skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"I didn’t really know how to answer that at first ... Http ... Cert error ... "

Here's what I would have preferred to see:

- review of dbc, hoare logic. Getting lost in atom sized details about how to return errors rolling into language keywords, and exceptions is pointless without first establishing defined v. undefined behavior. How should I deal with sqrt of -1? Exceptions? Error code? Errno? Logging? Some zig key word? First get straight the check for negative numbers is the caller's prob or should be. If caller/callee have decent unit testing w/assertions most of this code can defined out for prod release. Passing a url as a string v. a url object from a cache where it was at least once known as a good url that dns likes is a much about contracts as it is about nitty gritty like error reporting.

- some non trivial c++ libs are exception free except where a standard requires it. These libs use a pretty clean error api with heavy contract definition. See Bloomberg's stl replacement BDE open source. Big. Non Trivial. Clear api. And it works.

- pigeon dropping code is unsightly and also a good measure of how much can go wrong if one bothers to think about it. If you never thought about the contract lack of pigeon code is ignorance not help. Here go isn't the cancer ppl make it out to be.

- a good alternative to pigeon dropping code is error callbacks. Rougewave's cross platform c++ lib from 90s gave me this idea in th context of dbs. Sick of doing a one line sql thing then 10 lines of error checking? The api had a callback with good context to rollback etc. This way the good and bad case code is more consolidated. Erlang supervisors may be like the MT version of this
> Yet somehow Cuba managed to make it work with the Soviets.

They were (the Cubans) passionate believers in the cause. A lot of cold-war accounts from the other side of the Iron Curtain mention how their passion was unmatched in the SSR countries.
The new scanning machines will see things like paper or plastic in your pocket, so they can definitely see a lot more than metal detectors. You may think that's irrelevant, but it's not nothing.

It's worth noting that 9/11 introduced a new threat that people hadn't really considered before: using planes as weapons. If you want to kill a bunch of people in the US there's lots of places with big crowds. A commercial airline r is a significant force multiplier: the OKC bombing killed "only" 168 people and the Las Vegas shooting only 68. 9/11 was an order of magnitude over that.
Ah nice to hear from a rancher employee <3. Ah yeah, I totally understand the move, no blame there. But cattle was just amazing, it was easy and elegant!
While I agree with the idea that removing a quick and accessible means of suicide can reduce suicide rates, there's a huge caveat on that article.

> we did not have the ability to control for differences between the two countries including poverty, unemployment, health systems, cultural, or other differences

The authors go on to suggest that they may in fact be underestimating the amount of suicides that could be averted with reduced gun ownership, but there are an awful lot of confounding factors that are simply not addressed in this paper.
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I can't see much point to this essay aside from reassuring populist basket-cases to buy an Orphan Taibbi Secret Decoder Ring.

If the 'MSM' is moralizing to discourage people from skipping the vaccine and taking Ivermectin, that's the least of the world's problems.
I tried out hardware accelerated compression on a z15 and it just speeds it up a stupid amount, something like 20x times in decompression and 200 times with compression [0], which is not something that is done many other places yet. Though the PlayStation 5 does have it [1]

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/libz-sys/pull/72#issuecomment-9...

[1]: http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-oodle-kraken-and...
Just yesterday there was a conversation about college degrees. Why is it that so many people here feel like they're an expert in absolutely everything? Condescending people who are vaccine skeptical, for one, as if they themselves were literal vaccine experts. There's so much hubris in the top tier of society it's almost sickening.
>It's the Howey test, it's been the law of the land for 70 years and the SEC issued guidance on how it applies to digital assets.

Did you miss where I said the issue is that they're being treated differently? I spent at least two paragraphs on the concept. Even if it's "obviously" a security by the Howey test, that doesn't explain why others get a free pass, or why they can't confirm that's their reasoning, or why others aren't being treated the same, or a why they can't confirm they intend to treat others the same.

Repeating the same argument doesn't advance the conversation!

See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459949

>Regulators don't act day 1, legal proceedings take time.

Again, I understand this concept, it's just a red herring. they're on day 180 with Gemini and day -30 with Coinbase. Saying it takes time is just an easy soundbite for you to parrot, not an actual explanation for the discrepancy, just like "we can't catch all speeders" isn't an explanation for the patterns in which you let speeders go.

>[edit] Even Preston Byrne from Anderson Kill tweeted today that it was obviously a security lol. That's the most libertarian cypto-sympathizer attorney on the face of the earth.

