skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to geared towars "content goes down" scenarios, rather than "reader is temporarily offline".

It's a concern I have every time I find a particularly interesting independently hosted blog post or article.

The Internet Archive goes a long way towards making me worry about this less, though. (Let's just hope they don't go away!)
There will be a lot of variation among individuals, but as a demographic generalization, those from more blue-collar communities seem to start sooner with marriage and family, and probably even have tax and other financial incentives to do so. Being rich gives you options and the confidence of upward mobility; being poor usually doesn't.
A perennial HN favorite - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=coredump.cx

Have been following Michal's exploits (card carrying dad here, sorry) for almost my entire infosec career. Always appreciate his practical and rational take on things. This is no exception, great article and something I think allows people to think about the topic without getting sucked into the editorializing that typically goes with it.
>seem to be preparing to become the people who would take others' food and supplies by force in the event of a real nuclear war level catastrophe

Or simply preparing to defend against those sorts of people.
I think it's important to be realistic about VPN's. They can't keep you safe from Nation State Adversaries. They can keep you safe from spiteful nobodies or smaller orgs.
I’ve never prepped so asking out of sheer curiosity.

I wonder if there’s value in simulating disaster-living. It’s one thing to be ready with supplies and another to actually live through it, albeit for lesser time. Would it help discover a few more unknowns? Maybe some supply that you would only realize you need when you experience it?

Think of it a life-version of chaos monkey or similar to a fire drill?
I guess only time will tell. I believe battery improvements will now only accelerate given the amount of research in that area.

Even if lithium doesn't scale, we will find alternatives for electrical energy storage and will become increasingly efficient at renewable manufacturing.
> What’s worse, all signs point to a continuing downward trend for new marriages.

I greatly disagree with the phrasing.

It puts too much emphasis on marriage as a desired state when clearly some non-negligible subset of the data is signaling something else that the author is not considering at all.

The article makes passing mention of a list of reasons people aren't getting married, taking a look at that study[1] shows

"Not ready for the commitment"

and

"Haven't found the right person"

accounting for 70% of all reasons, equivalently across both sexes.

did they factor in "not interested and don't really think about it except when people keep bringing it up for me" with the implication that of course the sentiment can change if someone made that connection or found such an arrangement interesting with another person?

I think the entire framing around this needs to match what people actually think, and I think it neglects a very common sentiment which would become more common as more people become aware that others think this way. Good news, then the divorce rate drops much closer to 0 or perhaps the financial repercussions around divorce are modernized and made more pragmatic.

[1]https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/final2-ifs-single-... , page 11
China has a lower per capita GDP then Botswana and Iraq.[1] It's a superpower mainly because it has a huge population.

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/
Tiktockers pranked tickets to a Trump rally. Got the Evil Eye after that.
Overview of 3D meshing methods using open source tools
>a €1.909,00 laptop(Cost of macbook pro 13 inch with 16gb of RAM) is not entry level.

For Apple it is. And for most other companies (Dell, Lenovo, Razer, etc).

When you configure any kind of developer-class or workstation-class machine, it gets way above $2000 soon regardless of vendor.

I wanted to try a Lenovo or Razer with compatible specs to a high end MacBook Pro 16 (to use if as a high end Linux workstation), and it gets into the same ballpark very quickly as you narrow the specs down.

The sub €600 category Apple doesn't cater to.
back in that day, half the audience considered a Cuban/Nicaraguan invasion to be a real thing to worry about.
They seem to want to complete the transition in the next two years.
You were pretty specific that it was entirely the fault of the GPL:

> I'd have to explain to my commercial clients that there's another $50-100k upcharge due to the architecture change and licensing costs due to GPL restrictions.
Welcome to China. We know the truth, and we followup on it. Great new world
From WWDC 2020, it has been "highly tuned" for Apple Silicon:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/?time...

Makes sense, since Accelerate has been available on iOS for many years.
Great response, though if we look at the long and short growth trends of the intro though it’s phenomenal
For many scopes the process is simply to "run backdoor command X", "run keygen Y" or "overwrite byte ZZ of the EEPROM", it's unusual to see a cool fully documented reverse engineering effort on a model previously unexplored, which is why I submitted this article. Interestingly, since the manufacturers' revenues come from selling to enterprise users under service contracts, they usually don't care about a hardware hackers or two on the web at all.
Oh, I did not know that. I was under the impression the DP is open and free.
part of the reason could be to emphasize that single binary would be easy to operate
I know there's thousands of startup resource lists on the internet today. I tried to make this one different from drawing on my experience founding a startup. I'd be curious what other resources you'd include to prospective or very early founders?
Currently using 18.1GB/64GB of ram with Rstudio, Docker, Discord, Many chrome windows open. Was just about to hit the "buy" button yesterday but being that ram-constrained in the era of electron-based apps seems like it's pushing it.
Signal is probably safe for the data[†], but as we know, the NSA cares even more about metadata – and since Signal's centralized servers are (all?) located in California…

