skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet has never existed in a “pure” form. It has always been balkanised, with different groups of people mixing with themselves more or less oblivious to the other groups around them.

Information sharing in “the good old days” was often via Usenet, IRC, BBS or email. The networks that were important were the people you knew, and membership of an IRC channel was a privilege not a right. If you stepped out of line you would be warned and banned. Large groups were still easily moderated because the peak level of “firehose” traffic was still humanly consumable. There were career-affecting repercussions from misbehaving in, say, Scary Devil Monastery. You would lose access to your support base and have to fend for yourself.

Information was mostly reliable, mostly because the level of expertise was high, the signal to noise ratio was high, and the chances were if you gave some advice there would be someone testing your claims and reporting back.

The “denvercoder9” problem was always there of course. Stack Overflow and Quora have neither invented that problem nor solved it.

Ultimately my rose-coloured nostalgia of the original Internet is that the level of expertise and interpersonal support was quite high, simply because non-academic access to the Internet was not easily available.
Have you ever had SSD failures in your PCs?
How often has it occurred to you? What type of failure was it? Were you able to recover your data?
>>> Grievance scholars isn't a real label

>> Grievance scholars isn't a real label

> I agree essentially, its a meme created to debase the humanities

I think you're agreeing with the quote of your own comment.
Or the other way around - trick the lidar into thinking a road bump is there when there is no bump.
What excites me most about the librem project is that I can hopefully put an app together with just a c file and a make file, as with regular gtk. The android development process is the most horrendous one I've ever encountered, making simple things require 3 xml files and half a dozen classes and growing exponentially from there.
Do you really even want to live in a universe like that? And if not, why contribute to creating it? Ultimately no one survives. There's no winning, you don't get a trophy for watching the last proton decay, so it is silly to survive for surviving's sake.
Can't browsers just play midi files? I know we could in the 90s and 00s.
Such as?

Edit: especially curious about which topics folks think might be considered taboos in Western science fiction.
Good to know. I'll never work for Amazon no matter what the pay is.
I think the best are ones that fir the story well. Multiple rooms is always important, because if not you get bored of the main room after an hour and it feels like you're ending on a lull. It's best to have a small room at the end that's all new, so people get a rush.

Some things I've seen that are memorable are the ones that use senses you're not expecting. Ordering jars by smell, for example. Or shooting something with a dart... anything physical like that. I've seen some cool things with projectors, with actors, and more.
Pay for your VPN with privacy coins or run your own VPN. Of course the unethical and illegal method is to compromise a number of systems to route traffic, but obviously that’s problematic.
What do you mean by 'worthwhile'? And what would worthwhile be to an alien?

For all we know, the universe is jam packed full of Predator-like aliens who are the dominant species on their planet specifically because their society is built around dominating everything they can.
Thanks arbitcoin! Refreshing to see feedback taken to improve content even though I was a bit harsh. That's a great personal attribute that leads to growth and mastery, I wish most people were like that.
Is the only way you can argue via straw man?

My complaint is not the use of CDN, it is the forced delay to load a page when the CDN is not available or certain resources are blocked. This is a direct form of punishment from Google: refuse to let us track everything you read, we will make it uncomfortable for you to read anything.

Disabling the phone-home feature is nothing like poking holes in the fuel tank.
I don’t think that’s true. I recall ~5ms seek times being top of the line.
Thanks, working out the max frame rate is a bit complicated by the fact it uses time delay integration (TDI) scanning. There are 4 TDI cameras each 2048 * 128 pixels. I couldn't find any official documentation (the cameras are Hamamatsu S10405 CCDs and there is one C10000-509 control board for 2 cameras each). I think it's the same sensor as this camera which quotes the line rate at 50khz. https://www.hamamatsu.com/resources/pdf/sys/SCAS0085E_C10000...

This Ebay listing quotes the line rate as 1khz, not sure where they got that: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Illumina-HiSeq-2000-Hamamatsu-S10...

We were able to grab a live video feed from a single camera, that must have been 20fps at least, but we'll have to investigate fully.

Yes, we are able adjust the gain and are able to focus both by moving the stage and by adjusting the more fine-grained piezo focus actuator (but we'd like to be able auto-focus using Micro Manager: https://micro-manager.org).
Now I'm confused as to how I carried around my 6 Plus all that time and now the X... (and I'm not a big guy, small pants size).
On a team that uses it.

It's... fine. If you know Ember, you can build a reasonable app pretty quickly. If you have a team that knows Ember and likes it, there's not going to be giant gains to switching to something newer. Certainly not enough to justify a rewrite. The integration between the framework and Ember Data is nice if you have an API that natively works by the JSON API standard that Ember Data expects. It's big selling point is it's more of a one stop shop than something like React and Vue where you have to bring your own data layer and router etc.

