skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pixel 3a is quite cheap (comparatively), fairly small, and got great reviews.
So the cheap electricity is not from Geothermal but Hydro?

The heating, which is a large energy need, is Geothermal and the lighting / Aluminium is powered not by volcanoes but old fashioned dams?

[edit] Yes, Dams - https://phys.org/news/2018-11-hidden-price-iceland-green-ene...
Your original reply to mine was flagged, so I'll reply here.

I was not trying to defend Minsky with my question, I was honestly curious. If someone had instead committed burglary and you said "robbery" I would have made a similar comment; either way it's a thief, but those two crimes do describe different actions, and it's possible I misunderstood what was going on from my merely cursory reading of the news articles in question.
The Fed is not behind the curve. The Fed's role is to keep the inflation at target rates. Not finance structural budgetary deficits through quantitative easing.
Author of the post here. The r/netsec community brings up good points. One thing that's come up frequently is the question of trademark disputes. Handshake does have mechanisms in place to protect a good number of existing trademarks (only the domain owners of the top 100k Alexa domains can register their names as TLDs), and it also has mechanisms to prevent early squatting through the 52 week period for name rollouts.

These mechanics protect trademarks in the short term, but in the long term anyone can bid on an unregistered name in the open auction system that Handshake created. My perspective on this is that there isn't an inherent reason why a naming system needs to deal with trademark issues — there are pros and cons to names being registered in an open auction, just like there are pros and cons to Bitcoin being a store of value that's difficult to censor and seize.
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And all they need to do to return to some semblance of their former trajectory is agree to stop stealing our IP, stop their currency manipulation, and stop sending us a bunch of fentanyl. A no brainer really.
Exactly! Thanks for the kind words.
This doesn't work on iOS even though I thought IOS supported wasm?
They don't have that in _this_ standalone version. The one integrated into TF 2.0 itself does support eager execution IIRC.
Someone accusing someone else of doing something may be paltry evidence, but it's certainly not zero evidence.
I don't agree with either of your statements. There is a dividing line, which I was pointing out, between making someone uncomfortable and being toxic. I'm not sure, tbh, but it sounds closer to rms was just socially uncouth, he didn't abuse his position of power or anything like that, he just was an unpleasant person. I don't mind may be some sort of intervention over that, similar to what Linus Torvalds faced. Perhaps he has been "called-in" so to speak but that hasn't been stated in this conversation so far. What I consider toxic is closer to retaliating professionally against subordinates you don't like, forcing subordinates to do unprofessional things like favors to curry good standing with you, etc. I could be proven wrong, but a lot of what I've read from rms is he was just annoyingly pedantic, silly at times with off-collar humor, and too much of a "true believer" in various causes. None of that I consider beyond the pale for being toxic, some of those traits (like the "true believer" bit) are actually somewhat commendable, and why extremists often are good in pushing us to better ourselves or at the very least question the foundations of the status quo.

Also, firing someone is taking their livelihood from them. rms might be more comfortable than the average worker, but part of the reason there are special rules around work is in society today people need to work to survive. rms might be wealthy and have a cushion, I have no idea and so this might not apply to him. On the other hand however, free software has been his life's work, and he is being forced out of the organizations he started in order to further that cause. He probably will be hampered from ever contributing to free software moving forward. It might not be on the level of a walmart worker living paycheck to paycheck (which sure is a larger problem) but it is a wrong, at some level, to him if he is not offered a better deal or a chance to change.
schwab.com used to do exactly this about 8 years ago.

I think they simultaneously ignored all case but that could have been an unrelated site, memory is hazy.
Bill Gates is one of the better billionaire philanthropists, but it would be great if he would invest some of that capital into a well-financed lobbying campaign to increase taxes on superrich individuals and corporations, significantly raise taxes on ultra-high income, estates and capital gains, shut down offshore tax evasion schemes, and devise other measures to reduce the oligarchic inequality that has emerged in the past few decades.
Slack history was invaluable to me when I was ramping up at my current role. You get a real sense for the struggles the teams are dealing with.
GP made a point of talking about how overworked and aggrieved the cops tend to be, which is a talking point among thin blue line types; I didn't necessarily read anything into their statement other than maybe wondering about how true it is (IME cops more-or-less tend to be well compensated and work reasonable hours, due to strong unions and cultural priorities) -- but I can see where someone would read more into it.
sadly <bgsound> doesn't work anymore :(
> without risking making yourself completely unemployable

Can you provide some examples of people who have been made "completely unemployable" by the twitter lynch mob?
The government forced them to create a patent pool.
This looks cool, thank you very much for sharing. However, I tried signing up and got an error message from Dropbox: "This app has reached its user limit. Contact the app developer and ask them to use the Dropbox API App Console to increase their app's user limit."
Everyone fell for those at least once
Oh cool, thought you referred to this specific version.
RedHat basically showed how you can setup an Enterprise OSS support business.

