skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusingly said. I agree that the most docile tend to have the greatest fitness in society, but I don't think it is all a matter of genes. I once had a near death experience and it really woke me up. I think anyone that has been close to death realizes that most people never think twice about their mortality till the very end...and this creates two very different types of psychological species: those who carry the weight of their mortality and those who fly around like little birds who think they will never die...tweet tweet...I will live for ever. The former we may call the "undomesticated" and the latter we may call the "domesticated." At least this is how I've come to understand things.
Tech enthusiasts never had the numbers to realize that world. It was the "It just works" users that determined how economic interest would shape the net in large parts.

That said, the classical internet is still there, it just isn't as buzzing as social media. I really appreciate that.
That was so creative of them.
Clearview AI has my grocery store as it's client. (Albertsons/Safeway)

So, I'm sticking with a mask for as long as it's still socially acceptable.

And before anyone suggests they're tracking my phone, well, I leave that either at home or in the car for grocery runs.

It's futile, but it gives me the illusion of having a tiny bit of control in this strange hell we created for ourselves.
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I was trying to give simple explanation for someone who said they don't know networking.

BGP in this context implicitly meant external BGP . Yes, no single router necessarily sees all the routes, but all routers combined generally see the internet as a single network of networks was my point.

Convergence in this context is how most ASN will resolve on where/how to route a specific ASN traffic.

It is hard to peer with someone and not trust the routing table they publish, that is why Pakistan could by mistake block YouTube for everyone few years back.

In this case if you peered with Facebook, and they published incorrect routing for their AS you would accept it.

This doesn't mean FB couldn't have used multiple ASNs did some rolling updates etc, however without knowing what exactly fb screwed up for five hours it is hard to say what they could done differently.
You can ask someones account number.
Very exciting! Has Blue Origin announced any plans to bring the Shatner back?

This is wishful and sentimental thinking, but it would be great if one (sad) day SpaceX would send Shatner into 5-year solar orbit, in a USS Enterprise shaped mausoleum, laid out in natural repose on the sleeping pad of his Captain's Quarters.

I know it would console me.

A first and most fitting Orbituary.

Once every five years we could all tune in to a fragile signal...

"Captain's Log. Stardate 4768.3. The Enterprise is passing over a planet whose surface, our sensors tell us, is covered in life forms. A world predicted to be destroyed and dead due to its inhabitants short sightedness. But apparently the planet's citizens have begun working through their problems. From it comes the combined voice of its inhabitants, speaking of loss and joy, through the energy of pure thought. Their voices tell us of hope that they will achieve increasing harmony together, for thousands of centuries to come. Ships computer, make a note to pass back here again. Captain's Log out."
Most of the things I listed weren't really perf related, though they do show up when there's perf issues. Being able to "load more comments" and reply inline are super basic usability features. There's no reason why I'd need to navigate to a whole different page with a textbox, then navigate back and lose my position every time I post a comment.
Is that actually mentioned anywhere, publically? We use it and as it’s account-wide, we always calculate which account we have to use to minimize fees.
Has anyone ran a recent A/B test for Stripe direct CC-based checkout + paypal vs Stripe only in the context of B2C subscriptions? Last time I've checked circa 2014-2015, there was consumer trust in Paypal (for cancellation/etc), and so having that option added ~+10% conversion rate (or so), but would appreciate more recent data, thank you!
(Based on the larger "id=..." in the URL and smaller "X hours ago" shown, I believe that one was submitted ~6 hours later.)
Only because lazy manufacturers ships patched monstrosities that passes for software. If "Android" was responsible for booting and device drivers, or if Android was GPL for that matter, that would have ceased to be the case.
> Apple provides them access to, literally, nearly a billion potential customers

On the flip side, if Apple were to no longer provide access to Netflix to those customers, they would be downright hostile about it and would be a watershed moment for Android. What % would change their next phone to one that "Has Netflix"? 10%? 20%? What would it cost Apples reputation to no longer support the juggernaut media consumption app? billions, probably.

Apple knows how much time people spend watching Netflix on their devices, they are not in a position to be negotiating.

I know anecdotally my mother would be on the phone almost immediately asking what android tablet to buy if this was to ever happen.
Hello, author of a Haskell library for Postgres[1] here!

I agree with you. Darwen and Date have some very weird requirements, notably:

1. Requirement that "relations" should be sets not bags. Having one means you automatically have the other[2]. There's no point going out of one's way to forbid bags.

2. Requirement that the contents of "relations" should be "tuples". The contents of a "relation" should be allowed to be any data type, whether compound or not.

