skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree.

But I think the answer then is simply not paying for it, and not consuming it. Which is the interesting part to me. It's low quality, but people still want to read it for free.
The legend is also excessively confusing. Why not “10 least expensive states” and “10 most expensive,” rather than “Top 10 least expensive.”
> The problem with personal sites is that they're hard to discover.

I completely agree with you. Discovery still seems to be the hardest problem to solve.

I, as a blog owner, I decided that the best way to contribute solve this problem comes in two ways:

1) By linking more to external sites and talk about websites I like and push for more networking to take place rather than only linking internally to generate more traffic

2) I created https://theforest.link/ as a way to bring back some of the fun in the way we explore the web.

These two won’t obviously solve the problem altogether but I think if more people try their best to spread the word about content worth consuming we can solve the discovery issue without inventing a separate discovery platform.

Also, we should bring back blogrolls
I don't mind ads. I mind being tracked as I browse the web and this being called "advertising".

Static images as ads would work, wouldn't be blocked by ad blockers, and would be effective as ads.
I think it’s more expensive in Seattle because we have a lot of high quality food stores. Food in the us is too cheap, it should be more expensive everywhere
Hey Man, I guess you miss a lot of patience to learn and understand the basics. Webflow is one of the powerfull tool to build static sites and landing pages with super animations. Its super easy to use when you know what you have to do.

Coding them usually takes time and stress, Webflow does those jobs in hours. If you have any doubts please feel free to reach out to me.

Another FUn fact : Windows 11 clone took only 5 Hours for me.
Can someone provide context on what it means for Israel to be on this list?

I generally think of Israel as being defined by religion. It's in the "holy land", and it seems like almost every news article about Israel includes something about a religion.
In many ways yes. News competes for the same time and budget as entertainment. These are both activities that people spend their disposable time / income on. They are not Food, Shelter, etc. Nor will someone refuse to go to their kids ball game because they need to read the USA Today..

No news like a movie or a tv show is something to pass the time when you have nothing else to do.

Also keep in mind Trust in news is at a all time low, in part because the news themselves treat it as entertainment by sensationalizing everything, "if if bleeds it leads" and other High Drama "news"
> Whenever you have abstraction, you have lost what it means to be an engineer.

That's an interesting observation. I'd say engineering does have abstractions, but they're much better. For example, treating an RSJ as a simple uniform piece of material is an abstraction. In reality it is a crazily complex mesh of crystals. But the abstraction is simple and well studied, so it can be used reliably.

Programming abstractions are less reliable. Even commonly used ones like "the filesystem" and "the heap" are vastly more complex. It is almost impossible to remember all the possible hazards when you use them.
I wasn't trying to imply that there was no irony, just pointing out that the most obvious US Afghanistan campaign most wanted person assassination took place elsewhere. But with what you and others have pointed out it sounds like Osama Bin Laden isn't necessarily the only obvious example.
This article should perhaps be titled “Bitcoin as Hyperbole”
Reminder to all of my fellow Americans about the messiness of the wars of which we are part — these guys were our alternative to the Taliban:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...

What would you do if it was your son, or brother, or nephew? And, what would you do to those who bankrolled them?

We really gotta stop doing this.
Even with zero regulations, nuclear would still have a cost problem. Just the steam turbine part of a nuclear power plant is more expensive than renewables. Coal is uncompetitive for the same reason.
That's a good snarky comment, and it points to a problem that is real — but what would you like to see? Should the United States have a military presence in every country that has human rights problems, forcing the local government to treat women/minorities/dissidents the way we think they should? I'd like to know what your solution is.
Horrible.

Where is the outrage over Afghanistan? So much of our money was spent on this catastrophic failure while so many people in own country struggle with basic needs. I'm furious. Why is this colossal waste of money tolerated by the upper middle classes?
Just relative to the world that we live in now, I'm much less interested in traditional concepts of 'good and evil' and much more interested in fanaticism. While there are certainly genuinely evil human beings out there, in my (maybe totally naive, I dunno) view, they are generally not very effective- more like low-level street criminals. Psychopathy is a real thing, but I think most of them lack the foresight and patience to achieve real positions of power.

On the other hand, fanaticism where the fanatic believes they're good and their (political, racial/ethnic or religious) opponents are evil seems like approximately one billion times more of a problem in modern human society. These are the people who hold actual positions of power at every level, in every country
The bombing of Kosovo was to protect Albanians from ethnic cleansing. Also, Bosnians are not croats and had nothing to do with it and what happened during WW2. And the serbs did genocide to them anyway.

