skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter. For most people in the US, there is no real competition, only a duopoly. Here in southern Indiana, near Louisville KY, it's either Spectrum (Comcast) or AT&T. Spectrum has cable, AT&T has DSL (some locations) and fiber (also some areas, usually only the nicer neighborhoods/streets).

Spectrum has very deceptive ads here. They show a huge price "100Mbit High Speed Internet $45/mo*" and that asterisk is (when bundled with TV service), which also costs $45/mo. Their ads should be illegal. Been like this for years, and on TV too. The government doesn't give a crap.
Am I the only one who clicked on this expecting to read about the barrier method for interior point algorithms?
I had Nokia 7650 in 2004 and I am hopefully not-nobody... these devices, although clumsy, paved the way to the modern mobile ecosystem.
insecurity but primarily insecurity about losing power and control

Interestingly enough, this probably applies to the people who were dismissing Obama on the basis of that tan suit as well.
Susy Thunder wouldn't let that stop her.
Omicron rarely sends people to the hospital. check that, so does all other variants of covid19; however, omicron does so at about the same levels as the flu - with or without vaccination. However, stop trying to change the narrative. the comment was that they think they didnt get covid was because they were vaccinated - the idea that we must mandate vaccines because that stops the spread. it doesnt.

No I was not unlucky. get your head out of the sand, omicron breaks through the vaccine easily.

<pajama caste playbook> Because by being vaxxed and boosted you greatly increased your chances of having the chance to post ill-informed comments on Hacker News post-recovery.

hinting at censorship already are you, boy, you just follow the playbook dont you?

<pajama caste playbook> we need to mandate vaccinations and masks to stop the spread of covid

<data> that's not working

<understanding of how the vaccines work> this is not how the vaccines work

<non pajama caste> you are violating my cival rights

<pajama caste playbook> well it prevents severe disease. you need to be censored for misinformation. you need to be prevented from going outside so I can feel safe because vaccination prevents the spread of covid.

<pajama caste playbook> you hate science, science works by censoring those who disagree with the proposed opinion. I worship science so I am the superior caste. I am science, I am good
thanks for littering the internet with more crappy marketing sites. you sir are one of the reasons the internet mostly sucks today.
Yeah that's a fair point.
I think the point is that when you see demos, it's always him dressed up as a marine, mountain rescuer, etc and not someone else.
I think that paper is still missing the bigger picture - in its own terms, the "structural effect" of framing the situation in such a paradigm to begin with. The paradigm is flawed in that it presupposes that these situations exist and could not have been avoided, thus absolving responsibility for whomever got the car into the unwinnable situation to begin with. We've already got enough of this "nobody's fault, things happen" nonsense with traditional cars. Self driving cars are capable of programmatically sticking to invariants and not becoming overwhelmed, and we should reject allowing the lazy "no fault" culture to persist.
Not the OP, but I assume because the quantitative approach is considered dodgey.
That's interesting about the insane number of nodes on a single box. I didn't know MajorBBS could do that. I suspect though that it wasn't handling full bandwidth file transfers for all 50+ connections simultaneously?
The posters here who are commenting on what should be (often largely what Kubernetes already is) would do well to read the paper about the Omega scheduler.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

It is almost the rule that none of us has the breadth of experience to understand all of the problems that need to be solved. In fact, an explicit goal of Kubernetes is that almost all users should not need to understand much of how the system actually works.

Frankly, most users have neither the time, inclination or intellectual capacity to understand more than a tiny part of the systems they work on. That includes most people who say they do understand those systems completely ... a few short questions can generally expose how little they know about important aspects.

That ignorance is a measure of success, btw, not failure.
The real crux of the issue is the long-tail of applications which were never conceived with anything but network-based trust. I'm certain the DoD is absolutely packed with these, probably for nearly every workflow.

The reason this was so "easy" for Google (and some other companies, like GitLab[1]) to realize most of these goals is that they are a web-based technology company - fundamentally the tooling and scalable systems needed to get started were web so the transition were "free". Meaning, most of the internal apps were HTTP apps, built on internal systems, and the initial investment was just to make an existing proxied internal service, external and behind a context aware proxy [1].

The hard part for most other companies (and the DoD) is figuring out what to do with protocols and workflows that aren't http or otherwise proxyable.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/cloud-iap-context-aware-ac...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/02/zero-trust-at-gitla...
Plucking is the ancient form of sheering. You literally pull the hair off the sheep by hand. You aren't yanking it out by the roots, the shaft generally broke rather than the root put out of the skin, but I doubt the sheep enjoyed the process. In short: gathering wool from sheep was very different before ready acess to steel shears.

https://www.chassagne.ca/index.php/the-croft-mainmenu-30/the...

