skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising is in some ways an equalizer. If you can pay then you get an audience. Doesn't matter if you're a popular brand or not. Doesn't matter if you know celebrities to hawk your stuff. Doesn't matter if you're famous or not. Doesn't matter if you have the right connections or not.
> The layperson should trust science. Because the alternative is some QAnon cult bullshit.

This is an extremely black and white view. I think the gros of human knowledge isn't even formalized in science.

Some of that knowledge might be bullshit or false assumptions and we might use science as the tool that it is to catch our mistakes.

But a proven mistake is to delegate thinking to authority when you become an adult.

The problem with bullshitters is that they are given air. No, Alex Jones isn't the downfall of western civilization if you let him preach. And please do not feed him, he will only get fatter. Yet, we have elevated to be the largest threats of online interaction.
So far as I understand it, "hacker groups," private or state-level, are generally identified by the tools they use. The same groups will re-use the tools and exploits they have over and over, including some known libraries. Security researchers capture the malware sent out from those groups and reverse engineer them. These allow groups of malware signatures to be created, which allows researchers to start to identify potential actors. It didn't take long for the security community to start blaming certain organizations for Stuxnet, despite there being little proof of their claims...
I did not mean to imply otherwise, just put them together as it came to mind. :) Most of these jobs probably do not need automation because their existence is based on bullshit to begin with.
The ^ is already taken in context of "C lambdas" though (hoping that if C ever gets lambdas it will simply adopt clang blocks instead of a C++ like syntax):

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BlockLanguageSpec.html
not hangouts? allo? duo?
If think ad targeting should be illegal, because if you know who is going to see your ad, you can easily manipulate them into signing up or buying the product by exploiting characteristics that person may have.
Do you think that apprenticeships in the UK have been successful in motivating training for shortage jobs with highly technical skills?

I don't think they have. I've seen reports which claim they are mostly used as a subsidy to training which was already taking place, as a workaround to pay workers less, and generally in low-skilled jobs.

Like the grandparent post, the UK model is guilty of assuming that the word "apprenticeship" together with a sort of folksy appeal to a golden era of apprentices will solve the hard problems of training and education.
> Most crops are grown with this thing called "rain"

Do you mean 'most of the volume' or 'most of the crop types'? In case of the first I wonder where that's based on? Perhaps you even have a source?

I assume you mean 'rain' in the most direct sense, as water that falls down directly on/near the plants (as opposed to draining from a basin of water that 'used to be rain', which perhaps is true for many H2O molecules).

And would you say we have enough farmland that can be irrigated by rain (with some degree of consistency also in face of climate change) to feed the every growing population?
> > Do not make changes to ongoing cohorts
> We really try to avoid doing so, but in some instances it is impossible.

You sold students something you can't implement.
Apologize and offer a full refund.
That sounds exactly like wallstreetbets.
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Regular solar panels are about 6x more efficient than the photosynthesis of all plants except sugar cane. LEDs reduce some of this headroom by not being 100% efficient, but if the system needs some heat anyways that isn't an issue.
Your points are valid if your priority is to reduce cost. Totally agree. That said, Lambda has an API and SDK, and concurrency is managed. Warm up is a nightmare if you don't develop specifically for Lambda, but scalability is easy. There are trade-offs, it sucks for many use cases, but I don't think you should just shrug it off.
The trick is to be paranoid. You literally sit down and think exclusively about what COULD go wrong.
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See also Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" book series -- esp the new one, "Attack Surface". It provides a rare combination of accurate technical details, fairly plausible scenarios, and approachability / suitability for a broad audience.
Return of the City-State
Maybe when they hacked it they accidentally left behind a todolist.txt of "First we hack Solarwinds, then we go after Moose and Squirrel..."
>Advertising is in some ways an equalizer. If you can pay then you get an audience.

You've contradicted yourself. Not everyone can pay. Obviously advertising heavily favors the wealthy - it is not an egalitarian system.

And it is a blight on our society even without considering that.
>You guys need to stop pretending that economics is 1. something really really hard that only the most brilliant economists can understand

Economics is about as hard as any other modern applied science. I.e. pretty damn hard, and practitioners are deserving of the same respect accorded to, for instance, social scientists and psychologists, who deal in similarly hard to capture domains.

>It was in large part of history even referred to as political economy for crying out loud.

And it stopped being referred to as "political economy" because of the fundamental upheaval the field of study went through in the early 20th century, which completely reshaped the practice of economics into something completely different from what it was in Adam Smith and Marx's times.

