skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forgot the part where Ethos is the same people who controlled PIR. It’s just a sleazy trick to take off the non profit veil, so they can start skimming the profits. Does anyone really believe the non profit PIR and ISOC couldn’t exist on their $90 million a year .org tithes?
Happy Thanksgiving! Why do I have to wake up to this horseshit.
10 years of writing web application backends has taught me that yes, authorization is indeed the reason we all still have jobs. And the occasional handling of a transaction failure.
President Obama seems to agree with you, as he recently bought a mansion on the beach in Martha’s Vineyard.

It’s hard to take climate alarmism seriously when its proponents are taking actions like that.
> If it's really one big conspiracy to prop up valuations via recent financing, loans, or market comparables, then wouldn't one of these parties call it out.

Not if they accept the same culture of growth that enables this in the first place—it’s certainly still speculation, not a science. I would love to see the justification behind the $47B valuation.
Having a properly defined API gives you a nice interface to test.
That reminds me of this: https://bellard.org/dvbt/
E. coli bacteria engineered to eat carbon dioxide
There is a major outage they are aware of effecting Facebook Login, Instagram, Messenger and the Marketing API:

https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/22872935915151...

https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/555889181863481...

Edit:
I think there is a bug with the status page, the outage hasn't been going for the 18 hours it is showing me here:

https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/
> I don't know of a cheap RF analyzer but I'd like to get one at some point.

That’s one of the features I love about my Aruba APs/controller. Not only does the APs dedicated as AirMonitors/SpectrumMonitors monitor at both the Wi-Fi level and radio spectrum level and shift frequencies as needed, but I can also get a high quality live visualization of radio spectrum interference. Definitely not cheap though!
Don't know if it was designed this way, but if it has a "frunk" like most electric vehicles do, that would ideally be where the tool box goes. Much more accessible.
Even if the surface temperature of the solar collector focus point is 1500C, the molten salt flowing on the other side of that wall must be at a significantly lower temperature in order to transfer heat quickly enough from the small area. Then you will have a thermal profile in the wall, say from 1500 to 1200 C, and furthermore a thermal boundary layer in the fluid, say from 1200 to 800 C.
I wonder if WhatsApp is also affected. I know they've been trying to merge its infrastructure with that of Messenger.
We're herd animals. We're safe if we stick with the herd.
And Opa language and framework. (To note, the language itself was awesome, too bad it was tightlyccoupled to the framework since that approach never seems to work)
I just joined with a lifetime membership a few weeks ago (wish I had waited for Black Friday - didn't anticipate a deal), but I can say that already I have gotten a lot of value from the community and don't anticipate ever feeling bad about my purchase. If it's on sale, I say definitely go for it. The Slack channel in particular has been a great resource - I've gotten lots of advice on visas, travel plans, gear, etc.
Ah. I've spent a lot more time working on projects I inherited rather than ones where I made the initial technical decisions - if you're starting a new project, you should use the most capable tools available.
Kind of like when people commonly refer to table salt as “sodium”. Sodium is a highly caustic and reactive metal. The metal sodium is profoundly different than the salt called sodium chloride. Sharing a specific type of element means nothing when comparing compounds.
Ok, that's obvious! Will definitely add that. Thanks so much for the suggestion.
Arctic World Archive – data storage that will last for centuries
”if 20 executives are able to sleep and handle their stress a little better, there’s nothing wrong with that.”

I think what’s wrong is that they don’t realize that the environment that’s causing stress is very damaging and they should change that environment instead of putting a bandaid in the form of mindfulness on it. Even worse is that they keep pushing that stress down the hierarchy causing harm to their employees.
one word: security
From Zinn's A People's History of the United States: "One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country."
Just participating in a culture or practice does not mean one is appropriating it.
You don't miss it, when you drive out men they just go and start new projects or companies together where they can be themselves again.
Thanks for explaining all the work your team is doing to create this innovative privacy phone, truly groundbreaking, I eagerly anticipate mine arriving in March. Meanwhile Hewlett Packard, with $5bn in net income and 50k employees, is advertising their latest innovation on my YouTube feed: a physical switch connected to the camera.
TLDR: this is DuckDuckGo's implementation of HTTPS Everywhere.
Their margins on new domain sales are thin, but the cost of changing domain names for a big owner of a prestigious .org domain could be huge. So jack up the renewal price to gouge existing domain owners, then drop the prices again to entice in new registrants.
Capitalism will quite happily reap the benefits by squeezing their mindful employees just a little bit harder.
Nothing you described is remotely close in scope to the CCP's control and manipulation of Chinese society.
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I feel like a large part of the responsibility lies with the people implementing these networks to be able to document, compatramentalize, and organize these various systems in the least convoluted manner.

