skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably similar percentage that would be in the EU and everywhere else in the developed world. The disconnect between the politicians and the voters has never been higher since the end of WW2.

This is to be attributed to the rise in inequality. The rich get richer, the poor get austerity.
Generally I agree with you, and am a staunch environmentalist. However, your assertion that there would or could ever be appropriate penalties for the people profiting the most off of the natural world's destruction is simply wrong. IMO, real justice could only be delivered by a powerful world government, the likes of which we will probably never see.

I don't exempt myself from blame for the destruction of the natural world, but neither should you. I believe there is a sliding gradient of blame to be applied to all people, but really, except for a few notable exceptions (oil, finance execs in particular) it's a difficult and somewhat futile model to apply. Am I to blame for taking a vacation overseas every three years? Is a businessman more or less to blame for flying cross-country every week for meetings?

Unfortunately for those of my generation who are "woke" to the catastrophe of climate change, much of our lives have necessarily become a precarious balancing act between trying to live justly and trying to live happily. I sadly question my ability to bring children into the world with my SO in the face of a problem that is tantamount to Armageddon. But our own personal attitudes and wants shrink in the face of the enormity of the quandary that is climate change.

What I personally have come to believe is that change for the better flows from two things: willingness to forgo one's ego, and collective political action towards curbing our wasteful modern lifestyle.
It's not "long term" in "this technology will exist for a long time" but rather "it will take a long time to get this technology fully rolled out".

Carriers started releasing what they called "4G" networks, but those networks did not meet the standards required to call it 4G. So they came up with LTE because it's a long-term evolution of 3G service, evolving until it meets the standards for 4G.
> The last generation of piston engines is going to be crazy complex and probably deserve to be usurped by it's battery-powered successors.

My car-loving boss just got a hybrid RAV4, and he absolutely loves it; combines the best features of both with (presumably) the only downside of lower maintenance (but even then there's less wear-and-tear on the ICE side). I suspect we will see quite a slow, gradual transition through hybrids to battery-only.

Of course, this is Australia (and I'd imagine similar in the US and Canada) where it's more common to drive long distances.
Satoshipay[0] has been around for a long time (and many iterations) and is now based on Stellar and from what I've seen pretty simple to integrate for websites.

[0]: https://satoshipay.io
Billionaires investing on "unicorns" aka buying monopolies means increasing inequality. It the whole point of their strategy.

Uber is an especially good example.
NIce job. Tested with Chrome. Excellent performance.
Great work.
The seller side is the perspective that matters in this comparison. If you have wares to sell and want to start selling through the internet though a managed platform, amazon, ebay, etsy and shopify are competing options for you.

A main difference is shoppify you do still need to bring your own consumer traffic to your site, others have a captive audience of shoppers already, but will likely cost you more out of each sale because of that.
This sounds profound but isn't really saying much, is it? At some point, most Internet protocol privacy issues boil down to who you're willing to leak information to (which is to say, who you choose to trust). And, in the DoH/DNSCrypt case, almost nobody trusts their ISP, so these protocols are valuable.
> I haven't been able to try it yet but desperately want to!

Yes, always good to plug something you haven't used.

Are you an investor by any chance?
Economists calculate monetary value of 'thoughts and prayers'
In 2016 a company called Liason Interactive bought a majority stake in Newegg, personally I think to try to turn newegg into an electronics version of amazon.

Since around then Newegg has been garbage, and continues to become worse.

I think any seller like amazon or newegg that turns into a marketplace/platform is trading their reputation for the potential of a cut from a much larger market, and they probably do this knowingly.
Maybe it _also_ means they did things beyond the pale, so there was little choice but to prosecute.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Peruvian politics. But it could just mean each new administration jails and prosecutes the former administration.
I use CoreDNS as a stub resolver to do DNS over TLS. It works great. https://coredns.io/
IOS does this for apps that don't have photo library permissions and use the system photo picker.
Urban Canada needs affordable data too. We have the most expensive telco in the world, across the board.
I would see this more of a reflection of spend matching the access to capital not that bio is similar to software. The difference between moving atoms and bits is significant.
$1m a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world – report
Speed of light is about 300km per ms, which is a bit larger than a typical street light covers. I think we're going to need a few more divisors to get 300km down to 30m.
Almost all the "no-name" sales on Facebook are powered by Shopify. It does a wonderful job at being inconspicuous.
Thank you. Someone needed to say this. I’m sure some would argue that you could use the adapter - but do I really want to carry an adapter and have to find it within a moment of inspiration?
>Is there a bin full of white 3' USB cables of the same type, regardless of supplier?

This is my understanding, yes. If something is "fulfilled by amazon" common stock has one bin/location and is not differentiated.
Personal Data of Entire 16.6M Population of Ecuador Leaked Online
I don't think typing is the problem you make it out to be. You can specify types in Python, and mypy will type check for you. And nothing about Python means you'll have an unwieldy code base, I can only imagine you'd have the same problems in Java.

