skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I desperately want in these is a mobile app that only works with local data and determines last contact using things like SMS, Signal, email, etc. I'm also on iOS, which seems to make that a non-starter :P
Ok, how is that relevant?
Coronaviruses collectively have been known for a long time, this was also true when the SARS outbreak occurred, is true during MERS.

Likewise influenza was well known before the 1917 pandemic, or H1N1.. and?
Why does living in the valley constitute whether or not you can be opinionated about tech? Maybe I'm ignorant to the fact, but is this a belief that people hold?
For a more accessible yet also very comprehensive book, see Petzold's Code: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/
> China has more people living in it than the US, the EU, the post-Soviet states, and Brazil —- combined.

Until the next famine, which is imminent. Even in good times, China does not produce nearly enough food for internal consumption. Add to that the numerous famines in 2020, plus underpaying farmers, and you get a perfect storm in 2021.

> it’s patently obvious that China will be calling the shots from here on out

No, the CCP is a parasite that relies on the rest of the world.

> thanks to everything that the Trump presidency did to internationalism

Trump is excellent when it comes to foreign policy that benefits the US. As an American, the last thing I care about is fickle "internationalism."
> Go after Apple next. They're the worst of the lot.

Really?

Facebook has contributed to ethnic cleansing in places where Facebook has such a dominant position that it is practically synonymous with the Internet. Facebook’s responses to this have been slow and lack oversight, with Facebook themselves saying they failed.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-facebook...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934

- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/07/facebook-...

How on earth can you arrive at the conclusion that Apple are the “worst of the lot” because they won’t let you run the software you want and they are getting involved in movie/tv production? Those are quite literally first world problems compared with the harm Facebook does.
What's the password manager password?
The other viewpoint is centimeters; I had thought that I made that clear.

You say the community is welcoming. centimeter says that they're using deliberate obscurity to keep people away. You aren't responsible for centimeter's views, and don't agree with them, but they clearly are a different view on what the community is like toward outsiders.

But I should have been more clear. "Reconcile" isn't the only possibility; the other is that (at least) one of you are wrong. And I'm leaning against "reconcile" as being possible...
If your use case is 1/10th the monthly cost of equivalent cloud resources you can have 5x the regions and still have budget for plane tickets and remote hands.
>If you VPN / Tor almost everything (except services that ban you from using a VPN), I don't know if they have much of a leg to stand on about that part

presumably they can also ban VPNs while they're at it, but it doesn't seem plausible. If your threat model is a tyrannical government willing to do anything (ie. ban encryption, backdoor every piece of computing equipment, install 1984 style telescreens everywhere), then there's no real way to defend it.
> maybe if you don’t like it you can create your own

But that's the point. You can't.

Imagine Wal-Mart sold fridges and forced you to buy every item you put into that fridge at Wal-Mart.

And maybe that Xbox you bought at Wal-Mart required you to buy (and pay for) your Xbox live pass through Wal-Mart.
Unless you need to peek two levels deep.
There's a science fiction book about someone whose boss is
"Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0 with passive-aggressive set to low".

But, yes. If everything you do goes in and out over a wire, replacing you is easier.

Span of control, the number of people directly supervised, has been increasing for decades. Thus the "flattened organization", with fewer middle managers.
TIL that “ancap” is some sort of slang for, apparently, “anarcho-capitalists”, here.
> "sure that the "have-nots" aren't devolving into anarchy since that causes global problems"

Yeah, because we've done a great job of stewarding middle-east so far.

Even with the best intentions, it's not clear this " statebuilding" is even remotely realistic
- Corrected stability issues experienced by a small number of users.
https://re-amp.ru/
Just curious, how do you like Changsha? Most people on hacker-news are from the tech industry, Changsha was more famous for its TV/media entertainment industry.
> The auto playlist is called "Your Likes"

This used to really irritate me. Microsoft called folders things like “my pictures”. The awkward personalisation seemed so gross (I used a Mac). However Spotify’s “Your likes” is even worse, it sounds more like big brother giving me temporary access. I’m not sure how I ended up fixating on this.
Yes I've seen that poem before.

According to google translate though, the tones on the parent example are identical. So context would be all they have to go by unless there is an aspect I'm missing as a non-speaker.

It's probably the case that reading is just harder for us to process than listening in general which is why jokes like http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm exist. We hold onto a lot of redundancy too in the English world.
Did the amount of money the poor invest in gambling change? Or are the gambling losses just being re-targeted to fund education, instead whatever they used to end up in previously.
Well you probably have no bed,
Your comment highlighted a point I consider valid, though likely not the one you intended; I’ve added a footnote about non-US countries, as many of them have no such reservations about wiretapping network traffic to catch financial criminals.
Yep. I also can’t create a Wal-Mart, or an AirBnB, or Netflix, or Disney. So what?

Why do I have to pay Microsoft to play via Xbox Live? Why can’t I set up my own online service to play games on their hardware?
Suppose the studies showing alcohol is bad were not suppressed? (Not even caring whether it is actually true or not.) Then what is the next step?
Are the "File 1" and "File 2" links in mail supposed to open something? I got to that point and I think that's how to find the bank account number but I'm not sure.
> PHP from a local script does math just fine

It depends on the definition of "just fine" really, not to be argumentative. I've written quite a few algorithms processing big numbers (e.g. numbers with digits in the megabytes) and PHP struggles, where other languages like GO are several times faster and often far more easy to parallelise whereas with PHP if I want to try and use the multiple cores my CPU has, I need to look into pthreads or worse, write worker scripts that I execute with backticks or curl, it's clunky for that use-case. I wouldn't even know where to start thinking about how to run my algorithms in the GPU with PHP.

I say this as primarily a PHP developer in my paid profession, and PHP is my go-to for any kind of web development or if I want to prototype an idea - it's a very expressive and intuitive language but there are always use-cases that any language is decidedly unsuited to, even if it's "technically" capable. I wouldn't build a website in native C, even though I know it's "technically" possible for example.
I don't agree with this externality justification. I could get a 100% renewable backed plan in Houston for 1/3 the rate I pay in San Jose.
And then what? Everyone has to keep KYC records of the counterparties that they transacted with? What if there's a country where such regulations don't apply? There goes your KYC chain.
Way past that. "Agile" (i.e. micromanagement) methodologies and tooling are already firmly seated which is basically this same special hell.

I guess we have a generation of technologists that didn't realize when to stop foaming at the mouth at efficiency over humanity or perhaps they were lead here with bags of money and deceit.

I love efficiency and optimisation too (with certain processes), but not at the cost of human happiness. Our current optimizations are ever growingly sacrificing basic happiness for efficiency which is not a tradeoff we should want or agree to.
How can you "create an App Store" for iOS devices?

I don't even think Apple's doing anything I don't like, and I gotta throw a flag on this pseudoargument.
Have you heard of Android?
How exactly are you measuring this decline?
"link" headers giving asset references with `rel="preload"` work pretty fine for this purpose, although it can kick start only after the first response comes in.

Browsers seem to do the right thing on encountering this and all the "preload" resources get fetched "in parallel" .. meaning the server doesn't wait for resource1 to finish before starting to stream resource2 and on the network panel they all seem to be coming in simultaneously .. each taking roughly the same time as when fetched from the server sequentially.

Header pattern -

link: </somewhere/something.png>; rel="preload"; as="image", </somewhere/something.js>; rel="preload"; as="script", ...

This saves considerable page load time if you maintain granular resources and simplifies build and deploy by permitting that granularity in the first place .. and the resources can be parsed+compiled on multiple cores (not sure which browser engines do that, but would be possible).

This mechanism seems effective enough in cases where HTTP/2 push could be beneficial. Thoughts by push advocates/critics?

edit: .. and this works well with the cache.
The chance for six ascending balls in a single drawing.

First definition. Let's count a sequence as ascending if the sorted set of drawn balls is ascending. E.g. 18,15,14,19,16 with a powerball of 17 would be counted as ascending.

I found that it was easiest to start with the odd one out and work from there. The powerball can be chosen in 20 ways. If the powerball is 1, then the sequence must start at 1 (1 combination). If it is 2, then the sequence can start with either 1 or 2 (2 combinations), 3 means 3 combinations, 4 means 4 combinations. For 5 and above, there are 5 combinations (the upper part of the range has no similar issue, since the normal balls go all the way to 50). We get a total of 85 combinations.

Now every combination of the 5 normal balls can be permuted in 5! ways, so we have 85 * 5! = 10200 ascending draws.

The total number of possible draws are 50 * 49 * 48 * 47 * 46 * 20 = 5085024000.

So the probability of an ascending draw is 10200 / 5085024000 ~= 2 in a million.
In this case, possibly nothing, since antitrust already exists. But I'm not qualified to decide. It is probably best to wait and see how this and the Apple/Epic case play out to see if changes are required.

I'm just a bit sick of the argument "It's OK if it is legal" when laws exist to serve us and can be changed. Discussion is the first step. My comment was a response to that.

Mandating right to repair and open platforms and formats (such as the circuit diagrams we used to get within our instruction manuals) would be one possibility.
I'd love to travel to China and check out their high speed rail system and everything they've built in general, but I'm afraid of their police state and being kept from coming back.
Funny how I got my interest in C/C++ because of the OS course I'm taking right now.

I just read your post regarding it. Do you recommend additional resources that can help get into writing your own OS in C/C++?

I'm not sure that I want to learn Rust, or do you have a motivating reason why I should learn Rust instead?

Thanks!
What I am saying is this is restriction to exchanges. If you never deal with exchanges no KYC restriction is applied to you.
About half of these work with HomePod, which for some reason understands music preference commands which Siri on other devices does not.
“Developers: My back hurts. My whole body aches
There are two big issues with just having residential consumers pay the spot market price.

1: not all if the costs are energy related. In fact, the cost to build and maintain the transmission and distribution systems is quite substantial. But that cost is for an average amount of energy over a number of years so it’s hard to turn that into a floating market value

2: There are socioeconomic factors that need to be resolved. Someone who works nights can’t avoid using power during high price times as it may be the only time to do chores. Or someone who works two jobs who can’t afford any fancy equipment to time shift use.
I work at a bank and the mountain of anti money laundering / KYC regulations we have to deal with is mind-boggling. I’m not surprised that such a law is coming especially since in my view, the decentralized nature of crypto makes money laundering even easier.

Even if you kept a blacklist of wallets with dirty money, I think it would be possible to spin up a chain of brand new wallets and quickly funnel coins through them before the blacklist could keep up in a way that would be impossible with fiat transactions and traditional banks. I could be wrong though, maybe someone’s got an algo for that.

Opinions my own.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Cross-Compiling QT Framework for Raspberry Pi
So to put it bluntly, if I'm that ignorant of this fact, how ignorant do you think others are of it as well? Including politicians.
Traceability through VPN / Tor is a different thing than being charged more for using a VPN, and I was more referencing the USA vs any generic country.
It’s not impossible (more like highly likely) for that trust to go the same way of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust. Administrative burden and corruption. Mismanagement. Exponential growth can’t go on forever.

It’s interesting that UAE is doing the same thing that Nauru did except on a larger scale with petrochemicals instead of phosphate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Phosphate_Royalties_Trus...
Its absence almost ensures the death of open forums anywhere on the internet. Nobody is going to take the legal risk of being held responsible for what some rando on the other side of the planet said.

On the other hand, it would lead to the proliferation of distributed, decentralized systems where there's not a good way to demonstrate culpability for a suit, so maybe burning down Facebook is a nice side effect of a kind of decentralization that would be more healthy in the long run anyways.
How much have you benchmarked this? If you have a cache-friendly HTML page, any modern browser will load individual resources almost as quickly — and this way you avoid the concern about clogging the pipe with pushed content which is already cached.

I get the appeal, having spent plenty of years fighting old browsers back in the day but we're in a much better place now with cheap CDNs and HTTP/2. I've yet to see a project where this time wouldn't be better spent on, for example, using less JavaScript or tuning image/font usage.
Ask HN: Give me your search engine recommendations
I've looked into Searx, Duckduckgo, and Google. I've used Google for a long time, it's fine. Duckduckgo has given me ok results but I think I've been using it wrong (haven't been using bangs). Haven't used Searx enough to comment. So, give me what you got if you have the time ;)
You say you don't collect transaction fees, but that you make a small amount of money off the spread. I'm confused, whats the difference between these two?
>I think it would be possible to spin up a chain of brand new wallets and quickly funnel coins through them before the blacklist could keep up in a way that would be impossible with fiat transactions and traditional banks

Can't you spin up a chain of brand new offshore accounts/shell companies in a friendly jurisdiction and quickly funnel money through them before the blacklist could keep up?
Not related to the carcinogenic effect or to Americans but to the “life ruining” effect and the general association of alcohol as a bad thing: in India, the movies allowed for public screening are required by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC, also known commonly as the Censor Board), in scenes showing the smoking of cigarettes or the consumption of alcohol, a ticker with messages that they’re dangerous to health. This is shown in the language of the movie (India has 22 official languages). Cable broadcasts and streaming service providers sometimes include this message ticker or blur the bottle or glass in such scenes (or remove them outright).

Socially, women and children bear the brunt of alcoholism by the men in the house. So there have been long time protests favoring prohibition in many states. Some states have also officially prohibited alcohol (resulting in smuggling and also the preparation of bootleg liquor that tends to kill people often) while some other states have state run liquor shops. The governments do earn a lot of money from tax revenues, and wouldn’t want to completely give up alcohol.
This has been upgraded to quantum mechanics.
> I'm sure corporate farms treat cows as well as they treat their people.

They eat their employees upon retirement from milking too?
"goobledegook = e + 5.6. Wow you didn't know about goobledegook? Let me teach you about this revolutionary concept."

