skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"On the other side of the wireless connection, there are only two games in town: Either you are Apple, or you put Google's Android smartphone software on your product. Both platforms are architected on an economy of surveillance."

It always seems like many an HN or other commenter from around the web/internet are keen to argue that Apple's platform is different and is not architected on an economy of surveillance. If anyone reading doubts this, I can dredge up some examples. In any event, these folks like to focus on differences rather than similarities. There are similarities. Lots of them.

Here, PHK says Apple's platform is architected on an economy of surveillance, just like Google's. I must agree with PHK on this one.

"There is objectively no reason why Apple or Google should know every single time you make a phone call or send a message, but since their profits are built on them knowing, you will not find it easy to configure your mobile phone to not tell them-and you will be constantly pestered by ominous warnings and notifications if you manage to do so."

With NetGuard on non-rooted Android, one can block all Wifi and Mobile connections on a per app basis and per domain+protocol if desired. One can block everything and whitelist selected apps.

How does Google track calls and messages in spite of NetGuard.

"If you write an app for either platform, you have to publish it through the respective walled garden, and you can do so for free-but then it must contain built-in advertisements that provide Apple and Google with surveillance data of your users."

Is this true. What about repositories or applications like F-Droid.

"This takes an incredible amount of RTTs (round-trip times), which is why work on HTTP in the past 10 years has had a laser-like focus on avoiding TCP's three-way handshake by any means imaginable, while at the same time trying to obscure-as much as possible-precisely how much and which surveillance data the big platforms are collecting."

Is he referring to HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Observing outgoing traffic does appear to be more difficult under these revised HTTP protocols. Intentional or merely a side effect. You make the call.

"Whenever you see one of those "Share this on Facebook" icons on a web page, your browser makes a DNS request and an HTTP request directly to Facebook's servers to get that little image."

To solve this problem, some web pages just use a locally-hosted image for the icon, not one hosted by Facebook. No lookups required. It really is quite sneaky the way that Facebook places those icons on millions of web pages. What looks like a harmless buttton is truly a surveillance gimmick. It is sad that so many websites play along with the game. Perhaps they are not even aware of what they are supporting.
The MIT license says:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT

People are getting mad that this guy removed functionality from his open source project -- as if the open source license warranted fitness for a particular purpose.
Dracula and Progress Studies
Further, it’s basically just a shortened version of the Wikipedia page
Which is...drumroll...where the payment endpoints will be for using the digital gold (coins that have won the race) for the P2P payments.
You should take Caltrain to San Francisco and see if you enjoy the ride, Assuming you're not from the bay already.

Castro has a lot of really nice restaurants. I say that being from the Philly area and used to a nice food scene. The short time I lived in mtv I was impressed with all that. Shout out to sunny bowl near Google as well.

If you have a car, try taking the drive west to like half moon bay and see how you like it. The parks up behind Los Gatos/altos are also really pretty.
This is one of the most powerful rules in finance
how are they not when they have been mostly funding cis-white males?
I was curious about how prevalent the use of crypto is as referring to cryptocurrency.

I had to get to the fifth page of Google results for "crypto" to get to this non-cryptocurrency gem:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crypto
Austen go back to running your scam school.
Maybe add number inputs or change the minimum/step values in the ranges. Some of us don't even have $1000 to start with :)
You're not going to be learning much about smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs, etc. on obscure chains though.
What exactly is the problem with codes of conduct, critiquing capitalism, chatting on Discord, and using a Mac? Why the derision?
Reddit and HN are both replicated by third parties. The content won't go away.
When the annualized rate of inflation is at 7.5% and growing, the Treasury Department should probably come up with a new term for whatever that $119B is. Call it anything but a "surplus."
Maybe a good thing. You can’t fake cashflow! You can sure fake “profit”.
Only the coupon payment is the safe part.

