skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no higher calling than bread and circuses. As long as the people are well fed and are entertained, what else do they really need?
And that is litterally as east in Europe one can go - I honestly didn’t realise how far into Russia you can go before crossing the Ural Mountains.
No, trickle-down would be one passenger affixing an entire airplane’s worth of masks and only then maybe detaching one or two for his favorite fellow passengers to use.
“Disavowed” is a misleading word to use. He had criticisms of his list, but what the quote doesn’t mention is that Bloom was involved in a decades-long battle on the value of the idea of a canon. I think he was just tired of talking about it with people that hadn’t read the book in the first place.
This article includes a chart that compares NASDAQ's performance to the federal minimum wage on the same scale: https://api.profgalloway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Char...

Comparing relative changes is reasonable, but comparing $7.25 to NASDAQ 9,000 is nonsensical.
AMD stock
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062867889/the-white-mans-g...
I think this speaks more about the government and the acceptance of such things by the population rather than the state of research. Even in a hypothetical scenario of US being far ahead of China in the field at the moment, i do not see this kind of things going over well at all with the public in the US.
This comment is such shrill alarmist rhetoric that is not founded in reality. I think taking this approach is more harmful to your cause then you think.
Was doing similar work on a project using sonar imaging for the bottom of water bodies to much of what they're excluding. Not sure how concerned they'd be with identify freshwater creatures and riverbed structures...
Detailed analysis of what works and what doesn't:
https://christine.website/blog/v-vvork-in-progress-2020-01-0...
Hong Kong Is Fast Becoming an Also-Ran
The illusion that it means something.
> It’s never been easier to become a billionaire, or harder to become a millionaire.

I think this is factually incorrect on the second point. The US mints a net of about 300K millionaire households per year. (This means more than that on a gross basis as millionaire households who die off or who fall below the threshold are all replaced plus an additional 300K.) About 1 in 12 of US households are millionaire households up from about 1 in 20 in 1997. (In both figures I attempted to exclude the value and debt on primary residence)

The sad part is that being a mere millionaire household doesn't mean that much anymore. It provides around $40K per year in safe income or about 1.5x the federal poverty level for a family of 4.
Have you considered audio books? Doesn't work that well for many(/most?) technical books, but it's great for fiction, and easy to pair with a busy life.

I listen to tons of audio books while walking, commuting to work, doing chores at home, etc.
Tariff's don't have to be high enough to starve out countries to cause change, most people seem to agree that the Chinese people only tolerate the CCP because their economy is growing, if tariff's slowed that then they'd be under pressure to do something to fix it. There are similar situations in countries all over the world.

Personally I think it is an existential threat to our way of life - if you take the most conservative predictions then at the very least there's going to be disruption to the global food supply (maybe not enough to starve everyone, but there'll be much less choice than now) and mass migration due to drought which could very easily kick off WW3.

I do believe though that if the political will was there in the big Western markets the worst of this could be avoided without it having to come to conflict. Most experts seem to be of the same opinion, the vast majority say a carbon tax is the best method available to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
The USA issued statements supporting the ousting of Morales. That was the extent of USA's involvement. That does not really make it a "USA backed coup". Unless you believe it just because that's what Morales claimed.
People buy smartphones instead of CDs, movie tickets, and new cars.
I took it as just a statement of reality that people should be aware of. Especially for higher-level advisory work, i.e. not primarily writing code, a large percentage of time is "off the clock." Most of the independent consultants I know spend a lot of time writing newsletters, doing podcasts, speaking for free at events, in addition to whatever 1:1 marketing/sales they do.
So was “running in the cloud” just a buzzword?

Serverless is not just “managed hosting” in the cgi-bin since - serverless implies there is no server to manage and it’s for all intents and purposes “infinitely scalable”.

For instance, Amazon’s hosted versions of Mysql, Postgres, Sql Server, etc are not what they consider “Serverless” you still have to size it appropriately and if your needs increase, have to move to a larger server. You have to worry about CPU utilization, memory utilization etc.

DynamoDB is considered “serverless” because you don’t have to manage any of that.

The same is the difference between S3 and provisioning storage that you attach to your VM.
> What will we do when machine learning (or science, or anything, really) comes to a conclusion we find unpalatable, for whatever reason?

What makes you think it hasn't already happened? Numerous times?

Biological differences between sexes? IQ differences between differentiable subsets of people? The gender equality paradox?

We already know what will happen when findings are unpalatable. We'll think of ways to explain why they don't matter and can't possibly be right, or that we weren't measuring the right thing in the first place. And these are just the more obvious cases!
I've looked into folding electrics so I could take one on the BART. Many of them are too small if you're 6' or more, and the others seem like a PITA to actually portage anywhere like up stairs. Even if you can get one into your workplace though that doesn't solve the problem for anywhere else you might go, like a restaurant. And if you're only concerned about work I would hope to Ja that your employer has secure bicycle parking since it's far cheaper/more compact than car parking and probably correlates to healthier employees.
Some people who were previously unremarkable are now remarkable like a whole slew of social media influencers and YouTubers. My favorite YouTuber has a normal unremarkable job but makes silly nail art videos with millions of views. There's little niches like of old Indian people making large amounts of food for poor kids.
(By the proper definition of "(social) classes", arguably it indicates both. Then again, Marcuse did not seem to have much appreciation for those widely shared "needs and satisfactions", or for the so-called "establishment" that has evolved (and is indeed constantly evolving) to meet them.)
What else would you add?
I really think you can get a serverless experience with a radically different OS than we think of the set-it-and-forget-it Linux OSes. If you have an OS that is designed for self maintenance a lot of these problems go away, but your debugging experience isn't super different. I expand these thoughts here: https://robszumski.com/serverless-with-servers/
climate
/ˈklʌɪmət/

noun

the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
"our cold, wet climate"
This is about Google's QUIC ("gQUIC") and is based on a version from 2018. It explains in the Related Work section at the end that the IETF QUIC protocol has different properties.

The trade discussed between keeping information for longer to make everything faster versus throwing it away frequently to avert tracking is _everywhere_ already. It's in your HTTP/1.1 web browser's Cookie behaviour, it's in the TLS implementation's resumption feature.

One piece of good news is that in the quest to speed things up putting the public keys into DNS means it's no longer practical to (as is discussed as a potential attack in this paper) give each client different keys so you can identify them that way. Because DNS is cache-based everybody receiving the same version of the cached data will see the same keys. This isn't a problem for good guys, everything works, but if your goal was to track people against their will it's a problem.
I meant the news item, but thank you.
Ask HN: SaaS boostrappers what does your security stack look like?
the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 1.4 percent in the second year after the carbon tax implementation However, it also caused an increase in electricity costs for households and industry, which led to business closures and other economic hardships for businesses and citizens

It caused inflationary pressures of just under 1%, and cost the average household about $550 per year in additional costs

There were also reports of factory closures due to cost increases, with resulting job losses. One one company reported that they had to pay AUD8 million a year for the carbon tax and was forced to close as a result with all employees losing their jobs

But who needs an economy or jobs, right... the government will provide
Looks to me like it fits all those "model training on a GUI" packages people are selling today.

That will place the US in a large economical disadvantage for those.
> It's striking that the Bread and Games of the Roman Empire works out so well even today after that many more people are are comparatively well educated and should know better.

What would you expect people to do? Most people want a peaceful life with their friends and family, passing their time pleasantly until they die. Sure, it would be nice to be a billionaire, but most people don't want that enough to do much about it (and rightly so, in my opinion, since the utility of money decreases rapidly the more you have).

Your comment implies a critique of what people want, but I can't make out a suggestion of what they should want instead. Yes, it would be great if more people were richer, yes, we should make that happen, but no, being a billionaire isn't really worth pursuing when you can be very happy with much less and without sacrificing two decades in the process for a shot at a lottery ticket.
Although $50k for a resume is way too much, you’d be hard pressed to find better references...
There's plenty of people arguing that logic itself is white oppression mechanism so I'm not surprised.

This is a moral / philosophical problem not technological one.

We have lots of things opposing each other:
- democracy and majority vote vs minorities
- solving 80% of problems efficiently vs ideal utopia

The world itself is biased, we are all biased, we all have different moral values. There is no definitive moral rule with which we could compare anything and easily say it's good or bad.

Conservatism isn't inherently bad just like openness to new ideas isn't. We usually need the right proportion of both to go forward.
The same author calculates the "degree ROI" of higher education by dividing the first-year salary by the annual tuition so the overall mathematical rigor is, to use the article's terminology, unremarkable.
Concerning fiction only: I see books as a way to experience things that I cannot experience in my (rather repetitive) "real" life otherwise.

I don't necessarily mean this in terms of the fantastical but also in terms of more pedestrian books. I still get to connect with characters (people) in ways I wouldn't in real life, experience emotions that terminals aren't very good at evoking, and have thoughts that wouldn't have otherwise occurred to me.

I don't really remember what I read very well. I can't quote some famous passage and after a few months my memory of the book is reduced to basically a blur. Since HN is ever pragmatic, one has to ask what exactly I'm walking away with in the end. I think reading (fiction) gradually imparts you with a wider soundstage through which to view (hear) life and is generally enriching in that sense. It also, unquestionably, makes you a better writer--good writers are rare in technical fields and learning to write well is really sort of arcane in some ways, so I wouldn't underestimate that. (Nor would I underestimate the value of good writing: bad writing sullies the fuck out of an otherwise good paper.)

Since I'm a student, I'll often have periods for many months where I don't read a single page. But whenever I come back to reading, I always find myself asking why I didn't keep the habit up. Reading encourages a sort of mindfulness (almost a meditation of sorts) that I always find myself missing once I rediscover it when I start reading again.
Yes, they do. Nobody is ruled without their own complicity.
The first example I thought of was on the C=64, with assembly language. The second was on MS-DOS with C++ and assembly language.

> Creating something useful using nothing but the raw materials of ideas, with essentially limitless possibilities, with your own creativity as the only physical limit on what's possible.

As soon as there's an OS and compiler and runtime in between me and the computer, this all goes out the window. It's an artificial world with pre-built materials, and limitations everywhere you turn, and 99% of the ideas you work with will be someone else's, and how to fit in with that.

My view of a computer in 2020 is all about the tooling, and I spend the most time on that, because everything I touch is someone else's tooling. The "endlessly fascinating process" that hoodwinked young me into software no longer exists.

I didn't pick up the "C=64 Programmer's Reference Guide" because I mistook it for a business manual, or even because I wanted to build Amazon.com and just needed to write the infrastructure first.
There is no data that supports the assertion that the average worker hasn't seen a pay increase in 40 years. Increases may not have been as great, but there have been increases. Whether you look at Fed numbers, CBO numbers, or Census numbers, all show an increase in real income.

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

Between 1979 and 2011, gross median household income, adjusted for inflation, rose from $59,400 to $75,200, or 26.5%. This compares with the Census' growth of 10%.[19] However, once adjusted for household size and looking at taxes from an after-tax perspective, real median household income grew 46%, representing significant growth.[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
Technological progress is not the problem! We have better energy efficiency than ever, overpopulation and especially "modern comfort" are the real culprits.

Moreover, bioplastics, fusion and next-gen battery tech could mitigate world pollution if they become cheaper than "dirty" tech.
No war necessary. Make it a condition of trade, a carbon tariff. If a sizable block of countries requires this any country without a carbon tax will be at a significant trade disadvantage.
There are a few widely-used embedded SSL stacks, of which mbed TLS is probably one worth targeting or adding support for (wolfSSL is another.) So long as this requires OpenSSL it's gonna basically be stuck in Linux.
Well, disavowed was my word, not his, but I stand by it. It seems pretty clearly to be a disavowal to me.
i think we've been adapting to our ecosystem since humans first came into the scene.

the only difference now is that we finally realised we're living on a planet that's not constant, but actually changing. this realisation is a positive in my book, as an extinction level event is always around the corner.

re. how many will die: the plague has been constantly killing humans for almost 1000 years now. and we're still here. yes, i'm an optimist.
A bit more detail:

This Is Jean-Michel Basquiat's Resume https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/this-is-jean-michel-basquia...

Jean-Michel Basquiat Biography https://www.biography.com/artist/jean-michel-basquiat
If I'm overly simplistic, this seems to be 1/3 of an English degree. The remaining 2/3s being linguistics and history with cultural studies of the times.

I'm still undecided how much I'd recommend someone else studying English (full time, as their only major). I enjoyed the studies though!
Regarding Iran, the Shah was a stooge and Western influence was seen as too strong. We often see pictures of women in miniskirts in Tehran during the 70s like if that was a sign of a great time... except that the Iranian population was more conservative and did not see that as a positive.

The Islamists were both nationalists and traditionalists and got the upper hand because of that.

Iran is a great and old culture and civilisation and, like perhaps China, they won't let foreigners take over and dictate the rules.

Unfortunately, it looks like the USA still don't get that.
Seems like a clear disavowal of the list itself, although not of the concept of a canon altogether.
True, though this update occurred only relatively recently, in 2016.
Thanks for sharing!

Your setup seems sane and pretty close to what would be if you want to run the same thing on a single server.

It makes the code base in the original link looks like a proprietary duct tape spaghetti :P

I just recommend setup postscreen[1] and rspamd[2].

1. http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html

2. https://www.rspamd.com/
Major nuclear powers have a significant portion of their economies tied up in fossil fuels. They will not go down without a fight.

China already emits 2x US CO2 and is on track to double its emissions by 2030. There is no scale of trade war/tariffs I can imagine that will derail this.
I didn’t read books for many years for a lot of the reasons you list. 2019 I read 24 and am already almost done with my first book of the year. I think they are worth it.

