skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if starlink comes online as scheduled then all bets are off. You'll see tech workers on the mountain tops of the Rockies i bet.
There isn’t an open market where the worker can get a clear market value for their salary. The companies hold far more information than each worker. Nuances like this non-clearing behavior, geographic forces, compensating differentials, and monopsonies make labor economics it’s own field of study.
I don't mind building extra capacity. I do mind politicians sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.

I can't believe more people are not angry about the World Trade Center Path station. They managed to spend twice the original budget at four billion dollars and all this time there were signal problems between Newark and Harrison because Path didn't have money to fix it.

How do we do huge infrastructure projects when we can't trust the bureaucrats and the politians who are supposed to oversee these things?
I don't think it's a permanent move though. People are buying summer/weekend homes or property which already had constrained supply.
Sure but Seattle is a mess today because nobody built the capacity we need.
I used to cringe with the term “flyover country”. Now I embrace it. I even promote it. The less enticing I make my area seem to an outsider, the less likely they will try to move here and ruin it.
Maybe that happens, but the author has stated that wasn't the case here--that OCaml was absolutely the right choice to write Dark in, given the constraints they faced at the time.
Ask HN
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I watched this article [1] get submitted in various forms multiple times per day by accounts with Indian-sounding names.

One submission shot up to +15 within 10 minutes of being posted but was quickly deleted by the HN admins.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24927370
It's some trouble, but a quick filing in your local small claims court for the $700 would be an interesting way to get your money back and see how it plays out.
this is one of the leaked DVD encryption keys (expressed, of course, in very funny way), which is used since eternity by pirats for DVD decryption.

Used to be illegal to have it in US and other countries, don't know status now
This is why I actually like using PayPal for my payments.
I hold ALL the power then, I can instantly cancel the auto renewal whenever I feel like it.
Eh, for someone who likes OCaml and sum types, I don't think they would be wild about Kotlin. It doesn't have any generalized pattern matching, for example.
Particularly, IMO, for internal business apps, microservices make it more likely that you can align products, business owners, and teams, whereas monoliths force complicated governance as well as multiteam products. And, in practice, the development teams and business owners aren't aligned, so you get a many-to-many web of requirements and approvals communication.
The State of ABAC on AWS
At the same time, technological measures can show it to them that they can't feasibly take it down and that they're fighting a losing battle. At some point the RIAA will just have to accept defeat because honestly it's not that much work to defeat their DMCA takedowns.

Right now they're issuing what, 1 takedown notice to GitHub? When we make that 100,000 takedown notices, some in ROT13, some in ROT24 on an Israeli server, some in RSA encryption on a Chinese server with keys published on Russian servers, maybe they'll just be too overwhelmed with paperwork at that point.
Wouldn't they just not show up, and pay the $700 charge?
Logmein raised the price every year until it was like $1,000 a year just to get into 10 computers. I looked at Teamviewer and noped out of there almost as fast.
All 4 of those state will still be red.

We aren't talking about a population altering number of people.
Sounds like a win then.
Why do you think countries investing in it would make me not a skeptic? I'm a skeptic because of the technology being a bad idea pushed originally by oil companies. Hydrogen is only green if you produce it yourself by green electricity by electrolysis which is quite inefficient and then convert that energy back into electricity with another quite inefficient process.

Now as to the reason why Japan has been investing, it's because the actual way Hydrogen is produced is from fossil fuels. It's done by taking methane and other hydrocarbons and pulling the hydrogen off and expelling the CO2 (ideally capturing it). This process is called steam reforming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming This is the sweet lie people aren't told when hydrogen is brought up. Japan happens to have extensive offshore methane clathrate deposits on the sea floor and if they can make a hydrogen economy happen then those clathrates may become economical to mine.
Yes there is no guarantee, but it's better than putting all your eggs in one basket.
If it were up to Hackernews commenters, no software created after 1998 would be used - everything would run on a single monolith, use Postgresql, run with System V and written in, I don't know, Perl with CGI. It worked fine back then, why do we need to change it and make it all fancy and complicated?

I don't know the career histories of these kinds of people, I'm sure its varied, but I just can't imagine them working in very large public facing dynamic sites that update multiple times a day with monoliths thinking "this sure can't be improved! We have reached the peak of computing!"

I've seen microservices go really badly of course - I worked in a place where the devs insisted that two microservices need to go out "at the same time," as if such a concept existed, because they depended on each other. At the end of me working there, there were around 40 microservices, all Java so they needed at least 2GB of memory each, some 8GB, and at least 3 replicas for high availability. Cost a small fortune in servers for what really could have been like, 5 microservices, written in Go or Node and run on a handful of normal servers.

But microservices, like Kubernetes, are not _hype_, they are not a flash in the pan and they're here to stay because they are a good idea conceptually, even if they often aren't executed very well.
Amazon Halo classifies your speech after listening in
Problems with First Past the Post Voting (CGP Grey, 2011)
yeah, "the grass is always greener". I grew up in a small country town, it has its charms but it gets old too. By the time I was college age I left and never looked back. Small time life comes with a different set of problems than living in a city but they're still problems.
I’ve been thinking that a dark pattern index would be really neat. Basically name and shame with deep dives. Each product is given a 1-10 value for assholery.

Would anyone else find that useful?
Sounds like what the girlsdoporn guys did to their "models". They took them to another state and then badgered them into doing an adult scene, claiming they would only be seen on DVD in another country.

When the girls later discovered that their scenes were available to anyone on the internet, and tried to "cancel their service", they released their information to all and sundry including their parents/bosses, etc. Just to be jerks.
NASA objects to new megaconstellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collison”
If we stop using fossil fuels to make chemicals and materials, we'll need vast quantities of electrolytic hydrogen. Ammonia production alone was about 175 million tonnes in 2016, requiring 31 million tonnes of hydrogen. At 50 kWh per kg of hydrogen, that would be roughly 177 GW of electrolyzer capacity working at a 100% duty cycle. Using hydrogen in place of coal for reducing iron ore would consume even more hydrogen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_production

Japan is interested in it as fuel, despite the well known drawbacks, because Japan has such limited domestic energy resources.
Amen to this. It's a pain as a seller, but it works out for them because I use PayPal whenever possible on a subscription requirement solely because of this.

Why is this so hard?
How do you weigh the fire risk in the Tahoe area? The Palo Alto area has smoke risk, and some PSPS risk, but not much risk of straight up burning down. But homes in Tahoe are at significantly more risk of fire, right? Is it possible to get fire insurance there?
Another reason to use disposable debit cards. Why should TeamViewer have the ability to take money from my account without my consent?
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If you feel that losing access to Github would mean the destruction of your professional life, I'd encourage you to take steps to prevent that corporation from being able to do that to you.
Indeed. You'd have to legislate that hydrogen for vehicles could not be produced by steam reforming and add lots of regulation around tracking the origin of all hydrogen that reaches the vehicle. Otherwise people will just use the cheapest source of hydrogen, and presuming the demand for other fossil fuels is going down at the same time, that's going to be exclusively very cheap methane feed stock.
The fact you're getting downvoted lays bare the bias of HN. Cryptographic proofs (math) clash against ideology, and ideology wins.
Faulty NHS Covid app; thousands at risk did not quarantine
The Tab Modifier extension plus adBlock to block the logo on the page did the trick for me.
wormh_o_le
mono_c_le

The although both words have the same last two letters - "le", the third last letters are different. This produces a different syllable when pronounced.
Most likely. And in any case, most small claims courts don't allow the representation by counsel, and as such they're more lenient about complaints submitted. File, serve Team Viewer, show up on day of, collect default judgment or argue why lifetime means lifetime.
How is adasdsadabab in any way Indian-sounding?
That's pretty typical for production of paper and OSB.
Yeah the Michigan governor comes to mind in particular.
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Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
The lawyer/legal department bottlenecks on cloud usage is a pretty maddening aspect of corporate cross-shopping of clouds.

At this point, every semi-established cloud provider must have sufficient paperwork to cover the various legal permutations. And it's not like the lawyers are doing any technical research to verify any security aspects.
Like it or not, this is one of the reasons Apple's payment restrictions on the App Store are a good thing for consumers - they force all subscriptions to go through one easily accessible and cancellable portal.
Wind the clock back to 2008 when the problem came to the attention of the wider public. Lots of press about Iranian missile tests, which turned out to be a fake.

https://boingboing.net/2008/07/10/iran-you-suck-at-pho.html

(and of course, you certainly have missed the fakes that didn't get noticed!)
Yeah, and its ecosystem loves mutability, but with discipline in your own codebase you can get 80% of OCaml with access to an amazing ecosystem and tooling. After all nested when expressions aren't the end of the world...
i agree, i think people are buying but then will sell and head back to the city eventually. Living out in the sticks is ok if you understand what you're getting in to but many don't. However, I think it will have a lasting impact as many urban people are going to have at least some real world exposure to rural life. It may broaden the perspectives of both urban and rural types... or drive them even further apart.
You should check out decadata.io
For those that need an example, a great reminder is the target data mining story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
The simple answer I can think of is if the destruction of forest is more than natural growth then we all should work towards planting of trees.
Thanks for sharing. I wasn’t aware that was a thing, it seems to be a form of manipulating the appearance of performance rather than actually boosting it. We log all slow calls so we can find out what they’re running up against - knowing a call took more than 5ms a p99 of 5ms is a pretty poor internal signal, but being able to trace which calls took 15 or 75s (vs those that took less but would also have been killed nevertheless) is extremely helpful.

Perhaps probabilistically terminating calls would work better? I assume the decision has to be made ahead of time with timeout contexts if there anything like cancellation tokens, so even if you give just 5% of all your inbound requests a deadline 10000x as long, you’ll still get some useful info to work with.

As a user, I would absolutely hate it. I somehow frequently run into pockets of badly written or architectured code that cause some of my requests to take a minute or more to be fulfilled on an otherwise responsive server - if I had to retry “just” twenty times for it to go through, I’d lose my mind.
The article has mistakes from the get go. Hydrogen is not a "fuel" as it's not found in nature except in small quantities mixed with hydrocarbons or given off by radioactive sources. Hydrogen is an energy storage mechanism. All Japan is investing in here is "burning lignite coal with extra steps". Not at all green or energy efficient.
Look, I would love to be wrong about this. The potential for deepfakes to e.g disrupt financial markets worries me much more than the upside of some cool videos on the internet. It’s nothing personal. If you build something genuinely cool I promise I will be happy for you!
I think it's great users are always attempting to break free from Google. I don't think 3 companies should control half the internet content (I'm sure my measurements are way off).

I just see it as inconvenient. Firefox has been well known to underperform Chrome in many areas. The GUI feels dated and clunky. Something about the experience feels very obviously backed by only software political activists, developers, and people who simply haven't moved to Chrome.

I also don't see how using Chromium based browser distros is non-Google. I thought part of the problem was that even with those browsers, Google can still blacklist sites it chooses to.
I use brave because I agree with the creators politics.
Very interesting read, thanks for putting that together.

I am wondering how these ideas relate to "value objects", a term formed many years ago via domain driven design.
I looked at about 20 different "popular" languages and I believe that only 2 (Go and Swift) of them have shifts at a higher precedence than addition.

I think I'm missing a reference/joke =/
Deploying ground-based infrastructure is difficult, especially in a place as inhospitable as salt flats.

GPS (really, multi-constellation GNSS these days) is not only easier to physically set up, it also gives you more data, and likely more accuracy. You don't save the PVT output of the receiver on the vehicle. (I mean, you could save that too, I guess.) You save the raw observables, and post-process along with data gathered at the same time by stationary reference stations. (Either run your own base, or use data from networks like unavco.)

This gives you a remarkably precise picture of the vehicle's position, motion, and acceleration, in 3 dimensions, throughout the entire run. If they want to be transparent about it, they'll publish a multiconstellation RINEX file of the whole shebang, so anyone can analyze it themselves. There might be fewer internet sleuths who know how to sling rtklib or gpstk than youtube-dl and audacity, but the ones who can, will produce a wealth of data.

For bonus points, put two receivers on the car, a few feet apart. This allows moving-baseline so you also get an orientation solution.

