skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think length matters.... I'm totally fine digesting a tweet or paragraph long message. What I dislike is long form that has to spend 4 intro paragraphs giving some irrelevant childhood or growing up message before they get into why their opinions matter. Or writeups that have some stupid headline such as "XYZ is dead." "Top 10 things every app developer must start doing now." etc etc.
Thanks for submitting! There was a lot of heat coming off that pile. Next step is to heat a hot tub.
When moving, there is nothing wrong with checking out how far away Starbucks is. It worked for me and it is far...
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I did tests for something like this once. Not low level, more of a set of 30+ microservices but the concept is there. The black box testing. This was for a smart home solution based on RabbitMQ. The client wanted to replace RabbitMQ with Kafka but they were anxious because there was no way to verify that the replacement would behave the same way.

So we have spent 2 months writing black box tests against the RabbitMQ version, swapped it out with Kafka and fixed all issues within a couple of weeks.

Since then, I believe that the integration tests are so much more valuable than unit tests.
With DNS one can avoid having to use the firewall for redirection

sslsplit documentation actually suggests DNS as an alternative to using firewall

Theres a number of easy-to-use UNIX firewalls. Not sure about Windows

Proxies allow easy inspection of HTTP traffic, among other things. Arguably sslsplit is itself a proxy, specifically a forward proxy

There are many ways to monitor HTTP traffic. More than one way to do it

Why doesnt Zoom use certificate pinning

(I avoid using sites/apps that force use of third-party controlled pinned certificates. What are they trying to hide from the user)
My father drives for one of the big delivery apps. He does not consider it an abuse of his labour. The driver app offers him 4 hour shifts which he takes or rejects as he sees fit.

During his shifts he's essentially busy driving the entire time. Because the app has a big pool of drivers it is far better equipped to accommodate the shifting demand among the restaurants. As it turns out, not every restaurant does equally well on every day's peak hours. The delivery app acts as a load balancer by distributing drivers among restaurants according to demand.

My dad used to drive a limousine for a small, local business owner. He was verbally abused and often forced to drive clients to the airport at 4am one day and other clients to a rock concert at 3pm the next day. The owner also regularly stole his tips. He VASTLY prefers delivering food. He also has no interest in picking up a 9-5 job because he's older and he simply does not want to work more than 24-28 hours per week.
The package manager creates an ecosystem of libraries and applications.

If your bundle contains the application and its libraries, it's not a part of that ecosystem, and it makes sense that it exists outside of it. In the case of Ardour, since a number of the dependency stack libraries contain patches that will never be upstreamed (or are for EOL'ed libraries), it makes even more sense.

Yes, there is the risk that if the bundle contains a security issue that has already been updated within the package manager's ecosystem, that's a liability.

But the flip side is that "integrating well with the rest of the system" is precisely what makes 3rd party packaging for all (or even many) distros challenging. I note that most of the efforts to address the situation all essentially bypass the package manager ecosystem (flatpak, for example), and that macOS has used the "standalone application folder except for core system libs" for decades now. The liabilities are real, but small, and seem to be an acceptable tradeoff for software that developers want to run on all (or even many) distros.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Pony lang brings Rust’s ownership model to the max - so as a niche language, do check it out!
> They said that no scientist wants to work in a remote location, they want to have a city social life. Which is why these labs are typically located in million+ cities.

Sounds honest, but selfish given how the most recent pandemic took out the 'city social lives' of hundreds of millions of non-virologists. Hard to understand the cost:benefit there.

> They also said that this is safe, because no pandemic to date started from a lab,

That's got to be the least reassuring safety argument I have ever heard.

>They also said that they do not understand why a year and a half in people keep on talking about this baseless conspiracy theory.

Kills millions directly; massive indirect costs; a year and a half later virologists don't understand that its a problem that we're not certain it didn't come from a lab.

Not an expert, but at these stakes, it makes it sound like there's no adults in charge.
you sound fun. I'd love to see your operating system efforts.
It is an observed phenomenon. That doesn't make it a theory, it makes it a generator of hypotheses. It is another chore to figure out ways to test the hypotheses, and more chores testing them.

After one passes several different tests, it might be worth publishing, along with the list of rejected hypotheses. Then somebody else might identify a test that it fails, and another that could be tested, and might publish that.

Or, more likely, nothing comes of it, and you move on to other phenomena and other hypotheses for them. That's science. It always starts with, "that's odd, I wonder what it means." And, most usually, it seems to just mean "huh."
>They could honestly relax that constrain.

If I were waymo I'd keep that as long as i can because the downside of "child killed by freak accident in waymo car" probably is probably something I'd like to avoid.
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Isn't this literally survivorship bias?
I seem to recall someone suggested that since a large percentage of the population is vaccinated and are therefore protected against severe covid, we should now actually try to catch it to develop a natural immunity to the virus.
The institution doesn't get that money: literally not a single dime of it goes to the authors, their departments, or their institutions. It goes to publishers.

