skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article was a fascinating read. Thank you.
A comprehensive on data and insights from 800+ bugrograms and 50,000 resolved se
All the global warming stuff is pseudoscience now. Trace whole planet climate is impossible, maybe if develop much powerful supercomputers or so.
Maybe the Oberon project Bluebottle OS[1] / AOS / A2? It's a ZUI[2] desktop. There seem to be only very few example videos[3] online.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0ZdzO_urU
AI building AI or just hierarchical modeling?

I'm sure there's a market for repurposing ML models via APIs but it seems unlikely to be the dream job for an AI researcher, rather the ML analog of CRUD
My point is that while, yes, you're right, the church has acted against progress, the church is also the institution that has safeguarded progress when "we" (the general population, or the prevailing political group) wanted to destroy it.

The large problem for science is that public opinion turns. And ... it turns against science, sometimes with catastrophic results. You can see it turn even today. I would say the tolerance we currently have for "science for the sake of science" is much reduced from what it was in the 90s. Is it so hard to imagine that public opinion might turn further, all the way into "we must destroy evil scientists". I would even say that I'm seeing that in some cases when it comes to genetic research (oh my god ! an artificial gene might get loose ! ...), nuclear/physics research (what about radiation ? What about waste ? Won't the LHC blow up the earth ?). Etc.

When it comes to the church the thing is, one of these actions was utterly critical for progress to exist in the first place. One slightly delayed very specific parts of progress. One of these is an existential issue for our civilization and culture. The other is a detail.

I would even argue that people might consider there may have been other factors. Galileo, for instance, was a dangerous and cruel nutcase, and not at all important to geocentrism. You might also consider that the true discoverers and advocates against the Ptolemaic model were very much part of the church, funded by the church, and devoted to the church, and published papers and books against the Ptoleamic model before, during and after the events related to Galileo.
It really is an amazing place. The array that detected pulsars now looks not dissimilar to an overgrown vineyard, and the hut where the wires from the antennae were terminated still has plastic caps from the connectors scattered over the floor. The control room for one of the telescopes was left open on it's desk, with last observing entries in it from the date of my birth. Operating manuals and old component catalogues lie scattered around. One hurt was full of random matked exam papers.

It's not open to the public often, but if you get a chance to visit you'll see astronomy history frozen in time.
This is something I've considered doing for years after dealing with the likes of Clickbank, etc. I'd love to pick your brain for your requirements. How can I get in touch?
Skyscrapers and land values
The trouble with nuclear propulsion is not the safety of the astronauts travelling to Mars, but rather the safety of people on Earth. If you launch a large reactor from Earth then a catastrophic launch vehicle failure could cause a radiological incident. Space agencies have launched RTGs before, but those are much smaller and more durable than the real reactors that would be needed to drive a useful propulsion system.

Maybe someday we'll be able to mine fissionable materials from asteroids and construct nuclear rockets in deep space with no risk to Earth. But that technology is firmly in the realm of science fiction today.
That's fine for young people. But at age 65, my eyes do not have the ability yours may to focus at a variety of different distances.

I use and recommend a pair of single vision computer glasses. These are adjusted to let my eyes focus on a screen 20" away, which happens to be my viewing distance for a laptop in normal use. My eyes are completely relaxed when viewing a screen at that distance.

I could have picked any other distance, like the farther distances discussed in the article, but then I would be stuck at that viewing distance. I wouldn't be able to use a laptop display at all but would have to always use an external display placed farther away.

Since I do want to be able to use the laptop all by itself, e.g. when traveling, I had my glasses made for that 20" laptop viewing distance.

So when I use a second monitor alongside my main laptop display (like the portrait mode 24" 4K monitor I use next to my high-DPI ThinkPad or MacBook at my home office), that monitor must be close to the same 20" distance, or it will be out of focus and I won't be able to use it comfortably.
Surprisingly they were hired because they got along. It took a while for people to get their heads around the fact that such a nice guy simply was not capable of learning new things
Work Environments as Models of Collaboration
I can imagine why that would be useful, but that seems like a fundamentally misguided feature. The shell is a key partner in the Unix philosophy of small programs that do a particular thing. The maintainers of bash should have known better than to add this. What does /dev/tcp add to bash, other than security vulnerabilities, that couldn't be better accomplished with wget, curl, netcat, or similar programs external to bash?
There isn't enough room in the overhead for every passenger to bring one relation sized carry on. Yeah some people bring to many bags, or oversized bags. But the real issue is more people day on the back rather than check it, so the overhead space fills up.
And this is why I usually run Tor as a transparent proxy, and put the browser in a VM. All traffic from the VM is forced through Tor via iptables.

