skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy is meaningless without liberal values. So no, there is no "fundamental right" to a tyranny of the majority that oppresses minority groups and opinions. This was very well understood in the West; it's why many Western countries have Bills of Rights that cannot be overruled by the ordinary democratic process, including the United States.
It's a good point to make that something can be inert and non-toxic and still cause issues. And we indeed don't have the data yet to say for certain what the result is, however, what we can tell so far is that there are no overt issues; the article uses asbestos as an example, but we're pretty confident that the effect level isn't anything like that.

Personally it seems far more likely to me that globally observed health issues are caused by the proliferation of chemicals in everyday life that we know are definitely toxic. So IMHO an excellent plastic to blame if you need one is e.g. PVC (and also PTFE because OH BOY WHAT A SMART IDEA TO PUT THAT SHIT ON PANS WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG I HAVE NO IDEA).

(This part made me laugh a little: "Microplastics are plastic fragments less than 5 millimeters in diameter, or about 0.2 inches, barely visible to the human eye. ")
I disagree. I would welcome you to search for any number of truly provocative topics and you will see a chasm bordering. It is rarely a question of 'sufficient quality' as such is in the eye of the beholder. The issue is that of whether it can garner maximum amount of eyes with a minimum amount of real scrutiny.

What you might think is provocative, I see simply as topics that are designed to induce 'engagement'. While the two overlap, those are not the same thing.

In the end, editors have to decide whether it goes in. There needs to be a sufficient 'will' to make it happen. My point stands. There needs to be an internal support for any opinion pieces ( since that is the counter example you went with ).
I think the people who run companies hear employee feedback like "I want advancement" and think that they mean something like this program as opposed to not having to job hop to have their salary stay competitive. It would probably help if we were more clear about what we want, but a lot of people wouldn't say that to their boss.
I agree that #2 is what’s actually happening. Instead of trying to reach less educated rural people, medical professionals are reinforcing blue tribe solidarity by attacking them. A lot of blue tribe behavior these days is based on that—antagonism toward less educated whites is a key force keeping the coalition together—but now it’s killing people.
Not only are there type annotations, but they get their own file—best of both worlds! https://dev.to/yawaramin/ocaml-interface-files-hero-or-menac...

And especially nowadays with the state-of-the-art OCaml plugin for VSCode with type-on-hover and codelens, even reading interface files is super simple.
Hot take of the year - all fiction is irrelevant and incomparable to the real world.

How the hell can anyone come to that conclusion I don't know.
Kim Scott talks about this in her book "Radical Candor" [1], and I agree with her perspective. A well rounded team needs people who looking to take on big new projects, but also people who become deep domain experts. Sometimes called a "guru". People who don't want to progress are this latter group.

The key is to (1) make this arrangement explicit and regularly check in, and (2) find non-promotion ways of rewarding and recognizing good work. This will be dependent on the person, and isn't as clear cut as the promotions track.

I think it's great to just be happy with what you're doing, and focus on other things in life.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939161-radical-candor
API workflow is a solved problem. Have you looked at zapier?

The thing is if you return the response of upstream service, it is jargon for me because I did not use the upstream's service directly.

Caching API calls might be a bad idea as it might create inconsistent data. Just saying, it is a hard problem in general. Abstractions are hard problem in general.
“Europe” didn’t do any of those things either, really.

I am starting to encounter your username repeatedly here and it’s always in the context of toxic comments of very little intellectual value.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. Fast network connections in Germany are really difficult to get in some regions. Recently the government even issued free vouchers for the Starlink setup fee to people who couldn't get a fast wired connection.

This is of course a failure to regulate the telecommunication giants, which get fat and rich in the big cities, but are not good at connecting remote locations (this doesn't earn them money).

On the other side, Starlink was very helpful in setting up emergency WLAN hotspots in the disaster area of the recent floodings.
Moved across the state, joined the Navy, went to college, started a career, got married, had some kids, back in college, present day
> After choosing the chicken farm, the convict still has the option of doing the jail time instead.

Per article, majority "chooses" jail. Also, lets not pretend people are making some kind of free will choice here. The legal system heavily influences which decision it sees "right" and which is going to be punished.
When Zweig says, "If you need 500,000 or 1 million people to find a benefit, how marginal is that benefit?" that means that he doesn't realize that a 21% point estimate in that study with 0% in the error bar means that 42% is also in the error bar. This is not marginal! The point estimate is not marginal either, so when Zweig says that requiring a larger study size means that the effect is marginal, he is either being intentionally deceiving, or he does not understand statistics. I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

> if your drug fails to show statistically significant efficacy in testing that means you don’t get approval.

