skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-i... "An unpatched security flaw in Apple’s iTunes software allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users’ computers for more than three years" which sounds serious to me if you're an iTunes user (as I guess many Mac and Windows users are).

But I think the real culprit is that all of the organizations the grandparent poster listed distribute proprietary software which is untrustworthy to begin with. Proprietary malware isn't hard to find (see https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/ for an organized set of links) whether it came with the OS pre-installed on the computer or installed later. So long as it adversely affects the user and leaves the user with no permission to inspect, alter, and share the software (only permission to run the malware) the situation is bad.
Tell me about it! I'm using a 2012 MBP right now, and I love it, except that every 2 - 3 months the hard drive flex cable fails (except for one period where it happened to last 2 years). I'm on my 4th cable, and Apple isn't offering any remedy except "when it breaks again, bring it in again and we'll replace it for free again".

At least the last time I took it in, the guy replaced it on the spot in 15 minutes while I waited. Every other time they've needed to keep the device for a week to replace the cable... I've had a lot of downtime with this machine.
Empty isn't the same as black. Dyson spheres would be emitting lots of infrared radiation.
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Silicon Valley veteran here. Europe does tech, but we Europeans are far more focused on scientific solutions, fintech and sustainability, long term solutions for our continent and the world at large than creating overvalued startups like "Facebook" or "Twitter" whose only sole purpose is to go IPO and generate vast sums of cash for what amounts to little more than a pasttime.

We have lots of small startups and most of those are financed with the founders' own money, in stark contrast to venture capital in the States.

Silicon Valley has such a concentration because of climate and infrastructure. Climate is mild year round and the weather great. This, coupled with venture capital and plentiful job opportunities draws more qualified people.

Unfortunately only a handful of countries in Europe, like Spain and Portugal have that kind of weather, the rest is frigid temperatures during Winters and sweltering heat during Summers. Although Spain has started to pick up momentum in tech startups, it's still at the beginning and the economy there will require at least two more decades to pick up. Then there is Switzerland, a tech startup paradise, but startup companies there are focused on solving scientific problems and fintech.

One of the major differences between Silicon Valley and the European mentality is this: we don't have enough venture capitalists and those that we do have aren't the kind that would invest in companies like "Facebook" or ones that don't have a solid business model to begin with. On top of that, the founders don't want to just get rich overnight, they want their company to be sustainable at least until they're 65 and beyond, and they want the decision making power that a startup under venture capitalists wouldn't have.

In summary: a difference of mentality, and different goals, since the standard of living in Europe is much higher, focus is on different priorities.
The thing is, from my experience, there are start ups and lots of them. But the quality of the work would not be considered good and in many case their stuff is nothing but an unstable crud. Their banners may be taking about data and machine learning but all they have is a simple website that struggles with 10 requests per second.
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I think you misunderstand my point, we're continually revealing tiny fractions of a bit of the internal state = hopefully really tiny fractions, an AES stream doesn't reveal the key, but other places reveal the direct output of the random number generator (TCP sessions are a great example, various nonces), all those tiny fractions can add up, but provided we add entropy faster than we expose all those little bits we're probably OK
Trains are tech. Cities that are liveable are also technology. What does "tech" actually mean? Bloomberg seems to mean it to mean "Internet, shopping, and communication related stuff". There is more to life than that.
Contact from previous job. Before that it was a referral by a relative.
Most of us are wrong about how the world has changed (especially the pessimists)
Microsoft clamps down on sick 'Momo suicide game' in 'Minecraft'
Add lack of 16:10 screen to that. It's getting dumb. Is Apple buying up all laptop screens with this aspect ratio? Also, are non-Apple trackpads getting better?

These two things are the biggest issues every time I ponder moving to Linux (Windows is not an option or I'd look at the Surface alternatives). The P1 does indeed look very interesting otherwise.
Just use multiple attachment points.

I think the problem with the one big weight is that it'd require an extra structure (a gantry) to hold it, whereas this is really simple logistically. Easy to transport and assemble.
Does it matter? My country's economy is trucking on nicely.
And we do tech, ASML for one.
Well one answer to the Fermi paradox is we get wiped out but barring that it seems unlikely we won't reach the stars in millions of years.

And you seem to ignore it, but the other part of the paradox is if we can achieve interstellar travel in millions of years, that's like no time at all on a galactic scale. So it would be a major coincidence if we are within 1 million years of the first.
“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.”
Einstein refused surgery, saying:

"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

He died in Princeton Hospital early the next morning at the age of 76... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Death
Macbooks have basically looked the same since the TiBook days, getting just a bit slimmer and dropping a few ports every revision.

