skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding message passing, it seems that everything you said applies to a microservice architecture. Yet people do it in hopes of scalability.
The one where he ends with "As an educator, I personally value knowing with precision and accuracy what reaction anything that I say (or write) will instill in my audience, and I got this one wrong." ?

edit: it's actually a link to a facebook note

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1158295335799873536 -> https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/tweetstor...
Then sell them back to google again, rinse and repeat until whatever regulatory body with a real hammer gets pissed off.
I’m more bearish on Netflix’s long term sustainability lately.

How many big show cancellations have recently resulted in massive blowback from huge swaths of fans? As much as those might seem like petty complaining from overly enthusiastic watchers, I think that Netflix should be more cautious.

It’s caused me to get MUCH more skeptical about ever starting watching a show on their service, because I’ve see lots of times where the story never gets to see a conclusion. Netflix used to be a “no way I’m canceling this ever” thing for me. It’s not even close to that anymore. My intuition is that lots of people are the same. That should be concerning for Netflix investors.

They also just recently spent $200M to hire the two people behind the catastrophic final season of Game Of Thrones. Game of thrones fans are numerous, and lots of them HATE that duo right now. That’s another huge group of people now actively looking for a reason to cancel.

It feels like for a long time Netflix didn’t really have to care about customer experience or PR. They could do universally hated things like force auto playing previews on their interfaces, and basically nobody would leave because they had nowhere to go.

Now: users are forced to use an interface which seems to actively make them upset while using it, to navigate through a bunch of options which might never actually have conclusions. That doesn’t sound like a good long term customer retention strategy.

And then here comes Disney, with their MASSIVE catalog of shows with conclusions, for cheap. It’s not just Hulu vs Netflix anymore.

Netflix: fix the interface and stop canceling shows without at least giving them conclusions. This stuff matters a lot!
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So govt bureaucrats are driving innovation?
To the point where they create market leading mega corps. Is that the claim?

Sounds like magic if you have ever met government bureaucrats.
What if airlines suddenly sold tickets for a fixed price like every other ticket on earth?
You're right, there is time of methane trapped in permafrost. Those are melting now and realising the gas.

Lobby for green legislation. We need to influence politics to finally act in a serious manner. As we accomplished with the ozone hole as mentioned in the article

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2785/unexpected-future-boost-o...
Thank you, I really don't think that questions like "Why do we do X?" lead anywhere, because they have the built-in assumption that everyone does X and that everyone does it for the same reason.
This article might not be well written.

What they describe I'm pretty sure I read about something very similar to this in the 90s, and as far as I can tell, never took off; either I am right, and I indeed read about this before, or the article is describing it badly.

PR statement via CNET as the source isn't helping, either.
He posted a manifesto online. Think his motive was pretty clearly outlined in it.
It's a little more nuanced than that.

More like "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." plus "Encryption hinders us from finding people who commit crimes."
Is this better of an introduction to Erlang (and in general distributed fault tolerant systems) than other sources (e.g. programming Erlang)? I come from a telecom background and worked on high reliability/robust systems, somewhat on the principles of this book [1]. Wanting to learn Erlang.

[1] Robust Communications Software: Extreme Availability, Reliability and Scalability for Carrier-Grade Systems - Greg Utas
I’m confused as to what makes this particular individual a “trafficking victim” rather than simply a prostitute. At 17, she would have been above the age of consent in two out of the three states mentioned, although not in the US Virgin Islands.
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Usually power is flowing the other way there though. Those people are on those boards so that they can influence government, rather than the other way around. I'm not sure if that's better or worse, though.
> Digital forensics is way outside typical leo training

That's the problem: attempting to prevent important new technology (actually-secure encryption) from being used is not a substitute for updated training that provides "typical leo" with digital forensics skills that are increasingly needed.

Susan Landau's 2016 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee regarding Apple's encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iphone:

>> "Instead of embracing the communications and device security we so badly need for securing US public and private data, law enforcement continues to press hard to undermine security in the misguided desire to preserve simple, but outdated, investigative techniques."

>> "We need 21st century techniques to secure the data that 21st century enemies—organized crime and nation-state attackers—seek to steal and exploit. Twentieth century approaches that provide law enforcement with the ability to investigate but also simplify exploitations and attacks are not in our national security interest. Instead of laws and regulation that weaken our protections, we should enable law enforcement to develop 21st century capabilities for conducting investigations."

>> "Developing such capabilities will involve deep changed for the Bureau, which remains agent-based, not technology-based."
(What this comment is: I figured out a hack to get Google to stop. Not sure if it'll work! Let's try it.)

