skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"According to the ranking service Alexa, the top three sites in the United States, as of this writing, are Google, YouTube, and Facebook. (Porn, somewhat hearteningly, doesn’t crack the top ten.) The rankings don’t reflect everything—the dark Web, the nouveau-riche recluses harvesting bitcoin—but, for the most part, people online go where you’d expect them to go."

The author is technically clueless. Nice swipe at Bitcoin, too bad it doesn't even make sense to compare Bitcoin "harvesting" with people going to a web site.

These are all the same lame arguments that have been made over and over. No, r/The_Donald doesn't represent the end of the world. Yes, Reddit had some subs that many people would find objectionable. The totally valid and correct argument is: Don't go visit a site when the content offends you.
Specifically in the area of high CPU load tasks. NodeJS is perfectly fine for heavily async tasks, especially calling out to external services. When you have CPU intensive tasks the lack of control over the event loop (task list) can be painful.
It just seems like it has nothing to do with the article. Upon rereading they even have his name in there:

Mr. Murry, who is an adviser for Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, raised doubts over the weekend about whether that debate will be necessary. His remarks came during a podcast for the national security website Lawfare.
In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since
I make at least 30% less than any systems related industry job out there, so no I don't think my salary demands are outrageous. I think it's a combination of ageism, having a family - hence not being willing to put in insane hours, and the idea that someone coming from the public sector cannot succeed anywhere else.
Regarding it's a property of the places I'm interviewing at..

.. there's a startup boom in NYC. And I think startups prefer young, dynamic types on the cheap? A buddy of mine from California says this is the Silicon Valley mindset creeping in. I'm not so sure, but there is something about startups and not hiring too many older folks.
So, I'm a USPS informed digest customer, and while I get only my own mail, I'm surprised by how deeply the camera penetrates the envelopes (possibly due to flash?). It's not uncommon for me to be able to make out the topic of a letter simply from the shadow of the letters on the paper beneath. It's not an everyday occurrence, but happens enough that I'd be very uncomfortable if someone else had access to my informed digest.
Wait... correct me if I'm wrong, but a HANS device doesn't connect to the seat or other car parts. It's a link between the helmet and a stabilizing piece that fits over the shoulders.

At least, in Formula 1 that's what it is.
But they don't risk any of those things. Aside from Iceland can you mention a bank where their execs did jail time in the past 10 years for the shenanigans that have come to light? HSBC was caught red handed laundering money for drug cartels and I think maybe there were some fines? None of them went to jail.
I just started researching this subject recently. Graham Hancock is a very interesting speaker regarding the subject. I highly recommend that anyone interested in this subject to have a listen.

Seems we are on a cycle of occasional doom and gloom, caused by nature. Think ice age cycles.
> Is a country willing to lose a powerhouse business for the sake of justice? What about the trickle down impact in the economy?

Every time I hear this question asked, I am stunned. I'm not really sure how to respond. The question, at it's root, comes from a place that puts government and corporation on equal footing, or worse, puts corporation above government. I'm a Centrist, relatively economically Libertarian, and pro-Capitalism, and the conclusion here is blatantly obvious to me, at least for Western countries.

We the people, are the government. We the people are not corporations, and corporations are not people. We as people have rights, corporations do not. Corporations have legal enshrinement of concepts which provide legal pathways to conduct business operations, but they do not have human rights. There is absolutely no reason why society should accept bad actors violating the rules and structures we've created which define our social mores and the things we believe you must do to be part of our society.

Once corporations violate those rules, they should be excised, just as any other entity would be. The trickle down impact to the economy of NOT punishing bad actors is that bad actors privatize profits and publicize losses, while we the people suffer the consequences.

I can imagine a world in which corporations supersede government and it's not a pretty image. It's one major concern of MNCs, but I see no legal or ethical means in which you could restrict the existence of MNCs. As a society though you absolutely have the right to say "No, you may not operate here. Your business has violated our rules and is no longer able to participate in our society."
A tweet from Elon a while back said the next-generation of Tesla batteries will contain no Cobalt.
Here's a video of an urban planner playing Sim City 2000, and commenting on the various ways in which it's accurate or inaccurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUQaCoxybW8
I was thinking about going back to management.

Do you find roles through old-fashioned recruiters or business networks?
You are not the only one that believes that the auto industry worked to change urban transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
> I've enjoyed my Google music subscription for years as well, but I think it's pretty shady that lately they keep trying to bundle in a free YouTube subscription

Replacing GPM with YTMusic, unless the latter is updated to support everything, including personal music import and export, that the former does would be shady.