The biggest problems I see achieving that are all the different ways of accomplishing the same goals. For example, many endpoints in a network will have 3 or 4 DRM agents on them for licensing certain products. What do they connect to? What are they sending? What infrastructure variables need to be in place to support those connections? How do I configure or troubleshoot this service/ connections?

Most of these agents are critically ineffectual and simply add bloat. I've done pentests in my own environment and broken, cracked, or bypassed three. My point is, the company who hired you can't change their entire operation because of your requirements. That's why we go to work. Especially at small or medium size businesses with limited resources.

"Stop using the ERP system with 12gb of data that you've had 30 people using for the past 15 years! We found a bug and the vendor won't fix it!"

You can see how that's not viable. So you find a way to mitigate the bug yourself.

"You need to get rid of XXX in engineering. They keep falling for phishing emails."

No. You need to find some resources or setup training to combat phishing. Create rules or modify this person's environment to reduce surface area and increase visibility on that endpoint.

And sometimes you can't solve it! But you can usually pick off some low hanging fruit and iterate to a more secure state than you started at.
Interesting that the Contact on this Page for the "Public Interest Registry" is handled not by PIR but by "Jackson Street Partners, LLC is a specialized communications firm offering real-time issues / reputation management services to corporate clients and individuals". The contact for Ethos is also handled by a reputation management firm, sardverb.com in their case.
Non-profit operations have customers too. I think they’d better achieve their mission with a nice website, referral revenue to help with upkeep, and an iOS app for wider reach. People live off of their mobile devices, especially the people that most need free software. I’d totally understand if they don’t have the capacity to do any of that though.
Nope. Working fine in India.

Edit: Even FB is fine here.
Why invest in treasury bills at 1.8% yield when you can invest in margin lending at 5%?
JSLinux is running an X86 emulator. You can start Windows 2000 on it.
It is news to me that I am "required to have a current prescription" to buy my eyeglasses. Sure, optometrists want you for an annual checkup as much as your regular doctor or dentist... but the eyeglass store? Never heard of it.

Perhaps this is because I purchase my eyeglasses online, e.g. Zenni. I could pull out my prescription from last year or five years ago and they'd take it at face value along with my credit card.
Christianity unfolded over 2000 years. It took around 500-600 years to dominate Europe, it wasn't some huge sudden shift.

Algebra didn't matter much (as far as life changing applications) for most of the time after its invention until around the industrial age. Then we had a huge math explosion, and a huge science explosion, physics, chemistry, etc plus practical applications as advanced as sending people to the moon.

Explosives and printing are part of the exponential curve we talk about. We went from knives, swords, arrows (used for millennia) to crude explosives to nuclear weapons and rockets between 500 years or so.

Same for printing. We went from stone carving, papyri, hand copying and limited literacy for millennia, to the printing press, mandatory mass education, and onwards to computers, and the internet, and now whole world knowledge reachable in one's pocket wherever they are in the span of 400 years or so.

Every day life in most of the world wasn't much different between 500 B.C and 1800 B.C. Ancient Rome, or Medieval Paris, could as well be Ancient Babylon. In villages life was almost entirely the same. The slow cultural changes (the introduction of Christianity, the change in rulers, etc) didn't change or affect much of everyday life.
Hm, interesting. Like $X per month for unlimited artboards conversions? The only thing keeping us from doing that is the direct cost we still have per project - because of the human validation layer.
You have input regarding what the state provides. If you want to give your child a better education, you can improve the public system. No, not (only) by voting. Yes, you can do this as a single individual without coordinating with the rest of the country.

If the students of wealthy families are in those public schools, the quality of education there going to go way up. Wealthy parents have much more time to take an active role in their child's school, volunteering for events, organizing fundraisers (and donating to them), scrutinizing the curriculum, and holding teachers to account. Parents living in poverty tend to be too busy to pay much attention (let alone to run for the school board), or may not realize what opportunities for improvement exist.

There's no reason the state can't provide an excellent education, and in many countries it does. But if public education is de-facto only for the poor, then it s not going to be much of a priority for the state either.
I think this is a good point, but the author is a bit too optimistic about democracy's ability to 'self-correct'.

Many western democracies are really just as technocratic as China - whether one is authoritarian or not is a moot point. Artificial intelligence will, I think, have the same effect in either political system - it consolidates biases (and by extension power) and makes it harder to pose alternatives.
Yes, the vega architecture is supported by rocm (basically AMD's cuda). You're best bet would be to use the pre-built docker images though.
Psychotherapy Dublin
> What's the point of keeping this information around at runtime if you do all your type checks at compile time?

It forces you to write input validation code that stays in sync with your types. Otherwise bad input can invalidate all your type guarantees.
I'd like to hear the reasoning behind that.
Maybe not necessary with so many free tutorials on yt these days, but for those who want a full course in something specific like react, you can check out Wesbos courses - they are currently half price: https://reactforbeginners.com/
>When I saw the price I assumed they were trying to position a premium product.

They are. They are building a product that let's you do anything you want on the device.

Honestly, the phone should be priced at a premium level because it will appeal to a demographic that will pay more for a phone that lets them break free from the closed ecosystems of Android/Apple. It also gives them extra cash to re-invest in the company and doesn't require them scaling their manufacturing just yet.
This notion has long exited and is something which Buddhists are all to aware of. Attachment, Value, What is there to hijack anyway when all is illusion?

It is just unfortunate that what humans have created within this inherent existence is a reliance on money and laws protecting ownership.

If you read the Heart Sutra it will help you understand a little bit of the struggle of absoloute reality and inherent reality.

Om Mani Padme Hum
Doesn't it run Gnome and X/Wayland?
For this emulator the filesystem is a RAM filesystem and fully managed in Javascript (virtio/9p filesystem as a device). No chance to recover.
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> There’s only the strength of the programs and how much value people derive from them, and if 20 executives are able to sleep and handle their stress a little better, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Mindfulness cannot fix the underlying problems that lead to mindfulness being useful to capital in the first place. Personally I’d rather my CEO make work less miserable and sleep that way (say, hire people for fewer hours and raise wages) than sleep well because they paid for someone to soothe them through the arduous travails of being a high paid executive.

That said, anyone who didn’t see capital swallowing this is dense. Anything that can be commodified will be. Arguing over it is pointless.
NYPD Fingerprint Database Taken Offline to Thwart Ransomware
Ha, yeah. Imagine how I feel, sharing a name with a major VC firm! @sequoia was squatted for years, I asked for it back in 2011 or so along with verification that I am in fact Sequoia (github.com/sequoia etc.), they said they "don't release usernames."

It sat like that for several years until lo and behold, they do release usernames under the right circumstances (see @sequoia now). I just want to know what made them release the name to @sequoia and not me (don't answer that :p).
Please, Barnes' "reasoning" is not naiveté. Barnes and his colleagues understand exactly what they are doing. The Barnes article is evidence of nothing but contempt for its intended audience.
And extracting money from nonprofits, while an easy point to communicate, is just the tip of the iceberg - there's a horrible conflict of interest between the adoption of .org and the mission of .org now.

As I've written before, what happens if a large country says "we will block .org domains, or .org DNS resolutions, if you don't suspend an activist organization's domain globally?" Beforehand, the Internet Society could say "we don't believe that precedent is in the interest of the global community overall, and your threat is empty to us."

But now, there's both a profit motive AND an obligation to shareholders to take down the domain GLOBALLY, as the value of the company would decrease if .org domains were blocked to a large market. And, while I'm not a lawyer, I believe this decision would be permitted by the new 2019 rules. This gives censors tremendous leverage to spread censorship and chilling effects around the globe. DMCA takedowns will seem like child's play.

In the face of losing a large market opportunity, if even Google, with all its market power and all its public scrutiny, is willing to build things like Dragonfly, how can we take Ethos at its word?

I'm all for the role of private equity in helping companies to grow - while there are certainly firms that operate in bad faith, the PE industry overall doesn't deserve the bad rap it gets in the media. Of all the things that the private market can do to drive innovation, the existence of PE is critical. (Not every company should IPO or be gobbled up by a strategic.)

But IMO this sale should absolutely be disallowed from a humanitarian and international security perspective. The incentives are just too badly aligned.
this is just JSON RPC? The "constantly serialize and deserialize it" statement is totally untrue too... The frontend makes 6 XHR calls just to render a single page and they're all just JSON. The idea of the frontend 'just calling' the backend with no API boundary is nothing short of atrocious for security.

The only feasible logical end to this is ASP, which was an interesting idea when it was launched 19 years ago
I think if you're worried about how it looks and not how it works, then you're not in their target market ;)
This is an interesting point. Do you have data / references? I’m very curious about this. I’ll search on my own too.
Hi all,

This is a project I’ve been working on that extracts references to talks and videos in the stories and comments of Hacker News. I’ve extracted about 207,000 references to 95,000 unique(ish) videos. The videos are then scored using aggregations on story points and comment popularity and sentiment. Rankings are produced for the last week, month, year, and all time. This is all being updated fairly continuously using the Hacker News Firebase API.

All 95,000 videos are full-text indexed on their titles and descriptions. Matching search results are ranked by their all-time score.

