skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please if you are interested in this read more. This article is just garbage.

Start with wiki it is actually surprisingly good.

“The official pretext for the start of the coup was Mosaddegh's decree to dissolve Parliament, giving himself and his cabinet complete power to rule, while effectively stripping the Shah of his powers.[13][14][15]”

Say Boris Johnson dissolves parliament takes all of the power into his own hands and his ministers. Queen tries to relieve him(coup!!!!) has to run away to France :o He then starts imprisoning anyone who has a problem with that.

I also like the legend about CIA managing to bribe a bunch of communists party members to burn down part of Tehran trying to start revolution, at the same time they were bribing: media, army, other counter protestors, security, religious leaders. Just how many agents did they have running this masterclass operation? Nobody in in Tehran clearly had any will of their own.
Yes everything is completely messed up. Flowers blooming at wrong times of the year, animals are confused, crops are being beaten up by the biggest hail, Winds are getting stronger and this and that etc. Mother earth didn't even show the real teeth yet. When one of the the super Vulcanos wakes up we'll see the real hell on the earth.
There is also super hostile environment outside earth but this is for some other space debate.
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Well if we are talking about risks and probabilities. There are events with non-trivial probability that can negate the effects of this such as major volcanic eruptions or nuclear war etc.
weather isn't climate
They might not get the chance: latest news[1] this morning is that some of the coal seams have caught fire underground!

This is catastrophic. Underground coal (and oil) fires are near-impossible to put out and are generally just left alone to burn, usually for decades before/if they run out of fuel.

[1] https://twitter.com/maetl/status/1213420680579964929?s=20
Absolutely. Frankly I think in a few years time we'll look at Lambda the way we look at people dumping php scripts on a shared server today. It needs a lot of thinking before serverless fulfills its long term potential in those respects.

The irony is that a whole lot of the solutions are well understood; just not in the same environments. E.g. "enterprise" computing went through a whole cycle of building application services for small self-contained components with discovery and messaging in the late 90's that people seem to have largely forgotten as somewhere to look to at least for a laundry list of what kind of services are needed.
I think some folks are afraid of losing their jobs, so they lash out with snark.
This is a common property of software with BSD-ish roots. For example, neither does OpenSSH's ssh.
Neat! Are you a person who can provide hints about how to the Directions feature is powered?
SSNs are much too short, and were mostly issued in a foolish and predictable way (if you're a kid you might have a random SSN but most Americans still have ones issued the old way). Given the US plausible population load, issuing a randomly chosen 12 digit number incorporating a check digit would have been a better start.

But the authentication problem is the tricky part though, governments don't have a reliable way to authenticate their citizens today and even if you have a good will intent to fix this, that can be hijacked by people with less saintly motives. See India or China for how that might not go well.
I don't think many people ignore the science.
Quite a few of us do ignore the over-the-top doom saying and fear mongering, and the patronizing tone.
No it makes it a pain to export any products abroad. In today's world where your market is probably not just the US anymore it is insane to have such rules in place.
So it's essentially GoDaddy's side business where you uploaded some code using ftp and they took care of everything else?
> court cases are political processes; they may be decided differently when different judges have been appointed to the bench

This should not be true though, that's the point of having the law being a separate power.
Create Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript
I'm guessing that you don't live in Europe.
I wouldn't say that they're badly designed. They make it easy to deal with text, the bread and butter of shell, while neglecting other data structures, which is fine 99% of the time, unless you're using these shell languages as general purpose.

They also neglect parallel, concurrent, async programming. Which agan is fine for a shell language. The shell does have use cases for simple parallel processing and you can delegate to dedicated unix tools for that and it works great. If you need more, you're expected to jump into a more powerful environment.

So they're poor in data structure variety, and more interesting (nonsequential) ways of executing programs, which, again, is fine for a shell language, but those were exactly the things I wanted. I wanted to pipe and tee a bunch of programs programs into one "executable graph" a la dataflow programming using bash or something similar, but quickly understood that due to the above reasons I need a different environment. I'm still on the lookout for good dataflow programming environments.
We should just move to "hyposerver" already
Australian bird making bushfire crisis worse by dropping embers in dry fields
I'm not sure exactly what the author was referring to but http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/ might be of interest.
so it's like Appcelerator ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955066 ), which has been around since eons.
This use case and logic seems really weird to sell the serverless buzzword. My personal email has been somebody else's problem since the 90s and is done through the provider of my personal domain at no additional cost.

Setting up a serverless email server seems like something I'd have to bother with and maintain a few years down the line when the platform of choice inevitably changes something. Some use cases of serverless applications just shift maintenance efforts. Sure, I don't have to update OS packages. I still have to wonder if the service I'm using for my serverless stuff will be there (for startup vendors) in a few years or, more likely for vendors like AWS, change their terms, pricing or aspects of their API. I can pay a student intern to maintain a single VPS based $whatever, AWS consultants cost a multiple of that. If that's something you can and want to do yourself, sure, that's great - even for small use cases like this but then it becomes a philosophical toy problem more than a technical challenge.
Whatever Russia has done, I don't see it as a threat to the security of the world as a whole. Russia lacks the ability to project force around the world (e.g. it lacks aircraft carriers and a modern air force) and the EU's military spending alone is ~4x Russia's _before_ the Ruble collapsed.

The US however has an obscene amount of military power and has shown that it's happy to use it for a full-scale invasion of another country based on fabricated nonsense. I'm not aware of Russia doing anything remotely similar since its birth (where "birth" refers to the collapse of the USSR).
Watch the Aston Martin Valkyrie Shout in Anger from Its Cockpit
I’ve read the claims, and don’t currently see how they exclude Signal. Perhaps on claim construction it might be possible to dig into the specification and find non-standard interpretations of some terms that walk around the existing prior art. But that feels like a very unreliable approach.
If you're using nginx (haven't checked it) microcaching for a bunch of seconds, let's say five seconds, can solve most of this problems and you don't need to add more components.
If lithium reaches a certain price point, then it will just be extracted from ocean water.
I disagree, access defines the pipe. Like kW measurements in electricity.
it would be naive/foolish to expect that the enormous technological progress and overpopulation by humans would not affect the environment. The question is how fast can people and ecosystems adapt. This is not the first nor the biggest change the earth has seen by far. It's also naive to think that politics is going to reverse that change - it's a technological problem.
> Assuming this works as advertised, you can go from zero to a full blown email service for organizations with thousands of people (assuming the stated AWS limits are lifted), in record time

As someone who has been in this industry for over 30 years from being a grunt to wearing CTO hats if there's one thing that my experience unquestionably taught me is that there's absolutely nothing ever works like it is advertised. Ever.
This, in a nutshell, is why I (a highly paid software developer in NYC) would personally benefit from aggressive action on income and wealth inequality. There are enough people in this city who make tens or hundreds of times the salary I make that landlords and sellers are happy targeting them, and I'm competing against the prices they can pay. As a thought experiment: cap my salary to $50K/year and cap everyone else's to $50K/year too and market forces will quickly make me a much more competitive buyer.

I wouldn't even be sad about the money I'd no longer be making, because right now a good chunk is going into rent, and an even larger chunk is going into savings so I can buy a home at NYC prices. So it's not like I get to spend it on other things. If I didn't have the money but I also didn't have to spend that money on housing, I'd be equally well off.

(And all of this is leaving aside that other people would be better off, which is net good for society, etc. etc. Even the first-order effects alone are selfishly valuable.)
Show HN: How to Get Rich, the Book
It is important to distinguish the basis of the change

Why does that do anything but confuse matters? The cause of the change doesn't affect anything else you have said about how to address it.
I really loved Naval's tweet storm How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) and while I really enjoy the podcast (https://nav.al) I wanted it as a kindle book as well...

So I made one! Hope you enjoy it. Any feedback is much appreciated, this is my first book design ever (as you can probably tell).
As someone who's not up to date on all the climate research. Are most the scientists in agreement that climate change is a result of our actions? And do they all agree on how dangerous changes to our climate are?
It might have worked for Travis Kalanick, but can we really say that it worked for Uber?
I dont think they are perfect and dont expect them to be. I think the difference is --

For most primary care practices i've used, lateness is expected and there is no design or system.

For OMG, lateness is unexpected and designed out of the system.
How much war are you willing to wage to force other countries to do the same? I think that's really the only question that matters when it comes to the "everybody pass laws" plan.
Mark my words, "I don't even have Facebook" is going to be the new "I don't even have a TV" in 2020.
Someone else said on HN, developers don’t just move to the cloud to avoid administering servers, we also want to avoid server administrators.
My initial instinct exactly, because major corps are global now, which means they can easily set up shop anywhere on Earth: subsidiaries, but also quasi-independent structures which might only be related through distant funding or meta-agreements.

So you can be an American company with tons of "friends" in the EU, Asia, Latin American and now Africa, doing stuff (research, product) and you would just happen to buy/sell from/through these independent actors. Fiction-Google: “Oh but that's not us! It's Oogleg, a Swiss company! It's true 95% of our private shareholders also have shares in Oogleg, but that's only circumstancial, these are large funds you know... they actually have shares in 95% of businesses altogether through ETFs and mutual funds dilution. + some legalese blabla.”

There goes your protectionism, State governments! You'll get your import taxes for physical goods and on-prems services but overall, it certainly won't impede or even touch the thriving heads, the global leaders of the business world. Not anymore. That was in another time, before global networks.

And actually, we might think Fortune 100, perhaps 1,000; but in truth it's probably much more (cue 80% of GDP in the form of SMBs) because how do you enforce a restriction on remoting to contribute to some repo somewhere?

Note that this is true as of 2020, factually from a technical standpoint, but given a few decades and some generalized country-based firewalls (it's coming, in all likelihood) + convenient surveillance and you get all the means necessary to enforce such policies anew.
> Advocating for the removal of voting rights for those who disagree so that we can arrange their future for them may be counterproductive.

I disagree slightly. Not "may be" but "is" counterproductive. Occasionally you just need to vent out actual opinions and ignore the productivity...
True, at least in theory.

While not all that much relevant in this particularly case (or at least not likely), I've heard from several patent lawyers (granted, this is still hearsay) that it is a rather common practice for big companies to patent any potentially relevant new technologies from smaller players (often when still under development), only to bully these potential competitors.

Considering the high price of patent lawyers, this is sadly a rather effective method for protecting a dominant market position, but it's also very destructive to innovation as a whole (because apparently many of these patents are subsequently never used to actually produce anything).

It's a rather cynical abuse of the system, and one that goes directly against its stated goal: to promote innovation. However, it could also be argued, from the (early) history of patents and how they have been used throughout time, that this has always been a charade, and it really was always more about controlling innovation and technological progress, rather than actually stimulating it.
The term serverless is not a metaphor like your examples, it's a contradiction. Big difference. I feel like understanding the "computer concepts" makes the term seem even more absurd.
I think Buffalo specifically
They see something they disapprove of, it goes against their values. So they spread awareness of what happened.
What is this post supposed to prove? It certainly is not supposed to prove that a hello world is a representative real-world program, from which one could infer that writing and debugging a real-world program in Julia is 835 times as complex as writing a real-world program in assembly, since the former makes 835 times as many syscalls as an assembly program. (You know, that number seems okay for me, except it needs to be applied to these languages in reverse.)

I agree that software bloat is a big problem, but trivializing that problem to printing a "hello world" to the screen, punishing all languages with runtimes by measuring the syscalls involved in their startup routines, disregarding the fact that many users are going to have a single system-wide runtime for e.g. C or Python or Julia and therefore the total-kB number does not scale linearly with the number of programs written in C or Python or Julia, ignoring the massively increased software development and debugging time for writing in low-level and memory-unsafe languages like assembly, static Zig, or C, and directly implying[0] that most problems with software complexity can be solved by writing in assembly, static Zig, or C rather than in Julia/Ruby/Java/all other languages from the bottom 90% of the list (and that's the vibe that this post gives me) is, for me, more about making a venting shitpost than creating something that provides even a part of an actual solution to software bloat in general.

The "more time your users are sitting there waiting for your program" statement is especially amusing to me. Your users are not going to wait shorter for your program because you and your team are taking another year to write, test, and debug it in assembly.

[0] "These numbers are real. This is more complexity that someone has to debug, more time your users are sitting there waiting for your program, less disk space available for files which actually matter to the user."
Carbon will print parts for Lamborghini’s Sián FKP 37 hybrid sports car
Y2K @ 20
It never did
upstack.co
Is there a source for this assertion?
I read that Iraqis died during the strike as well.
Could Godaddy’s side business launch isolated VMs when items appeared in a queue? A file appeared on a server? Events came from a stream? Could it respond to any events besides http?
Publicly funded and supported climate change detection method that is essential to communicate to the public...behind a paywall. Disappointing at least.
You can never know when the tipping point is because either you haven't yet hit it, or you already have but don't know at which point in the past the death spiral could have been prevented, if at all.
No. You can disable even the stuff that is installed by default - you can't erase them but once they are inactive they won't bother you anymore.
If the GP comment is comparing OMG vs a true concierge practice, I totally agree. A $200/yr membership vs a true concierge membership is not a good comparison.

