meanwhile most of Yahoo still seemed like just old Yahoo...

It does seem like a continuous failure in leadership at Yahoo to really change much at all. There were sort of psudo attempts to do other things (be a media company I guess) but they never came to much.
The USPS is seeing fewer letters and more parcels.

Letter sorting machines are not helpful to deliver parcels.

Therefore, the USPS should replace some percentage of letter sorting machines with infrastructure suitable for sorting parcels.
That’s another one. Shipping an In-App browser should be punishable by 20 years of only browsing the internet via Pinterest.
Many aspects of Orthodox Judaism observance focus on halacha, often translated as "ritual law", but probably better described as technical religious practice. This may confuse those who expect religion to be primarily concerned with belief or faith.

As to the curious case of the eruv: The fundamental laws of Sabbath observance are mandated by the Bible, but the specifics of forbidden activities have been refined by rabbinic discussion over hundreds of years. These are documented in the Mishna, the Talmud, and many other sources continuing to the current era. It would be more accurate to view the eruv as a technical way to enclose a shared communal area. This has always been built into the technical determination of domains as set by rabbanic authorities, and functions more as a constant reminder of Sabbath than as a "loophole".

Anyone who observes Shabbat would never confuse it for a regular weekday, even with an eruv and light timers.
I didn't say "close", I said closer. Full self-driving (e.g. "Level 5") is driving everywhere a human can. I have doubts that Waymo will ever get to Level 5 without 3D mapping the entire world, which (to me) sounds like a somewhat intractable problem. There is a lot of world, and it is constantly changing.

The problem here is the "level" system everyone has been told is the standard, which heavily implies that if you're at "3" while someone else is at "2", then you're closer to "5". This isn't really true though because solutions at Level X don't necessarily scale/work at Level Y. I dislike using the level system for this reason.

I think Tesla is closer because they are certainly getting there[1], and I believe their model (relying entirely on CV) is the one that has the greatest likelihood of stretching to FSD (Level 5 autonomy). Mostly because there is only one system we're aware of that can achieve FSD (humans), and the sensory package there is entirely visual.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_zTZjCCoxo
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They are managed by AOL now. Access is thru mail.aol.com. Will they return to Verizon?
If by "best" we mean, most educated, most capable of solving engineering problems, "highest IQ" etc. (Which is how we generally define best in this context) Then yes.

There used to be a big incentive for the smart scientific and engineering minded types to go into academia, but now the majority go into either financial services or tech work because that is where the high salaries and actual problem solving are.
Didn't Scala get both of those things from ML?
No, I do not realize that. Is the security of the bitcoin protocol based on the collision resistance of SHA-256? If so they should try to find a solution around it.
Most of the recent powered lift aircraft designs include a rocket assisted recovery parachute to use in case of power loss. However there can still be a dead zone: too high to survive a crash but too low for the parachute to be effective.
That's because HN's audience is composed of a large majority of white collars, and from a larger perspective, 99% of politicians, judges, lawyers, journalists, columnists, editorialists and commentators are white collars. It's just empathy (in this case, misguided empathy). We can identify more easily with a white collar criminal than a blue collar criminal.
samsung is a multi-armed beast, and a lot of their profits come from being a component maker for other companies.
A trustless (eco)systems is usually not efficient. So the cost-benefit analysis points to almost-blindly trusting Amazon, reap as much of the benefits as you can. And don't be surprised when it turns out that Amazon abused/exploited your trust.
That and their fanatsy sports platform as well. I don't know the numbers at all, but its the de-facto platform for a large portion of fantasy sports. If they made moves into the DFS space I think they would do even better.
I'm surprised Twitter hasn't been interested in Yahoo Finance and Yahoo sports apps. The onboarding into Twitter, integration with tweets would be worth billions. A lot of "regular people" use those apps, and Twitter investors are looking for the user growth. Also, if Twitter is going to become a platform for interests/topics, it would be good to have a couple of standalone apps on some core topics.
> Yup. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”

That's better than when the best minds are thinking about how to kill people.

Anyways, it is a good thing that even if the end goal is far from noble, most of the times, invest enough in R&D and positive things come out of it.
I’ve heard it also as “making global scale dopamine delivery systems” when bringing in social media KPIs and other addiction-driven engagement like modern gaming monetization models
The current Bitcoin Core on Windows stores 366GB of data on your local drive excluding the app files. Source: Looking at the folders on my PC right now.
Thank you! It's great to get an answer. I was expecting that I need to get a way more upvotes to have quality comments but here you are. :)
What have been the great successes of recent years, as seen internally at Yahoo?
If it is a myth, it is propagated by the USPS.

They will deliver for every mail address. USPS designated non-deliverable addresses are typically new addresses that haven't been added, or as another commenter posted, an address that is unsafe to deliver.

Now, delivering to your mailbox might be a central mail hub that is part of your community/neighborhood, and not directly to your door, but that is still your address's mailbox.
One is that I know about, is that some people start building the foundations and keep adding/building up, as they get more funds.

*I didn't read the article, so maybe already mentioned
The first video shows how cherry-picked facts can be used to suggest a misleading impression of efficiency. The presenter repeats, several times, the claim that the duct moves ten times the amount of air than that delivered from the compressor. I imagine that fact came from Jetoptera, and I don't have any reason to doubt it, but that ten-times figure is irrelevant. The comparison that matters is the rate of transfer of momentum to the external airflow, compared to what can be achieved by driving a properly- or similarly-sized fan or propeller with the same motor.
Depending on a utxo state in blocks is effectively the SPV security model, -- it's an utter blind trust in miners to set the value honestly. Something which is only theoretically sound on the assumption that someone else is checking.

If you're happy with the spv security model-- perhaps you should be using SPV? :) This is a little trite I know, because it's not quite identical because of the "past": but the vast majority of the sync time is in the last two years in any case, and practical considerations mean you wouldn't be able to just arbitrarily choose how far to sync from (as you need to be able to get the utxo set as of that height).

In the ethereum world effectively almost all synchronization is done using 'fast sync' which is essentially the committed utxo blindly trust miners model. Performance and storage considerations mean you can't go back more than a tiny amount of time (I believe its normally 4 hours). Many commercial entities operate with multiple nodes and if they detect they've fallen behind they just auto-restart and fast sync to catch back up. Effectively this means that if miners commit invalid state they'll just blindly accept it after a couple hours outage.

All assumevalid is doing is asserting that the ancestors two weeks back and further of a specific block hash all have valid signatures. When you get a setting there as part of the software you're running you're assuming that the software isn't backdoored (e.g. because of a public review process, or your own review). Assumevalid is strictly easier to review than pretty much any other aspect of the software integrity. E.g. there are 100 places where a one character change would silently bypass validation completely. Reviewing AV simply requires checking that the value set in it is an accepted block in some existing running node. AV as implemented also requires the blockchain to agree and have two weeks of work ontop of it, so it's just in every way harder to undermine validation by messing with it than changing the code some other way.

On a technically pedantic point. It takes a minute or so to sha256 the UTXO set, so doing literally what you suggest would utterly obliterate validation performance. (fortunately rolling hashes accomplish what you mean without the huge performance hit.)