skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEC funding has nearly doubled since 2009, so... no? It makes no sense to imply that the SEC has been "defunded" or weakened by "capitalists" when it now has more power than ever before and a wider regulatory oversight than almost every other federal agency. In fact, I can't think of a better or a more feared market oversight body anywhere else in the world. Same goes for the IRS when it comes to tax evasion.

It's amazing how these types of vague, rhetorical anticapitalist comments here on HN almost consistently end up lacking any substance and add nothing to the conversation.
I'm not saying it will be higher.

This first generation of satellites doesn't even have inter-satellite lasers. So those extra hops will never be an issue. It's a moot point. The 20ms number is about the first generation.

But some day, when those links exist, if data goes halfway around the world via satellite, it would be stupid to say "gotcha! longer than 20ms!". That's a complete misunderstanding of the context, and complaining about something that makes the data go faster.

If someone was going to use multi-hop results to 'disprove' 20ms, they don't even need data. Just look at the speed of light. Bam, already disproven! But that's because it's not what the 20ms number was talking about. He wasn't promising to violate causality.
Cyclists who value lighter parts or somehow obsess over their bike's weight. This guy:

https://youtu.be/-Q590MNTz6M
Yes, they will.
The Old World is making noises about a "greener" recovery as long as we have to make adjustments for Covid. If that happens or not remains to be seen.

Personally, I spend most of the year between 250-1'750 metres over sea level, in a country that (at least in the past) has prized food security over cheap eats, and (until Fukushima) ran our rail system on mostly nuke+hydro power. That said, our glaciers have also retreated noticeably over my lifetime.

(I had thought eliminating Covid would be a good warm-up exercise for tackling climate change, but it appears that even though when it comes to clothing fashions, humans herd like sheep, when it comes to effective concerted effort, humans herd like cats.)
if you're in NYC, you do have other options.
NYC mesh wifi is volunteer-based free isp, with suggested $20 monthly donation. https://www.nycmesh.net.
Looks and performs really well, awesome work!

Todo apps are not a new idea, this proves you can still make a successful product even in the most competitive markets!
And cost-wise, the price of the used platinum foil and PEDOT electrolyte is also neglected but due to the low energy density a lot of that is needed as well. The article however emphasizes the cheap base material several times (bricks) and everyone has an idea of bricks. To me this publication can't hide that it has a PR smell to it. Also the peer review discussion is unexpectedly long and energy density wasnt initially considered to be included in the publication...

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs414...

Edit:
This article employs a clever (let's call it) reverse-bikeshedding trap by including a well known element with some easy to grasp attributes (cheap, abundant, easy to handle, nontoxic) in a complex environment (battery physics/chemistry) to spark a viral story where anyone can participate in.
Ah so if your civilization ends but humans ad a spicies survive, the next civilization won't have it so easy. That makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
How many people from the 2008 crash went to jail? After that, I realized we are no further from the robber barons on old.
Does Mozilla even follow their own Manifesto?

> Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

So having Google as the default search engine is the right approach for privacy?

> Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.

We are still waiting for Pocket's server source code...

> Magnifying the public benefit aspects of the Internet is an important goal, worthy of time, attention and commitment.

What does that even mean? They stopped at 9 and had no idea how to make it to 10 and ended up with wrapping buzz words into one sentence?
Ah yes, this can be a bit confusing. We show you a preview of the screen you are recording, which if it’s the same screen you’re on will cause the looping effect. You can just switch to a different tab and do your video, come back and stop the recording. The 3 second countdown is there to prepare you for the recording starting. We will try to make this less confusing though!
Since procedural macros are non-hygenic, seems like this shouldn't be too hard? Though it may not be in the stdlib (yet?) for Reasons (e.g. exact syntax, edge cases).
The "Medieval Warm Period" is well-documented, as is the "Roman Warm Period". Sadly, they and their significance as well as positive effects are being downplayed by activists lately.
If someone walked into their place of work and spent the whole day shouting obscenities and racial slurs I think their speech would be deemed intolerable.
I had Google cloud break twice this week. First their "AI Notebooks" images broke some dependency, then some IAM change broke the cloud console interface.

Though our engg. team is on it, Pointless hours of productivity lost :-(
Nobody has ever claimed 20ms to go around the world, because that's physically impossible. He did claim ping times would be 20ms, which is patently false, even within CONUS. There is no "second generation" to date. They have not been launched or tested. So the more of v1 that are out, the less v2 you can launch without deorbiting a very expensive part of the fleet.
Yes, but Thiel has been saying this for many years, if not decades, and he did put his money where his mouth was, by paying students to drop out as part of the Thiel Fellowship program: http://thielfellowship.org/
Besides AWS and Azure what's the third major cloud provider he's referring to? (I can think of others, just haven't really thought any were close to Amazon/Microsoft/Google.)
Credential Stuffing Attacks Take Online Retailers by Storm – TekMonks
Sigh. Looks like Mozilla management hasn’t been able to sense the zeitgeist, after their latest downsizing, so let me spell it out for them:

Dear Moz://a management: Everyone is already on board with your ideals of open Internet. What you need to do is get your house in order and focus on your core competency i.e. the web browser and related tooling. You won’t get a seat at the table of Internet biggies if you’re a has been entity.
I remember when Internet Explorer 7 released with tab support. I'd been using Firefox since 1.0 (something like 5 years at that point?)

He whisked me over to his laptop and started opening tabs, before looking at me like he was the first man to discover fire

When I responded "oh, I've had that for years" he looked genuinely shattered at my reaction
That guy who reused some code from Goldman went to jail.
Afaik, on Google ads, cost per click scales inversely with page quality. So clicks on the heroku ad searching for heroku generally find what they are seeking and therefore don't cost very much. If Google thinks you are advertising people toward trash, they charge a lot more.
It's not patently false! Some of the testers got 20ms already AND this is a beta.
Tourers also need stuff like a wheel or a chain or a tire or at least a tube. Or having their rack welded.

Carbon frames are a seasonal fashion item: a new model will come out and the shop will be stuck with the older one.
When you live in mountainous areas you usually have three options.

Dial-up - if its offered still in your area,

Point to point internet - if you have neighbours in line of sight also participating.

or Satellite - if you are in line of sight to the satellite

Many people I know up-country usually all they get is satellite, so yeah starlink may not the promised 20ms, but its hella lot better than what traditional satellite is providing (also hopeful starlink provides better reliability and tech support which in satellite is quite atrocious as well)

Heh - as far as what's promised vs delivery, read the fine print on satellite internet plans, they have wording saying the hope is to provide the advertised speeds but there is no guarantee that they ever will.
Thanks! I'll check it out. I also seeing pretty bad performance when deserializing complex objects.
Google Is Profiting from Coronavirus Conspiracy Sites
don't discriminate much, take every idea, the odd idea that gots strong reaction (in a good, strange, nonobvious way), probably is on to something.

same idea with anova, the variable that causes a lot of variance is probably significant.
I can hear cries from tenderfoot developers whining about supporting multiple options and backwards compatibility...

"But that's sooooo muuuuch too teeessstt!! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!"

But that's your job dude. So what if it costs more money and time. Fucking pay for it anyway.

I feel like startup software dev needs a swift kick in the ass or three with that phrase.... "do it anyway!"

Who fucking cares if these founder assholes only make an 800% return instead of 900%? Do it right.
What's going on is complicated, it isn't surprising that a lot of folks get it wrong.

I don't know much about SEC enforcement, but the IRS has become far less fearsome over time. Again, a somewhat complicated story; there's a good overview here:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted

One top-line number:

> The IRS conducted 675,000 fewer audits in 2017 than it did in 2010, a drop in the audit rate of 42 percent.

Audits of the very wealthy have declined dramatically.
Was wondering the same thing. Alibaba? IBM?
I agree that’s another relevant framing, although once again it is a moral question, and hence not within the proper scope of the natural sciences to answer.

But, even if one were to agree that a woman has a right to bodily autonomy which outweighs the right of her unborn child to life, how does that apply to a case like the one I referred to, of a termination at >= 37 weeks for a maternal psychosocial indication? If the mother didn’t want the child, why not permit it to be born alive, then put it up for adoption? It seems clear that particular line of argument, whether or not it is correct, is insufficient to justify the law and practice of the state of Victoria, Australia (and the same may possibly be true of some other jurisdictions as well.)
I agree college is overpriced, but I doubt Thiel's companies often hire people without a formal college education. He's really just stating the obvious here without mentioning any viable alternatives.
Let's revisit this. There's no point in arguing, but a single data point during a beta is clearly not what he was referring to.
This is very cool. Cool enough that I think it would be worth giving it a catchier name. It's awkward to recommend "pie eye dee em" to people using spoken language.
I have worked at a few orgs and I've heard so many time the "because we are Google" to explain why a product will be used. I've never understood that mentality; I've never understood people being proud basically about a product somebody else built 20 years ago.

I do believe leadership is failing Google, and their lack of vision is starting to affect the company. There was quite a bit of inertia, but I fear search might drop in the next 5 years and there will be nothing ready to replace ads.
Greenland just had several days of record gains in ice in the middle of the melt season. 3 of the last 4 years were net gains in ice mass for Greenland. This is sensationalism. Climate shifts can absolutely occur in both directions.

To see latest Greenland ice charts:

http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
Fwiw "data race" != "race condition", confusing as that may be. A race condition is a blanket term for any nondeterministic bug resulting from differences in timing between independent, concurrent processes. A data race is a specific kind of race condition where reads/writes to the same value in machine memory step on each other's toes and lead to inconsistent behavior. The classic example is two threads that try to increment the same number but only one takes effect, because they both read the current value before either writes their new value (instead of one read/writing and then the other read/writing). I'm not really a C/++ programmer, though, so I only have a rough understanding of this topic. I don't know what a "benign data race" is, for example.
The steps are listed at https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds.
I wonder if this is a result of Google not having users/customers but data points?
What points in the article do you specifically disagree with?
Insider trading is one of those crimes where it is a bit ambiguous as to what the crime is (at least to me). Information travels with some speed and there will always be people with access to better information making better decisions.

We have much better technology these days. Rather than making trading some sort of crime we should just have a "relevant persons" standard where CEOs and anyone who has close contact with them have to register what they are about to do a few days before they make any trades of shares in the company.

It is fundamentally a bit silly have a situation where it is illegal for someone to make best decision given their knowledge. We can safely guess that the professional traders are leveraging every possible edge, fair or not, SEC regulation or not if they think they can get away with it.
Google thinks it can operate the same in paid user bases as it does in free user bases.

You aren't a customer, you're a user who paid to bypass a rate limit. There is a difference.
Not sure if it was a question for us, but we use Segment and Amplitude mostly for business metrics
Have you seen: Hong Kong, Belarus, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Russia, China, Mexico, UK, Zimbabwe, or Egypt within the last 10 years?
Is there any evidence at all that global warming is causing any migration? I look at the problems in Syria and I’m definitely not saying “Yep global warming causes that.”
Crop yields have trended up for the past century. CO2 fertilization improves crop yields.

Edit reply: Yes, it has. This macronutrient myth has to do with the profile of carbs to proteins shifting by single digit percentages, whereas crops will produce more carbs per gram and less protein per gram under higher CO2. The effect is extremely minimal. In soy beans, it's just 2% difference. Either way, when your yields double and you lose 2-10% protein per gram, you are still producing more food overall. This has nothing to do with GMOs. It's just a natural effect of photosynthesis. Most plants are C3 plants, which means genetically they are optimized for CO2 levels that are at least 3x higher than modern levels. It is theorized that this is because plants evolved under these conditions for millions of years. Only very recently in geological terms, did Earth's CO2 levels drop to sub-1000 ppm.

https://www.cropsreview.com/c3-plants.html
Thanks for this reference to Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer, it was a fantastic book. I like two quotes in particular

"The epic of the Pacific war found new chapters for everyone. The endless game of personnel-rotation musical chairs saw the continuous replacement of the experienced by the inexperienced, until, by the end, only the experienced remained."

"Ascending to theater command had never been his ambition, for ambitions, he felt, were meant not for personal gain but to pursue common goals within the established order of a group."

A description of Chester Nimitz

I like this description of ambition as a model for leadership: "pursue common goals within the established order of a group." I think it's a good one for startup CEO's as much as any other leader.
Everything you just said applies to starlink as well. Why the double standard? Still need line of sight, they still won't provide advertised speed guarantees ( no ISP does).

And most people don't care about latency. Bandwidth is far more important.
The recent Kodak situation (where a huge options bonus was given to their CEO the day before announcing a major government loan) goes to show how little some executives are worried about insider trading prosecution.

I've been working on a dashboard to track insider transactions at S&P 500 companies, you can check it out at https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/insidertrading
...Until it freezes again
Thank you.. a lot to digest to be fair.

As for turnkey contract, interestingly, other industries trying to avoid uncertainty and not pass costs to consumers.

AFAIK, Russian nuclear contracts come with warranty of all funding, so if overrun happens, these are Rosatom problem, not customer's
Ask HN: What're the advantages of becoming an Apache project?
I have been reading Apache Software Foundation website (https://www.apache.org/#) but I am unable to decipher what are the benefits an open source software gets by becoming an Apache project. As far as I can tell it is not the Apache license; any OSS can use the Apache license. The bar to becoming Apache project also seems pretty high so I am assuming there must be lot of benefits that I am missing. Is someone here familiar with ASF and can shed light on why one should consider making their OSS an Apache project? Thanks in advance.
What's the URL without require registering? Is there a group site?
> The real risk IMO is making the oceans acidic with all this co2. That has the potential to be really really catastrophic.

This is pretty much impossible. Catastrophic scenarios for 2100 expect pH = 7.8 (now: 8.0). pH is logarithmic and acidity would start below 7.
Sure, we can revisit this later.

But if we need to look at the numbers later, doesn't that mean you're conceding the point about it being "clearly not going to happen" and "patently false" that it will ever reach the promised number?

Or do you think I'm delusional to say "maybe it will, maybe it won't" and you're just humoring me by offering to revisit?
> Fun fact for you - if I get promoted this year at Amazon to L5, I'll _still_ make less than a new grad at Google.

This doesn't appear to be close to true based on levels.fyi, unless you're severely underpaid for an Amazon L5.
I would think us engineers would appreciate the complexity of accurately measuring total net energy absorbed by a whole damn planet. It's not just raw temperature readings from buoys. Incremental improvement of models and some debate to sort out the reasons for temporary inconsistencies is to be expected in science.

None of this is really any excuse to be doubting climate change in general, or the severity thereof. All of that is just politics, not science. Scientists know that our models are just as likely to underestimate the effects of climate change as they are to overestimate them. It is only politically motivated opinionistas that focus exclusively on one of those possibilities.
It's odd to see an article emphasising backwards compatibility, but not a single mention of Microsoft (I even ctrl+F'd the page source to check!) They've regressed a bit in the recent years but I'd still consider MS the gold standard for back-compat. I have Win32 binaries I last modified over 15 years ago, small (or perhaps tiny - size measured in KBs) utilities that I use daily. They worked perfectly on Win95, and still do on Win10.

I wonder when/if the software industry will ever stabilise. It's possibly the only industry where frequent and disruptive change continues to happen, and is even welcomed by many in it (not me).
> Everyone is already on board with your ideals of open Internet.

I don't think that's the case. Increasingly content is being placed in walled gardens which you don't get full access to that content unless you have an account. Google is still pushing AMP. Chrome is becoming the new IE, and sites that 'work best' or only work with Chrome are not uncommon. Those (and many other) factors don't indicate to me that everyone is on board with the ideal of an open Internet.
Could you be more specific? Future of what exactly?

Server computing: Open source is currently winning, it will probably keep winning.

The Desktop: Open source is fully usuable, however only a small percent of market share. Might be the future if wine and proton keep seeing major imorovements.

Mobile phones: Open source isn't winning (I wouldn't really count android as open, but that's up for debate). I don't see open source being the future here anytime soon, though I truly hope it makes it.
Last I checked Alibaba was 3rd in the international market and Oracle cloud was growing. Steve might be referring to Oracle getting 3rd place.
I'm not in Taiwan but Japan (not metropolis), here OSM is not enough detailed and not updated well. Is it different in other countries?
I think it has more to do with the fact that it’s the oldest region, and they support some odd things there that do not exist in other regions.
I would be extremely interested to know what that total is comprised of. If it's, for example, tons of warning letters with nothing further, that would be a great way to look busy doing something while doing nothing.
The saying goes that if you want a raise, you have to negotiate for it at your new job. Internal promotions typically make less than an outsider coming in for the same position. Some corps say that pay bumps have a max, so internal employees hit that max when getting promoted even though that max is still below what a new hire would be brought in at. I've run into that personally. I fixed it by getting a new job for a new company. When you negotiate that new job's salary, you have to make sure you're going to be okay with it for the next few years while the cycle starts over. And people wonder why job stints are so short today.
On the other hand, when someone expresses an opinion like this, you never know if they were contacted at some point by a Google recruiter and ended up with a case of sour grapes.

I had a phone conversation with a hiring manager once, and obviously I was not the right type or class or caste or something, but it wasn't a technical screen at all, so it's a mystery to me forever what exactly determined the "in group" as you put it.

As such, I know I'm biased towards them, but I can't really assess the overall company.
Warren Buffett traded Goldman Sachs for gold
Yes this doesn’t make any sense as a “study”, just an ad for docsend. The Harvard study they referenced https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/investors-prefer-entrepreneurial... is much better
Why is the Icelandic version missing the top part of the page though?
At least if the northeast passage opens up, we'll have a sea route between china and europe that doesn't go past the resource-cursed middle east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Passage
I'm maintaining these are best case numbers and that they'll go up when the service is live. I would bet you'll never see 20ms when paying customers are on it.
Truly catastrophic would be a sudden plunge in temperatures. A glacial period like what happened in the Younger Dryas would cause severe famine and crop shortages, loss of habitable land, and extreme pressure on habitats everywhere:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
> So having Google as the default search engine is the right approach for privacy?

This and the fact that they signed the deal with Google again makes me lose faith in Mozilla, caring about privacy yet making deals with the devil that is killing them.
As usual, like a Puritan, Taibbi sees the world in black and white.

I don’t have a problem with mayor/lecturer doing tinder or grindr with students that dont attend his classes, but using a political student org (if true) as hunting ground for other than votes is a bit predatory. At least wait until they graduate before inviting them to your private sexy gram channel.
Containers are an addon.
Of course. I'm well aware that I'm considered mentally defective (or maybe just garden variety low IQ) by the hiring committee. That doesn't really change my observation here.
I saw you post this comment multiple times. Correlation does not equal causation my friend.