skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rock layers on the surface of the earth that have water running through them that are drinkable have had rain water removing the elements and chemicals harmful to life for, generally, millions of years. The best water often comes from rock that was actually created by life (limestones, dolomites, etc), so that it had almost no harmful chemicals in it to begin with.

The poster you are disagreeing with is correct. The deep earth is full of really toxic stuff. Arsenic, lead, sulfur, radon, etc. Then there is the deep oil and gas, salt domes, asbestos. Huge volcanic eruptions called flood basalts are likely the cause of many mass extinctions due to the chemistry of the eruptions, not the ash. The mother Earth we all love is just the little skin on top of a cauldron of death.
The bigger issue, in my mind is the DoD acquisitions process. It is severely out of step with the speed of business, and actively prohibits investing in companies who have foreign funding, esp. Chinese money. They have created a diode that pushes engineering talent away from the Pentagon and China is more than happy to help out. On the flip side, look at our nervousness about China putting money and talent into SV. Are you so sure they're not nervous about one of our companies doing the same?
> Step 1 - Have money

One of the very best travel guide series is those books by Anton Krotov and friends written in Russian. While these travelers have gradually become pretty bourgeois and fans of posh train travel (which allows them to guide also ordinary holidaymakers), they spent many years traveling the world by hitchhiking, sleeping in mosques, etc. on absolutely tiny budgets (like 0–5€/day). Besides writing travel guides for the Russian-speaking market, they also do their fair share of public-speaking visits to small towns to encourage young people across the USSR and Eastern Europe to set out traveling even if they have little money.

Today if you come into contact with shoestring travelers in South America or Africa, you find that a lot of them are Russians and Poles. Their comparative poverty didn’t stop them from traveling transcontinentally, and it has always puzzled me that some comparatively better off Americans complain they can’t indulge in their wanderlust dreams due to lack of money.
> the CI environment and production environments are on different AWS accounts

yep, that's one way to structurally enforce isolation (unless you go out of your way to configure cross account permissions)

there's probably a bit of a tradeoff between things being safe and isolated, and things being seamlessly automated.
I live this everyday. Our ad team blames the ad network they run on our products if malware gets through, rather than taking responsibility and banning the ad network. Or even better, taking responsibility themselves for selecting ad networks that run scams and malware.

To me, if an ad network allows crap through, we have to take onwership and penalize the ad network and move on. But there is no accountability. It's everyone fighting for that next penny.

No one in the supply chain takes responsibility for this. That's how I, someone who works for a company that has ad-supported products, runs an ad blocker at the router level in my home. If people are going to actively try to harm me and my family by hunting for pennies, I am going to seek protection.

And because no one takes responsibility for this whole mess, the whole house of cards will fall. More and more devices are coming with ad-blocking built in. If we can't responsibly create ad-supported businesses, how can we honestly expect people to want to see those ads?

Digital advertising is so divorced from making users happy.
rent a nice large van!

Typically $100/day without mileage limits.
But is it really? It would seem to depend on what you define as “trading”. If I sell on an exchange, and someone on the same exchange buys, there’s no reason for them to actually force transactions through the network. It only needs to go through the network if the exchange doesn’t have enough on hand to complete the transaction. This kind of net trading is fairly common. Just because it didn’t go through the network doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Note that they aren't talking about Kubota, Cincinatti Milacron, etc. People that make robots for manufacturing are doing ok. But that also points to a big hole in this story, robots and what they are.

Back when I was running the Homebrew Robotics Club the question of "what is a robot" came up several times. Typically the definition is a machine that can perform some task while responding to changes in its environment that might otherwise prevent the task from being completed. The essence being sensing, executing an action to achieve a result, and identifying/signalling completion of the action. By this definition your dishwasher is a robot, it senses water temperature, dish placement, and sometimes even the amount of soiling on the dishes. It may adjust its cycle to insure the dishes are clean.

But most people mean mobile, anthropomorphic devices that interact with people when they think "robot." And making a business in that space is very hard indeed.

