skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're smart and able leader as a citizen in that country you have three options: 1) leave to a better country (easy), 2) fight the system politically (really difficult), 3) ignore your morals and engage in graft directly as a politician or indirectly via enriching yourself via connections/bribes in gov as a private enterprise (semi-difficult since you're still competing with all of the less smart people who are smooth talkers or have entrenched/hereditary influence) or 4) violent revolutionary behaviour (almost impossible outside of external situations like war or regional conflict which can create the anarchy/power vacuums necessary for this to work).

1) and 3) are the biggest hurdles for these countries since most people never even try and just live their life. 3) is often the only path to any change as it continually generates new power players, while greasing the existing wheels as to not stop their momentum, and it's entirely possibly incrementally lesser evil people could take this route. Especially as education improve and economic difficulties create pressure on old broken systems/models which the next grafter might be less inclined to continue.

So if it's not going to be from the inside then it's only going to be external pressure - by other countries. Most foreign countries couldn't be bothered by a small, non-economically or militarily (state or Guerrilla) important country so few would make much of a risk intervening locally. Plus most of the surrounding countries in that region are very tolerant of dictators, so there will likely be more of the opposite pressure in the other direction, even if the west did care enough to counter it.

Then there's the whole immoral nature and high risk of backfiring of foreigners bumbling into a country without understanding local culture, glossing over the power of smaller ethnic tribes (unexpected if you're used to stable democratic government power), or often not building enough trust to legitimate offer the long-term commitment changing-seeking locals need to not face persecution later (as we repeatedly have seen in the Middle East and Africa for the last century).

It's a very difficult problem. A power vacuum after such a 'collapse' could work in their benefit. It could also just result in a worse situation depending on a whole bunch of circumstances. But it's still a better opportunity than hoping some smart guy tries to change the system from within, without getting chewed up and spat out first.
Flow control in application protocols over TCP has been tried (in SSHv2), and it's failed. In SSHv2 flow control acts as a handbrake on all channels -- not good, though it does fix the starving of non-bulk channels by bulk channels. It's bound to fail in HTTP/2 as well.
>Inflation is less of a risk now because of technology + globalization, right now we are experiencing significant deflationary pressure as products and labor converge towards global pricing/wages.

I've seen this point frequently cited on blogs, but I've yet to see any academic data that supports it. Intuitively it makes sense to me. I just haven't seen any raw data that backs it up yet. Indeed, isn't this what Trump and Brexit are trying to reverse?
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I don't know how old you are, so it's hard to tell how long ago you're comparing. But how do you know if this isn't simply because there are a lot more content than it used to be ?

https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ indicates the number of web sites is still growing at breakneck speed.

Somewhat dated but still relevant:

https://searchengineland.com/googles-search-indexes-hits-130...

says the growth rate for the number of pages to be still substantial.
Seems odd that it would be a hunan-timescale event. Why not a few microseconds or a few million years?
Such great memories!

I owned an A2000 growing up, great machine.

The real beginning of the end for me came when I started seeing what the Sierra adventures looked like on the PC in magazines.

Then Wolfenstein 3D.

Then Doom.
What I’ve heard from my therapist is that anxiety is often a cloud that covers the real emotion underneath. I experience anxiety when I’m really upset because I don’t know how to express anger. But sometimes it is sadness or fear. Anxiety is basically an evolutionary adaptation — we no longer are being hunted or having to hunt for survival, but our minds still think danger is present.
>managed to get a push poll claiming over 50% support for suspending democracy in the UK.

Also, they didn't, they are just lying about that -

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/08/no-mo...
Using a UA switcher and FF, I can't seem to find anything broken. I think the author of this page is just a bit zealous for chrome.

It also seems to work without UA switcher, but still states it won't work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I appreciate the detailed response!

What kind of music would you recommend listening to to evaluate headphones in a shop? I plan to grab my HD600 and Grado and compare them to HD800. Aside from Sennheiser and Grado, my local shop lists the following: https://www.missionaudiovideo.com/catalog/headphones-and-wir...

I was told the high impedance can be an issue when listening from a desktop/laptop/phone (as I normally do), so I was actually considering HD660S or even HD598/599. What do you think?

What about in-ear models? I hate the fit of the stock iPhone earbuds (they just don't fit me at all), but provided I find those that fit well I would like to own high quality earbuds. What's the difference in terms of sound between in-ear and around the ear designs?
One thing I remember very distinctly from when I was much, much younger is how my grandfather smelled. A very distinct smell that I always attributed to his heavy tobacco smoking and sweaty manual labor as a master cabinet maker. He died when he was in his sixties, from a heart attack. I was in sixth or seventh grade.

