skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You argued that "intelligentsia does not mean educated people". Now you are classifying Stalin with finished elementary school at 16 and seminary studies as intelligentsia.

> The key factor of being in inteligentsia was (from Wiki): "people engaged in the complex mental labours".

Stalin was not engaged in the complex mental labors, outside of seminary he engaged in revolutionary politics basically.

The very same wikipedia has multiple definitions for inteligentsia - including specifically Russian one from pre-revolution I quoted. Which defines inteligentsia as people educated enough to engage in politics. Which does include Stalin and pretty much everyone else involved in Russian politics.

> Tzar family or many of the old aristocratic families were not a member of intelligentsia and would probably be offended by the association. The higher classes didn't do any labor.

I did not made that definition, wiki did.

Monarchy had more supporters then just Tzar and old aristocratic families. And again, old aristocratic families did actually engaged in ruling and leading. And then you have waste groups of lower aristocracy running smaller things. The country was under constant internal conflict and pressure. They did not done labor, they did politics a lot.

And group of people who had don't politics or who have been educated cant be reasonably reduced to "Stalin vs Tsar". Somehow, people pushing for reforms (too little too late success, but still) don't exist. Liberals dont exist. Capitalists dont exist or dont engage with politics. That is not even realistic. Monarchis trying for milder reforms dont exist.
i often see people claim raspberry pi cheap but in reality it's not. a cluster like this is probably not cheap and performance wise, it's slower than, say an AMD x86 system.
You exactly misunderstood it. Personal these topics may be relevant but for the groups mission they are not. It doesn't matter if the topic is relevant for a majority or minority at all. Even if the topic would be of interest for all people, if its not relevant to the mission it simply inst relevant in the scope of working and should not be handled at work.

If you are mistreated by others AT WORK for whatever reason including political reasons then you have (should have) a way to report that. The Mission Protocol isn't about looking away from wrongdoings its about focusing on the mission and avoiding mission non-critical stuff.
Your views on whatever outside of that scope can be emotionally affected by current events but that can not and should not be in the way of the companies mission.
Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
The unsung heroes of the Nobel-winning hepatitis C discovery
Yes but that changed because of the Cold War, a Union that helped to win the war against Hitler was not the desired picture of a enemy for the Nato.
I understand that, but I disagree you should 'force' the SCOTUS to pick up where Congress stops. Scotus is not where laws or society should be progressing; that should be congress.

And of course the founding fathers didn't foresee today's' society, so they included ways to upgrade and amend the constitution and election laws.

That congress isn't doing its job is a different debate entirely, but not Scotus' fault.
> algorithmic solution to the question of prosperity

There kind-of is. Food, water (and air, I guess), housing, energy, protection from violence, sex. Only the last one, where human needs transform for physiological to psychological, lacks an algorithmic solution - and all further needs, like love, meaningful work, life purpose etc., but there's a reason we call these "first world problems". Also, as much as I like to diss it, religion has pretty good answers for these needs as well. Maybe the reason I dismiss religion is, that I can fulfill these needs myself...
iPhone was also barely making a dent in Nokia and Blackerry's margins in the first couple of years. The difference is the update cycles are longer in this business but intel could be the next Nokia in 10-20 years.
Web now has full 3D engines running in it. You don’t want a mouse cursor flying around when playing Quake.
That is 60h for this project alone.

I made 100s of creative projects and failed experiences before getting there. Don't get scared by that number. All it means, is that it is possible to do in 60h. Some would take 600, others 20.

I threw that number away to put it in context with the 4 months since the first prototype. I could only work from time to time. Some times not touching the code at all for weeks.
Anyone who has paid any attention to what went on at Bletchly, from knowing they had won the Battle of Britain to the single decoded message that determined the outcome of the D-day landings - should also be deeply offended by this sales pitch imho.

I wonder if its rooted in a distain for Alan Turings sexuality that would lead them to think this kind of marketing ploy is OK? I really cannot think of any other reason right now.

Akin to saying "The degree of racism in the US is over rated and the struggle against poverty was much bigger than that speech by Martin Luther King, buy my book".
> It also creates a legacy of brammage that is impossible to fix without significant break in protocol like HTTP/2 is.

Isn't also HTTP/3 a significant break in protocol compared do HTTP/2 ?
I can think of plenty of technologies that are decentralising.
Determine prominent colors in a picture, your first AWS Lambda in Go
https://web.archive.org/web/20201019224929/http://liamrosen....
The original page looks to be down. Here's web archive link for the same.
Apple does research, design and software but all the manufacturing and assembly is done in China by Chinese companies. Mostly Samsung and Foxconn. Nvidia is the same but the chips are fabbed by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor).
LocalCDN – an extension that emulates CDN to improve your online privacy
For what it’s worth, I’ve been profiling front end applications for over a decade, and the only time application bundle size was a real problem was very rare. On the other hand, people writing terrible code usually was the problem, and it would have happened with or without react.

I think we’d see faster websites more often if developers had worse computers, or they invested more time in testing in resource constrained environments. I really don’t think react (or similar) is the core problem.
It Pays to Be an Apprentice: 63% More
Rack mount form would be nice. Please do it!
I think it has heaps of potential.

Make it like IRC, I'd often pop open my console just to have some dev chats.

=====

I've been throwing my open source projects API requirements on Firebase Functions these days.

It just works, has no down time and relatively cheap.
It's not right, but historically it "makes sense" - the Cold War is between us and WW2. Plus, of course, post-war it plays to the local government's interest to emphasise your own country's contribution.

Another factor is; a lot of senior (and sometimes non-senior) officers were comissioned after the war to write memoirs and histories - these were at best personal views and at worst outright biased. Because of secrecy (which the cold war didn't help remove) these were often the only reference material for 20th century historians.

A great example is a lot of the work on deception during WW2 (one of my pet subjects). Early works were heavily redacted and biased, and later seemingly scholarly works by real historians have since been shown to be simply parroting a lot of that misinformation. It is only in the last 5-10 years as material has been declassified that the truth begins to emerge.
> The point of our system is ...

It seems to me that, to responsibly make a statement of that form, you would have to look at when the system was created and look at the motivations of the people who created it (or made significant changes to the system and its objectives). If we're talking about the compulsory education system, that means looking at when the compulsory education laws were first passed, and what was said by those advocating the laws (and, possibly, deciding if they were telling the truth and if they had additional motivations).

Can you honestly say you've looked into that? Do you even know when compulsory education laws were passed in your state (U.S. or otherwise)? I'm not really picking on you specifically—I had to look it up (1874 in California).

I stress this because, while ostensibly school is for "education", if you point out that it's not doing that nearly as well as it could, ten people will say "Well, really school is for X", and you'll get about five different values of X, some of which contradict each other. This is the hallmark of people making up rationalizations for something they truly don't understand.

(To take an example, even for something like compliance—I do imagine that employers use "suffered through school without getting kicked out" as a sign of compliance, but if you imagined an institution optimized for providing that signal, I suspect making it through one month of military boot camp is a stronger signal of that, and obviously way more efficient than spending 12 years in school. Or if you want compliance without that kind of physical stress, then some variant of extreme ascetic monk training would probably do it.)

Murray Rothbard says that compulsory education in Europe was first established by Protestant Reformation leaders—Martin Luther and his followers, and John Calvin—and that their primary motive was to promulgate their religious ideas and suppress religious heresy; and that the Calvinist Puritans brought this approach to America (starting with Massachusetts and more generally New England). "Only a year after its first set of particular laws, the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1642 enacted a compulsory literacy law for all children. ... In 1647, the colony followed up this law with the establishment of public schools. The major stress in the compulsory education was laid on the teaching of Calvinist-Puritan principles." Doing my own research, I verify that Massachusetts's 1647 laws[1] required that parents "once a week (at the least) catechize their children and servants in the grounds & principles of Religion" in the very next sentence after the requirement to "[e]nable them perfectly to read the English tongue".

As for what animated the educationists who successfully established compulsory public education in most of the American states in the mid-late 1800s, Rothbard describes it in the following link. Rothbard is an ideological libertarian, but he forms his arguments from plenty of primary and secondary sources which he cites. https://mises.org/library/education-free-and-compulsory-1/ht...

[1] https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-law...
I think that's two different things tho.

Alot of kiwis were coming to Australia and going on the dole right away. So alot of the benefits only kick in after residing in the country for minimum 1 year. But the benefits still exist.

I was referring to those who were rejected for residency in Australia, gain citizenship in New Zealand, then move to Australia to live/work.

I believe if you were born in New Zealand, its still (relatively) easy to get Citizenship in Australia, but if you weren't born in NZ and have NZ citizenship, it's much harder.
> Terry Gou is running for Presidency in Taiwan, and this could be a way to show him rubbing shoulders with international leaders.

Was running; he lost fairly decisively.
Especially if kiwis are involved :D
It's odd, I'd rather go to a library and read a book than dig on the web now.

to be honest: I like the web for shallow access, but when I need focus and depth, a library and a book is way more fit for my brain.
I often wonder why the Germans (and Japanese) simply didn't just assume their encryption was broken and regularly create new systems.

For the U-Boots, there were few enough that one-time pads would be practical, and unbreakable.

There are also ways to set traps to see if your code was broken.
> They are full of toxic waste.

4chan is considered toxic waste. Old Youtube was full of toxic. Old Tumblr was toxic waste.

Those are / were home to the most creative communities.

Now? New centralized media is starting to look a lot like old media: standardized, no spice, boring. Perfect for a protestant society.
I don't think we need a societal shift. I think this is something that the market could solve if only the Feds would actually build out the deep geological repository we were promised and which industry already paid.

Government should set a carbon tax, redistribute the proceeds as basic income, and get out of the way. Let industry sort the rest.
That sounds pretty interesting, do you have a source?
Looks interesting. Good job!

Another REBOL-inspired language is Red [0], which also looks interesting.

Maybe I'll actually sit down and have a proper look one of these days.

0: https://www.red-lang.org/
He's not exactly the only one to 'worry' about on Twitter. Here you have the Supreme leader of Iran who 'actually' posted a tweet as a call to violence to 'destroy' another country via a tweet. [0]

If Trump tweeted just that or something similar, it would have been removed instantly. But this one and others from the supreme leader of Iran are still publicly available for all to see.

But nothing violent here or anything to worry about I guess?

[0] https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263749566744100864
Nobody perceives existing service in such terms except for HN geek crowd. An average person doesn't even have a concept of online privacy internalized, for him worrying about online privacy is basically the same as worrying about TSA agent examining his vacation backpack: he has nothing to hide. But it's even worse, since airport examinations happen in physical world and they cause at least some inconvenience, whilst FAANGs harvesting your data is invisible and only brings more comfort.

Advertising something with better privacy, permission, etc. will only bring you people that already care about it, i.e. the same 0.01% of geeks. I can see only two ways to achieve the goal of decentralized and privacy-respecting "Internet":

- Convince people that privacy is important. A very hard task in our age for several reasons. Also, it needs to be supported by legislation.

- Make the services more convenient to use than existing ones. Arguably impossible due to manpower imbalance and technical issues (privacy and security almost always come at a price of convenience).
I don’t take it myself but our 17 year old dog takes a dog version in the morning and night and there is a noticeable difference in her stiffness and being able to navigate the stairs if she misses a dose. It was recommended by the Vet.
Encarta was fun. Also I remember having some "specialized" encyclopedias on the CDs - about cats, about Formula-1 etc. It was very interesting to just look around random articles, like Scott says.

On the slightly related note - I've found recently that Wikipedia has several lists called Vital articles which compile the best and most essential articles. It feels a bit like those old encyclopedias. So I've decided to read through level 3 articles for fun, as a personal project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
> The United States has pivoted away from being scared of the Middle East

If you look at conservative Hollywood, it hasn't. Arabs and/or Muslim are still the obvious baddies in the cultural representation of the USA centric view of the world through the film industry in North America.
Remembering those huge, plate-sized CD roms fondly. Laser Discs.
> Hosting on a cheap VPS in the same country as me, I get 20ms latency,

The USA is around 2,500 miles wide (+/- 200 miles depending on latitude), which is around 4000 km. If you live on the west coast and connect to a server on the east coast, you're looking at 50 ms minimum based on laws of physics alone. Real world latency is usually 60-70 ms.

Of course, that's a worst case scenario of connecting between the coasts. Honestly I don't know what Discord's voice latency is. I suppose I could measure it, but it's already low enough to be good.

Besides, it's a voice chat service. Even if latency was a ridiculous 200 ms, how would you even notice, other than when you hear your own voice coming from someone else's microphone?
Hubris. They thought Enigma is unbreakable.
the machines i'm ruining fail2ban on are on public networks, not my LAN.
That example seems to be arbitrarily constructed to benefit from parallel connections and does not reflect typical HTTP transfer payloads.

In reality, Google mostly failed to show scientific proof that HTTP/2.0 provides beneficial on typical connections - one major reasoning why even introducing QUIC in HTTP/3. A lot of "amateur benchmarks" float the net claiming HTTP/2 speed superiority, but often the measurements are flawed (not taking TCP peculiarity like congestion control into account or even including it in the analysis; classic fault is failure to disable TCP initcwnd caching or flushing the cache when doing benchmarks).
Hmm, to me the term "multimedia PC" already sounded outdated from the start, similar to the "a CD ROM can contain a whole library shelf worth of data" hype.

I just thought like, this 386 PC could make sound and graphics and games. This Pentium can do it too, granted with more colors and a CD ROM drive and a fancy "where do you want to go today" movie, but does that warrant all this hype of being called "multimedia"?

Oh well, that was the 90s, things moved so fast then so of course things would sound outdated and cheesy very fast.
By then all the current board members will be retired :-)
Probing fine-scale connections in the brain
There was definitely a huge amount of disbelief in the German high command.

Another example is their agents/spies; most modern accounts suggest that the British captured or turned all of the spies sent into the country - and ran a highly successful counter agent network (the double cross system[1]). Who knows if that is true - what is certain is that the German Abwher were highly confident in their spies and ate up the misinformation.

Hitler was hugely impressed with the agent network... ...as enigma decrypts showed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-Cross_System
The language of this release feels rather off...
All other considerations aside, why not reach out in a friendly way before unleashing the lawyers? Surely this holds true for anyone interested in building a community.
It's... quite weird to blame _Foxconn_ for this. It's a company, a government offered it free money for no real commitments (as a fairly nakedly obvious political ploy), it took it. That's what companies do; if it hadn't been Foxconn it'd have been someone else. Most of the blame lies with the government.

This is really a story of failure upon failure; the political ploy didn't work out for Walker, either. No-one's happy, in the end.
I think it's fairly widely acknowledged among those with any interest in history? Reading popular historians like Antony Beevor would leave it in no doubt.

It's also interesting that the Soviet Union would probably not have been able to put up such a fight without the massive shipments of aid from the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor
Going all in on your core business is risky, but I wouldn't call it short sighted. It seems more like being committed to you technical decisions, and deciding "If we can't make it here, whats the sense in even staying around".
Something as important as education is always going to attract very strong emotion.

When you get into "state schooling", it is also almost a religion - thought shalt not question the teacher, thou shalt not question the dictats of the education establishment, etc.
How to Know If Your Design Is Good
Men are more likely to be anti mask in USA since in USA right wing tend to be anti science. In many areas of Europe right wing is more pro science than left wing though, so the roles becomes reversed.
>I'm happy to answer other questions as well.

>This is money transmission and requires registration with FinCEN

Could you clarify the practical constraints on this assertion? If I am an alien living on the moon and connected to the Internet with lasers, who is enforcing any "requirement" and how?
Hi, thank you this is great feed back I obviously need to look at the UX here. You (currently) double click the background to create new nodes. There are reasons for this but I may need to rethink it.

I will also think again about having input output nodes on the canvas as it does solve some issues. I however prefer the visual metaphor of having them floating at the edge of the screen.

I am considering making it zoomable / pan able but in someways I like the restriction on complexity. I want to encourage people to create "sub-graphs" instead of add more nodes.

I know its not far from perfect yet but EtcH is designed from the ground up to be a "language" rather than a way to wire together pre-defined nodes. Im glad its those innovative parts that you like :)
I always assumed that Keyhole Inc. was the Civil part of the NRO and that they use the same satellites.
sorry you just don't understand how the world works. nobody is ever starting a war over twitter, not least because people understand that accounts can be hacked. and the president's twitter account tweeting about a war would mean the president gets a call within 2 minutes. it would never happen.

north korea would absolutely never initiate a war over a tweet, they're fully rational.

also nice link to an article about a tweet that the president actually wanted to send, as opposed to a hacker tweeting, which would be denied by the white house within 15 minutes.
The Unicode Consortium did the same to me for a totally unmonetized hobby project.
80% if of the causalities of the German army was in East. But I think people sometimes take it to far, including you.

If you look at the amount of material, technology, and cost the German had to spend on the air war, air defense, u-boat war and fighting on a different continent. This type of fighting doesn't kill as many people but its very important. Without the Western Allied efforts Soviet Union had basically no way to effect German economy at all.

And one of the single most important points that is often ignored is the economic blockade of Germany that started in 1939. This was a massive issue for Germany.

Overall is far, far more then 20% any way you measure it other then casualties.

And that is without even mentioning that literally from the moment the German invasion of the Soviet Union started Britain was sending them important war material and eventually the Soviets received massive amounts from Western allies that massively helped them to actually win the war.

Britain even sent ships full of the most advanced fighter aircraft that were planned for the defense of Singapore, poor choice there Britain.

> People assume Nagasaki and Hiroshima convinced Japan to surrender, but it was actually the (surprise) Russian declaration of war...

This is often claimed but its simply false. Japan hoped the Soviets could help them make a deal and once they declared war, Japan understood that there was no deal to be had. What Soviet joining of the war did was to convince the last few people in the war part that conditional surrender was not possible.

It was the US nukes that convinced them that surrender was inevitable and in response to the nukes the emperor formally asked by the war council to give his opinion.

I'm all for questioning national myths, but many people are simply willing to believe anything as long as it goes against the national myth because they are so sick of hearing.

Edit: And I'm European not American, this is just my study of WW2 history
You mean when the CCP invades Taiwan.

Because as far as I know non of the state of the at chip manufacturing is fine in CCP controlled territory.

There are a bunch of chip fabs in China but that all lack behind as much or likely more then Intel.