skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, thanks for that.

UPDATE: Yea, the point about how those with the most influence on the platform are getting the least moderation was very compelling. So much of the problem really is just how secretive the whole thing is. I understand the nuance, but timely independent (and validated) review seems necessary for high profile cases.
Hi toast0

IIRC, I saw a presentation by someone (Rick?) where at your previous employer - you guys slimmed FreeBSD down to be unbelievably minimal such that only 2-3 total services ran on the entire server.

Was that done for performance reason? Or for hardening reasons?

If someone wanted to do that today with FreeBSD: would you recommend it and how would you go about doing it (NanoBSD)?
Semantically Validated Types with TypeScript
Validated-types is a type value validation library for Typescript. You can validate values of integers, floats, strings and arrays. For numbers, you can for example validate the minimum and maximum value. For strings, you can validate the length and also perform semantic validation to validate if a string should be, for example, a valid URL, IP address or email address.

By using validated types for the parameters of your application's functions, you can rest assured that only proper values are ever passed to your function. You don't have to do any validation work inside your functions, just use the value of already validated parameter. The validation of the value is done only once upon the construction of validated objects, so there is no performance penalty in using the validated values as many times as you need.
richness is not only money, it's human relations, quality of life, all things that need some kind of work
If people stayed fit after getting in shape one time I think most would stop, your metaphor only works if we made some kind of capital gains scenario for fitness.
Snap package manager Wikipedia edits: “Potential conflict of interest”
Yeah, it's definitely not a simple good/bad decision. My thought is that it's more likely that a Go library would be more likely to have implemented something like a mandatory auth check but the counterpoint is that if such a library were vulnerable it would affect potentially a very large number of services.
Well they sort of do, in that they usually stop working for other people and stop working on anything they don't enjoy. If you're rich enough that you can design your own "job" and delegate anything you don't want to do, it's not really the same concept that most people associate with "work".
You are dead wrong and backwards on this. Read the 9th and 10th amendments.
But that's not the option open to the uber-rich. Look at Tom from MySpace. He took a ton of money and is on a permanent vacation. He certainly seems to have a more enjoyable life than Zuckerberg. Although I guess he cannot afford the biggest yachts in the world.
Robin has been at this for over 15 years. Some reasons why he failed in the early years were that he used government money for uncomfortable bets about assassinations of US politicians.
They do. For a year and then after doing nothing or maybe a roubd trip around the world they want to redo somehhing. The feeling of succes is better than.. nothing. Plus they dont feel like they are forced too anyway
It’s higher but not nearly as high as people expect and didn’t raise a larger percentage of GDP in tax revenue.
Sounds like a rather cynical and false take.

There are probably many reasons for why rich people work.
I'm the type people might think is ambitious, I own a business with a high valuation, I've worked hard for a long time, I'm very skilled in my field.

But I only work hard for the reward. Once I cash out and have FU money, I am done working forever. Life is so short, I just want to focus on family, health and pleasure.

I understand that most other ambitious people aren't like that but personally I don't get it.
You can have a lot more fun when you have FU money: at that point it’s about creation, competition or whatever floats your boat.
Some people enjoy work.

Some people want impact, not money. They may be driven by their worldview and being able to further it.

Some people worry about getting stale if they dont do anything.

Free time can get boring, one values free time more when they have less of it.
EU commissioner calls for urgent action against Pegasus spyware
These look like they will quickly collect debris, become unbalanced, and vibrate horribly at highway speeds.
No,
I haven't automate it. I show the price in Monero(get current price through cryptocompare API), I ask a deposit to a specific address and to send me the Transaction ID.

http://www.chordastic.com/Editor/PurchaseMonero
Perhaps quoting Hannah Arendt in the OP context is not the slam dunk some think it is.

Edit: Allow me to be more direct. Let's take all the vitriol Kasparov has thrown at the feet of the red team since 2016 at face value. For the same time period, will you (or Kasparov) name 3 brainwashing propaganda campaigns that the blue team has undertaken?
Another suggestion not mentioned in the article...maybe the fact that they can afford to use their own free time for anything they want leads them to doing exactly that?

Bill Gates leaving Microsoft to focus on the foundation?
- AKA, he wants to focus on making the world a better place

Elon used all that Paypal money and started SpaceX and Tesla?
- Also, wants to focus on making the world a better place

If I were Zuckerberg, personally I wouldn't trust all of the power that Facebook has in somebody else's hands...ever.

The kids still have to go to school. Even if you took a year off to say, travel the world or something along those lines...you're going to get bored eventually. Either you'll pick up a hobby (Jimmy Carter and his furniture building) or you will focus on working on something that you care about.