If you buy a 10y treasury that yields 2%, and yields run to 4%, you'll lose a lot of money and be worse off than if you were in cash
So is YC now making attempts to fund diverse founders? Why did this only happen under Michael Seibel. Us LGBTQ+ are still under represented.
RIP Ivan Reitman, Director of “Ghostbusters”
$49B surplus excluding wireless spectrum auction.
Depends on what you want to learn. Rocketpool has a testnet setup so you can play with ETH staking: https://docs.rocketpool.net/guides/testnet/overview.html

Get some free testnet ETH and try it out!

I haven't looked into minting NFT on testnet. You can write your own contracts on testnet tho but that's a heavier lift.

Disclosure: I own crypto and think ETH will be <$0.05 USD for a transfer within 4 years.
1) Rationality has become the new religion.

2) We are drowning ourselves with the need to measure everything and killing ourselves by ignoring what we can't measure.

3) Efficiency is the bane of technological systems.
Here's a preprint by some of the same authors as the main article. Figure 5 compares to influenza:

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1062160/v1
Long Covid after Breakthrough COVID-19: the post-acute sequelae of breakthrough COVID-19 by Ziyad Al-Aly, Benjamin Bowe, Yan Xie

Figure 5 is "Risk and 6-month excess burden of post-acute sequelae by organ system in people who were hospitalized during the acute phase of breakthrough COVID-19 compared to those hospitalized with seasonal influenza "
To the extent that you are saying that specialized services can be built upon a generalized infrastructure and that people can benefit from that, I agree!

But, the commenter I take issue with said that it's good actually that we are just re-inventing banks on top of the blockchains, and the evidence that they offered is that it was good actually that we invented Facebook on top of the decentralized web.

Actually, Facebook is bad. It's not bad because it offers a service that people clearly need. I think we can all agree that an easy publishing on-ramp is great, and that it should exist. Facebook is bad because its creators use it as a tool for mass manipulation and exploitation of its users, and the web as we know it facilitates this through a combination of its flaws and missing features.

Facebook has created some useful services, but that doesn't mean we want to build Facebook again on a newly conceived network infrastructure. In web3 we see a latent opportunity to design new infrastructure that improves on the flaws and power imbalances of the previous one. But, if we seek only to re-invent the exploitative institutions of the past atop a new substrate, then frankly it's a waste of (most) people's time (I'm sure some VCs and early adopters have a lot riding on it, though).
Evidence of efficacy of the Laffer curve has been, to be kind about it, scant, and not for lack of looking!

The 2017 tax change pulled taxes forward from subsequent years.
Yeah. Wolfram Alpha compares it to (a fraction of - something like 20%) the energy of pushing a key on a keyboard.

For one photon to have enough energy to push a rice grain is just crazy.

Makes me wonder which physical process created it. Even the hydrogen fusion photon is not that energetic.
It's people like these hackers who deserve to have the full force of the CFAA thrown at them, not people like Aaron Swartz.
One of the trends of newer programming languages that I'm a big fan of is to pair good error messages with strict validation (see e.g. Elm or Rust) rather than to try to have very lax input (in this case code) and make it work (e.g. older versions of PHP or JS).

While there are specific cases where lax validation or extensible validation is the right way to go, I agree with the IETF here that that lax/extensible validation is a poor default and strict (+ good error messages!) is a better default.

It is always easier, whether purely from an implementation perspective or from a wider ecosystem perspective, to take strict validation and make it laxer.
That's true in one sense. In another sense it refers to not requesting the tracking scripts in the first place (ie. not opting-in). That perspective works better if you think of the browser as a user-agent.

It's not really an importance distinction in the end though.
See “I feel obligated to say…”

In other words, I didn’t have any advice so I didn’t try to give any.
Wait till you get a deletion request for a specific user... we've had to mount snapshots as DBs just to have an automated query purge their record from the snapshot, delete the snapshot and retake the snapshot.
I used framesdirect.com. I didn't say I bought contacts though, it might be different
One time as in not recurring revenue for every year.

