skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> and the growing populous demand for affordable housing

Not unless you expect a communist revolution in the next ten years
I never said it didn't.
> The perspective of "un-moderated" equaling "cesspool" is entirely based on whether or not you hold any opinions which are unpopular with the powerful.

Eh, no. It's more about signal to noise ratio. Because if recent history has taught us anything, it's that crowdsourced lies are often at least as compelling as the truth.

> My account was suspended because I talked about the lab leak hypothesis before it was decided that it was ok to do so by The Good People™.

Realistically, "un-moderated" will be 99% Qanon and Stop-the-Steal and 1% the kind of stuff you say you posted. The most obsessive have the loudest voices in those spaces, and people who believe wacky things seem to be more obsessive than those who don't.
Arthritis, gout, heart disease, diabetes, cancer vs skin condition?
Take your pick
Who woulda foreseen that all commerce would be interstate commerce, allowing the federal government to control all facets of life
Let's not forget though that a great deal of "science" is in fact trash[1]. The problem isn't really people being anti-science or pro-science. The problem is science being done poorly, whether by scientists in the credentialed sense, or amateurs.

There is no pat "trust science more" or "trust amateurs less" answer here. The actual answer is that if you want to understand research, you need to actually understand mathematical statistics and the philosophy of statistics fairly deeply. There just isn't any way around it.

1. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
I don't understand your actual answer. You gave a list of cryptosystems that all suffered devastating attacks due to not properly authenticating ciphertexts; in the TLS case, several years worth of devastating attacks. PGP is an especially funny example. The only surprise is you didn't manage to work SSHv1 into the list.
gzip compressed (binary) pbm is only 56 bytes; 32 bytes for zstd compressed data. PBMs have a very simple header and no footer, so the file is almost entirely all zeroes.
> I know, I know, I shouldn't be doing that in the first place

You almost certainly should, and if you’re scolded for it you probably work for parasites. You’re not wrong to hide that activity from them but I hope you’ll find a role where contributing back is valued not chastised.
https://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/Taiwan-Maintains-E...

"North America" is producing 2,623,000 wafers per month in 2020. In 2014, North America was producing 2,245,000 wafers/month.

And remember: wafers are raw silicon. Since geometry continues to shrink (22nm, 14nm, 10nm, 7nm, 5nm), even here in the USA, each wafer is making more and more transistors.

In any case, the issue is one of demand. COVID19 stressed the fab-labs like never before, requiring semiconductors to make laptops, cellphones, cameras and many other components. The car-manufacturing shutdown followed up by the rapid production increase was also a problem.

By all measures, the worldwide supply of chips has increased. Its just that demand has outpaced supply.

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It really does seem like the "cryptocoin" industry is eating up a lot of our production capacity. But also the rise in deep-learing platforms (GPUs/TPUs), SSD storage, and other transitions to semiconductors.
The sad thing is, ever since I started using unique addresses years ago, they've caught exactly no one. I get buckets upon buckets of spam, but only from the first party companies I actually have a relationship with, and zero from 'partners'.

Mayhaps just having an email domain that isn't from a big webmail provider keeps out the spam? But then again, I get plenty of actual spam to my work email which I've never given to anyone.
Some people are willing to be meticulous about references even when they're Less Good Than One Might Wish at picking names or explaining things.
Listerine is 21% to 26% ethanol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listerine

Personally, too weak for me; I gargle with moonshine.
Intro page could do with some liberal screenshots.. it took 4 clicks into the manual to see references to some kind of UI, before which I wasn't sure whether or not this was just some backend thing. These projects are a dime a dozen, adoption would be helped by at least making it easy for folk to figure out what it is.
They pay to prioritize only because ISPs held their own customers hostage. Links would become saturated (because ISPs wouldn’t upgrade them) and they’d let customers suffer until people running CDNs paid ISPs to upgrade their own damn links. The same ones taxpayers already paid them to upgrade. The same taxpayers that paid the monopolistic ISPs for service. They weren’t double-dipping, they were triple-dipping. Look up “The Book of Broken Promises”.

Legislators let the ISPs get away with it and it’s why we have such high prices for such trash service compared to other first-world countries.
I’ve had a few folks use my email. This is going to prove wildly unpopular but I just reset the password using the email, go in and delete the account (or submit a ticket with support to do so).

They can make a new one with their own email if it’s important.
> never accept inbound calls

I’ll sometimes accept them, but I will tell callers that I will reach out independently to the institution via a main number to continue the conversation Generally causes the old “the main number won’t be able to forward you to me…”.
Yeah, I have firstlast@gmail.com with an extremely common German name. I’m on some investor list for a biotech company, I’ve received patent applications and internal discussions, holiday pictures, quotes for everything from building houses to repairing things.

