skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just go read stories from the UK Eurosceptic press over the decades. They've been digging up stories of EU corruption since forever. The only reason the UK is seen as "weird" by people in other EU states is because the press is ideologically loyal to the EU institutions throughout most of the world and doesn't report on or investigate this stuff. But in the UK they do (to some extent).

Even look at this story. The NYT really wanted to go digging for dirt on Orban and Hungarian society in general, Orban being famous mostly for resisting EU integration and resettlement efforts, and being notoriously unpopular in Brussels. But they found they couldn't because the EU lacks even very basic levels of openness. You aren't going to read about EU corruption from them, that's for sure - the fact that they only just noticed this says they've been turning a blind eye for years.

For instance, go look at the stories in the UK about farmers being paid to not breed pigs. I'd like to get paid to not breed pigs! I think I'd be good at it!
I Escaped the Superclusters
This is a place where carbon capture and storage would be a natural fit. Seriously.

Cement is but one example of industrial processes that inherently release large amounts of CO2 even if we were to go 100% renewable energy-wise. Applying carbon-capture technology to cement plants would be a way to actually bring their emissions down to zero regardless. Capturing CO2 directly from such CO2-intensive processes would certainly give way more bang for the buck than trying to capture CO2 out of thin air, as many seems to be placing their hopes on these days.

And this is not theoretical. At least here in Norway, it is already being done at one cement plant: https://www.norcem.no/en/CCS
PostgreSQL v12 initial query performance impressions
> But as YC’s success indicates, there have been many hypothetical billion-dollar companies that didn’t come into existence because the founders never got the right introductions. Your takeaway from this should be that if you’re very ambitious, the biggest risk you can take is to be a loner.

How can you possibly know that?
This isn't true for antidepressants, at least. Yes, each new generation has been oversold while it's in patent. But the efficacy of newer drugs has actually been very similar and the side effect profile generally better. Consequently, the NHS recommends SSRIs as first line treatment even though they have no conceivable profit-based reason for doing so:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg90

The most significant clinical problem with antidepressant use is, as the NICE guidance makes clear, that different patients respond differently (or not at all) to different drugs, probably because depression is a constellation of conditions rather than a single disease. I can't speak to other mental health conditions (because I don't have them and don't follow the science at all carefully) but we're a long way from knowing all the causes of depression, let alone knowing how to treat it reliably in all patients.
Yes. That way I can install apps on five computers, I do not have to keep a list and go lookin for them, because they are in one place, and I get regular updates.
What datastore – Thoughts on choosing the right one
Well, in my case it makes sense, I think: I host my server at home, and have a dynamic IPv4. I don't know when it could change, so I just set the TTL to something low.

Since the traffic is low, though, I can afford to check for an IP change every ~5min, and although I set a TTL of ~15min on most services, the main CNAME (ovh-provided dynamic dns service, TTL set by them) is set to 60s.

My IPv6 record was set to 1h, but I'll look into increasing it. It is true that my mobile phone often pings my server, so I imagine that it could reduce the battery usage.
Sad to see how putting effort to learn is considered "elitist".
Discover Dazzling Dubai by Yacht Charter – Carmen Edelson
Hmmm... I wonder if they were like audition pieces for army blacksmiths or maybe from a school of them, e.g. "Okay, you're good enough if you can make one of these things."

Might explain why there are a lot of them, and all so seemingly different...
We also developed a product that collects the user event data via SDKs (https://github.com/rakam-io/rakam), depending on the data volume the users pick one of the two deployment types. The first one is based on Postgresql 11 and it takes advantage of partitioned tables (one table for each event time for the configured time period such as month, week, etc.), BRIN indexes, and materialized views.

It's capable of handling 250M events per month without an issue but beyond that we suggest the users to use data-warehouse that supports horizontal scaling and columnar storage engine so we use Snowflake with Snowpipe, Kinesis or Kafka (pluggable) and S3.

I have also tried using Clickhouse which is much cheaper but it lacks tooling for automatic scaling.
Thanks for the link, those books look really interesting.
The real "threat" is more and more people, companies, and institutions caving in to pressure to take more explicit national-boundary stances.
https://www.kevan.tv/projects/doodles/

No JavaScript or logins needed here...
You can use the go implementation of wireguard (wireguard-go). This way you don't need a kernel module. Works for me on a really cheap OpenVZ VPS since months.
If you’re an older person who grew up in, say, the 1940s, is “company wants to be paid in scrip purchased at local store” really weirder than “instant social interaction worldwide via a small handheld piece of glass”?

