skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
then some arse-hat species pops up and in the space of an eye blink for these things start destroying their liveable world...

I hope it means we just as rapidly develop the tech to undo/repair that damage.
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In the current system, you have to have dealers hanging out on the corners. To take territory, you shoot at the dealers and either kill them or scare them away.

In this system, you have drops. How does a rival gang know where they are? They'd have to buy the product to discover the drop and drops shouldn't be used multiple times. They could watch a user find one, but then that drop wouldn't be used again so they couldn't stake out and wait for their rival to refill it.
I understand people aren’t doing regular 9-5s, but my point was if they are making $90k working 40 hours, that’s really good. If they’re making $90 working 65 hr per week, that’s not so impressive.
I designed and implemented the core algorithm that currently allocates Azure VMs to physical nodes (though the policies aren't mine, and I owe much credit to my coworkers for actually shipping it.) It removed a fundamental scale bottleneck.

Later, I designed an efficient solver for a category of NP-hard graph problems that currently powers Azure's WAN, 98% faster than the module it replaced.

Hopefully with time I'll be able to publish both. I had mental and physical breakdowns on the way, but those experiences make me proud to be alive.
I'm the author of the article in question. I didn't know about zsync! Thanks, I'll link to it from the footnote.

Flipping quickly through the zsync docs, it looks very well done. I'm not sure if the way they adapted rsync is better or worse than the bup/bupdate way of doing it; it looks like they take more time to do the initial encoding of the index file, but that's not very important since you only do it once, especially if it saves bytes.

They also have a (complex and potentially error-prone) way to look into .gz files and sync them extremely efficiently even without gzip --rsyncable. That's really cool, but risky, and of course only works with gzip, not other compressors. Not sure if that's a good idea or a bad idea, but nobody forces you to use it.

tl;dr zsync has actual documentation and an actual release, so you should probably use it instead of bupdate.

(People should feel free to ask me any questions about redo, bupdate, the redo container builder, etc in the comments here if you like.)
The big difference being that during the first gold rush, the gold was physically here. The second gold rush involves the creation of a technology that makes physical location irrelevant. Irrelevant for almost everything except getting investment, apparently.
Just potential vulnerabilities in the implementation AFAIK.

Cwtch hasn't been audited whereas Ricochet has.
You’re assuming this is an unintentional oversight of modern education.
Show HN: A simple tool to do passive investing with ETFs (India specific)
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Hi, I am the developer of the etfcetra app. A little backstory: I do investment in index funds and had initially developed this app as a simple reminder app for periodically investing in ETFs. I slowly built other features like exploring ETFs, investing in the basket of ETF stocks, integration with Zerodha etc.

etfcetra is very small (~3MB) app and you don't need to create an account to use it, so please try it out if you are into passive investment/index fund investment/ETF.
Currently, you can do the following:

1. Explore various equity, debt, gold and international ETFs that you can invest in the Indian market.

2. Create SIP-like investment plan for buying either individual or basket of ETF stocks.

3. Like SIP, you can decide how much you want to invest periodically and this app will remind you how much stocks you can buy considering the current price of the ETFs.

4. When the installment amount is not multiple of ETF stock price you cannot invest your entire installment amount (because unlike mutual fund units, you cannot buy fractional stocks). In that case, you can either decide to always invest little more than your installment amount. Or you can decide to invest less than installment amount and then carry forward remaining amount to next installment.

5. Buy all the stocks in your basket straight from the etfcetra app with Zerodha integration.

Currently, this is only an Android-only app, but I will be happy to hear if someone interested in either web app or iOS app. Let me know at swapnil@etfcetra.com.
Why is it that they hate their own mobile page? I feel like I must be missing some reason that they want me on their app.
Based on how everyone in here is remarking on how off-putting and patronizing the tone of the article is, I wasn’t surprised to hear what you said.
When a customer complains that something's not right, and you check your logs, and the logs have been spewing millions of alarming messages for hours that you wish you had seen before the customer noticed issues, that's when you wish the programmer who wrote the log lines had used the health monitoring framework instead of the logging framework.
The title is somewhat contracted by the content itself:

"...Today, RSS is not dead. But neither is it anywhere near as popular as it once was...."

Though I think that more moderate conclusion is debatable as well. I continue to new sites which offer RSS etc., and it seems to be the exception rather than the rule that (relevant) rites lack RSS.
New York has had rent control for most of the 20th century with 2 million units still under rent control. Yet it has plenty of development.