You don't need to be friends-of-friends either. Search for the authors and if the PDF is not on their webpages, shoot one of them an email. All it has to say is "I'm interested in your paper [title], but don't have access to [journal]. Could you send me a reprint/preprint? Thanks."

It makes my day when people do this. Getting a paper published is a huge slog with overwhelmingly negative feedback, so it feels great to know that someone actually cares about what you wrote.
It sounds like you are saying this is first world problems. Instead, for anyone else reading, I’ll suggest that making your own issues smaller makes it impossible to deal with them. Yes, people under the poverty line have it harder but it does not diminish your own problems in life.
AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processor Security Features [pdf]
Love this detail: "In 2001, following the accounting scandals at Enron and other companies, a publication called CFO Magazine quietly abandoned its annual Excellence Awards, because winners from each of the previous three years had gone to prison."
Wow! Would you be able to share the xlst code? Would love to learn more
Ah, I see you also went down the rabbit hole from yesterday’s yaw-free view camera post :]
One Czech ex-minister of health owns 67 properties. So he probably has a lot of acquintances and relatives among the political elite of my country. To me it seems he has more political power than me, a dude sitting in underwear and ranting on Hackernews.
Haha no worries at all, me too :)
This is a great piece, the deep reporting of the old New Yorker. Some highlights:

> A reporter from Absolute Return, a trade publication for the hedge-fund industry, asked Grant, “How do Wall Street skills usually translate in prison?” His reply: “These skills are not only in large degree useless, they are probably counterproductive.” As he told me recently, “Business rewards a certain type of attitude and assertiveness—all things that will get you killed in prison.”

....

> Before reporting to prison, he advised them, mail yourself the phone numbers of family members and friends on the visitors’ list, because “you’ll be too discombobulated to remember them once you’re inside.” And remind your wife never to touch paper money on the morning of a visit; almost every bill bears traces of drug residue, which will set off the scanners.

....

> He draws a distinction between his work and the industry of white-collar “prison coaches” who offer bespoke services for a price. Among them, Wall Street Prison Consultants promises to “ensure you serve the shortest sentence possible in the most favorable institution.” It sells consulting packages at the levels of Bronze, Silver, and Gold, the finest of which includes “Polygraph Manipulation Techniques,” “Prison Survival Orientation Coaching,” and an “Early Release Package” that helps clients apply for a drug-treatment program to reduce the length of a sentence.
What a nonsensical argument. There's no replacement for Youtube or Twitter in the same exact sense that there's no replacement for when a banking/CC industry bans you.

Yeah, there are vastly inferior alternatives which almost nobody uses (Bitchute, Minds, cryptocurrencies), but that cuts you off from the vast audience that they've monopolized. An audience that want to read you and wants to pay you, evident by the vast number of subscribers and payments.

Network effects matter.
Certificate pinning makes it impossible to examine what the software on my own machine is sending over my network! Please don't do that.
How is there any fraud these days with 3d secure, etc?
For society as a whole I see negative utility in time wasted. Not all history is important to keep alive. You don't see people firing up coal fire steam engines in their back yard.

For the individual there may be some utility in such a hobby though.

In life since we have a limited amount of time, we got to pick our priorities. Maybe maintaining a modern operating system on 30 year old esoteric hardware is rewarding to you. It wouldn't be for me. Neither of us have to justify our positions, however if I was looking at a resume and one kid put "Helped maintain netbsd/NeXT 2018-2021" and another put "Set up and maintained PostgreSQL based system for small business CRM," I would probably take the latter more seriously.
Preprint (awaiting peer review) study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Really interesting approach!
I wonder if it's also possible Uber and Lyft dropped their prices in the area. Also to be fair, you don't feel any pressure to tip in Waymo either.
> Competition is not apples to apples, but it is possible.

Ok, demonstrate that by creating a YT competitor with 2 billion users.

Then tell us how possible it is.
Sounds a bit like survivor bias. People who have already recovered once (and not died) are more likely to recover a second time (and not die). In the control group, people who have never had the virus, some have a harder time with it.

I hope this gets taken into account.
Does this mean that the ideal path for maximum immunity is to get vaccinated and then get a breakthrough infection?
Oh God.

It sounded just like one of my hopelessly-optimistic-about-all-things-futuristic friends.

In my defense, in 2021, satire reads a lot like sincerity for a lot of topics.
Implementing a modern, production-quality compiler is not easy as a baseline, but nothing in the design of OCaml, Haskell, or Rust adds any significant obstacles, relative to Common Lisp, to supporting this feature. Slinging an AST around and dropping it into a quasiquoted template is a well-understood problem. The simplicity of Lisp's syntax is not a prerequisite and hasn't been since the parsing techniques that were developed in the 1970s.

Done properly? I can't speak to camlp4, but at least in the case of Haskell and Rust, certainly. Incidentally I just had my first occasion to write a Rust procedural macro last weekend. I had a significantly complex transformation written and working in half a day, learning curve included, and I found it all pretty frictionless.
You think hiding behind academic trophys can raise your iq?
If surviving a nuclear Holocaust is in your priority list, then it’s much cheaper and more effective to move somewhere far away from the blasts and fallout.

E.g. live far away from miltary installations, keep a reasonable distance from metros, and avoid any place between the Appalachian mountains and the Sierra Nevada mountains (due to fallout).
They can only gain 48 days per year, so a 13% reduction in their sentence if they chain-read books. It might release someone slightly earlier, not release someone which wouldn’t have been released anyway.
Mandate 2FA which any normal
Bank already has
I'm not saying "crime, lawlessness and misery" are values, but rather trade-offs for other amenities the city brings, namely walkability, weather, nice parks, decent public transportation, etc.

In the US, I find you either live in a place where you can ignore these problems (e.g. car-centric cities, suburbs, gated communities, etc.) or you live amongst it. In SF, both trade-offs exist—you can live somewhere like Soma, or you can live somewhere like the Outer Sunset. Depending on where you choose to live, you can have a very different experience of SF.

I firmly agree the SF government isn't great and probably won't be here long term because of its various problems, but I'm still glad I moved here to launch my career.
Trusting a million eyes is acceptable for most people's threat models. I trust (Apple AND a community of people who can tell me the hash of the build) much more than I trust Apple alone.

It's like if you're trying to figure out how a magician does a trick, "he must have a collaborator in the audience" is a reasonable guess. "Everyone in the audience other than me is a collaborator" is usually not.
There are no popular alternatives to Youtube and Twitter.

The number of users is important, and they have monopolies on the user base.

Learn about network effects.
>Beside that it is of little use, is it? "Get Covid to be better protected from Covid" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, at least.

"Get Covid to better protect others from Covid" - Stronger immunity results in less chances to get infected again and less viral spread when infected. Ie. given that existing vaccines don't protect much against infection by delta, and that once infected the vaccinated spread the virus like unvaccinated, one can see that the people with natural immunity are much more preferable to have around than vaccinated.
Are you suggesting that stepping in an autonomous vehicle at home to be delivered to a museum and returning the same way is somehow more challenging than flying to a different state, taking public transportation, going to work at a McDonalds, or walking around a city--all of which are things that teens do? I assume these autonomous vehicles are monitored by humans at, at least, some level.
Heh. In the meantime, here I am having to software-reset my network card after almost every resume. Thankfully, like beer, Linux is the answer to _and the cause of,_ all the world's problems.

# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:0b\:00.0/remove
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
Slightly relevant: The program "htop" displays CPU usage with bars on the command line. https://htop.dev/
I liked Infinite Jest and Consider The Lobster And Other Essays. Not easy reads in my opinion, especially Infinite Jest obviously, but interesting and original books.

The movie The End of the Tour (2015), although most probably inaccurate in his portrait of the man (from what I’ve read), is an enjoyable fiction that just happens to use Wallace as one of the characters. I recommend it.
IMO the greatest achievement of collaborative programming so far is Linux. Not a CRUD application written by Junior developers.

And it is written in C, which I assume is not one of PG’s blessed ‘weird’ languages that supposedly superior programmers are using.
ahh was hoping for a launch date but now early December has been mentioned.

Come on.
All of the apps that use WebRTC seem to have worse quality and latency than Zoom. Including the semi-hidden web version of Zoom.

This could just be a coincidence, but I suspect it's not. For all of its faults, Zoom calls are just much better than all of the other mainstream solutions I've tried, particularly with large groups.
Brilliant! And yeah totally agree, these questions are mostly a random grab-bag for now.

The goal is to eventually have a thriving user-generated questions market personalized for each user (so you'd get only what you care about, say UK shenanigans haha).

But absolutely yes, we'd love to connect to a UK version! Please email me: daniel@dissonantchat.com, would love to get your feedback!
I had skimmed and summarized such an article (submitted by someone else) a few weeks ago. I'm not sure that I would actually agree with it though. You can find it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28109055
It became their obligation when they signed a contract taking responsibility of cleaning the river.

If they wanted or needed to relinquish this responsibility they should of utilized the court system, arbitration, or sold off through bankruptcy the obligation.
Situation is different here. We talk about reading books not writing them. And of a maximum of reducing by 48days per year, so a 13% reduction of the sentence of people read books continuously, not about releasing people that wouldn’t have been released anyway.
This pre-print study has been discussed a few times on HN recently [1][2].

Many people are commenting that this paper is flawed by survivorship bias. While it would be useful to know the "cumulative" risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the fact is that a vast majority of people survive initial infection. So it is also useful to know the pure risk associated with reinfection - to inform public health policy and vaccine research.

That is why the purpose of this research is to evaluate the risk of reinfection by directly comparing the effectiveness of natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity in the context of the delta variant, which has mutations that confer partial immune escape. This research is significant because it is one of the first and largest studies to do so.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28327482 (350 comments)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28317866 (226 comments)
What is the benefit of self driving taxis versus human taxi drivers with safety assist (collision mitigation braking, and forward-collision warning, etc.)?

Is the benefit of self-driving taxis purely cost reduction?

You can pay less and have an artificial intelligence drive you, or pay more and have a human (non-artificial intelligence) drive you?

How much cheaper will the self-driving taxis be?
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It’s used in many languages, particularly the Romance languages:

Spanish - analfabeto

Portuguese - analfabeto

French - analphabète

Italian - analfabeta

German - Analphabet

Romanian - analfabet

Polish - analfabeta
Emacs itself is idiosyncractic. Being cute and using "standard" terminology would just confuse users.
I think most people don't appreciate that a non-negligible amount of police officers are simply interested in the opportunity to exert violence, and even to kill. The same mindset is observable in homeowners/storeowners with fantasies about defending their property/family from an intruder (exactly where they land on the conversational spectrum between "defend from" and "kill" depends both on their own morality and on the present company). This mindset is expressed even more openly in the military, which makes sense.

If even 1% of police officers have this mindset, that's a spectacular failure of civilized society. In apparent probability, it's somewhere north of 1%. But how small could we realistically get this number via policy (assuming a magical ability to measure it)? It might be so ingrained in present society and/or human nature, and so hard to test for, that we can't eliminate or even satisfactorily minimize it. I hope eventually we take meaningful steps toward the one realistic thing we can attempt: Mercilessly removing such officers from the force when they do make their morality/incompetence clear. Unfortunately, to do this, we would need to somehow work around the despicable protection such officers are granted by their own, and by voters, which is complicated by consisting partly of genuine support for an incredibly difficult and critical job, and partly by unspoken (and sometimes spoken) support for oppression and violence.
Well, it's certainly consistent. And for the most part you're right; it's just light that gets hard to understand from this perspective.

Unfortunately photon behaviour is fairly important...
Another good point. But you need additional technology to profit from that knowledge, which could explain why that came slowly.
Apple can do anything they want. They can push a silent update to specific iPhones which uploads the data in whichever format they prefer.
Taking Guess Work Out of Vaccine Development
Change Linux to FreeBSD and that's what Xinuos is doing right now with Openserver 10.
Emacs is great out-of-the-box.

Really its only problem is the annoying bugs you frequently run into. (Emacs Lisp really isn't meant for programming large, stable systems.)
The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency
>it's from a world that doesn't exist anymore.

You're right, I was there before, during & after.

Not at Bell Labs but I was already making progress individually using the approach he is talking about. As much as I could come up with on my own, I didn't know who Hamming was either.

But every single word of it rings true when you look at it.

This kind of thing is from a lost culture but regardless it can be found broadly useful in the 21st century.
Boot Camp was always Intel-specific. There was no Boot Camp on Power Macs, and they couldn't run Windows either. MS has not made available a version of Windows on ARM for the M1 platform, either.
Sure, but for someone who has already /survived/, it's worth knowing the value of those antibodies. And it's worth knowing that governments should not attack those survivors further for "not getting vaccinated" when they already have antibodies.

Worth noting that I'm not anti-vaccine but there's not enough focus on natural immunity. And I'm not encouraging people to forego vaccines and to go lick doorhandles
Yes, this is just a simplification of the real problem I was solving: docs.rs/restartables
32KB SRAM with up to 512GB of microSD storage.

That's just wild.
UNIX is a terrible and overrated OS.

ITS was better.
While we're offtopic, I noticed that if you visit the original comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 both BrandonM and dhouston show up as green. I just wanted to say, it's really cool you keep adding little details like that to HN over the years.

(Maybe it's not new, but I hadn't noticed it before. It was a neat moment of "Wait... that's a feature, not a bug" followed by 2007 nostalgia.)

Thank you.
Only on this site will they take the word of PG as gospel
> On the other hand, I've never had trouble remembering just how many seconds (or minutes) there are in a day, since.

Not everyone is so fortunate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717414
Depending on your headphones, the adapter might not fit within their case.

Also, if you're like me, you have multiple headphones/earphones (the earphones always with me, since I might not have a bag to carry the headphones). Thirdly, the adapters are not universal, and thus they won't work with all your phones (I always carry two phones with me: personal and work one)