skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's an easier to visualize solution to the box problem.

Let A have dimensions (a,b,c) and let B have dimensions (x,y,z). Assume A fits inside B.

We have (a+b+c)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + 2ab + 2ac + 2bc. This is the sum of the A's hypotenuse squared plus its surface area. The same holds for B.

Note that A's hypotenuse is at most that of B-- the hypotenuse of a is its longest axis, and it needs to fit in B somehow. Further, note that the surface area of A is less than that of B. To see this, consider the nesting of A inside B and realize that both boxes' interiors are convex sets. Imagine inflating A inside of B by taking the sets A_t consisting of all points within B that are within distance t of a point in A. It is not hard to see that this inflating operation can only increase the surface area of A, and since the maximum surface area we can get is that of B we have that A has smaller surface area than that of B. Thus,

(a+b+c)^2 = (A hypotenuse)^2 + (A surface area) <= (B hypotenuse)^2 + (B surface area) = (x+y+z)^2. The claim follows.
I don't see that as game over at all, just a change in the game.

Maybe ad-blockers will become site-blockers, or when you hover over a link it will go turn [[bad-colour]] to show you it leads to a site which forces advertising. Or on touchscreens (no hover) maybe those links open into a different, purgatory window. I do something similar manually at the moment, for example when I see Bloomberg/Techcrunch/Medium stuff on here I read the HN comments but very rarely go to the original article as I expect them to force autoplaying videos on me (I'm on a limited data plan) or use horrible UI such as scrolljacking or dickbars that I don't want to spend slices of my finite life experiencing.

Or maybe adblockers will use AI to detect certain images, salesy phrases, moving images etc and employ their own custom render engine to remove them.
The good thing about privacy badger is that you don't have to care about the contents of ads ('acceptable ads') or how much you like a particular site ('please unblock us in your ad-blocker).

If a site has parts with 3rd party tracking cookies then I just don't see it.

The downside of only using privacy badger is that you do see some ads. At the moment I find that level of ads acceptable.
That’s unfair - any stable trait of any community will be used by people to manipulate and exploit them.
There's no such thing as the Internet, just some else's network.
I am not so sure about that. Did voters ever vote on the surveillance state? Wars like Iraq, Vietnam, etc, were created by lies that would not exist without this agency. The WMD lies and Gulf of Tonkin lies have been well documented in respectable news outlets,
so it is not like these are at all conspiracy theories.

Yesterday was May 4th, the anniversary of when the agency in government murdered unarmed, peaceful war protestors at Kent State, then 11 days later bayonetted about a dozen peaceful war protestors at University of New Mexico.

These are not things free people compelled their government to do.
While on one hand, the acceptable ads program does border on extortion, and them allowing Taboola is bullshit (and the reason why I no longer allow those ads), I think "acceptable ads" is a sane approach.

I'm willing to tolerate ads to a certain extent. I'm not going to pay (in money, time, or looking at ads that I consider unacceptable) to sort the good from bad. Ad companies have consistently failed at avoiding bad ads. So some third party will have to do it, and either advertisers or publishers or platforms are going to have to pay for it. That's what Acceptable Ads is doing. Are they abusing their leading position with ABP to charge obscene amounts of money? Definitely.

Could the ad industry have avoided it by introducing strict, technically enforced ads quality rules earlier? Maybe. (Depends on whether they could have convinced the early adblockers to not block those ads, which they might have been able if they enforced really strict rules instead of just banning the worst of the worst.)

ABP allowed Taboola (fun fact: The Taboola ads you got with ABP are/were different, less obnoxious versions than the ones served to people without adblockers). I don't like that, so I no longer use ABP, so ABP gets less revenue. Maybe someone else will make a different "acceptable ads" system that I'll be willing to opt into - and I'm perfectly OK if they squeeze money from publishers/advertisers/platform to make it profitable to maintain such a list.
isn't that the definition of clickbait?
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I agree that it's a common perception, but the data in silicon valley does seem to disprove it.

https://venturebeat.com/2012/10/15/how-indians-defied-gravit...

"Twenty five percent of the nation’s startups and 52% of those in Silicon Valley were founded by immigrants. Indian immigrants were the leading company founding group. They founded 13.4% of Silicon Valley’s startups and 6.5% of those nationwide."

Regardless of cultural differences, I recall reading that immigrants as a whole are far more entrepreneurial than similarly positioned natives. A lot of this is through self-selection: saying goodbye to all your friends and moving to a whole other country/continent is extremely "scary". Hence by definition, the average immigrant is far more comfortable heading off into the unknown and taking the plunge.
My current take:

nftables instead of iptables

port-knocking

non-standard port

key+pass access/auth

ip whitelist

good logging

ED25519 wherever possible!!!
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The failed attempts make it harder to monitor for other attacks because of the noise in log files, network traffic, etc. and if an attacker IP is blocked early they can't try more effective attacks.
Well it never made sense to me why block one DNS provider and not the rest? Ah well...
What are these places with cheaper aws-rds ?
You might want to review William Binney's Hope9 talk:

https://archive.org/details/Hope9KeynoteByWilliamBinney

Or:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFtQ6n3WR4
Why not just give people a UBI and be done with it?
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I've set up a second obstacle by allowing access to the device from a certain range of IPs on the router. Cleaned up the log pretty good.
Of course Occamsrazor, not yet. It isn't gonna come by easily either. Time will tell, if it is or not.
I don't know the situation, but in theory, it could work fine for you, but 1% of the functionality could have been not working properly for 1% of users. That's thousands of unhappy users that would decide that Google delivered unfinished not working product and that quality of their products sucks.

I would also say money wasted on providing support for those users but I'm still not sure if such thing exists.
does anyone know what's the average or range of interest rates in China? Looks like banks are getting help from the state to collect. Help, well above and beyond traditional court /sheriff duties.
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[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105553/how-to-provi...

edit:

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[1] https://pastebin.com/yYzSrM61
I use pipenv and couldn't be happier. It's dead simple and it works. It is a bit slow. The problem presented in this xkcd has been fixed.
In addition to the great points people have raised, there is a slew of 4chan clones that are at least as functional, which never took off, or started taking off then died. There are several open source projects around people have run up over the years.

It's also not necessarily the most "uncensored", several such clones were famously a lot more open in certain discussions despite being effectively dead.

And finally it's not totally ephemeral these days, with several mirrors showing up.

At some point, any social network continues operating due to its critical mass of users.
I'm not talking about whether or not people enjoy the act of taking another person's life. Obviously, some people do. I am talking about bragging about it. If you ever hear someone making these kinds of claims loudly at a bar, you can bet your next paycheck they never left the FOB.
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Yeah, I'm sure it's impossible to guess who's a scammed based on meta-data... /s
I sincerely doubt the argument that dragnet surveillance has no effect. I wish as soon as the information could be de-classified the NSA would publish about attacks it stopped. Doing so can expose sources and methods used to collect the information, so not everything would become known - but it would certainly help to benefit the agency and its credibility in the eyes of the governed.

That said, I don't want to live in a country that looks over my shoulder as I grow and mature my reasoning about the world. We need the ability to formulate our own opinions without feeling watched (because this leads to self-censorship!). Discourse is necessary for society to evolve. We wouldn't have things like interracial marriage without people taking unpopular ideas to market.

I just wish we could see the full benefits of both sides in this argument.
This is just my personal opinion, but I find that it only removes the worst of the worst though, and I find it dishonest. For example, they ban auto-playing video ads, but

> The Better Ads Methodology has not yet tested video ads that appear before (“pre-roll”) or during (“mid-roll”) video content that is relevant to the content of the page itself.

So shitty news web sites that put one of those "we put a useless video here so we can show video ads" videos on their page can still continue using auto-playing video ads, with sound, and I'm pretty sure they'll find some way to define Youtube's pre-roll ads as "totally not a banned prestitial with countdown".

Also, just saw Taboola on their web site - their ads certainly meet the technical standards, but are one of the most obnoxious ones on the Internet, and the cause for many to disable the "acceptable ads" program/switch to uBlock.

They're just trying to take the worst edge off to reduce the necessity to install an adblocker, or, if you want to interpret it uncharitably, maximize the amount of people who get to see the bad-but-not-absolutely-horrifying ad formats.

It's way too little way too late.
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People can utilize energy from the day in their own bodies for weeks before dying. Now remove any central governor and allow them to metabolize bones, fascia, skin, muscles, and unnecessary organs. Still alive?
Most people that know anything about the internet have switched away from their ISPs DNS largely due to tracking and slowness/peering.

These tools will spread and eventually everyone will, a big fear for the ISPs who want to be ad networks and profiling systems.

> is there any data on Google /CF DNS usage?

