skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And conversely, I hope the attitude that security through obscurity is effective leaves the industry, because the people who are using it (and you're right it is common) are not as safe as they think.

It's a complacency problem. Changing the port of your SSH server to 900 may, in isolation be a fine thing to do, but when actually done in the real world it tends to be a substitute for keeping your SSH server up-to-date, or more realistically, even remembering you opened up the port to the world in the first place.

The concern isn't and hasn't been the IT professional patching zero-days, it's the IT professional who doesn't know what a zero-day is. Once you've worked with those people, after they've been referred to you by the FBI, you start to understand the harm Security Through Obscurity causes.
In real world, single payer systems cost beat American system consistently. None of my American economists friends able to cite another country which perform cost-wise worst than USA on a bet spanning a decade. The only saving grace for championing American system is having lots of mri and ct scanners in many hospitals across the nation.
It's anecdotes, generalizations, and informations from friends in healthcare. Which I'm guessing is similar to what your comment is based on (no sources).

I don't see how changing the healthcare system would implicitly change the torts. Medicare and Medicaid haven't changed that.

I also don't see how the single payer system would prevent over prescription or unnecessary treatment. These also occur under Medicare and Medicaid, as does substantial fraud.
what's with blanket dismissals and calling ppl names. 20% of candians are liars?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292524/

"Long wait times have become a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care system. In 2016, the Commonwealth Fund ranked Canada last among 11 countries surveyed on wait times for specialist care.1 Roughly one-fifth of Canadians report being negatively affected by wait times, citing experiences of stress, anxiety, pain, lost income, delays in diagnosis and treatment, duplications of tests, and deterioration in their conditions."
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You're missing the other case.

Free content is provided not for informational value but for propaganda purposes.

https://prospect.org/health/juul-taking-academic-corruption-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769978)

And paid-up services still include ads. (Which have higher advertiser value simply because the audience is known and sufficiently affluent to pay for content.)
I don't know much about this project at all and that will be illustrated well with my following question. What are we talking about as far as going into space? This craft resembles a passenger plane more than a rocket.
This looks like a good idea on the surface but there is one factor which is easy to forget but still very important. If you have a subscription with a news site instead of paying for articles individually you might not read articles you would have read otherwise. I often find myself enjoying articles much more than I would have anticipated just considering the title. If a per-article business model will become the norm the clickbait-problem will undoubtedly get worse. Deeper and less catchy articles will fade from media outlets which hurts the industry as a whole.

That's one of the benefits of streaming services in the music industry. Nowadays it's much easier to discover artists which deviate from the mainstream because you don't have to spend any extra money to discover a new artist. I think this is healthy for the music scene and I suspect the same is true for journalism.

Also if you have a subscription you are probably going to read more articles than if you would have to purchase every article individually even if it's less expensive to do so. People reading less is hardly a desireable goal.
Not your parent comment, but the U.S didn't enter WW2 until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, immediately after which Germany declared war on U.S. Right?
You can infer the same from the map provided by the link, right?

The map clearly shows that the most religious regions are precisely the most dysfunctional: Africa, Latin America and Southern Asia.

> doesn’t prove that faith causes such things as teenage pregnancy, crime, and drug abuse, but it’s provocative.

As a Latin American I suspect it is the other way around: a society that doesn't solve problems makes people despaired for any solution, even the ones that don't solve anything, like religion. Whe you can't get a remedy then at least you want a placebo.
Not sure what this comment is even about.
this is literally just a change of variable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_density_function#F...

every single probability/stats book covers it in the first chapter.
Proof that space travel is easier than Formula 1
US can delegate it to the regional powers or power brokers.
US needs to make its Asia pivot now, you cannot waste military resources in a desolate land and stretch your self.

Getting out of Afghanistan will make the big powers .. China, Russia et al. to pay attention now that Americans are no longer bogged down.

20 years is enough - I do not even know how many trillions are wasted. Do you know the GDP of Afghanistan, it is less than USD50 Billion.

Pay-off the warlords put some mercenaries in Kabul, ask Indians and Russians to fund opposition to Taliban because it is their strategic headache.

Give Turkey some security role because they seem to have good terms with Pakistan, so that Kabul is out of Taliban control or some kind of compromise.

Not putting troops is not isolationism.. you apply other levers of your power.
> For $9.99 I month I cant access to a library of thousands of hours of videos (netflix, prime, discovery+, etc) , thousands of hours of music (spofity, prime music, etc) , or thousands of hours of PC Games (Xbox Game Pass)

Do you think it'd be worth it if you had archival access to the paper? It'd be interesting to be able to read NYT from its inception in 1851, for example. I know there are some papers that have done digital archiving, but I wonder if a research pass would be a way to generate revenue, too...
Looking at the vast majority of rich people out there, this is at least kinda inspiring.

