skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s be real 30 seconds, while it’s possible to live in a foreign country without speaking the language, it’s inconvenient to do basic daily activity (ordering at a restaurant, opening a bank account, posting a letter, etc.) when knowing jack-shit about the local language. It’s also extremely hard to form a social circle.

I speak from experience. I’ve lived in a central Europe country where I cannot speak anything and it was annoying outside work; I felt like an idiot most of the time. Now I’m living in a country I can speak the language and I can interact with people, do complex things alone (moving home), and it’s way more nice to live like that.
I created and ran a website called jscompress.com for a number of years. In its peak time, I made around $350-500 per month on it, with no maintenance.

2013-2015: $350-$500 per month

2016+: ~$125 per month

I attribute most of this to the rise of ad blockers, which impacted me especially bad because it is a website targeted at developers.

I did a writeup on it and why I sold it: https://vancelucas.com/blog/selling-my-passive-income-stream...
The article seems somewhat unclear on that.

First it says:

Después de que un juez decidiese bloquear sus direcciones web, obligando a sus gestores a migrar dominios y buscar nuevo alojamiento, ahora ha sido GitHub, el servicio propiedad de Microsoft desde junio de 2018, el que ha acabado por bloquear el acceso al repositorio que alojaba la web y la aplicación de la plataforma desde España.

but then:

Pese a que el servicio de 'software' libre estaba entre los objetivos de las autoridades por dar cobijo a la plataforma independentista, fuentes de Microsoft España han confirmado a Teknautas que ellos no han recibido ninguna petición por parte de las fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado para cerrar los repositorios de Tsunami por lo que la decisión se ha tomado a nivel internacional.

I'm not sure exactly what legal obligation Github actually had.
It does not work this way since Google started to rely on behavioral metrics of content, not just keywords. Useful articles that people read and refer to frequently, go up, junk goes down. So creating articles with only aim to sell something is the sure fire way to anger people and waste your money. Content marketing nowadays is about producing quality content IN HOPE that it will help to sell your product.
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At least in the US, we would also need extensive regulations and caps on the cost of products. As a commonly cited example, when Pell Grants (Federal student subsidies) were increased to adjust for inflation and costs of living somewhat recently, average costs of tuition went up by about the same amount across nearly all colleges.

This is a classic move in our economy: 1) product or service slowly becomes more expensive relative to income, 2) a subsidy that was supposed to go to the bottom tier to help even the playing field but is now used by more and more people due to 1 adjusts it's payout to return to it's planned effectiveness, then 3) product or service operator notices that consumers have more available money and adjusts their cost upwards.

Similar effects have been observed in more nuanced ways, like the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables being higher than boxed and processed foods, so low income food subsidy programs bump their monetary payouts to encourage purchasing of fresh foods, and some boxed or processed foods have a statistically unusual bump in retail prices in the area. This is the kind of bullshit that really starts to make me think that the USA needs a secondary monetary system (not bitcoin/blockchain, and not Dollar based) to be used for redemption of welfare and entitlement benefits which would make it impossible to track between something like an increase in food stamp benefits and monetary compensation for the use of those benefits. I'm cool with Kraft thinking that Velveeta cheese "product" needs to be more expensive in our magical capatalistic society, I'm just not cool with them thinking that only because the lowest income shoppers suddenly have 5 more cents in their account every month.
If they don't have any money to spend on infrastructure, then what have they been using to pay dividends to investors?
Any FOIA experts here? I wonder why FOIAs aren't posted online for all to see and are instead just sent to the requestor? It seems lots of people are interested in the same information -- and once it's been vetted, putting all those (let's say) emails into one giant searchable database seems like it'd be in the public interest.

I'm sure there are both legal obstacles and practical ones. I'm just curious what those obstacles are.
This is the state of their issue tracker at the moment:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...
I'm currently running some at Vultr and BuyVM. You should hedge your sentinels on different providers as a standard procedure as well.
"Recently on a cruise ship I found my SSH access blocked."

...

"And HTTP proxies were blocked too."

What would the possible rationale for this be ? I can understand these being blocked in, say, a non-western hotel inside mainland China ... or in a .gov lobby ... or ... ?

But on a cruise ship - the maintainers of that network must know that guests on the ship might have remote work to do - or just workflows that involve something beyond "the web".

Further, the bandwidth generated by web usage typically dwarfs bandwidth usage over VPNs or actual SSH ...

What are they thinking ?
I don't get the disconnect here. I _am_ talking about the demand curve. The demand for private ownership of housing is driven in many respects by the ability to take out a mortgage loan. This kind of low interest easy to get loan exists for no other type of asset, and is unique to housing, and is in large part a product of macroeconomic state policy. These types of loans are backed in many countries by government insurance. So they are in effect a kind of macroeconomic planning by the state.

