skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd consider this a little on the low, but perhaps that makes sense given nature of the site and potential type of audience.

On publisher sites where I've had access to analytics we'd see an Ad-Blocker rate of 8% on the sites with a 'good' ad experience (low programmatic, less crappy positions and UX) but as high as 30% on the crappier ones (saturated with banner ads, had Outbrain/Taboola modules, etc).

(That was about 2 years ago so I would have thought that ad-blocking with continue its slow increase)
There are suprisingly few beginner tutorials for FreeBSD (or any BSD). Compare that with the gazillion tutorials for Linux. The official FreeBSD Handbook is rightly praised for it's thoroughness and its detail. But it is also a bit intimidating and dense for beginners who may need a simpler guided tour of the essentials.

Of course, there is a lot of cross-over knowledge between Linux and BSD. Nevertheless, the difference between the number of Linux guides, books, and courses and the number for BSD is striking.

There is just one book on FreeBSD published in 2018 (Absolute FreeBSD). But nothing else recently. What about BSD on Udemy, Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda)? Nothing. Why is there so little for an OS that is well-regarded and widely respected? (Not a criticism of the situation, merely an observation.)
Well, depending on how you find them, they still usually want to preserve their reputation. It'd be risky paying a completely anonymous person for a service, but if the darkwebsite indicates that there are 100 people who have said, "A+++++, would do cyberattacks with them again", then it might be safe to do crimes together.
Many in this space have made good revenue by literally just packaging blog posts together with a nice cover and no additional editing. Maybe a small intro for each group of related posts.

If folks really like your content, they'll often pay for the book just to support you.
Tariff rates were used for government revenue at that time, that's why they had to be high. It had nothing to do with endorsing protectionism per se, and the U.S. got an income tax later on to fix this issue.
sole definitions of avoid and evade are completely irrelevant, "tax avoidance" and "tax evasions" are well understood syntagms, former meaning utilizing any legal means in order to reduce the amount of taxes paid. simply put, tax avoidance is good accounting. tax evasion is illegal and is an action in which you're directly breaking a law.

what tech companies were doing in europe was utilizing every possible loophole in order to reduce the amount of taxes paid. of course, that angered sovereign nations which (rightly) felt cheated and they acted by applying pressures to ireland and others. some (france) even fined some of the companies, those fines were most likely in a grey area, but tech firms knew very well what they were doing, understood the motivations behind those fines and generally concluded that it's a bad idea angering a nation in whose market you're operating. realpolitik.
Why Tesla Invented a New Neural Network
Wrong. They do anonymously:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397?hl=en

Turn this switch off and there's no tracking.

Your data really isn't interesting enough to track.
Two nitpicks: an FFP2 should also work pretty well with its 94% filtration capacity. Second, I assume you're in Europe, because USA-spec N95 or N100 masks would also work. Doesn't affect the point you're making.

Reason and recent scientific evidence, however, does affect your point that nothing but the highest-rated respirators prevent contraction. The FFP2/FFP3/N95/N100s of the world prevent contraction much more effectively than lower-rated masks or respirators, but it's wrong to say that other masks don't protect against this coronavirus.

Common sense suggest that homemade masks prevent the contraction of COVID, just to a substantially lower extent than the higher-end respirators. Even before the scientific studies came out showing that homemade masks could reduce contraction, it wouldn't be dumb to wear a mask for purely selfish reasons. A bandana blocks some particles. A Chinese spec KN95 is likely better. Even if the bandana only blocks 25% of particles that could cause COVID, I'd definitely wear it if it was all I had and I had to go to the grocery store.

But you don't need to take my word/logic for it. Here are a few pre-prints I found on the great medRxiv.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20065375v...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20093021v...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.07.20093864v...
I use Arch Linux and FreeBSD quite a lot and I agree that the Arch Wiki is great but it's not really comparable to the FreeBSD handbook.

The handbook feels... like a proper handbook. It's got structure and is very comprehensive. The first time I installed a non-Windows OS was FreeBSD as a teenager using only the handbook (I had no internet connection). In hindsight it was an amazing learning experience.

The Arch wiki is more like a compendium of arcane knowledge regarding Arch Linux and a lot of Linux software. It's a lot broader in scope but it can be a bit overwhelming when you don't know exactly what you're looking for.

Compare for instance the entry for OpenSSH in the handbook vs. the Arch wiki:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/openssh.html

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenSSH

The FreeBSD page is a lot shorter but it's also more beginner friendly IMO. It ignores the more advanced features and niche use cases to get the user started. If you want to go deeper than that you're supposed to go look for the full documentations elsewhere (man pages, info pages or... the Arch Wiki for instance). It's short and focused. The Arch Wiki page on the other hand tackles many other advanced features of OpenSSH but I fear that a complete beginner might find it a bit overwhelming.