In part because we don't really have a way to "value" what the robot is doing. When you replace a union auto worker with a robot, you can directly compare the what you would have paid the worker in salary/benefits/training with what it costs to operate the robot. The math is "easy". But when you have a robot that is more "companionable" than not having a robot? How do you value that? And if you have tasks like "fetch me a beer from the fridge" that the robot can do, how do you evaluate the value of that versus doing it yourself?

Most people say "I'd love a robot that would pick up laundry off the floor and put it into the basket next to the washing machine." But if you say, "Here you go, for only $20,000 (ask about our payment plan), our picker-upper 1000 will collect dirty laundry and put it in the basket." people always blanch and say, "Heck for that much money I'll do it myself."
There is whole subculture for this: #vanlife

It's rather interesting. I had considered this lifestyle too. Freedom to roam. Digital nomad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/
$20 - $30 bullion sounds much too small to be the robotics market. With all the fearmongering of “robots taking your jobs” I would have guessed the overall market was at least 10x that.
Even more disturbing is playing counter strike or another FPS after watching it. You're brain can look at the NZ shooting and a first person Counter Strike stream and it wouldn't interpret them any differently.
This is correct. The advantages are solely personal preferences on features.
They are shaped exactly the same as (err millimeter ish) the default supplied headset which I find comfortable. They are open to outside sound; meaning I can wear them in silent and have conversations etc. And they pair easily with my devices.
Strings are immutable. Variables can be reassigned. Those are two very different things.

Strings being immutable means that you can can pass around references to them, safe in the knowledge that they can't be modified.

For example:

void example() {
String s = "hello";
someOtherMethod(s);
// `s` is guaranteed to still be "hello" here.
}

Or, a live example using repl.it: https://repl.it/repls/BothTrivialQuadrant
I haven't had an experience. That's the point. Most of my projects remain unmonetized for ethical reasons. The only thing I could find until now was tize[0], which is a completely different approach to advertising that didn't strike me as particularly circumspect.

0: https://tize.io/
Exactly this.

And this particular office was required to interview candidates in the order they appeared on the candidate list.

They can't get rid of the veteran's preference, either, because the military-industrial complex is a massive jobs program for people who have 20 years of experience with skills that are juuust short of entirely worthless outside of the military or military-associated companies. If you're a maintenance mechanic for a model of aircraft that only one government flies, and it has no civilian version....

Then it's time to use the preference points.
... maybe they didn't have HN accounts before?
This is very cool! I've been waiting to see someone enable tar.gz files to be seekable so they could be object bundles stored in remote blob storage systems that a client could mount and seek through on demand by byte range (so you could treat data in a similar fashion to containers, or like a Mac DMG file that had an open standard for remote mounting).
> San Francisco <-> Milan, May 7 - May 20, Norwegian Air+Easy Jet: $598.

That's great if you are near a large city like San Francisco.

However, Madison, WI <-> Milan, May 7 - May 20, United: $1304 economy, 21h travel time.

It IS the $2000 airfare ( or approaching it).

Now, ORD <-> MIL is $687, but MSN -> ORD is at least a 2 1/2 hour trip by car, longer by bus.

It's a $60/rt ride from Madison to O'Hare on the Van Galder bus. If you drive, it's whatever cost to take your car plus at least $10/day at ORD.
>South Korea already has 23 nuclear plants though [1], I wonder why they decided to go this route, perhaps easier setup and lower associated costs ?

Atoms scare uniformed voters.
>because you clearly are continuing to dehumanize homeless people

That is a patently unfair statement and a gross mischaracterization of what I wrote. At no point did I even imply something of the sort.

>I will challenge you to think a bit outside of your current paradigms

Fair. And I challenge you to think a bit outside of YOUR current paradigms.