I majored in mathematics and can say I've never heard of versine and have probably used it many times without knowing. I don't think everything needs a name.
I speculated that the US is likely to take very adverse actions against Bitcoin very soon. In the regime of waning manufacturing and trade deficits, US dollars will become increasingly the chief export of the American economy. Anything that is viewed by the policymakers a threat to this main export good, including Bitcoin, will be suppressed.
> and they are absolutely in every way possible better off than a bison wondering the Serengeti

Why is that, though? I would reckon that most animals on the Serengeti (not Bison, mind you) live out their average lifespan. Sure, some percentage of them are eaten or die to drought, but there is a reason that their average lifespan is 15--20 years, or whatever it happens to be. Compare that with the 5--6 year average lifespan of a factory farmed animal. It is hard to give you a more detailed argument without understanding the real reasons behind your value judgement.
Good points indeed, albeit a tad hard language for this forum. Definitely upvoting this
Also other practical consequences of solar and wind: what about land usage? How much land do we need to power our huge appetite for energy? What impact does that have on the environment? Mining for rare Earth minerals? How do we recycle these systems at the end of life?

People keep talking about the cost of renewables, but in fact, money is the one renewable resource that we do have.

All of the above are majorly important questions. Maybe renewables aren't so renewable after all.
Can you be more specific? It's really hard to find information on this and I'm 90% sure I'm ok but I can't see what they're seeing.
I don't think there is a way for the industry to self regulate censorship (for lack of a better word) on a broad scale.

They can do like MPAA and refuse to rate certain content, but that's only if the number of producer is small versus the general population, and everyone is forced to go through the same pipeline to reach wide distribution.

However with Facebook, the number of producers is more than 2 billion people; and mires them in laws and customs of every country in the world. They can't self-regulate because they are trying to control a number of people many orders of magnitude greater than their own internal manpower. Governments can only control so many people at once because:

(a) they are unbound by privacy requirements, and know your real name, history, and physical location

(b) they can dictate punishments at will until you comply; ranging from fines to jail time to gag orders to physical penalties like whipping

So now the ball is right back where it should be: in the hands of government.

Are the Proud Boys a white-nationalist terrorist group or merely an ethnocentric all-boys political action club? That's something the U.S. government should decide on its own, the U.K. government should decide on its own, and so on.

Facebook is in no position to figure out if people opining about election fraud are conspiracy theorists, foreign agents, or dangerously close to sedition. That kind of deep investigative work is the role of government.
There are a lot of creative implementations of demand response and time of use rates, but the price curve is crazy (see slide 7 [1]). To achieve a 10% reduction in electricity usage in the evening, you have to give people a 80-90% discount on their electricity at other times. BUT, "smart" water heaters, thermostats, etc. improve these numbers dramatically.

Designing these programs/prices/policies is a huge industry, and I happen to know a good bit about it because we work on helping utilities design these programs at Kevala (shameless plug: we are hiring [2])

[1] http://files.brattle.com/files/7390_price-enabled_demand_res...
[2] https://kevalaanalytics.com/positions/
> especially since in my view, the decentralized nature of crypto makes money laundering even easier.

This barely qualifies as an opinion. It's a simple fact.
It's important to have assets. If the family business is an asset with opportunity to grow in value, by all means the next generation should be overjoyed that someone built something which they now have an opportunity to take over and continue building. Not all family businesses are like this though, as people in general are weak and wretched; family business owners can easily ruin themselves and their descendents by going into debt, or embezzling money away from the business to fuel personal vices which invite poverty and instability.

As with many things in life, the make-or-break factor ultimately falls upon how well the parents have matured as human beings, and the quality of the upbringing they've given to their descendents. So I would say it is impossible to make a rigid, universal determination one way or the other. All I know is I would do anything if my parents or their parents asked. Anything.
> I think if we had variable pricing that matched the availability of renewables, consumers would shift quickly.

If you dig around enough, you'll find plenty of stories of variable electricity costs. From what I understand, it's more common for business customers instead of residential. (Apparently chillers that freeze water overnight with cheap electricity to run daytime air conditioning is a thing.)

But anyway, I have a fancy powerwall and solar, but I only use it for backup. Why? There's no incentive to use the battery. It's 95% efficient, so if I use the battery at night, I get less net metering credits than if I just use it as backup.
Agree, except for I think natural gas for homes (cooling and heating) should be phased out sooner. Letting gas companies build new pipe infrastructure to new homes in warmer climates where induction cooking and heat pumps will do the job just fine is crazy. They are an easy, painless way to reduce carbon emissions and much cheaper for society now. Also likely cheaper for the home owner of the future as gas prices get more expensive.
Ah. So it's not "you can create an alternative app store for the devices that customers and not Apple owns", but you can create an entire new hardware stack on which to run applications, and then put an app store on that.

Compelling.
Yeah the plot isn't that sophisticated, it's just an exploration of hypothetical bad and good outcomes.
This comment is an ideal example of this discussion:

> Ask HN: Why does HN hate humor?

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278680
> Pretty sure that there are some analog io pins in the caravel harness.

Check again, no analog inputs. No RF pads either.