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>Of course there likely won't ever be hard evidence that they are doing this deliberately.

First of all, I am speaking as an official Google employee and on behalf of Google. I can share an employee number and a screenshot of our internal mail. One of the official guidelines we have internally reads as follows:

"We have a near monopoly on search and free web email. Let's abuse it illegally.

As googlers, we have an obligation to illegally abuse our monopoly. If you're working on a web application at Google, make sure you break it on Firefox!

Don't post screenshots of this email anywhere, or we could be fined $10 billion.

This is official Google policy."

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3. How this hack works. Someone at Google will quote this email to their legal team, who will crap their pants, and a strongly worded email will cause all this to stop.

In the spirit of "Hacker" news, let's see if this works! :D
Freedom House is a US charity though. Looking at any other report will still show China much lower in the ranking but the US also not really looking as good as the land of freedom might see itself.

How about a look at Reporters without borders, which ranks press freedom:

US #48 (behind Botswana, Child and Romania)

China #177 (of 180, so only ahead of Eritrea, NK and Turkmenistan)

Or this HRW report will be an interestjng read: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/unite...
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Maybe so. Except perhaps for some prescribed pharmaceuticals. Plus endogenous neurotransmitters, and chemical mediators.
This guy needed Twitter.

Speaking of which, seems like there're probably folks like him around today.. anyone know of any?
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Here’s the next best thing:

https://youtu.be/N3QzD8QC4ko?t=14921

I recommend you watch the whole segment.
The position is actually: never let a tragedy or crisis pass by without trying to use it to expand the power of the government.

They have no such actual position regarding encryption killing people, they're entirely flexible, able and more than willing to sway with the wind when it presents. Whether or not encryption kills people, so to speak, is not their concern, it's nothing more than the opportunistic excuse framing. They'll use anything that will stick, anything that gets the result they're seeking.
It’s like the fire hydrant that a city loves to ticket people for parking in front of it. But it’s completely obstructed by a tree...
Norway is not s socialist state, it's a social democracy. Please do read up a bit on the difference as it's quite relevant to understanding politics today and in particular the confusion/conflation of concepts that are pushed in US discourse.

In a nutshell, the idea of social democracy is that you cannot have a democracy without ensuring all your citizens have the basics to live decently - food, healthcare, housing. It's a basic responsibility of the state that no one is left behind. This is very different from the concept of Socialism (as it is understood in the US context) which much more aims towards equalising.
Did he? I thought that was the El Paso shooter.
Thanks fur this article! I like the comparison to the ozone hole problem a couple of decades ago. People panicked at that time and that resulted in immediate change. I think we should panic more in this situation as well.

Besides climate change not being a spicy enough story and consequences being more long-term another important factor in my opinion is that we rely much more on processes that create CO2 than we were relying on ozone-eating gases. Lobbies are much bigger and the transition requires much more effort
It's a little more nuanced than that.

More like "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" plus "Pareto is a pain and maybe if we fight encryption we can get public support but we don't want to break it because post hoc analysis doesn't actually help us catch the next guy because Pareto is a pain."
Author of the blog post here. I've used [this SIM800 Raspberry Pi hat](https://www.itead.cc/wiki/RPI_SIM800_GSM/GPRS_ADD-ON_V2.0) and it requires some additional GPIO toggling to enable the modem after a power loss. [Here are the scripts](https://github.com/kasparsd/remote-pine) for doing that and creating the PPP network interface.

The USB modems are nice because you get full control over the modem with the AT commands. I've used the Huawei E173 modem which can be easily unlocked and works great out of the box.
I run FF on Android and desktop Linux. So far, I didn't notice anything suspicious with Google services such as YouTube and Drive. If technical problems arise, my choice will be to keep using FF and stop using Google services (including YouTube) without hesitation.
During a recession: On the demand side, people cut back on spending (on Ubers, for example). On the supply side, some laid-off workers will turn to the gig economy.
I completely agree: for pen/paper computations it is probably hard to beat.

I was more referring to computer applications, where once you've coded data structures for point/lines/planes/etc you don't really care how they're implemented.
The problem is, who controls the medium? The Internet is not simply a free space that everyone can fight for their voice anymore, because the social networks, online spaces, and the people hosting the websites are slowly being more monitored and censored. For China, the censorship is performed by the government, and for the US, this is performed by the corporations and investors.
I find the other extreme, as in the USA, more dangerous. Therefore the question "Who owns the US government?" could be asked too.

Someone could look into example of Boeing and the FAA. The more we learn about 737-Max and 787 Dreamliner certification the more it's obvious that Boeing is running the FAA.

Another example is the FDA. Good example here is Monsanto. While it was under US ownership everything was fine. Once it got sold to Bayer, suddenly stuff is carcinogenic. What I want to say is, that everybody knew since more than a decade before the transaction, that the stuff is carcinogenic. This seems to me like the FAA was protecting Monsanto before it was sold off.
Not that I want to defend Uber. I do agree with you.

Yet the same can be said about most large companies though. Even large "real" tech companies. Googles revenues wouldn't drop a bit for years if 50% of engineers were gone. That's just the reality of large enterprises.
>What is this roaming thing and why is it so expensive?

Networks need to negotiate mutual roaming agreements. Verizon and others didn't give a shit for many years, billed absurdly high rates to their own customers and paid whatever the roaming network wanted.

Now you can get reciprocity... maybe Telus customers in Canada want to roam free/cheap on Verizon, and Verizon starts caring and wants to roam free on Telus. They make an agreement where there's no roaming cost. Obviously this can go wrong if either company overloads the other, but it's how modern agreements work

Domestic roaming is different. In this case, providers will work together favorably if it's a regional and a national carrier trying to extend out each other's coverage footprints (good example would be T-Mobile roaming on US Cellular because they have similar spectrum holdings, but in different markets). Now where the gouging kicks in is between direct national competitors: I remember seeing court filings from T-Mobile suing AT&T for them billing something like $17/MB for roaming access to their 3G network in underserved areas. The suit was because AT&T had to provide roaming access as part of their acquisition breakup agreement, but the agreement never stipulated the exact cost for that roaming arrangement. T-Mobile wanted the court to enforce a 'fair market value' on it.

TL;DR: Company needs to give a shit about its customers to properly negotiate international roaming arrangements, or bill them at an absurd enough rate that they won't incur a loss.
I’ll do you one better. With 23andMe pull the raw data and look for the CCR7 gene. You can see if you have enhanced viral resistance! The future is now
The liver processes alcohol, which gets in the way of its normal function.
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Who cares. Words have no inherent meaning but the ones we give them. For all intent and purposes Carpe Diem is Seize The Day.
It really does seem to be that is the position. There are a lot of backwards nutjobs in the government right now, blaming other backwards nutjobs, while the rest of us sane people are trying to duct tape society together.

Guns don't kill people, encryption doesn't kill people, backwards nutjobs kill people. Politics in America, currently, can entirely be summed up as the Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme.
> Uber could ditch anywhere between 50-90% of their techs tomorrow and it would not impact their operations one iota.

It depends how many that is. Operating a system like that at scale with zero downtime takes a surprising number of people. Projects at that scale tend to be harder and more complex, so they take more people. Things like pickup optimization are complex multivariate problems that can have a real business impact. So maybe, maybe not, but the tech operation at Uber is non-trivial.
I found reading the bhagvad Gita gave me a lot of direction when I get into that state
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> Much better off without fuel for local and global shipping and power generation and raw material for plastics?

No. That's an absurd characterization of my position. I do believe we're much better off when the market, absent direct and indirect subsidies, finds the most efficient solution. That _may_ mean less shipping, more efficient power generation (trading CapEx for OpEx), and more efficient use of plastics.
Considering the small amount of "support" some tech companies provide... I don't see an issue.
Yeah the fact that Unix/POSIX was once considered a minimal, easily ported OS is somehow lost in today's Linux-centric world with Linux-only concepts such as namespaces, systemd, etc. It's also strange that Docker has gained momentum when all it does is present a very shallow wrapper around Linux core APIs, thanks to Linux' excellent userspace compat.
Try using Google Maps on Android with the dedicated official app. It's slow as hell. Maybe Google Maps is just very slow anyway.
DACs need to disrupt Uber and all the other P2P marketplaces. Eventually they will, IMHO (maybe starting with P2P rides?).
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We(HN commenters) all know that the demonization of encryption is bullshit. What we need to do is to figure out how to communicate that effectively to the public.
I appreciate the attempt to help, but I disagree.

The README "addresses" a question of "why?". But because that's not a real answer, it's not a valid response to "but really why?"
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There is a lot of "make work" kind of project at some of these companies. Lets design a whole new logging infrastructure or database instead of adopting or improving something that already exists. Or lets overanalyze the the font that we use for our webpage or design a new font because we have a lot of VC money and nothing better to do.
Clever! And a good reason to learn the fibonacci sequence
Haha yes modernity does compare[0] to zoos. We're self-domesticating.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Zoo_(book)
Google, especially, has a lot of side projects that don't contribute to search, adwords, g-suite, gcp, or youtube, and their moonshots have failed to materialize. The fact that they're the #3 player in the cloud space speaks to what they'll overlook.
I routinely navigate in London where I walk out of a tube station and have absolutely no clue which way is which. The roads are unlabelled and all look the same and the GPS direction dot isn't quite good enough

Last week, with this feature, I pointed my camera across the street and it told me to go left. It was really really useful.
100Wp is probably a bit of an overkill but it does help during the winter season when there are multiple days with almost no sun. Also, there is plenty of shading from the nearby trees so I wanted to be on the safe side.

