skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dirty secret of "FAANG" is that Netflix is not a FAANG company anymore despite literally being the N of the acronym.

The idea behind FAANG was to create a catchy acronym for "high-growth, big-cap tech stock". At the time, maybe it made sense to stick Netflix in the acronym - but their business model was also radically different than it is now. It also wasn't really sustainable: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google all own their "moats[0]", Netflix is just a middle-man that licenses content.

The FAANG business model is all about creating your own sovereign territory on the Internet through capex and licensing. You spend a lot of money building out the best tech platform possible, and then license that out to as many people as possible so you can take 30%[1] off of the top of every transaction ever. This also implies being "cynically inclusive": trying to onboard anyone and everyone, regardless of their absolute economic value as a customer or the company's ability to support them. 30% of pennies adds up across billions of individual publishers.

Netflix does not do this, never have, and never will. They only license premium video content, which means they're exclusively working with people who actually have negotiating leverage. Furthermore, the people selling that content are better-capitalized than Netflix and can afford to just DIY/self-host their own streaming service. Thus, their business model is less like YouTube, and more like Comcast. The amount of profit Netflix can make off of premium content is far lower than FAANG companies make off of the "30% of pennies" model. That's also why they moved into content production - owning the shows is more valuable than owning the screens they are showed on.

Counting Netflix as a FAANG makes absolutely no sense and we should just pretend the N stands for, oh... I dunno. Does Alphabet own an "N" company yet? Is there any other platform owner out there that has an "n" somewhere in their name?

[0] A tech company euphemism for a monopoly. Amazon likes to call it a "flywheel". Other companies use the phrase "stickiness".

[1] A lot has been made of "the 30%", especially in the context of Epic v. Apple. In my opinion, the problem is not the fact that the cut is 30%, or even that it exists at all; it's just a convenient shorthand for market power gained from owning the platform.
>> lid-close go to sleep functionality

I've read hundreds of post surrounding this issue. I've used laptops for decades but I don't think I have ever used this feature. It doesn't take even a second to hit a couple keys and sleep a laptop. The only feature lower on my priority list would be syncing the RGB keyboard to soundcloud. But that's just me. Evidently the lid-close-sleep thing is of vital import to millions of laptop users. It's one of those things where I just shake my head in bewilderment.
The solution is to get more people vaccinated. Not to ask more of people who are already vaccinated. Vaccinated people have done their part effectively removing themselves as burdens on COVID wards. The leverage point is in getting more people into that protected population.

Remember what this was called in the beginning? Novel coronavirus. The problem was that we were all immunologically naive to it, which resulted in bad outcomes. Vaccines (and to some extent prior infection) make us no longer naive. That's the way out.

We have vaccines. Take the damn win.
They're absolutely inseparable. Web3, at least as I understand its fuzzy definition, is: websites, but... state stored on the blockchain! There are virtually 0 technical reasons for doing this—decentralization and most of the "neat" examples shown (e.g., logging into arbitrary websites without signing up) can be done much better sans-blockchain, using plain old asymmetric keys.

What's motivating this is people with deeply vested interest (a16z investors, in no small part) in crypto tokens (e.g. ETH) increasing in price.
I am not a crypto currency expert nor have I ever used it but I suspect they would regulate the institutions that convert that virtual currency to a countries standard currency such as exchanges. So I suppose they could not stop blockchain without some effort but they might be able to stop pulling money out of the system.

A potential real world example of why this might interest the US government would be to prevent President Vladimir Putin from siphoning his $200 billion from his Oligarch's that are holding all the money for him in US financial institutions. Sanctions could be potentially side-stepped by crypto exchanges and I am sure this has crossed their mind given the recent usage of crypto in Afganistan to get money to some folks that are starving.
> Sure, it is better, but it was not by much during delta wave when these decisions were made.

mRNA vaccine protection dropped during delta, but only because that technology wanes after a few months. J&J (and other traditional vaccines) have lower but more durable protection.

