skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No luck needed. Authoritative DNS makes it easy.

Even without using authoritative DNS, if we only have a blocklist of IP addresses and some application-level firewall solution, we can examine outgoing HTTP headers in a client-side proxy and filter accordingly.

I also do not use a popular browser that runs Javascript to send and retrieve to and from the internet. That is the root cause of most users problems. This is the most effective solution, bar none. The third parties users want to avoid are almost almost always depending on Javascript to accomplish their goals.

Connecting a powerful interpreter with potentially full control over the users computer to the open internet. Then believing this can be safe.

The user is granting use of this interpreter to third parties. In this thread we can see how users struggle to know which third parties can be trusted. All for the sake of keeping that interpreter open to "good" third parties to access at will over the internet. (Why is a good question.)

Early web browsers called on other, separate programs to do specific jobs outside of rendering HTML. Taking a cue from that history, I use simpler, limited programs with no built-in interpreter to do two specific jobs: sending and retrieving.

Third parties can return code in response to requests for content, but I am under no obligation to run the code, let alone run it from a popular browser with a powerful interpreter that is connected to the internet.

Cannot speak for others, but this approach has worked well for me as the www worsens.
And this guy has the audacity to boast on Twitter about how he has too much money he doesn't know what to do with it.

Well how about he gives his workers better work conditions? there are simple techniques that wouldn't even cost him much money like alternating tasks in warehouses, some tasks are less physical than others.

Clearly some here are happy the 19th century style exploitation is a reality for their fellow workers, with the same arguments as 200 years ago like "well if you're not happy go work somewhere else", like everybody has the choice.
Cooling in a vacuum is a lot more difficult than with an almost endless supply of cooler gas to run over your hardware. The ISS runs liquid ammonia cooling to large sets of radiators in order to keep the station and solar panels cool. I'd imagine you'd need a similar setup if you're putting your cubesats far enough out that they won't need active propulsion to stay in orbit, and if you're using similar consumer hardware.
Most router admin panels are probably written in C++
While perusing awesome-awesomeness [1], I found awesome-algorithms [2] , algovis [3], and awesome-big-o [4].

[1] https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

[2] https://github.com/tayllan/awesome-algorithms

[3] https://github.com/enjalot/algovis

[4] https://github.com/okulbilisim/awesome-big-o
Since this concerns your employer, it would be nice to state your affiliation.

Also, the initial press release was worded such that all CPUs had the same problems. This is only true for Spectre, Meltdown is specific to Intel CPUs and some other CPUs (such as recent Apple CPUs), but it is definitely not a general bug.

Then there were benchmarks one or two days ago that were seemingly intentionally misleading. E.g., they included typical number crunching benchmarks, while Meltdown mitigation only concerns system calls and Spectre mitigations are still very limited in software. Rather than communicating this clearly, it was a big cover-up screaming 'see, nothing happened'.

The problem is that after the ME and now this debacle, very few technical people still trust Intel. There may be no alternatives for e.g. HPC, but if Intel doesn't clean up this mess, people might vote with their wallets as soon as they can.
No, I understand the conversion factor is constant.

The subthread started when someone thought it was necessary to point out that the log everyone was talking about was the natural log.

Independent of what the actual problem is, say someone tells you that something is log(n). It is a safe assumption that they mean ln(n), but if you are are speaking out loud, that is still pronounced "log n".

What I'm looking for is better intuitions on F/ln(n) versus F/log_x(n) for some completely arbitrary function F. The intuitions for x > e are very different than the intuitions for x < e. (This is just the nature of exponents. Maybe there is no further intuition for me to develop here, other than to just practice more.)
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"And these are jobs people 100 years ago in this country would have given anything to have, and ones millions today, perhaps even billions, would still give anything to have."

The numbers will be even more impressive if life was made more miserable for a few billion people. Then you could argue that several billion people would give anything to take up a job like this.
Yes, I agree. People are often nonchalant about those low probability dangers. But a single death from Cancer is just as bad as the death of an astronaut, perhaps worse as they have not consented to the risk or understand it. We should care about that, especially as space exploration is such an optional undertaking which people don't have to support. That is why there is a range safety system and why anything radioactive needs to be treated with caution.
You get a good idea of this by comparing winter and summer stats for the same location. Hot, humid weather causes more crime.

This linked adds a new dimension - climate change with warmer temperatures would appear to come with an increased death toll due to crime.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009506961...
I'd imagine the economics are similar to chinese miners who don't pay for electricity. New hardware comes out too quickly and improves too much for any viable longterm use of hardware. (I've seen this argument repeated a bunch on hn, I don't know if its true. I'm not into mining at all).

But if it were up to me, I'd love to see mining in space. More stuff in space is cool!
Like I was arguing in my other comment, the benefits of gold being a readily available material are "the unseen" in this equation...
I'm fairly picky too, I tend to compare everything to my Nikon D5100 (maybe not as picky as Q. Tarantino). This $30 action camera has decent image quality but the physical build feels cheap... but it hasn't broke yet.
See also Tupper's Self-Referential Formula [0] and the Numberphile explanation [1] for generating bitmap plots of itself.

[0]: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-ReferentialFormula....

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5RFgd59ao
Thanks for the comment and look forward to the dedicated blog post :)

Was Riak KV ever considered?
"In the usual pair of photos"

Those are not the usual pair of photos.
The vacuum of space is actually a terrible heatsink, because it does not provide conduction or convection. Actually, even low-powered Earth-orbit satellites often have cooling problems. They need large heatsinks to radiate the heat from the sun.
I'm confused, did Vegas change from a place that's all about a show, to one where one expects to find seriousness, honesty, contrition? In a keynote?
Then don't work there.

That's 18k you would not get sitting on your ass.
If you aren’t willing to put in any effort, then I guess the problem is you getting in your own way. Good luck!
Maybe add this to Show HN
Credit card fraud expert here:

This happens way more often than you think, particularly with sites that aren't known to you and me. It's entirely trivial to do, very effective, and maintenance next to nothing — but you already know that. As companies continue to choose Stripe/Braintree/etc and maintaining PCI compliance with their payment processor, keyloggers are being deployed less and less.

What is needed is a browser extension that checks all requests which contain a param/form data that is 16-digits long and starts with 4/5/6 or 15-digits long and starts with 3. Is such a thing fool-proof? No, it's not. But it'd be a starting point. Maybe add a listener to any inputs that contain such a val to see if anything's hooking into it. Need to whitelist it for ancient processors? Okay, prompt the user.
Totally true, but it’s really, really important to stay alert and watch disruptive economic shifts like a hawk.

The first thing keep in mind when radical improvements arrive is that spectacular new things have been dropped at our feet before, and killed a massive shitload of people. Not everybody wins when things get generally better. Some people lose, and when the individual tales of losers are closely examined, sometimes they have lost through incredibly bitter narratives no less.

Some cavemen were probably left crippled only to die a miserable caveman death by trying to mount horses, some people were gored by non-collapsible steering columns in early car accidents, some people were smeared across mountain tops by early planes without hazard avoidance instrumentation.

Things get better, but indivuals still pay for it.
Is there a reason you go to race rather than any other measure? I’d suggest poverty as a better root cause.
There is some discussion of supporting Mozilla's experimental Cretonne compiler (initially designed to be a new Firefox wasm JIT) as an alternative backend for rustc. Cretonne could be handy for developers wanting faster compile times during development with the cost of less code optimization.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/possible-alternative-compi...
(I suck at this so take with a grain of salt and it's only my opinion) Off the top of my head:

1) Yes, but had to read the whole page to really grasp the concept.

2) It's fine as far as it goes, but nothing that Quora, Reddit and/or Stackoverflow don't already provide in someway.

3) Changes I'd make:
- "Start making better (smarter?) decisions" should be the tag line.
- The Picture and the copy beside it should be the hero section.
- Nobody cares about features, they care about benefits so drop this for now or rewrite to show why they might matter to the reader.
- "What makes us special" is probably not needed.
- At this stage, you probably just need a hero section and lead capture form.
Anyone interested in this should listen to this RadioLab episode where a reporter goes to work as a picker at a fulfillment warehouse:

https://www.radiolab.org/story/brown-box/
> Starting in the mid-2000s, Intel added a layer of security within its chips and began encouraging developers to store users’ most sensitive information in the walled-off area rather than in regular software memory.

What "layer of security" and "area" they are talking about?
Yeah I can show you one of the systems:

GC of death:

https://imgur.com/a/6RAX7

Write latency:

https://imgur.com/a/Us0MO

Typical Cassandra user has these sort of problems. I have one client where they identified the issue (data modeling) and fixed it by redesigning their tables before I got there. Some of the Cassandra users are not even aware. The company where the pictures are from engaged me because the system did not meet with business requirements anymore. Could not insert data into the cluster, their ETL jobs were running for 20 hours and if one failed they did not have data for their business. We could speed it up to run it for 4 hours without remodeling the data. With remodeling it Cassandra was not the bottleneck anymore.
If you only needed to do that, you could just take the abs error (Even the 1-0 loss function, where every point that the regression hyperplane doesn't pass through contributes 1 to the error, fulfills this criterion).
There are pretty hard seasonal jobs that can pay 50-60K for a season (3-4 months), e.g seasonal fishing.

Even in the UK you can find fishing jobs that pay £1500-2000 a week during peak season which means you can earn what Amazon pays in 2.5 months but it’s much harder than sorting items at a warehouse.
What if it doesn't have a toolbar button?
You underestimate the volume of young people bumbling through all the game-related college programs. I bet only a minority end up with sufficient skill/drive to release a real game or have a good industry career.
My hands are clean. My peoples hands are clean. Don't blame me for this.

The supply of slaves was inelastic. The atlantic slave trade amounted to ~10.15% of the total African slave trade between 1525 and 1866. Roughly 41% of blacks in West and Central Africa prior to European conquest were slaves. The slaves that were transported to the west had much better lives than they would have had elsewhere, and the west led the fight to end slavery.

How many trillions of dollars are being transferred from Europeans/whites to blacks and non-hispanic whites today? Both groups are an enormous net loss for the US government. Hispanics run a budget deficit of $411.95 billion while blacks run a budget deficit of $389.71 billion.
How much more? Retraining isn’t a factor of money especially in the UK it’s a factor of will and time.
> there's no fundamental reason that those countries couldn't have the same progression in workers rights.

There is in that a high level of unemployment leads to social unrest and governments toppling.

Most people in the developing world are willing to suffer in order for a better future for their family. If you take that away (as I mentioned, more automation) then you take that away, and you get a lot of pissed off people.

It's a lot easier to live in a sweltering room with your family if you have a reassurance that your children won't suffer the same fate.
Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate
And what cryuptocurrency is Swiss going to adopt?
One of the 1000s listed here at https://www.coingecko.com/en

Or we talking bout private chain cryptocurrency
£0.04 per item shipped. (220 working days x 8h)

as a customer i'm happy to pay another 4p per item shipped to have workers only process 125 items/h.
But capitalism doesn't work this way. Bezos would just pocket the 4p and keep squeezing the workers to the max.
Mining/refining is a significant source of pollution on earth. It’s interesting that in talking about economic impacts, we don’t talk about the reduction in “expense” to our environment and health.

If the current mining industries could be replaced with those that do not pollute our living space, there are significant gains to be head in the form of more usable land and better ecological environments.

Additionally, a number of much cleaner technologies are currently very expensive because of the scarcity of resources and pollution involving mining. Lithium for batteries is one example. Disposition of used batteries would remain a problem, but perhaps similar off-world approach could be used there.
Except that he needs to pay to, y'know, eat and have a place to live and all that other life stuff. I'm assuming he doesn't want to live with his parents forever, even if they're cutting him a deal. 8% is likely an unrealistic growth rate anyway.
I'm not sure what you're implying by posting that link. Medicare posts its fees and schedules, yes, but the point is about what private insurers reimburse.
Michael Moritz would be wise to stay in China since it's so damned awesome.
None. You can use solar panels for energy on Earth, and atmosphere is better for heat dissipation than the vacuum of space. That $10k cubesat (which, by the way, becomes much more costly once you add all the interesting stuff on it,) will have tiny solar panels, tiny heat radiators, and you cannot add much of a mining rig inside that 10x10x10cm frame. Not to mention that the orbit will decay in about 3-4 months.
Oh, mine too! The cord was wrapped around the neck.

That was: 3rd kid, 10 pounds, unassisted homebirth

She just reached down and undid it. To me, the whole thing looked pretty instinctive. I suspect the kid would've been fine anyway.
I will have to try Vultr again. My last experience was good, but regrettably I still use DO and AWS for everything.

Remarking on that, Digital Ocean is nothing special, but they have added some nice features in the past year or two. I like that their control panel supports multiple teams with permissions, I like that it has a nice tag-based firewall, the DNS service works fine, and it has an S3 clone called Spaces which is pretty handy. I believe they also announced recently that private networking would be isolated per-team instead of being the entire data center, another networking improvement that most low-end VPSes do not provide.

All in all, if you just need a low end VPS, I would say there's no fault in going with something like Vultr, but Digital Ocean adds a few extra features that might be more useful if you're developing a medium-complexity system. Of course though, at that point, you probably want to at least consider Google Cloud Platform, a reasonably cost-effective host with very rich features. (And AWS, but my feelings for AWS have shrunk in recent times after having better experiences with GCP consistently at my day job.)
> How do they want to bring their stuff back to earth?

> Gravity

Quite. I not an expert at all, but the question "how do we bring it down" is better put "how do we bring it down safely and so that we can easily recover the material".

Throwing rocks down the gravity well is easy, keeping the velocity low at bottom end, or low enough plus aiming accurately at an empty spot, is hard.
It sounds like it would be far easier to pour concrete steps instead?
Gravity will take care of making each step perfectly horizontal, at least.
I think the HN/US crowd might have warped opinions on typical earnings. I've seen (and applied to) graduate jobs at £16,000 a year, the median in the UK is somewhere around £20,000 last time I checked.
Strictly speaking, the Bessemer process was developed in the 1850s, and the traditional dates for the Industrial Revolution is ~1750-1850.
Aren't you off by at least one order of magnitude? According to this site[1]:

http://spaceflight.com/schedule-pricing/#pricing

launching a 5kg satelite costs 295 thousands USD (please note a fine print under the table, saying "pricing in thousands" )

Also, this is a price for low orbit, for geostationary orbit it's almost $1M.

[1] Yes, we now have online pricing list for space flights :)
Look at this Steve Jobs wannabe wanker: https://gigaom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2011/11/1z5o52...
WebGL isn't only fast -- running his tests on my browser it's x1000 times faster than JS or WebAssembly.
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My 50 year old mother in-law had this job. After the big recession she lost her job and was unemployed for several years. So compared to the alternative (and that is the key point!) I am absolutely happy she had that job.
Definitely a fair point. On the other hand without that investing jobs like these would not exist. Is Amazon destroying more lucrative jobs he could have otherwise had? Very possibly, but I think that's somewhat speculative. And it also ignores secondary effects of economic expansion. Amazon in turn helps countless other businesses grow and thrive which in turn provide more opportunity and jobs for people. So we can't only consider the jobs it may destroy but also the jobs which it creates. In the end, what is the net effect? That's an extremely complex question to answer, but I suspect living in a world where you can get $25k a year for moving boxes is more likely a positive than negative indicator of overall effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16178658
If I was a father and my son was between the ages of 18-26, with no college degree and on government benefits (I’m taking a guess at the subjects age here) this is EXACTLY the type of work I’d want him to do. Something that teaches him the value of hard work and discipline. Let’s face it, there are likely hundreds, possibly thousands of people employed at that amazon warehouse. Many of them have the same job as he does. I don’t see every single one of them complaining or writing blogs about how their job ruins their life. This man CHOSE to take an overnight shift, which he admitted does not ever change. He works 4 days a week. Does he realize how common sleep problems is? Many people who work 5-6 days a week Have sleep problems as well. Sometimes I only get a couple hours of sleep, maybe 4 or 3, but I still get up when my alarm goes off and head in to work. This is part of being a responsible adult. I’m not sure when his 10 hour shift begins or ends, but seeing as he’s only getting 4 hours of sleep he has plenty of time to look for a new job if he isent satisfied with his current employment situation. Amazon tells it’s warehouse employees what is expected of them on day one of training and many employees research a new employer before actually going to work for them or accepting a job. I’m sorry but as a fellow millennial, one who has also done jobs which could be complained about (standing on my feet for 14 hours working a double shift, bussing all my tables and cleaning my entire section before being given permission to go home or being told to clean more if the manager doesn’t think it’s clean enough) it pisses me off to see such entitlement. When I was in the situation, I worked 6 or 7 days a week and my days off were never consistent. I could easily work 12 days straight and I had coworkers who hadn’t had a day off in years because they work two jobs. I’m sorry but this guys sob stories about not being able to enjoy video games, only getting 4 hours of sleep sometimes, not being able to take small breaks when he’s on the clock, and not being able to quit because he will get sanctioned and lose his government benefits is absolute horse shit.5$3 guy works 4 days a week. If he spent 3 days a week looking for a new job, making the job search his second job, he could easily find another job... but chances are he’d Find things to complain about at that job too. Chances are that for someone with his qualifications, that amazon job is probably the best job in his area. That job isn’t for everyone. This guy thinks that standing on his feet is unhealthy, yet the new trend is for people working 9-5s to use standing desks since sitting down can affect blood circulation and lead to heart disease or vascular disease.

I don’t normally comment here, but felt obligated.
Would you mind posting a link to these earlier videos that you are referring to?
The sorts of disruptions we should worry about are ones that disemploy a lot of people who need a job. Certainly self-driving cars will do that. But how many people work in the production of precious metals?

Once upon a time, asteroid mining would have been highly disruptive to monetary policy, but today currency values are not tied to metals.
Wasn't riak, like, less efficient than cassandra ?
Not sure why wearing goggles when driving a fork lift improves h&s.

The trouble is there tends to be a one size fits all h&s I see track side workers wearing hard hats and the failure modes for accidents tends to be things like runaway trucks not heavy objects falling on your head.

I have also seen all the local bus drivers wearing high vis vests for no reason - I could see having one the bus in case it breaks down and they have to get out and put out hazard signs but when I have seen busses broken down they don't do that.
> with more poor people giving birth to more disadvantaged children

Maybe they wouldn't be poor if not for excessive charges in some areas? How is that for an idea?

Many people who are considered "poor" in the USA, would be considered "totally ok, just in slightly disadvantaged line of work" in less polarizing locales. That after a safety net that won't put $10k worth of charges on you after hospital visit.

There are poor and marginal, who should probably be incentivized to avoid children - and then there's working poor, who should have their condition fixed. That's all.
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I didn't downvote you, but I am confused by what you mean. Can you elaborate?