1: http://rtklib.com/

2: https://gitlab.com/sgl-ut/GPSTk
I think it is actually optimized for print magazines where someone can be expected to dip in and out when they have a few minutes on the couch and the publisher has a set number of pages to fill. It's not as well suited to the internet where 25 words surrounded by 10 ads seems to be the norm and 5 minutes is an eternity.
That is until PayPal withholds funds paid to you and cancels your account for arbitrary reasons.
Very informative article. Never knew different aspects of the DRM. However i chuckled when I saw the names Ram, Shyam and Hari. Not too often do you see any names besides Alice and Bob.
I dropped TeamViewer after their security and pricing shenanigans, and switched over to AnyDesk. Same thing, but free for personal use (cheaper for commercial), easier to use interface, and what seems to be higher quality software.
hydrogen: aka coal, with a nicer more futuristic ring to it
They will come, when the computers are available. But Apple wouldn't invest in doing it at great expensive if it didn't produce a better more competitive product.
Maybe I don't understand microservices but what is to stop a team from declaring the whole monolith to be just one microservice?

I have interviewed at a few places over the last year and not one interviewer has given me a hundred percent guarantee that we will never have to allow access to the backing store (database) that isn't through our service.

Of course, microservice will fail in such environments. That's not a microservice fault. That's a defect in management.
Where do you get your disposable credit cards? All the major US credit cards cancelled their virtual account number programs ages ago. Chase had grandfathered it into ancient accounts, but unceremoniously cancelled it last month.

Also: depending on the bank, they might not respect the VAN limits that you set up, and just let the charge go through anyway. Just something to watch for.

(FWIW I helped build a VAN backend for Wells almost 20 years ago).
What was the speedup from this?

If only 1% of cpu time was spent on slow square root, and this sped it up by 100%, it would be barely worth it.
That's illegal, so not actually the case.
Dark Patterns Org [0] has a dedicated Hall of Shame. I'm all for having several places to call these patterns out though.

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If they want to lock down the system there's nothing about x86 that prevents them from doing so there. So that's a faulty argument.
As someone who attended a private engineering school in Boston (although not MIT) I see a move from scheme to python as regressive in almost every way.

Scheme levels the playing field among incoming students, both those who've barely programmed and who've been programming since they were 14. It also provides a special kind of mind bender that challenged me in ways I still use today. Granted I work at a company that employs multiple functional programming languages.

Good engineers in time don't use python because they realize it attracts tech debt and cruft. I love python, and still use it for quick hacks and machine learning things. However, I'll defer to the one and only Bunnie Huang regarding python v other languages [0]"fwiw, Python is a great glue, but a terrible structural material. Do not build skyscrapers out of Python"

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As an outsider from Europe, you seem to understand the situation here better than most Americans.
Well, it would make the US strategically weak if there weren't reasonable alternatives. Wires are cheaper and more convenient ways of moving energy around than refrigerated/insulated pipes or tankers. So anywhere you can use electricity directly you probably would. Batteries are already good enough for cars. Hydrogen might be good for energy storage, but pumped hydro is probably simpler and cheaper where geography allows.

Hydrogen might be very useful for some applications that require high energy density (electrified aircraft, perhaps?), though maybe those use cases will be served by conventional liquid fuels that might be increasingly made using renewable energy inputs rather than made from fossil fuels.
Thank you so much! I'll try it out.
Do you feel the same way about Einstein's collaboration with Emil Rupp as you do about Lynn Margulis' collaboration with Donald Williamson?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-fraud-who-worked-with-einstein-5...
Most people who intend to really use their iPhone purchase a model that's at least $1k. Budget minded folks don't buy Apple products - Apple care isn't intended for the budget minded individual.
I don't know if this is a recent trend, or if I've only experienced negative things in the past year or two, (perhaps in the lead up to their IPO?), but I ended up switching away from them.

They closed my account because they suspected commercial use. If I wanted to re-open it, I would need to send in a picture of my ID, and sign some legal documents attesting to my continued non-commercial use or something.

They might not care about personal users because we don't pay, but I did end up switching to different software for the commercial projects I use remote access software on.