Giving me free YT Premium along with the GPM All Access I was already paying for at no additional cost is not, however, shady.
i mean my comment wasn't trying to imply that was what you were suggesting. it was more along the lines of suggesting that in video organic and sponsored ads by content creators isn't going to stop you from being tracked. even with a VPN, a private window, and staying logged out, they can still likely fingerprint you so you better use noscript too! the point is there's no way to not be tracked short of removing the things that facilitate the tracking in the first place.
"Russian disinformation campaign could succeed there to the extent it did in the west?"

What proof do you have that the Russians had a successful disinformation campaign in the west? I've seen none.
Go have a look. It's bizarre. Safra/Republic Bank was deeply involved in the looting of Russia in the 90s; literally 747s full of physical dollars back and forth between JFK and Moscow. They also funded Browder who the Russians accuse of more of the same, more or less.

One of Comey's few day jobs was sitting on the board for Republic's successor company ... and Mueller let them off for the huge money laundering scams they did as Republic (they have a long history working together; I'm sure it at least helped he was on the board).

Browder himself is super shady, as even a cursory look into his background would tell you. However, the media, even congress seem to treat him as if he were physiologically incapable of telling a lie.

There's 5-6 hours of the FBI interviewing him on such matters on youtube; since he's under oath he remarkably doesn't remember much. I guess that means he's technically not lying!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9DMxfTGhY
I'm a reasonable photographer and my friends knew that. (I was photo editor of my undergrad newspaper, a photographer for various other publications, and earned beer money from my undergrad's alumni association for reunions, etc.) Having said that, I have no real knowledge of all the conventions and tasks required for a "traditional" wedding shoot whether purely conventional or some particular style. And many people have serious expectations about those things. There's no way I would accept money to work as a typical professional wedding photographer.

Mind you, I do shoot corporate events and other things (concerts, sports) from time to time unpaid. If someone wanted to pay me to do something like that I'd be happy to. Especially with digital these days, I'm very confident I'll produce something very publishable.
I downvoted you because that is not the definition of money laundering and the methods companies use are not illegal.
I think this could be useful for old-school table gaming D&D style.
The downsides of sleep are more severe for aquatic air-breathers, and, as some other comments have already pointed out, it appears to have already been eliminated in that case.
Looks great but why did you decide to develop your own query language instead of just using SQL? Even no-sql transactional database solutions started to adopt SQL lately and learning a new language is not really easy for the application developers.
How’s that? And what is untrue about the obligations to its shareholders? Not maximizing shareholder value is illegal.
My points are not related to cases where the results are cut and dry. Besides, you may have done a lot of things that are considered illegal or borderline, however, they are not reinforced as strictly for a variety of reasons.

Think of it this way, you do business with 100 people from X country. Although you are aware that some of the gains are illicit (lets say 5%) and you have created expensive processes to limit the numbers that go through, since there is a fine to be paid. Unfortunately, some illicit money will still pass through the cracks, so the government of your country decides to imprison you for it. The next manager may be a lot more likely to simply not let any business from X country since the risks far outweigh the benefit.

Now what happens if you have the same case, but someone in the business finds an exploit and sells it to the 5% that couldn't get their illicit money across? Do you blame the c-suit and imprison them because they let something like that happen under their nose? Do you search for the culprit? What if there are circumstantial evidence, do you imprison them regardless?

My point is, a lot of deals are made in gray areas or under conditions that are harder to prosecute due to the amount of complexities that exist (regulatory, law, business,etc). Normal business risks does in fact get entangled with potential unexpected illegal acts a lot more often than people realize. It can be a simple environmental law that your lawyer didn't go over, or a piece of cybersecurity law that you haven't considered.
It would be a reminder app, and otherwise work exactly the same way as those creepy "spouse tracking apps" people use to catch cheating housewives.
It always baffles me how the people who can't stop critiquing Western European civilisation end up hiding their money here. Must be doing something right.
Patriotism isn't about waving the flag, beating up foreigners and singing the national anthem- its about paying your taxes. Which amusingly none of the Russian elite seems particularly interested in.
"When it comes to the science of global climate change, I’m an agnostic.. I don’t know who’s right."

Christ, what an asshole.
1. Even if you know how to edit torrc files, I still don't think this is true.

2. Go ahead, nothing will break.

3. True, I have added a note to the script.

4. Umm, is explaining all those slashes simpler than just running a one line command? No. Only 7 lines are even functional, the rest are comments explaining things.

5. If "This file is meant to get SSH access via Tor to an Ubuntu server in one command." doesn't cover for you what it does and why, then you are not the target audience.

