skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you were downvoted for reasons I don't understand but I think your comment is important.

I agree that aligning economic incentives is a good (and probably the only?) way to steer hordes of people in directions that will either help or harm the "community".

I'm not actually sure whether most people are or aren't wearing masks. While driving out to camp in the desert, stops to get gas provided (very limited anecdata) that people generally don't care at all about mask wearing. Which is why I think it was the right move where I live to force businesses to deny service to people not wearing masks but these people tend to only do it in settings where they become pariahs if they don't (so they're only doing it to conform, which is better than not at all). e.g. in some places, the people running the place don't even care so therefore it goes unenforced (if not procedurally, definitely not socially).

I also agree with your concern about our/my/your ability to accurately estimate anything of importance. But this isn't a good reason alone for not encouraging thinking and care about these things, even if it means reeducation later on (harm reduction as opposed to some form of "getting it perfect", which is exceedingly hard).

However there is one important point: moving people cognitively towards thinking about these issues in a moral framework of care and purity is probably better than not, even if it means slightly more carbon output due to higher calorie consumption because of bicycle riding instead of driving a car (e.g. I support a carbon tax much more now than I did before I got rid of my car, it wasn't a cause mind you but it certainly co-occurred with my beginning to care more about the sanctity of our natural environment).

So, I agree with you generally, but we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking only in terms of economic or technological solutions because not focusing on the social domain can have consequences (read: conservatives now becoming science deniers and buying gas guzzling trucks to stick it to the libs, for example).
How are you struggling to see terrorism doesn't have to cause widespread fear in the general population to be terrorism?

> the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

The nitpick was pretty much saying "you need to have a political aim to do terrorism!"

My rebuttal is, by calling things terrorism, the implication is there was some political tilt even if said tilt is unknown. That's the whole point of calling it terrorism.

Whether that was geopolitical, or anti-government, or a protest against the lack of action the national security risk that is our power grid, these reasons are all some form of political motivation.

With the level of sophistication shown, this rises above of trying to create fear for the sake of fear or mischief.

In fact, part of why the fear caused by this was somewhat limited was an initial effort to keep it secret which was later abandoned.

Do you really think a team of coordinated gunmen using advanced scouting techniques, cutting communications lines in an anticipation, showing intimate knowledge of a substation wouldn't have caused widespread fear in a community?

Most people wouldn't even care about the substations, just the idea of coordinated professional gunmen attacking targets would be scary enough... it certainly was for the government
> Exercise

The evidence on exercise is extremely poor. In cultures that promote athleticism the sheer willingness to exercise correlates so strongly with healthiness that it's extremely hard to control for. And even then meta studies give you at best only a few extra years.

Exercise itself is a risky activity. Over a lifetime the risk of injury is non-trivial.

Studies that go against this pro-exercise bias are usually ignored[0].

[0] "This result suggests that daily strenuous exercise as an occupation shortens rather than prolongs the lifespan."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0476-6
> Have something to contribute. Be able to support yourself. Don't compete for an in country job and any country should welcome your residence/citizenship.

I think agree with this, but I'm not sure what this looks like apart from "remote employment". How do you not compete for an in-country job without being employed remotely? Even if you're a self-employed plumber, for example, you're still competing for a job in your host country (your presence increases the supply of plumbing services without the corresponding increase in demand).
I also believe pretty much the same thing. The end of this globalization plus the gradual change in climate might meet together to bring a bigger bang and most of us, who are accustomed to the relative peace and abundance of resources are ill prepared.
Here's looking towards San Jose from Coyote: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.185675,-121.7261473,3a,75y,3...

It's not all that far from the spaghetti neighborhoods, but that's where the weird stuff happens. Cranky rural folks break things at the encroaching edges of development. Bored kids get a couple of miles past streetlights and sidewalks and feel like it's no-mans-land.
Originally I had it as a Google Doc. That got 0 votes on HN. This is my second attempt. Super easy upgrade to Notion. I agree could be better, but further raising the bar to publishing might mean I never do it :(.

Actually the feedback about not being able to use space / PgDn is good feedback for the Notion team. How do we relay feedback to them? :)
I agree with most of the post but I don't think academia is generally obsessed with originality. A lot of academic work is explicitly incremental by nature, which is determined by the methodology of academic work, which aims to satisfy formalisms and to be reproducible (at least ideally). One just needs to look at the turmoil that the proof of the abc-conjecture caused in maths.

