skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple reasons, and that would be one of them. Another reason is legal/regulatory:

Most government and military employees (especially in countries that at least want to have the appearance of opposing corruption) have specific record keeping requirements. If you use unofficial channels for official communications, you are almost certainly violating those rules and laws. "Where's lunch today?", not an issue. "Let's discuss these budget items and make a decision", that's an issue.

I don't know Swiss laws and rules, but I'd be surprised if they permitted, say, coordination of movement of military assets (in country, peace time) via unofficial, unrecorded methods.
I'm saying for anyone's own mental health, we shouldn't expect constant praise and positivity from comments. You're gonna read stuff you won't like on the internet.
Doesn’t seem strange to me considering the long shadow that Cartesian Dualism casts.
Are you building features for phishers?
Publicly traded company with a $15b market cap folks, the mind boggles.
The next PC/device you buy contains a security chip that prevents you from expunging Microsoft/Google.

After that it's, your bank doesn't allow you to log on except with an approved device with the security chip.

Then it's, your government imposes misdemeanor charges for not checking in on your COVID quarantine app (which runs only on security-chipped phones). Due to COVID restrictions, your arraignment hearing will be held on Zoom, which in its latest update, only runs on security-chipped hardware.

None of this will seem especially draconian in today's "green bubbles = breakup" society.
Here's a thought experiment. Compare the reddit "the button" with Covid staying with us. Even with only 1 person at a time trying to hit the button it stayed alive for 3 months. And that's with people trying to keep it alive, 24x7 - just enough people to keep it going. Enough people being interested in getting a low time and staying with it.

With covid, it's just automatic, but you just need 1 foolish move between 2 people, and there's no server making sure only one person gets it at a time, it's totally a distributed network. And the timeout, instead of being 60 seconds, it's 2 maybe 3 weeks (perhaps a lot longer - we don't REALLY know).

The thought experiment here is that if we TRY to keep something alive that's actually kinda hard to and it lasts 3 months, how is covid EVER going to end?
Last stats i just saw pegged the world wide number around 100 million. Lets be generous and say 500 million, versus 7.9 billion world pop puts you at a generous 6%, not exactly mainstream.

(pdf) https://assets.ctfassets.net/hfgyig42jimx/5u8QqK4lqjEgL506mO...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-u...
Why isn't there an ergonomic & secure communications app?
See this discussion from 2 days ago (500+ comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795910
> where the topic of the day is distributed trustless computing

No one in my circles talks about those things. Even the vast majority of crypto investors don't give a shit about "distributed" or "trustless" or "computing".

The topics of the day are:

1. climate change

2. automation (especially logistics and war)

3. the tension between nationalism and globalization (both with respect to communication, commodity extraction, manufacturing, knowledge production, ...).

Flip the ordering of 1 and 3 if you'd like.

> old institutions like banks, notaries, record-keeping (Hansards etc) could be obsolete

I can't think of a single less exciting thing to say about the future.

The average person uses a notary perhaps a few times in their life.

The average bank provides the average person with a nearly flawless UX. Anything that replaces a bank will look like a digital bank account and behave like a digital bank account and probably also be regulated like a digital bank account. For almost all people, this is literally equivalent to staying "by 2122 the IBM COBOL mainframes powering banks will have been replaced with Java running on commodity hardware". Even if it's true... who cares?

> knowledge becomes distributed and every human commands one or more nodes in a constant system of cross-referencing - clients and servers cease to be relevant as a concept, information is just a pool you dip into as needed (with helpful AI assistants to bring things to your attention and/or demand your attention).

It's not 1999 anymore; we know how the WWW turned out.
That video is amazing.
> The type of articles I like the most are those when someone takes a ridiculous amount of time to explain something mundane.

I have been thinking about this for a while and it now just clicks.
In tech jobs the same job posting could just have a range that goes from basic engineer all the way to the highest possible principal engineer pay, since the posting is for the domain area not the specific level of experience. Govt jobs are often like this too, giving a range of levels and a big range of possible salaries, especially when they include the possible geographic variation in pay.

You still wouldn't know whether others with 8 years experience and a MS or whatever, make more or less than you do.
Then what do you do when Slack bans your account?
Agreed. I would even be ok with the SE format if they didn't split out the main recipe from the backstory, because with them the backstory is usually something of substance. They often go through multiple iterations, explaining what tweaks they introduced and what the effects were, so that you can understand not only the final recipe but also the principles that went into making it.

