skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As apologies go, this is a decent one.

But they still say:

> We would also like to notify our users that as we continue to update our systems over the next several weeks, we will soon begin blocking access to our service from IP addresses associated with an embargoed country.

I'm no expert, but I did spend a couple months checking alleged locations of VPN servers. I compared: 1) location alleged by the VPN provider; 2) location from various geolocation databases; and 3) ping results from several hundred servers (from various providers).

Bottom line, locations alleged by VPN providers and locations from geolocation databases were generally in agreement. But for some VPN providers, such as HideMyAss, ping results demonstrated that those locations were very often implausible. Because they implied signal transmission faster than the speed of light.

So anyway, basing life-altering decisions on IP-based geolocation is an extremely stupid (or at least, unjust) thing to do.
> A detailed description of the drone, provided by witnesses, meant experts were able to determine the make and model of the machine, which is only available from a handful of locations in the UK.

I mean, if you've got a fairly unique drone, don't be stupid enough to give people a bloody good look at it. Be smarter.
In a bond issue i think the underwriter normally promises to buy securities if they are not sold and evaluates the risk for potential buyers. I'm not sure what claim the Malaysian tax payer has. Maybe Malaysia should default on all these bonds and then hope the people that bought them from GS sue GS if they want to punish GS.
Because the population is decreasing in high-IQ countries, where the vast, vast majority of humanity's economic, scientific and cultural output is generated, and increasing in low-IQ countries, which are typically stricken by famine, warfare, poor human rights (particularly for women) and foreign aid reliance.
It is very possible for a drone to fly in a GPS denied scenario.
Oh, absolutely, I know antisemitism was very mainstream back then, and it could have happened elsewhere. But far from all leaders were willing to go as far as leading a nation into full-on genocide. The fact that it was someone like Hitler who rose up is a fluke of history, although one could argue that something like it would have happened sometime anyway, maybe a couple decades later; that's hard to speculate about.
> Where the $12 billion figure is coming from?

Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_s...

"According to its publicly filed accounts, 1MDB has nearly RM 42 billion (USD 11.73 billion) in debt"

The Malaysian taxpayer got finangled into guaranteeing all of that debt allegedly by GS.
Couldn’t ships put up “jumper” nets around most parts of the ships to catch these accidental overboardings? Would it do more harm than good (i.e. invite people to jump and test, or simply make people more complacent and careless?)
Life in Japan seems the most depressing type, harsh weather and earthquake don't help either.
Nah. A simple rule in data visualization: If you think it should be a map, chances are it shouldn't be.
What language is more expressive than TypeScript and works in VSCode?
I keep bumping up against the limitations of TypeScript's type system.

Which language is more strict and expressive than TypeScript and has reasonably good tooling (preferably works with VsCode)? It does not necessarily have to compile to JS
Bubblin Superbooks – An online café of books
I think it would be an even better buy for Epic Games. It would give their Epic Games Store immediate credibility, and add all of the communication and community features that they are currently lacking.

A Microsoft buyout would kill the thing just like Skype.
When immigration is discussed, it is important to separate refugees, illegal immigration, and legal immigration.

Being an island nation, Japan is in a good position to control their borders tightly compared with other countries like Germany.

It then becomes a question of having a well-designed immigration process that selects young, healthy, highly-educated folks who, most importantly, must speak the local language fluently. Canada has a pretty good system in place for this.
I think you might have misread my comment. What I said was that there aren't five airports in London. You seem to have understood that to mean something very different.
Except the moon is acting as a (partial) reflector, and so is part of the optical system. So, really, you're limited to the temperature of the Sun, not to that of the moon. So the conclusion is still potentially incorrect.
Amazon also has people listen to your voice recordings so they can manually label the outcome for future training data.
Sergey Sereda – Sentyabr [Minimal Techno] (2018)
What is his company doing?
Russian lawmakers seek tighter Internet control to counter 'aggressive' US
This quote:

> Last year, almost 27 (26.7) million people took a cruise holiday, and there were nine overboard incidents involving passengers. This equates to about one incident per seven million passengers,”

seemed like "Huh, weird math error" but then I realized that they likely meant what they said, and consider someone a "passenger" per trip. So, this implies that of the people who take cruises, they take about two per year on average. Interesting stat if correct!
Maybe they should adopt Islam, as it seems very successful in encouraging people to produce the most amount of babies humanly possible. [1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth
>Children are massively expensive, especially to the parents. Parents, especially those who work, can't be "compensated" for the work, costs and risks of raising children. The motivation to raise children is entirely irrational from the perspective of the individual.

