skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not clear how a CEA policy makes financial sense for a standard single-family, owner-occupied house. The only affordable plans have massive deductibles and only partial cost coverage. If "the big one" hits, it's likely that:

(a) CEA will quickly run out of money and I won't be covered anyway.

(b) The whole community will be ruined so assuming all of my family is still alive we'd best move somewhere else anyway (and a rebuild or undamaged house wouldn't sell).

(c) Some kind of government bailout or community help program will be available.

For smaller earthquakes, it's likely I'd either fail to meet my deductible or be unable to pay the non-covered portion (which has to be paid out first before they'll begin to pay for further repairs).

Am I wrong, or is there something I'm missing? I wish this weren't the case.
Redis is already super useful, but this would be an absolutely killer feature. Server assisted client side invalidation! Something people have always wanted but has never been built.

Implement it quick so I can use it on AWS in a few years!
Infographic here: https://vpnpro.com/wp-content/uploads/Infographic-VPNpro-97-...
Sounds like problem solved then.
I liked some commentary in a similar direction https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/484675/does-the-...
So it was apparently widely felt but Ridgecrest-China Lake, where it seems to have been felt the most, is not very close to the major populations. You can see this from cgoecknerwald's second link showing the locale of one of the major aftershocks.

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38443095... to save slight scrolling
Stock firmwares do not include a big package like OpenVPN. Hence, it muat be redownloaded.
Is having a hidden directory under /etc safe?
I would use an iOS app. I like to keep my Mac as clutter free as possible/very minimal.

Happy Birthday.
I recently contributed to a GPL project that uses tabs+spaces, but I have emacs configured to not use tabs ever, at all.

After the first git commit it was obvious that this was going to be a problem, the diff lines didn't match at all.

So I'm seriously considering, after 38 years of being a die-hard 'spaces or death!' user to switch to using tabs with my tab-stop size configured to match my spaces preference.
Newly released HadSST4 suggests fewer years to reduce emissions
That's the untreated climate change disaster scenario you describe.

A carbon tax might at worst case take some jobs, but aside from in oil industries needn't take any. Yet will generate nearly as many jobs elsewhere as the proceeds are spent on projects to avoid climate impacts.

So no, I don't understand why someone would reject the far easier route.
Domain modelling made functional is fantastic book(What this article is inspired by). Taught me a lot about encoding business logic using functional programming techniques.

Functional programming is basically my goto when there is complicated business logic involved now.
Staying at latest patch levels are more about security vs features.
It must be nice beeing CEO in a comnapy where nothing can go wrong.
Thank you.

I did some digging and my router, the Asus RT-AC68U C1, being Broadcom-based, has no working WiFi. Guess I'll stay put.
One of the best articles have seen recently!
> Economists widely agree that carbon pricing is the most effective way to fix climate change

That is true, and does not conflict with the findings of the article.

I think the difference here is that we can start planting trees right now. Carbon taxation is something people still pretend doesn't have to be done.

It's also worth noting, that given the accelerating pace of the climate crisis, the time to start planting those forests is NOW. Not in a year, not in two years, NOW.
I always appreciate antirez' very candid writing style. Comes across as such an earnest and reasonable person. Very low ego, very excited about the technology, but with an eye for how people will be able to adopt it. Wish we saw more tech leaders like that.
This week due a wifi network intrusion I bought a Linksys Wrt3200acm. It looks good on paper and it has two boot partitions so it doesn't brick. I installed a device specific distribution recommended on the forums. Well, the 5ghz wifi range is total crap with Openwrt because the wifi driver is not as advanced as the one shipped by default and with the open source driver it can't transmit at full power.

I ditched Openwrt and installed back the stock firmware. But I am returning this device to Amazon tomorrow.

