skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the lip service that's paid to "free market capitalism" I chuckle that the first question always is "How quickly can we get to a moat so we don't have to compete with anyone." Whether it's a monolopy, vendor lockin, network effect, high customer leave burden or any of the other number of methods.

And, I'm not knocking that that how business works, I just think we probably acknowledge that many businesses have little interest in actual market competition and letting the best overall product win. Free markets are discussed and desired in theory, but people don't really want free competition in practice.

It's more of an "emilinate burdens on me as a business, but don't make me actually compete" economic system.
What strikes me is just how inept the Japanese are in handling Fukushima compared to the USSR during the much worse Chernobyl disaster. The USSR responded quickly and it took just 8 months to entomb the reactor. Over 600k people worked to handle Chernobyl. Fukushima, on the other hand, is still at risk of another disaster, 10 years later. The Japanese government and power company under-handled the situation and lied for years about it's severity. For example that 300 tons of polluted water was going into the pacific every day for 5 years.
Ah yes. The hill to die on is definitely masking the volatility of the homeless.

This guy wasn't even making a generalization.
Yes, PGP is better than the Bass-o-matic ZIP cipher many implementations of ZIP use. PGP clears that very, very low bar.
It always seemed very strange to me that it's legal for company-expensed credit card purchases to generate individual, personal rewards for the card holders. (And these awards aren't even taxed?) Something feels underhanded about it, though I can't put my finger on it.
I'm confused.

They build infrastructure and get a percentage of revenues as payment?

I'm fine with that.

or they just want giveaways in order to do it at all.
Here's another don't: Don't block pasting passwords!!

Amazingly there are some sites that do this. I never understood the theory behind it.
Perhaps not hard enough.

What the parent says is take your argument for time not existing:

"If you say that you experience time. Well. That's how neural network works - they are shaped by events/impulses which happened to the network and accessing this information gives you illusion of a past - but this information encoded in your brain exists now."

By the same logic, matter doesn't exist either.

Our brains [1] perceive a material world, but it's only a as thoughts an impressions they do so. There doesn't need (nor do we have of there existing) an actual material world. A neural network as complex as our brain that gets the same weights and is fed the same events/impulses as raw information (e.g. digits of input) would see the same "material" world.

No more reason for the material world to exist, than there's for time.

In fact, perhaps it's just my own brain, alone, as perhaps I'm the only actual person in the universe. What proof do I have that anybody else is not a "non playing character"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism)
Is this precedented, for private companies to get a percentage of government tax revenue like this?
Counter to some of the other posters, I got a lot of value out of doing 50 Project Euler problems when I was learning python. (I don't have a strong math background-- I took Calc in college and majored in biochemistry.)

I agree that PE problems aren't the best are getting familiar with the whole language, but you'll own the math, array, loop, and recursive nature of whatever language you do the first 50 problems in.

My math-major buddy solved the first 20 or so PE problems using _excel_. His "loop" was just him dragging in excel to duplicate a recursive excel equation.

I think the problems are very do-able by noobs looking to learn some aspects of a language. And you get a sweet badge when you do it: http://projecteuler.net/profile/civilian.png

If you're getting bogged down in the algorithms aspect of PE, then I highly recommend taking the Stanford Algorithms course: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:Engineering+...
The security risks of changing package owners
In biology this is not uncommon.
What I do is to combine the password manager (to store the passwords) with a web macro tool (kantu) to automate the clicks through the pages. I can trigger the kantu macro from a bookmark.
A lead apron, when exposed to a strong enough source of gamma rays, will be unable to sufficiently attenuate the radioactive flux. It will absorb gamma photons, and then emit a bunch of of them right into you. Radiation shielding has to take into account the total flux, and then it has to be built in layers to a given thickness and overall density. It doesn’t do you any good if the incident radiation is all absorbed, only for 99.9% of the original flux to be re-emitted by the shield!

You can think of it as roughly analogous to the excitation of atoms leading to emission of a photon in the visible range. It doesn’t help to wear a pair of goggles that will absorb all of the light you’re hoping to block, only to have your goggles glow brightly as a result. You’d rightly conclude that you need much thicker goggles, and the same is true here.

No holes needed, and a lot of the original gamma radiation is being absorbed and subsequently emitted, which defeats the point. There are also complications of a substance being exposed to some forms of radiation (primarily neutron) becoming radioactive themselves. It wouldn’t be visible, but it wouldn’t be good either.

