skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notice I didn't specifically mention GPS, although I agree that it is pretty cool. That said, GPS alone isn't capable of providing the UX that end users expect from a modern app. Fused Location is required for more accurate location information and it isn't passive like GPS.
Re Elon Musk, this statement in the article is something I always consider when I think of what he has achieved:

> Ask yourself whether you’d like to spend your days, weeks, months, and years in a constant uphill battle.

Opinions of what anyone may have of Elon personally aside, I think any rational person has to be in awe of all he's been able to achieve. Yet the hours he puts in 7 days a week, and what the constant stress-levels must be like... I'm not sure I'd want to swap places with him.
Steven Spielberg Is Writing a Streaming Series You Can Only Watch at Night
After reading that, I'm not sure what Galileo provides considering that don't FINT anyone.
The GPU Cooling Solution
> the obvious counter-arguments (GCC, Apache, nginx, arguably git...

...and Wikipedia, BitTorrent, the WWW (open-source, though developed on NeXTStep), the Objective-C compiler that made it possible, Emacs (and its idea of an extensible self-documenting editor), Perl, bash, the dpkg/apt system the app stores ape poorly, the CTAN and CPAN systems it derived from, most aspects of decentralized source control in the form of arch (and then later Mercurial and Git), rsync, Docker, Nix, GNU make, Python 3, gold (the linker), iptables, Enlightenment, the Hurd, MySQL, PNG, Pango, Numpy, IPython/Jupyter, Ruby, the X11 Render extension, LADSPA, Valgrind, asan/ubsan, basically everything on CPAN, all the inventions in x264, ...

I'm not sure Apache belongs in there, though. Rob McCool might take exception to being called a "GNU/Linux hacker", though I don't think Robert Thau would mind.

> There are obviously plenty of examples of Linux not learning from others (Jails/Zones vs containers, kqueue/IOCP vs epoll, ...

Oh c'mon, is the problem that Linux doesn't innovate enough or that Linux innovates too much? Epoll is an example of Linux arguably innovating too much.
This has happened to me before as well. I have no proof at all, but I suspect that certain users just get straight in and can get to the front page with only a few upvotes, while other users (like myself) can get 15 upvotes in an hour or two and never make it above 75.

Would love a little more transparency from HN. I know it will enable manipulators but it would also help people like us not feel as shafted (which has really disincentivized me against submitting stories).
"How exactly would legalization hurt Mexico? Look at Portugal to see how we should all move towards dealing with drugs and addiction as a health problem instead of a criminal problem."

Again the 'Portugal' argument is misplaced.

Portugal has not legalized drugs.

Portuguese Police will throw you in jail forever if they catch you with large amounts of any drugs.

The material difference between Portugal and most other advanced nations is how they treat possession of small amounts - instead of jail, you get therapy.

Great, I wish the same for America.

But 'Legalizing hard drugs' is a complete different, position, it's not close to reasonable.

Thanks to 'Fentanyl' the argument becomes glowingly problematic - OD's are skyrocketing everywhere, and 'overdose' now kills considerably more people than guns and cars every year.

Given that OD's are rising rapidly, and the others are contained - OD's are soon going to be the cause of concern.

Full legalization of 'hard drugs' would mean it's in your coca-cola (again), meth in your red bull, opiates for any little thing. Though many would stay away, and many frankly can 'handle their drugs' - a material chunk of civilization would be addicted, to the point it would be a massive mental health crisis.

We are already pushing reforms to seriously limit the number of opioids prescribed because it's such an addiction problem. In Canada, you get sometimes 1, 2 or 3 opiate pills only (!) because of the concern.

Decriminalization of small amounts may very well help.

But 'legalization' of hard drugs will yield a health catastrophe pretty quickly.

I'm always shocked at the sheer lack of understanding of social consequence in these forums. I get the 'Liberty' argument, I get 'Harm Reduction' (though it's not always a great story), I get 'thinking out loud' for bold new ideas.