3. Completely ignoring sum types.

4. Forbidding NULLs even though there's an easy way to permit them sensibly: have nullability be part of the type.

Overall, Darwen and Date's language design is poor from both the point of compatibility with real-world implementations and with current practice in programming language theory.

I think my package Opaleye is a good candidate for what Darwen and Date's proposed "D" language should have been.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/opaleye

[2] http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/set-bag-irrelevance/
You can only transfer to a number, you can't (easily) charge back already effectuated transfer, nor can you (with a consumer account) debit a number. All of these things are covered.

Buyer protection has rarely been something one needs. Some (many nowadays?) banks offer insurance for this.
He should invoice Amazon for establishing the perverse norm where googling-for-support-contact is the only way to find such info.
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It’s generally recommended to review your finances at least once a year, even if they are long-term investments in index funds. That helps people maintain the access and records they will need to benefit from their wealth someday.

If crypto on a hard drive is a significant part of your finances, an annual check on it for access or corruption seems reasonable to expect.
Ah, I saw that one, but it wasn't verified so I figured it was an imposter. It has only a handful of tweets from 2009 and 1 from 2012, but it could really be him, I suppose.
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What about Cloudflare? Should it be illegal?
On the information super highway!
I blame the increased cost of compliance.

And also the fact that they are one of the few established and widely accepted payment / transfer systems, so their customers aren't going to flee in droves.
Do you have the facebook container extension? That closes the current tab, opens a new tab with a container, then goes to the facebook link. Reopening the last closed tab works for me, although I haven't noticed this before since I always open links in a new tab.
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Apollo! We had one of those workstations floating around. It had a unique windowing system, shame its no longer available to play with.
Good luck with that plan,

https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/deve...

> Starting in November 2021, app updates will be required to target API level 30 or above and adjust for behavioral changes in Android 11. Existing apps that are not receiving updates are unaffected and can continue to be downloaded from the Play Store. Wear OS apps must continue to target API level 28 or higher.

Android is not a POSIX OS, apis like exec() where never part of the public APIs, time to embrace the Java ways of the platform.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis#c_libra...
AFAIU, the French Tax Code is effectively defined in terms of an algorithm. There was a recent HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208853) on a new open-source compiler for the tax code (https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07966). The paper for the compiler references some interesting literature on the computability of legal codes. For example,

> [U.S.] tax law drafting style follows default logic, a non-monotonic logic that is hard to encode in languages with first-order logic (FOL).
> tons of half-baked extra features

Not sure about that. I find chrome way too annoying. To see history new tab needs to be opened, download bar below with no way to see all without new tab. Edge fixed these issues with toolbar buttons, some new flag options, web capture, read aloud, startup boost etc are quite helpful.

Block ntp.msn.com & assets.msn.com in hosts file to block start page completely if anyone don't like it, which I'm not sure if can be done with chrome without blocking google. This makes my experience better than chrome.
What I don't understand is why, when a route is revoked, if there is no other route announced the routing table gets updated? It seems like either it's a black hole or it still works and there was a BGP error (or the route works but the resources aren't present, so traffic would be dropped). What's the reason for designing the system to revoke routes when no new route is announced?

It strikes me it's like DNS when you get a SERVFAIL, why not try the prior IP address. The similarity in the design here suggests there may be common reasoning??
Whenever I see an online system with a single global namespace, I can't help but feel sorry for the next generation.

Gmail? Sorry, every variant of your name is taken. Twitter? Every witticism, every pop culture reference, every real name, all taken. Just add another number to the end, I guess. It must get you down when you feel like you're always part of the 3rd/4th/5th wave of everything.

How many people here have tried to get a Twitter account for their new company, only to find an existing account that tweeted some spam once eight years ago and has been dead ever since? For services that have global reach, the problem gets bad real quick.

We really should think hard about whether we can namespace the population in some way.

Contrary to the thrust of this article from Jon, I'd also like to see more aggressive cleanup for some services. If you have an S3 bucket and it has no activity for 15 years, you're just squatting and I think you should arguably be warned, and then finally have the name recycled. Same goes for Twitter accounts that have never posted, retweeted, liked a tweet, etc and not been logged into for over 10 years.
1. Immature people in my family.

2. Not enough energy and not great health (I get sick rather easily when I get outside during less than perfect weather).
You don't need software to file taxes. You can download the forms (1040, etc.) from the IRS website (and your state IRS's website), fill them in, print them out, and mail them to the IRS. It costs a few (literally a few) dollars for the postage and a certificate of mailing from the USPS as proof that you had the forms sent out by the deadline.