Some fun searches:

https://yahnd.com/theater/search/?q=Rich+Hickey

https://yahnd.com/theater/search/?q=Bret+Victor

https://yahnd.com/theater/search/?q=SpaceX

https://yahnd.com/theater/search/?q=Python

https://yahnd.com/theater/search/?q=Javascript

https://yahnd.com/theater/search/?q=Clojure

Also, email digests are available to subscribe to the regularly updated rankings.

https://yahnd.com/theater/digests/subscribe/

Enjoy — feedback welcomed.
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Psychotherapy in Dublin
>I'm always happy to learn about things I didn't know about.

If this is true, you'll be happy to do your own research. The Australian experience with an assault weapon ban, gun buybacks, and a firearms registry is well-known to anyone remotely serious about gun ownership discourse, and the fact that you aren't familiar with it casts into doubt the ostensible good faith with which you've approached me with this short essay of glib intellectual overextension.

The italicized "ass" in "assuming" is cute, and also 100% against HN's code of conduct, by the way.
Egg freezing has become standard practice for big companies
Fair, though I'd say 1-3 are more or less matched by Java/.NET and probably NodeJS.

Not sure if you meant this, but now that I think about it, the "one process per request" model is actually legit differentiator that obviates a lot of the concurrency trouble new developers can get themselves into with other languages. It makes good performance harder in some cases (though there are workarounds), but overall it's maybe the one thing in PHP that I'd like to see other languages make some note of.
It could also lead to better funding and quality of public schools. Rich/intelligent people would be more invested in taking care that public schools have appropriate funding if their kids had to go to the same schools.
" Dropping the closest proxy we have for future academic performance (and a darn good one at that)"

I'm actually super not educated in this- do you have proof that good SAT score is a strong predictor of good academic performance, and vice versa? (The vice versa is the most important part to me.)
Perfect opportunity for everyone to wean themselves off this cesspool.
Honestly, I dislike it. I already have visual clutter in the top of my phone with the Android status bar; I don't need more clutter in the bottom.
Another step in the homogeneousness of ~dynamic programming languages. PHP is now near ES6 parity, which was a ml/scheme revival.
Maharashtra Elections, Politics, Left and Right Wings: Some Lessons
I'd like to point out that bfloat16! = traditional float16

and forms of bfloat16 are not available for hardware acceleration on all GPUs yet.
As reductive as "just send self-replicating robots" is, it's still potentially easier than a self-sustaining human civilization like the article is talking about. Both require building the entire set of infrastructure to build industrial infrastructure and computers. The robot approach requires that every single factory and excavator is automated* - a huge feat. The human approach requires every piece of infrastructure the robot one does, plus the infrastructure to make pressurized domes, oxygen, food, heating, etc, etc, and also requires shipping large numbers of humans through the vacuum of space - also a huge feat. I don't think it's a given that either approach is easier.

* At least, automated enough that it's not bottlenecked by humans operating robot arms at a 30 minute feedback delay.
> [...]their ethnicity ratio considerations [...]

I really hate coded language like this. Call it what it is: race-based social engineering. Yeah, it doesn't sound as "nice", right? Something to ponder deeply.
Sorry. It’s just a very shitty situation to spend so much time on a open source project and pay for a domain to then see someone being smart enough to clone your project, host it so you won’t be able to distinguish it from the previous page till you lost the ownership of said domain.

I know, it’s all my fault. But I guess I hope it could be a lesson for other people that hosts open source projects. A visual verification/check of a static page is not enough to be sure you own it.
Do you have a source for your claim that much/most of subway construction cost is lawsuits? I haven’t seen that one before.
Hassles with installing NPM packages (they used their own package manager (!)), it was incredibly heavyweight, baked in reliance on MongoDB, and a weird templating language caused a kind of death-by-a-thousand-cuts situation.

Plus, React came out and blew Meteor out of the water.
> A program that fails with type errors at runtime instead of compile time is the worst of all worlds

Better than silently failing! + if code fails early as these type checks can enable, then bugs are often (not always) picked up just by running the code once.
I don't think you know what you're talking about, at all.
Or this page [1] on large numbers.

[1] https://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html
Reading company reports.

Personally I had been lucky gossiping for years with a friend of mine who is reading and analyzing company reports in professional capacity. And never tired of discussing latest findings over a drink.

He also has a column in a newspaper and lectures on accounting tricks and frauds at economic university. He always jokes that he only shows old tricks to his students and keeps the best bits to himself.

Accounting tricks is also an arms race of sorts apparently.
These people said they won't contribute to a project with a CoC, which is exactly what you say they should do. So what is the point of your post? They are already following your advice!