Before Costa-Hawkins and the widespread repeal of rent control ordinances, there was less of a housing crisis than after its passage.
I had the same experience when I first started working remotely, I would go a couple of days in a row without talking to anybody at work because everyone had there own thing they were working on. Another coworker left his remote job after 7 months because he felt so lonely that he ended up working at bars and coffee shops with free wifi just so he could have normal human interaction. I'm at a new remote job, and my solution to loneliness has been hanging around in smaller twitch channels talking to streamers and regular viewers. I get less work done, but I don't feel like a miserable piece of a machine now.
The OP quotes a study that says vegans are at least as healthy as other vegetarians. That's not a comparison to meat eaters and not much of an endorsement.

He neglects the recently published study (posted here on HN) that connects vegetarianism with depression and other mental problems.

I hate factory farming, too, and was a vegetarian myself for many years for that reason. But animals can be killed for food without being inhumane. The cure for factory farming is to make it nice for the amimals. Giving up meat to fix factory farming is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Oh yes! Forgot about them.
> However, it's ~clueless customers and low-level distributors who'll most likely get pwned.

INTERPOL has made some large busts in the past, but afaik it always has come down to failure to maintain proper OPSEC.

There's also the issue of possible directives in the future to prosecute customers en masse after major domestic busts using backlogged USPS analytics. As traffic obfuscation methods continuously improve, the economics of such directives will begin to look more and more reasonable when the goal is not to stop trade directly, but by establishing fear with precedent.

The problem with dead drops is that on a large scale where the level of trust is sufficiently low, it inevitably requires an escrow and resolution system with human moderation. And then you've just centralized trust instead of circumventing it. Dropgangs in the form described by the article do not provide the full package.

The article itself claims dropgangs and off-market platforms are the future and then goes on to state:

> Cryptocurrencies are still the main means of payment, but due to the higher customer-binding, and vetting process by the merchant, escrows are seldom employed. Usually only multi-party transactions between customer and merchant are established, and often not even that.

The author doesn't seem to make the connection that higher levels of trust means less scalability. The success of these platforms however is directly related to their scalability. Yes, this is a dangerous, criminal activity for both parties and I definitely do not appreciate the explosion in popularity of these kinds of markets. I have seen regular people get serious federal prison time due to the Dunning-Kruger effect.

The barrier for entry is much higher for new distributors as well, because A) at this membrane exists highest ratio of undercover law enforcement and B) establishing initial trust is key to something like dead drops, which typically will involve high-dollar, distributor-to-distributor transactions. Open markets help to facilitate initial trust-building by providing a trustworthy platform.
Mainly lived inside Chrome's dev tools for many nights. Its deobfuscator and debugger is very handy. Still scratched my head lots of times along the way.
Some interesting stuff is still missing, e.g. no idea yet how they get octant paths from geo coordinates.
Drone pilot whose maps are saving lives in Zanzibar
> What rights people have and how those should be applied to real-life situations is a massive ongoing question.

That's a feature.

We don't have a single entity that can prescribe and dictate specific rulings in specific scenarios under the diverse range of city, state, and nation laws the world contains.

Acting like the UDHR was ever meant to be something so specific is asinine.

"The Declaration was the first step in the process of formulating the International Bill of Human Rights, which was completed in 1966, and came into force in 1976, after a sufficient number of countries had ratified them."

> The UNHRD is nothing like universally accepted.

Except by most states the world over it is and has been for decades.

"Some legal scholars have argued that because countries have constantly invoked the Declaration for more than 50 years, it has become binding as a part of customary international law."

> For example, Muslim countries considered that it violates their idea of what human rights are, so they made their own Islam-friendly human rights declaration [0]. That's like 1/4 of the world population rejecting your universal human rights at the outset.

Except they didn't reject the UDHR at the outset. Nobody did, not one member of the UN voted against.

"Of the then 58 members of the United Nations, 48 voted in favor, none against, eight abstained, and two did not vote."

Furthermore, The CDHR came what 14? years later? Likely after the radicalization of islam that took place during that period. I mean hell, back in the 60s/70s muslim women were wearing miniskirts.

In fact, the simple fact that the CDHR exists tells me that,

a) the UDHR is working as intended as it allows its existence, and
b) the UDHR got things mostly right if a religous entity feels the need to disavow it and make their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
Still remember need to send in an expert to explain what is internet.

Then we use it the admin people look at the charge so low and ask why this international fax is so cheap. In any case they said please ask your supervisor to authorise each connection in writing by filling form no xyZ! Have to explain and fight a bit. The case is really settled down only because it is so cheap. Not because they understand it. Or us.
Sadly not scalable, but one of the great pleasures of using early or obscure communications media.