Which modern device do you recommend?
Playing the racism card?
I would think the set of parents who can teach their kid about virtual machines and docker, but don’t have a spare Machine lying around for their kid to mess up is as good as empty.
International Copyright and the Soviet Union (1965)
How is the UX story on OpenWRT these days? I have an Archer C7 running stock FW in my basement that keeps acting up, and my default would be just to flash DD-WRT. I'm not opposed to a little bit of CLI fiddling, but I definitely also like my router to be a set and forget type of device.

As far as what to do with it, I could picture house-wide ad/tracker blocking, sending traffic analytics to elastic, potentially some homeassistant/rtlsdr type stuff.
>Given the narrative of rent extraction, you'd expect the declines in labor share of income to have happened during the long period of deregulation, reduced antitrust enforcement, etc., starting in the 1970s.

The point of this article is to complicate that very narrative by identifying how increased regulations actually serve the interests of concentrated wealth.
Yes the NRC has regulatory capture, but by the actual nuclear industry to fend off regulation, oversight and scrutiny, subsidize the power and rubber stamp the projects.

It's so prominent its given as an example on the Wikipedia page for regulatory capture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#Nuclear_R...
Man you guys really have Stockholm syndrome.
Dhall is fantastic and I try to encourage everyone in tech I meet try it.
Interns join at the beginning of summer. \o/
If you want a popular open source router firmware that works on affordable commodity plastic soho routers, OpenWrt.

There are other firmwares for plastic, and it used to be that some of them (like DD-WRT and Tomato) would just work better than OpenWrt on a small number of devices. Today, I suspect some of them still have merits that arguably make it worth not just doing OpenWrt, but I'll defer to someone more familiar with them to discuss those merits.

If you want to be better respected on /r/homelab, or not use a SoC, then get PC hardware (or a turnkey appliance) and pfSense or OPNsense. You might end up getting separate plastic WiFi APs (perhaps running OpenWrt), and doing only Ethernet on the router box itself (pfSense suggests this).

You can also make your own router/firewall/appliance, by just configuring a PC GNU/Linux distro manually. Extra gigabit NICs come on PCIe cards.
Hmm, I could probably setup emacs to do something like this.

I'm on Linux these days so can't use it anyways :/
I think the lack of damage from this shows a high degree of preparation. This same earthquake 50 years ago would have likely been much worse.
I wonder if anyone is researching genetically modified trees that specialize in carbon sequestration. Sort of like Golden Rice but for climate change.
Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5C target
Afaik, TPlinks MR3020 and its successor, WR902AC are supported, but they don't have two Ethernet ports.
Can you try again to make sure?
Climate Change: The Facts – BBC Documentary with David Attenborough [video]
Absolutely true. And tree planting appears (to me) to be an underappreciated philanthropic cause area. This study could help change that.
also got a 2015 and 4k @60hz is possible plug and play with a thunderbolt to displayport cable. anything other than default scaling gets a bit choppy though
There's no such thing as secure third-party custody, as the insurance companies (rightly) limit the amount of total insured Bitcoin volume.

For years I heared people talking about how important role institutions play, but luckily so far Bitcoin remained people's money.
All the backend code for my current startup is in Elixir (switched from Ruby, my previous love).

Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto are an absolute joy.

It took a bit to get used to immutability and FP but it feels so "cozy", for lack of a better word, to know exactly what my code is doing and to not be bit by obscured mutability and magic anymore.
Thanks for the heads up. I have that exact hardware and was looking at DD-WRT, but perhaps I'll try OpenWRT instead.
Sure, but order 10^3 years is the right time scale to think about linguistic features. People lived in villages and farmed. They speculated about other people's sex lives a lot. Argued about legitimate descendants and inheritance. Could not afford to ignore the difference between cows and bulls. And many (though not all) of their languages have gender deeply built in.

None that I'm aware of have anything resembling our modern idea of race built in. For the obvious reason that approximately nobody in said village had been 100 miles, nevermind to another continent. If a language had such a feature, the next generation would probably never have heard it used, and thus would not know what it meant. (I wonder whether any languages have grammatical markers for slavery or caste? That would be the closest thing I could imagine, divisions that many people would have talked about every day for millennia, in some places.)

