skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon didn’t have to play defensive against google (IF your claim is true). Amazon took a deliberate step to change their system. That’s solely on them. Amazon is always to blame for actions Amazon makes.

Everyone is always to blame for their own actions! (Maybe legal requirements not withstanding)
More like "how we do it in the cheapest way with minimum possible effort". It doesn't earn them any money, so they don't want to spend money on it.
While at university, we had one professor who would assess student assignment papers after conducting an interview. It would take him 5-10 minutes per person and cheaters really did get caught out. It is a common practice in some universities and it's very hard to cheat when being asked questions in person. It can be done online, as long as the identity of the person can be verified. Takes a lot longer and is a lot more engaging that written tests, but it works.
Not quite. If that were true, Blu-ray would have been quite happy with AACS. It had it all: key revocation, device-specific keys, blacklists, remote updates, it was plenty, and it even worked on the defunct HD DVD.

But they heaped on BD+ VMs, Cinavia watermarking, BD-ROM Mark, basically threw everything they had at the problem and hoped that something would stick. Movie studios actually say that Blu-ray supporting more DRM methods was actually a major reason they chose Blu-ray over HD DVD (which didn't support BD+, which supposedly was DRM designed to last a decade).

And again, if that perspective were true, the movie studios wouldn't have done the whole dance again with HDCP 2.2, BD+2, and AACSv2 when 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray came out (only for all of them to get broken again not long after release despite being completely-fresh implementations). You already needed the older versions, right? So, I would argue, it's actually a mixture of both.
Absolutely, my ideal would be for the canonical form in the codebase to just be the abstract token. It would have one or more possible names stored in the codebase. Then each developer would be able to choose the names they'd prefer to see and type in their editors. (Decoupling the name of a code unit from the actual reference to/implementation of it is one of the things I'm really excited about in the Unison programming language.)
New (LTE) Rotary Cell Phone [video]
There's really only one interpretation. There's a definite pause between the lines as well. This isn't really a matter of perspective. The only way I can concede that it's possible to read those lines in your way is not particularly flattering to you.
Super cool. I'm on the Developer edition and will look forward to this rolling out, hopefully soon!
Who is leaking this?
Conversely, when it comes to mobile devices, RAM is still used in its original meaning, but somehow internal Flash storage became "ROM".
Right. Also, we're glossing over the fact that it's not just bullying, but swatting, threatening phone calls, contacting employers to seek termination, email spam, sending unpaid-for pizzas, etc. It's not just words.
My intuition is the opposite. If someone said "No cheating, on your honor" then I would probably feel much more hesitant to cheat. On the other hand, if I see you're trying to prevent cheating then I feel almost obliged to defeat the measures you thought could contain me.
"A thousand megabytes of RAM" has the same meter, and sounds more like an absurd brag than "A hundred gigabytes" even though it's smaller
Different students have different tolerances for risk. Anti-cheating measures dissuade some but not others. Students with a lot of risk tolerance and a very high drive for success at all costs will likely find ways to cheat no matter what, but that doesn't mean simple anti-cheat measures don't work to reduce cheating.
There is a little bit of difference here though. Console copy protection usually doesn't prevent making copies of the media, rather it prevents _using_ those copies. It's more of an authentication mechanism.

OTOH, video is just pixels and waveforms. If you can get that raw content out somehow, copy protection cannot prevent someone from enjoying that copy (which can then be re-encoded to not have protection). So making video copy protection is much harder because you actually need to prevent copies rather than just make sure the authentication is hard to break.
love to see this stuff, reacting to users in the world's #1 accidental entry point to programming. I wish they did this 20 years ago when i was neck deep in Excel daily!
Yes, I hate ligatures. I want to know exactly what sequence of characters exist in a file, not transformed into another symbol.
I subscribed to newzbin we'll into the mid 2010's.
> both options are indistinguishably plausible, then what do you in response to this one event is absolutely meaningless.

How is it “absolutely meaningless” if you can narrow the chance of happening of the one you have control over? Is a global pandemic is a rare occurrence already don’t you make it more rare if you mitigate the risk of one of the possible sources?
None of the Javascript alternatives (except maybe CoffeeScript) really gained any traction until Typescript did. Just because something is hard doesn't mean that it shouldn't be attempted, and just because something is unlikely to succeed doesn't mean that it is a lost cause. To look at a language like SQL and say "meh, that's good enough" is crazy to me. I estimate that a widely-adopted good SQL alternative could have saved me over 1000 hours over the last 10 years.
An excellent example of the spillover effect. I've noticed that whenever I've visit there.

Also to this outsider, that cultural and physical coupling to your southern neighbor is noticeably different in different parts of the country say between Quebec and British Columbia for instance.
Most Americans move every 7 years. Being locked into a home means fewer economic opportunities.
A play by play approach of US that it did in Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/02/22/is-there-ac...

Note that this person from NATO who wrote this nytimes article asking to arm ISIS with anti-aircraft is now the content director of reddit.
https://bartonfuneral.com/the-truth-about-green-cremation-bu....
Right, but wood is also a great insulator compared to steel, so where a steel beam's yield strength would go down quickly throughout, you're only going to burn the outer layer of the beam, allowing it to retain most of its strength. /Hand-wavey-assertion
The trend is net migration from north to south, and east to west. Unfortunately this means more automobile dependent cities.
Singapore's area is 283 square miles. Rhode Island is the smallest state, and it has an area of 1214 square miles. Four times larger, with people throughout needing care. That alone will add a fair amount of cost.

Granted, not the total amount spent, but city states do have some advantages on things like this.
It’s was natural, but also bold. Established companies rarely do bold.

It also wasn’t obvious.
Meanwhile lawyer services are often ruinously expensive for the lower rungs of society. Allowing lawyers to control the supply of lawyers is a big mistake.
In my experience, sync conflicts are pretty common on SyncThing, too, which is often how I hear this paired ("use KeePassXC on Syncthing for the win" type deal)

I think it's an impedance mismatch trying to take a single-user database format and trying to use it from multiple devices
So they deleted videos where they couldn't verify the performers age only. Seems reasonable, to be honest. I know women who had their bodies posted on there against their consent and it can be very hard to take down, while it's trivial to be re-uploaded.
that's the bottom line, it's meaningless without additional context. Because how many of us are familiar with the volume of a tree or how much O2 a tree produces. It's not even clear what aspect/property of the tree they're trying to highlight as relatable.
I work for a company (https://careviso.com) that is in this space.

We will sell our benefits investigation services to providers (hospitals, clinics) so that they can give better information to their patients. However our main customers right now are labs that do diagnostic testing.

What we've been able to do is build data-backed algorithms to determine whether a given patient's health insurance will cover a given test. Since patients are (obviously) more willing to get tested if they know that their insurance covers it, labs that work with us can increase their volume. Labs' sticker price for tests can be thousands of dollars, and they don't want to advertise that. They need information about what insurance the patient has and whether that insurance will cover a given test.

I think most of our data is internal data we've collected, but the Price Transparency Act is definitely useful to us in delivering accurate estimates.

(This is an oversimplification of our system. If you work in the space and want details, I'm sure our team would be happy to talk with you.)
What is often missed is that chimeric viruses are easy to detect. The viral genome will show clear evidence of manipulation from random base insertions and clear homology with all the ancestral viruses. Hiding the signs of manipulation would either require vast amounts of time and resources (the expense and man power would make it very difficult to hide) or straight up science fiction technology. The chimeric origin hypothesis is not a plausible explanation for the origin of sars-cov2, which means the nature link is not relevant.

The other lab leak hypothesis is that a specimen collected and cultured by scientists, infected a lab employee and this patient zero then transmitted the virus to others. This is a plausible option, and it is being researched. However it is less plausible than wild transmission based on a simple numbers game. What is more likely, a breakout infection cause by a dozen scientists specifically trained and equipped against this possibility, or a transmission to one of the millions of other people who routinely interact with these bat populations? Both are possible, but one is much more likely. Before covid19, WIV had published research indicating that novel coronaviruses routinely jump from bats to humans in that part of the world. Most of these viruses aren't don't last in human hosts, but it's clear that it was only a matter time before something nasty got through. After all, it's already happened once before.

The real nail in the coffin is that research[0] has shown that there were at least two, independent transmissions of sars-cov2 to humans. For this to happen as part of a lab leak it would require WIV to have found and cultivated 2 different strains of sars-cov2, and then each of those strains would have to escape the lab.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
^ this.

Also WLED and now Squeezelite-esp32

Yes it seems trivial vs just downloading the bin and flashing it from the terminal, but the authors are throwing extra conveniences in to the web installers.
Most countries don't have price controls, they have purchasing controls for their Healthcare systems. There is a huge difference.

For example, if someone makes a pill that cost $1 million to live one more day, they can sell it, but most national health services won't buy it.

In the US, the national health services and insurance companies are mandated to buy it, and a byzantine system of price controls ensure we only pay 900k.
Agreed! I think the sheer size of Amazon has allowed them to build a really pro-consumer platform, which is why I prefer shopping there over other in-person stores - I know amazon will not make trouble if I do want to return something, or there is an issue with an item.

Ironically, I feel like they are acting in some ways like a union of purchasers, imposing the consumer will on merchants. Not sure if it is possible to achieve this without centralization.
Well, it's arguably (and it's argued; a lot) if the thing that produced bananas is a tree or not.

Anyway, most trees can't.
All modern homes require active humidity management as they're sheathed with plywood externally and drywall[1] inside. Even if you use concrete or brick you still need active humidity management if you don't want mold growing on all your furniture, etc.

There's no more old growth timber to build (and furnish) homes the way they were built 100+ years ago. All the alternatives require active systems to prevent rapid degradation.

This is even true of modern towers--the types of steel, the techniques, the tolerances, the use of reinforced concrete, etc, require active systems. Towers built 100+ years ago were in some ways more resilient than today, having used materials and techniques--knowingly and unknowingly--that could hold up to the elements better with active management.

[1] Even in high-end builds, nobody except perhaps a die-hard DIY'er with money to burn uses more moisture resistant drywall variants or alternatives throughout an entire home. I once toured a 100+ year old house supposedly renovated and lived-in by an architect. They basically rebuilt the entire structure, including replacing much of the timber with steel. Everything _looked_ high-end, except the walls if you paid attention. They just used regular drywall--not the cheapest, but definitely not the nice stuff (e.g. what you might find in a class A commercial office). IIRC, the internal doors were solid core, but that hardly mattered given you could hear everything through the cheap walls.
To be fair, I think at least some of that is burned out healthcare professionals quitting after two+ of pandemic ridiculousness.

(Ridiculousness not being the pandemic itself, but inadequate resources, planning, and political cover from all levels of government.)
I'm just annoyed that I was villified for saying "I don't know, but surely it's possible that the virus could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute" in early 2021, and now here we all are chattering away about it like it's no big thing.
I comment while chewing. You can also save time by brushing your teeth in the shower, or on the toilet seat.

Some of my friends bought a waterproof phone to write comments while in the shower, but the drawback to this is that the water capacitance from the shower may be detected as a finger.
>For the most part, as expected, the world turns around just fine

That is total projection. The consequences of such things cannot even be estimated in such a short span of time. In any case, there is no shortage of studies showing recent massive shifts in quality of education in certain major western societies. Even if you were making the fallacious presumption that what has been will be, you should then presume change over stability.
N95 masks have been widely available to the public for a long time, via any department or store that carries home improvement supplies. They’re used for a variety of things.

Like a year ago I walked into Home Depot and bought a 3 pack to wear while doing some sanding.
The advantage is not NASA's, but SiFive's, or any other company that wants to make their own chip: they don't have to pay a license. I guess it is NASA's advantage too, because their software shouldn't be tied up with any limited group of license holders.

Open ISA is huge. It may not mean open hardware on its own, but it sure as hell opens the door to open hardware in the future. I think there is a chinese CPU in development that is claiming to aim to be the linux of CPUs. Can't remember the name but they were at one of the risc-v conferences recently.
Least you could do is search for something so simple before asserting it on HN https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/external-data-drive
The implementation involves unsafe monkey-patching:

1. For React, a hook is injected into every single component (!) regardless of whether it uses signals or not via __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED.

2. For React, React.createElement is patched so that it can render signal values as Text nodes.

3. For Preact, they claim it's using a "pluggable renderer", yet they monkey-patch the global shouldComponentUpdate (and they don't call the old one so they break other patchy libraries)

[1] - https://github.com/preactjs/signals/blob/d25e8bac09c94ed3bad...

[2] - https://github.com/preactjs/signals/blob/d25e8bac09c94ed3bad...

[3] - https://github.com/preactjs/signals/blob/d25e8bac09c94ed3bad...
I’m holding strong with my carriage and buggy whip of stable and still high performing desktop platform. Once the ‘Minority Report’ interface makes it remotely close, I have to see that! It’d be bigger than a magic leap of hype train burning’ money choo choo
>> which can then be re-encoded to not have protection

There are actually a handful of technologies meant to survive the transcription process only to reappear in the new medium. Probably the most effective schemes are used in money, in paper bills. There are little things there (ie the eurion constellation) that are purposely designed to be scanned. They can be copied. But then they are detected by software (Adobe Photoshop) and hardware (high-end printers) which then refuse to edit or reprint them.

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

Other tech is meant to leave a trail leading back to forgers, a bit like a DVD ripping software embedding your MAC/IP information in any Mp3 it generates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
One should exercise caution about their on-premises installer, as they play fast and loose with version pinning. It's like many things in life: it works fine until it doesn't, and then debugging it will be some "oh no"
Not to mention people with disabilities.
I read the abstract but not the paper. If it's accurate, it is an incredibly surprising result. We already know the Russians are pros at manipulating social media for the purposes of HUMINT, propaganda, etc. If they only represent 7% of bots, that means that:

1. Another actor, possibly a nation-state, is putting even more resources than Russia is into shaping the narrative,

2. Russia isn't actually trying very hard manipulate the narrative this time around.

Both these scenarios are new and somewhat frightening. If #1 - what is the motivation? Who is doing it? If #2 - why would they abandon a previously successful strategy? Where did they redirect those resources to? Are they up to something even worse?

None of this discussion requires you to be pro-Putin, which is what you seemed to imply. Your comment is being down-voted because it criticizes while lacking any sort of imagination or insight.
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Aesthetics are largely subjective. Even though I like Malloy syntax better than SQL syntax, the majority of the actual post is dedicated to reasons above and beyond syntax that I think Malloy has promise; specifically, its integration of a semantic layer into the core of the language.
> Most Americans move every 7 years

No, most don't. That’s the average, not the mode (and even moreso not a fact about the majority.)

Particularly, poor and socially disadvantaged people are forced to move a lot more, and average income and, even moreso, rich people, especially from advantaged backgrounds, move significantly less.
If you're going to pay for 7 backups I wonder if it'd be better space them out a bit. You could keep 1x 12 hourly, 2x daily, 2x weekly, 1x monthly etc. Or just use some form of event sourcing so your DB becomes a materialized view you can restore. These days devs often aren't allowed to have copies of sensitive customer data.
On earth that was partly because the oceans absorbed a lot of oxygen. And then the rocks. Only once the water was saturated and the rocks had all oxidised did it start to build up in the atmosphere.
I don't understand why people keep talking about multiple dispatch like Julia invented it. You can do that in many other languages, even languages designed for numeric computation. What's cool about Julia is that it has brought 90s compiler technology to scientific computing: a field which still thinks MATLAB is a really good way to develop and communicate scientific ideas.
The ENIAC was upgraded to be a stored-program computer after a while, and eventually had 100 words of core memory.
The standard for defeating this is a 2-device setup on zoom or similar: one phone and one computer, both with cameras. Phone must provide some side view of the surrounding environment.
Maybe whilst they're at it, they can figure out why the Settings toggle for the startup chime does absolutely nothing. I'm sure my neighbours would be grateful.
>This isn't new or interesting. This is a tired and repeated storyline.

it isn't new or interesting until you consider (their own) 'infrastructure' narrative.

Infrastructure, generally, is required by public lawmakers to require oversights and accommodations that a privately owned company would not generally be held to.

Let's take any other infrastructure as an example.

Would it be a good thing or a bad thing if the power company decided to selectively turn off power to properties owned by 'The Westboro Baptist Church'?

OK -- let's try another that isn't protected by religious freedom laws.

Would it be a good thing or a bad thing if the power company decided to disallow service to white nationalist radical groups? What if they have broken no laws?

Generally speaking, the only politics that I want my infrastructure to kowtow to is local abided-by laws and regulations. I don't think infrastructure should be a mouth-piece for bias-politick on one side or another.

Now, if CF wants to admit that they're just a regular old private company -- sure, they can do as they please. They shouldn't have the benefits of self-proclaimed infrastructure while still being allowed to operate as a private group without oversight.
> I hope you are kidding.

I don't think that snark is merited.

There's been a natural carbon cycle underway for millions of years. Wildfire is a core character. I'm not saying that tree farms are good or that we aren't doing a terrible job managing forests (or that climate change fears aren't being exploited for political and financial gain). But there is a fundamental difference between the "carbon cycle" and humans digging up / burning hydrocarbons.
Essentially yes. I can't know all laws for all jurisdictions(nor would I want to), but laws could make a carve-out provision. I'm not currently aware of any that matter in my jurisdiction(s). That doesn't mean there aren't some out there somewhere.

Policies are of course a different thing, and they may or may not apply to you, from industry regulations or cyber security insurance or just company or trade group policies that might apply.
I think it's really quite the opposite.

Compute resource consumption is like a gas, it expands to fill whatever container you give it.

Things didn't reach a comfortable level, Moore's Law just slowed down a lot so bloat slowed at pace. When developers can get a machine with twice as much resources every year and a half, things feel uncomfortable real quick for everybody else. When developer's can't ... things stop being so uncomfortable for everyone.

However, there is a certain amount of physical reality that has capped needs. Audio and video have limits to perceptual differences; with a given codec (which are getting better as well) there is a maximum bitrate where a human will be able to experience an improvement. Lots of arguing about where exactly, but the limit exists and so the need for storage/compute/memory to handle media has a max and we've hit that.
> there is no shortage of studies showing recent massive shifts in quality of education in certain major western societies

Can you share 1 study and name 1 major western society you’re referring to?