skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU migrant problem is, from my perspective as an EU citizen, the real elephant in the room that everyone talks about but still doesn't quite appreciate the depth of.

We have a union that claims to be be committed to human rights such as the right to seek asylum. That union recently experienced serious political unrest after receiving a bit over a million migrants around 2015 and clearly the political leadership decided that could not happen again. So the problem was offshored to Turkey, and to some extent Greece, and I'm sure to some North African nations in deals I'm not aware of.

This is going to be horrific, frankly. Whatever you think of the ethics of the whole business, it's pretty clear that politically, EU leadership is not willing to face another migrant crisis. Unfortunately, the EU also doesn't seem able to do a whole lot about the root causes of the crisis, namely political instability and war south of the EU borders. So what that leaves is the EU turning a blind eye to the problem, trying to get the authoritarian states on our borders to deal with the problem in a deniable fashion instead.

It's not going to work in the long run. People move across borders when they need to. Where it's all going, I don't know, but it's going to be a big, big problem for the EU if the conflicts in the Middle East and Africa can not be stabilized.
And for the save/load functionality? I'll check the free version out but that seems like a big hurdle of the free version
Umm, this is what is such a gimmick about these "free" services.

I run a video website on AWS, no one cares what I am doing, they charge me and done. I distribute software updates, no one complains, they charge me and done.

I run a video website on cloudflare, they say, oh, you are not running a website, you are distributing content, that's against the rules. Similarly if I host my software, my software updates, my management layer with firmware update service etc. Heads ups, when I visit these sites, for most normal people I am visiting a website.

Do folks not realize when they keep on repeating that egress is "free" on cloudflare that is a total lie? Hello, it's not free. You will get a call and they will squeeze you.

The streaming product is useful finally because we have at least a rough idea of price. Youtube avg video is 700MB/hr or so (mobile video is huge these days). That get's us to about 9 cents per GB.

Interestingly, this was I think the egress pricing they had for workers back when they were public about it.

AWS is 5 to 9 cents as well depending on usage so same range.

AWS Cloudfront is 2 cents to 9 cents depending on usage.

OK, so we are within the normal range of things now with egress pricing.

In my own experience with this type of player, you still get the call if you optimize for their pricing (ie, you run your 4K content through them, and your other content via another platform) because despite their claims bandwidth is "free" they are actually losing money on it, and if you use enough of this "free" stuff their marketing budget can't handle it and they just shut you down.

It's just not worth dealing with.

You'll know Cloudflare has a competitive CDN offering when they are willing to give you the pricing publicly of providing a CDN service that can handle any type of content. That is the proof point.

Cloudflare does have Argo which I think runs in that 5 to 9 cent range again per GB.

Back to the claim that AWS has hidden pricing (especially relative to cloudflare). I still find that ridiculous. Cloudlfare seems to be a heavily marketing based org with very hidden pricing (everything is call for a quote). Does anyone know what % of expense cloudflare has in marketing / selling? I'd imagine pretty damn high.
I always wonder if the Republicans nominated him in 1996 because they thought he could win or just as honorary thing given they probably couldn’t win with anyone.

It felt like one of the most lopsided elections of my lifetime (I was too young to pay attention to politics when Dukakis ran.)
Thanks KittenInABox.

Politicians absolutely do get credit when they improve actual systems and improve people's lives. People like it, and will vote those politicians back into office. But it has to be actual, felt, day-by-day changes in their lives (such as fixed roads, the USPS offering free check cashing, or even a friggin relief check in the mail with the president's signature on it). The current infrastructure bill(s) promise that real support, but they didn't fund it enough imo and it's far from clear that they'll be able to use the money they did get to make meaningful changes in people's daily lives.
War and Peace by Vladimir Putin
Many times (not departed as in departed, just - not there any more).

Could of hard-won experiences:

- under no ciscumstances should you do the rewrite until you understand the whole domain, which is not until you know the codebase inside-out. And even then it's probably a very bad idea ("Yes but the old version allowed us to do X...").

- start with business requirements: make sure you understand what people expect from the system, how they use it, what it does at high level. Sit with users and watch them use the app!

- tests: do not touch the code until you understand the existing tests or, if tests do not exist, until you have covered the code with your own, preferably integration or end-to-end tests (unit tests are great, but they don't guard you against integration failures, which is what you want to be protected against here too)

- skim the documentation if it exists, but don't put too much faith in it as it is probably out of date. Same for comments.

- slowly start fixing bugs, cleaning up some code... whatever you do, make sure it is covered with tests.

- good luck. :)
> a role that'd be taken by governments or other organisations

It sounds like it would be in governments best interest to control this, so they can inject their own fake identities, much like they do with spies now.

Also, how does one revoke ones identity if one loses control of it. I mean, identity theft is common currently?
All the standard reasons that cryptocurrency fans dismiss as having heard over and over, but I have yet to hear good responses to.

* Proof of Work is unethically wasteful. Proof of Stake is unethically oligarchical.

* Far too wild of price swings to be used as a currency.

* Inventory tracking with blockchain has the same problem as any other inventory tracking system, that it relies on humans putting in truthful information.

* Smart contracts assume that the hard part of a contract is the enforcement, not the meeting of the minds. Having a human as part of the conflict resolution (i.e. the legal system) is necessary.

* Irreversible transactions are a bug, not a feature, and are what drove the rise of ransomware.

* Negative impact on the GPU market for actually productive uses.

Cryptocurrencies are fantastic for money laundering and paying for illegal services, but I don't think those are exactly good reasons to keep them around.
Isn't this the crux of the matter?

If you pass through hundreds of miles of safe land to get to a 4th or 5th country, don't you think that should automatically disqualify you for asylum?
I found A Supposedly Fun Thing to be rather grating and self-congratulatory. In contrast, the essays in Consider the Lobster showed a better balance between restraint and indulgence.
Edge cases don't make much of an argument.
I don't think I get your point exactly. The point of this challenge was to show how an average Windows gamer would fare if they tried to use Linux for gaming(without having prior knowledge).
Yes, bunker fuel is terrible. But this doesn't change the fact that most of the carbon emissions would still be there for domestic production, because ships are extraordinarily efficient per tonne-mile of goods hauled.
I'm watching the second link. Very very well made.

It's astonishing to me that there's so much high-quality stock footage of the area that someone can create such a high-quality historical documentary while only calling it a "podcast".
I build a lot of stuff just to learn new technologies but I don't always plan to pursue anything serious. Here are a few:

A sensor attached to a barbell that uses a gyroscope and accelerometer to analyze your form. I built a prototype using a Raspberry Pi and BerryIMU and it was cool to visualize the data. It was mainly just to learn more about the Raspberry Pi.

An app to map the precise location of routers inside a building. I was learning about writing Android apps and mapping and this was a fun project. By accessing the list of nearby wifi networks and their strength, I could triangulate the location of the router and plot it on the map (visualized as a square that got smaller and smaller as you collected more data).

A to-do list that was triggered by location. After learning about lat/lon and mapping from the previous project I thought it would be cool to geofence tasks. For example, I need to get milk so I put that on the list and when I get within a certain distance of any grocery store, I get a notification. Or if my task is to get cash, I get a notification when I get near to an atm. I used the Foursquare API for the location searching and did some calculation based on speed of travel to give more or less advance notice.

I have dozens of these little projects I've done in the name of learning and eventually parts of them made it into larger projects.
Imagine being the guy who was in charge of AMD/Intel backdoor private key & instruction backups! To all of you who belittle the issue of "management engines" being transparent blackbox OSs that you "could reverse engineer if you really wanted to, but it is probably nothing sinister."
In HS, I would have had more extracurricular activities at least joined some less competitive sports like cross country - there is literally no other time in your life where you will have that kind of free time. I was basically a classic book nerd in HS - very high GPA and class rank but not much else.

In college, I graduated with an Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics degree in 2000. My passion was always software, but at that time almost everyone (in NE Ohio) was giving the advice that electrical engineering would be more lucrative in the long run. I literally read the phrase "the bud is off the blossom" when researching computer science in 1995.

I wound up never doing EE professionally, and have working in software since graduation.

In retrospect, I would have followed own instincts and studied philosophy and math with a minor in Comp Sci. I think the Com Sci minor would be sufficient from a technical side, math would have been a better prep for data science/ML, and philosophy is just good for building mental models and examining your beliefs.
Tools have use cases and use cases are not amoral. You can argue that in some cases otherwise immoral actions can be justified (such as your example), but this doesn't justify said actions moral outside that case.

Assuming that a tool is amoral just because it, theoreatically, could be used to act in a morally justified way is just cherry-picking situations in order to have them fit your worldview.
The part you didn't respond to is why they are "lucky" to be able to hold a view...

My guess is that if you have such a binary view of the world, you might have lived a simple or sheltered or privileged life.
Vertical integration is what makes the service that Amazon provides so good.

Splitting things into different siloed entities just leads to inefficiencies.
When it says out of thin air, it means that is some verifiable confirmation of no collateral? Or is the "out of thin air" part just means normal minting?
> I think that's because many of the comments are posting regularly debunked misinformation.

Such as?

Most of these faded out comments are talking about how the USPS is a government org so it has no incentives to efficiently fix things regardless of money. How do you debunk that? It’s true of the incentives of every government agency.
> “Manual” async programming with callback functions/closures is not the only way to do cooperative multi-tasking. Google’s Go language takes another approach known as “green threads”, or “user level” threads (vs operating system / kernel managed threads).

Isn't Go preemptive multi-tasking instead of cooperative multi-tasking?
I think it will be interesting to see how existing and upcoming Meta (FB) products compete with Apple products in the VR/AR space.

It seems to me like Meta might have some advantage here initially, but in the long run I'm not sure how it can compete with a company that knows how to really build an ecosystem on top of hardware that it engineers end-to-end.

I imagine cost might come into play here to start. I remember growing up and never having an iPhone because they were too expensive, and most of the kids I knew didn't have one either. It was all Android until one day I noticed everyone had swapped for an iPhone. Maybe Meta products will be the Android in this field, the device you get until you make the upgrade to an Apple product.
I wasn't being sarcastic. More like tongue in cheek. I agree with you. I think Tesla is completely overleveraged. I'm not sure about bitcoin.
A general lack of authoritarianism made the coups much easier.
Uniswap, pancakeswap, 1inch, apeswap, sushiswap, traderjoes, Crono, quickswap, paraswap and those are just off the top of my head.

All of these projects have hundreds of million to billions in tvl and have been running fine for years.

Dexes are the backbone of the defi community and share very little in common with centralized exchanges.
Good idea, I merged it!
It’s amazing to me anyone uses crypto. If banks or exchanges were this bad at holding on to your money, no one would use them…ever.
El Farol Bar Problem
Half a billion $ is printed everyday by BEP. (just to compare)
> functionality that wasn't advertised, but would have been possible had work not been done to prevent it

Not to defend them (I would choose the PineNote anyway) but I think the practice is common: crippling something that is very easy to get working in a current version of a product is how they can later use it as a bullet point to advertise the sale of the next version that contains the "latest development", "much wanted feature", etc.

If we don't see the practice employed often, it's likely because most products are tight closed and the turned off features aren't easy to spot.
Doesn't everything you listed require physical possession of the device to do anything with, whereas Bluetooth can be exploited just by walking near a malicious device?
User-facing security is just the tip of the iceberg for bank security, and IMO one of the less important factors.

You have regulations like CPI on how to store credit card credentials, transaction history, and audit logging.

You have regulations on physical access and who's allowes to touch production.

There's enormous amounts of regulation on auditing and software that's permitted to generate bank transactions.

Having worked in the space I am definitely impressed; it's taken very seriously, there are real, concrete consequences for not taking is seriously, and you generally don't see retail banks failing because someone messed around with ACH transactions, for example.
Alternative take: USPS is really quite a remarkable business and worth learning about as a case study - from their fleet, to eating 90s darling FedEx alive, to overcoming artificially created political pressures (eg PECA), to becoming Amazon's chief US delivery partner, and much more.

Was curious: "marketing" mail was 18% of USPS revenue[1] (2020) and dropping. Low share of total earnings compared to Meta, Google, and soon Amazon's ad revenue.

[1] https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/1113-...
If you were looking a looking for a place to recruit future jihadist here would be a great place to start. Ppl who were abandoned or disaffected by Europe in general the west. This would great chance to act with humanity a missed opportunity.
Amazon isn’t a postal provider and they aren’t a monopoly. WTF are you talking about?
The recent megalopolis stuff will also make things more complicated, though I'm unfamiliar with the fares for the regional HSR so I'm not sure that daily commuting from Nanjing to Shanghai actually makes a lick of sense.

Even in the US, comparing by counties is dangerous, because counties are not standardized between states. Sometimes cities are contiguous with counties (San Francisco), sometimes they are smaller (Chicago), sometimes they are bigger (New York's 5 boroughs are each a county.)
So if you don't know, how can you be unimpressed?
It’s great wishful thinking but I really dont think our government can pull it off at this point. Maybe 30 years ago but not in today’s environment of everyone trying to screw the other side over at all costs.

Personally im happy we at least have one company who can get me stuff in a decent amount of time. But i gets it’s fun to throw out f the big company the government should do that. It’s not like it took thousands of well paid people years and years of work to develop that supply chain so im sure it’s as simple as “let the government do it”.

It’s the same in every Uber/Lyft comment thread. “It’s just a simple backend app why do they need so many people”. “I could do that in a year with a small team”. Yeah have fun dealing with every single state, city, country’s different regulations and requirements. “It’s JUST an app”.

I realize a lot of engineers have this problem. They oversimplify everything except the code they are working on and dismiss it as easy or unnecessary. I did early in my career as well but im surprised how prevent it is here.
So much wrong despite so much right.

Making the sea peoples all Greek totally flies in the face of the written records at the time, for example where Ugaritic leaders wrote to Cypress for help given the ships attacking them and got the response "it's your own ships."

SOME of the sea peoples were Greek. But a single genetic result most closely matching Crete (which was only 40% not "almost completely") shouldn't be extrapolated to be all the sea peoples. And it ignores the research that the Minoan ancestry was in line with the Anatolian farmers of the Neolithic period.

It also ignores the role of Lybia in the early Egyptian records of sea peoples battles, as well as Ramses II's capture of many peoples following Sherden/Lybian battles and then Hittite battle of Kadesh (where he captured 12 groups of tribes).

And arguably the biggest oversight (not just by OP but by many looking at this period) is failing to put aside the myth of ethnocentrism and monotheism from the Israelite story of 12 tribes fleeing Egypt under Moses with oldest part of that story referring to Dan "staying on their ships."

The Greek story of the Exodus claimed many different people left, and placed the fleeing of Danaus alongside them. Danaus, the likely eponymous leader claimed to be a brother of the Pharoh with 50 sons and connected with Lybia. Sounds kind of like Ramses II, who had 50 sons and whose forensic report identified him as appearing to have been a Lybian Berber.

Sure weird that a lot of the sea peoples conquered territories were then named for Mopsus/Muksus, including the Denyen of Adana who centuries later still had a ruling "House of Mopsus."

I wonder if that has anything to do with Dan, who "stayed on their ships" in the Song of Deborah - the earliest part of the Bible, in Judges 18 ending up with a grandson of Moses as chief priest.

There's a lot more, especially in the Cretan/Lybian genetic overlap with the Ashkenazi, particularly given the 80% pre-history European mtDNA lineages. Or in Aegean archeology for details in claimed Biblical history. But suffice to say the sea peoples shouldn't be as much a mystery as it remains if only people would do a better job looking at what's clearly myth (Abrahamic lineages given Y-haplogroups and early Israelite monotheism) and who was writing the story (Judah, who wasn't a group present earlier on).
I wasn't aware Lovecraft stopped being a xenophobe late in life. Would you be willing to provide articles or something?
Predicting Customer Satisfaction with AI
Thanks. I do have the other end up bundled up, but I guess I might as well make a note to disconnect and bundle up the remaining side, too.

> I maintained various configurations of wire and fiber

Separately or at the same time? What was the wire for in your case if you had it parallel to the fiber, and what did you do to protect it against the lightning strikes? We have it between two directly adjacent buildings that are maybe only 150ft apart (mostly underneath an asphalt access road) but there are no lighting strike rods/redirector on either structure.
As a single line item, that’s vast.
> US public services have a long track record of being actively sabotaged by governments. See the US Post Office being undermined by Trump's appointment of DeJoy.

Why they have a poor track record is a separate discussion.
Wait until you hear about the Assyrians. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1856-0909-...

And, well, everyone else. I have a very difficult time taking the number of people kill during or after an assault. Many inscriptions refer to the complete destruction of a city, where the city is back in business apparently untouched a few years later.
Can someone explain why this is on the "TRON" blockchain? I thought Tether was on Ethereum.
Also as an additional followup comment, the legal structure surrounding banks probably impacts how digital robberies are targeted as well.

A cyber-criminal organization who wants to rob some big player like Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, or Citibank of 9+ figures probably knows that they're going to have a devil of a time getting away with any big-time theft. The US government is actually going to go after anybody who tries to pull money out of big banks accounts to the point that they might even be willing to go to war in the right circumstance. If you're a cyber criminal, even if you could hack into some big bank systems and force a transfer, how would you get away with the cash in most cases? If they really target you with their full weight, you're probably completely screwed.

In comparison, random Crypto Financial Agents are on many power-players "Naughty List". Depending on the exact circumstances of some crypto-robbery, the full weight of the US Government probably isn't going to be deployed against some cyber criminal organization who manages to take out a crypto firm's assets in the same way that they would if you targeted the existing banks. So maybe relatively more cyber attacks happen against crypto than other types of assets because it's known as a safer target. (I have no clue, this is just a reasonable hypothesis to me)
This... doesn't look very good. What is that colour scheme? Orange and green?!

Edit: I feel like I should say - if you are new to things, please don't feel discouraged by criticism. Everyone starts somewhere.
The worldwide distribution of Psilocybe Cubensis hallucinogenic mushrooms are strongly correlated to the domestication and worldwide spread of cattle. And the Minoans certainly involved cattle/bulls as a part of their worship practices.
Amazon doesn’t really seem to have a long-term solution… they had to ease drug testing requirements at one point recently because their turnover is so high that they were running out of people.

Their last mile drivers are contracted companies that treat their employees so poorly that it’s somewhat typical for them to leave their keys in the van and quit on the spot.