skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid sexy Tally talk...

Unfortunately, no. ERP as in erotic role play.
Available here: https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
Sadly I've been finding the same result. Exact searches on Google are often frustrating, but lately they've been all but impossible on DDG. It seems that all search engines (including those backing DDG) are getting on the ML train and assuming they know what I'm looking for better than I do.

I understand this being default behavior, but there really needs to be a way to disable it.
Those two assumptions are wrong. Charter’s (who I use as an example because they’re a most pure cable company) shows an EBITDA margin of about 36%. That means that just under two thirds of revenues get eaten up by operating costs. And that’s on average—maintenance costs will be higher in some respects in rural areas where you have to roll a truck every time a tree takes out a power line. You have to charge a lot more than $60 even if everyone subscribes.

Which brings us to assumption 2. At > $100 per month, most people won’t subscribe. (Especially given that, as a matter of local law, in many places you’re required to offer a basic cable tier for $20-$30.) Atlantic Broadband, which covers rural areas around PA and MD primarily, has about 250,000 subscribers, but is available to almost 2 million people. (At least on a census-block basis.) My 40% assumption was quite generous.
Yes I had this too. Unfortunately it didn't support conditions or loop IIRC :)
Depends on the country. Firefox seems more popular in Africa, Europe and Asia, compared to Chrome.

While not 100% representative of reality, Google Trends gives that view of Chrome vs Firefox: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/GEO_MAP/1554809400?...
Microsoft Edge Chromium Released to the Developer Channels
CraigsList might make them think twice. I don't think they want to overly exhaust their own resources, what they have works for them.
Amazon Announces 3 New Renewable Energy Projects to Support AWS Infrastructure
React on lambda: concise, functional alternative to JSX
It's just that I heard that term for many years now and every year it gets redefined. Some even started talking about Web 4.0.
We need more "avoiding scams" lessons in general, not just in schools. Many of us on HN can smell scams from a mile away, but that's because of the hacker mindset and the natural inclination to see bugs in a system. We are the people who should be educating our friends and family about how to identify and avoid scams.
Great plot device. When a certain file is opened, the nerve gas is released. Or when a file is saved with certain text or properties (author, etc).

However, I'm doubtful that a small USB drive would have enough volume to be effective. Wouldn't matter on TV though.
Still wastes 60% of my display's width.

Sorry, if you are into minimalist design I keep getting back there, with 58 bytes less of CSS: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
As a current student this is a huge part of it.

People with androids (green messages) will not be added to group chats because it turns everyone else's messages green. When making plans they will usually get texted individually but it can unintentionally lead to exclusion.

Texting someone with an android is much less convenient than using an iPhone and anecdotally this is one reason kids choose iPhones over Android.
Unnatural selection
Could virus mutate to be resistant to that? Sure, why not. Will it be super-virus? Depends on what is super-virus. If it means more deadly, then probably not, since this resistance is most likely not related to deadliness.
“In those void spaces, you’re initiating sparks,” Clack said. “By passing through the packed bed, pathogens in the air stream are oxidized by unstable atoms called radicals. What’s left is a virus that has diminished ability to infect cells.”

That sounds just like ozone sterilisation, something that's been around for a very long time. What's new about this variation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_barrier_discharge
If memory serves the SPI bus thing is down to the UEFI - that is, when you boot into Windows, for example, it uses it via the USB bus. I can't remember the reasoning for this.
> Now g++ can already generate a dependency graph of headers for an executable.

Actually, it cannot; and this should be well known. It emits in practice less than half of the information that it knows from path lookup, that a build system really needs to know.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060146

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044438
What's the point of a self driving car if it cannot even do the most basic task of following lanes? Tesla isn't exactly ahead of the competition and now they might even be behind regular lane assist.
Summaries, Notes, and Lessons from Books I've Read
Haha, interesting.

I had the feeling everyone tried to coin web 3.0 for many years now and it didn't really take off.
Hey, I can replicate it in Firefox with Adblock Plus extension. Looks like there is a bug in the extension as we do not serve ads and the page is working well in Chrome with both Adblock and Adblock Plus extensions enabled.
Things I’ve thought about in a system that works.

I’ve heard the main challenge is that Judges and DAs are (often) elected. If you err on the side of putting someone in jail for too long or who doesn’t deserve it it’s not as outrageous to the community as if someone slips through the cracks, gets out early and murders someone, etc.

So there is huge pressure to avoid false negatives but not so much on false positives, so to speak.

Other things too, and there have been cases of illegal kickbacks to judges for sentencing.

Right now we seem to be optimizing for number of people in jail per capita - and we lead the world in this.

We ought to consider optimizing for lower crime in general (which is much broader than the prison system) but recidivism seems like a good place to start.

There are many off the shelf programs that are shown to reduce recidivism, we could start there.

