skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also had a dual PIII-450 machine (alias “Mad Cow”)

Did you ever use that machine for BeShare back in the day? Because that name associated with BeOS really stands out in my memory. Or maybe, were you on Usenet back then?

Sorry for the pointed questions, just trying to sort out where I remember you from. I discovered BeOS a few months before they folded, and managed to buy 5.0 Pro while it was still being sold by GoBe. I still have my disc and book to this day along with the BeOS Bible and Be Advanced Topics, and I recently acquired an old Dell P-III system which runs it flawlessly (I just need to round up a PATA hard drive as its original drive died a noisy death a few hours after I powered it up).
FWIW, not an issue at all to me. I'd not mind working with someone who applied to positions described like that because I believe they'll be smart and mature enough to apply there without taking the titles so seriously and instead focus on the contents and requirements to do the job.
While not exactly the same, wouldn't the children/grandchildren of lottery winners/successful entrepreneurs/old money provide a reasonable proxy? People having been 'gifted' allowances/trust funds over a few generations is hardly unprecedented in modern history.
Inflation is a result of increases or decreases in the money supply, wealth transfers like this have minimal impact.

Consider in these terms. % of economy going to the bottom may raise from say A% to B% but it's that does not push inflation. Because X% of the population has slightly less money to pay for the wealth transfer ~B-A.
That's called the projects.. check them out
no revenue filter. but age wise, preferably post 2001-2002 as the date of incorporation/registration.
Because there's more than one problem here: (a) a small amount of genuine abuse, and (b) a large amount of users lazily smearing one another, drawing on nothing but their own imagination.

If there's actual abuse going on, obviously we need to know about it. We take such reports seriously, and on rare occasions find something. But I can tell you from long experience that there's almost never any there there—just people getting mad at each other and breaking HN's civility rule in a particularly smug way. This behavior is most common from accounts whose comments are generally unsubstantive.

The changes we're going to make are (a) adding the rule that you can't accuse other users of astroturfing or shilling without evidence—and an opposing opinion is not evidence, and (b) banning users who do it.

Just because some accounts abuse the site doesn't mean that other accounts get to sling uncivil accusations. That's an abuse in its own right and does more damage.
This thread is fascinating to me. I watched the whole movie thinking that they had found an amazingly good Cushing look-alike. I had no clue it was CGI until I came home to read the spoilers. Curious if the people that thought Tarkin looked fake saw the movie in 3D?
Cool, may I recommend building an OStatus-compliant twitter clone?

https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
I posted this elsewhere. I'm posting it here so people on this thread can see it.

Thank you dang. This will happen.

More and more, social media platforms have been telling me - or using their algorithms to tell me - that my opinions, as educated and well argued as they are, are not welcome on their sites.

I did not expect to see this from Hacker News. Indeed, after the experiment banning political conversation, I had thought that the opposite decision had been made.
And finally, to be clear, I use HN for far more than political chatter. I read the technical content, and use it as a general news feed (one of my many). I comment where I am inspired to. I did not realize how often that ends up being of a political nature. I care deeply about individual freedoms and the technology that enables and disables these.

Can we find a mechanism whereby my nationality is confirmed? I would like to do this for the sake of my own vindication, as well as clarity to those who were/are suspicious.

I would like to add that I have never intentionally fueled a flamewar, nor do I think it's healthy or a good idea. I insist that you reread some of this after some time has passed and try to see it from my perspective: I have dissenting opinions and am a strong advocate for them. I do not try to get emotional rises out of people, or to encourage them to argument. I do try to make the strongest possible fair case for how I understand what is going on in the world today.

I want you to know that I feel victimized by this wretched thread (and others) and feel that you are blaming the victim for a widespread animosity you can't attribute to any single poster.

I argue that if you take some time and then look at my comment history you will find that it is composed of civil substantive discussions, gratifying intellectual curiosity and more.

In direct opposition to what you've said, I do not think that political topics are the opposite of civil or unsubstancial. Indeed, the very idea that politics is uncivil and must be unsubstantial is a plague on the very idea of democracy. I would ask you to square your comment here with the decision made at the end of the 'no politics week'.
Often reference counting is considered distinct from GC; sometimes the term "tracing GC" is used to disambiguate. Refcounting & tracing GC have the same purpose, but different implementation techniques and performance implications; and perhaps more importantly, reference counting can't collect objects which cyclically reference one another.
Money is not being created from thin air so why would you think there was inflation?
i'm thinking they grossly overestimate the problem of cracking a 1024-bit prime... based on my dabbling in that area its certainly possible for a network of machines to do it, and with modern gpus and good number implementations on them, i don't think that days long, or even overnight, cracking is a stretch if you have a few spare machines lying around....
> Salted cucumbers, sugar, and yogurt

Isn't that cucumber raita, more or less?

When scrounging, I tend to assume that "The Incompatible Food Triad" hypothesis is false ;) But then, I've eaten some strange stuff. Spicy shredded beef fried crispy in sugar syrup, say. Hot-pepper chocolate ice cream.
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But did the holocaust really happen?

https://mobile.twitter.com/pptsapper/status/8103144953609256...
Rents go down when demand goes down. I've lived in the bay area through two booms and busts now and rent was higher in 2000 than it was in 2003, and higher in 2007 than it was in 2009.

When you project a local experiment to an entire country, don't forget that a concept similar to UBI known as "communism" has been tried before in the USSR, China, Cuba, and a few other countries, with limited success and many downsides.
No doubt there is trouble in Syria, but that girl is clearly being used to convey a political narrative. It reads like some PR firm is handling the Twitter account, and forwarding articles to the press. They could be some entirely benevolent charity organization, but if not I would be skeptical of any narrative being pushed by a PR firm against a leader currently engaged in a civil war.

The analogy with Anne Frank is nothing but clickbait or marketing, designed to manipulate people's emotions. That comparison looks like it was from the Washington Post, rather than the girl or her mother.

> She is not part of any charity organisation, she says, and has no help from media organisations in Syria. But she took courses in journalism and politics as part of her university education - and knows how to get her message across.

If that's true, 1. It's less likely a 3rd-party is staging the whole affair. 2. There's a plausible explanation for it sounding like a PR firm piece 3. The mother has some political views, and is strongly incentivized to express them if she thinks they'll change things.

So who knows. I give it 70% that it's some mother trying to effect political change, and 30% that it's an unknown 3rd party helping to boost the message.
There's no question that GPS satellites will be a high-value target in the next super-regional conflict. The system was a primary reason why Saddam was defeated (temporarily!) in Desert Storm. The Iraqis were used to getting lost in the trackless desert from their war with Iran, and assumed that the coalition forces would be just as lost. GPS allowed the famous "left hook" that cut the Republican Guard off.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gps-and-the-world...
So who got paid?

Crispin Glover went through a similar experience in Back to the Future 2 & 3 where they took old footage, added a stand in with prosthetics based on his face mold, and didn't pay him.

Basically due to using the face mold, the argument became that the new actor wasn't playing George McFly (a character) but Crispin Glover (an actor, covered by the Screen Actors Guild). They settled out of court and supposedly he got $750k so this one isn't settled.

Ref: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/back-future-ii-a-le...
I'd say it's a mix of laziness and convenience. Unfortunately this results on 3.5 MB pages that take ages to load, and then publishers wonder why the user is blocking scripts and ads...
This creates opportunity for those who see the forrest and not the trees. Tech-minded companies are poised to slay those who outsourced or did not invest in tech. There are many industries ripe for the taking due to this little detail.
No, it's possible. The key insight is that a "rational number of unlimited precision" can be used to store an arbitrarily large amount of data; it can emulate a Turing machine's unlimited working tape.
I saw it in 3D (hated it, really want to see in non-3D) and couldn't tell he was CGI either.
Around the ten minute mark when the forklift puts the piece back in the furnace you can see off to the side someone throws water on the ground in front of the furnace so as not to melt the forklift's tires. Gives some idea of the temperatures involved and working conditions.
So the solution is to meddle more and this time 'the west' will shit unicorns and rainbows right?

That's why many people don't want their government to meddle in it and why it's not 'everyone in the west's' failing. Of course, these people didn't want to meddle in the first place.
How do you define "popularity"? UNIX is found in many devices end users don't think of as being "computers" at all.

The best software is the software users don't even realize is there, because it just works.
What's funny is Facebook -> has a publically faced image server that has NO authentication required to see even private messages. When FB Security was contacted ... they say it was not a "guessable" URL, ergo security through obscurity was their "security method" of choice. This was two days ago.

If anyone wants to test this theory - setup 2 FB accounts, message an image one FB account to the other. Click on the image with the second account (to bring up the lightbox custom thingy they have). Drag that image into notepad (to get the URL)... then try and logout of both accounts, clear your cache, and you'll see the image is COMPLETELY public -> meaning no authentication is required.

They refused to acknowledge this as a "security risk". I laughed, then was really pissed that a PRIVATE image shared between two parties can be viewed w/o authentication above it.

WTF?
>Of course it is not a fully functional complete clone

Indeed, that would require adding a decade of neglect and abuse. :-)
XVim[0] still works well if you're willing to resign Xcode. There are simple instructions in INSTALL_Xcode8.md.

0: https://github.com/XVimProject/XVim
>If you can put simple numbers and KPIs on everything, you can tell right away who is valuable. Everyone now knows who is valuable.

>It cuts down politics dramatically as everyone is now pulling in the same direction.

"Cutting down politics dramatically" is definitely not the effect I see out of a system that uses an algorithm to quantify each individual's value. These are fundamentally qualitative judgments that have far-reaching organizational and industry impact.

"Never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself". When you tie success to a single metric (like PageRank, for instance), humans WILL find ways to game it. Important decisions should be computer-assisted, but humans are still needed to make real judgments.

You seem to be justifying the existing system that's been artificially manufactured by accountants, lawyers, and MBAs to keep them in a revolving-door of highly-paid executive and VP-level positions.

That we see nothing unusual about an accountant, lawyer, or academic being brought in to lead something he/she doesn't actually know anything about speaks volumes to how silly things have gotten. I would say that's a strong signal that we need to re-evaluate how we calculate value and qualifications.
I was actually asked to leave. My comments and opinions have been deleted, hidden, shadowbanned and obscured elsewhere.

Indeed, it's hard to find a place on American social media where dissenting opinions can be argued. There's either an administrative agreement to shut the ideas down, or places (such as HN) don't like the idea of having opinions on their site for whatever reason (harmful to the community) so they shut it down.

I'm certainly not getting thrown in jail. But you won't hear any dissenting opinions.
You have to be jobless to enter the program, but then you can work as much as you like.

"It will give them benefits automatically, absent bureaucratic hassle and minus penalties for amassing extra income."
Have you used Scala.js? Source maps seem like they would make your problem a bit easier.

Other languages probably have them too.
I agree with that. But if you don't want to meddle then you have to quit supplying the region and pull out... Which is not going to happen. Obama sold the Saudis 150 billion dollars in ammo. You think that's going to stop. UK same thing. Germany same thing. The meddling starts with business... but it does not end there.

As Tupac said, " Give 'em guns, step back, and watch 'em kill each other."...
My wife and I just saw this and we both didn't care for it. Otherwise, I enjoyed the move too.
I looked at the TDS spec and it's one of the most confusingly written protocol specifications I've seen. The unusual/somewhat verbose wording, general lack of examples (except for a brief section at the end, in hexdump and XML(!?)) and overall (mis)organisation give the impression of hastily redacted internal documentation and/or deliberate attempts to discourage implementation while still being able to claim the protocol is "open".
Facebook – Private Image – No Authentication Required to View
What's funny is Facebook -> has a publically faced image server that has NO authentication required to see even private messages. When FB Security was contacted ... they say it was not a "guessable" URL, ergo security through obscurity was their "security method" of choice. This was two days ago.
If anyone wants to test this theory - setup 2 FB accounts, message an image one FB account to the other. Click on the image with the second account (to bring up the lightbox custom thingy they have). Drag that image into notepad (to get the URL)... then try and logout of both accounts, clear your cache, and you'll see the image is COMPLETELY public -> meaning no authentication is required.

They refused to acknowledge this as a "security risk". I laughed, then was really pissed that a PRIVATE image shared between two parties can be viewed w/o authentication above it.

WTF?
No, because they are a substantial abberation from the norm, which is essential to what the BGI attempts to achieve.
I accept my punishment.
If it were solely to detect proton decay, yes, I agree it would be very impressive. The reality is a bit more prosaic though, as the article suggests in passing:

"In the meantime, a Nobel Prize has been won for a different discovery in the cathedral-esque water tank pertaining to particles called neutrinos."

Hyper-K is a dual-purpose detector, a neutrino detector as well as a proton decay detector. Substantial part of Hyper-K funding should be interpreted as investment to a neutrino detector.
It was so obvious in 2D. I wonder if 3D somehow helped mask it.
Satya may have pushed it hard
The Game Is Afoot: Research Finds Your Mind Works as Well as Sherlock Holmes'
Some startups are the result of successful side projects, i.e. Unsplash. But if you have no equity
Heard for the first time in a while, the other day: "Health is wealth."

The U.S. economy has far more wealth than needed to provide everyone in the country (at least, everyone who elects to participate) basic, quality healthcare. Not necessarily advanced-age end-of-life spendorama experiences, but far enhanced opportunity to remain or regain health and related quality of life during the majority of living years.

There could still be plenty of economic inequality. But we could vastly diminish an unnecessary suffering as well as the economic stress of health burdens.

If we can't go that far. If we can't, in action, live up to the basic morals most of us claim to have...

These people do not need nor, in my opinion, deserve to get any richer, until we've solved this.

We don't all have to be billionaires, to have quality of life. But we do need health. And THAT is something we can fix, right now. If we have the will.
I don't have time right now, but I'll definitely write that down as an idea for a future course. Thanks for the recommendation!
In the 80's, the was a comic by Howard Chaykin called America Flagg. In the comic, the main character Ruben Flagg loses his job in a TV series because he is replaced by computer generated version of himself.

Seems to me that we are getting nearer to that being possible.
The revolutionary new technique is called "interviewing the parents".
Pilot Wave posits a bunch of extra crap and derives the Born rule. Regular / MWI QM posits the born rule and skips the extra crap. They're both positing something - but the Born rule is a far simpler claim (just in, like, mathematical complexity, to me).

Also: aren't we to the point where measurement makes perfect sense (besides the values of the probabilities, as given by the Born rule), via entanglement between experiment+lab frames, and decoherence of unrelated Degrees of Freedom? Cause I thought we were. (see, for example, http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/30/why-the-...)

Also, pilot wave fails badly in relativistic extensions, for the obvious reason that a universe-wide pilot wave function is hard to make covariant. There are attempts at fixing this but last I heard none of them are doing a good job. So that's another strike against it, in my book.
Not only is antibacterial soap a scam (you don't need it), it also causes antibiotic resistance.
The US military has a system for writing efficient emails that anyone can use
> My first impression when I came to US 4 years ago and in CA specifically was the amount of homeless people.

California is like the world capital for homelessness. It isn't nearly that bad in some other parts of the US.
Sure, that's correct if everyone pays the same amount of tax. But that's not true.
PyDatalog
Yeah, the effect of a windfall on everyone who already had their basic needs covered would cause one-time inflation, but at least it shouldn't be an inflation treadmill of "people get UBI, prices raised to meet that UBI, raise UBI again, prices rise again" any worse than we have already with welfare.
Were you recruited to work on the bounty?
I'm more on the "managers need technical knowledge" side of things, but I think there is value in the professional manager.

Imagine you need someone to help support a team of compiler writers. The kind of support is mainly protecting the team from too much bullshit above, and also just making sure the team has what it needs (someone's gotta get those chairs for them).

How much compiler experience do you need? It definitely helps to know about the constraints of development (difficulty in measuring project length, need for longer periods of concentration), but apart from "street cred" coming from importing within, there's a good argument that someone who's managed across multiple industries will be good at absorbing the right stuff to manage well.

OTOH, if you promote from within, you might be getting someone with good potential. But they likely won't have management experience, and their job changed from "ship this product" to "make sure the team doesn't implode (also ship the product)". If you have the slack to handle the learning curve, it's good. But hiring experienced people for a job is useful.

100% agree abut absorbing lessons though. When you start off with a certain mindset, it takes a while to absorb a new one. But your job is to make the company run well, not to be an advocate for whatever you learned at school
Yes rents can go down if demand drops, but if you scale over a period longer the trend is always upwards. So short term drops and spikes will happen due to population shifts. When demand low, building new places stops until it catches up again.

But excellent comparison with communism and indeed that is comparable upon many levels. Though more niche in this aspect it still falls within that stable of thought.
As an aside the only example most people aware of in which communism style approach works would be the Star trek universe. Which only add's fuel to the old saying "money is the root of all evil".

Certainly be interesting how this pans out and I'm mindful that if this was a whole country taking part that the true effect would take a few decades to get a true picture of the impact. With many aspects coming into play and let us not forget economic migration and with Finland part of the EU Schengen project then that aspect might be more impacting than envisioned. After all look at Spain and the UK free access to health care and how that is impacted by free movement, certainly not inconsequential.
Is Compute Power Truly Moving to ‘the Edge?’
I don't use any P&G products. Mostly because the abundance of phthalates in their products literally causes me to stop breathing.
Pay $1 or $2 to a homeless person, and spend 5 minutes talking to them.

Do this a few times and you'll find most of them probably deserve a little dignity.
High deportation figures are misleading http://fw.to/k0n8PiS

> Until recent years, most people caught illegally crossing the southern border were simply bused back into Mexico in what officials called "voluntary returns," but which critics derisively termed "catch and release." Those removals, which during the 1990s reached more 1 million a year, were not counted in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation statistics.

>Now, the vast majority of border crossers who are apprehended get fingerprinted and formally deported.

>Expulsions of people who are settled and working in the United States have fallen steadily since his first year in office, and are down more than 40% since 2009.

Just putting this out there.
how pissed would everyone be if one of these people became a millionaire through working on some business while using Finland's cash handout to finance it.

even though the taxes from that is exactly what would make the whole program absolutely free - and is the basic point behind a UBI. It really is "free" for the country.

A proper test of UBI has to make it available to everyone.
There is already bitcoin integration. Click on the blue "Send Message" and click on the bitcoin tab.
Something that is universal is not remarkable. People will not make as much use of an unremarkable opportunity as they will of a remarkable one.
A couple years ago I worked with someone who, if he worked too many overtime hours (which came around from time to time), would get into the next tax bracket and it wouldn't be worth it. Not sure how much he got paid or how many overtime hours were required for that to happen, though.