The forms are not super straightforward but not incredibly complex either. For most normal people with a W-2 or 1099/self-employed income, retirement savings accounts, and some brokerage/investment accounts, you should be able to get it done in a weekend of research & work using resources on the internet, referencing the IRS's instructions for their forms, and using your previous year's return as a reference. And less time in future years once you've figured out how it works. You will need Adobe PDF software, but it's libre and a Windows virtual machine with the network connection disabled will solve that if you use Linux on your computer.

It's not for everyone, but if you don't want to support the evil tax industry in the US (there have been a number of posts on HN about this) then it's a good option.

Additionally, you can create an account on Turbotax and fill in all your information (but with fake name, SSN, employer tax numbers, etc.) and it'll tell you the amount of remaining tax obligation / tax return that it calculates. So you can use that to verify that you did everything properly. Turbotax only charges money to actually submit the return through them; even if you would normally require a paid TurboTax plan (e.g. for contractors, living in multiple states, etc.) you can still go through the process and get the final number without paying.

I did this for the first time this spring and was able to get it done in a weekend. I had W-2 and 1099 income/deductions and lived in multiple states last year. From what I can recall, basically the form 1040 is the 'root of the tree'; your W-2 income goes into that and every other taxable/deductible thing you do ends up aggregated into the 1040. The schedules (A,B,C,...) of the 1040 are like the first level child nodes; each one has a different topic(s) like self employment gains/losses, farming/fishing income, etc. so you can skim over them and see what applies to you, then fill out the ones you need to and enter their totals back into the 1040. The schedules will have lines into which you aggregate specific incomes/deductions, and the instructions for the schedules will have details on how to calculate all of that. And for other special deductions there are lines in the 1040/schedules that mention them. I'm not a CPA so don't blame me if you follow those instructions and something goes wrong.
His LinkedIn photo used to be this really awkward laptop camera photo of roughly this face: (-_-)

It was amazing. I’m sad he remove it.
> [A "breakthrough" infection with the main variant of concern involved a 2x risk of transmission vs the original variant. Beneficial effect on main variant transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time¹: for OAZ, the chance of transmitting to a close contact was 57% after 2 weeks but 67% after 3 months (for Pfizer, 42% increasing to 58%).]

I have no time now to properly abridge the divulgative article fully (nor the linked scientific articles, its sources) but these seem to be the main points.

¹It is not clear when the effect becomes negligible.
This is not a very complex website, any HN reader could probably whip up a replacement from scratch over a weekend.

I guess there does exist many alternative UIs, though I don't see many that support commenting. I wonder if the "API" (if there's any) allows for that, or if people are just scraping the page and reformating it.
What about Venmo? Or Cash App?

Venmo has been ubiquitous for years—everyone seems to have it. I’ve used it for everything from buying plants at the farmer’s market to paying rent and medical expenses.

Edit: Of course the default broadcasting of your payments to a social feed is bonkers and needs to be turned off.
Filing personal taxes in the US sounds like filing taxes for a company in other countries. A complete nightmare consisting of tons of forms that some bureaucrat dreamed up, which nobody really knows how to fill out correctly. Software exists to fill them out for you, and if you use some well-known software to do it, it's just assumed to be correct by everyone; including the state.
How can you explain yesterday's outage (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) to your parents?

You are feeling hungry and went to food court. The food court (open area) has a lot of options. You sit down in front of Domino's (Facebook), since you want to eat garlic bread. Now, you can't order from the counter directly. The waiter will come to your seat and ask for the order. You ordered garlic bread from the waiter, but the guy at Domino's counter went missing. Your order was not reaching to the chef in kitchen as Domino's counter guy was not present.

This explains why Domino's (Facebook) ecosystem was down, but what about other vendors? They had nothing to do with Facebook.

To understand this, we need to go back to our food court again. Now, there are a lot of hungry people sitting outside Domino. Since they were not getting answer from one waiter as why their food is not on their table, they started disturbing all the waiters. Due to this, majority of the waiters were trying to figure out where the Domino's counter guy went and other food joints (read websites) were not able to fulfil their own orders.

So although only Domino's was down, it appeared as if whole Food Court (Internet) was facing issues.

Counter Guy at Domino's - Facebook Nameservers
Waiters - DNS Servers (Cloudflare, Google, Akamai)
> What does direct bank transfers offer in the way of dispute resolution?