"Before the invention of shears, the sheep were plucked or “rooed”, a Scandinavian word for plucking, and this tradition was still carried out on the Shetland Island until about forty years ago."
Cosmology the inflation debate (2011) [pdf]
Guess the daily wordle by inspecting source code…yes every word is hard coded in the JavaScript in calendar order
rocket man.
Story is missing a few modern day examples, I still remember this one:

https://www.sunjournal.com/2004/08/26/strongcuban-woman-ship...
Aristotle's Four Causes
"horse dewormer" is a type of medicine you can buy which is intended to be given to horses to deworm them. it's a different product from "people dewormer" (we call it an anti-parasitic in that context) with a different formulation and concentration. So it's not correct to say "literal" here, and just weakens your argument.

I think ivermectin doesn't work, but there's nothing wrong with a doctor prescribing it off label in a COVID context. It is not unsafe enough, generally speaking, to override the judgement of an individual doctor. The legal/regulatory system explicitly permits this, and there are other examples where doing this is likely ethically positive.

For example, there was a big controversey around lucentis and avastin where doctors found they could treat peoople with wet AMD with avastin far more cheaply, but the pharma (which marketed both) wanted people to use the far more expensive drug. Doctors actively precribed avastin instead of lucentis and treated patients (most case reports coming in positive) and then finally a large trial was run that showed it was basically as good as lucentis. Ethically, in retrospect, we say the doctors were acting in a good way (saving patients for less $$ and probably treating people who couldn't afford lucentis). I could imagine the owner of the two drugs running a PR campaign "Doctors: why are you prescribing a cancer drug to eye patients? Do you want to kill them"?
Parents who kept kids at home for fear of Covid are reported for neglect
If you try to input a number longer than 10 digits in either field it'll break and you have to refresh. You can see the error in the console. Its not stuck on searching, it just never reactiviated the button since it broke prior to that in the flow.
I think what people mean by corporate media is media which serves corporate interests. As in, fluffing up Big Tech or Big Oil or Big Pharma. Any media organization with employees is necessarily a corporation, right? So by your definition, all media is corporate media, tautologically.
> So what "little" they paid him was still the majority of what he was making streaming

There, I fixed it. LOL
When people play music, they sing. Singing in a crowded room isn't really a good idea when there is an infectious visus around.
Astronomers puzzled by object wrapped in mystery inside an enigma in the sky
Canada's Global Affairs Department Targeted in a Cyberattack
> did I unintentionally use some metacharacter in this part of the string which I meant to be “fixed”?

When in doubt, just throw a backslash in front of it, which always means "the next character is to be interpreted literally," even in cases where it's not necessary.

(Well, not always; the backslash will invoke a special character when thrown before some letters; eg, "\t" means the tab character. But normal letters never need to be escaped; just punctuation.)
Author here.

I've been thinking about minimal models of evolution. I concluded that you need information to be copied with some transformation, some death, and a way for the information in question to encode its ability to avoid death.

In trying to simulate that, neural networks were a good fit since they are universal function solvers. I definitely took some inspiration from NEAT[0], though I'm not using any form of crossover.

AMA

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting_t...
How about if you have anxiety issues and the reduced inflow of air from masks gives you panic attacks? This has been my life for this pandemic. I take medication but it does not stop them 100% from happening, and I have to use anti-anxiety techniques most times I put one on to stop from being overwhelmed by anticipation. Does anyone care about people like me? It sure feels like they don't. And I have seen my physical and mental condition degrade largely due to this (I was never personally panicked by the virus itself). There are others like me and it is deeply upsetting that we have to suffer like this.
Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor (https://rubular.com/r/mP6IRzteSm) is another option which is pretty minimal but useful.
But saying build it yourself isnt educating. It's akin to saying, "You should have known better". Sure. They should have. They probably did. But when someone is asking for help and you say you should have made a different decision 10 years ago to prevent this you are not educating.
I've seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere too, something to the effect of "echo chamber collapses when exposed to the real world". I wonder how many internet forums that thrive today, only because of this isolation from the real world. Sometimes I feel this is true for HN, to a certain extent.
It's pretty easy to disable the spectre mitigations, and pretty easy to measure the performance impact (~10% in some workloads).
"apologists" as if there's anything to apologise for.

You can disagree with that tweet and still be for open discussion and against censorship. Also that tweet is very old, people do change there mind.
(Not that I'm a fan of Joe Rogan, or know if he still holds that belief)
This makes me think about the Stringy Floppy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron_Stringy_Floppy
About 50% wear masks correctly when it's mandated. Correcting them works for 30s to 5 min.
Many places have used Covid as an excuse to regress and implement desired polices. Take for example the Tate Modern, a museum in London. Under the argument of COVID you must have a ticket to enter (previously free). You can get a ticket by scanning a QR at the door, you simply have to give an name and email.

