skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but if you have a good ISP already, there’s no privacy/security benefits to be had by using a VPN when surfing from home.

This is just not true. You cannot sign up for an ISP without disclosing at least your name and address. Many VPNs support complete anonymity.

It's a different middle man that--if you choose the right one--will absolutely know less about you.
Sure, but the allegation is that Griffith traveled to the DPRK at the behest of its government, not its people.
I think it's great slave farms in Southern Mordor, around the inland sea of Nurnen.
http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/n/nurn.php

(There may also have been farms in the East that I'm not remembering. The East was definitely under Sauron's thumb, although perhaps not so firmly as he would have liked.)
Does anyone know if they’ve provided any response on this?
Tesla has a proven track record of making safe cars (from a crash test perspective). They have shipped actual working products. Explain to me how this is like Theranos at all.
I think you mean "with more cores", not less.
Meta observation : It's really interesting to view these comments as a meta commentary on the tribes that Hacker News members affiliate themselves with.

Imagine that instead of being a hacker, Griffith was a financial expert, and instead of attending a Cryptocurrency conference, after consulting with the DOJ on whether or not he could travel to North Korea to teach the regime how to best invest it's money in financial instruments abroad, they told him that wasn't allowed and he went anyway.

Would he still seem as sympathetic? Would a lot of HN comments rise to his defense because he was a financial nerd instead of the sort of programming nerd that Hacker News readers identify themselves with?
Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy
+1 to this, not to mention being rather one-sided.

A quote "The regions of the brain that are active when someone is viewing porn are the same regions of the brain that are active while the person is actually having sex. Marco Iacoboni, a professor of psychiatry at University of California Los Angeles, speculates that these systems have the potential to spread violent behavior." in particular seems rather suspect since similar past speculation about a link between violence in gaming and violence in media and real-world violence seems to be generally understood as having been disproven for a while now.
"San Francisco real estate is very expensive"
Tesla cars don't have engine compartments, so pretty much everything forward of the driver is one giant crumple zone. I'd assume this to be true for the truck as well.
Different daemontools but same here.

The daemontools OP is talking about is also very useful, though.
Url changed from https://threader.app/thread/1200243842521415681, which points to this. (HN readers are divided on which format they like better, and the site guidelines call for original sources.)
I'm being super dramatic, even if it takes 1 hour the last thing I want is yet another server login floating around. If I were doing some serious stuff, I would do it, but I really use a VPN only when I'm at coffee shops and stuff to prevent random nonsense. I use a VPN to completely hide my tracks etc. With that said, I don't want my data to be sold to tensornet or whatever that crap company is called
That is in fact what I did. Set my hotspot to be the same as my house.

But the range won’t cover the whole house and then I can’t use the phone.
I don’t follow your analogy
In this case, this is aiding an enemy state to develop technology to launder money. This isn't the same as "you're not allowed to go to Africa and teach people how to build wells." Assisting an enemy state to financially support warfare capabilities, not to mention human rights violations beyond the scope of most people's imagination, absolutely should be a criminal act. And in this case, we have an example that demonstrates a level of hubris that is, to my mind, insane.

How a person can go to the DOJ to request permission, knowing that they NEED this permission because, without it, they are violating the law - to then flagrantly doing it anyway while POSTING IT ON TWITTER, is mind-dazzling to me.
They’re also making headway into the data center space. AWS has recently announced that compute dense instances will have an AMD powered version. They already have AMD offerings for GP and RAM dense instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-new-amd-powere...
I found that “rant” a bit scary.
How to find a list of companies by date of incorporation?
Anyone have any advice for finding companies that were founded in 1977 in the Bay Area?

Trying to do this for research purposes. Want to see the effects the microcomputer had on newly founded startups, among other things.
AMD has more cores available, but also AMD's cheaper 16-core beats Intel's 18-core in many tests.
The wording makes targetting useless.

But other questions came up.

Why do so many quit google after less than five years?

How does a company who's product is a push notification when someone clicks get funding?
Indeed! The elf on the shelf! Thanks again for your advice.
Most people would disagree because they don't want to live under the threat of being attacked by such weapons. If they don't want to live under such a threat, maybe they should stop threatening others rather than trying to limit the spread of information.
Looks like he neglected to read the "unless you publicize it on your own." part of that sentence.
Speculating here... but in my reading:

Fleck does not require a compiled executable to be installed.

As long as you have bash Fleck will work.
For scsh you have to have to install platform specific executable. If it is available in a particular distro, perhaps it is not that bad.

I write, these days, a lot of Ansible installation tools
For Multiple versions of (and almost bare) linux, freebsd, openbsd (and hopefully at some point for DragonFlyBSD).

Today, I have to write shell-specific scripts to do application-centric process management, application-centric backup preparation steps, health monitors, smoke tests and so on.

