skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the authors real point. The selling of data isn't the policy you need to fight. The monopoly power of ISP's is the problem you must push back on. The author has rightly pointed out that regulating your way to your goal is not a solution. He is advocating for a free market solution which is much more robust then one that hinges on the right people being in power for all eternity.
Seems very easy: https://www.howtogeek.com/215730/how-to-connect-to-a-vpn-fro...

I don't have and iDevice so I don't know for sure, why do you think this'd be a problem? Or am I misunderstanding your question?
"extinction-level event"?

I agree that Fukushima could get hella messy if not dealt with right over the next decades.. but 'extinction level' seems a tad dramatic?
>"Taking the stuff you need to fend for yourself" is theft. That's a crime for which the government exists to identify & prosecute.

That's an interesting thing to say, since current governments largely exist precisely to effect and enforce the creation of a landless working class who are forced to sell labor-power for wages.[1]

But at least we can now agree: property is theft.

[1] -- http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/yasha-levine-recovere...
This article is really bad. On the one hand it says government is unreliable and therefore it's hopeless to regulate. Then it immediately argues we need to break the ISP monopolies (which is true.) But why are there monopolies? It is because the ISPs collude not because there is regulation stopping new ISPs. Google and Verizon both dipped their toes in and gave up on providing wired access to the home.

The only way to break the monopolies is with government regulation forcing them to share the lines, because running the lines is the very costly part that stops new ISPs from competing.
Sounds a bit like the British democracy to me.

How many Brits know that bishops sit in the house of Lords? Some know, sure, but many? How many of us know what the Privy Council is and who the members are? What powers are purely ceremonial and which have teeth? Why can't MPs resign like normal people? How and why there is judicial independence from parliament seems to be news to the Secretary of State for Justice, if she doesn't know how it works what hope do the general population have? Even how laws are passed seems to surprise people — "The Lords might disagree with us? Abolish them!" — to say nothing of the difference between primary and secondary legislation.

The UK has a constitution, but it's not written down in one place for convenience and understanding, it's spread over time-worn ritual, over the Queen's Speech and slamming doors in the face of Black Rod.
> Not only am I adopted (thus not "wanted")

So are you saying that, despite the effort, time, and money it takes for adoption, your adoptive parents didn't want you?

That doesn't make any sense.

While it might be true that your birth parent(s) didn't want you, there might be reasons why that is so; of course, I can't speak to that as I don't know your situation.

What I can say, though, is that my parents wanted me when I was adopted. I can't really say why my birth mother (let alone whoever my father is/was) gave me up for adoption (what I was told as a child, doesn't sit completely right with me as an adult - I'll never know the truth, though - and that's ok). But I do know that my adoptive parents spent a lot of time and money to keep me (I was a foster child before that, at 2 years of age). That and the rest of my life growing up makes me know that I was wanted.

Perhaps I'm just misinterpreting what you wrote; if so, I apologize.
> It's disgusting, and I'm disgusted (_yet again_) by the mercenary Republican Party

Stop this BS. The democratic party has done pretty much similar bad things that violate our privacy. Are you just good at selectively ignoring things? This is really the fact that every US govt is not for personal data privacy. You have to just accept it (if you are an american).
How is the EU bewildering, compared to any other government bureaucracy?

The ignorance of the average British person about the actual functioning of the EU is indeed a problem, and probably a major contributor to Brexit, but that seems more of a failing of British education and media rather than the EU itself.
Question what do you have for breakfast now you quit cereal and bread? I mostly have cereal for breakfast mostly organic and less processed /sugary brands but I still feel I could do better.
I'm not a US American, but could it be that the bloc (of states) has gotten so large that an individual's vote is so diluted that it feels like it's not a democracy? Especially considering the number of different nationalities and language-groups of various sizes that are supposed to be represented by that one body.
If you can, take that job. You will not regret it. Consider this: that tech rep probably had a resume that a dozen companies would kill for, and he's still at Westinghouse. Flying across the planet, landing on aircraft carriers.
> still downvoting what they have no idea about.

What specifically do people not have an idea about?

> So why do have to manually mutex or semaphore your threads?

You don't _have_ to, but it is an option. Rust, as a low-level language, provides a number of options for dealing with concurrency. Frankly, I wrote that chapter above and in a hurry; it's my least favorite out of the whole book.

Rust can prove a lack of data-races at compile time, which is a big deal.
It's a lot easier to see many pollution problems and the harm often is more direct and quantifiable - with a privacy issue the harm is often abstract and harder to see.

I think privacy and pollution regulations can be good, but they need to be carefully tracked and aren't always effective.

The best solution for you is always to be a vigilant consumer. Something like this can be protected entirely by doing so. Pollution is harder to defend against. Using a VPN is a great strategy to mitigate these issues before they're allowed to happen to you.
The problem with this lovely wheat-from-chaff heuristic is that "failure" results in the introduction of a new human life into a world that may not be prepared for it and will be strained ecologically for its existence. I would much rather have a world where the lazy, weak, and sinful pop pills towards an ecologically sustainable population than one where the virtuous are lauded for bringing five or six new people into existence, but, you know, at the "right time".
Pretty interesting - but doing some number crunching, Fly looks to be two orders of magnitude more expensive than enterprise cloudflare. Which does offer smart routing, load balancing and what not.
And they weren't EU countries, were they?
> Sometimes it is nice to browse HN with 'showdead' enabled, because you can see Terry commenting on these threads. (his comment is sibling to mine)

Did he give a relevant technical response to my technical questions? If so, are you or someone else willing/able to repost that here?

I really don't want to dig into HN caves and learn about its subculture. I just want to discuss a technical topic that I find interesting (and apparently others do, too, if those little numbers next to the post mean anything).
The reality is that it's a lot easier to block the sperm than the egg. The former just requires a bit of intestine, or latex if you feel like being modern. Zero side effects too, at least for those without allergies to the material.
However it seems the real reason, as in all things, is economics.

Who's going to invest a billion dollars to build a new facility when they know that at any step along the way, some half-wit celebrity can decide that they want to buy property in the area and they don't want to live near a nuclear power plant, start protests and cause the project to be delayed or scrapped.

Continuing to run an old design is a very big part of how we ended up with the current situation with Fukushima.
> what is better, that can scale up sufficiently

The article specifically mentions that pretty much every major builder of nuclear plants outside of China are in trouble and/or downsizing/restructuring in big ways.

So, tell me again how "nuclear can scale up"?
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The EU is breaking up a little now. It's concrete now. It is no longer correct to claim it is not breaking up to a non-zero extent. And there are other countries that are at least making noise about leaving that I would consider feasible candidates over the next 5-10 years.

The UK is definitely facing a lot of stress and I'd place the odds of something breaking away, and that part possibly even rejoining the EU (though that remains to be seen; in the amount of time it will take to accomplish that the calculations of cost/benefit for joining the EU may shift substantially) in the next 5-10 years as quite high.

As someone who just identified as "a bit of a secessionist", I haven't got much motivation for sugarcoating these things, nor even necessarily considering "denying the possibility of secession" as a form of sugarcoating. I'm not sure what the "and I think you know it" bit is for.

I also consider the US a good candidate for some separation. Relatedly, though this isn't "secession" in the same sense, I wouldn't be surprised the Middle East has some country lines that look very different in 20 years. If the world gets into a secessionist mood, Catalan may finally peel away, Quebec separatism could heat up again, and if one listens to the little whispers coming out of China I wouldn't consider it out of the question it ends up cracked into a few pieces. The world has been awfully stagnant politically for a long time, even before we consider the radical technical and social shifts occurring at a rate never before seen in history; I find it implausible that all these changes won't eventually result in some sort of manifestation on the globe. I would not be surprised we're coming up on one of the "punctuations" in a punctuated equilibrium; my interest (to the extent that it matters, which is virtually nil) is not in preventing that from happening, but making sure it happens with as little dying as possible.
The total cost for storing and securing shit for 100.000 years is also 'externalized.'

Both costs are more or less impossible to establish upfront.
If you define "normal" as "being like most people" then you probably can't live a normal life without a child.
Lying and coverup.

It's fraud - people refusing to tell or put things down on official financial reports, writing false statements, signing false financial reports, using non GAAP, unusual accounting methods, etc. Also, audits and due diligence didn't uncover the magnitude of the problem. It took a whistleblower to get the story out to upper management.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/02/14/toshiba-chairman...

this article outlines the contract issues, but there were other issues at play at the same time

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-working...
You keep saying its NIMBY, when it is apparent its shoddy construction, mismanagement, and cutting corners for cost savings.
Umm. What? You can't just hand-wave that without any evidence.

All of your experience and every success? What about the failures? What about coding bootcamps that result in failures?

You're going to need to cite at least some sources when you say that it's possible to teach _everyone_ a highly technical skill.
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The problem with this is that nuclear has consistently displayed a negative learning curve over the last 4-5 decades.

It's only gotten more expensive as time has gone on.
Of course, right tool for the job. I'm biased since most of our projects are heavy on crud forms and database entry. Accounting and loyalty space.
Is Passwordless Authorization More Secure Than Passwords?
Audi has plants in Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Slovakia and Spain. They also own Lamborghini of Italia. The German plants are in Neckarsulm and Ingolstadt.
I have noticed that people who get hired there retire from there.

I'll continue to consider it in the future.
This is the principle-agent problem, generally.

Audits and reputation may help.
How do I do know what VPN to trust? I guess getting my own server and provisioning everything myself is the answer? I'm sure that'll work fine for average Joe.
The earthquake wasn't nearly as much of a problem as the tsunami
Well, I can't guarantee there are no kernel bugs in user namespaces, but the work that Eric and others have done to make user namespaces more secure does make me personally confident about running machines that have CONFIG_USERNS=y.

If you have SELinux, AppArmor, SMACK, Yama, or even good seccomp filters set up then I would classify it as "relatively" secure (most of the security issues in user namespaces have revolved around POSIX ACLs providing access where it doesn't make sense -- supplementing those ACLs with something like SELinux will eliminate entire classes of bugs).

Ultimately though, security is relative. Is a kernel that has CONFIG_USERNS=n more secure than one that doesn't? Yes (because it has less code running) but that doesn't mean that CONFIG_USERNS=y is insecure (it depends on what your paranoia level is dialed to).
There are no foolproof security solutions, only varying degrees of who you trust with what. There are many VPN providers who claim to keep no logs on user activity. If their claims are true, that is a better option than Comcast or AT&T since the VPN provider with no logs has no data to sell or share.

* edited for spelling error
This collaboration is a very good thing. All participants in the economy should have a stake. It kind of scares me that although Trump got elected by a lot of workers in his administration only business people get heard. They will shape policy for themselves but I don't think workers will get any benefit.
> But your server still has a service provider. It might not be literally tied to your billing information but that was never going to be anyway.

The idea is to use a VPN provider that keeps no logs and runs many concurrent connections NAT'd behind the same public IP address. That way your traffic is mixed in with everyone else's who's using the service and provides you with an additional layer of anonymity.
It's amazing how quickly the left dismisses logic and reason.
Stay in your bubble.
I got the same corrupt message in Firefox, and the same audio only presentation in Chrome when visiting the file directly via your link.

The download did play in Quicktime, so perhaps the browsers are being slightly more picky about the file format?
I think you have a different definition of the word "emit" than I do.

Nuclear waste is stable, does not migrate when handled properly in containment pools, and can be reprocessed if required. All existing spent nuclear fuel in the united states is stored on-site. It's been that way since the beginning of the industry.

In contrast, particulate and greenhouse gas (including CO2) emissions from coal-fired plants migrate with the wind, often polluting areas far from the plant.

I don't see how you can compare the two.

It's true that spent fuel is very toxic but every single attempt to deal with this issue has been stymied with rampant NIMBYism and non-science based fear mongering.

You can control the operational risks associated with nuclear power. Doing so with fossil fueled plants is not nearly as easy.
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Shout-out to my account namesake's species. If anyone hasn't watched African grey parrots on YouTube, they are definitely in for a treat.
Without getting into mismanagement or environmental concerns, nuclear's economics continue to worsen.

1. The supply of nuclear expertise and trained professionals is shrinking. Thus, nuclear EPC + O&M goes up. This article cites this factor at least 3x in different paragraphs. Though, that's great news for current nukes!

2. LCOE (EPC + O&M) forecasts show nuclear on par with substitutes. I'm not taking on the ESG risks of nuclear to achieve price parity.
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@Dang (HN "meta" Q&A)

Has HN ever looked into clustering news using Google News to do it?

Reason I ask is how HN's de-dup filter works is puzzling to me and related stories would likely be useful to pool comments/de-dup/etc on a single news event.

Example of dups, clusters, themes on HN on this event:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=westinghouse&sort=byDate&prefi...

Google News cluster:
https://news.google.com/news/m/more?ncl=dGww1eRZGqsOScMMCg3U...
No, it would be morally justified to lock up those who monopolize the means of subsistence and production. Or rather, to let them free after legally removing their titles and distributing those means to everyone on a usufruct/personal-usage basis. Firms can be run as cooperatives, land usage managed by municipalities.
Would it surprise you if I said we're testing pricing as part of our launch? I don't think anyone ever gets it right from the get go. :D

Hopefully if we get to be the biggest infrastructure charge in someone's budget, it'll be really hard to get rid of us.

5-10x discounts for volume probably aren't unreasonable.
Only slightly related, but Stratechery recently shot up to #1 on my list of tech publications and I don't think anyone else is a close #2. The writing quality, level of insight, and timeliness are all excellent.