The difference is that you're doing it because you want to, not because you have to. At that point...it's not really work anymore.
Or just even having to work for someone specific as jobs are hard to get.
Considering tons of folks are still on Java 8, I would have liked to also see comparison between that and Java 17. Based on the improvements shown from Java 11 to 17, one could expect even larger improvements from Java 8.
I've also been so lucky as to have been able to play with it for a while now, and can corroborate that it's super useful. It's not just a better alternative to something else; it's a whole new category of debugging tools, in the sense that there were problems that were pretty hard to debug and are much easier now that Replay is available.
I agree, I expressed myself poorly: it is less available today than it used to; for example, I think it would be much more difficult for foreigners to gain access today. And there is a limit of 500 searches per month

So - there has been changes that resulted in less transparency or better privacy, depending on point of view
> "why don't strong and fit people stop going to the gym?"

You know, in the beforetimes, I went to the gym and asked myself that question a lot. (Just usually more in the context of grumbling "why didn't this incredibly buff dude unload all these plates from this machine")
Taxes are necessary to curb inflation.
Right, that's the system they propose. But I'm saying that can result in an agent being incentivized to put their money into a policy they believe to be worse, as long as they believe that policy is underpriced and more likely to "win", which is undesirable.

So for example, suppose we have the objective "increase our production of paperclips by next year". Our two policy options are "build a paperclip factory", and "build a paper mill". We now have two bettings markets, each with a Yes/No pair of options, "Will building a paperclip factory increase our production of paperclips?" and "Will building a paper mill increase our production of paperclips?".

Now let's say that currently, the paper mill has "Yes, this will work" at 60%, and the factory has "Yes, this will work at 40%". I'm a paperclip genius, and I know that the true odds are that the factory has a 90% chance of working, and the mill has a 75% chance of working.

Where do I put my money? Ostensibly, we want me to put it on the factory, because that's the best policy. But the factory is unpopular and that policy is unlikely to be implemented (since it's down by 20 percentage points). Even if I nudge it up a bit, my bet is likely to be voided, and I make zero return for my knowledge. Instead, I will bet on "yes the mill will work", because that market is also underpriced, and the policy will actually be implemented. By doing this, I maximize my expected reward, and I also move us away from what I think is the best policy.

This is what I'm trying to avoid.
Excerpts from one of the leaked documents. Disturbing.:

> Research conducted in the EU reveals that political parties "feel strongly that the change to the algorithm has forced them to skew negative in their communications on Facebook, with the downstream effect of leading them into more extreme policy positions." For example, in Poland, "one party’s social media management team estimates that they have shifted the proportion of their posts from 50/50 positive/negative to 80% negative and 20% positive, explicitly as a function of the change to the algorithm… Many parties, including those that have shifted strongly to the negative, worry about the long-term effects on democracy." We have heard similar feedback from parties in India and Taiwan.

> News publishers, too, are concerned about the incentives MSI created. We received direct feedback from BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti that his team feels "MSI ranking isn’t actually rewarding content that drives meaningful social interactions. They feel pressure to make bad content or underperform." Peretti related that "when we create meaningful content, it doesn’t get rewarded, "but more sensationalist and divisive content (such as "fad/junky science", "extremely disturbing news", "gross" images, and content exploiting racial divisions) is more successful.
I was in Hong Kong on and off from 2016 up until this year. I think people may not know the country is guaranteed to become China by 2034, and probably a bit sooner now that they contribute such a small % of the GDP to China.

Since the people of Hong Kong are overwhelmingly against the mainland government, I think the situation will continue to escalate and become hostile to foreigners.
They do.

The three faces in the picture at the top of the article are famous billionaire outliers. Plenty of modestly wealthy people (say net worth of >$5M) lead lives of complete leisure.
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Has there actually been any empirical proof that betting markets yield better predictions though? From what I read, it doesn't seem so, seems that people still aren't sure if they offer better predictions or not than alternatives, and since it isn't really obvious if they do or don't, it seems ideological if you believe they do or don't and therefore support them or not.

Does anyone know if things have changed on that front?
You had a peculiar outlier situation that simply isn't true for 99% of Americans. Glad to see that you judged that the vaccine was worth spending 2 entire days on.
Nicely summed up.
I agree with this, I've been doing the job search thing for the last 3 months and I've spoken with a few companies that have this equality based pay model (DuckDuckGo is a good example), where everyone with the same job title makes exactly the same amount. The pay offered by these places is lower than what I have been able to get at places without the policy, and they have been unwilling to make any exceptions. This one-size-fits-all pay bracket thing really sucks IMO. Also basing pay off of YoE or education level also strike me as old, stodgy ways of paying your workers, like something IBM would do.

