skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've gotten so used to phone notifications and a persistent history, that IRC has fallen behind purely from a convenience factor.

I noticed myself using IRC less for this reason. I'd always run weechat on servers so I had the history but never thought to look for notifications these days.

I signed up for IRCCloud and it's been nothing but excellent so far. I can even connect weechat to it like a BNC.
> Homes that are built for renting (mainly apartments and condos, but some houses, too) are built for profit. If you make it less profitable to build, fewer will be built. If fewer homes are built, the problem is compounded, not rectified.

Arguments like this continue to be made for more and more aspects of our market: pharmaceuticals, heathcare services, elder care services, and now housing. Everywhere you look the markets seem ill equipped to handle the needs of people.

Maybe the problem is markets then? Maybe the problem is expecting our entire society to work based on profit motive? I don't deny it's served us fairly well for awhile, but it seems like we're hitting the wall a lot lately.
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I assume this would be awful for retail.

They want you looking around forever and hopefully buying some other things you didn't come in for specifically.

Same reason (I've heard) that milk is in the back of the grocery store. They want you to walk past everything and maybe notice something on the way to pick up that quick gallon of milk.
Minor correction, the guy's name is Børge Ousland, not Borge.
I know it was a rhetorical question but here it needs to be spelled out:

None.
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Of course they do. I'm criticising those companies that claim that they cannot use certain products because they're not open source, while not open sourcing their own. It is just an oxymoron for not reaching to the wallet.
> Feudalism is joining the esteemed ranks of now-meaningless words like “violence”, “cancer”, “white supremacy”, and “patriarchy”.

All of those words have well-established and commonly understood meanings.
Language doesn't matter; just use linpack, right ;-) You can use any language you want as long as you do the real work in FORTRAN.

Is TF the new linpack?
"It's not more difficult" is a claim that at least needs a POC.

Like, build a prototype, show it works for some set of things Cloudflare offers over eSNI today.

Otherwise this claim is hollow. If it isn't more difficult then it sure is weird that nobody does it.
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They found it in the computation performed by a computer rather than they found it on the computation.

In the title’s structure it suggests to me that they found it physically on top of a computer.
It's not insurmountable though, if it had been 30 or 40 percent it would be a real problem. Especially when you consider the transition to EVs is going to take decades.
Bad idea. In his interest to keep the professor's marketability high so he can pimp the patent.
Central banks around the world lower interest rates, because they want to avoid deflation. Everywhere in the world it's acceptable to buy debt or lower interest rate. Things that would get inflation truly going are not politically possible.

Now would be the time to use new methods like helicopter money.

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

>A second set of policies, closer to the original description of helicopter money, and more innovative in the context of monetary history, involves the central bank making direct transfers to the private sector financed with base money, without the direct involvement of fiscal authorities.[2][3] This has also been called a citizens' dividend or a distribution of future seigniorage.
As a guy that maintains robots at a factory.
They are literally a 1 hour side task once a month. The robot arms basically only needed a rebuild once in 15 years. The tooling is the only thing that goes bad and needs replacing every month and it's designed such that only a small part of the tooling needs replacement.
Some economists have started to publicly question whether negative rates don't also depress aggregate demand.
And route all (Firefox) internet traffic of the world through the US.
ESA is planning a "Comet Interceptor" mission that will loiter at the Sun-Earth L2 point for up to three years for something reachable to fly-by:

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

Maybe a few more probes like this in suitable locations would give us a better chance of intercepting interesting stuff passing through the solar system.
There's no silver bullet. Tackling overtourism means limiting the number of tourists. One way to do that is to impose high enough prices.
I used to think so too. Now I'm on the fence. High interest rates means people can borrow less, and has a dampening effect on house prices, low interest rates means people can borrow more, so house prices go up.

Our current environment of low interest rates means that borrowing is cheap - which has pushed up prices, as now people can now afford larger mortgages. This has come at the same time as a withdrawal of mortgage finance from first-time-buyers, so effectively people who have bought before can buy another house, while those who haven't can't get on 'the housing ladder'. This is according to economist Ian Mulheirn, and is very much based on the UK (although similar arguments might apply elsewhere). Supply is part of the problem, but according to him, the smallest part.

https://housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/201...
This reminded me of this real life story of trying to find a German family that got lost in Death Valley. It's a tragic story but I found very interesting how this person tries to piece together what happened. It's a long but worthwhile read.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...
Thats incorrect - not all land is equally valuable, so just building more buildings doesn’t mean that housing is solved.