In other words, the world is new and different to some people. What’s obviously “gaming” to you is not necessarily clear to others.
I never thought I'd see this level of xenophobia becoming widely acceptable in the United States. For everything educated Americans loathe about Trump, the one thing they've taken on board from him is fear of the Yellow Peril - which is probably the most dangerous aspect of his Presidency.
I just wanted to give a shout out both the OP for posting this, and other users here for providing alternatives like http://perdu.com/ or http://example.com! It made my day (currently on ICE in Germany, and WiFi portal came up instantly like a charm)!.
I doubt about the mainstream sustainability of it, if considered with mega structures.

Currently, more high-rise building are built then past. The base of building requires high-rigidness and compressible strength which is fulfilled by traditional concrete. But if we replace it with some flexible substance[ideally only at higher loads], It will start bending when traditional concrete would perform easily. moreover it will also affect all the application which are based on rigidness of concrete, eg, Floor tile/stone will crack open, furniture will break, your plumbing will bend etc.

so, much more research is needed. and possible whole other way of construction process has to be created to sustain new challenges.
Sibling comment has the info. This is not an increase in energy efficiency just conversion efficiency. You pump in more amperes over the same voltage and manage to split twice the amount of water with the same size array. Still great thou. Anything that reduces the infrastructure needs to produce H2 is a good thing.
Going Multi-Regional in Google Cloud Platform
Kafdrop – An open-source Kafka web UI
Mozilla recently published a good write up on why they started using these undocumented CALayer API's in Firefox 69. The TLDR is that that these private API's allowed them to get up to 3x better battery usage in Firefox. The article also mentions that Chrome uses these same Core Animation API's.

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
Aramco Launches IPO with Crown Prince’s Economic Vision at Stake
The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray): https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22

He recently cracked the 1 million subscribers line but I think he is worth mentioned. I love his Commodore Series, which is very informative if you into this stuff. Also he is a humble guy, no 'Like&Sub' and other stupid catch-phrase, just good informative content with heart and soul.

Nybbles and Bytes (June): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hnwmds9vAIJICAieAUEZA

Making tutorials on 6502 programming and Assembler Basics. It's a little bit dry to watch, but still very informative. If you want to learn the basics of computer programming.
Ask HN: Is using Google Analytics on your personal site compliant with GDPR?
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if using GA on my site without using the now pervasive "Cookie alert" pop up could be prosecutable under GDPR.

I've search on the interwebs and the only thing I can find is legalese that I could not understand.

Can someone assist?
Gitlabs actions affect Russians(people) and not Russia(gov).

Their motivation, should they apply it to UK, US, Spain and France, should lead them to forbid having employees from those countries as well.

As a Swede, I would not like my gitlab sensitive data to be in the hands of US gov.

If you really believe national security agencies do not apply pressure to any tech employees just because they are X citizens of their X country - you need to mature a little bit more, perhaps read Snowdens book and look into what happened with Wikileaks.
This put into words something which to me is very unsettling about the latest DNS developments.

"The Internet has been changed irrevocably from being a tool that allows computers to communicate to a tool that allows enterprises to deploy tools that are intended to monetise users in a highly efficient and effective manner."
Anyone care to explain why, in the presented example, the resource www.forum.example/moderators/header.css is accessible to anyone and not only to clients with moderator access?
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How do you deal with writing operations in this approach?
It seems remarkably low, especially since it's supposedly the victims reporting to the FBI "some sort of phishing scam", (just phone scams, or including email etc?) "A whopping 26,379 people."

Australians are expected to report over $532 million (AUD) in losses in 2019: https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/record-losses-expected-as-...
They are not crazy.

They never changed from being slave-masters, imperialists, colonialists and racists.

Its the same elite class which holds power today in US and UK with direct lineage from slave-masters and imperialists.
What i find confusing... is I use the subscription service from Roku (trial). I kind of like that new Morning Show show, and then I wanted to see what else they had to offer on their streaming service but everything is mixed w/ 3rd party crap that's like $2/episode or something.

I just want free stuff/included stuff. I login to prime/netflix I know where to go to get all the included stuff. on Apple+ via Roku it's confusing as fuck. I think it's meant to be so I dish out cash to watch stuff. But that's not going to happen, instead I'll get pissed off and get rid of the service.
I really like the idea of life time purchases rather than subscriptions.

To minimize the risk that your site goes down (or is economically unstable at some point in time), you could consider making this a paid downloadable app.
Some tools allow for a full-page PDF (the whole page as a long, continuous PDF)
> What people use in those sitations is Anycast.

This requires that you blow a publicly-advertisable prefix for every unique combination of services you would want to fail-over.

E.g., if you wanted to be able to have independent fail-over between your customer-facing self-service portal and your webmail interface (each relying on specific state that you can't replicate synchronously, and can't guarantee replicate consistently with each other), you would need to /24s, one dedicated to anycast for the webmail interface, one for the self-service portal, and separate from any services which are active-active.

Whereas using DNS, you could use your other existing public /24s that you are already using for your active-active services.

In the last days of IPv4, an extra 2 /24s just for this is quite an expense.
The victims are overwhelmingly elderly. Are they experiencing normal cognitive decline, is it a brain disease, or were they always like this?

You have to be astonishingly ignorant of how the world works to fall for this stuff. What does this say about their ability to participate in an election? They’re eligible to vote, but it seems like even a 12 year old would run circles around them mentally.
What is the point of separating the macOS, iOS and tvOS apps into three? I think it unnecessarily complicates the thing. They are all mostly the same and only differ by the content they can play, which depends on third party support.

Case in point: once you have defined the three terms, you only use the striped one except at the very end to highlight one difference, which only depends on hardware.
Mothercare to place UK business into administration leaving 2,500 jobs at risk
For me it was interesting to notice how my gf uses "googling" for all search actions. Not only in the Internet, but also for all in-app search and filtering functions.
Fabrication of a low-cost and high-resolution papercraft smartphone spectrometer
This is often the case in society's reaction to problems of men and women, and the result is that there's 4 years (5%) life expectancy gap between the sexes.

And it's completely ignored while salary gap (where the discrepancy is the other way) is a hot topic for decades already.

It's ironic, that the response for male problems is "whatever, you're an adult, deal with it", and for female problems it's "we need to help you".
It's probably not a new idea, but it might be newly-relevant seeing as concrete is under the magnifying glass for its emissions as it's curing.

More expensive concrete might have become economically viable if it emits less greenhouse gas or if you need less of it. And if it's not currently economically viable it might still become viable in the future, prompting more research into it by companies hoping to have first-mover advantage.

That said I'm not a concrete expert. I don't know why this sort of concrete isn't currently being used, nor the relative pricing of it relative to ordinary concrete.
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I think it's more PR rather than propaganda. But I guess both are ultimately the same thing.

There is a pattern here where the top comment praises a corporation and the top response is an employee of the company thanking the commenter for the praise.
In China, every day is Kristallnacht
The synthesizer world is a strange one. I've been working in and around it for a few decades and noticed a few things.

First of all, the Germans are winning. The synth market would have fallen to pieces if there weren't so many German manufacturers making cool synthesizers. Americans play guitar, Germans prefer keys. This wouldn't be a problem except that most of the German synthesizers are physically designed by a single individual - and his horrid design choices have propagated throughout the industry. Such things as having knobs placed too close to each other, such that you can't grab one with thumb and forefinger without also disturbing another. Or having LED's that wash out the panel so you can't see anything under low light (stage) conditions. Or, endless menu's to scroll through. Or, you know, different brands looking altogether too similar, since their designs were copy/pasted from the same designer.

Another weird thing about this industry is that everyone thinks standards suck until they themselves invent one, and expect everyone else to comply with it. Synthesizers with, functionally, the same basic engine are nevertheless entirely incompatible with each other.

There are two kinds of synth user: players and tweakers.

Players want better factory presets and don't care about making great new sounds as long as they have their rhodes and DX mono bass and so on - tweakers throw away the factory presets and want a better editing interface. This would be fine, except there is a secondary market of 'consultants' who write all the factory presets for most synth manufacturers, and they don't want their territory encroached on by tweakers. So, they have a lot to say about how complicated the UI should be, in order to protect their business model, and this propagates throughout the whole design phase, such that most synth UI's are a dogs breakfast of 'conveniently left out editing features that are not necessary because everyone just uses presets anyway'.

Its a very interesting market to observe from a tech perspective. Musicians are a fickle lot - 2 million new musicians are made every year (school music programs) which means that even if your product is mediocre, the new market bodies don't know better - you can get away with producing mundane things in those conditions. Musicians spend on average $500/month on new music gear (until GAS wears out/they get married), which means there is always a new toy to play with, even if its all been done before, so many times over.
Population of Denmark is more or less the same since the 70s.

Since the 90s birth rate and death rate are almost exactly the same, no growth, no decrease.

The only growth has been due to immigration.

It has the same population of Italian Lazio, but on a 3 times bigger area.

Copenhagen, the capital, hosts 10% of the population, with a crazy 6.800 people per sq. km, 45x the average population density.

In contrast Lombardy in Italy, one of the most productive areas of the country, host 10 million people (1/6th or 17% of the Italian population) has 450 people per sq. km and Milan, the most productive city in Italy, has 2.000 people per sq. km.

They are divided in age groups that are almost of the same size https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/De...

These are all characteristics of village communities.

- Size of the Community:

communities are smaller in area than the urban communities. The second city of Denmark is 5 times smaller than Copenhagen, the 5th is 20 times smaller. Only the first 10 cities of Denmark have more than 50k inhabitants.

- Density of Population:

The density of population is low, except in the rare urban areas.

- Homogeneity of Population:

most of the people living in village communities are related (90% of the danish people have Danish parents), most of the non Danish population lives in Copenhagen.
Who’s this German provider and how do they compare in terms of pricing/features/UX to Fastmail?
Alternatives to gitlab:

https://gogs.io/

https://gitea.io/en-us/

https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/download

https://gitbucket.github.io/

https://kallithea-scm.org/
That's the EU loyalist line but look at the comments in this thread. Tons of people saying, yeah, old news, EU money is corrupt and distorting, why is this suddenly in the NYT? But notice how they're all people reporting personal experiences. They're not linking to investigative journalism. That's because journalists largely refuse to report on this kind of thing ... except in the UK where the EU is actually held to account by the press.

The EU routinely claims any criticism of itself is a lie, a myth, made up etc. But it's not the case.

The Commission actually had a huge blog dedicated to rebutting the "myths" as they put it, from the British press. But if you examine the posts you'll see many of them admit the stories were actually true. They aren't myths at all - that is itself a lie!

For instance:

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/the-european-developmen...

The attitude on display here sums up EU grant awards in a nutshell. A story about a wasteful grant to train trapeze artists in Africa (wtf) is described as "the press chose to ridicule circus artists and coconut production"! No, the press was ridiculing the EU. The rest of the answer to this "euromyth" is stating the funding did happen but it was all for a good cause so that's ok.

Or this one about agricultural grant budget going up and fraud levels being high.

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/cap-subsidies-are-they-...

The story is primarily about fraud, asking why the EU can't stop it. The Commission's response to this "euromyth" is that it's not their job to ensure the subsidies aren't gamed, which is hardly a rebuttal.
This is so smart. Common sense to the max! Sad I didn't think of it.
The "web" link Google loophole worked for me
cool, I think you're my first sub. It might just be you for now.

at least I won't be spamming you!
> I on the other hand think that splitting countries into allies and enemies is stupid. China is a huge country, and excluding a billion people from your company just because their government does questionable things sounds like a pretty bad idea.

There are only two ways left for China getting rid of its dictator government. The first one is flattening China with nuclear weapons (conventional war is impossible to win) which is obviously inacceptable, the second one is totally excluding China from any and all international trade.

The third way (trade brings democracy) has been disproven over the last decades. Even worse, the Chinese dicatorship has taken our weapon of free trade and turned it against us. Our domestic production of many goods has completely shifted to China, our failure to treat Africa decently instead of using it as dumping ground for excess food and clothing has led to China filling the investment void and to top it off China has been using our money to buy up our companies and leverage that to shut down democratic protest (think of the Blizzard fuckup).

China is an enemy and should be treated as such if the Western world wants to survive instead of turning a blind eye towards genocide (e.g. the Muslim Gulags).
Do I Need a Supercomputer?
iPad. The smaller ones are pen and ink, but Procreate and the Apple Pencil is such a good combination.
If I guy that got awfully rich by shuffling money around instead of actually producing anything of value gets scared, then I feel like perhaps the economy may get a bit more fair. Bring it on.
On many web applications, static files like CSS/JS files and non-user-generated images are not served by the application server, but directly from the filesystem. This conserves CPU resources and might also improve network throughput because one application less is involved in the path.
I really like the idea of using cross laminated timber (CLT) as a full replacement for concrete. It is a radical switch to use wood entirely, even for high-rise buildings, but it is possible, has many benefits, and a good environmental footprint.

https://axaxl.com/fast-fast-forward/articles/benefits-and-ri...
I have a feeling the same idiots that decided on "XS Max" for the iphone, came up with this naming scheme.

If you are at the point that your company is adding MAX to the end of its product names, your company is about to jump the shark (see Boeing).
If everyone would do it like that, the file would never be pulled from the CDN at all (since a cache miss pulls from the local src), therefore the try-shared attribute would never be useful.