skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also a reader of the monde diplo. They have a Spanish version too. We must recognize the small left-wing bias though, but the articles are always of very high quality and all the sources are included. This is by far the beat source of information for international politic and it should be a model for other newspapers.
Sure, but this article is hardly news. It's hardly even worthy of a tweet.

The "old internet" is MySpace and Friendster? Really?

"Click share if you think Google and Facebook are bad" pretty much summarizes the contents of the article.
It's that old Gordon Gekko trope that everyone takes as gospel here. I don't think Gordon was really a hero in that movie, but I beg to differ with other interpretations.
Watch this 5 times then spend ten minutes passing it on:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0

Questions in this thread about real estate, "investing" etc. Comprehend it with the above.
The energy calculations for bitcoin usually range between wrong and absurdly and painfully wrong.

Expenditures on the mining are bounded on the upper end by the income, which sets a current ceiling at about $13 million USD per day. In practice actual expenditures are a fraction of that upper bound, since the hardware still needs to be paid for an it wouldn't be worth doing without a profit.

Bitcoin's energy usage level (even the high upper bound) of expenditure is within the estimates of the NSA's budget (10.8billion usd/yr est in 2013).

The Manhattan Project had an estimated cost of $23 billion (2018) dollars.

If we take the article's target of 2^80 operations (for a one in a million against a 2^100 expected attack), and assume those operations are as efficient as bitcoin miners do sha256(sha256()) -- 0.075J/billion ops. And then we assume you pay 2.5cts per KWH for power (an industrially available rate in low power cost areas of the US) --- that attack would cost $629648 in power. I bet the US has single munitions that cost almost much.

The article is just simply mistaken about the intractability, the current existence of computation at a scale it claimed would take ten thousand years shows it nicely-- it doesn't matter that the computation has indeed, been pretty costly.

This makes another argument for setting parameters conservatively: order of magnitude errors in attack costs are less likely to be fatal if you do!
Fox News and RT. Here come the trolls.
I'm from Minnesota originally and still have family there, so I visit regularly. It looks both the same and very, very different from when I lived there. It almost feels like an alternate reality. I grew up primarily south of the river in what would probably have been considered exurbs. There were farms and vast areas of undeveloped land. They're all quite suburban now (a lot of this was happening when I was growing up) and the populations have exploded.

This same thing seems to have happened in many other cities around the U.S. as indicated by the 'bullet wound' pattern all over the map.
Yeah, how about javascript being able to move your browser window whenever it wanted?

I still remember the albino black sheep page that had dubdub by scooter and moved your window to the wave form of the song.
Intratumoral injection of flu shot serves as immunotherapy for cancer
Will they find a way to slip in the Watson brand?

IBM is no longer in the innovation business. They (along with Red Hat) are in the audit business.
> And by the way, Putin lost his family in the sack of Leningrad.

To be clear I think you mean the siege of Leningrad. Leningrad was never taken by the Nazis. I recommend 'The 900 Days' as an outstanding history of it.
Agreed. I still remember though being on dialup and using a UUCP method of mail receipt and delivery since I didnt have 24/7 connectivity. It was hard.

With everyone on 24/7 cable connections, I really did expect something different.

Its too bad IPv6 isnt taking off like it could and should.
This is often repeated, but...Can you name a large news source that has not won a "journalism awards"?
Atypical: A Differently-Optimized Type System
Many types of cancer, infertility, birth defects, damaged DNA as far as I remember.
> Due largely to international pressure and the publicity surrounding the use of the double Irish with a Dutch sandwich, the Irish finance minister passed measures to close the loopholes in the 2015 budget.

The EU ordered them to collect taxes from Apple after it came out that Apple ran an optimized double Irish with special exceptions (private rulings) granted by the Irish tax office. This law change is the result of them getting caught violating European trade agreements that predate the EU itself.
I did the first three in this series of online Coursera courses from UC San Diego and I thought they were quite good: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-structures-alg...

You end up implementing the algorithms and data structures yourself in your language of choice, which I find is a good way to learn.
Many countries allow "English or the local language". Well-known examples are China, France, Russia, Spain, Germany. I've also heard it in Italy and the Netherlands.

The extent of use of local language varies - in NL I've mostly only heard it for a small amount of non-formal conversation, maybe a Dutch word at the end of a transmission. In Spain it's extremely common for entire transmissions to be in Spanish.

Obviously this is only done when both the transmitter and the receiver of the transmission understand the local language. It is (in my opinion and many other people's) a safety issue because it reduces the situational awareness of everyone else on frequency.
On sentences greater than one year, which is why you see those one year plus one day sentences.
note: doing anything on a 250gb file in python will require a lot more ram than 250gb. generally my expectation is I will need 10x the ram as the size of the file when using pandas, for when I accidentally do something that triggers pathological behavior.
Right, which is why modern revolutionaries favor "direct action" against an unfair system -- in addition to protests, this includes things like intentionally turning a blind eye to shoplifters (aka "no snitching"), stealing from your employer, or actively sabotaging their plans. It's easy to disguise as incompetence or laziness because there's no explicit coordination.

