skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, many of us work at those companies. At my job we have what I would guess is a "medium" sized build-out in AWS. I asked our AWS support rep for tools to measure carbon impact -- ideally Cloudwatch metrics for type and amount of power consumed by an AWS resource. He said he'd pass it along (this was a couple years ago).

When we do clean house (e.g., destroying unneeded services/environments) it's largely based on reducing cost and complexity -- but cost is still a very poor proxy for low carbon.

I really like your "show me wind power to spare" API also.
> I got tired of looking at that horrid beige idle computer on my desk one day, and tossed it all.

> I wish I kept it now though.

So it goes with a lot of electronics and other products (could be anything, even magazines). They start off at high value and dip to lower and lower values for us until they reach 0 value (or even negative value because of the space and weight they take up), but then when they become harder to find again they start gaining value again. Unfortunately we can’t just hoard everything either.
They should be called rhetoric clubs.
My eyesight is bad, and I use a 15" laptop with about 300 views open at a time. I feel no need for a bigger screen.

I keep one window on screen at any time, full screen. I use 2 sets of 16 virtual desktops, tmix, emacs and brave. Maybe 10 instances of each app, and of within each maybe ten tabs. So that's a total of about 300 windows. It gives me zero visibility problems. I much prefer using my hands to change whatn I'm looking at instead of my neck.
Before Sci-Hub, I had to find those among my friends with the right access credentials to the right publishers and ask them to get the articles on my behalf, often in batches to not make too much an annoyance of myself.

Needless to say Sci-Hub has been a massive improvement to my quality of life, insofar as satiating my intellectual curiosity is needed. And I'm not even a researcher.
Microsoft hired Kim Cameron at the tail end of the last decentralized digital identity craze and once built an OS feature (CardSpace) to support it. I really doubt anyone there is afraid of sovereign identity.
> Surely (obviously not) at this point in time there has to be some out-of-the-box browser-engine (webkit/blink/gecko) input sanitation for widgets like "input", "textarea", etc?

Client side sanitation of input fields won't save you in this case.

In fact it will never save you.

Here's a "non-technical" example of why it wouldn't help, without even having to go into the details of making manual HTTP requests: Even if you have a browser that tries to sanitize input fields so it doesn't send anything to the server that causes the server to do bad things, an attacker could just use a different browser, or a modified browser, to send whatever the hell they wanted anyways.

Client side input sanitation is not security. It's just for UX.
One of the many reasons I will never buy a Tesla. POS company.
Ruby has the same issue. But a "web server environment" scales pretty well "horizontally", meaning in ruby the solution/workaround is generally to run 4 separate web worker processes if you have 4 cores, so they won't be limited by the shared GIL. I am a rubyist and don't know much about python, but I'd assume python web server environments do the same?

Is this as good as a high-performance concurrency platform (like, say, the JVM has become)? Will it lead to absolutely optimal utilization of all cores? No. But the result is not simply "24 times slower", and all cores will be in use.

Performance numberes like "6x slower" are almost always contextual when it comes to the real world, it's not like every single program written in python takes 6x longer/6x as much CPU as the nearest-equivalent program in PHP, that's not how it works, it will depend on what the program is doing and how it's deployed.
My question is whether the location could be spoofed using a VPN or something like this...could it not?
I imagine Imgur now is many times bigger than we were. If I remember correctly around 2009/2010 our Amazon rep said Twitpic accounted for about 1% of data stored in S3 at that time and I think our cost was around $100k/month. We eventually got that down to $60k'ish when they gave us "special" pricing and later on we put bare-metal caching servers in front of it to store/serve hot images which further decreased it.

Disclaimer: Hopefully I'm remembering correctly, it's been a while!
> So if you work 2 jobs, you can't even dream about hiring/working with a single dev.

Why not? I currently work from home and have some money to risk for this startup that I am building?
> So, what's the plan? Reimplement every popular extension that doesn't have good performance?

Why not? If the extension is popular that suggests the functionality is something people want, and surely if you're working on the next version of something you'd be interested in things people want?

One hopes that they wouldn't unilaterally do this to things that are monetized, but otherwise it's hard not to see how it would be a win for everybody.
True art. Like your project! :-)

Love stuff like that. Thanks again for making me smile. I appreciate that.
You should read the rest of the article and realise the author actually agrees with you. The comment you are replying to is taking the quote out of context.
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I would try mapping the distance to some fixed range and still represent "no response" as infinity, e.g. you can use the sigmoid function:

nn_input = 2/(1+exp(-distance))-1

This also captures the fact that differences in small distances are more meaningful.
I don't want to be rich in a socialist county. Since I'm rich here I don't want it to be a socialist county.
We see a lot of situations where things sort of die or fade away when the author(s) just don't have time. This seems like the ideal situation where a highly capable team takes over and the author is happy to see it.
This is 99% of my Facebook use too.

I'd argue that the only meaningful benefit (to me at least) of Facebook is as a contact list and finder. I would delete my Facebook instantly if I felt fairly confident that I wouldn't lose out on any outreach from less-than-weekly acquaintances.
So Microsoft can never-ever integrate any feature implemented in any popular extension in VSCode, which is also mostly open source and free (in both meanings) I might add (except for some small things).

That's just silly.
I think these days the JetBrains IDEs are as good or better than GFA's was. And as far as language, Python or Ruby are fairly close in experience.

I fired up GFA on an ST a few years ago just to relive the experience, and it wasn't as good as I remembered :-)
Not necessarily is DID connected to publishing something on a blockchain. First: DID does not make any statements to the underlying infrastructure, this can be a completely decentralized public, permissionless blockchain but also public, permissoned ledger(also decentral but a little less) or the did Methods using a central server as referenced in the w3c mozilla response.
DID for example solves/enables some aspects of the 10 principles of SSI, e.g. portability
There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to start. These are people. If there is demand for housing for the homeless, you absolutely should do better than the rest of the country (especially when that country is the US, which has a terrible homelessness problem and a long history of shipping them around the country to look better for a while).
There's No Theoretical Limit to Human Lifespan, New Study Says
It's even better when the super-complicated QR code is the size of a printed page pasted on the side of a car or truck, gee I wonder how hard those would be to scan when I'm a passenger in a car dozens of feet away, and both me and the truck are moving around.
Do you have to air-guitar the keyboard?
>> A surprising number of Black Americans are Christians, too.
>Why's does that surprise you?

To add my POV, the phrase "A surprising number of..." doesn't always mean "I'm surprised". I use that phrase to highlight note worthy facts:

E.g. The Tacos are surprisingly tasty (note: Tacos are ALWAYS tasty to me)
(Edit: Strange - this reply was intended to be attached to the grandparent of this post. Not sure why it ended up here.)

XML, a data format explicitly designed for interchange where parsing untrusted input was a design goal of the language.. contains ‘external entities’, which permits the person crafting an XML doc to induce a vulnerable reader of the document to pull in arbitrary additional resources and treat the data from them as if they came from the document creator.

There are all sorts of confused deputy attacks you can perform via this kind of mechanism.

If XML can have that kind of issue, when it ostensibly contains no arbitrary execution instruction mechanism at all, how can you expect a sqllite database file, which can contain VIEW and TRIGGER definitions, to be safe?
> Have a look at its wading ability with your own eyes [..]

That's pretty reasonable. If it can do that repeatedly then I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. My concern was mostly that sensitive electronics and/or cooling systems might be screwed from water intake.

> But you probably way overestimate people who want to drive their truck into a lake (why?)

Sure only 5% or less will ever even really use it as a proper truck, rather than a parking lot tank. But I think people still buy trucks based on their perceived ability to perform such tasks.
Is there a place I can readup on the remote-anything architecture? I see there's a master and slave -- do all the slaves dial out to the master and all slave-to-slave communication go through the master (like a turn server), or is it doing something more clever? In that case the master must be configured to accept connections
Think its the opposite, appears its the first mile problem. Its cheaper to just load it onto a truck at the source and drive it across country rather than loading on a truck, drive it to the rail and reload it and then unload it back onto a truck and drive it the last mile.
For 70 years, our adversary has been the USA military-industrial complex.
Study:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.202097
Do not give notice to your current employer until you’ve passed all checks, signed all paperwork, and received your start date with the new employer.

Any employer that expects otherwise should be avoided at all costs. Admittedly, even this is not entirely full-proof, but it is the bare minimum.
It should have come back. If not, it's probably a bug, but good luck trying to report that to Netflix.
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks [pdf]
"Future users of large data banks must be protected from having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the internal representation). A prompting service which supplies such information is not a satisfactory solution.

Activities of users at terminals and most application programs should remain unaffected when the internal representation of data is changed and even when some aspects of the external representation are changed.

Changes in data representation will often be needed as a result of changes in query, update, and report traffic and natural growth in the types of stored information."
Could it not be kept outside the body?
Does the uniqueness criterion prevent it from being useful to people who wanr to create multiple, independent accounts as is being discussed in this thread?
> a final offer, containing the following clause: “This final confirming offer remains contingent on satisfactory receipt of a reference from your current manager as of this letter date.”

Why would someone sign something like this? or at least be aware that it's a risk
Non-violent/compassionate communication is also worth reading about if you are interested in a practicing a more emphatic, more productive style of communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
Like the artificial bee that Amazon patented.
a) highly competitive landscape
b) irreplaceable workers

pick one
when you're in the situation where you need a kidney replacement uncomfortable positions are the least of your worries.

Like you said: I'm amazed by the fact that were close to having a replacement. Not sure how many will be able to afford it but still. It's one step forward.
I was surprised (impressed?) auto manufacturers could just "leave out" chips and features and still have a working/functional vehicle. I always assumed it would be too complicated given how complicated some of these systems are.
All in on Malls
Back around 1999 I worked for a company and one of the jobs we had was to replace a financial data entry system which was written in BASIC and run on an aging mini comupter. Access to it was done via a terminal and it was a text based interface. The reason for replacing the system was part of the company's Y2K plan and in preperation for the Euro.

The company wanted everything to run under Windows so it had to be a native app with a GUI. When we deployed it there was a flood of compaints. Most of them were about the speed of data entry and the fact that the old keyboard shortcuts they were all used to had stopped working.

We tried to fix as many of the issues that we could but there was only so much that we could do. As it was a contract job we had to work with the UI the company wanted and as it was a contract job, once the bugs were fixed we couldn't make any other changes.
That's great thanks for answering; I'll give it a go.
We can easily notice fraud clicks but Google can't?
Leaving aside that it's very early days for this technology, kidneys aren't all that flexible, either. Kidney swelling or inflammation is as painful as it is (and it is very painful) because the kidney is enclosed in a protective capsule of tough connective tissue, which makes it unable to increase significantly in total volume. (This is also why kidney swelling is a medical emergency, especially when bilateral and regardless of cause: in addition to being painful, severe swelling occludes blood vessels and causes tissue-killing ischemia, which can result in partial or total loss of function.)

A kidney isn't all that different in length on the major axis from a smartphone, either, and in volume is larger besides. Speaking as someone with recurrent kidney trouble, if things do get bad enough and I can't get on the transplant list due to age or comorbidity, I'd rather take a chance on something like this than suffer the known drawbacks of periodic dialysis, especially the all but guaranteed progressive impairment of cognition.
Visual Perception Exercise: Modern Bedroom
Religión is considered by the common people to be true, by the wise to be false, and by the rulers to be useful. --Seneca
Yes. Unfortunately, not that many free countries are left on earth, where one can download and distribute scientific papers without getting into jail.
I mean, sure: that's what my original point was, it's not just nuking the carrier group. China knows the dynamic, the likely escalation route from that and it knows at the end of it, it lays in radioactive ruin. Nuking is just not an option; even a conventional attack (with much less guarantee of success) is already a pathway to full scale war, just not immediately nuclear.
I think you'll find if you spend time on universities today, they are essentially apolitical. And I strongly suspect that if you looked for articles written when you attended school, you'd find people complaining in various directions.

The difference is whether you are just going to class or getting your news through articles filtered through social media and link aggregators.
Have you tried rainbow-delimiters on a 42 kilo-line file? That's the benchmark in the OP.
I think that the problem is temporary because I tried many other NSA URLs and they all 404s

Also,the reference [1] is also the same URL as references 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21
There are also a lot of Facebook political pages that are run by paid trolls.
But this is also why simply switching to OS-native APIs and compiled languages wouldn't help much for the average case. A team that doesn't care about performance in Electron also wouldn't care about peformance in native applications, and performance isn't some magic pixie dust that automatically appears when chosing a different UI framework or programming language, it needs to be actively worked towards (some YMMV of course).
Yes, its astounding how much energy is used by industry. I was involved in a sad industrial energy debacle, at a job long ago.

We were making electric arc furnace controllers. An electric arc furnace is commonly used to recycle metal. Think of large pencil leads (size of your thigh) stuck through an insulated lid over a large vat of old bicycles, water softeners, bedframes etc - recycled metal. By creating an arc between the three phases of the electrodes and the pile of metal and controlling the current and length of the arc, considerable energy can be transferred to the metal as heat. Pretty efficient.

Out beta test site complained that they'd be running a shift and notice the arc was misbehaving every morning - failing to moderate the arc length properly. Resulting in most of the energy going into the electrodes and eroding them away. What was going on?

By having an engineer sit there on an overnight shift, we discovered that the desktop computer running the algorithm was going into 'power save' mode, stopping the app from responding to inputs and leaving the furnace electrodes stalled.

We estimated that this 30MW furnace wasted as much energy over the week, as 'power save' mode on PCs saved in all of America for a year.

Think about it. It would have been better if Microsoft had never invented Power Save mode. More electricity would have been saved that year.

That's how much industrial power matters, and how little your app matters.
Umm, isn’t this, like maybe, a good thing? If I want my very expensive iPhone found, I want it found whether it is on or off.

If people are worried about being tracked maybe they should carry around a device that is always broadcasting radio signals to third party towers.
>But it lacked almost all attributes of a real database system

Did it support ISAM files?

If BASIC had ISAM support from the beginning, maybe it would be as widely used as COBOL..
France will never stop, until it regulates the hell out of the internet.

Always the same story: screw one group of people (French customers here), to protect another group (local incompetent shops).

The outcome of such market distortions has been a nation losing its relative standing in the world since 1980s (following three golden decades).

It’s amazing how expensive these local shops are, how bad the products are, how bad (and rude) the customer service is, how much scam there is etc. Every time I shop in Paris, I wish there were alternatives.
The actual reports show that the tool was being used maliciously. People had no idea that their machine had a RAT installed, so of course AV vendors would take action.

http://remote-anything.com/McAfee_ThreatProfile_RemAdm-Remot...

http://remote-anything.com/Kaspersky_not-a-virus_RemoteAdmin...
import qrcode
with open(__file__) as f:
img = qrcode.make(f.read())
img.show()

Could be improved upon, but works as an example :)
Never quit until you have a signed contract.

I wouldn’t take it as though the previous manager gave them pause, however, people come and go and good managers manage that.

It’s far more likely that HR was disconnected from the people actually making the decision and did a piss poor job of being a responsible HR department. HR is never your friend though, HR is internal management consulting and you should never forget that when you are not the person who asked them to consult.
It's not the rent per se, it's the scale. FB/G outcompeted traditional media by having lower margins, compensated by scale. Alas, turns out healthy social systems are sustained through better information nutrition than mass-produced low cost soylent.
Perhaps the most important thing about debate is audience. Many people look at debate from a one-on-one perspective -- 'can I convince so-and-so to change', but much debate isn't about convincing your opponent, it's about convincing people listening or reading along. You're talking to them. Frankly, fundamental disagreement isn't likely to be resolved via debate. People change fundamental beliefs mostly by convincing themselves (and listening to others debate).
Content that is inauthentic and/or misrepresenting the origin / source is definitely troll material
That's what VSCode team did too -- moved the computational work from a plugin to core.
It's a shame that this gets forgotten so often. Most of the very high value extracting places pay a huge premium to recruit and retain the best people for anything that is remotely considered to be value-add.

Similarly overlooked: vertical integration is rarely (only) about costs but precisely about removing the conflicts and challenges inherent in outsourcing.
Yeah, I can't remember if it was RA or another tool, but some remote admin tools in the late 90s/early 2000s were too easy to install and ended up being used by phishers/scammers; so much so that in the wider context they were seen as hacking tools even though they had valid use cases.

I dont know what the solution is-- have some sort of registration / valid credit card check? (yes, I know that introduces friction and some people will just leave)
> 1) What is a "troll farm" and what is the criteria used for a distinction between a troll farm and merely some points of view one might disagree with? Maybe this is mentioned somewhere, but I don't see it clearly defined in the link.

> 3) Heck, where is the proof that these pages are even moderately operated by actual people and are not mostly bot-generated content?

Bot generated content would definitely qualify as a troll farm.
Don't worry, in America the neighborhood might successfully pitch in for your funeral after you stopped being able to afford insulin.
Open Source GraphHopper Routing Engine 4.0 Released
> If there's 400,000 new commercial driver's licenses every year then how many existing commercial driver's licenses expire / die / move to a different job / whatever?

I don't know how the licenses work in US but here in Finland a lot of people have truck drivers licenses and the permits to do it commercially (2 different things here) but do not actually work in trucking in the traditional sense.

For example got a friend who has those as he works construction as a crane operator. He needs the licenses/permits to be able to move his crane which is classified as a truck when driving on the roads to move it from site to site. Another one works in selling earth/dirt. He needs the licenses to drive his own truck to move stuff around the quarry (required as it is not fenced and gated off from public roads). Also loads his loader on the truck to move it between the sites he owns as needed.

Also a lot of people go into the field for a year or two and quit as it is hard work with long/bad hours and thus miss out on family life etc.
Neptune Odyssey a Concept for the Exploration of the Neptune–Triton System
You don't need to go to a remote area either; there is absolutely zero signal in large parts of the subway in my (European) city. I'd like to see the author enjoying his "better mobile networks" while traveling around there. So yes, offline first is still a very nice thing to have.
(In fact that's too cynical on Seneca's part. Religión is useful for, one imagines, the majority of it's member's, who gain among other things social connection and a safety net from it.)
Yeah, but then again, wouldn't the equivalent Atari have security issues and require reboots for updates, too? Provided anyone would provide those updates.
Sure, but that's hard to do in the face of bad actors (Elsevier etc) who have the law on their side. Making sure that sci-hub changes academic publishing before academic publishing changes sci-hub seems more achievable.