skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Entrepreneurs Don't Have the Alumni Advantage
Phytoplankton seems to decline due to warming[1]. If this trend continues we're going to have a bad time. Phytoplankton produces at least half of the oxygen we breathe and is key to the oceanic food web.

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100728/full/news.2010.379.h...
I didn't know that, I thought those techniques were only used in data transmission over wired or wireless network connections. Thanks for the heads up.
In the final analysis, it seems that a smaller population base is the answer.

People are not easily motivated to give up creature comforts. (Though they often tell others they should.) Fewer people == fewer negative influences on the earth.
I see a problem with people (even democratically) deciding for me. I'd rather like it to be settled down between myself and the website owner.
It is good thing we have one. Will it be supported in the long term?
As long as centralized authorities are subject to government coercion (and all are and always will be), this remains a bad thing, because it leaves strangers in whatever government the authority sits within with veto power over your ability to spend your money. Fuck that.
While you're likely correct that FORTRAN, COBOL, C, Visual Basic, C++, Perl, ColdFusion, Java, Javascript, and Python, were sub-optimal choices, they're just tools whose popularity boils down to current programming pop culture.

That being said, it could be something much worse than Python.
Just out of curiosity;

Why is it not possible to buy mp3s? Amazon, play store, iTunes etc. all use no DRM to my knowledge? Or is it just a question of price?
Was their content worth my privacy? I will never know as they will not let me see it.

Besides, if they didn’t block me, I can always ensure my privacy to a reasonable degree by using private browsing mode on my browser. That requires very little effort, unlike what I would have to do now — use some VPN provider who quite likely would be monitoring ALL my data not just to that site.
Small changes can make big impacts on React
... "why even call it the "disgusting food"? Obviously anyone who connotates the exhibit with the items inside will be going in with a specific bias." Well, isn't that what they are trying to challenge? The 'whys' of disgusting food. I think it's an appropriate name considering that these items are usually presented as disgusting in the general public. So by giving it the name Disgusting Food Museum they create a mindset for the visitor that is saying 'you're now entering a museum of food you'll find disgusting', and then making the visitor quesiton that mindset; Why do they find Surstromming or Balut disgusting? You can't ask yourself such questions unless you think those dishes are disgusting in the first place. Why do you think chocolate is disgusting? Well, uh, I don't.
I feel like this is a PR attempt to divert attention away from their intense opposition to right-to-repair, especially given the recent articles such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18144489 .
Yes, I have used Paypal since the first year it came out, and still do.
Messy Desktop, Messy Mind
> The entire legal system is supposed to be based on the concept that it is better to let the guilty walk than destroy an innocent person.

This is true if you believe that there is a final justice. However, in a secularizing society that doesn’t believe in God or final judgement, if you want justice it has to be here and now since it will not come any other way.
By 2050 or so, the grid can only have both if we accept disastrous levels of climate change. See the latest U.N. report that's been all over the news, e.g. here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc...
Why You Can't Stop Worrying
>or shouldn't, say "This is the type of community we are,

Well, for starters, they're not communities. And people shouldn't lie.
> analytic methods ... are _absolutely_ essential to understanding the physical world

How so? My experience has been that the "physical world" is where the symbolic approach completely breaks down.

> Engineering and most science curriculums take a "short-cut" through mathematical education.

Only people taking more math than scientists and engineers would be mathematicians. A year-and-a-half course to cover the limit, tangent-at-a-point, functions of tangent-at-a-point, area-under-the-curve, and generalizing all of that to higher dimensions doesn't seem like much of a "short-cut" if you ask me.
At least in Germany, this exists [1]. Sorry, but the page is not in English.
They target fossil energy, chemical and arms manufacturing industry mostly.
You should check if this exists in your country (I can't believe it doesn't) and get involved.
This approach does work.

1: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/
You can't call people names on this site and claim to be "appropriately civil". And his point isn't a gotcha argument. The Dutch system might be better, and it's probably cheaper overall given what a terrible deal health care is in the US, but it isn't free, and there's a significant economic tradeoff to it. I don't know why it takes you four paragraphs to try to wiggle out of that observation; it took the other commenter just a few tens of words to make his point.
Unless you also glue the case together, this doesn't solve anything.
There are plenty of consensus protocols that don't waste energy but I think it's important to understand why PoW relies on an unproductive algorithm.

Mining fulfils two roles:

- identity management: To identify who is a trustworthy block producer in an anonymous and trustless network, mining introduces a cost to the block generation process and we use a game theory assumption that it serves as a barrier for attackers. This doesn't mean there aren't validation checks performed by other nodes in the network and the consensus forming rules themselves of course.

