skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Without a determined political action, within few decades China will be the leading global economic and political power. EU/US and others must join muscles to stop the economic domination of China by econ-political means, before it's too late".

Whenever I read statements like that, it's as if somehow the EU/US think they have a right to be the dominant global economic and political power, and somehow it's their moral right to stop anyone else from ascending to that position.

China has over a billion people. So does India, so does the continent of Africa. They are all developing much, much faster than the vast majority of people realize [1]

Anyone who thinks the EU/US will remain the dominant global economic and political power in the next decades is severely deluded.

[1] Checkout the fantastic "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think " by the master Hans Rosling, where he clearly demonstrates using irrefutable stats that the poorest countries in the world today are developing faster than for example Sweden ever did, at any point in history. https://amzn.to/2CXPdCu
all figures are total comp

'05-'07 - software engineer, midwest - $54k -> $68k

'08-'14 - software enginner, east coast non-profit - $70k -> $90k

'15-'17 - swe III, google - $200k -> $260k
ISIS does its recruitment over the internet for one... Local cults of hatred have become global now.
It was monitored. From the original thread https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl... on reddit:

One of our multi-practice facilities is having a new MRI installed and apparently something went wrong when testing the new machine.

[...]

I discovered that the helium leakage occurred while the new magnet was being ramped. Approximately 120 liters of liquid He were vented over the course of 5 hours. There was a vent in place that was functioning, but there must have been a leak. The MRI room is not on an isolated HVAC loop, so it shares air with most or all of the facility. We do not know how much of the 120 liters ended up going outdoors and how much ended up inside.
If the issue were specific HF then it could be a geometric feature.
Back in the day essentially all irc clients were terrible in terms of security.

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4087/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4321/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20490/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22353/

You could break basically everything with a really simple fuzzer: https://github.com/sandsmark/ircfuzz/blob/master/ircfuzz.c
Care to explain why you would like to have "anonymous" accounts? I'm also from Italy and I know that for us, as italians, salary is a taboo that must be overcome.

In which position you are currently?
When I do game-jam games I always make both "a" and "q" left, and "z" and "w" up... and I always get a comment or thanks from the french players ;)
Weird. They have fingerprint authentication to access the app on Android but not pin.
For the record, a popular ISP in my country designed its own router, which uses shell commands to compute the password hash, without even attempting to sanitize input[1].

If you have access to the login page (and until recently, it was also available via WAN) you could do all fancy tricks by putting the right commands in the password field, including bricking the equipment itself.

[1] https://github.com/Nimayer/fastgate-toolkit/wiki/Get-a-root-...

People tried to contact the ISP and got no response back, of course.
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
Ask HN: Database for collecting research data in rural areas
I'm designing an offline-first web apps that allows researchers to collect research data on-site in rural areas. The current requirements is that they would go out to areas with no electricity and fill out forms on their mobile devices. I choose mobile devices rather than laptop because everyone has it and with power banks, one can easily extend the battery.

At the end of the day, they would run return to hotel and sync the data with a remote or local server. I did my research and it seems like these are promising solutions:

- PouchDB (https://pouchdb.com/)
- Gun.js (https://gun.eco)
- Roll my own

Do you have any experiences regarding this?
That sounds very spot-on to me.
The article claims that

> R Notebooks can only be created and edited in RStudio

Luckily, this is wrong. Since R Notebooks are simply R Markdown, they can be edited with any editor (although the integration is obviously lost). This is, in fact, one of its decisive advantages over Jupyter Notebooks: most of the other issues mentioned in the article are solvable, whereas this issue fundamentally isn’t.
> It is possible that the Internet has increased politically motivated killings, but articles making broad judgement on all of society based on a couple of anecdotes without proper data is just sensationalist nonsense.

I don't see where the author makes "broad judgement of all society." I see an opinion piece, which explicitly calls out in the text it's opinionness ("that's how I've come to feel about the Internet") in which the author claims that the Internet "creates terrorists."

This is not an argument that needs statistics or data to back it up - if the Internet creates even one terrorist, then the author's statements hold. The author provides not one, but several examples to support the claim.

It's like you are refuting the headline only, or some adversarial interpretation of the article.
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The quote does not address my question. It just says that everything was fine once their masters were in the east again with their application servers. The question of why there are no application servers in the west to fail-over to is what I'm curious about.
In qagoma (Brisbane) the kids room was a technicolor sea of dots floor to ceiling. A most impressive community art engagement. She's one of the most popular artists to have a retrospective shown here. (The Asia Pacific Triannual shows her work too I think)
They doubled their $ pay several times - this is probably related to just how massive GDP growth has been in India.

https://tradingeconomics.com/india/gdp : the country is 5x more productive than it was in 2002! By comparison the US has only doubled: https://www.statista.com/statistics/188105/annual-gdp-of-the...
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Sorry i didn't say that all those figures are Before Taxes.
I live in northen italy in a place where living is not too much expensive.
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Presumably it can still pass through if the hole is smaller than 0.26nm!?
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Well, as JSON doesn't have comments that's not really a problem :-)

NB Not having comments is perhaps the biggest problem I have with JSON when it is used for things like configuration files that will be hand crafted. 99% of the JSON I work with is generated and consumed programmatically so comments aren't really an issue.
I don’t think it is a stopping distance issue. I think it is a data fusion issue. At least this is the case with other brand’s technologies. The emergency stopping is not related to the adaptive cruise control. In cruise control mode, objects with large relative speed differences are ignored.
> and some of South America

As I was reading this I thought, “and what happens when our neighbors to the south grow weary of our overbearing regional influence?”
I'll say this from personal experience; having children play a musical instrument such as the piano when they are young helps massively with finger dexterity, speed, and muscle development.

Having children also tinker with electronics (and anything else modular for that matter) is also a great way to gain accuracy needed for minute and subtle movements.

These have added benefits over simple handwriting -- in that writing is a prolonged contraction of the muscle whereas playing an instrument and doing small scale work involves contraction-release and learning of pressure sensitivity.
So we need a different name, I don't really care which. But I think it's clear we need one to make the distinction.
naive question: would it be realistic to filter who gets to talk to who, on wich protocols at the router level ?

I guess basic rules could be setup, but would there be a higher level way for that kind of orchestration
This is one of the truest descriptions of Google I've seen, especially in the last few years.

Source: I'm a Googler.
Clydesdale bank has 38m gbp in assets, and they’re a relatively not-heard-of obscure bank operating in the UK. I think monzo could bring want consumers want globally.

I was preaching it’s virtues here in the US until they disabled international customers; I really look forward to being allowed back on.

At risk of sounding cliche: the banking sector really needs some serious disruption. It has for too long. There’s not a single conventional bank I’d miss if it were replaced with Monzo.

So I think there is insane prospects. It’s thin margins, but without ever bothering with stores and being tech focused, they can hopefully grow fast and spread wide.
From your first sentence, I understand that feeding everyone in the planet is a priority. You also assert that, if we move to a plant-based diet, we would need 9x less plantations^. Do you believe those plantations will be abandoned? Or, rather, that they will be used to feed humans and thus lead to an overabundance of food and a 9x population growth?

I believe that "ideal" is nowhere near a diet requiring supplementation and leading to metabolic and cardiovascular disease.

^: I see this "fact" touted around quite a lot. Could I get a source? Here you can actually see a figure of 67% of global crop yield by weight used to feed humans: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/0340...
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Hey, I’m the author or the article. Kudos for the great work, really like the new site!
Utrecht is so much better than Amsterdam... That city has become a tourist playground at this point.
D is faster to compile, 3 backends, easier to start with, more expressive metaprogramming, optional runtime and GC, compile-time duck typing, Visual Studio debugger, grassroot "agnostic" community, very pleasurable and productive language. Companies have built their entire infrastructure on it, to great success.

So there is no incentive to use Rust.
though "what you actually get" in the long run includes superannuation in Australia, but people do not count it as a component of their gross income.
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Right, but I was referring to the Irish Sea. €95k (about $107k thanks to the atrocious euro atm) for that job would be ridiculously low in the valley, after all. As someone who left California for Europe because I wanted a better cultural fit I wouldn't tell Brits they should move to the US. But Ireland appears to offer better salaries, for all of its housing issues is still cheaper than southeast England, and isn't so dissimilar culturally.

TBF sticker shock isn't just for salaries. When I started looking at private health insurance in Ireland I kept double-checking to make sure they weren't quoting weekly rates or similar; I couldn't believe how cheap it was. Similarly, the cost of living is much more than it used to be, but SV dwarfs Dublin (and most other places) for COL.

Also, I just hated coming in to work on Monday morning and being greeted with annoyance that I hadn't read my boss' email from Sunday night. I wasn't too keen on the look of disbelief when I asked for two whole weeks off, either.

Funny enough being a European citizen working in California seems like the best of both worlds. You'd get very high pay but still have a fallback in the event of illness, injury, unemployment, etc. And, of course, some of us have partners who don't work in tech and the salary disparities there are much smaller (or in some cases, favour Europe - at least the northern bits)
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The EU/US should try to retain their power because to do so is rational. Do you think that is immoral? If so, why?
And still, many doctors even in Connecticut where it was first detected won't provide the antibiotics for it until you have a positive test, and the tests are unreliable. This is a real tragedy.
I imagine the conversation went like this:

Dev: faster page loads make us more money!

PM: we NEED to use this custom font. This is non-negotiable.
Couple of days after Engadget it'll be on mainstream.
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> and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.

I think the same thing was said back when the printing press was invented, and I think they were right (if you were a Catholic back then you could look at a guy like Luther like a prejudiced idealist), as there is a pretty good correlation between the first use of the printing press in Europe and the European wars of religion. I'd say that in the long term we were better off.
This describes the monstrosity I am maintaining just now incredibly accurately.
Sometimes, definitions aren't the most mechanically sound constructs available.
More nit-picking... according to wikipedia Lavet requires two states for one step, so 2^16 looks good based on this.
Don't get too wowed by lots of zeroes without context. When I moved from London to Berlin, my salary barely changed on paper (45k GBP to 47k EUR), but my quality of life went way up and cost of living way down.

The best thing these salary comparisons are for are with reference to the same country/city; otherwise you have to account for thinks like healthcare costs, differences in rent, expected working hours, holiday time, etc etc.

I seriously doubt that 100k USD in the Bay Area is significantly better than 50-60k in Berlin.
> objectively uglier

Not sure why'd you'd say "objectively" when it's clearly not, the hint being the word "ugly."

I can certainly appreciate the limitation of "extensions will always be three characters". In fact, I wasn't exposed to extensions habitually longer than that until I did iOS dev. "Main.storyboard" "Model.xcdatamodeld" So if we're going to talk about ugly, I'd start there. ;)
> It's sure great for established players though as they are already known and get a lot of air time anyway while the competition can't even pay to try to convince others to their ideas.

Odd that you'd make this point on a comment about France. Perhaps read up on Macron some time.
Everyone is posting salaries... How about hours worked. I sometimes feel like a frog in a pot and am in the office for 45 hours a normal week and at times 50. Once in a while a few hours of production support on nights and weekends.

The only time I worked 40 hours was government...

I realize it could also be the nature of the application. Looks like the author is mainly on UI while my application, and at my previous company, processes time sensitive data 24x7.

I often times I did only UI work, or QA work to not have production calls.
[RFC] group entropy for hiding lookup initiator in a distributed hash tables
TLDR; distributed hash tables leak a lot of metadata about node behaviour. one potential way to hide lookup initiator could be to create multiple group of nodes which communicate through gossip within the group, creating a self contained mix network.

One big problem with distributed hash tables (DHTs) is that participant nodes leak metadata about what they are up to. e.g. in naive design and implementation of DHTs, a node requesting for a particular `key` will have to tell a subset of other nodes about it in order to get the request fulfilled.

Now, if we want to live in a world in which decentralised systems provide users security and privacy, this is a problem. Centralised systems are a threat to privacy because central authorities can easily correlate user behaviour and build up accurate user profiles based on that data. Naive decentralised systems extrapolate this problem: instead of one central authority having access to user information, there are potentially X entities with access to that metadata at a low cost (by the way, I think this is a general problem that few people in the web3/decentralisation "industry" is thinking about, unfortunately).

Back to DHTs: I've been thinking about privacy preserving DHTs since I believe DHTs are an important building block for the decentralised web. I've been thinking about a lookup scheme to hide lookup initiator though gossip in small node groups. Conceptually, the idea is that small groups of nodes (maybe 50?) would communicate with each other through gossip, creating a self contained mix network. The message entropy within the group would hide who in the group initiated a particular request. So a node instead of communicate directly with peers in its finger table, it would first gossip the request to its group and all the group members would forward the request based on their finger tables. The lookup replies would also be gossiped within the group, so that the lookup initiator could pick the best responses.
San Francisco

2013 - $82,000 - Software Engineer, Startup

2014 - $117,000 - Software Engineer, Startup

2015 - $144,000 - Software Engineer, Startup

2016 - $153,000 - Software Engineer, Bigco

2017 - $176,000 - Senior Software Engineer, Bigco

2018 - $187,000 - Senior Software Engineer, Bigco
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This is the crazy part for me:

They suggested that she contact human rights organisations, so Julie rang up and left messages with several - but she never received a reply.

What is up with non-replies from organizations? She reaches out and nothing. It's not a Facebook Ad Request appeal (an aside, is crazy how non-responsive they can be and get away with it) it's human rights!
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java plugin was a reputable good security sandbox. Features were added and some subtile security problems were found. Oracle repeatedly failed at fixing these problems because it wanted to avoid breaking old applications. The consequences of this bad management is that the reputation of java plugins is bad and they are prohibited in many enterprises. The problem is only a management problem, there were not technical reasons. The idea of having java application in a safe sandbox is perfectly viable except oracle.
I don't understand. What is expected from Facebook concerning political ads? Should Facebook do the work of fact checking on behalf of viewers, instead of users fact checking on their own? Why is it that actual fact checking is being outsourced to social media companies (due to fear of foreign influence)? Should we also outsource voting too then?
I believe, but cannot prove, that we (society) could largely achieve the same ends without violating the First Amendment:

1) Switch from winner-takes-all to approval voting.

Largely eliminates negative campaigning. Counteracts drive to partisanship.

2) Restore Fairness Doctrine

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

3) Publicly financed campaigns

Greatly reduce effectiveness of pay to play strategy.
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It was obviously inspired by many different things but the most direct genealogy is WEB [1] → noweb → Sweave → Knitr → R Markdown → R Notebooks.

Mathematica’s notebook interface in turn was almost certainly also inspired (directly or indirectly) by WEB, given that this was the first literate programming tool ever created.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB
Apparently their Android app has better performance and they're working to fix this on iOS:

https://monzo.com/blog/2018/09/18/ios-app-performance/
Hahaha my god dude. First, he said it seems to indicate, not prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
Second, you think it’s more likely that they filter every single request specifically for Zuckerberg, but do all of the other filtering later on in the pipeline? It’s much more likely that all the filtering happens at the one time, especially at a place like Facebook where most engineers seem to focus on optimising something for performance gains.

Occam’s Razor - it’s knocking on your door, asking to not be quoted when you’re not actually using it.
SPA blogs? So the individual posts don't have their own URLs?
In a competitive market government should treat everyone equally by the same rules. Big banks do not exist in a competitive market as they are heavily shielded from competition, protected from failure, and massively subsidized by the government. As such they should be required to adhere to far more stringent rules.

I do agree that those rules should be transparent and not "unwritten" though.
If they had a proper banking website and didn't expect you to use an "app" on your phone I might be more interested.
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MacOS used to be very flexible in this regard - you could clone your drive to an external disk and boot off the external disk very easily - but this may have changed with the T2.
A wife and kids by all accounts
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As someone who has had perfectly legitimate Facebook ads rejected I wouldn't say the process was "frictionless". It's just inconsistent and bad actors seem to be much better at gaming the system.
Damn... I mean 2^14 looks good. :)
> WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG?!

Kind of how I feel waiting for C++ to compile
If we're going down that route we should shut down the tabloid press too.
I can't help but to wonder how much difference there actually is when playing the piano or typing on a keyboard as a child.
> or having an environment conducive to small advertising companies.

Should change to "or having an environment conducive to businesses that might want to advertise." A big difference in terms of scope of the affected.
$ git checkout -b feature

The answer to this is wrong -- got green on "merge two branches" rather than "create and then checkout a new branch called 'feature'".
> inexperienced developers create bad software.

A vast number of websites suffer from these problems. Therefore - your definition of "inexperienced" must apply to ~70% of web developers.

Maybe when the problem is this extensive it's time to stop blaming individuals and look for systemic problems.
CORRECTED: Is the length of the mantle. The round inflatable part close to the head. Tentacles and 'head' sensu-stricto are excluded.

Cephalopods will change a lot its length when tentacles are retracted (dead animal) or relaxed (alive), so 'mantle lenght' is used instead as a sort of equivalent to body length. Is a much less variable measure.
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The type intended for keeping around / in a shop for longer time are, but the children's party type often are inflated on the spot.
Thanks, I like that comparison. Now I wish I could think of a way to mesh this with the infinite monkey theorem!
Restating what I think you're suggesting:

Use master for transactional read/writes.

Use replicas (slaves) for readonly.

More or less?
What do you want, a medal?
Even the big companies do this. My employer is a FANG and I'm based in London. Rents are nearly as expensive as in San Francisco... But if I moved to Silicon Valley, I'd get 40% more base pay for the same work.

The only justification for this policy is something called "cost of labor" — in other words: "We've agreed with other tech companies that nobody's going to raise salaries locally."
I just loaded up the android app for the first time after booting. 5 seconds before I could see balance, another 15 seconds before the graph loaded. It used to be fast, but I hardly use it any more because it's slow to check my balance.
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Not “orders of magnitude”, no.

Demo was 12,000 x 12,000 pixels, 2 orders of magnitude would be pictures of 120 x 120 pixels.

We did more with Photoshop in the past than 128px icons.