skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for one of the largest datacenter company in the world and significant portion of boxes would never come up after being powercycled
Why not? Mercenary tech didn't exist 15 years ago, so it's not like an industry is needed to create useful state hackers. Top talent would just continue to be nurtured in-house in more accountable government agencies.
A hearty second to everything you say about LWN’s high quality and standards. The editing process can be more than what an author had bargained for, but the result is always worth it. In my case I received a suggestion to look up what Mark Twain had to say about “very”. I’ve almost abandoned the word completely!
thanks i forgot about that. actually doubt it will bear fruit as twitter has a vested interest not to let this grow. More likely some kid will come up with a better idea
For the most part I've worked for relatively small companies where management was fairly accessible. In that context, if I made a case that management didn't agree with, there would be no point in me creating a struggle -- I'd have to either accept the reality or leave. It's admittedly different if you're in a FAANG and you have to create negative press to get the CEO to pay attention, but IMO it usually ends up with a lot of effort to get management to take a step back on a single issue, and at that point your career prospects at that place are toast and your favors are used up.

To be clear, I admire whistleblowers who call out true ethical breaches. I just think fighting with management on things like salary transparency which aren't urgent issues is a waste of time. If they're not paying you what you think you're worth go find a better gig.
I can use blockchain apps all of my life and even if there are people (now) making billions of USD worth of Tether transfers, I never will be forced to accept it, because I don't trust them. That is exactly what "democratized trust" looks like.
Not as of 2010. Dodd-Frank legislation explicitly made it illegal for payment card networks to prevent merchants from offering discounts for different payment methods:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/new...

> A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card.

In Mar 2017, Supreme Court went further and said state laws banning credit card surcharges were a violation of merchants’ first amendment rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressions_Hair_Design_v._Sch...

What you may be thinking about is rules prohibiting charging different payment card network prices for various credit cards (i.e. different price for Visa vs Amex vs Mastercard vs Discover). This was deemed allowable by the Supreme Court in Jun 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_v._American_Express_Co.

As an aside, this Ohio v AmEx ruling was of great benefit to tech companies that operated market places, because

> This decision was considered to have created a new type of rule that could make it difficult to seek antitrust litigation; with credit cards being a two-sided market serving two distinct sets of customers, a successful antitrust argument would have to show how both sides of the market were harmed.
That's what we did on the old swap based systems, on modern paged systems we don't read pages in untill there is a page fault, to do that efficiently we need to align page boundaries with disk block boundaries - elf (and coff before it) allowed you to do this while a.out doesn't
Yes, it's hard work... but it's work AWS should be great at. Like, really great at.

I used to work at AWS. The most worked-up I ever saw Charlie Bell (the de facto head of AWS engineering) was in the weekly operations meeting, going over a postmortem which described a near-miss as several generators failed to start properly in a power interruption. In this meeting - with nearly 1,000 participants! - Charlie got increasingly irate about the fact that this had happened. For the next few weeks, details of some sort of flushing subsystem for backup generators was an every-time topic.

Sadly, Charlie left AWS and now works at Microsoft. I can't help but wonder what that operations meeting is like now without him.
Pfizer Codi-19 pill (Paxlovid) distribution per state
This is cool, it looks conceptually similar to Shedskin. A Python to C++ compiler.

https://shedskin.github.io/
Amazing to me how many commenters here are looking at a successful government initiative that’s massively improved survival rates for a number of diseases, and the takeaway they can’t wait to share with the world is, but the name is dumb.
Well actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
Yes, I agree. It's slightly more indirect than digital art but the consequence is the same. It's equivalent to copyright. I own this thing. Here is the proof - the NFT.

If you - a tv show, movie, etc - want to use it you can license it from me.

It's no different than a standard contract.
> What exactly is the problem with this site?

it appears to have a large number of articles on it about how terrible "vaccine passports" are and how they're an outragious infringement on civil rights, so it's verging into outright coronavirus conspiracy stuff that contradicts factual science and reality.

as "alternative" social networks, linked from an index page off its home page, it also recommends well known far-right/alt-right/fascist hangouts gab, parler and mewe.
This one in particular probably not, since it is in early stages.

RubyMotion on the contrary is quite advanced and an AOT compiler to go to, when one wants to use Ruby for mobile development.

http://www.rubymotion.com/
Because we enjoy HN as one of the few places on the internet where meaningful discussion can still occur, which is what comments like yours ("communists grow giving their whole lives to intrigue") undermine. The world is a lot more nuanced.
It’s not intense fasting, just the ‘only eat from 5-9pm’ daily type. I definitely feel better drinking water than not though, so it may vary by body type.
Yep.

