skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don’t utilities grow as we generally consume more and more resources?

Yes, you are correct. Most utility companies do grow to some extent, just very slowly. You also have to compare the rate that they grow against other metrics like GDP. If a company is growing slower than GDP you could make an argument that they're actually shrinking.

> In the Caden of dividends, wouldn’t they also need to increase over time to act in the best interest of shareholders?

Yup. In theory, if a company does not grow sales at all then their dividend should be able to grow at the same rate as inflation. Most companies do grow sales to some extent and thus are able to grow their dividend more than inflation.

For example, Coca-Kola has grown their dividend on average 7.46% per year. AT&T on the other hand has only grown theirs 2.26% per year which is closer to inflation.

https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/KO/dividends/dividend-growth

https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/T/dividends/dividend-growth
I was afraid I would hear that. Best of luck, don't forget to use all your vacation time.
You didn't make an effort to charitably interpret my question. My question is essentially about whether transient response to changes in albedo occur primarily over the course of days or primarily over the course of years.

Albedo is important, being snide is not.
You don't need social skills for it. It's a good way to get them.

Here's a simple experiment to start with: make a point of every time you have a 'captive audience' such as a bus driver or cashier:

1) look them in the eye (take your cash out in advance etc.). This instantly sets you apart.

2) Say 'hi, how are you?' and smile, and actually pause for an answer.

You'll be surprised at the result. So many people in service jobs are so used to being treated as objects that they'll often jump as chances to have real human interactions and just a little eye contact and a pause that suggests you actually care about an answer makes a huge difference.

I've had cashiers literally run over to open a lane when they saw me coming after a couple of brief conversation, and people starting to tell me all kinds of personal details.

You don't need to have social skills at all other than that initial question, and trying to remember a detail or two and ask them about it another day. Enough people will talk enough about themselves to get you started.

And the bonus is you can often tell it makes people cheer up.

I don't really get much out of social conversations with people, and it's a big effort for me, but the things above are simple enough, and big enough impact to be worthwhile.
There are other ways to solve the problem. My favourite is to built it dynamically using JS, as it allows abstractions.
I wonder if mad cow disease is the same?

In the UK we burned the cows that had it and stopped feeding cows to cows. I wonder if somewhere someone is reading this article and thinking 'great, let's selectively breed cows that can eat cows'.

This would be great for reducing waste. These breeds could also be made exempt from any animal welfare legislation and sold to customers that just want a burger and have no care for much else.

Anything the meat eaters buy in fast food restaurants could be bio-engineered this way. The ones who have quaint ideas about 'ethical farming' and 'organic meat' would have the old breeds, sold at a premium.

But would there be an elevated risk of CJD in this Brave New World?
And giving full citizenship to HK people is really not what they wanted. The people there want independence, full-democracy, not an escape route.
Chernobyl survivors assess fact and fiction in TV series
>No, shut up. Most of the world doesn't sit in front of their browser all day.

well, I've got bad news for the guy. Just being a data storage company is probably not a great business strategy because the web and competition have become ubiquitous.
We have had lots of technologies that could make (and made) many species extinct: fire, spears, guns, nets, walls in the right place that helped to trap the whole herd. The difference this time is that we have a technology that can make extinct the species that we want to make extinct, without side effects. What complications do you foresee with this technology?
>installed all the privacy add-ons in the entire universe

Slightly off-topic, but it is very likely this is a net decrease in privacy.

I know your hyperbolizing, but your unique combination of add-ons could very well be used to fingerprint you with much more accuracy than someone solely using only Privacy Badger + HTTPS Everywhere, for example.

Hiding info is good, but blending in is better.

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>The tech industry will continue to disrespect people's attention and privacy, because ultimately nobody really cares.

I'm generally pessamistic as well. But, the signs lately have been good. It's taking a long time for the non-tech savvy to catch up and realize what's happening with their data (and what that actually means), but as they do, the push will be stronger. We're seeing more lashback for privacy breaches now than we have ever before. Keep the momentum going. If the people like you and me quit out now, non-tech savvy or on-the-fencers will give up too. Then all really is lost.

>Ultimately, I have gone through all this struggle and stress for nothing.

Not for nothing unless you are only considering a visible, external impact as your metric. Realistically you've improved your life, reduced the amount of your life others know about you, and are participating in a cause (even if you don't feel like it's doing anything).

>This fight has been lost a thousand times throughout history - it will always be lost. I am wondering whether it's best to just shut up and get on board?

Yes. With that attitude, it might just be.
Yes, and we won't have armchairs!
Usually the big advances are built on a number of small incremental advances. Think about modern immunotherapy like CAR-T. Rather than recap myself I'm just going to post this timeline of the milestones that led to CAR-T over many decades: https://www.mskcc.org/timeline/car-t-timeline-progress.