So it should be no surprise that in countries where the state effectively encourages private home ownership through favourable loans that the demand for private homes is high enough to drive prices high.

Obviously there is the supply side to this. I think in some regions, especially the badly planned sprawl that is Silicon Valley, restrictions on density and supply are really a big part of the problem. But it doesn't explain it everywhere. There are regions where construction and density are not similarly restricted that still have high, unaffordable home prices, because demand for single family homes is effectively stimulated by economic policy.
There's a pull request to reverse it: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/pull/8
Alternatively, by that time we might have electric air taxis...
I didn't buy, read, or put forth any effort whatsoever, but let me pontificate on why you're wrong.

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What went right, the way Elon, explained, was that they are a private company that isn't set up to profit from long term government counteracts. For them, it's sink or swim. So they swim.
He explained that others are set up to take a long time because they never want the contracts to run out, to keep getting money.

Also his system strategy is : the best design to use is one that doesn't require the design in the first place. Ie get rid of many systems. Keep it simple. Less can go wrong, and the schedule is reduced. "Tight is right. Long is wrong".
He did a great talk last month.

You guys might like a video I'm releasing on Halloween, "the actual, physical, reason why time slows at the speed of light". My channel is "TheRainHarvester". Stay tuned...
If I remember correctly, Wirth mentioned the moon Oberon and the fact that the name starts with an "O" (like "object oriented") as the source for the name of his programming language.
The Raptor engine is an even bigger deal because it actually flew. Still not ready, but it is well past the "paper rocket" stage.
This is the point. If you don't use the additional info somehow -- like eating or exercising differently based on info like BG fingersticks -- merely adding more info achieves zero.

That should be the takeaway lesson from this study. Just because some people stuck their fingers and gathered BG numbers three times a day does not mean they acted on that info to change their health. Until health pros make this clear to patients, that they need to actually use this info to adapt their lifestyle on a daily basis, there's simply no point in gathering daily info like this. And certainly not at a frequency of 3 or 4 times a day.

Once you've dialed in your lifestyle into regular eating and exercise habits, repeatedly gathering daily numbers is redundant overkill. Gathering BG numbers no more than one day a week should suffice, just to confirm you remain homeostatic.

Gathering info, by itself, changes nothing.

(BTW, I've had T2D for 15 years now. So I've walked the walk.)
If we had an order of magnitude more electrical power and no greenhouse emissions from it we could do quite a lot. Desalination is a really big one. Chemical batteries won’t get us there, but pumped storage is an interesting avenue. I personally am a fan of fusion. The numbers check out with first gen power plants costing about 50% more per energy unit than fission/fossil.
> A lot of the performance increases of the U8-series come thanks to the increased frequencies capabilities which are 1.4x higher this generation, with the core scaling up to 2.6GHz on 7nm.

Pretty cool that these chips are approaching performance parity so quickly.
Ultimately, at least 10 miles out to sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0

(And to make this fast enough, probably want those electric seaplane taxis that Harbour Air is getting.)
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The path taken in the 1950s for spaceflight was dictated by its funding source -- missile development. Missiles were optimized for high performance and were single use devices.

Even when dedicated non-military rockets began to appear, e.g. the Ariane range and the Space Shuttle, they had dependencies on legacy infrastructure that was originally designed for strategic weapons (i.e. it was intended to work at peak performance, just once). The payloads evolved to reflect the launch system constraints, so very expensive, one-of-a-kind comsats and earth resources satellites, each of them a bespoke design (or at most one of a dozen or so).

SpaceX isn't building missiles; it's optimizing for reliability and cost (which means reusability). More like airliners than missiles. This doesn't mean low performance (the efficiency and power density of a modern civil airliner turbofan would have been a jaw-dropper to 1940s military aviation engineers) but it does mean the performance goals are different.

I am still extremely skeptical that Heavy/Starship will facilitate a Mars colony ... but that's because I'm skeptical about the economics and practicalities of building an off-planet colony when the externalities we normally take for granted (like a compatible biosphere) aren't available and nobody's really done the necessary R&D work on self-contained biospheres -- even the ISS is effectively an open-loop system dependent on constant resupply. (Biology and ecology are much harder than they look to a naive outsider.)
They are doing controlled burns. It's just a long process: https://e360.yale.edu/features/fighting-fire-with-fire-calif...

Wildfires are a complex problem—there is no one entity we can point our fingers at to blame—and most of the replies in this thread are failing to acknowledge this. Here is a Twitter thread about the issue that does a good job getting into the complexity of the problem: https://twitter.com/frkearns/status/1188912491620732929
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> I'll start: late 20s, ~500k depending on the day and market fluctuations.