With the 2016+ you got the option of colors, and it continued on its trajectory of slimming and losing ports.
That's awesome! We kindof have a more targeted system (for example, Amber Alerts), but it seems like something very similar.

This makes me wonder if the mobile carriers and phone OS manufacturers could collaborate on a similar type of targeted system. Let's assume that an accredited healthcare provider has an emergent patient. The patient has been identified, and a name of a friend/relative/etc. has been provided, but no contact information is available[0].

In a situation like this, the healthcare provider would provide to the mobile carriers & OS manufacturers the patient's name, the relative's name (with an indicator if spelling is correct or guessed), and the provider's contact info. The carriers/manufacturers could then check their user/subscriber lists for anyone with either a matching or a similar (using something like SOUNDEX) name, building a list of candidate recipients.

The candidate recipients would be notified via a free SMS, push message, or similar. The patient would give explicit permission for this action to be performed, knowing that a limited number of random people would get notified. Finally—and importantly—the provider (and the patient) would not get any information on who (if anyone) was notified. Each candidate recipient would get a unique verification code, which they would provide if they chose to call in. That would reveal the name and contact info of the recipient who is calling in. It may also help prevent multiple unrelated people from calling in (by detecting code reuse).
Same in Switzerland, for contractors (actually more than 150k/year)
Unfortunately that one is dual core. They don't have a quad core laptop in their line up with a full keyboard.
I find the idea that the Chinese wheelbarrow would have been better in the West somewhat suspect.

People are clever everywhere. Such a good idea would have gotten adopted if it were useful.

So, the real question is: Why wasn't it useful in the West?

I suspect the answer is "mud". The West tends to have a lot more continuous rainfall than most of China.
LHC is not the first collider in the world, so results from previous experiments are used to calibrate LHC.
I'm not in the business of defending Facebook, I neither like their business model nor their product...but this is an unreasonable accusation levied against them.

Their business is "I know ABCDEF about people, who would you like me to distribute your content to?"

Distributing content to people along ABCDE and F demographics happens to be legal in almost every case. The exception is specific housing discrimination laws that prevent filtering on ABC, etc.

It is outrageously unreasonable to expect Facebook to be responsible for the specific laws surrounding advertising for their customers. They provide targeted advertising. If their client targets demographics using an advertising strategy that happens to be illegal within their own industry, the responsibility is on the client/landlord, not Facebook. This is very much akin to blaming Microsoft for someone hacking from a Windows PC, or blaming the phonebook for a Chinese person emphasizing cold calls to the "Lee" portion of the book. If their actions are illegal, so be it, but the automatic assumption that the platform is responsible for the content that their users produce is fundamentally flawed.
Hard to scale them though. And they are not uniform/standardized.
Becoming a millionaire is harder, yes, but so is also crash down to poverty. Safety nets such as cheap/free education, free healthcare, public retirement funds, more protective labor laws and such make it easier for everybody to avoid falling and/or getting out of poverty when times are bad. Your example of putting 3-4 months of US paychecks only work if you get paid a lot already, but not if you're poor or have high expenses (kids through college, medical costs). The social agreement in Europe appears to be that it is more depressing to see people losing everything to "market forces", and that letting people become millionaires in years is not a priority at all.
Not sure where you've been looking, but this is not my experience at all here in Berlin. You can't generalise from a few crap startups (which exist everywhere, btw) to the entire ecosystem.
The problem is the way the labor market works, if you have no special training or credential, and particularly if you are young or otherwise just starting out, you are stuck with an entry job. Once you have a year or more of work experience things get a little better. What happens when we eliminate all the "first jobs"?
The ugliest of all borders must have been Dahala Khagrabari at the border between India and Bangladesh. It was the only third order enclave until India ceded the tiny piece of land to Bangladesh in 2015:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari

It was a piece of India within Bangladesh, within India, within Bangladesh - which itself would be enclaved within India if not for a small border with Myanmar.
I already did it, and I'm really glad I can do that since I have no use for S0I3 and I'd rather have the extended battery lifetime. However on windows there's no way to disable this sleep mode, and the laptop has consequently lasts way less when put to sleep in Windows 10, even compared to the 3rd edition (which we also have so that I can compare). How does this put linux in power management, huh?

Sadly, the 6th edition of the Carbon also runs waaay hotter than the 3rd, and I did notice occasional coil whine which was previously absent. When running normally the kernel writes regularly about thermal warnings. It seems that power and heat management is not well managed in this edition, and I see similar reports for the x1 yoga 3rd gen.
"inflated valuations" sounds an aweful lot like the investor's problem, not mine.

