skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we don't know for sure what the capacity utilization of say AWS is, we do not know if they are running physical servers which are lightly loaded or not.

It might be that AWS runs a tight ship or it might be that they have entire aisles of servers spun up but which run for only 1 hour per day.
Going to finish Crime and Punishment, Year of the Monkey (Patti Smith), The Children of Húrin (along with many cross references and letters) (Tolkien), re-reading A Game of Thrones for fun... as for 2020 I might read Slaughterhouse 5 again and work through George Sand.

Technical things I am working through are the:

- https://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative/a... along with the Artin text, writing proofs out by hand and in Lean.

- Seven Sketches in Compositionality: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05316
> As Truecrypt got no further releases the software is still vulnerable for all those weaknesses. [...]

> The BSI knew all that. [...]

> The results were communicated to the Truecrypt foundation, however the Truecrypt developers didn't consider them to be relevant. BSI furthermore says that the results were not intended to be published.

This is looking pretty terrible for Truecrypt. It means they ignored a vulnerability report and kept the vulnerabilities around for five years.
The documents seem to be available here: https://fragdenstaat.de/anfrage/untersuchungen-zum-verschlus...

They all have "geschwärzt" (blackened) in the file name, but it looks like only some author's name (and maybe working group name) have been removed -- I've scrolled through a few of these files, and didn't find anything else that might have been removed.
The article explicitly claims that the cheese is still lost:

> It is still at large, buried somewhere under modern London.
Think of the FBI as the police for the federal government. Roughly, as soon as your typical crime goes across state lines, they can get involved (because a state's jurisdiction ends at their borders).
I assume it's because Napster was the first to really take file-sharing global and at such an accessible scale. And maybe the laws and enforcement procedures hadn't really caught up. But keep in mind, that Napsters defense was that they were just acting as an intermediary, they never actively distributed and held the content unlike our heroes at JetFlix.
Why are tax dollars being used to catch criminals that think they are preying on other criminals? I realize in this case the DEA are pretending to be criminals.
Hey look, the same guys who went after nginx. This just tells me all those sanctions on Russian billionaires is working and they're looking for an avenue to strike back at the West.
I'm under the impression that these things are easier to come infinitesimally close to, but very hard to get right: i.e. the old uncanny valley problem. A reporter with $500 can get very close, but a team of PhD with thousands of dollars and a lot of time may never be able to produce something that'll convince the public.

I'm NOT claiming that this is the case, I'm just saying we don't have a reason to believe why this can't be the case.
>Well when the new rules came in, there was a massive increase in reported finds - around tenfold. That seems to indicate the detectorists quite like it, landowners seem to approve of their share too.

Compliance doesn't mean they like it, just that the risk reward of telling the state to shove it isn't worth telling the state to shove it (after all, this is just a hobby for most people).

What I'd like to hear is someone who was metal detecting back before the law change describing how things changed and the pros cons. I googled around but couldn't find anything (which is unsurprising considering how niche this is and the timeline involved).
Thanks for clarification and for the article! First time I only skimmed over headings and missed that part.
Yea but the volume of the inside of a car is quite a bit larger than the chamber of a potato cannon. It’ll take much more to create enough pressure.
Are you asking for a CLI interface that you access via SSH, or simply something you can execute and access the web interface for?
that doesn't answer the original question of

> Are mechanical keyboards that much "better"
The article explains that the heat transfer is too great to be explained by the black body radiation for the given temperature.

It would be interesting to know how they think the heat is being transferred: are the two plates exchanging electrons which are able to quantum tunnel across the gap, or are they trying to say that there's a more fundamental quantum effect going on?
"It is in Russia, it's more like an excuse to block Twitch"

Any proof?
No, replacing foul air with fresh outside air is air freshening.
The author here, happy to answer any questions! :)
Next up on my list is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I was given it as a gift from a friend and have seen it recommend here on HN
The E-Myth Principle Is Still Alive and Flourishin (2013)
Thanks for the link! Have you read the book? Is the article you linked to a decent summary of the book?
There is a single Eclipse plugin that keeps me married to that IDE: log4e (http://log4e.de). It makes it a breeze to add logging statements to your code. One click puts start/end statements on all methods. One click lets you log a particular variable. And all the statements are templatized, making it dead simple to ensure your logging adheres to your company's logging standards. I WISH this plugin (or something comparable) was available for IntelliJ or even NetBeans. I'd drop Eclipse in a heartbeat.
> since this information would be relevant to the developers and many state entities that use the software and its successor.

The BSI actually did communicate the findings of the report to the TrueCrypt developers in 2010, which the developers ignored:

> The results were communicated to the Truecrypt foundation, however the Truecrypt developers didn't consider them to be relevant. BSI furthermore says that the results were not intended to be published.

(From page 2 of the article)
As I've said before, the census definition of "urban" makes sense in the context of the vast areas of the US that are truly middle of nowhere rural. But most places that are classified as urban have very little in common with a city core where you can walk out of your apartment to the corner store. I live in an urban area between an apple orchard and a Christmas tree farm.
We'd also need to see numbers on new positions and freshly available positions. Even if the number of candidates is relatively stagnant, they can't get jobs if their number is larger than the number of positions available. Many of the doctoral candidates I knew in school couldn't find positions in academia because of market saturation.
Never experimented with potato cannonry?
It’s mostly a masterpiece because of when and where it was written, and who it was written about. If you’re lacking the context of the author and the times (most people are), it can take a long, hard time to appreciate.

Specifically, it’s written for a Soviet audience at a time when the censor was hard to get past. So the only way you could publish controversial thoughts or critiques about society was to couch it in metaphor, sarcasm, and double entendres, in a way that requires a lot of cleverness and courage on the author’s behalf. Master and Margarita is considered to be one of the peaks of this genre, because the story it tells manages to have an interesting plot and narration style, even if it’s just there to prop up the incessant jabs at contemporary soviet elites and norms.

It’s sort of like reading a comedy in another language, that’s been translated to English, but all the jokes are region specific, satirical slant rhymes that are explained in the footnotes. It’s very good, but hard to enjoy in its, originally intended, viscerally funny delivery.
Blackstone did the same thing:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-moves-out-of-rental-...
It also seems like when you start working with money, you cross into a whole different level of having a bad day by the Feds. If they had run something that had been ad based, they might have been able to stay off the FBI's shitlist. But when you have subscribers, and bank accounts and money transfers you are raising the governments ire.
This makes me a bit cynical. Are we to believe women are too delicate to receive a 85% or less?

I can't seem to read the paper, so I don't know.

I find the gender debates on HN mostly pointless... so trying to avoid that here.
Streamers are also creating derivative works; few would be as popular if their streams could not feature gameplay footage, and their use of such stretches well beyond short clips for review or parody.

Re-uploaders pare down lengthy streams, edit multiple streams together, and engage in other content modifying behaviour. Their work, though derivative, should be tolerated if we're going to tolerate the behaviour of streamers. Streamers argued for this tolerance, after all.
And glorious cricket according to ScoMo.
Voting with your wallet isn’t always an option when the advertising cancer has already infected everything. See my earlier comment for some expensive examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802985
Gamification in App Design
Depending on your current habits, starting with Digital Minimalism will help get through the others in one year.
While you are right that we can't exclude the possibility of animals being consciousness, it's well accepted that their conscious level is very low compared to ours.
>What came was next was a bait and switch that resulted in cesspools of advertising, tracking, and a mess of curated content that promotes outrage and polarization because it keeps people on the page and clicking links. Content and journalism has been diluted and pushed to the gutter

Advertising and the surveillance infrastructure are just one part of it:

- Theranos (zero due diligence, blatant fraud that flew in the face of science)
- WeWork (foisting terrible finances onto the public)
- Cult of Elon Musk (we like the companies, so we will excuse doxing journalists and critics, securities fraud, SWATing whistleblowers, building factories in China amidst a trade war)
- Google's Project Maven
- Uber/Waymo/Tesla using our roads as a test bed for automonomous driving and killing people.
- Most facets of the "gig economy"
- YouTube content catering to pedophiles

And on and on...
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Prime Numbers, Factorization, Their Role in Encryption and Linux Factor Command
Protests over India’s New Citizenship Law Widen
Running containers with Podman and shareable systemd services
Not even close. GB just doubled down on Bexit by re-electing Boris Johnson in a landslide. It's "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" for Brexit, one way or another.
How to create news when there is no news: try to write a tutorial about it, fail, then state that thing-that-people-irrationally-fear-because-nipples is not something to fear yet, because even seasoned tech & blockchain journalists can't do it.

The absolute autofellatio state of hype media these days. Ha-ha, look at how this autistic CEO looks like a robot, and shame on you for imagining what Charlize Theron looks like naked. Tune in next week where I try and fail to launch an ERC-token, and use that experience to argue that cryptocurrency adoption will be delayed.
If you are looking for more inspiration check out these books: https://www.techbookofthemonth.com/

All are related to tech / business!
The difference between them is that the rudder flaw could be fixed; once the problem was identified it was a trivial fix. They replaced a single part the size of a soda can.

The 737 Max can't be fixed. The engine location unbalances the plane. Full stop. Huge changes to the entire plane must be made to fix that. Software fixes are bandaids and any time the software either fails to activate when it should, or activates when it should not, people die. Unless you think software is 100% infallible, this plane is going to be much less safe than it could have been, forever, unfixably.
While there may or may not be an element of Nihonjinron to this idea in general, I think people are intentionally taking parts of the article out of context as justification to dismiss it outright.

I mean, here is the quote that is getting everybody upset:

> “It’s unique in Japan because one word takes care of so many phenomena, behaviours and interactions”, from a toddler crying to be picked up to a wife begging her husband for an expensive gift, “but amae exists everywhere beyond Japan and people can identify it in their lives, even if they didn’t know what to call it.”

The interviewee clearly says this is a global concept, which goes against any notion of Nihonjinron. The claim is that only Japan has a term for this specific, nuanced behavior, which is a debatable issue.

Anybody that has ever spent time in an intimate environment in Japan (e.g., at home with family) will likely notice amae and its prevalence in close relationships, no matter the age or gender of the people involved. The purpose of the article, as far as I can tell, is not to claim that this behavior is unique to Japanese people, but rather to emphasize its importance in the culture at many different levels.
Absolutely not. In fact, I would make it my life's mission to name and shame that company into the ground.
> Boeing doesn’t get to take credit for all the advances in air safety in the past 40 years.

No, but they can certainly take credit for some of those advances.
agreed re: consider phlebas. i'd agree with your choice of starting points -- player of games is probably the best way to understand what the culture is in contrast with other cultures in one book. definitely leave inversions for after you've read three other books, imo, as it's quite subtle.
It gets increasingly cheap to manufacture convincing fakes, but it doesn't get any cheaper to do quality journalism. The risk as I see it is that there is such an overwhelming tsunami of manufactured reality that it becomes impossible to tell truth from fiction.
Truecrypt has been abandoned for ~seven years or so.
I just got back from vacationing in Greece and Croatia. Though I can't say whether the number of movies was higher or lower than in the states, I can say that the quality of films was much higher. Both my girlfriend and I complained multiple times that the movies we were watching in Europe were not available to us in the states.
Chrome has had a builtin DOM distiller for a while (not sure if still guarded by an experimental flag, on my phone now so can’t check), but it’s primitive and worst of all reloads the page on exit.
How to Find an Interstellar Comet: A Q&A with Discoverer Gennady Borisov
Ha! I was just thinking of the house in the JoCo Museum. (I live in the KC metro too.)
> bound to inaction by charter

That's probably too extreme, but I love it as a starting point / baseline!
Yet another option: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
If you contantly have source of ignition and add fuel, there will be a time when mix is just above sustaining near ignition source and more rich elsewhere. It doesn't take that much pressure to blow out windows in a car, it doesn't need to be properly mixed at right ratio in whole volume of car. It doesn't even need to be explosion, but very fast burning will increase pressure enough to blow out windows.
A record number of NYC HS students are receiving computer science education
> would wreak havoc for offshoring

Why? I would actually expect offshore development to be the least problematic - typically there is a spec and agreed-upon set of deliverables and the rights to these deliverables are cleanly transferred. It is the common employment situation where your boss tells you your objectives in more or less vague terms which is more muddled.
In my experience it's very disturbing in the beginning (I have a very easy time getting annoyed, so it annoyed me), but it is very possible to overcome that with some patience. When you have the tools in your toolbox to do so, it falls on you to be more tolerant to other people. It expands to much more than just interacting with people who have autism, it is a good recipe to interact with anyone different than you.

Thus, I don't think I need a plan to change human nature. Collectively, we just need to grow up a little.
Really appreciate that feedback.. thank you!
more like apple.com/zeroprivacy
Voting-Machine Parts Made by Foreign Suppliers Stir Security Concerns
Unrelated to parent topic, but related to your comment on eyestrain, I have found that using f.lux to change the color temperature of my monitors to match the fluorescent lighting in my office (with a color temperature of 4200K) to do wonders for alleviating eyestrain.
I'm 99% certain NeedMoreTea was referring to the "Festival of Brexit" - not Brexit itself which is pretty much guaranteed to happen at this point due to recent electoral events.
Learn, Apply, Teach, Repeat: Guidelines for Technical Learning
afaik (second hand) CO2 is used for safety reasons, humans can sense a CO2 poisoning but not an excess of nitrogen.
Everyone else with nice collections of books.