This victim mentality is toxic. How is this justified in any way? "We got mistreated during WW2, so we feel justified to do war crimes to completely other groups 50 years later...."
I want to support a lot of different journalists and publishers but giving 100 journalists $0.5/month each on patreon is impractical and cumbersome. Just like subscribing to a dozen high quality publications would run more per month than my car payment.
Keep in mind that revenue is higher for both schools and hospitals/healthcare, costs are just also dramatically higher.

Also, social work mostly sucks. It pays terribly, sure, but even without that it’s some of the most exhausting and potentially soul destroying work you can do.

I agree that alignments and incentives need to be adjusted, but I wouldn’t claim to know how.
No, but it's already a problem in the US. I would expect moving to a single payer system would make that particular type of issue worse.
You have to account for what you're doing with your time and how it benefits the company and demonstrate that you're making progress. Unless you're better at managing a complex set of lies than most human beings, you're probably not going to succeed at it.
Very happy to have contributed to this project. Of all the blog engines out there, it is by far my favorite.
I wish more people understood this. No, 35°C is not "too hot", 90% RH is not "too humid" and 10°C is not "too cold", your body is just not adapted to it yet like the locals.
>Do these costs reflect regional preferences at all?

Yes, they just used food spending data for the largest city in each state. No effort to standardize anything, as far as I can tell.
People often point out how the US is an outlier in religiosity as a western, wealthy nation, but I've always wondered how it would break down if you corrected for its diversity. For example, there are a lot of first and second generation Italian immigrants in the US, how does that population compare to Italy? There are a lot of Mexican immigrants, how does that population compare to Mexico? The older groups from protestant countries, how do they compare to Germany or the UK, and so on.
Apple's lawyers warn it could quit UK
I like this term Hyperobject. Although with the same thinking, many markets are hyperobjects and also some AIs, not to mention all other blockchains.
Branson Touches Space
Do not shutdown the global economy. Just maybe move to tools with less issues around process governance:

"The 7 Biggest Excel Mistakes of All Time"

https://www.teampay.co/insights/biggest-excel-mistakes-of-al...

"The financial fails and business risks of spreadsheets"

https://www.webexpenses.com/2020/10/financial-fails-business...

"Nightmare on spreadsheet: take Excel use seriously"

https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2020/o...

"Excel – The Dirty Secret"

https://tax.thomsonreuters.co.uk/blog/excel-the-dirty-secret...

"8 Challenges When Using Excel For Accounting"

https://www.senacea.co.uk/post/excel-for-accounting-challeng...
To me it's a similar dynamic to the treatment of open source developers. Journalism and open source software are (now) crucial products for the operation of a functioning society but the biggest consumers have no desire to pay for it.
Just changing my SSH port to 900 has reduced the amount of brute force by a fraction.
Eh? It is not a choice. The non-armed people of Afghanistan don't have a vote.

--s
Came in expecting these to be like an exotic kind of option.
It's a dead link now.
More red flags than a May Day parade in Pyongyang.
Everything Branson does is related to his ego. Unlike Musk though, his companies accomplish very little other than marketing.
I have to agree, and such a waste of Colbert’s talents, who could’ve made it great even with neutral coverage. For me it was still fun to watch… Obviously it would’ve been much better if their live feeds were working.
The Taliban could put down their arms and compete in the electoral process. They have not. That says something about their popularity.
My wife had a baby a while back. The hospital she went to did 50% of their business in delivery. Given 9 months of notice (the gestation period of humans), THOUSANDS of babies delivered every year, and professionals talking onthe phone - NO ONE could tell me how much it would cost to give birth.

It blew my mind - how can you NOT know?
Someone correct me if this is not true, but the current AIs using NNs are "static", in that the model is created offline using tonnes of data, and then at runtime it's simply doing pattern matching / prediction. There's no "plasticity" as seen in human-like intelligence. It seems to me that we need a slightly different approach that will change the NNs during runtime.
Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill
They do understand

Not in my experience, which may not generalize. Your experience and my experience together won't really give a complete picture.

What I experience is this: Even on small projects I've had people say, "okay, can you just add this one thing in the next day or two?" And they don't understand until I walk them through in detail how that one thing is nearly as complex as the initial project, so they have to choose how important it is, and if it's important do they want to wait to release the whole thing or do a release in stages.

Of course my experience is not necessarily going to represent the whole.

Also when outside consulting groups are involved, I often see predatory behavior: they often agree to do any change asked for and don't bother to explain the costs and time involved until a deadline is missed and the budget is running out. At which point they say "the changes you requested have pushed us over the deadline and the extra time is going to cost $X".
Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing
The Strange Log
It's an interesting question. Clearly the British didn't "invent time", but when the railways became widespread in the UK they needed to have "Railway Time"[0]. Before that each village had their own local time, and it was a mess when trains would arrive or depart minutes earlier or later than expected.

