skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy that yes it takes time to be financially independent of donations while offering a global information service for free.

But that essay is clearly pure hyperbole. The expenses aren’t exponential, they’ve been roughly linear for a decade. Notice how the word exponential was removed in the second version. The graph is showing increasing savings along with increasing growth, and the expenses appear to have slowed slightly in the last five years compared to the five prior years. It’s completely failing to demonstrate the stated claim of runaway spending, the numbers practically prove the opposite.

Plus it’s not outlining what the money is used for, so there’s no concept of efficiency here, no reason to doubt that increased service came with increased expenses. There’s zero meat in this argument.

Whatever; last year’s total expenses seems very small to me compared to web sites of similar size; there are startups smaller than Wikipedia’s team that have raised more money than Wikipedia’s yearly expenses without managing to deliver anything. Wikipedia’s value to the world is currently larger than it’s expenses, IMO, and I think it’s impressive what this non-profit has done.
I appreciate the library approach and I basically agree with you. If anything, I wanted to point out that a normal general language is so general that adding differentiation into it would be highly costly - just this feature would require that every loop and every conditional return be watched (relative to pow(x,x), an even more challenging example is the Newton's method implementation of a continuous function using a loop).

An alternative would be creating a general purpose language just for this feature - an interesting though rather specialized project.
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I can't imagine how confusing the world must be when one only sees things in the world such childish black-and-white terms, where the existence of evil automatically means that anyone in opposition is a morally-unimpeachable angel.

To be clear, there's no comparison between the parent comment's model of Ghiridaradas's actions and those of Ito et al, and AG's telling of their actions is pretty damning regardless of his motivations.

But responding to someone trying to flesh out a better understanding of the situation by mentioning his motivations (without excusing one iota the far-worse actions of others) with "NO THERE CAN ONLY EVER BE ONE SIDE DOING BAD THINGS" is about as simple-minded a take as I can imagine.
Issue tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T22079
> It seems to me that a more accurate description is that people are moving from the most expensive and culturally prestigious cities to slightly less expensive and culturally prestigious cities. It doesn't sound to me like they are moving to what people generally think of as "small cities".

Agree completely. Many workers are moving from LA or Chicago to Phoenix, which is far from a small city, but is less expensive.
Honestly, I have been feeling that the integration with Kindle, and Amazon in general, is what killed it for me. They took an audience of bibliophiles (and their ratings) and expanded it to the mass market users, encouraging them to star and comment on what they just read.

What I'd really like is more access to the data and filtering mechanisms to try to build recommendations for myself.

Example: Find the highest rated books that I haven't read in the Fantasy category, as rated by an audience of people who have rated at least 7 out of 10 books from a list I provide with a score of 4 or higher, and who have never rated a Twilight book with a 3 or higher.

And if that doesn't work, maybe I tweak it a bit. Build a score threshold for excluding reviews from people based on other criteria about things I don't like. The point is that the data would help make the decisions..

Of course, that won't happen because of privacy concerns. With all the data locked up it means only Amazon can do it, and they're failing at it.
Only change that they didn't cause.
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I think undesirable here describes something like white nationalists. They have a problem getting web hosting.
But as you say, that would require JavaScript to be available, making it impossible to build web apps that store user state without relying on JS (well, I guess there’s HTTP Basic Auth) and breaking a large part of the internet in the process. Not everything is a client-side single-page web app.
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Good question.

I'm not worried about education. Sure there might be more choices in the city, and the local education has it's problems, but it's still good enough. It might not be the best, but most schools in the city aren't either.

Health is the biggest worry (which I even forgot in my comment). Not because we'll get worse care here, but because the distance to the nearest hospital is very large (2 hours by car). Which is especially worrisome as we're expecting another child in about 5 months. A pretty big change as we used to live a 10 min walk away from one of the biggest University hospitals in Sweden.

Then again health care in the big cities, like Stockholm, isn't that great either. There's a lot of stories about understaffed hospitals, very long queues and how new mothers are sent home almost immediately after giving birth (otherwise you can stay a couple of days to get settled).
XSS is usually really, really bad anyway.

CSP plus trusted scripts...you should be working hard to prevent XSS.
I've noticed YouTube's been propping up mainstream media for sensitive subjects. Some of these MSM videos have hundreds of views where those with millions from independent creators are buried on page four.

I think this is to combat fake news but we all know CNN and Fox News all make stuff up from time to time to fit an agenda so they're hardly much better.
I have been using Goodreads for years. I remember when Amazon turned off API access to goodreads and how all books lost their covers and most of their data. And the shocking turn of event of Amazon taking control of Goodreads. And I am pretty happy that it hasn't evolved that much from the website it used to be.