A note that shielding, in addition to considering total flux, has to consider the type of radiation. Gamma (very high energy photon) is very penetrating, beta (high energy electron) is less so, and alpha (a helium nucleus) hardly penetrates at all. You also have to consider, in the case of a molten core, other contaminants and radionuclides actually getting on you or in you. Alpha emitters are pretty harmless outside of you, where your skin stops them cold. If you eat or breath them in however, they’re deveststing. So your concern with alpha emitters tends to be covering yourself and wearing a respirator, while that won’t even help a little with gamma.
>Sure right now. But long term? They don't seem to have any kind of moat at all.

They also have the moat of providing a reasonably good service with network effects. How would you come in and beat the Uber/Lyft duopoly? They can copy any innovation you come up with and have the capital to beat you in a price war.
I think I first encountered it on Slashdot a decade or more ago, but I've rarely seen it outside of Slashdot or, more recently, HN, so I think it's a Slashdottism that migrated to HN with Slashdot users.

Though I could be wrong, as my exposure to internet message boards is weirdly eclectic, but far from comprehensive.
1mn-2mn wait is rude? What world do you live in?
In many industries as well as many government branches it still works just like that. They do not mandate a way of "writing the code", but software projects must pass gates and receive approvals at each stage before getting funding. They have to provide comprehensive analysis and architecture documentation that cover everything under the sun before a single line of code is written. And then, once a dev team starts coding, it has to go through the whole loop and if something specified doesn't make sense "on the real world". Or, more often, they just do the proper thing without telling anyone.
Technically, unpaid internships ARE illegal, if, among other things,"the employer providing the training derives immediate advantage from the activities of the intern", or the intern's work is used as a substitute for work that would otherwise be paid.

https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/employment-law-and-human-r...

Unless a Trump Department of Labor changes it's mind about implementation again, I guess. There was some point in the last decade where the Dept of Labor got more serious about enforcing this, not sure the current enforcement environment.
This is actually an area of very current research. We have implemented a form of software multiplexing that achieves the code size benefits of dynamically linked libraries, without the associated complications (missing dependencies, slow startup times, security vulnerabilities, etc.) My approach works even where build systems support only dynamic and not static linking.

Our tool, allmux, merges independent programs into a single executable and links an IR-level implementation of application code with its libraries, before native code generation.

I would love to go into more detail and answer questions, but at the moment I'm entirely consumed with completing my prelim examination. Instead, please see our 2018 publication "Software Multiplexing: Share Your Libraries and Statically Link Them Too" [1].

1: https://wdtz.org/files/oopsla18-allmux-dietz.pdf
Could you not stand near the door once you saw the Uber was getting close? I always head to the door once it is getting close and wait for them inside.
UC Berkeley Paper on Serverless Computing [pdf]
What we say has lasting consequences, but we're not giving a deposition when socializing. We have no mechanism to show how we've evolved over time on any currently contentious issue - a weak "that was a long time ago" doesn't tend to matter. The ability to forget what is no longer important is a trait that is crucial to our brain function, and it stands to reason that it is crucial for a society.
>You can't pass a law against cheaper.

Tariffs, especially combined with the usually underestimated coordination expense of managing supply chains across continents, can make cheaper not cheaper.

>Economic reality is not a choice

It is completely a choice. Unfettered trade, globalism and the Washington Consensus were all choices.
I've been independently doing the Javascript track. I've been waiting for feedback on my Forth-like solution for a couple of weeks now. I can understand why, since it's a volunteer effort, and mentored mode users are a higher priority. I am trying to resist the temptation to rewrite it until I get feedback on the version I originally submitted.

I haven't received any peer feedback on my submissions, either, and I've seen almost no stars or comments on any of the solutions I've viewed. There seems to be very little of either one. I think giving feedback is hard and deserves care, which is why I haven't given any myself.

These aren't intended as complaints, just observations on my experience. I've decided the main value for me is that it gives me a set of practice problems, and the opportunity to learn from other people's solutions.
Because this “infrastructure” isn’t useful to anyone except people who might choose to live there. The location is virtually an island (if you consider the highway that separates it from the city to be equivalent to a river). It’s in a location nobody would go for anything other than their proposed buildings. There’s literally nothing useful there right now except parking for large events held in tents on that car park.

I recommend reading their proposal. It’s so tiny that all this noise over it is so pointless. Heated sidewalks would be nice though. Especially this week. But no, our city should not be investing in this.
Worth keeping in mind here is that Ghostery is proprietary, while uBlock is free software. You should never trust proprietary extensions with your data.
example :

a friends ancient Huawei android phone can no longer access his online banking via the system browser, or chrome.

Firefox works great.