So "Railway Time" was invented in 1840 ... unified across the country, and it created a Time Zone.

Was Britain the first place this happened? I suspect it was.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
Never dared to ask: is Vonneguth a cyberpunk author?
USA Today is left-wing? I thought it was a free reading rag for traveling businessmen at the hotel breakfast buffet.
I think there is one more factor. Due to polarized state of our politics religion is used as “rally flag” or a way to show “family values”. On both sides.
We need to stop doing wars when there isn't a direct, imminent threat to the United States itself, full stop. No "threat to our national interests", no "threat to strategic allies in the region", none of it. We make the world worse and we make the United States worse, and we abandon any moral high ground we may still possess.
Water Risk Atlas
Who cares. You still watched them 'successfully go into space' in the livestream and you are here commenting about it.

It's not everyday a company risks money, lives and time into this and executes it safely.

That in itself is an engineering success, no matter whoever it is. I congratulate Virgin Galactic for this successful flight and will be also looking a Blue Origin's launch.
Dunno. The British have a Timelord, so they seem to take it pretty seriously. ;)
Muslim Bosnians and Albanians are not Croats and have nothing to do with whatever you are describing. Serbs find any way to justify their horrendous act, except come out clean and move on to have better relations with their neighbors.
I'm willing to pay but I'm not so happy about funding editorial and brand value over and above their fair share compared with reporting. I resent getting locked into a bundle that I have little control about and that despite funding it I will be sold as a product to advertisers (or messages brought to you by a strong but silent editorial hand).
The people of Afghanistan do not, to put it mildly, want anything in a unified sense. Their many civil wars illustrates that in a clear and bloody way.

The argument you may be looking for is that Afghanistan should be ruled by Afghans, without outside interference.

Most would agree, but there is no way from here to there without fighting it out, and whoever wins will rule very far from any western ideals.

Perhaps the more realistic scenario is that as the US leaves, Iran, Pakistan, and maybe Russia, China and India will keep fighting proxy wars there. As an American, I'm OK with that as long as we stay out.
I have been doing infosec consulting, appsec, penetration testing, threat modeling, risk asssesment, etc. for 15 years and that was my take on the article. It is a nice discussion piece but a little one sided. They kept erecting straw men that don’t really reflect the nuanced opinion of most of my peers. On Twitter and social media some luminaries are really prone to hot takes and it could be easy to assume that is reflective of the industry as a whole (and especially the authors opinion). Often it is neither.

One other vexing thing in this industry, is that it is very deep. You will often see folks with a deep background in say, reversing, come out with really strong opinions on some other topic such as phishing even though they are little more than observers to that aspect of infosec. Reversing doesn’t qualify you to be a CISO, etc. I just made my own straw man there, but it’s a truism in my opinion.

The core thrust of the article is reasonable though. Often we want an amazing solution or a big win when improving something even a little is a real improvement from a security perspective. A lot of little wins in an organization can really add up to changing its security culture, etc. I would ultimately agree the saying “perfect is the enemy of good” applies in the security world.
The VICE documentary This Is What Winning Looks like [0] was very illuminating for me, the situation there is a total clusterfuck and waste of resources.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
So it is 9% and not 5%. "Justifying Infringers" as they were called in your link.
Honestly, there is research out there that is a couple of years old that disproves the need for flushing. This is the first link I found. And the first of it's study that I know of. https://www.rxgreentechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/...

I'll see if I can locate the talk from Dr. Bruce Bugbee on flushing.
Yes telemetry and comms were really subpar. But that shouldn't shadow the pretty incredible technical feat.
Guessing they were referring to these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Afgha...
You repeat the canard that baseload demand requires baseload supply (from individual power plants with high capacity factor). This is nonsense -- the grid allows baseload supply to be synthesized from intermittent and dispatchable sources. The consumer doesn't care where the energy is coming from.

Even consumers that have their own baseload requirements and are not on the grid don't necessarily want baseload sources. An example is mines in Australia, which are installing batteries to work with solar and combustion turbines (for the latter, they allow the turbines to run at full load for a while, then turn off, which is more efficient than operating at partial load.)
Yea, I recommend muting the stream if you are interested in watching, otherwise it's 45 min of giving RB a rimjob.
30-40+ years ago they would flush it down the drain too. There are unscrupulous contractors out the wazoo, but today you will get your license yanked so fast.
Armed insurgents != elected officials.

Myanmar is a good example of this. Typically the people with the guns can seize power. This does not mean it is the will of the people.

I heard an NPR story that there is a large backlog of asylum requests from Afghani that worked with the US government. They see the writing on the wall.
"Cost never enters into medical decisions."

From a patient perspective or system perspective?