A few years ago, I was astonished when I realized that I could smell that exact same smell again. Only this time, to my horror, I discovered that I was now the source of that exact same precise smell. Only I don’t smoke, and my labor is mostly mental.

It’s not a knock-you-over-with-body-odor smell. You can cover it with deodorant or other perfumery type of application. But it is the baseline smell, minus all additional covering odors.

I finally decided that it must be a combination of genes and aging, since I am now close to the age when I recall that my grandfather smelled like this.
Hey there should be a collapse/expand button for component
And thanks for creating this. This is so far the best dev product I have seen in a while
yes I agree, but the number of dead Vietnamese was not the reason for the war's unpopularity in the USA.
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I just exited a Ph.D. program in algebraic geometry, looking at performing differential geometry over discrete "manifolds". In particular, I was interested in porting General Relativity to a discrete differential geometry realm. Now, I'm looking for remote work.

In broad strokes, my talents lie in three main domains. Relaying what I hear from my peers: 1) my ramp-up time on technical subjects is fast, 2) my analysis is deep and careful, and 3) my explanations of highly technical material are lucid and helpful. Words are words though, so I hope to find a team with lots of opportunities for growth, and where my natural talents are useful and appreciated.

On the DevOps side, I have a relatively comprehensive understanding of Linux as an OS, having used Linux primarily since middle school. These days, I pretty much live in the command line and (finally) have the background to rely primarily on man/info pages and source code for my documentation needs, without resorting to blogs or wiki pages.

Finally, I love math. I find it beautiful, exhilarating, not to mention useful. Regardless of day job, I find myself spending a good bit of my free time studying algebra, geometry, and their intersection. This interest spills over into languages like Haskell and Scheme, hardware execution models, and even the Linux kernel.

I would flourish in R&D or any position that can use an overabudance of curiosity and a scrutinizing eye.

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Portions of the Earth appear as white dots orbit and the Earth rotates underneath. It works in Chrome but not Firefox for me. It's worth spending 10 seconds looking at, but I feel like I wasted some time opening up two browsers to check compatibility.
This is me too. Working in the barn to clear for the next load of grass before it arrived, working extra fast to manage to read manuals between the loads.

I never could afford an Amiga when they where in sale[0] so this memory is 3 years later when the family bought a PC.

[0]: I and two of my brothers saved money and managed to buy a used C64 somewhere around '92.
I built hardware mods on my Amiga 1000 and 500, and for members of my local Amiga club

What got me was how easy it was to do, yet a large company like Commodore was not doing that I did at home.

500KB original memory and 1.5 MB of memory piggy-back to the chip memory, 1.8 of high speed static memory, designed myself and install a CPU speed doubler, a gray composite (used analog colour signals) to drive a high persistence monochrome monitor, a Zorro bus to IBM ISA bus adapter, external triple floppy drive array.

All this was very easy to make, I don't know why Commodore could not do the same things.
To say that it's "vastly more economically viable" to spend $300 billion fixing insecure software rather than simply making it secure in the first place is fallacious.

If you made the software secure in the first place, you would have secure software and $300 billion to spend on something else (guns, butter, or what have you).

That seems like the very definition of the broken window fallacy to me---but hey, if not, it's still a fallacy.

Of course we haven't factored in the extra cost of making the software secure in the first place. If that costs vastly more than $300 billion, it is vastly more economically viable to just make broken software, but I don't think that was the intention of the statement.
> it only cites the FAA for ...

The link above goes to a partial list. Click on “A-Z list” on the right side to see everything in one page, and then CTRL+F “faa” and you’ll see 17 matches.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

> Finally I searched for “Laptops” which doesn’t mention the FAA at all.

Right, I see the same thing under laptop, but you might take a look at “Power Banks” and “Power Charger” and “Phone Charger” which all mention lithium ion batteries and reference FAA web pages -- however the link seems to be broken.
Are you interested in something as simple as being able to export to Github or would you be looking for real git integration (with export and even import). I'm not sure on the feasibility of import but would love to hear more about what you have in mind there.
IPMI boards are increasingly available for AMD systems now. There is the Asrock X470D4U and X399D8A-2T and Supermicro also had a couple in the works I think.
Maybe, kinda. It's not obvious that it's more privileged than centering a reference frame on the Earth or the Sun. The CMB is maybe just an artifact of the Universe's history (like a Sun-centered one is an artifact of ours).

If we didn't have any CMB radiation floating around to measure, everything would probably work exactly the same. Maybe you could measure all the motion of all the matter in the visible universe and measure the motion of the "center" relative to us.
So fun story:

When I started using Ubuntu in 2008, I used gnome-terminal as was default, and had no issues for it for quite some time.

