skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
conversely why do Americans pay so little for electronics? when researching to buy a new laptop about a year ago there was over a £500 difference on an identical model between the US and UK. Here are a few random examples of tech prices i just pulled up

Playstation 4 Pro: UK £349.99 US $364.99 (£291) ~£59 difference (amazon com/co.uk)

Thinkpad X1 Carbon G7 (base spec): UK £1429.99 US $1179.99 (£949) ~£480 difference (lenovo com/co.uk)

HiFiman HE-400i Headphones: UK £329 US $179.99 (£145) £184 difference (amazon com/co.uk)

Sandisk 400Gb Micro SD card: UK £67.95 US $48 (£38) £30 difference (amazon com/co.uk)

if that were your shopping list youd save a total of £753 by buying in the US, which is enough to fly LON-NY with not far off £500 left over! (LHR-JFK BA/Finnair Nov 4th-8th £270 Skyscanner.co.uk)

you guys have it pretty good over there even if you pay more for some food most other things are drastically cheaper than here in the UK. The phrase "Rip Off Britain" is very much true, we and i believe much of Europe get a pretty raw deal on the prices of things like houses, technology, cars etc
If you want privacy, use Tor. Like Richard Stallman https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Anything else like a "VPN" (which is really just a proxy under a cooler name) is somewhere between a half measure, a snake oil hobby or self-sabotage (if you picked the wrong VPN).

You don't trust a large multi national that works on encryption and tries to deny frivolous law enforcement requests when it outright says it samples a small amount of "anonymized" data and doesn't correlate it with anything else it has on you or sell it

>> Is any of the information collected stored with my Google account?

> No.

>> Does Google share the information it collects from the Google Public DNS service with anyone outside Google?

> No, except in the limited circumstances described in Google's privacy policy, such as legal processes and enforceable governmental requests. (See also Google's Transparency Report on user data requests.)

>> Does Google correlate or combine information from temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that I have provided Google for other services?

> No.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq

yet trust some small, anonymous group of people that set up a proxy that's netting them like $5/month of revenue per user in a highly competitive market?

> [policies] are all "we pinky swear"

Are they not legally binding? But yea, like I said, obviously they're just brazenly lying because of course they are. "goog bad" has been established. I'm not sure how or where... but everyone knows that.

Better be safe and give your data to an organization that lists the US Secret Service as a "Partner".
If people in Oakland want to move into SF and can afford it at current rents, they're doing it now.
CFML (i.e. ColdFusion) using the Lucee engine on the JVM. Don't believe the popular scorn: it's as good a language as any other for web development. Perhaps not as innovative as newer languages, but it's densly packed with pragmatic conveniences and (for better or worse) doesn't impose any particular architectural style upon you.

CFML has a "query" datatype that represents the rows and columns returned from a database combined with useful metadata and really neat features like n-level iteration where values repeat. To the programmer it's like a dictionary that magically changes its values by passing it to an iterator. Without the iterator it works like a dictionary of the first row. Or if you treat it like an array you can manually read any column in any row directly.
Just checking but did you include any sales taxes? UK prices normally include VAT. I'm not sure whether US prices include sales tax.
Macroevolution
Something tells me keeping statistical integrity wasn't a major factor in testing on these soldiers. i think soldiers just tend to be better test subjects for these purposes as they are more obedient, willing to sacrifice their lives for a bigger cause, take instruction without asking too many questions, keep secrets and no doubt they have more mental fortitude and a higher pain threshold to withstand multiple rounds of various chemical attacks.
Why don't they rather include a resolver in Firefox ?

This way, no privacy problems, you're directly contacting authoritarive servers. And you don't rely on a single dns-over-https provider.

Is the latency a big problem there? I would say that with caching it is not too bad.
I highly doubt it. Elliptic curve multiplication does involve "mirroring" the point around the curve, but it has nothing to do with real mirrors or specular reflections.
Weak vs. Strong Memory Models (2012)
I have no interest in management and I have answered the why did I leave my last jobs honestly. No one who has been around for awhile has “interest in the company”. It’s almost always purely transactional. It’s always transactional for the company, why shouldn’t it be for the employee?

- I was at the company for a decade and it was time to move on to bigger challenges.

- I didn’t leave the job, the job left me - they went out of business - but I survived multiple rounds of layoffs and even afterwards I went to work as a contractor for one of our clients

- the product they initially hired us for wasn’t successful and we were being moved to maintained a legacy PHP product.

- I was bought in to bring an outside perspective to the company but we were in a satellite office and our influence was limited.

