skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The India claim are way off. First they only used the drug in mild cases. Second they also used a cocktail of other anti viral drugs in the more severe cases. Third the report was put out about the use in India and they found that 95% of mild cases were treated effective with the drug and 93% were also treated effective with a placebo. So medically it means the use of a sugar pill was just as effective as the drug.
Economist being paid to astroturf on behalf of corporate control freaks and their urban real estate buddies
I don't think that's correct.

Their CDN is based on their SDN. Which is also at the core of all their products, including DDOS protection.

Their primary product is the SDN and a CDN was a logical pick as first product "release".

Eg. You shouldn't consider their products in "regions" as traditional cloud providers. In cloudflare it's programmable, not configurable.
Typically if presenting in person (such as airport security) you would need to also release your picture, which would show up on the TSA agent's terminal next to a big green checkmark for the valid cryptographic signature.

Without the picture? My understanding is that release does require authentication, and the message could disclose whether that was done with say the fingerprint used when the license was added to the phone.

The use of cryptographic signatures means the weakest link would likely be the identity verification process of the issuing DMV (or their app).
How did you find out. What test?
I always thought the problem was obvious by the title. And felt good about myself for a long time after I read it. Now that I am well into adulthood knowing does not seem that amazing.
This is not a great headline since it could easily be misinterpreted as Satoshi's wallet.
Feature request: functionality to auto-hide articles from a user-configurable domain kill-list, for those of us who don't want to see articles from e.g. Politico or Buzzfeed. Bonus points if it could also filter stories with user-configurable keywords in the title.

I've suggested this in the past to dang for the main HN UI, but they have limited resources for this sort of thing and there's a fear that if filtering is too easy, it'll split the community here.
Designing a better flight experience – a UX/UI case study
This is also important to keep in mind when reading articles about less well-liked companies, e.g. Facebook, Amazon, etc.
Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of macOS Monterey to Developers
That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer, so while it's nice, it's not really meaningful. Think about how much Twitch pays for something like Slack or Google Docs. (I'm sure they have in-house alternatives, which probably make them even more expensive, actually.)
> legally

There's the problem. Cops do plenty of illegal things all the time.

That's before even getting into how civil forfeiture exists as a massively profitable and federally-approved end-run around the Constitution.
The US still doesn't have wide-spread use of chip & pin on credit cards. Innovation & adoption of digital identity in this country is unlikely to be rapid.
I don't think HN was ever about just "technical" stuff. There is Lobsters for that kind of thing.

Out of curiosity, I brought up HN from 10 years ago on archive.org. I counted - 10 of the top 20 links were things that I wouldn't consider to be "technical".
One key consideration that I only got recently is the difference between a cruise & ballistic missile. A ballistic missile launches at great velocity, then more or less falls at it's target (over an extended distance) using a ballistic trajectory. A cruise missile is under power for a large part of it's journey, typically flying much lower, & able to navigate/direct itself.

A ballistic missile is often quite supersonic. But cruise missiles being hypersonic is definitely a big shift.
I absolutely agree there is much work to be done. Let's start doing it. I don't see how offering one's talents to these companies is moving us in the right direction. It's not a meaningless act to accept a higher pay check in exchange for working in such an industry. They are paying more because they want solid employees who will work hard. Unless you're there just to throw sand in the gears, I really don't get it.
Nintendo Labo VR is for 7 and up. That's about as low as it gets.
Impossible Pork: Muslims like me aren’t sure about eating it
1. How do other companies handle these situations? How do you effectively handle an employee rendered unable to perform their job due to tragedy? This came up with Atlassian a few weeks ago, and they have a much better reputation than Amazon and it doesn't seem like they handled things in a great way either. The reality is that you might just need to terminate people who cannot perform, no matter what the reason.

2. I am obviously sympathetic to his plight, but at this point Amazon has that reputation as a brutal employer. Every ex-Amazonian I have known in real life has told me that the pay is so that they own you, whether 3PM or 3AM and they have no qualms about firing you (a former co-worker who was with AWS said that if I ever take an AWS role, don't get a full year lease for a condo in Seattle). Not to blame him, but it is unfortunate that he didn't have someone who could advise him that taking a hard job at a notoriously uncaring company with a sick wife would be unwise.
A tip: If anyone finds themselves in a tragic situation like this where they can’t work but also can’t afford to take leave, investigate your short and long-term disability benefits ASAP. Also read up on the documentation necessary to begin disability claims.

Engage with a doctor early on who can document the severe depressive symptoms that are preventing work (which the author specifically cites in his anecdote). Do it as early as possible to generate a documentation trail. Don’t wait until you’re close to being terminated to begin documenting anything because that will make the claim much weaker compared to someone with months of doctor’s notes documenting the situation.