He doesn't make that point, but that one is also rather silly. If all of our evidence suggests mask effectiveness among elementary school students (some by mechanism, some by simulation, and some by evaluating mask policies on other groups), including the study he pointed to, the correct decision is to require masks for elementary school students. The harms are negligible, and the benefits for reducing community spread are large. The risk for approving an ineffective drug is far larger.

Elsewhere, you made the point that we don't know if masks should be required for toddlers. That I agree with, but that isn't a point that Zweig has made.
This. It takes a special kind of person to land in a new town, make connections, and find a good job. Especially without skills. Few people are that person.
Nvidia’s (NVDA) Arm Deal Should Get Longer U.K. Probe, Regulators Say
True, but there's a wide range of things that can be done to change how difficult it is to find those 0-days, while also provide good incentives to those capable of finding said O-days.

Writing the iMessage parser in a memory safe language is a step towards a "new paradigm" [0], but more can and should be done by a company Apple's size.

[0]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
I don't read Swedish, but the Google translation says, "the police managed to secure 36 bitcoins which, according to the chamber prosecutor, come from the men's drug sales."

That seems to be an assertion the prosecutor made, but I see no facts to support that statement. Prosecutors say those sorts of things all the time in order to win cases.

Are you saying the prosecutor is correct or that the translation is false?
Can you tell us who is giving out large loans without verifying income?
It doesn't matter whether it's the tyranny of Samsung being dicks or the tyranny of the copyright cartel jamming the fiction that is intellectual property down our throats (and thereby being dicks) that is fucking up one's phone.

Perhaps the law needs to recognize that buying hardware should come with rights to the firmware. If all hardware is useless without firmware, then all hardware is useless without additional and separate rights, and that is a stupid and inefficient world in which to reside.
The growing market of not cutting down trees
Various parts of the U.S. are already there. You know where those are if you live in them. Ask yourself: How many times have stopped yourself from asserting 2 + 2 indeed is four[1] in conversations with colleagues, neighbors, teachers, or even family because you may lose your income or worse if you did not at least remain silent in the face of assertions to the contrary?

For those not familiar, here is the beginning of the relevant passage[1]:

> 'It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It needs an act of self-destruction, an effort of the will. You must humble yourself before you can become sane.'

> He paused for a few moments, as though to allow what he had been saying to sink in.

> 'Do you remember,' he went on, 'writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four"?'

> 'Yes,' said Winston.

> O'Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.

> 'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?'

> 'Four.'

> 'And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?'

> ...

[1]: https://2x2.rocks/
There's a big difference between freehold on a new build estate and freehold on an older house, the former has various conditions attached.

But in all these cases we use the word "buy" to buy the car or house, just like we use the word "buy" to take in posession of a slab of electronics
It is hard to say whether the problem is going to get better or worse. Many people live in an already precarious position, and this would only make matters worse. Both the left and the right already see the system as broken, even if they don't agree upon how it is broken or how to fix it. I would suggest that most of those people see themselves as moderates or at least representing the majority (whether or not they are is another question). Eventually things are going to boil over. We can only hope that it does so in a peaceful way.
I'm referring, of course, to those embedded versions. I've dabbled into Rust and Go, and they are certainly nicer than C in non-trivial programming, but knowing how slow everyone in industrial systems adopt something, I'm not holding my breath. Maybe a SQLite for "normal" applications (the real-world definition, not apps)?
The App Store model is about extracting rents. That the walled garden offers "protection" to consumers is incidental. The "privacy" and "security" stance taken by Apple is about protecting their revenues and burnishing their image in the eyes of the public. When their revenues are at risk (like their concessions with China) they take the financially expedient route.
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a) Yes. Amongst others, many ISPs sell data. I picked comcast as a random example, here in Germany ISPs do that too:

"We may also share personal information that does not identify you with third parties for their own marketing and advertising purposes, which you can opt out of. This mainly occurs when you interact with our websites and mobile applications that contain third-party cookies or other advertising trackers. To learn more about this, please read our Cookies Notice."

Coupled with: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gygx7y/your-anonymous-browsi...

b) Afaik there's data brokers that know this and collect data from many different kinds of sources (isps being only one of them) those then sell to people like private investigators and private intelligence companies. Sadly I don't have a source ready, I learned this on a podcast and completely forgot which one. But the vice article above goes into that direction too.

c) That's correct, but that's also already valuable on it's own. I assume the /pathnames/ can come from third party tracking / ad companies, but dns data alone is also valuable. It's all in the patters of the (meta)data

d) Very likely exciting to many. Voyeurism and the "forbidden apple" aren't exactly new concepts
You seem to have missed the last half of my comment.