Also this has nothing to do with the point I was trying to make, which wasn't about the US specifically.

To restate it, just to be very clear: 1. find someone that was legitimately sentenced to a fair duration of prison 2. offering them the ability to labor to reduce their sentence is not forced labor
Ok, but please don't take HN threads on predictable generic tangents. Especially not nationalistic ones. On HN, what's interesting are the diffs (i.e. the new information) in a story—not the old saws.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The fundamental problem with systems based on trust in humans, is that even if you completely trust the humans in control today those people will eventually be replaced, by death if nothing else.

So, you also need a system of determining succession of trusted individuals that not only selects humans who can be trusted, but humans who understand the challenge of defending the purity of succession procedure. All it takes is one corrupted transition. One person submitting to a little nepotism, to poison the entire system.

And of course, wherever you create a centralized repository of power, whether it's a hoard of wealth, a position of authority, the head of cult following, or admin access to a database, you immediately create a game for power hungry people to figure out a way to corrupt the systems in place that prevent abuse of that power.

This is why so many people are working towards decentralizing systems of power. Hell, even the US constitution is an instantiation of that, with the established separation of powers between the 3 branches of government. While we recognize that centralizing all governmental power in a single position can lead to incredible efficiencies if you get the right person in charge, it is also incredibly fragile and dangerous in the long run. We accept the inefficiencies of decentralized systems in exchange for long term stability and anti-fragility.
Do you have an objective source that confirms that truth is actually a 50/50 ratio between message and framing? Where did you hear that from?

The truth of a statement is somewhat subjective but it's not helpful to be pedantic.

I understand that authoritative media sources often frame stories in abhorrent ways and I have tuned out the media in general as a result. However, if I hear a plausible, factual statement from even a source I abhor, I can filter through the framing to find the truth in the statement. In today's world, I think it's an essential skill.

Did Facebook accidentally ban an innocuous message? Seems plausible. Is Facebook known to engage in arbitrary flagging of content? Yes. Does this speak to the problematic nature of algorithmic fact-checking and moderation, a general theme of our era? Yes. Then it's worth discussing and it doesn't matter what source brought it to our attention.
> If it's a million items, pandas is a great solution.

Possibly not even then, it depends on how much you're doing and I feel like the topic at hand might be around that tipping point. We have some rather slow code that, profiling it, turned out to spend something like 60-70% of its time just converting between python types and native types when moving data in and out of the dataframe.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're repetitive and tedious. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666852.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting a ton like this (unsubstantive flamebait and name-calling). Please don't! We're trying for a different sort of forum.
The best advice I ever got was that advice is pretty bad in general because the person giving the advice doesn't have skin in the game. It's usually much better when you instead tell the other person about relevant experience you've had in the past as a data point for them to base their decision on.

So: less "in your situation, I would do this", and more "when I was in this similar situation, I did this, and that happened".
True, but as I already mentioned, immune systems can be trained against those cancers as well, they only need external help.

For example, BioNTech was actually founded as a cancer vaccine research lab, its Covid vaccine is "only" a (very welcome) serendipity.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/WarDeathTol...

It’s pure atrocity…

Also about the US minority ( I wasn’t writing about that in my earlier comment but since you brought that up)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z

So stop denying that systemic racism, racial profiling of minorities and targeted police brutality is not happening in the US. Did you vote for Trump? Because that would explain why you think those things don’t exist.
Of course, not on this level but, a few weeks ago I was invited to see an astonishing 3D confection printer in action. It was printing a fantasy-looking cityscape to top a custom cake. I couldn't really talk to anyone about the technology as the operator was behind a glass partition but it looked as though it was full color using, I'll guess, some sort of spun sugar filament system.

The geometric resolution was incredible, and it was very fast (and looked very expensive).
No. ENS records are on the blockchain. Once you executed the contract that gives you ownership to a name, it will be yours for the time you paid it for. The ENS developers can not revoke it and they can not change the underlying records or subdomains.
>With the public API before it was heavily locked down I mainly used it in third party Twitter clients to avoid seeing the (revenue generating) ads in the official Twitter apps - I know many others who did the same. An open, freely usable Twitter API can actively hurt revenues at a time when Twitter desperately needed to demonstrate ability to generate profits.

I wonder if they ever investigated just making API access paid, not free? Users were paying for 3rd party clients making use of the API just because they liked them so much better already, so clearly there was some money in it. And it seems like the Venn diagram of "using client to avoid seeing ads" and "already running, or soon would run, adblock in the browser" would be pretty darn near a circle. Pretty trivial though to make API access require a paid token per account/user, and heavy Twitter users might well put down $1-10/month to use their client of choice.

