skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hipsters are allegedly the cool old-schoolers.

the whole promise of mongo is/was distributed (HA+LB), which was all the rage back then, when AWS AZs dropped like flies every few weeks and scaling was seen as the problem. go fast, break things was the mantra.

and it's still not trivial to do pgsql maintenance without downtime, whereas in a clustered/distributed "solution", you can enjoy certain additional freedoms. this includes the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot (data inconsistency, but you had to fight a bit for that state by promoting a non latest slave to master).
It might not even be about ad prices. Facebook was instrumental in taking a lot of eyeballs from the news sites as news stories end up on your feed and some people might not bother to open the article.

Also, regular NYT users now have feed stories coming from other news sources as well so their reliance on NYT as the only source gets reduced.
I wonder if anyone from my company (a unicorn) has been shut down.
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The article says democracy is in open crisis.

History says otherwise. There have been far worse periods, and democracy just adjusts and moves on. (Sometimes the ideas of the past arise again. For instance, socialism has been somewhat fashionable in America's past, and again is on the political radar screen.) There is not an open crisis.
Has world class platform for delivering articles. Uses Medium.

I don't even.
> All of the EU's many crises are self-inflicted, it's in permanent 'put out the fire mode'

This is doubly true of the UK, no? Especially now with the self-inflicted decision to cut ourselves off and impose a registration/visa requirement on EU nationals which is going to result in a corresponding one on British nationals in the EU.
I believe that the only party that suffers from those sanctions are actually the populations living in those dictatorships who don't have a say about who is their leader. Who does actually benefit from them and who do they really harm?
Can you id them by ip?
Wireguard packets on port 443 looks like malformed QUIC packets. Any firewall that is doing protocol inspection (for L7 policy enforcement) would typically be configured to drop malformed packets. Wireguard would get blocked by such firewalls.
In the 19th century, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta were all considered planets for a while. At some point the solar system had 12 planets. Until people realised it was nuts to consider all asteroids planets. Just like what happened with Pluto upon the discovery of more Kuiper Belt objects.
Good time to change publisher...

https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/journals-declaring-indep...

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22162

https://declaring-independence.org/
No, a well working competitive market reaches a price where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Unless you are using an unorthodox version of microeconomics.
Only thing that'll stop a bad guy with a drone is a good guy with a drone.
Other systems have also relied on space voluntarily donated by others, and still made the choice to behave as storage systems instead of messaging systems with some history. Or caches that just happen to turn over slowly because the system's too slow and unusable to create cache pressure. If Freenet ever had really taken off, you would have had to deal with these issues. Sharing information doesn't work when the information falls out before the recipient can get it.
Whatsapp is not universal, privacy aware people are keeping themselves and friends away from whatsapp.

That being said what you are saing is basically that whatsapp should be something totally different, akin to riot.im

I do agree though that a global public service of E2E encrypted communication should exist, but whatsapp is the last option I'd consider for such a service.
Intel claim one reason that you just have to trust their binary blob PI/FSP to do these kinds of things is because at each stepping release of a given CPU there are different early boot errata and microcode abilities until microcode is loaded from flash. It's a bit of a stretch, but the insulation can be thought of as useful in the right light.
This holds up if you imagine the profiling as done by humans. However, neural networks already surpass human ability in some computer vision tasks. The features the trained models come up with can go way past what we might consider visual likeness. The algorithmic method might eventually become 99.999% efficient at racial profiling with the help of something as ridiculous as fingerprinting eyebrow strand distribution & orientations. The right way forward is to fully consider the ethical implications when shaping these policies, regardless of technological ability.
> This seems rather unprecedented

EULAs already sometime shad rules to excluded people based on the country they were a national of. Those one could simply ignore. With SaaS this is a different story.
"To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

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Yes, I can imagine it's hard for Slack to ignore those sanctions, but it does appear overzealous to ban individual accounts after having logged-in from Syria/Iran, instead of implementing a country ban from accessing slack. The latter would be far simpler from a technical standpoint, and I would imagine just as compliant with the sanctions.
As someone else pointed out, the EU is boring infrastructure: people don't care about power and sewers until they stop working.

I'm not convinced that people intrinsically "care" about migration, rather that they have a set of material problems (employment, wages, housing, public services) and have been told to blame migration for them.

And to the extent that they do care, how can they care about the "flow" rate of migration, which is impossible to see except in statistics; what they care about is the "level". This is far scarier because that's how you get ethnic cleansing.
Exactly my thought. Some really nasty base64 encoded images and stuff, if I could identify them by IP or some other way.
Banning people because of the country they were born in is not "smart", it's abhorrent.