You can see how they got to that place, so they can control the density of visitors which is important because of COVID, but it's also something they've wanted for years.
If you migrate a VM to a second hardware server then you have, by definition, a second server.

The question was how you reboot the posited singular hardware server with no downtime to any VMs running on it.
The idea was that the securities were, in general, reasonable assets that got caught in the equivalent of a "short squeeze". The government could handle holding through the crisis, while even large banks couldn't. Some have already been sold off at a profit.

Such was the idea. We'll see how well it works out. They need to be off the books one way or another. That's going to contract the economy temporarily (which will hopefully counteract the recent inflation -- which is the reason now is a good time to do it).

It's definitely concerning, because this is the economy as a whole. It's conventional economics, which has done a reasonably good job of understanding the economy for the past few decades, with some serious but not apocalyptic missteps.

(And there's a lot more oversight than the nuclear weapons get.)
> You are describing attribution problem. "Solution to the puzzle is no longer a secret, it is a public knowledge. Who was the original finder?".

Not at all, though perhaps my choice of "42" was poor as that seems to be an actual answer to one of the examples used here. "42" was meant as a dummy proof of knowledge value, not the secret value. My bad, should have picked something more obvious.

> GP is speaking about a different problem. Thief is not stealing the secret - they are stealing the proof that secret exists. In GP's scenario thief hacks GP's machine - which is not necessary, since GP is likely to show the proof to the world himself.

Yes, this is the scenario I'm exclusively referring to.

> And I was specifically addressing the situation when GP has made proof public. In such scenario thief can point the finger at the proof and claim that they have produced it. Solution described by me prevents thief from doing it, since proof will contain a public key from a keypair thief does not possess.

Your solution gives proof the person claiming to have found the proof signed their copy of the proof before the time it was shared, it doesn't prevent a 2nd person from taking the ZKP that was signed, making a new copy of it's value (not signature history), and signing it as an original signed ZK proof and claiming to have found it even earlier. The only ways I know of to detect such forgery of an original signed document occurred all involve interactivity (which makes the problem trivial).

> Here is other poster, presenting the solution I spoke of in a clearer way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094271

Embedding the user's public key in the ZKP process is also an interactive ZKP method, as above interactive verifications are trivial and there are many ways. The example site here uses non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs via zk-SNARK and that's where the open question left in my original comment lay.
I read about some schools that offer hybrid physics+calculus classes for exactly that reason. Why even bother to separate the subjects. Other schools have experimented with this like project based learning - build a robot or whatever - and then add in tutoring to help close the knowledge gaps that aren't getting picked up. There are plenty of ways to structure learning beyond the Prussian model.
Reverse Engineering Wordle
Recent and related:

Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30095366 - Jan 2022 (117 comments)
Monica Gandhi has been incorrectly predicting the end of the pandemic for quite some time. Long thread with video examples here: https://twitter.com/KindAndUnblind/status/147038993167988326...

For example: June 29, 2021: "I actually do not wear masks unless the business asks me to, bc I feel really protected by my vaccine, and I also feel that I can't spread it to others...these vaccines are effective against variants, they make it so that you can't transmit..."
How to build a secure and scalable Covid-19 forms transcribing workflow
When I was in Argentina a few years ago there were money changers peddling dollars on every corner in downtown Buenos Aires, at a time this was illegal (Cristina was president).
One could probably build a cannon out of mostly wood, with some banding for strategic reinforcement.

It would be fucking dangerous to operate and might not be all that effective. But my understanding is that the early cannons mainly worked by striking so much fear into people, that they surrendered without resistance.

The machines used to bore cannon holes into logs (lathes) would probably be nearly as profitable as the cannons themselves. And one could presumably use their cannon production business to finance their lathe-building business.

Oh, and there's always dynamite.
On LinkedIn, FB employees have Meta now; Google employees still have Google.
A lot of people had smartphones before iPhones. Basically all the 3G phones sold in Europe since 2003. I was working for an operator that got 3 M customers in its first year back then.

Had they a touchscreen as good as iPhone's? Definitely not. Did they had an internet connecting better than iPhone's? Definitely yes because the original iPhone was only 2G.

Anyway, this is only an analogy so let's don't get too much into it.

People don't care about jetpacks because they are crazy dangerous and expensive. This makes them less practical than jumping from a plane with a parachute instead of waiting for it to land.
> There's also a weird opposite myth that old software is bad, and urgently needs to be rewritten with newer paradigms.