The conclusion would be that getting vaccinated and boostered is still much safer than getting Covid without any vaccination.

> Well, if you are not clearly open about this, you are hurting the trust.

Natural immunity was less protective against Covid than recent vaccination.

The CDC also just released a study about how effective natural immunity is. There's no reason for them to hide it or lie about it because it doesn't change the basic fact that it's safer to get vaccinated than to acquire natural immunity by getting the disease.

That's what all the official messaging says: natural immunity is protective, but it's much safer to just get a vaccine before you're infected.
The change has been the realization that anything less than a properly fitting KN95 mask is basically useless.
I am this | | close to starting a co-op just for the heck of it. We need more of them, if only just to make them seem more approachable and have people ask for them more.
So, to state explicitly, given a list of positive integers, a_i, and coefficients, d_i \in {-1,1}, test whether \sum_i d_i sqrt(a_i) <=? 0. Now, construct a polynomial, P(z) = \prod_i (z^2 - a_i), and this gives a (univariate) polynomial so that a Mahler-Mignotte like bound can be used.

I guess there's different levels of bounds you can use (Mahler, Mahler-Mignotte, Davenporte-Mahler-Mignotte [0]) but they all involve the discriminant, the deg to the deg power (n^n) and maybe some other factors which put it neatly in a polynomial time bit representation. One bound puts it in the 2^{-2s^2} range, for bit size s [1].

Why does this not solve it? The problem as stated on cstheory.stackexchange explicitly says the square roots are square roots of integers [2]. What am I missing?

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.07843.pdf

[1] http://160592857366.free.fr/joe/ebooks/ShareData/Fundamental... (pg 165, Lecture VI, Section 7, Root separation (pdf pg. 197))

[2] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/79/problems-bet...

EDIT: I forgot to include the sqrt in the sum equation
I'd argue the opposite-the benefits of decentralization are clear and concise.

edit: Central point of failures, ownership, privacy, etc etc.
What? FreeBSD as a non-traditonal OS? I must disagree, FreeBSD may not be as common as Windows or Linux but it's not like Plan9 (from outer space) or BeOS.
There are absolutely bad programmers, but it seems to be a fundamentally different way of thinking.

Simple example: Go find a business analyst. Someone who's performing a process daily, over a large number of items. And has done so for 2 years+. Ask them to list all the different types of items (i.e. require a different or modified process).

In my experience, ~10% of them will be able to give you a comprehensive list. And only ~5% will bring up anything approaching exception handling for unknown cases.
Those proxies are probably better than using race imho. At least that way, the black millionaires' son ends up being treated the same way as the white millionaires' son when they live in the same gated community and attend the same exclusive private school together.
Serious question: What problem does web3 or decentralization fix?

- Oligopoly of the hyperscalers -> rent server from small provider like ovh/hetzner/netcup (there is plenty).

The reason AWS, Azure and GCP are so popular is because people don't care.

- Privavy intrusions -> Adblocker/DNS Blocker/Turn off JS/Use browser settings

This won't be fixed by web3, ad monetization and tracking won't magically stop. They exist because there is a demand.

So what is being fixed?
It takes time to learn your way and navigate through the maze that is AWS or GCP cloud as well though. And you never get rid of sys admins, they just get renamed AWS specialists.
Let's see: the front page is blank with "Join Us" and "Book a Consultation".

The blog is dank memes of Crypto Chads and some bullshit on how crypto is great.

Yes, yes, so much interesting.
> Security modules do exist, they're different from Linux. Are you sure you're not just expecting FreeBSD-as-Linux?

You're right. My original message was wrong, I edited it, while keeping the original content. What I meant is "good security module".

SELinux on CentOS is "enabled by default and forget about it", unless you do something weird. MAC (= Mandatory Access Control) on FreeBSD requires much more configuration. They have some cool stuff like memory limits, but it's not as powerful as SELinux.
800000 people have died over the past two years in the US alone.