The Arch Wiki is priceless though, it's become my de-facto resource for projects that don't offer good quality first party documentation.
> Contrary to popular belief, America is not the center of the universe...

Contrary to popular assumption, not everyone commenting on this website is American. I'm not; I'm European and have never lived in the States.

> I'm fairly sure that when I say they're not racist towards black people, I say it for every Slavic country out there.

Not Slavic, but my SO is. This sentence is mindnumbingly naïve. There is no country on this planet where racism does not exist.
As someone who has just launched a business to help companies produce useful free content for readers in return for their potential business, this is really worrying trend.

That said, I have full faith in people. Specifically for people to drop Google and move to smaller search engines if Google no longer shows them the best content.

And to use adblockers. Google gives me fairly good results most of the time with uBlock Origin and I'm always surprised by how bad the results are without it (when I see only ads).

I blame OKRs and quarterly planning. Those that care about the 10-year health of a business are shouted down by those who get bonuses by sacrificing long term gain for short term gain.

Can definitely recommend The Innovator's Dilemma [0] for those who haven't read it yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
It's not a card with $5000 on it though. It's a card that you can commit a crime potentially spending $5000 with, potentially going to jail for, and struggling to launder the proceeds into something you can spend yourself. If the odds of that working out are less than 0.5%, maybe it's overpriced.
Ocaml is a somewhat fair comparison, but I have to say that Go is really in no way comparable to Rust. Rust is massively more complex.
> That approach wasn't particularly smart in this case.

Woah wait where did that come from? Yes it was smart. It looked bad but they were behaving correctly. And before you argue that masks don’t have any downsides (which I was saying when I originally started wearing them) it’s really easy to accidentally contaminate your mask and now you’re breathing through whatever got on it. I’ve done this by mistake at least once now and was sick for a week because of it.
All I get are static images. No videos at all.
I can relate to this. I was “bad” at math as a child, and was so bored by its basics or at least how they were taught. I never had a good foundation and so never got to takeTrig or Calculus in high school. Later, during my PHD studies, I discovered I was great at set theory, and went on to learn programming. I realized I was never “bad” at math. I was poorly taught. As a result, I had trouble holding numbers in my head to work with them.Now that I am “good” at math, I find this much easier.
I greatly enjoyed this game because of its relationship to the thought experiment. Last time I tried playing it, it had a terrible memory leak on Firefox though. Eventually consuming over 15GB, when I decided I had to kill it.
They are "toy" projects illustrative of the general concepts. ("toy" as in smaller in scope; one of the two is by a former colleague).

JPM's actual pixie code is proprietary, extremely performant after 12 years of pushing into bigger and bigger scale problems, and is definitely not on GitHub!
>>It's not China, it is Chinese VC money.

No difference in China. Do what is good for the fatherland or your fiances, you personally and your family will suffer.

>>I don't see that the Government can deal with Ambani so easily, or even antagonise him with impunity.

So like many he's wayyy to powerful to deal with. But at least he is a local, not jeopardizing India's geopolitics. Just as he can control politicians, they can control him, if/when they want to. They know what he did to become so powerful and can send 500 police officers to his offices to search for evidence if/when...
I suppose <2.7 then. I was thrown off by "...every good thing must come to an end; Python 2.7 was going end of life.", implying that the product was written for 2.7 and was hence facing its deprecation problem.
Couldn't you use card credentials to get a cash advance at an ATM? I am assuming a chip-less card's magstripe just has the credentials on it, so it should be easy to copy? I guess the banks fraud systems would catch an unusual withdraw.
> Think about how easy it is to go to an ATM and use it..

Doesn't seem easy at all. ATMs have cameras and are monitored for abnormal transactions (stolen cards, unusual withdrawal patterns, etc).
In the case of your 40% scroll map example, you don’t need to know why they left. You can start by making the page shorter or putting your CTA 35% of the way down the page.

Does anybody make the argument that analytics is supposed to tell you the why or what to do next? That’s up to you. The data just guides those decisions.
Kubernetes is a godsend and it solves way more problems than it creates. But I just believe that this simple use case is an overkill. OP just wanted a remote DNS server that is addressable within the VPN. You don't really need Kubernetes or Kilo for that.
> The main point as far as I can see is to stop your inner voice.

I just tried this while reading your comment and... I just can't xD

I'm even listening to music in the background, but my brain just blocks that out the moment I start reading.
In Belgium, because of the light pollution, it's impossible to see it with the naked eye.

I could, however, catch a short time-lapse of it with my camera:

https://youtu.be/tq_CEIFzh70

Something I don't get is that the comet will come closer to earth in the next days; however, the astronomy sites say it will lose intensity. How can that be possible?
Presumably, the most efficient markets are operating on a trust-based model. Reputation on the dark web is probably extremely valuable, and so vendors and buyers change their behavior based on each other’s ratings. Buying from a new vendor with no rep is extremely risky, so the buyer should expect a steep discount or otherwise for taking the risk.
It's historically been a very similar proposition to Solaris: zfs, dtrace, containers, and higher performance.

For as much as I like both FreeBSD and Solaris, Brendan Gregg (mentioned elsewhere in the comments) has a very convincing argument as to why the scales have tipped in favor of Linux in the last few years:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-09-05/solaris-to-linux...
Let me put it a stronger way: if you're seeing your cargo dependencies recompile every time, it is a bug. Please file one upstream. These bugs do happen, but they are bugs.
Maybe correct, there was even a 32bit x86 mode, it was just ridiculously slow.
For some fun confusion, there's this libtorrent library, commonly called libtorrent-rasterbar by distros. And libTorrent by rakshasa, which is used by rTorrent.

I've considered something like this for a web music player I have, but it doesn't seem to have an easy setup for downloading individual files from a torrent. And the latency would add gaps between songs.
> why are no not using two services

Simplicity. Microsoft has a marketplace where they bundle a bunch of services together where developers already are. I didn't have to go elsewhere to look. It's a real competitive advantage they're building. That said, I may begin to look elsewhere.

> And I don't see Microsoft making any commitments with liability on their part for a free service

It's not a free service. I pay roughly $50/mo for the features I use.

> And I don't see Microsoft making any commitments with liability on their part for a free service.

I imagine they take their SLAs very seriously. Especially in light of this string of outages. If they don't, they're going to lose customers and good will.
Sonia Gandhi literally flies in Reliance jets for her Western sojourns but you are only flagging the existing Govt. dishonestly.
I posted link below as reply to another comment. They were evading taxes and was charged in Italy and France and even on Ireland.

And no, it was not technically legal because many European countries do not distinguish between avoidance and evasion. There's no such a thing and is evasion (no matter how smartly you do that).

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/31/21044662/google-end-tax-...
"The peer-reviewed article is like a sacred text"

Not sure at what level of education he is claiming this to be the case but from M.Sc.and up, my experience is that students and researchers regard articles as containing claims with varying degrees of supporting evidence to substantiate them, rather than as facts.
Yes. I use it in setup where some streams are Geo-replicated to other continents.

Most of the time, it just works.

Here is a performance test program I wrote to see what I could squeeze out of it:

https://github.com/jgaa/pulsartest
Yeah, the Chinese government is far more involved with it's companies than India with any of it's non nationalized companies. China got Jack Ma to spinoff Alipay from Alibaba, screwing the other shareholders badly. I don't think there is anyy big company in China without CCP members high up in the ranks.

Ambani on the other hand, however powerful he may be, is certainly not a bigger threat than China. Companies being Ambani owned, while worse than a competitive market, is still much better than being Tencent owned.
I really like this video for explaining the DAG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOP_shhVBQ
Interesting, according to this presentation from 2013 there were several reasons to use BSD, but network speed is not among them.

https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.p...
For tones, yes. That's exactly what I meant. But armed just with loudspeaker tech you'd have quite some time trying to develop a reliable system with voice alerts, let alone dozens of them. This became possible in more recent times when playing voice recordings (or synthesize it) for dozens of types of alerts became technologically feasible and reliable enough to use in critical scenarios.
Reading the original article takes effort, in part because it may be hosted on a slow-loading site with a bad UI, have intrusive ads, be long, uninteresting and / or written in a language that's difficult to read.

I wish HN had at least snippet previews for submissions (like in Twitter, WhatsApp or Facebook) so that I could look at them without following a link and decide whether to open them or not based on more information than just the title.
Their tools have certainly gotten nicer to work with over the years since they embraced open source. I too work in a windows environment, and things have gotten so good with WSL that I resold my mbp2018 (13”) and bought a surface pro instead for my personal development.

Everything plays into Azure though. .Net Core is great, but it’s just a little bit better with Azure. VSC is awesome, but it’s really awesome with WSL and Azure. And so on, and the best part is that they’ve adopted things like python as first class citizens for Azure system services so your developers can build things that run on the same services as the powershell scripts your operations guys build.

I don’t think Microsoft has changed one bit though. They are not doing it to be nice, they are doing it because it’s the best strategy to sell Azure and Officr365 along with it. I don’t mind, I work for a Danish city, Microsoft had by far been the tech company that interferes the best into our business and operations models for 25+ years. AWS is learning of course, but when you’re deeply invested in office365 anyway, there isn’t a long leap to Azure. Especially not when the tools that come with it are good.
It is impossible for the FTDI driver to reliably determine if a chip is counterfeit. The difference between a counterfeit and a compatible part is trademark violation, and that can only be detected by looking at the physical packaging and the marketing materials.
The book made more than 100k as it's still selling pretty well. In fact, the sales have increased over time, even if the book is now 5 years old.