Forgetting features seems to happen much quicker than acquiring them. Post-1066 English lost a lot of complication which German retained (including grammatical gender of nouns, IIRC). As you say, singular you is much younger than that, but importantly it's about forgetting a distinction we used to make. I'm not an expert on why this happened, but I didn't think it was some great shift in what needed to be communicated, just a mutation/simplification.
Its probably some back end access for five eyes, and needs a re-start of everything. Its too fishy for it just to a coincidence.
I recently read a book by a cosmologist Max Tegmark in which he brought up another theory - that the function wave function doesn't really collapse, it's just that the moment of measurement lets us determine our location in the multiverse. I think this is related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Int...

And also an interesting read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...
Broadly speaking, I think there are two kinds of companies you want to look for:

* Those which directly aim to reduce or sequester emissions

* Those which could deploy technologies to lower their emissions and save money

You can find examples of these in literally every sector. This is a blessing because it means there is a ton of demand. It's also a curse since it can be hard to pick a niche if you don't happen to have some kind of specialization (e.g. transportation or agriculture).

I'm actively looking for clients that fit both of those categories. I'd be happy to chat about collaborating or any of this if you reach out via email (see profile).
California earthquake brings scattered damage
Most anything from Greg Egan.
Who guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for new approach
Yeah forking over an extra grand to buy a poorly built computer that looks pretty to use a god awful OS on mediocre hardware... what a great experience.

It doesn't sound like any of you have used a windows laptop in decades.
From the article:

“Crowther emphasised that it remains vital to reverse the current trends of rising greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and forest destruction, and bring them down to zero. He said this is needed to stop the climate crisis becoming even worse and because the forest restoration envisaged would take 50-100 years to have its full effect of removing 200bn tonnes of carbon”

200bn tonnes? Apparently humanity releases at the moment almost 40bn CO2 tonnes per year (1). All that trees then replace only 5 years.

1) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf303

"CO2 emissions grew by 1.6% in 2017 to 36.2 Gt (billion tonnes), and are expected to grow a further 2.7% in 2018 (range: 1.8%–3.7%) to a record 37.1 ± 2 Gt CO2 (Le Quéré et al 2018b)."
Not one word here about why BTC should be worth anything at all. Who cares if someone spent time and electricity to mine it?

The USD is, along with every other major, government-backed currency, already an almost 100% digital currency. I don’t see any advantage there. In fact, BTC has the disadvantage of no major government backing it.

If nobody is required to accept it, and I can’t do anything with it otherwise, what good is it?
> my default would be just to flash DD-WRT

I have openwrt on all my 3 Archer C7s.

I much prefer it to dd-wrt.
Could it be that people see an outage, migrate to a new vendor, and increase load?
Of course! Apologies for not including any explanation from the start.

Chitter is basically email for your website.

I recently launched Chitter with the hopes that it could stand out from conventional messaging services that are more focused on product support and answering immediate questions regarding pricing. Chitter is better for engaging with users over the course of days, weeks, or months - really the user's entire life cycle. This way, you can really learn who your user is and what they want.

As previously mentioned, I just launched, as in last night. Features are seriously lacking at the moment but I'm adding to it day after day. If you try it out, let me know what you think!
New Report/Dataset: Just 10% of Workers Receive Nearly Half of Global Pay
>They control the pathways of modern speech.

Not true. Almost all modern speech doesn't take place on Youtube or any Google platform. It's possible to broadcast without Google, publish without Google, disseminate without Google, gather without Google, dissent without Google, make phone calls without Google, chat, email, text, audio, video, everything - literally all forms of speech and expression are possible without Google, both on and off the internet.

>If Google doesn't like you they can damn near erase you from public view.

Also not true. Plenty of people Google "doesn't like" are still in public view. Name one person Google has effectively "disappeared" in this way, and I'll bet they still have a presence elsewhere on the web, still participate in society, still can communicate publicly, be contacted, etc.

>If you have an internet business they can ruin it.