I can’t speak to Amazon’s specific benefits, but most big tech companies I’ve worked for have provided some base level short and long term disability coverage as part of their core benefits, partially to avoid situations like this where employees are unable to work due to external circumstances but are unable to go on leave.
Yes, I leave my DL my gf’s car (which annoys her no end) as that’s the only place I would need it. I don’t carry a wallet any more.
A 'normal' company would understand that while a persons significant other is dying of a cancer, their work output may suffer as a result.
"Past studies found that exercise induces production of FNDC5, a protein found on the surfaces of certain cells. FNDC5 can activate neuroprotective genes in the hippocampus, the brain region in charge of memory formation. The outer part of FNDC5 can be cleaved off to form a hormone called irisin, which is released into the bloodstream."

see also

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25952527/

"Irisin, as a new hormone-like myokine, is discovered in the presence of exercise-induced peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1-alpha (PGC-1α)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNDC5
I should add Mathematica (obligatory emphasis), Sage, Jupyter, and other notebook-centric tools to the group of systems which tease the promise of a more "alive" computing model.
How recent is recent history?
This map doesn't really have anything to do with MVNOs. These maps are just about the deployment of physical infrastructure.

Nor is this a coverage map -- even carriers with physical infrastructure often have roaming agreements that extend their coverage beyond their own networks. It is expected that coverage maps differ from this map. And it is also expected that different network operators have different provisioning of those network services to different customers.
Relevant parts of the bhyve(5) manual:

virtfs[N] sharename , path[,ro]

Share a filesystem to the guest using Virtio 9p (VirtFS). The specified path is presented over PCI as a share named sharename. The optional ro option configures the share as read-only. The filesystem path being shared must also be mapped into the zone, using either a delegated dataset or a loopback (lofs) mount. See the EXAMPLES section below.

...

The following example shows how to share a delegated dataset called rpool/datavol to a guest using VirtFS. This assumes that the mountpoint attribute on rpool/datavol is set to /datavol. This could have been done, for example, by creating the dataset with:

zfs create -o mountpoint=/datavol -o zoned=on zpool/datavol

Setting the mountpoint and zoned attributes at the same time prevents the filesystem from ever being mounted in the global zone.

add dataset
set name=rpool/datavol
end
add attr
set name=virtfs0
set type=string
set value=datavol,/datavol
end

and to share the global zone filesystem /data/websites read-only to the guest, add:

add fs
set dir="/data/websites"
set special="/data/websites"
set type="lofs"
add options ro
add options nodevices
end
add attr
set name=virtfs1
set type=string
set value=websites,/data/websites,ro
end
Firefox is very actively of the opinion that politically motivated people should decide what I see on the web. When that is their stance, I kindly nope the fuck out.

They are a browser maker, and I don't remember the last time they came out with anything really exciting. Vivaldi and Brave both have, and even Brave's stock Chrome UI has good stuff like a solid tab groups implementation that Firefox just doesn't have. There are extensions, but they just don't work the same.
> Hey, at least they're not requiring a chip implant.

Baby steps...
It's actually excellent by accessibility standards. The small click targets and text can be easily solved by using your browsers built in zoom functionality.
Proto-Indo-European Homeland
That's an interesting use of the word 'convince' you've made there.
Atari Founder Is Launching Augmented Reality NFTs on Ethereum
Dropbox really is great. I used them in college and it was always effective yet painless. Since then I've used google because it integrates so well with everything from youtube to google office, but it's file syncing just isn't that great. I've been meaning to move away from google for file backups; I think I'll check out dropbox again.

Or does anybody have something recommend over dropbox and google?
The “Bi-Symmetric Encryption” Fraud
Do you really think there will be zero disasters in Arizona in the coming years?

Sure the plant may survive a water crisis, how about it's power grid? How about the local communities and states who will run out of water?

Over the next 20 years, I wouldn't rank Arizona highly for stability.
DARPA’s hypersonic air-breathing weapon concept achieves successful flight
> You don't need a majority of miners to create a hard fork. I still maintain it is up to the majority of nodes/users to determine if it is valid. If there has been a hard fork then by definition the network has rejected an invalid block(s). It is up to nodes/users to determine which network is "the" coin and thus mining valid blocks.

Nope, I was very clear that in this context there is more than one network, so expressions like your "by definition the network has rejected invalid blocks" doesn't make sense. Network A rejects blocks by network B, and network B rejects blocks by network A. There is more than one network. You don't need to look further than Ethereum Classic to see that this can happen in practice. The "minority chain" doesn't just disappear magically.
Different responses to mundane small talk questions
Really excited for R2 Storage. I am wondering if R2 can solve a limitation I was running into with BackBlaze.

I had tried using BackBlaze 8 months ago as a much cheaper (especially with B2 and CF's Free Data Transfer partnership) replacement for Amazon S3 and was running into a limitation on B2.