I associate forced originality more with Silicon Valley startup culture, which used to look down on places like China not too long ago for copying on every opportunity it got, and there was probably one blogpost per week complaining about rote memorisation in education and deschooling their kids coming out of that culture.
Have you seen itch.io? https://itch.io/games/platform-linux
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater
Bad coding practices? Enjoy the poor performance
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Metcalfe offers a very interesting conservative perspective. The article IMHO has a more convincing conservative counterpoint:

Labs, compared to university researchers, also maintain a constant link with delivering value and, ultimately, profitability. University incentive, prestige, and funding regimes suffer from the standard problems around non-profits: if you’re not trying to make profits, what are you trying to do? How do you know that what you’re doing is socially useful? Working without a profit signal can lead to deeply broken incentives systems and extremely wasteful admin burdens that weigh heavily on productivity, along with research that is in no way tied to improving human lives. Some estimates suggest that university scientists spend just a third of their time on active research. Historically, labs have seemed less prone to this problem.
I believe that VisiCalc was the first to ship a functional spreadsheet. I remember watching RichHarris’s “Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity” video introducing Svelte 3, and he discussed an earlier academic spreadsheet concept.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao

I used the following “terminal” spreadsheets

VisiCalc on a Radio Shack Model III

Microsoft MultiPlan on MS-DOS

Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS
I wasn’t aware of a Minimum Advertised Price rule for Steam but such rules are extremely common across industries even if I agree they generally don’t help the consumer.

This is why when you go to buy an Apple laptop or a GoPro or whatever on Amazon that they can’t initially show you a price below the price allowed by the manufacturer. You’ll sometimes need to add the item to your cart to see the “discounted” price which is still allowed under Minimum Advertised Price rules. Cars and many, many other products work this way too.

Once again, not saying I’m necessarily in favor of it but it’s hardly a unique Steam policy. Brands seem to believe protecting their advertised prices helps maintain the value of their brand. For Steam, I guess they wouldn’t want to have a store full of games that cost more. Just like no one wants to pay 30% more to buy a game on iOS instead of PC.
The story was clear that this was only an estimate of damages. It also stated clearly that the investigators were somewhat constrained by the fact that Ngo's services did not keep reliable records of sales -- only what customers searched for.

I should add that in this case, a search for John Smith in Massachusetts would turn up all the John Smiths in Mass. The resulting sale (if there was one) could have been for all of the John Smiths in Mass, some of them, or just one. We don't know. This also made the notification of victims much more difficult.
Avoiding the mobile OS sandbox escape I mentioned in a few places, and you'd use multiple devices and OS's as described.
Console #13: Quantum Computing for the Curious, Part 1 [video]
Don't forget Neal Stephenson's classic, "Mother Earth, Mother Board." 25 years old but still relevant.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
> Also: BGP probably needs to redesigned from the ground up by software engineers with experience from designing systems that can remain working with hostile actors.

This has been attempted a number of times, but this is a political problem, not a technical problem: there's no single agreed source of truth for routing policy.

A lot of US Internet providers won't even sign up for ARIN IRR, or even move their legacy space to a RIR - so there isn't even any technical way of figuring out address space ownership and cryptographic trust (ie. via RPKI). Hell, some non-RIR IRRs (like irr.net) are pretty much the fanfiction.net equivalent of IRRs, with anyone being able to write any record about ownership, without any practical verification (just have to pay a fee for write access). And for some address space, these IRRs are the only information about ownership and policy that exists.

Without even knowing for sure who a given block belongs to, or who's allowed to announce it, or where, how do you want to fix any issues with a new dynamic routing protocol?
The idea that a lab can know just where to put their efforts to be "socially useful" is questionable at best.
Changing the defaults to improve security in Electron
Apache CXF – Web Services
maybe technically, but not economically. working in the arctic is very difficult and expensive. the value of methane is not only low, but difficult to transport economically.
What resources can I follow to start a non-profit ISP? I want to start one in my hometown for students who couldn't afford internet to join online classes.
Because it's horrible in almost every way.
Because it can be rather frustrating to deal with problems owing to case insensitivity on systems that allow it.
OTP is not sent over the same channel.

Is there some other way I can explain it better, maybe a specific section on a Threat Model (there's a vulnerabilities section to include things not in the threat model).
An interesting product! It was shipped by a company (if I remember right) called "Personal Software" or some such. They marketed software they collected from individual developers.

VisiCalc was their one runaway success. So much so, they changed their name to VisiCorp.
When I lived in the suburbs of Naples people would burn their trash in big piles whenever the garbage collectors went on strike and "nobody" was liable, even though sometimes the fire would spread and burn/damage stuff on the neighbor's property. Then again, Europeans don't have the same litigious culture/attitude that Americans have.
It likely has some inaccurate info as I'm not a network engineer, but I gave a talk about BGP (with a history, protocol overview, and information on how it fails using real world examples) at Radical Networks last year. https://livestream.com/internetsociety/radnets19/videos/1980...