However... if it was up to me, I wouldn't use it again:

If your API doesn't emit JSON API, expect to write a lot of serializer/adapter code.

The Ember object model breaks browser debugging (and no, the Ember Inspector doesn't make up for it, you can't dig down into objects there, the best you can do is send it to $E, then manually issue $E.get() calls). You end up looking in foo._internalModel._data to get a decent look at what the data actually is.

The build tools are slow. Broccoli still cannot output sourcemaps which map back to real source.

The framework has strong opinions about app layout, based on Rails. It groups by concept. So you have folders for models, controllers, components etc. While you can nest within it (so you can have controllers/my-feature/{a,b}.js and components/my-feature/{c,d}.js), it still ends up with your code for a feature all over the place. I'd much rather have my-feature/{controllers/{a,b},components/{c,d}}.js and have all code for a feature in one place. Pods were supposed to fix this, but have been abandoned.

The public API is too prone to spitting out objects that only have private APIs. e.g. look at adapter.createRecord (https://emberjs.com/api/ember-data/3.7/classes/DS.Adapter/me...) . You get based the data in a DS.Snapshot. What public supported actions are available with a Snapshot? (None: https://emberjs.com/api/ember-data/3.7/classes/DS.Snapshot). RecordArray in the past was similar, as were the factory and transition APIs.

Because of the above point, many popular addons are tied to APIs that are considered internal and prone to breakage. This means while the Ember team advertise "Just follow the deprecations, you can update with ease", you really can't. Your addons will break and will need to be updated in parallel and if they've updated their APIs at the same time, you're kind of SOL.
Yes, it does, though intermittently, so it's incredibly suspicious to me.
In a way I guess he is helping fix the problem by closing one day a week. If the supply of open restaurants go down and the demand stays the same, everyone will be able to raise prices.
From [1] I think the issue is that you want the total output of the transaction to be less than or equal to the input, to ensure a transaction doesn't create value. The negative total output is less than any nonnegative input.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822.msg9503#msg9503
you might be underestimating it as well.
> As interesting as it all is, it's also very concerning for Law Enforcement ... things that previously required big budgets of national intelligence agencies become easier for common malcontents to use.

We'll probably see "white hat" distributed networks with pseudonymous reputation used for the provision of security and crime-prevention services, with no need for traditional Law Enforcement to get involved in any real way other than in a secondary, oversight role. After all, tools that "common malcontents" can use, can also be used by people working for the social good.
You should become an alpha tester!
> you just can't add delays to TCP streams.

Why not? I'm talking about shuffling queues such that it cannot be determined that a given node is relaying traffic in the order that it receives it. This is how most packet shaping works, no?

At a minimum, I would expect Tor to be more secure by having nodes:

* Not process traffic in the order in which its received, obfuscating the cause-and-effect of a packet being received and a packet going out

* Pad traffic substantially with garbage such that the outgoing size cannot be associated with whatever came in, potentially splitting packets in half so that they can appear smaller than they actually are, forking around many different nodes.

* Sending lots of random garbage traffic between relays such that input and output is meaningless overall, perhaps relaying packets to several nodes needlessly, when only a single node is instructed to actually do something with it.

To my knowledge, Tor doesn't do any of this and has explicitly ruled out the possibility because they're more concerned with usability than security. And maybe that's the right call to make in the end, I don't know enough to say. I'm just saying that it's possible to imagine a system like Tor that is more secure than Tor, and that's something worth talking about.

I'll check that link out, thanks for posting it.
No Harry Potter local as no magic, no god, no fiary after 1948.

Too violent no ...

It is not just the rule. It is the arbitrary rule suddenly comes up. Any funny bear like honey
10 Days of JavaScript in 1 Article
Reminds me of this. There was a time when this was true and nobody knew or cared who you were.
https://aaronscat.com/blog/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you-...
Not really about the internet as such. But do checkout the book “Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace”

IIRC it does a wonderful job of capturing the cyberpunk feel of growing up with it.
The other issue I see is at some point, all secret hiding spaces will be used. For a consumer, checking previous drop locations may result in finding free goods.
Maybe the entire funding schemes need an overhaul? At least in Europe, i think it would be useful and productive to have a realignment of incentives and measures. And perhaps it is worth to explore a more transparent system than the current funding pipeline.

I think the trend is for people to leave academia instead of trying to do politics ; besides , a lot of people went into academia to avoid politics in the first place.
It did. There was NSFNet and there was "UUNet". I remember a mid-1990s Internet-wide netsplit that cut Ripco off from all the .EDU sites.
I like it, being able to start with a shell script and then evolve the tool to a static binary is pretty neat, I do that all the time with ActionScript

I don't think it's trying to be a "jack of all trades", sure Bash can do plenty but when you reach few hundred lines of Bash and start to fight against the syntax to do simple things well...