Whether or not you should be online banking with an outdated platform is another discussion, but he's happy that it works.
Techniques for Improving Your Technical Writing
Of your list, the alternatives that George provided check off:

- offline encryption

- digital signatures

- batch processing

- no server

- offline infrastructure

- "hidden recipient" (which, ironically, is a command line flag to mitigate a flaw in PGP, and not in fact a feature of PGP)

- multiplatform

- easy to integrate

- copying and pasting ciphertext

- open source and well-tested

- not bound to phones

- not being an electron app

The things you don't get with these alternatives are flaws, not features, like "all being in one application".

You're making George's case for him. I'd recommend reading his article again, and then following the links.
Not really.

A reconfiguration of the matter on the world on the same state would still be exactly equivalent to a travel back in time (to that "now") in that case.

And such a time travel might not even take active agency to happen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...
don't discount the ability for either company to build that stickiness. They know this is important.

Think credit cards, collaboration with last-mile transportation (Uber + Bird), discounts on restaurants, things of that nature. They can and are working towards building more of a brand ecosystem.
The trick is to install a password manager browser extension, not to use a password manager that operates as an isolated app / CLI tool / website / etc. Then you unlock it once at the beginning of your session (or whatever frequency you feel like) and it will fill in passwords for you when you click, without having to copy/paste them. It's about as easy as external login / login with Google.

(inb4 "but password manager extensions have bugs that cause them to fill in the password on the wrong site": get one that doesn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18984582)
Uber is getting more expensive with time as they try to consolidate losses. For my commute to work nowadays Express Pool costs the same as UberX did a year ago. And of course express pool includes overtly long sight seeing detours and dangerous pick up/drop off points. This is getting prohibitively expensive and I plan to switch to an electric scooter + public transit in a few months.
> but that mostly just leads to "if your answer isn't on the first page, it's not going to be on the second or the hundredth".

Relevant xkcd about the “second page of Google results” effect:

https://xkcd.com/1334/
Totally successful for private profits in general. Less so for the public, which wants a given infrastructure without having to pay out the investors (which are investing into a private venture and thus of course are entitled a higher reward than loaning to the public...).

Just look at the German "Toll Collect" system. 5 years late. 10 years later, couldn't be delivered to the public (breach of contract...), because of "patents", while the private parts still happily collected their royalities. State had to meet in arbitration (WTF, it's tax money spent/collected here). Currently owned by the public, waiting the next successful PPP.
Or look at the Genova-bridge-disaster. Basically most of the times PPP seems like the worst of both "worlds" combined, wielding an enormous shield of public bureaucracy which keeps all the private elements save from any public scrutiny reaping their maximized profits...
Or look at healthcare in the US, ...
Or ...
Or how Julius Berger built Abuja, while Lagos is suffocating.
Or ...

Just name one PPP project, which stayed in its cost envelope (isn't that the argument: public always is inefficient...) and was delivered to the public after the contract ended.
> This means even tens of kilometers away, the radiation can actually be higher than near the disaster. (Because, huh?, 137Cs sticks to the sand grains).

Radiation is a funky and tricky topic and frequently results in confusing cases like this. Let me try to explain (trying to keep things simple, so there's more nuance than what I'm writing).

Bq is a measurement of activity. That means the number of decays per second. That actually doesn't tell you the strength of that decay, the particle type, or the effective dosage one would receive. BUT it is still an incredibly important number. It will give you an indication of the half-life of the material and how much there is. A high Bq suggests low half life while a low Bq means a long half-life. OR a high Bq can tell you that there's A LOT of a material. This should make logical sense because Bq is telling you how fast it is decaying, and the more of a material there is the longer it takes to decay. Frequently if a material is known people will refer to its Bq as a way to tell someone else how much of the material there is. (yes, this can get confusing and there are two things it can be used to tell you. You have to pay careful attention. Context matters. In our case of the link you provided it tells you how much of the material there is.)

You'll also see Sieverts[0] listed commonly. This is a SI unit that tells you the effective dosage (REM is the equivalent). That means it considers the weighting that happens because of different particle types as well as where it impacts the body (you're in more danger if you swallow radioactive material than if you touch it with your hand). Which is important for maps like this one [1]. This is easier to understand.

On the other hand, there is grays (rads) is pretty similar to Sv but does not include particle weighting. In fact Sv is derived from Grays. They call this absorbed dosage.

So knowing this you should be able to conclude that the most dangerous material is something that has a high activity and has a high particle weighting.

For some comparisons, 137Cs has a half life of 30 years and decays with a beta- of 0.5Mev and a gamma at 0.7MeV. 235U on the other hand has a half life of 730Myr and decays an alpha particle at 4.8MeV.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert (There's a break down and link to the other units discussed here at the bottom).

