skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 2015 commentary on this issue: https://www.ft.com/content/cfb6975d-4503-3fb5-85f4-5c11c142b...

The three different cash flow calculations in 2012-2015 were $4.4bn (0.4+2+2), $1.7bn (-0.1+1.3+0.5) and -$2.4bn (-0.4+0.2-2.2).

As forecasted, the divergence of these metrics has continued.
> ... IAU's goofy decision to demote Pluto

I see what you did there.
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
Well, good management books do serve a purpose: they provide you templates/mental models to reason critically from. Like anything else, you have to sift through the chaff and translate/apply to your own circumstances, but they can provide incredible leverage.

Most new managers have no idea what has been done before so they make all kinds of expensive and unnecessary mistakes. Having mentors in senior management can help moderate this, but that is assuming the mentors are themselves knowledgeable, which often isn't the case, especially at large corporations with many layers of management.

This is where understanding the management literature really helps. Reading any great book (e.g. Shakespeare) is like spending a few hours picking the brains of an incredible mind that you would otherwise have no direct access to.

Some years ago, I was at a company in a provincial part of the country where good management practices weren't widely known. There was a lack of intellectual curiosity about management within the company, so I had to look elsewhere. Books helped me gain leverage over managers who have managed for years but never thought to look outside their enclaves. I had the opportunity to try things out and refine in a small-scale setting. I've moved on since, but the knowledge I acquired during those wilderness years continues to be useful and practical in much larger scale setting.
Do you know anything at all of the history of Northern Ireland? It turns out that the government can shoot back too.
Huh?

Again: Proof has to be provided by the one making the extraordinary claims.

The statement that requires proof is the one that dog evolution was caused by desires of any one in particular, especially "hopes to integrate with us" of wolves.

That statement was made by anonytrary, not by me.
Removing the insult of "dumb" users vs "smart" users, gambling addiction is an interesting parallel since it's not something that everyone is equally prone to. Lots of people out there who can play poker, slots, blackjack, whatever, and not damage their life as a result.

So I'll keep my ability to pick and choose how "smart" my phone is. I think there's room for people to advertise that no, you don't lose much if you turn off notifications for Facebook or whatever, but I don't want Apple to change anything.
Yes! Like `mosh` for your VPN. Pretty cool.
I dropped out of high school to take a web dev job at a local firm. If we're being honest, I've always had a little weakly-repressed pride over the fact. When people ask me about education, beyond just stating that I haven't gone to college, I usually mention that I dropped out of high school.

Recently, a friend suggested that I avoid mentioning this to prevent stigmatization. I realize now there are probably a bunch of people who think badly of me for it, much to my bemusement. Until my friend mentioned it, it hadn't crossed my mind that anyone would interpret that as "this slob couldn't even finish high school".
You're not likely to run multiple threads in NodeJS.

Nodejs itself won't but libuv will.
Only if you change the semantics of the language (e.g. raise an exception if you pass in a value of the wrong type). Otherwise, the type hints probably aren't super useful because the language doesn't actually enforce them.

Edit: That said, if the compiler can determine with certainty that the type signature is always obeyed, then yes, you could apply optimizations to remove a lot of the runtime overhead. I imagine this would be rather difficult to do unless you have type annotations for all (or the vast majority) of your code, including third-party libraries.
I get your point, too, but will challenge the assumption that things need to be insecure in order to operate on an isolated LAN. It's a myth. TLS works just fine if you provision the peers with certificates. Not global TLS certs, just ones you generate for the LAN. There are other ways to do security if TLS is not what you're looking for. The problem is these options aren't easily accessible to developers so the path of least resistance is to use internet security.
Part of me wonders if the parent poster has an inexpensive data plan for the tablet? I'd be tempted to do something like that, actually.
There's plenty of rural areas even today where people assume the area code, and act surprised when someone gives them a different one.
> I had very little trouble with the "learning curve hell" that I hear associated with the language

Dude, you're doing a thesis in computer science. Of course it's easy for you.
https://www.blocked.org.uk/ lists blocked sites and can test URLs of your choice on most(all?) of the major ISPs.
The real competitor, which the article doesn't talk about is https://www.zerotier.com/ . Is is also open-source and have been available on macOS, iPhone, Android, Windows on top of Linux for many months now. It is easy to install and use. Deals with punching NAT and does smart routing when both devices are on the same network.

I don't know how well it compares in terms of performance and crypto, it would be nice to know.
To be fair YouTube has been primarily a music streaming service for years. All of the top viewed videos are music, this mostly adds an alternate UI.
Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo?
I've done this in the past, and I would pull up the route in Maps on the tablet and then take it with me. But that doesn't handle getting lost, or last minute detours, etc.