I'm curious to know the story.
It hasn't even flown yet. How can you compare an unproven rocket to a Boeing 747, which has millions of hours of proven flight hours on it with something that has none? I realize that the 747 has had failures over the time too, but I'd happily get on a Boeing 747 but would not get on a Spaceship until it's been flown several, if not 100's of times (without incident, as can be said for the 747).
I've been working remotely as a contractor (low-level mobile and platform embedded development) for over two years now. I find that engaging in sports activities regularly in a group setting helps with mental well-being. Diversifying work locations also helps. My preferred places are the public library, and a local coffee shop.
I am very bear-ish on biotech. These are not systems we humans have built from the ground up. Computers are built by humans from the ground up: literally every aspect of a computer is deterministic and documented. And yet even computers can throw up surprises to programmers on a pretty regular basis.

The idea that our understanding of molecular biology is as mature and stable as our understanding of the field effect transistor was in the 1950s is frankly laughable. I predict many many investors getting burnt by biotech, as well as some pretty nasty externalities if regulators buy the hype.

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When they did work, WSDLs were pretty slick.

Technically, there are REST/JSON equivalents, but I don't see them actually used much in the wild - so much of the time with REST APIs you are stuck with whatever half-baked, out-of-date documentation that somebody may or may not have written, or just randomly poking at it through trial and error to discover how it works.
I feel that's a bit naive: many people do not own their homes outright and are leveraged as a result of their mortgage loans.

Say I own 50% of the equity in a home valued at $1M today, and I want to move into a new home valued at $1.5M.

I sell my current home, and I realize enough cash ($0.5M) to cover a 33% down-payment on the new home. Assuming I have the cash flow to satisfy the lender I can pay the mortgage, I can make the move.

But assume all property decreases in value by half. Now when I come to sell my home I only get back enough to repay the mortgage and I have nothing to fund a down-payment on the new home.

Even though the difference in price between the homes halved, I can no longer afford the move.
We’ve spent the last 15 years building better sewer systems all over Denmark in preparation for the increase in heavy rain falls due to climate change. We weren’t fast enough everywhere because the predictions proved conservative. Over all though it’s been a pretty big success.
Funny thing about enterprise companies. The proxy was implemented and some developers started using it, then they hardcoded things into the applications.

I was not privy to all of the network setup but suffice to say the security team ok'd removing the proxy but doing so broke the application. They left everything in place and told everyone who was an admin and needed outside to use corkscrew.

As a note you can prevent corkscrew from getting out a proxy if you desire.
Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted.
The US government won't allow that to happen. Its a national security risk to have only one launch provider available.
After the Space Shuttle, a full-envelope launch abort system has been a hard requirement of NASA for human flight. SpaceX's Crew Dragon has such a system; if SpaceX wants to fly NASA astronauts on Starship they'll have to add one.
This is the first sentence of the wikipedia article linked in the comment you responded to: .sh is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Helena
But you've been in a warming trend for millennia in Western Europe -- the Danube and Rhine used to freeze over in the time of Tacitus.
> every mile of power line that’s been shut off needs to be inspected visually, by foot or vehicle or air. [...] The work can’t be done in the dark.

Can a sense current be run through the idle lines, to detect ground faults before going back to full power?
Slightly unrelated, but first author on this paper is Scott Kulp, an acquaintance and fellow ACM member from my undergrad days, and above and beyond one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life. As in, double majored in Math and Comp Sci in undergrad, completing it in three years while looking dreadfully bored in every lecture we had together, smart.
your total capacity "watts" number doesnt match your description (?)
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> Are you saying that they didn't neglect preventive maintenance while returning billions to shareholders in dividends?

While that’s literally true, it falsely implies that the former is related to the latter.

See: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUC_Public_Website/Co... (page 18)

“The CPUC sets rates according to the following formula:

Revenue Requirements = O&M + Taxes + Depreciation + Rate Base * r - OR

Where:
O&M = normal business expenses for running a utility company,

Taxes = Federal, state and local taxes,

Depreciation = accumulated depreciation of plants used to produce and deliver the utility’s product,

Rate Base = net value of plant in service plus working capital, r = rate of return on invested capital, and

OR = other operating revenue.”

When you pay $100 on your electric bill, part of that goes to operations and maintenance. If PG&E cuts that line item, it’s profits don’t go up. It’s profits are a separate line item calculated as a percentage of its invested capital. That’s where the dividends come from. Indeed, if PG&E can enhance fire safety through capital investments, such as by replacing worn out equipment, and the CPUC lets them make those investments, then PG&E’s profit would go up.

PG&E can’t pay out more in dividends by shortchanging operations and maintenance.
Increasing the wealth of a nation doesn't mean increasing the wealth of everyone in that nation. A nation can distribute those gains in wealth and power in a way that provides no utility to many of its citizens.

Trade has made nations richer. Economists were not wrong about this. What many were wrong about is the thesis that the social & market structures in developed, "stable" democracies would ensure that those gains eventually improved the utility of everyone—the proverbial "rising tide that lifts all boats."

The standard claim is that markets may not immediately fix issues, but over time they will converge on an efficient distribution of resources.

Yes, this is a late reply.
I am happy to be proven wrong. What does Modula-3 have to do with the subject:

Oberon (Operating System)
You don't ~need~ social media, per se. I've made a decent living not relying on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. I hear about good jobs the old fashion way: Through in-person connections.

If anything, email is my social media.
For Audio? Presonus, as it is first-rate under Linux - it just plain works (at least in Ubuntu Studio). Also have other ADDA's too, such as RME .. same result: just works under Linux. Best latency stats of any DAW setup.
I ran ads for over a year and was suddenly banned on YouTube with less than a dollar accumulated in my account.
My very backseat driver feeling is a Starship is lower complexity?
I just became aware of this whole "powermod" phenomena where individual mods oversee many subs. Like 30+. I just recently learned about them but I guess they're sort of admins favorites since they essentially do their bidding while still looking like "part of the community". Totally feels like they're trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Could you summarise those paragraphs in English? I am basing my comment on the takedown notice posted on Github, which sounded like they did not have much of an option.

edit: based on the responses below that just says that Microsoft Spain didn't receive a request, not that Microsoft global didn't receive one. And otherwise, where would the request that Github published have come from?!
What mechanism could a Spanish court use to shut down an American multi-billion dollar company?

At worst, it could get GitHub blocked in Spain, or a local Microsoft office might get a stern look or two before Spain renews its Office 365 contract or whatever.
Or you do it like Pieter Levels with RemoteOK/Nomadlist and simply say: these are traffic stats for my website, you can buy a listing or ad space here, it’s going to cost X. Here is a Stripe pay button if you want. If you post shitty ads that violate what I have in mind with my website, I will ban you forever.
AIUI Docker containers by default deny the ptrace syscall (and presumably process_vm_readv/writev), they don't change the permission check. So /proc/$pid/mem, which uses the same permission check, ought to work.

(This also means that you don't want or need CAP_SYS_PTRACE to get gdb/strace working in Docker, that lets you ptrace anything and also coincidentally turns off the syscall filter. Just turn the filter off, that works without privileging the processes in the container.)
Ugh. We've heard all of this before for decades. Yes, progress is being rapidly made on understanding biological processes, but with as many steps back as forward, as we realize there are entirely new categories of things that we didn't even know we don't know.

The hubris on display here is typical of tech VCs, who eventually believe their own hype. If it's hard for humans to comprehend, just rub some machine learning on it... ignore that we're finally realizing that machine learning's limitations are significant, but that we can only discover how wrong they can be on results that humans can double-check.

And the naive application of software engineering buzzwords like "modular" and "iterative" to drug development and biological processes is seriously dangerous. You don't want to move fast and break things when we're talking about human health and genetics.

This article is full of misleading claims and overstatements of reality. It's easy to make things sound great when you entirely ignore the reality of existing and potential technology, but of course I don't expect anything different from these folks.
16 trillion small, unsteerable, solar sails all sitting at the boundary between the Sun and Earth's gravitational influence. As light pressure pushes these things out of the L1 point they will all make their way to the Earth where they will enter the atmosphere and give up their gravitational potential as heat. Does their shading effect counter the fact that they will all give back some heat?
It's gonna happen over too long of a time horizon (from now, anyway) to profit handsomely off of. There are much better investments you can make today because they will pay off sooner.
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Can a country be called democratic if me and six friends are not allowed to draw a random border around a house and then vote to murder the residents with only our votes counting because only those inside the arbitrary border we drew are allowed to vote?
Github will not be shutdown over any action they do or do not take in Spain. The worst that can happen to Github is that they are prevented from doing business in Spain. Given how strongly Spain has come down against freedom of expression on the Catalonia issue, Github is making it very clear by taking this action that freedom of expression is not one of their values. Let me repeat, Spain has come down hard enough against freedom of expression that I do not believe it is ethical for Github to continue operating in the country.

I highly value freedom of expression, and it is especially important to me that a code-hosting and (like it or not) a social media website holds to that value as well, and fights to preserve that freedom on their platform. This will definitely affect whether I choose Github or Microsoft in the future.