skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising is also used to keep a brand in the forefront of people's mind. Advertising evolved from selling an item/service to selling a lifestyle. There are ad campaigns that never really mention a product specifically, but just emphasize the brand. They want to ensure that even if you currently use their product, you will not just take a chance on the competitor's product because your subconcious is flooded with these re-enforcement campaigns and it becomes Pavlovian response
This is what happened when I sent my driver's license and social security card to verify my ID for unemployment in WA:

https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/alerts/SAO-announces-cyber-secur...
When I had to go to NYC for work a lot I always flew into Newark and did the train from there. That was nice, worked out nicely, including the flight from Toronto island airport, very smooth. Was a bit shocked the first time I flew LaGuardia at what a pain that was.
It isn't a matter of will they get breached, but when.
Banning contraceptives has been tried many times.

Check out the story of Ceaușescu and the Romanian orphans[1].

The Catholic countries in Western Europe (Ireland, Spain, Portugal, etc) notoriously had much lower fertility rates than secular, Orthodox, and Protestant countries for decades before the Catholic ban on contraception was lifted.

TLDR: banning contraceptives causes great suffering and doesn't materially shift fertility trends.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans
> I just assumed most people weren’t living under a rock and were aware of the basic facts of COVID. Study from Italy shows almost 90% of hospitalizations are in the 65+ group:
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/75/9/1796...

> So just to sum it up again for you:

> 90% of 65+ are vaccinated in the US.

I don't appreciate your snark.
> They're still a far cry from being common

Sounds familiar
> Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, a service that tries to prevent this kind of fraud, tells Axios…

LOL. I believe we’re all smart enough here to know this is a kind of submarine [0].

[0]: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Calibre suggests an email service that doesn't let me create an account, can't convert the mobi file I need, and doesn't know how to deal with any of the other books on my Kindle. They aren't stored on the Kindle as mobi files, so /shrug
Yeah let's wait and see.
Yes, but I think the problem is more due to physics.
I agree.

https://login.gov

https://www.gsa.gov/blog/2021/02/18/logingov-to-provide-auth...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8215...

https://billhunt.dev/blog/2020/12/18/federal-policy-recs/#4-...
How is this a problem? As far as I can see the landlord takes on zero risk there.

In the best case scenario the landlord gets a 7 years of steady rent. In the worst case, they get a few months and the store goes out of business (breaking the lease).

I see no reason why you couldn’t repeat that ad infinitum?
> A couple old friends won't talk to me because they think I de-friended them specifically and took it personally. Oops!

Ha. This happened to me too. I ultimately considered it a feature and not a bug.
Stuff the British Stole
The news is everywhere: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%88%9D%E5%8D%87%E9%AB%98+..., for a long time.

About calculus: https://www.gaokzx.com/c/201901/33164.html

Using the elite students from private schools who you know as a counter argument is really not that strong. Only 14% of the high school students are in private schools.
Real Time Machine Learning
> With all due respect, Linus could learn some manners

He himself wouldn't disagree with that.
In this day and age largely what you should be learning in high school and before is "learning how to learn".

You will probably never need to know that the mitochondria is the power house of the cell, but if you can learn things quickly, you will be more likely to have a successful career.
Agency is power, it's power over your own life.

You don't need substantial material wealth to have complete agency, but you will if you choose to enjoy the fruits of the modern world and raise a family.

Most are fine with sacrificing agency in order to provide for their families and their needs in a modern society, and honestly that is a noble sacrifice.

Just as in ancient times, the agency of material wealth requires the exploitation of toil.
I have to say just picturing LeVar Burton in my mind I can see him as the right choice for hosting Jeopardy. Both he and Alex Trebek have that calm reassuring demeanour.
What's the typical pricetag for a MS degree with batteries included in one of those super popular destinations?
You don't have access to "the whole disk". What the drive presents to the OS as an array of blocks is just an abstraction now. There are at least 3 commonly known ways that "filling" the disk with random bytes could fail to destroy the original data:

* If any part of a block is found to be corrupted for any reason, the block is transparently set aside and never used again, but its contents may still be present to read for someone that is willing to bypass the drive's firmware.

* To prevent uneven wear, ssd capacity is over provisioned which means it has more cells than what it tells the OS. In general, when you "overwrite" a block on your drive, that data likely does not actually overwrite the cell where the data used to be. The drive picks some other unused cell, writes the data there, and does some bookkeeping so it knows that this new cell is what the OS means when it asks for that block again. When the OS "fills the disk" it may not end up overwriting some of those cells due to the firmware's arbitrary wear leveling algorithm.

* Many drives have a local write buffer that uses different, faster persistent storage to temporarily save writes to the drive as it takes its time to write out cells. This is to prevent data loss in the case of a power outage. In case the drive hadn't fully written all the blocks to the main storage when it boots back up again, it finds the data in the write buffer and finishes the job. The write buffer has both of the previous issues except its even more arbitrary and depends on load profile which your random filling routine is not guaranteed to hit.

