skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today, we can kill everyone off with an exchange of the already existing nuclear weapon inventory

I'm not convinced we can. For starters, the nuclear weapon inventory is a lot smaller than it was back in the 80s when those sorts of statements were popular. And secondly, as I understand it, it was always a bit of a lie, an estimate based on some silly assumptions (e.g. that everybody in the world lives in cities), which in repetition eventually lost those assumptions.

And yes, I agree with the other poster that it's pretty much impossible to kill everyone on earth with climate change.

Species-ending diseases I do worry about, but maybe that just means I don't know as much about immunology as I do about nuclear weapons.
ISRO’s PSLV-C34 to Launch Google-Made Satellite SkySat Gen2-1 on June 22
I very much doubt somebody as technically capable as Satoshi (or the collective known as Satoshi) would be hit by any of these scenarios.
What is the definition of Vegan when biotech gets to the point where it is biochemically identical?
This is ironic, since yours is a name I know principally from an attempt to whip up an Internet pitchfork mob, concerning a situation you had nothing to do with and know very little about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724935

(and more on Twitter, of course).

Please tell us more about how important this principle is to you.

Also, much as I hate to spoil a fun new narrative wave for you to surf, but none of the authors of this post condone vandalizing the homes of people accused of abuse. In fact: you quoted one of the more vocal Appelbaum critics as doing exactly the opposite, while sneakily implying otherwise.
The dashcam market is well developed, with the only real issue being you have to run a USB cable in your car to power it. I don't think this would add enough value over the ones you stick to your windshield.

For instance, I have this one; it's very small and not likely to get stolen:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UUS52YG?psc=1

Hasn't gotten me anything yet but I hope to get Youtube karma someday.

On the other hand, this product does add value, it just happens to be evil:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934455

A backup camera would be great, since my car doesn't have one and there are kids living next door, but my OBD port is already in use by another tech gimmick…
So almost all of their bandwidth is handled outside of AWS. I would wager a guess that bandwidth is quite a bit more than 5% of their ops bill.
"Is It Ever OK to Quit on the Spot?"

The title reminds me of Bill Burr's sketch about "You should never hit a women".

I though the default was to quit using email the evening you found a better job ?

Maybe its just the Millennial in me talking.
I think there's room for a third category, "things that need to be changed inconsequentially". Many recipes have egg or gelatine in them for functional purposes; usually as "glue" to hold things together, like in pancakes, where you aren't including the eggs for their flavour. You can easily replace them with vegan alternatives like ground flax. As a bonus it is usually cheaper and as dry ingredients they keep forever.
Sometimes, while interviewing for multiple jobs, the window to accept an offer for job A ends before you receive an offer for (preferable) job B. So you accept job A as a hedge, and then immediately rescind job A if you get the offer for job B.
This Company Might Make Apple and Google Irrelevant
I agree, I think it makes more sense to explore the deep sea than space.
Of course ...
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
I think that there's a bit of a misunderstanding about this section, both amongst people who are disturbed by it and a few of the people seeking to justify it. I don't think that the audience here is intended to be communities at large; I think the intended audience is specifically those people who have an ethical (and perhaps legal) obligation to investigate allegations or rumours of exploitation within their organization. I believe the authors are arguing that they, specifically, have no business issuing anyone with a "presumption of innocence" in leu of a thorough examination of the circumstances, regardless of whether or not they find the whole thing awkward or socially embarrassing.

I could be wrong, of course, and in fact I am wrong in my imputations of the intention of others with startling frequency. However, I am usually fairly aggrieved by the sort of apologetics with which feminism becomes an excuse for the arrogation of power, and I am not really getting that feeling in this case.
+1 to U2F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
Good news. Did a bit of investigation, it seems like this could be vulnerable to a length extension attack [1] (though the attack its still pretty useless in this particular case) but it appears that truncating is both safe and takes care of length extension attacks! [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack

[2]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/18606/is-xoring-a...
Why would I wanna work for free for a "for profit" company (or any organization for that matter that doesn't at least value my time I may spend with them to at least compensate for such labor to the extent I feel its worth), esp when they couldn't even give the time of day to ask for that stuff while one is still being compensated by them (or make a better offer than leaving cold turkey, "at will employment" remember)?

Fuck whatever kind of "professionalism" that is lol I'll keep it movin. Plenty of other people want to work with me :D
I'm not a B2B venture, but I've reacreated Excel: https://share.sheets.ninja/
Yes, given that my employer can decide to dismiss me with zero warning, I don't really feel a blanket obligation to give them any more warning than I'd expect them to give me (i.e. zero).