If it has to be recognised annually then roughly $70B/10-15 years is the annual value.
Underwater Cavity doesn't require digging a hole. It's just a concrete sphere that's lowered deep underwater.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4120200 article and discussion from 2012.
My point was that it is simple from the POV of the app developer. See the comment I replied to.
Spatial errors still account for almost 30% of yearly security vulnerabilities via buffer overflows alone, which is only one subclass. I think solving those makes it plenty useful.

Then add the fact that exist transformations that turn temporal errors into spatial errors, and you'll see it's not necessarily much of a limitation even then:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spe.2105
Anyone that's sent crypto from Polygon to Coinbase would disagree about interoperability.
grafana is what I use.
The article advises "Use NNTP".

NNTP is what the D Language forums use:

https://forum.dlang.org/

While it may look like any web forum, it is a shell around NNTP. This means you can access it via any NNTP software, like Thunderbird (what I use), by pointing to news.digitalmars.com

There's a readonly version of it that consists of simple HTML pages:

https://www.digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html

and even a mailing list you can sign up for. We've been very happy with it, been using it for 18 years. Occasionally people ask for "modern" forum software, but its restrictions are actually advantages.
Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring Professor John Mearsheimer
Huh? If a company gives you a $5 rebate for buying 5 bottles of shampoo, then it gets extra sales.

So if a $5 grocery rebate a kick-back?
I know on great detail the implementation and what went into it.

My point was it is simple for an app developer to integrate with.
The treasury continues to pay coupon payments to the Fed.

Though you're right that Fed is partially monetizing deficit spending, that money gets reabsorbed over time through coupon payments.

However, Fed typically will repurchase to keep balance sheet stable. Hopefully they actually do QT like they're saying to start reducing the balance sheet
Remember that Apache Remote Code Execution bug? No, not Struts, the other one. No, not mod_cgi, the other one. No, not auth_digest the other one.. ad inifinum. These were all caused by so-called "unsafe legacy functions". Just because YOU might not implement them, doesn't mean others won't.
I'm curious about this concept. Some quick googling yielded "The Programmer's Stone" [0], seemingly about how mapping related to programming. Any other sources?

[0]: http://programmersstone.com
Have you ever been near a moose? I almost hit one when it charged out of the bush while I was diving a backroad.

It swerved at the last minute and ran alongside my car for about 10s. All I could see out the side window was its legs, felt like being next to a dinosaur.
Missed this reply--I use camelcamelcamel for Amazon. I'm not sure if they are able to handle the click-to-get-discount check boxes, though. I also don't know how timely they are.

I've considered setting up Huginn to do this, but haven't explored it enough: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Oh. Well, I did have advice, so I gave it. :)
>but I think email lists the most accessible decentralized substitute

I strongly dislike the UX of email lists. I'd prefer to keep my email usage to registering accounts / resetting passwords instead of trying to shoehorn a chatroom onto the email protocol. Even if it may not be decentralized I much strongly prefer joining Discord servers due to it having a much better UX. As you said it's 2022 and I can't be bothered to deal with email.
there is a statistic for any argument you want to make
I watched this video from a guy named Mark Shepard who's approach is hybridization and natural selection. It sounds like he has American-Chinese chestnut hybrids in his farm: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RePJ3rJa1Wg
Only if inflation was less you would be better of with cash in that scenario.

At 7% that is still better deal than cash
Feedback on the specific CSS techniques employed:

• Instead of `.postbody p::first-letter { margin-left: 18px }`, probably use `.postbody p { text-indent: 18px }`. (Admittedly text-indent has the downside that it is inherited by any block or inline-block children, so caution is required. Y’know, maybe in the general case ::first-letter margin-inline-start is actually handier when you’re deliberately just applying it to paragraphs, so you don’t need to worry about potential block children or inserting a `p > * { text-indent: 0 }`.)