That’s an order of magnitude difference.

That’s why the response was an order of magnitude more substantial.

I’m baffled you think this is somehow surprising.
this has been my experience, for me chrome is cpu and ram hog. Firefox seems to be much better.

from the article:
"I knew that Google Chrome was one of the worst browsers I could be running in terms of performance and power/resource consumption, and yet I kept on using it for years. "
Yep, I was pretty blissfully ignorant of Web3 while into crypto for a long time. I eventually decided to make a deeper dive into it, but I could have easily kept ignoring it.
1) It will be for the UK, not the world

2) It clearly states it's for magnetic compasses, it does not include solid state compasses.

https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/compass-making/

3) I do not understand why your writing tone has such indignation.
So persecution because of free choice is perfectly fine?
Serde JSON – Strongly Typed JSON Library for Rust
> 2. The world decides it will be a major part of the financial system, and it goes to 500k or 1 million.

Where does this belief come from?

Dollars are also a major part of the financial system, at yet each dollar is only worth $1.
Agreed. To the extent that web3 means anything (in he sense that web2 meant anything), it's a descriptor of the goal, not the technology involved.

The goal is to give people control of their online experience again (like in web1) without throwing out the benefits that came along with web2 (simplicity for the end user and the ability to execute online commerce). In the goal-oriented mindset, blockchain is one of many solutions that could work, but predicting it will be the one is would have been like predicting that PayPal, Google, and Amazon were going to happen at the beginning of the dot-com boom.

Too much focus on the technology increases the likelihood that nothing will happen. Remember, "web3" had already been used previously to refer to online assistants like Alexa and Siri before this blockchain craze; predicting the socioeconomic future by scrying technology is a fraught game.
‘Java’ Became Coffee’s Nickname and a Programming Language
What are you going to do with your data after you die?
“Managing services through shell scripts is outdated.” By inference, since most things in Unix like systems are built on the notion of shell (and automation using the shell), this is saying large part of the foundation of Unix is outdated.
A tool is a tool, but I would take a shell script from rc.d any time over a binary blob from systemd.
Imagine a scenario where an OSS developer with a package with millions of downloads a week is getting paid a few beers worth of money a month for all their work. And then a company like Snyk is building a verification service on top of this and making bank. Do you not think the money should be going to the OSS community?
is there anything similar to hetzner.com in the U.S. ? the colo price looks really cheap!
A list of CS courses with video lectures
My office mate and good friend of many years is a patent agent. He was/is industrial/electronic/radio but then pursued patent agent 100% for a while.

Ultimately he came back to tech, but acts as a sort of front line patent agent for our company as well.

We have many discussions about the inanity of the whole system. I’m an idealist, he’s more of a realist about it. It exists. If nothing else, we participate from a defensive posture.

He has shared that he kind of likes the game of patents. You have an idea, which you then have to represent/express/model in a language that looks like English but isn’t exactly that has its own set of rules and idioms. Or in short, it can be seen a lot like the software we write. While he likes it as a sort of variety, he seems to like it about 20%, and when the workload goes above that much commitment, the complaining starts and the desire to get back to “the real work we do” begins to be expressed.

When I have asked him why he doesn’t do more of it, he has shared the same observation others have shared here: Agent is a great skill to have to broaden your value, attorney is what you want to do if you want to earn lots of money at it.

On that note, we both observe that the foundation of lawyering is to be in contention with someone, and generally speaking the less contention among people, the better. Someone’s gotta do it apparently, but it’s not a sphere of happiness.
Or just go with Hetzner and have a limit 20X as big with cheaper prices

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
I think there is reason to be a bit more hopeful in America at least when you consider a few things:

1) Natural immunity is quite robust: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

Now, that is according the CDC whose governance has sought to give the impression that natural immunity is not so great (perhaps for generally good reasons). But now they see fit to give the impression that natural immunity is pretty substantial, clearly giving much more immunity weight than vaccine alone. So that is some clear signal just reading between the lines.