The real reason to switch would be performance. The interpreted nature of Python that makes things like Django and PyUnit possible also makes it kinda slow. Some places choose to parcel out a few key services in a faster language (C, Rust, Go) and use bindings to call out as needed.
Americans could save nearly $200 and Brits over $230 every year by using Coupons
I see the following models of monetizing content on the web:

1. Gift economy (you give it away, take likes)
2. Goods and Service economy (you charge for it, sufficiently to make a living)
3. Advertising economy (many people want it but not many willing to pay for it)
4. Tipping (not a viable economic model, unless it's made compulsory and a minimum is set in which case it's not tipping)

1 & 2 have been with us since the dawn of human civilization.

3 is a modern invention and to many it is a failed experiment.

Just observations, no answers
But that defeats the purpose of reading an article and pick and choose what you want to talk about.
Beautiful is subjective, I know, but I think you can write beautiful code in Go. I like its simplicity and explicitness. Those things make it beautiful to me.
I don't need an antenna - I get a good enough signal with my modem stashed in the rafters. I'm about 12km from a 4g tower, but it's up on a decent hill which is nearly line of sight.

I did have to go through a few modems to find one that worked reliably. Oddly enough, an old Huawei B315s has turned out to be by far the best for my situation. I've tried fancier models that multiplex radio bands, but they were slower and less reliable.

Weather seems to have little to no effect. What does sometimes cause a problem is tourist influxes to the nearest town. The occasional big weekend event can bring speeds down to 12Mbps or so. Still, I'm not complaining and consider ubiquitous internet availability a kind of modern miracle.
> There's not even a mainstream candidate who's against gun control, actually.

There probably is one with an R by the name...

I know, you weren't talking about them. But there is more than one party running here.
Yep -- OxyContin has a timed-release coating and by preventing the "peaks and valleys" of opiate use, it was supposed to minimize addiction. This was a major selling point for doctors, which turned out be based on falsified data.

The thing is, I don't think any studies have actually validated that concept? If you say "it's basically known", I'm curious what evidence you have for that statement. Are there studies where people have been prescribed more opioids but been less addicted because they finally have "sufficient" medication?
... it's a riff on the Beverly Hillbilly's Lyrics + Fred Phelps who is the leader of the church in question.
Whenever I read these discussions, I always see references to BSD vs Linux. The BSD "way" seems cleaner to me, but I'm certainly no expert.

But does anyone know what Windows and OSX (and iOs for that matter) does to "warm up" entropy?
"... but yeah I'm sort of worried that Rust is a "hard to implement" kind of language with maybe a not high enough bus factor... similar worries for Julia too"

Which is fair, but they seem like the kind of language where the compiler or run time is the really important part of the language, so it might make sense to have multiple implementations. Rust without the lifetimes implementation, and Julia without the highly dynamic but high performance run time, aren't worth much.
That coit tower view is pretty killer as well.
Its interesting. I bet it also has to do with what you're buying that makes you more or less likely to hit a fake.
Yes but the speed of light is very fast. Light can travel nearly 200 miles in one millisecond.
(2015)

Wish it had numbers for those with ADHD not taking medicine. Feels like you can't make strong conclusions without that.
On the topic of TOTPs: Yes store backup codes in your password manager or elsewhere. But most password managers can also store the TOTP itself. I recently upgraded Bitwarden to the plan that includes TOTP, and it's working out very nicely.
Those who work together are also going to have to survive those who have guns.
There's probably a different cryptocurrency for each user on HN, certainly enough for people to argue over until the end of time.

Perhaps it's as simple as this:

1) Make adding a box to pay a website in your crypto easier than adding google analytics or facebook share links.

2) Make buying small amount of your crypto easier than anyone else's crypto.

3) Give lots of your crypto away to as many folks as possible to put lots of it into circulation.

4) Provide easy ways for people to buy amazon and walmart gift certs with your crypto. (so web site operators can do something with the coins they receive)

Has anyone done step 1 yet?
Who says only multiple teams need microservices, and who put them in charge of what people find helpful?

If the 'app' has enough different 'bits' I'd favour a SOA no matter the team size.

Somebody now wants to say that isolation doesn't necessitate distinct services; they're probably right, but the alternative is great discipline - why not make it easy?

It's a form of defensive programming isn't it? - if widget factory shouldn't be using a function from auth helpers, make it impossible!
> You can sometimes use unnatural programming patterns in both Go and Java to reduce allocations in practice.

This whole "you can't control your allocations in Go" thing is a strawman. You don't have absolute control because of escape analysis, that's true. But there's a pretty wide gap between "oh I'll just move this allocation point out of a loop" and "oh I wrote a bunch of unnatural code". It's pretty idiomatic to manage allocations in Go, just look at all the posts about using pprof.

