skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$2000, it seems like you dropped a zero. And you're presumably going to need some burst capacity, so call it $4k for a 2:1 ratio if you care about not throttling at peak times.

The big cloud providers are very expensive, but you're getting impeccable bandwidth. Low packet loss, burst what you want even in peak times, fast transit worldwide, minimal variability.

What most people actually don't realize is that they're making that tradeoff implicitly. You're not being ripped off if you need all of these things, but if it's overkill you can get much cheaper bandwidth elsewhere.
The Raspberry Pi has a HWRNG onboard.
I jotted it down in seconds and have limited experience with some parts of the world.

India absolutely has one of the longest poetic traditions and it fascinates me endlessly.

I’d have been remiss to say that’s all that qualifies in my mind. That’s why I said it was not at all the end of what I’d consider an intellectual society.

I’m hesitant to bring present-day Russia into it as I qualified with “continuing”. I say this as someone who studied Russian literature when I was younger.

Again, please don’t discount my qualifiers above. It was by no means a survey list—just meant to illustrate my main point with societies I do have experience with.
> So you have plausible deniability about claiming "X", you are just innocently raising the possibility "X?" for consideration

I don't think there's much question after reading this article what the author thinks. He was fairly explicit about it.

Edit: Please disregard this response. I misread (or rather, failed to carefully read) the quote. Thanks to user zaroth for pointing it out.
Carnivore Diet. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGCraBhCqXkRPGxVKLcs0A/vid...

In the past I used NAC for depression. It helped tremendously. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044191/
The FAQ: https://www.grantfortheweb.org/faq
Last time I looked at mrustc, it didn't have a borrow checker it just assumed the lifetimes were valid.
I appreciate where the cyniscim comes from, but e.g. Facebook is fairly explicit about working this way, and makes it work quite well. First, because the criterion for promotion is precisely “performs at roughly the middle of the pack for the next level over”, so there is an objective(ish) metric for what you should be doing. Second, because performance bonuses are mapped such that your effective pay before and after the promotion are essentially the same (so you were both performing, and earning, as if you had the promotion).
Readable version of the article: https://outline.com/GubTfF
ISPs can still see the IP your requests resolves to, and in many cases can still track this info. Unless the site is using shared IP, like many behind caching services, etc
Do you think India, Russia and China have been notable for achievement in those categories on any kind of per capita basis rather than through sheer scale?
It would be really interesting to do a "UBI"-like study where a select group of chronic pain-managed patents are given full control of their prescribed drug and dose for ~6 months and study if they have worse outcomes than a control group under normal pain management guidelines.

One could make the argument that insufficient dosage would increase the chance of the patient seeking drugs outside of the pharmaceutical system. How does the magnitude of the risk of using impure black market drugs compare to the risk of overprescription? Fentanyl cuts are extremely dangerous. Would the average pain-managed patient choose to increase their dose perpetually, or do they reach a plateau? What percentage of patients would have their lives ruined by carte blanche prescriptions? 80% would certainly justify our current regime, but if it's only ~5%, perhaps those 5% already have identifiable confounding risks that could be screened out. Perhaps those 5% would seek drugs on the black market anyways, and thus giving them access to a clean source would be a legitimate harm reduction intervention.

Similarly, I wonder if anyone has ever studied giving prescription opiates to heroin users. It seems like if they could get ~80% of their normal dose legally and without hassle, some might voluntarily choose to stop purchasing from the black market. Heck, I'd imagine many would tolerate quite a bit of hassle, could probably get them to discuss their long term plan for treatment with a health profession before getting each refill. "Do you intend to take opiates forever? Is there anything I can do to help you taper your dose? No? well here's your refill, lets talk again in a couple weeks."
Korea is excessively conformist. I don't know what kind of definition of "intellectualism" it could fall under.

While if we're giving more credit to historical influence than modern day, Germany would make the list, I think they fall off if you give weight to the modern day. Nothing wrong with them, they're simply no longer a remarkable, intellectual nation on 2019's leaderboard.

Russia, China, and Japan I'd agree with, although I am not a big fan of the "brand" of intellectualism the first two adhere to.
There's nothing new here. Micropayments have been tried countless times. We did it ourselves and came to the same conclusions that people just don't value content highly nor want to pay for it at any sustainable rate. [1]

Advertising is faster, easier, more passive, and more egalitarian than direct payments. Many people you might not consider (like billions around the world) are happy to view ads in exchange for free content and services they couldn't otherwise afford. Also payments just means you work, earn cash, then pay. Ads are on-demand cash generation that uses your attention in real-time to pay exactly when and where you need it.