Two recent highlights:

* https://stratechery.com/2017/intel-mobileye-and-smiling-curves/
* https://stratechery.com/2017/the-uber-conflation/
To be fair, solar and wind are now approaching scale, whereas every nuclear power plant seems to be a bespoke special snowflake. The cost of nuclear would go down if R&D costs could be amortized over dozens or hundreds of reactors.
If you're willing to pay top dollar, I highly recommend the B&O Play by Bang and Olufsen Beoplay H8 wireless/wired headphones. I got these at an airport a few years ago when I forgot my AKG headphones and am convinced they are the best to be had. The sound quality is phenomenal and the active noise cancellation is superb. They have a removable battery which is huge for headphones at this price range ($500) and they can last 14 hrs on a single charge which is best in class. But if battery goes dead, can always plug them in an use as wired headphones (though worth mentioning that you lose the noise cancellation which sucks if say you're watching an in flight movie). The best feature is the touch interface for stop/start, volume control, skip/previous track, activate/disable noise cancellation and answering calls. It's resistive touch which means you can use it without removing your gloves which is huge!

Build quality is phenomenal and they're surprisingly low profile. My first pair actually had a problem with the touch interface and B&O not only replaced them, they expedited shipment so I'd get them in time when I explained I had a long trip coming up - so great support.

The only drawbacks are:

- they're on-ear which takes some getting used to, especially early on before the band takes shape to your head and can press to your ears. However, the padding is very soft and even replaceable! I now believe on ear produces the best accuracy as there's no acoustic reverberations and feedback that you can sometimes get with over ear. However, over ear is more comfortable and even after breaking these in, you'll still get ear fatigue after some hours of use. That being said, I've fallen asleep for hours on flights wearing these and not even playing music as the noise cancellation completely eliminates engine noise and most external sound in general

- they cannot be charged and used at the same time, even if using the wired lead. This is probably the biggest drawback though at 14 hrs play time and having a replaceable battery, this can be mitigated

- the previously mentioned drawback of not having noise cancellation when using them wired is annoying because the noise cancellation is exceptionally good

- they don't fold in any way, so you need to consider how to carry them if not in use. I usually just extend the headphones and keep them around my neck. In general though, you'll find the higher quality headphones won't be foldable as that's an easy point of failure

They're pricey but I've tried a number of other brands and the features/sound quality of these are far and away the best to be had. Not to mention, they look great when worn unlike most others that look cheep or goofy in their bulk. Highly recommend

Amazon has them on Prime:
https://www.amazon.com/Bang-Olufsen-Wireless-Headphone-Cance...
I am very happy with f secure freedome. Good speeds (mostly able to give me at least 30-40 megabit) and reputable company that provides decent support. I have been a customer for a few years.
I think what the author saying is incredibly valid and the pollution example doesn't exactly equate.

Ideally, you wouldn't rely on trust, i.e. Policy, you would rely on math. As far as we know, judging from the Wikileaks releases, encryption still works.

With pollution, it is a policy issue, because there's no mathematical way to prevent polluters. So we have to negotiate amongst lawmakers, regular people, and corporations.

I think what the author is saying here is that we shouldn't bet our privacy and safety on who is in charge, as we are always one flick of the pen away from losing those protections. I think this is especially the case when there is a mathematical solution to the problem, that doesn't require trust. Obviously, having math and policy would be an added bonus.
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Is there nothing Comcast won't do to screw the public?
This is also crazy talk.

There is a HUGE area between "bred for human consumption" and "shockingly inhumane" chicken farms, for example.

My chickens are out in a pasture right now enjoying the sunshine, hunting bugs, and they do that every day until they die. The taking of their life, if it's on my terms and not a predator's, is very quick. The length of their life is cut short, but the quality of the life they lived is not harmed. In fact, it's likely improved via watertight shelter and readily available food & water.

When I hatch, I often get to save the life of a chick who would have died in his shell. I also get to correct things like splayed legs that would follow a chicken through its whole life (or leave it dead).

So there's more to the world than your extreme version of things.

The lifespan of my laying hens is quite a bit longer than it would be for one in the wild. If we compare chickens to their wild genetic ancestor, anyway--there is no such thing as a wild chicken.

I'll leave the philosophical questions to other folks, I'm just presenting a contrary example to your rigid set of rules.
If you expect things to turn out differently you will often be disappointed though.
Reminds me of HP's acquisition of Autonomy.

https://www.recode.net/2015/5/5/11562326/hps-5-billion-fraud...
>the wantonly idle

This is a really silly phrase: achieving idleness and ease is the very purpose of work.
Why not? for every other service you use online this measure of privacy doesn't exist and no one seemed to care about it. When services came along that advertised a measure of privacy they were not inundated with business turning them into titans of industry.

If when given the option you don't use services that keep your data private, why is this a big deal to you when yet another service you use sells your data? If you want privacy you either need to shop for services that provider it, or like this article states, take measure to ensure some level of privacy.
Please, at least give credit the artist creator of the illustration, Josan Gonzalez.

http://f1x-2.deviantart.com/art/Robo-President-K3n3-DY-IV-62...
Can't wait for an Elon Musk type investor tackle Thorium based Molten Salt reactors. The public opposition to nuclear needs to be changed with positive counter examples.
A simple Google search turns up many results.