The entire early Internet worked this way and it was lovely.
It’s really worth mentioning here that Disney CEO Bob Iger has been on Apple’s board of directors since 2011. Also that when Disney acquired Pixar under Iger, Steve Jobs became the single largest shareholder of the Walt Disney Company.
A Fortnight into 2019, Bitcoin in the Red Again
It can be. Successful restaurants are very profitable (it's possible to do revenue that's 5x your startup cost in the first year, with a 10-20 percent margin, thus paying off your startup costs in 1-2 years). And if you want time off, just close the restaurant for a few weeks in the winter/summer.

Also, restaurateurs can eventually put in a few less hours. The main point is that it pays off to be there for the startup phase, especially if you actually bring skills and talent to your business.

The biggest problem I've seen in restaurants is owners who aren't restaurant people or don't have the right personality and temperament for it.
Until a battery relearn takes your app down in the middle of the night. I don't miss those.
How to have be or do anything you want in your life
(It works, but..) What are all those backslashes for?
Well... yes, this problem has been developing for a long long time, over the last 50 years CA has been restricting supply ever more, like those WWII frog experiments where they boiled water very slowly to see if the frogs would jump out. Some of those frogs jumped out and some died out. Now, we're facing the same dilema in SF. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to lower the temperature. Every last apartment or house can help. We desperately need as much housing of every type we can possibly get. I don't understand how anyone with a conscience can continue to advocate for "character" with the current housing crisis.

And, why are people concerned if a developer makes a profit. If people are starving, you dont say, geez we better not grow any more food lest those pesky farmers make a profit. If developers are making too large profits, then more will enter and we'll have even more housing which will lower the prices even more.
It's never a good day when I have to pull out AWK and XSLT because that's all the server supports.
The OP mentions the work of Claire Patterson [1], who first measured the age of the Earth using relative abundances of lead isotopes in ancient rock samples. He found it very hard to do, because the samples he used were getting contaminated with atmospheric lead, and had to build the first clean room to measure the samples properly.

Atmospheric lead came from tetraethyl lead in gasoline. He spent decades campaigning against it, and came close to having his academic career destroyed by stooges paid the Ethyl Corporation[2]. Through sheer persistence and strength of character, he managed to get lead additives banned a few years before his death.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_Corporation
Nice try bro! That will make C like Java, it will not happen. C should be like just C.
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A long bunch of tests for a python RPC I was writing. My boss did rewrite the core code against the tests, so I could merge his code without even understanding it fully. And until now the test code is still healthy and growing, and it proves the core code to be working as expected.
This has to be fake right? Nyansa? Phone booth designer for open floor offices?
Pokemon Blow!
It looks like they include install files for all 3rd party dependencies like postgres, python, openssl, etc.
I realize this is something you feel strongly about, but I will not be following your advice in this matter.

I hope we can remain friends, OK?
I find Osetinskaya plays so fast that it's difficult to make out the counterpoint. Have a look/listen at Glenn Gould's version, which makes the counterpoint really clear [1]. As you might know, this interpretation was controversial at the time.

[1] https://youtu.be/9ZX_XCYokQo?t=307
I haven't been following this space that closely for a few years, but when I was more familiar with the offerings from Xilinx and Altera, anything rad-hard was at least 2 generations behind. This led to correspondingly worse performance and SWaP (size, weight, and power). Some of the fancier SOCs like Xilinx Zynqs didn't have any rad-hard version at all. Using consumer or automotive grade chips is not unheard of, especially for lower budget things in LEO like cubesats.
It was ARPANET.
Employ and build trust with a tight circle of local homeless folk, establish delivery methods which circumvent surveillance such as on-foot delivery, chained drops, multiple couriers, etc. Some distribution networks currently employ such methods. It will always be a game of cat and mouse.
For the purposes of licensing and simple inertia (what it takes to start a project from scratch) -- that work was done once, with khtml, sure.
It's not just the cops that will be surveilling a dead drop.

You don't think a heroin addict who couldn't come up with the money for their next buy isn't going to go check every dead drop they ever bought at on the off chance that there is something there?

I mean, just thinking of the old espionage meaning of dead drop, if you have dead drops or safe houses or secret meeting locations that you could only use once a year, to avoid patterns, then researching them would become tremendously expensive. A full time job, really, probably for several people (and someone in logistics managing them all). I can't see how that'd be much different for criminals, and how do you make a profit at that? At least in the espionage case, you would have been State sponsored. You don't have to make money.
> “The Silk Road” was the first of a phenomenon that became widely known: Darknet Markets.

The history is way off here, Silk Road was one of the first two completely public darknet markets (the other being the short-lived Open Vendor Database) but there were private darknet markets long before, e.g. The Farmer's Market.

> Use of the Internet to facilitate the marketing and sales of physical goods - drugs, weapons, false identification papers - began latest in the late 1990s, but usually focused on local geographic markets in major cities. This was due to the fact that payment and delivery still required in person meetings.