Privacy is also much more nuanced than these extremes. Most people are clearly comfortable sharing a lot about themselves on social media. Transparency and control is a far more important and productive goal than fighting over whether anyone or noone can use data.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038820
I wonder if these types of leaks will ever stop, the amount of companies out there that store large amounts of data is endless and I feel like it's bound to happen to a person in their lifetime if they engage with society in a normal way. This is a major problem in the very connected society that we have today and I see no clear solution barring very heavy fines to encourage security but I'm not sure how well that would go, does anyone have data on this?
The most celebrated historical ruler in Korea is mainly famous for his scholastic achievements, like inventing the current writing system. There are some K-Dramas that suggest the most popular students are the ones with the best educational accomplishments, in contrast to the cliche of the US football quarterback.
There's nothing professional about the general tone of that document, and especially the threat others have mentioned.

This reads like the TOS for making an account on someone's phpBB forum, not a real service that should be handling anything important.
> VW is at stage 5.

No. Volkswagen is at the stage that four years after deciding to bet the company on going electric, deliveries of their new EVs based on their new EV platforms will start next year.

Their new software plan goes hand in hand with their EV push. Volkswagen is going to be the world's biggest producer of EVs because they're spending the most money to be it and they have the scale to execute it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-electric-insig...

Your narrative doesn't match the reality.
> But actual addiction also exists, and it's more dangerous and more likely to happen.

Not sure that's obvious, or true. The article itself recounts two situations where the patients denied meds they needed became suicidal, and a third where if the patient hadn't pushed the issue to get his meds (insulin), he would have died.
After going to the city buried under volcanic ashes, always under the impression of sewage issue of Roman city. And prostitution.

Not as clean and romantic.
And the Jewish nation.
Thank you for explaining how I am using terms incorrectly according to this model you are trying to constrain my analysis into. It's so much clearer now that I realize the concern I am describing simply cannot exist!

"It's just fundamentally dishonest to discard a political viewpoint by condescending from a paradigm that rules out said political viewpoint by construction."

(And we wonder why political polarization has gotten so extreme)
I used to play it with my brother - one of us would aim and the other would move and shoot. Somehow that was easier than playing solo for us.

Years later I revisited the game and discovered it had music! Our old sound card had not been compatible.
It's very easy to paint yourself into a corner if you haven't figured out at least a plan of attack for these topics up-front, especially if you're starting to ramp up actual use of your product.
Thanks for the explanation. I realize that my post may have come off as antagonistic (the downvotes from others certainly seem to suggest that), but really I was just trying to understand your rationale. I edited my post to hopefully sound less antagonistic.
How far up one’s own posterior must one be to think the concept of an unconference is...meaningful? Not bs?
Yeah, I think the article presents a good point, logically speaking. But I think it's brash to ignore the history of the "pseudoaddiction" term, which is a tool of FUD.

Of course it exists and makes sense, this was marketed to doctors. They're not dumb. Pseudoaddiction is real and important, which is why it's such a good marketing tool.

It's a really tough problem. That's why I think considering both sides is incredibly important. I'm not trying to bash the article, just provide a different perspective on why pseudoaddiction might have been bashed in the press.

edit: Apparently reading a book doesn't make me an expert! I'm realizing that it's actually pseudoaddiction that's getting bashed right now. Which makes sense, given the context of the article. I was still thinking about it from the lens of opioids being over-prescribed but it seems the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Sorry for muddying the discussion.
The Scientist Who Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair
Apple does do device discovery, but it then lets the app show the device names, in fact it’s a requirement to play audio over Bluetooth and a key usability feature of wireless headphones. If your music app doesn’t tell you which device is connected, you’d potentially be surprised every time you hit the Play button. So I’m 99% sure that Apple outright rejects apps that don’t say if you’re connected to Bluetooth, just as they reject apps that don’t say if you’re online. Bluetooth is also disabled for security purposes (if checked in settings) when the phone is locked, including previously paired devices, so it looks to me like they draw the line between security and privacy pretty well, short of forcing all apps to use the same UI conventions.
The USB-C port is designed for 10,000 cycles, so you can plug/unplug your dongle/power 5 times a day for 5 years without wearing it out, which seems like it would be good enough for most people.
I assume that would get boring fairly quickly. And all the negative aspects of listening to those sort of people would get more and more annoying as well.
This is the story of every startup ever "we'll walk like a duck, talk like a duck, but quietly avoid being regulated like a duck for as long as possible to disrupt all the other ducks".
Says who? It's governed by this privacy policy and will not work until it has browsing and tab data
Monero is the largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency in existence right now, by pretty much every measurable metric. It's also the only (in the top 250 by market cap) cryptocurrency that enforces privacy at the protocol level, by default. You can read more about it at the website below.

https://web.getmonero.org/resources/about/
> Dark definitely won't be for everyone, but it seems to me like it will empower a lot of people to bring their ideas to reality more easily than before.

That is, after they learn a new programming language, error handling concept, a new IDE, and a proprietary data store.

But yes, after that it's almost drag-and-drop!
4G requires data rates of 100mbps while moving and 1Gbps while stationary. LTE-A only hits 300Mbps, but the ITU eventually gave up fighting it and now calls LTE-A officially "4G" even though it doesn't meet the original standard.

http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2010/48.as...
Isn't it preferable for writers to pose lower-confidence beliefs in the form of a question instead of as a definitive statement?
I get that the vast majority of Square's employees are engineers, etc, but literally the entirety of its earnings come from financial services.

I don't think it is remotely reasonable to claim that your company is <business type A> when the bulk of its income comes from <business type B>.

That would be like companies like apple claiming to be retail companies, amazon being a warehouse company, etc. Hell many companies might be able to claim that they are janitorial businesses.
cloudfront costs money too.
Well - I think that's an unanswerable question.

My gut says that "any country if given the same economic opportunities could produce equal achievement". Obviously, that's in a completely idealized world.

As it stands in actual, real life across human history, I do think that India, Russia, and China are more notable than most countries if we look at those criteria across history, but with "extra weight" given to modern day (e.g. Greece would not qualify with the "extra modern day weight" scale, but would be highly ranked if we only looked historically).

All 3 belong in an "unranked top 5". Just my personal opinion.
Transaction fees have been a fraction of a penny since the Bulletproofs upgrade in October 2018. https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactionfees....
No one is green-lighting a television show with the expectation of huge distribution agreements decades later.

This has actually been the state of tv licensing economics for decades, since I Love Lucy popularized reruns. That show has never been off the air since it first aired. Other long-running shows longer-lived than the proposed-20 year term include anytime soaps still on the air today, The Simpsons, Law & Order or its spinoffs, CSI, NCIS.

Indeed, potential longevity is one of the metrics by which shows are scored when determining whether to buy or renew them. Firefly, for example, had no potential for distribution when it came out and was unceremoniously cancelled at the turn of the century, but today would have likely lived many seasons on Amazon or Netflix.

Basically, a long-running franchise like Seinfeld is the TV equivalent of a FAANG-era tech unicorn. It's what every showrunner secretly hopes for.
Your tone is a bit inflammatory, but I can't help but agree a bit. If someone who is selling you something is doing so by trying to convince you of a medical phenomenon that you (as a doctor) aren't familiar with, it's the height of irresponsibility to just accept that at face value. It shouldn't be a secret in the medical community that big pharma sales can be... unsavory.
Your contract work would likely be different though, right? Why do work for some marketing company when you could do work for a local nonprofit.
The current answer is to bundle. Use a subscription for content that is then split across sites/content by time/attention/some other measure.

However the problem then becomes which bundles you subscribe to, and that can easily cause fatigue and a race to the bottom as seen by all the current video streaming services now. Even worse, none of it has proven completely profitable or sustainable either.
It will be interesting to see whether Chromium based Edge browser will take some market share away from Chrome.
I think the project has moved to https://dnscurve.io/ - I can't say for certain this is the same project but it's the current website for github.com/curvedns/curvedns which I believe is the software behind GP's link.
We want to compete with these other companies by not following the law. Then argue that any attempt to enforce the law is an attack on innovation, rather than acknowledge that their competitive(?) prices only exist because they aren't playing on a level (legal) playing field.
Boot Camp for Nuns – Senior Helen Prejean
The problems start in the first sentence. "Optimal" doesn't mean what Poul thinks, so he's attacking a straw-man. The data structure he poo-poos is CS 101 material. Anyone doing serious development knows better and uses structures appropriate for the underlying hardware (which fx. on an FPGA might be vastly different from an embedded process, and typically different from a workstation).

Databases have used B-tree and variants for at least 50 years, not binary trees, so obviously we Know this.

Much to do about absolutely nothing.

EDIT: typos
4G is plenty fast enough. The next tangible leap has got to be unlimited data. Is that something 5G might help with?

Recently moving back to Australia after a year living in Finland, I really miss unlimited 300Mbit/sec 4G for 25€/month (~$40 AUD).

It's well and good that our mobile networks are as good as the Finns (anecdotally), speed and reliability wise (whoops, as long as you dodge Telstra outages). Sure there are a couple of 'unlimited' plans popping up in Australia now, but it's more like 'trickle at 1.5Mbit/sec when you use up your allowance'. Like a lot of things, I think Australia would do well to copy-paste what the Finns are doing. Education, telecoms, energy, well-being, ... for our post-coal economy we'd do well to learn it and scale it.
I don't think that celebration of the arts and science is a good metric of pro-intellectual culture. The US does all these things, too. It has a shorter history, though, so it has a smaller amount of cultural works (but you said celebration, anyway).

