skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should mention that, while I said above I agree about trying to avoid vendor lock-in as much as possible, there is additional consideration when talking about government projects and especially classified projects. Even if your software and infrastruture setup is as vendor-agnostic as you can possibly be, you can only ever possibly migrate to another provider that actually has data centers certified to host classified data and connect to a classified network. Building that data center is at least as much of a bottleneck to a government agency trying to change cloud providers as the actual software migration is.
Lack of local competition.
Jeff Bezos hits wealth record of $211B on Pentagon move
The site is ~~wrong~~ somewhat correct about how big reddits homepage is.

~~It seems to not run any scripts when testing, so 1.5MB is the basic JS + CSS.~~

In reality, it's much, much worse. (On a desktop)

Even with an adblocker, reddit.com downloaded 18MB in the first 10 seconds. That would put that cost at over $1.

I stopped after that because it seemed to be just continuously downloading... something.

I know Reddit is quite media driven these days, but it seems to be unnecessary prefetching a lot

Edit: Looks like I was testing the desktop version,
see jefftk's reply.

However, it doesn't help reddit's case that much. After looking into what it's actually downloading in my "desktop" test, there are lots of huge PNG images (1000x1000 +) that seem to be displayed as tiny thumbnails.

And for an infinitely scrolling page, it prefetches all the images in the feed at full resolution.

If I turn off my adblocker, I get an autoplaying amazon ad (~5MB).

Additionally, it starts auto-playing a livestreams which is just below the fold.
YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos that violate its own policies
This is why I only use old.reddit.com. If they ever stop providing the old Reddit, I doubt I'll keep using it. Sure the old one isn't perfect, but I find the new one borderline unusable, even on a modern laptop.

There's a furniture chain here that has a website so terrible, I just gave up on trying to buy what I wanted from them. So much happening in JavaScript to make things happen on the page. I have to imagine it's also terribly written, since it freezes up the tab most of the time, and Firefox suggests killing the script.
Interesting to compare this with the story about Tencent using AI and a webcam to catch children computer playing games illegally (outside of allowed time).

At least one person argued that people have sufficient agency to monitor their own behaviour; it's intrusive and over-steps boundaries ... I'm not saying those responses are wrong, just that it makes an interesting comparison.
On the contrary, the loonies are the ones who refuse to watch the news because they believe it's controlled by evil Marxist puppetmasters, while believing anything Youtube, Twitter or Facebook tell them.

As bad as the news gets, it isn't going to tell you Bill Gates is putting mind-control chips into COVID vaccines, or that the Presidential election was stolen by a conspiracy of Chinese communists and Democratic party pedophile cultists, or that Jewish space lasers are responsible for forest fires. It may report on those beliefs and their effects elsewhere, but unlike the internet, won't assert them as fact, or let you form a comfortable bubble of alternate reality around yourself where those beliefs are only ever reinforced, but never questioned.
Yeah, I know they're available, I just don't think most people need/have them. (Modulo my edit that I might be extremely out of touch because I don't have any desire to.. I don't know, watch short clips of funny dances or whatever while out and about.)

The killer in Canada (at least, from the big two providers I checked above) seems to be that low-limit plans aren't available. They start at 30GB, and charge roughly double.
Especially reddit which has such a simple UI that no frameworks are needed.

If you drop support for MSIE 11 and only support modern browsers the modern javascript is surprisingly compact.

But then your CV looks stupid: no frameworks on the list. How would you ever get a job again?

How do you get any respect if you say "I just code javascript directly on the browser", sounds like you're too stupid to learn a framework.

You will only get respect from the very best developers but not all the copy/paste 'developers', no respect from the HR department nor mediocre managers.

It's an uphill battle.
Right, if you're doing web-tech stuff and have servers then this seems the right way to go. I'm usually more interested in local REPL development. I will have like GUIs and whatnot blow up on me. But I appreciate the info and the post
Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract with Microsoft
In the League scene the US (technically NA) region is at the bottom of the tier list.
It’s “racist” to talk about it, basically.
A critical numeracy of Benford’s Law [pdf]
not yet - though we would like to add support for Detox in the future.
I saw no spicy comment here, so let me add my:

> a time-sensitive facial recognition ... linked with big data from the central public security system ... "We will conduct a face screening for accounts registered with real names and that have played for a certain period of time at night" ... Facial recognition is a welcome sign

So here is the image in my head: A man, Mr Zhao, 35 years old, just finished showering, half naked, lying on his bed, playing a Tencent game before sleep. Then, all of a sudden, a pop up showed up, "To protect the flowers of our bright future, please verify you are you, Mr Zhao".

Now, think what Mr Zhao would do? Get all dressed up, lights on and fully prepared for the "Verification Interview" with the AI (and maybe a night shift worker at Tencent too)? Nah... Probably not.