There is no such thing as securely overwriting blocks anymore, because "blocks" are a fiction presented to your OS by the drive's firmware. There is only one way to be sure the data on the drive is filled with random data: make it random to begin with, and ensure that it stays random by destroying the decryption key.
This led me down a very interesting rabbit hole of learning about Roman "Sumptuary laws [0]" various laws passed to prevent inordinate expense in banquets, dress etc..

A few I found interesting:

Orchia, proposed by the tribune C. Orchius in the third year after the censorship of Cato B.C. 181, limited the number of guests to be present at entertainments

Aemilia, did not limit the expenses of entertainments, but the kind and quantity of food that was to be used

senatusconsultum was passed ... for the purpose of restraining luxury, which forbade gold vases to be employed, except for sacred purposes, and which also prohibited the use of silk garments to men

[0] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary...
To clarify: it was not a personal gift, I received it when I signed up for internet service in a new apartment.
Sorry to hear it doesn't work for you. Wishing you luck finding a solution to meet your requirements.
One explanation could be that Apple doesn't want an "electron situation," where every app comes with it's own fully-loaded web browser, is a memory and CPU hog, and a security risk if the app is out of date. Like is currently happening on PCs.

With WebKit, its update once, secure all apps everywhere.
The Evolution of Bitchiness
This you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3CVZeYGa0
Craiglist doesn't work for selling stuff?

The neighborhood ought to have a mailing list, but yeah FB is very convenient for that.
This is going to backfire.

It will disincentive regular schools even more to be decent
because students will have absolutely no alternatives.

Back in my country (not China) when I was young, these for-profit schools were 10x more competent than any normal school. Because they were not mandatory and had competition.

Also, I have no idea what specifics are, but forbidding people teaching math and collecting money is going to be tricky.
But then you wouldn't be subjected to the algorithm.
Multi-Repo AskGit SQL Queries
> If you don't need money from renters to make your loan payments, why even bother with them?

That sounds like a good summary of the whole problem.
Sounds to me like the brakes would be exactly the same. The wheel is connected to an axle and has a brake disc. The fact that the axle can slow the car isn't any different than exhaust braking, for example.

In case you're thinking the hydraulics would have to account for regen braking, I'm not so sure that's true. In my Tesla the brake pedal only controls the brakes. Regen braking is done by letting off the accelerator.

You can't always use regen either btw even if it was powerful enough. If the battery is too cold or is fully charged it can't be used much if at all—that energy has to go somewhere.
Still bummed my parents tossed my SNES when I went away to college – over fifteen years ago.
Television is boring in my country (The Netherlands) it's plain, compare this to US television and it's in your face. Completely different dynamic.

Maybe it's me because, I have weak spot for other countries than the one I love in. But Germany is boring too.

Social media hits me harder and there again a lot of people from different countries that aren't boring. (I have no way define boring, it's personal.)
>How is that autonomy? I have to wake up at 6am every single morning and make milk and change diapers. I have to take a crap with the door open. I have to think a day in advance if I can take a shower.

That's still autonomy, since getting into that was your decision to make. Nobody put a pistol on your head to start a family and have kids (hopefully). That's something you chose, with the restrictions that come with it. You could might as well not have started a family, and thus not having to do that.

(Not to mention that if you had more money you could delegate most of those, including making milk and changing diapers, to some helpers, and only keep the "quality" time).

Now, imagine to still "lov[ing] having a family", but being so poor you couldn't afford to start one (or nobody would marry you, because you're, say, homeless). Or having to work double shifts just to make ends meet, and only being able to be minimally present for your kids, despite wanting to be there more. That's lack of autonomy.
Jokes on you; one of the comments quotes it.
The cost of the great number of prototypes that fail to scale far exceeds the value of the few that do go on to be workable technologies.
spamgourmet
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid
Enough with the Morgan Housel spam.
its because they are likely tied up in CMBSs with terms that state that the value of the building is based on the value its renting units out at, and if they lower the rent they have to recollateralize the loan (pay an additional down payment, to cover the lost 'value' of the property), but they can just apply missed rent from empty units to the end of the mortgage and take a tax write off.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/innhah/nearly_twothird...
The crime stats page on fbi.gov says there are about 5000 murders that involve guns in the US per year.
> This is lazy BS from the other side; they know for a fact that the rate of fraud is going to be higher than it was pre-COVID.