Maybe. But then so could Amazon. So could your ISP. If losing SEO would ruin your business, the problem isn't Google's power, it's your crappy business model.

>There is no way to escape their influence.

Really? Do they control you here? In your home? Do they moderate other sites? Do they control Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News?

It's arbitrarily easy to escape their influence. They control one platform, not the internet, not society, not governments.

>In many ways Google now has more control over speech than governments historically have.

Governments can imprison you, torture you, kill you, run over your friends with tanks, nuke entire cities, fill shallow graves with dissidents, burn down libraries and make it legal. Google has no more control over speech than the governments whose laws they must obey by definition. They don't claim a monopoly on violence or sovereign immunity.

>If there was a viable competitor this would be different, but there is no such competitor.

There are plenty. Google is not the only search engine, and Youtube is not the only video streaming service.

Almost every part of your comment is falsehood, hyperbole and nonsense.
Once thing I've noticed about Bitcoin is that there are many "alt-coins" that seem to deliver better on Bitcoin's promises from a technical perspective, but those coins are forever stuck in Bitcoin's shadow because BTC has that first-mover advantage. And as a currency, the first-mover advantage is HUGE, because who wants to convert their investments from a hugely popular coin to one that could disappear tomorrow?

So everyone seems stuck -- we agree cryptocurrency can be an amazing idea, and the first version of it is something of a technical (and economic?) miracle, but now we're stuck with the V1 flaws forever (unless the group governing it decides to 'fix' those flaws, but there's another issue, I don't want you messing with how my money works...)
Thank you. We really need more examples... and hopefully a full guide to futures/async. As someone currently in the outskirts of the Rust community, it's really hard to 'peer inside' what's happening and how to use it in practical applications. It's a matter of time, but it's just so exciting xD
Encrypt VPN traffic for the whole house, instead of by device. My router didn't support this out of the box.
"I'm more optimistic."

I am not.

"WWII was the last attempt to capture the wealth of developed nations by invading them."

There were many reasons. I was not aware that "wealth" was one of them. For very advanced but small countries with a small population it may have made sense as a last grab to try to stay a super power.

"These days such a strategy is a complete non-starter because no developed nation can withstand an invasion."

I dont understand this statement.

"Think of it like this: Silicon Valley is probably one of the richest bits of America. So imagine that some dictator decides to invade it, and that the US military try to stop him but fail in some improbable way."

Silicon valley is rich because of knowledge, no because they have stored gold in the vaults or oil under the soil.
ALso: "The threshold necessary for small groups to conduct global warfare has finally been breached, and we are only starting to feel its effects. Over time, in as little as perhaps twenty years and as the leverage of technology increases, this threshold will finally reach its culmination -- with the ability of one man to declare war on the world and win." Brave new War, john robb

"So this dictator now controls a bunch of ruins with no electricity containing broken computers."

This won't be a dictator but a nerd in this parents basement doing DoS or running a CRISPER Lab from his garage.

"How does this make him any richer than he was before?"

I doubt that "money" was the driving force beyond most wars in the last century. Power. Fame. Ideology. But money?

The 3rd world war will make the last two look like Disney land trips.
I observed three stages in my personal experience:

Stage 1: Being the river of emotions

In the beginning when emotions arose in my head, I was strongly attached to them. I identified myself with emotions I felt. My internal happiness and inner piece were strongly dependent on emotions I was experiencing. As a consequence, my internal happiness was volatile.

Stage 2: Observing the river of emotions

Through meditation I was able to become an observer of my emotions. Emotions are still present, but I don’t identify myself with them that much. Like an observer watching a river of emotions. I still feel joy, I still get aggravated, but the relationship towards emotions has changed. What’s present is curiosity towards my feelings coupled with a peculiar sense of detachment. It’s a great feature of consciousness to have, IMHO.