I would give warning to my current employer, because I've been here for a long time, they've treated me alright, and I have a lot of knowledge that's important to the business. But I'd see it as a courtesy, not an obligation.
> These two things contradict each other. Why would Tesla be known by people that cannot recognize Teslas?

It's not necessarily contradictory. I know Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, etc are luxury sports car brands. But if one drives past me on the road, I probably won't recognise them.
Unless you own 100% of a company, it isn't really ethical to give yourself a discount or freebies. And wouldn't be legal unless handled correctly with the tax man.
Thanks for the help! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with these issues.
If you're looking for something a bit more advanced, but still not jumping right into the deep end check out our iPad app hyperPad (https://www.hyperpad.com). We never intended it for teaching kids to code, but schools and teachers from the around the world love it for introducing younger kids to code.

It has a lot of the the coding principles applied in a visual even driven environment making it fun and easy to create cool interactive games.

We're also working on adding other cool things like HTTP requests and sockets so users can connect to servers to send/receive data.
Very cool! Has anyone published any work on using sidechannel information to extract keys from U2F tokens?
Hang on, we're not just talking about violations of internal company policies that led to a dismissal here. We're talking about crimes. I quote: "sexual harassment, rape, stalking, personal threats, and more." Appelbaum is entitled to defend himself and face his accusers in court if they believe they have something against him.

As to his guilt, I don't know. Half of me thinks he could well be a slimeball that's guilty as charged. If that's the case, then he needs to go to jail. But the other half of me remembers that there's 'women in tech' organisations that have been accused of framing technology leaders for sexual assault just to marginalize them. That's why I want to see some due process and some real evidence.
They do get paid by the word at the LRB, 30 pence/word. May they continue writing even longer such essays: reading one of these is enough to give you all the information on the issue.
> I don't get this sentiment.

I almost exclusively eat meat. Just the thought of trying vegetables makes me feel sick to my stomach. Whether that's immoral or not is of secondary concern to me, when the alternative borders on a panic attack. Why that is, I have no idea, but I know other people with the same reaction as me, and it might partially answer your question.
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Angkor Wat was built in the twelfth century AD, and is well within the known technological capabilities of the Khmer empire at the time.

A vimana, which from googling appears to be some kind of flying temple in Sanskrit myths, does not appear to have actually existed.
This is actually a very elegant way of formalizing CSV. For most apps, if you were to simply output "CSV files" using this encoding, really no one consuming them would know any different -- except you could actually point them at a spec being used.

I've been in arguments with customers before where they complained we were quoting strings, and CSV files shouldn't have quotes, and it would have been nice to say "We're using CSJ, please just parse that way".

I think the name is perhaps misleading though, as it sounds more like it's a variant of JSON than a formalization of CSV. Perhaps "JSON flavored CSV" would be more appropriate?
"It is intuitively obvious that an open access hedge fund will generate more intelligence than a closed system built on a pre-internet, pre-cryptocurrency, pre-AI organizational design."

Really? Because the folks with the magic black box aren't capable of funding an Interactive Brokers account to keep 100% of their upside and 100% of their IP?

(Also: risk management and order handling are harder problems than signal generation.)
The spec doesn't specify what the first line contains.

It only says "Semantically a CSJ file is an array of JSON objects which share a common set of keys." You used your knowledge of how these representations usually work to infer that the first line contains a list of keys for the remaining lines.

Some obvious questions for a table spec include: 1) must those keys be strings? 2) Are duplicate keys allowed? 3) Can different rows have a different number of columns? Or must the writer generate null fields?

FWIW, I've used JSON Lines for my own work. It's very easy to read a line and (in Python), json.loads(line). How should I parse this "JSON without [ and ]"?

There's not a built-in function for it. Either I have to write my own JSON tokenizer, or I have to terminate the string with '[' and ']' and parse that. Both are much more complicated than using JSON Lines? You'll notice they only gave output generation timing numbers, not input parsing.

If a JSON-based table format is important, why not layer those same table semantics on top of JSON Lines, rather than make a format which is harder to read?
> the fact that the FBI has no incentive to stay within the parameters of the law

The FBI isn't operating outside the parameters of the law. If they ask you for a piece of information that you are not legally required to hand over you can still choose to hand it over voluntarily.
We can't sell our product without a government subsidy. I know! Let's acquire a company with another product nobody wants to buy without a government subsidy. Genius plan! I can't see any way that this can go wrong!
Right, which is why asking how they came to that decision (instead of using a DB dating back over three decades of development) is useful and reasonable.
> actually substantive suffers a prolonged trickling death

For "substantive" content, this is by far "the best of times" -- such content is very much on the Internet if look for it.