As a percentage of total claims? I don't think they know that. What's the reasoning? Obviously, both numerator and denominator would go up, but beyond that...
Sorry got autocorrected on my phone. Netdata
I don't see friction brakes going away, even if it's just as as emergency backup stopping power (in the same way current friction brakes are on split hydraulic circuits for safety). I could see them being constructed differently to accommodate the fact EVs don't need friction brakes very often. A good example is VW's MEB platform uses rear drum brakes for cost and maintenance reasons. Rear brakes do very little of the actual braking, and drums are perfectly capable of stopping a car, they just suffer more fade after repeated use than discs. Since EVs don't really need to repeatedly stop with friction drums make a lot of sense.

If by 'Motors to wheels' you mean hub motors, I don't see those being a thing. That's a huge amount of unsprung mass (which affects handling and ride comfort more than 10x sprung mass). Broken wheels are also already massively expensive and increasingly common due to poorly maintained roads and automakers obsession with giant wheels and no tire sidewall. Having to replace a motor along with a wheel would be awful.

I do think we'll see plenty of one motor per wheel designs. Rivian has the pattern I think will be common: motors inboard and use small axles and CV joints. Not a very expensive setup and way fewer downsides than hub motors.

Current 4x4 designs with transfer cases, locking differentials and long, heavy driveshafts will certainly be going away. Jeep's 4xe PHEV Wranger has comically awful consumption since it retains the exact same driveline as any other Wrangler. The fact it's as aerodynamic as a brick doesn't help at highway speeds, but all the losses through the mechanical couplings hurts all the time.
Wow, how times have changed!

I say that because when C# was released, many Windows developers refused to use it and continued to only write Windows programs in "native" languages like C++, VB6, and Delphi.

I must admit my own bias and state that I still prefer applications written in "native" code on Windows (C++ / Delphi) to C#. It's not really an issue worth arguing over these days (and hasn't been for years), but there it is. FWIW, all the SysInternals tools are C++
Nasty grams about how they dont post updates anywhere would be a start.

I'm sure that their laws say something vague about updates must be made available to all residents and you can swing that Facebook doesnt include all residents
I view the engineers who work at Facebook as partly responsible for the damage it does in the world.
Hot take: I know this is controversial, but I want to say it: Only developers and a few tech bloggers care about PWA.

I have never seen or heard of anyone using a PWA outside our little tech bubble in real life. Nor have there been instructions in the news or many clickbait YouTube videos about how to use PWAs on your phone or PC.
Infinite scroll is possbly the most damaging invention of the 21st century
The article is based on a paper which is linked at the very end. Here's my take:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944642

(Warning: Rather technical and full of math)
It sounds like you just described the Apple ecosystem, and I don't mean that's a bad thing to have more than one reimagining of such.
Came here to find this.
Wouldn't this page be public. No login required.
It's not a solvable problem.

Domains need to be short to be memorized, which makes them scare and valuable.

And having two forms of URLs is undesirable; just look at AMP.
Just use your Youtube subscription page

https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
I don't live in a big city or even a metro area. We surprisingly do have a Craigslist, but it covers the entire rather huge county and it's rather dead. Both times I've used it there were zero replies. Tried OfferUp and such, and same.

Not even scammers interested in this place :).
Why are executives granted stock options?

On what basis do they deserve to become owners of companies, in addition to the generous salaries they are paid?

Should not your answers to those questions apply equally as well to designers and assembly workers who serve companies for decades, locking themselves into ultimate technological obsolescence?
I picture him like this

https://ibb.co/MpcQzKW
How to Weaponize Medical Implants
Cool, thanks for sharing.

It's interesting that even the drives themselves use this strategy to "erase" data; it doesn't actually overwrite the cells, it just always encrypts all data that goes to cells and rotates the key when it's asked to erase. This strategy is clearly superior, it doesn't cost any wear on the cells to perform, and it's instant.

The multiple locking ranges is pretty neat, I'd never heard of that.
This is not great. It's using the current issues to push for an ID system that could be leveraged by private parties and is thus likely to significantly reduce online (pseudo)anonymity. It also explicitly calls for the involvement of the private sector in delivering any solution.

I want state governments to have a reliable online identity option. I want it to be optional by law - I should be able to make an in person visit instead. I do not want private parties to have any access to the service whatsoever. I want private sector outsourcing of such services to be completely outlawed. No private third party has any business knowing about my interactions with any government provided service.

I should never have to share my data with private third parties in order to receive government services. Such usage data is very sensitive and thus a huge privacy concern.

Consider: If you ever had to go on food stamps, would you want retailers, potential employers, etc to be able to purchase that data? What about the risk of a data breach?
Ask HN: What would a Facebook that isn't evil look like?
I wonder if it's possible to make a service that lets us keep up with our family and friends, have productive discussions, share pictures, invite each other to parties, and not make the world darker?

What would it look like? Non profit? Small yearly subscription? Pay for storage?

I think the distributed answers have failed, sadly, mostly due to barrier to entry. Is it worth building something that isn't advertising driven to fill this niche? Is it possible for such a best to gain traction in the current environment?
TDD Conference 2021 – Why You Might Not Want to Use TDD? – Ola Kunysz
That indexing perf isn't unique to SQLite; it's true for PostgreSQL too.
Yes, and individual tulip bulbs were at one point valued at 10x the annual salary of a skilled artisan, so around $1mm each.

Fools and their money.
I've found Craiglist devolves into scam buyers and folks who expect to pay a small fraction of asking prices.
How is that better? You don't even need to install it, just run

curl -L https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/raw/7.1.0/neofetch | bash
Even if I had no professional obligations, I still wouldn't have autonomy. Young children, like software projects, take up all available time. They restrict you in where you can go, for how long, with whom, and what you can do.

Sure you could hire help and free up more time. And that's a choice many people make. But it wouldn't sit right with me to have someone else teach my children to read, or build robots, or ride a bike if I really have the free time to do it myself.
Stadia vs. XCloud Latency
Is this the first app of its kind in the world? I literally don't know of a single other app that can edit group policy besides gpedit.
False:

1) 100,000 passengers per week were arriving from China to the US. Of course, all air travel should have been banned.

Which many countries have since done, confirming Trump's decision.

2) any epidemic study starts with finding Patient Zero and the source. Oh, except for corona from Wuhan. Why is that?
This tweet offers a counterargument: https://twitter.com/kaischulze_/status/1418913699297996803?s...
Query Redis with SQL
What was the purpose of these laws, though?
You should not expect anonymity when obtaining government services, full stop. That is the entire point of identity proofing and, at a higher level, identity and access management. I agree a private entity should not be required in the verification chain for interacting with government and obtaining government services.

My last link points to a blog recommending the USPS provide in person proofing, which I believe meets your in person proofing requirement. Login.gov is a service operated by the US government's GSA agency. It is not a private entity providing this service. It was developed as part of 18F and the US Digital Service.
> I guess I don’t really understand why unemployment payments don’t “come” from the (former) employer?

So now employees are financially reliant on employer that just fired them?
I've been wondering what it would take to build a Facebook-like thing that isn't evil. Thoughts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946350
The article is based on a paper linked at the very bottom of the text.
This presumes that, with enough tax money, government can provide good education. San Francisco public schools spend ~$2k per class per day. (Based on $1.1bn budget, fewer than 60k students, and ~20 students per class.)

Is more money a sufficient answer? Or even part of the answer?
> That's still autonomy, since getting into that was your decision to make

You do have to understand Covid changed a lot of the calculus around kids for a lot of parents. Everything has been affected: the amount of help and support you can get, the activities you can do with them.
I think every solar installation will end up incorporating storage so they can share the same grid interconnection. But if enough storage is built it will act as a kind of arbitrage smoothing out the pricing peaks and troughs throughout the day.
Interested in what value $FB ends up at when Instagram, Whatsapp and possibly Messenger are split away. For some reason, individual companies used to appreciate after being spun out. How much value past Events is left in Facebook? Marketplace? VR? Workplace? Metaverse?
That's a fair point, it was a decision I made so autonomy still applies by your definition. I think I disagree with the article's definition of highest form of wealth though:

> Controlling your time and the ability to wake up and say, “I can do whatever I want today.”
Conspicuous consumption and waste arouses the ire of the lower classes and leads to civil unrest.
For a different (no doubt biased) perspective, see how Chinese companies listed on US stock exchanges are perceived by many US short sellers.

One sentiment I have heard from US short sellers is that if Chinese companies defraud US investors, Chinese market regulators don't care and US market regulators can't enforce anything even if they are forced to care. But if Chinese companies defraud domestic Chinese investors, then Chinese regulators may react strongly to take action against the offending companies or executives [1].

There are also complications with how Chinese firms listed on US stock exchanges are audited. Francine McKenna writes a lot about complications with audit (not specifically about ADRs) at her newsletter https://thedig.substack.com/

There are some interesting perspectives in the wolfpack research podcast -- esp e.g. episode 3 & episode 8: https://wolfpackresearch.com/podcast/

[1] there is an anecdote about one company that was selling shares to both US investors and their elderly Chinese employees without telling each group that shares in the company were also being sold to the other group, i.e. so both groups of investors were being lied to about the total amount of shares outstanding -- apparently one of the directors responsible for the fraud was taken out and shot.
Assuming that every paper is reviewed at least once, Markov’s inequality implies that every paper is reviewed exactly once!
This feels almost like just desserts to me. They had several obvious opportunities to take a moral stand, but they didn't, until it directly affected their organization.

This is the same bullshit we have been seeing for years. Nobody cares about privacy or security or social justice or anything other than their own narrow little world.
Luckily, RSS is still alive and well. You can use it for damninteresting.com even!