That they also give you a quick-and-easy "here's just the recipe" page is just an added bonus, for me.
This will probably be rolled out by DevOps who enable it by default for entire companies and then collect the profits for themselves.
I’ve had that work a few times, but other times, I can verbally abuse the bot all I want to no avail.
Especially that there is a clear pattern of looted and untouched property (if you look closely to the property owner).
https://craftinginterpreters.com/ is a bigger project with automated tests at each stage making sure the diffs line up. I'm not sure it's open sourced though.
A computer that is compromised with viruses is easily remedied. Anyone can just reinstall the operating system from the OEMs supplied OS installation media or the user can provide their own operating system. I don’t buy this argument that anti-virus leads to fewer people throwing their assets out. Furthermore, viruses do not affect the underlying hardware, which is what people would be throwing away. The economics don’t make sense, why would an individual dispose of an asset they bought with their personal money when there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the part of the asset that was purchased?
What about the doctors he talked to who just moved to Oakland and are saving up to get an apartment? What about people making $11/hr serving coffee and can’t get more than 20hrs wk because the boss doesn’t want to pay benefits? Or the school teacher making $42k/yr? If rent is $3k/mo a lot of people get squeezed out.

Sure there are people who can’t cope and can’t function, but we regularly pay people far less than it costs to live, and that is the leading cause of homelessness. And even the people with fragile mental health or substance addiction are far more likely to overcome those issues if they have housing stability.(see the housing first initiative in Utah for evidence)

What’s the answer I hear you asking? Build. More. Housing.
Housing prices in the Bay Area go up 15% a year. More people move here than we build housing by a factor of 3. Pop quiz from Econ 101. What happens when demand grows at 3x the rate supply does? Since we’re not stinkin commies we probably don’t want to say people aren’t allowed to move here, so the supply side of the equation is all we have to work with.

Many cities have figured this out. Pick the most successful one and copy it. Take a look at Vienna for starters. I leave that research as a task for the reader (it’ll be fun trust me)

Without drastic intervention on the housing supply side the problem will continue to get worse as we continue to squeeze the most vulnerable people out the bottom of the housing market.
Not to mention learning another language, dealing with visas, and adapting to a new culture are all very difficult things.

I'm taking Chinese right now and while I might visit a Chinese speaking country for a good while, I don't know if I could actually function and earn an income.

At a restaurant I frequent Door Dashers often just show their phone when they pick up orders. The manager doesn't like that , but many of the Dashers struggle with spoken English. The manager expects them to clearly state the name on the order.

I joke with the manager， if it was flipped around. And he had to pick up an order for 吸尘. Even if you can read it, it's very hard to pronounce that name correctly.

And this is an extremely simple example, imagine renting an apartment. Or getting a plumber.
Longreads seemed to have an editorial shift a few years ago. Among other things, it no longer commissions much (if any) original stories. And the linked stories mostly fall into the personal essay camp which I'm personally less interested in. I generally liked the longform.org mix better. Sad to see them shut down.
Free, 11mb,self-hosted, containerized mock API server
At this point you’re paying for malware. Do we really need antivirus software, or is there something you can setup yourself that’s just as good? (ie a firewall and some open-source option)
As far as chatbots, we went from "tricks" to "math" in just ~10 years. Yes, still as dumb, but the underlying "technology" is very different. GPT-3 is a lot closer than ELIZA to how our brains do it.
Please use something "basically lots of maths and loops" where we can see the source code (like the blog post does).

n-body

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

spectral-norm

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Looks like their business model is to sell them to the developer, who then presumably passes a markup along to someone who buys a tiny but oh-so-fancy condo with Cloud Bed etc. Cut to Khaby Lame rolling up a futon...
I have 5 people in the house, 1 vaccinated, 4 not.. the ones that were not had a 2 day fever... the one vaccinated (me) had no fever but just a cough for 3-4 days. All in all just like a mild flu
I'd be a bit surprised if anyone even checked, it's easy to type int out of habit when a number is needed, or even if the dev did consider it the code building and running might be enough reassurance.
Well said, we are excited to see more eBPF tooling appear as well.
Is this really a common position? Are there prominent neuroscientists or physicians who insist that mental activity is incapable of enormous influence on the body?

I've heard doctors say things like "she lost the will to live after her husband died". And most actual life scientists I know have a healthy regard for the limits of our knowledge.

