jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Honestly, for the US at least, the existing system is sloppy but workable.

* In times of crisis, the government abuses the Bill of Rights in a state of emergency

* People who feel sufficiently aggrieved can sue (once, y'know, order has been restored and courts are functioning)

* Sometimes, there is precedent showing the government overstepped and the plaintiff gets a nice payout to make them whole

It's win-win, in the sense that whatever the emergency was that necessitated infringement of rights can be mitigated and the aggrieved can essentially be retroactively bribed to be okay to be a part of a society that has survived a situation that exceeded the planned-for circumsntances the Constitution was written to handle.
> Who is going to make the scientific ecosystem?

Google and apple. Apple already is working on a swift-numerics package.

Look at TF python and jax. They've re-implemented chunks of scipy and numpy twice, hired people to work on plotting (altair) etc

And that's with python. Their engineering time will go much further with swift, obviously.
What pandemics have people in the west directly experienced in living memory? As far as I am aware, all pandemics in recent memory have happened in Africa or Asia.
At least China now knows they have brakes that work.
Put the coffee down.
And now reddit is down again (posting/submitting is impossible). Probably yet another Amazon issue, yet again.

In all fairness I've read that the reddit devs have made lots of boneheaded mistakes in their general infrastructure-design, but it still seems Amazon is not a very reliable platform to build your stuff on. Platforms built on top of Amazon's even less so.
Yes. algae can be harvested multiple times daily, corn is seasonal.

Also, algae has a much larger percentage of oil to its mass. I've read some types can be close to 40% oil.
Any excuse to post these:

http://kjkolb.tripod.com/homepage/miketysonquotes.html
It's particularly easy to install something like CyanogenMod or other custom ROMs on most Android devices (the good ones, at least). That gets rid of things like Sense and puts you back to the stock image, but with possibly better hardware than even the Nexus One.
Reposting a commend I made on this topic when it came up sourced from Infowars...

Unintended consequences aside, this is less about a kill switch or government censorship and more about forcing a industry that has not taken security seriously to get their act together.

Many providers don't actively police their customers for botnet activity or respond to security incidents that don't affect their network infrastructure or back office systems.

This appears to establish a regulatory framework where network security officially becomes more than a law enforcement issue and lets DHS order operators to secure their networks and help out if they are unable to do so.
Since the Twitter website only accounts for something like ~15% of "tweet traffic" it will be interesting to see whether Twitter start to push these sponsored trends to client apps.
Nope. It's a great idea :)
Because history matters and we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Tax and control

You'll get some level of capital gains from profits, along with any corporation taxes.

But crucially you get control over what gets credit and what rules are attached to it.

the EU doesn't really have a banking union, which means that rules money markets are country dependent. As long as london was the EU trading centre, then there would be no banking union, as it would cause london to loose money.
Note that Netherlands is small and has pretty good public transport. You can live in the neighbouring towns and be in the centre of Amsterdam in 15 minutes by train.
I bet they could get pencils in there though. I Know I did.
People get a lot of first-hand experience using their home appliances and are not easily mislead about what works well.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Processing registrations and maintaining a registry has significant costs. In 2019, the US Copyright Office made 547,837 registrations and received about $35 million in total fees. [0] In 2019, the Registrar of Copyrights asked Congress for a budget of $92.9 million. [1]

Currently, most works are only registered when owners have an actual infringer that they want to assert statutory damages against, or when a work is a commercial work that will certainly be infringed. If mandatory registration were enacted, the Copyright Office would need to handle hundreds or thousands of times as many registrations.

Even an impossible 1000x expansion of registration capacity wouldn't come close to being able to register everything that people would actually want to protect. For example, a user on Quora [2] estimated that 100 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day. Even if registration were free and streamlined, the yearly capacity of a 1000x Office would be saturated by 5 days of Instagram photos alone.

If registration were mandatory, commercial producers of creative works would not be affected because they would quickly learn to register everything. Ordinary people who don't want their Instagram photos to be exploited by others for profit, however, would lose. Opportunists who want to use the works of others without paying would win.

So, even if mandatory registration didn't affect creative output, it would be ridiculously expensive and would upset who wins and who loses in a way that would be counter to the public interest. It's never going to happen.

Goals in copyright policy should be addressed narrowly. If you want more works to enter the public domain, then you adjust the copyright term. If you want people to be able to use apparently-abandoned works, then you make apparent abandonment a defense to a claim of copyright infringement. If you want to expand Fair Use, then you amend the statute. Mandatory registration, however, would be a dramatic change that would upset everything; it's not worth discussing and I regret spending so much time on this response.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/reports/annual/2019/ar2019.pdf

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/about/budget/2020/senate-budget-te...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-being-uploaded-on-...
Call me back when crypto is being used for anything normal - buying groceries, homes, pay checks, etc rather than trading and speculation. As of now, if my job attempts to pay me in DogeCoin I will quit and file a complaint with the NLRB. The thing is, no matter how much you think the current financial system is crooked, there is always a way to settle disputes through courts and regulators.

The worst financial hiccups happen in areas without regulation. There were no rules on selling subprime mortgages or shorting more stock than exists, but unlike in the cryptoverse if something blows up it can be patched with legislation and restitution to victims. If your crypto gets stolen or a coin gets pumped and dumped, there is no recourse. With no connection to the real world comes no trust and no mercy.
At certain places they need to find someone to use the excess, that is why we even see on exchanges price for electricity going negative.
Also, the massive rise in economic power of the rest of (western) world around that time.

the US was the only major world power left standing after world war 2 without colossal damage, and rebuilding (western) europe took the better part of 25 years to fully complete.
Exactly, send the money out today, claw it back from those who earned too much in 2020.

Small businesses collapse, but government efforts haven't been towards helping them, largely more towards sending out helicopter money to the people.

Handing money to people will help all businesses of course, but I'd venture to guess it helped large corporations and brokerages the most.

The loan forgiveness program for small businesses was a good step, but it seemed that a lot of smaller businesses chose not to make use of it.

I'd guess that in the long run, the traditional small business (retail) will become non-viable anyway though. There are too many economies of scale to be gained by operating under the umbrella of a larger corporation. e.g. Amazon can only justify its massive distribution network and same day delivery due to its size.
Other protocols normally use different ports.

Also in all cases where this happens to me, www.$name is the only service being provided, most of the time poorly.
There is some discussion about this app on the monome forum: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=11648
I hope the OP isn't posting this simply because it's fun to bash Rand.

The OP is Jane Galt: http://www.janegalt.net/
Under the universal-fraternity-of-common-sense law, shouldn't I be able to sell any picture I take no matter what or who?

Can an artist make a painting of the interior of the church, or the french valley, with just his memory of the sighting? And then sell it? What if the artist was so realistic it was pixel perfect like a picture? And mass produced? And uploaded to the webs?

Laws, lawyers and hell. So many jokes it's not funny anymore.
Although you're being condescending, I'll answer you honestly: yes.
Oddly I'm on their 30MB connection and do not find filesonic.com blocked.
In China they do it silently with no message, you see just a 404 from your browser.
Your two "imagine" clauses are incompatible, though.

"Imagine you can write an equivalent app in Ruby on Rails in two weeks, with tests."

You've already said that the existing app has "lots of logic" and is huge. Every bug takes weeks to fix, which means the "lots of logic" is seriously twisted up and not easy to decipher.

If that's the case -- figuring out the logic to fix one bug takes weeks, then it's inconceivable that you'll untangle all of the logic in two weeks. That's before you write a single line of Ruby -- if you want an "equivalent" app, that means you have to know what the current one does, first.

This is the usually-fatal flaw in the "rewrite" argument. The existing app needs to be rewritten because no one can understand it anymore (is is both poorly-written and very large/complex). But because no one can understand it anymore, it will be extremely difficult to rewrite, unless you work as if you were creating a new, similar application.

This is also why refactoring works. You cut off a bit of the existing app, figure out just that bit, write tests for it, and then replace just that bit with new code.

You can even refactor an app into a completely different language, actually -- you have two apps running parallel, and gradually move over bits of functionality from one to the other. In the process you'll need to gradually enforce order (and separation of concerns...) on the original app, but you need to do that either way.
Weird, this almost feels like a Mandela effect for me.
Yes, its out .. I was one of the very first pre-order customers, however, so I guess I got mine delivered to me kind of early .. had it for a week, and love it immensely, its such an awesome little platform.

I don't know how much it is in the US or wherever you are - best thing is to go to openpandora.org yourself and find out! :)
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Compare with: https://labcures.com/

That's an outgrowth of the Buck Institute.
I feel like Bostrom uses his first 2 conditions to constrain probabilities until the 3rd seems likely. Is this insightful or a trick? I would argue it's a lot closer to a trick, since conditions 1 and 2 are futures we hope for (that we survive and become technologically advanced)--so we tend to overestimate their actual probability.

Think of it this way: the total probability that we are in a simulation should be the sum of all future states in which our descendents create adequate simulations, divided by the total number of all possible future states--which is nearly infinite. Therefore the probability that we are in a simulation now is actually nearly zero.
I think this is the main point that I repeat over and over, the UCMJ is that he swore to uphold and abide by and by THAT rule of law he was tried against.

Being in the military is different than NOT being in the military.
Go is also completely overhauling their GC for the next release (1.5). See http://llvm.cc/t/go-1-4-garbage-collection-plan-and-roadmap-...
Yes, triple-click the home button on iOS.

An OLED screen would be a truer black, since the pixels are turned on/off individually, with no backlight. The new Dell "world's thinnest" 8" tablet with 350 PPI OLED for $399 looks promising, http://www.androidcentral.com/dell-venue-8-7840-qhd-display-...
I'd go with Affiliate links and mark them as such. This is a matter of trust, because there's clearly a conflict of interest. If you recommend something and get money for the recommendation, how good are your recommendations after all?

But if you have a trustworthy relationship to your readers, it's usually appreciated if they get tips on books or software that helps them. If you get a few bucks for a recommendation, everybody wins.

Also, you could start your own product (e. g. an ebook or a tutorial about something), although this requires clearly more effort.

The advantage of affiliate is that you get to select the products you recommend, unlike with most ads.
> What advertisers are interested in an audience that’s mostly programmers with an interest in low-level shenanigans?

Employers?
Perhaps the most rebellious thing you can do to the liberal elite is to be a white person, marry another white person, and have a lot of children. No wonder they hate the Mormons so much!

I agree with your thoughts about "shock" as we know it being a tool of political conversion that modern conservatives have learned to tune out, but I wouldn't discount the effect of some different kind of shock on modern liberals. Certain people pretend to be shocked and offended when anyone so much as disagrees with them, but they're mostly using this offense as a tool, part (as you say) "look how offended and thus good I am!" and part "now I have another person to point to as the source of 'the problem.'" But I am genuinely curious about how one would go about actually shocking those people. What first comes to mind is outspoken, public, mass disagreement with liberal norms, done proudly and on the public's own terms rather than the meek "give me a chance, guys, I so agree with you about X Y and Z but maybe W" contrarianism you usually see. I think this is exactly why people have gotten themselves whipped up into such a furor over Gamergate and anonymous messageboards; the offended have done an excellent job of reframing the controversy in terms of misogyny and neckbeards, but the sheer magnitude of the response on both sides indicates that some kind of shock is afoot.
I’m in my late twenties. What I found was to establish a routine around the times where I find I’m most productive.

So I’m not a night owl and can’t code into the evenings like you. I prefer to get up early and plow through stuff in the morning. What has helped was figure what I absolutely need to do in the morning to get myself in work mode, just do that, and leave the optional BS out the window. So that means on most days I’m working, I wake up, grab a snack, head to gym, show, then head to a coffeeshop and work my ass off (except now I guess; I’m on a quick break :P). Unless absolutely necessary (client fires) I don’t check email, IRC or SMS. I think what helps too is the routine includes something to improve my health, so I don’t feel guilty if I work for an extended period (in my case a heavy lifting session to offset whatever punishment I’m going to put myself through with bad posture afterwards). Maybe try to do something that will get you sweating before you’re getting ready for a coding marathon.
> once saw a technique where you simply write your really detailed log messages to a ring buffer (using a lockfree algorithm), and spit them out when you fail. This is even easier to do in Go, since you can just send the messages over a channel and not have to worry about properly implementing a lock free algorithm, and spit them out in a `recover()` function surrounding your main (or look at them in GDB).

Do you know of a library that facilitates this?
Hooray! Another HEMA practicioner!

I'm from upstate NY (US), and I agree wholeheartedly with everything mentioned here. This man speaks truth.

Our group focuses on medieval German Longsword, but we also take a dip into several other techniques, ranging through history from slings, to viking sword and axe, all the way through la canne and savate.

Like true vikings, we train in the snow (when the weather cooperates and gives us snowy fields). Nothing quite invigorates the blood like doing laps and duels in the frozen north!
no there isnt anyone like that i just want to take some reviews for app but dont know except producthunt any other ways
Many of the people involved have been involved in other operations before. "Strong procedures" should be a prerequisite for funding (for those seeking funding), no?
Meanwhile, there's a few million (citation needed) asians in America who share the trait of having parents with the smarts/resources to move halfway across the world,...

...or at least an employer willing to ship them across the ocean in return for indentured servitude as manual laborers in the 1850-1900 era. And it's not so much parents as great great great grandparents.

Asians got to the US the same way as Italians and Irish, and pretty much at the same time.
Pretty good ideas, but transition fom current-state to the author's ideas will bring a lot of pain.

#1 - Default Permit - if aliens arrived and hacked all of our systems to enforce "default deny" - we'd all die within a week. Nothing would work. Game over, civilization. Ask the author if he'd sanction a "default deny" switchover on the systems that control his mom's respirator.

If that sounds like an indictment of status quo, you're right. But how do you handle a skid? Not by turning the wheel full lock in the opposite direction, certainly.

Hard to argue with #2 or #3 but of course alternatives depend greatly on the availability of talent, of which there is precious little. Just getting things to work requires most of our bandwidth.

Now, if I ruled the IT world, my devs would be ex-chemical engineers (a profession that seems adept at understanding dynamic processes) who have world-class comprehension of every layer of my tech stack AND who were provided with unlimited budgets and time, with proper prototyping and other great engineering practices.

#4 - Hacking is cool if in service of a noble goal, just as murder is when fighting an aggressive enemy or burglary is when it uncovers something nefarious. But otherwise, it's just plain B&E.

#5 - Educating users. I think we have another transition issue on our hands - most of today's users are clueless, sure. But tomorrow's will only be on guard against what works today. Maybe the author thinks everyone over a certain age is obsolete, or that only security people know what's best for users. In either case, let's hope the author doesn't attempt to fit their template onto other aspects of society.

#6 - Assuming the author is right, if everyone adopts a wait-and-see approach, who will act as the early adopters whose brains one can pick? Certainly IT has a lot of gratuitous product / idea churn, and cluelessness seems to prevail in a lot of decisions, but I doubt fastidious conservatism will fare any better.
Please don't. As a reader, not seeing the same article under a different title when I return to the homepage is much more valuable than having the "right" title.
"Stop changing the story title", Donald Knuth
Author here, both by email or by using the aforementioned github repository is fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

I can find nothing unnatural about the existence of a single universe with particular constants that give rise to life that then studies the universe. There is nothing in this that leads inevitably to the conclusion someone has been rolling the dice many times until this came about.
"We partner with 25 schools around the world — including New York University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Cornell University, London Business School, IESE Business school in Barcelona, IIT Bombay, and IIM Ahmedabad"

Educational institutes with brand names are given preferences.. which is kinda biased.. (or in advertising and marketing it would be called a preference, potato/potato etc)
This isn't frightening to me. If you own the rights to your work, then you should be able to sell it to whomever. If you don't own the rights, then you are most likely being paid by someone else to produce the work, in which case this also isn't scary. If I paid someone to produce a work, I would surely want to be able to sell the rights in the future.

It would be scarier to me if this wasn't the case. Imagine writing your first novel, and then a large corporation hires a writer to produce a sequel. How many Game of Thrones sequels would there be already? I'd rather George R.R. Martin have the time to create instead of having to compete.
Do you think that 99% of all employees have bad attitudes, or is it just developers?

I'm asking because I've met very few developers who "commit nothing until they 'fell like it'". Those don't sound like professionals, they sound like children, and I agree, it would be frustrating to depend on someone like that.
I'm mostly going to side-step criticisms of the article (I enjoyed it), because, ironically, it will present itself as emotionally-charged to most people that read it.

Instead, if anybody's interested in trying to limit the effects of this kind of psychology in themselves, I think there's a way to do it that involves a subtle but persistent shift in your state of mind. I think I first read about it in, of all things, "How to think like Leonardo da Vinci" many years ago. The trick is to drop all of your personal desire in being right, and instead adopt a sort of state of constant curiosity. Put less effort into defending your views, and more effort into trying to learn something from everyone and everything around you.

I was a conservative Republican. Now I'm closer to a liberal (I prefer "progressive") Democrat. I used to be a climate "skeptic"; now I think the majority of the science behind the theories is solid, although there's certainly a lot of room for more research. I've flipped on some things several times; the important thing, to me, is not my opinion on them, but whether I'm still open to new information in the field. For example: I used to believe that wind farms were a subsidized waste because all of the energy costs of production and maintenance must eclipse the energy they produce, especially when half of them don't seem to be turning ever. Then I got curious at how the numbers actually worked out, and found that, in terms of EROI, they seem to be one of the most efficient sources of energy we've got. If something else comes along that presents new information, I like to think that I'll be open to re-considering my opinion on it, because mostly, I'm intensely curious about what the truth of the issue really is -- even if I never discover the "truth" about it.

It's taken me a while to change my thinking this way, and I still haven't gotten it 100%. I still can get charged-up about some things, but, much less so than I used to.
I'm disappointed in the number of people commenting on HN that assume AI = robotics. A true AGI will solve robotics itself whether it's already instantiated in a robotic form or not.
I hope they will able to pursue the computer fraud found in the leaked IMs.