Don't underestimate the motivational pull of such shows on kids. I'd rather the best brains of the coming generation to concentrate on space and aeronautics than on pushing even more intrusive ads on the rest of us.
> instead, it was bulk purchases by hotels and other places with lobbies that fueled the business.

When I was a kid I actually would read the newspaper every morning, though mostly I was just looking at box scores. I do distinctly remember getting USA Today when we went on vacation.

If you’ll forgive my ramble, one other thing I remember now was my parents always complaining about the quality of the newspaper. We moved around a lot, and they really missed things like the New York Times, which I suppose was too expensive to get so far from New York. When I was a kid, I couldn’t understand why one news paper would be better than another, I think I thought it was the quality of the writing. But we’re my parents really complaining about the political slant of Midwestern papers? Did people care about that in the 90s? The lack of investigative journalism? I’ll have to ask them next time I call.
Read "Sapiens", by Yuval Harari. He extensively discusses that.
So you basically want a genocide and an Islamic state in Bosnia. Because that’s what you get if Federation “win” against Republika Srpska.
>False, they have been mostly alternating.

PP is left leaning. They haven't had a conservative or libertarian ideology in decades, perhaps never. So basically most of our democracy has been a parade of left leaning governments, especially the last 25 years.
So, just for some added context. religion fell of the map in Australia about 5-7 years ago when there was a Royal Commission called into Institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
For a few years there you'd hear some really shocking stuff on the radio about terrible events happening to kids at the hands of those in power in the churches.
The Australian 2011 census has recorded pretty high engagement with religion, and after that 2016 there was a 10% decrease in direct reporting of affiliation.
> If computer science wants to be engineering, I need to be capable of hiring an architect who makes plans that can be implemented by any supplier

You don’t though. This is just an artefact of the structure of your industry, being limited as it is by physical, geographic, and capital constraints. Software has none of those (capital used to be an issue but is no longer - this is perhaps why things are more flexible than 30yrs ago as you note).

You think you need these things because you see your role as an integrator - but software engineers already perform that function at a different level, via libraries and protocols.
If she has not put the name in the post it was most likely on purpose, however I would be interested what country this was.
I believe that’s true. There still aren’t enough to go around and won’t be for a very long time.

Excel is the closest we’ve come as an industry to building a tool that enables non-programmers to program. If it disappeared tomorrow, as some arrogant posters apparently wish it would, tremendous value would be destroyed. Not just in terms of existing workflows but in terms of new workflows that would not be done in R but instead would be done by hand or not at all.
Any explanation for what's going on with New Hampshire?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/04/16/...

Two trillion dollars. You can probably use your imagination to think of some better ways that money could have been spent instead of another lost war.

Fundamentally, the issue is competency. I guess I wouldn't be as furious if at least we had "won" and Afghanistan became a safe and prosperous democracy with some enshrined rights for people, but we didn't get that. We got absolutely nothing.

We flushed all that money down the toilet then walked away, and there will be no consequences of any kind for the people who are responsible.
I didn’t downvote, but I’m guessing others are doing so because this looks like self-promotion. You can mention a personal project on HN, but it’s best to do so only at the end of an otherwise interesting comment, so it’s clear you’re not just shilling.
The name is a giant red flag. If someone doesn't care about a giant name conflict of a very uncommon word with a very common project, then they just brush it off with rationalizations, it makes me wonder what other reasonable things they are willing to ignore.
> If today's flight reaches space successfully it will set a record: there will be 16 humans in space simultaneously for the first time ever.

I hope Moore's law applies to this!
Claas Relotious, went on for a decade. Der Spiegel, its editors, its fact checkers, and its readers ate it all right up for years and years.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-deep-pathology-a...

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...
1) still got two months salary!

2) they did you a favor firing you

3) silver lining: you probably got to learn a lot, both in rapid skill development, experimentation, and, more importantly, how NOT to do things.

4) You probably got important exposure to the machiavellian and narcissistic aspects of managers and executives. It is very difficult to learn these through testimony or second hand description, it is such a visceral thing to see the psychology of these individuals who have survived or thrived in society with these exploitative traits. And in larger companies you are generally shrouded from them to some degree by dev orgs and IT-focused managers that aren't quite as bad (but definitely can be).
No. The only thing I lost was my entire music library. All other purchases remained, from what I can tell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=352P0sLMnsw

Quick explanation of orbital vs suborbital spaceflight
FWIW, 2.85 in [1] is not obviously the same to me as linked statement. Not saying it isn't the same but seems like there's some steps there. I agree it seems like something I've seen before though.
> are we preventing instability or upheaval?