One downside is that you no longer look like all the other users that are using TorBrowser. But I value non-identifiability (that they can't get to my real identity) more than non-trackability.
That's true most of the time yes. But it's not a rule, some architectures allow the stack pointer to grow in either direction: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/664744/what-is-the-direc...
I was once charged a ticket purchasing fee! This was not an online free, it would have been charged no matter how I purchased the ticket
> I support things that go against that common grain, such as ipv6nat.

> ipv6nat

Die in a fire while stung to death by scorpions and your eyes are eaten by spiders.

No. that is too much. You are my fellow human, i don't wish that on anyone.

> ipv6nat

Still.
I hope you have to poop while stuck in a meeting.
Until you want to watch that one kinda obscure thing that isn't adequately seeded... then your out of luck. (I'm aware of server "pre-seed"/enhancement options this just assumes you want to watch something that isn't seeded or pre-seeded)
> While Blankfein is cautious, other prominent leaders in the finance industry are downright suspicious.

> Blankfein stated during his interview, that while he’s still curious about the cryptocurrency and its future, he’s not about to invest in it either. However, the CEO also stated that he could envision a future where Bitcoin or derivative thereof could become the world’s fiat currency.

Two major highlights from the long article. Original interview here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/blankfein...
You guys are aware that you're basically describing the plot of Seveneves?
This is a really nice looking stylesheet. I'd almost certainly use it the next time I needed to share some content, but unfortunately it has some pretty janky FOUT and FOIT issues for me here in Australia. I'm no CSS guru, so the best I can really do is to report: https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/issues/119
Yes, but that text gets copy-pasted when a short bio is needed. That is very convenient.
Yeah, it was a wild guess. I just looked over all the new bug tracker entries in Tor since Oct 28th, but none of them seem particularly critical.

Our best bet would be to look at Firefox's commit history since the 28th.

One crafty way to determine the exploit would be to bindiff the hotfix'd firefox binary vs the previous release and examine the diffs in a disassembler to see what code changed. Non-deterministic builds make that tricky, but it's a neat technique to be aware of.
What am I missing?
Thanks. I still believe it is one of the best examples how powerful D meta programming is.
The Tor project itself muddles the distinction. If you go to their website and click "download", you get the Tor Browser. They actively encourage people to only use Tor Browser and not roll their own (because your browser requests would look different and you would be trackable).

The "only way" (without contortions) to get Tor without the bundle is via linux package manager.
My recollection is that for every interesting personal website with carefully compiled albeit idiosyncratic information, there were 10 sites along the lines of "Mikey's Ultimate Web Site!!!" with animated "under construction" GIFs, marquee tags, a guestbook script, and about ten webrings.

For better or worse, the closest thing today to the feeling of the old personal webpage era is Tumblr. The kids get up to some crazy stuff over there.
it would be so much better if they used Rust
Explain? Only reason I can think of why this would be funny is that under IPv6 everything could have a dedicated IP, making the NAT useless. No other reason to have NATs, though? Single IP exposure, security, that kind of thing?
They were surprised that maintaining a postgres fork was a pain in the ass?
I genuinely don't understand why you would want ipv6nat. It seems like a bog-standard firewall; but instead of being able to configure rules about incoming traffic, everything is blocked and you are stuck with that.

Maybe somebody who knows more about this topic could explain it?
None of these arguments lead me to think the cloud is coming to an end.
One of the hopes for IPv6 was that it'd deliver us from IP address scarcity and hence the need for NAT and all the associated difficulty of NAT traversal.
This is truly such an obvious exploit, given well-acknowledged risks of opening files downloaded via Tor browser. I'm quite embarrassed that I didn't think of it. And I'm pretty sure that others have exploited it.

But on reflection, this is actually excellent news. At least, for those of us who don't rely on Tor browser. That is, Tor users occasionally get pwned. And now there's less reason to suspect unreported vulnerabilities in Tor itself.
What should people do if they want to connect multiple clients to the Internet and they are only given 1 IPv6 address?

The answer is not, just be given more IPv6 addresses. People who can benefit from ipv6nat probably don't have much of a choice. It's a technical tool.

Imagine getting just one IPv6 address to your LTE phone and wanting to share it with a room full of devices.
There’s an informal flat-tire rule to help travelers if they miss their flight but still show up at the airport within a reasonable time, but passengers who skip a flight entirely will find their entire ticket cancelled. The specific rule is that flight coupons must be used in order.
Graphene: A New Protocol for Block Propagation Using Set Reconciliation [pdf]
Let us try something impossible in order to avoid questioning our faith in corporations.