I feel more alive, I recognize my emotions more accurately and I think I have become more emphatic. I find myself feeling the present moment in every day common situations (e.g., commute). I can concentrate more on tasks at hand, I’m naturally in the flow. On top of this, my internal happiness has become deeper and constant, as the attachment to my emotions has weakened.

It took me 2-3 years. I experimented with various kinds of meditation (static, dynamic, breathing, etc.) and picked those that I found effective. I started with Headspace, for about a year. Then dynamic osho meditation + qi-gong standing meditations worked great. Also, targeting my attention to how I felt during everyday common activities helped tremendously (what I feel when having an argument, what I feel before a presentation, etc).

Stage 3: Who’s the observer?

Currently, I’m becoming more and more curious about the nature of the observer. Who’s the observer? Who’s feeling a feeling I’m feeling? If Stage 2 is a meta-level of thinking, stage 3 seems like a meta-meta level. I’m curious how that feels like. My hunch is that the internal happiness and calm becomes even more deeper. The question that is burning my consciousness currently is who will be feeling that calm then? :)

It seems to me we live in a world of abundant information and opportunities on cultivating one’s consciousness. I think that advanced levels of consciousness can be reached quickly and effectively, compared to people who lived hundreds of years ago.

Also, it’s a long-term game. I’m currently learning a 60-second free-standing handstand, starting from zero, and I know it’s a project for at least a year. I’m 6 months in. The progress is really really slow and highly non-linear. Sometimes the non-linearity is very discouraging, sometimes very encouraging. Nevertheless, I show up 3 times a week and do my one hour routine. Despite the slowness, I cannot believe my current skills compared to January this year.

If you have any questions, I’m happy to answer.
Related: A Toyota engineer grows forests: https://fellowsblog.ted.com/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-real...
Compared to most stock router firmware? It is fast, and more stable.

May be the updated drivers or the removed junk, but WiFi, NAT and USB speeds are better on all the routers I had (my first step - install Openwrt, DD-wrt or Tomato). And no latency spikes.

Lots of configuration options, extra capabilities via packages, and it can run for months without losing speed, losing the connection, becoming non-responsive or rebooting.
Ubiquiti routers don't support OpenWrt. They're still excellent. You could also install OPNSense/PfSense on a PC Engines machine (they apparently also run on OpenWrt).
Writing modern safe c++ isn't really the hassle everyone makes out of. Besides smart pointers the clang's sanitizers go a long way.
I did try to pitch Rust at my corp but aforementioned safety checks are considered enough against the overhead of learning new language and I agree. Personally I don't like the Rc and Box syntax that's required to get a simplest homebrew version of even linked list going, C++'s metaprogramming hacks are rivaling that.

I wish the stigma against "unsafe" C++ was a bit more rational. People who use it aren't the kind fresh out of bootcamps and mostly realise the gains and risks. But maybe I'm skewed by my job which uses C++ and takes any risks seriously.
As others have mentioned VLAN is an opt-in step and requires support from the hardware.

I also DONT want those devices to be able to connect to the internet: I have a D-Link webcam that has (had?) some issues around being exploitable remotely via the MyDLink or whatever it‘s called service. I don’t want to have (more) devices sitting in my network that open it up from the inside.

Also I need my guests should be able to access the internet without me having to whitelist their MAC address.
I don't know how to do the math, but my python simulation says zero.

import random

service_providers = 20
servers_threshold = 5
up_time_threshold = 0.999**7 # prob down in week
years = 20
occurrences = 0

# run sim 10,000 times
for i in range(0, 10000):
servers_down = False

# simulate weeks in 20 years
for j in range(1, 52*years):
how_many_down_this_week = 0

# run up times for service providers
for s in range(0, service_providers):
up_time = random.random()
if up_time > up_time_threshold:
how_many_down_this_week += 1

# did they go down?
if how_many_down_this_week > servers_threshold:
servers_down = True

if servers_down == True:
occurrences += 1

print(occurrences)
Short answer: hell no. What gives currency value is how often people use said currency to purchase goods, nobody uses Bitcoin, not to the extent of any real currencies anyways.