[1] https://jciv.iidj.net/map/
I can't speak as to what Uber's earnings will be 5 years from now, but I can recommend Stratechery by Ben Thompson as a way of understanding tech company's 'moats'. And how they're qualitatively different from moats enjoyed by other monopsonies in lower-tech eras
why do we need "modern" alternatives for something that works?
This thread of links is such a brilliant thing.
> I am tired of 'being nice' in life. So you, dear anonymous internet stranger will bear the brunt of my retort.

If we expect to make any progress, we have to be brutally honest. So thank you.

> I don't believe in imaginary people.

OK, of course I don't either. (I feel like you gave "strawman" argument)

> Organized religion is one of the worst things our species has come up with

I agree as much as I can with a blanket statement like that. However, the message of Jesus seems pretty different: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

> is nothing more then a method to exert control over a population

Again, that may be true of some religions or sects, but the message of Jesus would probably be the opposite of that. I mean, the Roman empire tried to destroy the followers of Jesus because their "Way" threatened the organization and control of their empire. After "Christianity" became institutionalized and part of the government it seems to have strayed from much of Jesus' actual teachings.

> So please go away.

If you're sure that's what you want, then I can unwillingly (doubt it or not: I care) oblige. But I would still feel obligated to respond to any further comments, since this is a public forum.
I did mention "openssl enc" as well. Is there some other common bundled utility I missed?

Or it's not useful to compare what's at hand?

Not sure I'm getting the message behind the jab.
Ghostery is open-source for almost an year now,
You can check the code and repo:
https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension
Project Euler is cool, but sometimes I worry about the proliferation of these "No True Scotsman" statements.
A use case where disabling paste events makes sense:

You want to expose the functionality to make a drastic change on some resource, identified by a string, to the user. Users want this functionality for good reason. It's not reversible, for legal or security reasons. This is a change that could easily destroy the user's company or cost it millions of dollars.

Text specifying what they're doing is insufficient, as users just click through without verifying. Even a checkbox does nothing to make them pay attention. Even an input where they specify what resource they're performing this action on isn't enough, as two users have reported that they just copied and pasted the id of the resource instead of typing it in.

Sometimes you want to break the consistent interface. I don't think "verify that you typed in the password you wanted to for some shitty small company's website" rises to that level, but there are legitimate reasons to drastically increase the cognitive load involved in simple actions by breaking the uniform interface.
If you are downtown and set your pickup spot to a place that doesn't have a loading zone and thus they have to put their hazards on and block traffic, then yes.
Mostly influencers going on one another's channels and "cross-posting" their wares and people starting side businesses off of their initial channel.
> Is this the only way in which you think her uninformed? Your comments seem to come back to this one point repeatedly,

It not that I keep revisiting the same topic. No, in contrast , its just that I keep getting asked the same question so I keep giving the same answer.
Electric truck startup Rivian announces $700M round led by Amazon
Why should the public pay for this project? Is it a project the government set out to do and ended up hiring google as a contractor? No? It's something google wants to do and Toronto is allowing them to do? Why should the city pay for the privileged of letting google make money?
+1. It's a little insane how early the internship "season" is these days (I know interns who signed offers in Aug/Sept 2018 for summer 2019 internships).

Maybe YC & YC companies can bring some order to this internship arms race by establishing clear application/decision timelines for YC companies? My sense is February is too late, but September-October applications for November decisions might work well.
Form follows function. Basketball's rules favor taller people. If the national sport was limbo or hide and seek, we'd have different stars. Conflating a sport's popularity with moral approval of eugenicism, even obliquely in "JAQ" sense is ... Troubling.
> Square was charging Starbucks 2.75% and Starbucks' average $5 debit transaction was killing them.

That's a somewhat separate issue. That's because Square doesn't charge an absolute component ("+ $0.xx"), not because their percent component markup wasn't huge. In any case, Stripe suffers no such problem.
Apart from the 'duh' factor about someone in their 40's with a whopping 5 first author papers not getting a tenure track position, and not just any, because she refused one in Hungary because 'it didn't fit in her life' (but then 5 years later she does move to Europe? - but anyway - ) ; the rest of the advice is actually quite good. Don't be a passive 'just doing what I'm told' graf student/underdoc, have a plan and make sure you drive your progress towards that plan instead of hoping someone else will carry you.
It should be an option to pay for them to wait in a way that’s fair to the driver. There are valid reasons for a few minutes wait. For example, getting picked up from a train station in bad weather.
For many in the third world countries, going to America for Ph.D or for postdoc is a way to get out of their native countries. However, if you are an American citizen or a citizen of any developed country, be careful about getting on that post doctoral treadmill, which Prof Katz calls this phenomenon.

http://katz.fastmail.us/scientist.html
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Breaking neural networks with adversarial attacks
> Stripe offers interchange plus pricing if you have enough volume.

Are there published details on this? What is their markup?