But legalization of hard drugs for most civilizations will yield destruction.

The 'war on drugs' will continue for as long as they are addictive and powerful.

Fentanyl is just the beginning.
Ajit Pai: The greatest threat to the internet is Silicon Valley, not ISPs
This was standard operating procedure for most colos/shared hosting companies even for paying customers. If the company didn't have enough resources to combat DDOS attacks, they'd shut you down to protect the rest of their customers. I think this is rarer now since there are a number of DDOS protection vendors that are relatively cheap
Most of my friends are not "geeks", and do not exist in the technological space that I do. I'm not speaking from within a bubble.
"The primary reason we care about Saudi is oil."

This is true.

"US policy makers seem to view them as a necessary evil until we transition to renewable energy."

This is false. There is nothing at all necessary nor evil, relative to the United States. We use the middle east to establish a protection racket on oil flows to the rest of the world.

The United States gets zero, or near zero, oil from Saudi Arabia. The same is true for the UK which gets oil, almost exclusively, from the North Sea. We don't need Saudi Arabia for anything - certainly not as a "bridge to a renewable future".

We choose to hold the rest of the world (particularly Europe and Asia) at gunpoint with a "nice flow of cheap energy you have there ... sure would be a shame if anything happened to it ..."

"At some point after “peak oil” SA seems likely to experience extreme social upheaval ..."

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWeMpaC4VeA
Yep. I have left mine running for literally weeks (over 25/5 DSL, so not a screaming connection, but perfectly adequate before) and it has not finished syncing a library that was completely synced before. It should be just a metadata update, but somehow it found tens of thousands of photos and videos and is constantly falling over some big movie or Pentax raw file and dying. Total piece of crap.
This is fantastic, I started working remotely a couple years back and then moved cities as well. I am an extrovert, but not the kind who will actively strive to make conversations. But I started doing this, and it's amazing!
Nobody Owns Product Work
> Black market for pot growing in CA at the expense of the legalized market.

The amount of regulation pretty much guaranteed a "market failure" for legal pot.

Almost like that was the intended outcome...
"Bridging is still, mostly, hardware based and defined by IEEE, the people who control the Ethernet standards. Routing is still, mostly, software based and defined by the IETF, the people who control the Internet standards. Both groups still try to pretend the other group doesn't exist. "

I laughed so hard it hurts. Stories like this make me realize that the eggheads and boffins can be just as dumb and stubborn as I am.
There's also https://psmag.com/social-justice/battlefield-earth-can-anyon....
He Killed 3 Muslim Students. But Did He Commit a Hate Crime?
We worked hard to try and get conservative and libertarian organizations as partners including the CATO Institute and the Heritage Foundation. They originally objected because they couldn't understand what was in it for us (Cloudflare). I think over time we've proved that we're serious about the Project and the idea of having global, diverse partners with different perspectives.

If there are potential partner organizations that you think represent a point of view, whether politically or geographically, that the current parters do not, I would encourage you to have them apply: https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo
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It's not misplaced blame. It's an accurate statement: China's fentanyl has made the opioid crisis in the US far worse and far more deadly. China entirely deserves blame for the fentanyl coming from their country. They're blatantly allowing very large amounts of fentanyl to flood into the US, even while they know exactly what the end result is. They've hardly lifted a finger to stop it. They're an hyper-surveillence totalitarian dictatorship that can control every aspect of their system, including the ports. If fentanyl is pouring out of China, it's because the authorities there are knowingly allowing it.
>AMD failed to capture the market despite making tremendous gains and legitimizing itself.

Because Intel played dirty and illegal[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k
I was citing "reason" as in "reason he was taken alive".

