skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their GDP per capita places them at #95 (below Iraq) - around $5,500 - they're a very impoverished low-income nation.

That's nominal not adjusted for cost of living. For the latter they're close to the world average, above Brazil and not far below Argentina. Possibly more relevantly, "middle-income" is defined by the World Bank (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/90...), which in fact categorises Iran as "upper-middle-income".

Iraq isn't actually that poor, it's just terrible for mysterious other reasons.
It still possible to send mail from a small mail server, but there no grantee at all that messages will not end up in a spam folder. Most likely Gmail uses some ML based spam filter which has relatively high rate of false positives. For big senders they can do something manually, but they don't care about smaller ones. Gmail is too big and have little incentives to improve they spam filter (until users will start to leave, which will not happen anytime soon).
Ironically, it's the author's own privilege (living in the richest country in the world) that renders them blind to this.
To the extent that these discounts target students at accredited universities in rich countries (and not non-accredited schools or pool countries), the discounts achieve exactly the goal of hooking low-income students who will later have greater buying power (personally or through their work).
This assumes that your employees will just leave even if you value them fairly. In truth it's the other way around: Companies don't care for their people anymore (as seen in payment, investment in their career / training, not firing on the spot etc.) and people respond to these incentives. I also think it has nothing to do with movement between countries. The same "problem" (more like a self-inflicted wound) exists within countries if you have competitors.
>every i/o interface imaginable, e.g. ethernet, wimax, wifi, serial

Wasn't the last Thinkpad with a serial port the T30? I'm pretty sure T420 doesn't have one.
That's not a rule unfortunately. If you want to do it, you prolly have to add "email us if your educational institution isn't recognized" and add them one by one when they show up.
I said they are less concise.

But anyway, I didn't mean that Java garbage. I meant the Go4 patterns, they are more cocrete than monads or lenses.
We get healthcare paid by the employer here, so that is not an issue. Focusing could definitely be an issue, especially in the beginning, but I think you could switch to it eventually. I cannot code myself anywhere but my house, not even at my friend's house (when I am alone), but I did get used to it after some days. Probably would have gotten easier over time if I had to stay there.
Not an expert, but it seems that the size of the logic wafer is locked to the size of the pixel wafer in Sony's CMOS image sensors? https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/763/iedm-2017-sonys-3-layer-s... ? It seems that 65nm was current-generation for CISes in 2018: https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16321 .
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That is a different problem.

I've also been able to buy non-knock off batteries for just about all electronics up to a few years ago when companies decided that soldered in batteries shorten the time-to-landfill of their products improving their revenues.

Seriously: there is no reason why there could not be a standard form factor for battery cells. If we can do hard drives, CPUs and RAM I'm sure we can do batteries too.
Somewhat related, I wrote a critique of money [1] a few months ago and in that I illustrate how removing the need for money could stimulate advancement in the arts and sciences. Rather than needing to secure grant funding, research projects would only need to source the raw materials they need. I argue that money is not the central object of study in economics, but actually material flows, and that abstracting economic problems into problems of money obscures the underlying issues with material flows.

[1] https://jpreston.xyz/2020/05/07/abolish-money.html
And the US seems to have a supporter already sitting in the oval office.

Frankly this group is not interesting. It is just another group of conspiracy theorists that are spewing out a even more ill defined and crazy theory than most have before.

What would be more interesting to look into is why they are getting traction with people that previously were seemingly well informed ([n=1] the man in the article that had watched CNN for years before switching). That is more important. Why is it happening more and more that people get sucked into these 'obviously' lunatic groups and beliefs, and what can be done to make sure it doesn't happen.

Deep diving into the nitty gritty of the posting history of this Q person was way too much detail that did little to nothing for the article in my opinion.
Having skimmed through the article, I agree that the insight could have been summarized as a one-liner.

One could raise the same criticism for majority of content on the Internet, or even the field of literature.

On the other hand, starting with a Feynmann anecdote got my attention; the article takes the reader on an exploration of that single insight - at least it can be credited with staying on point - with some amusing illustrations/memes, and concludes by explaining the contrast between top-down/bottom-up approaches. OK, this last point could have been elaborated, what it means to "work from first principles".

Over all, I enjoyed following the author's thinking process, and felt that the article had enough substance to keep the reader's interest and stimulate some reflection and discussion, to re/consider one's approach.

> Is there anything else to it?

Like you, I seek more philosophical and intellectual substance. I think articles like this one are aimed at a general audience, like "popular science" - it's second-hand digested information, with some opinions based on experience. To get to the real meat, one must get closer to the source of the insights, like Feymann's own work.
Another Ranger-like that is worth a look is "lf", written in Go, and in my experience faster: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
NPOs can be crazy places, though.

Can be fun, once you get past the urges to strangle people...
Early mass storage was dangerous if it fell on top of someone. Current mass storage is a choking hazard.

Compare https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html
Cost as in cost passed to the buyer?

I would think opex per transistor is always much lower on smaller processes. Even with higher opex of smaller nodes, the geometry heavily favors smaller nodes.
But when they do, it can be amazing. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/how-to-write-a-goo...
more specifically, npmjs.com and nodejs.org are not available from Netlify's datacenter due to this outage.
Maybe fix this typo? "Save titme on issues investigation"
However, people also want to spend more money and have more things / higher standard of living than people had at that time.

I'm curious if you would adjust your own standard of living accordingly, you could finance it with a 15h workweek just fine. But this for sure does not apply to low wage jobs.

While inequality is now clearly on the rise (and it's a big problem), afaik there also have been times in history when it was consistently higher. https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality seems to have some good charts and context here.
I live in Taiwan. Being blocked from .edu discounts is a common complaint here.
You are the best example of what I‘m trying to avoid. Your only goal is being right. I rather make money
Fact retrieval performance varies a lot and is a good test of an assistant. Alexa is very good, because it can't rely on a screen (and it seems a lot of people work on making it good at knowledge type stuff). Google is also decent most of the time. Apple often defaults to "here's what I found" which is useless.
If your competitors go down and you re still up.
What a silly way to look at things.

If it matters, I've been programming more in Kotlin than in Java nowadays, and I have no trouble at all going back to Java... it's a nice language for its age and it gets the job done robustly. I even prefer Java for small applications that I want to distribute to users as small jars, for example. Kotlin has some nice benefits, but it's not a panacea that makes Java irrelevant - it actually strengthens the Java ecosystem in my opinion - it's another tool for the Java developer to use when appropriate.
this will become a trend among touristy countries, because the slump in tourism will last for many years (and imho will permanently alter the market)
Compare-pdf: What’s New?. Go native without system dependencies
> This encryption is perfect secrecy

Sending your key in plaintext over a separate channel isn’t really perfect secrecy but okay... it’s interesting, but laden with assumptions.
It might be dismissed as hyperbole but we are looking at extinction and not just a "bad time". Granted, it will take quite some time, generations even, to reach that severity but we are well on the trajectory to get there.

It's horrifying to think about the escalating crises of global ecosystems. In a world, where too many people can't even be bothered to wear a mask during an ongoing pandemic I have zero confidence in preventing an extinction level disaster where the truly severe consequences aren't felt for another 2 generations. Some people just do not care if it doesn't directly affect them right this very second.

It's sociopathy on another scale.
I use the command line extensively but never found a need for a file manager in there. Just `cp`, `mv`, `rm`. Am I missing something big by not having one?
But if the issue is with transit (as it appears to be) and Cloudflare peer with multiple transit providers - how is it worse?
Of course in other circumstances a single dominant player may be an issue - but it doesn’t look to be the issue here - and if anything their level of peering would allow faster recovery than other smaller content hosts (used in the loosest sense) which may have less peering.
Veritasium has a great video that explains the concept of parallel worlds vs wave collapse in a single world https://youtu.be/kTXTPe3wahc
Am I the only one here that drives a 19 year old truck?
I remember watching as it died a painful death not without dismemberment, and as we have seen there have been no rates capable of bringing it back to life since.

Inflation occurred after people had been made too poor to even continue some projects, much less start new ones.

Everyone who really made the big science possible never got rich enough to do it again.

Even NASA.
Ah, the clathrate gun. It's the mercy bullet in terms of climate catastrophe. Sort of Earth ecosystem just ripping the band aid off.
Elon Musk trots out pigs in demo of Neuralink brain implants
Looks absolutely incredible. Sort of matplotlib for c++, will look into the internals when I have the time.

Seems like everything for Python these days is matplotlib based; Whereas everything for R is ggplot2 based (but even the ggplot libraries for Python are mostly based on matplotlib).
> There should be tremendous resilience advantages compared to grid power

Perhaps in California, but in northern latitudes (e.g. central Europe) solar does not generate sufficient power during winters. It would be necessary to have either massive south-north power lines (so less resilience), or some storage.

Such storage would need to be massive (orders of magnitude bigger than just for day-night ballancing) and unlikely to be battery-based. Chemical storage is a possibility - plants converting excess electricity to hydrogen/methane and storing it in underground reservoirs (like ones currently used for strategic reservers of natural gas). But such facilities would be subjects to economy of scale, and therefore likely big and centralized, like current grid facilities.
Well, I have suggested that Epic have no leverage, several times, and this appears to be true. They violated a contract, threw mud, and filed a lawsuit, all on their own, without any signs of getting developers on board to the cause or having anything of significant value (apparently) that might persuade Apple to back down.

Escalating to mom is not an adult way to behave.

This is a business fight about power, control and money. Positioning it as some moral crusade is disingenuous at best. I don’t love Apple’s policies, but Epic aren’t asking that Apple gives developers freedom, it’s asking that EPIC gets freedom to also run an App Store and take fees from developers. It’s literally writ large in Sweeney’s E-Mails to Apple in June:

“Please confirm within two weeks if Apple agrees in principle to allow Epic to provide a competing App Store”
FWIW, I can’t connect to Madden NFL online servers.
I have two pipes from two different (consumer ISPs) at home. One can reach HN, the other can't.

Incidentally, uBlock Origin seems to be completely broken. It doesn't have any local blacklists to work when their ?servers? are unavailable?
But seemingly contrarian views get upvotes.
Power to The people!
You know, it's kinda funny - I am a citizen of both Georgia and the first country on the list of approved countries there, and was thinking about spending a month or two over there since my job went remote only. Yet, due to my ties to Georgia, I can't visit for a few more years, or I'd have to piss away a year in military service.

Oh well, not the best of times to be travelling anyway, and doesn't seem like it's getting better for... a while anyway.
Right I'm sure the NSA has hacked Alexa etc. or if they haven't they're working hard on it.

But that is very different from saying that Amazon and Google created them in order to gather data. Amazon was the first to make a voice assistant and their intent was pretty clearly to make money by getting people to buy it and to buy stuff from Amazon through it. To suggest that their true motivation was data collection is pure conspiracy theory.

Also voice identification is a relatively recent (and not terribly reliable) feature so it can't have motivated their creation.

Hell there's no way it's voice identification is good enough for the fantasy scenario you describe. It's only just about good enough to distinguish between 2-3 people.

Who does Google even need to identify my voice? They already know where I am from my phone.

This is what I mean about HN conspiracy theories. It's not just that people here know more about what is possible. None of the conspiracy theories make any sense.
The discount sites I used also did SAML federation. There's like two big groups of unis federated so a site only has to link to two IDPs to be able to accept most universities.
It's an educational product but not related to being a student at a credential-granting institution. It's screencasts for people learning Elixir.

Most my customers are full-time software engineers, but not necessarily in wealthy countries.
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That’s why regulation is necessary. We can artificially create the conditions to make it profitable.
Quantifying a Johnny Cash song is just missing the point, IMHO :).

Plus, of course, there’s no fast road to Heaven - whatever Heaven May mean to you.
Sounds like he is navigating to a link that doesn't match the PWA manifest’s scope?

Also, I have a few PWAs installed, and they do show up in the iOS 14 app library for me. Starbucks, Twitter .. no problem. Same in Spotlight. They show up as any other app does when you search for them.
Have to try to make up for the lost tourism revenue.

Do they have First World bandwidth for more than 2-3K bandwidth hungry cloud workers?

PS: it's always encouraging to see how the overwhelmingly statist HN crowd positively reacts when there's a chance to lower their own taxes... Sadly they still want to increase taxes paid by others...
Looks like an issue with AS3356, they are advertising stale routes - lots of unrelated services impacted
Do you mean if you pay, say, 20% tax in Switzerland as an Australian, never setting foot in Australia for an income year. Then you lodge tax in Australia and the ATO says you only have tax credits for 20% of your income, meanwhile you'd be paying 32% of your income as tax - you would then have to pay ATO the 12% difference out of pocket?

Do you have any links to information regarding Australian citizens being taxed abroad? I know for HECS, etc you're still meant to lodge and pay those amounts, but didn't realise it might be a fair bit worse than that!
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1.1.1.1 warp is having issues too...
Another typo:

> Know when services you depend on goes down

"Services go down", not "goes".
Indeed, if we're to have a public Internet health meter, it must be distributed and hosted/served from "outside" somehow, to be resilient to all or parts of the network being down.
1000000 smaller websites on CloudFlare sounds like a whole lot more centralised than 1000 smaller independent solutions.
Here's a handy tip you won't find often on HN: any time you're wondering whether X is "an evolutionary adaptation", where X is "any complex phenotype that isn't a genetic disease", the answer is very probably no. Most of our evolution is accidental, because the dominant evolutionary process is genetic drift [0]. There are exceptions to this rule but they have been usually very easy to demonstrate - natural selection, when it occurs, is fairly obvious to see. There's no such thing as a hidden force that invisibly yet tangibly acts on all genes in such a subtle manner that you can't ever detect it through a reliable genetic mechanism - that's just 21th century essentialism.

[0] https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2019/08/evolution-by-accident....
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Streamlit and Gradio are in the same category I think, so what are the differences ?

https://www.streamlit.io/

https://www.gradio.app/
Any chance of an iOS bersion?
One doesn't dampen the impact of the other.
Author of the article here. This was simply meant to be a minor observation, the focus of the article is not an investigation about the various ways to define main in your program.