We all have to work to eat, but nothing says people legally have to do a good job in most positions -- and it's easy to get away with if you can talk a good game. The idea is that because the rules aren't enforced against the people at the top, why should the people at the bottom help enforce them against their peers? If the police are a tool of the oppressive state, why would you help them in any way? If you're systemically oppressed, why would you not be dishonest and game the system in every way you could?
Sorry, I was ignoring the left side (the T_h - T_c / T_h) part of the formula to see the relative change from changing zT from 2.5 to 5.0. Effectively I was looking at the relative efficiency of the high zT material in the limit as T_h approaches T_c. Which as you point out, drives the real individual efficiencies to zero. I was just trying to get the "best case" scenario.

Would also point out that for the IoT like applications, the assumption of T_c ~= T_h isn't so bad. For example, if you wanted something powered off residual body heat, you're looking at something like 293/310 = 0.945. For
I frequently have to run this command inside a VM or a docker container, so I can't really use an alias for it.
My intuition says the shaded ground below it can be quite a bit colder.

I have no real data...
> Would you mind sharing your sources?

Simply getting through immigration and customs requires (a) gambling you get a distracted agent or (b) paying a bribe. Given the consequences with (a), it's not surprising that pretty much every fugitive-by-air account features bribes.

There are many more steps that are tightly watched in getting on an international flight, even one privately chartered, particularly out of Japan.
> we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites
..
Like... the AOL days? GeoCities?

Different bubbles we've moved to
I never said that it doesn't work. Okay, maybe tech demo sounds like it doesn't. It does work.
Fwiw Seventh Generation makes a laundry detergent that comes in a cardboard bottle. I can get it at Stop And Shop here in the states.
Start your own business and pay to your workers as much as you want. It's easy.
Along with the fact that we have the option to block all of those distractions now. With my blocking extensions, that article was a single photo and all text on a plain white background. It was a very enjoyable reading experience.
I'm wondering if there is a graph based note taking tool out there?
The question is: what's the new scheme? It's not like these tech megacorps will just start paying regular taxes
For every single ? in your comment, the answer is "it's done at the hypervisor level". A unikernel is basically a single process, so privilege separation, users, groups etc are irrelevant. Drivers are much, much simpler (and I would argue, easier to audit) because they mostly only need to access virtualized, hypervisor-provided HAL APIs. Filesystem, DB, LDAP would be external - possibly provided by another VM on the same physical hardware.
That's nanoplastic.
Co-generate with a Stirling engine or steam turbine. Your application is the wrong scope for TECs. It will be a hundred times more expensive, and a tenth of the efficiency.
Nope. Your calculations are totally invalid.
Yes. Probably one of the best quick hits in first aid. By comparison, while CPR is good to know, it's probably only going to help in a fairly limited set of circumstances.

One of my complaints about first aid courses that I've taken is that they seem to spend a lot of time on things like splinting and often skip lightly over stuff you're more likely to run into in everyday life.
At the personal level, I don't think many value greed as a virtue. The only people who do this explicitly to my knowledge are the descendants of Rand's Objectivism, of which our Fed chair of many years, Alan Greenspan, was definitely an adherent. His chairmanship had ushered in a new culture of vulture capital in the 80s and we're only now catching up on how dystopian it all is.
My Thoughts on “Winning” People over Techniques
You watch/read too much Jordan Peterson. You can care about issues and try to make the world a better place, while also taking care of yourself.

Telling people not to care about politics is itself a political endorsement of the status quo.
> It seems very rare, if not unheard of, in Japan for a CEO to be arrested and thrown to prison the way he was.

Yeah, never happens, just like you almost never see any big profile politician beyond bars in Japan. And Japanese CEOs are pretty much affiliated to politicians, so there you have it.

By the way it is astonishing how much the press in Japan is painting Gohn as a culprit on an ongoing basis despite any actual trial and all. The media is completely sold to power here.
Making it illegal so no legitimate business can do it without incredible risk of being sued/charged out of existence seems quite feasible.
You could, and Dejanews / Google kind of did, but it still never gained critical mass...
Yes I read the article as well.
Buffett is wary of companies pursuing social and environmental goals. He told the Financial Times that executives shouldn't funnel shareholders' money into peripheral projects and that it was difficult to assess whether businesses were truly doing good.

"It's very hard to evaluate what they're doing," the so-called Oracle of Omaha told the newspaper. "I like to eat candy. Is candy good for me or not? I don't know."