- consensus formation: In a distributed network, nodes are bound to disagree on which is the canonical chain out of two or more competing forks. The most common algorithm calculates the accumulated computational effort of each chain of blocks and picks the "heaviest" one, ie the one with the most work done on it. This has the nice side effect of ensuring economic finality for the transactions in those blocks.

Now, regarding decentralisation you state that "the cryptocurrency people" use it wrong, but the definition you gave is incorrect. As a cryptocurrency person, Vitalik Buterin described decentralisation here: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...
4K MPEG1 decoding in WebAssembly
Personal anecdote as well, but I think you nailed one of the reasons I love Python.. It's the way the language was designed (PEP 20)

I had written some POC scientific code for my undergrad thesis, but the thesis was sidetracked for about a year or so due to real-life issues. When I went back, I could try and test things again in just a day or two, in comparison to much more detailed documented Matlab and C code.

- There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

- Simple is better than complex.
> compare the explanation of integrating factor and exact equations

those are fringe subjects, completely irrelevant for the modern usage of differential equations. They are useful only in computer algebra when you want to implement differential galois theory. In practice you want to understand the overall behavior of your system (qualitative theory) or compute particular solutions numerically (using numerical methods, which are more precise than evaluating the expression of the exact solution).

You'd do much better with a qualitative book about differential equations (e.g., Arnold), about numerical analysis, or about dynamical systems (e.g. Strogatz).
"WhoTracks.me is a joint initiative of Cliqz and Ghostery. It provides structured information on tracking technologies, market structure and data-sharing on the web and thus creates more transparency. On the WhoTracks.me website, interested parties will find visualized monthly tracker statistics. They are based on the evaluation of around 300 million-page loads and more than half a million websites."

Considering IP-address is considered personal information it sounds like this study is based on data that was illegally collected according to GDPR.
I want to focus on tracing back the problems to Larry/Sergey.
The "reasonable person" is a well-established principle in law, used to test whether someone's subjective claims of harm should be considered valid from an objective viewpoint.

Few would question that a "reasonable person" whose child was killed in a mass murder would be harmed by harassment, abuse, and claims the event didn't happen.

I'm not normally any kind of bleeding heart, but stuff like this isn't difficult.
> As long as DNS is insecure, Security Services can intercept and reroute IP addresses (...)

> (...) but who knows what secure websites are signed by Digicert or some other CA?

Well, what would be that "secure DNS" in your opinion?

If you assume someone can subvert Digicert would they be able to subvert that "secure DNS" too?
This guy created the museum of failure. I really hope he consulted Stephen Pile, who wrote The Book of Heroic Failures (possibly the funniest book of all time).
> also need to be the best social network, and best cloud provider, and best AI company, and best mobile-phone OS, and best web browser

This is an overstatement. Yes, they want to stick their fingers in all the pies but they don't try very hard and cancel products on whims too.

Search and its revenue is all they cared about. I would actually commend Google on that focus where most others would lose themselves in the mix. Search, Gmail, Docs were their major contributions. Chrome browser is based on Apple's WebKit.
"It is true that I have little time for codes of conduct etc"

That's the worst excuse for plastering the internet with low quality 'opinions' like the one above.
Then you're doing something different (not claiming wrong if it works for you) than what meditation generally is supposed to achieve. There can be various reasons, but its definitely not the standard output nor in me nor any person I know is meditating.
That isn't how polarization works. It isn't about the spectrum it is about how it travels or is reflected in a more uniform way (normally horizontal. So if you block out horizontal light you get rid of glare or in the case of panels you stop seeing the screen.
Potentially, every MP3 or video software is infringing and can be sued.

I believe eventually this will happened, and you wont be able to market or even program a non-cloud monitored player.

This will be accompanied by ratcheting up of subscription cost.
I disagree. If with "American" you mean the US, then their democratic system is very weak. It constantly gets bought out by lobbyists (but then, maybe it's just more obvious, more visible than here in EU), they only have two parties, who, judging with a European eye, the spectrum of politics is very narrow. There is much less open discussion, the political shows are more often depending on the personality of the showmaster, rather than the educated opinion of the part-takers. I am not saying, that doesn't exist, but the tendency to make everything into a product is much higher. And thus much corrupter.
Yes but it's not only direct forcing over the long term that matters. Push the planet hard enough in the short term, and we'll kick off positive feedbacks that take things several degrees further with no more help from us. The exact threshold is unknown but it's thought to be about two degrees C over preindustrial.
There are a lot of Cobol replacement projects underway. Yes, it'll still be around for awhile, but there's less of it in the wild every year. The sad thing is that many companies prefer the mainframe Cobol service as it has run reliably for decades and the Java replacement does not have that trait.
No normal sun glasses doesn't have any phasing they are just tinted.
I use it for Groupon, Netflix and odd online shopping. I used to use paypal for eBay but the ebay mobile app looks dated and I can't see any feedback for the product. I prefer Aliexpress.
> Right now, with Brexit and leadership fights and other stuff, the main parties are all over the place though.