E.g., nearly every interview, debate, or speech of Trump is on YouTube. Good coverage of Trump's positions are on his Web site. So, we have solid primary sources and easy to find good references. I just counted -- I have 187 unique YouTube URLs on Trump.

If you want to know what Trump has said and/or written, primary sources are readily available. In particular, you don't have to take the word of others about what Trump said.

Maybe you will or will not like what Trump has said, but at least now you can know what the heck he actually did say. Sure, this is the first time for such in all of history. So, "best of times".

For more substantive comment, for anyone with such a comment, many blogs and fora are readily available. Finding such things may not always be easy (my startup is intended to help with people finding content on the Internet), but at one time Technorati said that they were tracking 100 million blogs. E.g., as we know here, Sam Altman had some comments, and all of us found them.
> The more we process things the more chance there is of things going wrong.

Actually the whole point of factories and assembly lines is consistency and efficiency. There's a huge amount of variability with current meat based on how it was raised, transportation, age, butchering conditions, etc.
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Just finished this novel. Great hard sci-fi space opera.
I just tracked down a whole mess of Simon's publications through Worldcat yesterday after responding on this thread. Organizations and hist book on adminstration seem like the two main ones.

I'm not sure regarding Krakauer, though I'm pretty positive he's published. SFI are _quite_ good about posting papers and such online, something I discovered after scanning in two books on a 30s/page scanner.... (I've since found faster scanners to use...) Though the published papers don't have the full formulae and typesetting of the published work.
I'm very familiar with Tesla from simply reading online. Mostly HN, but they are often mentioned on mainstream news sites too. I could recognize a Tesla car in the wild if I was able to read the word "Tesla" on it somewhere, but from say 20 feet away looking at the side I'd have no clue what make it was.
I don't think your argument addresses the concerns here. Here is an example:

"However short we make the interval t, something may happen during this interval which prevents the expected result. I put my penny in the slot, but before I can draw out my ticket there is an earthquake which upsets the machine and my calculations. In order to be sure of the expected effect, we must know that there is nothing in the environment to interfere with it. But this means that the supposed cause is not, by itself, adequate to insure the effect. And as soon as we include the environment, the probability of repetition is diminished, until at last, when the whole environment is included, the probability of repetition becomes almost nil.

In spite of these difficulties, it must, of course, be admitted that many fairly dependable regularities of sequence occur in daily life. It is these regularities that have suggested the supposed law of causality; where they are found to fail, it is thought that a better formulation could have been found which would have never failed. I am far from denying that there may be such sequences which in fact never do fail. Ic may be that there will never be an exception to the rule that when a stone of more than a certain mass, moving with more than a certain velocity, comes in contact with a pane of glass of less than a certain thickness, the glass breaks. I also do not deny that the observation of such regularities, even when they are not without exceptions, is useful in the infancy of a science: the observation that unsupported bodies in air usually fall was a stage on the way to the law of gravitation. What I deny is that science assumes he existence of invariable uniformity of sequence of this kind, or that it aims at discovering them."
http://www.hist-analytic.com/Russellcause.pdf
'Flagged by users' - Interesting. Do some of these users happen to be friends with 'Jacob Appelbaum'?

I understand, the whole system is rigged to praise rock stars and screw the plumbers.
Good. You know what? In a world where overzealous HR departments can fire valuable contributors out of the blue for infractions only HR is responsible enough to know, fuck a two week notice. If HR is going to make employment adversarial, let them reap what they fucking sow.
Total market for vehicles (Ford) compared to total market for energy storage & vehicles (Tesla).
That's certainly how it was sold to the public, but I don't believe that was the intent.
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Employee discounts are extremely common.
The fact that the Drake equation can have any value from “billions and billions” to zero is precisely the point. There is a "right" answer and we can get closer and closer to it if we choose what to study properly.

We know a lot more about exoplanets now than we did in 2003. We're moving on to find out how many are in the Goldilocks zone, or how many contain water. Our idea of what to plug in is slowly getting better.

Pointing out that the Drake equation is technically not science since it doesn't involve testable hypotheses is pointless pedantry. Call it statistics then. Or metaphysics. Or a thought experiment.
Who do you contact when that someone is the DoJ? ;)
Right, I've been having the same thought as I interview places and mentally prepare myself to (hopefully) leave my job soon. I'm quite unhappy and just want to turn in my resignation and go. I don't see the purpose it serves to stick around.
the legal action is "promissory estoppel" and it basically never happens. the risk to the employer is very low.
My solar system will shut off if the grid shuts off. The reason is to guarantee no voltage on the lines when the technician is looking to repair.

