skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>desktop executes untrusted and rather arbitrary code pretty often

Aren’t the most affected group of users cloud users (and providers), not desktop users? I thought the biggest risk of specter attacks is the ability to glean information on other server residents who should be segmented off. There are many more concerns in user space which make attacking a desktop with specter pretty cumbersome for low reward wrt opportunity cost.

The performance savings of speculative execution do seem to be worth the risk on a desktop IMO.
It doesn't seem to me that the dominant view here is that Ivermectin is ineffective, just that it has not yet been proven to be effective, for a certain definition of "proven". With time and stronger studies, that may well be proven, or not.
If AWS has a regional outage this service is so far down the list of services to recover/restore that it probably will be overlooked. Accept the increased risk for the cost savings since it meets the reliability requirements of the service.
I guess it depends what you classify as being able to read, write and use basic math operations because in my opinion a large majority of 13 year olds can't do these things well.

Most adults don't seem to be able to do these things well though, so I obviously have a skewed perspective.
You might as well have an option to pay the $x and be given the degree and not require anything. At least then those who do want to put in the work have the option.
> adults involved with schools

I don't know what group you're trying to capture by saying this. You mean the parents as well as the school employees?

>Is this just down to how skewed female this group is?

No I think it has to do with how young both the parents and the teachers are. Someone who is 40 years old today is right on the cusp of being a millennial.
I appreciate the insight, that's super helpful.

> team functionality with multiple user accounts

Mind if I ask what sort of team features you make use of with Prodigy? Are there any aspects you feel are lacking? Initial thoughts are that it'd be helpful for teams to be able to set group annotation goals, share docs / annotations / configs, view ongoing sessions, assign annotators to sessions, and view stats on each annotator (as per point 5).

> The software should make sure that a text is never shown to more than 2 annotators and never shown to the same annotator twice

For this I plan to let teams set the threshold for the number of documents that should overlap and the number of annotators a text should be shown to. In some situations it could be useful for there to be some % of overlap for all annotators to help determine the inter-annotator agreement across the entire team.

> The workflow for annotators has to be perfected first

Totally agree. My biggest concern is building out the above on top of an inefficient workflow. That's one of the primary driving forces behind the current re-write of the tool.

Love the smart flagging, mass-edit, and integrated provider ideas!
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/objective-test
> Syscall chaining refers to having the kernel execute consecutive systemcalls without switching the context back to userspace.

io_uring already gives you that. You can submit multiple operations in a batch and link the operations together so that if one operation in a chain of linked operations fails, io_uring won't try to execute the rest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_in_United_States_histor...

Has a good 5 paragraph summary of US Trade policy and its intentions from the 1980s to present. I've found the Perot, Bush, Clinton presidential debate of 1992 to be the most insightful as to the the state of public discourse on trade intentions at the end of the cold war. The topic of one-way trade deals featured prominently in this debate, the proposed solution that Clinton pitched was the "Knowledge Economy".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7-QJrJZV0

For the Columbia free trade deal, this source provides useful context on the outstanding tariff levels prior to the most recent Free Trade deal.

> Before the U.S.-Colombia FTA entered into force, the U.S. average tariff on Colombian goods was 3%, while Colombia's average tariff on U.S. goods was 12.5%. Prior to the agreement, about 90% of U.S. imports from Colombia came into the country duty-free under trade preference programs or through normal trade relations.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL34470.html#:~:text=....
Wasn't the most successful mRNA vaccine developed by migrants working in Germany?
Why not have drivers stop for pedestrians? In many US states pedestrians have right of way at the end of each block, why not in the middle too? Remember all drivers are also pedestrians
https://archive.ph/vBQ6T
> Cars have no business driving faster than 15-20mph on a city steet.

Where do you live where you think it is reasonable to set a speed limit below 35 mph?
What’s the cut-off though? Kindergarten is clearly too little and 12th grade Calculus is used by so few.

Furthermore, there are intangible social outcomes of having kids in school for 12-13 years that can’t simply be ignored.
Yeah, CME offers cash settled bitcoin futures, so it's not like you have to use a shady offshore exchange.
That describes a lot of the US. Rich people are creating their own country with nice schools and neighborhoods while they never have to interact with the country the rest of people are living in. That's why I am against things like congestion based pricing for toll roads or school funding based on property tax. They give rich people the impression that everyhting is wonderful and no change is needed.
That Powershell script seems to show the current status only, and not have any option to turn the protections on/off?
This post is about a new feature in my sqlite-utils tool, which is a combination CLI utility and Python library for productively working with SQLite database files: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v...
Who cares? You're dealing with millions of school kids every year, and need aggregatable data to make important policy decisions about how education is done. As long as it correlates well, it's easy to collect, and can be trusted not to be manipulated for bad incentives like this article implies is happening, we use it.
Sichuan Shutdown Order Cripples Chinese Bitcoin Mining Pools
For people like me who really want sideloading :
https://github.com/akemin-dayo/AppSync
I got the same result on a pretty similar system.
I remember being 16 or 17 and pondering if I should buy 1 bitcoin. Back then they were worth about $50/BTC.
Can some of these tools and methods be considered unauthorized access to servers? For instance, subdomain enumeration can often accessing an URL that isn’t meant to be accessed by the public and isn’t linked anywhere.
This covid bollocks was a big scam. I saw first hand all the fake tent hospitals they put up in New York City and nobody was in them. Also the News told us they were digging mass graves in New York Central park. Guess what? those were lies too. Still can't find any trace of those mass graves.