Don't know, maybe just an artifact of the era. At the time on the web in general it just seems like there was this real aversion to any sort of paid offerings even if they were pure bonuses for heavy users with no actual content hidden at all. That's changed a lot since then, but still particularly for a company desperate for hard revenue and facing controversy over a specific somewhat power-user feature, a bit curious they didn't just try to monetize it. Doesn't seem like an honest presentation of that would even bother that particular subset, certainly not more then having it axed entirely.
I much prefer the alternate front ends, but how long will the services tolerate them? Why do they tolerate them so far?

I expect that the services could easily overwhelm the alternate front ends with technical incompatabilities and expensive legal problems (whether or not the services have winning cases, they can make it expensive).
Many carriers used to take orders in FEBO order (from Front on Even flight numbers, from the Back on Odd flight numbers). Then some switched to an East-West or North-South order to determine front vs back for those who didn’t pre-select 24 hours ahead.
I share your concern that we (as a society) seem more focused on treating cancer than in addressing whatever environmental factors increase the risk.

I'm curious about how much this stems from the U.S. legal system's approach to liability.

IIUC, a company can contaminate the air/land/water to shocking degrees, but will only be held liable if the government chooses to enforce environmental regulations or an individual can prove that that particular source of contamination caused a particular harm to that individual.

So, for example, if I were to dump 1000 gallons of dioxin in some aquifer, and a few more people got prostate cancer than one would statistically expect, I may end up paying only the cost of defending a law suit. Despite the myriad of evidence that I should have known that it was taking a major gamble with the lives of current and future people.

And if I or my company was found guilty, in all likelihood I'd only have to pay for the harm to the particular persons who sued me. Which, with "proper" incorporation, I could walk away from with most of my personal wealth intact.

If I'm correct about this, it seems very far from true justice to me. Nor does it seem like an effective deterrent. My current view (which I hold lightly) is that a more just policy would be that (1) such crimes carry the same legal penalties as attempted mass murder or attempted terrorism; (2) all corporate veils are ignored; and (3) there is no limitation of liability for stockholders, even for publicly traded stocks.
How do you feel about the use in English of the past tense to refer to a desired future? “I wish you washed the dishes now and then.”
How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs
ooh thanks, didn't know George Hortz did stuff like that
Flamebait will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Modern 31.5" 16:9 (common 4k size) are essentially as tall as 30" 16:10 of yore.
Antisemitism isn’t exactly a “new” idea. If people you follow are routinely shut down by Twitter, you should maybe try some not-quite-as-hatey ideas for a change.

As a point of reference: I follow 1,400 people, including a lot in science and art. I can’t remember a single person I follow being permanently banned.
> The site recommends using DDG as a search engine. There was a time that this wasn’t a fringe idea.

Is that considered fringe now? Has it been appropriated by some radicalized group in the US?
“Mistakenly”
> What you're asking us to trust is that:

> 1. We trust the coders to know what is best for us.
> 2. You can write perfect code so that our money is safe.
> 3. The price will never plummet.

Nobody is asking that. The source code is public, read it and decide for yourself. Good luck doing that at your local bank. There are plenty of stablecoins, you don't have to take on crypto exposure.

> 1. Mt. Gox Failure

Totally irrelevant.

> 2. DAO Failure

Sure, a public commons infrastructure will elicit a lot of bad projects. Just like the vast majority of open source projects are bad. This is not an indictment of open source.

> 3. First BTC price crash

Irrelevant.

> 4. USDT regulatory concerns

Use one of the many other stablecoins, then. This is the beauty of the system. It's actually open, so there are a diversity of issuers. You could even start one yourself, if you wanted.

> 5. Lack of learning from failures

There is an enormous amount of learning from failures. If you believe there isn't, you aren't paying attention.

> 6. Politics still exist, they just moved to the coding layer

Yes, this is true. However, this layer is thin, by design. That means the layers above it, which implement most of the relevant functionality, are a diverse ecosystem of choice. Contrast to the thickness of politics in other domains.

> 7. Willful ignorance of the scams and crimes cryptocurrencies has enabled
> 7.1 Because somehow cryptocurrency is better for us.

New technology brings about scams roughly in proportion to its power. The internet enabled tons of scams. Fiat currency enabled tons of scams. Coinage enabled tons of scams. And so did banks, particularly of the fractional reserve variety.