Some of my fellow software engineers, on the other hand...
It's not like strains of the virus are made by intelligent design. The point is that Omicron became dominant because people due to a lot of factors, its high transmissibility and people's disinterest in quarantining among them. If Omicron 2.0 came out with the same transmissibility, but a notably higher lethality, people's interest in quarantining would have increased significantly, which could have prevented Omicron becoming the dominant strain in spite of its increased transmissibility.
What a visionary Nathan was (Java becoming important, but not right then, emphasizing the importance of media and a frictionless PC experience). Whatever happened to him?
an honest, but wrong, take in your final paragraph.
Yes, but people teaming against the weirdo in the room or against perceived threats to their career is not uncommon behavior. A sensible manager would want to verify it personally.

Touching can deserve instant firing, looking at can deserve asking for an explanation first
Congress is really slow/bad at updating laws. State legislatures tend to be a lot more nimble (not as partisan, as there isn't as much focus on them. Plus many states of super-majorities, so it is easier to pass things if all members of a party agree).

I'm fully for most laws being tested at the state level before the federal gov gets involved at all (unless it's interstate commerce). Honestly, I prefer the fed staying out of most things and letting states handle it.
So what's the difference between a civilian email and Signal?
It is the best part, it is the worst part. This is terrifying.
It is though, since they can debase that self same currency as they see fit. This fundamentally changes the playing field when negotiating your taxes with the government. The only reason USD has any value at all is because it's what everyone has to pay taxes to the US government in, and what US bonds are paid in.
Yeah we have this thing called a clinical trial. I volunteered in it. Did you?
> For example, in the 1990s only the richest people would have a flatscreen TV, or a phone capable of browsing the web, or an internet connection faster than dial-up. Today, even a person working a minimum wage job can have all of those.

Do you really seriously consider any of those a measure for quality of life? When I think of quality of life I want the basics: secure housing, healthy food, free time. Perhaps meaningful employment. And pretty much everything else comes down to the people around me.
Wouldn't setting the puzzle for the day need to be somewhat centralized, because otherwise everyone, or a lot of people, would already know the solution/not get to enjoy the puzzle?
Nope, then it's endemic
An SpO2 of 92% or lower is considered severe. In most cases the patient should be hospitalized.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n677
The main users of such devices in my country:

1. lack access to credit cards or internet-purchase enabled debit cards (or banking altogether). they can purchase those devices with cash;

2. simply don't understand how it works or that it may stop working in the future;

3. can justify spending money on a physical device, but cannot justify spending money on digital goods or services (according to their value systems)
It sounds like you relayed a message that contained abusive content. To twilio it looked like your account was sending abusive content and they acted according to agreements with carriers to prevent abuse.
Don't relay abusive content and you won't have this problem.
My first computer was a hand-me-down C64 from my dad, and it's part of the reason that I started programming while I was so young. I never got good at programming it, but I thought it was so cool that you start programming immediately after booting up. This would have been ~1998-1999, WELL past the the C64 hayday, but I had a lot of fun playing with it.

I didn't really know how to use DOS on my parents' Windows computer, and so as far as I knew at the time, the only way to do programming there was to install a bunch of compilers and that scared me.

Simpler times!
That’s just the newfangled word for preparatory pre-kindergarten.
Because they don't understand any of what you just said, and they think that malware can harm their computer.
Microsoft J++?
It's natural to read and initialize the classes as they come, _unless the code defines a specific dependency order_.

This looks like a developer simply did not declare proper dependency between classes/beans.
I think the CEO playing as toddler has a ego stroking element to it and probably why this strategy is preferred over others. I tend to see C-levels in two groups, the alpha-male no-BS type and then the emotional manipulator type. I think both are ego pleasing (and probably both get similiar results), because the alpha gets the validation of his toughness and the manipulator gets the validation of his cleverness.

I think the latter is probably more pleasing for most personality types. You can still come off as the "nice guy" in polite company, even though you're being very demanding. Think how much warmer people like Sundar Pichai come off as compared to someone like Larry Ellison.

I also think there's a salesmanship aspect here. Its easier recruiting if you sell your company culture as a "nice" place led by a "nice" leadership. I think its a harder see to say "Look we're assholes here but the job and pay is good."
Nobody wants to misplace their crypto (Money Stuff)
Uh...What?
Can I Use File System Access API
Marine F-35Cs Begin First Carrier Deployment
>I guess it matters because public awareness is necessary for us not to allow history to repeat itself.

But it is a symptom rather than a cause of the corruption. The energy spent on raising public awareness about this would likely be better served drawing attention to what we both seem to think is the underlying problem, the outsized influence that the wealthy have on the government.
I think you are projecting a moral or political argument into my comments. That wasn't my intention. My point is that there are more powerful levers in the government than the inflation rate.

