skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern terrorist organizations like ISIS, for example, are loosely coupled, espousing an ideology and allowing "everyone to contribute" using their own skills. That means you have graphic artists, web devs, teens making videos, online communities, people working in sandwich shops spreading the word, someone with an idea asking for anyone who can help to do so...and so forth.

What this effectively means is that turning off the internet drastically inhibits the effectiveness of their distributed movement.
Old guy here: maybe people were confusing DNS with the WINS service that was helping to propagate ("replicate") the name/servers changes 20 years ago?
Sorry for the spelling, time to go to sleep.
iPhone SE?
It isn't a random third party, it's a specific third party with a better privacy record than the hardware or OS maker.
I looked on archive.org and found some other interesting ones

Radio
https://archive.org/details/TM11-666/page/n5/mode/2up

Map Reading
https://archive.org/details/FM21-26_201211

Carpentry
https://archive.org/details/FM5-426/page/n17/mode/2up

Welding
https://archive.org/details/TM9-237/page/n5/mode/2up
It's obviously different from "deciding not to do business with a certain race". Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'll turn your anecdote into an anecdatum and say the same; for all devices I've owned. (Linux on a Precision 5520 w/ Xeon CPU, Macbook pro 15" 2019 model, Mac Pro 2013)

Turn off animated gifs and emojis in slack.
I dont like this. He wrote it like its already been decided:

> Today, at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy jointly announced A-Cloud, a new Delaware corporation which will assume ownership of Amazon Web Services' assets and become the employer of existing AWS employees.

Granted, this is on the same page:

> SEATTLE--(Business Wire)--December 1, 2020

but it just reads to me like some fanfiction, rather than a serious proposal.
Here is what people mean when we say we don't like Section 230. And we mean it whether or not Section 230 is actually responsible.

- Advertiser uses our trademark on Google Ads? Google makes money and has editorial control. But we can't sue them.

- Somebody posts something libelous about us on Twitter? Twitter makes serious money and has editorial control. But we can't sue them.

- Fakes on eBay? Can't stop them. eBay not liable.

If Twitter is going to have a "fact checking" department, then they also need a "retractions" department. And if retraction aren't forthcoming when reasonable, then we need a cause of action against them.
Personally I find the razer core x chroma really good

It’s a hub secondary, and an egpu primarily, but it works fine to power my

Personal 2019 mbp 13 (1.7 i7, 16gb)

Personal Lenovo s740

Work 2019 mbp 16 (2.8 i7, 16gb)
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This seems very inaccurate to me. Most laptops do not have discrete GPUs, so tasks like rendering a youtube video do require CPU cycles. Zoom is very CPU intensive on basically any mac laptop, and people always have a ton of tabs open, which can be fairly CPU intensive.

In other words, there are definitely gains to be had. My ipad pro offers a generally more smooth and satisfying experience with silent and much cooler running CPU versus my MBP, and they offer similar battery life. Scale up to MBP battery size and I suspect we will be seeing a few hours battery life gain.
First, "extractive" isn't a binary, it's a continuum. All economies are extractive to some degree - everybody's got taxes. But some are considerably more extractive than others.

Second, China. China's economy was very extractive under Mao. (If you don't like the term "extractive", call it "state dominated" instead.) Under Deng, they became less so, and the economy prospered. If there's enough latent potential in the economy, you don't have to go all the way to "100% non-extractive" to tap it. Just less extractive will get you some of the gains.

Now, I grant you that the results are not a good definition of "extractive". But "abolition or severe limits on private property, state-run enterprises, excessive regulation and taxation" are in fact a reasonably good definition.
yes, it's washing away the illusion that the meetings that middle managers spend 90% of their days in provide any sort of value to anyone
Cash has been around for millennia
We have a lot in store here- we are unrolling a new tool for CI/CD soon that works with GitHub Actions & GitLab CI. Adding run-cache to DVC 1.0 is just one way of preparing for more CI/CD uses of DVC. (FYI I am part of DVC)
Recursive DNS servers can also throw you off the scent a bit by giving you an answer that is not the same as the authoritative server.

I've seen 8.8.8.8 return something other than NXDOMAIN for some domains that do not exist

Cloudflare will not honour dns ANY requests

Knowing how to query the authoritative nameservers is a handy tool for debugging.
Been saying this for a while now ... since the Georgia Reopening, I've been monitoring a lot of state data daily, lots of places that started seeing spikes 3-4 weeks ago haven't even had as much as a slight trend upwards in deaths (Here's South Carolina for example https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/south-carolina-c...)

Wisconsin has seen a spike come and go and death rates have remained about the same https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/wisconsin-corona...