I keep on updating it and will release a second edition soon.

The marketing effort is not just for the book. It also helps me sell:

- video courses

- on-site training

- online training and workshops

- find consulting opportunities

- subscription licenses for a software product I created, Hypersistence Optimizer, https://vladmihalcea.com/hypersistence-optimizer/
> I use Arch Linux and FreeBSD quite a lot and I agree that the Arch Wiki is great but it's not really comparable to the FreeBSD handbook.

I think it's a depth vs. breadth thing. The Arch Wiki covers significantly more topics, and a vast number of these topics are deep enough to solve your problem or get the job done.

I think the FreeBSD handbook often tries to be "complete" in some sense.
Go Small
Apple allocates more than $400M to combat California housing crisis
It's not really. People working on low-level stuff most likely don't have any dynamic memory allocations at all.
I've found the same. One of my favorite blog posts on getting FreeBSD working well on laptop is: https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/freebsd-on-a-laptop/
Google probably didn't do any bribing directly, but their local consultants might do it to make sure the project going smooth and will simply invoice the "lobbying" expense to Google later. At least that's how it goes in my country.
You can lead a horse to water ...

Then address what I said: Do you deny the evidence I just posted about there being more slavery today than ever before in history? What is your evidence that "Slavery was long gone and finished when master/slave began being used in computer science"?
Doesn't chrome come with hard coded certificates in their executable? Sounds hard to do MITM.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...
I work in oil and gas with process optimization, and we are working on autonomous tuning of the production process in a way that is not possible with daily data updates and manual human intervention.

Quite simply, the end goal is increased oil production and reduced power consumption. Realtime data flows are a big deal when reading from thousands of sensors for just one process system and there are hundreds of tunable parameters. All this has to be safe also.
Telling people that they can verify science themselves is dangerous. I understand the need for peer review and critical thinking but I keep thinking of the flat earth lady with the ruler at the beach. She thinks that she can prove the horizon is flat because someone taught her literally anyone is qualified do debunk all science due to a widespread "ignorance of experts". Part of science, the important part, is accepting that others know more than you. It is possible for something to be true despite you yourself not understanding why.
So induction is a useful method of proving stuff.

You can't prove that S(n) is true for all values of n by just going through each possible n and proving it, since n can be anything so you'll be there a while.

The way this works is, you attempt to show that _if_ S(n) is true, _then_ S(n+1) is also true. Then you show that S(1) is true. Since S(n) being true implies that S(n+1) is also true, you can show that S(2) is true since 2 = 1+1 (you've proven the case where n=1). Then since S(2) is true, so is S(3), and S(4), S(5), ... and so on.

The way the links proof works is:

You show that S(1) is true. The set of 1 person {A} must have everyone in that set being the same age (there's only one person in it after all).

The next step is to show that if S(n) is true, then S(n+1) is also true. To do this we can take an example set of people {P,Q,R}, in this case we are saying that this is the group of n+1 people (so n=2). We can take {Q,R} (the set of everyone except P) and know that they are the same age (since we have assumed S(n) to be true, as long as we can show this relation works, we only need to prove one value of n to prove all of them, and we've already done this with S(1)). We can also do this for the set {P,R} using the same reasoning.

Since Q=R (Q and R are the same age) and P=R, we can prove that P=Q since P=R=Q. This shows that as long as S(n) is true, so is S(n+1).

Where this proof breaks down is this proof only works for a set of people larger than 2. So we haven't actually proven that S(1) being true implies S(2) is true, since this relation does not hold, we can't rely on S(n) being true.
As the American Declaration of Independence states "..all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"

What a truly, extra-ordinary document on the human condition. Coming up with that text in that era..I wish I had that kind of insight and wisdom.
In law this is probably theft. You're dishonestly appropriating something, with the intent of permanently depriving the owner of it. You'll claim that you're replacing it with an item of similar value, but that claim fails because i) the act of replacement means you know you shouldn't just take the cup and ii) the replacement is not equivalent, or you'd just keep the replacement without taking the original.

> I'm really not sure if it belongs to anyone.

If you knew it was just a generic cup and you were replacing it with something that was equally usable, and the original was not going to be missed by anyone, I'd say it's ethically ok to take the cup. But you don't know this. Maybe that cup belongs to someone and they're just too shy / non-confrontational to tell you to stop using their cup.
When I visit a website I make sure to look at the collection of articles that they have published. This gives me an idea of their mission, and how to interpret their content.

In this website, this advice is relevant.
It’s great that you went through the trouble to alert them.

It would be nice to automate this flow as much as possible to reduce the friction for concerned people.
India is one country with a lot of people. Other countries can be used but the smaller population means you have to figure out a new legal system sooner when you run out of cheap labor.