They've been all over the place for a while now, at least since Blair. The Conservatives haven't been traditionalist, and Labour haven't been socialist, for a while (excluding perhaps Corbyn but that's a new development). Both parties have existed in a kind of middle zone messing around with individual policies but with no cohesive message.
Just watched it. Thanks, it was indeed a great talk, and indeed a lot of tooling.

Do you have any extra writeup to suggest?
One strategy that has consistently worked for me when there's something I need to do that I really don't want to face: set aside some time to work on it, and then start casually thinking about it before that time arrives while I'm doing something else. That seems to help a lot with "swapping in" the mental state for the task, and when I actually sit down to work I find I'm a lot more productive than if I have not pre-loaded my mental caches this way.
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XneTBhRPYk
There's only one development team behind the protocol and only one client implementation (afaik), which means that pressuring only two or three people is enough to guarantee that a backdoor is implemented or some form of transaction censorship happens.

edit: implementation / implemented
A part of the climate change calculation is that the poorer countries are actively improving their standards of living, and that means rapidly increasing their energy demands.
Uhh... they're mentioning that the A-series CPUs are being specially coated. Why? This should only be needed in case that there are fake CPUs or fake motherboards in circulation, in which case Apple has a larger problem than fake batteries.

After all customers should immediately notice that their iPhone has no iOS any more after they get it back from the fraudulent repair shop.
I think I can spend all day watching SIGGRAPH videos and reading papers. Always very inspiring and interesting stuff.
Walmart's shopping cart design measures your speed and heart rate
And there are related efforts to upgrade the lisp used in emacs to a more modern and standardized version.

I think it is GuileEmacs I am remembering.

I hope to two efforts are compatible.
>but then those companies should stop using trackers all-together

Yes, why do they have to track their users? Why don't use real targeted advertisement instead? If I go to a car forum, car related ads would be relevant for me. Using ML, tracking and profiling to give me ads for the fridge I did buy last week is not relevant
The future of DevOps – what to expect in 2019
/woosh

I think the commenter is referring to this infamous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
How much storage?

On a grid with natural gas backup, it's easy to throw in an hour's worth of battery storage to cover minor fluctuations, quote a price "with storage," but still rely on gas if the wind dies down over a large area for a couple days (which does happen).
And? Is that any better or worse than the media and their fiascos?

That's the point of free speech and free assembly. People are allowed to be wrong.

I'd rather have too many people asking questions and investigating rather than too few.
When we talk about decentralisation, what do we mean?
Amazon scrapped a secret AI recruitment tool that showed bias against women
>later developed diagnostic software that allowed retail employees to quickly detect fake parts in iPhones.

agreed. this seems like a very transparent attempt to counter the growing anger over Apple's hostility to right-to-repair
I absolutely used to pirate all my music. Then Spotify came along.

Pandora first, but I can't remember if I had completely stopped using mp3 at that point. I maybe had an iPod full of music I didn't pay for. Can't really remember the timelines here.

Either way, just like with movie and TV, I'll happily pay for streaming if the selection is there.
Yeah I hate when sites force one approach or the other, having the option to permanently lock yourself out seems the best, if I don't want to be permanently locked out, let me fallback to a SMS text.
It is, but not licensed for India.

“Piracy” includes grey market media.
I was looking at a couple of non technical friends browsing the Internet. Not one took time to read consent prompts, they just mindlessly click whatever takes the notice out of the way. GDPR is dangerous and doesn't fix anything.
It's so ass-backwards. I mean, in the most technical sense, every ISP, routing point and whatnot upstream from me to youtube is breaking copyright by sending me the packets, since it is technically a copy of the work.
I do work remotely and I have spare time to work on my land. I am developer and i don't like the repetitive work that is why I wanted to create a self sustain system of aquaponics but I can see the benefits of permaculture.

I have planted some citrus trees (oranges, lemons, mandarin and graipfruit) but I never thought I could use the surrounding area for something else.

Do you have any resources on permaculture? The only resources I am able to find are commercial ebooks.
What are they expecting when fraud is the only way to get iPhone repair parts short of buying entire phones? They also could have dramatically reduced fraud by creating a legitimate sales channel for the parts rather than making it as difficult as possible for anyone else to fix their devices.
> Apple has a larger problem than fake batteries

I bet they do.
Thanks for reminding me xD

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

It's VERY real
Ok. How much intermittency can they handle?

I'm not talking about smoothing our minor variations in output. I'm talking about enough storage so you don't need fossil backup at all, even if the wind dies down over a large area for a couple days. Battery backup at that scale is not affordable with current technology, but that's what we'd need if we actually got rid of fossil.
That’s not the way the fraud is alleged to have worked. The article claims that fraudsters swapped fake parts into legitimate iPhones and then took them to Apple for repair. Apple would then put legitimate parts into the “broken” iPhone.
Puppets Discuss Kickstarter for Killer Android
Very much agree. The only way I will ever take any discussion the legitimacy of copyright seriously is if the copyright period is reduced back to something sane like 20 years.
Looks like he got the @n handle back! Do you know what happened?
(Not Indian, but we get the same thing in Europe)

Because movie studios, music labels etc. sell exclusive distribution rights to local music cartels, and many of these deals are historical and hard to get out of, e.g. maybe they were 20-30 year contracts made in the mid-90s when nobody was serious about this "Internet" thing.

Which is why Netflix has such a fragmented offering per-country, and why e.g. you might be able to technically buy some song on a CD in India, but it's not available anywhere online, or in the likes of Spotify.
> Public domain should be the rule and copyright the exception.

This is already the case for most of the music that many people are interested in (e.g., Bach, Vivaldi).
this sounds very exciting, a refurbished one for a travel machine might be a good bang-for-the-buck ratio.
Sounds like this course, which is very well done.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/mastering-differenti...
Incredible effort on behalf of the fraudsters.

Be nice if someone could run the numbers though. After the time and monetary cost spent buying fake components, switching them, planning the deceit, managing 'actors' and adapting to Apple's countermeasures strategy, what's the margin on the stolen components?

I guess these are mostly labour costs though, so - if you're a gang - you outsource it to your minions.
Google will not bid for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract
For Tunisia, it is not possible to buy anything online because the currency is not internationally convertible.
That article doesn't say how much storage they're bidding. Is it enough for an hour, or three days?

If you've got fossil backup, an hour is fine. If you don't, it's not.
Key Shards and Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme
It's a simple binary format similar to e.g. protocol buffers. You write an idl and then generate code for different languages. The reason they went for this is that is compact. This kind of matters because this stuff is actually stored in stellar in large quantities.

It's a pretty old ietf standard actually. I recently had a discussion on this on their slack channel making the point that the choice for this was a bit unfortunate given that this is a relatively obscure format with not a lot of developer ecosystem around it.

Because of this, the stellar guys are actually maintaining their own code generation tool for this because there's nothing else out there apparently. It's called xdrgen. It generates code for a few languages. If you want to understand xdr, that's a good place to start. You can find the idl in stellar core.

I actually have an open bug for the java code generation with them, it generates broken code currently.
I’ve found Apple music to have a really decent catalog in India
Security needs to accept that is their job to secure the operations of the org, not prevent the org from doing things which don't fit into easy use cases.

For example, the chem eng group own the risk of the chemistry being wrong and the plant blowing up. They don't get to say 'let's outsource production to ChemCorp'. Likewise, security needs to secure the ICS, not just ignore it and say 'the SCADA guys do that, it needs SMB1' or when the risks are pointed out say 'you must now change the passwords every 30 days'.

Business units burying their head in the sand? Well, that can happen too. Pen-tests are great for demonstrating problems, but how many security orgs have the ovaries to do them and force realisation? Did security work with the business unit to mitigate risk, or just want to shut it down?

I'd love to get specific but my point is that there is a lack of holistic vision across the enterprise, and incentivising cooperation between stovepipes is needed, and being willing to take risk -- not throwing away the rule book, but writing a new chapter on how to apply it in context.
The thing that worked for me is to have a personal mission statement, which goes beyond the project and company I’m working for. Currently it’s the idea of digitalization as a greater good, which in turn propells humanity into a more well-connected and globalized state. So I just take on jobs that align with that personal mission statement. Then everything from doing mundane tasks to strategic work actually makes sense, and are easier to do.
>You don't operate in a vacuum when you work on projects.

OP Is exactly describing working in a vacuum. They've got no ego invested in the project and whoever does can decide if they want to use their modifications.

>What if someone comes in the way of you building things? What then?

I don't think you're describing someone getting in the way of you building something. It seems more like, "What if you don't feel validated, by some community, after you built something?" Which is something leadership of any project might choose to evaluate. Does the project benefit more by trying to provide validation to everyone who makes an attempt to contribute or not?

In my experience, providing validation for anyone other than children is an enormous waste of time. Especially when building something.
Turbulence, the oldest unsolved problem in physics
"... don't ..."
> you wont be able to market or even program a non-cloud monitored player.

This dystopian situation was exactly predicted by rms more than 20 years ago [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html