It just feels odd that this isn't spoken about enough, and I think its because the media narrative is a bit too invested in the "danger" part of this virus ... to feel they can't point out that simple observation for fear of undoing their reporting about the virus, which is a shame. I mean deaths are down nationally ... by a lot, even as the cases have ticked back up.

My hunch is that the folks who are most at risk are taking drastic precautions, which is what is keeping the death rates down. I guess we'll just have to see for sure in 2-3 more weeks.
I will try to assume good faith here, and just state facts.

Lightning channels are 2 end points, p2p.

Lightning routes are a sequence of lightning channels. Routes are also 2 end points, also p2p. No trusted is required for intermediaries.

Every internet packet, unless it is you to your lan router, passes through many intermediaries. I have no idea how ethereum state channels work, but I assume they route using tcp/ip, and statechannel team understands this as p2p.

So anyway, lightning is p2p.

Cheers.

https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/a16z-struggl...
Do you have any good resources on why their fab process failed so hard? I've seen it mentioned frequently, but not the reason why.
That’s because Slack runs on top of basically Chrome, which is a horrible battery hog.

If you run the web versions of Electron “apps” in Safari you’ll get substantially better battery life. (Of course, still not perfect; irrespective of browser all of these types of apps are incredibly poorly optimized from a client-side performance perspective.

If large companies making tools like slack had any respect for their users they would ship a dedicated desktop app, and it would support more OS features while using a small fraction of the computing resources.

(Large-company-sponsored web apps seem to be generally getting worse over time. Gmail for example uses several times more CPU/memory/bandwidth than it used to a few years ago, while simultaneously being much glitchier and laggier.)
I agree, hence my comment about working with kids - at some point, explaining things gets exhausting.

The great things about kids is that they grow, and you are explaining new things to them over the years, not the same thing for 20 years.

EDIT - just to clarify my original comment, I was not excusing his behavior - only pondering the source of it.
10w is on the high end of this, my 1080p screen on my Precision 5520 sucks down a paltry 1.5w at mid brightness, the big killer is the wifi chip. That takes between 1.5-5w.

CPU tends to be quite lean, until something needs to be done then steps up very quickly to consuming 45w.
Why doesn't it make sense that people do not want to die (generally)?
Your links are identical.
You know premature optimization is the root of all evil ;)

Personally, I do optimization every now and then, when I see bottlenecks and I see that it hurts the UI. Then you run some profiling tools and optimize those hot paths.

Optimizing from the get go will probably end up with you optimizing too much and the benefits will likely be invisible (and worst of all, optimizing will surely take quite a bit of extra time, and you can also end up with buggier code).

Having said that, I use dotTrace from JetBraints. It's for .net

If you expect your project will be complex, I would advise against C/C++, since that will complicate stuff even further (note: I've actually done 13 years of C++, so I do know what I'm talking about). I would recommend C#/F# - you'd be waaay more productive there.
2nd part. My wife works for the school system as a bus driver. My new job was always designed to be remote and it pays enough more for me to "retire my wife". We decided that it wasn't worth the risk or the headache for her to go back to work. She's already started a new business/hobby as a virtual fitness instructor when school let out early and the gyms closed.
In the real world, how is traffic routed? I often wonder what controls obviously inefficient intersections and how easy or hard it is to fix that.

I assume that there are software systems that take in schedules and various inputs (cameras, magnets, crosswalk buttons) but I'm curious if anyone works in the field and would talk about their experience.
The ban on J is extremely weird and devastating. When I was in UC Berkeley a lot (all? most? idk) of non-citizen researchers and professors were on J. How will this work?

Disclaimer: I'm currently on H1B in the US, so I'm not unbiased.
Maybe more of a statement about the necessity of middle management..
I’m really interested in this, do you have anything written about how you did it?
"download the most recent version signed by this pubkey" is literally how hyperdrive works.

The append-only log is hypercore, one of the building blocks of hyperdrive. Hyperdrive is a layer above and gives you a view of how the archive is at any point in time, with preferential access to the latest version.

TBF what I understood from the request of "mutable torrents" wasn't the literal feature, but a way to have decentralized nodes exchanging updatable content. Bittorent with the Mutable Torrents BEP does work, but it's nowhere near as developed as what hyperdrive is today. And as sad as it may sound I don't think it will ever be.
Yes, but like a CD I can get a very high quality experience at a university in person. Like streaming I can get a weak, self driven experience remotely. I guess a CD can still be real low quality recordings too but I was fortunate to enjoy being at university.
I somehow had a feeling Gitlab would be bought this year, but the list dramatically falls apart upon closer inspection:

- Google: will never work, completely different mindset and engineering culture. Gitlab feels way too unrefined (in a good sense).

- AWS: Gitlab is already too different from their tech, and will never be that tightly coupled with the rest of AWS.

- IBM: :') they wish

- MS: already has GitHub

Any others?

I think any giant company would have a hard time integrating all-remote Gitlab.
Multi-core performance is not a strong suit of Apple's ARM architecture, I suspect you're going to see a mild to moderate performance hit for things like compilation.
I know that the title is the title of the journal article, and I know that using this more generic title avoids politicization. But, the title should be:

COVID-19 Lockdowns are threatening the survival of US primary care

Yes, a subset of the people not going to the doctor would have not gone due to fear of this disease. However, in a lot of jurisdictions, primary care _closed_ to make room for a "surge" that never came (or is slowly coming). Now these offices have reopened, but to debt, missed rent, low visits etc. Closing them under the lockdown orders was the original sin.
Looks to me like those 1960s scientists had more common sense realising that there is no one reason but rather many different parameters
Funny how the article called von Brown “the German engineer who defected to the United States after World War II”. He was a Nazi. Major in the SS to be precise. And that’s fine. Many good people had to ‘go with the flow’ to stay alive. But perhaps the writer is too much of a hypocrite to admit the US used Nazi technology to go to the moon. So weak. Be strong instead! Tell it the way it is.
They dampen the effects and quell the anxiety, and depending on what stage of the trip you're in and how hard you're tripping they may effectively kill it entirely. I would take a bit of valium on the tail end of a trip to sleep or quiet my brain as it reconstituted itself after being atomized into the cosmos. I only took benzos once during the upward trajectory of a trip near the peak, after suffering physical panic symptoms from a strong batch of wild-picked wavy caps (first and only time I've felt physically threatened by a psychedelic). It didn't kill the trip, but it killed the panic and allowed me to enjoy the experience.
> Considering how poorly macOS runs Firefox, I'm actually quite glad that Webkit is enforced.

Given that Webkit is available either way, why? If you prefer Webkit you can use Safari independent of whether actual Firefox is available or not. Having the choice doesn't force you to choose it.

But it gives other people with different priorities an option. And then more people use Firefox, and it gets better, and Mozilla ends up with more support and resources to address your concerns even before you actually start using it.
Perhaps they were inspired by qBittorrent, where the toolbar icons are all indistinguishable aqua blobs:
https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/qbittorrent/screenshots/2416...
Build your own black hole in a lab
Personally I think it's less about how much energy is put into maintaining your position, and more about how the system adapts to the presence of an individual.

When an individual is in power for an extended period of time, the system adapts to them being there. The longer they're there, the more the system comes to rely on them being there instead of an arbitrary person being in that position.

This, I think, is one of the reasons that the transition period in long running monarchies is so dangerous. All of the plans that relied on the specific qualities of the former leader just went out the window.
Am I correct that this only applies to new visas through those programs, and existing visa holders will be able to renew?
I'll concede that it's not charitable but if anything I think UI needs to change more, and in ways which aren't superficial like switching icons. Compare this to Mac OS 9, is it really that different? Have we really not figured out anything better? For instance, we should not have to search through menus to find what we want. Every app should support something like Blender's operator search (like the Help > Search feature but generalized to every command, not just the menu bar). Instead of discussing stuff that matter people complain about the appearance of things.
I'm not sure that was ever true

I am. Absolutely sure. Stability was the reason I switched to Macintosh two decades ago. I've had to run Windows boxes for work at the same time, and with the exception of the most recent few years, Macs have been 100% more stable than Windows.
No, in fact it doesn’t.

Gun controls are not incompatible with the second amendment—at least they weren’t until conservative judicial activists bought long-discredited and ahistorical views of gun ownership in the ~40s and ~50s with the foot on the gas pedal ever since (except, of course, for the utter silence of the NRA on the banning of “assault weapons” when the Black Panthers carried them…).

Guns were rare, expensive, and often owned by the _militia_ to which the citizen belonged until about 1865. They were then more readily available, but cities and towns (especially the so-called “Wild West”) had fairly strict rules on how/when/who could carry (for reasons both good and bad, especially in the Reconstruction South).

Everyone wants to forget the first clause of the Second Amendment: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. It’s not clear what it means, and I happen to think that Scalia was wrong, but I’ll admit that Stevens may have been wrong, too.

In modern terms, I would argue that the amendment absolutely permits strict licensure of gun owners as a precondition of gun ownership.
Set Goals from Roles
The US, already well on its way up in the 20th Century, was spared during WW1 and WW2, while many other countries were devastated.

It also had massive resources, nearly endless open land compared to Europe, oceans on two sides to guard it from any credible threats, and a lack of invaders or civil wars in the 20th Century.