I think pro-intellectual culture is one that values thoughtful questioning, including of the status quo. Opinions are required to have a good argument; dogma (religious, political, technical, or otherwise) is not acceptable. It's G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis instead of fundamentalists; it's The Federalist Papers instead of "the free market fixes all problems"; it's original Agile instead of process-Agile; it's real Hungarian notation instead of MS-docs-"Hungarian" notation.
> I don't know what kind of definition of "intellectualism" it could fall under.

what about success within traditional academic institutions?
Ha, I can only assume that on account of the obvious controversy, this was done by the engineers so they'd have an option to reverse course if the executives had a last-second change of heart. Once it was clear they really did have that space to work with, they filled it up with stuff.
It might not be flawed, it might just be deliberately biased. But who knows, I certainly don't.
Those sanctions were widely ridiculed in the sports press.

Briefly, it is not uncommon at Caltech for students who have two or three possible electives that would fit into one open slot in the schedule to not register for any of them at the start of the term, and sit in on all of them and do the homework for all of them for two or three weeks, and then decide which to take. They then register for that one.

This practice is approved by the faculty and administration.

Caltech had just gotten a new head of athletics, and while reviewing student records he realized that (1) several students on Caltech teams had done this "try before registering" thing, (2) for those two or three weeks, before they picked and registered for one of those courses, they were technically, by NCAA rules, part time students, not full time students, and (3) they had attended team practice sessions during that time.

It's against NCAA rules to allow part time students on a team, including team practices. The new head of athletics reported Caltech's inadvertent violation of this rule to the NCAA, and also reported that all student athletes were properly full time before participating in any games, and that they would make sure in the future to not allow students to join the team until they had registered for a full load.

The NCAA response was to put more severe sanctions on Caltech than they had put on major athletic schools that had committed massive rules violations, such as fake classes and grades to keep players from becoming ineligible for low grades, bribes, and the like.

The sports press take on this was generally it was more evidence that the NCAA is incompetent and/or corrupt. The NCAA had been criticized for slaps on the wrists against those big schools with big money sports programs, so many thought that they came down hard on Caltech to try to look like they could be tough without the downside of damaging one of the big money making athletic programs.
Forget the average consumer...it's pretty much guaranteed there will be an outline.com link posted on any paywalled article on HN (along with the usual paywall complaint) and this crowd seems to fancy itself above the average consumer.
The product sold by EasyDNS is not targeted at the german market, it's targeted at people who (often, not always¹) want to offer their products (or information, or something else) to Germans.

¹ some just want some domain hack that ends in "de". I have a .es domain, despite having no intention of targeting the Spanish market, just because the name of the site ended in "es".
What makes advertising a failed experiment exactly?

It's currently the only sustaining model for 95% of digital content and has created at least one trillion dollar corporation. That's the opposite of failure.
I’m not sure this is accurate, if attempting to compare US political figures with those of other countries. I don’t know if there is hard data on this, but I would bet the US Congress has proportionally just as many graduates of top universities as any other legislative body in the world.

If anyone wants to crunch the numbers, I would be excited to see the percentage of US Congresspeople with serious educational attainments vs Japanese, French, German, Canadian, or any other similar body.
> .. buuuuut you don't have to learn how to: 1) deploy your code 2) deploy your datastore 3) manage your datastore 4) shard your datastore 5) deploy your infrastructur3

Or you can just get a cheap host and throw a table into a SQLite database (a file) and use JavaScript.

I'm probably not the target audience.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the definition but why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? Is intellectualism intrinsically non-conformist? (genuinely asking)
I’d argue that in most societies that have existed, there is at least a caste or class that value and put their resources towards a form of intellectualism. How you measure its degree of new idea / innovative thought production or some such other intellectual endeavors realization, is really difficult, for example you could consider a religious leader position that shares moral or meaningful stories even if just historical stories, is someone in the society who inspires intellectualism if only for provoking the intellect to think about another perspective than their own.
These success stories always pain me a bit. I tried for some time to get my own project going based on personal interest, but it never went anywhere. I have people visit the site but retention and use is a problem. https://imetatroll.com

- golang, gopherjs, bootstrap, DO, and kubernetes.
That seems like a pretty fringe use-case, the last time I listened to my music at someone else's house, I just paired my phone with their soundbar, took all of 30 seconds to do.

Even aux ports aren't that common in cars, certainly less common than bluetooth in recent cars - a 3.5mm -> FM Transmitter adapter seems like it would be more universal.