Which of my arguments is that relevant to?
Both Über and react are nearing eol.
What happened was adults pay their own bills.
Maytag is Whirlpoop now iirc
You should never volunteer information to police. Ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZz0vF2KPo
It makes sense to do it at the stop when you have people with crimes all over their social media. I'll give you an example:

Cop pulls over someone with a fast car and burnt rubber all over their rear bumper. They didn't see a crime but its obvious that this doesn't happen going the speed limit and driving like you are sane. They ask for the drivers instagram account, then they see their page where this driver and car were doing donuts in an intersection last night, and rightfully the driver gets arrested.
> I would pressure Snapnames to partner with a less trash company.

SnapNames and Network Solutions are sister companies, owned by web.com
> Of the 3,222 participants (response rate 50.5%) and after adjustment, 64.5% agreed with the extension of mandatory vaccines. It was considered a necessary step by 68.7% of the study population, while 33.8% considered it unsafe for children and 56.9% saw it as authoritarian. Factors associated with a positive opinion about the extension of mandatory vaccines were components of the confidence, complacency and convenience dimensions of the ‘3Cs’ model.

...

> data collected in the cohort GrippeNet.fr, a web-based participative study conducted in France since 2012

> had participated in 2016/17 or 2017/18 GrippeNet.fr seasons by filling in at least one questionnaire on weekly clinical symptoms.

> This work is a cross-sectional, self-administered study and the global response rate of 50.5% may have induced a selection bias between respondents and non-respondents; in particular, participants might be more sensitive to health issues or more interested in the vaccination topic than non-respondents.

...

> The over-representation of vaccinated individuals in the sample is a critical point in the evaluation of the population’s opinion on vaccination policy.

It seems like the French study did not reveal much other than the fact that 1,861 people out of the 3,222 participants thought this was an "authoritarian measure" despite their predisposition to like it.

Now, the vaccines in question are well-established preventive measures against deadly childhood diseases:

> Until 2018, French vaccination policy was characterised by the coexistence of recommended and mandatory vaccinations. For newborns, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), pertussis, pneumococcus, HBV, meningitis C and Haemophilus influenzae vaccinations were recommended, whereas diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis (DT-polio) vaccinations were mandatory.

in which case I am more shocked by the fact that opposition to making them mandatory was so significant in this sample.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6593904/table/t...
It's up to parents and culture and individuals. No state solution can meet the parameters of privacy and do anything impactful with regards to content filtering, and we should be fed up with "but think of the children" as a prelude to further losses of civil liberty.
Sure, but I reckon the leader is even less likely to be Toyota than Tesla.
It's not just TikTok, Youtube also has similar problems:

- The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39381889

- YouTube is reportedly pointing kids to thousands of disturbing, violent, and inappropriate videos: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/youtube-is-reportedly-po...

- On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-pedophile-videos-adv...
> ...I can assure you there is already a very large fire under my ass to get this shipped ... [followed by a short, easy-to-follow explanation as to why it's taking so long]

I'm going to check out Zig because of your response.

I love coming across comments like this one on HN.
I appreciate how they answered your question and everything they said in their post was factually correct.

>Yes, it is. Australia did a jab campaign inviting 24K children inside a stadium, and not permitting parents to enter with their child

This is what the misinformation story was based on, the gov invited 24k children inside, it did not allow parents.
Show HN: Stamp – A Cryptographic Identity System
Hi, everyone. Been playing around with this recently as a sort of PGP successor. It's not all there yet, and I know it's missing some things from PGP, but I figured why not get a start and see what kind of interest/support it might get.

https://stamp-protocol.github.io/

Effectively, this is a key management system that allows building and signing ("stamping") various claims about yourself and about others. The eventual goal is to create easy-to-use implementations of the protocol that allow logging in to websites or managing cryptographic keys for various security-conscious applications. Secure, simple distributed key management for cryptography and identity management.

Currently Stamp uses crypto primitives found in libsodium, but is also built such that different algorithms can be added as needed.

The identity itself is set up as a DAG which is appended to by signing transactions with an opinionated set of keys. A DAG was chosen so parallel offline updates could be made and merged later. One of Stamp's main features is it allows recovery of the identity via a pre-determined recovery policy, using signatures from trusted keys (friends, family, institutional providers). Think of it as sort of a multisig recovery mechanism.

A few things I'm actively exploring:

- A storage network (https://stamp-protocol.github.io/#arch-stampnet). This would necessarily need to be some sort of p2p system, and hopefully not blockchain-based as I believe the consensus/validation used in blockchain systems are superfluous to identity storage and retrieval.

- Putting stamp on USB keys/embedded devices (ARM TrustZone, RISC-V PMP, etc) so it can be used in more trusted environments.

- Some sort of FIDO2 interop would be great so Stamp could act as a login system without having to re-tool a bunch of stuff.

There's also a somewhat-incomplete CLI implementation of the protocol here: https://github.com/stamp-protocol/cli. This allows creation of identities, creating and stamping claims, automatic verification of certain claims (www/DNS), as well as cryptographic messaging/signing tools.

Let me know what you think! What's good, what's bad, what's missing, etc. Obviously it's early days so more feedback is better.
There can be 'levels' that is semi-independent from 'job title'. As this is commonly the case in many companies.

Many companies have multiple levels for a given job title. Everywhere I've worked in software has had 'levels' with a finite range, and as you reach the upper bound of the range, you move to the next 'level'. There is some overlap in the level's ranges. Also as I originally stated, this is the 'minimum' for simply a starting talking point, it will still allow some to be hidden/obscured. There is always 'additional bonuses/awards' on per project basis. e.g. Project ___ grants an additional $$$ either 1 time bonus on start, on complete, or recurring.

If someone's value production is greater, than they should be promoted to the next 'level' which comes with increased compensation.
I would put some money on this. There are very few inherit benefits to gas right now except "faster to refill" and "more range between stops". Both get solved by increasing battery densities, charging speeds, etc. At 300 miles range, I have 1 common trip I need to charge for 5 minutes. At 400 miles range (which I can get on an S), all my common trips are charge free. Vacation trips already work great with 300 miles range.
Composable actions… which must be kept in an entirely separate repository. Yes they technically have the feature now, but that is a really poor showing. I won’t be using it for anything because it takes the CI code away from where it’s being run. It’s a niche for people publishing generic actions eg a language specific cache, but most people are not in the business of producing actions for the marketplace. And I don’t like that it’s one repo per action.
You can be public on HN and absolutely anonymous on any other social media network too. It's on you if you gave zuckerberg your real name. I remember in middle school over a decade ago when we were still too young to use facebook (or for some kids hiding that they had a facebook account from their parents who were on facebook) everyone would have some alias account instead and it was an open secret who it was.
My bet: refusing to give up your social media information will be considered probable cause.
The problem is that it might not take hot water at all unless you have a water circulation pump installed and running (not sure how that thing is called in the states).
All engine failures in commercial airlines happen about once every two years.

Since 1953 there have been ~38 incidents where an airliner has been forced to glide (I.e. complete failure of all propulsion). That’s 38 incidents in 68 years. The incident rate has been falling while flight numbers have been increasing.

Since 2003 (it’s hard to get date before then) there have been ~600,000,000 passenger flights, and seven gliding incidents. So the odds of being on a plane with an all engine failure is around 1:80,000,000. Winning the lottery is around 1:45,000,000.

As failure cases go, thats really not bad. In the US around 104 people die every day in traffics accidents.

So if you wanna get hot and bothered about public safety, I would suggest you start there. Rather than criticising the safety procedures of the safest form of transport.
No, I meant the client private key that gcloud uses to authenticate itself (on your behalf) to Google's servers, not you to your servers. That wouldn't be an SSH key, probably TLS or hand-rolled crypto.

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Also, now that you mention it, even if I encrypted the generated SSH key, wouldn't running a `gcloud ...` command again just ... re-generate the key, in unencrypted form?
I too am surprised V does not get more attention here. I think the main developer frayed his ties with HN by some of his early claims. Nonetheless, he's doing good work moving V forward and developing community. [0]

[0] https://vlang.io/
Exactly. If I am from Turkey, earn a Turkish Lira for salary, and pay for stuff locally in Turkish Lira, you might be tempted to think that currency exchange moves don't impact me.

That would be very very wrong, and one trip to any store would immediately wake you from that fantasy.

Supply chains are global. Local prices are based on the GLOBAL costs and global exchange rates.

Stability is critical. A small business will die with Bitcoin level volatility. Their margins might be 5%. A 15% shift in prices will drive them bankrupt in a day.
> It's easier than you'd think to make the transition if you're willing to go into embedded development.

for which salary tho. just checked a bit the current offers and in my country, senior embedded engineer is 60k€ / year at most, and I saw a fair bit around 40k€...
My friends and I created a retirement calculator with many professional-grade capabilities. The model uses a 10,000 trial Monte Carlo simulation. We've made this pretty flexible, and have opened up the statistical settings for modification. We've also wired in "Fat Tails" for stock returns and added a "Black Swan" feature.

Each simulation requires generating millions of random variables and performing tens of millions of calculations. We understand requiring a sign-up seems like an unneccessary hassle, but we're scaling this on AWS and want to filter bot traffic due to the computational requirements. We apologize for this annoyance.

Happy to answer any questions you may have.
The recipients can do whatever they want.

Facebook is not a recipient and therefore should not be able to read e2e messages (that are not directed to them)

Edit: I just read that the reporting process includes sending unencrypted messages to WA as part of the report. So indeed the whole story is moot.
Older ones did, same for washing machines. I guess it stuck in the US for whatever reason.
Ask HN: What social proof works best in A/B tests?
Many landing pages have company logos or testimonials to provide social proof.

