skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, likely, many of them didn’t. Back in the day, when there was a plague, with no preventative treatment and no (or incorrect; until the 19th century measures against respiratory disease were often actively counterproductive) public health measures, many, many people died, it burned out, then flared up again, repeat ad infinitum. Flu epidemics have been on the go for at least 8000 years, say.

Like no-one at all is claiming that if we don’t use vaccines or take precautions against covid, humanity will be wiped out.
If your approach to understanding this is to randomly Google things and pick the first link that looks like it agrees with you, I'm not seeing a lot of utility in further discussing this. You clearly have an opinion on Ford. From my perspective, you're welcome to keep being wrong about the topic.
Traits are pretty decent for UI's.
You forgot to add “yet” to the end of the sentence. It will be a problem. ;)
The door clearly shows what's on offer.
Thanks for your point of view, I find it really interesting.

> I think you're leeching off someone else's infrastructure

Ok, who’s the victim here? CloudFlare? Since we use their DoH end point?

Google Cloud DNS? Since that’s where we’re storing the data in DNS?

All of this is just standard DNS - CloudFlare DoH and GCDNS can be switched out for any other because it’s just vanilla DNS.

Let’s say Barclays wanted to serve out data using NUM and stored data in their own DNS zone, would they be abusing their DNS provider’s infrastructure? I don’t think so.

If we’re successful with our plans for NUM, and it becomes mainstream then surely this presents a huge opportunity for DNS providers who will have increased query costs for clients.

DNS revolvers will make their own decisions about whether they cache NUM queries (or perhaps even answer them at all) but revolvers that answer them quickly will surely have an edge on those that don’t.

> and using it to do things they never meant it to do.

The DNS is a distributed database. It’s designed to convert human friendly data to machine friendly data and I think NUM fits this perfectly. I understand not everyone shares my point of view.

> Sure, the technical capability is there, but your use case would drastically increase their costs. You are essentially cost-shifting your customers' costs onto theirs. Not cool.

It increases the costs of CloudFlare / Google? Ok, if it’s significant, they have a commercial decision to make - support full DNS as per the protocol spec, or partial-DNS where they block certain use cases.

> It's like building a cloud storage solution off Gmail's free storage. It can be done, has been done, but that doesn't mean it's cool to do so.

No, it’s not. The DNS is owned by no one and everyone.

> Your system would increase costs for DNS providers all over the world, without their consent

Most will just pass this on to domain owners, DNS query costs are peanuts - 200 USD per billion at scale.

> It was a problem that wasn't there fixed in a way that leeches from rather than gives back to the community.

I respect your point or view but think the opposite is true. We’re freeing data, opening it up for developers so that they can build things far outside the jurisdiction of the giants of the web - I think this is a fantastic way to give back to the community.
wow what a great post! i think you totally nailed it. the KEY to a funny imorov scene is the normal base reality. there’s like one joke before matt foley comes out of the basement. you nailed this with your observation, yeah finding my docs is a pain. and it’s super important not to derail from your game. key and peele are the masters of this. substitute teacher is literally one joke over and over and it’s hilarious. they’re also masters of the unusual thing. that’s where i might challenge you with eesl. a search bar in browser extension is not unusual.
He isn’t applying the logic to everything, he is applying it to one thing.

It’s possible for the argument to be true in this context and false in another context.
Ask HN: Current/Ex FAANG working on side projects?
Seeking inspiration on developers working on side projects and able to generate some revenue. I'm bote of working at my FAANG/big tech job and playing politics. Not keen to move to management. Not sure how long I can last as a developer.
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Triple pane glass with an e of .24 is still worse than 1.5" of polyiso foam. Glass is just not very good, even energy efficient glass is quite a bit worse than even basic insulation.
Read again, it does.

Durov mentioned they've been working on group "secret" chats. Secret is just another term for end-to-end encryption in telegram.
My guess is they got a pretty good deal on Voice/Video from AWS, or perhaps a better deal for entire AWS infra.

Kind of sad as video is a extra paid feature!. It is very limited in functionality, no screen share or view on mobile, no easy way to do audio/phone bridge.

The connections or bad that my org disabled audio/video calling on slack and encourage users to use Teams only.
STAR is not easier to implement than ordinal voting methods in general, it may be easier to implement than IRV [0] in particular. Likewise, while IRV is not district summarizable, some ordinal methods are.

And outside of specialized circumstances that don’t apply to usual candidate elections, the additional information on STAR ballots compared to unforced preference ordinal ballots is noise of no consistent meaning.

Also, Arrows impossibility theorem applies to any balloting system that expresses ranked preferences and produces a ranked result, whether or not it provides additional information or compresses the available rankings for either the inputs or the result (typically, it applies to single winner election results which compress the results the same way FPTP ballots compress ballots—one first place and everyone else tied for not-first-place.)

