skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theft is often a crime of convenience. It’s counterintuitive, but thefts actually tend to go down during recessions. People just don’t leave the house as much, so they don’t have as many opportunities to steal.

Source: good friend was a public defender
That just sounds like OpenID with extra steps
Specifically target only companies with $600 billion market caps.
I think I should correct to "dSLRs that I can afford"
Weird. I knew the word already (though not for long), but as a non-native English speaker (German), it also always evoked pictures of scones, or in my case croissants, for me. Maybe because it sounds like "crumbling"?

By the way, on a Mac you can just force press on any word, it gives a definition. Very useful.
Unlike the Russell Teapot, the claim on whether vaccines are safe, or not, is verifiable.

I am sure this is uncomfortable to many, but you are taking the position that many did take with tobacco, or asbestos. They were safe. Until they weren't.

Human life is limited in length. The burden of proof rests on those tampering with the natural (ie the human body) over the un-natural.

The counterfactual. Should we feed supermarket milk to babies ? At least in this case, milk is proven to be safe for humans long term. Would you give supermarket milk to babies ?

If you did, the burden of proving this is safe rests on you, not on the person stating they want to continue to provide breast milk to the baby
I mean it's not a perfect analogy, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of lessons from battlefield medicine has made it's way into civilian trauma care.
Also Modern Greek bank = Trapeza = ancient Gk for table, so I guess this derivation via furniture that you sat on / traded money over is common
Once you know you need to do this (and at every enterprise SaaS company I've seen or worked at, you eventually need to do this - the sibling comments about charging more $$$ are smart though):

* "Release train ahead" - code takes 2 weeks (or 4 weeks) to reach Production from merge, but it goes out to a Preview environment immediately or at the next release. So, you've forked your code into a Prod train, a Preview train, and mainline. You probably need the ability to hotfix to prod and preview fix to the week-ahead-of-prod preview environment, as well as roll normal development forward. You do gain "soak time" for code in the Preview environment, which is a slight advantage. And your QA is easier, because you have three discrete, testable things ("does it work in Prod, does it work in Preview, does it work in trunk"). But, you have another runtime environment which can diverge, which is a big disadvantage.

* Feature flagging by "release train," single execution environment. This is probably the most "Software Theorist Friendly" way to do this. You don't have to maintain/debug multiple environments beyond what you're already doing. Some customers are in the "preview ring" and get more features toggled on. Single runtime environment, single codeline. Fixes are just fixes. QA is a little harder depending on how you set up the possible "rings" and combinations, and the operational blast radius of your Preview code is now the same as your Production code (make a bad query that kills a backend service in Preview code, well, that's also Prod code. Oof.).

* Free-range feature flagging. Some complex arbiter system manages a huge range of feature toggles on a per-tenant/per-customer basis. Having this range of operational knobs is very fun and works great for customers who are particularly risk averse. It also lets you sell SKU-packs of flag combinations, roll specific features to specific "Early Access Programs," and so on. But, you get a combinatorial explosion of feature flag permutations, which depending on how coupled your code is and how intelligent your QA system is, can become a disaster: "Oh no, FooFeature only works with BarFeature on but our QA system always has BarFeature on so we didn't catch the regression! And only one customer has BarFeature disabled for legacy reasons!"

* Some combination of 1, 2, and 3 - for example a Preview environment that runs the same _code_ as Prod, but with the toggles set differently. A few feature flags which can be enabled for early access programs, but a general rule that code needs to live in a release train. This is my favorite approach. Having a separate Preview environment eliminates the blast radius concern of Preview-toggled code breaking Prod. Operational costs are higher, but these can be passed to the customer (making customers buy preview environments as a line-item is pretty popular). But by maintaining single codeline (rather than deploying a fork of last week's code to Prod), the code-theory is still easy, you don't have divergent release trains, and you don't have the combinatorial explosion that comes from a free-range feature flagging system.
There are probably more than enough potential employers who’d be happy to have you.

Why would you choose the one that clearly isn’t?
I guess we have to take their word that Stripe didn’t communicate the change in a respectful way.

Nonetheless, long term reputational hits like this seems to slowly, subtly, but surely, accrete at any organization past a size where the CEO cant supervise the bottom two layers.

If by 2031 Stripe becomes mired in major business problems, the long tail of many small errors, like this, snowballing, will likely be the cause.
Do stationary (not moving) and stationery (paper, envelopes and stuff) count?

Roving peddlers were the norm in the Middle Ages; sellers with a fixed location often were bookshops licensed by universities; hence the word acquired a more specific sense than its etymological one.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/stationer
> Many people willingly choose iPhones (even given these constraints), and would prefer a remote party manage their device's security.

