skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulatory capture. The FCC is the agency responsible for oversight of ISPs. They spend less in buying the politicians then implementing regulations.
Tangential: As a non-native speaker, I find the word PREMIUM highly problematic. You need a lot of contexts to understand that the article is talking about health care costs not covered by health insurance.
I think he said tailed "|".
Words of Day App
IIRC the FTDI chips use a non-standard com driver on Win 7. IF you want your device (with your VID and PID) to show up as a serial port, you need to associate your device with the usbserial driver, which at the very least requires a custom .inf.
In the prisoner's dilemma, it's also in the individual's best interest to betray the others, despite ultimately that leading to a worse outcome for everyone.
How does Cloud Run compares to App Engine?
Yeah, if it were designed in such a way as to incentivize general purpose computing, or to reward producing the results of some useful scientific or mathematical computation, then I would be less appalled by it.

As it stands, brute-forcing SHA256 on ASICs is just a travesty.
Influence works. If it didn't, nobody would practice it.

Some forms of influence are clearly illegal. But there are vast gray areas, like pharma sales, where doctors are offered speaking fees to "speak" to an empty room near a nice beach. I would throw both the doctor and the pill pusher into a dark hole and throw away the key and that would save our society tens, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars and many lives.

But the first step in all these cases is to admit that influence works. Stop putting the onus on the consumer, least of all when the whole "market" leading up to the consumer is also compromised by influence. Stop claiming that influence is "free speech." It isn't. It's the corruption of free speech. Stop claiming that laws against influence are unenforceable. If influence could not be identified, it could not be remunerated.

While it's often a good idea to imagine a world with fewer laws and rules, or systems that are self-correcting, the other approach needs consideration, too. Influence could be regulated, taxed, and circumscribed more tightly, with more kinds of influence prohibited by law.

Bad influencing won't go away if you ignore it. That's just poisonous smugness. Influence isn't "just how things are." There's lots of influence that is already illegal. Choose to do something, or, unless you are a hermit, things will get worse.
You'll never read one book on each of each subject.
CMake is doing more than generating a build file, it's also a configuration tool (detecting compiler, finding dependencies, etc).
Frankly I agree. There's a lot of ridiculous hand-wringing in every thread about Huawei on HN, but unless what's reported here is factually wrong I'm not going to lose sleep over them facing consequences for a shoddy product.
Why is anyone being given the choice?
About latency from EU, it's not possible to choose the deployment zone?
Horribly nested BASIC is just what you did before you did it better.
> Interestingly, Opera trying to compete with other browsers makes it pursue users interests

Lol, sure the closed source browser owned by chinese is out there for user's interests! /s
Ah yes. Forgot to mention this. When English people hear it they think it's bad, but it actually seems to make them happy.
Won't even download or think twice about now. Thanks for the reminder.
> consume electricity that would've been wasted otherwise

[citation needed]

But even if that were true, it would be disincentivizing the deployment of grid-scale storage technologies, so still hurting the battle against climate change.
So you attest that the placebo effect is real yet attribute it to something else.
I remember watching a talk from a chap who started his own cleaning business. They found themselves doing more and more "niche" cleaning - mopping up blood spillages in nightclubs, working with police cleaning houses after gruesome murders or just old guys who fell down the stairs and weren't found for months. Apparently, getting brain matter out of stair carpets is a real challenge.

Anyway, they were using off-the-shelf cleaners for this kind of thing, with 99.9% promises on the bottles. At some point, they had to submit samples of their cleaning agents for testing.

Turns out, some of the 0.1% of viruses and bacteria happened to include the really bad ones - Hepatitis I believe was one of the scariest survivors (particularly problematic in nightclub blood cleanups) and some of them even thrived in the chemicals.

That said, I don't think that's what this article is saying, as they aren't testing different pathogens - they're testing a single pathogen, and only 0.1% of the mass passed through remained viable. Still, don't underestimate that 0.1%. If it can multiply, it can kill you.
First gravitational wave yesterday to be automatically circulated to astronomers
Id rather be surveiled by neither, and a VPN does very little to prevent stuff like browser fingerprinting.
Shouldn't this be, if you're not going to print the article, here's a version in a format actually designed for consumption over the web.
> All of those are very subjective.

They're not. People vastly more experienced and more intelligent than you came up with them. Learn why they exist before dismissing them.

You won't get anywhere trying to replace C with a "let's go shopping instead" mentality.
Again, the point isn't to save money. The point is to reduce waste.
I think a lot of the problems we face today are largely unacknowledged by those who create them. The delivery lacked any empathy but does not make it less true. Actions have consequences and ignorance of those outcomes doesn’t mean you can escape them. The world would be a little bit better of a place if we’d stop coddling those who float haphazardly through their own existence.
You’re thinking Democratically. Geopolitically, HK belongs to China, the historically established state of which Beijing is the capital.
Yeah you block vpn providers ip ranges and it's actually very effective unless you're deploying e.g. ovpn on a box yourself. Even then some sites will block content submission from large hosting provider ranges as well.
All contributions already are on the public record. Voters just don't take the time or interest to study it. Limiting the top amount is already in place in a number of states, and results in complicated legal bundling schemes where people host fundraisers where everyone in attendance signs a contribution card and is basically given the cash to turn back over signed under their name.

There isn't an easy answer.
> > An underappreciated bonus is that you don't have to install more stuff just to __build__ some program you might not even want.

> sorry what ? I remember hours in my younger years searching which Debian package provided autowhateverflavoroftheday.sh so that I could build $random internet project

The whole point of Autotools is that distributed source packages can be built by themselves, without requiring any part of Autotools to be installed. They build even on obscure systems that don't have any working version of Autotools.

If you have to install autoanything to build a random project that uses Autotools, either you are doing something wrong, or the project is using Autotools wrong, or maybe the Debian package is using Autotools wrong.

That said, I know what you mean. I've had to seek out a number of different versions of Autotools just to get some things to build. But that is because a lot of projects and/or distro packaging blatantly uses Autotools differently than it's was designed to be used. I don't think Autotools should be blamed for this.
"That BT is running a soon-to-be-defunct operating system for its display isn't particularly worrying."

Indeed, what is more worrying is that Microsoft has managed to brainwash people into confusing "unsupported" and "defunct". Windows 7 installations won't suddenly stop working when the day comes.
Regarding point #2: Nope. Hell no. Our hardware might run on hardware from Chinese ODMs but there's no evidence that they have MITM hardware devices in them. But a software company owned by the People's (sic) Republic of China -- the same government that runs the Great Firewall -- can get bent.
Rust is the better choice, but they're still learning about the real world of error handling, generic library code and performance optimization.
> I never understood the prevalent idea that traffic accidents are somehow random rolls of the dice.

It's pushed by the auto manufacturers and insurance companies to normalize driving and make you pay for more expensive safety features. If people drive irresponsibly enough to wreck their cars, but not enough to kill themselves (modulo the safety level of their car), they buy more cars and spend more money on car insurance.
> If the home computer was not protected with up-to-date anti-virus software, the Angler would search for vulnerabilities and, if possible, deliver the "ransomware" that seized control of the machine.

> It immediately splashed a full screen message to the user,

It's unclear if this exploit / malware was capable of actually encrypting files or if it did something else which could easily be fixed without data loss. I think most peoples reaction would be to pull out their phones and google how to fix it.
That isn't at all the same problem: Netflix is trying to block being accessed by a VPN, while China/Russia/etc. want to block users from talking to a VPN.
What's the context I'm missing, here?
The billing for health care in the USA is also rediculous. Last week I got a bill from the doctor's office for a visit back in November that my insurance company decided not to pay. What other business takes 4+months to send a bill?
> Well you learn to appreciate the value of RAII and exception working on high-availability software.

Alternatively, you'll learn to not appreciate the value of exceptions working on high-availability software. Not personal experience, but AFAIK Google (definitely lots of highly-available software) disallows using exceptions in C++.
Show HN: Slack integration to manage Azure DevOps tasks
Wirth didn't produce anything usable before Oberon (which is garbage collected, so outside of the C niche.)
Hard left socialist in the USA
The post that she quotes is the original one, and if you click through to it, you can see that it wasn't particularly well received.
Well, icons are not intuitive anyway, so it probably doesn't make difference :)
Yeah, make them immune to that too. Improves the chances of life spreading across universe.
This is clickbait... yes, clickbait on BBC

The guy was a ransomware distributor who used malvertising campaigns to hijack traffic from all sort of sites, not just porn sites.

NCA press release: https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/hacker-from-russian-...
I think it's important to draw a line between positive and negative colonialism. The British were legally given HK for 99 years, built infrastructure there, and turned it into a very wealthy territory that enjoyed many freedoms they would not otherwise have if it were a Chinese territory.

Even today, there is a significant number of people within HK that want to go back to British rule. Why deny what the people want?
Flexulator: Visualize Flexbox Space Distribution Calculation in the Browser
I couldn’t find whether he gets to keep the money. If he does he’ll be a millionaire when he leaves prison in ~6 years.
Aesthetics and flaws aside, Arial is a proprietary font.
Just block scripts and randomize the useragent, here's your new fingerprint every minute.
HN has ads, they're just low-profile. There's one for Demodesk (YC W19) on the front page right now.
As a team of software developers we are constantly interacting with two things - our Slack chat and our task manager. For us it's Azure DevOps.

