skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, look at things in another way:

Take the current structures, but split the "commerce, mobility & transportation" part off of it. Now take these split off-parts and re-assemble them together, not taking borders into considerations, and also have some of them be fully global spanning.

Maybe drop the "corporations" name, just call them "global orgs", since a few of them could also be not-for-profit (but allowed to self-finance, and to maintain forces of self-defense) and handle "global responsibility" issues like oceans pollution, climate issues etc. Other would be for-profit could focus on providing communications infrastructure, people transit security services etc.

In the end the total amount of power could end up even more split up, or maybe a little bit more concentrated but across different borders at different layers (mostly avoiding overlapping the borders of the state level below to the ones of the layers above), some even completely non-physical/non-geographical, maybe "bordered" by different purposefully-non-trivial-to-exchange crypto-currencies.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, the core idea was not "corporations" as we know them, neither concentration of power - just that we'd need self-financing and self-defense-capable trans-national organisms that would be better fitted for providing naturally-global services like communications.
Still kind of confused about the seemingly arbitrary 30 sites limit for workers sites.
If I am a professional web-developer, I am going to need to deploy a heck of a lot more sites than 30.
There is no option to get access to more than 30 sites other than signing up again and again with a new account (and the same payment details? Will that even work?) and paying a number of different $5 monthly invoices.
A really unnecessary hassle. It would be much nicer if this limit was either lifted, or it became possible to increase the number of sites.
I felt the whole point of workers sites is ease of deployment, which is nice for a single blog, but really only becomes powerful when one is cranking out multiple websites monthly.

Anyone here have experience with workers sites as part of a similar business model as mine?
It's easy to armchair a retirment, but the reality is that for many they become bored. When you retire you get to do what you want and enjoy as a focus, Mr Buffet enjoys his work and ventures, and dare say that had he put his feet up and stepped away at the first opertunity when he was rich enough decades ago, he may well very well be dead today.

I can't attest personally but can relate on some level, work wise I spent lots of times in hotels and the novelty and indeed fun of staying at a hotel, completely pailled and at the stage that I just wanted to cook myself some beans on toast and that compared to hitting a 5* restaurant was more of a calling in the end and shows that variety is the spice of life and you can have too much of a good thing. At least for me and I'm sure others have had there own comparable situations.

But do talk to people who have retired for a while and many will miss work.

Heck, school at the time seemed boring and many couldn't wait to reach adulthood and yet after a decade of work, you appreciate how much more fun school days actually was.

So whilst working, easy to aspire towards retirement, but retirement is what you make it and totally up to you, so many retired people do work, or volunteer work - because they enjoy it.
The problem is being a noob doesn’t sell. So yes approaching life as a noob but if you want people to buy your shit - you best not appear a nub
>Why are they better?

Possible explanation: there aren't any other firms founded by as great mathematicians as the founders of Renaissance. I saw a quote online attributed to them, something like: "We hire the A-grade mathematicians. Most other firms hire B and C grade mathematicians, and don't even know the A grade exists". This fits my experience, as a D-grade mathematician working in finance. Never heard of significant mathematical prizewinning researchers working at any of the firms I know (lots of maths olympians, but there's a huge difference between winning a maths olympiad and conducting groundbreaking mathematical research).
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I'm not sure I understand your suggestion.

So there are (simplistically) two funds, Sucker and Winner. They take complementary positions, and, whichever one wins gets transferred to Winner.

So far so good. Winner is winning every bet, and Sucker is losing every bet.

Now you need people to put money into Sucker, because it has to come out the other end into Winner. How do you convince them to do that? By giving them a cut of Winner's profit?

But that's where things don't add up. How can the Sucker investors and the Winner investors both be making a profit from Winner's funds, if the net money going in and out of the combined funds is equal?
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So, Google blocks me from automating my rank checking. Will this apply to google now?
The way developers solve this on Windows works on Linux: ship the libraries you need with your application. Steam does this and it works pretty well. Even if you don't, the Linux community will do most of the debugging for you and submit fairly detailed bugs (failed on platform X with error Y, workaround Z produces different error), so all you need to do is interact with the community periodically, fixing the easy issues to keep people happy.

For FOSS projects, everything gets easier once you get it accepted in the package repositories, and if your project is popular enough, you can usually get someone else to do it for you.

In both cases, using a language that has a cross platform dependency manager eliminates a huge number of compatibility problems. Also, keeping libraries reasonably up to date also helps prevent problems from happening. Updating every two years should be sufficient to maintain compatibility with most Linux distributions.