>For the wealthy. Most of the world is still used as cheap labour for the privilege of the West.

I happen to be from one of the countries whose people you would deprive of agency and deride as "cheap labor" and I would argue most of our issues stem from a market where the powerful have way too much opportunity to make sure that regulations that will benefit them and curtail competition are passed, not from the free market. In fact, making our market freer would only have positive effects.

A great contemporary example of how the free market can uplift poorer countries is Rwanda.

>If a majority of the involved "scientists" are surprised that a crash shows up, it strongly suggests that it's largely based on speculation and external motives rather than objective science.

Ecologists are right now scrambling to find explanations for a number of emerging phenomena. Does the fact that we do not have a complete and universally valid model of ecology mean that ecology is "largely based on speculation and external motives rather than objective science"?
+1

My uncle worked for a community organized ISP and you cannot imagine the amount of corruption. Basically a race to the bottom with slave laborer (ehm, volunteers) who don't even know how to provide proper service with trivial things like data caps, etc.

States like Maryland really need to pass right to assemble laws so that citizens can organize on commercial ISPs without fear of their internet being collectivized by a bunch of cultural marxists.
Exactly. Anyone who says they have nothing to hide, I ask them for their unlocked mobile.
If Tether goes does, and people try to exit to USD via Bitcoin, then the few exchanges that still trade Bitcoin for USD would be overwhelmed and would run out of liquidity, causing Bitcoin to drop as well.
Agreed, early stage start ups are experiments in business models: "is there a market for x, can I charge $y for it and accept z as payment". In edtech start ups most folks forget who the customer is e.g
Altschool, a software company that used students as Guinea pigs.
Never tried it out (it's on my never-getting-done list), but someone has built it: https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb
Debian Popularity Contest
China's Greater Bay Area Project
Natural Capital Accounting for Sustainable Macroeconomic Strategies - UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

.pdf download: https://seea.un.org/file/17999/download?token=gi33gfel

Also referenced in article: Building Forward: Investing in a resilient recovery - Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge

https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/building...
That page links to [0] which is a broken link, is it no longer available?

[0] https://write.privacytools.io/privacy-simplified/why-privacy...
Internet ads as we see them today are absolutely disastrous for people with ADHD.
When even people who don't have to deal with this disability are finding these ads way too distracting, it can't be hard to imagine just how bad it is for us invalids.

Taking away my ability to use an ad blocker - like what Google is trying to do - would be like removing all wheelchair ramps. It would have a massive negative impact on my quality of life, and would have far reaching consequences for my productivity levels.

Meta: Posted this earlier in response to a top level comment but figured it's better on its own.
Also defer runs even if your code panic which is great.
This exactly. I have deleted database records from a production DB thinking I am executing on my development DB. I've kept separate credentials and revoked dev machine access to prod environment ever since.
Leaded gasoline and the Internet are hardly comparable. But go ahead and make straw man arguments.
It depends who's paying. If the product seller pays then it's an advert. If the product buyer pays it's not. The difference in economic incentives is... stark.

Ad supported media has a similarly skewed structure. If I'm paying for media I better like it. If adverts pay for it, the key is lots of people spend lots of time looking at it.
> or before that

You forget Colin McRae Rally, surely?
Maybe something like blockchain technology, if(!) it manages to eliminate intermediaries in some industries and make the previously computing model obsolete for some kinds of computation and industries.
But the playing field is not level. You will compete for ad space against big corps that can easily spend millions on advertising and can do much better targeting than yourself.
You don't think there was some amount of "Hmm. The first time we tried to build a pyramid, it failed. Perhaps we can contemplate why it failed."?

Or do you think they just kept iterating without any reflection?

I don't know the literal answer here, but I think I'd consider the reflection between iterations to probably include a degree of philosophizing, even if it was before the western formalization of the scientific method.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/25/1205446109 (with video), https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/06... (with cartoons)
Well, I was reacting to:

> [fails to be stable] for more than a decade and a half

CentOS was stable for more than a decade and a half. Whether it continues to be stable or not, that remains to be seen, unless you're an oracle :)
Fair points. I think it's worth noting though that while bottom-up invention creates the horse-drawn plow, philosophy is what attempts to answer the question of its rationality, morality, etc.

I don't think the two have to be so divorced as you suggest. :-)
I somehow never considered you can just test the soil for nutritions, which is utterly stupid as I do just that with my freshwater aquarium.
I think your comparisons are terrible, they are either not the same product at all or exactly the same argument applies. Of course food banks should (and are in many places) be means tested, so as not to compete with grocery stores. You can't compare water with booze, there may be an argument of tab water competing unfairly with bottled water though.