Hahaha! Poor Mr Zhao, been forced to take a "bed photo", right?

Well, it's funny to think until you realized a 8 years old could also lying on his bed a play Tencent game on parents phone before sleep.

And what Tencent want to do? Capture optical data and possibly send it to multiple storage and processing sites over the Internet?

Yeah, great idea, way to go boy!

My final point: I use few Tencent products and I know a lots of smart engineers in Tencent. But been their user, I often just can't understand how can they design their product so wrong. This facial recognition powered "Child Predator" can be an example of that -- High tech? Yes; Very wrong? Yes.

Could Tencent please put their talents to good use instead of build something brain-dead like this one?
The design guidelines for iOS currently recommend using the autofill feature for authentication, which don't use the app based keychain.

Saying that, we still use the keychain to store a login token, and, also been under pressure to not do it the recommended way as it's slightly more convenient for users to store and then restore credentials without the additional authentication check autofill does, according to sales.
"Although depression is not well understood, there are some theories/interpretations of the data. One of which is the differences of mechanism behind 5-HT_1A and 5-HT_2A: SSRIs are (stronger) antagonists for 5-HT_1A which is theorised to increase "passive coping". Psychadelics are (stronger) antagonists for 5-HT_2A which is theorised to increase "active coping"."

Ketamine, a psychedelic which has proven to be a very effective treatment for depression, actually does not act on the serotonin pathway at all, but instead is an NMDA receptor antagonist.
Intel can hire all processor architecture veterans it wants. It makes no difference when the problem is not their microarchitecture.

The future of Intel is in the hands of research scientists and engineers who design technology nodes for their semiconductor foundries. They should hire everyone they can from TSMC and Samsung foundry business. Chinese have hired 100s of TSMC and Samsung engineers.

Intel has always been a foundry company. Intel was founded by chemists. If Intel can't compete with TSMC, it's better to split fabless and fab business into two companies as AMD did, and turn a new chapter.
220V are not large voltages. It's within capabilities of a properly taught highschooler to make sound circuits for mains.

It's when you get above 400V+, then the physics of electricity gets tricky.
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https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Target-San-Francisco-st...

Every Target in San Francisco now has reduced hours.

As of this weekend, the Target in the Stonestown Galleria's hours have been cut back to 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. because of an uptick in retail theft.

It's due to "a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents," said spokesperson Brian Harper-Tibaldo.

"For more than a month, we’ve been experiencing a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents at our San Francisco stores, similar to reports from other retailers in the area," said Harper-Tibaldo.
From all purposes from a third party driver writer persona, the only path forward are user space drivers.

What you call a kernel like that?
Yes it (new reddit) even brings my i5 to its knees... Way overbloated with javascript. Also in FF by the way. Perhaps Chrome is better but I won't use it.
Honestly, I don't know. Raytheon stood up a very simple cloud platform for the RROC to run on based on Open Stack, and still provides the AUE, which is just bare metal and VMs and no managed services. But it's hard to say if they're cheaper because the charging model is so different. Application providers need to order their equipment, but get someone else to install it and run it for them.
For Germany it says 0.07 USD prepaid for 1.39 MB which is 50 USD for 1 GB. Telekom offers 2 GB for 9.95 EUR prepaid which yields 0.0082 USD and is an order of magnitude lower than the quoted number. And this is literally the first offering I looked at, the second provider I looked at offers 12 GB for 15.99 EUR which brings the number down to 0.0022 EUR.

I would take those numbers with a large grain of salt at the very least.
What a sensible world we live on nowadays, that wasn't name calling in any sense.

From all purposes from a third party driver writer persona, the only path forward are user space drivers.

What you call a kernel like that?
From my understanding, there are varying reasons ranging from monopoly, to having a relatively small population spread across a large area.

There is one thing to note is that there are similar observations for other market segments like cars. People will pay up to 20% more for the same car in Canada vs. the US. I remember when I lived in Canada I saw multiple news segments with the gov't getting angry that Canadians were going to the US to buy new cars in order to save money. During one news segment, the Canadian car dealer being interviewed replied with "Canadians are just willing to pay more," when asked why cars are more expensive in Canada.
From all pratical purposes for a third party driver writer persona, the only path forward are user space drivers.

What you call a kernel like that?
It's possible to create GUI applications with under 10kb in size, if you link dynamically and use raw win32 api. Pretty sure that my personal wxwidget stuff was way under 100kb too back in the days. Never used GTK directly on linux, but again, 1MB is an indicator that you are either linking statically, or doing something wrong.
Actually i misread the example as using println instead of str because my brain had been primed by println in the headline!
This seems strange to me though. How does one collect on insurance without it being reported to the police? Are businesses and individuals just eating the cost or are adjusters just writing out checks without a police report?
Man... you have to be taking the p%$s for sure!?