To minimize my work, I instruct Ansible to preinstall bash everywhere... and then I run the bash scripts.

But writing bash scripts is, well,... unsettling (hard to get used to primitive return values, lack of normal enumerated parameter passing and so on)

With Fleck (at least this is my reading), I will be able to install Fleck via Ansible and then write all the scripts in Scheme (which I much prefer compared to bash, zsh or anything else).

I guess, if, in the future, Fleck will help me to avoid worrying about Powershell, kornshell and so on -- I would be delighted.

Sort of like shell-vm on top of base shells :-)
It’s just plain ass-ugly, to my eyes. I grew up around pickups and owned one until it became a pita in a parking garage.

The VW Tarok concept truck is a far better looking pickup than the Tesla monstrosity. The Neuron T/One looks more futuristic and usable. The Lordstown Endurance looks more standard (and has a bloody expensive sounding name). The Atlis XT looks as conventional as it gets (but still way better than the Tesla).

I think the Tesla is going to be another Humvee, if it goes to market: more about wasted money and contrarian looks than being actually useful. A toy for the uselessly rich.
Z-wave/Zigbee are complicated but a necessary evil since wifi and batteries don't play well together.

You might want to look into https://github.com/OpenZWave/Zwave2Mqtt and other projects like it to give you the nice mqtt control over zwave.
The heat death is when the universe is in it's maximal information state.
Maybe not here. Ideology and thrill are canonically right up there with money as reasons people engage in espionage.
Do you actually think that Tesla's engineers aren't aware of crumple zones and car safety?
How are you going to access a completely anonymous VPN provider without a non-anonymous internet connection?

If your traffic is interesting enough, the money trail will eventually lead back to you.
AMD stock has been one of the most speculative stocks over the past ten years
And some companies that will modify the non-ICE cars to make more noise:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1180877114226008064

Though, the first time I hear a Tesla making the coconut noise from Monty Python I will no doubt laugh. The second time? Yeah, it'll get old fast.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21663539
I'd be very concerned about that glass. If your car has a collision and the doors jam, a firefighter can get you out of an ordinary vehicle by breaking the glass with a $5 tool. If the glass is shatterproof, they can still get you out but perhaps not before you burn to death.
Curious if you’ve ever owned a truck before or if this will be your first? I’ve seen a lot of articles saying that Tesla is great at bringing in new customers but that the truck drivers are notoriously resistant to change and much more brand loyal than typical car buyers.
Yeah, gee, gotta worry about this polygon design.

By the way, time to jump into my pathetic crumple sedan and share the road with 18 wheeler tractor trailers, massive fuel oil hauling tanker trucks, garbage trucks, armored cars, box trucks, military vehicles, reinforced cop cars, fire trucks, panel vans with ladders and assorted pipes strapped haphazardly to the roof.

But yeah, gee, look at that one autobody design that shall represent less than 1% of all accidents each year.
I’d reach out to the CA Sec of State: https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/contact-information/

It’s probably going to be a custom search.
In a lot of cases, it is more efficient to save state on the front end so you don't need to retrieve it each time on the back end.
For some people it's not an adrenaline rush but a strong curiousity about what the US gov doesn't want you to know. Like all the warnings I received about travel to East Germany even after the wall came down (I was working for a defense contractor at the time). Project security warned us that there would be spies hiding behind every bush.

When we got to Checkpoint Charlie there were just a few tourists milling about the small section of wall that remained, and an old German couple renting a hammer and chisel so you could chip off a piece of the wall yourself. When we spoke to the old couple they suddenly became alert and asked us, rather loudly, if we were Americans. Immediately, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a middle-aged woman sitting on a bench look up, and a young guy dart out of a doorway and start walking our way. We took the hammer and chisel and started chipping at the wall while keeping an eye on the locals nearby, who suddenly seemed very interested in us. An older man standing close to the wall reached into his pocket and pulled out a lighter but did not light the cigarette hanging from his mouth, an obvious signal to other members of his surveillance team.

When a German couple posing as tourists came up and asked us where we were from we recognized that they were obviously trying to recruit us to spy for the Eastern Bloc. But we were too clever, pretending that we were drunk and did not speak English, and meandered back to the train station with our chunk of the wall.
not the oc, but Karl Popper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztmvtKLuR7I
(You should add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction. Good luck!)
That's a last generation processor...their current generation is much more impressive. Twice as powerful than anything Intel has to offer at the SAME price as Intel.
Are you suicidal?
"Trump is skilled at being convincing"

Isn't that an odd thing to say, from a completely objective, dispassionate, and non-partisan perspective?

Perhaps it just seems obvious to me because I am familiar with the page on 538[1] where they track approval ratings in parallel with (I think) every other administration that was heavily polled.