Also, software vendors don't have to worry about every Linux distribution, just pick the top one or two and let users support the rest for you.
Mind you, the original Mac came out in 1984; the standard PC operating system was MS-DOS (3.0 and 3.1 came out that year), IBM introduced the PC-AT that fall, and Windows ... Windows 1.0 was still in development hell (it saw public release in November 1985). At least Digital Research shipped the GEM window manager for DOS in early '85 ...

Multi-tasking really wasn't a thing on PCs much before 1988; I mean, you could do it, if you had a bottomless pit of money with which to buy RAM by the half-megabyte and a 286-class processor and a memory manager like DesqView or a penchant for paying DR big ticket license fees for Concurrent CP/M-86, but otherwise ...?

Time telescopes our memories.
You're right. I don't think that's the intention, but that is certainly what the language implies. It's rather vaguely worded.
I wish we lived in a world where we had hardware as nice as the iPad that anyone could write software for--at any level--with no control or veto power by any single big company (or country).
For the pros, its easy enough to structure a complicated transaction that analytically simplifies to "A loses $X + %risk, B gains + %risk", since you can create instruments with layers of elements like "A buys an derivsative on Foo, and B sells an derivative on Foo", where B controls Foo. The rest of the market is happy to buy from B and sell to A netting a small profit, even if B contols Foo, because they aren't exposeed to the risk of the derivative. when it comes time to settle, A pays a big loss to C, C pays slightly smaller loss to B, netting a motivating profit, and B gets a big gain.
Keeping it short: Stripe's API is just a dream from a developer's perspective and I don't agree with many things PayPal as a company did in the past. However, as you mentioned, PayPal reaches a wider audience world wide than Stripe. Also even though people would be able to use Stripe from a customer perspective, for many there is still this familiarity with PayPal I guess.
Related, being really cold is one of the reasons surfing (at least in Northern California) feels so great. The rest of the day afterwards nothing hurts, assuming you didn't hurt yourself ;)
I'm agree, problem in software, not hardware. I tried use Palm as remote terminal to my office servers before iPhone era and use iPhone and iPad later, but software progress looks like in 1990. This issue should be solved with new software, platforms like Animation CPU https://twitter.com/acpustudio
I really don't understand why anyone would bother writing and using a web scraper when an API exists. Does the API not provide all the same data/functions as the website? Scrapers are a big PITA compared to just using an API: they're much harder to write to be reliable, and they can break at any time, whenever the site makes even the smallest change. APIs avoid all that mess, and make performance far better too (on both sides), since you're only downloading the data you want, not a ton of Javascript and HTML that you don't.
Anyone know the laws around scraping news article meta-data(image, headline, publisher, url) directly from a publishers website? As long as I'm not scraping the full article, could I have my users share the scraped meta-data between each other?
That's ridiculously dismissive and just smacks of sour grapes.

Are many looking to read what the Waltons say?

No, this isn't wealth worship. The reason why people pay attention to folks like PG and Buffet is because they've repeatedly proven to have useful insights. Does that mean everything they say is of great value? Of course not. But their batting average is strong and they offer a lot of free wisdom. It's a good idea to learn from those who have things to teach, and Paul is a good teacher.
It seems absurd if the 'interference' only directly affects their own property. Like, if my neighbors start monetizing livestreaming my backyard, suddenly I can't put up a fence? Except worse because in actuality, this third-party contract is costing them money through server load and bandwidth.
This is why Bitcoin's traceability is a problem for it's money status. If people are actively pursuing the stolen bitcoins, regardless of who's currently holding them, then Bitcoin's fungibility will break as some coins will be worth more than others.

The only cryptocurrency that comes close to solving this is Monero, which isn't traceable.

If the attackers were smart, this is what they would've done: Send them to Bitfinex, which is an unregulated and shady exchange, sell them for Monero and withdraw them immediately. Congratulations, now you have a bunch of untraceable cryptocurrency.
Dropped by 2/3 ok. For a lifespan of, 20 years ?

Again a power plant life expectancy is 3, maybe 4 times that. And you need to do the foundation once.

You don't replace a wind turbine over a wind turbine, you need to redo the foundations (the concrete is constantly stressed and fragilized through the years), same for a power plant (also for security purposes).

This doesn't count the concrete needed for the access roads and cables to connect everything. From the article "Lafarge also supplied 20,000 tons of Type I cement for soil stabilization of approximately 44 miles of roads".

Let's try to do the maths with a modern power plant as well. Knowing that you produce more energy than in the 70' with modern turbines and we have bigger plans as well on smaller areas.
I'm months away from a soft launch but I'm building language and environment for declarative, functional programs with a graph-reduction computation model -- basically instead of typing code that gets parsed into an AST you just write the AST

Nodes of the graph re-write themselves as soon as their prerequisites are fulfilled (Kind of an event-driven graph reduction)

I've been dreaming up all kinds of things you can do once your program is emitting 'change' events -- I want to do webGL trees (like the kind made of wood) that update themselves with the state of the graph, and let people program their own sounds for each kind of event -- you could listen to how quickly a program is running, hear how many things are coming off the stack.

If you listened to it every time, you would hear when something changed.

Ultimately my goal is to make source-code more curiosity-inducing, to make the computation of user requests kind of always-present, in the background (like the whirring and grunts of the old machines in Engelbart's mother-of-all-demos, cleverly mic'd by Stewart Brand so the audience could hear the machine at work, tho it was miles away), and then when a user actually looks at the code, they're greeted with something they might eventually intuit by hacking around with it. You could pause and back up and edit the state and replay, such that the IDE is always in debug mode -- hopefully with some groovy sounds and visuals.

I have a very rough draft with mock up gifs at https://lookalive.software if you'd be inclined to give any first impressions
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It is bizarre how for so many that history just never happened. Not just the president but the press. At least the president was something of a man of "nuance", always trying to take positions somewhere in the middle. Though I do recall it was a somewhat awkward process as he came around to making increasingly stronger stands against his successor.

Of course the press (not to mention twitter mob) just toggled from the extreme on one side to the other.
I haven't tried recently, by UE4 used to work reasonably well on Linux if you build from source, so they're putting at least some effort beyond cross compiling.
There's a fundamental human need to feel better than others.

It's not always a bad thing, as it is used as a carrot to bond teams and push for excellence (Think "Semper Fi").

But it is quite grating. The main thing that gets me, is when folks being superior either withhold information, or deliberately try to interfere with my learning.

On StackOverflow, I have almost twice as many questions as I have answers. This doesn't really get me any respect.

But boy oh boy, have I learned a lot.
Well maybe this is a good opportunity for those googlers who were writing here about being satisfied with their income but were bored with their job and looking for more meaningful work to contribute to.
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Was Medallion fund Rentec's only business, or was there other business they could skim from?
Unlikely. The license to LinkedIn retains ownership, but the user's retention of information ownership doesn't compel LinkedIn to affirmatively do things with that data (i.e. LinkedIn isn't forced to vend the data to a given consumer if the user says so).

The license further goes on to clarify that LinkedIn will vend public data to search engines, but the definition of "search engine" is almost certainly assumed (by LinkedIn, at least) to be up to them.
> This is by no means scientific,

It's actually very scientific (testing hypothesis, measuring results, etc) but might not be generalizable.
It's not the official who decides, it should be a general policy.

If you look at a similar case, in US. SWAT-ting can be anonymous and can destroy lives, the assymetry of the tips and the resources destroyed by a false tip is unacceptable.

The same way for a bomb threat, the officer should act by requiring identification and guaranteeing that it stays private as long as the bomb is real.
I read that book too and is it just me, or could it have been like 400 pages smaller? I felt like it had so much useless information in it.
What you're describing (authentication/2FA) should be handled by a client application. VPN client software should handle authentication/authorization with the corporate VPN server. Once it's authenticated, it can exchange/generate the public-private keys used for the WireGuard tunnel. The VPN client then installs those keys and starts the tunnel. After that, it's up to the client and server VPN software to handle session timeouts, reconnections, host machine security policies, etc etc. None of that is the job of WireGuard itself.
> Seriously, does anybody care about the style used on a website when making a payment?

Stakeholders tend to.

Style may have been a poor choice of wording, as I meant the workflow as well as aesthetics. Keeping the user on the site and having complete control of the checkout process can lead to better conversion rates and up-selling than throwing them to a payment provider and maybe getting them sent back.

> as a user, I'd rather see a single consistent style so I have some confirmation about what bank I'm dealing with

Which is one of the reasons I listed to include PayPal, as the logo is well recognised.
Success sells. PG has achieved success, so he can freely endorse a noob mentality. But take a loser and add a noob mentality, and you're only signaling a bigger loser.

This is not to say a noob mentality is counterproductive - quite the contrary - but that it's not always optimal to flaunt.
You have not often made a fire in the woods (in winter) have you?

When you are camping when it is cold, you absolutely want a fire. Even a small one is nice when you are wet and want to dry up.

And no, you don't use a axe to get green firewood, you collect dead wood.

In old forests there is plenty of it. So sure, after a winter the tribe would have to walk a bit longer to gather it but totally worth it. I doubt wood was ever a problem in a forest. Food was.

And yes, the ones hunting could not make fire ... but they were on the move and strong.
The children and pregnant women in the cave could not stand it so much.
Even though they were surely more tolerant to it than we are today.
>Farawavia

I think Paul just coined a new fictional destination.

(His blog is the only mention of that word indexed in Google atm.)

I'm going to use that.

Thanks, Paul!
Bricklayers may not use tablets for work, but I bet they use smartphones a ton, and not just as communication devices. I know I use mine constantly when doing "real world" work—my laptop's a much worse camera, flashlight, level, and measurement device than my phone, and that's just the things it's worse at without even factoring in portability (which would include almost everything else one might want to use an Internet-connected device for on a job site, which a laptop would do alright at except that it's huge compared to a phone).

[EDIT] "but why's a camera important to construction work?" want to get a usable estimate of how much tile you need for a room in about 5 seconds flat, recorded for later use? Snap a photo of the floor with the 4' by 8' plywood exposed. Done, you can walk away now. Ditto drywall if the studs are exposed and follow standard spacing, and so on.
I forgot about this one, but if you want to see a full integration of Stripe and PayPal with a React checkout form, head over here [0]. Working on this right now :)

[0] https://github.com/rwieruch/nextjs-firebase-authentication
>Tech — the web in particular — is supposed to be an equalizing force

Don't take the Google PR so seriously, the tech industry wants to make money like every other industry.
Scary developments when it comes to state control. I wonder what the rest of the EU is going to do [1] - we have to wait until February to find out.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/17/eu-eyes-t...
Let's look at actual and current numbers for construction costs, ignoring subsidies:

Wind: "The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed." http://www.windustry.org/how_much_do_wind_turbines_cost

Nuclear: " Companies that are planning new nuclear units are currently indicating that the total costs (including escalation and financing costs) will be in
the range of $5,500/kW to $8,100/kW or between $6 billion and $9 billion for each 1,100
MW plant." https://www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/SynapsePa...
Both Bill and Warren have donated ~35 Billion to charity respectively in their lives. Both have also dedicated to the giving pledge.
I'm using multi-monitor (3 monitors) setup with my Mac for a long period of time (more than 5 years). What problems do you encounter, maybe I can help you to solve them.
I don't agree with you but I think these are valid and important questions that need to be discussed. It shouldn't be downvoted like that.
I can't tell where you want to draw the line. I personally have a couple physical servers in a cage. I do not own the data center in which they reside. Does that count?

If I don't "self-host", then neither does the corp I work for, with hundreds of machines in other people's DCs...
I designed a Food Safety application for iPad devices for a major retailer. Food Safety specialists / inspectors would go through all parts of a store - the produce on display, the meat locker, the freezers, the prep / cut table areas, etc.

Hauling a laptop through all those environments was a pain. They would typically need to set their laptop down to type anything, even a brief five word note. Using a laptop could be done, but an iPad with a strap on the back enabled them to hold the device with one hand and input inspection results with the other. This along with other app improvements made the entire inspection process easier and faster for everyone involved.

Think about how many people use clipboards and printed forms in their work. Ask why they need the mobility of a clipboard. If those reasons are sound, then they would probably be a good candidate for an iPad / tablet application for their workflow.
The author briefly touches on preventing the technique by disabling third party cookies, so yes, it's probability that.

> Having tried several solutions, I came to the conclusion that blocking third party cookies is the best mitigation for clickjacking.
The thing is that 96 bitcoin could be thrown through a mixer of sorts.

Take the 96 bitcoin, split it into 96 different addresses with 1 bitcoin, then mix those 96 individual addresses to multiple new addresses and then reassemble them elsewhere. This is a horrible explanation, but explains the general idea. You could also mix from Bitcoin to Monero or another currency and back again through various pairs.

There are lots of things out there to attempt to trace the bitcoins back to the source since every transaction is always logged, however if people keep rearranging coins on various addresses it does make it harder.

Having a blacklist registry of all bad/stolen coins would be great if implemented, however I don't know how feasible it would be.
Or just use rr.
> and very few people willing to put their neck out and say "Yes, we can do it."

Why would you want them to say it if they don't actually know it?
Beckhoff now also offers a direct TCP/IP socket interface (for extra money, of course) if ADS doesn't cut it for you application.

You'd have to ask Beckhoff or test for yourself. Depending upon whats going on on PC level, I think sub 10ms round trip is fairly typical. I should think the TCP/IP interface will be PLC cycle-time limited (PLC cycle time of 1ms is typical) plus some fractional overhead from the TCP/IP processes themselves.
How is that different? Where on my website I gave anyone "re-transmission" or "re-publishing" rights?
Enron only collapsed because they intentionally destabilized major public-facing national security infrastructure (retail energy markets), and they were incredibly brazen and sloppy about it. If they didn't make as large bets on collateral damage, and they acted with professionalism, they would have been fine.
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This.
But hey, let‘s stop pretending that‘s real work!
This is exactly correct. Thank you.
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