There's also a multitude of businesses selling support licenses for plugins/modules that extend OSS applications.
So, uh...if it can transport 0.25% of its weight, then that kind of implies that the safety margin is of the same approximate order, doesn't it?
I never imagined someone would write a recursive DNS sever in javascript. Have they explained why they chose javascript? It can't perform well nor scale and they even sort of admit that:

https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd#unbound-support
The official U.S. poverty rate is based on a hopelessly out-of-date metric
I work remotely, which I greatly enjoy. One day a while back I was talking to a co-worker who resides in the UK. (I'm in the central US.)

We were talking about woodworking. I know my friend had just bought a new table saw, I was wondering how things were going.

My friend complained that it took him a long time to setup his saw every time he wanted to use it. It was contained in a small room with several other tools, he had to pick which one to plug in and put in the 'free space'.

I explained I kept my table saw in it's own place, set up in the extra garage. He was stunned that there could be such an extravagance.

I'm sure everybody would have a bigger house (and garage) if the situation allowed it. It's nice. It's only human nature to like such a thing.
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> process of preparing oneself for changes likely to be surprising, unpleasant, require workarounds

Do you actually do this? Do you think the percentage of users who do exceeds 1%? I mean, I do read the release notes for new web features but that’s because I know from the stats that almost all of our users will be updated shortly after release.
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Once people adapt to it, that conversion rate of 27% will dwindle, just like click-through rates on banner ads were great in the 90s. It only works while it's novel. Once everyone does it, it's no longer a differentiator.
First to file has nothing to do with prior art. It’s about what happens when two companies claim to have invented the same thing.
But you can't get high throughput unless you have a large capacity in terms of mass. It's easy to say "cargo", but if the only cargo it can carry is a flea, not so much.
Not based on direct evidence, but based on the candidates' rhetoric and Democrats' typical platform goals, I'm thinking they will prioritize forgiveness for low earners, similar to how they limit write-offs for student loan interest payments to incomes below a threshold (I think it was 80k last year? I don't remember).

So if you're already in a place to pay it off without struggling, I'm betting your life won't change that much. I'll just be happy to see my loans gone. If I end up paying it off in 5 years and find out it all would have been forgiven regardless, C'est la vie.
Think about Hastings. Suicided.

Barnaby Jack, suicided.

Barnaby. Was going to reveal how various med devices were hackable, such as pacemakers and med pumps... at defcon.

He was suicided in SF because he was (like most of us tech folk) was a recreational drug user (don’t fucking lie, you were all high as fuck at burning man, again)

So how simple to kill a motherfucker than to suicide him via OD before he told the wold how easy it was to remotely kill someone with a pacemaker.... or pump in the ICU...
I'm old enough to have written a gif decoder and for my effort receiced a threatening mail from Unisys, demanding protection money USD 10000 up front, which absurdity - after consultation with my national patent office - I laughed off and ignored.
Back then I didn't imagine I would one day come to almost wish the Unishysters had in fact managed killing the damn format off for good.
They're clearly moving gradually in this direction, but I think it's an open question how far they can get.

For server-side software, it's easy enough to do multiple releases per day, because you have full control over the environment, and all the work is internal. But for desktop/mobile software like this, having multiple releases per day won't be efficient in terms of bandwidth, load, or user experience.

And each browser version has other external costs, like documentation and support. Right now it can be hard to solve a problem like, "How do I do X with Firefox" because the answer varies by version. The more versions you have, the harder that is.

Or can you imagine trying to triage and verify bug reports if there are, say, 3 new Firefox releases per day, and people could be on any one of dozens of versions because they don't quit and restart the browser very often? We can imagine solutions to these problems, of course. But I think getting a release cadence below weekly for desktop apps will be a very long road.
Open Source Agile Service Agreements for US and UK
Even my work with basic circuits for sea slugs led to “cooperative” behavior:

https://austingwalters.com/modeling-and-building-robotic-sea...

I think sometimes we see what we want to see. Not saying it’s not interesting work, just that it’s less round breaking than you may think.
Thanks for sharing this. As the CEO of a company, did you introduce this to the rest of your company? How long have you been you using it? Also, previously, did you try the strategy of blocking time for yourself that prevents people from scheduling meetings with you during this "solo" time?
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Just want to clear up one thing - neither the CIA or the NSA are under DHS. Those are 3 separate agencies.
I just finished reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robson where there is a tension between the "red" and "green" parties (first group want to keep Mars pristine, the other want to terraform it). The reds even sabotaged Mars space elevator in order to slow down emigration.