You're worth exactly what you can convince someone to pay you, nothing more or less than that.
>consumer/speculator leverage is limited

What are your thoughts on the direction this graph is headed?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL663067003Q
Safe Browsing is a must-consider for anyone hosting user-submitted content.
This reads like rich people fan fiction. Is there any evidence backing this?
Yes, at work we use OpenVPN and only expose VPN, HTTP, HTTPS ports to the public.

But I find VPN a bit overkill on my personal machines.
Texas hospital faces closure due to vaccine mandate, CEO says
Only in the same way a parrot is
Maybe he enjoys playing basketball.
It’s all in the ink: Vinland Map is definitely a fake, new analysis finds
Sure, you could, but the point is that they have a worldview which prioritizes work and achievement which is why they keep pushing. The work / achievement / resource obtainment is the goal itself, not quality of life as others would define it.
It will never cease to amaze me how much people project their own feelings about work and life onto others.

Just because ~you~ hate ~your~ work and can't see value in it beyond [money, status, narcissism, power, etc] doesn't mean that's how everyone else values work and the other parts of life. Sheesh.
Because they've had it too good for too long and then it's rather hard to imagine what life would be after moving to the middle of nowhere, to have to cook yourself, to drive a boring car, to cut social connections with interesting and influential people and stay encapsulated in your family instead, etc.
Musk isn't really limiting himself to buying things just on this planet.
I remember when I visited the CEO's office at my first "real" job. I was sitting with my boss waiting for the CEO to show up to his massive (quiet) office with comfortable furnature, secretary who was busy organizing his personal and professional life (she asked us about gifts for his grand kids since we "knew computers"), drinks and food at the ready nearby...

I said something like "Man I would find work pretty dang nice if I was up here".

My boss said something like "Yeah but these guys work all the time."

I couldn't help but think... yeah it would still be pretty easy to work all the time in this environment.

That's not to say they're not stressed or etc, but if you have the option to work comfortably ... I can see why you might continue to work if your conditions are good.

Meanwhile I go back to my cube with constant noise, folks looking over my shoulder, planning business my trip in regular people class (not 1st) and so on.

These folks aren't "just working" they didn't take up a job at McDonald's... they choose to work in a different world too I suspect.
Maybe that is a motivation for some of them, but not all of them.

It's certainly not a motivation for billionaires like Elon Musk, who seemed singularly driven by his life mission.
We had a talk once from a man who had sold his company at around 23 years old for several million, a lot to a young man. He said he thought he would live the dream, travel the world, go and do whatever he wanted, waking up at 10am every day and having a cooked breakfast!

Then he realised how boring and lonely it was. His friends were all at work while he was "free" and most people don't want to sit by themself at a bar in Tahiti, even if you can afford the drinks!

He quickly went back to working/advising companies and found it much more engaging.
that's not actually what classes are. class is not just a braket of incomes, it is a role in economic production. if you get your money by trading your work for it, you're working class. if you get your money by virtue of what you own, you're capitalist. a bit of both is what middle class is.
Or google and other search engines, which probably special case SO already, could weigh the age of the questions and answers when ranking results.
Prove you're not just guessing.
You try to control for statistical variables like pollution, occupation, and personal habits. I don't know anything about medical statistics, so I'm just accepting the conclusions of the road noise research.

This paper should be helpful if you want to dig into the methodology one can use.

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/32/6/737/497025
They can do real time and cache variants and in the paid part of Images they allow uploading originals and storing them with CF.

Also CF Images can work with originals from your origin .

Personally I brute force all my static images to compress to a 92 VMAF score (and I'm always smaller than any of these services with better perceived quality). But I do also work with a lot of clients that sometimes add a few hundred new images pr. day and then these solutions come into play.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/

https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/
Define science. He is certainly doing experiments and is very public about it. Better than what is going on in academia with the reproducibility crisis and the fear of publishing ideas that don’t pan out.
Is that equivalent to an extra-planetary land grab?
Meetup? Am I missing something that FB offered vs Meetup other than user base?

(TBH, I never used FB to meet new people, just encourage relationships with people I had met elsewhere and I haven't been on the platform in years)
Automatic cipher suite ordering in Go’s crypto/tls
Gonna take up IBM mainframe courses this year to see if I can learn more about mainframes. This architecture ia completely different from PCs and it's nice to learn new types of low level programming.
Incidentally, most of the sites you mentioned were the "but mah free speech!1" equivalents of mainstream sites, created by the alt-right.
Not even parenthetical remarks with opening and closing parentheses or mdashes?

I won't say it isn't so (that would be redundant), but this example makes my point again.
Small government != efficient government.

A government can spend billions of dollars efficiently.

As an example look at current COVID rapid testing kits. The US government is purchasing them at 4x the cost in other developed economies. California gave away $31 billion dollars in unemployment benefits to criminals.

This is what frustrates me. I am happy paying 40% tax as long as I see it making a difference in society.
Nothing in life is more guaranteed than the wealth of the elite. Beyond a certain point, at least. Nothing short of the collapse of Western civilization and the almighty dollar could make Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos anything less than rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I had a very wealthy 73 year-old client once -- one of the most interesting of all. He had built up a collection of businesses around the world, and at 73 was (and is still) flying around the world to make deals. He is like a savant in that if he is awake, then he's busy working. It was very common to send him an e-mail at 10 or 11pm, to which he would immediately reply, and then wake up the next morning at 7am to find he'd already sent a new e-mail a few minutes earlier.

I noticed that nothing stressed him -- he would push people and get angry and annoyed, but it was all externalized and not internalized. He's worth billions, but never does _anything_ that normal people would consider fun. For him, the work is his fun. I have great respect for the work and the success, but it's hollow in context of it all.
> One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day

1. No it doesn't. It only requires eating less.

2. One of these is invasive, the other is not.

> There's a lot of investment in trying to fix these problems already

Not really. We have culturally embraced "health at any size", we don't clamp down on unhealthy food advertisers, we install vending machines in schools. We are now FIRING people for noncompliance with vaccine mandates, but shrugging impotently when childhood obesity rises 9% in 18 months of pandemic lockdowns.

Further, the obesity issue isn't just a baseline problem: it's also the #2 comorbidity of COVID itself. If these tinpot tyrant vaccine mandate people were even remotely serious about actual harm reduction from the pandemic, we've had approximately 72 weeks since we knew of the obesity-COVID severity link to include weight loss as a preventative protocol along with masks and vaccines.

The fact that we've heard no significant public messaging on this front during a period of time that high-risk obese populations have had the chance to dramatically reduce their risk profile tells you everything you need to know about how serious "public health officials" are about actually reducing deaths. Hint: they're not.
Google will flag the entire domain in Safe Browsing. Unless you are a big company with a legal team, getting off the Safe Browsing flag list is a days or weeks long nightmare.
This is super true, you graduate from being "rich poor people" to "broke rich people"
Yeah, government currency does have those problems. I'm not sure I'd even classify it as real money to begin with, it's just a scheme governments impose on their populations. Real money is precious metals: naturally scarce, malleable, fungible, divisible, universally recognized as valuable. A very small set of cryptocurrencies also have a shot at becoming real money one day.

I don't think this can be called artificial scarcity though. It's real scarcity that's gradually inflated away by governments and banks. Data is already infinitely abundant as soon as it's created.
Samsung attacks the iPhone 13’s 120Hz screens
I just started using Azure cause I occasionally need a remote Windows desktop, and it's insane how complicated it is. There's so much infrastructure it expects you to micromanage, so many moving parts. What's it all doing, how much does it cost? Not very clear.

I'm sure it's fine for someone who does IT work for a medium/large business, but for an independent user the UX just plain sucks compared to any number of VPS providers.
Ask HN: Secure/Private Phone Network?
I have seen many posts about phones that are more secure or privacy focused. Are there phone networks that focus on this too?
Do you support it only for dynamic languages, where possible to monkey patch code?

All the debuggers mentioned above for the backend work only under Linux, because from what I understand, they use `ptrace` syscall, and on Mac have completely different format, and different capabilities.

Do you plan support Golang, especially on Mac, maybe with custom fork, or similar?

Thank you!
Because most of HN users also make their bread and butter by copy pasting from SO. The Venn diagram is almost a circle.
Has anyone done analysis on microplastics to figure out what percentage are from vulcanized rubber? It's probably a high percentage, but would be nice to have an actual scientific study on the figure.
New algorithm is a critical shortcut to detect and identify pathogens
Unless the two choices are extremely close, we probably don't want it to be the case that a single investor, even with 100% of their funds, can single-handedly change the outcome. We just want each investor to be incentivized to put their money behind what they believe to be the best policy, and hope that collectively they choose right.

Thus, we should expect that even if our oracle knows with certainty that A is the best policy, and invests all their money into it, they're unlikely to be able to unilaterally change which policy will actually be implemented. They will therefore be incentivized to bet on B succeeding (which is also a winning bet), and now that we're revealing that they bet 100% of their capital on it, all we've done is magnified the signal of that bet. But this is bad - our oracle is betting in a way that moves us away from the policy they know is best.