Around 2009-2010, I decided to start experimenting with a whole bunch of alternate window managers and terminals. Eventually settled on wmii and xterm.

Since then I've gotten so used to xterm, that I can sense the extra latency in gnome-terminal that isn't in xterm, and it bothers me. This isn't even over ssh or anything, just local.

Toying with this page, gnome-terminal feels about the same as 10ms. And apparently I can still just barely sense the delay at 5ms now. Somewhere below that, probably around 2ms, I can't sense it anymore and it feels like xterm.
Xpc: Enhance of zircon ipc and android binder
hardware way to speed up ipc but sync ipc rather than async way?
paper:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3322218
How many treaties have Trump violated? Does anyone want to do something about the US?
I very much agree that most reportings and conversations lack proper context, especially non-Chinese ones (although I refrain from describing them as _stupid_), but can’t help but wondering whether your concluion is also missing some other context.

Reports conflict on how China is faring on the trade disputes, but Hong Kong, being the only place not affected in these trade conflicts, may be too valuable to give up as a worst-case plan, even if it might not be vital in numbers. Even given the same information, a spectator’s mindset can be drastically different than a player’s, since a spectator has nothing to loose, but a player does.

The current Hong Kong incident is really, really complicated not only because of China itself, but also it happens at a very perculiar time. The fact that China chose this particluar time to assert control on Hong Kong (proposing the Fugitive Offenders Bill and providing the sparking point) is also under-discussed, and no-one AFAIK has a good explaination–it can’t be simply stupity, for sure? I certainly would not jump into the conclusion that China has “no incentive, period” to use military force without first understanding all those nuances and much more.
Start looking outside your company for a job. You will likely need to settle for lower pay if you want to move to a management position. It's obvious that your current bosses think that you can't manage a team.

Also just because you're excellent at your job it does not mean you will be an excellent manager. Great managers don't need to be technical wizards but they need to know how to evaluate people and be able to make the best decisions from the information your team gives you. Managers are best at managing people and making sure you get the best from the team and you're able to manage your bosses too. Which means that if they ask you to acomplish X then you will accoplish X plus more.

Techies believe that the best way to management is to show how great they know their area of expertise. No, that won't get you into management. You need to show that you can get people to do what you want, inspire them, and as you get up the ladder you can manage a budget and all the other parts of a particular department.

You will also notice that managers can be jerks but when they speak to a team they come across as very charasmatic. It's a talent that can be learned. You need to start learning it. So start by knowing your audience. Good luck!
To the author: Be careful going down the saas root. The path is filled with feature requests with promises of small monthly payments without lockin.

Great for a focused simple product but perhaps not so great for this kind of a tool. Ultimately your customers want something to create as much of the app/site as possible. As you approach this ideal complixity increases making your application more brittle. When the ecosystem changes your tool may not be able to respond to the new reality.

Your better off using this tool to create value for your own customers. Or selling the source code rather than chasing the 9 dollars a month customer.
If you're following a link, then copy the link and paste it into the URL bar. Before you hit enter, prepend with `about:reader?url=`.
Ozymandias.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

Stay humble.
Perhaps the modern equivalent of “best viewed in Netscape”?
> if now >= NEW_CONTENT_DATE

No canary? Tsk tsk.
This is exactly why Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is a great idea.
Flash the browser plugin may have died, but the mindset that made people want to make websites in it never did.
If you don't like this regime one small thing you can do to help is to buy an electric car like a Tesla instead of one that uses fuel produced from Saudi oil. That will hit them where it hurts, in the wallet.

Middle eastern countries get away with all kinds of abuses, because oil. Remove the oil and they won't have the same bargaining power they do now.
That's the proper thing to call it: scaffolding or boilerplate. "Codebase generator" sounds like an excuse to charge for the output it produces. Instead of that's just scaffolding I can imagine well, yeah, we used a codebase generator, that's just smart, isn't it? Should we do everything manually? Divjoy looks pretty cool but I think I'll avoid it out of principle.
So many questions:

1. How did they get 150 satellites into low orbit?

2. Is it becoming a hazard to have all the satellites and space junk possibly making it difficult to launch anything down the road?

3. Aside from tracking the objects, has anyone made any calculations as to when these things will become a hazard?
> Its certainly possible in VHF/UHF, though (for licencees).

>You're welcome to do 256QAM in the microwave range, for example.

Which gets back to line of sight propagation (tropo is not common) and everything I said in my first post.