Mine :

Harry Potter
It is also a matter of consent.

And to make it even clearer, one just needs to think about leaked images. Should we not allow a person to delete such images leaked without their consent?

1,000 years from now archaeologist may have some academic interest and those involved and even generations of their descendants are long dead.

But what about 1 year from now? Benefiting those 1000 years from now as the cost of those alive today is a hard position to justify, especially with such a blanket justification.
A couple of years ago a friend mentioned a now infamous quote by the Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai, who, when asked by Henry Kissinger what he thought about the French Revolution, said that it's "too early to tell"[1]. Apparently he was referring to the revolutions of 1968, but the quote has taken a life of its own to kind of describe the magnitude of the actual french revolution.

Anyway, it's been 15 years since I first really learned about the revolution in high school and after hearing the quote I've been skimming the wikipedia page every now and then and it just seems like one of the most fascinating events in the history of the western world.

In the span of 30 years:

- The french kill their king

- They're the first monarchy to convert into a republic

- Most of the early leaders of the revolution die, apparently because they're so brutal

- The whole thing ends with Napoleon becoming emperor and conquering half of Europe.

Also at the same time the industrial revolution is going on. I think that for someone who's living in 2020 it's hard to put into context the magnitude of the changes for the people at the time. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

[1]: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019182...
I use it all the time. It also allows me to bypass cookies/GPDR modals for sites I plan on dipping into for a single article.
These guidelines generally shift both ways over time, but anecdotally, I notice that "a few drinks a night" every night is a lot more harmful than occasionally having a few drinks at once with friends. The folks who go home and have a whiskey or two every single weeknight end up with a lot more repercussions.
I still clearly remember using bromine in high school chemistry lab... horrible fumes. "Do not pipette by mouth".
I own more books than I can read: https://books.j11g.com/

I'm currently plowing through David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest (which is enjoyable but taxing!) should be finished in 2020!
Those are very thoughtful and informative comments as well.
People make mistakes and exhibit wreckless behavior every once in a while. Unlike milk, the value of a ticket is not set by markets. It is a financial instrument used to discourage behavior. It's really not too dissimilar to a tax. We already have all kinds of progressive taxes - this really isn't much different.
You wrote above

>The purpose of a speeding ticket is to (a) punish and (b) deter.

You've yet to give any justification of "punishment" in this context outside of deterrence, and you've explicitly claimed that punishment is distinct from the deterrence effect. Linking to various definitions of punishment is just silly.

>A country is not an economy. An economy serves society, not the other way around.

Since apparently Wikipedia links are sufficient to make points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_economics

>...and the reasons I give very much apply to "deterrence": if committing this crime/misdemeanour will cost me 6 minutes of my life, iff I get caught, I am not deterred. At all. If it costs me a month, I probably am.

If the goal is maximizing deterrence, then as above, just set a million dollar fine for everyone. You claimed that would be "disproportionate" above but gave no reason why that's more important than establishing a deterrence effect.

Again, a constant fine establishes a constant deterrence effect. This will not mean that the same percentage of people of any group will end up commiting the crime, both because their initial probability of doing it may differ and because their desires to do it may differ.

You've yet to respond to my point that demonstrates that fines will either be set too high or too high under such a system.

Here's a paper with 300 citations that lays out largely the same model I did and which you dismissed as not supported by evidence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/725557?seq=1

They actually add the enforcement cost of administering the fine, which makes sense but doesn't significantly change the conclusion.
The paper is at https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9386/f/aa... . The paper "Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?" did find that "Women are, however, more likely to switch out of male-dominated STEM majors in response to poor performance compared to men." The paper is at http://ftp.iza.org/dp10947.pdf .
In today's GDPR world, a lot of companies want to see as little of the users private data as possible.

If their app can avoid sending any data to a server and run fully in a web browser offline, they'll do that.
Yes, that's correct. The author is fairly active in the indie maker community, so maybe he pulled on his network?
This example from homepage which shows techcrunch article side by side with plugin's output doesn't look good to me. To be honest I'm finding TC article formatting and font size much better to read (ads are not visible with ublock), in addition publication date and author is displayed.
I don't care if anyone at work sees what I'm doing at any given moment as I use my work laptop for work, barely even read HN or reddit. Even with that if it was required that my laptop had monitoring sw as mentioned, I would immediately work elsewhere. I'm a professional and won't work were I'm not treated as such. It's also a sign of bad management and leadership that will get worse rather than better.
When did reporting tacitly turn into reality? It was either always safe or never safe. What we considered it to be is what changed.

It's this really insidious subtext of "What we tell you is reality."