Sure, having your debt reduced by 6% or whatever is good, but the government could also easily forgive all federally owned college debt and 100% reduction is certainly better than 6%. Increasing the minimum wage is another example. That would more directly benefit that mom with 3 jobs more than inflation.

Whatever your political goals are, there is likely a much more powerful tool to accomplish them than nudging the inflation rate up or down a few percentage points.
Raising the floor is I think is a major win.

Numbers right now are already sticky, I'd argue.
Show HN: 3D map of shade around the world
Auto-banning an account is a violation of GDPR Article 22

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.

Quote this and maybe it will get you escalated, but who knows? A lot of companies seem to just ignore GDPR entirely.
It's more like selling a bike rack with a new car, that you have to pay $15 to the car company every time you use. The biggest issue I see is that Norton is charging their users a fee to use their own hardware to mine crypto.
Interested in the specifics, Norton must be running their own Ethereum mining pool? Might provide a way to estimate the amount of running Norton miners out there.
It is still better to have a clearly descriptive name policy than pet names. Maybe if you only have a half dozen machines. But with physical machines its better to have something like Region-Datacenter-Row-Rack-shelf-vendor-OS or something like that, so you are looking for EPNYA13CDL and not Dionysus. So that location and attributes of the machines are readily apparent. That way you immediately know its an External Facing, Production server, in New York, Row A, Rack 13, Shelf C, Dell Machine, running Linux.
This is a problem for your accountant :)
> Anyone can just

An extended family member of mine had been planning on replacing their computer because they were having problems logging in to Office 365.
> I don’t buy this argument that anti-virus leads to fewer people throwing their assets out

Just because you think people shouldn't behave a certain way doesn't necessarily mean they don't behave that way, though. There are definitely people out there who toss their laptops when they get cluttered with malware
> OEMs supplied OS installation media or the user can provide their own operating system

I haven't received install media of any kind from an OEM in over a decade. Commonly they're using a hidden disk partition to reinstall the OS. This can just as easily be compromised as the boot partition. So "just reinstall" skips a number of laborious or impractical steps.
The ethereum crypto minor for many would be a reoccurring net loss (or a negative externality on the person paying for electricity).

> “Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery.

Which is unlike a bike rack which if enabled/purchased but never used would be a one time loss. And for some one likely to transport bikes the bike rack would probably be beneficial.

Edit: After doing some calculations for profitability with say the RTX 3070 with a hash rate of 60.5 MH/s and a power consumption of 160 W [0] at both the min and max average US state electricity prices of .1038 $/KWh and .3428 $/KWh respectively [1] is currently profitable with a return of $2.86/day and $1.94/day respectively [2] (ignoring all other costs).

So for some this would be profitable for them with a potential reduction in the lifetime of their hardware.

0: https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-m...!

1: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

2: https://minerstat.com/coin/ETH
Overuse of design patterns seems like decades ago.
You don't understand why people hate being paid less than someone else for the same work? Guess Upton Sinclair was correct that it's difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on them not understanding it.

There are situations where two people of equal ability and output are worth differing amounts to the company. If you're in a vastly different time zone that makes work coordination difficult or the company has reason to need in-person collaboration, paying someone more to conform to those location constraints make sense as those people are more valuable to the company. But thinking a company should pay a remote worker who chooses to live in a high rent area more than a person who doesn't even though both have equal value to the company isn't logical. In the end, the people in the low rent areas will be picked off by competitors who see their value rather than their location.

I don't understand the parental model of employment that seems to be all the rage these days. Employees aren't the company's children and the company aren't the employees' parents. It's weird how often people bring their personal choices and needs into the compensation discussion and often elevate it into a moral issue. If you have six babies you don't deserve to get paid more for the same work as someone who is childless but that seems to be a common way of thinking now.
DNSSEC works fine for me, why not? When people break it, I get early warning. When people implement it and don't utilize it, I find out. But in all seriousness my sights are on DANE and ultimately eliminating Certificate Authorities.
Since it is winter it probably doesn't matter but if it were summer you'd probably then spend even more energy attempting to move that heat from inside to outside. (Unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, but statistically you're probably not :) )
>You can't ensure the CEO of a company doesn't null route you.

So the alternatives aren't better than Cloudflare, Superkuh just had an axe to grind specifically with Cloudflare. And there is no an alternative solution that wrests control from a CEO having a bad day.

At the end of the day, he's still at the whims of the Cloudflare/Bunny/Akamai and if he wants to be fully in control he must spend millions building his own CDN.

It's not as if Cloudflare has major switching costs either.
Bel's concept of numbers is wild (in a good way)

https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt?t=159...