Some of the challenges with old software is the ecosystem around it. Is the language it's written in still supported on modern OS? (Visual FoxPro for example). Is the database it's using still around? What about the libraries? Are they tied to a certain runtime version with no update path? Do you even have access to the source code for these dependencies? Or the application itself? Can it build on a recent machine?

I've seen projects where some infrastructure around an old piece of code was re-written to make it run on modern platforms, but that takes good engineering (some assembly required) that companies often simply can't afford.
I understand the problem of sensationalism but maybe you're downplaying this one too much? The object pulses at an unusual frequency that's never before been observed, that's something with high suprisal relative to what's known.

> We find that the source pulses every 18.18 min, an unusual periodicity that has, to our knowledge, not been observed previously.

The mysterious (as yet unexplained) aspect of it will require updating models's physics to account for its unusual emission properties. The lead researcher herself distinguished it from known types of objects and states "completely unexpected [object]...nobody thought would be able to produce this kind of emission".
> Building fiber infrastructure alone doesn’t help the impoverished. If anything, it just exacerbates inequality

You literally said that building fiber exacerbates inequality and I am pointing out that evidence points in the opposite direction. I get it, we all hate facebook, but that doesn't mean that any evidence backs up your claim.
That doesn't actually prove anything. Consider: you could have mailed an open, unsealed envelope to yourself, and then sealed it at any later date.
The more studying you do, the more likely the interviewer asks a question you've seen before.
Ah, ya, that was a dumb thought on my part then. Of course if it was initiated by the ROC, they wouldn't have been in Taiwan in the 1920s.
It depends on the level of attestation required. A simple client certificate should suffice for the majority of the non-DoD applications.
Cost-effective artificial leaf carbon capture system
I think regexr does a better job of helping you to understand exactly what is happening in the regex. I typically reach for debuggex when I already have a decent understanding of how to accomplish what I want and just want a simple way to edit & test, I think the interface is less busy for that case.
The problem here is the law of leaky abstractions: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

Systems that abstract away the complexity for you work fine up to a point... but inevitably you'll end up debugging something caused by a lower layer than the one you are familiar with, at which point you need to dig in and figure out what that abstraction is doing for you.

It's not possible to understand everything, but the more you understand the more productive and effective you'll be.

I see my overall career partly as an ongoing quest to deepen my understanding of the various abstractions I rely on.
I’m somewhat disappointed that most of the comments in this thread take the form of:

“anything that Facebook does is bad even if it helps people” and “poorer people are better off in the dark than using anything Facebook made”

Having some form of internet is clearly better than none at all and criticizing efforts to expand internet access should at least come with some viable alternative.

Applying first world values like data security and privacy to third world farmers just shows a total lack of empathy.
FYI, corps like Bell Canada, Telus, BCttel were not government owned, department or crown corp.

They were just highly protected by government regulation. The only ones allowed to do certain things, along with mandated Canadian ownership requirements. They had a defacto monopoly.
It looks like it's not. I thought it was block chain just from the title myself.
That’s much weaker than your original claim that it was mandatory for the entire country, and that story about requesting approval is a year old. If you read the recent information I gave you, note that this approval has not happened.
It's easier to enforce mask compliance than vaccine compliance because masks are visible and vaccination status is not.

Masking in restaurants for the twenty feet from entrance to table is a bit silly, though.
I've used RegExr for a few years now. No real reason other than it was the first tool for writing regex that I found.
It’s absolutely a strike against them, considering all of that does not apply to normal cloth masks intentionally.

The makers of this mask deliberately choose to make a product that does not improve collective safety, and that malicious attitude deserves to be jailed, not rewarded.
They also have a pretty decent podcast https://www.59-north.com/podcast
Then the "geek elite" would spend more time fixing things they should have learned before starting. Devs who have fixed general office worker's abominations of Microsoft Access and turned them into proper apps would agree. This isn't to belittle the creations, just an observation. The work the normal office workers build had value to the business or their managers wouldn't have let them build it. The issue comes in risk to the business when best practices are unknown and not followed. When the Access app collapses under its own weight is often when "geek elite" are summoned to pull the team's mission critical homegrown application out of the fire, and the expectations are often not matched when they build something the wrong way it takes a few days and it might take a few sprints to "do it right." The solution is probably to meet in the middle and take the apps made by the regular office workers and migrate the ones with value as soon as possible. Accruing technical debt is cheaper and it can be unpaid until disaster strikes so that is often the choice of management especially if the environment or relationship between front line office workers and internal app developers is strained.
Followed the link, didn't know what remix was so clicked the logo up top. Took me to /blogs. Clicked again, took me to /

Pretty cool!