And completely missed the main point - buying/owning a house can be complicated, so we frequently involve lawyers to represent our interests.

Buying a phone shouldn't be so complicated. But, not only are EULAs overly long, they're often written in legalese which is beyond the comprehension of the average person.
Well, you have to play the culture game and tell everyone you have absurd goals and just realize those aren't you goals. Business expectations for employees is at an all time high in levels of absurdity. They want you to be ambitions because they want you to do things for them to make them money, preferably at no or low costs. We've really let greed run wild in this country and this is the effect. For a long time it was optional, you didn't have to play these games if you just wanted to live comfortably. Anymore, you have to play the same games just to live comfortably.

At some point it will create a generation of entrepreneurs who will realize "if I have to do all this, for someone else, and it's about the same if I do it for myself, why do I work for them?" Assuming competition is actually possible, it becomes a valid question. As an employee you shouldn't be expected to work like a business owner, not unless you have significant stake (are a partial owner) as well.
apparently google image spam is bringing up to $700mil/month in ads revenue
I want to reply to this because I want you to know that I hear your views and I understand them. She is very healthy, 40 years old, good Vitamin D levels (she checked them often). She took HCQ for a while, but then stopped.

I also would hug you if I could because I've seen first-hand what's coming your way if you don't get vaccinated. This is so contagious; it's going to get to everyone. You probably won't die, but you are going to be sick in an extreme that is hard to describe. I don't want you to go through this. God bless you my friend.
Articles like this that read more like hit piece are hard to finish. The language used seems gleeful at the investigation and possible sanctions.
- Zstd compression, fb

- Brotli compression, google

- Clickhouse (highly efficient OLAP db), yandex

- ESBuild (extremely fast js bundler), figma

- TailwindCSS (rapid css styling made ez)

- Caddy (nice auto-ssl for the lazy, also nice proxy)

- HAProxy (highly configurable proxy/lb)

- uWebSockets (highly performant web server with websockets; used by bitfinex, kraken, trello; has uWebSockets.js api for nodejs)
> To start throwing nonsensical parameters like browsing history into the equation is second derivative asinine.

And trivially exploitable...

> Credit scores are so fundamentally broken anyway.

The bigger problem is that the organizations designing credit scores (and alternative metrics) are incompetent.
> so you get to have vital security features like WebAuthn without giving up privacy.

Yes, Chrome phoning home is a concern to me, but a much bigger concern is the lack of mobile extension and adblock support. Defanged Chromium doesn't solve that problem. Even desktop deGoogled Chromium is just an inferior browser when it comes to privacy right now; it has fewer extension APIs than Firefox and it's missing built in Firefox privacy features like containers.

But on mobile, giving up the ability to run extensions entirely? I'm not sure I can substantively argue whether giving up adblocking is a bigger security tradeoff than giving up webauthn. But it's definitely a pretty big privacy tradeoff given the current state of the mobile web.

I don't know, maybe this is a solved problem. I haven't really looked into CalyxOS. Does it patch mobile Chromium to support extensions? Can I trust the devs to do that securely?

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Edit: so I did look into this, and it looks like MicroG just doesn't support WebAuthn at all: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/849, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=997538

So if anything, that gives me a lot more confidence to claim that this is not widely supported yet and people shouldn't be calling WebAuthn a universal drop-in replacement for other systems.

Not to say that WebAuthn is bad, I expect these problems will be solved over time and support will widen. I do think WebAuthn is the obviously correct long-term solution. But I think the "virtually all" language used here is not currently accurate. At best I'm seeing some (very small) repos trying to work around the problem, and I'm not convinced it's good security practice to entrust login tokens to under-audited 3rd-party services."
You know I've been wondering about that!

Can an autonomous bot on some smart contract have a credit score? Why is credit a privilege only humans can enjoy?

We should be able to spool up a persistent pseudonym that can have a credit score based solely on its selectively disclosed transaction history since inception.

If we screw up the credit score of that pseudonym, we should be able to create another and another. The market decides what score to give based whatever factor it feels relavant, which should result in abuse prevention over the long term.
From the IMF blog post[1]:

> Even a well-paid expatriate moving to the United States can be caught in the conundrum of not getting a credit card for lack of credit record, and not having a credit record for lack of credit cards.

> Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases.

I enjoy the framing of this; give us the keys to the kingdom and we'll give you even more credit (to get yourself further into debt!)