And you mean "I can get a loan of X amount of money for X amount of collateral, yes."

What use is that to me!? Total horsesh*%t.

This whole thing is the biggest financial joke of our generation.
Chinese astronauts complete first space walk outside new Tiangong space station
I don't know exactly what design to pursue.

But Sleep Cycle is an alarm clock app that wakes you up at the point where you are most awake in your sleep cycle, at a given interval (say 6.45 - 7.15). It measures where you are in your sleep cycle by having you put your phone under your pillow and then use the accelerometer of the phone.

Do something similar for meditation and you will have a substantially different product.
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble
More disturbing than mobile prices in Canada is electricity prices in Africa IMO. I heard a while ago that people are actually trading sex for access to generator power.

This means on that continent at least unneeded JS in web pages is literally AIDS.
Agreed, I'm trying to figure out where this site is getting their pricing data.
> What a sensible world we live on nowadays

This is basically calling me silly, just as you were calling the previous person ideological and a pedant. If you cut out this commentary that would be great.
He focuses on shoplifting in San Francisco.

Over here on the other coast, I focus on littering in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, though related to the broad-daylight wide-open sales and use of heroin and crack combined by the police retreating from walking through the park to only standing behind barricades near the arch.

I posted a couple videos on it here: https://joshuaspodek.com/pride-destroyed-the-park-washington.... I've picked up litter every day since 2017, starting from an environmental motivation, but as a resident since the 90s with civic duty, safety and crime have become important.
Yes Jira is terrible, not just from a javascript point of view but usability as well. Unfortunately we have to manage our hours in it.
It was like that in Poland before Play joined the market, I remember watching TV and there were ads from established network simply attacking Play "In Orange you can have X, which is 15% better than our competitor <Play logo in background>"
Winning the DEF Con Quals CTF Writeups: Easy Pisy, Flagsifier, Geckome
Tivoised?
The article points out that businesses are eating the cost until they can't tolerate it any more, then they're leaving. The example cited was that of Walgreens closing 17 stores in San Francisco because of shoplifting related losses.
A more official source from the Israeli ministry of health:

> Notably, Israel’s SARS-CoV-2 testing policy was
different for unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals
during the study period. At 7 days after the second dose,
vaccinated individuals were exempt from the
SARS-CoV-2 testing required of individuals who either
had contact with a laboratory-confirmed case or returned
from travel abroad. This testing policy might have
resulted in a differential bias that would cause over-
estimation of vaccine effectiveness against asymp-
tomatic infection (ie, asymptomatic people who received
two doses were less likely to be tested than unvaccinated
asymptomatic people).

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00947-8
As an absolutely illegitimate scholar, but a former history major who's kept with Early Middle Ages papers nonetheless, the claim that Ireland by its lonesome saved civilization (not just the Western one !) is silly.

Its underlying postulate is that (Western) civilization was for all intents and purposes gone from the continent under the foot of the unwashed barbarian masses. That's an idea that was popularized by Gibbon and remained popular to this day in the English-speaking world, but it doesn't have much currency with serious historians of the Late Roman / Early Medieval world. If anything the Franks should get the credit for making Western Europe Nicean. There would be no Irish monks and missionaries in Gaul without it (which is what the whole book starts from). The Goths also had an active hand in keeping Roman institutions around.

Ireland happened to be a repository of expertise for proselytism when it was needed by the policies of Western monarchs.

What led to that, and the way Ireland became Christian without ever being part of the Roman world, that is to say while keeping their cultural institutions that went back as far as the Bronze Age in all likelihood, is the more fascinating aspect in my opinion.
Poorer countries (let's say those in the middle) quite often have newer network infrastructure, so prices are actually much better, even relative to income.

In Poland it's around 0.25$ per GB for mobile networks. So 1MB is 0.00025$ and a visit to reddit according to the above calculations would be 0.0003475$.

The prices in the US and Canada are ridiculous from that perspective.
Remote work via the internet will likely amplify the selection pressure too. Without being tied to a particular location due to your job, you can now shop around for an optimal location for your needs. If a bad state law is enacted, you might see people flock to another state.

It’d be nice to see some CoL data on the international level too.
I once read somewhere that it's been observed in many countries that when telecom markets go from 4 to 3, competition tanks.
How is this different than any other generic WebRTC calling app, like Jitsi etc and how is this special to or connected to Twitter?

Furthermore, you have another comment in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758256 ) which I can't reply to. Why? ( @dang ? )
The problem is that the study's design makes it impossible to measure the magnitude of the issue. Any recommendation system operating on the scale of YouTube's is going to have a non-zero error rate, and this study effectively just confirmed this known fact. The relative uselessness of the design makes me think this is more about ammo for advocacy efforts than genuine interest in studying this issue.

