skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, it's impossible to capture all the variables, but in quantifying the good we do, we value all lives the same, and strive to maximize the good we do.

If the EA movement forces big charities to focus a bit more on bang for buck, then that's a win. Perfect efficiency will never be possible anyways.
I was thinking of the 2008 financial crises. Rather than nationalize banks there was a bailout. In 911 there was no nationalization of airports or airlines just more money to set up security theatre. I suppose it could be argued that the DHS personnel are a nationalized rent a cop operation but that sems like its something new not something appropriated
That's where I am too. I mean, war stuff is bad, it kills people, and the US certainly isn't 100% trustworthy.

At the same time... there's a real don't-rock-the-boat problem here. The last 3/4 of a century of US military dominance has been notable for a decrease in military/para-military violence on an order that humanity literally has never seen. It's not zero for sure, it's not always just, we may not always be the good guys, but seriously: if you are a random person anywhere in the world, you are vastly less likely to be killed by someone's bullet than you were pre-WW2. And that's important.

A world without a dominant US military is a world with fewer US-driven injustices. That doesn't seem like a good bet to be a "better world", though.
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Or Google. At least Oracle would keep its dead corpse alive while it was still producing revenue.
Plenty of wind at night...
Has Google ever killed an acquisition or product of Github's scale? Most products that come to mind were niche things like iGoogle, or things that got deprecated/integrated into other products, e.g. Buzz, Wave, Picasa

Google Reader is the product that seems to leave the most bitterness, but that too seems to have been relatively niche.

Google killed Google Code in 2016 and moved much of their code base to Github. Maybe they'll rebrand Github back to "Code", but outright killing it seems unlikely.
Can't wait for future nightmare letters coming from Saudi Arabia when they find moral indecency on my web site or China finding imperialist propaganda that needs addressing. This will be used as a precedent for every other control freak pushing their values onto us. What happened to free and open internet?
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Those ads area in Chicago too.
This would be a privacy option for Firefox, not the default. But yes, Tor introduces latency and reduces bandwidth. For traffic to the open Internet, traffic uses circuits through three relays: entry guard, middle and exit. So there are four hops between users and websites, instead of one. The Earth's circumference is about 40 thousand km. So the longest path is arguably ~20 thousand km. And rtt for that would be about 300-500 msec, according to my measurements.[0] It's only ~130 msec at lightspeed, but there are some copper links, plus switching time and caching.

So with four hops, rtt would at most be 1200-2000 msec, if every hop were the maximum length. In practice, rtt for Tor is at most half that, and often even less. But latency is actually good if your goal is anonymity. Because it reduces the accuracy of traffic analysis.

With traditional onion sites, there are two three-relay circuits, one for the user and one for the site, plus a rendezvous relay. So rtt is much greater. However, sites can opt for one-relay circuits, sacrificing anonymity, so overall rtt isn't that bad.

Bandwidth is also reduced with Tor. Increased latency is part of that. But also, many relays have low-bandwidth uplinks, especially ones that people run at home. The Tor client does pick faster relays, but there's a tradeoff, in that doing so reduces anonymity. Increased investment in high-bandwidth relays would help a lot.

Also, with more relays, it would be workable to implement multipath circuits. Especially for onion sites, where precious exit relays aren't needed. Using MPTCP, I managed ~50 Mbps throughput for bbcp transfers between onion sites (with gigabit uplinks).[1] I was getting ~36 subflows per tcp connection.

0) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/how-to-verify-physical-l...

1) https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUDV2KHrAgs84oUc7z9zQmZ3whx1NB6YDPv8ZR...
Apple approves Telegram iOS for global release
ADTs (Algebraic Data Types) in Haskell
The 4% withdrawal rate has been challenged, and one shouldn't use it as a guaranteed safe rate. It included massive bull runs that may not be repeated going forward. A lot of research has predicted lower real rates of return (around 4% average) in the next date.
I wish reminder alerts were triggered at the correct time or as soon as my Mac wakes from sleep, not hours later or even on the next day.
Oh, I know what it was about. I was just pointing out that Canada is clearly not a "shithole country" and that the current US attitude towards our long-time allies everywhere makes us the shithole country.
There’s no such thing as a ‘detox’ – so let’s ban the word
Linux Fu: Counter Rotate Keys
Yep, and vaccines are bad for you and the earth is flat...
For what it's worth the aluminum unibody form factor for the macbook pro is its absolute most unique selling point for me.