If these USA, inflated valuations cause me, as the developer, to receive inflated salaries, I am perfectly happy with that.
I guess with a harbor crane type of system where the crane is on rails, you could scale to a higher energy storage with similar power.

Don't know what the sweet spots of capacity vs power are on different markets. This could be good for long term storage.
No, you're still playing with words to suit your own politics. It's this kind of empty pseudo-intellectualism that gives liberalism a bad name.

The role of the judicial system is to resolve disputes, either between citizens or between the government and the citizens.

It is not intended to "prevent the rest of the government from tyrannizing minorities", indeed that would be a logical impossibility because in a healthy society criminals like rapists and murderers are an extreme minority yet it is the role of government to tyrannize them by tossing them in jail and obviously the judicial system is a big part of that.

There is no mechanism in any form of democratic government that can protect minorities against the will of the majority. Either the will of the majority is imposed on the minority (democracy) or the will of the minority is imposed on the majority (dictatorship). In a democracy the only way to preserve the rights of a minority is to convince the rest of the population that those rights should be preserved.

This is why people who promote so-called "liberalism" so often seem to support illiberal policies like censorship.
Disasters are conceivable with ocean storage too. If a ship's anchor damaged the facility and caused the release of air, the rising air could well sink the ship.
From the article: "Later, the Chinese also used western-style wheelbarrows alongside their own design."

These are effectively unrelated technologies, as only one is suitable for transporting goods between settlements.
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They picked GDPR instead.
List of all users allowed to use SSH on my systems:

- root

- user

- ansible_conf_daemon_user

End of List. It's all containers so IDGAF and I use pubkey authentication on each user.
I dunno; why can't the American press do subtlety, nuance and fact checking?
Yes, obviously it is not a 1:1 comparison, but even with additional costs for getting private healthcare etc. you are better of by far in the US. Also, i'd prefer to pay into a 401k plan over some EU government pension plan any time.
>becoming financially independent in the US is a matter of years [2], not decades

(European here) I don't care about being financially dependent on the state, because the state is not my enemy. The state gave me healthcare, the state gave me a free education, the state takes care of stuff. I don't care about "freedom".
The title is clickbaity, as is the norm these days. The reason it's so blunt and "polarizing" is that Bloomberg is a US publication. You think they'd ever dare publish an article asking "Why can't the US do civil rights?", an arguably more important topic than tech?

Europe can do tech but they don't really make it an important target. Also many of the good people in tech choose to go Silicon Valley (which is now ~60% foreigners) so this depletes the pool of EU talent. The bigger SV gets, the harder it is for person in tech to resist the temptation to go, and for local EU startups to find the proper resources.

And the EU doesn't yet act like a single body with a unified strategy when it comes to developing the tech sector, unlike the US or China. It's hard to mount an offence against an already established leader when everybody is pulling in another direction.
Hello FreshJobs creator.

Consider separating concerns to handle HN traffic: https://idiallo.com/blog/handling-1-million-web-request
Sometimes. They sold it to you.

Example: I worked at a pharmacy with the self-serve digital photo services. A customer brought in a CD and made christmas cards from a family picture.

It turns out the picture was taken by a local photographer the customer had hired. The pharmacy I worked at got the legal notice. Supposedly, we were partly to blame since we profited off of the cards the customer printed. Nevermind the fact that we didn't generally check the customer's pictures, nor could we actually have guessed these were professional vs a good picture.

The customer cropped out the identifying marks. We had all seen pictures that looked professional, both in digital and film form. It seems none of that mattered. It wouldn't be Kinko's fault that you photocopy an illegal ad, but they can be party to the fault by allowing it to be sold.

Now, the USPS probably has completely different laws protecting it. I'm going to guess it is more likely that they try to get you for mail fraud rather than actually hold the USPS responsible.
Probably you could throw in a small amount of nanocellulose and it could improve the strength a lot. Especially tensile strength, which is not good for concrete.
Don't try and parse the term literally, the term is a contradiction - there's no such thing as an "illiberal democracy" for the reasons you specify. People who use that word simply mean "democracies where my personal views on things like immigration don't win".

The term illiberal democracy is an especially empty one because more or less any decision can be phrased in terms of positive liberties - e.g. "restrictions on immigration preserve the liberty of voters to enjoy and propagate their own culture".
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They're not responsible... until they're told about it.