I tried to make it accessible to those who have only a basic understanding of home networking. Assuming you know what a router is and what an ISP is, you should be able to to ingest it without needing to know crazy jargon.
I understand that NTFS has its own case folding table which is written once when the volume is formatted. This does seem to have stood the test of time and enormous usage so maybe it is not such a poor idea.
Being wealthy or just having enough in savings to not have to work for a while seems the obvious alternative.
What would a moral insurance company do to fulfill their moral obligation in the above example?
The front page is rarely touched but the forum is often popping
Commune will be 2beaucoup after a tech-salary divorce, only solution is evading the lifetime alimony police by sleeping in the desert, where your only friends are scorpions and your only food is the same ;)
There's a bunch of guidelines for starting a (W)ISP depending on your region.
Call a public service like the fire department, if it gets out of control.
I think the most recent big shift, on a society level, was taking that networked world from our offices and homes to mobile devices. It‘s not exactly between 2010 and 2020 but definitely between 2000 and 2020.
Tesla Introduced a Business Model the World Has Not Seen Before
"glue them together as required in my application code"

This can easily be the source of problems. Bad compositions of crypto primitives are a common source of vulnerabilities in cryptosystems. A textbook example is MAC-then-ENCRYPT, which is not secure in general. Another common example is over-use of a cryptographic key, which can easily happen when underlying primitives are composed badly (asking for too many bytes from a PRG, or encrypting too much data in GCM mode, etc.).

"never really screw with asymmetric crypto primitives directly"

You might not be matching your crypto to your application requirements if you can write off a whole swath of primitives like that, or else you only deal with a very specific setting in which symmetric cryptography is sufficient.
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RPKI is a totally diff problem here, though.

If people refuse to sign ROAs, then they don't get protection. The ARIN TAL thing is real and people have to keep fighting that.

As it is right now you can xfer v4 out of ARIN but not v6. So even if you wanted to you can't.
Honestly, mostly I'll buy Lenovo-branded batteries on eBay for these things and hope they're new old stock and not counterfeit (or are at least high quality regardless). That is the biggest worry I have about using older laptops though; spec-wise, an old used laptop can honestly be just fine for a lot of people, myself included.

I'm glad hobbyist projects like this exist, but I wish they didn't have to.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172603
> Also: BGP probably needs to redesigned from the ground up

SCION from ETH Zurich:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I could not agree more with this. I'm very concerned because China has been ramping up their R&D spending while the US has been decreasing, at a time we need to be increasing.
This is why I do these write ups, I want to document the most obtuse pieces of code I can and explain the logic in a clear way =) I'll be writing more so be on the look out!
Are they really? To date, both Volkswagon and BMW outsold Tesla in Europe, which might have something to do with being able to ship cars on schedule.
>The bar was named after Newman, who was vocal in calling for stronger roofs after going airborne twice in one year at Talladega. It then helped saved his life in the Daytona 2020 crash.

My gosh, after the first time, I'd be wary. After the second time, I'd be looking for a safer job. Good on him though, seriously. Pushing for something to make his sport safer for all.
Unless you expect other countries to be in the same (or even worse) situation...
Covid-19 is Turning Me into an Incel
pnpm – disk space efficient package manager
GNU Midnight Commander user, checking in ;)
This is amazing. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.

It doesn’t do the one type of plot I actually want for the project I’m working on (x,y,z data as a 3d bar chart “surface”), but that takes nothing away from just how good this is.
well I didn't know it was coming and my workflow went to hell.
Adsense will stop allowing publishers to see their data older then 3 years
Google currently displays this info in the Adsense backend:

------------------------------------------

Last 3 years of reporting data

We've limited reporting data for all AdSense products (Adsense for content, AdSense for search, etc.) to the last 3 years. This means that you can only run reports for data that's less than 3 years old.

You can download data that's older than 3 years from either the old Reports page (until the end of September) or the new Reports page (until the end of 2020).