Only ISPs would know that information, Google and Cloudflare know how many people use it but not how many are connected that choose it. ISPs know who uses what DNS, who uses VPNs and common clients and other competitive advantages that should be protected. Pretty soon they will have some 'identity protection' app that provides VPN and DNS which is used in their ad network/tracking systems. Even better if large DNS providers are flaky due to their own interference. This was definitely AT&T kicking the tires to see what would happen, either that or they are incompetent and need competition. They should be broken up either way.

ISPs now that they are able to sell your private data and build ad networks by removing privacy protections, actively do not want others using alternative/competitive DNS. Along with building the government filter and surveillance state, ISPs are not in the business of providing network quality and speeds, they are milking it with data caps and bundles noone wants, they want to be the biggest/baddest ad network/profiling system ever invented, that they of course control 100% over competitors.

From the OP article:

> The blocking is affecting AT&T home Internet customers who use an AT&T gateway. Cloudflare unveiled its DNS service on April 1, and users in DSLReports forum threads almost immediately started complaining that they couldn't access it. One thread began on April 1, within hours of Cloudflare's announcement.

> Cloudflare pitches 1.1.1.1 as a privacy tool that can help deter ISPs from monitoring one's Internet usage. AT&T lobbied against broadband privacy rules last year, and the company used to charge fiber Internet customers extra for privacy. AT&T fiber customers who did not opt in to a traffic scanning system that analyzed Internet usage in order to deliver personalized ads had to pay at least $29 more per month than customers who consented to the scanning.

> AT&T ended the controversial traffic scanning program in September 2016, but it says that it still wants the "flexibility" to expand advertising-focused business models to compete against Facebook, Amazon, and Google.

By allowing ISPs to remove net neutrality and privacy protections, we've emboldened network provider monopolies to be even bigger and ultimately it will harm internet freedom and competitive business on top of the network. Events like this will happen more and more as they are empowered more and more as they pull away from being privacy protected utilities, which they are but don't want to be.
The code used by ads would still need to be hosted on third parties servers, because ad servers can't trust sites owners to host the ad code because of cheating. So blocking advertisers hosts could still work even if ads use canvas and wasm.
This, and it would also need to be 100% frictionless.

I'm giving money to The Guardian to support their good journalism, but I still get the nag popups to give them money because I'm not signed in (and I'm certainly not going to enable persistent cookies for the site and then sign in across all the devices I use).
> They have just given up knowing how to setup and configure physical servers.

Or they know how complex and error-prone it can be, and decided to spend their time on other things.

It’s good to know how that stuff works, how to configure a LB, install nginx, rack a server... the way being able to do long divisions by hand is good to know. But when you’re crunching numbers all day, it’s easier to use a calculator.
I recently did an evaluation of Valhalla, ORSM, and Graphhopper for routing based on openstreetmap data.

Valhalla was nice in that it could preprocess and serve results with only a few GB of RAM, but it could only handle <1rps as the end was more than a few miles from the start since it doesn’t use contraction hierarchies.

OSRM was super fast, especially for very short routes (>1k rps on a single core) but it requires 300+GB of RAM to preprocess the world and 64GB of RAM to serve direction requests which gets a bit too expensive for me.

Graphhopper was nearly as fast as OSRM for short routes, but just as fast for longer routes. It can preprocess the world with only 64GB of RAM, and can serve direction requests happily on machine with only 16GB of RAM.

I ended up going with Graphhopper, but still may need to shut down my site...
The other mind-boggling info about the project is that they needed copper for the Y-12 electromagnetic separation magnets. But because there was a war on, they couldn't get it. So they went to the US Treasury and borrowed 14,700 tons of silver.

Daniel Bell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, supposedly said:

"Young man, you may think of silver in tons, but the Treasury will always think of silver in Troy Ounces"

(turned out to be 400 million Troy Ounces)

https://phys.org/news/2010-01-silver-crucial-wwii.html
It's an IDE. Every language for every platform has different IDEs that people prefer.
> What's the equivalent bank run?

Bitconnect is sure to be one of the first of many examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitconnect
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I think one of the key words in the title is "you". All the stats are fine, but it doesn't say much about what "you" need. This depends on what type of person you are, what type of skills you have and lack, how much you know about the industry you are in, what type of business you are starting, how good your network is, etc. I think the stats are nice to have, but the most important thing is being self-aware and knowing what is best for you.
I've been thinking about this a lot - binary interfaces.

We have this problem of one standard binary interface, the C ABI. It is the only standard binary interface. If I want to write a library that can be used by any language, I have to export a C interface.

