skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For your information I trust nothing about COVID that has been published either by mainstream media, social media or alt media now. Nothing at all.

As far as I am concerned there are far too many people with vested interests polluting the waters.

I was merely linking to mainstream media sources as most people on here appear to shoot down anything that isn't mainstream media or mainstream thinking.

For the last several months, when I come across an article that has "science" about COVID in it I automatically look for peer-reviewed papers in the text. I don't care if Albert Einstein himself told me that the COVID vaccine is safe, or if he said I will die from COVID... unless there is a peer-reviewed scientific paper I will disregard anything said by that media outlet.

Too many sources are just quoting scientists and celebrities about how safe (or how dangerous) vaccines (and other info) are. No one questions anything [0]

I'm fucking sick of the lack of critical thinking! I'm fucking sick of not being able to question something without getting downvoted, shouted down, branded a conspiracy theorist. The fundamental core of science is that I can question it! This is no longer allowed. It's dogma, religion, whatever you want to call it, not science!

COVID is no longer about science any more. There is literally no science behind giving 12 year old children an experimental drug that has a higher chance of inflaming their heart than it does of preventing COVID symptoms...

FFS, only 25 people in the UK under the age of 18 died last year from COVID! [1]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/uk-covid-vacci...
if most domains happen to be .com, isn't it basically the same?
What is "a huge any part"? Looks like too many determiners to me, so I'm not sure what you're saying there.

> don't have a political representative at all

That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you live in a place like Puerto Rico. I'm not sure if Russia has similar places, but I assume it doesn't.
By W2K a lot of problems had been fixed, and on the other hand 3.51 was still a bit early and wobbly in other areas. I thought GDI was still in the kernel?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28562772
It'a a team of researchers. I'm sure they have a lot of great ideas. They could check every byte to see if it is a malicious one.
The specific approach isn't in law. But the requirement to scan photos stored in the cloud is.

On this specific point I think reasonable to believe that Apple want to E2E iCloud photos, and their stated approach to CSAM is how they'll achieve E2E iCloud photos, while remaining compliant with the requirement to scan for CSAM they might be hosting.

Now there's a very strong argument to be made that Apple have made an appalling trade-off here, prioritising E2E over not doing on device scanning. But it's a trade-off that's only happened due to the requirement for CSAM scanning.

An interesting approach Apple could take, is apply E2E iCloud photos in Europe, and continue with on server scanning (and no E2E) for the US.
Ok, so please, show me the list of side effects after 5 or 10 years of trials. Does that information exist?

Edit: sounded a bit snarky, toned it down a touch
"Rent" as a word here refers to "regular payments to use something", of which rents for housing are only one specific example. For example, printer manufacturers who force you to buy only their (incredibly expensive) ink, or razor makers who benefit from regular purchases of blades.

The term "rent-seeking" has an even broader scope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

> Rent-seeking is the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth-creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline.

In the case of the razor manufacturers they can at least claim that it's completely natural (I'm not sure how far they go to prevent cheaper blades to be made available for their particular razors?), but often the regular payments are artificially forced through contract clauses, laws, patents, copyright (I guess?), and/or through technical means. In the case of printer manufacturers, they started adding electronics to the cartridges that force you to buy only cartridges made by that specific printer manufacturer.

Basically, it is a goal of many businesses to end up as a "rent-seeker". Have a wall that keeps out competition and a large number of customers forced to regularly buy from you ("regularly" is key, for constant predictable cash-flow and an easy life free of competitive pressure and uncertainty - for the rent-seeker).
Perhaps they have a reason to make that decision when it’s their money on the line, like ‘that’s where the people that actually spend money are’.

If you want to vote with your feet, buy apps on your platform and spend money through it.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud – Part 3: Domain Gateways
Push notifications are impossible on iOS PWAs. Basically takes out a big chunk of possible apps you could build on this, no one wants e.g. a messenger that can't notify you when you get a message.
Not a feature per se, but being in the process of building a PWA for iOS with access to the camera, the fact that the authorization dialog pops up every time the app is opened (meaning that the permission is not saved even if the PWA has not been modified) looks like a deliberate attempt to make this technology not truly viable, because it really provides terrible UX.
I really don’t understand why americans are so obsessed with “my property”. I guess it’s a cultural thing.
Walmart is a separate market and Walmart has the MoNoPoLy!
>The problem is, if you carry this idea out to it's conclusion then it would be a rational act to jail someone merely for the thoughts they have

No it wouldn't. Moreover, whether or not you find the ramifications of a fact distasteful has no bearing on the validity of that fact. As I already said, that's not how it works.