It keeps the body light, rigid, and cool. No plastic vents to form cracks. No flex when I hold it from a corner. No sweaty palms from the warm plastic. No seams around the screen to collect dust.

Nothing I've seen comes close. If it wasn't a work machine I'd throw Ubuntu or Arch over it in a heartbeat. Mac OS isn't bad, it's just not close a good linux set up.
Sounds like the issue might have been confusion with the UI. groups.google.com has a lot of settings and it can be really confusing to know how to set up a group that functions in a particular way (i.e. receive email from outside the domain). G Suite admin has less settings but from what I've heard from customers it doesn't expose enough of them so they end up having to go to groups.google.com anyway.

I think some of the updates we're working on will help.
Tesla entertained this for a while. The investments in building relatively costly (initial+maintenance) swapping stations plus the capital tied in replacement batteries makes this option less attractive when you compare to their supercharger station.
Great! Have some WINE.
IIRC, internally Microsoft views GNU/Linux and GitHub as Big Satan and Little Satan, respectively.
Likely, the cabal of employees will continue to feel smug that they took the moral high ground by refusing to contribute to the national defense.
Google probably see that many people are searching on Google for such information and they plan to steal the users from current sites. I wonder if this is Google's new growth strategy - find out what is hot by looking at what people are searching for, then try to enter that market.
I lived through the nineties as well, that doesn't mean I think everything that was amazing back then still is amazing today nor that everything that sucked back then still sucks today...

I think the Microsoft of today is very different from the Microsoft of the nineties.

Personally I'm not so much worried about Microsoft going back to Microsoft'95 but more about the fact that they, like most (all?) other big tech companies, collect more and more data and integrate more and more tightly into our lives. Still I feel that currently Facebook, Google and Amazon are all scarier in that respect.
Scientists create the first 3D-printed human corneas
The distinction seems to be that one bothers you more. The car, even if it is driven completely legally and comes to a complete stop always, is still creating more negative externalities than the bike, as long as the rider is paying attention.
I'm curious, for what reasons do you prefer Ubuntu over Debian? Now that Ubuntu dropped Unity and began defaulting to GNOME 3 it's even closer to Debian.

The things they change from Debian are usually things I disapprove of, such as communicating with proprietary services. I think it also tracks user analytics by default, unlike Debian which shows you a modal during installation asking for permission to regularly keep track of your installed packages; and they set the default value to "disabled".
> (not sure if it's a balance issue, or the rider is trying to avoid hitting road imperfections with those tiny 4" wheels)

Yes.

Source: was riding on a scooter to work for a couple of years. If wheels are made of plastic instead of rubber and air, you can feel every tooth filling on the smallest unevenness.
That said, plenty of providers use the list of tor relays (which is also public) to block traffic.

Sites such as https://www.dan.me.uk/dnsbl then help people do this.

That site in particular may "warn":

> This DNS blacklist contains ALL tor nodes (entry, transit and exit nodes) - think carefully before choosing to use this list for blocking purposes.

but anyone who doesn't understand tor simply won't understand the decision and choose ALL.

Running a relay on your own address isn't sensible because of this. Nevermind an exit node.
Thank you! Will try that out
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Even if the buses are not strictly profitable, buses are usually diesel powered and probably contribute quite a bit to smog-forming emissions. So electric buses have the benefit of removing (or relocating) those emissions, which is a public benefit.
No, IPSec tunnels to remote headquarters have indistinguishable latency impacts for normal users browsing (<150ms). The bad latency is because of congestion, not crypto and multiple hops.
>really interesting AI applications
The AI academics and talented developers probably would find other domains more interesting then satellite surveillance and droning people.
That is a great opinion and I can do that too!!