There have been solutions, such as Corba and COM, but cross language support never really took off. We end up with ports of libraries. There are tons of libraries ported between C++, Java, C#, etc. All because they live in their own world. Using a C++ library in C# requires exporting a C interface and then hand wrapping the library with pinvoke.

Before I read about GraalVM I was under the impression that WebAssembly would accomplish this.
I feel similarly about Monty Hall. I literally just made a spreadsheet of all the possible outcomes, and sure enough, switching leads to winning 2/3 of the time. Even though I can see the indisputable data in front of my eyes, my brain just won't fully accept it. Looking at it, I realized an interesting little wrinkle that I think might have to do with the problem's psychological quirkiness in some way I can't fully articulate: When you stay you win 1/3 of the time. When you switch, you win 2/3 of the time. BUT if you randomly pick between staying and switching, you win 50% of the time because (1/2)(1/3) + (1/2)(2/3) = 1/6 + 2/6 = 3/6. There is a correct-ish-ness to the intuitive answer of 50%...it's just not...actually correct.
Well, you know, if it was less verbose and got to the point a bit quicker I might not have lost interest and skimmed everything after paragraph two.

I may as well say, "If you want me to read the whole article, please write cogently and engagingly at least".
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03590

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"We show how a quantum computer can be employed to elucidate reaction mechanisms in complex chemical systems, using the open problem of biological nitrogen fixation in nitrogenase as an example. We discuss how quantum computers can augment classical-computer simulations for such problems, to significantly increase their accuracy and enable hitherto intractable simulations. Detailed resource estimates show that, even when taking into account the substantial overhead of quantum error correction, and the need to compile into discrete gate sets, the necessary computations can be performed in reasonable time on small quantum computers. This demonstrates that quantum computers will realistically be able to tackle important problems in chemistry that are both scientifically and economically significant."
Yes, and it uses less memory.

I intentionally kept the "Acceptable Ads" feature on for a long time because I am willing to support publishers (just not willing to manually sort the good from the bad), but since they decided that Taboola is a-ok, I turned it off, and at that point, there was no reason to use ABP vs. uBlock.
All of the brightest minds were building Facebook ;)
Looking at the benefits is the wrong way to solve a problem because it prioritizes the wrong thing: ends become an excuse for bad means.
Maybe I should tell that to the guys that have paid my bills for the last 4 years.
I use a Google Voice number for this task. To me it seems more secure, and privacy of carrier SMS vs. GV is debatable. It's also "portable" so I can switch carriers and a phone's actual number without switching my 2FA phone number. I'd be interested in hearing what other people think about this.
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It's a competition, people aren't doing it for the prizes.
That's why we have permission APIs at the OS level. Better than nothing. Also you say you only trust foss software to not only not maliciously spy on you but too keep your data secure. Do you really check the code for security flaws or run automated analysis tools on it?
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Let's say it's ~2 million every 5 years. That might sound like a lot of money, but it's couch cushion level of expenditure for a large organization. YC easily extracts enough value to keep it running.

Like Wikipedia the vast majority of value is from free content. That trend continues across my browsing habits. I need to use an ad blocker because I frankly don't see a lot of them.
I'm not saying it's reasonable thinking, but I've also heard many Europeans (including me) putting this as another "why would I visit the US?" point.
Agreed. Spyder is decent. I'm a huge fan of JupyterLab these days.
Here is a more recent one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7yIUkP5LiQ
> Social work, infrastructure repairs, mental health services.

But not everyone is suited for that work, much less qualified to perform those services, and perhaps most importantly, not everyone WANTS to.

Raise the salaries for those professions and more might, and of course with a UBI people are less incentivized by earnings to get into a specific job.
Zero. All the Bitcoin network can do is compute SHA-256 hashes. It's literally useless for anything else.
> which meant that it would have been straightforward for China to (globally!) freeze a Bitcoin address

No. It's not like all the Chinese miners are controlled by the government. It's not some monolithic agency.

And then, there are many other coins.
My wife and I both have PhDs in electronics (her’s was 50% neuroscience) I have run a successful business for 7 years and she works for a high end car manufacturer in electrical design as a manager, both are native UK.

We can get a permenant residency Canada visa straight off the bat without a job offer (quicker with a job offer though granted).

We can’t work out how to get a US visa for love nor money and have basically given up thinking about it.

Canada certainly seems easier from where we are.
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