• `hyphens: auto` will generally do nothing unless the document declares its language (which this one doesn’t), e.g. <html lang="en">. As for whether you want it anyway… eh; greedy line-breaking (which is all that any browser implements at this time) and hyphenation don’t go particularly well together, you end up with significant quantities of gratuitous and unhelpful hyphenation.

• `font-family: Georgia` is unwise, as you can’t depend on people having Georgia. (Windows should, but other platforms probably won’t, though some may alias it.) You should certainly include a fallback of `serif`. (And in this specific case, the site is already using a serif, is Georgia even worth changing to?)

• Some of the numbers are a bit odd, but I’m guessing that’s because you just implemented it in dev tools and copied it verbatim. Me, I’d use em for the text-indent (and a larger value, at that, probably 1.2–1.4em), unitless for line-height (e.g. 1.5, which is a smidgeon more), em for max-width (though if the whim took me, I might devolve to ch occasionally), and 0 for margin-top and margin-bottom (or possibly 0.5em—half a line or so actually works quite nicely on a scrolling-based medium, though I wouldn’t do it on a paginated screen or any but the thickest double-sided paper).
Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are?
Woah, neat! Thanks for sharing.
The correct link: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sqhcco/nurses_of...

It's too late to edit the original post now.
> I agree with the IETF here

Note that the status of this document is an (expired) Internet-Draft -- it is a proposed RFC that has not been adopted, so it doesn't necessarily reflect an IETF consensus.

I mention this because I'm the author of some somewhat controversial Internet-Drafts that some people thought had already been adopted because they were hosted on ietf.org and were written in the style of an RFC. It's worth remembering that anyone can write a proposed RFC and it will be hosted on ietf.org in order to facilitate discussion. IETF documents should indicate their status at the top, as well as having more details about their history available in the IETF datatracker, so we can see what kind of consensus each document has or has not achieved so far.
Fantastic, I appreciate the deep visualization of multiple inputs. As a “friends and family” hobbyist mechanic who touches a handful of wheels per year Im still interested. Its a heck of a lot faster than paper notes while working through tension.

Two questions: Is there any allowance/procedure for setting the lateral center? What about detecting angle or rotation for matching tension/run out adjustments to specific spokes? I guess you could track your input values and use those to indicate direction and approximate location.
The "Laffer Curve" has been widely discredited by economists across the political spectrum.

Tax revenues in the year after the the Trump tax cuts (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) did indeed rise (FY2018). That being said, much of that was attributable to economic growth and inflation. The real question is what would revenue have been had the TCJA not been passed? It's obviously impossible to answer a counterfactual, but the Congressional Budget Office's predictions for 2018 taxes - made before the tax cuts were passed - were $276bn higher than actual receipts. These predictions ended up being pretty close to accurate for types of taxes that weren't affected by the TCJA, so it's a good ballpark.
A quick walkthrough of HumongouS.io online MongoDB Playground
First off, being a "monopoly" (dominant market share) does not make one a "despot blinded by hubris" as the OP suggests. Anti-trust laws target "abuse" of monopoly.

Secondly, YC may very well be a "new age monopoly" much like Google or Amazon or Facebook i.e. the customers of those companies (in YC's case - founders) gravitate to them not because there is no choice but the value that they offer is so far above and beyond any competition that exists today. The point to note is - traditional definitions of monopoly abuse don't apply, unlike for example: Apple extorting 30% from app devs, which is a blindingly obvious case of abuse.

YC just put out a superior product for their customers who'd otherwise have to pitch to 20 other angels. If you consider YC like the Amazon marketplace, this new deal can be considered a new private label (like AmazonBasics). It is quite likely that this hurts the economics of some angels. But YC is still makings it primary customers happy.

And talking about superior products, by virtue of its early stage and program design, YC does in fact add substantial value when your company is most vulnerable and needs the most help. A16Z/Sequoia/etc founders, are happy with the money and the short lived legitimacy the branded money confers.