You'll generally be disappointed, though. "Cancer" isn't really a thing. It is a family of disorders characterized by several properties that arises from different causes. At this point in my life, I am very confident that we will never have a single general cure for cancer (killing mutated cells, repairing carcinogenic dna damage).
What's the net benefit of continuing to support the monarchy which exported wahhabism to the rest of the middle east?
“Crucial” != majority. I think dark web may allow people in suburbs and other “nice” places to attain opioids more easily. Deaths are higher profile and possibly a more important voting block.
I believe the point is that sometimes a tyrant is worse than cutting off the head and seeing the hydra.

Of course it’s possible Iraq would’ve gone different without the Coalition Provisional Authority’s early orders.
Ah, just that the alcohol industry is supported by alcoholics, so it's understandable to not like alcohol as a whole.
The war on drugs costs us $51 billon annually* and the only upside is that corporations selling legal drugs like alcoholic beverages and prescription medications get to keep their artificial monopoly. It's easily the biggest scam ever foisted onto a society and with next to no protest.

As Americans we all pay for this and it works against us by limiting our options and telling us what we can and can't do for recreation. That $51 billon could easily go towards Medicare for All and with more intelligent drug options the number of Americans addicted to Alcohol and Opiates would decline.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/DPA_Fact_sheet...
Northwest and West coast governments have acknowledged that the current legal deterrents and consequences do more harm than good: fines being impossible to collect alongside being inadequate deterrent, jail and prison exacerbating the situation and not resulting in holding people for very long anyway. Costing taxpayers even more when they do hold people for long.

They have not reached consensus on what to replace the deterrents with, so now there is a void and no oxygen to even criticize the outcome.
"If Dropbox had just stuck to its nice, clean, and simple interface, focusing on syncing across machines with various OSes or file systems, we would still be happy, "

A thousand times, yes - are you listening Dropbox?

If you don't do this, you're going to get 'Zoomed' (i.e. basic company like Zoom comes along and eats your lunch for just doing the basic offer)
That makes sense. I'm not going to say it should be dismissed due to its relative low incidence, but there has to be a better solution than a straw free for all everywhere.
Why isn't TLS client auth a turnkey solution for maintaining a single web session as a client moves between network segments?
But character assassination with all the data on you that FB has is trivial.
Everything new is old. It would be more funny if it wasn't so frustrating.

News organisations are increasingly looking to subscription and membership or other forms of reader contribution to pay the bills in a so-called ‘pivot to paid’.

Right, so just the way newspapers were forever. There was a brief few years where all the online newspapers had a good old fashioned Mexican standoff about who would put their content behind a paywall first. Now they they've all taken the plunge, we are back to the 1950s.

Platforms are rethinking their responsibilities in the face of events (Christchurch attacks, Molly Russell suicide) and regulatory threats, with Facebook rebalancing its business towards messaging apps and groups – the so-called ‘pivot to private’.

Right, a communication medium where people send messages to each other one-on-one or to select groups.

Meanwhile audiences continue to embrace on-demand formats with new excitement around podcasts (New York Times, Guardian) and voice technologies – the so-called ‘pivot to audio’.

Audio? Imagine that. My grandparents next to their big honkin' living room radio would laugh their heads off.
Many of the homeless have mental health issues and that requires a costly support support structure. Also cities are just downright inefficient in spending money. Just look at any infrastructure project in recent years.
Can you tell me what is worst between a theocracy and an absolute monarchy? In SA, the king is bound by no law not even the law of god. He wants you dead on spot, and then you die. Doesn't sound to me a better system.
‘Drop Gangs’ the Latest Evolution in Darknet’s Avoidance of Law Enforcement
One small point about "persist the raw stuff forever": ...maybe don't? I wouldn't go so far as to call user data a toxic asset, but I'd definitely refer to it in the same breath as "technical debt". Sometimes you have to take on some to get anything done, but you need to recognize that it's a potential liability, as well.

Persist it as long as you need it to obtain value from it, but after that, you're just holding on to something you can lose some day in a data breach, or build up enough of that people start to get mistrustful (Facebook, Google, etc.) Data expiration policies should definitely be something you think about and have justification for, even if you do decide that your expiration is "Never".
> He followed our run book and triggered a FINT — which stands for "Fail Internal" — directing traffic from the site directly back to its origin rather than passing through Cloudflare's protective edge. Instantly the site was overwhelmed by the attack and, effectively, fell off the Internet.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, free users have their backend servers and hosting provider information exposed to an attacker right when that information needs to be kept secret the most? This is nuts. Can someone clarify whether CloudFlare still do this? I can think of 100 scenarios where it would be better to just pull the zone (or similar) and let the site go down instead
I share your concern and anger. This particular phrasing could sound like reinforcing a historical perception of women as innately weak and needing protection. I prefer to think of it as people needing help due to circumstances, and the circumstances in this case perhaps due in part to such historical perceptions.
Let me lead off by saying I'm not a lawyer, but "House Lannister" is trademarked[0]. I would not be surprised if you receive a C&D notice.

[0]: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87704402&caseType=SERIAL_...
What’s data have to do with anything?

All I want is a label telling me what I’m buying. My prejudices against chocolate eggs or RoundUp will affect my purchasing decision.

Besides... data??? That’s a laugh! How do you a proper chronic long-term study in biology? Who’d be clean enough for your control group? What chronic conditions are you looking for (I.e are we only looking for yet another thing that causes cancer -yawn-, or are we looking for other ailments which appear to plague us today)?

Sure, everyone claims their study achieves the above, but then who reproduces the work to double check it?

I’ll stick to my luddite prejudices that serve me quite well. Just let me know what you put in my food, and I’ll decide if I want to buy it or not

(btw, guess who are the folks lobbying against labeling laws)
It's one thing building Azure in response to AWS and GCP and another thing innovating to support something like Google search for decades and then using the same knowledge and tech to build other cloud services. Of course Microsoft is totally capable of delivery cloud workloads but they can still be considered the underdog here when it comes to Google vs MS
These union organisers want jobs in the union they want elected so they can steal members money(indirectly by hiring friends, family, other union members etc). I am constantly amazed at how companies they get unionised end up with fewer jobs, and the companies get less profitable as well - they call it a lose-lose scenario. Russian hackers behind it no doubt...
My calculus is predicated on the assumption of a materialistic mind and no afterlife (e.g. there is no experience of being dead, only experiences of dying.) If those assumptions are wrong, then I think there is no firm ground on which to speculate at all (maybe Valhalla is the true afterlife and a gory death in battle is the most form of death the dead find most satisfactory. I don't believe that, but I disbelieve it only as hard as I disbelieve the Christian afterlife.)

In my model of the world, perhaps a brain slowly ramping down is a pleasant experience. That's totally conceivable to me. However the brain being instantly disassembled faster than it can have experiences would be the absence of experience, be it a pleasant or unpleasant.
For those who don't have a subscription to the Washington Post, you can access the article here: https://business.financialpost.com/technology/walmart-has-un...
Think about it this way: Why would you want to go to an event where the organizers were too lazy to even invite you? I’d say you lucked out and whatever else you were doing at the time was likely more valuable.

I’ve been off of Facebook for a decade and still have a robust, satisfying social life. My real friends know how to contact me and I never feel left out of the actual important stuff going on. I think of Facebook’s existence as a blessing: it allows me to easily filter out all those low-effort “events” run by people who don’t really care if I come.
While I agree with much of your article, it's interesting to me that you cite this tweet:

Building products, writing, and painting are not mental excercises, they are physical ones.

Reading to improve is like watching someone else workout – it does almost nothing for you.

To run better, run.
To paint better, paint.
To write better, write.
To build better, build.

I certainly agree that practice is the core of all increase in skill. However, I've found that the differentiation factor of my skills comes from being someone who reads, who looks for better ways to run. From being someone who constantly reflects on the practice that occurs. This is something that's well supported by research (the notion of deliberate practice).

Deliberate Practice: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
Branch predictors sound like a good target for side-channel attacks.
By that logic, the "birther" movement resulted merely from the "nature of politics", yeah?

At some point, we have to concede that misinformation campaigns can be quite dangerous - like with yelling fire in a crowded theatre.
I think the point of the announcement is to tell you that they won't be synced to google drive now.
It's just one data point, but in Stockholm there were this bike sharing stands the city arranged in the centre via a procured agreement with a company. You would have to put the bike back in one of these stands after the rental. It worked quite well. No bikes laying around.

Nowadays, those are gone because of a juridical dispute over the procurement process between some bike sharing companies.

Instead there are these e-scooters littered everywhere. They are used mostly by tourists. I have no idea how the companies collect those and charge them with a profit. Most likely they don't. There were also some non city cooperation leave the bike anywhere bike sharing companies, that failed.

Maybe the main problem with communal bike sharing is that there has to be forced returns to designated end points, and only the city can "afford" (i.e. designate) public space for those places?

If you can put the bike where ever after the rental, it's just gonna be a mess.
> Co-routines are very useful and likely underused, but sometimes you are actually better off being able to pass the control to a given thread directly, other than having a scheduler involved.

That's almost the very definition of a coroutine--explicit transfer of control. In symmetric coroutines you must specify a coroutine for both yield and resume; in asymmetric coroutines you specify what to resume to but yield implicitly returns to whatever resumed the current coroutine. In either case the actual control flow transfer is explicitly invoked.

The term thread is more ambiguous, but it almost always implies control transfers--both the timing and target of control transfer--are implicit and not directly exposed to application logic. (Automagic control transfer might be hidden within commonly used functions (e.g. read and write), injected by the compiler (Go does this), or triggered by hardware.)

You can synthesize a threading framework with both asymmetric and symmetric stackful[1] coroutines by simply overloading the resume and yield operations to transfer control to a scheduler, and then hiding implicit resume/yield points within commonly used functions or by machine translation of the code. In languages where "yield" and "resume" are exposed as regular functions this is especially trivial. Stackful coroutines (as opposed to stackless, which are the most commonly provided type of coroutine) are a powerful enough primitive that building threads is relatively trivial, which is why the concepts are easy to conflate, but they shouldn't be confused.

LISP-y languages blur some of these distinctions as libraries can easily rewrite code; they can inject implicit control transfer and stack management in unobtrusive ways.[2] This isn't possible to the same extent in languages like C, C++, or Rust; lacking a proper control flow primitive (i.e. stackful coroutine) their "threading" frameworks[3] are both syntactically and semantically leaky.

[1] By definition a thread preserves stack state--recursive function state--and this usually implies that stack management occurs at a very low-level in the execution environment, but in any case largely hidden from the logical application code.

[2] OTOH, this is usually inefficient--stack management is a very performance critical aspect of the runtime. For example, Guile, a Scheme implementation, now provides a stackful coroutine primitive. For a good discussion of some of these issues, see https://wingolog.org/archives/2017/06/27/growing-fibers

[3] Specifically the frameworks that attempt to make asynchronous I/O network programming simple and efficient. So-called native threads are a different matter as both stack management and control transfer are largely implemented outside the purview of those languages, very much like how native processes are implemented. If you go back far enough in the literature, especially before virtual memory, the distinctions between process and thread fall away. Nowadays threads are differentiated from processes by sharing the same memory/object space.
Many people don't know that Alexander was tutored by Aristotle! So yeah, he had a great upbringing.
I have an opposite view: once US and China disentangle via the complete tariff on all Chinese goods in June, China will become inward focused and isolationist, part of the protectionist trends around the world. It will have way less trade ties with others, since low end manufacturing will have completed its move out of China
Serious question - Are they serious about being evenhanded? Or did they just handpick a list of organizations with the same politics as them to serve as cover?

I guess this should be easy to tell. Are any of their partner organizations doing work to protect 2nd amendment rights, or supporting pro-life causes? I couldn't tell.

From my priors my first guess would be that this is a left-activist effort masquerading as a universal protection. But I'd be pleasantly surprised to discover that they're serious.
It's been a stupid decision at the time of the setup. Now its already there, and any attempt to change it will have to erase the drives, and this is a huge pain in the arse.
Failure of lobbying mainly. Companies need to donate more to politicians to regulate their competitors out of the market!
I made this choice as well and I regret it. I've had a nice share of bugs regarding DNS and service discovery.

However, those bugs seem to be fixed after version 19.x, but I'm still bitter about all the problems that I had because of simple features failing on me.
Unfortunately, Kubernetes does not support that mode of operation.
It's significantly better for privacy from private companies, because FastMail does not monetize your data and Google does.

My point is that the impact of storing your email with an Australian company is not in itself a problem or increased compromise in your privacy.
>A lot of the early European settlers in the US were fleeing religious persecution.

What's your point?

Some of them turned around and treated people who didn't fit in with them even worse than they themselves had been treated when in Europe. I can think of a couple groups who, in retrospect, the natives should have killed on day 1.
The context was private individuals keeping copies.

There are some exceptions but they're not really pertinent here: You can make a transient copy, eg in order to view a website you might cache something. You can retain a copy of a TV show until you watch it - but can only watch once, and not with company. You can keep copies to facilitate workarounds for disabilities (but again you can use that for retention) ...

Registered archives can keep works so long as they're not accessible by the public.

Your second link, I wasn't totally aware of those changes. However, they don't seem especially pertinent. You're not allowed access to the whole copy of an archive copyright work. Private archives can't keep copies. Public archives can only do so when buying access is not feasible.

The private study requires you to be on a related official course of study, and the works used -- but only accessed in part -- have to be cited in the study results.

So, WBM isn't a UK public library and couldn't copy a UK served website legally for archive. A UK public archive could serve the pages, but only parts of them, and only to people physically in the building.

I think my summary was correct in context; detailed corrections welcome!
They really should invest in uniforms.
New Bay Area startup promises a house without the down payment blues