I don’t even use gmail anymore, but I keep looking into what kind of fun emails I get (and I report every opt-out-only newsletter, which includes Google Fiber and some US Democratic Party thing, as spam).
> repositories that aren't work related during work hours
Bit of a mismatch between what their product people thought and reality, perhaps.
It really is. People (understandably) give Linux flak when comparing it to desktop operating systems because... it's not a desktop OS. It's quite usable on the desktop, but the money/users/interest will always stay on the server side of things. For server stuff though, it's as boring as it gets. You can administrate it with a small collection of easy-to-learn, useful tools. You can license it for free and use it for literally anything you want. You can install it on any system and have a baseline expectation of functionality. You can run pretty much any server software, combination of containers/VMs, or even a selection of desktop apps that don't break through WINE. For the people who need Linux, it truly is a terribly boring OS. Even BSD has more interesting stuff going on.

It's not boring in the "it runs Final Fantasy 14 out of the box" way, but it was never intended to. Conversely, try setting up an FTP server on Windows. You're in for a treat, I can assure you it won't be boring in the slightest.
Second this, I have a unique address I used only for Xfinity actively receiving spam.
Clearly I do, as you’re busy ancapping yourself to product development being free while saying a product is overpriced when it literally sold out at said price.

You are right in the strict sense of demand being a necessity for a skill to have value. I was assuming context would imply a skill with demand. I understand it’s possible to have skills that don’t have demand.
In my list I have: Canva, Splunk and SublimeText.

I made some noise on Reddit about the Splunk one and I didn't receive anything else after a quick exchange with them, I reported the SublimeText one but a couple of years later I got other spam to this address, and I didn't bother doing anything with the Canva one.
> I'm not clear what it means for existing ZEDEs.

The story says "total repeal". I assume they'll be gone, pending a confirmation vote next year.
I have no idea but I'm super annoyed my main email that I've used for almost 20 years has suddenly attracted a ton of spam.

I have a separate email account for all the trivial and unimportant website sign-ups (which I can mostly ignore since it's nothing critical), but my mail account was only used for "higher risk" accounts. I assume it was a leak of some sort (insurance or utilities).
I ported many projects between different Smalltalk versions, and I never had a bit of feeling that the image concept caused the related issues. Smalltalk implementations are just doing some things differently. The language ANSI standard is too minimal for practical purposes and obsolete. To ruin your basic premise: Common Lisp also uses the image concept, and it is famous for good stability and compatibility among different implementations.
1. "it takes months/years....but taking months is laughable" -?????

2. You could say this about any startup in YC. "If XXXXX then YYYY would do it".

3. Again, you could say this about any startup founder.

Seriously
Amazon sold me out, because I bought a flight ticket using Amazon India once. Amazon's partner was cleartrip, so I started getting spam from ClearTrip on my amazon@ email address. I complained loudly to Amazon, which didn't care much.
I actually do the opposite. I cap my follows at 100 and allow the algorithm to curate the rest. This way there's no stale/old interests in my recommendations and most recommendations are relevant to something I'm interested in right now or in the past ~2 years or so.
Its to the point now that unless the email address is @hotmail or @yahoo, almost everybody assumes that there is some company named domain.com that that said owner of the email works for that company.
Related discussion about rewriting a legacy system by using the strangler pattern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22350664
I'm talking about making medical devices, not replacement parts for other people's medical devices.
Uniformly random data means that someone’s perception of their ability is uncorrelated with their actual ability, which is exactly what DK=true is saying!
Yes. I don’t think this is the gotcha you’re treating it as.
I seem to be protected from most of these types of scams because I never answer the phone unless the number is known. If it is important they will leave a voicemail.

Yes caller ID can be spoofed, but it’s not as easy as it used to be, and a lot of spam call appears to have moved to overseas numbers.
These days I mostly use unique addresses, unique passwords, and where possible MFA to secure my accounts. Reduces the risk of brute force attacks and other weak account compromises.

Historically though my intention was to track who sold my email address and combat spam. It worked great.

The most notable one was the address I registered with ISC2 when signing up to take (and pass) the CISSP in 2002. The unique address I gave ISC2 and only ISC2 in 2002 was used to send spam and scam email not long after.

It was a fairly common occurance in the early/mid-2000's to receive spam where I registered addresses. These days it seems to happen much less.
Check out https://broadbandnow.com/report/dig-once-digital-divide/ and read up about how PROW’s (public rights-of-ways) work.

It’s why even in Silicon Valley in 2022 we’re paying Comcast and can’t get Google or even Verizon FTTH.
The accounts aren’t but the orgs typically are and I think that passes muster. Ultimately they just don’t want people astroturfing or otherwise deceptively maintaining multiple accounts on behalf of paying customers.
> "hey, system, go through this btree, pull these items, merge with items from this other btree, etc”

What I've always wanted in Postgres in one quote expect to also allow other index types (e.g. Hash/BRIN/etc) in its language.