In reality, it's impossible to build a thriving society on the expectation that no one should act morally. We should definitely hold our corporations accountable for being dodgy and exploit rather than report perceived problems.
Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme
For people interested in a bit more technical background, this paper by the authors featured in the NYT article has some good introductory background:

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45826.html
Why does the author implicitly assume that the amount of spare local storage is enough for the swarm+redundancy? Furthermore how many backups are required for data to ensure the same level of protection as a modern cloud provider? Does the math even work?
The point of a cloud to let you host servers nearby
Frequent flyers don’t pay bag fees. Airline status comps those fees.
As someone who literally _just_ ranted on Twitter (and on their 1990s style, "/start.tk" issue website) that Turkish Airlines has never once replied to my messages after losing my bag on the 26th of October: I wish there were a central, democratic review system for airlines, outing them for all their faults. Paying for checked in bags is not fun if the bag doesn't arrive. Fighting for (soon) two weeks to get back what is yours is no fun either.

Any public outrage about airline practices gets my upvote..

(I understand that for certain routes you cannot really choose someone else..)
What Google also loves to do is to show you results with a one term striked-out. The striked-out term happens to filter results the most so it's the most important one. Google decides to serve you more popular (and useless) search results.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Foundation series.
Snow Crash.
2001: A space odyssey.

Why?

All are so much fun to read over and over again.
While it is _technically_ possible to build heavily decentralized, managed hardware deployments, no one has figured out yet how to charge for them except in the case of very large customers. Until this happens, there will be no swing back to anything decentralized.

Although I do understand the allure: just about anyone today could very economically purchase 5-10 servers with 10-18 cores each (and those will be _real_ cores, not hyperthreads). There's nothing impossible about automating software management on such a thing, even to the extent that you'd get in cloud (VMs, containers, distributed storage, automated updates, VM migration, network partitioning, etc). I believe Microsoft will lease you a fully set up shipping container with Azure in it, all that needs to be done is scale this down.

But again, how does one extract billions of dollars in profits from something like that?
Stop doing corporations' digital busywork for free
I accidentally clicked on the ad because the content failed to load and the default behavior is to have the ad centered on the page with similar styling as the rest of the page...
This has been going on for years, I had a worse experience. I book my christmas flights super early and had to change the outgoing flight. Found a reasonable flight on a different airline, so all i wanted to do is cancel the outgoing portion of the flight. Having been burned by a similar experience to yours in the past, so knew I had to call the airline.
Website says its not possible so I call them up. Apparently they cant cancel half the flight, they have to cancel and rebook, minus change fee, plus the difference in fare - insane due to it now being close to christmas. I ended up paying money to cancel half of my flight.
I for one would gladly volunteer for even a one-way trip out of the solar system.

I could keep myself occupied and entertained the same way I do now, with some personal computing devices and game consoles, and I should be able to steer my craft and make direct observations while maintaining communications with Earth as long as the distance allows.

It would be a privilege rather than a sacrifice, and it will help humans back here in understanding the cosmos better than unmanned probes would.
Maybe your phone can be assigned a block.
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There are solutions to this problem. It just starts costing a lot more money when you need to guarantee content.
That's because it isn't done legally, and therefore augmenting the network with a few "supernodes" (I believe that's what napster called them) is a big no-no. You could say the same about Netflix/HBO/..., by the way. Watching obscure things (that aren't worth Netflix or the copyright owner's time to negotiate rights for ... good luck). And if the present trend continues, and Disney, and Paramount, and ... start their own streaming platforms with exclusivity, well, popcorntime is going to be the vastly superior option in a year or two at most.

In the other case for a distributed example, you have the Steam platform. Obscure things download quickly and without much delay. And steam avoids the "rights negotiating" problem by being a marketplace.
Unfortunately, Wikia looks like it's in the process of becoming a cautionary tale, with its recent move to start injecting its own video content into certain high-traffic wikis and a general decline in customizability and independence.
The comment I replied to didn't say edge caching or reverse proxy - it said http caching.

An edge/reverse proxy on the SaaS network doesn't solve 20 workstations in an office making requests over the internet to retrieve the same resource.

A regular http proxy in that office does prevent 20 internet requests but it requires MITM for https to work.
I guess when everyone uses it, its not cool anymore. The quote "People use it when they don't know what to say." sounds a bit arrogant.
AR documentary on socio-political experiences of Muslims in the US
Trape: People tracker on the internet
>> Will have to keep looking at some way of automatically backing it up locally in a neutral format, though, to offset the vendor lock-in.

http://nixnote.org

https://cellard0-0r.github.io/whatever/
Looks like online ordering / home delivery is available in Western Australia and South Australia too (which apparently are not part of the eastern coast IKEA network). Delivery cost is $19.75, which is still crazy if you just want one $5 USB powered lamp... but less crazy if you're ordering several items at once.

Not that I checked eBay and noticed a lot of people selling IKEA USB lamps or anything ;)

Looks like there's no IKEA in New Zealand though. Hopefully your friend can still make her fortune selling across the Tasman and providing a great service to Kiwis!
Learn to track the world, to avoid being traced
Trape is a recognition tool that allows you to track people, the information you can get is very detailed. We want to teach the world through this, as large Internet companies could monitor you, obtaining information beyond your IP.

Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyuCQmMKiQ

English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdwyIZhUx3Y

https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/926118458584047616

www.kitploit.com/2017/11/trape-people-tracker-on-internet-learn.html
Anyone

- going on a 3+ day vacation

- having something unwieldy to transport

- going on a 3+ day business trip that needs shirts, fancy pants and shoes (or a suit)

For me, carry-on is for a bag with my electronics (laptop, Kindle, headphones) and necessities for the flight if any. Being able to travel with nothing but a carry-on bag is a luxury and quite rare for me.
At least one of the billionaire Princes was reportedly funding the antifa 'riots' on Nov 4. They have been locked up for corruption, and the money for the riot never appeared, thus people stayed at home. Saudi Princess have been buying up media for a while, most recently 'the independent' and 'Twitter'. They have been pushing their own ideological goals.
Basically a glorified mirror with some marketing/use cases.
In Defence of Mail
Was TaskRabbit popular in Singapore for that kind of delivery (and assembly)? I know IKEA bought TaskRabbit a month ago:

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/28/16377528/ikea-acquisition-t...
I wonder how we are going to react, when computers start acting as irrational as we do: “Nah, today’s not my day, I don’t want to do the calculation. Maybe tomorrow...”. Oh well...
Availability Heuristic: How Germany’s “Piss Screens” Are Reducing Drink Driving
Can you prove an old crotcheteer wrong?

Let's take a really simple example. I'd like to see information about "rocket engines." Just masses and masses of enthusiast information for/from a technical point of view. Think something like Atomic Rockets [1] but more technical and less sci fi. An example of the 'ethos' I'm talking about would be something analogous to Fredric Parker's videos about KIC 8462852 / Tabby's Star / 'that star with the really bizarre dimming characteristics' [2]. Just an informed, obsessive, educated enthusiast targeting the exact same. I'm certain such sites exist. In the days before 80% of Google's links went to the same 20% of sites, they were really easy to find.

Google is excellent at finding low grade mass media on the latest topics, but I think their ability to find meaningful information has been deteriorating. E.g. getting back to those video's on tabby's star - if I search google for the same, I find no less than 4 hits with aliens in the title and just about as many alluding to have found 'the' explanation. It's complete trash (though Fredric's videos do hit the second page!). Granted, it's closer than the hardcore porn I might have found on the first page searching in the late 90s, but it seems like we've replaced porn with clickbait. If that's my choice, I'd prefer tits.

[1] - http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHLjfagBDOw
Thanks for that! Superbly informative website.

Someone, quick - point Ukraine and the Baltic states to this article "The Tank is Dead": http://g2mil.com/Anti-armor.htm
We'll make it work on FreeBSD
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand.
I like idea of 'I' itself which can shrug the belief(s) of social norms.
I am surprised there isn’t more on this in this thread:

Persuasion is the center-piece of business activity.

One of the most powerful ways to persuade is through storytelling. Well storytelling is central to our social and cultural experience. No wonder that it finds its way in our work — esp work at big companies (more humans = more social, cultural). Most presentations, discussions or meetings are exercises in persuasion via storytelling.

For years stories are told with theatrics or embellishment. That’s PowerPoint.

In the hands of a good storyteller — someone who has something to say and a compelling way to say it — PowerPoint will seem like a great tool. Conversely, the tool will suck (in the same way a guitar sucks when i play it, but becomes magical in the hands of jimmy page :))

Now, as a storytelling tool — just the fact that PowerPoint has found its way into a Billion computers — is astounding. Probably makes it one of the most useful tools invented!
That doesn't make p2p video streaming useless though. Or even inferior.
Just like I don't get 100 IPv4 addresses on my phone, I don't get a block of IPv6 addresses. There is nothing I can do about it. IPv6 changes nothing in that regard, effectively.
More like coq
I think the point would be that the central server `could` gather aggregated data / important business metrics that it could use to provide further value. I think the author also mentions something like this.
Ex: provide analytics back to the end user that could be a paid service, or use that information to provide a second set of b2b offerings to other partners. etc.
Debugging nat. it's, well, unpleasant. ipv6 has a whole lot more address space than ipv4. it obviates the need for nat. i think the standard deal is a /64 for your router. you can roll addresses every half hour forever, if you want to.

nat is just a bunch of glued together heuristics about how things should work. it's not fun to debug. i mean, you have 2^32 internets worth of space to assign to machines. everything is so much simpler without nat.

i dunno. maybe i'm an idiot. maybe nat is super cool, and i'm just jaded. imho it makes things very difficult. but i'll defer to the majority. whether i want to or not.