In this case, 25 MBit/s is 25 Mbit/s there is no difference in service between a community ISP and a commercial/public company ISP except the price.
I don’t know, but they may be referring to studies that postulate environmental (as well as other) factors contributing to the general lowering of testosterone and fertility in men over the past few decades.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-testosterone-levels-dc...
Strong agree. Advertising should be outlawed entirely. Or rather, corporate propaganda should be outlawed. Psychologically manipulating people for profit is horrible, I cannot comprehend how it's become normalized. This is our brains on capitalism, I guess.
How could you not enjoy unpacking drivers with randomised stats from a lootbox?!
It's good. There will always be those that deceive to cause harm. Knowing the tools of deception helps you know when you're encountering one of those types. Now that you have the tools, it's up to you whether you, personally, want to use them for good or evil.
Been a while since there was an update to this project...
This seems to be quite similar to the other unikernel that was posted recently [1]. It would be useful to have an in-depth comparison of these (and other) unikernels, especially with regard to performance and compatibility.

I can see that HermiTux has the ability to select only the syscalls needed by the embedded program, and to transform syscalls to function calls, which seems quite interesting.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25405672
It really frustrates me these days when almost everything has to have a pro or anti identity. The extent to which the population has divided itself thanks to this excessive labelling is truly mind-boggling.

Is it really that difficult to discuss something without having to choose what fucking side you're on, or having it chosen for you based on a series of shallow value judgments?
Very much so. I think I was first introduced to Codemasters as they were the publishers of the Dizzy-franchise by the Oliver Twins.

Codemasters released a hell of a lot of cheap and cheerful games, on cassette, for the ZX Spectrum. (The Spectrum was by far the most popular machine at the time in the UK, and it had a presence in Spain, along with other countries.)

The Spectrum was what got me interested in computers, all the way back in 82:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html
If you have to use beefy lambda instances with multi-threaded workloads? I don't think lambda is the right tool for the job there. I'm not saying it has no value - but that's the opposite of playing to its strengths.
True enough, but this is about the meaninglessness of privilege. The author went to where the grass was provably greener. And it ended up being a valueless delusion. So now it is time for something different. This sounds more similar to current stories of desperation than different.
Seems like you want insurance. As with the hospital bill you'd generally be paying a bunch of extra money for your health insurance plan to not get stuck with the bill.

Not sure that exists for businesses, but I'd expect you'd need to go shopping separately if you want that.

Seems like a good business idea if it doesn't exist.
Methinks that Bellingcat gets a LOT of help from nation states, which is perfectly fine I might add.
I'd call it a success, when you distribute it only on your own website, it generates a lot of interest, but then your check-out process is broken:)
if you're a fan of incsearch, you may also be a fan of neovim's inccommand=nosplit as well.
With no external distractions (meetings, etc.), I have the ability to consistently do 6-8 hours of focused coding per day. Under a deadline or at a hackathon, I could hit 8-10, but that would lead to burnout and the last few sessions would be unproductive.

At work, this is never the case. Between meetings, running into frustrating build errors, etc. I've found that most days I do one deep work session of two hours. On good days, I get in another one for a total of 3.5-4 hours.

PS I made a website (trywinston.com) to track deep work hours. Would love to get feedback from the HN community on it.
You have a lot of answers, but to shed some more light on it, they're also a massive MSP software provider. I'm in a small city in Canada and we have a half dozen IT shops here that are shifting from traditional IT (walk-in, break-fix, running cable, selling hardware, whatever) to a Solarwinds powered business model. The thought process is scalability. What that works out to is millions and millions of endpoints all around the world with Solarwinds agents running on them.
Or purchasing business continuity insurance.
It reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE -- "GOTO 2017 • Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill"
Exactly. I always explain this but people tend to ignore and not see how error prone defer is. It is a shame that a kludge (ugly hack actually) like this receives so much praise.
Yet it doesn't baffle you that you can be a victim of a algorithmic mistake, and you can't even reach anyone that can help you?

This was an algorithmic mistake of a celebrity, what about the other algorithmic mistakes?
You’re just mistaken about how the system works. That’s why you think it’s worse than Facebook.

A Star or Galaxy can’t delete your planet. Not like Facebook can. You are a true “land owner” on urbit.