The question I'd be interested in is: how frequently does a typical YouTube viewer have actually harmful content recommended to them? Looks like it's pretty rare, if even the self-selected group that was interested in this effort and reported harmful content saw an average of (0.12 * 3300)/1600 = 0.2475 over the entire duration of the study. And that's a very generous upper bound, assuming that all of the people who didn't submit reports just forgot about the extension rather than failing to see any potentially harmful content.
No, it's because telcos cartels are illegal in Europe and there are actual consequences. European telcos are no saints at all but they occasionally get fined and things are a little better for a few years.

Just as an example, many tried to shorten the "month" to 28 days and they got a combined €228M fine in early 2020: https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2020/01/31/news/bollette_...

€228M for essentially a 7% hike in pricing.
I've gone the opposite direction (here in Canada). I'm on a plan that costs at most $13 (+HST) per month but can get cheaper. It gives me unlimited international text/multimedia messaging, 100 dialed minutes / unlimited incoming minutes per month and 250MB of data.

Pathetic? Sure. But just don't use mobile data unless you need it. 250MB is enough for data plan based messaging, Strava, Google Maps (with cached maps) and whatever information you need to look up. You don't really need to watch 1080p streaming video outside the house.

If anything this actually encourages healthy phone habits.

If you do need massive data, suck it up, pay the CAD $80/month for the big data package, then the incremental cost of visiting a given web site is zero.

Cheaper? Look it up. It's Public Mobile prepaid. $15/month minus $2 for autopay (which everyone uses), minus $1/month for every year you've been on to a maximum of 5, minus $1/month for every referred friend (or spouse!) that is currently using it. I think the wife and I together are running at $21 or $22 per month currently.

Yes, would be nice to have dirt cheap internet and mobile data, but we don't. So make the best of what we do have.
Rights presuppose justice. When I say that I have a right to something, it means that something is owed or due to me from others for some reason. Justice, like all of morality (see "natural law theory"), presupposes human nature. Human beings are rational animals with the freedom to choose according to (or against) what is rational. If we lacked, by nature, either rationality or free choice, it would not make any sense to speak of the exercise of justice and therefore of rights because if I can't understand, then I cannot be expected to choose according to the objectively good, and if I cannot choose freely then I cannot opt for the good.

What is good for human beings is objectively true as determined by human nature. It is objectively harmful, for example, to starve. It is objectively harmful to cut off one's right arm. It is also objectively harmful to take drugs that frustrate the exercise of reason because this is opposed to being the kind of thing you are, a human being. The same can be said for the misuse of the body and its faculties in various ways. They work against their healthy function and your well-being.

Now, by nature, as I already said, human beings are rational animals, that is, it is our nature to be rational. We are also social animals. Thus, our own flourishing as individual human beings is also social. A society in which justice isn't practiced is no good for the human beings that are a part of it. Justice means that we can make claims, at least under certain conditions. It is of course unjust to make claims upon others that are not warranted, so we must determine what exactly constitutes a just and legitimate claim. This presupposes rationality (you cannot have a claim to what is absurd or evil) and relational (some relations are voluntary, others are not, but the nature of the relationship will inform us of our obligations and claims) and conditioned by other factors (a criminal forfeits certain rights by virtue of having committed an injustice).

I will agree with you, though, that "fundamental rights" is unclear. If they mean something like what I've described, as something that is determined by human nature, then sure, they're fundamental in the sense that they have an objective ground in human nature. But if they are understood as somehow absolute in the sense that a criminal could go around murdering people and still maintain a claim to his own life, then no.
I'm always surprised how people in the US immediately lose their shit at the sight of a child locked in a car. Like yes it is dangerous but it does not automatically make the parent the most horrible person to ever exist.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a22724843/ki...
I can't imagine paying $10/GB for data, wow!

For reference, I'm paying about $23/month for unlimited everything in NL.
I'm pretty sure that's not even the cheapest plan you could get, I just haven't switched providers in a couple of years.
Which new age terms give you trouble?
Definitely at least some software emulation on x86. The manual for that system shows a board name "PEAK876VL2" in a picture - that's an x86 board - but LGA1156, so old!
> available in Edge and Chrome browsers

Edge having better support for new features than firefox.. Truly a brave new world
How hard is it really to just run QEMU?
That's a great book, one of my favorites.

The wealth redistribution post-WW2 had more to do with the war itself than inflation though.

So back to the 21st century: what makes you think that those who have excess capital don't invest wisely? Compare that to lack of any excess capital for the majority.
As skimming maybe, but you'd scroll slower and with a more consistent speed when reading a text.
> properly taught

Key words the author did not write. While electrocution might be the first thing to come to mind, the ongoing risk of house fire might be the risk that best guides the (mis)use of hardware certified to perform a task.