So, essentially, no reasonable person would have children. Instead we should have an underclass of people who were, in your words, "irrational" enough to have children to move to another country to work for very low wages and serve and literally change the diapers of the aging, enlightened elite who were rational enough to not have children.

Raising birth rates to a sustainable level is a long term investment and stable solution. Mass immigration just kicks the can down the road. And currently, only two neighboring countries have birth rates above replacement rates: Indonesia and the Philippines. Their birth rates will likely drop below the replacement rate by 2050, in which case mass immigration from those countries to other countries deprives them of a stable future and royally screws countries who were dependent on immigrants who will no longer exist.
Malaysia was a single party democracy since it's independence, the probability of new party coming into power was very very low since all the democratic institutions like election commission, judiciary were almost destroyed by the previous regime, so based on this GS would have done their risk/reward calculation. But this May, another party came to power and currently the previous prime Minister and lot of officials are charged for corruption in 1MDB.
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I'm a little confused about something here. At the beginning it says:

> JACQUELINE: ... one small thing. I just wanted to make sure that we’re not recording. Like, I’m not recording on my side.

> MATT: Sure. Yeah.

> JACQUELINE: Okay perfect. Just to confirm, like, you’re not recording, I’m not recording, just to make sure that we’re both okay with that.

> MATT: I mean I live in a two-party consent state. I’d be breaking the law. And California is as well.

> JACQUELINE: Understood. I just wanted to make sure.

So if neither is recording the call, how do we have a transcript?
> And like most things, the moon will be close enough to a greybody that you could use the surface temperature as a first order approximation.

No, it won't, and no you can't. The OP already pointed out that the Moon is too cold for its blackbody radiation to reach the visible. All the visible light from the Moon is reflected from the Sun. The Sun's radiation's blackbody temperature is the ultimate limit, here, not the Moon's.
Russian composers as well. The quality of art that culture produced from the mid 19th to the early 20th century.
What's the deal with Japan in 2002? I don't recall any Japanese events then, it was all War on Terror stuff.
Looks like my comment got flagged, would anyone care to point out where I was wrong or how my comment is any different from what is being discussed of the current situation in Japan?
> changing the players and venues means it's a different war

The war of Theseus?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)
"We" ? You are probably underestimating the number of trump supporters on HN (and in the tech scene in general)
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Ask HN: How do you talk with the older generation about today's climate?
Honestly, my family is very behind-times and as much as I want to bring them up to speed with modern technical ability and law, they're just absolutely not able to handle the change.

How do you talk with the older generation about today's climate?
My favorite way to figure out if I’m looking at a driverless car is to look and see if there’s a driver in it.
I think generally having time-accurate flags and names would greatly improve the look of the chart. It is just weird having modern flags for the Axis countries in WW2, white-blue-red for the USSR (that's not even the Russian flag at the time), and so on.
Gitlab 11.6 released with Serverless and Group-level clusters
The article makes some good points, but why do I get the feeling like this is a postmodern attack on science? If you dismiss the data, you can dismiss any conclusions drawn from it.
The standard map has zero degrees in the center.
Except for that time in Russia when they murdered millions of people because those people were trying to normalize fascist speech.
A fly in that ointment is that people continue to flock to Tokyo mostly thereby depopulating the countryside. So even as overall pop is decreasing, it’s increasing in Tokyo putting upwards pressure on housing there.

There are probably ways to incentivize populating the countryside, but it hasn’t been addressed successfully.
He was an original backer of the project in 2012. In Summer 2015 he wrote a highly publicized blog in which he claimed that because Chris Roberts increased the scope of the game, that it was doomed. In response, CIG refunded his $250 and kicked him off the project. Then they made the grave mistake of issuing a press release lying about it. It's all documented here:

http://www.dereksmart.org/2015/08/star-citizen-how-i-got-inv...

Since that time, the most avid backers of Star Citizen have been waging a proxy war with him on behalf of CIG. And at times it gets a lot worse than the Usenet flamewars he was engaged in back in the day. They even hijacked a sub Reddit bearing his name, and were using it as a way to harass, attack, dox him etc. Until it was closed (by the mods) about a year ago. They re-opened it temporarily due to him being right (once again) about the dire financial straits of the project, as revealed in their financial statement released this week.

Kotaku has a five-part series which also covers the beef between him and Chris Roberts.