Part of the problem in geopolitics is that there's genuinely no way to ever know this sort of thing, without read/write access to a multiverse.

Is the Middle East more or less stable than three decades ago is hard to assess on its own, let alone "what would it have been with/without adding x".
They idea is to have fast international flights by allowing the plane to go in the orbit for a short while and come down again. So instead of spreading 10 hours in a flight you may cut it down to 3
India to make CoWIN available to all countries as 'digital public good'
Oh, you paid for it.

A major USA Today revenue model has been passive consumption through hotel distribution. To the tune of $82 million/year. (Total revenues are estimated at $3.4 billion for the privately-held company.[1])

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/08/02/how-us...

(This Forbes article is in fact linked in the Nielsen piece anchoring this thread.)

Edit: Hotel revenue contribution downgraded from "a principle" to "a major" w/ information from Owler.com.

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Notes:

1. https://www.owler.com/company/usatoday
The majority in the US opposed entering the war until Pearl Harbor, even though the administration of the time strongly wanted to.
Learning to use a password manager to improve your productivity is the "optimal" path, so I'd disagree with this. It is optimal if the time spent learning it is saved by using what you've learned, which is almost certainly the case over the span of even a moderate amount of time.

The irrational thing to do would be to refuse to learn about a password manager. Your argument works if you focus narrowly, but when you see a fuller picture, your argument falls apart.
One bit of binary thinking in cybersecurity that surprised me a lot is when DJB came out against the "principle of least privilege" (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf)

> I have become convinced that this “principle of least
> privilege” is fundamentally wrong. Minimizing privilege
> might reduce the damage done by some security holes but
> almost never fixes the holes. Minimizing privilege is not
> the same as minimizing the amount of trusted code, does not
> have the same benefits as minimizing the amount of trusted
> code, and does not move us any closer to a secure computer
> system

This is from almost 15 years ago, and it's possible I am misunderstanding him as I am far from a security expert, but I found it surprising. I wrote a bit about my surprise at the time: https://blog.reverberate.org/2007/11/djb-hating-on-principle...
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This is from an outsider’s view. No need to go to church, it helps, but it is not the main attribute of a Christian. In fact, these institutions have become so blatantly centers of salesmanship nowadays, that there is a greater probability of fakes and hypocrites attending today.
Myanmar? North Korea?

Hard to argue the people enjoy their ruling party.
Why not use them? There is nothing immoral about them.
I've never understood why most millionaires don't use the money to do interesting things at all
The conflict in what used to be Yugoslavia is not 30 something years old. It's about 14 centuries old. It is the clash of cultures between Christians and Islamist, with the later trying to impose their beliefs on the former.

I stayed over there for about one year just before the fighting would start. Yugoslavia was a beautiful country indeed.
When I had to sneak internet use, I had to get my videos from AnimeMusicVideos.org (and wait an hour for a 3 minute Realplayer file to download.) I never used chat rooms so the only other thing I could do was browse Geocities.

YouTube existing at all changes the calculus for parents and children these days, I feel.
Go is not C, so there is not an extreme fast way to merge slices
I've come full circle with Amcrest. I work in video surveillance, and over time Amcrest just continue to work. I think of them like the consumer priced Axis. As far as their app, ditch it - they are ONVIF compatible. I'm currently using mine with both a rebranded hikvision NVR and a home brewed NVR I'm coding myself, plus a few RaspberryPIs running VLC in different rooms.
Can someone explain why it's so technically challenging to get a good quality audio and video feed to / from a suborbital vehicle? Is it just a matter of a long physical distance between transmitter and receiver? How is it that I can stream HD quality audio from satellites (XM Radio) in near-realtime but near-realtime audio and video from spacecraft seems to be extremely low quality and high latency? Is it just a matter of transmitter power?
Yeah, I haven’t looked at the article, but I remember the Chinese did exactly that when trying to fight desertification that’s approaching Beijing. I think most of the trees are dead now.
The technical term is "hookers and blow" ;-)

Edit: I retract my counter -- Bender uber alles.
For decades I was pointing to nuclear as a way out of fossil fuels. But I always added "or renewables if they get cheap enough, which they could if their experience curves keep holding when scaled to global energy demand".

And eventually, the renewables did get cheaper. It would have been nice to have CO2 taxes decades ago for an earlier transition away from fossil fuels, but that's water under the bridge.

There's no need to stay loyal to nuclear just because one once supported it. It's a technology, not a girlfriend.
As a French person, I remember very clearly when war in Afghanistan and then Irak was decided almost 20years ago, and how obvious the outcome was for us even back then.