Side benefit: It also allows dev's to understand the pro's/con's of these constructs when using each one and build up their knowledge on what is really just algo's and data structures.
So, the issue is that iOS keeps keychain items around when you delete an app, and the claim is that data cannot be deleted and can be used to track you.

About the “cannot be deleted”: it’s not as convenient as it could be, but can’t you delete passwords via Settings? See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211146.

As to the tracking, AFAIK the keychain items are only accessible to the app owner (in their app and, I think, if you let Safari use it on their site). If you don’t reinstall the app or visit the site, it’s junk data. If you do reinstall it, the app can use it to figure out that you’re the user who logged in earlier.

I don’t see how they would need data in your keychain for that, though. The app could track logins server-side, too, so if iOS didn’t store that item, the app would prompt for user name and password and from that, conclude that you visited earlier.

Am I missing something?
> Finally, be aware that for a conditional type to trigger distributivity, the checked generic must be by itself to the left of extends, that is, not passed into another generic or otherwise altered during the check.

Ah, this helped my brain click with a problem I’ve encountered several times. I think the most common reason I encounter this is when using generic memoized components in React. The generic parameters seem to be missed by the compiler completely, so something like a memoized polymorphic component becomes impossible to compose further into other components.

I guess the problem is that the memo function has inferred generic parameters which causes distributivity to be disabled on the nested generic parameters.

At least I think this is the case. I need to dig a little deeper, but I’m fairly sure this explains it.

This was a great read. I intuitively think in sets quite often, but it hadn’t occurred to me how overt the set theory is in TypeScript. This opened my eyes to the reason behind certain unintuitive behaviours (especially intersecting interfaces).
I get random invoices in languages I don't even speak due to something similar.
It would be nice if this was a common OS feature. For some platforms however, system APIs implement the undo stack by way of pointers into runtime objects. A macOS application, for example, has model functions for each kind of document change, and these end with constructing an undo stack item. This contains pointers to the model object and inverse model function, plus captured parameters for that function to perform the undo. (Elegantly, when the inverse functions are called during an undo, the undo stack items they make effectively build a redo stack)

To save this undo stack on this and similar platforms would also require changing the undo mechanism entirely, from using pointers into using static references having meaning across instances of the document model. The inverse model function would have to be identified by an enumeration, the object to change would have to be identified by a kind of search path. The details about saving the data, and where to save it, would be the tiniest part of this problem.

But even on these platforms, if an individual app wishes to implement a custom undo stack which supported this feature, that would be very possible. If cross-platform frameworks implemented support for this that could be a definite advantage over native APIs.
Yes!! I think it is to justify grant applications. Trouble is they're using stats as weasel words and the people who approve the grants have no idea.
Yes, that removes the flies' right to live in that place. I want next goal to be Australian cats and frogs.
Taxpayers also paid ISPs to both deploy rural broadband and to upgrade existing infrastructure, so they’re getting paid 3x if you count that. Look up “The Book of Broken Promises”.
About 70% of my current spam is to a throwaway email I listed here on HN. Seems obvious (public addresses are easy to scrape), but it didn't occur to me when I listed it.
* June 22, not July
Please don't stop being curious. That quality means you belong here.
Fair, coming from a physics/chemistry/biology background seeing the connection between the spectrum of light being seen and the color you convert it to was really enlightening. I knew it had to do with phosphors, but the science is fairly understandable.

The chemicals that pick up light respond to different wavelengths differently. However, if they get excited, they are a [1] (as far as I think we understand). So a single phosphor can't tell anything about the wavelength other than a probability distribution.

Then you take three probability distributions and identify a single unique color in our heads for it. And that's why every color-space ultimately has three parameters, it's all just different projections and mappings but physically there's really just a spatially isolated signal that tells you which of three phosphors were hit and how much, and then a ratio to downsample it to a perceptual color.

And then you look at the overlap and see how for wavelengths you see as blue, the "blue" phosphor is only about as active as the "green" phosphor (which are confusing misnomers anyway) but your brain sees both being active equally as "blue". And then that "red" secondary hump gets hit when the wavelength moves from blue towards violet -- activating the "red" phosphor and making vision into a wheel.

It was always one of those "this is obvious until I think about it" moments when I wondered why 400nm and 700nm aren't ends of a spectrum in our vision rather than a wheel, there's no obvious theoretical reason for it I think. It's just a possibly pure coincidence of that "red" phosphor having a second hump.

It's nice to do the conversion for real a few times with example colors or black body radiation. Seeing how this works a little closely makes a bunch of stuff like imaginary colors make sense biologically with saturating certain phosphors.
Thanks, updated the title! Good catch
It wasn’t just through installing caches, it was through paying ISPs: https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/29/netflix-and-att-sign-peeri...

And it wasn’t just level3, it was L3, Akamai, and Limelight: https://www.businessinsider.com/akamai-to-lose-netflix-as-a-...
Netflix pays for connectivity just like consumers do.

They can pay for better QoS, which will result in better QoS for their customers if they want.

Or their customers can, or both.

"Can you imagine an electric company trying to get some sort of fee from Samsung because they sell a lot of electronics that people use in their houses..."

That analogy doesn't work because Samsung, in that case, has nothing to do with the data flow. Netflix obviously does.

Netflix should not have to pay special fees because they are 'Netflix' or 'it's video' or 'it's movies' - but they should definitely have to pay fees relevant to QoS of their upload bandwidth. Just like you, I and everyone else.
I still don’t see the problem. Either they’re sitting around with nothing to do, and therefor the contributions are a clear positive, or they’re neglecting the work they’re supposed to be doing and the contributions are beside the point.
Try to buy something from not-so-friendly urisdiction. And you will see the difference between storytelling and business.
Top of homepage.....

Platform for teams of OnlyFan girls to safely create in-person performances.
"Big sources" also want this because they do not want to have to compete with, or these days be called out by new sources.

Look at YT and the hiding dislikes. That was all about establishment players being very widely and publicly disliked for poor quality information, outright lies in some cases.

How did people know?

Thos smaller sources able to get a lot of attention.

The minute ISP's get to prioritize, they get to create near infinite artificial value by making endless deals about who gets what and when.

Nobody but the ISP'S and establishment support that garbage.

There is no value added to anyone, except the ISP's and establishment.
The Onion has been permanently banned from Twitter
Companies are overly cautious about letting experts distinguish ourselves and invest in the learning curves of more powerful tools. Java is improving slowly but as an IC I’d be excited to move to Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, or maybe Rust or F#.
Operating costs for upgrading networks are obviously better served going into increasing net profits than actually building improved infrastructure. From a capitalist point of view it just makes good business sense to lobby for not having to upgrade the networks because people have no (or at least very few) competitors they could turn to as alternatives.
Submitting a resume on a job board is the fastest way to disclose an email address to every recruiter with an Internet connection.
I mean, you could. Not a browser author or map maker but thinking it out loud.

This would be a 'rectangle color' specific. Probably 24 bytes to represent height, width, color? It seems like a Herculean effort to attempt to get browser support for such a thing, for a phenomenally rare use case. It would need to be an image format probably and not a browser implementation, since they're usually arranged around other images. And all for saving some 60 bytes per square.

To be clear I'm not saying it's a bad idea - I'm all for it. It just seems like a pretty edge use case(large blobs of single color images such as oceans in cartoon maps).
Couldn't they just use css background-image property to load just one?
FPV drone follows extreme mountainbike using signal relays [video]
So what you're trying to say is that Trump Social should clone a load balancer or two and migrate to Postgres
For me the biggest "dog that did not bark" was real estate agents. I used both a separate email and VoIP number to my main one, which was handy as it meant I could switch them off at times when I didn't want to deal. I got plenty of calls and emails during the process, but as soon as I made a transaction, crickets. To the extent that I think they must share a negative list. I guess they value their own time and know that once you made a transaction, you're not going to be making another soon. Surprisingly this continues to hold, no "are you thinking of moving again" now it's been a while
> Why not price the network equally for everyone?

Because settlement-free peering was a foundational piece of the internet until ISPs decided to ruin it: https://www.inap.com/blog/despite-comcast-netflix-deal-settl...
It's also intuitive if you think about error in self assessment. Skill is asymptotic to some upper bound. The closer to the asymptote (higher skill), then most likely the error in estimation is under it, since it cannot be above it.

Conversely it cannot also be under zero, so error is most likely going to be above the actual skill line (over estimation, since it's clamped below it).
Seems similar to banks wanting to become investment banks. They saw all that shiny money...
Completely agreed. While I strongly believe in citizen science and people's right (and perhaps obligation) to critique established science, there is just so much poor analyses done by people to criticize some scientific findings they do not approve, motivated emotionally or otherwise. This phenomenon does not bring us closer to finding scientific facts or resolving the replication crisis. People should learn some basic analytic tools first.
I think there's two extremes here. One is the issue covered well above. There is a great deal of junk science that gets published. That is a problem and it does erode trust. But in some ways it's also how the sausage gets made, there's going to be room for things to get published they later gets refuted. People rightly so have distrust for results coming out in fields they don't have good knowledge in. Without becoming an expert yourself it's very difficult to know who or what to trust.

On the other end there's distrust of broad scientific consensus across different professions, countries, etc. It's the distrust at these levels that is the increasing problem we are facing today.