skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suffice to say that generating believable fictions ... is a tough nut to crack.

Dwarf Fortress has smashed this nut to smithereens. Too bad it requires significant computing resources and a huge amount of programming work to implement.
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One of the things about Amazon - they really don't make money. Actually, they are profitable, but only microscopically. All of that great stuff that we get shipped for free with 5% back costs a lot of money. The business model is to crush the competition then profit.
It's pixelated and ugly at the road-level but it seems accurate at least for my neighborhood.

Will definitely bookmark for when we buy. Road noise = less desirable.
This gives me hope. I realize you don't want to share personal information, but assuming you do have felonies (or even if you don't), how did you get into a position of making 200k base? Are you working for a small or larger company? I'm also assuming you're in SV.
Once I finish school (I live in the Midwest) I plan on moving to the northwest or SV. Or really wherever I have the best chances with.
I've been running my own email server since... forever. In 1985 it was uucp ! paths and sendmail. I got a "for real" domain just for email in 1993, still over uucp dialup. DSL always on in 1999. But it does become harder as time goes on.
Is there a good reason why a representative would vote in favor of this?
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Reading startupdiscuss' response, I was saying to my self, no way Google discontinues Gmail, that's just silly. Then I read your reply and my heart rate went up. I've really got to look into alternative paid replacements for Google's services. I have my whole domain tied to my Google account, and that's making me feel uneasy now that I think about it.
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Seems that the filtering occurs on the ship. A slurry is pumped up to the ship, where filtering occurs, with the sand being returned to the site.
Only in English because, in Malayalam 'ma' and 'am' would be different letters.
What do you think creates more pollution between:

1. All airlines in the world.
2. All cars in the world.
3. All factories in the world.
4. All rockets in the world.

Right now, I think that 1, 2 and 3 combined have much deeper consequences than 4.
I pay $800 for rent and once my monthly insurance cost got to $800 a month I canceled it and claimed "religious exemption" on my taxes.

Including deductibles, I would have paid over $12000 a year. Plus my wife used a birth center instead of a regular OB for delivery. That wasn't covered by insurance either, so my potential max per year on "healthcare" was $16,000.

That basically means that unless I get cancer, it is cheaper to forgo insurance, which is what I did. Now I'm actually saving money and getting ready to finally build/buy a house.

Screw healthcare.
The article lists demand-side and supply-side substitution as 2 of the 3 key factors, which basically means 'if a monopolist changes the price in this product, how much does it affect supply or demand in the other product', and then says that products at exhibit substitution are in the same markets.

The problem with these definitions as applied to the tech industry in particular is that oftentimes the 'price' the consumer pays is non-monetary.

For example, should Google's dominance in the search industry preclude it from cross-promoting its other services?

If both search and also the product it's cross-promoting are free, how should courts go about figuring out whether that's ok?

Presumably Google is getting paid in data, and is turning that data into money via Ads, but the actual accounting of how much that data is worth is only something that Google has access to -- and then to see how this works for competitors, the court would also need the proprietary internal numbers for them too.
> Truth be told, I'm not that big of a reader.

> which appeals to me

I think I can tell exactly what kind of person you are...
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And what if they don't publish the protocol? Do we block downloads of their client?

Even if we assume they are American companies, and we can sue them if they violate the rule; how on EARTH would we define an IM protocol broadly enough to avoid an easy avoidance of the law, but narrowly enough to not basically block all proprietary protocols?
Don't forget Messages!
I think the OP here hit the nail on the head: if you don't like it, leave. He has no right to demand a web property owner appease his every whim. The owner has every right to have modals on their site. Just like Walmart has every (legal) right to mistreat their employees. So I don't shop there.
At the bottom, in tiny font, there is a "change account" link that gives you the ability to switch that call to a different Google account.

It's tiny, you might have missed it...
If you do talk with your representatives, remind them this essentially means their browsing history, and the histories of their families, their constituents, and their constituents families will be available for sale at best, or once collected and sold are highly likely to be in a databreach before long. The aggregate of that information will be used to treat those people differently in some aspect or another.
I would disagree about professional licensure, and think the same arguments apply there as in other areas, although maybe in different ways. In fact, I think the problem in licensed professions is even worse, because assumptions are never questioned, to avoid being called reckless, and have the weight of law.

In fact, I think this is a prime problem with healthcare in the US in the moment.