You walked around the city and not a sneeze or a cough out of anyone. BIG agenda at play. That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a conspiracy fact!
Viruses are invisible , Pandemics are NOT.
Negative Liberty
Little Bobby printf.

https://bobby-tables.com/
I didn't realize it was Cory Doctorow. I've enjoyed his stuff in the past. See

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

I'm still not reading his blog though because I'm not a lawyer and I find that disclaimer profoundly uninteresting
> linux or Windows, maybe less on osx

Trivial on macOS, too.

Smartphone operating systems are better (and ChromeOS).
Obviously.

Your title has the words 'just' implying putting their files online is a brand new development, which I was refuting, and 'all' indicating there are no other files, which is impossible to know.
Having visited the Phils quite a few times, the food is notably spice-deficient compared to nearly all its neighbors: a typical Filipino dish is flavored with exactly one thing, usually garlic. Also, some of the ingredients used to make up for this blandness are unpalatable/weird to Westerners. Exhibit A is kare-kare, which is peanut butter and oxtail stew served with fermented shrimp paste (bagoong alamang), where the tiny shrimp are still visible, eyeballs and all.

There are "good even if you didn't grow up with it" dishes like lechon (suckling pig), pork & chicken adobo and halo-halo, and some of the modern/upscale/fusiony places in Manila are amazing, but it would still be hard to have a Filipino place that's authentic and appealing to non-Filipino palates at the same time.
I deleted a production database, or how everyone makes mistakes
There is nothing more "anti-science" than censorship.
Science is about free and open discussions.
It the people truly can't afford the games (and wouldn't buy them at all if they didn't have the option to pirate), is there really any harm from their piracy?

Steam has it mostly figured out, though. Look at SteamDB at international prices and you'll discover that prices in Brazil or Russia are often a fraction of the US/EU price. Turns out selling the game for dirt cheap makes more money than not selling it.
Quite common I imagine. For many folks acquiring knowledge is almost a hobby, and expanding your network of contacts is a challenge.
And I’ve got a feeling the same people who decided against getting the vaccine are going to be equally unenthusiastic about getting a test if they have symptoms that feel like a bad cold.
If you have a learning disability and your only choice is public school, your pretty screwed.
yes in fact literally everyone that pushes the "they are stopping the <insert treatment option> because big pharma wants to make all the money on vaccines" is an antivaxxer or a conspiracy theorist that I have seen in the wild... including my brother so this is a topic I am not taking lightly.

nowhere did I say that this treatment couldn't be effective and no where did I say that they shouldn't look into it as an alternative because I think all tools should be on the table. I am simply saying the part about the EUA thing being pushed by antivaxxers and other conspiracy theorists.
That doesn’t refute my general point or do much to substantiate the earlier assertion that apple had done nothing wrt privacy. Nice try though ;)

What’s next? You going to use that same article to argue that the USA is equivalent to North Korea?
My kids are in their thirties, so it's been a while, but my recollection is there were three legal means to homeschool and registering as a private school was one of them. Another was to hire a tutor for three hours a day.

I think the third was probably to go through an umbrella school, which my family did initially.

Homeschooling laws vary by state. Some are more stringent than California and others less.
Joint NASA, NOAA Study Finds Earth's Energy Imbalance Has Doubled [over 14 Yrs]
In North America, teachers are grossly underpaid and their ability to discipline poor performance has been entirely eviscerated. It’s not just SF, look at what’s happening in Vancouver: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-cutting-honours-...

The problem is the administration: The board that sets the standards and the parents and politicians who sit on those boards.

The solution is this: Ban anyone without a minimum teaching experience of x years from participating on boards, bring all teacher salaries up to comfortable middle-class in every district and give them back their authority in the classroom. Otherwise this downward slide into illiteracy will continue until North America is dominated by an idiot majority.
I think bunnypapr would have been perfect to protect teachers if safety were the primary concern https://bunnypapr.com
Personally, if the west can't build stuff it is only a matter of time before we are the customer and the prices start rising and our debt starts to crunch. There will be some part/component that during conflict becomes necessary but no ability to manufacture.