Yes, it is a gist for one person. I made it for myself. I thought others would find it useful. I guess that makes me a script kiddie.
still, how much will the bank get on fees and what % does trickle to C-level execs? I mean still the reward can't be that great (relative to their existing wealth /salaries
I have no doubt this works, but if the majority of couples did as you suggest, I imagine the cost of "engagement parties" will rise to something similar to weddings.
Will ssh experience timeouts and connection aborts detailed here http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html or is that not applicable?

Nice script BTW.
Too bad I can’t spend my calorie surplus on the no sleep extra healing evolution upgrade.
Tottenham vs. Dortmund Live Stream
https://qiita.com/BolodRasel/items/43c9b36592f7d15e48ea

https://qiita.com/BolodRasel/items/4dffe7eb3f8a148e7c70

https://qiita.com/Nilpori05/items/82a2d2899b69c688d747

https://qiita.com/Nilpori05/items/d7084cb3d03087c176b4
This article appears to be written in order to rank in search engines for the phrase "Web Design 3.0" and to have people use a phrase they already rank well for.
When I write code, I don't want anything to be invisible. I should be able to look at a single file, and understand how it works without reading any others. Sure, there may be some imports at the top of the file, but clearly named external API's will infer what they do.
They dont download 100GB. But almost all of them finish their data quotas everyday by watching YouTube and Hotstar videos. Thats like 30GB - 60GB a month.
Or you could just pass the function an optional tracing ID as an argument.
This article is quite good, especially part about bottleneck caused by single supervisor in ranch. However I have to say that title is a bit misleading because all of this has nothing to do with Elixir, it's all about Linux kernel and Erlang, cowboy and ranch are written in Erlang.

Having said that, I will add that I think it is good to have Elixir.
people who have worked for russian troll farms have given interviews:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/curious-case-russian-flash...
omg.

100K/sec was achieved by yours truly 10 years ago on a contemporary xeon with nothing but nginx and python2.6 - gevent patched to not copy the stack, just switch it. (EDIT: and also a FIFO I/O scheduler)

Why does this require 36 cores today??
> OLD stuff. Compare program development on Linux with Microsoft Visual Studio or one of the IBM Java/web toolkits.

If visual studio and tools of the same design philosophy so great, then why are sublime text/atom/vs code such a massive success?
The problem is that "civilization" and "china" are hard to define.

What we can say is that chinese civilization came into existence a long time ago. Then a serious of dynasty ( some not even "chinese" ) like the mongols or the manchus adopted aspects of chinese civilation.

"China" itself didn't survive for thousands of years. The dynasties rose and collapsed. Conquered and got conquered.

And "china", for much of its history, didn't even speak the same language. They used the chinese writing system ( which also evolved through time ), but does a writing system entail "part of civilization". Koreans and Japanese used chinese writing system, does it mean they are part of the chinese civilization? Of course not. Much of africa uses latin alphabet, does that mean africa is part of "greco-roman" civilization? Of course not.

The chinese capital changed multiple times. There have been periods where "china" had multiple competing capitals.

But then you could argue that chinese civilization didn't die out or get supplanted like the egyptian, mayan, mesopatamian, etc civizations.

The more you think about it and the closer you look, the more blurry the situation becomes. But like most things history, I guess the best answer is "it's complicated".
How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all
Many times they're not active participants. They don't investigate sources but aren't outright told it's money laundering.
skimming fail :(
Many thanks. I was not aware that such was publicly available.

Do you know if all online services (doing business in the U.S.) would hypothetically be required to verify registrations against this?
They differ by methods, but little by outcome. (And even the method is often similar. See e.g. [1] )

Poverty, to a large extent, is a deliberate construct because a weak labor force is an exploitable one. Sure, you don't whip people any more. (Well, somewhat. Ask the UAE[2]) You just make sure their life is going to be rather short if they don't work for you, at your conditions.

[1] https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/female-garment-workers-...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/23/m...
Thanks!

What's tricky is combining what you've learned at home with what you didn't do in production at work. In finance, most places are only beginning to use cloud services and barely tickling Docker (at least unless you are in cutting edge groups). And yet hiring managers want to see 5 years of experience in AWS, Docker...

It's not an issue to learn it, I already have started.
The new Continental Bentley GT is inspired by a legendary racing car
imho (and I wasn't there at the time) this is a result of proprietary unices constricting the growth of 'free unix' (e.g. source based BSD) in the commercial realm along with the rapid growth of space-constrained 90s PC's and "unix" users who came up in this commercial "unix" environment..

linux distributions were designed around the model of binary-only proprietary "unix" that just happened to have also have source available as a bonus instead of comprising a fully self-hosting source+binaries+documentation system like research unix and source-available derivatives/patchsets (like bsd, etc) always were from day 1

My personal opinion is that unix is a culture and not a trademark, the culture is the users and systems based around this self-hosting system with source lineage back to the original. Binary unix-derived distributions (and unix clones like linux) are therefore implicitly not unix since they are not out of the box self hosting and source included to one degree or another, and do not have a direct code lineage back to at&t v7. At best, they are some approximation of 'unix like', which can still of course be pretty useful.
People do the same thing with bluetooth speakers now and you can get a simple bluetooth dongle for about $15 that will output to any speakers/amps/headphones.
I challenge you to name one mafia member in the Russian government.
Was your benchmark for requests/sec or connections/sec?
Richard Gray, an Ordinary Muscovite: Interview with the Creator of Duke Nukem
New York City, but thanks!
o_O All the flight sim forums I've ever seen have been filled with angry children. Everyone always fights to see who can be the most pedantic while also bashing the devs for not being perfect in every way. That's just the average user, don't get me started on the rivet counters...
Plausible deniability is the first step to creating a criminal empire where you don't get caught. Anyone who has ever seen The Wire already knows where this ends up.
The only recommendation system I really liked was of Pandora. Spotify's is a joke, playlists and radio got a lot better compared to 2-3 years ago but I can't just put the radio ON and forget like I can, with Pandora.
Did starting more acceptors than the number of cores make any difference?
> If by loot you mean - as you say - the use of raw materials, labour and the environment, I don't think the word has any analytic meaning whatsoever.

By that definition, we have expanded the looting in the last century by several factors of magnitude. In that context, we should also view the global economy as a single empire.
That honestly scares me, though. A law that everybody is violating but that is only rarely enforced is a law that will be used to go after whoever the government doesn't like. Imagine a European hate speech forum that gets a lot of press sometime. The government will just step in and say "oops, looks like you're not in GDPR compliance!" and sue them into nonexistence.
No it is not true. What is true, is that nobody actually knows, since we have no idea when humans began, other than "some point before X", where X may be a shadily derived date based on pseudo scientific methods.

I find the fact that we have no idea quite liberating.
Using SSH over Tor is a supremely dumb idea unless you really need to hide your SSH sessions and you're already using other methods (pre-shared host fingerprint, single-use SSH key) to secure your session.

1) Tor exit node operators will do all kinds of nasty things: e.g. MITM-ing your sessions, refusing to handle certain kinds of traffic, and recording everything.

2) If you use your regular SSH key (which you will, because you needed to use this script to do this), your SSH key fingerprint and thus your identity is still recorded by the remote host. Doh!

3) Everyone at the remote host will think you got haxed. Because you're logging in through Tor. Or else they'll think you're super shady.

That said, Tor is super fun to play around with. Just don't assume anything gives you real protection unless you're careful and really know the ins and outs.
Social media is toxic because of its ability to distill extremism.

Say you have a person with an extremist view on dating and women - a 1 in 1,000,000 type view. Well, social media gives them a place where hundreds of like-minded individuals can gather in one spot and reinforce their extremism. Then, people with non-extremist views take notice of the community and stop by with popcorn because it's outrageous, disgusting, but above all, entertaining.

I think sometimes we overestimate how toxic a community is by doing bad math: "Oh, /r/incels has a subscription count of X and growing?? It must be converting more users to its extremism!! Quick, ban it!" What percentage of subs were just popcorn bystanders and what percentage of content creators were trolls? I would guess much higher than one would expect.
UK unicorn Revolut is fighting back after its week from hell
Similar to the "users request crazy stuff", managers of users request crazy stuff based on what they think their users need. Stuff that goes up and down two very different reporting chains (up the users' then back down yours) is almost always going to be some weird telephone game crazily divorced from reality.

"How is the user actually using this software?" is sometimes a weirdly hard question to answer correctly in reporting chains.

Then when those reporting chains get siloed due to budgets and in-fighting and over-complicated "change management procedures" (due to often over-zealous risk aversion, maybe to avoid losing budgets), it's far too easy to find yourself not developing for the actual users but for some ideal "manager-user" that doesn't actually use the app day-to-day (or maybe even at all) and instead believes the map is the territory. (Those that think the issue tracker about the app is the status of the usage of the app, or worse that PowerPoint screenshot demos of the app are all that matters and tells them everything about how the app functions.)
What blatant BS. We know from Facebook that the Internet Research Agency and other Russian backed organizations bought political ads with the clear intent to spread misinformation and inflame both sides in order to sow unrest and distrust in our political system.

To say it wasn't successful is just being obtuse.
This is the way modern Russia works. Troika is probably one of a cleaner financial institutions there, but they have to service the ruling class just like everybody else