skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but given that the vast majority of canadians voted for progressive candidates (green, ndp, and liberal) it's unlikely the conservatives would do better under a more fair voting system... in fact a lot of the seats they have are the result of more vote splitting on the left than the right.

Edit: i crunched the numbers.

If you pool the green + lib + ndp votes from this election, conservatives end up with only 69 seats. The reality probably wouldn't be that bad for them, since some large percentage of Liberal voters would pick Conservatives as their second choice over the NDP or Greens... but it gives you a lower bounds. i.e. they would be somewhere between where they are now and 69 seats.
If you build things like that, you probably don't have authority or leverage to rebuild everything from scratch, and even if you did, it might be much costlier to disrupt an inefficient web of human-computer-paper interaction that works reliably and that everything else has adapted to.
Well, you just made my day. Thanks!
I'm anti-tracking. I don't, and have never, blocked ads specifically. I do block scripts, though. The side-effect of that is that I don't see most ads, but that isn't the point.
I'm curious how you market yourself or your services? I automate processes, workflows and tasks like this for some clients and I really enjoy it. It's easy to see the value I provide and the clients are happy. However I struggle with how to acquire new/more clients. The ones I have now I've acquired through past business relationships. I'd love to be able to do more of this work.
If humans will learn how this 'genetics' thing works, it might be a total gamechanger. Once we understand how to create a life that works like we want it to, all bets are off, and lots of things will be possible: indefinite lifespans, lifeforms alteration, hybernation, etc.
> I've since discovered Dial-a-Ride

Which does nothing to help visitors. My own trips to London would be significantly more problematic without black cabs.
All-organic farming could increase UK emissions
A Former Netflix VP on 10 Necessary Habits for Making Tough Decisions
YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
This only applies if their claim to keep no logs is false; some have demonstrated in court that their claim is true.
Are you saying the end user should do the cross compile, or the package maintainer? I feel like for arm it's mostly been package maintainers who've been increasing the available software. For PowerPC, if the user needs to compile from source that is a big reason to avoid PPC IMO. A bit of a chicken and egg situation.
I think the crux is you consider "VPN use case is either to securely leave a network (hotel Wi-Fi, airport wifi)" a core VPN use case when the author considers that a proxy use case.

I side with the author on this one, a virtual private network is meant to mean multiple private devices on a single network segment virtualized over some transport. Using it as the place you connect to to shove your internet traffic through a relay definitely fits the secure proxy use case/definition way better.
> While the future can never be predicted with absolute certainty,[1]

I love how Wikipedia likes to cite things like this.
& how can IRV be hand-counted? It is the most difficult system listed here to compute and most difficult to explain to voters why the outcome happened.
I’m building a tool to speed up data entry. It highlights OCR‘d words with low confidence for human review. It uses templates for capturing structured data and a fast interface for capturing unstructured data.

It grew out of consulting projects and is almost ready for beta testing if anyone is interested in playing with it and giving me some feedback - my email is in my profile :)
I'm unsure of behaviour in firefox, but at least for me chrome at work will keep session information for the private window until chrome is closed completely not just the private window.

Having said that anecdotally I'm sure google do ip/wifi network tracking as after I was connected to a friends wifi network while he was in the process of moving house I began being served ads for moving companies even though I had done no similiar searches or visited related sites.
The title is misleading because the article focuses on using VPN providers to obfuscate traffic when this is one use case of VPN technologies. The gestalt types of VPN usage are:

* Remote Access VPN: Connect to resources on your corporate network. An example of this is you're in a coffee shop on holiday and need to access a corporate resource.

* Site-to-Site VPN: Connect networks on two sites together. An example of this is you're in a branch office and need to connect to a resource in HQ.

Note that VPN providers give you a limited Remote Access VPN to their network, which they control. They can do whatever they want to your now-decrypted traffic before they send it out to the internet. If you want to obfuscate your traffic, Tor is a better candidate.
"Companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information" but Investors must be alerted[1].

TechCrunch may not qualify under this.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2013-2013-51htm
Specifically, apart from observation of hanzi and kanji being written with random proportions instead of square, I can't help noticing some patterns, like in the following cases:

日 月 明

女 子 好

金 不 鈈

虫 古 月 蝴

As far as I can see, all these keep the same proportions and occupy the same space.
They report a lot of data by default back to mozilla though.
Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence from National Data
Quote:
> Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.
IRV isn't good though.
Your ranking list can be interpreted in two very different ways depending on whether you consider ">" to be an arrow or a greater-than sign.
These apps are against the law, but you can still implement the built-in location tracking and activity history of the devices? Seems weird to me. They probably forgot to pay the lobbyists in the industry.
Communications technology has moved past the ability of human brains to tolerate and mitigate the adverse effects.

