jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>However, it's only recently that we have developed tools that make it possible for one person (e.g. Snowden) to undo billions of dollars of secrecy by leaking more documents that one could physically carry if they had been printed on paper, then distributing them to millions at zero cost.

I've often wondered what has been said, or what kind of policies have been changed, or implemented, etc. in the NSA since Snowden came to the public forefront.

I wonder what they've done internally to try to ensure that this doesn't happen them again.
> 443 is a good choice :)

If it's self signed, and going to throw massive warnings with a direct connection, shouldn't you use anything other than 443?

Any subtleties I should be aware of?
If I was working in an area with Elboa and some risk of getting infected I'd be happy enough to try the vaccine. The risks of this vaccine seem minimal compared to the danger of the disease.
Using a non-US/UK keyboard?
I had to make an account to say this, please do the write up! I've been fascinated by crash ever since playing it in the 90s and had that reawakened after reading Andy Gavins blogposts.

Hearing how you managed to squeeze all this stuff out of what sounds like it was an experimental platform for 3D is just amazing.
What is local to you?
This article is easily defeated by a simple observation. Locking out a competitor from your platform is hardly competition. Maybe "artificial competition". Stealing/copying/borrowing features is the age old cycle of innovation and competition in the tech industry.

Pointing fingers about stealing ideas is ridiculously silly, no wonder Gruber is wasting his precious word count on it. But to defend Apple's draconian policies as good in the eyes of competition is simply too much for me to hear without the bullshit-ometer going off.
I didn't up or down-vote your comment, so I can't speak for those that did, but I'll just point out that market influence is likely a bigger competitive factor than resources at one's disposal or market cap. The market cap difference between Google and Apple are not all that relevant to the amount of money they choose to invest in development, acquisitions or marketing, the aspects that influence their ultimate ability to compete given the will to enter a market. Market influence, however, is a hugely different story. Google owns 90%+ of the web search market, comparable to Microsoft's daunting lead in the commodity PC OS or office productivity software markets. Google's search business is the core of Google's profitability, bringing in the lion's share of their revenue.

Let's compare to Apple, who doesn't have a majority share in any competitive market besides portable music players and digital music distribution. The actual share of revenues from these businesses is a small and shrinking fraction of Apple's income. The portable music player business is collapsing in the face of evolving consumer smart phones and mobile internet devices like the iPod Touch, and the digital music distribution is an insignificant part of Apple's revenue. All the areas in which Apple is making all their profits are either nascent markets like consumer tablets and mobile internet devices, or Apple is a relatively small player. To imply that Apple can use their position in these markets it doesn't dominate to unfairly move into other established markets needs a bit more supportive evidence than that.
Hehe, one of the most compelling features of Eve Online is inventing ways to make the game better. I'm sure I've spent more time discussing that on forums and with friends than I ever did playing it.

Then again, though the battles are extremely short it's the most exhilarating battle I've ever had in an online game, the death penalty is pretty harsh so you do get real adrenaline rushes. Pity they're always so hard to find. I can still remember most of my non-trivial ship losses.
With this new change - SliceHost is now about TWICE as expensive.
That makes more sense, still think that could be done at an application level on the phone. Though in the spirit of being in the cloud and not needing heavy client-side applications, this presents a very nice forward looking solution.
same happened for me on xp, firefox 3.0.19
Have you asked on stackoverflow.com? That site might be more likely to get you an answer than HN.
This runs into a correlation/causation problem though. The sort of people who are interested and dedicated enough in a subject to dedicate N years of their life and a significant amount of money to pursue a college degree in that major may also have the drive to succeed in their chosen field regardless of degree (or to pursue education in other ways). I doubt this is entirely true, but it's an important effect to keep in mind.
Can anyone point me to some good resources/guides for Colo information? I am trying to get a better grasp of the pros/cons, etc. Sites or individual articles would be greatly appreciated.
I never quite figured out why the non-binary symbols looked the way they do. Thanks for showing me.
The initial investors are motivated to invest by the possibility of higher prices later on.

If there was no possibility of upside, they would not invest in the first place, meaning that it would be a given that nobody would have access to the resource.

If government was to make a decision to intervene and strip away investors' upside just when they get one, investors will remember this, and be less motivated to invest in that market in the future. The uncertainty about it affects other parts of the system - someone who gets burnt on one product is likely to be jaded about investing in unrelated products in the same jurisdiction.

It's important to look at the system as a whole. Speculators and short-sellers are net-positive on markets. If you take away their upside you'll remove them from the system entirely and everybody loses. It's important that we set rules for the game, and then honour them, except in situations where individuals do something outside of the principle of the rules, such as market manipulation.