The ideas that are entertained while playing video games are not the same as entertaining the idea of performing a real-life shooting. People playing the video game aren't planning a real shooting, and planning a real shooting involves ideas that are not held by a typical person playing GTA 5. It's really an easy distinction.
Or you do something like "proof of useful work" as discussed in https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/203.pdf
The install process for WSL is still fairly complex for mainline Windows builds. However, in the preview channel, it's mostly just "wsl.exe --install". And that wsl.exe ships with the preview builds. I can see this being a bigger target once that feature is pushed down to the mainline windows builds. It does still require admin rights.

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
Or a distributed ElasticSearch
Reminds me of an argument I witnessed at a meetup:

Dev A "You should use X"

Dev B "We tried X, it was way to slow"

Dev A "You must be doing it wrong, I use X all the time and it's very fast"

This went back and forth like this for a good 15 minutes before they realized they where both getting the same performance, but just had a very different definition of "fast" and "slow".
And not contributing to the discussion.

At least bring some alternatives to the table or explain what you are doing and why you mean it's so much better..
Typo in the first code snippet:

> model.get('get')

did you instead mean:

> model.get('age')
There’s principles and then there’s principles.

Maybe you wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice humans to Kali, but you might still be okay with working in an open-plan office for two years.
Almost 2 Million People Die from Work-Related Causes Each Year
Very well said, I totally agree
NestJS was the promising one a year ago...
I Failed to Transform the Enterprise
Specifically, could you list features that would be relevant to a PWA that takes your electoral division as input and returns information on who to vote for?

Honestly I'm confused that if a PWA is a viable solution, why this isn't just a website?
If that’s what you’re worried about, then if people have physical control over your phone they could just upload CSAM to your FB or Google photos from it.
Community projects are still a thing, they're just not as grandiose, partially to do with different priorities and restrictions (making giant rock carvings is rarely top of peoples agendas, nor top of the local councils approvals), and partially due to the fact that they look lesser due to all the other amazing things people are doing on the internet.
Well do you have a copy of Apple's marketing material from Russia saying that won't censor the app store if compelled to do so by the Russian government?

It not reasonable to hold Apple to pledges they've made to western customers, when talking about a service provided to non-western customers.

As much as we wish it wasn't true, the scope for providing privacy is substantially greater in the west than it is elsewhere.
Why would any rational person sell their labour for way below its value if they weren't either coerced or fooled?
"Vital signs" are still only meaningful in terms of humans talking about how the body of a human (or an animal, or a living or life-like system) should function. Blood pressure just is - whether its measured value is "good" or "bad", that's up to our preferences for what it should be.

If you remove sapience from this situation, then blood pressure just is, period. One particular aspect of what is just one big chemical reaction, or [insert whatever is at the bottom of how reality works].

It is said that since god died, the meaning of life is what we make it to be. But if there's no one around capable of processing the concept of meaning, then life has no meaning at all.
As soon as I read the article, this clicked immediately, but I foolishly had never considered it before.

About five minutes before this comment, I just bought the new iPhone. And, no doubt, many people, perhaps rightly, would criticize the yearly upgrade. A coin functions at a much much larger waist scale than my yearly upgrade. Kind of mind-boggling the more I try and wrap my head around it.
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>To be pedantic, Apple does allow Progressive Web Apps which can bypass the App Store.

Apple is the company that is actively sabotaging PWAs.
Never going to sell. Then sell to Intuit! Feel for those employees.
That's just an outright lie. The product they pulled was search. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China it had a 36% search market share.
Go to his people. It will make more sense.
Even on HN, the most voted submissions (this one included) tend to be some sort of outrage or controversy -- very often something you can do little or nothing about. I'm seeing rather polarized views, but even without it, neverending controversy seems like a negative thing for individuals' mental wellbeing and probably the society at large.
It's not something a consumer will do by accident, and IIRC the last time I set up Enterprise on my work machines I also had to activate itanually.
Like many here I started programming on the origin ZX Spectrum, typing out code and hitting record on a cassette tape machine. The pure joy of buying a magazine and copying the code inside to create your own game. Tinkering with it to make it your own and passing on your recorded creation on to friends at school.
Wouldn’t that just raise valuation?
Most Windows users are also never going to know how to get Microsoft Office on their Computer when it doesn't come preinstalled. Usually people have other people who do things like this for them
The biggest response I've seen in my life is using the telephone to share potentially damaging information instead of putting it in writing.
Thanks. Honestly though I'm surprised, I would have thought blocking specific HTTPS websites wasn't so easy.
Jam 80 Cores, 768GB of RAM into E-ATX Case with This Tiny Board
Google and Apple Remove App Aimed at Spurring Protest Voting in Russia
Interesting, as he manages to spell it correctly in text.
Pretty much all government contractors use windows for bureaucratic and spying purposes. Good luck convincing your security-minded boss to let you have a linux playground when it increases attack surface area.
This is an important point to make. How aware were they of necessitating boosters, specially on a bi-annual interval? And if so, what were the expected chances of such happening?
Try "I was only following the law". I seriously doubt any court would punish you for sincerely trying to follow the law to the best of your ability.