My assumption was -- the GP is thinking that "cheap" meant the $200 Annual Fee is how they get paid. No, the Annual Fee is just for the system they provide, the care is a typical insurance paid practice.
Actually I have almost always used Samsung.
the overpopulation mantra has been debunked so many times already.

edit:
since i'm getting downvoted for pointing out the obvious, here's links pointing out that overpopulation is a myth, even a racist one in some circumstances:

wapo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/fee.org/articles/the-myth-tha...

https://www.pop.org/debunking-the-myth-of-overpopulation/

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/mar/9/how-racist-...

kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/QsBT5EQt348

the guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/19/overpopulatio...

nytimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/overpopulation-is...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/25/overpopulation-the-de...
There is no such thing as invasion defensive war that can't be afforded. You do it or you die. A rag tag bunch of colonies defeated the most powerful empire in the world, twice. This isn't a video game. The oceans don't protect us like they did in ww2 and ww1.
Coal-Seam Fire
Because laissez-faire economics doesn't converge automagically on the best path.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/how-the...
The oldest one is about 6,000 years old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain
I thought input method is orthogonal to whether it’s a GUI. I think GUI is meant as opposed to text console or eg audio (like a phone dial-in service); it doesn’t necessarily mean a touch screen like I think you’re implying.
Everything is made in China these days. Even stuff "designed in California".

> Updates?

Motorola usually provides 2 Android updates beyond the year each model was released. Not always a rule but you can see for yourself here: https://www.getdroidtips.com/list-of-android-10-q-supported-...
The Open University was started in 1969 and is the largest academic institution in the UK. Undergrads used to receive course materials by mail and broadcast TV shows but since the web took off, much more is done via the internet.

It's free if you don't have a degree and you meet the means test. In 2000 they had virtual courses on Second Life. Since 2006 they joined the Open educational resources movement and begun offering courses that are free for everyone via the inernet.
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Sadly the commenter doesn't know what the rule of law means. You can't just move into an unsuspecting city, dump a few hundred e-scooters on the ground, and expect money.

These e-scooter trash-mongers belong in prison for abandoning large quantities of junk on city streets. I would charge the founders with multiple environmental crimes if I were the local DA or a Federal prosecutor.

Move fast and break the law?
And yet how many people die from being hit by bikes? It's barely even an issue. Even in European cities where you can step on the wrong side of a sidewalk and instantly get smashed into. It's an imaginary problem.

>Add to that the fact that a car can break or avoid obstacles in a much more efficient way than a bike could ever do

That's obviously false. Just consider the stuff that BMX bikes can do in terms of maneuvering. Or even normal bikes. Try driving on a car through a busy pedestrian street. On a bike it's a piece of cake, and you won't have to stop even once.
Apple A/UX: The First Unix Mac OS
Seems fake
It's a decently well-known phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire -- Started burning in 1962. Still burning today and on track to burn for another 250 years.
Lac De Gafsa: Mysterious Lake
Well the equivalent would be the Chinese drug lord boss found in Manilla while moving a large shipment and then taken out by a CIA drone.

That sounds very reasonable and I can’t imagine what you are opposed to, what exactly is the problem with either what happened or the scenario in Manilla?
The IPCC summary is available to read: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-spm-...

> very high confidence that the
global average net effect of human activities since
1750 has been one of warming, with a radiative
forcing of +1.6 [+0.6 to +2.4] W m–2

> Most of the observed increase in global average
temperatures since the mid-20th century is very
likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic
greenhouse gas concentrations.

> The equilibrium climate sensitivity is a measure of the
climate system response to sustained radiative forcing.
It is not a projection but is defi ned as the global average
surface warming following a doubling of carbon
dioxide concentrations. It is likely to be in the range
2°C to 4.5°C with a best estimate of about 3°C, and is
very unlikely to be less than 1.5°C.
It’s an abstraction - just like every other computer concept.
Serverless is an architectural and design strategy. Run away from anyone that claims EC2 is serverless.

You can't lift and shift to serverless... Period. The design choices are almost always breaking changes.
Australia Reservists Are Called Up as Blazes Spread
I think part of the blame lies with people themselves. Few are motivated to partake in civics, read studies, be literate in math and logical analysis. I understand that many aren’t given the opportunity, but I see that even those who are, few desire to take advantage of their freedom and would rather leave the operation and advancement of society to others.
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Demo:

http://online.codedrome.com/cellularautomaton1d/ca1d.htm

Description:

https://www.codedrome.com/one-dimensional-cellular-automaton-in-javascript/

Github:

https://github.com/CodeDrome/cellular-automata-1d-javascript
It only has ever worked if you have a monopoly or plenty of cash to burn. If you can test in production and your user base can absorb errors/inconsistent behavior, it's the path to finding new verticals.