That doesn't mean scams are good or should be tolerated. But it takes time to develop the social and political conventions to deal with them. I believe that process is taking place in crypto, though perhaps not as quickly as we'd like. I think if you look back at the history of other comparable technologies, you will see that crypto is pretty far ahead of the game in this regard, though.

> 8. Hype over price security and software security
> 8.1 Because somehow cryptocurrency is better for us.

Sure. Lots of elements of crypto are overhyped. Overhype comes along with any transformative technology. See hype about carbon nanotubes, nuclear power, 3d printing, etc. Hype is an indictment of people, not technology.
Occasionally I need to work in the attic, on a ladder, etc. It'd be really good to know that everything around me is about to move.
That's true. The moment your data leaves the region you start paying for egress and that can get expensive quickly. Still beats the crap out of multicloud, though :)
That’s not correct. While R0 is indeed R at time 0, time is not the important part of that. It’s that at time 0 everyone is presumed susceptible so the growth is going to be as exponential as it’s going to get. R0 is a strong indicator of the limits of how the disease will spread and is very useful for predicting the future, both in terms of the speed of the initial exponential spread, but also the upper bound on spread that the disease is likely to encounter.
Funny thing about the plural first person pronouns (we/us/our): it can mean several different things:

1. Me and them

2. Me and you

3. Me and you and them

Your comment makes sense if GP meant 2 or 3, but if GP meant 1 then you're each saying the same thing (well, if you'll let your version be a plural second person, anyhow).
Would be nice for companies to maintain a standard account management API which password managers could call. Imagine buttons on your password manager: "Set All Emails..." and "Randomize All Passwords..."
I didn't find any such standard after a quick search.

Edit: Looks like LastPass does it with a screen scraper https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/how-do-i-update...
So long as you use pre compiled bootstrap and host it yourself, I don't see how it's a longevity threat.
Cost me 28 cents to wire my BMW dealer the full cost of my brand new BMW GS. I used Wise.

I'm in BG.
So in your opinion, merely opposing vaccine passports is “conspiracy theory stuff that contradicts factual science and reality”?
Hmmm, but what exactly is web3? I really struggle to understand.

As far as I get is that some people wants to decentralice stuff, but I don't really see how is that going to happen.

No offense but everything that has any relationship with "decentralization" or "blockchain" is fairly difficult to use. And even understanding them superficially is not trivial.
next time add in a 15-minute hot tub stay -- - -

it's an orthostatic decathlon!
All: Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article and rush to the thread to complain about it. Find something interesting to comment about instead.

That's a new addition to the site guidelines and relevant in a case like this. I've changed the title (to the first sentence of the article) to try to cut down on the flamebait, but it shouldn't be appearing here in the first place. It's not what this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And what of Facebooks own rights? Why would your rights come before Facebook's rights?
You can't expect an independent company to take on a nation, the US and other Western governments either need to admit they don't care about human rights or commit to flat out banning trade with China

People talk about potential war with China without realizing China has been waging war on the West for decades, China's military doctrine counts economic warfare as equal to kinetic(traditional) warfare. These state backed companies are arms of the military being used to crush foreign nations and Western governments do nothing. Trillions of dollars in damage but they don't care because bombs didn't do the damage and many of the politicians got rich by allowing it to happen
Well, I guess we all have to pick our battles, we can't be 100% in on every cause unless we invent more hours in the day.
At least in the States, I can wear an H&M shirt fairly reasonably for a year or two without significant damage.

I bought a F21 shirt exactly once and on the third wash there were numerous holes in it.
The previous discussion had a good top comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620885

>However, things are not that simple. Sometimes some expenses which are about building for the future and investing into new growth are not capitalized. This is the case because for some expenses the benefits are so uncertain and difficult to quantify that the SEC requires that they are reported as ordinary expenses instead of capital spending. These types of expenses tend to involve R&D and may include certain administrative expenses associated with growth initiatives.

That shows why GAAP has legitimately different standards of profitability than an investor or HN comment might.

When people bring up “haha, Uber/Amazon has never even been [GAAP] profitable! What a joke!”, it’s usually to make the point that, “investors are dumb, this enterprise isn’t even capable of value creation because they can’t sell outputs for more than production costs, what a scam”.

But that doesn’t follow at all from GAAP-non-profitability. If a company would have been profitable but for regularly dumping fortunes into speculative projects, that’s still great news for investors. It means they could one day give up on that speculation and go back to taking those easy profits from value creation.
Please don't post low-information, high-indignation comments to HN. They're flamebait, and inevitably point discussions in less interesting, predictable, and nasty directions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
breakpoint() and importlib.resources are both pretty nice as well.