But most YC founders seem to owe their existence to YC i.e. they love YC like an alma mater, which is exactly how YC positions itself. No angel/fund can compete with that emotional connect with checkbooks. Soon YCG will be giving later stage VCs a run for their money.

Disclaimer: I am a yc alum. YC is far from a guarantee of success as my dying company can testify. And they are quick to remind that the Harvard analogy doesn't go very far because the median YC company is still a dead one.
I know what you are thinking. Another cryptocurrency post is on HN once again and it is difficult to ignore it.

Whilst it is there, someone here can’t help themselves and scream the same thing over again including ‘scam’ ‘ponzi’ ‘pyramid’, ‘vaporware’, ‘planet-incinerating’, ‘proof-of-waste’, ‘piece-of-sh*t’, ‘casino slot machine’, etc.

It gets quite predictable and really unsurprising. If for every crypto-related thread on HN, any mention of those words was worth $100, well… that would be a lot of money for me on that prediction then, since they love to hate anything crypto.

So predictable, its profitable.
I'm surprised the author makes no mention of centralized chains over testnets, since the importance of "skin in the game" as a learning strategy is emphasized.

To learn Ethereum, getting around the Binance Smart Chain or Polygon ecosystems can be done for very little cost, all the while involving tokens with actual market value (BNB and custodied ETH respectively), and mostly up to date EVM implementations.

Importantly, this will also confront users with a multitude of scams. I don't expect the amount and ingenuity of scams to die down, so learning to operate in an adversarial environment should be an integral part of any crypto education[1]. It would be dangerous to land into the real world of crypto with a false sense of security conferred by an otherwise realistic experience in value-less testnets. Technical expertise might deflect some scams, but a lot of them play more into social engineering (sometimes to an extreme degree[2]), which you will only encounter in live environments.

[1]: This applies to cryptography as well.

[2]: https://twitter.com/thomasg_eth/status/1492663192404779013
Thank you for catching that! Unfortunately it's too late to edit the post now, so I have left a comment with the link. Hopefully it helps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sqhcco/nurses_of...
Not that this legitimizes crypto, but early cars were not understandable by ordinary people. They were loud and finicky, and toys of the rich who had the time and energy and money to spend on them until the technology matured and mass manufacturing brought their price way down.
Gov debt is private sector savings. Title rephrased: We've reduced private sector assets by $119bill.
Except the fed can and does buy trillions of dollars worth of Treasury issuance. (Guess where they get the money to do so)
I'm slowly starting to. Tired of buying cheap crap (electronics mainly) now I just go direct from places like Mouser.

But it is hard I like their lockers.
This finally helps prove that I was right. I threw a test in high school when the computer teacher decided that his mainframe and cobol approach was the best.

He said if I could pass his end-of-year test he would give me the permission to start coding in C++ (I already had Borland C++ at home and was WAY past all this). He was a complete dick about it. Mr. Crow. He can eat it now.

I threw the test and intended to get a perfect 0%. One question that came up is what was the first operating system for the IBM computer system. It was PC-DOS because that's the contracted name. MS-DOS was the name for the generic Intel based system. I knew the answer.

His answer sheet was WRONG. So I got 1 out of 40 questions right. I could have scored a 100% but I hated him as a teacher so much.

His words were "You will never be anything in computers unless you can pass my class". Three letters to prove him wrong: CTO.
It's even "funnier" how then they try to take $SHINY_LANG to its extremes and expect it to work flawlessly. And they don't try to understand it or work around it. "No optimizing, only performance."

I remember some people getting bit by some Go stuff early on. Things take time. It will get there when it gets there. Then they come to HN and create a "why $technology sucks" when they a) didn't read the manual b) didn't match their requirements with the capabilities of the lang c) had unreal expectations

Don't buy the shiniest Tesla then use it as your building contractor car. Especially when you like to overload the rear axis and pretend that's just not an issue.