I had a scenario where my users can upload images from the browser to BackBlaze. I wanted the ability to control the file name of the uploaded file. I don't want the user to be able to modify the network request to upload the file with a different file name. Nor do I want the users to be able to upload files with names which would overwrite existing files.

B2 didn't let me upload files with a specific filename in the pre-signed URL.

For example there's this API:

curl https://apiXXX.backblazeb2.com/b2api/v2/b2_get_upload_url -H 'Authorization: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=' -d '{"bucketId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"}'

which gave me an upload URL where I can upload the file to.

And then there's this:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_upload_file.html

which lets users upload files to that URL.

But this allowed my users to upload file with any name they want. It would also allow them to overwrite existing files (from other users).

My question is more from a security point of view so preventing one user from overwriting another user's content is crucial. For example, lets say you right click on an image from someone else on facebook and get the actual image's file name. Now you try to upload an image on facebook and you edit the network request in the browser's inspector tool to the image file name which you got for another user. Facebook obviously prevents this in their own way using pre-signed urls which include the filename in the signature. However on BackBlaze if I try this, the "pod" url which is received doesn't include any file name signature. The pod URL is just where the image gets stored on your end. A user can easily edit the network request and modify the "X-Bz-File-Name" Header to another user's filename. This would be a major security vulnerability if I went with BackBlaze. As a workaround, right now it seems like users would first have to upload files to my own server, then my server would have to upload them to BackBlaze to avoid this issue. This sounded like hassle.

Amazon S3 solves this problem using createPresignedPost which includes a signature of the filename in the URL. I contacted BackBlaze's support and got a response their S3 api doesn't support createPresignedPost:

https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/kzszym/is_backbl...

You can read B2's staff's response to my question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/l0c9s7/is_there_...

Is there a way to prevent this on R2? Something where the link provided by b2_get_upload_url (whatever R2's equivalent will be) only works for specific a file name?
Haha, sorry I meant specifically with 3D models like the OP.
I'm on a MVNO provider and frequently experience issues where I have full signal like you mention, but nothing "works". Are you aware of any tools that can test the signal strength in comparison to... I guess download speed? Would be interesting to plot it out!
Cheers, I will email you next week when I return from my vacation!
That sounds like it should be illegal, is it advertised as lower priority from the MVNO? Do the MVNOs agree to this?
Dealing with police overstepping their bounds is always a tough job. If such an incident happens to you, make sure to visit https://gproslaw.com/ to hire the best law specialists in Pennsylvania. These guys know how to win even the cases that look like a 100% lose, so anything will be a breeze with them.
I don't know anything about military law and what rights service members have, but going on camera in uniform and talking about politics is definitely a big no-no. All service members in the U.S. are supposed to get any appearances on video cleared by going through public relations.
> This isn't a new concept - You've been required to show proof of immunizations to register for public school (including college) and get a visa (or immigrate) for decades.

that's fine because you only have to present the id once. I'm okay with having to present my id every time I enter the country, but not every time I eat out.
There's a difference between unions and staffing agencies.
I can’t speak for everyone but there’s a growing awareness of where all the risks to society with gathering and spreading all this data.

It surprises me how someone who understands the inner workings as well as the interactions of the systems that society has increasingly expected us to depend on are not scared shitless of how things will look a generation from now.
We've actually been doing some internal work with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger - we would love some feedback on it. Drop me a note at todd@era.co and we can get you set up with a demo instance.
"Stack" is for business ops what GitHub and AWS lambda did for devops.

Sure you can roll your own and if you've done this in the past and are both opinionated and experienced you can re-use your know-how and you'll be fine. Everyone else is probably better off with sensible defaults and a platform that takes care of the details for you.
Thanks for sharing. Googling for "SCRIPT/VS" gives the only link pointing to somewhere in the middle of IBM's z/OS manual. Must be a lost alien technology by now.
Does this mean we should contact our enterprise account manager regarding our existing spend? For the sake of absolute clarity: we're currently paying for bandwidth
I don't think you know what you are talking about. Here is a link to what they were quoting and might fill you in.

https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN25.html
Thank you! Glad to hear :)
Many 404 errors for the PDF links. Just FYI.
Atlassian News – End of Connect, Apptoberfest, Help Directory in Jira, and More
A nice reference for traffic prioritization on major mobile networks. https://coveragecritic.com/2019/06/19/prioritized-and-deprio...
> The HAWC is exploring air-breathing hypersonic flight

> propelling the cruiser at a speed greater than Mach 5

I wonder if they are running a scramjet engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
With respect, I don't think it needs a redesign.

It could do with a few minor CSS tweaks to address some of those points you've listed (which I do agree with to a degree).

But we are a long way from horrible by accessibility standards - I mean, it's literally text only for a start!
> Hi, propagandist?