The reality is that we are more OK with leaving our most vulnerable people to languish in the streets in filthy encampments than providing them with institutional care and I don't think that's moral.
Already posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19462894 (EDIT: although this link is from the horse's mouth rather than the WSJ)
What you are stating is 100% morally wrong - that it’s better for a mentally ill individual to be left to starve on the streets rather than a society that can afford to care for these individuals in a controlled environment? Anecdotal support of your argument is a logical fallacy, and can’t be the basis of policy selection.
Did AMD ever release Spectre ucode updates for K10 processors? We've got a pretty good handle on the internal format of those and it'd be interesting to see exactly what changed.
I'm genuinely curious about how deeply identity politics is infecting HN.

Also, arguably the very original submission is flame bait.
I think you pretty well nailed it. Though in many cases it's not so much a choice as necessity (the other option being to move elsewhere completely).
I wrote this. I'm glad to see it posted. Happy to answer any questions.
C++/WinRT and C++/CLI are not memory safe. Rust is. I don't see how Visual Studio, debugger integration, COM, and .NET are relevant: one is safe and the other is not.
GPUs a ‘Game Changer’ for Nuking Noise in Nuclear Imaging
Actually a better business is to start having more RV parks in the SV. The last 5 years has been record breaking sales history for RVs. Yet the rest of the industry (RV parks specifically) isn't catching up. Most of the people buying RVs are now surprised that no RV parks have availability. I've watched for the past 5 years bay area periphery cities go from having tons of space any time of the year, to being completely full all the time, no matter what they do to their monthly price. It's kinda crazy.
The insanity, here, is that you can't take the land the motorhome is on and build a studio on it.

We give cars free places to sleep while people are homeless.
Won't you feel the same way about the next viable alternative forcing you to install yet another piece of software? (unless someone completely figures out something that's entirely browser-based)
Oh thanks, thought it was a footer under the audio player.
Distance and size of plant would also be heavily dependent on the fault lines. Could be a very useful military tool for attacking particularly vulnerable places (if you can fortify a nearby position against enemy attack for long enough to build such a thing). Seems overly-situational without some extremely rapid assembly.

Good for softish sci-fi, though!
> Intuitively, I don't understand why computer science engineering would have a lower ratio than engineering in general

If this graph is real, that's not actually true.

https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/2875/why-did...
Running video in an app instead of a browser enables a better experience. It's partly why they've succeeded.
Great work, thanks for sharing!

I was looking for that comment to upvote it but it didn’t exist. Everyone is expaining their pet feature of FP.

Maybe we should put aside our differences and lean towards cheering the people who put lots of effort into opening this world up for as many people as possible. Those who are not FP experts need exactly this kind of explanation, not mathematical mumbo jumbo.

I’ll save the URL for sharing with anyone interested.

So here it is again: Great work, thanks for sharing!
I like your speculation.

Google's face recognition tech is the first tech that comes to mind of being a real issue (esp with Googlers).

I think this is something people need to discuss more.

Like, why is the US govt allowing companies to get US military contracts that allow CCP units access to their research centers?
Zoom charged us a fraction of what we paid other more traditional video conferencing companies (GoToMeeting, WebEx) and provided I think a better product in many regards. Not only that, they paid out our previous contract too (worth tens of thousands of dollars). At the time I thought either (a) they're losing tons of money to close deals and grow or (b) traditional video conferencing companies are built on infrastructure that was required 10 years ago but with modern advances in web technology they either didn't lower their operating costs by upgrading or did and just take more money off the top. Either way, they're overcharging. Based on Zoom's financials, I think it's the latter.

If I recall correctly, the founder of Zoom came from Cisco. This all strikes me as someone technical seeing all the waste at their existing job and trying to make change happen. Cisco couldn't see the forest for the trees and never took them up on their ideas. The employee believed there was a large enough technology gap so they left and totally undercut them by delivering the same (or better) product for a fraction of the cost.
The commenter is just being sarcastic. It's easier to penalize others and self-justify than to care and help others.
> The author is being called out in the comments.

The comments look like a fairly mixed bag as far as I can tell. But also, sentiment analysis on internet comments are probably one of the poorest ways to gauge public reception. Almost by definition, it's the people on the fringes of a polarizing topic like this that are most likely to comment, even if they represent a vanishingly small demographic.
I completely agree, it is perhaps the greatest source of Google's CPC erosion over the past decade. But the tools available to go after these folks are limited.
I generally like her writing when I come across it, but I disagree with that one.

Good programmers are humans and make mistakes, of course. However, that doesn't mean good programmers don't exist or that people can't vary a lot in skill or average quality of output.

She is correct that starting with some notion of "good people" is no silver bullet. But the conclusion that "we all suck", I hope that is hyperbole, because it isn't true. (Or maybe: everybody sucks a little bit differently.)
haha, never thought about that, I actually read this somewhere(could be 7%, or 5% too), sorry for politically insensitive, I guess everyone has to watch their mouth in this country these days.
Oh wow. Great find. Thanks for the tip!
Have you seen their fully integrated video conference systems for meeting rooms? Or their scheduling integration (e.g. Calendly)? They are the first company to truly solve remote meeting and calendaring for me without any gotchas.
Microsoft open sources algorithm, hardware and source code for data compression
Can you explain a little more what you mean by this or where the disagreement is? I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Thanks!
One of my friends lives in a shipping container in Oakland in a trailer park. She loves it and pays around $250/month for the space.

When I was visiting, the people there are so nice. It’s a community in which people help each other, not like the upper class neighborhoods of my youth. In a span of one day, I got some weed, some beer, and an popsicle.

A far cry from many upper class neighborhoods in which no one is willing to talk to each other.
95% of the rest is transfers between exchanges
It's not just that: everything in the US is ridiculously expensive now, so it doesn't make sense to travel domestically at all for me any more. I can stay in very decent hotels in western Europe and Japan for $50/night, but paying that much in America would put me in a rat-trap. Eating out (hard to avoid when traveling) is much cheaper in Europe in my experience. And ground transport is far cheaper in other countries.

America is just plain overpriced. The only thing that's harder about international travel is that so many people don't speak English in other countries, but that's also part of the fun of it.
The cost to switching is low until you lose an enterprise sale because your video teleconferencing software sucks.
I feel that I'm reading that tone in Linus's post, too. But after reading these comments, it also appears that some people simply have different use cases for these tools aside from stepping through logic.

And in other cases, the debugging statements have to be present in the code to even get to step through the program, and their concerns revolve around code management when tools that have code inserts like that.

But it would be nicer if they wrote their stuff like their use cases weren't the only ones, or the most important. What features have we lost because they couldn't think past themselves?
https://zoom.us/zoomrooms
Yes. Agree. But it's the increase in T2D that has driven up the cost for all. And AFAIK nearly all T2D is preventable.

So instead of debating a symptom (i.e., the price of Insulin) let's discuss some of the actual root problems.
Universal rendering is widely used in the React ecosystem, in large part thanks to Next.js[0] making it simple to set up and run.

Many large sites like Marvel.com, Nike.com, Invisionapp.com, hulu.com and many more run on server-side rendered React, see the Next.js showcase for a more complete list: https://nextjs.org/showcase

[0]: https://github.com/zeit/next.js/
Ask HN: Does the prestige of a PhD matter for getting a quant position?
I'm admitted to a few PhD programs to do research in statistical machine learning.
As a backup option in case academia doesn't work out, I think quant trading/modeling/research would appeal to me (I've enjoyed learning about stochastic processes/martingales from my prob class). I'm currently torn between Johns Hopkins and UC Irvine, if that makes any difference.
She should definitely send a PR to add herself to fullname.dev then! https://github.com/CydeWeys/fullname.dev
Do you have a source for that? Not disagreeing, but I'd be very interested in reading up on how a high-rise might negatively impact my health seeing as I live in one right now.
It's pretty shocking how easy it is for disinformation campaigns to derail any semblance of coherent, thoughtful discussion on climate change.
Thanks, I just passed this along to her!
> Fortunately, we can fix the fact that tar.gz files are unindexed and unseekable, while still making the file a valid tar.gz file by taking advantage of the fact that two gzip streams can be concatenated and still be a valid gzip stream. So you can just make a tar file where each tar entry is its own gzip stream.

I'm surprised nobody came up with this idea till now. It's brilliantly simple.
> It is demonstrably harmful to the enviroment, physical and mind health and the society in general.

I'm having trouble understanding how single-family housing is less harmful to the environment, relying on this statement and my back-of-the-envelope calculations alone. Likewise, what are the effects on physical and mental well-being for people who have to live in the street, because affordable housing is "banned", and they can't afford a suburban house?
I like this! It's tiny, simple, yet effective.

2019-03-22T19:54:06.303Z ACCEPT host=::ffff:196.52.43.xx port=50327 fd=4 n=1/4096
2019-03-22T19:54:38.838Z CLOSE host=::ffff:196.52.43.xx port=50327 fd=4 time=32.535 bytes=199

2019-03-22T19:57:12.008Z ACCEPT host=::ffff:141.98.81.xx port=53646 fd=4 n=1/4096
2019-03-22T19:57:21.118Z CLOSE host=::ffff:141.98.81.xx port=53646 fd=4 time=9.110 bytes=30

The 141 bot never stays longer than 5 seconds. I'm guessing they are using 'expect' and waiting 5 seconds for a particular string.

The only thing missing is setting some glibc hardening options

RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE RPATH RUNPATH FORTIFY Fortified Fortifiable FILE
Partial RELRO No canary found NX enabled No PIE No RPATH No RUNPATH No 0 8 ./endlessh

I modified one line in the Makefile

CFLAGS = -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -ftrapv -s -g -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -Wl,-z,noexecstack -pipe -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection --param ssp-buffer-size=4 -fPIE -pie -m64 -mtune=generic

It's better now

RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE RPATH RUNPATH FORTIFY Fortified Fortifiable FILE
Full RELRO Canary found NX enabled PIE enabled No RPATH No RUNPATH Yes 3 4 ./endlessh
To be fair, they did get Coreboot working after about 2 years from the time of that post but it's still not ideal, compared to a older Libreboot based system, performance not withstanding.
Why would you report it?

So Facebook can contact Taco Bell with their elite swat team and send them in?

The concept of even thinking of reporting to a Megacorp is so Bladerunner and very messed up and hard to know where to begin.
Like what exactly? You accurately describe the cause-and-effect of not prosecuting petty crime whatsoever and that prison is not a sufficient deterrent, so what would be “less severe, more immediate, and more ‘certain’” that would impel a miscreant to not commit a crime? Please provide a specific example.
the person you're responding to here is trying to point out that the article is disingenuous and so only can generate the same. I don't agree/disagree. just clarifying.
Please review the content on your homepage.

The typos ("trail" instead of "trial") and awkward grammar/missing words ("make Yipgo provides amazing value") do not instill confidence in the quality of your product.

Doing the little, easy things right - like writing good basic copy - says a lot about the work you're doing.
Don't know what the fuss is about, this is open to everyone, men and women:

> We use inclusive definitions of “women” and “female” and welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are female-identified.
>This kind of net trading is fairly common. Just because it didn’t go through the network doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

I would expect that to be the ONLY kind of trading, with the single exception being decentralized exchanges that need to use the network to facilitate trades.
"MANILA - A shutdown of Boracay Island could lead to job losses for 36,000 people and P56 billion in lost revenue, stakeholders said Thursday, as they appealed for a partial, instead of a full closure.

Around P56 billion in tourism revenue will be lost if the island is closed for 9 months, based on the island's revenue during the first 9 months of 2017, data showed. This is equivalent to roughly 20 percent of the country's total tourism receipts."

https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/03/22/18/boracay-shutdown-...

Consider also the armed security comment, this really shows
the way of a totalitarian government.