Concerning custom shelves exclusive from read/want-to-read etc. I do have created such shelves. Not for "Did not finish" list but to have 2 kinds of want to read: books on my wishlist and books I own but have not yet read.

Features goodreads has that most competitors lack: I can have two different editions of the same book. I can store more than one date I read a book. I can export most of my data in csv.
Former UK EMT and I agree with this. Treat everyone, even the frequent flyers, professionally. Same protocol as well; keep me safe from angry addicts by not fully rousing ODs!
This guy and his stupid hot takes again.

Of all infosec superstars, I hate this guy the most.
This seemed inevitable after the New Yorker article yesterday detailing how Ito and his team hid Epstein's involvement from the university, which had disqualified Epstein as a donor.

Taking money from a dirty source is one thing; hiding it from the university because they've blacklisted that person in particular is about as unforgivable a crime as you'll find in academia
I would say there exist more Matlab code than Go code, however I think Go is much more popular among all developers.
The downvotes for your comment makes no sense and highlights how ideologically sensitive HN has become. The biggest contributing factors to greenhouse gases and pollution more broadly are high per capita consumption (due to a modern standard of living that goes well beyond transportation) and population growth. And no, being in a city does not somehow make you magically more efficient to an extent that offsets the additional per capita impact.
And DNSSEC all the way to the user!
the estimate of 500 years from Idiocracy has certainly been severely adjusted!
oh it's like youtube then? broken but way too big to wake a competitor.
Where does the funding for new infrastructure come from? Hospitals? Public services such as police or firefighters? Libraries, if your town has any? Or how about schools?

This money comes from the federal government, gets distributed down to the state level which then gets distributed out to the various cities and localities depending on need [1]. A lot of these towns are given grants or loans from the USDA in order to fund various improvements [2].

[1] https://www.governing.com/topics/finance/gov-state-budgets-f...

[2] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/1/my-journey-from...
Interesting idea: you can opt out of identity politics.
I was commenting in the context of the original remark. fwiw, personally I'd say the emperors are wearing no clothes on either side of the US polarized partisan divide, but then again I don't think the rest of the world is far behind and catching up fast in the race to the 'post truth' society.
The same fire hose angst was happening in Seattle in the 80s and 90s. Now the newcomers are Seattle.
I proposed regulation as interim step in the past. Here's a reprint of it:

A combo of per-customer authentication at packet-level, DDOS monitoring, and rate limiting (or termination) of specific connection upon DDOS or malicious activity. That by itself would stop a lot of these right at the Tier 3 ISP level. Trickle those suckers down to dialup speeds with a notice telling them their computer is being used in a crime with a link to helpful ways on dealing with it (or support number).

Far as design, they could put cheap knockoff of an INFOSEC guard in their modems with CPU’s resistant to code injection. Include accelerators for networking functions and/or some DDOS detection (esp low-layer flooding) right at that device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(information_security)

Old one from high-assurance field, albeit with medium rating, that did what I’m describing in an Ethernet, card computer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040623100328/http://www.crypte...

Modern implementation could probably be done in a cheap clone and security-enhanced mod of this product:

https://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-II_CN68XX.html
I don't think perfect mirrors affect the result. The problem statement reminded me that there is a strain of astronomy that wonders why the sky is dark at night, given that, as best we can determine, no matter what direction you're looking in, you're looking directly at a star distant from you.

Of course that star is generally very far away. An ordinary inverse-square law has no trouble explaining why the influence of the light it's shining on you is negligible. A stream-of-particles theory of light has more trouble explaining that.

This result shows that at any point in a mirrored room, there is always a path that allows you to "directly" view any other point in the room. The more perfect the mirrors are, the more direct your view is; absolutely perfect mirrors bring you up to, but not beyond, the limit case where you're just looking at the candle without benefit of mirrors, as is the case for stars. But (I assume) the result doesn't show that a candle is actually able to illuminate a room regardless of luminosity (and, by implication, that the night sky is bright rather than dark).
DNS-over-HTTPS privacy and security concerns
I can't find the source right now, but I believe he suggested he tried LSD at least once.
An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong
That is reassuring coming from Microsoft. It sets a benchmark that other F500s can use. I didn’t have what it took to be a MechE. I did use my extracurricular activities to get into web dev. Starting with flash, action script and JavaScript.

Of all my friends who graduated as engineers half are in IT or software engineering at this point. There traditional engineering careers were awe fully short for the amount of effort put in.
The fight is not between languages, but between full echo system of open source libraries for each language.

For example, for web dev, the echo system of js make it the lang of choice. For cloud native/system prog , go lang. For ML - python.

Those ranks are meaningless.
Hmmm CSS as programming language?
Where’s the “rust”? Not found in README.
The many linux distros are also great. What do you need windows for? I can't stand the windows 10 auto updates and monitoring that is a huge pain to turn off. Why don't people just use linux? Is there some dev tool on windows you really prefer?
same. Guido is currently writing a series on PEG parsers. but medium won't let me read a single one of these posts. i don't even know what the reasons are. can't be that i reached my free reading quota this fast...
There isn’t much to be secret about really. When you ask any of the big LED suppliers, like Philips or Hortilux, for a quotation, they ask what you are planning to grow and they give you a lighting plan. The energy usage is relatively predictable, if you know how the building you are in is insulated and you know your ventilation requirements. It isn’t trivial, but it is possible to do the numbers.

We will be publishing some data from our pilot installation next year (approx 250 m2 building, 100 m2 active growing area, 30 m3 water). It isn’t a vertical installation, but a Deep Water Culture (DWC) aquaponics installation. We are in the final stages of building it right now. Spent all day working on the decking around the fish tanks.
Jesus. Who lets a guy get away with that for so freaking long?
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For what it's worth, I trust Cloudflare an order of magnitude more than I trust my ISP (Comcast).
Certainly not trivially - the subreddits are not wholly independent entities. User accounts are shared between them, for instance, and every post a user makes is (searchably) linked to their account, regardless of which subreddit they posted it in. Users can also send each other private messages, and this does not take place in the context of any particular subreddit.
Having just taken a brief look at your link, it seems your link does more to discredit NLP than justify it. How did you come across it, how did you vet it before subscribing to it, and how has your experience applying it been?
This is just one of sooo many.. the others truly need to be held responsible as well.
That seems about right, based on our lighting plan for our pilot plant.
I don't, I was referencing the tendency of local TV station websites to be absolutely packed with annoying advertising.
If your working for a third of your life, wouldn't you optimize to enjoy what your doing? Life to some is far more enjoyable if they are working in an interesting domain or doing something they feel is worthwhile, rather than being absolutely miserable, making fat stacks, then trying to buy that feeling of contentment with material things
You appear to be extremely mad Cloudflare stopped proxying a website that encouraged large gun massacres.
Carbon neutral is a fancy way of saying "let's pollute the same as we do now". Generally achieved via fake offsets, as we do not have the technology to offset something like US pollution.

Even EU ETS (the most developed offset system) is much too slow to cause major dent in the problem.

Where most climate predictions require us to stop altogether to avoid most painful results of climate change.
Yes but if someone replaces the picture on the trump article with goatse, and non power users get this version for 30 minutes until the cache clears - they are going to be pretty pissed and start yelling to power users & just generally cause a PR disaster.

Additionally if vandals know their vandalism will stay for 30 min, they are much more likely to do it, which is a vicious cycle
Note the 'energy loss' just means heating, which in many places you need anyway.
This is all speculation but it could be buffering or it was tumbling so quickly that antenna switching couldn’t keep up or worst case, a RUD
Unless you are trying to pull a "No True Scotsman", I'm just going to prove you wrong by presenting myself as the counter-example.

HTML is just the markup language, excluding CSS and JS.

HTML5 is the basket of technologies that make "modern" web apps possible.
Just a half serious question. Why can’t we just descend these landers on the moon with a steel cable slowly?
They're not threatening to use DNS-over-HTTPS either.

But didn't iOS get browser adblocking capability in the last couple years?
We build our own in Iowa. Not sure how that works elsewhere. We build our excellent secondary road system (access to every section in Iowa for agricultural purposes). We build our hospitals. Our library was a local bond issue.

And our schools! A new bond issue every few years for schools for a growing population.

And lets forget the myth that 'federal funding' is free, or come from somewhere else. It comes from us.
I have met with quite unreasonable (to my mind) fears about nuclear waste's supposed deleterious effects on people and nature, even if stored in a remote underground facility. Whenever people have gut reactions without evidence, the conversation quickly becomes non-productive.
You can assign cross account permissions for S3, sharing AMIs, sharing KMS keys, SNS permissions, etc.
Someone who was asked by Ito to be on the MIT Disobedience Award jury wrote a long tweet thread yesterday calling out Reid Hoffman for his defense of Ito: https://twitter.com/anandwrites/status/1169952673988300800
Text of linked tweet:

> reminder to self: don't invest with or take money from assholes

@ 4:20 PM · Mar 12, 2008
I'm not sure if this is self-aware or not, but Ito's fund is called:"Neoteny", meaning "the retention of child-like attributes through adulthood". Apparently, Epstein's funds / projects were named with innuendos. (edited)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neoteny#section-over...
Looking at your other comments, you seem to focus a lot on Hong Kong. If you were to spend some time in Mainland China, you'd discover that people still love to complain when they're unhappy with something. It usually just doesn't reach the scale required to make it into English-language news.

If you have to rely on what other people bother to translate and republish, you're never going to understand a country as well as someone who speaks the local language. Fortunately, literacy in Cantonese automatically grants a passable understanding of written Mandarin, so even if you only care about Hong Kong, you could still gain some insight into the mainland. Assuming you care enough to learn a language at all, of course.
Maybe not in the UK, but in France it is quite normal to have ~3€ sandwich in a bakery. Not premade though, they would make it on demand.
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Genocide has been and still is a political tool. It is extreme, but ultimately something that people consider and carry out as part of political processes, not a special category of its own. And realpolitik is to continue dealing with countries that practice genocide. Consider Burma or China.

Cloudflare simply has the luxury of choosing which politically disagreeable parties they do not want to associate with because they are insignificant customers.

Pretending that this is not due to differences in politics and moral judgment is semantic smoke and mirrors.

Anyway, the point is that they are not a neutral carrier/providers. Unlike banks or telecoms which are required by regulation to accept any legal business. CF styles itself as neutral infrastructure, until they decide they are not.

The risk of getting deplatformed due to someone's moral judgment is quite real, even for an entity such as Wikipedia. For example they were blocked in the UK because the Virgin Killer album cover landed it on a block list used by major ISP.
While I can certainly see why you could call such communities an "echo system", I think you might mean "ecosystem".
the great advantage of mind maps like those from the old FreeMind app, is that by putting the root in the middle and branching on both sides, you can fit a lot more information in a standard screen without scrolling.
Nothing stops people from putting Ornette Colman and Pink Floyd on the radio. You don't need drugs just effort to appreciate them.
Agreed.

Highly recommend Alexander's "A Pattern Language." I just did an insanely massive purge, and this is one of the few books I kept.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern
The DNS has grown into a regulated service, with TLD authorities and protocols to follow for registrators, transparency for domain holders, many registrators to choose, etc. Do you want to replace it by a centralized system run by very few monopolies that track resolution queries by IP?
"reminder to self: don't invest with or take money from assholes" -Joi Ito, Mar 12, 2008
Right?

As an aside, I was surprised by the repeated use of "climate hawk" throughout the article as an identity that we might be interested in taking on. Could they have said e.g. "people concerned about climate change"? I may just not know the term's history.
Oh hey, it's my new friend on the internet! Keep up the great work, your site is a pleasure to read :-)

btw, there's a typo under 2./Cognifying:

>7 billing human
Hmm. A lot of people in one place obsessed with getting the best numbers and willing to game the system any way they can to get them.

Sounds like the cause of pretty much every banking scandal ever, from Nick Leeson, to Libor, to the subprime crisis to Wells Fargo to...
How can it be that a single group can take down Wikipedia? The internet is broken.
> Apps that provide core features and functionality dynamically with web technology like HTML5 are best delivered to everyone in Safari, rather than through the curated App Store

The various financial/banking/utility apps I use at best provide maybe half their functionality directly. Some really egregious examples of apps that are mostly HTML5 are myAT&T and the Discover card apps. The Discover card app is 100% useless w/o a network. Ditto the AmEx app. Actually, all eight finance/banking apps I have on my phone are useless w/o a network.
I think part of MATLAB's popularity comes from many colleges requiring students to use it.
GPU support for gaming/AI?

YAGNI.
Speaking as someone listed on that page, and having attended all-hands meetings, yeah, we're not huge.

Though it is worth bearing in mind that everything's open source, and there's a hefty community component. So there's a more vaguely specified number of people who might provide patches, and individual wikis are mainly run by volunteers.
Uh, the “American” rockets to the moon were built by Germans, former Nazis picked up by Operation Paperclip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Some were even accused of crimes against humanity after they were done with rocket work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rudolph
Placing some bets on nuclear make sense (France gets 80% of electric generation from nuclear) but counting on nuclear is risky because nobody can make nuclear plants cost efficiently anymore. America should probably keep trying on a small scale and if they can figure it, then ramp up. The big problem is that nuclear is essentially a big government project, and America is very bad at those.
Is more than $20B/year a starvation diet?
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Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20905905
In the other thread, people were saying "I'd take Epstein's dirty money and do good with it."

But the problem is that doing so normalizes the behavior. Everybody who has doubts about working with the creep looks around the room, and when they don't see anyone else objecting, ends up thinking "I guess we're all ok with this behavior" and goes along to get along.
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https://github.com/JetBrains/noria-clj/search?l=rust
Wow, looks like you just solved it! You should go out and preach your gospel to all smokers, drinkers, and beef eaters. While you're at it please solve climate change and make everyone be nice to one another.