Having said that I have no battery, but if I did then probably it could just isolate the grid and stop feeding back when the grid shuts down and run the house off the battery.
I can name hundreds of places to find funny images and memes. Heck even buzzfeed satisfies that demand. As does google images

I wanna see the entire game 7 of the nba finals online. Show me where besides YouTube.

I wanna see the Red Wedding scene again. Show me where besides YouTube.

I wanna find a quick entertaining video to show my kid. Show me where besides YouTube.

I wanna find a compilation of the longest homeruns in baseball history. Show me where besides YouTube.

Heck most people try to ignore YouTube comments. It's not really a community at all. The actual content is the value prop.
A cell can embed JSON objects and arrays, so it isn't a strict subset.
I've been down this road so many times and I always end up at the same conclusion. When you consider security, privacy, usability, and portability of each authentication system there are only two that are really viable. SSH keys OR Email/Password. Both of which have their flaws but have proven time and time again to be better than any of the alternatives that have been introduced over the years.
Right-to-work is about a job being unionized. At-will is probably what you are thinking of.
But she's not admitting the possibility of false accusation. That troubles me.
You can look into suing them for slander. It might be worth it to ask an attorney to take the case on a contingency basis.
Many people, including Microsoft, have tried and failed extrapolate on spreadsheeting towards a more general purpose programming environment, and it turns out to be very hard. A 2D grid of editable cells without a type system makes for a great scratchpad environment, but those features are also a barrier for abstraction.
No. Not only don't they, but that argument (that a thread or story is being propelled in some direction by shillage) is per se uncivil on HN. You're not allowed to make it at all. It turns out to be one of our better rules.

People flag stories for all sorts of reasons on HN. Some people don't want non-tech or political or current-events stories of any sort on the front page. Some people don't want to see threads descend into the inevitably shitshows that these threads descend into. Some people disagree with the story.

If you think something's been flagged unfairly, rather than litigating it on the threads, you should mail hn@ycombinator.com. We have one of the more reasonable moderation teams on the Internet here, but they can't be everywhere all at once.
I lost jobs as a teenager because I had that "transaction" mentality.
Absoutely. See also: Waffleimages after it.

This is cyclical, an image site gains critical mass, builds in size and then buckles under the weight of providing a free, clean, high-bandwidth service.
Just wanted to give some context.

Here, I'll link directly to the thread you're talking about, so people can judge for themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726188
As per this article, Netflix only migrated their billing infrastructure not their video streaming service.
To me, a 2-weeks notice is a courtesy to fellow coworkers, not the employer. 2 weeks is just about enough time to wrap up projects and transition the ownership of systems and remaining work to coworkers. I have been on the receiving end of a coworker quitting without warning, and it was incredibly annoying to try to figure out the details of what they were working on to make sure nothing fell through the cracks.

The professional relationships you establish today can be very important in the future. Your coworkers can give you references, help you get hired, or even do the hiring themselves one day. Therefore, it is in your best interest to not be an asshole and leave them hanging by quitting without warning.
Yes, I agree. Loyalty to your employer is a mug's game.
But most of imgur's audience is not even seeing the site or is just looking at a quick picture and then going back to reddit or some other referring site.
Uh huh.

https://twitter.com/dcposch/status/707069168852410368

I'm not saying you succeeded in creating a pitchfork mob, just that your attempts to do so were cartoonish, and so it's pretty funny to learn you've found religion about pitchforks now.

I would wrap this up by saying: things are complicated, they're often complicated in every possible direction, we usually don't have all the facts (you sure didn't), and we are rarely well served by platitudes. For example: the reason you believe the evidence against Appelbaum appears solid is that people spoke up.
PGP was also printed in book form and exported (to get around the fact that "software" was considered arms, but books not).

I remember wanting an RSA t-shirt at the time (A t-shirt with the RSA algorithm on it, which is/was considered "munitions" - and not for export).
Strictly speaking, there's only a pair of gardening shears between "what you are" and "what you have".
Direct link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565v1.pdf
On friends winding up at SFI: that's good to hear multiple ways -- for your friends, your familiarity, and yet another endorsement of the Institute.

Thinking in Systems (and not just Meadows' book) is something I'd also like to see developed more fully. Big History is more than that, but it's also one logical development -- systems pervasive throughout the academic curriculum. I think that's a powerful concept.

There's also the possiblity that many people don't and cannot get systems thinking. Another author I've been reading, William Ophuls (most especially Plato's Revenge) discusses this in the context of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, and comes to sobering conclusions regarding facing social challenges based on typical population cognitive foundations. Basing your Solution to the World's Problems on "all the children are above average" is bound to fail.

Thanks again for your time.