That the US, supposedly the leader of the free world, is threatening prosecution and jail to those who want to treat everyone in the world equally, is a ludicrous state of affairs.
Drone sightings are causing total chaos at one of the UK's busiest airports
Bombs don’t need to survive to be useful.
Except many seem to praise Google for doing similar stuff, but hey "Do no evil", so they are on the clear.
> When did you last interact with the freenet community?

When it was still relevant, i.e. a long time ago.
I'm not sure what type of electronic defences you have in mind but if it's jammers I assume that it's a lot easier to deploy those in the relatively quiet, well bounded and controlled environment of a prison and much more difficult in a very large airport hosting thousands of people and companies using thousands of devices. I think people want their cell phones and wi-fi to work correctly within the airport. And of course you don't want to risk messing with the electronics inside the planes.

If you play the thought experiment of "how could somebody kill many people easily and without requiring a lot of money" unfortunately you'll find that it's pretty damn easy. You have to find a balance between avoiding attacks and preserving freedom.
This also seemed to me like one of those "team effort", "good job, guys" surreptitious edits.
There are other parties that suffer from the sanctions.

For example, the guy in the Tweet, who doesn't even live in Iran and is merely ethnically Iranian.

Not to mention anyone in the US (or, just ethnically North American?) who takes the ethical stance of ignoring the sanction and gets punished for it.
Thank you for finally providing some statistics to back up your ad hominen attacks on the populace who smoke.

It's interesting to see those additional statistics.
What sort of reasonable reforms, given the fundamental freedoms?
I mean, the exact same thing happened before WW2, where countries were gathering regular census data on their citizens. Surely filling out your nationality or religious affiliation could never be used against you, right?

Well, guess what kind of treasure trove that census data was for the Nazis later.

My point is - it's not just "this modern age". In every age sharing too much information about yourself is potentially dangerous, even if you can't see the danger yet.
He lives and works in Canada. I cannot see how this is violating canadian laws.
> A similarly article could be written about Google but it is not. I think the interesting question is why not?

Because they did with the shuttering of Google+ and nobody batted an eyelash.

I would add "unless you mean their main product" but what is that nowadays anyway?
> but similar things have happened in the free software ecosystem as well.

Shellshock comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
I am laughing because i am from Iran and no one here thinks people are nice.

My country people treat foreigners nicer than their own people because for some reason they believe that foreigners are rich and foreigners might give them reward or smth.

It's a common belief that foreigners are rich and locals aren't.

Same way if you are rich in Iran being a local isn't a problem people treat you extra nice

Once one foreigner brought an iPad for my friend.

It might seem odd to foreigners that in East simply looking rich/ or having money can earn you their nice behaviour.
Oh, just correlate with a heuristic for the user's first and last name and their browser's language preference headers to improve the matching in case the face recognition algo is unsure.
I’m not sure that’s how export controls work. If I ship a weapon to Iran, I’m the guilty one, not the recipient.

If Slack allows connections from embargoed nations, that’s on them, not the individuals who might happen to connect from an embargoed nation. Slack is responsible for their own export, and if a user accesses Slack from an embargoed nation, it indicates that Slack is enforcing the embargo improperly. More importantly, blocking that user doesn’t fix their export issue.
I guess we define success differently. For me it means not needing to worry about money for the rest of my life, while relying on just passive low-risk investment income, until any age I happen to live to. This includes having sufficient funds to obtain world-class treatments of the highest quality and little wait time for any possible health issues of family members.

Services for the wealthy might be a path for that but it requires at least 2 major skills: specialized knowledge in a profession and how to make strong connections and provide those services properly to the rich.

Successful small businesses also require both 1) specialized knowledge in an industry and 2) entrepreneurial skills (which I alluded to in my comment above). In addition, not a high percentage of small businesses is sustainable for decades, so one needs to judiciously invest the profits in a diversified portfolio to secure a good retirement.

IT job examples you cited might be great for single individuals or youngish families who can still work and catch up with new technologies. They do not necessarily cover secure and comfortable retirements and great treatments for health conditions in old age, unless one saves and invests a significant portion of the income. It is also unclear that the supply will continue to be lower than the demand for a long time into the future.

The same applies to other examples mentioned.
You may also encounter "stiffware", which is software you'd like to update but can't.
> whoever is behind it probably planned to move around in order to evade the Airport Police.

If it were me and I wasn't using a preprogrammed route I'd just set up a transceiver that either replays or relays controls. Hide it in a bush and be on the other side of the country while everything is going off.
Even if you have a separate elevator for entry and a separate eleveotr for exit: how do you get to a 5s interval?
The US hasn't been the leader for a while now. I dont see it getting that title back for a long time.
My favorite part was visiting my friends pimped out page and having my computer freeze. It was more free, injecting html and css directly on the page.
>This is another good reason to choose Zulipchat and other self-hostable platforms instead of proprietary SaaS solutions

until someone targets your host and gets it shut down.
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People can change over time.