------------------------------------------

I wonder why they do this. They don't say they will delete the data. Just that they will stop giving publishers access to it.
tbh the fallacy is thinking that invention is unique to the inventor

because the transistor is so fundamental, we probably could've worked towards it in hundreds of different ways than Bell Labs

but that's a big thing in tech circles - thinking a person or entity doing some technical feat is somehow a sign that they are otherworldly
Your writeup was extremely interesting and helpful, thank you!
Build an industry coalition. Put pressure on those who don't join. Randomly throw away 1 out of 10000 packets from the providers that fail to get with the times. Increase that frequency according to some published time function.
GJK algorithm: collision response for polygons
Maybe even make your code blocks language aware to pick the execution context, provide a language tidbit or even shebang, ie

```js
console.log('yo, sup')
```

or

```#!/usr/bin/env node
console.log('yo, sup')
```

That way, your md files could be both executable/interactive and be flexible in regards to their execution environment (as long as you are on a unix-like). Trying to resist the urge to go make a VSCode extension to do this right now.
Yup, definitely noticed earlier outages to both EU sites and also to HN. Looked far upstream because many sites/lots of things worked fine. Good to see it's at least largely fixed
Since when? This happened to me a week ago.
FYI aif is owned by government of Moscow. If you want more independent Russian media here are some of them:

https://meduza.io/ - also has an English version.

https://theins.ru/ - these are the ones who deanonymized Salisbury poisoners.

https://zona.media/ - focuses on the judicial, law enforcement and penal system. A lot of very dark and depressing news.

https://www.proekt.media/ - rare but deep investigations.
Samsung’s new PCI 4 drives – up to 7000 MB/s
I added a section on Threat Models as examples
It wasn’t just the medical establishment a few months ago - it’s the medical establishment today. The rhetoric around masks has vastly exceeded the evidence, and asserting that people were “lying” at first is to ignore the fact that the evidence hasn’t really changed since the beginning of the year:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/commenta...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/specia...
Dupe from about 12 hours previously (trying to game the fact that it was flagged?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24317288
Not at all. I've always paid cash for my vehicles and my favorite vehicles I've owned were a 1972 chevy shortbed truck with three on the floor, and a 1986 camaro rs. I could work on both no matter the issue, both had more than enough room under the hood to work on damn near everything.

Now I own a 2009 bmw 328i, again paid cash. However I can't change my oil, heaven forbid something big breaks, ac goes out, etc. I will have to take it to a specialist or a dealership to keep service records up to date etc.

I'd pay what I paid my bmw to have either my truck or camaro back. I've had several vehicles throughout my life, and as much as I love driving my bmw I'd make a straight trade right now.

As an aside- I blew the engine out on my camaro (original owner had done a home bore-job and left pits which cause structural weakeness in my engine block and one day while driving normally a piston slammed through the sidewall.

A 'new' v8 350 engine installed was about 1.5k, this was about 1998, and on a car I'd bought for 1k cash.

That's cheaper than replacing all 4 brake/rotor on my bmw by a good bit.

My drive shaft on my truck broke when a geo metro t-boned me in my work parking lot. No body damage. 200 for the shaft 100 for installation. I cant imagine what would happen to my bmw if tboned, much less the cost of repairs.

I miss the old days :(
So do these things explode — they’re just in the middle of nowhere, so no one notices — or does the “roof” of the bubble just collapse? If they exploded, there would presumably be significant seismic activity and you’d probably expect to see debris around the crater, but they’re very clean.
"Tubes" is a good book to get an high level overview: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/178533/tubes/9780141049090
> bgp.wtf, that's us

I feel like you ought to be part of the ffdn database: https://db.ffdn.org/

Though the "French Data Networks Federation" is a French organization, their db tries to cover every independent, nonprofit ISP in the world :)
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I'm not Indian, but I've worked closely with Indian colleagues and friends for a large part of my career.

India is a huge country with varied religions, cultures and subcultures, so I don't know if you can really infer anything from replies, but I'll add an anecdote into the mix.

As a Brit, I've been interested in how Indians relate to the UK today. To my great surprise, I've always had replies that are magnanimous, and even grateful for the things the empire left behind - a unified India, democracy, the English language, and thebl railways. For context, everyone I've spoken to works in the IT industry, and they don't think India would play such a role in the global IT industry if it hadn't been a British colony.
Having a single, cryptographically assured source of truth for routing data is a turnkey censorship nightmare waiting to happen.

All it takes is a national military to care enough to put pressure on the database operator, legal or otherwise, and suddenly your legitimate routes are no longer accepted.

If you think this wouldn't be used to shut down things like future Snowden-style leaks or Wikileaks or The Shadow Brokers, you may not have been paying attention to the news.
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> The comment I was responding to seemed to be proposing it.

I don't think so. comment wasn't merely presenting its take on things not proposing govt should force fb to do something.
> if you’re not trying to make profits, what are you trying to do ?

Like if working with a profit incentive is doing social good.
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Personally, I am a big fan of the four day work week, I just do not believe it will maintain productivity levels. I would sooner believe a six hour five day week would.