Every addicting dopamine surge from a Like or Retweet is the evidence; every viral pile-on, every echo-chamber lunatic fringe.

Making humanity resilient to the negative externalities of our own technological advancement is essential for the survival of our species. Right now, a vast army of the smartest people are employed at the intersection of cognitive and computer sciences, but in the service of political and commercial interests. I'd like to see more of them on the other side of this arms race, working on our individual and societal defenses.
HashiCorp Employee Open Letter to Executives to Dump Palantir as a Customer
If someone can figure out how to do crypto without burning through thousands of CPU-hours of compute, they would have a real winner on their hands. Of course, execution is also a key factor in success. There are lots of good ideas that were had by multiple people, but only one successfully executed.
Solar panel efficiency does not have an analogue to Moore's law, and their efficiency physically cannot double two or more times.

Solar cell record efficiency is 46%, that only gives room for 1.12 doublings theoretically, and thermodynamics is nasty in the real world so we probably cannot even get past 1 doubling from here.
This sort of issue is usually worked around in uBO when they are reported on uBO's own filter issue tracker: <https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues>.
I happen to love hamburgers.
To itself.
Use a VPN and a proxy.
You don't know if patients treated with a placebo feel a benefit, you only know that they report feeling a benefit.

What's the task of the physician? Is it to relieve the patient's pain or is it to get the patient to shut up about his pain? Do you think there is a difference?
Education is a semi-decent counter. So is complete deplatforming of people attempting to radicalize other people.

But yes, unrestrained capitalism + unrestrained privatization + unrestrained speech + democracy is not a combination that sustainably works, the way it looks.
The title should be renamed to "Don't Use 3rd Party VPN Services".[1]

On-prem VPN deployments with solutions like AlgoVPN[2] from TrailOfBits is still very useful. Let alone mass majority of the the corporate IT's internal VPNs that is required for some workforces to perform their jobs remotely on public Internet.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29#gistco...

[2]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
The first couple of images show the milky way pretty much as it actually appears from a suitably dark location. Maybe just a bit brighter and more contrasty than I recall, but I'm sure there are many here who see it almost nightly and can speak to that better. Just saying, it doesn't look grossly exaggerated to me.
That's a large and complicated question. To a first approximation: if people aren't smart enough to figure out if they need to do that and how to do that, then my country's future is already in a tailspin because my country is a representative democracy and a minimal amount of collective intelligence and savvy is necessary to maintain such a system of government (hence, the public schools).
The parent post said:

> a third-party candidate doesn't spoil an election, because your second-place vote will still count. (E.g. Nader wouldn't have taken votes from Gore, so Gore would have won instead of Bush.)

I was just trying to point out that this isn't always true. Instant Runoff Voting can eliminate the centrist, the best compromise candidate, first.

If we adopt IRV and third-parties grow, then we move into territory where IRV gets some elections obviously wrong. It has happened.
I'm familiar with it. What / how specifically?

Note that taking national possession of an entire island need not necessarily displace all, or even any, prior / traditional land claims or rights.

My interest at this point is more in suggesting possible places to look than in claiming "this is definitely where that is the case".
Isn't that what the "limited by the laws of physics" mean? Worldwide climate engineering is within that envelope.
Minor correction: Nvidia GPUs on POWER9 are connected using NVLink, which shares its physical layer with OpenCAPI, and like OpenCAPI is cache-coherent, etc, but uses a different data link and transport layer protocol.

(I'm one of the OpenCAPI Linux kernel driver maintainers)
This is an ideological statement, which I do not believe is based in reality.

There have always been 'meta causes' of various kinds, and they didn't create billionaires.

If there were something very specific about the sector that created such conditions one might be inclined to agree, but I'm doubtful.

'Climate Change' is like 'AI' in that it will affect everyone, everywhere, in every industry, but there might very well be very few 'AI companies' that are huge, in much the same way there may be very few 'climate change' specific companies.

Consider that the 'climate change' movement is well afoot and has been for quite a long time ... and where are the billionaires?

Oil rights can be acquired at some scale, solar and wind, not really.

If someone advanced some nuclear tech, lobbied to get approval to build a lot of cookie-cutter plants built around America, had major subsidies, huge protective moats (i.e. $10B entry point to get in the game) tons of IP and know-how - like the 'Space X' of Nuclear - then maybe we could see a billionaire there.

But I don't see any companies or entities on the horizon, or on the theoretical horizon that would validate this claim.
I think people might think it's true because the 'want to believe it's true' but that doesn't make it true or even more likely.

