skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll share details of what I installed a few months ago in my 37 foot sailboat. It will be more of a counterpoint to "how simple it is to get up and running." But it enables a great many luxuries in our live-aboard lifestyle.

-4x 100 Ah LiFePo4 batteries (BattleBorn brand)

-3000 watt charger/inverter unit (Victron MultiPlus)

-3x 360 watt solar panels (LG Neon R)

-Solar charge controller (Victon SmartSolar)

-System controller (Victron ColorControl GX)

-Battery monitor (Victron BMV)

-A lot of heavy wiring, ranging from 4 gauge to 4/0 gauge. Some segments are designed to handle 400 amps (12V DC, if my system was any larger I would have gone with a 24V or 48V design to keep wire sizes reasonable). Of course it has to be stranded and tinned wire for a marine environment, so think along the lines of $5/foot.

-An assortment of bus bars and circuit breakers. 100A breaker for each battery, 400A fuse for the main connection, $120 bus bars, etc.

It was a very interesting project for me personally and really a lot of fun, but solar can easily become a serious project as your scale beyond maybe 500 watt-hours per day. I haven't done a final cost summation of my project but I'm sure it was over $10,000.
Not at all, a government can easily subsidize any non profit organization. There are many community centers in my country run by volunteers and funded by local taxes for example.

I think my country has proven that if there is less necessity to turn to religious institutions a society can start the path to secularization.
> Schneier is arguing that the risk to individuals and society at large is greater than any benefit this data could provide.

I don't think we read the same (2016) article.

In the one I read, he is claiming that holding onto personal data is about banking it for future revenue (he actually says profitability, but I think he is just not being savvy here). Where he specifically talks about risks, he talks about risks to the company, to PR. Nothing, not a chirp, about damage to the individuals or society at large.

Earlier in the article he actually cites Anthem and Target, the 2 biggest breaches to date (as of 2016). Ironic because these breaches did no damage to the companies. Also, not a well formed argument because those companies weren't monetizing personal data in the way that we think of as privacy invasive, or "user as the product". Whether or not personal data is a toxic thing to be avoided, those companies needed to take that data.

In the 2016 article I read, Schneier is claiming that the risk analysis is flawed and the damage to a company from the eventual breach/loss of personal data, outweighs the financial gain to be realized from that data. He's trying to appeal to market wisdom, not social good. "protect your bottom line", not "think of the children". Which is a fine thesis. But the 2 primary examples he gives in the same article prove himself wrong, and an academic study in 2018 further proves this to be wrong.

> One way to remove the incentives to gather and store data is through regulation and fines - then the stockmarket would care.

Yep, only then. It's a bit like a class action. Each individual person that is caught up in a privacy breach, suffers just this little bit and doesn't have an individual voice for redress at all. "The market" will thus do as it will with such data. We need a big hammer to fix it. GDPR has been a huge benefit for privacy, as partly evidenced by all the naysayers using implementation cost as their argument. In the US, when the dust finally settles around Equifax, we may move the needle.

To finally answer your first point, I'm saying that Schneier was wrong in 2016 and he corrected himself in 2018.
> Ruby has the same thing that every other language has, call outs to C code under the hood for most of the real work.

Yes, this is exactly the problem. Ruby is so slow that you end up writing C extensions when you want to do any non-trivial computation. The documentation is bad, the tooling is bad, the build/CI complications are bad, and there's not much community info online about the process. And now your RoR developers have to support a C library, where a segfault can kill an entire Ruby interpreter.

I don't think most RoR apps run into these problems, which is why RoR is such a great thing in the first place, but we shouldn't brush aside how slow it is, and the implications of that when it becomes a problem.
We can see that by ourselves from their transparency report.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://protonmail.com/blog/tr...

- 2019/04/20
https://web.archive.org/web/20190420195556/https://protonmai...

- 2019/04/25
https://web.archive.org/web/20190425155330/https://protonmai...

The diff is simple and clear: ...

+In April 2019, at the request of the Swiss judiciary in a case of clear criminal conduct, we enabled IP logging against a specific user account which is engaged in illegal activities which contravene Swiss law. Pursuant to Swiss law, the user in question will also be notified and afforded the opportunity to defend against this in court before the data can be used in criminal proceedings.

Diff from 2019/04/25 to today: ...

-Updated on 13.03.2019
+Updated on 24.04.2019

-ProtonMail is not required to store communications metadata or IP information, as we are exempted from the Swiss Federal Act on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications (BÜPF) and its accompanying ordinance. Therefore, ProtonMail can apply a policy of collecting as little user information as possible to protect user privacy. To know exactly what kind of metadata your use of ProtoMail creates, please refer to our Privacy Policy. Upon receiving a judicial order, ProtonMail is obliged to provide any user information readily available that would help identify a user that is subject to a criminal investigation that has been validated by Swiss authorities.