Infrastructure around the builds also matter, which means just building denser isn’t a solution.

Complimentary services like schools, stores, pubs, churches, skate parks, parks etc change the value of a location as well, and change it differently for different demographics.

So making it cheap and profitable only makes it profitable to build - it does not solve the problem of affordable housing.
Yet if an individual person caused it by spraying water over the road they would be responsible under "eggshell patient" rules no matter how infirm the victim.

I would lean towards yes for all such considerations. If a flood plain will kill more/fewer people than desert silicosis we should keep them all in mind.
Wait until they find out about all the fleshy spy devices that Israel planted in the Congress.
Israel and the U.S are extremely strong alliance

Also the Mossad is working a lot with the secret service in the U.S

I believe there is a deeper reason behind those actions that won't be revealed to us (it can also explain the lack of actions of the U.S towards this case)
You did say large parts of the planet, what large parts of the planet couldn't adopt public transport?
Fifa is the biggest offender IMO, you can spend $10k on loot boxes and you'd still not get the top tier players in the game.

Around $150 CAD gets you around 100,000 in-game coins considering average yield from loot boxes. A player like Ronaldo costs 2.5 to 3 million coins (aka $3750 to $4500) for the first 4-5 months of each game cycle. And he's not even the most expensive card in the game, some cards trade for 15 million coins. To unlock all the top players for your team, you'd probably have to spend way over $10k. To top if off, every Sept. a new game comes out and you have start from scratch
> Shouldn't it be the parents concern to limit the spending?

It should be, but the kids pay the price. Most parents don't care because the gambling is disguised as a game, they make it hard to track spending by making you buy and spend fake money, this again reinforces the idea that it's not real money, it's all just a fun game.

> I also prefer them learning about these things in games, rather than in the real world (with much more money at stake).

The money, games and people that are affected all exist in the real world, just because it's themed as a game does nothing to prevent the harm gambling can cause.

Loot boxes aren't cheap [0] estimated $50 billion spent on loot boxes, there is serious money at stake comparable with the gambling industry
[1] estimated $73 billion spent on online gambling.

Game developers are able to get away with this practice because they push the idea that it's all just fun and games but its not, they have taken a gambling mechanic like for like its gambling.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/04/17/video-game...
[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-online-gambl...
PiHole has already merged a patch[1] to disable DoH via the global canary[2].

[1] https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/2915
[2] https://use-application-dns.net/
> I am talking about ~40 degrees every day. At night barely 28.

Where I come from that's not called a heat wave that's called summer.
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It's common knowledge that Trump regularly uses a personal, non-secured iPhone to communicate with friends and advisers.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18020746/president-donal...

It'd be malpractice by a major intelligence agency not to attempt this, and I'd suspect there are a bunch of these things from various countries (including allies) within range of the White House.
My issue is that infinite scrolling, especially on media rich websites, leads to a massive increase in RAM usage for no real increase in functionality.
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Indeed, I think that in this case, on the whole, more privacy is achieved by decentralization rather than by encryption...
Remember the US is a federal system so costs vary greatly depending on state/municipality. California regulatory costs result in high prices even though the state is less dense than many others like Ohio with far cheaper housing. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-costs-500000-build-sell....
Software is written and maintained by humans. Buildings are designed and lived in by humans (I happen to like many brutalist buildings). They are not purely formal, they need to have psychological appeal; pathos + logos.
Tracking market share of email clients is very difficult. To capture browsers, all you have to do is beg server logs off of the largest websites, and you can derive statistics for your own user base by crawling your own server logs.

But email? The usual way statistics are collected are by embedding 1×1 tracking pixels in email messages and noting who requests those images. But that will undercount any email client that has the option to refuse to load remote images, especially any one that turns that option on by default (such as Thunderbird). Another way is to look at the headers of large corpora of email, but the only ones that are publicly available are going to be mailing list archives, which will tend to have a more skewed distribution.
There's a company in Germany that has been doing this for a long time: https://www.modomoto.de/

I'm not sure if it's profitable. I think it's a really average idea / business model, to be honest.
> Israel doesn’t conduct espionage operations in the United States, period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
What does PoC mean in this context?
But none of us will think it acceptable to sleep with such a pillow from ancient china after seeing a real thing in museum.
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Among other reasons, this is why i have a contingency email draft that I have ready to go whenever I go out on a serious-ish hike, along these lines:

“here’s who is going, this is our license plate, this is our gear, this is how much food we have, here’s a very rough itinerary; if i don’t update this email by such and such a time, contact the following SAR groups...”
I am afraid to be a part of the problem. Been working with an engineering consulting for the last 3 years.