- the company changed direction and decided not to be a software company.
Do people really have sandwiches for launch regularly? I can't imagine not having warm meal for launch. Sandwich always means rushed launch to me. I thought lauch was supposed to be main meal of the day.
It doesn't explain the whole discrepancy, but I imagine one part of it is sales tax/VAT. Here in Europe all consumer prices are usually listed with VAT already included, while AFAIK US list prices are usually excluding sales tax.
Upward Bound: Skyhooks [30 min documentary]
I skeptical that this system can scale to decent power output. A 100W conventional turbine is not a threat to birds either, because it's tiny. Modern wind turbines produce something like 10MW. That's 100000 times more power. Even small residential turbines are in the kilowatt range.
Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve
The UK price includes VAT, the US price doesn’t include sales tax.

When you add sales tax (which is paid most of the time) the difference narrows.
False equivalence and straw man. Refusing to associate a private educational institution with a person does not disenfranchise them from participating in government. He should be able to vote with respect to governments, and upstanding private institutions should also ostracize him. There's no logical conflict.

In the posted article, they are shown to have engaged in a cover-up to suppress the source of the donations. Obviously they knew such a link would be problematic.
To me that is good press, and it's something I personally would like. Seeing a state and/or adjunct corporations throwing a tantrum over this is only a measure of success.

After all privacy is the goal, isn't it?
Is that £1,600/month the cost of a buy-to-let mortgage, which you would need if you planned to rent out the property?

You would also need to factor in costs like landlords’ insurance, letting agents’ fees, the risk of non-payment of rent, etc.
question: how can I ask facebook to disable facerec for me, as an ex user who disabled his facebook account ?
Wow, who would guessed - stress test broke the product in an unexpected way. Isn't this why we have stress tests in the first place?
As long as the machines don't produce acid that should be fine.
This website mistreats me.

Asks me to whitelist it in my adblocker. Then I am sceptical and think: "Hmmm, why do they need JS for a simple information page? Ok lets see, if I disable first party script blocking maybe ..." Then the site goes on nagging me about allowing their shitty scripts. I check again un uMatrix, and what do you know, OFC it loads effin Google Analytics. No thanks, tab closed.
OST or Theme Songs Suggestions?
In other words, Mozilla shouldn't do something good for its users because it could bring bad press.
I rolled my own. I have an Azure function that I post the pathname and referrer to, and it then stores that in Table storage. It costs me between 1 and 2 cents per month.
>Gates has previously denied receiving financial advisory services from Epstein; in August, CNBC reported that he met with Epstein in New York in 2013, to discuss “ways to increase philanthropic spending.”

ah, so where are these "rational altruism" people now?

the problem is not so much a lack of "rational altruism" but rather "provable altruism"
Here are some from my side :

- TVF PITCHERES SONG-THE RELEVANT SOUND : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEG3Ac1qHg

- Lord of the Rings : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPJT12-wrCY

- Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k

- Interstellar Main Theme - Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVtMYqUAyw

- IP man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMk4RP-q6e8
It is claimed that the oscillating pillar creates no audible sound, making it attractive in rural communities sensitive to noise pollution. I hope they are right but remain fairly skeptical on whether this will hold outside clean lab settings, especially when the constructs age and wear.
At some point google entered into an entreaty with corporate news organizations to drive users towards subscription sites and paying for news. It is also probably influenced by more recent attempts to steer people towards establishment media sources rather than "fake news" websites.
Binance Announces They Will Host Band Protocol’s Token Sale
Security Analysis of Portal HTML Element
With this article being four years old, it is safe to assume they did not meet their economic goals, right?

Nevertheless, technology like this might still be useful in very special environments. As an extreme example, consider Mars. Completely different economical conditions.
I work for small companies mostly, except for one stint where I was officially the “dev lead”, I mostly am on paper a “Senior Software Engineer”. But, I’ve often been put in front of client, contractors, investors. and CxOs. Having tact in those situations is important.

But, I’m also all about getting things done, I’m blunt with my direct managers after I have established a relationship with them. Yes I do soft skills interview prep and I’ve done so for the last 20+ years. My success rate at interviewing is close to 100%.
Apple Music without iTunes Match will upload it to iCloud and will make it available on your other devices. IIRC it'll convert it to 256 kbps AAC
Is this feature related to the face verification Facebook sometimes does on new or old accounts? (where they ask you to submit a picture of your face to verify your account is real)

Recently I created a new account after not having one for a while and failed the face verification thing. I wonder how that can even be possible if not that they have an idea what my face looks like already and it wasn’t the same as the one I gave.
What I've learned from the comments above is k8s consulting business is the best thing since OOP. Just tell the marketing team you have a magic button that being installed will give them ability to change the course of business every 5 minutes by handwaving and a PowerPoint slide.
They absolutely should be artificial problems. If they're not carefully designed to test what the hiring company cares about, it's a bad test
Not at all. Again, this thing with 'ostracizing' is your framing - I don't accept it and, frankly, find it somewhat nauseating. The reporting we have shows that people and institutions both protected and enabled a child rapist. You want to pass it off as, I dunno, quirky rich libertines hung out in the Hamptons and got foot massages and look at us judgy prudes. But that severely misrepresents what happened.
It was widely known especially in his social circle.