Besides, the spectrum of "clarity" (or whatever) to performance is present no matter what language you're using. Ex: ripgrep takes on more complexity so it can search a big buffer of text instead of just a line [1]. I wouldn't call that "unnatural" at all, just systems programming.

[1]: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#mechanics
I thought this too initially, but most devs should be able to pick up a lang once you throw them into a codebase / go through a few tutorials.

Granted you don't get the same depth of knowledge you might find with an experienced JS dev...
> achieving lower day-to-day prices is exactly how market competition works.

That's true, but irrelevant. You are using microlevel concepts on a macro level where they are by-definition cannot apply.

> It's tautological to justify a policy of changing the value of a dollar by rejecting analysis in terms of an unchanged dollar.

You can't have lower overall consumer prices against an unchanged dollar, because the definition of a constant or unchanged dollar is that it is corrected for price-level changes.

You can have lower nominal prices (deflation) which doesn't have the effects you attribute to lower prices at all, and you can have lower consumer prices relative to wages, which, as I've explained, do what you want if and only if the reduction in labor hours is spread evenly. Which there is little reason to think it would be absent direct regulation; what you'd normally expect is increased unemployment, because transaction costs of hiring scale with number employed, not hours worked, so it's usually more efficient for business to have fewer full-time (or even overtime) workers rather than more short-hours workers. Regulation can change this, of course, by reducing number of hours worked before additional overtime compensation is owed and increasing overtime premiums.

> An explicit goal of inflationary monetary policy is to drive "full employment". So yes, pushing everyone to keep working full time is one of its overt goals.

That's...not what “full employment” means. I know that some people like to point to the product of labor force participation rate times the employment rate and call it the real rate of employment, but that's not what policymakers consider employment to be or what they are targeting maximizing with “full employment”.

It's to stimulate a level of economic activity at which there is a labor demand such that all the labor that people want to sell is sold (which is full employment, because employment rate is people selling labor divided by people trying to sell labor) less transactional inefficiencies, it is not intended to increase real costs to force everyone into the labor force (which wouldn't actually support full-employment, but a higher labor-force participation rate.)

When you get to the point of articulating an idea that can be clearly understood, it seems to always be a misunderstanding caused by misinterpreting basic economic terminology.
That's how it works in theory and did on some of the first generation systems. In practice most manufacturers cut throttle too (assuming throttle by wire, which most new vehicles have) and you often have to pay for some "off road" trim to get the little button that makes it not cut throttle. On a lot of AWD mom-mobiles you can't even get that option. Also, most traction control systems aren't tuned to hit the brake on the spinning wheel aggressively enough (IMO).

The Episode of Dirt Every Day where he takes a Jeep Compass off roading (it's on youtube somewhere) is a great example of what you can do with good traction control.
One of those is not like the others. I just went to Shopify.com and I can’t find anything for sale. Shopify is a SaaS platform not a marketplace.
Edge-Informed Single Image Super-Resolution
This comment is even less substantiated than its parent. Intuitively the nerds on HN don't represent the "real customers" of Apple, who as a big company, surely does market research. Yet Apple has gone on record several times claiming to bring products to market that customers don't know they need, eschewing market research.

Without posting any reviews or customer data, you assume that there is a large customer demand for touch bar-equipped laptop computers.

The plural of anecdotes isn't data, but the complete absence of adecdotes of people who love the touch bar says a lot.
I missed this before, but the problem is _what_ they choose to fact check, not how; and this is evidence of how susceptible they are to political pressure (in a negative way, this time).
Generalized Policy Iteration for Optimal Control in Continuous Time
> we briefly thought about trying to remove all the complexity for frontend too

Well, I think this whole idea is wrong, but at least you quit while you were ahead with that one.
Brain-Like Object Recognition with High-Performing Shallow Recurrent ANNs
Yeah, this is my experience too. I've tried MDMA on occasion and at various purities. It's fun but doesn't really have much pull for me because usually I'm already in the place MDMA is putting me but naturally. There are some fun effects but nothing that makes me want to go out and buy it.

Cigars on the other hand are something that have an immense amount of pull for me, and even just thinking about smoking a cigar after several weeks without one is rekindling a desire to go to the smoke shop. And that tells me that I absolutely should not go to the smoke shop. Cigarettes don't have the same pull for me because I can't get stoned off my ass with a cigarette.
That perspective is somewhat dated to be blunt. A modern Java deployment would be identical security wise to node, with one app per Java process running with the minimum of privileges.
Some banners ads are not all of advertising. You’re affected by numerous channels and mediums that would pick up the slack (and already have) from adblocking on the web.
This attitude is baffling to me. We have a government which has spent the last half century giving special incentives and privileges and essentially free money in the form of tax incentives to the fossil fuels industry (ie the exact opposite of capitalism in the free markets sense) and then people complain that because "our society is capitalist" that capitalism is at fault.