Anyway, this is the error I got if you're curious. (I left such things out because the article was getting long as is)

warning: variable named 'main' with external linkage has undefined behavior [-Wmain]
short main[] = { 16, 18 };

This is on OS X so it's clang 11.0.3.
I'm inclined to think that this sort of thing is partly driven by something like Stockholm syndrome, because trying to convince yourself having a shorter life is okay is easier than actually extending it.
That is hilarious!

> Komrade uses peer-to-peer networking to 'flood' encrypted data across the network.

Eventually you will run out of other people's bandwidth...
BEA J/Rockit was one of them.

Although not the right kind of coffee, Android during versions 5 and 6.

Also most JVMs with interpretation step, have command line options to set the interpretation threshold to zero, thus directly JIT compiling on load.
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> I like to think that crypto is not development.

Since any program using a cryptographic library is inherently now part of a cryptosystem, this is an incredibly dangerous point of view, because a) programs change, and b) cryptanalysis advances.

> took a lot of effort to prove why we need it and to prove we know what we are doing.

I hope this started by hiring people to prove that you didn’t, because the only path to trust is rejecting the null hypothesis.
This isn't a Cloudflare-specific issue. Level 3/CenturyLink are in trouble. Affecting other providers (see, for example, Fastly's Status page: https://status.fastly.com/).

@dang or another mod, would be better to link to https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-August/013187... as this isn't a Cloudflare issue.
What do you mean plain text? It’s scrambled using the OTP then sent. Each sent on a separate channel. The only way to crack is to intercept both. Or if the random generator is weak and can be predicted.
And what was the solution? Deprecate everything without any alternative.
I'm not a huge fan of others limiting educational discounts to only people with .edu email addresses, either.

It's due the reasons I covered in "all those made up arguments", as you call them.
Internet infrastructure is broken.

Why do a few companies control the backbone of the internet? Shouldn’t there be a fallback or disaster recovery plan if one or more of these companies become unavailable?
It's also dependent on how long you spend in the UK (not just out) and other things. If you spend half the year abroad, but then come back for 90 days (in a home you own or rent), you're resident again. HMRC have a flowchart you can follow:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rdr3-statutory-re...

Also remember that tax year counts, not calendar!
The problem is the UX and can be cracked if the receiver is lazy and always have both channel close by for convenience
So why not offer educational discounts with /edu\.[a-z]+/ ? That blocks the "privileged" US students, and lets the poorer countries off the hook. You're still denying some opportunity to Taiwanese students with their .edu.tw addresses

EDIT: Not to mention how US schools have made strides in recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds, to the point that there were schools making their students fake a troubled past so they could get better admissions. Do those students' disadvantages just disappear because they are admitted?
Why doesn't stuff just route around this automatically, if one provider has problems?
Cogent and Cox are also having problems, but we are seeing a lot more successful traffic on Cogent than CenturyLink. It appears that CL is also not withdrawing stale routes. It seems CLs issues are causing issues on/with everything connected to it.
What seems to have happened is that Centurylinks internal routing has collapsed in some way. But they're still announcing all routes and they don't stop announcing routes when other ISPs tag their routes not to be exported by Centurylink.

So as other providers shut down their links to Centurylink to save themselves the outgoing packets towards centurylink travel to some part of the world where links are not shut down yet.
I don't really know why we need to discuss this now but the point has nothing to do with this.

Small sites don't really need that decentralization, sure it's nice that it's easy but this isn't the problem.

The problem is that in aggregate you end up with an internet with a single point of failure.

And even if as it is now isn't a big problem, who's to say that one day it is a huge problem?
There is tcell and tview for golang.

https://github.com/rivo/tview
For digital electronics, yes. But not true for image sensors, since the sensor size (and thus the die size) is fixed. For example, a full-frame CMOS sensor has an imaging area of 36 × 24 mm, regardless of the process node, because full-frame is _defined_ as 36 × 24 mm.
Downvoted4truth. I just disagree with this:

>Of course it doesn't come with the prestige and the network, but honestly is that really worth a quarter million dollars?

Of course it's worth it. These are the kind of connections that guarantee you a job worth far more than that.
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Namecheap is also having network connection issues.
Well, from CS compiler theory point of view it is not.

For example in .NET, MSIL goes directly into a pipeline that produces native. You can easily validate that RyuJIT has no interpretation.

Or for example, watchOS applications packaged with bitcode, get JIT compiled at installation time.
The zoom seems incredibly sensitive on Mac
> I don't want to Marie Kondo the shit out of my space—I want to surround myself with beautiful, practical pieces of furniture that I enjoy using.

Isn't that her point? "keep what brings you joy?" If you enjoy the furniture, I think her philosophy would have you keep it.
No impact here in Lisbon, PT (using MEO). I can access: HN, twitter, cloudflare, AWS, DO, Hetzner, DDG, Scaleway etc.