I seriously doubt the majority of Google Employees would support defense contracting.
Haha yeah. The scramble for “who has cash” was entertaining
Most of those are products. Of the services you mentioned, I would only call Hotmail a success in the sense that there wasn’t a net detriment to users because of the purchase.
In a lot of these cases the shipping itself is a large profit center. As actual shipping is usually lower.
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Because you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The SEC is not a court of law.
Because it makes the bezel thicker than he wants.
India? Oh boy, as if there wasn't enough neighborhood gossip going on there, now it's going online.
I remember reading years ago about a neat idea: airplane seats where the reclining control causes the seat pan to slide forward instead of the back leaning back, so that if you'd like to recline it's your knees that get smashed.

What ever happened to that? I've never seen it implemented anywhere.
For the last one: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb736149.aspx

And that’s from when they weren’t allowed to use BSD or Linux internally and Windows Server was rudimentary. Microsoft would have no problem migrating Github to Azure quickly.
If Google deprecates something = HN complains they deprecate everything
If Google launches something = HN complains they deprecate everything
I Google migrates, renames, merges, spins off, sells = HN complains they deprecate everything

Google Reader was 5 years ago... what other example is there of a successful or even well-liked product that was killed, and not simply renamed or migrated? Picasa albums made it to Google Photos, for example. Google Talk became Hangouts. Where exactly does this meme come from? What product are you mourning that you actually used? Buzz? Wave?
Windows now has Linux support built-in. No VMs or dual-booting needed. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
This seems to be a solid rocket booster with moving parts. Isn't that the worst of both worlds? Lower ISP than liquid fuelled rockets due to the propellant choices and higher manufacturing complexity than a solid rocket booster...
My solution would be self-driving battery extension packs
that are placed on the side of the road and can follow/recharge (like Aerial refueling) an EV that needs an extension without any halting of the car needed.
This seems to have changed in the other direction. While I used to have flat, non-embossed cards in the past, all my cards today are embossed. That's despite never having a chance to make use of the embossing.
I think I've seen what you're talking about, but only on rare occasions. I would open a PDF in Preview and it would be strangely blurry. I would be wondering about the document itself when, as I investigated, I would do something that caused a sudden snap to sharpness. Closing and reopening would not reproduce it, and it happened so rarely and hasn't happened for so long that I forgot about it. I can imagine, though, that if it somehow got stuck in that mode, it would be infuriating.
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The ability to synthesize compounds is often lost when those compounds abound in the organism's environment because synthesis consumes energy and an organism's energy budget is limited.

Examples from the animal kingdom include frugivorous humans lacking the ability to synthesize vitamin C, and cats lacking the ability to synthesize taurine.
Seriously, all electricity could come from burning arsenic, and it would still not matter.

There are a few things in play here:

1. Big power plants are WAY more efficient than wherever tiny thing you have under the hood, I don't care if it is a V8.
2. Power plants are usually located away from population centers. This means less health problems in the population.
3. Once you replace the power plants, the ENTIRE CAR FLEET gets an automatic update. It is easier to replace power plants, than to replace hundreds of millions of cars.
4. Electric car engines are incredibly efficient.
5. All those cars idling in traffic jams are not helping anyone.
6. 30% != 100%. It does not follow that they are all "methane powered". By your own admission, 30% are.
7. You are not burning fuel trying to extract, refine and transport fuels. Electricity transportation is everywhere and doesn't require trucks or pipelines.
8. EVs don't require oil changes. This is another big pollution source that's often not remembered.
I see from a different branch of this thread that the other answer is "XMPP support for Hangouts," which seems like a pretty specific feature to carry all this water.
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This already happens. Russia sent notices to GitHub about certain documents that were hosted there. China and Saudi Arabia just straight up block things they don’t like.
>it is often a very vocal minority that dominates the discussion

do you suppose the decision to support a military project was made by a large majority before? Committed minorities almost always steer decision-making within business ventures.

By framing this as a 'moral crusade' you're suggesting that there is an asymmetry here while there is not, participating in projects that can be used for purposes of war is no amoral default position. The stronger minority simply won.

Or framing it in another way, suppose Google would hold an employee vote tomorrow, do you think this would change the outcome?
List of computing mascots
> TENEX was the first operating system that DEC did for the PDP 10 architecture

No, that's TOPS-10. TENEX was TEN EXtended, the OS BBN did for the PDP-10 they extended to have paged virtual memory. TENEX is an ancestor to TOPS-20, which was a DEC product.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361271

> TENEX is a new time sharing system implemented on a DEC PDP-10 augmented by special paging hardware developed at BBN.

https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex

(Lots more old -10 stuff at the user account, like WAITS and ITS.)
That's forgetting the push for EME as a W3C standard.
I don't think they can, which is why I think companies like Uber are massively overvalued and these stupid food delivery startups are all doomed. But hey, maybe my lack of vision is why I'm a working schmoe and VCs are millionaires.
I tried to look phishtank.com DNS records.

I get the same results using a public resolver and my VPN.

When I try using the ISP directly, I get that:

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> SOA +multiline phishtank.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 49124
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;phishtank.com.	IN SOA

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
manual.zone.	86400 IN SOA manual.zone. manual.zone. (
6325 ; serial
60 ; refresh (1 minute)
60 ; retry (1 minute)
3600000 ; expire (5 weeks 6 days 16 hours)
86400 ; minimum (1 day)
)

When I use the VPN, I get that:

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> SOA +multiline phishtank.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15895
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;phishtank.com.	IN SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
phishtank.com.	881 IN SOA ns-128.awsdns-16.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. (
1 ; serial
7200 ; refresh (2 hours)
900 ; retry (15 minutes)
1209600 ; expire (2 weeks)
86400 ; minimum (1 day)
)

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
phishtank.com.	172781 IN NS ns-1249.awsdns-28.org.
phishtank.com.	172781 IN NS ns-128.awsdns-16.com.
phishtank.com.	172781 IN NS ns-1994.awsdns-57.co.uk.
phishtank.com.	172781 IN NS ns-694.awsdns-22.net.

What is going on with that manual.zone?
>> While these may seem like trivial issues, they actually negatively impact my typing experience to a high degree.

> I don't think these are trivial issues at all

I'm stunned that anyone would actually be OK with "a noticable latency between keypresses" in text-editors.
This might be still a thing if the whole desktop is streamed on a slow network but it shuld be completely unacceptable for normal text-editing.

(Unfortunatly I do have that problem sometimes with emacs (on cygwin) with c++-files that are too large. But I won't dismiss cygwin.)
I won't go somewhere with my EV unless I can get back without charging or there are 2 DC fast-chargers at different installation sites in the area I'm going. 2 chargers in the same parking lot are more likely to be 'down' for the same maintenance issue simultaneously. I still find DC fast-chargers are unreliable compared to gas pumps and there are far fewer of them. Though I will say the Evgo chargers at Whole-Foods/Amazon have been great.

About 1/3 of the time I'm doing this, I end up waiting in line for 20-45 minutes behind someone else anyway before I can start charging. I imagine this will only worsen if more infrastructure isn't built.

My wife and I have 2 vehicles, and only one is EV largely because of this issue. There are too many places I can't go with an EV without significant risk of being stranded. Stranded in this case may mean waiting 4 hours to charge up at the more common Level-2 chargers.
This is pretty neat. It would make staging and reusability a moot point if the entire launch vehicle was an engine attached to an expendable fuel rod with a payload adapter on top. You could recover the engine fairly easily since it's so compact. Not sure about the Isp of polyethylene fuels though.
If a YC company hooked an Arduino with a charging meter mechanism and did some Square/Stripe integration and then deployed them to apartments such that it was an additional source of revenue for the landlord similar to a coin operated washer, there is the potential for some serious adoption.