Traditionally platforms benefit from safe harbour by being neutral, but the whole point here is that the decision about who to show the ads to can only be made by Facebook.
I agree. It seems to be based on having quite specific information about the structure of the package path based on the service it references. For instance, I assume that github.com/user/v2 will refer to version 0 or 1 of the 'v2' repository. When I wrote my own vgo-inspired package manager[0] I changed the handling of major versions in package paths such that they are separated by an @-sign. While github.com/user/v2@v3 still looks silly, I think it is less confusing.

[0]: https://futhark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/package-management....
You see these things happen in corporates a lot, somewhere in the hierarchy a decree is sent down that every program should have a --version option and that gets implemented without question. The worst of these organisations accrete so many rules that it becomes almost impossible to get any work done.
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Moving average. Climate change.

Huston got unlucky, but the real worry is the new 100+ year storm, because that will be even more brutal in the changed climate.
Good question. I can only guess from what else he told about his work that it was simply one of these cases where the younger staff was just not that well versed with the old systems and mostly just managed to maintain them. Most of the stuff that was done in the early days of computing there wasn't formally documented as it was just a bunch of nerds who knew each other very well.* Apparently, when the company got rid of the big printers directly attached to the mainframes they just forgot about that one job, or maybe just removed the print job but not the one that generated it. By the time that happened almost everyone from the old team was already busy with other stuff, much higher up the command chain.

* My uncle was actually a maths teacher, but right when he finished college there was absolutely no demand, so a friend already working there got him on board. He learned cobol while trying to figure things out there, reading books day and night...
I'd like to see a comparison of this electric-crane-block system with a system already being tested, 'rail storage', which uses electric locomotives to pull heavily loaded cars uphill.

I'd guess the cranes would be cheaper than locomotives and laying track.... and works on flat terrain (EG the midwest).

https://vimeo.com/124312632 (ARES, Bakersfield)
https://www.snl.com/InteractiveX/Article.aspx?cdid=A-2654235...
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11524958/energy-storage-rail
You may want to talk to some people in Greece...
Imagine prioritising the privacy of ordinary people over the need for exceptionally wealthy investors to become even wealthier.

What a sick society.
Every country ever has had borders that were closed to immigration to some extent, that is part of the definition of what a country is. The USSR had closed borders to prevent emigration however I do not know of any democracies that do this, although one could argue America's exit taxes are a soft form of it.

The idea that immigration controls are un-democratic is a very modern idea and one that is entirely indefensible.
I very much doubt 150k is what most Americans earn. But yeah be rich in America if you can, be poor in Europe if you can't. Although there is more in life than money, when you leave your Silicon Valley gated community you have to look at the rest of the country.
Contractors and tech workers can certainly cash in $150k / yr in Europe. Jobs like that don't hang on trees, but they do exist. Whether that means working remotely, contracting or getting a regular job. Sure median wages aren't 150k many places in Europe, but that's not the case in the US either, only in the bay area.

> Putting 3-4 months of US paychecks away in a savings account will put you ahead of any safety net in Europe.

My parents had 3 kids through 5 years of University (tuition + living expenses), this was all paid by the state. Back of envelope math values it at $450k, but in the US tuition fees are much higher.
There was a project to carve a huge cylinder, kilometers wide, out of bedrock and raise and lower it with hydraulics. You could keep whatever's on top mostly intact. I don't know what's the latest status.
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Exactly. Everyone in the UK gets free healthcare, for example, which is worth a substantial amount of money.
Lots of small ones too
Limiting factor is probably per second output, not total capacity. The crane is slow, and only can lift/drop one block at a time.
Care to elaborate? What kind of gigs yield that kind of money and how is taxation for freelancers in Switzerland?
Sure. But I assumed one goal was to offer low-latency access to a high-latency service. I.E. Act as a cache.
Why is it still important?

The world borders are becoming thinner and thinner (de facto there are no borders between first world countries at all). The companies (especially huge tech) employ and operate internationally for years.

Even though the head quarters might be based in a specific country, it's not fair to call the company American or European.
Why should politicians shape opinion? What makes their opinions so much better than that of their voters? Their role is to reflect opinion and implement it.

And what does shaping in a non-nefarious manner imply? Politicians already give speeches setting out their positions and they do campaigning to try and convince people to vote for them, as part of setting out the menu that is inherent in a democracy. But is this shaping or is it merely offering options?

I don't think there are any non-nefarious ways to "shape" opinion. At most you can argue for your own views and hope the arguments are good.
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Looking at previous, recent batches, you'd be hard pressed to find startups that look seemingly undoable/like a joke (which are usually the ones with huge potential). For me, only Boom and a couple biotech companies make the list.
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