That said ... it's probably a 'promising area' to work in.
At the moment many corporates are just automating the incoming invoice process. However, many processes are document (any kind of digital file) based to share information between departments, vendors or customers. Many processes could be automated. To identify a business case for automation worth coding such an application or offer an API we use three main KPI to identify processe worth automating it:

- more than 10 documents per day on year average, e.g a bank will receive new annual reports only in some calendar months but in massive scale

- average number of pages or lines of text per document, the longer the document the more mistakes will be made by humans, as they don't have the time to read everything in detail

- average pay of the FTE who is able to understand and process the document manually should be higher than the average pay of all employees in the company, to make sure the documents encapsulate business value

It's not a fixed set of KPI but helps us to sort out too narrow use cases.

By we I refer to the team behind my startup Konfuzio:

http://www.konfuzio.com/en/
Scientists propose a new way to build a scalable, low-energy Bitcoin
It's more likely those IPs were blocked manually due to vandalism. If you set up a VPN server on a VPS with a static IP, you shouldn't run into that problem.
Think of it this way, chefs knives are legal. Murder is not. If you work in my restaurant, you can use the chefs knives to make food. You can't use them to kill people. If you do, you will be prosecuted.
Whatever is needed. At this point in time, it would be areas like clean energy for the whole planet, digitizing governance, helping people keep fit and healthy, growing nutritious food, population control, conserving forests and staying out of the way of mother nature.
Google Docs Link Crashes Google Chrome
Adding text here so HN doesn't turn this into a direct link. Crashes Chrome 77 on my Mac and PC.

http://docs.google.com//
It begs the question, which tech company ? - WeWork, Uber, Facebook ?
> Ride-hailing company forecasts reaching profitability by end of 2021

I think such jokes are meant to be reserved for a late night comedy show, not in a quarterly earnings call. Lyft has been chronically unprofitable since their IPO alongside with their dreadful earnings results in May and they are now racing with Uber to lose as much money as they can.

On the looks of it, I think I can see a crash on the horizon.
ARM isn't at 7nm, TSMC is. That's different from the PPC -> Intel transition at Apple 15 years ago: the tech is available to anybody who's willing to pay (while back then, Intel was 1-2 generations ahead of everybody else, and there was no indication that this would change).

The primary goal of a project like this is to prove the concept, and if 28nm NXP PPC chips are the sweet spot (enough performance for it to matter, unlike all those RISC-V micros; efficient enough to fit in a laptop without it working double-duty as a grill, unlike Power9 CPUs; cheap enough so that people are willing to risk it, unlike the otherwise fabulous TALOS workstation family) for that, that's not too bad.

In case this takes off, there can still be some entrepreneur who cooperates with IBM or NXP or whoever has an efficient Power implementation lying around and shrink it to the smallest process node they can afford, reusing this open hardware design, and send it off to TSMC. That option didn't really exist back in 2004.
Yes, otherwise even a laser beam that diverges slightly from being perfectly collimated would subtend a fraction of the night sky and thus contain a large number of galaxies.
A book to greatly add to your perspectives about large complex systems failing: Inviting Disaster

https://www.amazon.com/Inviting-Disaster-Lessons-Edge-Techno...
I don't see how this analogy is relevant. They aren't accused of killing people. They are accused of having apps that are used to monitor devices (as they said was for work and kids). Google does this as well as many other apps on the Play Store. Just because someone uses the app by to stalk someone by getting access and installing it on a user's device, won't prevent them from using another feature that already exists to do the same thing.
Children are getting raped and dying in American migrant concentration camps. Women are getting disappeared.
> Healthcare tech has been the "next big area" for the past 40 years. Maybe this time is different, but historically it never pans out.

How do you figure that it never pans out? Healthcare providers use a lot more technology today than they did in 1979.

From medical devices to billing software to electronic health records, I think this is an area that will continue to grow.
You absolutely can! Credit all you want, I'm fine either way (although validation of ideas through HN could give more weight to your post indeed).

As for the blog, I'd rather do it once and for all (I have a cleaner / LTS mindset), so that will require a little planning (e.g. domain and URLs, as I hate dead links with a passion). I just don't have the time now, hopefully before year's end. So don't wait on me!

And thank you so much for the interest. It may be pride but I'm very grateful. Have a great one!
> They paid for those incredible fight scenes with interminable shots

Almost literally, since the still shots happened after the budget was cut.
Yes, it was mind blowing to me to learn that, because the night sky is dark, the universe can’t be both infinitely old and infinitely sized. I’ve heard some nuances there too... we could be living in a finite pocket of an infinite universe.
> Monty Python's pratfalls aren't funny

Does the guy running behind Graham Chapham in the Holy Grail knocking two coconut halves together to mimic a horse count?
I am shocked by how low Boston ranks and how well Austin does (note: I have worked on both but live and prefer it in the Bay Area). I know patents are being used as a proxy so are an imperfect standard but Austin isn't a huge place and Boston really is a powerhouse.

I'm also surprised, though less so, by NY's ranking -- but it's a huge diverse economy, plus has a lot of lawyers :-).
May I posit this is because you are rarely in situations where you feel your gender is pronounced? If you were, say, a man applying for a job as a general hospital nurse, you would feel this, or as a heterosexual hairstylist applying for a salon job. There are stereotypes you would feel pressure to justify why you, who do not fit the stereotype, would be a beneficial person to hire, in such cases.
Simply layers obscurity, it would be harder to subpoena multiple companies than a single vpn service. (Plus you "own" the vps and can quickly delete or create new services whenever) Before you browse, create a new vpn box, browse..., then delete the box after use. What logs, what box?
Modifiers get lost on online orders very regularly, too, as I've learned from the sheer number of Uber Eats orders I've placed where my request for "no bun" or "no bread" gets ignored.
> For example, the Rust extension in VSCode gives me an inline button next to any function that's annotated as a test, which I can click to run that test

Not an ideal example. The rust-vim plugin supports the same feature (though, naturally via keys instead of mouse).

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim
>Isn't that what the "limited by the laws of physics" mean? Worldwide climate engineering is within that envelope.

"Limited by the laws of physicals" implies only physical laws are the limitation.

Whereas my response was more about being more limited (due to complexity, lack of resources, etc). So response was about a possible way lower envelope. I.e. not necessarily much more advanced than we are today, with diminishing advances in various areas.

So no "worldwide climate engineering" (except the clumsy stuff we already have), and no personal robot assistance of sci-fi style...
Hey, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here? and especially not personal swipes? We're trying for a bit better than internet default and need everyone to pitch in in order to keep the site interesting for all of us.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Right. Like putting aside everything else, 28nm in 2019 going into 2020? Go ARM or Ryzen.
Surely democracy is an incentive to improve.
I am!
I am looking for third co-founder, ideally someone interested in the game industry, who could take the role of CTO. Not making a game,ha.

There's one other technical co-founder who has been working on our mobile software. Located in Chicago, but would like someone in the Bay Area. I will likely be flying there this November if you want to meet up.

Here's my email: sauzciok@outlook.com

Thanks!
Why is the Vatican opposed to IVF? Is it general, or situational?
That is a very good idea, thanks so much for suggesting it! I'll definitely do that. Funny to think I might have years worth of posts ready that way.
Is there a list of these somewhere that's maintained?
Not too far off. He wanted to become prime minister of Israel, but these days he wants to be "president of the world" [1].

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/wework-ceo-adam-neumann-wants-...
Los Angeles, sysadmin, looking to collaborate on decentralized social media for the public good. you can PM me on reddit with the same username.
I've long been fascinated by this space. From the farm ERP system / IoT, autonomous vehicles in ag, to vertical farms, hydroponics, aquaponics, etc. I'd love to learn more about what you are doing.
Thank you for sharing these stats. They really seem significant!
Nope. Cast a ray out in some directions and it might travel to the infinite future, thanks to the metric expansion of space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

Most photons emitted from within our solar system are liable to collide with dust or gas eventually, most likely in the interstellar medium of our galaxy. Only a tiny fraction will collide with stars in our galaxy. The rest of our galaxy cluster covers a small solid angle of the skies of any of the bodies in our solar system. Finally, the small minority of photons that escape our galaxy cluster without being absorbed are most likely to stretch to arbitrarily long wavelengths and vanish from practical physical detectability well before the infinite future. It is vanishingly unlikely for an individual photon to couple to a lightlike geodesic that intersects a star at more than a few billion light-years.

For experts, there is some meat in §§1-2 of these lecture notes: http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~chirata/ph217/lec02.pdf
I was getting some weird notifications about "kms: server misbehaving". No production impact so far, fingers crossed.
Rich people have their own cars and drivers and don't take taxis. Normal people like you and I take taxis.
Former employee of former McKinsey employees. Grandparent point stands: McKinsey seems to offer little to no value that isn't already known and easy to communicate.

I will say though that McKinsey alums I know seem to be better at playing corporate politics than the average, which can be a skill when married with technical acumen.
Anyone has insights how power usage compares to safari? I’m team safari for the past years because it’s just so much easier on the battery than anything else
Cheques exist in Ireland to this day, e.g. see https://personalbanking.bankofireland.com/campaigns/bank-of-....

Or, from https://www.permanenttsb.ie/legal-information/terms-and-cond...:

Taxes and Additional Costs
1. Government Stamp Duty will be charged to your account for each cheque book issued to you (currently €20 per cheque book of 40 cheques).
...
etc.