2) Seroprevelance indicating natural exposure is quite high overall in the U.S. and especially so in some regions, see for yourself what that looks like in your own region: https://covid19serohub.nih.gov/ (nucleocapsid is proxy for exposure and recovery)

Now, you might look at those numbers and see only 30% or so, but realize this is end of October statistics. Many (dare I say all?) regions in the U.S. have seen en exceptional wave since those statistics were collected. I would be confident to say 50% - 100% increase in statistics of recovered.

edit: I'm just some guy on the internet so if you think this stuff is wrong or misrepresented, call my ass out. If you are not capable of parsing the references I give you, assume I have bad intentions.
Good correction, thanks! Still 35% of reserves is plenty!

I hadn't considered how many reserves have probably shifted to euros since the euro, that's actually a big deal for the US. Anyway...
Consider the hot pipe example. Sounds like free energy, right? Hot pipes leak heat energy, it’s what they do. However, pipes are also usually suspended in the air, and air is a really good insulator. You put this device on a pipe, you might start wicking heat away from the pipe faster, making your boiler or whatever need to expend more energy to keep the pipe hot.
HttpOnly doesn't make sense for most apps anymore, because so much of the logic in modern web apps happens on the client side in Javascript.

The takeaway I'd suggest instead is that when one gets a pen test report back with a bunch of lower-severity issues, fix them instead of deciding that anything "medium" or below gets put on the backlog, because frequently a bunch of lower-severity vulns can be chained together like this to yield something much more dangerous.
In 2022, I think it's a reasonable expectation that API documentation can be accessed as rendered HTML. -- e.g. Haskell's or Rust's documentation even links to the source for the packages.

On the other hand, I think it's fair to say NixOS will sometimes require a high level of involvement from its users. When something goes wrong on another OS, it's easy to search for the answer. With NixOS, you have to understand both the Linux part, and the NixOS part.
Crypto has only existed during the greatest and longest bull market of all time. Jury is still out on whether it can survive a prolonged bear market.

Web3 consequently is also bound by this. If people are still interested in Web3 when crypto goes down 10% YoY forever then maybe there’s some inherent value there.
You can use block storage for scalable disk size: https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/
“Web3” is a marketing campaign created to drum up demand for cryptocurrencies. That’s why the sales people blow off technical concerns claiming that the answer is to buy the tokens they conveniently already own so you can then maybe help build a system which actually works later.
What kids are being kept from school?
I don't really buy that, tons of people who use macOS come from a Windows background or use Mac at work and Windows at home (or vice/versa). It seems much simpler to me to just assume the Dock actually works.
I cut an m&m sized piece off the tip of my thumb with a box cutter. Went to the ER, and a nurse came out and said it wasn't too bad. Washed it in betadine and put a bandage on it and sent me home. Bill was $7000!
"It is time to stop politicizing Covid." but their argument amounts to "you need to just stop fighting me and give me what I want".

What exactly do we unlearn when he quotes, "unlearn many of the behaviors we’ve learned in the last two years"? What hardships are we going to go through if we continue to wear masks a little longer than necessary? Do I really need to shake your hand when we greet? Believe it or not people don't want to stay at home, not be able to work and they definitely don't like being sick and dying. Know when we'll go back to normal? When people stop dying so much.

This is going to have massive long term effects and I'm not talking about anything from having worn a mask. I'm talking about the long term effects of the virus. I'm positive you'll be seeing advertisements for the next 40 years for "Covid treatment centers of America".

If this person really wants to get back to normal maybe we should start by passing legislation now to deny Mediare benefits to anyone suffering from Covid complications who refused to be vaccinated. I'd be happy to support conservatives in saying, "Why should I be taxed to pay for the results of your decision?" or allow covid complications be be considered a preexisting condition for unvaccinated. Why should I have to pay through my insurance premiums for your ER visit?
You can go even further, and put 16 rotors on a craft if you have an adrenaline junky in a more lax jurisdiction who wants to ski uphill, or even fly.