After internal usage and some polish - we decided to share it with the community. Main features so far:

- Creating, updating and managing work items like tasks, bugs and other. Done with /board command

- Tracking only the builds needed, not having integration spam all over the channel. Done with /pipeline command

- Discussing tasks, builds and pull requests in slack - with all relevant context, using [show] optional attribute.

Please tell me what are your thoughts and how we can do better.
The need is: for any given package, download that package and all dependencies, regardless of their installed status on the current system, so that they can be put on some external storage and taken to the other system.
A minimalistic guide to distributed tracing with OpenTracing and Jaeger
Contributor Spotlight: Bella Scott
Privacy isn't a morality question for most users. If it were, we would expect to see more people up in arms about demographic surveys instead of willfully participating in them.
Do ethicists steal more books? (2009) [pdf]
> You're attempting to take away people's free will, using the dirtiest tactics one could imagine

I flipped open at random the other day the book 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion' and was a bit disturbed by what I read. It was about a particular way of starting a conversation in order to manipulate someone into then finding it difficult to resist your next conversational gambit, with the obvious end goal of parting them from their money against their better judgement or similar. I want to get rich one day and get out, but is this what I need to become to do it?!
Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
You can study Group Theory and Category Theory simultaneously using Chapter 0 by Aluffi: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6829004-algebra
"Obama" care is a far cry from single payer.
Power of SSH Tunneling
It almost makes you wonder if we should be spending significantly more on basic science research.

The dividends paid by basic research are difficult to measure.
While in beta, us-central1 is only region
About time. As a Brit who worked in America for many years this was blindingly obvious. It is only who you pay your tax to.
Yes but I'm addressing the OC as he specifically says that they have to charge more as if they're recouping losses. I'm trying to make the case that no losses are actually being made.
No. According to Lennart Poettering, the inspiration for systemd was upstart.
Im not a fan of LUA. The syntax of XMake.lua reads somewhat like CMake but easier to understand.
What I'd really like to see is a build system in Python (3!) utilizing objects and dictionaries for tasks like this should be a breeze.
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach by Hubbard is good book, written somewhat from the point of view that these subjects are better presented interleaved than as a self-contained book.
In some situations, there is a huge performance advantage to symbolic integration. The symbolic integration is expensive, but once it's done, you can evaluate integrals of different parameterisations of your function in a handful of cycles. With numerical integration, you have to spend however many thousands of cycles it takes for every parameterisation.

If you're evaluating integrals as part of the objective function in an optimisation over a multidimensional space, then you're going to be doing a lot of optimisations, and that saving can add up.
Perhaps the security staff are convinced that either Google doesn't actually have access to it in any practically-concerning sense (https://www.quora.com/Can-Google-open-and-see-files-in-my-Go...), or the risks associated with that access are negligible?

I think you've hit on a very interesting point. The fact that IT security staff (with careers and reputations on the line) do sign off on companies using Google's platform for business applications that include passing sensitive data around might indicate that our assessment of the risk model is flawed?
A Year Later, Cybercrime Groups Still Rampant on Facebook
While I don’t know what providers have to do to actually access it, the Universal Access Fee is supposed to be there for exactly this kind of reason: providing internet to rural areas that wouldn’t otherwise get it, due to low population levels.
The twit is a response to

Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank you email, don’t hire them.
I believe the idea is that the plasma never leaves the filter.
You misunderstand. Start forcing me to type my password as the first thing into a new keyboard, and now malicious keyboards can be certain that the first characters up to <ENTER> are a valid password for the device in question.
Here's the link to the actual Microsoft report: https://news.microsoft.com/rural-broadband/
Only Korean? But if you don't have a decent font on your machine, how the text is rendered?
Thanks for that. (Now I hate bash slightly more than I hated it already.)
Apparently a follow-up to an identical article written years past, that was also not well-received.
Including multiple versions of openssl is not as trivial as adding another dependency in the packages file. It actually takes a bit of effort / linker fun to include multiple versions without a conflict. It also takes a special kind of person to both be capable of this and not realise this shouldn't be done.
It's been a while since bbc shed any notion of journalistic reputability. Now their news page is as vacuous and turpid as the next. That said there is still quality reporting being done, especially in the longform articles.
I'd guess it'll be confiscated, assuming he hasn't hidden it away somewhere the authorities can't get to it.
Advanced Analytics for Marketplaces
Approach: simulation with human-like AI agents

Short intro: https://medium.com/@GruPiotr/the-hard-thing-about-marketplac...

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6vTLGfmy5M

Try it: http://dashboard.incentivai.co
I'd love to have a crash cart. I'd spend all day crashing it into other carts.
would this not fall into a similar category of happened to linkedin? The data is publicly facing, and not behind a paywall or a password, therefore, basically fair-use of internet?

ianal, nor do I know much about the subject, but seems like if its not at a minimum password protected information, it is pretty fair-use.
Well, the article implies that the majority has been hidden away somewhere, and hasn't been found yet.
You don't get to keep criminal proceeds unless you're a politician these days.
bbc submissions should be mod approved. Their titles are buzzfeed level now
The goddamn space shuttle ran on 386's, and that was an upgrade from 8086's
probably in some sort of tumbled crypto if he's even casually familiar with hiding money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
What, no TYPO2 checksums? :)
Then the page is ruined by the disastrous Arial font.
Even if they'd have to hunt down that email address themselves, according to the article she links to.

A thank you email to someone you're already in an email conversation with is not at all unreasonable, but expecting people to hunt down your email address just to send you a thank you, is downright weird.
Also:

https://archive.org/details/Whattodoafteryouhitreturn/page/n...

With my personal favorite BASIC game: Star Traders
His fellow inmates may want to have a share, if they find out.

https://www.ft.com/content/dbaea8c6-2541-11e9-b329-c7e6ceb5f...
The real context is that it is still nearly impossible to follow conversations on Twitter.
Chernobyl had two explosions, a few seconds apart. The second, larger one was after most of the water had left the core. The reactor had a positive void coefficient, so losing water increased reactivity.

Of course these were prompt supercritical reactions in a moderated system, so they are not explosions in the sense of bombs, which are fast systems with neutron doubling times measured in fractions of a microsecond.
Just out of curiosity, what parts of lua do you not care for?
My guess would be that the firmware includes multiple binaries which run as separate processes. If there are 70 tools which speak SSL, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if there were 70 copies of OpenSSL.
You ignored it - there are middlemen and your claims are ridiculous fantasy.

Miners are the middlemen, complete with fees. Bitcoin is not pure energy any more than any other electronic currency. Proof of work is energy already used, not somehow carried in a bitcoin.

The whole "pure energy" thing is just air-headed utopianism AFAICT
It is ironic that he later gave thumbs up to DRM which is like putting a black hole in the web. Maybe he lost faith in the web or just made a mistake.
It's not because you are a non-native speaker. It's not a widely used English term without the word Insurance in front of it, however it is a standard American English term.

It is also not the costs "not covered by health insurance", rather the insurance premium is the cost of the policy itself.
Do you consider waf to meet that criteria? https://gitlab.com/ita1024/waf https://waf.io

Or scons? https://scons.org
most people didn't have access to Internet in the 90s at all.
Thanks. Makes it useless for me right now then :-)
Contributions are on public record

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobby_contribs.php
Interesting choices. They're all very old. I feel we must have learned something since the 1970s that could be used to improve a systems programming language.

I don't really want to restart a flame war that was extinguished decades ago but Kernighan's critique of Pascal (http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html) is an interesting read today - if only because it reminds me how much simpler things were back then - no mention of memory safety or multi-threading.

I have no knowledge of Object Pascal and Modula-2, so won't comment.
all those gotos could cause some serious harm
In theory, certainly, mgtow seems fine. In practice, like your message right here, it's coming from a place of bitterness and resentment and a desire to "get back" at women. I prefer not to live like that, regardless of whether I'm currently seeking a partner, so the MGTOW label is inappropriate and any other label would likely get overloaded with similar bitter people.

As an aside, why do you refer to men as "men" and "guys", but women as "females"? The asymmetry there felt quite jarring to read.
just don’t do anything that they can blackmail you for...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590585
I cant tell if you’re joking or not ;)
> Well-written documentation (with plenty of real world examples) is severely underappreciated in modern tech. It's not only empowering but it's just plain fun getting under the hood.

This can't be said enough. Complete, well-written, well-maintained documentation is a key divide separating open- and closed-source. It's expensive and time-consuming to produce — and absolutely essential. Trying to understand how to access a critical setting that some UI wizard has hidden from view in Windows? GLWT.
> Does anyone consider the possibility that she prefers the overall iphone experience, and is not choosing it to be cool?

Does she have experience with both platforms, to be able to prefer one over the other?
This kinda reminds me of a technique for communicating within the WiFi frequency spectrum by "backscattering" some existing waves (as I understand it).
Can be used by non-electrical devices IIRC.

It's interesting how we're able to exploit signal overlap - which seems to be how this works. Disclaimer: I haven't actually read the paper yet.
Probably nothing new. Seems like just supporting PR for all those more expensive "cold plasma" air conditioners at the beginning of the season.
So do you always ignore peer reviewed science or just when it comes to homeopathy?
I guess Gorillas and Nibbles didn't come with that book from the article, but with MS-DOS, so to have it with the book would have been a waste of space as they were already present on most systems
The title is misleading, it should be: "Why airlines are allocating and publishing longer flight times than are actually needed to fly a certain distance"