skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get that on any platform where upvotes or likes increase visibility. Content quality provides at most a potential for popularity.
A thousand or so vocal Facebook users found on anti-mask groups were surveyed... Not exactly the epitome of representativity...

94% of them say they will refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19... Both educated and anti-science. Maybe their educational system failed them, or there are other important factors at play.

57% believe in a global Zionist conspiracy theory... 52% think the Illuminati are attempting to control the population...
Those entrenched cables are mostly DOCSIS 3 cables over which broadband speeds can be achieved. BT has traditionally provided telephony through overhead wires and those are where the problems usually lie.
What enterprise software sectors are Chinese VCs investing in?
Ask HN: What are you best tech predictions for the next 10 years?
I have a tech prediction. Remember when people used to install programs on their PC?

In the future everyone will have a personal cloud, where they will easily install cloud programs.

Everyone will have a private server that can serve billions of requests/per second.

All those super-advanced technology from big tech will trickle down into small compact servers.
Oooh yes. Recently moved to London from Switzerland and it was a shock as if i moved to a third world country. From a widely availably gigabit to at best a 10-20 Mbit so called "broadband".

I have to bond all available connections to me (broadband, 4g, bt wifi hotspot; thinking even of adding a high gain directional wifi antenna to a nearby mall) to get some borderline decent speeds here
>Why is UV sensitivity a problem for something that's going to be embedded inside the concrete?

IF it will ever become an actual mass product, the lattice will be manufactured in "bulk" (not 3D printed on spot) and it will become a "building material" like rebar or steel mesh, etc.

Normally building materials are stored in the open for months either at the factory, at the store or on site before being actually put in the concrete formwork.

You simply don't want something that needs to be stored in a dark, cool place.

Very early versions of polyethilene pipes (think of 30+ years ago) were not UV resistant/stabilized and of course they were put in digged trenches and covered, but it came out that after a few years they started leaking, you don't want to have something structural that may loose its properties in a few years.
But if the number of available Urbit IDs can be scaled up and down on an as-needed basis, why did they start with 4B and not, for example, 1M?
> whether they'll be unemployed in a month?

Unemployment is a nonsense term for gig work. The fact that you view people as "employed" or "unemployed" speaks so much how damaged you are. I don't want to be "employed", I want to be a person who can work when I want instead of being forced to be a stable worker who predictably clocks in half of my time every week. Gig work moves us in this direction and is therefore a good thing. Americans instead want to force even more people to go full time and get tied down to a job, isn't that the horrible dystopia we all want to avoid?

> dependent on gig work because of institutional failure on several fronts within California in particular.

Those aren't most drivers though, and hurting most drivers just so that you can take the last lifeline of these poor drivers you speak of away since it doesn't meet some arbitrary standards you think these people should have makes you a horrible person imo. Also, Prop 22 actually ensures gig workers gets health benefits and minimum wage, so I am not sure why you are against it except you wanting to force people to tie themselves to a company via employment contract.
Is this real? Is there evidence that the letter really was sent by authorized persons representing the foundation? If it was only sent by email, it has no legal relevance anyway. I would ignore such a letter even if it was really genuine and sent by registered letter, because the request is obviously nonsensical and would hardly stand up in court.
Absolutely. We owe that transparency to our users. The 1.0 should be out in a month from now, and it will include a Local API, an abstraction layer between the core and the bouncers & data sources. This will help the community to dev their own scenario, bouncers & data source connectors. But at that stage, we had no report of CrowdSec daemon bugging a server, crashing it or over consume resources. It's even used by some hosting companies, to process their reverse proxies logs, without any meaningful perf impact. That being said, it's still beta because some features or architectural points could vary a lot at that early stage. We only distribute 5 to 10% of the IP rep DB because we are over cautious and don't want any false positive to happen. Our Consensus algorithm is getting better by the week by we are cautious by nature (and experience)
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Nice list! See also: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

What I find missing in most discussions around this topic is something in between donations and purchases: Very few projects [1] offer "goodwill licenses" to buy, which allows companies to support the product using their "usual means" (without getting any actual benefit from it, so in some ways it is a donation): In most places I know, arguing up the chain why the guy from the IT department wants to DONATE money is near to impossible, whereas simply purchasing 100 or 500 or more "licenses" of something deployed on all machines does not raise any eyebrows.

[1] Is there a list of such projects somewhere? How well does it work? I came across such projects but I don't remember specific examples.
I live in Europe and our right wing is taking clues from American right wing. They are more anti mask then average. The German demonstrations against masks were right wing for example.

Where were left wing people in Europe more strongly against masks then center or right?
> I would say this is a good example of 'How even good Chinese companies do Business in 2020' and the results should be on display for bureaucrats and would-be belt-and-roaders everywhere.

This is a Taiwanese company. Belt and Road is a PRC thing.

That said, this is more of an example of "how practically any company will behave when offered poorly designed subsidies". There's a _place_ for state subsidization of industry, but it has to be done very carefully or this happens.
Some relevant links:

100,000 curated pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level...

In terms of space, the text is over 1000x smaller than the multimedia: ~20GB (uncompressed) for the text vs ~45TB (compressed) for multimedia (est accounting for growth vs 23TB@2014).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
I am! I don't think I'll ever have the time, but it would be very cool.
i think satellite will trump 5G+
Thanks for the thought, I have forwarded it into an issue discussing a similar topic on issue management for specific groups not counting towards the license limit: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/2105#note_4326...
It's utterly incomprehensible that a law like this can exist..

It seems so "common sense" that if you've got your stuff taken away by the police because they suspect it is involved in a crime, then you'll get said stuff back if you're not convicted of said crime, or if the stuff cannot be definitely proven as being involved in a crime.
The raw unmanipulated imagery is not very useful, as it will be a messy patchwork. The colours are probably interpolated from a Bayer filter mosaic or something too. They are providing the much more useful aligned, equalised imagery that people actually want. LINZ would quite likely give you the raw imagery if you asked for it for some project - they're quite keen for people to make use of their data (hence the CC license), and I have a little.

"Conspiracy nut" is a noun, slang for "conspiracy theorist". If I had said they or you were "nuts", the adjective, then yes, that would mean "crazy" and imply comparison to mental illness; I didn't say that. I also said "it sounds like you've been listening to ...", so not a comparison to your mental state anyway.
It's one of a general class of problems: "we are each using a word to mean something different". Taboo the word "force" and see if you still disagree :P
CrowdSec is not designed specifically for SSH. It can ingest any type of logs and answer with a bouncer at pretty much any level. IP/Session/User/software stack. Ie, we are working on Magento to parse all logs (apache, magento's logs, etc.) and provide a bouncer that is user aware, at an applicative level. Some people are experimenting it to parse logs from airplane communications, to see if pilots behavior is close to a standard or deviate. We have experimentations on BGP protocol, etc.
If you read Tim Woo's master switch you will get everything is designed to be centralised. Internet is designed to be centralised.

The bottom line is that the infrastructure (the cable and the cell towers are centralised). Until we can legally encrypt over Ham radio and quality peer reviewed open sourced post-quantum encryption algorithm Internet is centralised!
Slow lorises are one of the world’s only venomous mammals
You would rarely implement HTTP/1.x yourself. You could, but there are dedicated libraries for that.
Anecdotal, but I've encountered so many legacy HTTP/1 applications on typical corporate VPN networks where the latency was horrible (due to the VPN and also due to the backend responses adding even more latency). What I've done in some cases is just thrown an HTTP/2 proxy in front of these and saw an immediate and very user-perceptible performance improvement for the user. So much so that people kept asking why using the proxied version I stood up was so much faster than going directly to the origin server.
I continue to be underwhelmed (and slightly concerned) by Datalore. As a paying customer who spends most of my time using PyCharm and a regular user of Jupyter notebooks... I would much rather they be focusing these efforts on better support for notebook functionality inside PyCharm itself and deliver a first class experience in the IDE that was interoperable with ideally existing cloud vendors but at the least just any Jupyter Lab/Notebook server that you have permission to connect to.

If they wanted to enhance something with “data” in the name there’s a lot they could do to improve DataGrip. How about broad support for NoSQL data stores like DynamoDB, CosmosDB Redis, and ElasticSearch. Not keen on adding a new there’s plenty of sharp edges left in the MongoDB functionality that need more work. Not flashy enough? Ok how about some sort of built in magic Presto/DIY AWS Athena that lets me use DataGrip to query practically any data I like?

I understand why they need to be building online tools like TeamCity which fit into their overall product line, but between their Source collaboration tools and DataLore I feel like they are leaving their core competencies and building things that have much lower real world value. Collaboration are usually pushed into a company by upper management and unless they want to fully integrate with G-Suite or Office365 and become a competitor to the terrible Microsoft Teams app then I don’t see them gaining more than a pittance when it comes to collaboration tools market.

The story around notebooks just doesn’t mesh the same way into a software development lifecycle and I just don’t see the value of DataLore... it’s not hosted in the same cloud as my data so I have to deal with all the security and management overheads of external data for no real gain when all three major cloud platforms have hosted Notebook and/or “workspace” equivalent services or you can just host your own Jupyter server secure along with your data for easy access.