I've tried the home to car omnidirectional link thing on 902-928 MHz. All that matters is line of sight. I tried a 25w bidirectional amp (ham general license) and that didn't help. I tried bringing the ubiquiti transceivers w/broadband hamnet firmware all the way down to QPSK modulation and the narrowest channel I could. I even tried using narrowband 56k telemetry dongles. I customed designed and built my own microstrip based filters for the front ends.

The only thing that really helps, and it's not enough, is height above terrain. When I go park my car on the hills outside of town megabits are possible. But the slightest hill or valley losing LOS kills it.
I think some people in HK are deliberately trying to force the Mainland government to bring in the tanks. Otherwise why would they start beating up Mainlander travelers?
Most of the dozen or so leaders of the anti-TMT movement have at least some native Hawaiian ancestry, but yes, a lot of non-native people have joined in, especially on social media, where the barrier to entry into activism is low.

One thing I didn't mention above that's important in all this is the Hawaiian independence movement. Many of the leaders of the protest movement view the State of Hawaii as illegitimate, and believe that the Hawaiian Kingdom is under illegal occupation by the United States. The telescope is a great symbol to rally in opposition to. If the State of Hawaii doesn't exist, what right does it have to grant permits for construction on Mauna Kea (yes, this is an argument that TMT opponents repeatedly made during the legal proceedings that eventually approved the TMT's permit)?
Nailed it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiao_(currency)
You can buy a Gold ETF such as GLD: https://www.spdrgoldshares.com/
I don't believe those a coincidences, but more collaborations and the right people working together :-)
It's Apple's fault for writing things like: "OS X 10.9". If the X is a 10 then it should be "OS X.9", the fact that both the X and the 10 are there proves that the X is pronounced "eks" :)
You need management experience.

Hire some contractors/people to help you build something outside of work... learn how to manage them (make sure it's more than one person). Even if its silly stuff like building web pages for local businesses. The next interview you take you will be able to speak about your experience managing a team.

Oh and change jobs. You're clearly putting the work in and they aren't seeing it. That's a red flag for me. If you like the company you can land another gig and then have them counter offer with a management position.
This is why you may want to open source. There are so many cool features but very little time.
Thanks for the kind words! Totally understand the frustration of trying to piece everything together. Been there many times and why I finally decided to give this idea shot :)
Excuse me what? If something is already negative interest rate, how would fees and costs (which are also negative) push that to 0?
One of the weird things that happened for Atari ST and E was the inbuilt MIDI interface. It got really popular in the music world for quite sometime.

But no matter what, the component architecture of the PC was bulldozing its way to kill ataris and amigas. Only Apple really survived that challenge, I think mainly because it had the education market somewhat cornered, but even then would have likely died if it wasn't for the ipod.

Both Commodore and Atari might ( especially Atari ) have had a good chance in the home market of game consoles.... but no.
I wish application-level flow control would be paired with a database of internet speeds per subnet. They already track everything else, my connection shouldn’t repeatedly slow because the congestion algorithm doesn’t know my maximum download speed.
Make a spreadsheet with one row per year. You can assume your system will last 25 years, depending on the panels and type of inverters you get.

Put your upfront costs at the first year's row (you're buying the system).

Calculate how much the system will save you in the current year (365 days), and put that in another column ("energy income") on the first row.

Each future energy income row gets discounted by ~7% multiplicatively: (1/1.07) * prev_row. This is to account for your ability to earn money from other investments, and to discount the future energy flows because of uncertainty. You can tweak this number up or down if you think the regulatory or technical value of solar energy is riskier than I do, or have different opinions about the stock market.

If the sum of the energy income column is bigger than the sum of the expense column, it's a good idea to buy solar. Shop around for the best deal you can get.
Yeah, someone would have to leave a Raspberry Pi zero sized chunk of explosive out to put up a boot screen and something close enough to a windows boot logo to pass a cursory visual inspection.

In reality, the X-Ray should already make it pretty clear if there is something weird about the laptop's build. Turning on the machine is entirely unnecessary. Also, I have not been asked to turn on a laptop in many years, so unless this is a new development it is badly out of date.
We've been hearing those stories way more in the Bush era when that became a thing, and even in the Obama era, with various TSA related news (several harassment stories have been posted on HN over the years too) -- and yet even during Bush's years arrivals year rising (click: "max" to see from 2000 or so):

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/tourist-arrivals

If anything, despite some stagnation, the trend is more or less the same and still rising in 2017 and 2018 (click "5 years"):

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/tourist-arrivals
It’s always kinda bugged me that some tech companies and their CEOs talk such a huge game about changing the world for the better and then turn around and build these huge bunkers. Optimistic words without optimistic action rings tremendously hollow.