Seems like keeping an iPad with cellular data around would be a good solution, but it starts to risk being "too good."
It's that whole "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" thing. Jobs had reached the "laugh" point by then

15 yeas ago, the default position of the space launch industry was to ignore Elon Musk. He could barely get a laugh. 10 years ago, the industry was starting to laugh. Unfortunately they were still laughing 5 years ago, at his ridiculous self-landing rockets -- as if that would ever be a thing -- And now he has, for all intents and purposes, won. That's just the life-cycle for this kind of thing.

Of course worth nothing that 99% of the time the Status Quo laughs at someone or something, it's because that someone or something will never amount to beans. Ridicule is a universal feature of disruptive innovation -- if nobody is ignoring or ridiculing you, you're definitely not being disruptive -- but it correlates much more strongly to failure than to success.
A grocery chain near me tried the mobile hand-scanner concept over a decade ago. The trial stores quietly cancelled the program about a year later. I asked the manager and he said the scanner-enabled stores were showing higher theft rates.

The store had a weak mechanism in place to prevent theft (random 'audits' by cashiers to match your cart to the receipt), but it was obvious there were way too many ways to game the system.

Self-checkout must be doing okay. The Target I frequent just remodeled and tripled the number of machines.
Would that result in significantly faster page speeds if you switch from Bootstrap?
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Is anyone using a cloud IDE for java/ python development? What's your review of it?
There were recent examples of this in the US: armed confrontations with government in which the civilians were branded as unstable extremists. The stand-off led to a court case in which it turns out that yes, the government had been in the wrong the whole time.

I think the gun control debate is interesting for a different reason than guns-preventing-tyranny, though: in the UK you see the police tweeting to brag about finding the kind of knives you eat with and still struggling with very high murder rates. In the US there are politicians who openly admit that their gun control proposal will do nothing and is largely symbolic, but they still think they're justified in simply banning the ownership of certain items with no compensation to their legal owners. Even if that's not getting rid of the means of opposing tyranny... isn't that already tyranny? There's a big difference between a blanket, retro-active ban and licensing / regulating / buying-back but that seems largely lost in the other ideological aspects of the debate.
I'm interested in doing something similar. Does the tablet have cell? What do do you when out and about, away from wifi, and need something? How do you carry the tablet around?
Yeah? Is that true? Can the government capriciously harm someone's reputation with no legal basis? I doubt that. At the very least, it's a civil matter.
Well, it is a fun name.

Do you plan to support this down the line? I feel like compilers that compile down to Rust could become really good tools depending on how the popularity of the language goes.
> I spoke to God, Satan and various other imaginary beings

Do you still vividly remember these "meetings"?

Would you be able to describe how these God/Satan/etc. look like?
When my Nexus 5 dies, I plan on going back to my old Sony-Ericsson feature phone. Just before I retired it I put in a bigger battery. I can fit 3 of them in any pocket I care to choose. It ran 2 weeks on Standby before giving up the ghost. As for functionality. I'm old. Voice/Text/Camera. I've gone for years and years without having a data plan. I typically xfer about 10 texts a month and I might get 1 or two voice calls. Which leads to my next point; I even managed to get rid of my cell plan. I ported my number to my employers plan, he covers it all. I've got unlimited everything on the corporate account. So I save about $500/yr. Do you think I'm gonna invest double that in a new phone? Pfft.

Different strokes for different folks, but I wouldn't miss it at all.
Actually most of the pressure has been social, i.e. peer pressure. "Why aren't you using this app? How can I reach you?" etc. Just have to say no and stick to your own plan.
I've done exactly the same move 9 months ago. Nokia 3310 and carry an ipad+data if I'm on the move for a few days.

My car has a builtin GPS. Navigation has been an issue only once when joining a friend to a restaurant on foot, believe it or not I asked my way around and found the place.
See also RFC 7258, “Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack”

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
For those who want their phone to respect them, while still maintaining smart functionality, I recommend LineageOS, it's a distribution of android without all the google's proprietary crap.
That's because residency programs are completely messed up.

But this is just one of the many reasons for why medical care is so expensive in the US.
Fail-open security is useless against any actual attack. The attacker would just block the TLS connection then intercept the resulting plain HTTP request.

Google already defaults to linking HTTPS versions of pages in its search results, which is a much better solution IMO. (Attacker can't intercept the connection to Google because of HSTS, and can't intercept the connection to the site you visit because it's a direct HTTPS link.)
Drive around lost, unwilling to ask for directions?
Get lost and have to stop/call for directions?

Abandoning modern technology doesn't seem like the better alternative in this case.
I've sent feedback to a couple dozen sites over this. Most were government website (internal military sites are the worst) but when various financial institutions started updating their policies they forcing this silliness.

When they don't allow spaces in passwords either, I worry.
Yeah, there are some stipulations. Like, you have to go to an in state school. You do give up a significant chunk of your weekends and summers. I was a year behind all of my peers due to training.

But to have almost zero debt is worth it. More people should consider it.
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Having the data on a hard drive or tape somewhere is not the same as someone looking at it or recognizing it for what it is.

Heck, someone just looked at 20-year-old Voyager data to find evidence that it flew through plumes of water on Europa.

The mind can only boggle at the sheer magnitude of cosmological data floating around the world right now.
Google maps has really been disappointing me lately. Specifically it's not showing all my markers. So I go somewhere and try to find some restaurant I know I marked but there are no markers on the map. If I'm lucky and I generally remember where it was I can try clicking on restaurants. If I happen to find it the info shows that it's still marked but no mark appears on the maps.

This is seriously scary. I get there is probably some limit on the number of markers they want to show but not showing some of the markers is like losing part of me memory. Imagine if they started not showing contacts in your contact list or not showing emails in gmail.

Hoping they fix it even if it requires some new UX. I guess I was hoping they'd at least load the markers spatially so that as I zoomed in they'd pull in the markers for that area but apparently that's not what's happening ATM.
I think you are correct, but that's just part of the problem that we've been convinced to attribute guilt even in the absence of proof, on the state's say-so alone.

We need instead to presume that everybody who is arrested (and whose mugshot is posted) is innocent unless compelling evidence, based on sworn testimony, is presented.

I don't see how adding secrecy is a solution to extrajudicial punishment.
Nokia has dumb-ish phones which can act as wifi hotspots (e.g. the 8110 4G which runs KaiOS). So an alternative would be that + tablet, if you really need to you turn on the hotspot and can connect to the net.
The action alone is not what is judged. It is action and intent.
I’ve also been searching for something like this, wondering if it could be applied to horse racing simulation.
From an email we got, I don't think this assertion is true, and it breaks at least two HN guidelines to post like this: the one about assuming good faith, and the one about not insinuating astroturfing or shillage.

Could you please refresh your memory of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them in the future? Even if you don't like an article, it's pretty mean to greet a new user with hostility. The cost of being wrong is much higher than the benefit of being right—hence "assume good faith".
It's a good thing that this scheme is 100% secure against someone reselling these online for bitcoin.
These are stunning. I'd only seen very blurry or grainy photos of the eruption from some of these times and angles. It also really hammers home how dangerous Mt. Rainier is. The volcanos in the area are very active on a geological time frame, and when they erupt it's generally an explosion (Crater lake used to be 12,000ft high Mt Mazama). Rainier is covered in glacial ice, and its proximity to populated areas increases the chance of devastating lahars for the entire Duwamish Valley. It's sad to know that we'll probably have even higher quality footage of this kind of event in my lifetime.
Platform for mobile networks would bring services up to speeds of 100 Gbps
> It's not "maths" like arithmentic but it's "maths" like graph theory

It's less like graph theory and more like inversion of control: an
architecture, not a set of theorems and their proofs. Even Burgess' own book
you mentioned is nothing like a mathematical handbook.

I'm a great fan of Mark Burgess and his promise theory, but calling it
a mathematical theory or a mathematical domain is simply incorrect.
Oliver Cromwell would like a word: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

(There have been plenty of other revolutions and uprisings, though most were either elite coups or unsuccessful).
ParcelJs: How simple really is it?
After reading this post a couple hours ago, I was able to play around with LocationSmart's API. Indeed seems quite powerful/comprenhensive. As of an hour or so, they took down their try/demo webpage and related open API.
I match the model, not the price. I don't think you can make a profit from people who pay and don't use. Such people typically don't subscribe.

Generally, the project is none-free and low-margin and that is what makes it interesting. There are plenty of dead and alive open source projects offering comments which you can use.
The MIC and Intelligence apparatus are here to stay. They are overwhelmingly bipartisan. It would be "Anti-American" to not avow complete support.
So I wrote my first article around ParcelJS as an alternative to Webpack.
I'm curious what you all think of GCP Console?
I have strongly considered this. I'm on a Windows Mobile device right now, and as long as security updates keep coming monthly, I'll stay here, but eventually I am going to need a new solution.

Android is an unacceptable security risk, and I am not super fond of Apple or their limits. I was considering switching wholly to an LTE-enabled Windows tablet (I have a Surface, but I've been eyeing a Latitude) and then just getting a dumbphone for phone calls and texts.

As a Windows Mobile user, I've actually found not having the latest of every app available on my phone kind of refreshing. Other people seem annoyed I can't join them on the latest app, but it's a perfect excuse not to download said app.
Isn't this covered under CPNI [1]? Something that consumers can opt out?

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Customer_proprietary_network_inf...
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There are only 30 vet schools in the United States. It is in many respects harder to get into than vet school.

Tuition is very expensive. I don't know how your sister graduated with $150k in debt. She was for sure in-state. Was her undergrad paid for entirely by parents or scholarship?

According to this one, vets are higher than farmers:

https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/01/06/top-11-professions-...

But yeah, I don't know how that's divided among the different kinds of vets.
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I have a prepaid metered data plan on the tablet, and I carefully whitelisted applications for cellular data use. I use navigation with offline maps when possible, and chat apps set to only push text. Most everything else runs wifi-only.
No they'll have to make do with the thousands of sites outside the small group of blocked sites.
Disabling background play in the YouTube app is driven from the licensing deals they have with record labels. If they don't (make a reasonable attempt to) show the ads they don't have permission to show the video/play the music.

I suspect they could theoretically allow background play for other content but that would be confusing to users.
And Digital Ocean IPv6 is broken as well. My droplet has a /64, but there's only a /124 back to my droplet.

Discussion here

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
Nicely done. Next step, remove cash to trace all the porn pass purchases. Although I suspect most people don't even care and will use their debit card already.
The article uses the word "phone" about 40 times.
Based on my own usage patterns, I don't even have a phone. I have a portable computer. I happen to use it to make phone calls a few times every week. I use my desktop to make video calls a few times a month, but I don't call that a phone.

We all know a smartphone is a computer, and I'm not trying to be pedantic about the words we use, but I think our insistence that these devices are "phones" is skewing the conversation. We keep complaining about our phones taking up too much of our time, or distracting us, or manipulating us. None of our phones are doing any of those things. But it turns out that having an internet-enabled computer in your pocket at all times can be very distracting. Are we really surprised?
You can also uninstall apps/turn off their data. A smart phone can be dumbed down.
Still on Windows Phone. Their inability to create a 3rd mobile ecosystem gives me all the smart features I want without the cost of apple or the dark patterns of android. Not that they didn't try...
I know it won't last forever, but I'll enjoy it while I can.
With all due respect, you are indoctrinated into a culture of lies meant to confuse you into thinking you aren't special, likely to prevent you from negotiating or escaping.

We can't expect everyone to be athletes or bodybuilders. Not everything is a test of will.
Planned supercomputer would be 10 times faster than today's No 1
> I mean in the interests of their constituents.

Constituents have different interests. Sometimes diametrically different.

> but the majority of people certainly favour NN.

The majority of the people favor a vague description of NN in the form of "do you want to access sites for free". The majority of the people has no opinion about the specific NN regulations being discussed since they don't have a slightest idea what these regulations are and how they work and what exactly changed in 2015 and 2018. It's fine to favor this specific regulation, but claiming "the majority supports it" as an argument is bullshit, the majority has no idea what it is about. It's like asking people "would you like to be murdered?" and presenting the results as support for specific crime reform or gun control proposal. This can't be taken seriously.

> Except it's not random, as I explained.

You "explained" that everybody who has technical knowledge would support NN, if only those pesky lobbyists didn't meddle. It is an unsupported statement based on fallacious premises and so far the only factual support is the abovementioned unserious polls. Not enough by far.
Spend a few minutes looking at a map before the trip?
"They laughed at Einstein...but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
And thus the porn star party came to rule Britain for the next hundred years.
It's slightly curious to see one of these for a (to my best understanding) not particularly politicised as of yet topic, but maybe it is worth reasserting that "I anticipated your argument and put it on a bingo board!" is not a useful or productive counterargument. (cf. Scott Alexander's old post on this tactic in the culture war context: https://web.archive.org/web/20180311015052/https://squid314....)
This might help https://www.slant.co/topics/713/~best-cloud-ides
Doesn't it mean you now have two devices to carry around instead of one? I used to have one regular phone for calls, SMS, and one iPod for calendars, notes, etc. Now I have two in one in my smartphone which I find way more convenient. Charging's not an issue and if I want to stay focused I just turn it off.
I recommend also "The Tyranny of Metrics" by Jerry Z. Muller [1] for a balance.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36644895-the-tyranny-of-...
First of all, not having a GPS does not automatically imply getting lost. People used to be able to navigate just fine most of the time before that technology was available.

And then, what's wrong with asking someone for directions? I've been asked many times in the olden days and never once was it an unpleasant experience.
Biggest thing for me keeping a smart phone is the hi-res camera ability. I'm not carrying a separate camera around

Second would be Spotify, and Podcasts.
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I read that some companies offer fruits and coffee all day in the office as benefits!
This is commonplace in astronomy, a lot of discoveries come about from analyzing old data. You are putting a bizarre tom clancy spin on this for no reason whatsoever.
If median vet pay is $89k, then by definition much less than half of vets are making 100k.

So, how is it "easy" to make 100k+?
Yes, exactly. A small amount of prepaid data, which does not expire.