The US also used to be a lot more welcoming, and benefited from many talented immigrants, Einstein being perhaps the most well known.
It would be awesome to see you model some real changes that the city has made over the last few years, and see how closely the "predictions" made by your model match up with the observed data! The big one is the viaduct closure, but even little changes that you saw in your own experience, like "Bus lane now extends for two more streets," could be really informative.
productivity was high only because there was nothing else to do during the lockdown... use your brain
Join the trend! Deploy websites that mine bitcoin in the background in your viewers' web browsers.
"Why Nations Fail" is an excellent book on this topic. There's a cycle between poverty and exploitation, and the book does an excellent job detailing many historical examples.
Which of South Africa's neighbors was not colonized?
I think the actual article hit it right by stating secure private property but we need to expand that property to include not only the land and goods you own but the that you are secure in the monetary wealth you create and secure in your right of yourself.
Is "inclusive political and economic institutions" always a good strategy? I am not convinced and the article doesn't point to any solid evidence to support this claim rather portrays a representative picture.

Does "rich nations" imply nations where the elite hold huge amount of capital or does it refer to nations where an average citizen lives in prosperity? The article doesn't reflect on the comarison of ecomomic divide in the nations.

The article's claim that "exclusive" institutions concentrate power in the hands of the few elite and hence the nations end up being poor. THe US could be considered a rich nation with "inclusive" institutions and yet there exists the concentration of power and wealth to the few. These correlations argument of very shaky.

The Adam Curtis documentaries [0,1] at their core point out the loss of control by the democratic government (elected to serve its people) to the private economic institutions (created to serve the elite).

[0] https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU
[1] https://youtu.be/v-npoz1SgRQ
> My main issue with SO is that it has become a rather "snippy" place.

It's also true of other Stack Exchange sites. Sometimes you feel like in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy where you're sent from one site to the other and none of them think it's their job to deal with a question.

And I don't mean the low-effort questions, but well written interesting ones that are deemed to broad, too opinion-based, too whatever.

There is definitely an effect of territorialism, big egos and rule lawyering going on. As if people were playing a game of spot-the-broken-rule as some intellectual puzzle and going "heureka, there it is, you broke Rule No. 3, gotcha!!". Sites like SO and Wikipedia certainly attract people who get emotionally invested in this role and see themselves as powerful and enjoy feeling better than others.

That's why the debate is complicated. There is a problem with trigger happy moderation, but also with low-effort content.
See https://twitch.amazon.com/tp (click on the Prime Status on Twitch section)
Yes, the NURBS (surface) modeler "Rhino" is one – or rather was; meanwhile it got a Mac version, but that one still has no feature parity, so you would still see this running in Parallels somewhere, I guess.
PR FAQs start with a future-looking press release which, if you want to call it that, is effectively fan fiction. They are certainly more than a little campy at times, but they're a way to set a vision for what you want the world see when the product is debuted. There's one of these for arguably every single AWS service ever.

The external and internal FAQ components are also there, and most of the normal qs (What will they most like/dislike) are present in this one. Though I will say that some of his answers wouldn't pass muster, like for "What will customers most dislike about the launch of A-Cloud?". FAQ answers aren't meant to be puffery, and a better one might comment on how this would introduce some temporary overhead that wouldn't be providing value to the customers who didn't care about the Amazon/AWS relationship.
Probably true. Corona has been in the news for a long time now.
Equal work equal pay. Makes sense to me
I think it depends. If you been dancing for 14 hrs you definitely need some energy and protein, no matter how fit you are.
It's a really cool thing.

The only issue I have with it is that it's expensive as hell.

But for educational purposes, it's really really amazing. I've used it in the past to plot some functions and such - it's crazy what you can do with it.
>Have you ever met someone who can do 0(ish) delay translation between languages? With no accent?

I have met quite a few professional translators that work for the European Union and all of them add a significant delay to translation. And accent.

You are probably referring to speaking different languages like a native, but that is not translating anything: When I speak Spanish(as a native speaker) I just think in Spanish, the same in any other language like German or French.

In fact if you speak for example in French or Italian you need to add some "music" to each phrase. Usually when you are translating you subconsciously carry those tones to the other languages.

E.g If I translate from French to Spanish I will carry the French intonation to Spanish even when I am native in Spanish.
> Seems like this is putting the cart before the horse. Why should we care what Facebook can and can't afford? We don't owe them a business model. The point of this is to remit to the user the value that has been extracted from them. If Facebook cannot make money, i.e. contribute value, on top of that, then they are actually a drain on society surviving off negative externalities and should go.

How are you going to value what has been extracted from them, though? Facebook is in a better position to value it than anyone: they're selling it. What people are willing to pay them for it is literally its value. I don't really see how you can decide that the value of the data is greater than what Facebook is extracting from it. If it were, they'd be charging that much.
Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium