skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Netflix makes it as easy to apply for their local CDN nodes as google does with GGC. I know akamai is super difficult to apply for and get admitted.

Ever since Netflix became available in our country we have been hurting BW wise. We don't throttle BW for any sites. Does anyone here have any experience with open connect (Netflix)?
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> It's easy to imagine scenarios

Except, in the government's case, they are imagining scenarios for me, and my family, and my friends, etc. Their job is to protect us, not speculate wildly FOR us. We didn't elect them to do that, and it's not their job.

If someone is sitting there speaking for my speculations, I'd sure as shit like to know they aren't going to be doing it more than generationally. That's terribly concerning.
Plenty of people still leave earth, they just don't go to other planetary bodies.

Hopefully Elon Musk will come through.
>what does somebody do to talk to GitHub if you don't have a friend at GitHub that's willing to chat with you?

Write a blog post on Medium with the perfect click-bait title to make it go viral. Hope a github engineer reads it and gets back to you.
It looks like 18F isn't hiring currently: https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/open-positions/

We're briefly pausing accepting new applications while we evolve how 18F plans for open roles.
People will have to adapt to a new way of life. We are going to move into a world where full employment means 50% of people don't work, because there is nothing for them to do. Like the computer, the cost of everything will begin to decline rapidly when general purpose robots and automation take over human tasks. The UBI equation may well balance. When there are no human costs the only cost is energy. In theory, you will need far less income.

Honestly, I'm excited to see what happens as it will happen in my lifetime. 30 years ago we had the first general purpose computers. Look at where we are now. Today we have the first general purpose robots. Imagine where we will be in 30 years. It's hard to imagine.

Drivers, construction workers, doctors, lawyers—it's all going to be dramatically different 30 years from now. Forget the US. All those jobs making everything from iPhones to t-shirts will also be at risk. When you don't need specialized equipment and you can buy a robot that can make t-shirts for a few thousand dollars you don't need the human anymore.

If not UBI, then what? What do all these people do?
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> Your specific background, including current salary and years of experience, will ultimately determine your pay. U.S. Digital Service salaries are set in accordance with the General Schedule Pay Scale, which is capped at $160,300.

All of the Googlers you've met who work for USDS are already well funded from their previous companies. Who in their right mind would go to work for the government, for minimum wage, unless they were already independently wealthy?
Seems to me that if you have the energy output of an entire star, you have quite enough energy to keep your shell balanced around the center of it.

Even with those magic reaction-less engines they are working on now you could keep the thing in place by just spacing engines on the outside at the correct distance.

I imagine the movement would have to be insanely slow to prevent the entire structure from collapsing though, and I wonder whether a solar flare wouldn't put out so much energy/movement that you'd spent years correcting it.
This is adressed directly in TFA:

In fictional accounts, the Dyson-sphere concept is often interpreted as an artificial hollow sphere of matter around a star. This perception is based on a literal interpretation of Dyson's original short paper introducing the concept. In response to letters prompted by this paper, Dyson replied, "A solid shell or ring surrounding a star is mechanically impossible. The form of 'biosphere' which I envisaged consists of a loose collection or swarm of objects traveling on independent orbits around the star."

As I see it, "Dyson sphere" designates the broader category of such devices. You're saying a literal Dyson sphere would be in a perfectly metastable configuration, which is true, though I suppose a solid structure resembling a sphere might be engineered to be in a stable configuration and have some tolerance to perturbation (unlikely though it may be).

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

And in the case of a computer, there's no reason to assume that the processing would take place all over the sphere, which is just an energy harvesting tool. The energy would be directed to wherever it's needed, for example an AMD graphics card. I also like the idea of dimming the star directly, though I can't begin to imagine the processes involved. Or rather, I can begin to imagine them but I can't come up with something that holds together even remotely.
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My childhood was a lot happier and more social because our neighbors had a big front lawn we could run around and play on. It was effectively a meeting space for all the kids on our street.

