skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How hard is it, currently, for an ordinary technical but non sysadmin person to host Zulip on a VPS? say, for 30 users. is the process very complex? is it a lot of work?
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Maybe the point is to choose provider that operates cloud services outside of China?
Instead of incognito, what if you just march through a bunch of different browsers in their non-incognito modes?
yeah, sort of. He isn't clamoring to be taxed quite yet.
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I've worked on this for a couple of years now... it's a network for members to share links to articles, videos, and stories with a unique* voting system built in.

*votes depend on reputation.. and each vote has more/less power based on how much the community trusts you for that topic. No 2 votes can really ever be equal, by design.

The idea is to show the value of something based on whether the person giving feedback actually KNOWS what they're talking about.
Fake news, opinionated facts, viral garbage... right now, I think this tool is needed.

I taught myself a few different programming languages just to develop this thing..
AND traded an exorbitant amount of sleep to finish building it.

BUT, there is no need to be overly gentle with your feedback... please, let me know what you think.

Thank you, and enjoy!
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I could imagine that if it's infeasible to to break into the device to see how it's cracking the iPhone, then Apple could opt into setting up a dummy phone, then sniffing all the communications with the device to get an approximate idea for how it works.
Channel seems to be back? Or am I missing something, clicking on the "old channel" link seems to show a bunch of videos.
Disappointed by the tasks they chose. This is because the data is collected in a lab but we have so much more data these days.

Does anyone work for Udacity/EdX/Coursera? I would be interested to know if/how performance on those courses decline/improve with age.

It would also be interesting to see if performance is correlated because of lurking third factor. (My money is on exercise, or time).
You people are summoning Clearcase/Clearcase Attache with nary a thought of the dark ancient forces you are meddling with. Stop before it is too late!
>"First, the MTA has plenty of money. They need to stop wasting it."

No they don't. Albany has repeatedly diverted tax revenues earmarked for the subways. This goes all the way back to Governor Pataki. State then forced them the agency to borrow and spend obscene sum on debt servicing. This is well-known and has been well-discussed.[1] The state currently contributes well over 500 million to the MTA.[2] So clearly money from the state does "see the coffers of the MTA."

For 2019 the MTA has deficits of just over 500 million dollars. This information is public and readily available.[3] It's worth noting this is the same amount the state was going to give to Amazon via a grant.

Despite whatever waste and inefficiencies at the MTA it most certainly does not have anywhere near the 19 billion dollars needed for Andy Byford's Fast Forward plan.[4]

>"Second, the $500MM was coming from the state. It would not, and will never, see the coffers of the MTA."

Wrong. The MTA already receives direct financial contributions from NY State via its' Metropolitan Mass Transportation Operating Assistance Fund.[5] This is not new either.

The actual facts refute your assertions.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[2] http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/docs/MTA-2019-Adopted-Bud...

[3] http://interactive.nydailynews.com/project/mta-funding/#subs...

[4] https://ny.curbed.com/2018/5/23/17383870/nyc-subway-mta-over...

[5] https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy18archive/exec/agen...
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Okay, thank you for the steps. I have to admit I completely missed it at first.
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Longed them in January- stock's up 200% since. They are in the too big to fail category.
It's probably both. But experience shows control is much more important to the state than the well-being of any businesses.
I think it literally might have just gone back up. The discord is discussing it this very minute.
Yeah, votes aren't useless. Obviously you shouldn't just go implement the things that get the most votes without question and ignore everything else. However, if there's two things I think I should implement and the community is much more excited about one than the other, I should probably do that one first. If something gets a whole bunch of votes and I think it's a bad idea that means I need to actually take the time to explain why it's bad rather than just leaving it languishing in the backlog. If I think something's going to be great but it doesn't have a lot of votes, it means that I need to put more work into explaining why it's useful than I might otherwise.
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I don't see how a data structure involves money and corruption.
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Can you throw this thing away? Will it degrade in the landfill without being toxic?
So, philosophically, as a former MIT cryptography grad student who spent a lot of time in Ron Rivest's office, I'm unwilling to offer a cryptographic guarantee like "E2E encryption" if it doesn't actually provide the security guarantees that any reasonable user would expect when they heard that phrase.

Zulip encrypts all content in transit using HTTPS, which protects against a pretty wide of potential attacks to the privacy of one's messages. We put a lot of effort into ensuring messages aren't sent to the wrong users (one surface-level detail here is that our backend codebase has ~97% test coverage; which becomes 100% for views, validation, and other security-sensitive code).

The big thing that these techniques don't protect against which E2E encryption is supposed to solve is a malicious/compromised server accessing message content. But I'm also not convinced there is a viable solution supporting desktop+web+mobile+terminal apps that can prevent a malicious/compromised server from getting access to message content.

Just to highlight one of the issues, if you're using a webapp, the server itself is what tells your browser what code to run. So, if the webapp can display decrypted message content in a browser, a hacked server can just deliver JS code that causes the browser to fetch every single message of history your browser client has access to and send them back to the server unencrypted. I've thought at times about whether a trusted browser extension could help, but I don't think it can. I imagine the various "E2E encrypted" apps address this issue by just not offering a webapp.

Even if one were willing to abandon having a webapp for this feature, the really hard problem with doing E2E encryption is key storage and distribution. What process do you need to use to move your secret key between different devices safely (or do you just lose access to your history when your phone dies)? How do new users who get added to a stream get the secret key for that stream? Maybe there's a Keybase integration that would solve this (I actually have exchanged a few emails with the Keybase team about this concept).
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> It isn't particularly helpful that economics as a discipline seems to have the same predictive value as soothsayers and court jesters

That's a wonderful quote. Thank you for that.
Ancient groundwater system on Mars, not current.
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Isnt it usually the ballasts that sing in most, if not all lights?
OP's question is probably targeting the mid to low end devices, and not an officially supported Google manufactured device. For example, none of my phones (past & present) have ever been supported by any serious rom streams (not counting xda)
I think the forum software (phpBB and its clones) must be partly to blame. I don't think I've ever been to a phpBB-style forum that wasn't like that.

Contrast it with StackOverflow for example.
The way it works is to have these companies hire, and pay for, and care for (see Facebook terminating counseling services, etc. for leaving content-moderation employees) employees to make the decisions to provide a platform that's safe and sane.

That's it. That's literally it. That's just...it.

You are ultimately correct, in that it will be of relatively higher cost. You are ultimately correct, in the sense that "anything" costs more than "nothing". And I genuinely don't care. It must to happen,. And a large part of why I don't care is that I am not advocating for its destruction; what I am saying is that I am perfectly okay with going to the mat with Google and other ostensibly supra-national corporations because they'll back down. They will back down because they will still do just fine. Google is not going to shutter YouTube, Twitter is not going to fold (well, not because of this), Facebook is not going to hang a CLOSED sign on the door because governments say "no, you have to actually have humans make decisions that impact these other humans and process them sanely instead of having your robots blap stuff to death because it found a peak in their hill-climbing." They will comply, because they will still make plenty of money.

And if they don't? If I'm wrong? Somebody else will do it. They're plenty of gold in that hill, even if you aren't allowed to get at it for completely free.

(It is also worth noting that...uh...on YouTube, those Nazis exist. They're right there. I've watched them radicalize teenage boys who started on Let's Plays. The algorithm happily feeds those boys to them. That's part of this problem, too, and you can't just handwave it away.)
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> That's one-sided thinking.

Yes, one side I am interested in is my side. If I want to store my data in a different jurisdiction, because it is currently less interested in abusing my rights than the one my body physically resides in, I should have that option.

> In fact the EU already mandates similar restrictions for data of EU citizens

That's exactly my point. EU government might be currently less interested in explicit human rights violations than Chinese government, but their pattern of behavior is the same - "we own everything about our subjects, and won't let anybody - including subjects themselves - do anything to escape our control".
If you want to ever have a chance to progress and develop your economy then these criticisms are everything. On the other hand if you have a developed economy and already lead in many sectors then you can follow these sorts of rules and still be fine. The point of this as ideology is simply to try to cement the "natural" order of things. It's failed mostly because of work of heterodox economists from the countries effected negatively by such ideology like South Korea.
Would anyone be able to recommend the opposite of this in terms of a wakeup light? The problem with lots of these bulbs is they aren't very bright and these days I live in a place that doesn't really get lots of natural light.
There are two things you need to consider: how fast you can push pixels (determined by bus speed), and how fast/often you're actually pushing pixels (library efficiency). A faster clock will usually speed things up.

One oddity about many displays (including the SSD1306) is that you can't write to a single pixel. Single pixels are not addressable (it would be a waste of RAM on a 1-bit display), so you usually have to send a write sequence that includes a memory offset and then a data byte (8 pixels). That also implies you can only write to 8-pixel wide blocks on the display in one go.

If you have RAM on your micro, the way to minimise write overhead and code complexity is to buffer the entire display and then update it in one go; I assume this is what adafruit does. Most displays have a mode where you keep sending bytes and it'll auto increment the display pointer. However now you have the cost of updating the entire display if you just want to update say four numbers for a sensor readout.

An approach I've used in the past is to defined a variable width font 8 pixels high (i.e. each character is 8xN). This is stored column-wise in memory (so character[10][0] has the bits in the first col). Then a write operation simply involved writing to a memory location, and iterating through each character's columns in the string. It's very fast even over I2C.

I would define an imaginary grid on the display and then call something like put_text(row, x, "my_string"). The approach means your write regions must be multiples of eight high, but the width doesn't matter. And you can also use this for things like simple sparkline plots where you don't need to store an entire displays' worth of data. I believe on the SSD1306 you get to choose whether the RAM is treated in column-wise order or row-wise order (or something like that to make this approach work).

Obviously refresh rate is determined by how much you change on the display per second, but for a few numeric fields it's really fast.

EDIT: https://www.electrodragon.com/w/images/9/95/SSD1306.pdf

Yes - it has either vertical or horizontal page addressing which you can exploit.

I strongly recommend trying to write a display driver. The SSD1306 is great, and they're so cheap on eBay. You get instant feedback when stuff isn't right and it's a lot of fun trying to write efficient routines on 8-bit microcontrollers.
Geochemistry is a lot more concrete than that, from my exposure to it. Mars also doesn’t have an exotic composition or environment for a liquid solid gas phase of something else.
you don't have to use a topic by default... another option is to have a default topic like `general`
You were probably downvoted for using the term 'pick your brain'. I am sure they want their brain 'picked'.
It’s on the high end of each band but it’s legit. It includes stock though, which can be half of total compensation.
throw everything on the wall and see what sticks...

how much of these amazon services are even remotely worth using?
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Every single content creator needs to host all their videos on something that is more under their control. People need to learn how to setup PeerTube instances. I realize people are afraid they close loose subscribers/revenue, but trust me, the people who prefer PeerTube are most likely running adblockers anyway.

Always host your video on an alternative network you pay someone for and have regular backups of. The time is coming when YouTube will not be a viable place for creators.
We actually are working on a one-click Digital Ocean installer right now!

See https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/11622 for the code; it should be in their marketplace in a few weeks.

That said, if you make just a Digital Ocean VM and run our install script, it'll Just Work and you'll get the same experience after like 10 minutes of non-interactive installation.
Right, but the market for taxi dispatchers is a much smaller market than the market for taxis. Riders aren't the customer, drivers are. And price in this competitive market will tend towards a fixed monthly subscription cost, not a % cut of their rides.
I think it comes down to Amazon vs. Google's company cultures around customer support, which informs attention and resource budgeting. GCP isn't the only Google product where people hate its customer support, and AWS isn't the only Amazon product where people love its customer support.
Whats the typical bandwidth quota? Surely they wont let u saturate a 10gig pipe ..
Are you saying a private company would do a better job at finding lead poisoning in water?
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His point was not about left being more educated on average, but more of about ideology and propaganda (both sides have propaganda) being explicitly opposed to science and education. Plenty of people who argue against those are educated themselves.

You may disagree with that point, but it is not the same point as judging average education of this or that voter.
because it's not your society. it's that of your elites.
>Technically, a money transfer could take miliseconds - updating a couple of database rows.

I'm a devops engineer at a somewhat large company (4mil+ daily users) and in my years of working with servers and databases, even in this professional enviroment, I've seen some crazy things go down. That's why I find the thought of having basically the whole world's money state written in some databases which are so simple to update, insanely scary.

And that's also why I really love bitcoin and the whole blockchain idea. I could go on about the reliability and transparency of it but the general opinion around here is somewhat aginst crypto currencies so to each his own.

As to the people saying it's difficult to use and has an unfriendly UI. I might be just one of those nerds it's aimed at, but I feel it's the simplest way of transfering money. I mean really, you just put in an address, hit send and the other party gets it. It won't get delayed, no bank will call you about the funds, no conversion fees, etc. Yes there is a transaction fee which makes it a bit odd to buy coffee with, but for small amounts I don't need the whole world to confirm my transaction, I can use whatever other solution. But for big amounts hell yes, I want to use bitcoin. It's my hard earned money and I don't trust anyone with it.
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Oh come on, you know the performance profile of a streaming service is wildly different from a mobile ridesharing app...

Their surges are nothing like yours.
Only pixel support so far. Also:

> Testers, builders, and hosting bandwidth needed.
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It's representative of recent breakthroughs.

For example if we looked back in time to the invents I mentioned, the year's breakthroughs would have surrounded these much bigger breakthroughs.

The theme of current breakthroughs seems much smaller scope. For some reason our vision is smaller. I don't know why. We are either focused on very large things that appear unlikely to happen, like AGI, or on very small, speculative or trivial things like social networking or blockchain. None of the middle ground which are large, clearly important and have traction.

I guess a lot of the big tech I mentioned was generated by the necessities of fighting a global war.
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Sure, it's an overused term, but the ask is pretty clear. "I'm doing something and it looks like you've done it before, can I get advice?"
From a geology point of view, many of these features all over Mars are pretty clearly fluvial in origin. They have very specific characteristics, different from aeolian (wind) landforms such as dunes, which are also present. There's really a good deal known about Martian geology. For surface processes, it is (or was) more like Earth than different.

Definitely caused by presence of a liquid, almost certainly water. Considering Mars absolutely has a great deal of water, it's the only reasonable explanation.

There's also glaciers on Mars currently, as well as glacial landforms such as eskers and moraines from much more extensive previous glaciation, which only could have occured with a more vigorous hydrologic cycle. It's pretty hard to believe all of these landforms weren't formed by hydrological processes.

There's also not much methane on Mars. It's way too warm to be a solid or liquid. There's CO2, but it's either gas or solid. Water is really the only known liquidy thing there.
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Wouldn't the equivalent be incentivizing employees to rent out their own place on Airbnb? I'm sure that plenty of Uber and Lyft employees are customers without it being a Big Deal.
>The time is coming when YouTube will not be a viable place for creators.

Looks to me like it already is.
e2e encryption is an anti-feature for many. In places where an internal team chat is needed (i.e. companies), the ability to log and audit conversations is a requirement. I agree it might be nice if it was optional, as long as it can be disallowed globally by a server-side setting.