The shebang line is there to be used, you can use sh, bash, etc. but there are other citizen like perl, php, python, etc. so why not swift or anything else if it help you build quickly command-line tools?
Julia is good at data analysis, visualization, high performance, its core is lisp.

Clojure is good at data manipulation, and porting clojure to Julia is more practical.
Box2d-lite: The original version of the larger Box2D library
That depends on what you consider to be "the Internet". Strictly speaking, "the Internet" is the infrastructure that moves data around using the IP protocol. But what most people think of as "the Internet" is really the "world-wide web", i.e. a collection of content served via HTTP and accessed with a browser.

There was never a "purest form" of the WWW. Corporations had their hand in that almost from the very beginning. Netscape was founded to make money, and today's Internet would not exist but for that motivation.

One the other hand, the "purest form" of the Internet still exists today. That consists of someone writing some code that opens a TCP or UDP socket and starts sending bytes. That resulted in things like FTP, NNTP (i.e. usenet), gopher, and even HTTP (for a very short period of time before Netscape came along). Since then that same motivation and dynamic has produced TOR, bitcoin, Skype, Signal, and dozens of other applications, most of which languish in well deserved obscurity. The main difference between today's dynamic and the pre-netscape dynamic is 1) the net is much, much faster and universally accessible today and 2) the vast majority of people on the net today are non-technical, whereas in the good old days the net was populated almost exclusively by science and engineering academics.

The quality of the information available on the net is both better and worse today than it was in the early days. Wikipedia is a modern miracle. There has never been anything like it in the history of human civilization. Before 1990 if you wanted access to the kind of information that you can get on Wikipedia you had to go to a university library.

One the down side, all that good information is often drowned out by bad information put out by people who are poorly informed or who have political agendas. But it's not too hard to build yourself a pretty effective bullshit detector. That's a useful life skill to have both on-line and IRL.
The transaction took an input of half a bitcoin, and had two outputs of roughly 2^63 each plus another output that got a tiny amount.

Skipping over a few details, that means you send 92 billion to one address, 92 billion to another address, and the total overflows back under .5 bitcoins.
Quantum Computing: Is it the end of the blockchain?
https://medium.com/fintech-kellogg/quantum-computing-is-it-the-end-of-the-blockchain-10fa7e222b0a
There were strong suspicions of parallel construction in the Silk Road case, where the US government was able to track down the Silk Road's servers despite its use of TOR. One article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-h...
Terminology is the single biggest problem here: "Anonymous communication" in CS does NOT mean you do not reveal your identity to the person you are communicating with. It means you stay anonymous from the network perspective: No third party learns with whom you are communicating, and everything you reveal to your communication partner becomes an explicit attribute: Your "identity"/name/nickname, but also your location.
Ember is by far the best application framework out there (react is a view library). It's refreshing to see features come out of the box instead of having to roll your own react + mobx + react router. Build tools are easy to use and very transparent.
The tooling around upgrading has definitely gotten a lot better, though if you’re carrying around a relatively older codebase there’s a potentially thorny deprecation coming up in the future
FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM: Developing the Admin’s Approach to Consumer Privacy [pdf]
I can’t parse this
Storage itself is a complicated problem domain, one that is easily dismissed until you actually have to deal with it in gory detail.

K8s grew organically here, and thus the seams show. It’s getting better every release, particularly being able able to dynamically provision and schedule storage to pods in a “zone aware” manner, which has been tricky.

The deeper issue issue is we are spoiled for choice on storage engines. Using Ceph for random access r/w low latency block storage I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, for example. But it’s hard to distinguish hard numbers for comparative purposes.
I was at a book signing at Microsoft after 9/11 and N.S. seemed to believe that The Diamond Age was no longer relevant and seemed to regret even writing it. I wonder how he feels now.
Where do you envision that term being applied exactly?

It would make sense if the term was only leveled against specific news that is not based on openly verifiable fact. However, some individuals use it to refer to entire news organizations, seemingly ones that oppose their views, while not applying it to other organizations that clearly have the same or lower standards for verifiability.
Problem is how do you trust the VPN operator? They have your connection metadata, and no reason not to use it against you. If you want a trusted first hop into the Tor network, use a guard node run by a friend or yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5qmqw4/should_i_be_usi...
I've had two SSDs fail in ~5 years.

One went into read only mode, and I could copy all the data to a replacement drive (I think - it's possible there's corruption in files I haven't noticed).