Instead of a front lawn our property had a dense growth of evergreen shrubs and all these excuses were used by my parents - easier to maintain, less water used etc.

Our backyard was nice enough but fenced in and not social at all. If I could have had one or the other as a kid it definitely would have been a front lawn.

To me this front lawn hate is all about changing demographics (families are getting rarer) and the tragic paranoia and hostility that now is so prevalent in American society--even though it is safer than ever.
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Minor nitpick: `kernel_main' needs to be declared as cdecl for the assembly call to work.
I actually like this. This definitely will come in handy for expressing gratitude towards others, and I can see a potential use case as like a memorial guest book to commemorate people who have passed away.

But, how is this any different than using Facebook and setting the privacy on your wall to be public or changing the privacy setting for individual posts?
The most forgiving interpretation doesn't imply massive influence at all.

US gov't needs help regulating banks. Employees with experience in finance will likely have an easier time navigating things. Same argument for tech.

Is it really that shocking that you hire former finance people to regulate the finance industry? Experience in the domain means knowledge about how things work. It's the same argument as putting a technical person as PM for a technical project.

Of course, this doesn't work in the "regulation as punishment" mindset. But gov't regulators aren't looking to kill banks, they're looking to keep the economy healthy. Yes, that means working with banks to improve things (see regulators coordinating the purchase of failed banks by other ones).

Inversely, you are Goldman Sachs. You need help navigating regulation... a guy with regulation experience sounds good right?

Of course there are potential conflicts of interest to watch out for.
You could use @[IP address]?

No guarantees this will pass whatever-service's arbitrary validation filters though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation#Physical... Are you claiming that everything here is bullshit? Wanna back that up?
I take it you're a physicist ;-)
What is the expected use case? Generally people set their social media to private for a reason. Maybe I'm just being negative, but I feel like the most common use case would be to say bad things about someone where they haven't thought to block it yet or don't know about it.
That's one problem, and it's a total drag. Another one I encountered was the sheer weight of the crushing mediocrity. Everybody just punching in, staring at their computers, going through the motions, and punching out to commute home. Nobody cared enough to try to make anything better, it's just keep your head down, collect your pension in 40 years, don't cause too much of a kerfuffle.
Stunningly lucid writing. Good job, Natalie Wolchover!
It'd be an imperfect solution, but use Gmail (or equivalent) address(es) for logins elsewhere, and then your personal email communications via a custom domain hosted with your provider of choice (e.g. FastMail, Zoho, StartMail, Tutanota, etc.) Preferably, the Gmail addresses should not be directly tied to your identity IRL, such that your email is secured but somewhat sandboxed from the large data piles companies store about Your Name.
>if I tell you a contract is one thing, but it actually says something else, and you sign it, then you must perform the contract.

That is actually the exact opposite of how the law works. If you enter a contract because of someones misrepresentations and you suffer damages as a direct result of those misrepresentations that is fraud and voids the contract.
I don't really understand why having people who know about technology advise in the creation of technology policy and strategy is a bad thing.
Funny how you never forget when a band blows you off. Even so many years ago.

I just started working with the Umass student group that put on concerts on campus (UPC). I did stage crew and security. The 1991 spring concert was the big one, an all day affair, with a purchased stage students put together.

Del La Soul didn't show.

Bob Dylan showed (Mr. Dylan as he liked to be called), had to go on early. He was not to happy about it. Other bands in the 1990s that showed up to the spring concert, phish, beastie boys, mighty mighty bostones, wailers (without Marley obviously), voilent femmes....

Odd that these events were pulled together without cell-phones and the internet. There is hardly any online info on those concerts. Life before youtube..

The lineup 1991 lineup (thanks google): Chucklehead,
Gene Loves Jezebel,
The Feelies,
De La Soul,
Bob Dylan.
Huh?

Okay, maybe a lot of people do use it for formatting tables.

But what do people who do tabular calculations use?