But Zuckerberg has been quite successful since he was 20. Why should he have changed? Being a cunt has worked well for him.
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It sounds like he accessed Slack from an Iranian IP at some point in the past. Though I’m not sure that’s actually breaking the law.
Direct exchange of value has to take place.

In this case no, because fixing that bug in your project doesn't benefit him specifically.
The only advantage of SaaS really is system administration, which should be low-cost if the product is good.
Is this all about their enterprise tools? I can't say I've used any of these.

For backups, we found a tool on github to snapshot to S3. Worked fine as far as I know. It's the guys in the office next to me that were handling this, not me, never heard of any major issue.
This link might give you a perspective https://twitter.com/stewart/status/391346582764789760
It says more than that:

"the team has worked to further test and refine the technique, successfully proving the treatment both clears toxic proteins and restores memory function safely in several different rodent models, including an older mouse model designed to resemble human brains of 80 to 90 years old."
Spiegel, ZEIT and Süddeutsche, especially their online editions aren't good recommendations for someone asking for news free of political agenda. During the last decade they have become very left-leaning, which is a sad development. I occasionally pick up a print copy of Zeit and Spiegel and these seem to be fine, but e.g. Der Spiegel also put Trump decapitating the Statue of Liberty on their cover (just inappropriate). I've never understood the good reputation of Süddeutsche, they are just doing very shallow reporting.

FAZ und NZZ are mostly neutral, slightly conservative (but not in the US sense). I'd recommend them.
I think they're both responses to the same challenges: distributed web enabled applications.

On the server front that means ever increasing complexity with decoupled microservices and latency issues that play nicely with the classic approaches to those domains (static typing, functional programming).

On the data front sites like HN, Reddit, or Facebook need scability more than consistency, and have oodles of 'uninteresting' data that jives nicely with a schemaless document store.
“Did partners get access to messages?

Yes.”

That’s all the article needed to be.
We should introduce this retrospectively too.
Few days ago i was in UAE and saw fishing boats carrying gadgets like iPad, iPhones and Macs into Iran.

Obviously, looking from outside you can't tell that this rotten boat is carrying expensive gadgets. I saw this because my friend owns a wharehouse and he had to put some of his stuff into same boat.

Funny thing is Tinder is available in Iran and i used it there when i was at home for vacation.
Sourceforge actively DID block interaction with countries under sanction by the US. even though they're garbage malware distributers now it is a data point

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2467444/open-source-to...
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The list is ~25 locations even including 14MW power plants. Like: https://solarpaces.nrel.gov/dadri-iscc-plant but mostly it’s 50Mw. And that’s not what’s coming online this month or something they can take years to build.

By comparison 95,000+ MW of PV is installed every year. And PV has a much higher capacity factor so actual MW per year is even further in PV’s favor.
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Copyright law is not supposed to create fairness.

It is supposed to benefit society as a whole. If protection is too long, limited access to (and reuse of) existing work reduces the benefits of having a law. If protection is too short, some works may not get created due to the lack of incentives.

Someone attempted to calculate an optimal duration, and concluded it was about 15 years: https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf (Related article: https://medium.com/basic-income/the-zombification-of-intelle...)
I think people are trying to stop politics from fucking it up. Politicians have started using the internet for political purposes.
I recently got a Mac and wanted to avoid the cost of Parallels, so I tried VirtualBox first. It was insanely slow. Like, I would be typing text into a VM and I would type a line, then wait and watch the characters appear. This happened on a 2018 Macbook Pro host with 32GB RAM. This happened on both Windows and Ubuntu guests.

So, I tried Parallels and it was so fast I can't really tell the difference between the host and guest in terms of speed. I highly recommend Parallels.
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You've gone a bit far.

Function of hardware/software isn't covered by copyright anyway, unless you have a patent then people can recreate your hardware as long as they don't copy artistic features (non-functional box design, artwork, etc.).

Trademark serves a very important function for buyers/users in providing attribution of origin. Indeed IMO it should be strengthened to protect buyers -- anything with registered trademarks should have origin details publicly accessible so that the specific factory and third-parties involved are also flagged for buyers and not just the company that put a badge on it.

That said, I support copyright strongly, but the period should be more like 10 years unregistered + 10 more with registration.

Copyright is not a natural right but it's granted by the public; long terms don't give a fair deal.

Slightly aside of this: DRM is antithetical to copyright, works that can't enter the public domain should be denied protection; they break the contract with the public.
You probably missed the word "obvious" in my comment. I was just saying that if economists don't predict a recession, then the chances are pretty low that parent-poster could successfully predict one based on intuition only.
Politics is just people, and we’re all people.
Country is made up of its citizens.

If a country does smth, citizens are punished.

This has been case throughout the history.

Alexander took the losing kingdom's citizen as slaves and American bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, again the citizens of Japan who were living there.
That doesn't contradict my statement.

One can be aggressively litigating using ones IP while also letting the technology behind that IP die.
I mean they confuse plastic bags for drones [1]. I don't have as much blind faith as you.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/22/11486256/drone-collision-...
Stack Overflow has a good system.
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Except I highly doubt the staff and doctors are actually being paid in proportion to the charge. I doubt they’re even being paid a significant portion of that bill. We’re not hurting doctors and nurses when people claim to want more efficient healthcare strategies. There are ways to allow moonlighting, such as everyone being in-network to a greater social healthcare system.
And yet, it's the US where 25 year-olds die of diabetes [1]. Not the "socialist hellholes".

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shane-patrick-boyle-died-a...
I'm actually curious how they could nationalize the "secret sauce" behind fb?

Sure, they could take over their local data centers and hold their employees hostage but without the 100% backing of fb itself there's no way a foreign government could take over their business.
But what you can say is that the overall procedure:

"first answered individually, then deliberated and made consensus decisions in groups of five, and finally provided revised individual estimates"

is more accurate than the usual "wisdom of crowds" procedure that only does the first step.
You will use internet through SSH tunnel or VPN anyway as otherwise internet is useless in Iran. I was there this September.
Can also buy a socket license for 1k, or buy from resellers with lower MOQ: e.g. https://m.cdw.com/product/oracle-vm-virtualbox-enterprise-li...
This (EdgeOS w/ hw offload) is what I'm waiting for before trying it.
Why blame Facebook and not:

- voters for actually choosing this guy

- the media for giving this guy so much coverage

- people for not fact checking

Blaming Facebook feels like shooting the messenger. It’s not going to fix any of the underlying issues going into 2020. At worst it’s a distraction, like birthers against Obama.
So when were the citizens of the US punished for their government bombing Japan?

EDIT: Also, in a different comment in this thread, you claim to be Iranian. Why are you defending sanctions against the country that you are from?
The issue seems to be one of illumination... as unlikely as it is, would it help to off a big bright bomb or two as "flashlights" to speed up the search?
VMWare does the same thing. No idea why you'd think Oracle is the only competitor.
>Unfortunate that so much work went into building the mesh

As others have pointed out the mesh is from here: https://github.com/baronwatts/models
Ive been following grocery delivery automation since the days of "Publix direct" back in the late 90's in Seattle. I believe it was microsoft that partnered with them to order groceries straight from a smart fridge, the MS Home had one of these. I was recently reading an article on Bill Smith, CEO of Shipt which was acquired by target for 550 Million a year back. What I could not for the life of me figure out, was how that company was profitable, they charge 99$ a year, for unlimited grocery delivery, how is that profitable? After looking at their glassdoor entry, I believe its due in part to labor rates being very low which wont be sustainable in the long term and I believe is why he sold to Target. Anyhow, this automated delivery by NURO could be something although a bit ahead of its time, as cities just arent ready for autonomous vehicles just yet. I dont see why the grocery stores havent caught onto this though, and adopted a take-out system only where orderes are placed online and robots put the orders together, for bulk pickup. The battle of grocery stores isnt the time to pick up the groceries, but the time it takes to shop for what you need, parking, checkout out.
I think Slack is sending a clear and strong message: use a VPN!
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The equivalent on macOS would leverage Hypervisor.framework, like xhyve or Veertu.

https://github.com/machyve/xhyve

https://veertu.com/anka-technology/#hypervisor
It's not always your choice, and getting an organization to switch may be quite hard. Although Slack seems to be trying to help by pulling a stunt like this.
I think it's also worth noting that Iranians have no possibility of renouncing their Iranian citizenship. So even if they wanted to cut any possible connection to Iran, they will never be able to get rid off their citizenship.
Journalists should have power but the press historically has been abusive and manipulative, and seems like it still is.
What are the benefits over the traditional safety driver on standby whithin the otherwise self-driving car?

I can see that this is more future-compatible, the "drone" is smaller than a car, so, when you can lose the driver you will be able to shake off the whole shadow vehicle and have less mass overhead.

Edit: also, PR. The pretty pictures of the obviously driverless vehicle are almost inherently misleading.

Anyone can see anything else?