I said luck, because not much beyond plain luck allows you to survive 110+ rounds fired into the relatively small fiberglass boat you are hiding in. Not moving might have helped, but there's still quite a but of luck there. He had at least three serious bullet wounds.
You realize you are only reinforcing the use of FizzBuzz as a test. If it gets rid of people like you applying, it's done its job. Wastes less of my time, and ensures I get the better hires. Thanks!
>It would be hypocritical to be upset at politicians like our president and congress for breaking laws, but then to cheer on Ross for his breaking of the law.

There's a lot wrong in your comment but this is the most wrong by far. Citizens are not accountable to the government in the same way that the president is accountable to the country. The latter is a far stricter responsibility and not a two-way relationship. Citizens have no moral obligation other than the threat of force to obey unjust laws; in fact in many cases breaking such laws is closer to moral duty. See civil disobedience.
Open Source:Beyond the Market (DHH)
Google Photos has Archive which removes it from your local storage but retains the file in your Google Photos cloud storage.
Couldn't have said it better myself. To add to the list of very good and reasonable arguments there's also the social, recreational and medicinal benefits.

Most people I know are hypocrites when it comes to drugs, on one hand they happily drink alcohol or smoke almost every day as well as consuming huge amounts of caffeine but as soon as illegal drugs of any kind comes up many people get on the fences they really really don't see the similarities, I guess it's just sheepism and brainwashing from early childhood.

It would be funny if some of these illegal drugs end up curing some of the major problems we have today like depression, social anxiety and loneliness.

It's just becoming ever more hard to argue rationally and scientificly for prohibition. Many people who are against drugs all have some "exceptional" personal reason like having lost someone close etc. Where in most of these stories, the illegal drug blaimed was a tiny bit of the problem or was laced or impure as a direct consequence of illegality. I'm not denying addiction at all, but iirc all evidence points to addiction levels being steady or falling when you legalize. There'll always be the troubled people who'll struggle more than others and some of them will abuse whatever's available.
Helium launches $51M-funded 'LongFi' IoT alternative to cellular
I think it's extremely likely it saved people from overdosing or taking the wrong drugs. The review system let people vet their dealers before buying.

And yeah, I was mainly thinking about street level violence. While I've never lived under the influence of a cartel, I have a hard time believing the Silk Road would make anything worse for anyone in that situation. It seems to me giving cartels the ability to directly sell their drug to people over the internet would only decrease violence. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
The old Threadripper 2950X can get up to 46908 with a little bit of memory overclocking, here it is with DDR4 at 1600 Mhz, a modest +9% over stock at 1466 Mhz: http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13400527

This Ryzen 9 3950X scores so high because the memory is heavily overclocked by +29%, see my other post in this thread.
It doesn't particularly seem connected to the parent post.
QQ: Can we not make mobiles without IMEI? Surely in today's time WiFi is ubiquitous and that will only increase with many cities installing city wide free WiFi. A simple Internet only phone with built in Tor support can push the envelope.

Most of my communication is through apps. I don't think not having a number would make a huge difference
Both. China is a country of 1.4 billion people, they're detaining hundreds of thousands of people for no good reason in Xinjiang, they execute or imprison political enemies and are building artificial islands in the South China Sea in order to turn international waters into Chinese sovereign waters. The scale of that place will blow your mind. A single city like Guangzhou has 50% more people than the entire Bay Area.

You really think a single VC company that plays no critical role in national security is even on their radar?
I‘m not talking about theory here but about my professional experience using GraphQL and Apollo for two years in production code. To be specific: I would hardly have a use-case for Redux when apollo-client already has built in local state handling capabilities. Throw in TypeScript and generate your type interfaces from your schema and your queries and there‘s no second guessing. GraphQL and Apollo is not at fault for people writing bad code who mix patterns and ideas that shouldn‘t go together.
Ask HN: I wrote a recursive story. Want to know if my thinking is correct.
Disclaimer this might be a bit too long so sorry if doesn't add any value to you.

Yesterday I wrote a very short story which goes like this:
We are in a recurring simulation. Each simulation is actually a speeding up
to find the perfect computer. As we approach to solve the problem, the world
resets and starts again to find the perfect computer. As we approach to solve
the problem, the world resets and the perfect computer...

I thought this seems to be recursive but it's just that the same sentence repeats to give that illusion. So I thought I should write a bigger story and see what happens. And so I wrote this: Details that can be added into the above story.
So the higher entity has found that humans cannot be kept in a vegetative state and the matter cost of frequently replacing us is very high. To optimise this we have come up with a software that runs in the brain. The diary is a detailing of this software. We run a simulation where the brain starts from the stone age or some even more primitive state. So that when they have full function of the brain but the only thing they lack is knowledge. With each turn of his life and he's progressing through an increase in knowledge in the human mind. As human's start to grow in number the collective knowledge increases and the time to the acquire more knowledge keeps of decreasing. Then we reach the point where they are not able to know the their birth but at that very moment the software's platform computer resets or has a segmentation fault. This the maximum strength computer the machines have built till now. The machines are constrained by resources and not able to develop better computers. They have timed the resource utilisation of running the farms with this software to the end of the earth. So that resources end at the precise
time the sun dies. continues in comments...
An offhand compliment works great as well, you can't come off creepy :-))
well, if you can’t make pages executable you can “just in time” it by interpreting and writing it to an optimized interpreter format i suppose (but it will be much slower)... as an example, see WKWebView vs UIWebView (from iOS)
Mechanic of the Simulation:
The machines found that the simulation cannot be run continuously.
So they let the humans body rest in relation to their body age. This comes from
the idea that humans start at the start of stone age where there are less humans
and others would be in some form of coma. As the story progresses in the simulation
the humans are woken up into the dream. So according to this description the
young ones are woken up earlier and older ones are woken up later.

This is done in a farm. The oldest one is the last to die. This way whole farm
can run 3 - 4 times before the people gain conscience. Farms die at rate which the
machines can create and start new farms. When the earth is about to die, there will
be only on farm left and no more resource to create more.

This simulation diary can be written over and over again by exploiting a very slightly
illogical statement that doesn't seem so and keep on writing infinitely.
I think this is like prime series from mathematics. I don't know how much this can
grow or does it even have an end. I don't know if my analogy is correct. I'm
pretty sure this a infinitely recursive story of thread of word where I can start
at any point and say that this is a wrong statement and start again by building about
a new story around it. Like if this story is a function applied on itself and we
spit out more words and keep the story going with another bullshit term.

Is the way I wrote the story wrong?
That's interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that some of the failures might be down to people trying to code in a language they are not familiar with.
Yes, you're correct - I meant until the world transitions and oil is no longer such a strategic commodity to anyone, which could still be a hundred years away.
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Not sure how that answers my question.

There is the rule of law in HK and, according to this bill, any extradition request will be examined by HK courts with the accused able to defend, in the same way as extradition requests from other countries.

Are you implying that Chinese courts will completely fabricate evidence and that HK courts will blindly rubber-stamp it?

More generally, it's not uncommon for Western countries to have extradition treaties with countries where the justice system is more than dubious, but somehow it does not seem that people are shipped over on these countries' whim.
So long as 'trust' is part of the factor for purchase, then by 'Supply and Demand' - the tactic will work.

Consider that there's an incredible number of 'regular people' who might visit these sites, not super knowledgable. They might have regular jobs, regular lives.

The thought that they could be caught up in something legal, lose their jobs etc. etc. is a very material risk.

Without getting into other aspects of this issue ... the tactic they're using is actually reasonable.

Also, I'll bet their not spending a huge amount of energy on it, it probably boils down to 'keeping an eye on it'.

As far as your comments bout 'no violence' etc. - really, it'll just move elsewhere.

Anything that starts making money will be exploited very quickly by nefarious entities for nefarious means.
Nextcloud is the proper fork to use these days.
>> In both cases, it is believed that the drivers may have mistaken the throttle for the break pedal.

No. That is either a translation error or an overly-polite way of putting it. They did not "mistake" one for the other. Loss of coordination in the legs is a normal symptom of old age. It is why old people shuffle, why they use walkers. They did not make the mental mistake of forgetting which pedal is which. They suffer from a physical condition, one unrelated to cognition, that limits their ability to quickly and accurately move their feet.

Automatic brakes might help, but won't necessarily protect every kid walking through a parking lot from being trampled by someone accidental slamming on the accelerator. What might be needed is a combination of automatic brakes and throttle limiters, devices that interpret someone slamming on an accelerator as a mistaken attempt to stop.

Similarly, rapid acceleration in reverse should be disabled. That has killed in many parking lots. So too rapid acceleration with the parking brake applied.
> and now every site out there takes 20 seconds to load with 10 little spinner icons while all the HTTP requests go out to their microservices on docker clusters, and everything requires a hundred-library-deep build stack

That’s just the cost of progress. Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. No pain, no gain. There are always casualties in war. Get with the times, grandpa.
There are a lot more controls and features for our higher tier security services that Galileo participants get for free. And there are a lot of security threats we help protect them from that go beyond DDoS. But, you're correct, the experience of dealing with the nation state-level attacks that Galileo participants face on a regular basis was a big part of what encouraged us that we could make Unmetered DDoS Mitigation free to all Cloudflare users approximately 18 months ago.
How many decades of a horrendous human rights record and exporting terrorism does it take before we admit that making friends with horrible people doesn’t improve them?
I took college classes at 300 baud, too. Via Q-Link.

Unfortunately, I chose Soviet Studies as my concentration. Seemed to make sense in 1986. Today... not so much.
To me, this mass exodus from platforms to iCloud is _scary_. I've been rolling my own solution for some time now based on Resilio Sync. I understand that I'm the minority and a power user, but honestly giving Apple (or Google, or Dropbox, or _____) control over my files like that does not appeal to me in the slightest.

On sort of a tangent, I'm also choosing not to use iCloud because I really feel like it gives Apple an excuse to establish anti-consumer practices when it comes to hardware repairability and data ownership. I had an amazingly terrible time at the Apple store recently and an employee tried convincing me that Google will sell my photos that I've uploaded to my G-Suite account. I believe what he said was "I just pay the $x/month for iCloud, because 3rd parties can't be trusted sometimes". To me, that is an amazingly terrible attitude that sounds like it came straight off the page of the language guidelines. As far as hardware repairability, Apple recently has moved to either soldered-on or proprietary connectors for their storage devices for most of their devices. In the 2016 MacBook Pros, they made an assembly to recover data via the lifeboat connector so if you had a logic board swap (which is what you get because they'd rather landfill/grind down than repair) your data could still be recovered.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/24/apple-special-cdm-tool-macboo...

This has disappeared on the latest models. Finally, Apple in the past year has discontinued their Time Capsule product and has not made any large improvements to Time Machine. It is still a nightmare to use with SMB environments, which seems to not align with Apple's silent killing of AFP in favor of Samba.
So why are there no really good email clients?
I suppose it was a time where you had continuous aircraft development since 1939, so designers could have got a good feel for what would work, and what wouldn't.

I'm not convinced by the idea, but its plausible they could have been.
> It would take real creativity for things to get that bad today.

It is easily as bad or worse. Those 50-200 people knew and cared for each-other, and depended on each-other, and the surveillance was bidirectional. Whereas now you are monitored by actors almost entirely beyond your reach, that will feel no remorse in crushing you, should the command be given by whoever is in control.
The problem with fighting cancer is selectively destroying cancer cells while leaving normal cells alone. This article unfortunately says nothing about how this device does so (or even whether it does).

Without some handle on this aspect, side effects (some of which might show up much later) could be a major problem with this treatment.

No time to plow through the original paper - does anyone know?
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