It's just not something that comes up. The number of such stories I read on here/through Anglo-Saxon sources far outnumbers the number of local problems. Fewer shady sellers, perhaps?

To your question: although not as easy as a charge back, banks let you appeal. Some (perhaps many now) also offer cheap or free 30/90/365 day purchase insurance.

Also, for small value transactions there's a special legal channel.
off topic: I noticed that when I click a link on that site, I can no longer use the browser back button to leave the site. How can I prevent sites from doing this?
If you're not running a full node on your own encrypted hardware, you shouldn't be doing anything but playing with crypto. It's almost as if the current financial system evolved over hundreds of years of hard lessons learned to have certain tradeoffs like reversible transactions that mitigate this threat for the general populace.
Within several European countries they do, since the banking systems support sending a payment using a phone number. You get confirmation of the recipient's name before pressing "send".

It's MobilePay in Denmark and Finland, Vipps in Norway, Swish in Sweden, PayM in Britain, etc.

For example, we split a restaurant bill at the weekend. In roughly the time it took one person to pay the whole bill on a card, the rest of us had sent ¼ each to her using her phone number. There are no fees for this.

In the next year or two, this should start to work internationally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Mobile_Payment_System...
Not to defend politicians looking to gain political mileage from everything, this is not a far-fetched claim. Current Indian government has blocked websites and shutdown internet access wholesale to towns and even whole states citing many reasons, and multiple times in recent past. Latest was internet shutdown in multiple Rajasthan towns apparently to prevent exam takers from cheating on a test.
That is, of course, a different problem.
It's tough to say without being there but this isn't the first lawsuit nor is it the first blog post on racism in the factory.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/hotbed-misinformation
i've honestly been coding all day, i didn't notice until i got on here and say everyone talking about it
There's a very specific meaning to price rangers of restaurants, I always use Yelp $ sign ratings as an example; they categorize every place into 4 price ranges from $ to $$$$. Generally, the breakdown is as follows:

$ - counter/fast-food/food truck/sketchy

$$ - regular

$$$ - regular, but very small servings and artfully arranged

$$$$ - fancy

The key is to avoid the $$$ places ;)
Sounds like a minefield. How do you know which formulas have been updated for the latest law changes? Hire a tax guy?
>Buyer protection has rarely been something one needs.

I disagree, I think it is the biggest factor. I used it several times and I know other people who have too.

>you can't (easily) charge back already effectuated transfer

I promise if you try to do something involving bank transfers without doing some form of 'Know Your Customer' you'll get people try to use bank accounts that are compromised in some way. You'll be getting calls from your bank and potentially lose money, and may get your bank account closed if you persist with that behavior
Time to put all this on crypto rails and disrupt these bastards out of existence.
I know nothing but in the UK we have a chap with a YouTube channel called Harry's Farm and he regularly makes the claim that grass fed beef is at least carbon neutral and may be even better than that. He claims to have dug into some research on co2 sequestering in grass. I have no idea if true or not, I watch him mostly for his other channel, Harry's Garage, (he's a motoring journalist, with a great car collection)
They didn't think of that for the first implementation round?
As per the report they also soared in 2018.

It is a bigger jump in 2019, but it's a stretch to say it proves much.

Advertised in May 2019 means even earlier they had to find it and see there was a big problem coming.

They know it's an international problem after dealing with SARS. Which is also their problem.

It's interesting OSINT, but the conclusion is forced.
In a way I think it is a "best practice": It's a pretty central part of "Extreme Programming", which was one of the early sparks that ignited the whole "Agile" movement. And from what little I've gotten to do it, it really is an effective way to code, so I'm all for it... But yeah, I'm probably pretty extrovert, so easy for me to say.

I don't know how, exactly, but it seems to me finding some way to get this to work also for the more introvert among us should be a pretty high priority on the methodology front.
Gotta say, this title is way too misleading amid the WhatsApp outage.
Depends on what you define as work, or rather the difficulty and quality of it per hour.

Example: An accountant who works 8h/d does very taxing, mental work. They require high concentration and precision, it’s often quite boring stuff, but still, they have to get things right, quickly, constantly.

A manager or director might effectively work more hours, but those hours typically have a much more natural rhythm to them. The vast majority of it is communication or preparing for such. The hard part is making the right decisions, listening learning (broad sense), but it’s not detailed and constant.

We programmers tend to complain when we have too many meetings and purely conceptual/communicative work, because it doesn’t „feel“ like work and getting things done, right? There’s a hint there.

For me, 3-4h of highly concentrated programming and testing is much more taxing than a full day of communication/learning. Much more.