"Health care costs about 50/month if you have income."

That's what is billed. What do the systems actually cost on a per patient basis adjusted for population risks (like obesity)?
There are probably only a handful of people in the world using the term stonepunk, while steampunk is quite popular. Most of the obscure references here do not have broad adoption. In order for a genre to have influence it has to have cultural resonance
Enlightenment without Law is Dumb
This is pretty self indulgent. It really doesn’t take a genius to wrap their head around a distributed append only ledger. And anyone older than 25 or so remembers what speculative asset inflation is.

The big, looming crypto question remains: if this stuff is so revolutionary, why doesn’t someone go and do something revolutionary with it?
I think this was the idea of flattr. A little different, you set a fixed amount per month and this was splitt across the articles/media you consumed.
It was quite popular in the german podcasting scene, where you then "paid" per show you listened.
I wouldn't mind paying for a "day pass" to online news sites for a nominal price as long as I continue to have access to that day's content just as if I had paid for the print version.

That might be more manageable given the current reality of payment systems today than trying to charge on a per-article basis.
Not only red flags, but most likely it sounds like seriously illegal wage theft was occurring. What company?
Last week when I heard about the Kapersky password manager thing (single source of entropy was the current time [1]), I asked myself, why is everybody allowed to write software.

If you do a job like electrician or plumber, you have to learn and do tests in pretty much the whole world before you are allowed to work. Since I'm electrician myself, I know how stupid it can be sometimes to follow all the rules. But then if something happens, you are happy everything was installed in the right way.

[1] https://donjon.ledger.com/kaspersky-password-manager/
Hopefully they'll get the footage off the GoPro's SD cards, transmitting video is not easy.

Although I wonder if analog TV broadcast would've been easier.
Twitch has ads too which you can remove by subscribing for about $6 a month per channel.

YouTube has Premium for $12 a month which remove all ads from every channel. I think it’s worth it.
I never minded ads, until ads started being abusive. Malware, screen takeovers, redirects, etc.

If they'd fix the ad problem this could work. I'm surprised ad supported sites haven't demanded better.
Why do you say the US can't fund the war? What percentage of the government budget is spent in Afghanistan?
What a story of abuse. One of the arguments I've heard generally for small businesses being valuable is the flatter structure allows you to be closer to higher ups and thus higher ups can be more human and decent to worker bees because of the closer distance. Experience of course suggest it varies.
> In fact, most cryptography only works off of probability. Not only keys or RNG, but also on routine algorithms like finding a prime number.

Usually in cryptography problems when we assume that our assumptions hold (e.g. there's no better method than a semi sophisticated brute force), you get that probability down to a negligible number. And I recall learning that some key generating systems will even have a list of known cracked large primes, and check to make sure what it generates isn't in that list (in case the systems RNG is biased.)
I'm quoted in the article linked in the OP, and a couple other recent ones:

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-latest-trick-writing-computer...

https://cacm.acm.org/news/253785-will-ai-rewrite-coding/full...

I think my optimism for deep learning methods here comes not from their ability to generate code from scratch but as a way to guide a search process in the space of programs. By analogy, Go and chess are also domains where approximations won't do, but DNNs have had excellent success in finding better search strategies for the game tree. That's the kind of thing that I think might be successful here.
Great flight! Quite a milestone. Congratulations to the team
If you think critically about the role of religion, especially in the context of organizing a society around shared ideals, it isn't hard to see how this conclusion was reached.

Include the cult of the expert, scientism, technocracy or politics as an all encompassing belief system. I'd wager that you'll find that many of these non-religious regions are highly devout. Consider the tolerance or lack thereof in some of these examples.

https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portr...

https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinping-portraits-replace-cathol...

https://mosemaryandme.com/products/anthony-fauci-devotional-...

https://hyperallergic.com/554171/anthony-fauci/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Religious_features_of_Ju...

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961507953/without-their-messi...

>This fact seems to place the person committed to scientism in a cognitive predicament much like that of the religious believer, i.e., deeply committed to the eventual revelation of a mystery, a truth that from our current circumstances is in principle unknowable. For scientism, this truth is the belief that we will one day be able to offer an exhaustive inventory of reality in purely natural terms.

http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17390/1/%5E%20Final_Religion%2...
Or you pay but you still are bombarded by tracking.
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> 5. Scroll to the last file, and Shift+Click it.

With thousands of files, this won't be particularly fast or easy.
"We need to stop refactoring apps when there isn't a direct, imminent threat to users."

* years later *

"What do you mean 'technical debt'?"
College cybersecurity programs are utter trash. CS programs do not address security properly.
This is why we have problems.
Passing the CISSP is a way better guage of general security knowledge than any college cyber degree.