No way it could have been 50 years of idiotic policy. Yeah it was the free exchange of good and services for money.
The $24B Online Casino Boom China Is Struggling to Halt
Nice essay, but the conclusion is a non-sequitur. If anything, the story seems to suggest that it is in fact "remarkable for a person to understand what another person needed."
I wonder if this is where Masayoshi Son pays Adam and his wife to leave, and then they attempt a mulligan with the IPO after.
"... but the design of the Lang/IDE ensures new code is always behind a feature flag that makes that new behavior visible only to you until you decide to expand the audience until eventually reaching 100% of the users."

Ah, so "Dark" as in "dark launch"?
> I wholeheartedly disagree with any decentralized approach to national economics.

do you then agree with only a centralized national economics?

what does that even look like?
Why would the company promote them your getting l2 performance for l1 pay.

This working beyond your level long term is a trap you should avoid your just being taken advantage of.
The original SE was announced in a March event, so I assume its successor might appear six months from now.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is blowing my mind.
I honestly don't know anything about Monero. How does it compare to Stellar, which was recently on HN due to the Keybase airdrop giveaway?

(I hold a whole $40USD in Stellar, I do however think it's a good thing. But I think there's space on the net for more than a couple of cryptocurrencies so I'm curious about Monero)
There is an adapter. It works just fine.

If you're a musician, you were probably also carrying around some 3.5 to quarter inch headphone adapters before this.
What’s up with Chicago and dirty politics anyway?

They’re forever in popular culture and music seen as being the heart of the political machine.
I was under the impression that any time an app allows you to play media and send it to audio devices (including Bluetooth and AirPlay), iOS 13 gives a scary prompt like this. I've been using the public beta and for this reason I have granted the permission to YouTube (while hoping I am right and they are not abusing the permission).

Does anyone know for a fact what Facebook is doing with Bluetooth permissions? Am I right in my understanding of how innocent usage for media playback can trigger this prompt?
You are setting up a false dichotomy: you claim the only two choices are rule by elites vs rule by non-elites. What I spelled out was a half way position -- bolstering the strength of the non-elites and weakening the grip elites have on power.

Of course it is difficult to manage precisely because most people with $1B will kick and scream if their wealth is reduced to $900M. But in theory that is what voting can help accomplish, and social movements to help people realize what they are giving up by voting into office people who despise unions and who complain that their 15% tax burden while collecting millions is too much.
> you forgot to take into account that most phones are replaced because they break - usually their display gets smashed.

Is that true? If so, how do you know it to be true?
It's likely 5G will let many more devices be connected and phoning home without using our personal internet connections.

There's no way this can be cheaper, especially in the US where carriers are currently charging $10-20 per device per month. I can imagine a dystopian future where device vendors think "x% of people can't figure out how to connect to their own WiFi, so let's ship a 5G radio with Verizon eSIM instead and make up the extra cost with more privacy-invading ads" but I'm going to ragequit the Internet if that happens.
Aren't you effectively converting to USD by buying gift cards?
The given link is hard pay walled and I don't see any more explanation of the number. Did they actually have more sales of consumer goods to consumers than eBay or are they saying the company which is on paper a competitor to eBay had more sales total which isn't the same thing.

If you want to compare Amazon vs eBay as a platform you wouldn't look at AWS to give an example of what I am talking about.
I like your Ansible / deploy script / "no fancy CI tools" combo. This is exactly what I do too. Deploying is so painless and consistent.

To quote a line from an Elixir talk I recently watched: "it feels like cheating".
I could live with all that crap, but what kills me is the unnecessary global state. Everywhere, particularly when it's not needed.

It's a complete nightmare to integrate with the rest of the application.
I didn't say, "It's basically known." I said, "Isn't it basically known?" I'm just going from memory, probably of news articles. I would be interesting to know what follow-up research has been done as well.
Anti-intellectualism in American Life
CurveDNS encrypts communications between a DNS resolver and an DNS authoritative server.

https://curvedns.on2it.net
A rising tide: ‘overtourism’ and the curse of the cruise ships
Speaking of dubious medical shenanigans... did you know that the "Medical Advertising Hall of Fame" is a real thing?

https://www.mahf.com/

I came across this after reading yesterday's story on the Purdue bankruptcy. I'm not easily phased, but jeez... seriously?
You think $200k a year is "high" for someone who ran a country? Also, do you really think they're not corrupt? An awful lot of them rack up a pretty amazing net worth doing speaking engagements (aka taking payola) after they're president. The only living one I ever suspected of being vaguely honest is Carter.
4G router, works exactly the same as what you have now.