98% of the time, Excel.
Seems like a waste of storage space/bandwidth/resources/etc. I very well may be wrong, but I don't really see much point in it. It could become a fad, but those aren't very useful.
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I don't get what that has to do with anarcho-capitalism, though. In a world where governments exist and are powerful, it will be in the interest of a corporation to get the government to do things for it. Fine. What does that have to do with a philosophy that advocates moving towards a world without governments?
I'm not suggesting that they're sitting around speculating about possible scenarios. To the contrary, they know the exact details of why they decided to keep this paragraph classified.

My point is that since there are readily imaginable scenarios where it would be necessary to keep this classified, we shouldn't be sitting here accusing them of keeping secrets just for the sake of keeping secrets. The fact that we don't know why it should be kept secret doesn't imply that they don't have a good reason.
It's down to hardware & driver support, I think.

The post doesn't work well at all on my Moto G, and I don't know why. The texture generation doesn't work right and the animation fails completely, and I haven't tried to debug it yet, because probably it's only that particular device that has whatever particular bug it is.
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Maybe, but probably not. I don't think math alone get you all the way there. Think about some of the non or less mathy things that are required for large technological leaps. First, I would argue that prolonged periods of political stability are required in order for resources to be put towards something other than conflict. That took Westphalian sovereignty, not a treatise on fluid dynamics or even a theory of economics.

Consider also trade, a necessary framework accumulating the necessary ingredients to build new technology. Sure, Archimedes or his successors could have likely worked out optics mathematically, but could they have come by the necessary raw materials and put together a large enough cohort of glass workers to develop sufficient lenses to build telescopes? Probably not. The idea that trade is not zero sum, and should be open didn't come about until the 1700s. Once this ideas was in place, prices fell and it became cheaper to develop new types of goods.

I could go on, but my point is that it's far too tempting as a technologist to assume that people in the past were more backwards than us, and if only they had been enlightened enough to follow (insert name of really smart dead person) society today would be so much more advanced. It is easy to forget about all of the social, political, and cultural constructs that allow us to go to the Moon, build power plants, and microwave frozen burritos.
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Not everyone is motivated solely by money.
A long time ago I used "rings" of passwords, where the least secure sites shared one, medium secure sites shared another, and most secure sites shared a third.

This has some disadvantages, one because I was not always good at predicting which sites would end up security critical. (I probably signed up for 10 random web forums in 2009 and nothing at the time made news.ycombinator.com the obviously-important-to-me one.)

These days, though, password managers. Use them 100% of the time. Turn 2FA on everywhere; mandate it administratively (ideally in can't-be-ignored settings) for company systems.
I call this the social contract theory of online advertising: that by viewing a free website's content you have implicitly agreed to view the ads that pay for it. I actually think this theory has more merit than a lot of Hacker News gives credit for, but I also recognize that someone who has installed an ad blocker has clearly already rejected it, so trying to debate with them on these grounds isn't likely to get far. I would try to reframe your argument.
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I'm mainly an marketing acquisition guy but occasionally clients want me to project manage some web dev (usually brochure type sites) when clients ask. Typically they are smaller businesses and want something cheap. I usually do the legwork for research, architecture planning, content etc and then hand over instructions. I've been using an Indian mob but find the design ad-on and general attention to detail fairly bad. Just wondering if anyone could recommend anyone working out of a lower cost country they could recommend?
You can also use the Emacs mode (disclaimer: I'm the autor), which not only gives you reasonable input methods for APL characters, but also a lot of other features such a source code navigation and the ability to edit matrices in SES (the Emacs spreadsheet).

https://github.com/lokedhs/gnu-apl-mode

And a video I made to demonstrate some of its features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4A5CKITnM
It doesn't seem terribly difficult so long as you have the traffic numbers to support it (peak traffic of 5gbps) and enough bandwidth for the box to fill its cache during off peak hours.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/requirements-for-deployin...
A better takeaway is to use a better registrar with good security.

I almost lost an old @gmail.com address when they asked me to verify a really old phone number for no reason. Never trusted them again.
I've never seen anecdata before. Thanks for sharing that word, love it. :)
Not sure I understand. Is the goal to produce the world's largest company or to offer value to consumers as a whole? (com-pet-i-tive-ly and fairly?)
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$13,000 a month is minimum wage ?
An interesting thing about Dyson spheres and red dwarf stars, is that the surface temperature of some red dwarfs is less than the melting temperature of some refractory materials, like tungsten or diamond. In principle, one could build a Dyson sphere directly on the surface of such a star, and use buoyancy or the gas pressure of the star to keep the Dyson Sphere material 'afloat' on the star. Note that the surface gravity of even a dwarf star is very much higher than on a planet; however this is actually helpful if using a buoyant construction.

It's too bad that most red dwarf stars are so low in carbon that extracting the carbon from the star itself to build the sphere may not be feasible. If it were feasible, it would answer the common Dyson Sphere engineering question of "where do you get the mass to build it?".

Another interesting thing is that if you build a Dyson sphere with the intention of using it as a heat engine between the star's surface temperature and the cold of deep space, the Carnot efficiency is so high that the Dyson Sphere's blackbody emission temperature is significantly lower than the star's normal surface temperature. As long as you have an energy sink (such as performing nuclear or chemical reactions that store energy, and leaving it stored), the outer surface of the Dyson Sphere could be a relatively comfortable temperature.
Essentially, yes. If you can't describe the damage it doesn't count. Isn't that what we want?
What does it mean? Layoffs, probably.

We may have reached the end of what big accelerators can tell us. Fermilab was shut down in 2011.
They're not talking about Cisco/networking switches. Transfer switches are part of the electrical systems in the data center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_switch
Some of the comments on that page were better than the original article. Much detail.
What sort of mechanism are you referring to? How are such things implemented in other technologies?
It would not be hard to do an encrypted remote.

We already have to support moving between different versions of the noms format, which changes all the hashes. Encryption is the same. You can look at an encrypted remote as just a different version of the format, and use the same approach.

Star this bug, and when the migrate program is landed, you could basically just fork it to support encryption:

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/issues/2272
How many people in USDS don't have substantial wealth from prior gigs though?
It's CNBC content.
You're going to see closer to $4000 per month after tax.
That's a good point that I didn't consider -- while the front yard is by no means necessary (in many ways, sitting on a front porch directly facing a pedestrian street is more entertaining, although perhaps not as relaxing), a hedge or wall would defeat most of the point of the traditional front porch. I must confess a certain fondness for walls lining the street, especially covered in ivy :)

Anyway, do you know of any good sources for this? I'm trying to research this now, and it seems one of the top results is this series of pages, which isn't that great, although it does list some of the causes of the decline of the front porch (automobiles and air conditioning in particular): http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am483_97/projects/cook/roo....
It's very meta, I like it. It's a good demonstration that that people's social networking accounts (or any username or identity) are real-world phenomena and aren't just applicable within the walled garden itself, but can be used to label, target, and identify.

The concept is not new. Back in the myspace days, people would have these crush pages for confessions and rants, etc. This is the same kind of thing. But it's interesting that we've come far enough (technologically) that you can actually log in using your $socialnetwork account and claim your own page. This gives it a new dimension that we haven't had before.
True.

But the advantage of AirBnB is that it can achieve fuller utilization of properties that are seasonally used, or temporary available, etc. Also, you can rent different properties, e.g. a lakeside cabin, that you can't get from a hotel.

Running a full-time competitor for years against a hotel is not the right idea.
Recalling from what I was told when I went through the interview process at 18F (got to the point of the gigantic "dump your whole life in a massive form" bit, right after the OPM hack was news, and decided not to do that), the positions are legally time-limited: it's a two-year contract which can be renewed once. So maximum of four years in the job, and then you're out.

Also USDS is a bit more "do this mission" style job: basically you're being dropped into a federal agency to try to turn their tech story around. 18F is there to promote longer-term change in the model of how the federal government does technology.
You might also want to try becoming a Code For America fellow for a year working in cities:

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