skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, it's napkin math right?

To start, I'm a big fan of napkin math, and I agree with your overall conclusion: fiber optics run through a really deep hole in the earth is not an idea worth pursuing. I don't know if you saw it, but 'xoa' had a great example of napkin math a couple weeks ago, explaining why low-earth-orbit satellites were potentially much better than fiber connections for reducing intercontinental latency despite the apparent extra distance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22185854

> The idea is to see if it's worth doing actual calculations.

Yes, although even more strongly than I worded it in my comment to you, I believe strongly in underlying principle of "first do no harm". In my mind, there's a large difference between using assumptions that simplify the math (like decimal time: 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day), and making misleading factual statements like "Most fiber optic cable has a melting point of 70C".

> That was more the point

I recognize that was your point. My point, perhaps expressed poorly, was that despite your virtuosic example of napkin math, you might be doing more harm than good overall. People will remember not just your conclusion, but your logic as well. If they remember "light travels about 30% slower in a fiber optic cable than in space", this is good. If they remember "you can't use fiber optic cables in a desert environment" that is bad.

Please at least consider this point of view. From your writing, you come off as an expert. Most of what you state is correct, and leading people to trust you. If you then throw in false statements written with apparent high confidence, you will eventually cause people real world harm. It wouldn't hurt your overall argument to stick with the parts that are true, and to make clear that rough estimates are rough estimates.
Note that donations go to Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit parent of Mozilla Corporation that works on an open web and other social initiatives. Mozilla Corporation, the maker of Firefox, does not get anything from your donations because of the way these organizations are structured.

I've asked about this here before (how to support MoCo and Firefox with money), but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that so far. This is one of the reasons Mozilla Corporation has been looking at other services, like the VPN service we've heard of, to get more revenue. Mozilla Corporation also laid off several people from the Firefox team recently because...not enough money, in very simple terms! This is not to say that one must not donate to Mozilla Foundation. Just be aware of where your money can go and what it can be used for.

On the other hand, donations to Mozilla Thunderbird go directly to Thunderbird development, maintenance, etc.

Edit: Removed an erroneous statement about the search engine partnerships.
Yeah but you always get one person, be a wife or brother that starts "problems..." How do you keep peace?
Cool metaphor of “well balanced and nutritional dinner” vs “fast food.”
How much space would it take to store every word ever said?
In which situations would freelancers not be paid ? I feel like once the employer accepts the contract it his responsibility to stop it if the work is not done (so the employer will always be paid for the hours he submitted)
"the real answer is because we evolved in a context where dishonesty was punished" is actually a very different theory, and not even the same sort of theory!

Consequentialism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics all try to answer the question "what is moral" or "what should we do". You're instead answering something like "how do we decide what moral theories to follow", "where do moral theories come from", or even, "where do our moral intuitions come from", which is more a question of Metaethics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/
Well, if an autonomous vehicle outfit were running unmonitored Level 4 vehicles on public roads using only an open source data set I'd be worried. Even if it was labelled thoroughly and correctly, there isn't nearly enough data in any open source dataset to train an autonomous vehicle perception system that can operate safely without human supervision. This is not a safety critical issue.
I looked at bit when I was in preview. It’s indeed powerful but also quite verbose and it distinguish between a lot of concepts, so there is a steep learning curve. Then there was the lack of examples beyond a few blog posts.
The surprising thing to me is seeing how bad many other cities have gotten with tent cities and homelessness. I remember (circa 2007) when there were no tents on SF streets, even under the freeway. But then I see how bad other cities have gotten: Portland, LA, Tucson, Vancouver... this is not an isolated issue and each city is managing homelessness/affordability in different ways. Although SF and CA in general have drawn themselves into a corner through decades of bad policy.
The point would be to reduce the carbon footprint, for which currently there is no practical technology for aviation (which can make more than a small incremental reduction).

If you are just considering a companies bottom line, obviously they are just going to do what would make them the most money.
> people assume that [emojis] convey universal meaning, but the minute you drill into different subcultures, you get into euphemism and subtext that renders them mutually unintelligible

The same thing could be said about words.
This is a great point. A good move by the author. Add some value, but extract some value as well.

Here is the process for everyone. Insert your tool in #2

1) Create post about the tools you use
2) Include Webase [1]
3) Watch traffic roll in! :-)

[1] https://www.webase.com
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Thanks for asking. I was wondering if I could. I'll try:

> Start with Blink and modify as they see fit and eventually fork if needed

One of the foundational ideas behind the web is that you have a set of open standards that specify the web, and then people can go ahead and implement those standards and provide some unique set of features on top of those standards. For example: privacy.

I believe that Google and other big-tech actors are working to make the scope of these standards so vast and so fast-moving that it becomes impossible for a small or mid-range operation to implement and maintain a web browser. I mean, who was able to successfully fork and maintain a fork of KHTML/Webkit? Google! No small organization is capable of this. These are massive, complicated codebases that must keep up with evolving standards.

Therefore, even though you theoretically have "open standards," we're seeing a future with possibly a single implementation of those standards. And if you only have one implementation, then the whole foundation doesn't hold, i.e. you can't make a privacy-oriented browser because you can't make a browser in the first place. What if some day Google decides to stop contributing to Blink, to fork Blink and only update it closed source, against a set of fast-moving standards that they de-facto control? Or what if, at that point, with total domination, they stop following open standards entirely. I think that would be the end of the web.
Which hotel? Most of the hotels require a room key to access the pools.
Using this to erase the many, many reports of his behavior is tragic. You're pulling one thread and saying that the rest don't exist. This is the central activity of rape culture.

I've seem RMS at work first hand and my experiences fit right in with the experiences being reported. I get that people don't want him to be the person that is being described: this is a natural response. But I am using my voice to say that just the small bit of RMS that I experienced first had is enough to justify his loss of position and status. And from the look of it my story is just one of a very large number of similar and worse stories.
macOS has a cool built-in feature for collecting receipts: Go to "File > Print..." and then in the lower left pulldown that says "PDF", select "Save to Web Receipts", it will save a PDF to a folder called "Web Receipts" in your "Documents" folder. Works for both website receipts and email receipts.
+ A lack of feeling okay

+ A lack of hope

+ A dearth of empirical evidence supporting the above
for 80 USD/hour, more than 12 hours of work :) ?
My wife leaves all of her tabs open, but it's not for any specific reason. If she opens a new tab and goes to a website, the browser will just switch to the tab that's already on that website instead of fetching the website again.
While there's a lot of security firepower in Israel, talent tends to gravitate towards high paying and/or technologically interesting companies.

a consulting firm developing one-off mobile apps used by political parties can offer neither (see the recent Iowa caucuses debacle)
how did you like working on mainframes?
If you use American Express, they actually update things for you, or continue accepting the old number for specific recurring billings where they don't have the system in place to update the number.
I personally love this trend. It's one of the first sites I've been on in a while that I didn't have to bump up everything to a readable size.
> I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has 'settled' down.

> Breaches like this should be impossible as there should be designs against it.

I see it the other way around. Privacy is equal to security, it is only as strong as its weakest link, and there are many many “links” (attack vectors) and the amount of data you can breach with asymmetric attacks is unprecedented. By way of ergodicity, everything’s going to be leaked eventually, no matter how good our intentions are to protect it.

If you take everything to its logical conclusion, it is inevitable that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future, and everyone will know everything about everyone at all times. The latest privacy laws are futile attempts to put the finger in the dike before it explodes; too little, too late.
Looks interesting! Is there a simpler way to get a video like this done than contacting the studio?
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Frankly I don’t get what the complaints about RAM usage are all about. With video, high res images, megabytes of javascript and 30 tabs open, modern browsing simply takes a lot of resources. I rather have the browser use a lot of cache than having to reload shit constantly.
> ...that allows the OS to notify applications of memory pressure or that allows the application to tell the OS that some allocations can be thrown out if need be.

There are mechanisms for both of these in up-to-date Linux - pressure stall information and volatile ranges, respectively.
I draw a distinction between supporting homosexuality and supporting gay rights. Someone can believe that homosexuality is wrong and harmful while still believing that people have a right to choose[1] to be homosexual.

[1] For purposes of this discussion when I say "choose to be homosexual" I mean to choose to perform homosexual acts, get married to someone of the same sex, etc. I don't mean it in the sense of whether or not feeling homosexual desire is a choice.
Thanks for that thoughtful and interesting comment.

I am very grateful that the Book of Mormon promises that we can find out for ourselves if it is true, if we do it His way. Then, one has independent knowledge and can use it to go forward, and increase the knowledge with more & more applied experience. :)
“Gay people shouldn’t have the same legal rights as straight people” is a moral position? Which commandment is that one?

It’s a wedge issue used to whip conservative voters, not a moral issue. Nowhere in the Bible does it say you must fight to prevent heathens from filing taxes jointly.
Simple, distinguish between art and "grant abuse."
Rolling Updates and Blue-Green Deployments with Kubernetes and HAProxy
I can’t imagine getting by with so few. My tab counter extension is currently showing 1053.
FTC to Examine Past Acquisitions by Large Technology Companies
I suggest rereading the article. TSA, border agents and customs are used interchangeably throughout the entire artcile.
For me it was a read-later queue that I rarely ever used. Now after purging it more often I don't need things like vertical tabs as much.
OK, friend. What about this "twitter nobody?" First hand, eyes-on experience. RMS grabbing asses. RMS cornering a coworker. Coworker locking herself in a room because she couldn't get away from him. RMS not even hearing what was said to him when told to stay away. RMS inappropriately touching the same woman again. And that is just one of my two tales to tell and I've only shared air with the guy for three days of my life.

If you work for MIT and you grab ONE ASS or corner one woman so that she locks herself in a room and calls for help you are likely to be fired. The reports are consistent and may vary in details by tell a remarkably similar story over and over. The real story here is the people that do not believe them.
This seems like the kind of problem that is suitable for and important enough to throw hundreds or thousands of (volunteer?) people at. Imagine assembling a massive public corpus of human verified training data - we'd collectively be that much closer to a technology which will change society! This problem is screaming for a consortium effort on behalf of major corporate entities in the space, who could each benefit without revealing internal secrets.
In the same way, why people use Backblaze when they can use Wasabi and not pay the bandwidth ?
https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/
> But I’m sure you would agree that before you can have a maintainable product, you should first strive to have an actual product.

The assertion that proponents of clean code make is that the fastest way to the end goal (in the ~6 week window) is with high internal quality[1]. If your project is <6 weeks, then do whatever. If you think you'll be around longer than 6 weeks, then make it clean.

[1]: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html --> Not Robert C. Martin, btw.
Agreed. I have a few ideas and it would be nice to see more examples. Right now it’s hard to make sense of things without spending a lot of time on it.
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Not quite what you're talking about but the best book on car mechanics I ever read... It was red, and textbook-sized, hardcover. Lots of drawings.

It literally started with an explosion in a can, and then progressively enhanced that idea step-by-step: add a lid to the can to capture the energy, add a lever to keep the can lid from flying away, and then attach the lever to a wheel so that it returns the lid to the top of the can for another explosion, add walls to guide the lid, ta-da! Piston.

It goes on like that, adding each piece of the puzzle in a logical way, until you have a mental model of an internal combustion engine. You definitely feel like you could build one from scratch (if you had the metallurgy skill.)
You can come up with multiple conflicting interpretations during a case that are only resolved through further qualification and cases. This is a part of procedure as much as "personal say so" is not.
"Deep Learning for Programmers: Interactive Programming for Artificial Intelligence"

https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/
I grew up with area code 809, which is for the caribbean, almost as bad a yours by 1 pulse.
Not all communication is compromised; for example for an embassy it could be practical to use a true one time pad which is uncrackable and attempts to intercept the key would lead to a diplomatic incident.

Much of their communication probably isn’t that sensitive though.
Well, there is an argument that IC does not have a problem with other interested parties chasing their tail trying to figure out what that really meant similar to the way government occassionally releases few tidbits about Kennedy assasination just to keep the flames flowing and activist distracted from what is going on right now.

There is value in misdirection.
Install Firefox Focus. You can set it as a content blocker for Safari!
The Pinball Hall of Fame Museum is to me, a bit of a pinball nut, one of the greatest places in the entire world. Every trip I'm nudged into is made worthwhile by a visit.
My browser of choice is Waterfox -- so, essentially, pre-Quantum Firefox.

There are two things that I find limiting. First, the configurability has been seriously reduced. I really dislike Firefox's UI, and it's no longer possible to make the browser look and feel as I prefer. I can get most of the way there -- but to even do that much is a rather serious pain in the butt. Second, the neutering of the extensions hurt badly, and the only way I can retain the functionality that I want is to use something pre-Quantum.

Waterfox has neither of these problems (well, the extension problem is starting to impact Waterfox, which is why I'm no longer updating it. I need to find another browser, but I haven't found a different one that works for me yet. Until I do, Waterfox it is.)
Blockchain platform Tupelo is now Open Source- start building now
For a certain price, you’ll find someone to do it
Productivity increased greatly for me after ditching my smartphone for a dumb phone and using a bullet journal when I'm away from the computer. That plus a disciplined regimen of daily planning, execution, and migrating tasks to the next day if not finished; learned from "Time Management for System Administrators" by Tom Limoncelli.
actually, I'm unemployed... but in the future when I am running things, this is how it will be done.
No really related remarks about this handy study, but anybody else still in real awe about how spoiled we are with regards to the sizes and speeds of HDs nowadays? I mean the smallest capacity drive on their chart is 4 Terabytes.
I'm actually currently working on something in the documentation space that will benefit both companies and open source projects.
Would love to chat with you further! Shoot me an email if you're interested. (li.eric00 at gmail)
If only the newspapers would just provide all their content for free, but without ads and tracking!
As somebody who lives in the UK (London area), I've never even heard of this company N26, let alone aware that they had UK operations.

I do frequent the web, youtube, bus stops, tubes, trains and utterly exposed to all forms of marketing.

So from my perspective, this does seem like marketing failure from the start - at least from my perspective.

Though the only real new Bank in the UK to do well, traction wise would be Metro Bank and that's only due to them having a solid high street offering and more so niche in that they are open near on all hours. Also associated app and online works well.

But sorry, never even heard of N26 and is it initialy appears to tweak my interest that it may be something N64 related, would of at least had me read/look into it beyond that. Not even that happened, until now and only reinforces the lack of marketing carried out as testified by the aspect that I've never heard of them until now.

That's a shame as marketing is usually an area in which startups/companies tend to overdo more than not do at all.
A few years ago I visited Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden, walked around for a bit, then sat and read on a bench (Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk) for a couple of hours as the sun set. I happened to read a particularly affecting section where a main character's death is narrated from a strange limited omniscient perspective. And then a rainbow lorikeet [1] alit on the far end of my bench and aimlessly walked around for a minute or so before flying away again.

Not exactly a rare bird for the area, but the confluence of events was memorable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet
Have people settled on whether he's also Satoshi or not?
An overreaction to the earlier, and still more common, trend of setting body text too small? (take the very website you're on, for example)
To be clear, "associated" means absolutely nothing at all here. Zero proof or anything close.
>they may be granted a Firefox monopoly on advertising

What are you talking about?

Anyway, it's up to webmaster to decide which ads to show, and it's up to user to decide which ads to block. Browser vendor shouldn't be involved here.
This is just false. A new Chrome install will not take your Gmail login and use it automatically for syncing. It will prompt you if you would like to use the account for syncing and you can dismiss that prompt just as you can dismiss Firefox's prompt to create and login into an account to sync.
https://dblohm7.ca/blog/2015/07/28/interesting-win32-apis/ notes that Windows has the required APIs, and that Firefox already supports handling memory pressure notifications on non-Windows platforms. Not sure how up-to-date this information is.
A Reality-TV Producer Became Rainmaker to $300B Saudi Fund
Right, but it means you can basically (ab?)use Cloudflare to get free egress from B2 storage. Cloudflare won't get too mad until you start hitting terabytes per month; even the free tier doesn't have restrictions.

You can also turn on an extremely aggressive caching policy with a page rule that will keep everything under a given subdomain for a month. This makes the "free CDN" part easy, though again, people who do this run the risk of getting their accounts terminated.
There is metadata, but you also have frequent bugs or other errata that render encryption vulnerable.

A nation-state type actor can hoover up everything and retroactively decrypt.
Thanks for sharing! Great post.
The mentality of DIY and self hosting is the default for most hackers, and in my opinion its the number 1 thing holding back most engineers who build businesses.

I have a buddy who’s an amazing engineer, he takes pride in doing everything himself and spent years building a platform from the ground up. Elegant, fully automated, built in his favorite languages and frameworks. 3 years in it makes 50k a year.

I have another buddy who is non-technical, 2 years ago he built an ugly, janky platform off Wordpress and some plugins in a month. He does nothing himself, outsources everything. His business does $4mil a year.
3B Birds Have Disappeared
My book from O'Reilly ("Building Tools with GitHub") builds a variety of applications using the GitHub API in five different languages (Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C#, Java on Android). All the chapters build a complete project (app on Android for writing blogs with Jekyll for example).

You can buy it or read it free online (thanks again to O'Reilly for allowing us to release it under creative commons):

https://buildingtoolswithgithub.teddyhyde.io/

No prior experience with the languages are required, so it is good for a beginner wanting to dip their toes into that language and/or facet of the API.
Hypocritical, not ironic. You mean to highlight that the USA does not treat other sovereign states like the USA expects to be treated. There is no ironic contrast between the USA funding Crypto AG and China funding Huawei.
probably just a company not big enough to deal with too many financial regulations.
As above poster noted, best talent isn't flocking to work for the bureaucratic arms of the govt. In fact I'd venture as far to say that a large portion of the Israeli population has a very negative view of the government itself.
From the TrueCrypt webpage: http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

> WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

The fact that they use awkward wording that contains words whose first letters that start with NSA (not secure as) is pretty suggestive that you are right.
This story was originally reported in CovertAction Quarterly 22 years ago: https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/... (Page 36)
How do wild Apple and tomatoes look and taste?
masschallenge appears to be missing from the list. is this only targeting for-profit accelerators?
It did rather seem that he forgot about the rehearsal part of his speech.