skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are basically four categories of big spenders:

(1) People who don't understand that they are spending actual money. Kids can fall into this category. Also people who are confused by an intentionally obfuscated user interface.

(2) People who are spending someone else's money, so they don't care. Kids can also fall into this category. (And when they do they may pretend they are in category 1.)

(3) People who can't afford it but have some kind of compulsive shopping disorder, addiction to the game or spending, etc. (People in this category might pretend they are category 1, i.e. request a refund and blame it on children who might even be fictional.)

(4) People rich enough that they will feel no ill effect from dropping $1,000+ on something of little value.

Whales are, at least theoretically, presumed to be category 4. There really isn't too much of an ethical problem IMHO with category 4.

The real ethical problem comes from the fact that you don't truly know which category the user is in.

Anyway, I think you are talking about category 1 and the person you replied to is talking about category 4.
When I open https://tomcoin.herokuapp.com/ in a browser I see it running. That meets my definition of "runs in the browser".

Would you have been happier if I wrote "written in a dialect of JavaScript which is transpiled to ES5 using Webpack and Babel so it can run in the browser"?
Are identity minimalists (Zuckerberg, Facebook) mistaking the is of legal personhood, and its one-to-one mapping to individual humans in real life, for their own ought, which presupposes that virtual identities should also map to named individuals in real life?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Gerenaly those will start to hurt on the single digit thousands of connections per second (per process). I'd say that it's much more relevant that you start monitoring those logs when you reach single digit hundreds of connections per second than that you set a point to act. (100s of connections/second is a pretty normal "just got traction" value, so if you see a steady usage, monitor.)

Of course, YMMV. High latency networks reduce those numbers.

Anyway, I don't see why the numbers aren't 100 times larger by default, but there's probably a reason.
it's 2020 and ya'll are still using Google?!?! DDG all the way!
This is a great perspective. I wonder if the news orgs contributed to their own collapse by pushing too many obtrusive ads. Did people start to prefer FB where they figured out how to places ads with higher returns? They might be better at it simple because they can target better too. News as example, content collapse generally.
It's my perception, not saying it's necessarily universally applicable to the US or all types of doctors, that nobody sees a doctor any more. You see a nurse practitioner or a physicians assistant. There might be one actual doctor per practice.

So talking about what doctors make might be misleading.
I'm struck by how the description of witch conventions matches the description of "elite pedovores" that the Qanon conspiracy people promote:

"horrific assemblies where witches gathered and worshiped demons, had orgies, ate murdered babies and performed other abominable acts"

The Qanon people are laughably inept, gullible and the thought leaders are probably grifters, but still, remarkable convergence between the witch cons described above and "hollywood elite" that keep children in tunnels underneath central park, killing these "tunnel tots" in horrible ways to harvest adrenochrome for use as youth potionsl
Police crack top-secret comms system to bust major crime network
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Send a bunch of frozen embryos piloted by an AI, then fertilize them in 2-3 batches 40-60 years or so prior to arriving so that you have 2-3 generations of people, the first of which are trained by video / VR / interaction with the AI.

Have a few cuddly dogs aboard too so that the first generation doesn't grow up completely devoid of affection by only talking to machines
Many people in Japan don't drive so they don't really think about "sides" like people who come from car cultures do.
There are other ways of generating electricity apart from electrolysis. For example, from food waste through yeast and other methods. Yes, there is some energy being used but you are talking about material which would go waste anyway:

https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/a-simplified-way-to-turn-foo...

First: Energy density
The primary advantage of hydrogen is energy density. Though Li Ion and other technologies have improved considerably, they are no where near the energy density of fossil fuel technologies and therefore vehicles which use these batteries will have to carry huge weight of batteries to get better range. With Hydrogen that is not a problem.

Second: Storage
There has been huge advances in the safe storage of hydrogen - from the use of nanoporous carbon for storage
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S100200711...

to the use of LOHCs (Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers) that is aromatic liquids to store hydrogen instead of storing it as gas or liquid hydrogen:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/hydrogen-storage-get...
Great article. The author concludes with the following points on what is happening to information as all information is increasingly "flattened" to fit the new, single content stream of the social media feeds on our smartphones:

1. Everything is trivialized: major public policy changes arrive in the same package and placed next to trivial pop culture.

2. We respond to information using the same low-bandwidth tools (like, heart, retweet, etc.) that limit the expressiveness of response.

3. All information is in direct competition, playing the algorithms to gain attention.

4. Power over information is consolidated to a very small number of gatekeepers, and mainly Facebook.

This is an interesting way to look at things, and it resonates with me. I think the author described the problems with what I think of as the "hypermedia" era very well. But the author doesn't offer suggestions for what, if anything we should do about it.

As for myself, a couple years ago I read Cal Newport's Deep Work and then Digital Minimalism, and found their ideas compelling enough that I deleted Facebook and disabled web browsing and email on my phone (although I later put web and email back).

However, #deletefacebook seems to have about a snowballs chance of happening at large.

What countering forces could or should break the deathgrip that Facebook and Google in particular hold over communication and information publication today?
If it was in text, can you provide a link to it?
Even if we can't remove one, preventing adding another seems like a good idea.
Do you know anyone that makes actual root beer that you'd recommend?
I know you are being sarcastic but this is called "capitalism". Not doubt a country like India benefits tremendously from the jobs created by foreign companies BUT it is not a charity. Companies are doing it because they see enough value and profits for their shareholders. It has nothing to do with being fair or not. If you truly want outsourcing to stop, create better incentives for the companies to hire locally. Until then, welcome to a global world.
“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.”

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Hydrogen fuel cells don't store the hydrogen. They convert the hydrogen into electricity. The losses come from a: converting electricity to hydrogen by electrolysis and b: converting that hydrogen back to electricity.
Totally disagree with this drama whoever is putting on for the sake of being in the group of 'anti-google so I am looked as if I am so smart and so know it all and google is trying to control everyone and nobody sees it except me now I am writing a post to tell the world how different I am'

As a user, before learning computer knowledge, I am so thankful and amazed by those AMP pages, because they are really fast! And I barely look at this URL thing to care for security which is huge deal to those conspiracy queens, because as non-tech user I don't know a heck about URL, all I care is how fast a page is presented to me.

So, no, the problem is only you, yes, you can just use a dramatic title just because you are so bored with your life to cause a scene, you are only embracing yourself and bring some noise to this already chaotic world, please, go find yourself something to do instead of trying so hard to be internet famous. Thank you.
A bit passive aggressive ?
Yeah, just more reasons for microkernels and keeping those things in userspace, where applications can come with values that suit their usage.
Very high probability they all kill each other onboard
> The challenge with outsourcing

This article is not talking about outsourcing but offshoring. Uber still has total control on the people, the project and rewarding the right behavior. It will just happen in India instead of the US.
The engineering complexity of this is orders of magnitude higher than curing aging.

In this case you have to fully automate healthcare and education. Then you still have to steer these individuals towards some sort of economic goal because presumably you are not just sending kids to a foreign planet for fun.
This paper says 4% of cost goes towards "excess profits". I accept this without reservation.

But it remains unsatisfying.

What about the other overheads? Marketing, customer acquisition and retention? Health plan negotiators? Payment processing? Executive compensation? Etc, etc.

Many others have guesstimated USA healthcare costs 50% more per capita than Canada. So eliminating administrative overhead would whack 1/3rd of the costs, right?

Advocates for single payer could better emphasize all the unnecessary inefficiencies of our Freedom Markets™ health care system. All those "bullshit jobs" David Graeber has been telling us about.
It's all interrelated though. If Silicon Valley CoL were more along the lines of the many Tier 2 areas where there is a lot of tech of various kinds, the big SV employers wouldn't have to pay as big a premium to get people to relocate. They'd still pay a premium to get the talent they want, but they wouldn't have to also basically cover the difference in housing costs needed.

But it's complicated. For that matter, you could argue that the perks of Bay Area weather and great number of employment options should make the Bay Area attractive even if the salaries weren't great relative to CoL. But there's enough competition among large employers who generate enough value per employee that they can afford to offer top-shelf salaries so they do so to entice the people they want.

To the last point, I don't expect dramatic short term changes. But to the degree that things tilt more in the direction of remote work and small distributed offices, I expect some equalization of salaries at least within the US.
I don’t think this is coincidence. Even without invoking Jung, it’s easy to observe that the spiritual beliefs and cultural prejudices we have now are of one continuous piece with the notions people had centuries ago. This makes the QAnon promulgators even more sinister, because they are tapping into fables and dark legends in order to further a specific political agenda, and a destructive one at that.
From the sun itself, potentially it might be doable
Nitpick, it's Poul Anderson. Yes, that is an odd spelling of his first name.
How’s about serving gzipped bundles of files? Just request that and get all your text and enriched content in one go
Standard cell phones do not use encryption. You can intercept calls if you have receivers on the right frequency and using the right tech (believe they are trunked).

I'm not advocating that they use true encryption in the ham bands, but it does exist. As I said before, there is information out there about how voice is digitized, how psuedo or weak encryption works (DMR, 40 bit, 56 bit), and then you can use standard encryption practices to encrypt it.

The OPs question was about where he can find technical info on encrypting voice communications and I said this would be a good starting point. This is a valid contribution to his question. I am sorry if you do not believe that weak encryption (where you know all possible keys, or the keys are small) is not encryption.
PuTTY has been doing this job for however many years, why change?

I don't want to run a whole VM so I can ssh to a real machine. I don't trust Microsoft with providing a decent terminal experience, were I to run their ssh in their terminal. Frankly, at this point, anything new from Microsoft that does something I can already do is suspect; their new work doesn't feel polished and I'm tired of trying their broken stuff.
Ya. It'd be nice if the Freedom Markets™ advocates would remain mindful of the "freedom from coercion" parts of libertarianism. I remain mystified by the application of different standards for governments and corporations.
Just from your numbers, it sounds like it's a good deal as long as you need to (grid) store less than 1/3 of your generated/consumed energy.
Just to be a pedant, the android phone I am typing this on is also made entirely out of electrical and electronic parts as well. In fact, arguably this device contains a greater degree of those parts, as the only electromechanical parts are speakers, a vibration motor, and 3 tact switches.

A simple radio will have a speaker, slide switch for power, potentiometer for volume, and either a potentiometer or variable cap for tuning.

Although I do agree, the operative words there are 'simple' and 'no firmware'. ;)
If you said to me: you are gonna die and reborn, no guarantees about what your life will be in terms of health, education, personal wealth or personality traits, in which country do you want to be born? Most probably not the US for me.
A standard for emergency IPMI or other console type type access would be welcome. Vendors have certainly done a bad job in this space. Break-glass type access isn't a new thing.
You made a tool that makes screenshots but you don't have a single screenshot on the site and you have an unviewable purple rectangle as the only "image" on the git repo? I don't get your logic.
I'm glad they're building Gemini - a monoculture of anything is an unhealthy environment and projects like Gemini can help break up our current HTML/CSS/JS monoculture. But it is also a distribution channel: a method for content creators to get their content out to content consumers.

At the moment the 'coolest' way for poets to share their poems with their readers is through Instagram[1]. I've tried it; I don't like it. But I don't resent the poets who have made the channel work for them - anything that gets people reading more poems is a Win in my book!

[1] - https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/best-poets-on-instagram
Well said. The problem with the Gemini protocol and its proponents is that they are trying to push a protocol (if you can call it that) which makes no sense when what they want to achieve can be achieved much more easily using an alternate approach.

This is like pushing for stone cart wheels when spoked wheels are already available.

For instance, if the issue is with the use of cookies, all they need to implement is a mechanism for the server to not respond to cookies in any form.

If there issue is with other forms of tracking, they could implement a browser which supports a small subset of the HTTP protocol which does not allow any tracking of any kind.
When you want to create a space that is qualitatively different from its surroundings, it is good to put an artificial barrier in the way.
>How do you get Americans to care about the health and welfare of other Americans?

First, you have to get them to care about their own health. 42% of Americans are obese and heart disease kills ~650,000 Americans every year even though it is largely preventable.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
Interestingly enough, the four-step process that is presented in section 1.4 seems very similar to how Urbit is being built right now.
True, but at a given resolution, with CSS turned on, and in dark mode all users will basically see the same HTML view. The user can't have a dark mode HTML page unless the web site offers one or the user has an extension that makes a best effort to create one. HTML with complex Javascript rendering makes it hard to give the user control.

The concept of a user agent that gives the user much greater ability to choose how they want to view content could mean each user will:

* Pick their own font, font size, line spacing, margins

* Pick their own text color and background color. Like dark mode, high contrast, etc.

* Choose how linked images are shown: inline, click to load, load in new window, expandable thumbnails, etc

* How sections, section headers are displayed. Add a table of contents? Add a button to jump to the next section? The user can choose.

I like reader view, which gives me the ability to choose how I view HTML, but only when reader view can figure out how to extract the content (sometimes disastrously missing paragraphs of text...)
For the record, it was not a brick/mortar office, but a temporary tent set up specifically for Covid testing.
Hey there — I'm the author of this post.

There's a few scenarios where I imagined this approach being useful:

* If you have any kind of remote dependency in your SSH auth flow (LDAP, or an online CA, or automated Ansible playbooks to push keys), any of those might fail and render the host otherwise inaccessible.

* It's becoming more common to not ever SSH into machines. So, what if emergency SSH access is the only way to access a host? Some companies even go a few steps further: When a host is SSH'd into, it is considered "tainted by humans", is quarantined and eventually shut down.

* Some hosts should never allow root access to anyone. For example, there's no reason for anyone to have root on a bastion host. So, what if the only way to get root on some hosts is with the emergency key?

While you could use the cloud VM console for emergency access in these cases, having a hardware key provides even more security and would let you turn off cloud VM access.

Of course if you broke your SSHD config, or have a network issue that prevents you from reaching the host, this won't magically fix any of that. IPMI is good for that though.
Right, the point is that anyone can serve the content through any platform, which is why it allows decentralization. But I just don't understand why people are hanging so tightly to the idea that a URL is a direct path to a server, because that just isn't true.
Agree- people can be complex. I would also argue that having multiple identities could be a sign of integrity. Assuming that you are acting in good faith, it may be good to try ideas under a hidden/separate identity. Having the freedom to make mistakes and not worry about your permanent record following you can help you grow. Or, maybe you live in a country with a government that doesn’t take criticism well(for that matter recent news has proven that some companies don’t either). Is it a sign of integrity to not spread what could be legitimate criticism? Whistleblowers?
Birch beer is a lovely beverage, had it on a trip through the mid-atlantic states during college.

I don’t remember ever seeing it at retail here in the south, but it seems like root beer and generally the heavy herbal type flavors have fallen out of fashion. I’m still a fan of them though.
Could we please do it in Sweden too. Sweden are too distracted in traffic for their own good, its like mobile phone zombies sometime, people staring at a piece of glass.
This includes myself sometime.

Also cell phones should be banned in traffic because it causes distractions. Attention in traffic is very important.
Ascribing the status of a capital noun to “cancel culture” is something reactionaries have been doing to try to paint all of their (many) ideological foes into the same category. The use of this term is an effort to distract from the fact that the vast majority of the celebrities who have been “cancelled” have actually victimized others or in other ways taken actions that were offensive or worse. In short, the only people who believe in a monolithic “Cancel Culture” are those who have spent too much time absorbing right wing talking points.
By running your own email server on a VPS you already bypass 99% of the vectors that intelligence agencies use to do bulk data collection. They look for the lowest hanging fruit. Where's the highest email volume? (Gmail.) Where are the people who think they can't get caught but lack technical skills and probably mess up in many other ways? (ProtonMail.) Same with VPNs.
The end of the ice age would have had two appreciable effects on water levels. One, is that the ice went somewhere. The other, is that the huge amount of weight being relieved from the land actually caused land masses to move[0].

In the example I'm most familiar with, the island of Great Britain essentially see-saw'd. Relieving the northern half of the island of this unimaginably massive weight caused the northern end of the island to rise, and the southern end of the island to sink reciprocally.

So even without glacial melt to content with, some areas that were low-lying during the ice-age would have become submerged post-ice-age.

The example I find most fascinating (I'm British, so still using GB & locale as examples) is "Doggerland"[1] - the theory that what is today an underwater topology named Dogger Bank, was previous an island, and before that the land bridge between GB and the continent. There's a strong chance there's prehistoric archeology to be found in the middle of the North Sea.

Yes, sea levels have moved before - as part of one of the largest and most defining geological events in human history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

(I don't want to de-stress point 1, the ice went somewhere. There's just little to expand on.)
what's he gonna say next? that people should have logically consistent beliefs? hahah....