+ProtonMail is not required to store communications metadata or IP information, as we are exempted from the Swiss Federal Act on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications (BÜPF) and its accompanying ordinance. Therefore, ProtonMail can apply a policy of collecting as little user information as possible to protect user privacy. To know exactly what kind of metadata your use of ProtoMail creates, please refer to our Privacy Policy. Upon receiving a judicial order, ProtonMail is obliged to provide any user information readily available that would help identify a user that is subject to a criminal investigation that has been validated by Swiss authorities. In addition to the items listed in our privacy policy, in extreme criminal cases, ProtonMail may also be obligated to monitor the IP addresses which are being used to access the ProtonMail accounts which are engaged in criminal activities. Under no circumstances will ProtonMail be able to provide the contents of end-to-end encrypted messages sent on ProtonMail.
North Face tried to scam Wikipedia to get its products to top of Google search
We are going to metric each other to death: I'll make you worry about food spoilage in the fridge at your work and you harp on water usage in the restrooms at my work until we are all enslaved by our own 401ks tied up in index funds!
But even that is pretty vague, since a single Uranium atom fission event releases about 200 MeV of energy, whereas most of the Hydrogen/Deuterium/Tritium/Helium/etc. fusion pathways release around 10% of this per fusion event: D + T -> He fusion gives 17 MeV, 4 p -> He gives 27 MeV, D + D -> He is 12 MeV and so on. Now, the energy released per nucleon greater for fusion, but I'm not convinced that's a useful or intuitive metric?
Yes, then we'll get native J2EE in the browser instead of JS copies…

The whole interaction model is just a lot more tedious than desktop UI development. One of the few approaches that I actually liked (not just tolerated) was Seaside, but that went away when the blood-dimmed tide of JS was let loose.
I agree with what you are saying but it is still not out of time for you. You can start building up your math repertoire by starting simple in something like Khan academy and working your way up. You can eventually also try free courses which universities offer online.

Most of the math I know is not due to have amazing mentorship but being forced to do the exercises day in day out.
From what I am seeing in the linked material, the author saw something that made his mind generate the sensational 'news'. Without bothering to check whether it's true or false he posted the generated conjecture as a fact and now is trying to defend the indefensible by attacking ProtonMail instead of posting the clarifications and apologizing.

In other words, pretty much the definition of fake news.
When I was 18 I also had nobody who told me to do this. I figured it out on my own (something I think all 18 year olds are actually capable of).

Any giant tech company will all happily interview you if you have a good portfolio without a degree.

All of this takes work of course, but not more work than getting a degree. It does take a lot of independent thought and strength to do what you think is right even when others are telling you it's wrong though.
"College degrees are really expensive and they don't really help you get a job anymore, so the government should pay for them."

The far left is getting increasingly less rational.
"The direct destruction effect of strong radiation on cells is cumulative, the longer you're exposed, the greater harm done."

This statement is not actually true in the general case, and that is part of the problem. It, like many others involving the effect of radiation on people, originated in the late 50's when there was little data and it was difficult to experiment. A great article on that is here (https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11...) but in a nutshell, the more we learn about DNA the more we discover that having evolved in a "low level radiation" environment it does a really good job of completely repairing/eradicating the damage done by low to moderate levels of radiation.

That does not say you can't get more harm faster than your DNA can fix it, which clearly you can. But the level where the damage is "cumulative" (aka permanent) is much much higher than we previously estimated based on our limited data.

Given modern tissue engineering it is conceivable could could actually do some solid experimental work in the field with a tunable radiation source and a set of growing tissue samples. Nobody has done that yet that I can find (I don't have access to a wide variety of journals in Biology that I do in some of the other sciences) but if they are please post their research here.
You just have to be sure and disable most logging if you're using something like mailinabox. Defaults are still pretty loquacious.
Race/ethnic/cultural tendencies on 5-star an numeric eating scales have been studied quite a bit, and, yes, Europeans tend to give higher ratings for acceptable service (tending to give maximum ratings for “meets expectations”) while Asians tend to give lower ratings (tending toward middle-of-scale ratings for “meets expectations”).
> 1.5°C consistent: there are a range of emissions pathways that would be compatible with limiting average warming to 1.5°C by 2100. However, all would require a very urgent and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Is this polite data analyst-speak for "We're fucked"?
So? Maybe some ends justify the means. Selling an app isn't such an end.

Is being able to sell your stuff all you care about? Because that's the impression I'm getting. I'd summarize our discussion like this (exaggerating for effect):

> Ads damage democracy, make everyone unhappy, they're a huge drain on our economy and can be replaced by better methods of distributing information.

> But I get to sell a plumbing app.
After a magnitude 9 earthquake, one of those older reactors at Fukushima "just" melted down, and core material probably hasn't escaped secondary containment (unfortunately the water pumped through the core is a different story). In contrast, during a botched safety test the reactor core at Chernobyl exploded.

The impact to the surrounding environment was many orders of magnitude greater at Chernobyl, which is what happens when the reactor core explodes.

~50 people died at Chernobyl from acute radiation exposure in the first few weeks, and a couple employees actually got exploded. Lots of people died in the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, but none like that.

Please consider how you're hurting folks' ability to make good decisions when you spread misleading absolutist nonsense.
On a related note, a hell of a lot of strife in the world seems to boil down to people insisting that their preferred taxonomy is the correct one, no matter what the context, rather than accepting that taxonomies aren't facts in the first place, they are tools.
>Switch over to a monthly subscription plan (if no one pays for it maybe you weren’t as useful of a source as you thought)

That reminds me of the whole situation where Radiohead sold an album online direct to users.

Someone wrote an article about how other bands could do the same: Step 1: Be Radiohead.

>Partner with brands to create sponsored articles (without ruining the user experience of course)

I have trouble understanding how that isn't an equally or worse idea when compared to the existing problems.
0x Launch Kit – Launch your own cryptocurrency exchange or marketplace
Shouldn't it go the other way?

I studied marketing (which I don't regret), but that is not an expensive class to teach! You need some books, some computers and a lecturer and a TA. That's about it.

Studying something like Biology or Engineering or Comp Sci where you're actually consuming resources as you learn (be it dissecting frogs or cloud computing or 3d printing equipment), so you'd expect that there's a cost that business, law and arts courses don't really have.
Context is important here.

“84% of apps are free, and developers pay nothing to Apple.

Like any fair marketplace, developers decide what they want to charge from a set of price tiers. We only collect a commission from developers when a digital good or service is delivered through an app. Here are some of the ways developers commonly make money on the App Store.”

They’re talking about apps, and the second part of that header is referring the subject of that which is apps. They pay nothing because it’s a free app which generates no revenue to Apple (commission-wise).
> The addendum does not categorically say that ProtonMail does not voluntarily offer real-time logging.

Took me a second to calculate your meaning, this may help others.
>The author of the article at hand later added an addendum saying the prosecutor was mis-quoted in their article and that Protonmail does not voluntarily offer real-time logging.

That is completely false. The author said that the prosecutor claimed to have been misquoted, not that he was misquoted. The author clearly stands by his quote, and it is therefore untrue that he says that Protonmail does not voluntarily offer real-time logging.
I think it serves a niche where people can ask for content that they don't see yet or they don't see in the form they would like it.

Another way to look at it would be to call it a news-room where people decide what they put into the news paper. I don't know how this works in real news papers, but maybe they hold a meeting and then the journalists decide what stories they pick up. People could get involved into that by voting for topics.
There's a lot of paranoia in this thread. The whole point of end to end encryption is that it protects against court-mandated searches. (among other things) It doesn't prevent the search, it renders the search less useful.

End to end encryption in email is somewhat silly, because the vast majority of the time you will be sending email to a private company, or to a gmail address, or generally just to another party that will not respect your privacy at all.

The real benefit to something like ProtonMail is that they're not Gmail. They're not scanning every message you send you send and using it to build an advertising profile on you. If you're really worried about government warrants, email is not the tool for you.
What the hell is “wholesome” food? Seriously, it’s a scientifically empty term.
They legally have to vote their shares.

Individuals are exempt for that.

It's interesting to think about index fund providers incentives:

(1) track the market
(2) do it very cheaply

Voting shares is a cost center with no benefit towards the business. Fund providers don't want to spend time and money to do research on individual proposals, that would be too expensive. So they do the cheapest thing possible and default to following corporate recs.

(That's actually a simplification, what happens in practice is, they use third party proxy voting advisors, but the end results is mostly the same, except that they vote down really egregious proposals, e.g. crazy CEO pay in the context of a free falling share price)
Heavier means a smaller (shorter) wavelength, bend that wavelength into a circle around the nucleus, and it's smaller, since the circle is smaller, it's closer.
After having met numerous scientists, I haven't observed any increase in trustworthiness compared to the general population.

If anything, they are more apt to plagiarize and steal other people's ideas.

When they leave science to do something else, they frequently morph into ruthless businessmen.
Yes, unfortunately, in the US the corporations own the government, so such policies, even if very popular, have very little chance of passing if the large companies behind such tech oppose those policies.

This is why you have to go after the companies first and boycott them/cause PR nightmares for them.
I think the challenge is the “fast acting” vs “slow acting” consequences of our energy choices. Coal and Gas fired generating facilities have long term consequences but a picture of 1000s of people affected with cancer doesnt have the same impact.
Glad you're ok. Search for fire resistant charging bags and try to use it. They're inconvenient but your photo will encourage me to get back into the habit for a while. The drone guys go through this all the time.

Also: Purchase UL listed products. Install photoelectric and ionization fire alarms and a CO alarm.
GMO is not just about increasing yields but also getting crops to grow in wider more diverse climates, something we may very well need with Global Warming

Take for example the Semi-dwarf wheat that has been claimed to save billions of people and makes up pretty much all wheat grown today.

This adversion of GMO is not based in science but rather F.U.D. I find it amusing that many people that are Anti-GMO are also very very concerned with Climate Change, and laugh a people that question climate change for being "anti-science" then then spread all kinds of lies and misinformation about GMO...
If the following conditions obtain:

1. a law permits compelling a company to produce real-time data (or anything else),

2. a company has that technical capability, and

3. the company in #2 is in a jurisdiction with a law like #1,

you should assume real-time surveillance data will be provided in cases where it is so ordered. You don't need to wait for them to tell you that it is. It can go without saying.

How could it be otherwise? If the guys with the guns show up to demand that data, what else are they gonna do? The Lavabits of the world are incredibly rare, for the exact same reason that Lavabit doesn't exist any more.
Replying to myself, I accepted what Vultr had to say and killed the server. Wasn’t really worth me investigating too deeply and I took them on their word.

I did the default Streisand install with all services, and disabled password based login on the box (keys only).

It seems Streisand has some issues updating some components according to their issues board and it seems like the maintainer might have abandoned it.

Next time I’ll probably use algo instead. I just need wireshark anyways ;)
The trim makes a loud clacking sound when it's running, for that reason. (And the Ethiopian pilots did know the trim was running.)

This is what I mean when the newspaper articles constantly leave out crucial details. You have to read many articles to get an idea of the complete picture.

It doesn't matter that a third pilot figured out what was wrong and what the corrective action should be. Because after he did it, it was known and all the pilots should have known.
I wonder what the performance differences are with their approach vs using K8s + service mesh of your choice which includes all this.

I imagine Google runs a bigger scale operation on top of Borg and their internal service mesh.
Don't they? They certainly have access to the VPS file system.

But even beyond that, can they be compelled by a court order to install software on the VPS (and securing against someone with unlimited access to the VM host is… about as practical as securing against someone with physical access)? I'd assume so?
libressl has documentation. it's an OpenBSD project so you use the man pages.

http://man.openbsd.org/openssl
It's polite data analyst speak for, "We need immediate and globally-coordinated _radical_ action" (action being the key term) Edit: We're not fucked yet. Apotheosis of hope.
I don't believe it contradicts it. Apple claims that it does not set the price, the developers do. That's what they mean when they are just the intermediary, they facilitate the transaction but are not part of it.

I think his example is poor because Target does set the prices on products, for the most part. I think something better would be a flee market. The flee market operators provide services to facilitate the sales of the vendors and they can also choose which vendors are allowed to sell in their market, but they do not control the prices the vendors sell at.
Don't discount the work experience that you do have. You have over a decade of individual experiences that you can frame up to communicate your strengths and what you can bring to the table. You don't need to market yourself as cheap labor, or else people will discount what you are capable of bringing to the table.
Fair reading of the addendum, I put my own words to it and it was misleading.

I don't think it detracts from "I tweeted it, so he said it" per:

>The remark that ProtonMail was a (potential) PDCS would have been too trivial to be live-tweeted. The insight on the other hand that ProtonMail voluntarily offers assistance for real-time surveillance, was spectacular and I therefore live-tweeted the statement.
I think this is basically a argument that star ratings are worthless, rather than that using all 5 stars makes more sense. Obviously, many Uber drivers do keep >4.6 ratings for extended periods. And since most people presumably don't know about the 4.6 rule, it's not a collective concession to Uber's standards; people are just genuinely rating drivers 5 stars much of the time.

I recommend (to everyone interested) asking a few friends how they use star ratings, on Uber or anywhere else. My experience is that people say all of "I give three stars for average", "I give four stars for average because we're used to grade inflation", and "I give 5 stars unless there was a reason to subtract from it".

Given that, star ratings without explicit guidance on meaning are sort of a disaster. I'm not so much annoyed by which number Uber ties people's livelihoods to as by the whole decision to use a bad system when so many better ones are available.