There’s a lot of people that got unpersoned by Facebook and others today and the damage is done. Government regulation doesn’t undo that damage.

Planets will likely not increase in price, nor do they want them to. If any money is to be made, it’s through the sale of Stars. But even then, they seem pretty consistently priced, not fluctuating much.

Fair enough point about the French Revolution. Did you get that take from reading Yarvin? :P

Personally, I am on the fence about true decentralization. I support projects for these networks, but I also have in my mind that anarchy may not be desirable at all. But we just need to see different ideas and different projects play out and explore, in my opinion.
>People knew how to build pyramids before the scientific revolution and before the academic elite people-with-wigs invented ways to deal with induction and laws of motion, falsifiability etc.

If you're suggesting that there was not quite a bit of science and math that went into building the egyptian pyramids, I think you're well off base.
While this is theoretically a good idea, in practice there's a lot of hard questions without good answers.

Where does a city begin? End?

Should we cover the suburbs with the geofence?

What about the beltways or highways that go through the city?

In big cities, GPS is spotty or completely unavailable, what do we do there?

What about city streets which pass under/over highways?

As I've pointed out in other replies, there isn't a good enough, when forcing cars to slow down significantly. Road conditions and surrounding traffic speeds make any unexpected slowdowns ripe for creating accidents.
Hokusai’s Great Wave, Sculpted in Lego Blocks by Jumpei Mitsui
Terribly true,and a great argument as to our need for philosophers in all eras. :-)
Back to normal. I can live without email for an hour...
0.1% of a year is 8h45m. Or did you mean 99.99% SLA?
I cannot share details for the obvious reason, but yes - there are SLAs signed into contract directly behind the scenes which result in automatic payouts of a condition isn't met and it's not a simple credit.

Enterprise level SLAs are crafted by lawyers in negotiations behind the scenes and are not the same as what you see on random public services. Our customers have them with us, and we have them with our vendors. Contract negotiations take months at the $$$$ level.
>Would we notice without modern medicine and rtPCR tests? I'm not convinced.

With all due respect, this statement tells me with near-certainty that you've never worked a patient-facing role in healthcare. The fact that you feel free to espouse your opinion on the subject directly related to patient-facing care should be a red flag to you.

I have worked in healthcare as a paramedic. My wife is a nurse. My mother is a nurse. My brother-in-law is an MD. The public-health policy makers usually have worked in patient-facing healthcare. My local public health director was one of the best and brightest physicians I've EVER met. He cut his teeth working on eradicating smallpox in his youth, and has remarkable depth in his knowledge of epidemiology. ...All of us agree that this definitely IS different than the status quo. It is NOT different from historical precedent though, and there are many people that are quite alert to these things. These same people would notice unusual clusters of patients suggesting a terrorist attack, chemical exposure, water contamination, etc. Just because it requires knowledge you do not have doesn't mean that experts wouldn't have identified this. Which, funny enough, is exactly what DID happen.
I did a few quick tests.

There are some issues with ranking and duplicates that I see. I typed "Neal Stephenson" and got lots of duplicates for his latest novels. Cleaning up the data might be necessary to fix this. It seems biased towards newer/recent titles.

The ranking is also a bit tricky. If you type "Orwell" you get top results about George Orwell, rather than the book that made him famous (1984). I suspect this will be an issue with many literature works that will have a lot of books talking about these books.

Spelling correction is kind of working but surfaces a lot of noise as well. E.g. Neal Stevenson just surfaces a lot of titles and authors with either Neal or Stevenson in them. But impressively it did find one Neal Stephenson title.

Building good search and ranking is hard. So, not bad for a 12 hour effort.
Or Project Plowshare

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
> This only works for casual untrained observers. A proper infosec analyst looking at this would first wonder why there is HTTP traffic related to .NET assemblies at all (this sounds weird). Then comparing two requests or so would likely show a suspicious pattern of all the hex changing randomly while the rest of the payload is cookie cutter the same.

A proper analyst working in a well-funded clean environment with carefully defined legitimate traffic patterns. That is not a majority of organizations and it would be very easy to miss something like this in the other 99% where they’re understaffed, dealing with the noise of routine malware, and what appears to be a poorly written vendor application doesn’t stand out as much when you have hundreds of them.
Vertical farming techniques make a lot of sense ... on Mars.

Maybe after one or two of these players go bankrupt, Elon Musk will acquihire the technology.
That's the one. Gets me breaking out in a solid minute of laughter imagining C code that thinks its "close to the metal" being compiled to that