I’m also curious about a model of cooperatively run prisons. Perhaps even a model where when you are set free it means you are offered a job in the prison for higher pay since you understand the system and have gained respect of other inmates.

This would also allow for mentorship and ongoing relationships.

Ideas that seem worth exploring are:

Natural outdoor spaces where prisoners farm, build their own tiny homes, meditate, get access to psychedelic therapy, learn leadership skills, make stuff, art, etc.

You essentially create a “life / society” incubator for the types of beliefs, behaviors relationships and systems that you are optimizing for in the greater community at large.

Reparenting in many ways.
The game lunar explains itself:

> the on board computer has crashed (it was made by xerox) so you have to land your lunar module manually

Back when games could just make jokes about existing companies without getting into trouble.
Inside a Chinese Censorship Factory
I'm not sure how I feel about tying authentication with payment. It means anywhere you log into with this address knows your payment history with this wallet.
That is generally the failure mode of complex systems. Say if you made flawed software a couple of decades ago, chances were it crashed. Today flawed software will produce many different errors. Not that the former is necessarily better, just that it is something to understand about the modern world were we aren't limited by scarcity. Same thing with e.g. food or education.
Any D batteries in the house got snatched up fast. Any flashlights with good batteries usually got swapped for dead ones.

Anyone else remember their bigtrak being a matte grey, instead of white like in the article? I remember skipping the decal installation too -- didn't care for the stripes.
Why is film easier to declassify and release than digital imagery?
I will, if you just take out the systemd part ;)
What?!? Office was the team driving the new UWP Fluent components and happy early adopters of the new C++/WinRT framework and XAML Islands on Win32.

The year of desktop Linux is just around the corner. /s
Shellenberger has zero credibility. This is the guy who claimed photovoltaics use rare earth metals.
i provided an elaboration: it's the first time in history we've been able to express and implement monetary value and security thereof in terms of pure energy without any middlemen.

you're welcome to provide actual refutation.
No donkey.bas? :)
One thing that makes that capacitor prank significantly safer is that the terminals are so close together so the actual current path through the victim is very unlikely to send any significant current through their heart. Still possible if they touched one terminal to their hand and the other terminal landed on their body or if the victim got one terminal and the prankster accidentally touched the other.
... because https only protects the payload in flight, not at rest, and not the origin and destination ip. It depends on your threat model.

Please don’t come back and tell me “oh but you can use a vpn”. We have yet to build a real vpn that can stand up to serious scrutiny.

Edit: to be clear, we might be able to build routers that actually are blind routing oracles, but we haven’t done that yet.
I usually set those to 'debug' instead, so I can filter them back into my JS console:

console.debug(items);
Took a test run using gcr.io/cloudrun/hello-image with 128Mb memory and 80 concurrency: cold response about 450ms, warm 2-5ms (as reported by logging). Scaling seems to work, got about 200 requests/s with quick ab-testing. Domain name mapping + HTTPS is nice addition.

Price-point: using 128Mb+100ms "defaults" from other serverless pushes price over $3/million requests. If any concurrent requests going, price/request goes under $1/million. And don't forget network prices, hello-image return a bit over 4kB so that means $0.46/million requests.

Biggest concern is overall latency, from EU I got 1020-1300ms total latencies. Tracerouting address gives 60ms "ping" latency. And sometimes total latency is 220-250ms (less than 10% requests). This really needs some inspecting. Otherwise pretty nice service, I have been waiting something like this :)
Can you stack up on those and make 5 grand a month?
We had a book or two of Apple II BASIC programs in the school library. They had just enough Apple-specific BASIC in them that only the simpler, text-basd games were usuable at home on my PC with QBASIC.

For some reason nobody ever thought to put those books in the computer lab which was full of various Apple II's.

I wish there would have been more explaination of the code, it was pretty much a couple hundred lines of LET X1=15 IF L2 < 1 GOSUB 12100
> Being an expert in 3 years is possible in most fields, all you need is dedication and deliberate practice.

Do you have anything other than a personal anecdote to back that up?

> But once they sort it out, they will move 10x faster than most of us old timers ever did.

So instead of 36 months, youngsters today can become experts in most fields in 3.6 months? That sounds preposterous. I assume you think that because of the internet and modern tech enabling much faster learning. But then old timers have access to the same tech and knowledge. So why can't they move just as fast?
Opera is closed source browser owned by the Chinese.

There is literally nothing they can say that will make me install this software.
“...the attack kit would have been downloaded on approximately 165,000 PCs. Some 5% of those - about 8,000 users - were likely to have fallen victim to the ransom demand”

This is clearly a severe underestimation of how ignorant most people are about ransomware and how to recognize it when installed on one’s computer.
I think this is a good step, but the cynic in me has to ask: How many services were removed, and how many replaced? It's good that things like Single Sign-on or Google Now aren't there (by default), but is it fair to assume they've just been replaced by Microsofts versions (i.e. whatever Live is called now and Cortana)?
So far only the EU is putting their foot down on that front, leading to mostly localized responses by the likes of Google.
apparently we are currently on version 3 of the web?
What's even the point of the distinction if the EU is not adequately restricting immigration from those other countries? The point remains the same: people from poor countries are mass migrating to rich countries with the most social programs. This is a major problem for the EU.
> I always thought this was communism

Communism can be slightly confusing to talk about as it describes both a specific kind of society, ideology/ideologies and a kind of state. It's certainly one kind of socialism.

Communism as society (sometimes called ”full communism”: A) Is class-less This means that there are no groups of people who hold own/power of ”means of production” (workplaces) at the expenses of those who don't.
B) State-less: a society that is not organised through a state at all. (This is why the term ”communist state” is funny.)
C) Resource philosophy organised along: contribute based on ability, get based on need.
D) It doesn't really claim to solve any other problems. This would not be a perfect society, only one without class conflict and state violence.

Communist ideologies are ideologies whose goal it is to attain communism as society. Examples of this are Leninism (what is often meant by ”communism” in the west), various forms of Marxism, Anarchocommunism/Libertarian Communism.

Leninist and other Marxists want to attain communism through a specific kind of state, but this state is a means to an end and the state itself is meant to vanish in the transition to ”full communism”.

Libcom/Ancoms argue that you should just skip the whole state part (and that it would ruin it anyway) and just try to build a communist society (stateless, remember) directly.

(Some philosophies fall between these philosophies.)

Of course, nobody has managed to achieve a communist society (and AFAIK few if any have claimed to do so). If this is possible or not I leave to you consider.

> and that socialism roughly means the workplace is owned by the government.

State socialists (i.e. Leninists, many Marxists, many radical democratic socialists) argue that workers can own their workplaces through a state in which they hold power.

Non-state socialists (i.e. anarchists, libertarian socialists, etc, ) argue that the worker control and ownership much be more direct and that society should be organised in a decentralised fashion.

There are some that fall between these dichotomies.

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I'm not a political science academic by any stretch, so sorry if I got some details wrong here.

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EDIT: One difference between communism and other forms of socialism is that the communists generally more negative to markets than others. This is most clear in anarchist circles where you'll find libertarian communists argue with left-wing market socialists and such.
They log all your data and use it for surveillance.
From GGP post:

> "free" in scare quotes to refer to not paying money per usage or to gain access to usage, but you may be paying in other ways
Is there some kind of balancing which prevents the nice areas (i.e. containing more affluent people) from becoming really nice, and the poorer areas becoming worse?
What's running the backend? Is it open source?
This looks a bit like Neon, which to me the UX is a bit of gimmick. Since Opera is sold to a Chinese company, I may consider this if Opera's going to open source it's code. Btw, I believe nothing is free, you are just paying it in a non monetary form.
At least it's free humor.
Good for them. I bet it's fun to work at Volkswagen, any place that makes their own sausage and ketchup must have a great variety of jobs
So are Hackintoshs?
The studies I have seen referenced suggest that EU migrants to the UK are generally net contributors as they pay their taxes like everyone else but tend to travel here without dependents, be younger and eventually go home before they are too old. Migrants from outside of the UK on the other hand tend to be older and come with families so tend to be a net drain on services.

Leaving the EU will mean more migrants from outside of the EU - so will actually cause the situation a lot of Leavers were worrying about to get a lot worse.

See Robert Peston's WTF? for details.
we must not be reading the same report. I'm speaking specifically about this one: https://avherald.com/h?article=4c534c4a/0023&opt=0

which points clearly to MCAS applying maximum nose down, based on incorrect data from the left alpha sensor, both pilots pulling on their control sticks, and the aircraft failing to gain altitude even before final MCAS activation because the trim could not be manually reset by the F/O.

this report contradicts every element that you're pushing (plane reached altitude, pilots didn't pull on the column, the electric trim was not needed, MCAS did not intervene). did I missing anything ?
Qwant might be a good option, as it's European it should be better for searching in (some) other languages.

https://lite.qwant.com/
Tool-X – A Kali Linux Hacking Tool Installer for Android
Title of the piece: "If Saving The Climate Requires Making Energy So Expensive, Why Is French Electricity So Cheap?"

Gee. They have a bunch of nuclear reactors whose cost has already been paid for. That cost is not reflected in current electric rates. When they try to build new ones, the cost is ridiculous, and they find building renewables sources would be cheaper.

"Replacing nuclear with renewables would save France $44.5 billion"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nuclear-plants-renewable-energ...
Yes.

The numbers appear to have come from:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=83830&p=irol-SEC...

Which states 51,600 as the number of card holders, with the 'in thousands' obviously missed by the article writer.
Gcm, c2dm, datastore.
Faster Training of Mask R-CNN by Focusing on Instance Boundaries
Beyond zig as a language, these release notes are a treat for anyone interested in toolchains and environments for system languages.

- "zig is also a C compiler" . Flag-compatible with clang, and with integration with zig's buildsystem you get cached build artifacts.

- Cross compile for a boatload of architectures + musl or glibc - in a ~30Mb compressed package
How do you block a VPN though? Do you just constantly chase after their IP addresses? I mean Netflix and similar services do try but with not much luck really.
It happened to me actually about three years ago, but I don't think the CTO did it intentionally. I just remember the impact it had and that it made a lot of sense.
BT Tower broadcasts error message to the nation as Windows displays admins shame
Colonists are mass murderers too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
Masquerade: A real-life treasure hunt obsessed a nation
If it's free then you are the product
One problem with that is that your company may be one month from failure for quite a bit of time. If you look at profit for a new company, it usually starts "positive", but just a little bit, not much at all.

And then you grow the company. This immediately introduces expenses but revenue only grows slowly as new customers come in and get convinced. So it dives below zero, and quite far below zero.

Now at that point you have investors, but they'll be watching how the curve evolves quite a bit. And they'll only be releasing money a few months of runway at a time. And then things get delayed for dumb reasons. So a lot of the time you're a few months from failure, and of course one of these investors might walk away and maybe you can find a new one, maybe not.

So a startup should expect to spend something like 2 years of time "one/two months from failure". Should you really tell your employees this ? It's not going to go very well.

I doubt that in the case of a unorganized failure that it would be very visible for the CEO either, by the way. I mean a week or two earlier than for the employees, sure. But not much more.
Why's that supposed to be humorous?
Launching the Mozilla Plugin Privacy Test Database
Andy, if you have the time I think it would be interesting to read a retrospective from time to time. If you were to start over with the knowledge you have gained, what would you do differently? What would you rather have postponed? What would you have started earlier?
I wonder what the headline would read if the experiment was rephrased in the language of pilot wave theory.
I miss Metro Design
I'd rather be surveilled by the Chinese government than Google/Facebook and other FAGMAN companies.

At least I don't live in the Chinese jurisdiction, while the tech giants do whatever they can to slip their tentacles into every website you visit, even if you don't do any business with them and actively fight their spyware. The Chinese government doesn't want to sell me anything either.
Local cable company wanted $10,000 to run a half mile of cable to my brother-in-law's house. Their other option is some local wireless provider that gives about 1.5mb/s, or cell phones which come in with 1-2 bars of signal.

They offered to split the cost with the other neighbors on the street. One are elderly who aren't interested in cable, the other are very religous and don't own a television or use the internet. IMO it'd be worth it for just the resale value of the houses.
One persons kick-ass desktop is another persons needlessly slow, flow killing, eye-sore. DEs haven't needed any new features since 1995. Browser based productivity software is the second leading cause of global warming.
This is a cornerstone of traditionally "conservative" viewpoints in the US. I am now in favor as well.
Installed, and uninstalled when I found it automatically add it's icon to my dock. (It's the first mac software I ever installed that add it's icon to dock itself)
On the new internet, this tired adage is already outdated. You're still the product even if you're paying.
It clearly says they don't.
Likewise.... this book was instrumental in my career trajectory, a real blast from the past.

Similarly, GWBasic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, etc.
Good question! I wondered the same.

There isn’t explicitly, and I know that’s part of what the federal top-down model tries to prevent, but is it really working? The United States’ affluent areas are night-and-day to the poor ones.

If we think about the per-capita income in poorer areas of the States, and what can be taxed off of that, it seems like it’s still enough for that community to function.

The current U.S. model seems to result in everyone getting a much smaller pie, even if the government manages to change the portions of who gets what.
Sad but true. All those Reese's Peanut Butter eggs that are now being sold are deadly.

If you have some, send them to me. I'll dispose of them.
Hammer and colleague Jason Ur, an anthropologist at Harvard University, created a systematized index of several thousand U-2 photos taken on 11 reconnaissance missions throughout the Middle East

Fantastic bit of nominative determinism:

Jason Ur is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and director of its Center for Geographic Analysis. He specializes in early urbanism

As well he might:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur
Do not cryptocoin transactions only work through the literal agreement of a large number of third parties?
Not really - some of the code coming out of their dev centres is pretty awful.

That said, most of the code coming out of telco vendors is complete crap, it is just endemic in the industry.

This is why I laugh when I see the CNCF talking about getting OpenNFV / MANO code into containers - they can barely deal with moving to VMs currently.
Bitcoin mining ban considered by China's economic planner
The difference is that Google can't decrease the funding to Chromium to harm Microsoft "because Chromium IS Google".
The Chineese apple store got purged of all its VPN apps last year. If this one is approved by the party, it has to be quite good!