We will have lost our knowledge and it'll take decades to recover, if we can recover at all.

The billionaires will escape unscathed.

I agree with point 4. If we had distributed supply chain then things may work better longer term but I am amazed that businesses still look to offshore everything without looking at the long term prospects of their workers and communities.
You need some kind of VoTech and continuing Ed for people without degrees and white collar portable skills. Otherwise you get legions of disaffected populist voters when the economic tides shift against the only industry they know how to work in.
The several newly minted billionaire Pfizer execs are certainly happy Ivermectin is only just recently starting to get a decent look.
>not be an architect unless you have the support of company leadership

Ain't that the truth. Luckily for me I was just a witness to my superior getting rekt for trying to push through their vision without the necessary social capital to do it right. The worst thing is, in that case they weren't wrong, but the lack of buy-in and effort put forth by others doomed the project to failure. That failure was subsequently used as justification for their release. After seeing that happen, I know not to push anything without the explicit support of leadership. Now if someone doesn't like the direction we're going in, well that's their fight with the executives and not my problem.
> having the kernel execute consecutive systemcalls without switching the context

io_uring enables exactly this

https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf
Not early, but: talking to the press without any media training.
When something flows around in a circle, no matter how big the circle or how long it slows to a stop at certain points, it's not always easy to say where it starts and where it ends up.
> It doesn’t even matter whether either hcq/zinc and ivermectin 100% effective or even work at all. There were no alternatives for early treatment, and therefore both/either should have been used heavily

The possible outcomes are not only in the range between "100% effective" and "not work at all"; beyond that point on the line there's also "it's harmful", and it's known that these drugs do have negative side effects (in fact, IIRC one of the reasons for the early hope that HCQ would work was that its harmful side effects were already known, and less harmful than the then observed effects of the disease it was supposed to treat). Worse, "using heavily" a drug increases the chance and severity of its side effects.

And even for "not work at all", there's still a harmful effect, in that people can delay or avoid seeking more effective treatments, believing that whatever they're taking would work.
Indeed. The MPAA and RIAA spring to mind.
The free market makes the best decisions for the global economy, but not necessarily the United States.
The first Black-owned social job network built on blockchain launches Juneteenth
Writing, what, a couple dozen (at most) SQL statements that are custom designed for a single application? Not really a big deal. Sure, write your SQLite queries by hand. Fine. Whatever; I wouldn't even say it's inefficient if it's that few.

Writing ~20 SQL queries for each of 20 different data structures (including various JOINs and search options) to create a CRUD API? And maintaining them each individually? And needing to make changes to the query every time the clients need to make a slightly different search request?

When I can literally write the 20 different schemas in one file, type a build command, and get a fully featured GraphQL API with full JOIN and custom boolean logic search capability in a few seconds?

I'm saving myself probably 40,000 lines of code, counting all of the data wrangling and test cases that I'd need to create to provide the minimal functionality that I would need--and the GraphQL code wouldn't need to be modified to change the search or order-by options of a particular query. And lines of code you don't write are lines of code you don't need to maintain. It's a huge win. Not even close.

And that said, the above is based on a real project I'm currently involved with, and that project does have six custom GraphQL queries that I wrote by hand--most of which also leveraging the ORM to some degree.

In exactly three cases, I wrote raw SQL queries that the ORM didn't support directly.

So I'm going to say no, the black boxes don't need to work 100% of the time. For me they're working 99% of the time, and I write the last 1% by hand, which is just fine. If I had run across a terrible query in that one corner case, I'd probably not try to dig inside the black box; instead I'd create a custom query that does exactly what I want and expose it for that bit of functionality. Done. [1]

As to the ORM used by Duplicati? Crappy ORMs exist. That doesn't mean all ORMs are bad. I can see the exact queries (minus parameters) scroll by in my log that the ORM I'm using is writing out. My own custom SQL queries tend to be more lines of code in practice, and none of the queries that it has generated so far have been slow.

[1] Figuring out why a 100 line SQL statement is slow is generally not that hard: You put "EXPLAIN ANALYZE" in front of it, and it will point out where the time is going. That's a PostgreSQL feature, so you'd need to have a Postgres backend in order to use it. Good thing we're talking about using an ORM that could easily switch between SQLite and PostgreSQL! Optimize the schema and indices on PostgreSQL and then switch to SQLite for embedded work.
Going through the comments it seems people aren't aware that this really is going to happen, regardless of who it says.

You can't just ignore this massive mother of all bubbles that's kept inflating massively since the last year and you can't ignore that the S&P 500 had a dip below it's bottom trendline.