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/tag/inside-star-citizen/

Don't believe everything you read from those who have a vested interest in either Star Citizen, or those who don't like him. So far, he has been 100% on the ball regarding the key issues with this project. From the money part, all the way down to the technology, challenges, schedules etc. Since Summer 2015, he has been obsessively documenting everything about this project. So much so that many on the Internet, including the media, go there for material when writing about this project. It's uncanny and disturbing to say the least.

http://dereksmart.org

He apparently has plenty of friends who work on or have worked on the project. And they are the ones who appear to have been feeding him his most accurate leaks. For example, about this investment, he leaked the news on Twitter in May. That same month CIG was closing this deal. We know this because the public filings in the UK which became public in Dec, show all the signatures and actions regarding this $46M investment taking place in May. His latest article lays it all out.

http://dereksmart.com/forums/reply/6792/
Spilling something is an accident. Other things can be mistakes but not accidents.
That's not important at all; what's important is that black body radiation has a fixed maximum flux -- its spectrum or lack of coherence isn't why you can't heat another body to a greater temperature. It comes back to etendue, or if you prefer the 2nd law.

You could reproduce any fixed black body spectrum (to arbitrary accuracy) from a set of thermal sources and filters (or a set of lasers, LEDs, etc. with random phases) to arbitrary fluxes just like a laser has, and use this light to heat objects to arbitrary temperature. But if the original emission is of black-body type, you cannot -- the flux is given by the quantum mechanical process and a function of local temperature only. From then it follows from etendue conservation you cannot achieve higher temperatures.
I once saw a CEO who wrote his own Web Framework and forced the entire company to use it.

At the time, under the influence of React, the idea was to "build web application sorely based on Functional Programming". Since after years of trying no one could figure out what that meant, the company ditched the CEO and ended up wasting a couple years of work.
I do know the names of the states of Brazil, yes, but fair is fair: that's a coincidence.

However, to your second and third point: yes, I do consider California more on the level of a European country. With its own laws, which very significantly impact the lives of her citizens. Hell, I'd wager almost everyone knew the name of its political leader at some point! Quite a famous guy :) originally European, even.

Political borders exist very strongly between the states of the U.S.A., that's why they call it the "U.S.A.".

I'm not just being glib; the level of delegation to states is so intense, capital punishment is a states rights issue. That is unheard of within any other country I can think of.

At the end of the day, this is politics and linguistics: famously unspecific and imprecise. We will never find a perfect classification. It's about what is "least wrong." And to me, comparing a U.S. state to a European country makes much more sense culturally, economically, and politically, than it does to squeeze all of the U.S.A. into Denmark.

(I don't know whence "Wall St.", but my point was never merely economy. Perhaps because of the "economic powerhouse" when referring to the U.S.A.? That was more an attempt at a jazzy moniker than a complete summary of what I think makes the country relevant, but I see the confusion. Apologies.)
"massively enriched" is a bit of an understatement. He's believed to be one of the wealthiest people in the world and it's why Obama put those sanctions on him and his buddies.
So we must use the power of the state and/or big business to crush thier speech? Do you know how to define fascist?
I totally agree.

But the problem then is what they ought to rely on. If in fact they are legally required to deny service to those in sanctioned countries.

The whole thing is silly. I mean, anyone in a sanctioned country who was truly up to no good would be spoofing their IP address in some way. So most of the users that they ban or block will be innocent.
Exactly. I’m not sure Go provides the tools. Although I could be wrong.
Additionally, focusing in on the cruise ship response time isn't really logical. Sure, it could be faster than 15 hours to catch an accidental fall (which it sounds like basically doesn't happen), but in the cited example of a black out drunk person falling overboard or someone committing suicide, the response time could be < 5 minutes and it would still be too late. Someone that drunk isn't going to have the faculties to be able to swim or float, and people looking to die don't want to swim or float.
You gave a better answer than I could have done myself :). Yes, more or less so. Sometimes there can be tricky typing issues but in those cases somebody wiser often comes in and the problem is solved together. At times it's better for individual developers to try to solve say a typing problem on their own instead of somebody else giving them an immediate answer. Maybe it decreases productivity a little bit, but in the long run it's better for developers' individual growth. Though incase the problem is too difficult, I can't emphasize enough the importance of the wisdom of experienced developers.
I got the impression these were bugs that made it into a tracker of some sort, and I don’t think most engineers log “bugs” they encounter during local development before some notion of a release (be it to staging, the world, the master branch, whatever).
Chris Roberts' last game which he was kicked off by Microsoft, was Freelancer. He exited the video game industry shortly after to go make movies. His Ascendant Pictures venture collapsed a few years later.

http://gameranx.com/updates/id/70033/article/the-chris-rober...

Derek Smart, since 1996, has developed and shipped over a dozen games. He still makes games.

http://3000ad.com/games/
That’s really stretching “optical system” if you include the moon.

Sure, if we reshaped the moon into a giant mirror, we could use a lens light a fire using the “moon”.
No, by the Chinese govt. who'd process to block my VPN or make it unbearably slow
I'm not sure I follow.