Personal attacks are against site rules, and you've been here long enough that you should know that.

> China had no ambition for territorial expansion other than defending herself. That's the pattern for 2 thousands years.

China occupied Tibet. China invaded Vietnam twice. The first time, they stayed for a thousand years. "China has no ambition for territorial expansion" only if you accept China's definition of what is rightfully China. A bunch of us don't, though. For that matter, a bunch of nations don't.

Specifically with regard to Taiwan: Yes, China has a historical claim on Taiwan. (And, yes, Taiwan has a historical claim on the mainland.) Technically, as you say it is a civil war.

Practically, it's two countries. They have two militaries, issue two different passports, have two different currencies, etc. Neither one wants to admit this, but de facto they are two separate countries. (So are North and South Korea, even though that civil war legally isn't over either.)

So, legal fictions aside, for China to conquer Taiwan would be a dramatic increase of their actual territory. (That's kind of implied in the word "conquer".)

And it's clearly China that's the aggressor here. Nobody's talking about Taiwan invading and conquering the mainland. But China talks about invading if Taiwan even dares to say that they're a separate country. They act like, if we all play pretend with them, it makes their claim more legitimate or something.

Speaking of legitimacy, let's note that Taiwan is the legitimate government of China. The mainland is held by the rebels.
I think it's a difference of degree, not kind. And, as you suggest, the degree of onboard control / adaptivity is probably a good spectrum.

As things become more simple and robust, I would argue the degree of adaptivity will necessarily decrease, because adaptivity is required to handle situations off nominal, and those can and should be designed around.
OBS is basically the Gimp or Libreoffice of video production. There are paid tools that are better but if you don't mind the quirks it does pretty much everything an amateur could want, and most of what a professional needs.
If I was a plumber, and my wife was dying, and as a result I was unable to repair plumbing, I would not expect anyone to give me money to repair their plumbing, not even if I told them my wife is dying and they should be sympathetic.
I am on the mild end of the accessibility spectrum -- I am, for the most part, keyboard-only.

HN's design is one of the best I've found on the Web, and one of the few places I still feel comfortable at.
Comparing the uintptr_t cast of two disparate pointers is not undefined behavior. A comparison may not yield a portable result because the integer representation of pointers may not be as plain memory addresses.

So such a simplistic stack growth detector may get the wrong answer, but it's not undefined behavior:

char stack_grows_up(uintptr_t callers_local) {
char my_local = (uintptr_t)&my_local > callers_local;
return my_local;
}

EDIT: Ah, and uintptr_t is an optional type. If the platform doesn't have it (e.g., because it's a segmented memory architecture) then this won't work, so it's not portable, but aside from that it's not undefined behavior, it's just that the computation of stack growth direction may well be wrong.
You behave like a human being with feelings. You do the best you can to support and help someone who suffers unbelievably and you f**ing show some empathy. This involves actually putting yourself in the shoes of someone else, yes. It means that you share a part of their suffering.

You are dealing with a human, not a "resource" and not a machine. It sickens me to read stories like that to the point where I really consider stopping ordering anything from Amazon.

I hope this practice is going to backfire on them.
Ah, that makes more sense, since you could easily limit stack deallocation to once a second or whatever.
America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack
> Not to blame him, but it is unfortunate that he didn't have someone who could advise him that taking a hard job at a notoriously uncaring company with a sick wife would be unwise.

This is blaming him.

> The reality is that you might just need to terminate people who cannot perform, no matter what the reason.

Or even better, give them a few months' leave at half or a quarter salary, or at least let them keep their benefits. I know, crazy to suggest we might put corporate profits over helping someone in need, but you could give it a try.

Edit: Amazon did offer the employee family leave unpaid. It wasn't workable and their response was that he should quit.
In this case, a mix of both is required. While you absolutely must plan ahead and implement as many safeguards as you can prior to launch, that's simply the beginning, and it is incredibly naive to think that all the leaks can be prevented. (Or, honestly, that really any aspect of a community can be perfectly master-planned in advance.) To operate anything like a UGC platform is to be eternally engaged in a battle against ever-evolving and increasingly clever methods someone will come up with to exploit, sabotage, or otherwise harm your platform.

This is totally fine -- you just need to acknowledge this and try not to drop the ball when things seem like they're running smoothly. Employing every tactic at your disposal from the very beginning should be viewed as a prerequisite, one that will start you off in a strong position and able to evolve without first having to play catch-up.
Just look at the privacy policy of Facebook with regards to Virtual Reality devices and you'll see that they want it all. It's well documented.

No thanks.
Media creation in general is so easy now. Even professional game reviewers used to have to literally take pictures of CRTs and then publish screenshots to accompany screenshots in printed guides! Compared to today where anybody can get OBS and stream their gameplay and commentary, live! OBS is definitely an awesome piece of software that deserves its praise.