Casey Neistat - Human Flying Drone (2016)

https://youtu.be/At3xcj-pTjg
Can you enumerate them?
I'd recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life...

The bottom line is that many things might have already collapsed without us taking notice because nature is very complex and under studied. By the time things are bad enough for us to be directly impacted we're already way too far to do anything about it.
Just because a hospital is big and has expensive lawyers, that doesn't mean that you have no rights.

My wife got a 4k bill that had no information on it other than the amount due. I called the hospital and asked what the bill was for and they said they would send an itemized bill, they never did, but I did get a letter from collections and I called them and said that I dispute the charges. And I never heard anything about it again.
Btw, HardenedBSD is a good security module and available.
You're an order of magnitude larger than what I work on, but on our last big project we purchased and installed half in the first year, then the remaining half 18 months later.
I've had similar issues when trying to run it in Hyper-V or VirtualBox - issues with network adapters and disk not being recognised. I've tried FreeBSD and FireflyBSD, and give it another try ever year or so, but always hit the same walls
Also crazy large doctor salaries. The US pays way more to doctors than for example many European countries.
I love quartz countertops! You can even get them to look like marble or granite if you want now a days. As you mentioned that are incredibly sturdy! I even have them in my bathrooms.
HAMMER2 is not yet clustered, as far as I know. They're still working on single-node functionality (I think).

https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEA... was last updated in 2018, and at the time much of the clustering logic is described as "under development" or "not specced."
Bitcoin doesn't have the capability to do smart contracts. There are bitcoin maximalists that are pretty anti-Web3. Jack Dorsey being one of those people.
> and don't understand why anti-government activists want to hand the government the keys to run the healthcare system.

Because it mostly leads to more efficient healthcare systems. For example, the per-capita healthcare cost in the UK is less than half that of the US for broadly similar outcomes.
Article is from 2016 and doesn't provide any evidence about the rise of sex for pleasure.

Not worth your time.
The chart is a bit politicized and kind of rubbish.

There is absolutely such a thing as a 'Deep State' and a 'New World Order'.

For god's sake, the 'Project for a New American Century' think-tank published their vision for America in the 21st century and broadly used the term 'Pax Americana' and indicated a massive military buildup, specifically in the Middle East. The signatories: Cheney, Jeb Bush, Wolfowizth, Andy Card - and a handful of others, would occupy the White House a few years later and use 'Terrorism' as an excuse to invade Iraq. And of course the 'New World Order' term came out of Bush Sr's speech.

That 2000's neocon movement fits exactly into 'New World Order' concerns, among others.

The 'Deep State' is absolutely real. The Pentagon, CIA and NSA have massive parts of their budgets detailed as 'Black Budgets' with limited Congressional oversight. There's ample evidence of problems there, that's not controversial. But even in the public bureaucracy, there are power centres that have ideological and political motivations. Sometimes organically developed, sometimes because a particular administration 'stacked' an agency.

While terms such as 'New World Order' and 'Deep State' are used as lightning rods for huge conspiracies and misinformation, there's considerable legitimacy about the issues more broadly.

It's actually a social problem, because such terms are picked up by the 'Alt Right' and others, they can hardly be used in polite conversation for fear of being misunderstood, but they are real problems.

Finally - 'COVID as a Bioweapon' shouldn't be in that category. It absolutely could have been developed as part of a bio-weapons program, that's not likely, but it's not conspiracy theory either.

Those advanced labs are absolutely being used for military purposes of some kinds, and given the information made available by Metzel and others, there's reason to consider (though not likely) that the research would have been part of a broader strategy of the CCP, which includes bioweapons research.

Bioweapons are real, they are developed and contemplated for use by various powers. That is not a conspiracy theory.

The chart illustrates a few other points which are politicized - moreover, I wouldn't agree at all with the layering/characterizations to begin with.

It's just not a good chart.