Every other president has had their ups and downs, no matter how controversial or how partisan people were. But with this one, the percentages for and against seem practically set in stone at approximately the same ratio as the election. That seems to indicate he's convincing almost nobody who likes him or who dislikes him to change their minds.

[1]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
The Art of Not Getting Conned
Obligatory pedantry: "Angmar" was the name of the northern realm which the Lord of the Nazgul once ruled as the "Witch-King of Angmar". We don't know what his original name was, although I believe there's a reference to him being a Lord of Numenor somewhere. Tor.com recently had a nice overview of him:
https://www.tor.com/2019/10/31/exploring-the-people-of-middl...

The only canonically named Ringwraith was Khamul, the Witch-king's number two. (Roleplaying game company Iron Crown Enterprises once put out some nice but totally unofficial names for all the Nazgul.)
Thanks for the link. I love the book and have recommended to many friends, but also felt the lack of scientific sources somewhat disappointing.
A Conscious Pariah (2010)
Agreed, sorry. I wanted to add the archive link but felt like being snarky for some reason
Party like a spy: Spookstock is intel world’s hush-hush bash
I'd be interested to know how they handle remote controlling the HA instances. I spent a little bit of time trying to come up with a prototype hub running Home Assistant but kept coming back to the deployment and remote control problem - for instance the REST HTTP API would allow me to send commands in but then I'd need to do something like MQTT to get an event stream from the device. It ended up being too complicated for me to implement.
Also reported at https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/29/ethos-paid-1-135-billi...
If the ispes use dymanic ip assignments they have given an ip range to the bbc. Try a few proxies in the uk you might find a machine on the range.
Multiple impacts do degrade the performance but the calibre of bullet is also a factor. The video was using a .223 (5.56mm) which is pretty standard for AR15 derived assault rifles. A slightly larger 7.62mm round will have more force and might be able to penetrate the glass. Bigger rounds like .338 lapua or a .50 cal would have even more energy and be more likely to penetrate the glass, especially if it was weakened by previous impacts.
Tutorial showing how easy setting up a personal vpn is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSXpfd1JLw
OK, he can forget about parole...
I think the article's overall stride is not so much about how these things are represented in neuronal mapping per se, and more that we shouldn't apply the idea of computer mechanics to organisms.

Less load/process/store of absolute data and more like natural processes such as the process of erosion creating rivers. The analogy of the environment as a "lock" and organisms are just the most fit "keys" to success in particular environment.

So the computer analogy is bad because organisms are more a matrix of interactions, feedbacks and responses that work well enough, but dont follow a "logical" design. This can be replicated within a computer easily and the result is evolutionary computation & hardware, genetic algorithms and evolutionary neural networks. The problem in understanding the result of evolutionary systems is that they're blind to design and only respond to fitness and therefore create systems that are so tightly coupled it's a quest to understand how the model even works.

So the article is suggesting we shouldn't apply human design principles to evolved solutions. Perhaps we need some kind of "messy science" to make sense of it all.

Going forward, machine learning running evolutionary algorithms on neural networks should be able to produce sufficiently incomprehensibility for us to be studying our own inventions for years to come.
In the good old days, of usenet, James D. Nicoll had a signature that read:
"Frankly, Captain, I feel interstellar diplomacy is out of our depth."
"Ah, hence the nuclear weapons."
Google bundles bad clicks like a pile of stinking, rotten subprime mortgages and then peppers them with some good clicks and sells them to you like JP Morgan in 2005.

Did you read the fine print? Doesn’t matter, you can’t redline it anyway so it’s take it or leave it.
This is rendering 3d shapes in threejs, not doing anything in the DOM, so this is quite a nothingburger isn't it?
Rendering "thousands" of anything is usually not how you impress people. The scheduler is still cool though.
Hey! Trying the desktop app.

- Suggestion: On the desktop app, it may be worth detecting `Accept-Language` or origin country for language detection.

- Suggestion: Would love it if it could be test-driven without logging in. After a few cards are done, then an offer to sign up and save progress can be offered.

What did you build it with? Any info on the stack?

Any plan to do a paid version? Import / export of cards?
These days IPFS is getting closer to being a real alternative.
Cue the great SF writer E.E. 'Doc' Smith of Lensman fame, who went into detail on the challenges of just getting two spaceships to match velocities closely enough to allow docking at transfer of passengers and cargo. (He did handwave the speed of light away, though.)
If I am in Turkey and I google “chicken USA”, I should get shown chicken ads from the USA. And when I click, those chicken producers should pay.
Is that egregious name-mangling in the original? Wow.
US safety tests aren't very good in comparison to the rest of the world. In particular, US car safety tests don't emphasize the safety of pedestrians and cyclists to the same extent as the European and Australian test programs do:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2019/10/20/starflatio...
> claiming something is "resistant to 9mm" doesn't really mean "bullet proof".

