skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsure what the downvotes are for.

Wireguard is not designed to provide any obfuscation. It has very clear fingerprints. This is by design. Jason is very clear that Wireguard does not consider obfuscating its packets to be in scope for the project.

AirVPN (I believe) attempts to provide a service that also features an obfuscated / hidden VPN.

This does not mean that Wireguard cannot become the underlay used by VPN providers like AirVPN. Just that they'll need an obfuscation overlay as well.
Capitalism is an economic system centered around market relations, which has little to do with how "people and communities" organize themselves socially. The two issues just have very little to do with each other.
Ruby was fun while I worked with it professionally but now I don't really like it or reach for it. It's a combination of monkey patching, imports being affected by their filesystem location, games of is this a function or a variable. I don't miss it.

I've been working with Elixir for the past three years and it's boring and predictable. I want that moving forward from my tools. I want boring and predictable.
I've done that a few times, and always felt anxiety before hitting "submit". So far I've had mostly good reactions to it, but I've also had it ignored and the ticket silently closed.
Moore's law is not about doubling clock speed, it is about doubling the transistor density.
This has continued after clock speed improvements have stopped.

Even today it is following Moore's law, although not at Intel:
https://medium.com/predict/moores-law-is-alive-and-well-eaa4...
You are talking about websites, not native apps. Make a native app.
No, cops aren’t using SiriusXM to find criminals. Here’s how they do it
> That seems like a robust dataset to me.

Perhaps, but there's a wide distribution of age of death, and the author is fretting about a 5 year difference in life expectancy between 2 populations that are doing fine.

Assuming someone can ever fully explain the cause of this life-expectancy difference, it's going to be multi-faceted and complex and amount to nothing more than a long list of generic advice and policy prescriptions that will go nowhere and probably be culturally incompatible.
+1, I completely agree!

Especially the screenshots help to get motivated to try it and if you try it you will notice it just works as advertised - awesome :-D
Does it have (1) a RELP, (2) jupyter support and/or smth like it, (3) interpreted mode or a compiler fast enough that I can pretend it does not exist?

Without these it might be a a powerful tool, but it wouldn't be in the same niche as Python and R.

Also, having touched Scala once before, the complexity and learning curve, and the prerequisite of being knowledgeable about JVM ecosystem to be productive in it...
It's NFS, so the bad latency isn't surprising. The problem is that they don't have anything faster -- it tops out at 2GBy/s or something, even with hundreds of TB, even with multiple clients. You have to share your data over multiple EFS volumes, or build your own virtual gluster, which are extremely shit options. Also makes any kind of bug data HPC impractical.

Bezos, if you're listening, fire someone. You should have next generation pNFS or lustre like protocols by 2016.
The Birth of the Internet in the UK. (YouTube)
With which browser?
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I'm aware of the wheelbarrow full of blog dedicated to the web development and tracking the evolution of web products, applications, apis, etc. but I can't find many dealing with desktop apps, am I missing something?

I know desktop applications are not exactly a 'hot topic' but this seeming gap in content surprises me.
I work at one of the large tech companies listed on the site. I've literally never heard of this project until I found it on HN today.

It's funny to me, because just yesterday I was a having a conversation with a colleague who asked me if we had a "corporate account" with another commons SaaS PM tool that he has been using with his team. I think he was in shock when I listed all of the project management and collaboration tools that that I've seen used in our organization. There are no "standard" project management, planning, organization, sharing, etc. tools at big companies. There might be "official" ones, but then managers and directors just buy whatever the hell SaaS they want on a credit card.

Shadow IT is a thing. No company avoids it. I'd assume most Global 2000 companies use just about every single popular tool you can imagine _somewhere_ within their organization.
You're comparing one extreme (public cloud) to another extreme (sysadmin-managed infrastructure). The alternative, today, is either a private or a hybrid cloud, which have all the advantages of short-circuiting sysadmins that public clouds have.
all fordable screens so far have visible fold crease at the fold point
The last 2 paragraphs mention venture capital and VC dollars. I think the "homeless capital" refers to funds that are not being invested and have not found a "home" in new long-term businesses.
> While I expect to be downvoted for even bringing it up

Regardless of the merit of a comment, I downvote on principle when being baited like this.
I met with someone from a privacy focused search engine and a line from his deck stuck with me: “you tell your search engine things you wouldn’t tell your friends or spouse”
It's important to understand that his attitude and behaviour were common at the time, but also that the means of condemning it and punishing it were much more hidden then (and invisible to us today): whisper networks among women to keep their distance because he was "handsy"; his male friends telling him that he should be careful because one day an angry husband or boyfriend might punch him out for his behaviour. It was handled quietly and informally, and with very limited effectiveness. Mad Men didn't get into this side of it.

Low status men might notice they don't get invitations to dinner that other men get, but high status was effectively immunity: Asimov was important; you couldn't not invite him to a con or a party.
It does not suck. The compile times are OK and are getting better. Angular (and other) SPAs have capabilities no RoR, ASP.NET or Django setup can even begin to touch. Separating the back-end from the front-end with an independent API is also a god-send.

Death to remaining in the dark ages for nostalgia's sake.
As someone who is 62, I am glad I am still alive! I feel good, think clearly, and enjoy life. Some people are old at 60, but I think that is less and less common as work and health habits improve.
I see many peoples health go south after 80, but I have a 102 year old friend, and he was great thru his late 90s. 100s have been a bit rougher...
You're right on the second point, I misremembered. On the first point, I agree with Scott Aaronson's position in this post and comments: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091
There will be a huge market for foldable digital signage. Like wrapping a digital billboard around a curved surface. But you're right that it doesn't seem terribly practical for consumers. Maybe squeezed into a VR headset?
Not what TFA said, what "Quarrelsome" said that started this subthread:

"I thought Moore's Law effectively ended over a decade ago when we switched to multi-core chips? This ruined all sorts of single-threaded architectures that relied on these performance increases over time and resulted in programmers being less able to realise performance gains in released chips without having to rework their code to accommodate the change."

To which someone pedantically replied that Moore's Law is not about performance increases, but transistor count -- to which I replied that that's just one way it has been used (and not the most popular one either, or the more pertinent to the grandparent's question).
> Why not? Wind is a ~50% cheaper source of energy per kWh than nuclear.

That's an illusory number. Wind requires backup power, or lots of storage. Wind turbines have a ~20 year lifespan, compared with ~60 years for coal/nuclear plants. Once the safety and economies of mass-produced Gen IV SMRs are accounted for, nuclear is MUCH cheaper than wind.

What would be really bad would be the first time thousands of people die when the wind/solar powered grid goes down during a cold snap.
Possibly the phrase 'homeless capital' could mean human capital that is experiencing homelessness? The way the clause is constructed is pretty unclear. It could just mean there are a lot of homeless people, and is failing at being poetic.
Hah. Yes, actually I did. I wrote a C#-to-C++ transpiler and a VM wrapper with a concurrent GC. This predated Unity's IL2CPP by about 6 months.

Compile times were a big issue, and the little edges of the language and libraries were problematic since they were built around a JIT. Then it struck me that I don't really care about the JIT, and the reason I liked C# had nothing to do with the GC, and it would be much better to just make a slight variation of C# that was statically compiled and without a GC.

I just followed along all the obvious next steps from there, and here we are 5 years later.
I love it, but it's REALLY slow in Windows on the new MS Terminal, which is typically actually quite fast. Noticeably laggy and I can see the screen redraws. Anyone have any idea why, or how to speed it up?
SaaS is almost always only beneficial to the vendor, not the client.
Society failing some potentially super effective people is observable. If we employed half as many tricks to align people with challenging (skills-appropriate) and socially valuable work as we do to align potential buyers with products, I think a lot more would get done and a lot more people could live meaningful lives. I know several examples of people not doing things they're good at. Actively marketing yourself as a requirement for getting valuable work is an obstacle for many. Sometimes business culture is an obstacle.

Another thing is the chilling effect that our surveillance state has. Hacking away on tech in the US is not as appealing as it was (for some) before it was clear that your prospects are mostly being a cog in a system geared towards social control.

I think people need real privacy to learn, grow, and collaborate, or they just won't do that to the degree necessary to meet their potential.

Schools in the US are a big problem, and seem to be victims of broken politics and ideological battles on the regular. Profiteering in higher education also doesn't help.
Dang, my retirement savings will have to last much longer than I had expected.
You don’t have to be temporarily embarrassed to benefit from prop 13, merely one of the 55 percent of Californians that own their home. Homeowners vote, and they vote in their own self interest.
why do i feel like i'm in the first part of a scifi movie that ends up in the destruction of all life on the planet due to "clever" science
> This has replaced nnn for me and solves so many devops headaches

Can you please elaborate? Is that specifically because nnn[1] doesn't show a complete overview of the filesystem or some other features are missing?

One of the guiding principles of nnn is to generate minimum disk IOs.

Reading through a complete volume on a stuffed microSD or SD card attached to a RaspberryPi to list the filesystem (even if compacted) and then supporting filesystem changes dynamically is resource-intensive. nnn development is driven by minimum resource availability and usage.

[1] https://github.com/jarun/nnn
> It’s a pretty safe bet that if you want to enrich the poor’s souls then you need to enrich their pockets first.

Can't disagree with that. But we haven't been enriching the poor. We've been practicing trickle down economics instead.