As in, is there something k8s might do better with its CronJob feature? I don't think so no...

If you just wanted to run a container on a schedule, and you didn't have a cluster running already, Hyper sh was a lower bar to do that.

If you do have a cluster, using a CronJob on said cluster is easier for me than maintaining something on Hyper sh...

I might have missed the question...
I don’t think that’s strictly true. Flavela housing is also smallish but that doesn’t stop reproduction. It’s more a cultural thing with many other contributing factors, like economic outlook, cost of living, etc.
I am wondering the same. Is it really so hugely expensive to add nets? Or would it hamper the functionality of the ship in some way? Compromise buoyancy?

Can somebody with more knowledge chime in?
In some ways, I can see what you are saying.

Japan is in a very different position than Western countries such as the US or Canada.

They have a very small % of non mountaneoues land suitable for city building. Add to that their inability to build tall buildings and the huge population, and it is quickly apparent that Japan could do with fewer people in the country.

Now the obvious problem of having an aging population is collapse of any system that depends on the young to fund an aging generation that is now a net burden for the government.

Option 1 :

When immigration is not an option to artificially ramp up net contributors, the population will have to come to terms with an uncomfortable reality. That, the aging population can't avail the benefits they were promised when they worked their asses off, because the smaller young population can't bear their burden.

This ofc, is extremely difficult to implement in practice, because older people are big on voting and will destroy any politician who even suggests this. But, the other alternative could lead to an even worse outcome than the mass migration idea.

Option 2 :

The aging population keeps drawing from the system at the cost of an increasingly burdened working population and the debt keeps rising. Eventually, debt will be too large and the one generation capable of putting a dent in it will be far too crippled by economic burden of now dying populace.

Your comment seems to be an eventual outcome of option one. Where government support for systems for the retired vanish, and again people start liquidating assets to make up for vanishing welfare. As a result, housing may become affordable and the younger generation could gain some much needed stability and options.

I am not an economist and the economic implications of any of these events go over my head. It will however be interesting too see an experiment where a country tries to maintain a stable economy and QOL for their population for a country with much older average citizen, than he norm.
RSync the old is still new – Exposed Files and Backups
Captivating, well-written piece. But who is the author of this? No credits, no info: very intriguing! I'd be interested to see what else they've written.

[Edit: looking at submissions from that domain, I think the writing in a couple of the other articles seem very similar.]
Just a minor correction—I don’t see any reason why a perfect reflector would happen to be 0K, but since it has zero emissivity, you wouldn’t be able to measure the temperature. Which is not quite the same thing as 0K.

In practice, any reflector is imperfect, and therefore has nonzero emissivity, and therefore goes towards thermal equilibrium with its environment.
“The election of 2016 was the absolute subversion of the idea and practice of legitimate bureaucracy and traditional media and all the Second Wave political science.”

Or, widespread Internet use decreased the ability of the traditional gatekeepers of information to manipulate voters.
I have done the things before. Before returning the work laptop to employer on the last day, I cleaned out all the company stuff to left my personal things (this is my only laptop with my personal stuff in it), then move them out and clean them finally.

Is this common?
Assisted GPS talks with the towers around, pings them for distance and gets their coordinates. It's happening on the GSM layer. It's also a no-data exchange IIRC.
JEP325 seems like a nice little improvement. Just a linguistic trick but still lovely.

int numLetters = switch (day) {
case MONDAY, FRIDAY, SUNDAY -> 6;
case TUESDAY -> 7;
case THURSDAY, SATURDAY -> 8;
case WEDNESDAY -> 9;
};

Switches can return values, and can have multiple cases on the same line.

I'm sure in 2 years when my organization gets around to switching to Java 12, I'll enjoy using it.
Anybody know how this compairs with Google's home product ?

I currently have both and need to make a decision on which route I am going to go.
I believe this is OK. He mentions the co-creator in the video and posts a link to their video at the description.
Your previous post wasn’t very helpful. You were speaking negatively of both the article and the site without making an actual argument about either. Unsubstantive negativity and dismissals are nether educational for everyone reading, nor encourage a good community.

Disagreeing is usually fine, but you do need to do it the right way, per Monty Python.

“An argument’s not the same as contradiction... An argument is a connected series of statements to establish a definite proposition.”

“No it isn’t!”

Note also that posts from new accounts can be marked as flagged by users, not just downvoted.
But we were talking about not controlling it so they can't jam your controller signal. Sure you can fly manually...
They should be counting USA born, dependent children. Having a “border baby” who is eligible for welfare is a primary source of that household welfare.
Sichuan, Tamil Nadu ?

I think most somewhat educated people could.
Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18730314