I know they are smart people and I have no doubt they do plenty of cost benefit analysis and aren’t wasting money on these things, but these things just feel worryingly like distractions.
I don't buy the "FPTP gives strong government" argument. Even if we accept that FPTP gives the government "clarity and a definitive mandate" (a very dubious claim given the chaos of the last few years), what's so great about strong government? The whole point of democracy is to prevent the government from getting too strong; if we really wanted strong government we'd abolish parliament and go back to letting the monarch decide everything.

Many, many European countries have proportional systems in which it's very rare for one party to get a clear majority and governments are almost always coalitions. Would Norway, Sweden or the Netherlands really be better off under a system like FPTP that effectively disenfranchises a large majority of the electorate?
It's rather that they have 4Mbps for 720p30 to play well. They don't reach 5Mbps hence 720p60 buffers. We could argue about whether that's 10% or 40% of the UK that is affected. I see your point.
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Realistically, homeschool is done overwhelmingly by women. If it was social norm, it would be expected from women and not from men.

So, I guess, if women would really overall more antimask and anti-vaccine and anti-science, it would show up generation later.
The Russian Empire was authoritarian. It was not totalitarian under any definition of the term I’ve ever encountered. There was an extremely lively press, active intellectual life and real if toothless political opposition. It was absolutely nothing like under the Soviet boot.

> How did educated, liberal society respond to such terrorism? What was the position of the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party and its deputies in the Duma (the parliament set up in 1905)? Though Kadets advocated democratic, constitutional procedures, and did not themselves engage in ­terrorism, they aided the terrorists in any way they could. Kadets collected money for terrorists, turned their homes into safe houses, and called for total amnesty for arrested terrorists who pledged to continue the mayhem. Kadet Party central committee member N. N. Shchepkin declared that the party did not regard terrorists as criminals at all, but as saints and martyrs. The official Kadet paper, Herald of the Party of People’s Freedom, never published an article condemning political assassination. The party leader, Paul Milyukov, declared that “all means are now legitimate . . . and all means should be tried.” When asked to condemn terrorism, another liberal leader in the Duma, Ivan Petrunkevich, famously replied: “Condemn terror? That would be the moral death of the party!”

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-l...
Predicting LTV is quite useful for marketing and advertising.
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Please read Master Switch by Tim Woo. It is worth noting that most things that are marketed as grass root are designed to be centralised.
Bring the site back up. Been getting this error lately.

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Better Data Quality Through Observability with Monte Carlo – Episode 155
I don't remember that time. I remember a bunch of software that had severe errors (Office 97 parsing some emails corrupting the PST, Exchange 5.0 lacking relay control) that were only resolved by paying for a major new release. And games like 'Magic Carpet' that had game breaking bugs meaning you could never finish them, masked by making the game so difficult you would never visit the level in question.
Asking to transfer the domain with such short notice does feel heavy-handed for sure. But they haven't asked to delete the blog - only to remove offending references.
There's also a download PNG option.
A sensible App Store business model
AI/ML: GAN to WGAN
Someone did remind us that TSMC relies on dutch machines for wafer productions. It's not china-skills-black-hole as one could think (I used to)
They could just stop driving for uber if they wanted, I don't why they need politicians to force uber out to do it.
Except it’s way better than calling. You can get support without being on the phone.
Yup, this is exactly why I went a Set. The fact that it can't contain duplicates is super handy
name + notoriety /= brand in my mind.

> Brand /brand/ noun:
> 1. a type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name
> 2. an identifying mark burned on livestock or (in former times) criminals or slaves with a branding iron.

Now perhaps Mr Fleming (BTW that's a funny name coincidence) is trying to use the word with a much broader meaning.
As an American that is a familiar story, with telcos over the years taking money and not delivering the upgrades promised. We were supposed to have a lot more widespread fiber to the home for instance, and I think we still pay a little more than many other countries.

However by now in 2020, I believe the majority of the US has access to internet over cable tv lines/docsis instead of dsl with speeds more like 100mbps, with up to 1 or 2 gbps available in big metros for $70 a month. I know many rural areas are still underserved, and of course not every household is subscribed to internet service, but it seems to be available in most places.

I’m really surprised internet in the UK seems to be an order of magnitude or more slower for such a large percentage of the population.
Six Russians accused of the world’s most destructive hacks indicted
It is a bit over the top, but the patterns are still indicative of the naive approaches you'd typically start out with.

Yes, there are hacks to work around it (bundling and spritesheets), but they have other tradeoffs, like losing ~all of your cache granularity.
For a very large database where the count would be filtered based on status of the conversations and running this query for every single support channel would be expensive would it not?
> There seems to be a strong (legislative? legal? political?) aversion to easily replaceable overhead wires

I live in the UK with only overhead wires on my street (probably 60-80 years old copper wiring). Those wires are eyesores, and also break regularly since tree branches cut them in storms. Given Openreach's incentives, forget about these wires ever being replaced by fibre.
I personal experience I find home schooled friends are smarter and more educated than public schooled ones. Yeah you would say there may be correlation instead of causation. However, US public school system really leave me extremely unsatisfied. Would never send my kids to US public school.
Hmm, this old blog post sounds like they were planning on ending that practice:

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
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Sexism in the Tech Industry: An Inconvenient Truth
That's an unfair way to say it. You could equally say "Louisiana spends about 20% of its local municipal revenue supporting local businesses."

I have no idea if that is a big number or how it compares to other states. I also have no idea if it's a good investment - perhaps it results in lots of jobs and ultimately more than 20% increase in tax take (you should also factor in if it's just pulling jobs and therefore taxes from elsewhere, rather than creating new value).

But the money is no more "lost" than it would be if they spent it on schools or roads or whatever else.
Maybe it's because Rust is backed by Mozilla, which is a bigger player than Zig's creator?
Same happens to Boeing too.
Can you please pre-populate, fill up the fonts as I type or an option to scroll through the available options.
> Jesus, no one cares what your "policy" is.

I care.
at least during a transition period until major parts of electricity demand can be fully renewable. It will be interesting though to see how e-demand will be met with the wave of electric vehicles...
LTUI v2.2 released, A cross platform terminal UI library
The Intel NAND manufacturing facility that was sold was already in Dalian, China.
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Foxconn is taiwanese, Samsung south korean. Some Nvidia chips are also made by Samsung.

Apart from these inaccuracies however I'd mostly agree that us-american manufacturing is not in a great position, to put it mildly. That's not neccessarily where the real value lies, however: That's usually exactly in the designs, where the USA are strong.
Why tech IPOs are flourishing in the U.S. and China – but not Europe
I actually view HTTP/2 as a great equalizing force for smaller players: It is perfect for "hiding" latency, so you are not forced to use a CDN like Cloudflare just to be closer to your user.

Example: I run a service without a CDN, but I only host it on dedicated servers located in Europe. Per-request latency is OKish for users in the US, but my service makes dozens of subrequests to the same origin when loading pages (images, XHR calls). Without HTTP/2, the user-experience for US customers would be abysmal and I'd be forced to reach for a CDN which has a PoP closer to them.
Similarly, when my mother had chemo, her prints changed enough that it would fail.

These are definitely failure modes, but I would put them in the niche bucket.
Operation Sealion (the German invasion of Britain) was war-gamed in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion#Post-war_wa... The invasion force surrendered after 6 days. And that assumed that the shambolic plans for establishing a beach head would have actually worked.
you mean dunkirk?

Thats not completely defeated though is it. Thats the BEF stranded on a beach. Sure its a loss of equipment, but its not as much of a loss of man and machine as the nazis lost during the invasion of france They lost something like a third of their _entire_ mechanised army.

Britain was still in possession of India, most of Africa inc Egypt, Hong Kong, Burma, canada and Australia in 1940

The fall of singapore wasn't until 1942. by 1943 the tide had turned, it was a case of when not if the nazis were defeated.

As I said, the only risk was Britain coming to terms with the Nazis.
Actually(tm), an older definition of a quine can be found here: https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/fou...

So a parthenogenic Scotswoman would be a double quine.
Yes, I was thinking of the same precedent. IBM got out of memory at about the same time, I believe, and for the same reason: Too low margins to make continuing to fight against the tough competition worthwhile.

>Although, not so clear now whether it means they're on another course to greatness...

This is the $64,000 question. Intel got out of the memory business when it was clear by 1985 that CPUs were its future. I didn't write x86 because Intel itself wasn't convinced of this; see iAPX 432, i860, Itanium, and StrongARM/Xscale. All failed to give Intel the backup/alternative to x86 that it has repeatedly sought.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Intel has failed, or at least failed to distinguish itself, in every single market it has entered since IBM chose the 8088 forty years ago. Besides the above alternative instructional sets/architectures and flash memory, antivirus (still perhaps the most mystifying move in Intel history), servers/motherboards, and GPUs come to mind. The most successful non-x86 business for Intel is ... Ethernet cards? Meanwhile, it's embarrassed itself with discrete GPUs at least three separate times. A few years ago buying Nvidia would have been a savvy move; now it can no longer do so, and it's not impossible to imagine Nvidia buying Intel in the future.

Even within the one market Intel does dominate, what saved the company 15 years ago amidst Itanic and Pentium 4 was 1) AMD Thunderbird being just as inefficient as Pentium 4 and, more importantly, 2) an Intel Israel skunk works project to improve on the Pentium 3. There is no such out-of-the-blue miracle this time.