The problem James outlines is the same with professional fields: we assume that license X, which often requires degree A, is necessary for competence in an area, and that competence cannot be achieved in an area in any other way. As a result, we stop actually paying attention to competency per se, and focus on licensure, which is not the same. As a result of that, we lose choice: any other way of meeting a demand is assumed to be illegitimate and unsafe, which is untrue. Competition is lost, and monopoly is gained.

In your example, for instance, you suggest a hypothetical case where someone doesn't have a dental degree. But in reality, it's almost certainly not that that person would have no degree at all, and no experience, it's that they would have a different sort of degree, with a different sort of experience.

Dentists are maybe a poor example, because if anything, their profession is an example of one that is being stifled by current practice. I suspect that they are in a position to learn to do a lot more than they are, and are held back by professional licensing laws relative to MDs.

The appropriate example isn't "would you hire someone without a dental degree to treat your cavity?" It's "would you hire a dentist with appropriate surgical training to do jaw surgery?" Would you hire an optometrist with years of opthomological surgery training to do LASIK surgery? Would you hire a psychologist with pharmacology training to prescribe you lithium, or a psychologist with appropriate training to do TMS treatment of your depression? Would you trust your pharmacist to pick the right antibiotic for your infection, that has been precisely characterized by a lab already? What about a neuroscientist with clinical training to interpret your MRI scan?

Licenses, although well-intended, have become hindrances to lower cost and better choice. The tail is wagging the dog in professional fields exactly the way James suggested over a century ago.
> find it interesting that there is less confusion about Apple Messages

The reason people aren't confused is because Apple just renamed the app on people's iPhones but didn't screw anything up for them. They were never forced to switch from one app to another app, never had multiple apps that did roughly the same thing with competing standards, and they didn't migrate users from one platform to another losing data in the process.
Here's the poster for "Eyes wide shut" mentioned in the article: http://polishpostershop.com/plakat/leszek-zebrowski/oczy-sze...
And here's a nice gallery: https://wellmedicated.com/50-incredible-film-posters-from-po...
Yeah, people can still run their own mail servers without too much work. I've had one for a couple years but I ran into issues with Google tagging my mail as spam at first. It was a while back but I think they want domain owners to verify their ownership with Google's webmaster tools.[1]

My server worked better after adding a TXT record with google-site-verification + all the normal DKIM stuff.

EDIT: here's a better link https://support.google.com/a/answer/183895?hl=en

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en
If you're interested, read these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_%28computer_science%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_%28computer_science%29
They read papers prepared by lobbyists, think "makes sense" and vote for it. That's how law making often works.
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The actual replies that comment got are completely benign:

"Sea ice melting doesn't cause sea level increases."

"Arctic sea ice thickness and volume are decreasing too."

The word "denialist" only came up when someone tried to explain to this person why they got downvoted. And it doesn't even accuse the commenter of being one, it just says that their argument is along those lines, and explicitly admits the possibility that it's unintentional.

The quote you dislike didn't come out until some other person posted a comment trying to defend the "denialist" side, and incidentally using a dishonest summary of part of the article to do it.

I really don't see what you want here. What you say should have been done seems to be what was done.

Edit: also, how many people do I think actually understand buoyancy on HN? All of them.
> From CS point of view + is just a function name just like any other.

From a Go point of view, it isn't.
Education. A lot of science simulations I would use for my classes are Java Applets. Also the equation editor I have to use for creating tests (yes it's web based...) is a java applet.

It's a total nightmare because most of it is abandonware or is still for sale but unmaintained!
Can you be more specific on what you mean about "existing tooling"?. I work in a Ruby shop and am very curious to try Crystal.
Same as any potentially unbound variable, by providing a (possibly empty) default value:

if [ "${1:-}" == "my awesome value" ]; then ...
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>> - It requires more planning to do anything

> That's the idea. You think about what you're going to write in a strongly typed language rather than just throwing stuff at the wall hoping that something will stick.

I think this is a valid point for developers who only have a few years of experience but I've been coding professionally for over a decade now - I don't need the compiler to artificially slow me down - I'd rather spend my mental energy thinking about the algorithm/architecture in its purest form without getting caught up in trying to satisfy the compiler's tedious requirements.

For me programming in a typed language is like using software that always asks you "are you sure you want to do this?" every time you tell it to do something. It's OK if you're a beginner, but I just find it frustrating.

I spent many years programming in ActionScript 3 and then Java so I feel like I've given typed languages a fair shot.
Keep it simple. All protocols for communication and data formats for storage must be published as open source or public domain. This is to prevent or reduce lockin, walled gardens, etc. No other change. They can still compete in numerous other ways.
Well, after starting at the posted article and going back several layers, it isn't really clear to me what sort of simulation is being discussed... only a "computer" simulation. But what sort of computer? Plenty of room to speculate.

There was another aspect- the argument that we are in a simulation created by descendants of humanity to study their past- a purpose that would be hard to reconcile with most religious beliefs about the purpose of life.

I was primarily replying to the idea of this life being a simulation, not so much the purpose of that simulation, though.
Most flight trajectories can be described with perfectly fine accuracy by a low number of consecutive line segments. But yeah, storing raw radar points in some RDS is going to slow you right down. I wouldn't put signal sample data into Postgres either.
Is your phone's Do Not Disturb feature broken?
The problem with security was already well known:

"The first principle was security: The principle that every syntactically incorrect program should be
rejected by the compiler and that every syntactically correct program should give a result or an
error message that was predictable and comprehensible in terms of the source language program
itself. Thus no core dumps should ever be necessary. It was logically impossible for any source
language program to cause the computer to run wild, either at compile time or at run time. A
consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted
variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared
bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide
an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs.
Unanimously, they urged us not to - they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on
production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that
even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch
of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the
law."

-- The Emperor’s Old Clothes By C.A.R. Hoare Communications of the ACM, 1981

As for exploits in the wild, before the UNIX worm there were the game cheats on home micros.
On the list of computing tasks I do every day, running my email server is WAY down there on the list of difficulty. Email servers are probably even easier than web servers.
Aaron, thanks for the link. Do you have the audio of these videos hosted anywhere as mp3?
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Feel free to email me jarm at jarm dot is

I will hopefully find time to write something public at some point!
A post against modal windows usability that contains a link to a site that use one, that's incoherent.
Trulia provides a great way to visualize traffic noise in a neighborhood:

https://www.trulia.com/MA/Boston/#map-live-well-traffic-volu...
LOL years ago someone in mainland China copycat ICQ. Now the company he founded is known as Tencent.
At least the nordics, I thought. But I also thought the push for tax transparency was coming in other places.
Indeed - the world's largest salt mine operates largely beneath Lake Huron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKIuj4n_8PQ
Elon Musk has already said that burning fossils fuels and pumping it into the atmosphere is the "dumbest experiment in history".

So I guess we've just found the second dumbest one. I just can't understand why some people think that this is a good idea.
I took three semesters of math in college and don't remember any of those symbols.
Both Scheme and Common Lisp are suitable replacements for basically any scale. Most Scheme implementations do implement large (the most useful) parts of the functionality of Common Lisp not in the Scheme standards.
I'm fairly sure I don't need Flash to print FedEx labels, however I don't use "FedEx Office", I have an actual FedEx shipping account.
Why did you leave out the top voted reply?

> So, you seem flummoxed by the downvoting. I'm not sure it's warranted, but here's an explanation so you don't run into it in the future:

> Most climate change denialists don't know how science works. Or, if they do, they cynically prey on the public's ignorance. I'm not up to date on sea level data, but even if what you say is true, you didn't just disprove climate change and proved that scientists are a bunch of conspiratorial UN socialists.

The most popular reply to that comment here was basically saying "asking questions is denialist, don't do that."
It's not supposed to, yet. But that is pretty important. My gf lives in an urban high-rise, and it's not noisy at all, except for the (above-ground at this point) subway that runs right next to the building.
This is such a band-aid fix when what they have is a gaping wound caused by a chainsaw.

I reckon, can they be held liable if for example, someone installed Flash and the machine got hacked or infected? It was their recommendation in the first place?
I didn't leave it out. I devoted an entire paragraph to it.

Characterizing it as "asking questions" is completely off base. The flagged comment asked no questions. It merely made statements, all of which were wrong or worse.

I'm starting to wonder if you're engaging in this conversation in good faith.
I meant stop using google for communication for good, even if they'd supported it, they could drop the support any time
You seriously think there is a provider somewhere sitting on 20 empty datacenters with all the hardware procured and hooked up just waiting on an off chance Netflix might switch?
Really makes me wonder their long term survivability being that way. It doesn't seem to be working well for them.
Sure, but it's silly that it's required, and the "no one here" is hugely misleading.

Google knows which accounts I'm logged in as. They know which accounts have access to the meeting. If I'm logged in as one of these accounts, why not do it automatically for me?
Hmm, a nagging concern about DDT that doesn't result in changed behavior sure reminds me of privacy and the internet.

Only crisis defeats convenience.
The article explains why that's nontrivial.
I'd be interested to see some data on what the real ratio is.

I suspect that 1 in 5 might actually be high, which IMHO is sad -- not because I think less of those without any kind of Lisp experience, but because I think they are seriously missing out.

For any CS folks (or just developers in general) who have thought about learning a Lisp of some sort, but for some reason have never gotten it done, I would encourage you to do so -- it really is worth the effort.
I learned the details of photosynthesis, the Krebs cycle, and a lot of other basic biochemistry in high school, but I don't remember much of that at all.

I did a fair bit of set work in college, but it took me about a minute to dig some of that up to read and understand the relationship that's being described. I don't think I've worked with sets using actual mathematical notation in over 10 years. It wouldn't have surprised me if I couldn't read it (although I would've found it somewhat distressing).

The weird part is his audience: active students and researchers within the field of CS. They're the ones that I would've expected to be most likely to understand what it said.
You left out the actual words of that comment (while quoting two others), then you accused me of not acting in good faith.

This topic has brought the level of discussion here to record lows.

Reply to your edit:

If characterizing it as asking questions is incorrect, I apologize. As I said, I haven't seen the actual comment (because someone flagged it, apparently without good reason).

Perhaps I should say "raising counterpoints is denialist, don't do that". To me, that's equally unacceptable here.
It was named long before the music service came out.
I have to try with having special gmail e-mail address and set every mail that gets there as spam.

If more people would do this they could penalize the host.
That's a vague claim, but such as it is, it rings hollow. Actually, it sounds like a rationalization for using Amazon (which is easy) instead of looking around for a local alternative, and going there (which is hard). I've recently travelled fairly extensively through the US and every city of any size I visited still has a handful of independents, and they are doing okay, if not great.

The next time you want an album, instead of opening up iTunes or Amazon, I suggest opening up google maps and typing in "record store", and then going there.
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We all don't know. They have confused everyone with their messaging apps.
Question. Would you subscribe to a service that fixed all this? I've created a streaming service for personal use and I'm considering commercializing it.

Or am I just an old fuddy duddy who likes to own my music and I should just give up and go to iMusic and GPlay to lease everything.
Yet they don't have the courage to move the GNU stack to the AGPL.
Trying to get caught up on this. How big a difference is this to what Google and Facebook are doing currently?
I have been following it closely but it feels like too little, too late.

IRC is just not the protocol of the future. There's far higher chances for Matrix to become popular or discord to be open sourced.
Ephemeral is okay.

But having three (four? I honestly don't know) competing services from a single provider and playing "guess which one's the evil twin" is shitty.
Yes, Deepak Chopra is not an uncommon name.

Source: I'm from a part of India where that first name/last name are very common.
I'm having a hard time imagining a compelling case that the lobbyists could present though. Are most of these representatives just willfully corrupt? I hate to vilify people unduly but it is becoming hard to understand the thought process here.
My point is, if you say something that doesn't completely damn Trump or say something that can be interpreted as even being mildly positive towards him, all of a sudden you're attacked as a Trump supporter. It's ridiculous. Same goes for climate change. I didn't say anything that denied climate change and yet look at the comments above. Sure, the ice levels are outliers this year, but I think they'll probably revert to the mean in a couple of years. Just like the CA drought. And yet all of a sudden I'm a climate science denier? It's stupid and idiotic.
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> As far as I know, as long as I have the right to use the frequencies, I could start my own cellular telco that transmits whatever format I want.

Point I ("I have the right to use the frequencies") directly depends on point II ("whatever format I want"). When applying for using a certain frequency band, you have to specify usage and purpose, and you can't just change your mind, i.e. you can't apply for GSM frequencies and say you will be running a GSM network, but then run the PavelLishinOverAir protocol.
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"This topic has brought the level of discussion here to record lows."

At least we can agree on that, but IMO the blame rests entirely with the people who go out of their way to defend people posting nonsense in an attempt to discredit the entire idea of climate change.
> They're a law firm that specializes in _patents_.

What the fuck. Oh, you got that when you googled them, and you think the fucking top-tier national IP law firm had no other ideas at all because the patent hadn't issued yet.

> NOTE: IANAL

No shit.

HN is such a fucking clown show.