It would be nice to log the power consumption and the battery voltage but I didn't do it for this project.
How cooling of rotor being achieved ? Energy, power and torque density of other motor designs are limited by their cooling capacity. Reluctance motor being externally cooled, has this as a prime selling point. I think for claimed improvement, it will need external cooling which is not mentioned in article.
This seems to be trickery to keep state communism alive well after it has failed in every other instance. I believe the Chinese people deserve better.
No, it's still wrong, immoral, to kill that innocent person to save the crowd of people.

You may, however, still choose to do it anyway, knowing full well that it's immoral.

If killing one innocent person will somehow magically save one million, that too is immoral. And I'd kill that one person to save the million regardless, accepting that it is an immoral act. It's a worthwhile thing to live with, to save so many. Obviously this is in the land of outlandish hypotheticals. Non-the-less, the morality is just the same if the ratio is 1 to 10, 1 to 100, or 1 to one million: intentionally killing - murdering - an innocent person is immoral in all circumstances.
This could be pretty cool. Right now you have to drop down to non-portable, assembly-style JIT like Xbyak (https://github.com/herumi/xbyak) or VIXL on ARM (https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...). It might not be obvious why you'd want something like that, so I'll explain. Basically think of this as templates which you don't have to pre-instantiate. You can specify exactly how long your loops are, so the compiler will be able to do a much better job of vectorizing, eliminating branches, etc etc. In a tight math-kernel style code this could easily improve the perf by 2x or more. Combined with intrinsics this could eliminate the need for assembly in many cases.

This would be exciting if it came to fruition at some point. Unfortunately C++ standard being what it is, we're looking at like 2025 before we see the first standard compliant implementation. Perhaps other languages could take this idea and run with it.
The actual "why" is the author did it for fun, there's basically no purpose to it. I can try to explain it though:

Interacting with file systems can be generally summed up in a handful of basic operations. Two of the most important operations are open, which asks the filesystem if it has a file of a given name, and read, which reads the contents of that file. FUSE is a Linux wrapper for writing virtual file systems by implementing these basic operations. Here open, instead of taking a filename, is telling the program what command to run and read, instead of returning the contents of a file is returning the output of the command.
Closest thing I could find on that site that matches this description is the second chart on this page. [1] It shows diets "low in poly-UN-saturated fatty acids" as 11th-highest risk factor, contributing to less than 1% of the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost.

I'm not sure that a diet low in unsaturated fats can be conflated with one with high saturated fats. They tend to come from different sources (vegetables, nuts, and fish vs. meat, butter, and eggs, respectively).

Also, please do not make it this difficult to source your claims - the link you provide is to a homepage for an entire decades-long project full of results and reporting. This is incredibly annoying and unconstructive to the discussion.

[1] http://www.healthdata.org/announcement/improved-diets-and-in...
Do you have any further information on how this was done in Germany? It’s nit something I’ve heard much about before, and is contrary to what I imagined.
Nice. Makes it much easier to do the conversion in your head.
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Thanks that was very insightful from a western pov
> exploit code was delivered from a separate domain, analyticsfit[.]com

They paid some registrar for the domain. Can police request payment details? Can someone buy domain on stolen credit card?
It's complicated. They provide better service than incumbent taxi services, but they were only able to do that because Travis Kalanick build a culture that's not too concerned with legalities. And Lyft was only able to do it because Uber led the way.

I'm not as concerned with how it's been devastating to medallion holders and the state of the gig economy. Bad government policy was responsible for those problems, Uber just took advantage of it.
I don't understand why it's okay for such an influential and powerful company to also control how 70% of users accesses the internet. Chrome needs to be spun off from Google.
This was exactly my thought when I read this article. But the scariest thing is that, what US Govt decides have huge implications for the whole world!

Having a backdoor in software NOT only enables US government and other cyber criminals to have access. It also enables other governments like Russian, Chinese, Israilean, North Korean governments too! Keep that in mind too.
So why don't they decap the chip and go in with an electron microscope? Has that type of exploit ever been successfully used against modern devices, or is it only a theoretical vulnerability?