Have you tried something like audible? I discovered that I get through and retain spoken content much better than site reading. Listening to content makes reading enjoyable and there are so many fantastic books
As gross as the government-meddled Java crypto libraries made me feel, the fact that the meddling-free workaround library was called "bouncycastle" really made my day.

http://bouncycastle.org/

> Here at the Bouncy Castle, we believe in encryption. That's something that's near and dear to our hearts. We believe so strongly in encryption, that we've gone to the effort to provide some for everybody, and we've now been doing it for almost 20 years!
Kakoune works fine with WSL and you need POSIX environment for any serious work anyway.
On the contrary, I've worked with 8 and {32,64}bit x {LE,BE} chips many times and wrote quite a lot of network code in C. But you're mixing syntax with semantics.
Oh God, the key sound comes on the right channel if I press the right Shift, but the left channel if I press the left Shift. That's some attention to detail, wow.
Yes you’re missing out.

There are a lot of bad books out there that waste your time (particularly in self-help).

For an example of an excellent non-fiction book that gives sweeping background to a topic that you can’t get from a blog post read The Emperor of All Maladies (about cancer).

For one about Physics read Our Mathematical Universe.

There’s also Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Rationality which was a large collection of blog posts put into book form.

For fiction I’d recommend The Nix for a really good novel.

The difference between good and bad in books is huge and part of the difficulty is that it’s hard to know up front if a book will be a waste of your time.
how can one copy paste an explanation without reading it?

"over a long period of time."

hot outside right now != climate is hot.
I have noticed in the past 10 years online content has become very click-baited and regurgitated. Sites are designed to steal your attention with information coming as a secondary concern.

Books, for the most part, avoid these issues. On average they are of higher-quality, contain more research, and are better for developing your focus. So read books!

With that said, I also think people use the amount of books they read to value-signal their intelligence. Don't worry about that shit, worry about finding high-quality content that's worth reading.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters and not the pupils.

— N.H. Abel (1802–1829)
>cgi-bin didn’t have any type of process isolation

"Lambdas" don't by nature either. I can run cgi-bin in a FirecrackerVM-like ecosystem with one script per VM.

>Also, it didn’t tie in to other none web based events.

Webhooks aren't new.

I'm not disputing the popularity and convenience of serverless. I'm just noting it's somewhat like Docker. Packaging existing tech in an easier-to-use bundle.
I would suggest you read this before you pass a final judgement on books : https://www.amazon.com/Reader-Come-Home-Reading-Digital/dp/0...
You believe the Heron problem has been solved by government regulations? Or there are not Snake Oil product today sold with the complete approval of the government? And I am not sure what regulations your referring to around Radium...

The others are more of the same, some of it is misappropriation to how much the government actually impacted things vs normal market pressures, the government has the habit of coming in after society has already starting phasing out a product or practice then "regulating" the last few companies that have not changed yet as the pressure of the market leaders, it is form or protectionism to put competition out of business.

But continue to believe the government work for you, and not Large Multi National corporations. All evidence speaks to the contrary...
You're now fighting with me on two different conversation threads, what seems like just for the sake of fighting at this point.

Violent protest is always greeted with crowd control. In Every Country. You seem to be forgetting that the Ukrainian population caused a revolution, instead of waiting for the election for a few more months.

Have a look at the violence from protestors just before it all fell apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stK3YPz6WTc

The people are worse off today than they were before. Not everyone supported their revolution, and you can deny that all you want, but, the people in the Donbass don't want to be a part of the circus that is Ukraine in its current state.

> Currency exchange rates are irrelevant.

Clearly I'm beating a dead horse. I don't know where to begin explaining to you that currency is not irrelevant.

About the mass emigration, these are people who have not filed for citizenship with other countries because in a lot of circumstances they cannot. No one is coming to Ukraine looking at it as a desirable place to live at the moment. There are less jobs in Ukraine, there is less trade in Ukraine, people have no choice but to work abroad.

Yes, I am also aware of the cases of some defected ex-Russian military helping the Donbass fighters, but, again you keep ignoring the fact that 99% of the population enlisted in fighting are citizens of the Donbass...

How can you honestly argue that the status quo is better than it was before the revolution? What are you even arguing?
> A lot of people are probably confused about what an Iranian general is doing in Iraq in the first place.

Coordinating with the local PMF forces [0] which just a bit earlier the US hit [1] in retaliation for the killed US contractor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Mobilization_Forces

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50951742
> I have seen a patent to use SSH to administer a storage system

People should be embarrassed.

So many nerds have this self-image of being a change-the-world conquering intellect, and then spend their day trying to game a bullshit system to pull a few bucks from their neighbor's pocket. And they're not capable of actually making anything, so they try to patent bog-standard uses of other people's tools.

Their bragging about it is a blessing, though. Makes them easier to avoid.