I mean, but you're making a big assumption there! I buy iPhones in spite of those restrictions, because the only other options have worse processors and cameras, and because most of the people I know use iMessage.

I'd pay double the cost of a normal iPhone for a Security Research Device, if they were available to the general public.
Including ferritin, not just hemoglobin levels?

Best of luck sorting it out.
What is this hypothetical “average” person, and if you aren’t one (presumably) then how do you know what they are?
Article author here. I do indeed work in an economics department. I admit that my sentiment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, because the chance of the discipline supporting this idea seems... low. But I do worry about the effect of very high salaries for "big shots", and I take seriously the risk that we attract people with the wrong mindset.
Most 2,000 person office buildings have security guards and doors/gates/turnstiles that won’t let just anyone waltz in.
> I have no idea about how these planned future improvements work.

they already work. every on-chain bitcoin settlement can represent trillions of BTC exchanges. same as interbank settlements - done once a day, represent millions or billions of individual transactions. what does that do to your energy / tx metric?

> but today transferring Bitcoin (the main action that users of the network are supposed to perform) consumes a lot of energy.

transferring doesn't, securing it against an attack does.

> operations themselves consume nothing but rather use the value of energy as ingredient that ends up inside the block as stored value

that's exactly right, people that choose transacting on bitcoin chain do so knowing that they pay for certain level of security and you can see it from the correlation between bitcoin price and bitcoin hashrate. it's a system with many feedback loops that self-balances at a level of security that is demanded by the market.

you may think it's backward opinion but i appreciate that you recognize i'm not arguing in bad faith.
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Makes sense though I wonder what would be the original source of that data (someone like google/microsoft must be logging user data and then making some parts of it anonymized and public).

Maybe also look into on-device learning, it can be efficiently hooked up with differential privacy and give more specific results.
> Where is this socialist paradise that you speak of where you can have a home without working?

Finland, for example. "Home", of course means a simple flat in a housing block and there might be a waiting list, but housing every single one of its people regardless of employment has been something that the state has sought for a long time.
>It’s a trick that keeps your mind from wondering

you underestimate me
This is how Frys Electronics ran too, which is not that surprising as it grew out of the Fry's grocery stores.
In the context of a "MITM proxy" it certainly is.
Last time I tried with anything Gigabyte RGB related I had to disable secure boot as the drivers weren't properly signed ... no thank you.

That's why for my custom watercooled loop I run an Aquaero by Aquacomputer - as it has its own SoC once you've used Aquasuite to setup your fan curves you can remove the USB connection from the device and it will just keep on doing its thing.
Are you sure? You know about public goods experiments with punishment, right?
Windows Odyssey
I also would be really hesitant to install apps from other stores. Sideloaded or alternative store app's will also still be subject to OS's restrictions and available API's. It's not like Apple will allow rooted app's to be installed. The only things the new stores will have to offer is circumvention of the Apple Tax or review guidelines.

The only benefit I see is that it wouldn't cost me $100 to build and sideload my own or open source app's. But in all these years I've never had the need for this (though this might sprawl up a bit with availability ofc). The only things I truly wanted where changes at an OS level so would still require a jailbreak or root. Like how the widget screen is covered for 50% by icons I don't use and can't remove/configure.
I would love if there is RHEL equiv. chromeOS even for non-enterprise.
Instead of fighting the auto industry giants over this bill, they left them out - that way they can focus on fighting the info industry giants.

The auto industry giants are still being fought - just not over this bill.

I think that if the laws overlap it will be opposed by multiple industry giants and will be harder to pass. At least that’s what it seems from the post above.
The reason for that was that the US government tried to guarantee jobs for veterans. The one government task that could use relatively uneducated but fit people no matter where they happened to live was postal delivery. So a lot of veterans with PTSD and weapons training wound up as postal delivery workers.

Veterans with PTSD and weapons training sometimes flip out and shoot people.
I'll at least point to another example: http://aevol.fr/
Large funds probably have all three prongs set up
If a young main in his 20s is dissatisfied with the dating culture and prospects, it makes some sense to just forget about dating until early 30s and instead use all of that time and freedom to focus on establishing yourself. If you can focus and put in the work to become the type of person you want to be, then you'll pick your head up at the age of 32-35 and (seemingly) suddenly a lot of those women in their 20s will want to date you. Speaking from personal experience and assuming you aren't the type who wants to start a family in your 20s.
I both agree and don't at the same time.

On one hand, there shouldn't be anything shameful about living "at home", especially if it's purposeful. (looking back, it probably would have made sense to stay with my folks even longer than I did in order to save more money)

Yet living at home and not building anything into late adulthood tends not to be a good way to generate intergenerational wealth. Until the international economic paradigm changes, I can't see how it's a good thing for people to have nothing to pass on to their children.
The difference between German's Gift (poison) and the English gift (a present) amuses me. Evidently, they both derive from something being given e.g. a lethal dosage, in the German case.

Related: Be mindful when your Denglish tempts you to say, "Danke für das Gift!"
That's equivalent to !0 << popcount(!(x & mask)) (where left shift must saturate and not truncate the shift count, otherwise you need to special case x = 0) and seems much less useful than popcount.
Until they push the competition out, and then there is no more downward pressure on prices.
We do need density at the end of that rail line - dense towns connected to a dense metropolitan hub via a fast rail line. For example Ann Arbor to Detroit, Davis to Sacramento (neither of which have fast rail lines to connect them).

What we've built instead for more than half a century is continuous radiating sprawl.
Yeah, that'd be the "moat" I mentioned, but maybe I didn't sufficiently emphasize what a huge advantage that is for them. Losing the ability to vacuum up and hoard data just wouldn't be quite as big a shock directly to the bottom line, in very short order, for the rest of FAANG (+M) as it would be for F and G, in particular. It'd hurt the others plenty, however.
I wonder if that was it (Adyen and Braintree are competitors).

Here's the post: https://www.adyen.com/blog/updating-a-50-terabyte-postgresql...

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535357

They architected their application to be able to tolerate 15-30min of postgres downtime.
Sometimes, sure. Not always.
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Yes, Cardi B is a female singer who is popular these days (as in, she's on the radio). WAP the song name is an abbreviation that refers to female genitalia.

That people associate "Wapp" with a sexually suggestive pop song name instead of "app" or "web app" might say more about them than anything inherent from the project name...
Until they become the monopoly and are free to hike prices
I worked for Ubi during that time and honestly, I think if Yves had known any of this Serge would have been let go long ago.

The head of global HR was covering for Serge. She was axed immediately (as was Serge).

It’s important to know though. Serge was _insanely_ core to the functionality of Ubisoft; he was the sole approver of every AAA game. Axing him was like removing the beating heart of the company to shareholders.

Obviously our morality says that this was the right thing to do, but I’ve seen other CEOs who would cover for such an “invaluable asset”.

And Serge was axed before this was public, so it’s not like the hand was forced- there was a “creative directors board of editoriale” which sprung up shortly before because of this.
It's the same old same old. Like you correctly identified it's a new place, it looks different. People don't think an attacker could approach them over IM, but they can.

But the problem goes beyond that. Many organizations have disabled sharing executable file formats in attachments over e-mail. GMail flat-out prevents you from sharing executables, and macro enabled word documents as attachments, even when put into a zip file.

But on Microsoft teams? I sent a zip file with 8 unsigned executables to a colleague a few days ago. No warnings, no messages, no nothing :)
It's kinda portable, but I've had not-great experiences with MoltenVK - piet-gpu doesn't work on it, for reasons I haven't dug into. It may be practical for some people to write Vulkan-only code.
The thing is you need MFA to log into Slack but having a valid cookie bypass that.

On top of that once you're in Slack you can access every public channel, search string etc ... I can tell you that large compagny have a lot of thing displayed on Slack ( CI/CD pipelines results, credentials in logs, alerts ect ... ) you don't even need to talk to someone to have a lot of info.
Today I was watching a documentary in CNBC - how 70+ local news outlets/ community news outlets shut down in 2020 itself.
Reason being the source of revenue for these companies are chucked up by big3. It is a noble cause Good Luck Angela and Jed.
Whoa! Reduceron is cool! Your point about virtual “C-Machines” getting in the way of the hardware is quite relevant with today’s architectures...

> Are there any HW implementations of APLs?

This has been discussed on Y-Combinator in the past[1]. I found a discussion referencing a paper about leveraging Futhark[2].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11965474

2. https://futhark-lang.org/publications/fhpc16.pdf
Given the current state of the Senate, it seems unlikely there is going to be any big legislative changes before 2024. 2022 is still eons away (in political timescales) but a fairly likely scenario seems to be that the GOP will narrowly gain the House and the Democrats will pick up 1 seat in the Senate.

So we're largely arguing academic situations. And the thing about that is you then have a lot of people who are virtue signaling rather than genuinely arguing a position because they know their rhetorics, even their votes, won't change anything. It's why opposition parties always vote for campaign finance reform.

So I'm highly skeptical of the need for any government action here, be it sweeping legislation or antitrust. There are several reasons for this:

1. Big tech companies are more fragile than you might think. Government action is slow. As we've seen from Myspace, Yahoo and the like, big companies can disappear almost overnight. If a company can face an existential threat and possibly disappear within a few years then, by definition, it's not the monopoly you think it is. It's certainly not Standard Oil.

2. Western companies have been largely excluded from Chinese markets while those companies have far less restrictions elsewhere;

3. Chinese companies are essentially an extension of the state. US companies are not, not to the same degree anyway.

What we actually need is company-agnostic action that protects consumers, their data and what you can do that with that data. This is sort of happening already thanks to the EU (eg GDPR). The US needs to start extending those protections to US consumers. And that needs to apply to both domestic and foreign companies.
I think you and the parent don't disagree too much, but parent was trying to be funny.

I loved that feminism gave a choice and legitimised working women - but it also broke down the family structure (+divorces and unstable families - which statistically raise less successful people) and having twice the workforce heavily depressed wages' purchasing power so that now families need two working parents to survive.

I think the result for the next generation will be a demographics crash and hopefully what comes next is not reminiscent of the Handmaid's Tale.
I run calibre on mint.. VM for the kindle app?
It's hard to overestimate how greed-based ethics compromises dominate the genetic material of silicon valley.

This all comes at a price: paranoia surrounding math research, which everyone assumes is the control function for any electronic creation.

It's just an experiment in creating toys for mathematicians, who have better uses for their time anyway.
When my wife and I bought our house (Seattle area) six years ago, I was uneasy about spending $300k, and my family in the Midwest was aghast that we paid asking price.

Anyone in this area would now laugh at my previous situation; I certainly do. We briefly considered buying a slightly larger house in the area, but everything is going for about $800k now.

If I were just entering the job and housing market today here in the PNW, I would absolutely stay with my parents if I could. And I rather expect that my kids won't move out at 18.
It's really weird that you attribute this to "FAANG" for some reason when contracting out your cooking, cleaning, and security is almost universal among modern American companies. It's especially weird when you consider that physical security at Google is actually inside, not contracted out. So FAANG may be different but in the opposite way that you meant.
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> Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it

Sure. You could have used the posted article itself as your source since that already covered it.
Don't get me started on the aliens in Harry Turtledove's WorldWar alt history. Being completely genre-naïve, they cross interstellar space and then proceed to fight WWII-era earthlings with approx F22-level technology and not unsurprisingly get bogged down in a stupid attritional war. Why didn't they just drop rocks on us from orbit?
> nowadays employees authenticate not much more than once or twice a day to get access to everything.

Unless you have multiple devices, in which case it feels like you’re logging in constantly
I see it the other way; What's the point of designing something that is affordable and usable by everyone if Amazon is just going to rip off the design and market theirs over me?

Whats the point in making a budget ketchup brand if Safeway has their own? I can't compete with their margins there especially with that level of competition.

I give a bit of a pass here to kirkland stuff cuz it never feels like a race to the bottom nor do I feel like costco just advertises the hell out of it over other goods.
My goal with this project was to be able to seed the world with a single proto-organism and have two distinct species - one predator and one prey - evolve to create a stable ecosystem.

I eventually localized food sources and added a bunch of additional rules, but was never able to realize this goal. I think for predator-prey relationships to evolve in my system it would have required sensory organs and methods to react to local environment.

Seems like ALiEn is able to simulate food chains with distinct species - and alas I don't have a CUDA GPU - but curious if they've been able to create an ecosystem where predators and prey can coexist in a balanced stable ecosystem. (In my experiments, it was very easy to get predator population explosion, all of the prey gets eaten, and then all of the predators die)
Pretty sure it allows and works with local USB storage as well, covered in documentation here: https://kopia.io/docs/repositories/#local-storage.
I got a bad golf ball on my arm from the first vax but if Linux does it we should be obey
The op's remark was that women don't want to maintain stay at home dads
> Except it's a localized, self-limited amount, as mRNA cannot replicate.

Well, hence my question about cytokine storm, since by definition that's an out of control feedback loop prompted by other cytokines and not the underlying virus any more. My question was about whether it's possible that just the spike protein could conceivably have induced that effect.

Good point about the localization of it. Though, I do feel like I read somewhere you see the Spike proteins mostly around the shoulder and in the liver, so it does travel through the blood somewhat.

Also, I was under the misunderstanding that cytokines were part of the adaptive immune system, and hence produced – I think? – in the bone marrow. If that were true, it wouldn't matter so much where the antigens were, since the B/T-Cells (getting confused on which is which) are produced elsewhere and have to make their way there anyway. And if that's the case, they'd be visiting the lungs. And, being adaptive, I thought it was something about the shape of covid and hence the antibodies that kicked off the storm in the lungs, and not necessarily the quantity or prevalence of the antigen in the lungs.

But, turns out it's part of the innate immune system, and seems like cytokines are mostly produced near the infection itself.