Russia is a sovereign nation, with the right to rule as they wish. If you're not happy with there way of life, then I would encourage you to contact your democratic representatives and tell them to either apply greater pressure to the Russian government to live up to our ideals, and follow our laws; and if that fails, declare war.
This is too accurate. My baby just turned 1 and I'm finally realizing how much sugar is in toddler food.
He is probably talking about instead of income tax...
Yes!

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/ and

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181
> What is "a huge any part"?

HN doesn't support a strike-through markup. "~~a huge~~" means striked-through font here. I've written it first and then after some thought tried to show that actually the proper word there is "any".

> That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you live in a place like Puerto Rico. I'm not sure if Russia has similar places, but I assume it doesn't.

You are so much disconnected from what is and how it's happening here...
> Its one example of issues that never should have made it into a release in the first place of any software that cared about stability.

You realise it's been there for many years before being discovered by one of the millions of Java developers out there, yeah? It goes at least as far back as JDK 8.

> From where I, and Im sure most of "the ecosystem" sits "the jvm eventually explodes if you indefinitely add things to and clear an arraylist" is more than reason enough to not update to any jvm with that "feature",

Once again, that bug -- for that particular class of processors -- is in 8 as well, and the crash occurs less often in 17 than it does in 8.

> OTOH, it is quite nice that new adopters will by design never be able to achieve the same stability those of us who have been around the block a few times have.

Those of us who have been around the block a few times have learned to trust data; if there's any trend in the JDK's stability, it's upward. Our process is so much more careful and the testing more exhaustive than it's been in the 8 time-frame.
CSS Text Module Level 4, W3C Working Draft, 13 November 2019
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Does it have to run on battery for that year?
And Kotlin give the best of both worlds
Why do you always start talking about US when somebody talks about injustices in other countries?

Like really.
Well it's hard to say how much of the growth is growth in detection/reporting versus growth in underlying crime, but it's worth noting that each transmission of CSAM is considered a separate crime. I.e. even if actual sexual assault remains steady, the nature of the internet (virality and community creation) sort of pushes CSAM transmission upwards. The internet is designed to spread content that people want, CSAM is sadly just that.
Do you work for Microsoft ? This was their philosophy until they were hit by Code Red and Nimda.
I got WSL setup in my computer without the admin rights.
Yes, I agree there is much hypocrisy amongst those in power regarding this issue, and liberal democracies as such do not "care" about freedoms.

But then, why do they have laws punishing corruption in a foreign country? And why do they care if one of their citizens travels to a foreign country and performs a sexual act which, while not technically a crime at the current location, would be a crime back home?

Whether the motivation of these rules is purely utilitarian ("We don't want our businesses to get good at corruption, in case they start bringing it back" or "It's easier to catch active paedophiles having this option"), honestly moral ("Corruption/sex tourism is a scourge for developing countries, we must do anything to stop it") or even cynically electoral ("Let's look tough on crime to win votes"), any of these three options could be applied to a law against collaboration with repressive regimes.

In particular, given the dependence of our economies on the likes of Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, etc. and the increased power of China, I think that the utilitarian motivation should be enough. We don't want businesses that are so entrenched in our day-to-day to be so cozy with repressive authoritarian regimes which may sooner than later start to apply their own requirements on how businesses should operate in other countries if they want to have access to their own lucrative market.
But then the domain system holds your address hostage. I think considering the realities of the current internet, Posteo is a good compromise.
Wow, this is amazing
Are there any technical infos about the search engine?
Found some information here https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi

Author said they threw it together on consumer hardware. How big is the index? (TB used or entries) how is it realised?

I'm pretty much interested in this since I myself am crawling some pages for my own "search index".

Oh and thx for making and posting. Added it as a keyword to firefox

Edit: Just realized that my question is a bit shallow. What I'm particular interested in is the storage before the indexing. I'm trying to store the raw html so that I can reindex everything with better algorithms, but I'm hitting many limits. It takes a few minutes getting the size of a site-directory (every site has it's own dir) and I'm at a point where I can't reasonably manage the scrape-versioning over git and I cycled through a few filesystems only to find that the metadata management kind of sucks for most of them. It's rather interesting how we store such files and I'm thinking about storing a few sites in a simple sqlite format for easy access and search. I'm thinking about a a few low overhead solutions like facebooks project haystack (implemented open source in seaweedfs) or something similar... Hopefully this gives some context to the question of storage and sites that are indexed
Incorrect, Swift is not garbage collected. It uses reference counting. Read more here: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/AutomaticRef...

As for C and C++, yes, of course. I meant "everyone else" as in the trendy new languages.
UK's Age appropriate design: a code of practice for online services
The article mentioned the fire was started by lightening. It didn't state the cause of all these fires, but there is plenty of evidence and theory about how a hotter drier climate leads to an increase in the intensity and frequency of fires.
> For carbon to be permanently removed the tree would have to be somehow buried forever

Basically, they need to be turned into tomorrow’s coal or oil.
Why would I do that? Flickr embeds still work fine after almost 20 years and did even when Yahoo owned it. They're now owned by a company that sells real, actual things in service to paying customers and has for a long time (older than Flickr), so I don't see any reason they would go the route most widget/embeds did and pile trackers in.

Incentives are the key. AdTech took over most things, but this is a rare oasis of that lost web.
We don’t deserve this beautiful planet.
> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s.

That’s quite an impressive process size.
Swift uses ARC (atomic reference counting) which differs from tracing GC. C++ and Rust have similar features but can avoid the overhead of ARC in many cases.
Wow, this is interesting. It seems to be scan of the front page of a variety of physical newspapers. I've bookemarked it.
Using your magical paint to steal my soul and trap it in rock? No thank you! That’s a quick way to get yourself bludgeoned. Stick to animals please.
Can you ever see it used by a large organisation to manage fleets of machines? Can you continually apply a NixOS codebase across thousands of machines, securely? Is the language capable of handling roles, environments etc? Does it support an external database where you can manage variables (bonus if the lookups are environment-aware, so a 'dev' machine in Europe doesn't get 'test' config from the US).

If so then it could genuinely replace any existing CM system. But displacing the existing tech, rewriting the whole CM codebase and getting the team over the learning curve is a monumental.

I get that Puppet isn't 100% reproducible, but my point (in another part of this thread) is that time marches on and there are only so many things you need to (or want to) 'pin'. In the past, our practice was to leave software versions all 'latest' except for known issues or requirements. Otherwise you're in a constant fight with the security folks over old software versions. If we hit an issue on a puppet run in our test environment, we put the brakes on the puppet rollout until it's. Once it gets through a few days in test, we promote it to the next environment, and eventually do a staged release through the production environments.
It's the standard cycle of revolution. Middle class convinces lower class to help overthrow upper class. Middle class becomes new upper class. Most successful from the lower class rise until they eventually become the new middle class, and begin to chafe against the upper class.
I think we need a way better (re)use of the heat generated by the hardware instead cooling it or placing the hardware in cool places.
This reminds me of that tweet from BP about their environment calculator, can't find the source right now. But the idea is they "care" about environment while they did the biggest oil spillage in history, otherwise known as the old proverbial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_bla...

Do I really need to point who is the biggest e-waste generator in the world? Solve that problem first.
Why wouldn’t they just force other app stores to pull the app too?
>I worked on one which was required to respond to a packet from the network within 5 microseconds of the packet arriving.

Sounds like HFT? But then your competitors are probably using an FPGA to respond in 300 nanoseconds, so good luck with that 5 microseconds tick-to-trade.
Address of screen buffer.
Back pages asm instructions.
From zero to matrix in a thin red and black book.
I doubt our kids ever felt that trip. Im sorry about that.
It really astounds me how many people (not you, I don’t think) seem hell bent on blaming California’s wildfires on one source. It can be caused by multiple things at once.
His complaint wasn't about capitalism existing (he explicitly mentioned that he "liked capitalism"), but the fact that people are getting very very rich from zero-sum (HFT) or negative-sum (advertising) games. Most justifications for capitalism rely on the assumption that commerce is an overall positive-sum game.
> I'm an engineer former researcher and this lack of willingness to dialogue pains me deeply

I want dialogue! I want lots of it. I want people on mainstream media and social media to question all science. They are not able to. They are not allowed.

The BBC will not have anyone on any show that questions the dogma! It's not science. Science is when I can question your results, or try to replicate your results, or come up with alternative hypotheses etc. This isn't allowed today! If I publich legit research on Twitter that goes against the mainstream government data on COVID, it will be banned.

Social media are notorious for only allowing people to speak in positive tones about all the mainstream COVID information.

I'd love to have proper discussions but that's not possible these days!