You can't ignore that summer is here, lockdown restrictions are being lifted pretty much everywhere and that people will want to spend their money on holidays.

You can't just ignore the billions of dollars which have been pumped into lumber, houses, stocks, cryptos, etc.

People will want to cash out when they need the money.

It's summer now and people could definitely use the money.

This isn't rocket science. At all.
I agree that it may be more useful to test a larger part of the code together instead of trying to do everything at the finest levels of detail. However, my point here is about more than just the level(s) where you perform the tests. It’s also about what kinds of testing you are doing. Here are some of the most common possibilities:

• xUnit-style tests for specific cases

• Property-based testing

• Snapshot-based testing

• Manual testing

• Formal verification

• Peer code review

All of these can be useful under the right circumstances.

If your code produces output that is best checked by human inspection but shouldn’t then change (or change very much) then snapshots may be a good choice.

If your code won’t deterministically produce the same correct output every run but whatever output it does produce should always satisfy certain conditions, maybe property-based testing is a good way to go.

If your code involves communication with external equipment that requires operator interaction to do anything interesting, fully automated testing might simply not be possible. In that case, manual integration testing with someone physically operating the equipment might be appropriate.

Formal verification covers a wide range of possibilities from the likes of basic static type checking all the way up to the use of automated theorem provers in specialised programming languages. It almost always has some extra cost in terms of annotating the code but it can sometimes produce far more powerful evidence of correctness in the general case than any test suite checking individual cases ever could.

Code reviews are pretty much universally good, as long as you’ve got enough people available with the relevant knowledge to do them.

Sometimes, these testing techniques are complementary and using more than one of them together might be beneficial. At other times, a coding style or process that favours one might make another more difficult.

This HN discussion is mainly about the style of “testable” code that TDD tends to produce, with many small units and lots of dependency injection, which is of course very friendly to small-scale unit testing. However, it might also be more difficult to review because of all the configurability and indirection. If it relies on doubles to stand in for external resources, it can end up testing the accuracy of the simulation more than anything else, so adding very little (justified) confidence that the real system is operating correctly. And as a rule of thumb, individual testing of specific cases may be less effective than testing large numbers of generated cases with property testing, which in turn may be less effective than proving that all cases work via rigorous analysis.

And this brings me back to where I came in, which was that prioritising “testable” code in the TDD sense isn’t necessarily a good thing. The real meaning of “testable” depends greatly on what type of code you’re writing and which testing strategies are most helpful.
If your manufacturing process needs labor input, then it will happen where labor is cheap. Laborers working for cheap constitute poverty.
It's likely a CYA situation. There were people that took aquarium chloroquine after Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID.
> he's made similar predictions including: a couple weeks after the movie's release (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/big-short-genius-say...), in 2017

His predictions sound spot on.

Here's what Burry said about the state of the economy back in 2017.

> Well, we are right back at it: trying to stimulate growth through easy money. It hasn’t worked, but it’s the only tool the Fed’s got. Meanwhile, the Fed’s policies widen the wealth gap, which feeds political extremism, forcing gridlock in Washington. It seems the world is headed toward negative real interest rates on a global scale. This is toxic. Interest rates are used to price risk, and so in the current environment, the risk-pricing mechanism is broken. That is not healthy for an economy. We are building up terrific stresses in the system, and any fault lines there will certainly harm the outlook.

Now that half a decade passed between that article was published and right now, do you see any failure in the analysis?
Wait, what? Does that mean they don't use any exam results for admissions?
AI and the Future of Global Trade
Wow. Ok, great reply. Advice to you: don’t just market up the chain, also market back down.

Obviously this is general advice, and not specifically to you, but if I don’t see my EM adding value, then it’s little different than then not seeing me move tickets.

Again, thanks for the thoughtful response.
It's not (bloody) anglo-saxon.

There are many sub-cultures within the anglo-saxon-sphere, some of them cooperative, egalitarian, pluralistic, strongly democratic.

Call it for what it is, using whatever terminology you want ... capitalist, neo-liberal, oligarchic ... just use something more specific and more accurate than "anglo-saxon" if you want terms to actually have some meaning.
I didn't see the standard deviation reported in the paper. Is it?

I did see the innerquartile range and it was the same for both the ivermectin group and the placebo. To me that suggests that variation in outcomes is probably similar between the two groups.
The same mRNA technology used in Covid-19 vaccines could help treat cancer
> It was at 30k earlier this year. It needs to go below 10k for me to consider it crashing.

Bitcoin's price was over $60k a couple of months ago. After it crashed, it tanked to around $30k.

So to you a market valuation tanking 50% is not a crash, and it would need to tank over 80% to qualify as one?
The WWW in 2021 blows. Even if you do find a good page, you get assaulted with the stupid cookie opt in and then 2/3 of the page is covered in ads.