Which is why he should have been exiled. And why the fact that he wasn't raises some very uncomfortable questions for the entire industry.
They said that the very worst hires ace those questions. They did not say that everyone who aced the questions (and was hired) was a bad hire.
Regulators paid by the industry they regulate is the most obvious of perverted incentives that I can think of.

Air transport safety supervision and regulation should be paid for by those using it, ie by taxes on the end user.
More correctly, that's a 'Disclosure', not a 'Disclaimer'.
Pihole is great because it can do all your non-browser activity.

But for a browser, an ad-blocking extension works better and is less than a minute to set up. Why force it to use the same DNS blocking?
The Lilium Jet Maiden Flight – Five Seater All-Electric Air Taxi
that only explains experimentation on the now dead soldier in Britain, not on the army and CIA scientists, researchers, agents described though.

if both occured I seek the shortest explanation that explains the most observations
Don’t move to London then, heh. Some background: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwic...
Some of that will be down to the clients, margins get higher the further down market you go.

A family in a house is more likely to treat it as a home than someone in a flat who expects to move in 12 months.
In one of their videos [1] the mast can be seen vibrating at a high intensity. There is for sure lots of tension in the material produced, I wonder how durable the masts are. I have the feeling they would instantly break during a storm.

Wind turbines have pitch control to reduce the speed of the rotor and blades. This allows wind turbines to survive most storms. I don't see an equivalent control mechanism with Vortex Bladeless masts.

[1] https://youtu.be/Mf-gps4r2L0
Dovecot is an IMAP server while exim, sendmail, postfix, and opensmtp (I guess) are SMTP servers (aka MTAs). An SMTP server is for sending/forwarding mails to or through, and IMAP (or POP3 or new-fangled jmap, supposedly) is what your mail program uses to browse your received mails and mailboxes etc.
it is the same as copy first `from` then `to`
A few days ago there was already another article here about new wind tech, I could repeat my comment [1].

tl;dr looking at historic patterns I've seen many new forms of wind energy, they all didn't make it. What stays successful is doing almost the same thing more efficient and at larger scale.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895000
You have deeply questionable morals
Yes, they do, why not? If you are in a rush you have to grab something for a quick lunch, that's what sandwiches are for. Or maybe because they are cheap and people might want to save money. I'm like you, lunch is 1 hour fiesta where I just eat a hot meal and chat with whoever I'm taking lunch with. My American colleagues seem to like rushing lunch or "grab something quick" all the time.
The victims of #metoo were of legal age too.
Beginners Guide to ElasticSearch
The small size makes it ideal for putting some in your garden. Probably comparable to solar panels. Transport of electricity is also expensive so there are some benefits.
It can be both, an asset because it is a store of value, a liability because you need to maintain it.
Easy answer - I go into how I was computer geek from the 6th grade programming in assembly on 8 but computers and how much I’ve enjoyed seeing the progression of technology, being a part of it, and evolving as technology has evolved.

That answer does a few things and addresses some elephants in the room.

- why am I in my mid 40s and wanting a job as “just a developer”

- yes I am “old” but I’ve always kept up with $latesr_cool_kid tech.

- No,I’m not going to try to take your job as a manager.

- I’m okay with the amount you are paying which is slightly above market.
I think it’s really hard to balance without giving us better personal search settings. This is anecdotal of course, but I rarely find anything on free “as in beer” media that’s worth my time. If Google excluded paywalled content its search functionality would be a lot less useful to me as a result.

On the other hand, you don’t subscribe to everything, and it might be useful to tune some of it out. Like I have a subscription to two Danish news papers, Information and Weekendavisen, and I like when google provides me with articles for them, because those articles are often going to be the height of what I want from my search results on subjects they cover. I don’t have a subscription to other Danish news papers, however, and maybe google would be better if it let me filter them. Maybe not though, it would certainly increase my personal bubble, but banning paywalls outright would really break google for me.
From wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_Bladeless

>> In late 2016 and after validating the technology on computational simulations and tech demonstrators, the company reached the prototype stage with a geometry that can harness a nice amount of energy from the wind with this principle. On this stage Vortex was able to apply for funding from the Horizon 2020 for research and innovation programme of the European Commission.[19] Being the greatest funding that the company had, Vortex built a big wind tunnel for testing their turbines (the tallest wind tunnel in Spain) and started the development of their patented concept of an oscillating alternator with tuning system. On this phase, the company won the "Seal of Excellence" of the H2020 programme.[20]