In 2003 I was 16, but we already knew how this was going to end up, and tried to warn our American friends, yet we were bullied with the whole « freedom fries » bullshit.

Since then, we saw events unroll exactly as we expected for basically 20years with no significant deviation from the idea we had of how things would go. Really frustrating and tragic situation.
At my home last year I installed 5kw at 1500 USD. In India. In addition to that I get 100 MBPS unlimited Internet at 10 USD per month. Not to mention my income is about ~1000 USD per month.
How to do that quickly though? It took decades to build that existing capacity.
I was trying to "imply" that religious countries tend to be poorer than non-religious countries according to the data (why that is, I am not sure myself but probably because religions limit your society and specially creativity in ways that are damaging to economical success) and if that's not the case for a particular country, that's just because there are stronger counfounding factors that can explain the disparity... is that what you were expecting me to say???
How is that HN material?
Then what's the point in this list?
Just because you don’t subscribe to the time doesn’t mean other people don’t and therefore shouldn’t get to talk about some of their incredible investigations, or discuss a crazy business story in the journal. You and your friends are not the only consumers in the world.
Micropayments have an absolutely unblemished three decade history of perfectly and precisely failing to work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia...
Another big one for me is speed. Almost all the popular wrangling libraries in R (tidyverse, data.table) use c++ under the hood and are lightning fast. Whereas excel can chug away for five minutes operating across a few tens or hundreds of thousands of rows; R can often do the same operations on a few millions or tens of millions of rows in a few seconds.
Specifically for VG, it might be trivial to add a little extra thrust--some external drop tanks or small SRB's for example--and hit that line just to match Bezos.
So does mine, but it is a Tesla, so I cannot use it.

I wish we could get Tesla to allow their cars to be used for energy storage, like the new Ford F150. I'm concerned they are worried about competing with their Powerwall business.
> Instead we'll just kill the extra children.

Hyperbolic much? I agree there might be better ways but everything mentioned only has incentives and seems like a much lighter version of the Chinese policy.
ActivityPub just pushes the discovery problem to the homeserver administrator, who must find -- via word of mouth -- other Fedi relays to federated with, or the homeserver is a silo.

No part of this discovery step is automated or aided by the software.

Personally I think it's a big oversight in the ActivityPub protocol.. but then again, ActivityPub is more oversights than it is features.
"The only other thing we know consistently correlates with dropping fertility rates, to the point that it contributes to us not knowing to what extent other policies works, is economic development."

Educational achievement of girls and women seem to be consistently correlated with dropping fertility rates as well. Of course, this is correlated with economic development as well.
bluetooth has always been pretty bad.
Yup, seems a pretty cool achievement.
It's much higher than that, we've spent over $530bn just on _interest_ on the debts the war required.
Less rules! you only have to obey physics and not the stewards.
In any capable administration, a strong degree of pragmatism is required. The difficulty level should not be used as an "excuse" but it should be strongly considered as part of planning. That way, a connection with reality is maintained.

History has taught us that when decisions are made largely based on ideological / moral concerns, that connection with reality is severed and the outcome tends to be, as one would expect, negative if not entirely catastrophic.

This was an important aspect of the world we live in 100 years ago, but it is even more so today, because system complexity and degree of non-linear effects has increased exponentially. Humans are not in any way able to change the system they live in, top-down, regardless of how many of them -still- indulge in this sort of magical thinking. Rather, they should strive to first understand the (localized) parts of the system that directly surround them, and then effect change from the bottom-up, in harmony with the rules and flows of that systemic environment.

In other words, realpolitik should be the order of the day.
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It took me longer than it should have to realize that it was satire.
Fear or loosing them all
I'm sure there's a diversity of opinion. But for many people if it's not on the streaming service(s) they decided to pay for, they will just pirate it. Especially HBO Max which has top tier content but don't exist in most locations.

>The US will pay billions more for the olympics than Malta but they both watch the same events.

I can't let this tangent go even if it's not either of our points... The Olympic coverage in the US is infamous worldwide for being absolutely terrible. And being a live event it's harder to pirate using magnet links.
It seems kind of presumptuous to think that God's conception of morality would bear any similarity with ours. Presumably God created what It considers to be the perfect world and therefore everything that happens in it is good according to God's own definition of goodness, including torturing babies (if and when it happens -- and when it doesn't happen, then it is good that it doesn't). Perhaps God never had any intention of telling any of Its creatures about the true nature of good and evil (what would be the point of that), so we're just completely off base, with no way of knowing besides the evidence that evil can't be what we think it is, because if it was, it wouldn't exist.