Further up, you're repeating a meme seen elsewhere in this thread about oil prices being determined by speculators. I'm not sure how you believe this, because I don't think the evidence leads to that conclusion. The price meanders about but the curve is supported by underlying demand.

It's advantageous for oil market traders but bad
for everyone else.

How is it advantageous for oil market traders for the price to go up? Some will be short just as others are long, and there's no reason to believe there's more long guys than short guys.

Higher oil prices are likely to be goood for oil producers, but I don't understand how come to the conclusions you come to about about speculators.
Is there any way to parse this comment that makes sense? I suspect a typo but I can't figure out what it is.
I can imagine this using some sort of "somethingnew" list (from e.g. www.reddit.com/r/somethingnew) or maybe you can feed it a list of things you always wanted to do but (typically) never got around to... so you give it some tasks, maybe specify a condition (weekends or during the week?) and next thing you know, it tells you to do that task the next time those conditions are met.
Kudos to @DanielBMarkham for a very good point.

@Ericd the most likely outcome--the one currently happening--is that most of this will be finances through inflation. So those who save the most will give up the most in lost buying power. And yes, closely behind that is the people who are taxes the most.

For the most part these two go together, but I think this will catch a lot of the middle class off guard as they watch their 401ks become worth less. That will be a bitter pill.
i hope so too. they're asking for a lot of trust.
Looks like taken with rather dim lighting, i.e. high-iso. In which case all these dots in the dark area could be explained as hot pixels (pixels that have a tiny bit of leakage that then shows up when massively amplified). Of course, that leakage might be due to comsic rays ;-) but the amount of them doesn't look worse than what you might get on earth (depening upon circumstances).

Also, with really long exposures, this leakage tends to add up, too.
The developer of PasteCoin has put it up for sale: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2309.0
It has to. Every prescription I've read almost exclusively focuses on changing behavior. That means telling huge numbers of people - billions really - that their pursuit of wealth and convenience and modernization must be handicapped. In some cases, we're told there are too many people altogether.

That's a recipe for unrest and war on a global scale. A technological solution might avoid all that.
They won't be. For the same reason it is not widely adopted as a store of value or a currency. Especially not with the looming Tether liquidity crisis.
You assume the wealthy and powerful want to save everyone. I'm quite sure they don't. Just being upper class seems to turn most people into assholes who would rather let the poor die. "Why can't they make it, I did" is a common theme.

The wealthy and powerful will be fine even as millions die off in newly unlivable areas. That's the brutal reality.
Not only that. The countries that are capable of rejecting the ideology of individualism, like China, have actually much better track record in beating it.

For the record, I am not advocating completely ditching liberalism, but we should understand that it became (in the form of neoliberalism) too ideological in the Western world. That prevents us seeing alternative social solutions that can be very effective in beating the pandemic.

(And I am writing this from Prague, Czechia. Strangely enough, our government managed to beat the 1st wave by doing lots of early restrictions, but then we were massively hit by 2nd wave in the reluctance to do restrictions again. This cannot be explained away by human nature, it was purely a matter of cultural perspective.)
> And what if we're just intelligent enough to be useful slaves?

Humans would probably survive longer as alien slaves, livestock or pets than we would in the wild on a planet we've already pushed to the brink of habitability. I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.
I don't know about hammers but I don't know who on earth is willing to pay this much on a manual crimping tool other than governments looking for certified tools.

https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Molex/19285-0084/?qs=KMH...

At this price point one would assume that you are buying a crimping machine.
> We're near a visual turning point.

When Newton wrote his Principia, he had to turn all of his algebraic calculations into geometric manipulations, so that people would actually believe his results. Now we are faced with the reverse: graphical calculi manipulations are having to be rewritten into algebraic notation in order for papers to be published [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/coecke/status/1362800194895642631
The hardest workers I know put up with the least bullshit.
This is a move that does not make sense at all - seriously you start a squabble about a payment service with one of your largest bondholder? It does not make sense in a strategic way - what on earth is the goal here, if you want to reduce Chinese sales tell Walmart buying the stuff. It makes no tactical sense - there is not current trigger and the administration is outgoing in a few weeks. The only sense I can see is salting the ground for the incoming administration's diplomacy and there I think they underestimate the ability of the Chinese to pursue long term goals.
My understanding is that going out, (binge-)drinking has actually significantly gone down in the last decade.

I can't vouch for these specific stats, but I've come across multiple articles over the years that support this. Here's at least some data I found:

https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/binge-drinking

Anecdotally, tons of clubs have closed in since the 90's with no replacement where I lived (Toronto and North Netherlands). Everything at least in my circles suggests that drugs, drinking, partying is all happening less now compared to the previous generations.

Ymmv depending on where you are from though.
I sense great fear within you.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Yes, these capabilities bring will inevitably bring about some down-side, some negatives. But they are 100000% worth it. Endless cool things will spring from this that would be impossible any other way.

Give people power. Give people capabilities. Don't run, don't hide, don't put your head in the sand. Do it. Be brave. Enable better worlds to come.
I'm glad you believe in a meaning of life, and it's certainly not my intention to dissuade you. I don't wish to call anybody stupid. I'm offering the OP an alternative approach, on the assumption that they're asking because they've tried and failed to find that meaning themselves.

Any approach that gets you up and out of bed in the morning is a good approach. I'd prefer that it be one that also helps other people get up and out of bed, and I think under most circumstances, those two goals coincide. There are circumstances where they don't, as you outline, and I'm not sure how to advise people in that state. I've found that their mental states are such that they end up asking completely different questions.

The one caution I'd give -- and I apologize that I'm probably reading incorrectly between your lines -- is that if your meaning of life incorporates requiring me to accept your meaning of life, then it may not be working as well for you as you believe. There are other ways to struggle through life and my only concern is to find one that works for each person.
> “ When you know something it is almost impossible to imagine what it is like not to know that thing. This is the curse of knowledge, and it is the root of countless misunderstandings and inefficiencies.”

A few months ago I came across an interesting actively developed project in embedded rust which was very technical. Full of acronyms and concepts that I was not familiar with. It took quite some time to get up to speed with how it all worked and so I took the time to add / expand README.md files for each example, explaining what the acronyms meant and the general gist of each example. It was a worthwhile exercise for myself and I figured that it was worth sharing the perspective of a beginner too. My benign pull request remains ignored and unmerged and it makes me feel like a bit of an imposter. I thought nothing of it at the time but now I wonder if this is classic case of “the curse of knowledge”. Perhaps the author just can’t see the value of it.
For the non-unix folk: I regularly use wolframalpha.com for similar things.

Example query to estimate how much electricity bitcoin miners can afford to use at current prices:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%286.25+bitcoin+%2F...
Thank you for your clarification, this helps a lot, I think for now better to learn a engine like Godot, and waiting the Bevy-ish engines to mature!
Your statement already support that without the blessings of engineering team of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Digital Ocean and various managed kubernetes service it's impossible for a reasonable small team to manage and monitor k8s and all of this service comes with lock-in and additional capital outlay.

Obviously for a Google Cloud Partner, more people are tied to gcp and kubernetes, higher the revenue. Its secondary if it's really necessary for an application to require k8s.
I fully agree with this. While he was definitely a smart person, he was also lucky to be a polymath during the time of big transition for math and science. Knowing multiple fields, polymaths have a big advantage in systemizing a new school of thoughts. Being a grand master of one school will be less advantageous for this specific goal.

Also, I think there are much more polymaths during our time than 1900s, thanks to the internet. A single person can consume much more information than before. This will make it difficult to make a single person get all the spotlight. I believe we have a lot of geniuses in the back stage that the public simply don’t know exist.
Considering way less than 50% of developers are nonbinary/transgender, don't you get the impression that they're then trying to fill quotas rather than picking the best speakers? Not saying they weren't the best, just that either rust is a very unique community or something is "up" with the selection.

Just to clarify, I'm asking with good intent.
It would have still been nice to have some kind of visual representation. There must be a visual way to link the map to reality -- the map is a visual device, after all.

They even have this line:

> Geo-location revealed the territory represented on the slab bears an 80% accuracy to an area around a 18 mile-long stretch of the river.

Which 18 mile-long section? That alone could have been provided.
I know it's the bird, but I will never stop laughing at these.

Excerpts like "Great tits seem to do well in and among human-made habitats" are close enough to some sort of Monty Python-esque line that it gets me every time. I wonder if people do it intentionally, like how the downtrodden journalism majors that get stuck sexying up headlines can't resist horrible puns.
Thanks, this narrative makes sense to me! I'm a little sad never to have worked on a commercial Java codebase that showed this degree of discipline, though.
For me, the main advantage of Bazel is speed, when properly structured and configured, a Bazel build can:

* Perform incremental build a magnitude faster than Maven, zero changes build finishes immediately.

* Can have global caches for all builds across organization, so that a workstation build can automatically build incrementally upon a standard build, massively reduces build speed for big monorepo.

* Very fast, incremental tests execution: test results are cached, so only tests affected by the changed code are run. Test executions are parallel by default.

Some other things:

* Pull in dependencies directly from a git repository, without having to publishing it first like in maven, this can be a plus or a minus.