[0] “RCV” is a name used by advocates to conflate IRV with ordinal methods generally, and accepted by some opponents of ordinal methods to conceal that their arguments apply only to IRV and not the broader class.
>so are you saying you're worried about a law like this

What law are you referring to ?

>I'm guessing you think the best way to deal with revenge porn is to have everyone post nude photos of themselves publicly?

Yes, then fix the problem that cause by the photos being public, instead of making the photo private.

As technology progresses, trying to stop the flow of information is become harder and harder.

I rather we embrace the flow of information then we solve whatever issue that come up.
Around 50-60 people. Excellent team, wasn't crazy about the founders. Whatever the stated goals of the company were, the only ones that mattered day-to-day were getting to (and maximizing) the next investment round. Eventually left due to frustration with the above: I didn't join for the stock options, I joined to make a good product, and it seemed like every decision leadership made hurt the product in the long run in order to chase short term KPI gains. That strategy ultimately backfired, wouldn't you know it.
What about the thermal losses from customers opening the door to see the product while the giant whole-aisle ad is playing?
As far as I'm aware the letter of the law is you can cancel with a formal letter (lettre recommandée avec accusé de réception), and that's the most bothersome it should ever get. They shouldn't have the right to ask that of you, and it's likely they're just taking advantage of people.
Nope

Artistic creation with code is

Been to a good art show lately? Maybe any one of those popup trippy museums over the last decade?
Top 10% in the world is not very high... Top 0.01% is still only top 100 in a city of a million, seems a bit more aspirational
1) it's incredibly trivial and intuitive to mute a channel. i see no issue with receiving notifications by default to a channel you just subscribed to

2) hamburger menu is right here. the avatar-as-menu implies account details. the menu presented instead makes sense and has the stuff you'd expect.

3) magnifying bar makes sense since the real estate saved is used for useful information

4) there is a big fat qr scan icon. it's just not "first page material", which is the correct decision here. if abd when you need it, telegram tells you where to find it.

In any case, you are entitled to your assessment. I just completely disagree with it.
Where do people get this? Covid is nothing to do with influenza. Some of the viruses which cause the ‘common cold’ are coronaviruses, but flu is unrelated.
> In reality, every monitor was a CRT. They just drew what looked good on their development devices.

True, but there was a huge difference between a good-quality RGB monitor and a consumer TV connected via composite video or RF. Ideally designers would have been using development devices that took that difference into account.

For example, I've heard of artists at Sega drawing on PCs and using custom hardware so they could simultaneously view their work on a real Genesis connected to a typical TV.
Any startups planning to apply and looking for talented and motivated engineer ?
As a user I don’t care and don’t want more nag popups. I use my phone heavily and after a year I’m at about 40gb of 128 used and the majority of that is cached pictures and songs I can easily clear out. Rather than being nagged constantly I’d rather just check the storage page and remove apps that are too large.
Doesn't explain visual confirmation by pilots.
All the nihilistic HN are people downvoting because they are envious of having a faith.
One large, high resolution (relatively you the realm of pixel sprites) B&W image does not rebut anything.
This is in the first paragraph of the article (emphasis mine)

>[...], warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a previously unknown critical flaw [...]

This flaw was reported in 2018. Later in the article it even states as much

>Examine the CVE attached to this flaw and you’ll notice it was issued in 2018. [...]

Am I misinterpreting something here? I feel like I am; I'm pretty tired. Or, perhaps, a slight goof in the opening paragraph.
Well you can take the entire cosmetics and fashion industry for the total for one. Serving human agency includes shallow and bad ones too.
Oh, are we supposed to be in it to "make the world a better place"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
I think one proposal is to have advanced wide-field cameras placed in "locations of interest". This would be much like an optical observatory and would generate petabytes of data.
Some of the oldest settlements in the world are literally trash heaps. There are tells all over the Middle East that are tens of meters tall, representing generations of trash piling up and built over.
Show HN: Spotify CLI made with Go
I've had a copy of this book for so long, but it reeks to me of something that should be a blog post I can read in 5 minutes, and so I've never been able to muster the interest to crack it open.

How seriously would you recommend it?
Yes.

Much of the Financial District / SOMA are on fill.

Pictured in red on this map, generally the north and eastern sides of the city.

https://escweb.wr.usgs.gov/nsmp-data/Presentations/san_franc...
Knowing how Wickr is used by drug dealers, I was surprised to read the author's bio at the end of this announcement:

> Prior to AWS, he had an extensive career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he served as a senior executive and section chief.

I reads a bit differently as "ex-FBI brass pleased to announce his new employer acquired your drug dealer's favorite encrypted chat app".
This might be terrible advice, but I heard a trick that was supposed to help highly-intelligent people with ADHD: take a dopamine break. The idea is that dopamine would also boost executive function. (The real question is where you get the dopamine, but some suggestions were taking a walk.) In general (and for the same reason) you should make sure you're getting enough exercise -- and also enough sleep.

I also had a friend that used to play short games online -- minesweeper, Spider Solitaire, whatever -- and swore that the quick game breaks were part of his "process" (maybe to bring dopamine levels back up)? But this is very hard to explain to co-workers...

For the more general problem of restoring focus: I've tried spending entire days offline -- or at least big chunks of the day. (Take a hike! Read a book! Visit friends live and in person...) Meditation exercises might actually help a bit, but this gets into more general wellness.

And I guess your last option is, of course, to tell your boss that you find the work boring, or, to look for a more interesting job. It's been my experience that sometimes just reminding yourself that you have that option relieves some of the pressure.
> I assume we are signaling to some foreign entity our ability to track items as small as birds

This strikes me as the most likely scenario. While large (small plane size) military drones have been around for decades much smaller (bird size) ones have begun to proliferate. These small drones don't have the duration or capabilities of larger ones but they're good enough for a lot of tasks.

They're made of composites and small enough they're not going to show up well on civilian primary radar. Even some military primary radars might miss them or at least have limited detection ranges.

Someone using such small drones might act a lot more provocatively towards the American military because they think they're not being seen. At least more provocatively than if they only had larger drones or manned aircraft.

So leaks showing those drones can be detected and tracked. It's a subtle "we can see you, you're not as clever as you think". The US doesn't want some overzealous PLAN (or whomever) drone pilot doing something stupid requiring a military response.
Haha I do the same, but I have at least 32 GB of music.
Squashfs-tools-ng 1.1.2 and 1.0.5 are released
"How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big" and "Loserthink" by Scott Adams.
You are accusing the government of intentionally "stoking" paranoia for publishing their data. Elsewhere in this same discussion, someone is promoting their theory that publishing it on a Friday is designed to intentionally get as little press coverage as possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636564

Maybe it's just data gathered for security reasons and published in a somewhat sanitized format to satisfy public interest in the data while protecting national security.

The government publishes a lot of data. It's the public that makes the few anomalies in this particular data set into some kind of weird thing for reasons the government cannot control no matter how carefully they frame the whole thing.
In 2008 or so I had a bad experience canceling Sirius Radio before they were Sirius/XM and before it was offered by Car Manufacturers, now I refuse to subscribe on any car I own simply because of that experience.
That's the different between Civil and Common Law. Common law also has its good points. It's more flexible and grows organically. Whereas Civil Law is more rigorous and programmatic.
Only this website uses CF DoH. It’s just an example of how data from the protocol can be used.

The data is stored in vanilla DNS so would be cached by any resolver that queries it.
Well, good luck with that. There have been three coronavirus epidemics in the last 20 years. And probably hundreds at least more throughout human history. And the current one won’t be entirely gone anytime soon.
Since when did the defense department need elaborate pretexts for their endless money pits?
I did not look past your last 15 submissions, so I did not see that.

I unflagged, but it still appears flagged. Perhaps somebody else has flagged it.
I like the psychedelic inspired animated backgrounds
This is a paper I wrote on this topic and a proposed solution based on the work of Hal Finney. You might find it interesting:

https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf
That's only partial compilation and not the full AOT available with something like CoreRT.
This is not a transparent display as far as I can tell. It just renders images of what the inventory system thinks is behind it.
Either way they're doors. I'm guessing that increasing the frequency of door openings is an intended outcome of whatever they were thinking. A vending machine could be more energy efficient while providing exactly the same old consumer interaction disadvantages that are supposed to be a novel feature of this display.
What did you learn from this person?

It would save me two years.
Far easier to get a top 10% as a mentor than one of a hundred people in a million
They're not fake, they're just two videos of an insect flying past a drone.
Your last point confuses me. Bitcoin has made some people richer, some people poorer, but it has not made the world a better place, nor found much use as a currency, and there’s still not a convincing case for blockchain as an important algorithmic invention.
Ah, another offshoot of Critical Theory.
Yes but a short video of a person eating a delicious slice of that frozen Delicio Pizza surely will get your mouth watering. And if they can also tell you soap is on sale you may buy that before you leave. They know you need soap because the last time you bought some on your loyalty card was 2 months ago.
I don't smoke or drink. You can still go play billiards, work out at a gym, find a pull up bar in public, join a bicycle group ride, skateboard, join a yoga class, hang out at a maker space, go to a car meetup, go off road driving, go camping or hiking in a national park, go to concerts, start muay thai or bjj, etc. I meet a ton of people without alcohol.
> When I saw that the risk due to COVID to even a young and generally more healthy demographic was still an order of magnitude bigger

You didn't see that though, you just goofed the numbers. Confusing CFR with IFR (and comparing that with absolute risk from car accidents) is just way off base.
See Iraq, as just one example. Remember Colin Powell’s charade at the UN?
It was the down res comparison of that specific image that was a stronger message.
Android has pretty much cut off external storage support. You used to be able to move apps and all kinds of things over but I haven’t seen that in a long time.

Problem is SD cards are so incredibly slow that when you move apps over, the whole phone is stuck waiting and performance severely degraded. I’d much rather just buy a phone with as much storage as I need out of the box and know it will be high performance flash.
> There isn't a moral equivalence between interfering in the process and allowing nature to run its course.

Argument from naturality. The moral equivalence arises from the context and circumstance - not on whether one chooses to interfere or not.
An "end user" will not install the SDK anyway. You do not need it to run .NET, it's for making your own apps.
One caveat: If you ship a self contained app you often end up with 200MB of assemblies to ship. and the single file executables tend to load very slowly. It's basically an archive that first gets extracted and then executed. I had to give that up with a recent app because it was just too slow.
My company recommends Olark to our customers, and I wasn’t even aware of this, but knowing it makes me more comfortable. Thank you for not implementing this creepy feature.
In addition to ads, this will also be used for companies to monopolize shelf space
I have worked for two, and the differences between them are so stark at every level that I wouldn't venture to think that there is a lot of commonality between YC companies in general.
The URL slug is fun. You can put whatever you want before and after the number and it redirects back to the original URL:

For example this link redirects back to the OP's URL

https://theweek.com/trump/murder/1001964/miami

I always find CMSs lazy hacks for a clean URL fascinating.
> Welcome to Linux??

Maybe more like, "Welcome to MS tools on Linux?" There are no similar issues with installing a JDK, for example.
they didnt rule out invisible pink unicorns either
I know why this crowd downvoted you, but "Try to find a Christian Mechanic, open on Sunday? No David you are bunking with us."

Line out of a movie.

If I know a person lies some of the stuff in a book that teaches honestly, and kindness; they are my first choice for anything.

Are they more talented than let's say a Zuck? No. Would I trust them with my money, or the keys to my house? Yes.

(I don't need a debate. I'm not a bible thumper. I know the bible has some crazy ideas. I do think some people need a reminder that ethics are important, or at least appreciated in some crowds. Do you need a book in order to be a respectable person-- no.)
i agree they are at least a little different but your definition of burnout is actually pretty descriptive of clinical depression.
Medical records will shift to be owned by the patients, will be real time, the grammars will be open source and public domain, and people will be able to opt in and out of studies with a single click. When we have that, then when confronted with the next novel virus we could launch trials in under 30 days.
A watercolor artist doesn’t necessarily sit down and think about the Navier-Stokes equations, but they sure do take advantage of the fluidity of their medium.
Couldn't do it. Burn everything that does this.
it is a beautiful feeling! well worth the time in my humble opinion =)

i just wanted to stress that gamedev is anything but "lets do this great idea" and then magically it's done. it is a ton of work and you gotta celebrate those small steps.
Quote from Ross Anderson's `Trusted Computing' Frequently Asked Questions
- TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium / TCPA
Version 1.1 (August 2003) https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html:

24. So why is this called `Trusted Computing'? I don't see why I should trust it at all!

It's almost an in-joke. In the US Department of Defense, a `trusted system or component' is defined as `one which can break the security policy'. This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but just stop to think about it. The mail guard or firewall that stands between a Secret and a Top Secret system can - if it fails - break the security policy that mail should only ever flow from Secret to Top Secret, but never in the other direction. It is therefore trusted to enforce the information flow policy.

Or take a civilian example: suppose you trust your doctor to keep your medical records private. This means that he has access to your records, so he could leak them to the press if he were careless or malicious. You don't trust me to keep your medical records, because I don't have them; regardless of whether I like you or hate you, I can't do anything to affect your policy that your medical records should be confidential. Your doctor can, though; and the fact that he is in a position to harm you is really what is meant (at a system level) when you say that you trust him. You may have a warm feeling about him, or you may just have to trust him because he is the only doctor on the island where you live; no matter, the DoD definition strips away these fuzzy, emotional aspects of `trust' (that can confuse people).

During the late 1990s, as people debated government control over cryptography, Al Gore proposed a `Trusted Third Party' - a service that would keep a copy of your decryption key safe, just in case you (or the FBI, or the NSA) ever needed it. The name was derided as the sort of marketing exercise that saw the Russian colony of East Germany called the `German Democratic Republic'. But it really does chime with DoD thinking. A Trusted Third Party is a third party that can break your security policy.

25. So a `Trusted Computer' is a computer that can break my security?

That's a polite way of putting it.

Ross Anderson