Has anyone had luck in A/B tests with other strategies, like visitor counters or popups (a la https://imgur.com/a/cbteZqe, fomo.com and provesrc.com)?

I feel that measures to show users the popularity of a site would be helpful, but perhaps not. I don't have enough scale right now to reliably compare tactics myself so am curious where I should focus my energy.
I felt he didn't touch enough on the cultural differences, and on how to handle areas where there are no resources. But ya, the core message still holds, specialty when he talks about how the middle class is the main obstacle to a equal sociaty

It took me while to see why, but I can't denied it now
> At least they aren’t keeping all their shows behind iPlayer anymore and these shows are more available outside the UK.

They have always sold their content overseas...
Looks like someone gave me wrong information. Thank you, I stand corrected
It was the IRA in 1925 reaching out to the Soviets for monetary support to continue on an armed struggle
This is a feature of the internet publishing model crossed with the social media marketing model: people believe they need followers to advance their career, and websites need content to feed the hungry click monster. I see the same phenomenon in other domains I pay attention to.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it may be a bit worse in the creative world, since there are so many more people in it looking for a leg up.
Runescape devs shut down HD fan mod just before release sparking in-game protest
I'm pretty sure HN counts as social media.
"billion" in the US means 10^9, but in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, etc means 10^12.

Trillion means 10^12 in the US but means 10^18 in the above places.
Why would the military let some rando in a RV into their base?
Show HN: Url Checker (for Android) updated with Clear Url module
That would be fine to not care as much and this human experimentation would likely pass the bar for being ethical. The point is that it’s a line in the sand to not cross ever.

It’s like mandating code review. You don’t let the programmer who made the code decide it doesn’t need code review this one time, and you don’t let researchers decide they can experiment on unconsenting humans this one time.
The BBC are super political?
If we have social media, and a STASI-equivalent, the latter is the problem.
You can't technically, but if they do so without probable cause then they stand to get smacked down in court and pay heavy fines to the person they falsely arrest.
You’re never risking jail time with the SEC. They’re civil enforcement so they can only pursue fines and injunctions.

Like all civil matters, a person can negotiate with the (allegedly) aggrieved party, in this case the SEC, and settle the matter with them before a suit is filed.
Quoting a reply about this point I left in another comment thread:

The point about the Python package example is not to say that Zig can get on platforms where Rust can't, but rather that the C infrastructure that we all use is not that easy to replace and every time you touch something, regardless of how decrepit and broken it might have been, you will irritate and break someone else's use case, which can be a necessary evil sometimes but not always.

This is a point I made in the section of the blog post dedicated to explaining the limits or rewriting code.
The fact that the shoe rule does not apply to precheck speaks volumes about how arbitrary it is...
Thats sad. Americans need meaning beyond career.
Employee Theft Investigation: A Digital Forensics Case Study
Huh? There is zero argument about the existence of dark energy in the scientific community. It's existence is obvious because you can actively see galaxies accelerating, on average, away from each other in all kinds of datasets observing the sky.

The questions are all about what actually causes it / the mechanism behind it, and details about its workings.
You're talking about legal authority, which is important. However, de facto, police have far more power than that. Remember the police who act without restriction or regard for legal limits, including physical, emotional, and legal abuse, arrests, fabricated charges ('resisting arrest', threatening an officer, etc.) etc.

> They can, with sufficient evidence, arrest you and conduct a search of your person to try to uncover it, but arrests are a big deal; they can't dragnet arrest.

Police do arrest people arbitrarily and without cause; it's not so rare. They don't need a dragnet, they only need to arrest you.

> I assume the productive article to write here is the one framed around informing people that they shouldn't cooperate with requests like these.

That might not be good advice for everyone.
Would dumping enzymes into the tank aid "digestion" of solid foods?
Build engineer at a large Fortune 500 shop here - the largest impediment to us even enabling GitHub Actions is that you either disable them entirely for your org or allow repo admins to enable them _per repo_. We have several hundred repos in one org alone and we cannot simply enable them for everyone with admin access (for us if you create a repo, you get admin access).
Simple solution is to always deny having social media to anyone you physically interact with.
I love the Japanese, but there is a culture of deference that cuts both ways. In the right circumstances you get consistent high quality from a master that knows what he's doing and eager proteges trying their best to head their every word. In the wrong circumstances it leads to Fukushima.

Say what you will about Americans, this is not their way. Musk was wrong about the vertical doors and over automation and his team kept screaming at him until he didn't just relent he frequently brings it up in interviews as an area where he messed up.

The flip side is that for years Japanese automotive manufacturers prized engineering graduates as managers and beat the pants off of over financialized leadership at GM and Ford.