Wow Warren, really? You don't know if candy is good for you? You don't know if de-carbonization is good for the planet? I really don't get his rationale here...candy is a known treat, it is not "good for you" in any nutritive sense. Is he implying that there is a psychological benefit to the candy, even if it's not healthy? How does that apply to renewables and companies?

Overall, I know he's hailed as brilliant at investing, but what is this candy rationale??
So if I understand it correctly, Apple decided to move that complexity to the language itself? I was reading up on the rules for references in Swift, and it looks like a lot of complexity and lots of opportunities for introducing errors leading to leaks.
5g of accidental plastic consumption per week sounds bogus to me. No link to the actual study. Probably BS.
“ However for a bunch of consumer goods there is no reasonably priced alternative.”

We only started using plastic in large quantities 50 years ago.

We have a Tragedy of the Commons with plastic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
The original bike shed was at the gate of a nuclear power plant.

In the anecdote, the “board” spent its time debating what color to paint it because that was something they understood, as opposed to safety coolant system engineering, for instance.

Given the original anecdote, perhaps it’s less that the thing is not relevant, more that (a) it’s not the critical thing to worry about, and (b) it’s getting discussed because that’s all the decision makers are familiar enough with to debate.
More than a dozen comments on this article and none reference the actual content of the article and miss the point of the article entirely. It's a headline the evokes different ideas but it has nothing to do with the Internet not being what it used to be. The sorry state of platforms is an issue, for sure, but it's not what this article is about. Commenting on headlines is another sorry state of Internet discussion.

The article is about a loss of content and a lack of preservation. It's about doing nothing to preserve an era of digital heritage.
there is no "central government". Ireland was not so long ago a receiver of large EU subsidies and at the same time permitted tax evasion. The EU Commission now ruled that those tax evasion schemes are illegal subsidies to the companies, if these ruling holds, is another matter.
I just read that comment before seeing yours, ha.

Well they both seem to work the election of Trump into every article. You can't drum up traffic and ad dollars without adding that into the conversation.
This scheme is hacking, except not with computers but with the financial system.
Sorry, but the FDA isn't really trustworthy to the rest of the world anymore...
Krystal Ball from The Hill is a gem.
This may be true but it doesn’t justify the monetization of user data.

If this data is useful to cross reference, let the user opt in and use it. Give the user control and insight into the data collection.

The data can be useful without tricking users and making money off their private use activities.
If you haven't done so, you might check if your company offers or would be willing to offer a class.
Yes. We will add them back if we are confident they've been reallocated.

Jason Ketola
MaxMind
dupe a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21377769
How could it be the best comment when it doesn't even address OPs question?

OP asked for "X"

This reply says, "dont X, X is bad"

It is the same as every off topic top comment.
flashserve [1] to quickly share a file with my smart phone over WiFi.

sub [2] is a simple shell based template processor.

[1]: https://github.com/oxplot/gists/blob/master/flashserve

[2]: https://github.com/oxplot/gists/blob/master/sub
It's funny you'd link that wiki page in support of Buzzfeed News being reputable and separate from Buzzfeed.

1st sentence: BuzzFeed News is an American news website published by BuzzFeed.

2nd sentence: It has published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Trump–Russia dossier, for which it was heavily criticized
Barcelona to open southern Europe's biggest low-emissions zone
About a hundred websites for various technology news (some of the stories I share here) grouped by interest and signal-to-noise ratio (subjectively determined by me) plus a few related to politics and my hobbies (photography and hiking/camping) all consumed in QuiteRSS on both Windows and macOS.

(Am I supposed to post the OPML file for the tech news?)
> This may be true but it doesn’t justify the monetization of user data.

I don't understand your point. If it can technically be done and it is valuable in any way, it WILL be done. No matter the justification.
I'm no fan of CEOs, but can anyone here honestly say they would stay and stand trial in a place with a 99.9% conviction rate? That's stalinist level "justice".
It depends where you start.

If you start with feudalism (Russia), the Confucian equivalent (China) or post-colonial ~slavery (most everywhere else) then sure.

But if you start with industrialized states with decent education, you can end up with Scandinavia.
You really don’t think companies would figure out a way around any such “illegality” or just use it anti competitively as is being done throughout the EU with its ham-handed policies?
The procedure is indicated in our privacy policy: https://www.maxmind.com/en/privacy-policy. We do have a vetting process in place.

Jason Ketola
MaxMind
Well, I think strongman rule is just the general failure mode of more advanced forms of government, I mean, it's either a single strongman or complete splintering into several states. there is nowhere further down to go.
Not if it were illegal.
I remember the sound my 28800 modem made before connecting.