This sounds like the same argument about Autopilot (both the aircraft and Tesla version of it).
Pilots know you have to monitor the aircraft constantly while the various autopilot systems are active, however the general public have this "Oh, you just press a button and it flies itself" thing (and apply that assumption to the Tesla Autopilot system).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660574
Here’s the primary source: https://www.keypointsabout.org/blog/advancing-the-internet-s...
Exactly, they're generally more trustworthy than most governments. Security is about probability and is never 100%.
This is a good first place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

Forms can be quantified by the entropy with respect to its component parts -- generally, the more ordered, the less entropy. Constructing things broadly corresponds to reducing the entropy of the set of configurations of the components.
Outside of the US is my guess for data centers.
Sounds like a cash-out or a kickback. Still not worth any more money than ISOC was already making. ISOC should listen and row back on this decision.

There are more than ten thousand signatures on https://savedotorg.org/.
I remember thinking the same thing. They did break the matching orientations in the final episode with the attack from below, which was fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=did164yEFx4&feature=youtu.be...
Not disagreeing with your point, but a what is the more important work they’re supposedly working on? In SF cops aren’t enforcing traffic laws, drug laws, or really even patrolling so what are cops actually spending their time on?
https://outline.com/qacsGU
> (Balrogs don't fly.)

Them's thar's fightin' words. :)

I don't have a copy of the old Usenet FAQ handy, but here's a tiny sample of the debate for any curious readers:

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Balrogs/Wings
http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?FAQ/Do__Balrogs__have...
Absolutely. He's a heck of a writer. I loved his older books. But for me his problems have made him intolerable.
Yeah, it depends on the maturity of the team and requires a lot of trust. Obviously, you can't take off half the year.

4 day workweeks mean about 52 extra days off, and yet not everyone wants a 3 day weekend. I'd enjoy some 3 day weekends, but too much will be stressful when dealing with the bottomless amount of things to do at a startup.

You can straight up say every year has 66 day PTO, but that means that people will feel guilty about not using it. But maybe this approach is the best.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791066
Use air propellors, like a hovercraft, and annoy the birds instead.
Missing piece of the argument -- the AGPL service provider clause (that didn't make it into GPL v3).

The author is talking about physical infrastructure as adding value, and they're right, but there's a middle layer that cloud vendors add to their managed tools -- things like auto backup, upgrade and resize for mysql.

These are enhancements to open source DBs etc that cloud vendors keep in-house as secret sauce. This makes the stock version of open source software hard to operate in the way AMZN / GOOG operate it, while still allowing AMZN / GOOG to benefit from community effort without giving much back.
I thought "community driven" also meant that the language itself was primarily developed by the community and not by someone with monetary interests. And in that regard both Ruby and Elixir are very much community driven — and both regularly see new releases too.

And in terms of numbers. If you look at e.g. number of repos on GitHub with at least 10 stars[0], Ruby comes in as #7 ahead of C# (#8) and Go (#9) and faaar ahead of Rust (#17).

Interesting side-note. C and C++, which you called "niche", clock in at #6 and #5 respectively.

[0]: https://github.com/oprogramador/github-languages#10-stars
Residential proxies exist.
The surest way to reduce the amount of such derision is by making people responsible for fixing the things they criticize, at the team culture level. It's fun to have a laugh at the expense of someone who's no longer on the team, it's much less fun if you then have to spend weeks or months of your own time to fix it, with the possibility of still producing shit for the same reasons why the original code wasn't too hot.
Preferably not with large soft tissue wounds due to sharp edges in addition to the blunt force trauma.
I case anyone wasn’t already aware - Forbes.com allows just about anyone to publish on their platform. Their editorial standards are FAR more lax than the print publication that shares its name.
Those are only good for VPN netflix or being more secure at coffee shops.
It's bad news for pedestrians, but I expect it to fare very well in crash tests.

Side-impact tests in particular will benefit from the stronger door skin. There's not much space for crumpling in that direction, and your average mild-steel door doesn't do particularly well. They generally throw reinforcement beams inside the door in an effort to help.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out since the Cybertruck is combining unibody+skateboard+pickup+stainless steel. The frunk is a huge crumple zone with no ICE and transmission to get in the way. I don't see the stainless steel "exoskeleton" preventing the frunk from crumpling in a real crash. It might prevent getting dents from stupid people in parking lots and utility work though.

The partial overlap frontal collision has been an especially bad one for pickups historically IIRC. This vehicle might completely change that. Would love to hear from anyone more knowledgeable in this field.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/03/21/iihs-gm...
The scheduling and ability to provide an app that behaves as users expect / based on user research is probably more important than any numbers.
This reminds me a bit of David Deutsch's Constructor Theory. What's the mainstream acceptance of that like at the moment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory