skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Efficiency is the main concern for a fusion reactor!

We've known how to produce fusion reactions for a long time, the difficult part is to generate net energy.
Maybe supply chain is a better analogy than debt.

Poor software increases the length and cost of the supply chain of producing new features, or it makes the supply chain more fragile, or less flexible.
I use a couple pretty simple measures to get the technical debt idea across, with the numbers variable:

"if we invest around 3 months now then we will reduce the time to market of every subsequent feature by about 2x and also decrease the number of bugs each feature produces by about 70%"

Then make sure they understand that these are just approximate estimates, but it gets the idea and the urgency across.
nope, it's that the legal entity is required to honor US warrants. EU wants full control over that process.
Dragon had a 6809, the same CPU as the Vectrex or the CoCo.

https://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/

http://www.nitros9.org/battle.html

Emulator and the modern OS.

The emu is from the guy from EvilWM, the WM which inspired CWM under OpenBSD.
When would you use the name of a project like that?

"I Reacted my frontend"?

"I AngularJSed my frontend"?

"I VueJSed my frontend"?

I just don't see it.
"Hunger will do terrible things to a man's morals."
There is no strawman here. The fact that countries value education/healthcare/tech/industry/environment/etc differently, means that you will not reach wage equality.
This is the thing that drives me the most nuts about so many people's reactions to this disease who treat infection as a binary: You die or you don't die and the latter is just as good as not getting it, ignoring the (a) social/medical/emotional costs of a person being sick and (2) the fact that we have just been learning about the long-term effects of infection. From the beginning I've been worried that we're going to see a generations-long impact on overall health just from people who were infected and then "got better." There's so much unknown about this disease but we've let a bunch of politicians and cable TV/internet/podcast hacks claim that it's not serious so that a significant fraction of the population ends up actively spreading the disease and providing reservoirs for it to mutate.
> my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads.

It doesn't take much to convert him either!

Initially I thought his argument was "I thought using ads doesn't bring any revenue, but now I'm paying for ads and making a net $900" which at least would argue some evidence that using advertising is not useless.

However it seems like he's just getting paid $900/month to run ads... so in this case he could have been correct in the beginning and just changed his mind because he's on the winning end of a scam. Not saying that advertising doesn't work, just that his position provides no evidence for that.
Is that the case for any data that is passed into the USA then rather than just GA?

So if I hosted my servers in any of the AWS US regions that too would be illegal if they have any personal data in them. In this case personal data is a randomised unique id. So say I have a table of users and all I have is a username and a password and a unique id for the record that's personal data and the customer is not allowed to give their permission for me to store that in a US data center ?
"My business makes $900 a month from ads." You don't have a business.
Was it a fly[0], by any chance?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUEJwsXbnk
It surprised me much more to know that there are databases maintained by the likes of Equifax about persons' complete employment history, job titles and all...

I think GDPR here in Europe really woke up the feeling that this kind of data shouldn't exist without explicit approval from the person which PII belongs to. This is beyond fucked up in my data privacy minded worldview.
New Sony Walkman Signature Series (EUR 3700.–)
Same with expertsexchange.com
Analyzing the Bizarre Sale of Melania Trump’s $170k NFT
Taking this to the logical extreme:

A French website can not use any American service, right?

Because any American services "are not sufficient to exclude the accessibility of this data for US intelligence services".
You think they plan our social structure?
I recently met a Canadian adult, born and raised here, who didn't know our country had more than one time zone. We have six time zones.
> With the current trend of "self improvement"

Expecting long term income from trend followers.
I am aware of the legal discussions around the hypotheticals, but has that actually been tested in court?

Define algorithmically generated? There are certainly tools for randomizing the mix of image elements that are present in a piece of art, and combining them, but does that only apply if I used a computer to do it? What if I draw 300 reference images, photocopy them, cut them out, and sit down with a set of dice and tables, and make collages using glue?

Does the inclusion of random noise as a processing step in creating digital art count as algorithmically generated?

What if I use a custom programmed brush that simulates the randomness of physical brush bristles to simulate in a digital painting?
I have anecdotal support with a sample size of 1: This happened to me. I genuinely wanted to care, and wanted to improve the situation, but found I was slowing down (1), introducing bugs with every merge (2) and finally I just left (3).

Business began with a certain idea, then over time pivoted into into better and better, mostly related niches for users. What that meant in terms of the code base is we started with one thing then tried to back-port it in several new directions and ended up with a gigantic ball of spaghetti.

Great job, great coworkers, great technical management. Code base just became so rotted and so overextended, it became untenable.
is google making a lot of money from analytics?
This is one of the reasons the "we don't know the long-term effects of the vaccines" argument was always silly. We don't know the long-term effects of COVID, either. They're likely to be bigger than a small dose of mRNA that breaks down in a matter of minutes/hours.

It'll be interesting to see what we think of the "let it rip" strategy for Omicron a lot of areas used a decade from now.
Thank you for taking the time and attention to write this up. I find your insights valuable, and I tend to agree.

I think my hesitance towards the ad world is coming from my personal experience. I’ve worked at marketing agencies and as digital strategist for a company, so I saw both sides of the chain. My guess is there are a lot of companies that don’t know how to get the highest value out of online ads, and these can be fooled easily by marketing agencies or ad sellers (that a lot of time also don’t really know how to optimize).

I guess as always: don’t blame the tool.
I knew cloudflared could support https but never knew it works with other protocol as well.

TIL `ProxyCommand cloudflared access ssh --hostname %h`

I assume in this way we can even host mincraft servers (or any binary TCP protocol service) with cloudflared?
Does anyone know what kind of products this kind of flash storage is used in? SSDs or NVMe SSD or something else?
That's whitetail country. 120 MPH around dusk, come up on a dozen deer in the lanes, and it turns into a bloody mess. It can be done, but be aware in your risk assessment that there are cars on the shoulder, animals crossing the lanes, semis passing each other, and all sorts of other factors besides you and the road.
Ok so what's the actual minimum you've said two weeks here but where is this actually defined ?
Best we keep people fed then.
Do you really think GDPR and cookie banners are related? Most are non-compliant in the first place, and were around for years beforehand.

Yes, I think we're in a vastly better place, where there is a cost to doing bad things.
By the time the next performance review hits, I'll have likely sustained a 12% real pay cut. Who knows what the 'merit' increase will bring that out to, but I'm guessing it'll be about an 8% real pay cut.
Just because someone likes and uses something doesn't mean there aren't better alternatives that they could benefit from using and learning about.
What does contamination even mean in this context?
> I've already offloaded Google Fonts due to the German ruling. I'm happy to self-host piwik if needed, but could that fall foul of regulators?

Well... if you self-host Piwik or Matomo, you're relatively safe and you can avoid a lot of the bureaucracy bullshit that you'd have with external services.

However, check with a lawyer before setting it up, and definitely get user consent for detailed tracking. There are basically two camps of thought how much is allowed without explicit user consent: the more strict camp (which I belong to) believes that it is illegal to even use technically required data (like IP address, browser agent, date/time of visit, URL/query parameters) for analytics of any kind. The other camp is more relaxed and believes that it is OK to conduct basic analytics on that data (justified as "legitimate interest" of the site operator to provide a good experience to the user), but don't set anything like cookies or localStorage that could allow detailed tracking.

It is not yet clear by a supreme court decision which school of thought is going to win out - personally, I follow the requirement of data minimization per Art. 5 Nr. 1 lit c) EU-GDPR. Data that you do not have cannot be stolen, seized, abused or used as justification for fines, after all.
Not to mention streamlit, gradio, plotly for Python :)
My favorite: "How do you make money?"
6.5 exabytes short? It sounds like a lot, but does someone more informed know if that is going to make a dent?
This was my experience with rails (to be fair, some years ago). Each new version reinvented some huge chunk of the previous version with magic all the way down. Basically why I stopped using it despite having invested lots of time.
They wouldn't have to do this if they didn't spew personal information indiscriminately to scumbag "partners". So yes, I do think that is worthwhile. The cost is born by the correct people.
The gist I was able to glean, specifically about Pheonix Liveview, is that all updates on the Frontend and Backend are pushed to the other side via websockets. For the Frontend, this means sending some json payload to the Backend. For the Backend this means either responding to a request or sending out a new update both of which involve sending out a snippet of pre-rendered HTML to replace/update an existing element that was already on page.

The benefit here is that we can get to a place that is almost a SPA without needing to do a whole lot of JavaScript for the Frontend. It also helps that Elixir is built on top of Erlang which gives it a boon to be able to handle a lot of users on one server.
> was always silly.
That statement is in the same line as "we really dont know" ?
For the french people on HN: There is a privacy-first alternative called: https://simpleanalytics.com/
Idk, in your theory if people dont change their behavior and you remove the safer drivers, then maybe accidents per driver are up but overall accidents should be down. But no, overall accidents went up which shows people changed their behavior. Correlate that with overall levels of "disfuction" in society like more airline passanger problems, more grocery store customer incidents i think the other theory makes more sense.
The word conman comes from the phrase "Confidence Man". They generally use charisma to gain the confidence of others and then exploit that confidence for personal gain.
I think it's a maturity thing. I've found myself going from wanting to use cool technology to build whatever to wanting to use boring technology to build cool software.

A few decades of programming has taught me that cool technology inevitably turns out to be janky and annoying and half-finished.
I was going to post this before I saw your reply. Fastest I've ever been on the ground was in my cousin's car coming back from Big Bend. Hit 155MPH. He did ask if we were OK with him opening it up to see what it could do.

It's probably about as good a place as possible to do it on public roads (at least anywhere close to my part of the country) - long straightaway through the desert with miles of visibility. He got it out of his system and got back down to saner speeds for the rest of the trip.
It seems somewhat futile to say you were misunderstood, but then refuse to clarify.
It also drives the Dead Sea thing, because to do anything effective in such an environment you have to learn all sorts of esoteric and only-useful-here tech (sometimes even languages!), which takes time you could be using to learn marketable skills.
Probably true, but I suppose it's some sort of cognitive bias rather than a conscious thought out of greed or similar motives.
There is a privacy-first alternative called: https://simpleanalytics.com/
> the veteran population skews older, white, and male: In all three groups, about 90% of patients were men and 71% to 76% were white. Patients were in their early 60s

How many patients received early treatment? It is well understood that outcomes are worse, and treatment more difficult, the further Covid progressed before treatment begins.
>once hit by a WhatsApp vulnerability

Meh, and once you get hit by a car, you will die. But what are the realistic odds of that happening?

You can also get hit by a an IOS or Android RCE 0-day, so you might as well give up using a smartphone if you feel the security risk is that high. Also, many of those RCE exploits used MMS for payload delivery, so your point of MMS shielding you from exploits is moot.

In the end, for most consumers, it's a matter of looking at the convenience to risk ratio, and MMS is neither very convenient nor terribly secure.
Indeed. Why do people rationalise this stuff in such an odd way? Attention isn't currency and advertising isn't a foreign exchange. They mention about having a new "mental model" so mental gymnastics is probably an appropriate term in this case.
Google stock is already dropping:
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ABEA:ETR?sa=X&ved=2ahUK...
> Is the EU going to drag them all into court?

Not the EU itself... but your competitors, who can not just complain at your respective data protection agency but also file for c&d letters, court injunction orders or penalties.
Mark one for another American conundrum: having so much distrust for "the man" while at the same time being completely oblivious to the amount of personal data being skimmed off their daily activities. But it's all to guarantee Freedom™ so it must be ok?
Against the Cult of Travel, or What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Hobbit
Impurities in raw materials?
I also use ZeroTier for a few years now. Very useful. Unfortunately my current ISP use NAT instead of giving their subscribers routable ip address. This means ZeroTier reverts to using an external relay when accessing my machine from outside, which is very slow and has very high latency from my country.

So in addition to ZeroTier, I use AutoSSH [1] to setup and maintain a persistent ssh tunnel on a high port on my vps. It's a lot faster than ZeroTier's relay because the vps is in a neighboring city instead of in another country. It's pretty reliable too, automatically reconnect when the tunnel is down. I'm still using ZeroTier for backup connection though.

Simply use `autossh -M 0 -o "ServerAliveInterval 30" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -v -N -R 22222:localhost:22 user@my-vps-domain` to forward port 22222 on your vps into your local machine. I also configured a supervisord instance to automatically start it on my machine so it'll always running.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh
The blockchain tech and distributed ledger technology is interesting. The current uses of it appear like money grabs of some kind or another. A ledger itself has zero value, it's literally the same as a checkbook register, its a tool.

For example using the checkbook register as the ledger, let me describe my understanding as it relates to crypto:

* I offer up a limited set of pages of a checkbook register for trade and we track who trades what part of this register. We establish 1 transaction (tx) in the register is 1 unit

* We assign some value to each unit in the register. These values are associated with government backed currencies since we need some reference point as to their value in money.

* Accounts are created to track how many tx/partials you own. Trading platforms are built to buy/sell/trade units of this register. Apps are built with value displaying the govt currency

* If you run some complex mathematical proofs on your computer/GPU you can "find" a new unit and keep part of it.

* It is well known there are limited units of the register, this drives the "value" up on trading platforms.

* People (or companies, banks, etc.) are allowed to buy/sell their units and move the proceeds of that sale that into a supported government backed currency with some transfer fees.

Humans have associated monetary value with a ledger of transactions and those transactions are tracking trades of the ledger itself? It just doesn't make much sense when you think it through at that basic level like it was a checkbook register. In my example if the value of each unit on the register/ledger was associated to marbles instead of a government backed currency, this whole thing falls down.

What if blockchain/distributed ledger technology was used as a tool to track transactions but the ledger itself wasn't something that has monetary value?
I have aphantasia and I think of a very generic cup, akin to a stock image. It’s only a faint image, what’s more prominent is the concept of a cup.
Runtime adaptation of stream processing spanning the cloud and the edge
I disagree. There are definite advantages over meeting over video chat imo. For example, it's impossible to have natural side conversations in those services. In real life, you can pull someone aside to have a chat without leaving the event you're in, but over video conference, you have to go into a breakout room or use text chat. In VR, you can do what you do irl, just pull someone aside for a quick chat, assuming the software you're using supports it with a feature like volume fall off. That isn't to say it makes sense for all meetings. Traditional video/voice meetings are fine for most use cases.

Other major advantages are screen real estate and 3D visualizations. In VR space, you can have a monitor as large as you want, of any shape you want. You can also visualize 3D objects in a much more natural way, seeing them as they would appear in the real world.
You're right, it could have been. I didn't really consider it back then, but maybe part of the reason my pain came back was because I stopped going to the gym (due to lockdown)
Wait, can a future employer request my past salary information from InVerify (or another service) without my approval or permission?
The idea of a "right" is shaky if you can sign it away with a click.
If my website is hosted on a server located in the US, then is this illegal? Serious question. Assume it's a static site and that I don't collect any data myself whatsoever. But who knows what the server operator could be doing covertly?

If this doesn't cut the internet in two, I don't get where the line goes.
I theory, I don't mind ads. For years I avoided ad-blockers. Then...

Ads make pages load slower. Ads on mobile browsers make the text jump around while I'm trying to read it. Ads put giant pop-ups over the text that I'm trying to read. Ads start playing loud music, or flash.

The problem isn't ads, it's a lack of bounds about what ads can and can not do.

The web ran fine for years with ad-blockers as a niche; but ad-blockers only got popular when the ads themselves overstepped their bounds and became too intrusive.

I'd be much happier if ads were reasonable and I didn't feel like I needed an ad-blocker just to view the %$#%@ website.
The modern Cannonball Run is a tale of the privilege certain classes of people have in encounters with law enforcement.

Most of these people share their stories on the youtube channel for Vinwiki. One of the record holders, Doug Tabbutt, has gone on record on that channel as saying he carries a PBA 'get out of jail free' card:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42780382

Reading the article, you might think they're lucky not to get pulled over. But they do get pulled over. They're lucky because they get away with it. There are multiple stories from this group of people on that youtube channel where they explain how.

Sometimes they cover the cars with pro-police political nods. Sometimes they race in cars that are deliberately made to look like foreign police cars: technically legal but the intention is clear. Sometimes, they participate in slower, legal rallies to raise money for police charities, which give away clothing that is convenient to wear for their illegal races.

The Cannonball Run is an exercise in using bias and privilege to avoid retribution for deadly crimes. These people are proud, unapologetic criminals who get away with it because they're in the right clique.

Another one of these people is Alex Roy. He works as a director for Argo AI, where they make autonomous vehicle technology.
Terraform's error messages for things it has control over are incredibly precise. It does not have control over the content of errors are returned by provider APIs, and they are often very vague.
One thing missing from your statement is that plenty of technical-debt comes from things that were done properly the first time, but since then assumptions have changed, or the business is different, or the customer's expectations have evolved, or a competitor has upped their game, etc. This makes the so called perfect solution then, imperfect now - i.e. technical debt.

There are always trade-offs, and a good partner in any team/business will help those be articulated.

One thing that is important for any engineering team is to have a certain amount of capacity either permanently dealing with technical debt, or regularly dealing with it. Judging the amount of effort that goes into fixing it depends entirely on the amount of 'interest' you're paying. That isn't always easy to measure, but a good senior engineering team will have a sense of when things are getting hairy.

The idea that it's avoidable is unfortunately wishful thinking for any project of a substance.
But they do, and it's terrible.

I feel for my European brothers and sisters these days. As an American, I hardly ever see these banners. Went to an EU country for work and... Holy cow. Y'all get these banners every site. How do you tolerate it?
One thing that has been on my mind lately is wondering if having easy fusion would be bad.

I am 50. All my life, we have been told that workable fusion would end our energy problems. But now we have the climate crisis, which is a result of inhabitants of the planet not being responsible for externalities.

If we all had cheap fusion reactors, wouldn't humanity just use a lot more energy, creating waste heat and dumping it into the atmosphere?

I'm not convinced humans can be trusted with cheaper energy if it leads to more waste heat.
> Are we going to legislate DNS out of existence too?

No, but we could ban ISPs from being allowed to log DNS requests. There's lots of things the ISPs are doing that should not be allowed. It's done completely without our consent. If regulating DNS would have as consequence "to legislate DNS out of existence", then be it.
"Well, he went on medical leave, so we changed his title to Mainstream Medicine Denier and then Organ System Pentester."

Reference: https://apecsec.org/steve-jobs-liver-transplant-controversy/
> there's no god "behind the curtain"

have you looked there already? :)
What about GWT-Google Web Toolkit its actually not so many updated and under top news but the idea is implement in a prooven language java both frontend and backend
Why SpaceX lost 40 satellites to solar storm