[†] - then, considering stuff like this, even vetted open source code might be at risk (remember that the NSA can afford the best programmers in the world !) :

http://underhanded-c.org/

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom...
This is why the UNIX philosophy of distributing only source code and building locally for apps is important. You can never 100% know for sure if that code doesn't have a security backdoor, but at least you have the opportunity to self audit.
I'm guessing some took issue with the possibly poorly phrased "our understanding [...] of what [...] 'developers' mean [differ]". It can be read as me dismissing people that use Macs as "not real developers", where my intent was to counteract the opposite: people dismissing others that might be using Windows as "not real developers" because otherwise they would be using Macs, which is circular logic that I have heard expressed in the past. And I say that as someone who has used Macs at work for the past decade.
Yeah, and people mostly either evacuate or have outside help in a matter of days.
Yeah. I also assume it deletes the pages after they are "read" but who knows, there‘s no insight into the feature.

The best bookmarking option for archival seems to be the pinboard.in archive plan.
I was scrolling through to see if you explain how you typeset the math (notoriously hard on webpages), but I happened to instead find a small mistake. You write: "Elements of $\mathbb{R}^n$ are sets of real numbers." That is an incorrect definition.

- It is inaccurate because n doesn't enter into the definition (and thus all Euclidean spaces would be the same).

- You want ordered n-tuples, not sets. If you actually defined elements of R^n as sets of n real numbers, you would not be able to represent the diagonal (or, if you fix that, not be able to represent the difference between certain points on the diagonal of R^n and certain points on the diagonal of certain subspaces).

Moreover, figure 5 talks about "overlapping vectors". This is highly non-standard, and definitely would need to be defined.

Further, you're setting your readers up for trouble by defining vector arithmetic in terms of bases.
I haven't seen any in Finland at least.
And furthermore, if a company was persuaded or compelled to log data for an intelligence agency, they would likely not admit to it for just any court.
What people? Vetting how? The problem remains: If you don't read and understand all the code (which is basically impossible for most people), then you have to trust some source of information, which in turn is based on some other source etc.

In short: You can basically never know for sure if any complex product is completely secure. You can make guesses, and the more research you do, the closer you get to an answer. At some point, you have enough information to deem a solution "secure enough" for a specific use.

For regular users, it's mostly a question of belief.
They didn't just add a "shy Trump voter" factor:https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/another-pollster-sees...

They tried to come up with approaches to get around the very effect the article talks about: Trump voters don't answer survey questions. The main differences in methodology were making fewer assumptions about Republican turnout, larger sample sizes, and different survey techniques.

Trafalgar clearly missed some things: traditionally republican collar counties breaking hard for Biden. (My county didn't vote for Obama either time, but voted for Biden by 12, after voting for the republican governor a couple of years ago by 38.) But 538 had some insane misses this year in critical states like Wisconsin (off by 7.7), Ohio (off by 7.3), Florida (off by 5.9), etc. Finalizing counts in NY and CA isn't going to change those numbers--and Trafalgar wasn't analyzing them anyway.
Thanks for the links. If anyone is wondering about some of the hoops that need to be jumped through to make it work, here's another guide [1].

One question in case you or anyone else knows: What's the story behind AMD's apparent lack of math library development? Years ago, AMD and ACML as their high-performance BLAS competitor to MKL. Eventually, it hit end of life and became AOCL [2]. I've not tried it, but I'm sure it's fine. That said, Intel has done steady, consistent work on MKL and added a huge amount of really important functionality such as its sparse libraries. When it works, AMD has also benefited from this work as well, but I've also been surprised that they haven't made similar investments.

Also, in case anyone is wondering, ARM's competing library is called the Arm Performance Libraries. Not sure how well it works and it's only available under a commercial license. I just went to check and pricing is not immediately available. All that said, it looks to be dense BLAS/LAPACK along with FFT and no sparse.

[1] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AM...

[2] https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/
I've studied the US "prepper" culture intensively for a novel I've written, watched hundreds of videos by preppers for research and read Lundin, Dartnell, and Seymour's books among others. It's not a prejudice, it's my verdict.
The coolest part I think is that you have a copy of all these websites on disk, which means you can run a full text search on all the websites you visited (or on their html, technically).

Browsers'history sucks. I don't know if this project does this, but I would absolutely love to be able to do SQL queries on my browsing history.

I have 'lost' many websites I remember visiting, but for which I didn't remember anything in the title.

Also, obviously, websites change sometimes, and the web archive might not have cached the website you visited. Although from what I can tell, this project doesn't version websites, it just caches the latest, so you would probably just overwrite the previous version accidentally.
US courts generally won't reign in the executive as long as the executive says "national security". They often won't even hear the case (for instance there has been no ruling on the legality of most NSA activities). This is how the internment of Japanese Americans in ww2 worked: an executive order is law until a court will overturn it and they generally won't interfere in anything to do with foreign policy, national security, espionage etc...
>Oh, so it's terrible to pay for software?

Compared to not paying for it? Yes.

>Especially ironic because I'm sure the parent isn't working for free.

So? Who said that when you get paid yourself it stops being awful to have to pay for things?
I tend to have a pretty good supply of things like TP, cleaning supplies, and standard dry staples like rice, in the house. I have the space and it's cheaper/easier to buy relatively large sizes. When things started to get a bit crazy, I stocked more in than usual (including some meats etc. for the freezer). And filled up a big water container.

But, really, my "prepping" was mostly around avoiding stores as much as possible and being able to handle broken supply chains and potential short-term disruption to utilities. I was actually without power for a couple days in June but that was because of a wind storm.
Chinese Singles’ Day Blows Away Thanksgiving Weekend
Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
You definitely could use S3! I think I view some advantages of using Config.ly as:

- Updating content is way simpler. Even non technical folks can do it. (and soon you'll have revision history)

- I think with the S3 library you can use HTTP caching; Config.ly can do smarter caching (e.g. if you fetch (a,b) and then just a, HTTP caching would fail).
selfplug: https://sbeckeriv.github.io/personal_search/

I am working on a personal project that like this. It is in early stages. I am creating a local search based on my browser history. So it doesnt crawl pages. Also the fetch is out of bounds of the browser so Authed urls are not supported out of the box.

I have a bookmarklet currently that lets met "pin" my page. my pinned pages are my new home page. Its how I keep my tabs closed.

I do not do a full archive level (but i could). Instead you get an offline view that is stripped of most things. example https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbeckeriv/personal_search/...

Demo of the pin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_mXXFwQlg

a self hosted version is on the roadmap.
In the US, the tax brackets double for married couples vs singles. Two single persons earning $150k per year would be taxed at the same rate as a married couple earning a combined $300k a year, all else being equal of course.

Is that not the same where you live?
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
I think it would be a massive boost to the ecosystem to have at least stable and beta use PGO; 16% speed ups are amazing at this point in Rust’s lifetime!
Back in the day, we called this "going camping for the weekend"
FWIW, RISC-V explicitly doesn't support NaN payload propagation so R will have a problem there as well.
I’ve long awaited the day we have automated proof checking. As someone who started in CS but went for a degree in Mathematics I held on to the idea of some sort of test suite that newer mathematicians (who have tend to come up with already existing or already disproven proofs for fun while thinking they’re on to something) could run to determine if they’re wasting their time and it not have to be a class mate making fun of them (sadly I’ve done this to kids who were just excited to try and learn, as if I had any room to talk.)

And it would only scale from there, hell we could run such a test suite against all known proofs and who knows how many ancient theorems we could disprove. I don’t think this is the test suite but something like it and the ANN that OpenAI build to check proofs is a good start.
Sadly this is the answer.
As a freelancer in Paris, I've been invoicing 625€ daily in 2018 and 2019, and 700€ in 2020, doing Big Data / Scala development with a sprinkle of devops, for the same customer.
I think I could get 800-900€ if I find a customer that pays better and focus on the Big Data / GCP sectors. Just need to find a contract through word of mouth, and not through a recruiter that takes a 100-150€ margin...

You get less as a salaried employee in France though...
I have a project https://www.github.com/dhamaniasad/crestify that does the archival to archive.org and archive.today, you might find it useful
It's not necessary for everyone to have a Google account?
As simple as it is, it seems like a good candidate for a progressive web app. Then everyone can have it.
That’s making sure bold assumptions. Beep boop.
Dude they'll just sell them to someone else. It doesn't change anything, the material and resource cost has already been paid. Stop making this about something it absolutely is not.

Companies DO care when people return something, because that is pure signal. "I got it because I thought I would like it and I don't" is a much different signal than "I have no idea what you think because I never interacted with you". That is likely one of the most effective ways to make a company sit up and take notice, the return rate of a product is a key indicator of its success.

I really don't see that there's anything to disagree with there. Loving Apple, as you may, doesn't make the above point wrong.
What Can Silicon Valley Expect from Joe Biden? – Financial Times
What point are you trying to make here? The poster has been very clear on the mechanics, which are quite understandable, but I don't understand what you are trying to say. Is it just that you think it does not put the GPL in a positive enough light? I don't mean to put words in your mouth but that's my current best guess
>> Unfortunate state of affairs with firefox extentions. Niche extentions do not exist anymore.

This seems like something that could be done in a proxy and be browser independent.
It's refreshing to read that on hackernews.
Why skinks that lost their legs evolved new ones
It is difficult to take such study seriously then the chart says:

> % of newly divorced people per 1,000 married population

What does that even mean? The text clears this up:

> For every 1,000 marriages in the last year, only 14.9 ended in divorce...

But... seriously, how difficult is it to label charts properly? https://xkcd.com/833/ /rant
In the event of a real emergency, preppers will be a convenient source of resources and supplies to be exploited by whatever roving bands are marauding the landscape. If you nerd out on preparedness, you're just increasing the chance that the local Blood King will turn your skull into a goblet when he comes looking for the stash of canned goods you bragged about online in the Before Times.
Hey, OP here. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.

> The Figma example that's given seems to completely undercut the "Productivity vs Privacy" argument. Figma didn't discover those use cases by spying on users, they did it by talking with users and working WITH them. You know, using that whole consent thing?

Figma is a great example of non-obvious productivity gains being _discovered_. I believe building a multiplayer experience like Figma would be considerably more difficult if you would need to also keep everything e2e, managing multiple keys, etc. In that sense I think there might be some tension with privacy-preservation. The primary reason I mentioned Figma, though, was the discovery part. I could've made that more clear.

> And you can be very interoperable and maintain privacy - but your users will need to choose to enable that interopability. Facebook can "promote interopability" by linking my Instagram and Facebook, or forcing me to use Facebook on Oculus and that is interopability - but it's sort of by force and not in a way that is acting with my consent. On the other hand, my email I send with Protonmail is perfectly interoperable - I can email anyone and get email from anyone, import and export emails and use whatever client I want - as long as I choose to allow it to be by decrypting my emails.

You can be interoperable, but I see many scenarios where it's not straight forward. For instance, you lose control over the preservation of privacy when your ProtonMail user forwards an email to his Gmail friend with an entire conversation in it, even though on a technical level you're completely interoperable.
I wrote a custom Gumroad dashboard for myself. 2 things that have helped me:

1. de-emphasizing daily/weekly metrics. I find that a lot of my weekly / daily numbers are just noise, and ignoring them really helps keep me focused on what's actually important (usually writing something new that's going to help my customers). I think the number I pay most attention to is the yearly numbers.

2. Group sales by product. It's super helpful to see which product(s) people are buying the most.
Capital intensive manufacturing stays here longer, labor intensive leaves first as competition allows the goods to be much cheaper.
I know that some container ships are using sails once again to help with fuel costs.

It would be a neat triple play to have the sails be solar panels and the batteries, too.
Interesting. I am not sure if your comment Without a verifier make sense. Because AFAIK you need to verify the contract only once, when it is deployed. Not every time it is invoked. Verifying a contract should be super cheap compared to executing it, unless eBPF verification is somehow super expensive.
In a world where Intel already had licensed ARM and built it in the past:

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/accelerating-foundry-i...
Some contrarian ways to understand economics:

- Naval’s How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?lang=en

- Attempt for yourself to make $1 on the internet
Galois Theory Explained Simply (and Visually)
Galois Theory--one of the most elegant yet sophisticated mathematical theories--is explained in simple terms.
How Skinks Lost Their Legs and Evolved New Ones
Where in northern California? If you're not near the coast, you probably will never experience an earthquake. As the recent quake in Massachusetts shows, however, earthquakes can happen almost anywhere.

Also, fun fact, the chances of a 'Cascadia megaquake', or a full rip of the Cascadia subduction zone, is about 1 in 6 over the next 50 years. That will produce a 9.0 extending from the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of Cape Mendocino, CA to Canada. It's the same type of earthquake that destroyed Fukushima. You'll have to be pretty far inland to avoid the shaking from that.
Thanks for the feedback. The goal right now is not to store sensitive data in Config.ly - your read API keys will be on your clients - and so in theory anyone who can read that source code can fetch your keys.

> Who has access to each client's database? Is it audited? Is it encrypted at rest? I'm sure it is, but Config.ly would be wise to add this information to avoid fears.

This is great feedback, thank you.
Absolutely. But even not all harvesting is privacy invasive. As a search engine I can know that 3.054% of users search for sex toys. As long as they don’t know or harvest who is doing these searches, there’s no privacy violation.
> Well, this aged well! I'm glad to see this very reasonable take so far.

The article is from 2018... we got a glimpse with SARS/MERS and had sheer luck that these two didn't turn into 'rona-scale pandemic.
I definitely know people who were posting online about how they had 6 months supply of dry and canned goods socked away. A few days makes sense in any case; I actually lost power for 2-3 days this summer just because of a storm. But I could easily cover that with just what I normally have in the house.
We use Nexus and cache all of our packages, but it is one more system to maintain and update. Sure Nexus is a great asset, almost never gave us trouble.