Not so, back then and still to this day drug dealers simply throw a stack of cash in the mail. The clearnet markets for "research chemicals" all operated this way and went basically unchecked until Operation Web Tryp in 2004, which began an era of harsher enforcement of the Federal Analogue Act.
It's his wife.
Don't forget for-profit prisons.
What's a good RSS page / app?

On android, Google chrome has a RSS like feed that I rather like, but it feels weird to use - I never intended to have it or use it, and I have no real insight into it.
While it's disturbing to think that someone as smart as Watson may have descended into scientific racism, more upsetting still is this recent trend of politicizing all achievements, scientific, creative, or otherwise.

I've never met a perfect person. Can't we accept that people with great achievements will also have ordinary failings? And should we deny their obvious contributions over their political failures?
Explain, then, the epistemology that leads someone with a degree in international relations and economics to say that being morally right is more important than being factually correct?

I agree that misinformation can be wielded like a club; I disagree that GP is the one doing so.
In Danville, we see restaurants closing all over the place. Their prices tend to be about 35$ per person with tax and tip for an average meal at a nice restaurant.

Prices are high enough now, where we almost never eat out anymore. Even at the movie theater, I skip the 8$ popcorn and bring some snacks in a bag.
Economics is tough and because of the political factors, often gets discredited. People always come up with excuses for why the economics explanation is false and why you can blame someone else.

Economics explains why SF is expensive, why Trump wants to build a wall, why the Yellow Vests are protesting in Paris, but if the explanations don't confirm someone's worldview they get dismissed.
Yes, but MS now owns Github and MS might have a different viewpoint in terms of copyright than GH has traditionally had.
Who said $4,000 was Bitcoin's "normal price?" Is it because that was the price just before the hockey stick?

In the red is based in what you paid. It's still very early for Bitcoin. Too early to call.
That's a great solution, and I think too companies realize that by people working remotely, they are sacrificing 100% total productivity. Another thing that I did was explain my situation to management to transfer me to a new thing and explain the isolation that I was feeling. It also does not help that when I was working remotely, I was expected to work the standard work day hours. The problem with that was that you do not get the benifits of doing a hobby spontaneously because you are expected to be on call or available at those hours.
I was talking to my roommate, a non tech person, and asked her where she she got her domain, out of interest. She said GoDaddy. I let her know about their shittiness, but normal non I.T. people don't know enough to care.
Sit down. You're not going to like what I'm about to say.
This is going to start happening to you (us, really) more and more. Things that happened in the 00's happened a 'long time ago' to a larger and larger group of loud people with Internet access. People who can drink legally were born in '98. What's up with that shit?

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Quotes has a citation for him saying it in '99 and an unsupported assertion that it might have been said in '93. I've been hearing this long enough that I believe the '99 date, but I'm skeptical about '93.
It depends where. Before the present housing shortages, in most American municipalities, more people lived in owner-occupying households than rentals. I think a lot of politicians in the most housing-constrained metros haven't really started assuming as a background expectation that their average constituent is not now and can never realistically be an above-water homeowner on a non-shared unit without drastic political and urbanism reform.
> I think people underestimate how much a handful of properly specd servers can achieve.

Absolutely.

> Quick search

Even AWS (i.e. the very pricey one) has an x1e.2xlarge with 4.5 physical (9 hyperthreaded) Xenon E7 8880 v3 processors, 244GB DDR4, 240GB SSD, 25 Gbps network for $1200/month paid monthly or $700/month paid annually.

And that scales linearly 16x.

You've really got to be something amazing (maybe a ton of video?) to scale past what a single commodity box can handle.
They are useful for mitigating some kinds of attacks; I wouldn't go so far as to say they are a panacea for security in general.
> there was zero character development - beyond Luo Ji

Da Shi (together with Luo Ji, my favourite characters), Ye Wenjie, Yun Tianming and Thomas Wade develop across the series. If you cast the various human masses, the Trisolarans and Sophon as characters, which they resemble, they—too—develop compellingly over the series. Certain family lineages also cast favourably as “characters”.

It does take a different view of character development to make things pop. For me, the best part about the characters was experiencing Liu’s worlds through their odd perspectives. (Cheng Xin was not a pleasant perspective. But against Wade’s and Beihai’s foils, it is thought provoking.)
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The servers I buy now have large capacitors which don't fail like batteries, and you can then have the server on a UPS
Wow. What a horror story.

How were you taking IP? Just the knowledge you had in your head? What a joke.
Yeah, and you can at least sort of solve the manipulation issue by weighting ratings based on “bitcoin days” of the address making the review.

(Number of bitcoin on the address times time it’s been there.)