* Cross-languages build: you can have each of your module programmed in a different language, declare dependencies between them and use Bazel to perform incrementally build quickly and reliably.

That said, maintaining a Bazel build system is also a magnitude more complex than a Maven one, especially if you're not using one of Google main language: Java/C++. Plugins for other languages are of varying quality.
Him and Einstein also did not have to contend with getting jobs optimizing ad placement.

Necessity is the mother of invention. But abstract thought requires time to focus on things outside the mundane.
> But your identity was also permanently compromised;

Only if I accepted the request. Clicking the link would presumably act the same way as a contact that you don't know. It asks before you accept. So I can wait till you respond.
"Total Revenue of approximately $1.8 billion
Net Income of approximately $730 million to $800 million"

These are insane profit margins.
That video is incredibly American-centric, let's swap some international stories. Mostly for fun :) I know it's anecdata, but I still think that counter examples prove a point.

I once got incredibly lost in Thailand. I was on a long haul bus, without realizing it and I missed my stop. The next stop was 100km away and I realized this after 40km after my own stop.

I asked the bus driver to immediately drop me off on the highway at around 21:00. The sun had already set, the night was pitch black and the only thing lit was the big highway the bus drove on. I followed the highway.

After 30 min. I saw a family of 4 outside. I went to them and said in my best "hints game face" that I was lost and needed to go to a certain place. They were kind enough to listen to me, not understand me one bit and it took us 30 min. to figure out that I was lost. They asked me to step on a moped.

I got on, was driven to the police station, was asked to wait, because they were all having dinner. One hour later, they came out, only spoke Thai (so using hands, feet, Google Translate) and they understood where I needed to go. They pulled up a car, asked me to go inside and they drove me to the location! Only up until this point did I begin to understand how lost I was. I was way in over my head and had no idea.

I have never ever thanked any person as much as I did during that night. The police officers, the family, the random people getting in on my conversations trying to help out. Not only that, the conversations were a lot of fun! They were really playful and warm.

I just wanted to put it out there that there are also good encounters with the police. I've had encounters as well that left a bad taste in my mouth (Dutch police -- also good encounters with them, mostly good), but it simply depends on the situation.
I wondered that but reading Wikipedia it's more of a no travel thing despite the name. Mexico won't let you through and Canada has its own no entry list that includes the USA one.
I'm not aware of any summary reports on the effectiveness of the OIG, but I've read that its structured to try to minimize the most obvious types of corruption (for instance, by also reporting to Congress and not just to the agency head). I'm sure there's plenty of mileage variation depending on the circumstances and political environment.

This page suggests that the office does investigate misconduct claims and issue reports periodically:
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/type/investigation
I’m intrigued. Care to elaborate on your service? I’m not certain exactly what it is after visiting the page, although there were some snippets I enjoyed[1] and the site performance is unusually good. It’s social media for book lovers?

[1]
> Your data is your business, not ours. We'll never sell it to somebody else and we don't use invasive tracking that advertisers rely on. And since you're in charge, you're free to export your data and take it with you.
Loosely related: are there any free college classes on US Law? Or which books should I buy? I feel like having basic knowledge about common law processes is just as essential as cooking, home improvement, etc.
Please don't post flamebait to HN. It's great to include relevant links to other sources, but not with snarky one liners, especially when the topic is inflammatory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There were plenty of cheerleaders back in the late 90s too, saying it's just the beginning.

Most of the social companies have yet to really show they can be profitable other than being bought out. Valuations are often grossly overinflated.

AirBnB and Uber are both skirting regulations and pushing risks onto their userbase. Regulations or a few continued instances of bad PR could pop their valuation bubble in an instant.

Compare companies overinflated valuations with how much they are actually being sold for or how much they're getting through IPOs.
His contact info for copyright requests is not prominent on his website, at least not that I can see.
I agree. I don't know who this guy is, but if the superior holier-than-thou attitude that drips through that blog post is any indication, I'm surprised that anyone would ever ask him to speak. At least not twice.

Earth to Blaze: get off your high horse.
Actually, that seems to be a good idea :) We should try to do it now.

Now that I think about it, another point that should have gone into the blog post is that "be prepared to monetize if your app goes viral in few days"
My anti-virus software just deleted all my data!
Why did this innovation happen in India and not the US or Europe?

Dr Shetty is planning to build a similar hospital in the Cayman Islands for Americans so I have to assume it has to do with government regulation. Is the health care system less socialized in India? I would guess it is.
The only `necessary` things are family, shelter, clothes, food, water and transportation. Yahoo and Bing are fine replacements for google even if the latter is more popular. What is your point?