>> All along 2017, the company kept developing their alternator and tuning system. Since this technology is considered as new in many aspects intervening (geometry, movement, energy conversion system), it has been a harder development than the company expected. The collaboration on this stage of the Microgravity Institute of the Technical University of Madrid and the European University of Madrid, alongside CDTI, Altair, Birdlife and BSC were the key to obtain a feasible technology that can harness energy from the wind on this particular way. In this year the company obtained the "Innovation SME" seal of the Spanish government.[21]

>> In 2018 the company started to plan the industrialisation of their aerogenerators. On this point the company faced many problems due to the lack of feasible industrial processes to mass-produce some of the pieces that use Vortex technology. The geometry and the materials were almost definitive on this stage so the company started a certification process for their current prototypes and obtained the ISO 9001. This certification is a regular process for every wind turbine in the European and American market but the normative is written for blades based turbines or rotating turbines, so the normative may need to be rewritten in order to certify Vortex devices as wind generators.[citation needed]

>> The goals of the company for the future are to obtain the certification needed to start selling, to set up a feasible method of production and logistics of shipping so they can start commercializing first Vortex turbines for 2020.[2]
Yes it does. People aren't robots. You have to interact with your coworkers. Communication matters. Full stop.
Economists talk about aggregates. Layman thinks individual houses and their differences. The differences in individual houses smooth over in large scale.

The context of the article is whole economy at macro level. They specially mention how they ignore even regional differences.
You might like the tldr program:

$ tldr ln

ln

Creates links to files and directories.

- Create a symbolic link to a file or directory:
ln -s path/to/file_or_directory path/to/symlink

- Overwrite an existing symbolic to point to a different file:
ln -sf path/to/new_file path/to/symlink

- Create a hard link to a file:
ln path/to/file path/to/hardlink
i think DNS over https is stupid, because ISP already knows where your data is going/coming.
With raising automation of issuance for certificates (I might work soon on a project to add an api to issue certificatates) I don't see any reason to not go any lower. Like just a few days or weeks.
You could use a VPN. The reviews are constantly being added so im not sure if there is much use for someone to collect snapshots when they could just view the entire current log on amazon.
I couldn't agree more. Everyone trying to one-up each other over how banal and offensive they find the questions. I'd say if these questions only serve to filter out people like this, they've done their job.
I’ve answered that very honestly.

“the software development manager was originally hired to bring new thinking into a company in $small_town so he spearheaded opening an office in $bigger_city. After awhile, the old guard pushed him and my manager out and that left us without a voice in the satellite office and our input was ignored. I want to be somewhere which allows me to be impactful”.
DoH bypasses the OS and the /etc/hosts file. This breaks some workflows.
If you think it’s bad now you should have seen it forty years ago.
Nice piece of PR but I'm hoping to see a video of an actual flight soon.
A local resolver using root hints and DNS-over-TLS would be a win for privacy and, at the same time, would not promote centralization of the Internet to DNS-over-HTTPS providers. It still suffers from the problem of overriding local network policy but it's better than just handing all the queries over to a single DoH provider.
Yes, a stream of high-speed particles flying away from landing site can obscure the ground. It is unlikely that such a stream will be deflected by some rocks to obscure antennas.
I can't see how this design improves over a traditional three bladed turbine. Kinetic energy is still extracted from a large moving structural element and the forces involved will be much larger to generate the same amount of energy. Turbines are extremely efficient in extracting large amounts of energy while using the lightest weight components.
I’m at a small company where we as senior software engineers often have to deal directly with demanding customers. I have to know how to be tactful and that’s something we filter for.
Mars’s pressure is 1% of Earth’s at sea level, don’t believe the film “The Martian”, which on Earth is tantamount to a vacuum.

Having said that NASA’s going to flying a helicopter drown there, the rotors just have to go around really fast to overcome the lower gravity.
Not if one trusts more his/her ISP more than Cloudflare. At least, an ISP is a contractual partner and under the same jurisdiction, in Europe including GDPR.
Idris 2 now runs on the JVM
Already proposed: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/support-for-returning-nxdoma...
I don't think this current trend demonizing everybody who ever associated with Epstein is good. All it is achieving showing everyone that do not associate with felons. Don't hire felons. Don't even shake hands with them in a social gathering.
Realistically, the only thing that results in a "how their rulers should be held accountable for it" is a violent change of regime. There universally are large groups of local people who'd like their corrupt rulers to be accountable, so you theoretically could support that process by buying and delivering large quantities of weapons to the opposition of the regime so that they can (try to) overthrow it and bring justice to the ruling clique. Or, alternatively, orchestrate an external invasion either by neighboring countries or USA.

However, is this really what Bill Gates should be trying to implement in other countries?
> tl;dr looking at historic patterns I've seen many new forms of wind energy, they all didn't make it. What stays successful is doing almost the same thing more efficient and at larger scale.

This is the main reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law. Wind turbines are already very close to max efficiency, the only thing you can do is make them bigger and cheaper.