Enriching the rich has marvelous side effects like a proliferation of low paying contract work (jobs!), ratcheting housing prices (wealth!) and increased production of luxury goods (utopia!).

But then you look at minimum wage, inflation and the consumer price index; and see that the poor have been hemorrhaging purchasing power since the 1970s.

So, yeah. Increasing wealth is great for humanity. But there's a wide gap between anticapitalism and the neoliberal/libertarian economic theories which brought today's plutocracy. The middle ground is classical capitalism.
that's not a winning attitude
The author is an economist, and therefore steeped in that culture, I think that explains most of it.

That said, I found him very insightful when he came on Eric Weinsteins podcast recently.
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Seeing this exact story happen all over DC right now. Just yesterday a locally owned bar announced it was closing because it couldn't come to terms on a new lease with the property owner. The insinuation was that the owner would happily let the place sit empty until a national chain was willing to take it.

Similarly, 14th St in DC even just a few years ago was becoming a vibrant, fun spot to shop, drink, and eat in. This was after years of neglect in the area. Over the last year or so though a string of bars and shops have closed and all been replaced with banks. Capital One Cafes, Citi, etc. I have no idea how all these banks are functioning (I thought brick and mortar banks were on their way out?) but it's a damn shame.
We're going to have to relearn how to wring every bit of performance out of the chips we have. I'm bearish on the current trend of bloatier and bloatier runtime environments; stuffing an entire isolated instance of Chrome in a container to run a Todo-list app shouldn't have ever made sense, but it especially does not in an environment where compute and memory is once again precious.

I hope that betting on Rust over JavaScript would be the winning play over the next decade, but I'll probably be wrong.
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> What is meant by "homeless capital"?

I take it to mean capital (in the banking/finance sense). So "homeless capital" might suggest that there is more invesment money available than there are good places to invest it.
In keeping with this, Python also has something similar: https://www.python.org/
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We should not throw it away, but we should keep it in mind when learning from him. Cause if we don't, adopting his values and thinking can slowly lead us toward slave owning and so on. It is related.
Government must remove the ability to claim an income loss on the balance sheets of property owners that purposely leave spaces empty. There is no reason to double (or more) the rent on a space. They are doing it because maybe someone will pay, and until then, they get to claim the loss of income as a write off on their taxes. If this is not true, then how can property owners, who claim that they need the new rental rate, afford to leave a place empty for a year or more???
>SF's budget is bigger than many countries

Those countries being under-developed African or Central Asian republics along with the various island nation-states. Right around Zimbabwe level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
This looks like it will only animate the scrolling when clicking on anchor links? Doesn't seem that bad to me.
San Francisco Is a Microcosm of America's Future
I find that hard to believe these days. It seems that getting a warrant is easier than ever.

https://apnews.com/a2b48c6f1911472986b0e501bdca9f25 - Most Utah warrants approved in less than 3 minutes
The tricky bit will be not doing it but doing it such that it is cost competitive and able to keep up with wind, solar, & battery all of which are currently rapidly improving in terms of cost, economies of scale, and exponentially growing existing deployments with prices continuing to drop. 0.01 $ / kwh is soon becoming a reality for some of the most competive bids.

When it comes to safety, part of the deal with anything nuclear is going to be security measures needed to prevent somebody from depopulating an area with a dirty bomb using the nuclear material inside the reactor. That alone can prevent this type of solution from ever reaching a point where it is actually cheaper to use than simple & safe wind/solar deployments. People are putting solar on their roofs, batteries in their car, and windmills on their farms. Security is not a cost factor for this. It is for nuclear.

This doesn't have to be a show stopper but it does limit the applications and contexts where this is going to be useful. Fundamentally solar + batteries is going to be pretty reliable, predictable, and cheap given enough mass production capacity. Also most of the timelines nuclear is supposed to happen on (measured in decades) give us plenty of room to vastly improve output, price, and efficiency. Therefore, I doubt that nuclear will be very relevant significant short term but it may help us get rid of the few remaining gas/coal plants in 2-3 decades.

Longer term that and fusion will be great in supplementing power needs anywhere solar/wind are just not practical.
I'm not managing anything near what you, and many people on here, do in your job. But from the perspective of a developer who has worked with several cloud platforms, Azure and Devops make the barrier for entry very easy, and the functionality available keeps growing.

For personal stuff I like using Firebase, but that's just because it's free. I just feel like you get what you pay for with Azure, and even for a small team like mine, someone at MS has always gotten back to us quickly when we need them.
Are there any notable/not-just-academic "clean sheet" CPU architecture efforts other than what Mill computing is doing?
A very interesting point I heard in a seminar* about Moore's law is that is was before all a commercial roadmap: at that point, Gordon Moore was probably more business-oriented than research-oriented, and such predictable improvements are above all useful to plan investments, so it seems that the semiconductor industry tried very hard to remain on that roadmap all these years (and obviously failed recently).

* by Jean-Pierre Raskin (UC Louvain) about what would the semiconductor industry look like tomorrow, and how to make it more responsible.
The author personifies capital earlier in the piece when he writes “noncommittal capitalism.” The way he structures the last sentence does seem to point towards the idea that the capital in SF is homeless.
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>Are you arguing the reason we can't have more doctor's is because not enough people want to be doctor's? Have you looked at medical school acceptance rates?

No that is not what I was arguing. Becoming a doctor is prohibitively expensive but being a doctor pays handsomely. If cost and salary were "normalized" nothing would change but it is impossible to just change one of the two. Thus my argument is that we can't just pay doctors less unless we also make becoming a doctor cheaper.

>There are plenty of easy solutions. Stop requiring a college degree for medical school. Increase the number of medical school slots. Increase how much nurse practitioners can do. But the is fighting all of them tooth and nail.

Easy to say, difficult to do. You can't just instantly suck money out of areas of the economy. Things take time to adjust.
This a is a global trend: 'The quiet suicide epidemic plaguing French farmers' (1) + ‘Europe loses 1,000 farms per day’. Meanwhile mega-corperations are receiving millions of European subsidies.

(1) https://www.france24.com/en/20181026-suicide-epidemic-plagui...

(2) https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/europe-loses-1000-fa...
Thanks. Sorry, realizing I avoid clicking into these most times, so just finally did now and saw nothing but boosting (and I unfairly generalized).

If i understand, you feel that death is a curable condition, and not an evolved adaptation of a population within living networks?

I guess i just find it difficult to conclude that death, an evolved trait for 99.999% of lifeforms, esp ones like us (with its uncountable trillions of iterations of validation) is something we should allow our members to cavalierly just brush aside. My "survival of species" lens says we should just "cap" lifespan -- so that no set of individuals can bend the structure of biology and society to create such an existential asymmetry in the our shared systems. But that has obvious clashes with the belief systems we've established.

There's a rad allegory in city planning. A student wants to remove a fence across a narrow laneway. She says to her wise mentor "hey this fence is here and it's not doing anything. can i remove it and improve the flow". The mentor replies, "sure, but before you remove the fence, you should first uncover why it was there."

I feel like our wise mentor is the process of evolution. She's been around the block. She wasn't born yesterday. I truly don't feel we're wise on this topic. And conveniently, there are essentially no death-defeating maverick species to teach us their learned wisdom. It feels like hubris to presume that we know better than this mentor...
Au pair is basically the way you hire a nanny if you are middle class and can't afford one. I am guessing that if minimum wage laws apply then the local governments or the feds are going to have to step in and offer some kind of child care support in addition to the childcare tax deductions we already have. It will probably be untenable.
That being said you have to be rich enough to afford an au pair already. For example, we thought about an au pair when we rented in silicon valley but they need their own room. This takes you from a 2-bdrm to a 3 bdrm minimum so that's another expense. You have to weigh that cost in with the cost of full time child care as well.
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Which is the font used in the logo? Looks nice.

Also, did you design the animations?
I feel like you should start a YouTube channel. In that area I'm sure you have a lot of interesting conversations with technical people, and entrepreneurs trying to make it
I'm not saying the problems don't exist, but it feels like they have been amplified in a smear campaign. I think there's been a lot of propaganda to make SF and California look terrible in general, for political reasons.

Washington D.C. has a large percentage of homeless people than SF. It has been documented that other cities will buy bus passes for homeless persons to get them to California cities or other places like Portland, Oregon. It's a nationwide problem and it feels like the places trying to help the most are the ones getting flak for it.

You simply can't fix this problem from 1 or 2 states - or a few well known cities.
That would definitely create a lot of value ("fixing the problems"), but it needs not tank real estate values at all - Manhattan NYC does not have "cheap" real estate. What helps people looking for "cheap" RE is that this gives them more options in terms of moving to surrounding communities, since these would be incented to develop and densify in turn.
Mission bay and soma are the two places where residential is being built but it’s all expensive high rise esque units that middle income can not afford.
Yep, a lot of shell companies as well basically 'owned' by their parent company.

I think about NYS and Guy Brown, which is a certified MWBE/WOSB but just orders from Staples with added markup. They'll win procurement contracts because of the MWBE/WOSB scoring alone.
Every time I see stuff like this I'm reminded that I really should find some way to dive deeper into programming/etc in general.

I would like to be knowledgeable enough to solve something like this but have no idea how to approach wrapping my mind around it. I can poke at it here or there (I see there are many places in the framework where ipcrenderer is referenced..) but I always hit a brick wall.

My knowledge level has always stalled at being able to look at the code and have a general idea of what is happening but not deep enough to contribute. Not sure how to make that leap.