Recently one I bought in 2016 failed hard. Was working fine one day, next reboot the machine didn't even recognise it had the drive plugged in. (I also didn't lose any data, because I don't trust _any_ drives, and have multiple backups of it...)

The puts me at a 66% failure rate over ~5 years for SSDs in my personal machines. I don't recall a spinning rust drive failing in that time, and I have quite a lot more of those in service.
There are quite a few holes in the scheme as outlined in the article. The author asserts that dead drops are better than post office boxes because they're harder to surveil, but what keeps law enforcement from signing up their own personnel as distributors? Then it's just a matter of staking out their own dead drop and arresting whoever shows up. This is why the first rule of opsec has always been, "Involve as few people as possible." You can't improve security by adding more people to the loop.

The best way to do this is probably for the 'salesperson' to drive to an isolated area and chuck packages into the bushes at random intervals. The packages then send their GPS locations to a LoRaWAN gateway somewhere, to which their buyers have been sold access tokens. LE can still infiltrate the organization in the sales role, but with more difficulty. Adding an extra distribution layer with fixed dead-drop locations just seems pointless.
I had previously associated that with the right wing partisan media like Fox News and infowars. Surprised to hear that this may be relevant in academic social sciences as well
The ones we may not realise are worth talking about.

Just because this new wave of non-Western science fiction has issues, this doesn't mean it cannot contribute some novel richness to a genre that has so far been dominated by white Westerners.

Innovation doesn't lie in perfect solutions, and that's especially true for art.
"fine.sh can be used ONLY to distribute contents without implications in any kind for financial gains.

fine.sh reserves the right to remove illegal or inappropriate contents without prior warnings to its users and assist authorities on any necessary investigation."
Spark “first” function behavior on pandas dataframe
it looks like he's posting from hong kong, and he is trying to avoid the Chinese government censors or get thrown in jail.
> not because he pays them peanuts

Not paying peanuts still doesn't mean it's enough.
I first got on the internet in 1996, so it was pretty much all IRC and personal sites built in Netscape. :-) And a (now conspicuous) lack of information landfill (the sheer amount of garbage on the internet today saddens me).

In all seriousness, even though 1996 is not "early" internet, I still look back on when it still seemed like a frontier. I hope there's another innovation that gives everyone the same sense of exploration and being on the bleeding edge - I've no doubt there will be, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
I stopped reading at "If you can’t sell, starting a business is probably unwise."
CCP thrives on atheism, most Chinese science fiction novels actually are also non or anti-religion which wins them points in the censor department. At least I've read several post-2015 Chinese sci-fi and whenever religion comes up, the religious figures are always greedy, corrupt and using their religious title for power, "polygamous-cultish" or fanatically stupid.

Although the ones I've read have been remixing Cthulhu with Cyberpunk so I might be digressing. Also note that most Chinese modern sci-fi now begin life as internet and web forum novels because the web is the most important and fast-spreading medium for Chinese fiction readers now.

As well, near-future sci-fi and most importantly those kind of TV shows are pretty much banned in China.
Famous authors can write for the international translation market, essentially. A few months ago there was a submission about Yan Lianke's struggles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206445

It's still possible to read banned books on the mainland if you know the right sites, but most consumers of banned literature are probably just looking for porn, so you might need to do some digging to find something more high-brow.

I'm not sure what lesser-known authors do, but I guess they try to keep their fiction as fictional as possible.
Yes but this is generally true for all non-executive senior roles.

An experienced anything is going to be better paid and have more security (and less stress) than a junior. And an architect is just a fancy term for an experienced individual contributor swe.
Maybe the primacy of individualism/freedoms as the only path to collective prosperity? Like, what if the Chinese model really is the best way to run a country (not an endorsement, btw)?

Not "taboo," persay, but it's something thing that's not really seriously considered by most westerners (not the ones I know, at least).
The last line in particular seems like a reference to their current leaders dislike of cartoon bears: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/18/15993136/winnie-the-pooh-...
Using telegram for communications with customers also allowed marketing to escape darknet forums and into the walls of public places. Normal people don't even need to know about darknet to buy drugs and what those @usernames on walls are is becoming common knowledge.
Does a list of all hospitals (in each state) exist somewhere?
Ask HN: Better startup tld, .co or .io?
I have both the .co and the .io of a domain -- which is better to launch a new b2b data tech start-up under? And don't just say .com instead; I don't own it and someone has just been squatting on it since the mid 90's (not for sale, just a dead link & not responsive to emails to their whois email).
More interestingly, a combination of cardboard and ice. A prototype was built in Canada by conscientious objectors, who did not know the purpose of their project. The whole article is full of surprises and quite entertaining.
If you live in a society where humility is not rewarded (quite the opposite) then you will obviously get less of it.