Of course it won't stop there, better pay down that mortgage before you search or buy the "wrong" thing if you want to keep your house (they won't take it outright, just raise the interest rate on your loan because you now represent a higher risk based on "new information")

[1] https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-finte...
> the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet

Really? Assume people who still use IE6 on a late 1990s computer are too poor? My millionaire BIL would flunk that test.
> Type one crashes indicate that the chain of events set off by invoking copyGifFromPath:toDestinationPath:error ultimately crashed while apparently invoking ImageIO’s functionality for rendering Adobe Photoshop PSD data.

> Type two crashes indicate that the chain of events set off by invoking copyGifFromPath:toDestinationPath:error ultimately crashed while invoking CoreGraphics’ functionality for decoding JBIG2-encoded data in a PDF file.

The usual suspects. I don't know why it isn't possible to deactivate media parsing in the phone's text messaging app, as the vulnerabilities seem to always be found in those. How often do people send PDF/PSD files by text message?!
Hi! I've been following your blog with interest for a while now. Thanks for working on this. I haven't actually used it (or GT) yet, but I'm anxious to make the time.
I've been a dev for almost 25 years, and the biggest raise I've ever had in a job was ~10%. There might be companies that give more substantial increases with promotions but I've certainly never heard of it happening. For comparison, the biggest raise I've had by moving company was 51%.
or you could pay $1m to someone like Corey to revisit the architecture a little and shave $100-200m off that bill by not doing silly things? https://www.lastweekinaws.com/about/
That should be the bare minimum indeed, but then of course the narcissism would come into play and ruin it.
The simplest model I can think of goes like so:

. Do the ruling classes benefit?

. Is it practical/possible?

In any case, the easiest response is to remove yourself from the system as best as possible. Slowly getting grey'ed out by participating with the hivemind is no way to live.
> A better conversation is whether IMF/credit scores deserve to exist in the first place.

You're right about this. People's access to necessities like housing shouldn't depend on whether they are making money for the finance industry. And developing countries' access to the resources needed to improve the quality of life of their citizens shouldn't depend on making the development process profitable to US/European institutions.

> Bitcon/DeFi will render them obsolete in a few years' time anyway.

Unlikely. Bitcoin and other proof of work systems are likely to be banned in many places because of their environmental impact. And systems that survive that are likely to be banned as vehicles for financial fraud. The future of blockchain currencies is probably in making transactions more traceable to shut down tax avoidance schemes.
Sounds nice, I am in full control of my browser history, at least the one that the IMF will see, sign me up.

Soon, privacy is for nerds only anyway.
I wouldn't call creating a health hazard for your cat a "small" flaw.
Whoever came up with “assume incompetence before evil intent” was an evil mastermind.
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Hi HN, I'm an experienced engineer. I can build things. Alas I do not know what to build .. shall we build a product in this thread

Aka
This thread == product ideas, documentation, recruitment, team building.. GitHub repo info.. etc

So. What shall we build?
And pretty much no one understands to any significant depth all or probably even most of the technology they interact with every day.
Just made it smaller. (You won't immidiately see the result due to caching.)
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> Cloud computing will be increasingly commoditized, with lower cost providers emerging in the next 3-5 years

There are plenty of alternatives ranging from just IaaS ( you rent VMs) to more advanced PaaS/SaaS type "clouds" (e.g. Scaleway have managed databases, Kubernetes, FaaS, CaaS). There are some fairly decent ( in terms of coverage, cost, features) providers out there, outside of the big three.

However they are in an entirely different market similarly how Tata Motors, PSA Group and Lamborghini aren't competitors. Yes, both are used to move people around, but the scale and features aren't even close. There are so many managed services on AWS it's impossible to list them all coherently. Whatever you could need, it's probably there. Digital Ocean or Scaleway or similar are perfectly fine when you're smaller, more technically advanced, with more time available, higher failure tolerance. They can make sense to use, but aren't for every use case.
I grew up in a Calvinist church and in addition to being inconsistent with doctrine, that comment also doesn't fit with the cultural attitudes that I encountered. Money was seen as dangerous and worldly. Like sex, we were taught that it was important part of life, but also something that could lead us away from God. Being rich was embarrassing. We had wealthy people at our church, but I only found out when I was older, since they drove old minivans like everyone else.
I had run LineageOS for some time. It works, but FDroid is missing too many apps, even opensource like Signal. I have to update apks manually every few months.
I just transferred some cash from UK -> Europe and whatd'ya konw? There is indeed a hook to the bank, but I am pretty convinced that it is just the legit, real, EU (& UK) wide open banking that Wise have implemented for most of the popular UK banks, mainly because I was on the First Direct (my bank) site the entire time once I clicked through, and I still had to authenticate properly with the app for anything to actually happen.
A readability nightmare