I knew I have exactly 1 second below 60 minutes to be online before I get disconnected from my student dial-up.

I had ICQ. We used Altavista (and Astalavista to crack the software we illegally got). Relevant information and socializing was done via newsgroups, as well as content-sharing. Many don't know why winzip/winrar has the option to split an archive into multiple files (so they can fit 1.44" floppy disk and avoid upload limits). Later on I used Miranda so I can use ICQ/IRC/AIM/MSN from the same client. Browser wars were nonexistent. First "awesome" browser shell I used was Maxthon and content was shared on lan parties or you used obscure xdcc search engines to leech off of IRC. FPS games that I played (quake 1, 2 and 3) lagged, I had 200 ping - which is how I learned about the importance of latency and what it is. It dropped to 50 once I got ISDN.

Now, why did I type this? Not to present myself as "the old internet user". I don't consider myself a user of internet from "before", I'm well aware of even older generation whose internet looked even different. I'm just saddened by the fact that buzzfeed, one of the worst ad-ridden sites that exists, is making this kind of an article, spreading false knowledge (which is what it does anyway). It's not even an article. It's made by someone who used Facebook when it looked slightly shittier than it does now.

That's not "old" internet. The consumer-generation that's lifeblood of leeches such as buzzfeed/youtube has no experience nor right to write about "old" internet. They simply haven't experienced how internet used to be when total population online was well below 50 million people and when broadband was a luxury.
> Spain where the radio communication is often in Spanish and many pilots flying there don't understand Spanish).

Or this case where Flights to Bogotá got diverted to smaller airports around Colombia that don’t deal in English much.

Cali ATC’s fluency with English wasn’t great and they seemed to be ignoring the English speaking Lufthansa pilot.

Lots of holding patterns to manage the queue.

Eventually, the local but bilingual pilots on the frequency catch on and instruct ATC to let Lufthansa jump the queue and let them land first because the situation is much more complicated for them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh9c1UyIrdg
As far as I'm concerned the internet is just a global IP network. I can still ssh to my openbsd server and connect to my plan 9 system at home. I can rent a server that is still a PC. I can rent a VPS that feels like a pc.

Until the day comes when I can no longer send whatever IP traffic where and when I want, I'm still using the same old internet. The roads are still the same. The scenery just changed with time. Everything else is just a roadside attraction along the way. And like roads the attractions ebb and flow with time.
It is difficult to tell decarbonization projects with high long term output from those that merely serve the social and identity preferences of executives
Remember from what?
>It's very unlikely tracking can even be banned [...]

How so? It's just politics - no more, no less. I don't even consider it highly unlikely that it will, letalone can, be banned, at least in the EU.
Show HN: Generate automated UI tests with the click of a button
I agree in a scale-dependent way, where "politics" is really offhand for "non-local politics", which is my fault for assuming that's what most people who say politics or Geo Politics (the words in op's post) mean. I think local politics are underrated, and national (often including state) politics are vastly, vastly overrated time sinks.

(full disclosure: I'm active in local politics, I was appointed to the bicycle-pedestrian committee for failure to keep my mouth shut)

Note that on the big scale, for 99% of people, their political options mostly consist of voting, and even the most careful reading of daily news isn't going to change their voting patterns. They've already decided what they think is best for the world. You can still vote without participation in the looney bin machine, if that's your preference. If you want to change people's minds, even politically, the best way to do it is probably not repeating political (news) stuff, but actually living a certain way.

> push for issues that you care about to make the world better for everyone.

Yes. Or make it worse, if you get it wrong :) (cue Seeing Like a State, etc)
IDK Reasons, but the Economist is a great news source.
Ask HN: What are you working on?
As we start a new decade, what are you spending your time on? Are you starting something new? Finishing something old? What are you working on?
Unsure about unikernels since they do suffer from inadequate tooling like monitoring, observability, debugability? Docker acquired MirageOS and are precisely doing what with it? I believe u/amirmc has left Docker and the Mirage project?

I'm more optimistic about the direction Cloudflare is taking with Workers [0]: They're simple, easy, capable (esp since Cloudflare now supports upto 10MiB against a single key in its edge KV store), cheap (no additional bandwidth charges), with super nice deployment and release models, coupled with a 100% uptime behind an Anycast IP served by 200+ datacenters. It is astonishing to me how wonderful it really is to work with as I experimented with it just this past week.

Workers can double up nicely as a HTTP(s) API Gateway though lack certain important primitives (like throttling rules, secrets management) out of the box.

If Workers were to ever support TCP/UDP with Bring Your Own App Server, I see it being a game changer, esp in terms of architecting a global scale service.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15364896
My list for mostly political and non-corporate media.

https://theintercept.com/

https://jacobinmag.com/

https://www.currentaffairs.org/