I guess it will be like Antarctica, where several countries made territorial claims[1] over it, many of them overlapping.

The UN's 1984 Moon Treaty[2] is dead letter - it has never been defied but is defunct in practice as none of the most prominent space-faring nations have ratified it.

If someone settles in the Moon you can refute their claims over territory there but what else can you do? Set an embargo? Send a military force and try to kick them out? Nuke them? Someone with knowledge and resources to colonize that desolated rock in space is not an adversary to be underestimated...

[1] http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-anta...
[2] http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/moon
Ask HN: What's the best thing a software engineer can do for climate change?
I am alarmed about climate change. I don't come from a background of activism or science so I'm looking for guidance on the best ways to use my skillset as an engineer to help in whatever way I can.

Specifically:
1. Where are the best places to work at to help combat the crisis (either through mitigation or adaptation)?

2. Are there related open source projects to work on?

3. As the crisis appears to increasingly be a political and cultural problem, what might be effective ways to use engineering in the service of climate-related politics?
I would love to have created something that was so critical it could break amazon. That sounds like a ticket to $5k a day consulting gigs
And the direct impact of it will still be felt for another 70-80 years.
It’s a blockchain: JavaScript is the least of their worries.
iOS terminal emulator that can compile C code can be with clang
We've spoken with people involved with the ICANN and I think that'd be unlikely. In a sense, ICANN is the incumbent that Handshake is trying to unseat, so it's not surprising that they don't like it. There have also been numerous alternative root projects in the past that all failed, so when ICANN people see that aspect of Handshake they quickly dismiss it. Interestingly, we've had conversations with Vint Cerf who invented TCP/IP and he actually liked the properties that Handshake provides (wasn't a fan of the blockchain implementation though). Vint proposed a system with similar properties in the past as well: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/12/232883-self-authentic...
Yes. There will be recessions and periods of growth. The economy is a chaotic non deterministic system. It is never stable and is not predictable. It’s not homogenous either. Some sectors grow while others contract.

When the next recession comes nobody knows. I think the worry is that when the next haircut on stocks happens the Fed can’t stimulate the economy with interest rates because they’re already zero bound. That could mean a long recession and slow recovery, and possibly catastrophic considering that most Americans choose to put all their retirement savings in the stock market.

Historically, there have been huge stock crashes periodically. You could wake up tomorrow and see a 10-20% drop in stocks for multiple days. It’s happened before.
For a while I've been building my resume(s) by using a LaTeX template (specifically [0]) and copy-pasting data from my LinkedIn profile which I keep fairly up-to-date. It's worked pretty well for me especially when I had to put together academic resumes for which I could just add my publication through the standard LaTeX bibliography practices.

I've toyed with the idea of making a resume generator SaaS where the user would enter their LinkedIn URL which my app would scrape and use it to populate different LaTeX templates rendered server-side into PDFs (for free) while offering some sort of editor or the raw LaTeX (in a premium version) where the user could apply edits.

While AFAIK scraping LinkedIn was deemed lawful in some previous court case [1] I fear it would be a hard sell. Wonder what kinda trouble I would run into.

[0] https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume/fancy-cv
[1] http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17...
I'm the one you're responding to and I'm not making six figures, you can't assume everyone lives in USA making amazing salaries and bonuses.
How does your game contrast with factorio?
kind of agree but also disagree. the runway for Go to go (pun unintended) from easy to difficult to use because of it consisting few parts is far longer than for a developer using a feature rich language to eventually shoot themselves in the foot. let me throw in another language in the mix to describe what i personally think is _almost_ the best tradeoff between this difficult and easy simplicity. Elixir. it has almost the same amount of keywords (as a proxy measure to API surface) as Go but on the other hand it also exposes metaprogramming and so, if you really want to, you can easily shoot yourself in the foot. but in both languages, as I said for Go, the runway for language usability to go from easy to difficult due to their limited features is very very long.
We combine Slack + Zendesk for this reason. Users can start however they like + we can pick to shift. Enterprise SLAs are generally 1hr for ack anyway, and early stage needs to be customer centric, so works great in these settings.
Incorrect, and alarmingly so. You are providing information here, this exposes you to judgement.
Further to this: a key point of South African divestment was people didn't buy products from South Africa, or form partnerships with their institutions.

Depending on how liquid a product was, this type of action can have real consequences. Eg:

* boycotting a specific type of industrial product mainly bought in Europe = big impact
* Boycotting wheat = small impact, this is easily sold elsewhere
* Boycotting sports term = big impact. Often only one league matters

Shared are quite liquid. Likewise, a boycott of a specific oil company would do little to thwart oil use.