It now really feels that most of our clients from the West are here for the one thing only: turn physical things into a service a.k.a. devious "Product as a Service model."

It seems to have an extreme appeal to MBA/shareholder-value-babblers types. I saw no stop to them coming for last three years.

All of them want do sell people a widget, but to make it so that even after buying it, you don't own it and have to keep paying to keep using it.

One project I was enticed to jump on recently was an MP3 player that has no option to load music outside a subscription only online store, and it was of course greased with a few layers of harebrained DRMs using public key signing.

That was more revolting than a DRMed baby cradle that I did before, and I decided to forego that project.
Didn't work for me. But hitting the Escape key once main content had loaded and before Icognito warning initiated did.
Sufficiently advanced denialism is indistinguishable of satire of said denialism.
Onion.
Traditional monolithic kernel drivers are on their way out, specially given security concerns.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/702/

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal-types

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
I didn't say that, but all parts of the planet that are too sparsely populated and have poor infrastructure. There is little point in having a bus if there are only a handful of people per square kilometer. There are large parts of the planet that don't have a reliable power grid either.

IMHO we should just abandon those areas and give them back to nature.
Yep, borrowing is cheap and real estate returns are regular.
They outpace inflation, and many other places you can put your money, do not.
Questions on StackOverflow might occur in bursts, after a release or a major project goes public. So statistics on the number of questions doesn't quite relate to 'interest' or 'industry usage', but more like 'churn'?
>You don't even need to go overseas, as rural America & people looking for temp work would probably offer you higher quality for very low wages.

Hah. Low wages yes, but not Indian low wages.
Profit trumps all.
> I don't see anyone below a certain tax bracket playing the fashion game.

How do you know they are in certain tax bracket though? Do you ask everyone on the street about their taxes? Or maybe you're assuming their tax bracket on how they dress? :)
> You're both just choosing to be pedantic about it. I was just trying to be nice, but I guess that's not possible.

Sorry, I had no intention of being rude; I just dislike the misconception that permissive licenses are not Free Software, because it turns people who dislike copyleft against the whole concept.
The Rust page also compares the performance of the Rust implementation using prefetching, which slightly outperforms C for some batch sizes. https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.rs#performance

It would be a bit of a cheat, as it isn't portable, but it would be nice to see prefetching in the C implementation for the sake of comparison.
> The U.S. government concluded within the last two years that Israel was most likely behind

> But unlike most other occasions

I don't know if im spoiled by Wikipedia, or jaded from age, or wisened by age, or rightfully lost trust in the media, or wrongfully lost trust in the media, but i find myself entirely unwilling to accept to accept claims like this.

Citation. Needed.

In order to believe this article, i need to learn about this publication, and then learn about the author, and then learn about this article specifically.

This shit is so much work. We need a new reporting format. Citationless articles are too infotainment-y for me now.
Reminds me of CERN’s ROOT which has C/C++ interpreter https://root.cern.ch/
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2016-1...
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I claim that Iowa wind energy exceeds California. That's all. And that's true.

It's unseemly to keep changing the subject to one that you can 'win'.
JavaScript is trending up because it is more confusing than ever. Even angular before version 2 is so different from version after that
Krakow is small? I think it is one of largest cities in Poland
While C++ is way better than using C, it doesn't forbid "writing C with C++ compiler", does rendering useless all the safety features it offers, if one isn't allowed to tame the team via static analysis tooling.
And then only the wealthy may have holidays.
Increased pay and more time off!

I think, really, progress often comes when a side of a contested issue gets it two ways.

Which of course, I don't mean that one side getting it both ways is always progress, just that it's not a real argument.
I'd even add that being slow and constrained is a feature in multiple uses.

A lab desktop cluster doesn't need to be fast, but needs to replicate the environment you want to play with.
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Or just do a UBI instead of giving people busy work.
It's pretty good. A few clients are still PITA (looking at you, Outlook 2007 and Yahoo mail. You still have to do jump through hoops for accurate background images, or fancy things with borders.

The actual markup MJML generates is terrifying, and can be very large payloads. A simple hero graphic, some styled body text, a few buttons, and a footer was around 60KB/message. It got gnarly for us as our MTA had a max-payload size per API 'send' call (Mandrill) so our max send rates were partially constrained by MJML's fat markup.

But totally worth it to not spend _as_ much time satisfying the mail clients of the world.
Leaks have shown that with the 5 eyes 'one hand washes another' and probably spying on US citizens on behest of the US.
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Unless you have the capital to build your own house or apartment, you need landlords to put up their own capital to do that. It’s not like landlords are just assigned houses for free from the government to then lord over renter peons.
I like elegance. Beauty is highly subjective, but I think elegance is more focused on simplicity and efficiency - though still tied up to beauty.

Basically; If someone says that something is beautiful, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. If someone shows that something is very simple but effective, it's much harder to argue against.

If a line of code can replace a block of code efficiently, while still maintaining readability and cleanness, then that's something I would call elegant code.
As a society, should we really tolerate businesses who can only exist via exploitation?
Yes, definitely. I would view that as restricting choice.

I think the best way to increase wages is more and more jobs so that workers have bargaining power. I've used Uber as a fall-back and it dramatically increases my bargaining power.
Overtourist is a paradox

Once they will solve this problem, they will try to chaise it again
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> With €45k+ in Berlin you have a pretty decent way of living

Then cancel you rental contract, rent something new again and now... if not homeless (or stuck with airbnb)... re-estimate what the decent salary would be.
Hmm that's not 100% correct.

Google still does apply this to some domains. Blogspot is a good example of this. and the s3.amazonaws.com is the same domain for EVERY bucket, so it definitely has link authority. The thing the article missed is that most of these medium/s3/blogspot parasites are a few years old. While a year ago you could chuck up a Medium blog and rank it in under a month, with the most recent Google update, it takes a lot longer to see things ranking.

However yesterday I saw an exception to this, as this Medium account ranked in literally 2 days without any backlinks (the page has since been deleted): https://i.imgur.com/8lPHUYs.png

Parasites do work well, you just need to find the right 'secret sauce'. Some people can still spam 1000's of backlinks using Xrumer and/or GSA or slowly drip feed cheap PBN links.

The article shows looking for keywords such as 'HostGator coupon' or 'Clash of Clans hack' and you'll see that the top 10 results literally change on a daily basis.

People are doing of lot 301 redirects (buy a expired domains with lots of high authority backlinks and 301 it to your URL) and then block the bots for SEO tools like Ahrefs/Majestic/SEMRush etc. so other SEO's can't find their backlinks.
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I don't think anyone has addressed references yet, so as a member of many hiring teams, I'll take a stab at it.

A positive way to look at being fired is that your company was having problems and your managers were stressed. You set a goal to stick it out for a year and you achieved that goal. Rather than only giving the usual two weeks notice, you let your managers know in advance that you were planning to seek other opportunities. They decided that you didn't need to work a notice period and released you immediately. We hope things have improved for them. You didn't do anything wrong. They didn't fire you because you stole from the company or were accused of sexual harassment.

I will say that 20 years ago, particularly in large software companies, it was common that you would give your notice and security would escort you to the door. Companies didn't want you to work through a notice period because you were deemed "disloyal." Maybe your manager didn't grow out of this mindset.

In terms of a reference, if they are smart they won't say anything negative. Most companies won't simply because they want to avoid litigation. It sounds like they have much more important things to worry about than damaging your career.

Hopefully you worked with other people who can be references for you... probably worked with you more than your managers. LinkedIn is a good resource for this.

You can still use references outside your employer... from school, from volunteer work, etc. Personal projects you work on can also be excellent examples of how you do things when not influenced by office politics. As best you can, build and document a case that you do/did good work. The company won't be around long to be a reference in the future.

I'm sorry you had a miserable experience, but as a hiring manager it wouldn't detract from my view of you. On the side, I'd think you would appreciate working for me more since you had a bad experience somewhere else. Be thankful that you were there, yet thankful that you aren't there any longer.

I appreciate that you stuck it out and that you are willing to ask for advice when you aren't sure. I think you have good qualities that I look for when hiring.

Best of luck in your career.
Maybe this is where we diverge.

> or the prosecutor looking to use the results of such an investigation as evidence in a trial

I'm inclined to believe in the possibility of parallel constructions being used to cover up the best sources of intel.

> Anything is possible.[...] As long as it's not cost-effective to trace the transfer, that's enough. It doesn't need to be mathematically impossible.

And here, I think it is probably cost-effective to come up with that technology, because it would allow tracing people and transactions that might otherwise be impenetrable. And, if that were the case, I don't have a hard time imagining that it would be of utmost importance to keep such technology under wraps.

But again, at this point it seems like we're comparing pessimism to optimism.
That’s worked great everywhere it’s been tried!