Not buying oil itself actually has some impact, by shifting the demand curve.
Author of the post here. If you have any questions I'll be online for a while to respond to them. We're serious about attempting to improve the security of the internet, so criticisms are welcome too.
I call shenanigans, and yes, I've gone to the source[0] the article cites.

First off, the source doesn't even claim that. They measure total expenses on instruction. The instructors might be getting a shitty pay (most do), but the expenses could be high if the instructor:student ratio is high enough.

Secondly, I highly question their data and methodology.

The only relevant data to support the claim you made is in Figure 14. That figure does not explain how the expenses on "instructors" are tallied.

To start, the universities have purely teaching faculty and research faculty that also teach. The latter can be highly salaried, but also bring a lot of money to the university in the form of research grants, which actually pay the high salaries.

Thus research spending and instructional spending are likely mixed in Figure 14.

(It is a well-known fact that most of instruction is down by adjunct faculty at slave wages).

Going further, I don't see a distinction between undergraduate and graduate instruction. A graduate seminar, say, on tropical varieties for non-archimedean analytic spaces that exactly 5 students are enrolled in because it's something they need for their research can be formally listed as a class, but this 1:5 instructor-to-student ratio is not something a typical undergraduate student will ever see. Furthermore, whether the TA's (grad students) are counted in such ratios is unclear.

Now, let's look at the data[1].

From 1970 to 2009, the instructors' salaries have seen a modest increase (about $4K/year) after adjusting for inflation[4], less than 6%.

However, the cost of attendance has more than doubled, inflation adjusted[2].

For the claim in Figure 14 to hold any water, we should expect to see the student:instructor ratio drop by a factor of more than 2 since the 70's.

This simply did not happen[3]. The FTE student-instructor ratio, on the average, stayed at about 16-17.

Therefore, the Figure 14 that the book[0] includes without references to sources, can't be right.

The data I cited suggests that the tuition costs would be half of what they are today if they were tied to instructors' salaries. However, the costs have more than doubled.

(Everyone who would like to dispute this is welcome to dig into the statistics).

[0] https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-a...

[1]https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d10/tables/dt10_267.asp

[2]https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_320.asp

[3] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012001.pdf - page 377

[4] Inflation calculator: https://www.officialdata.org/1976-dollars-in-2006?amount=924
The path to the next billion internet users is through feature phones
Why could theoretically repossess the certification though. That is make it illegal to report you have a degree you bk’d on and make the colleges respond negatively when asked about your credentials.

I suspect that leads to outcomes that are uncomfortable for universities though.
2014-04 is actionable for a lot of stuff - "unpatched" or "unmaintained"...
Show HN: JavaScript API for bot trading on a crowd-powered hedge fund
Loans are not resold. They stay in the government’s books. The loan processors are just contracted to provide processing services.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/servicer...

> In some cases, ED needs to transfer loans from one servicer to another servicer on the federal loan servicer team. ED transfers loans as part of its efforts to ensure that all borrowers are provided with customer service and repayment support. If ED needs to transfer your federal student loans from your assigned servicer to another servicer, your loans will still be owned by ED. The “transfer” to another servicer on ED’s federal loan servicer team simply means that a new servicer will provide the support you need to fully repay your loans.
Check out Starship Theory on Steam for something close to FTL.

Personally I found Starship Corporation (no relation) to be the best ship design "game" I've yet seen.
Abandon JavaScript and only code in C: it is more power-efficient.
Interesting.

Where can I read more about it?
Besides roads, I don't need any other services. I can provide my own power (solar), my own water (well), my own sewer (septic field), wireless service alone would be fine (no cable or telephone), and I can skip the snow removal with a 4 wheel drive vehicle (or even not if I'm in a warmer climate in the US).

Rural life has existed for over a century, so forgive me when it's waved away as too costly. Would some standards need to change? Possibly, but it’s not impossible.
33% of the PRC's population will be over 65 years old in 2050. The PRC has been below the replacement birthrate (2.1 children per woman) since 1991. There is an economic reckoning coming from the seismic demographic shift. No other country in recorded history has aged so fast at such a scale.
CVE-2019-11510: Pre-Authentication Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability (Exploit)
Rust is set up to take over the web. WASM with no need to GC will make for eye-bleedingly fast code.

Just wait for Rust to get a DOM API and MVC/data binding framework. UI responsiveness will be incredible, and webapps will feel light weight again. I see a good Rust web frontend library eating React/Vue's lunch.
I'd say getting a remote job to remove commuting.
Yep, 3D would be a confusing mess in UI terms.
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I’m not any kind of expert, but Airbnb has strong network effects, a clear business model, and is easily understood as a tech mediated disruption to hotels.

So, sounds like an easy sell. But it depends on the price.
So the government increased the cost of college by getting involved?