skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve always been mildly obsessed with the flat-earth truth movement, the sprawling network of people utterly convinced that...

I can't help but feel a little bad for anyone who believes that flat-earthers are genuine.

I've pretty much convinced myself that flat-earth groups are more like speculative fanfiction archives than churches. The people who come up with all of these theories and defenses do it because thinking about these things is fun, not because they believe it. And they feed the perceptions of true belief because that's fun too. And they form these little communities for the same reasons that people writing new fan stories about Harry Potter do, because it's more fun to do it with other people.

The author here isn't uncovering some secret truth about the world so much as getting suckered into the drama, feeding it, and providing further joy and incentive to the players.

And here I am possibly getting suckered into the author's drama. Maybe the author is just one of the players and doesn't actually believe that they believe.
GM's market share is 17.5% while Tesla's is just 0.2%. There's a lot of hope priced into that stock.
GM has a program with universities doing autonomous driving challenge using the new Chevrolet Bolt http://www.hybridcars.com/universities-building-automated-ch...

While I always liked Tesla's demo videos the posted I learned all I wanted to know about its inability in imperfect conditions by just surfing Youtube for user demonstrations of AP2.

Has anything come out of Google lately? Also, how many programs are still operating on "if we just can map it all" mentality. Level 4+ are going to have to have cars that adapt to ever changing conditions.

I am still curious about one long term question, can an autonomous car speed and if it does who is at fault?
It's just historically ignorant to lump people who fear an all knowing state with people who want privacy online. I know that you personally don't fear your government - but please, let's not write off the entirety of history because you can't personally relate.

> Facebook has no mandate by law to collect information on their users for advertisers, yet they do.

In the age of NSL requests let's just admit that you don't know that. We have secret laws and secret courts in our "post 9/11 era". It's entirely possible that FB is secretly considered a national security resource and is compelled by threat of law to collect and relay all their data. Considering an early backer of FB was an investment arm of the CIA and that FB tracking cookies are used by the NSA to target attack vectors on the internet.. who knows, maybe I'm officially nuts :P
How legitimate is their use of "concentration camp", as opposed to the less automated and smaller scale "black site"?

Has this story been corroborated, and do we know how many people have been interned?
Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Report on Users Owning the Twitter Platform
Some people focus their curiosity on more important things than arguments for a command line utility.
Good question. From looking at it, it looks less, well, dashy.

But in addition, there also seems to be much more compact HTML. I don't know if that is actually the case.

Compare:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">
Primary
</button>

<button class="ui button">
Follow
</button>

or

Semantic UI:

<div class="ui breadcrumb">
<a class="section">Home</a>
<div class="divider"> / </div>
<a class="section">Store</a>
<div class="divider"> / </div>
<div class="active section">T-Shirt</div>
</div>

Twitter Bootstrap:

<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item active">Home</li>
</ol>
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active">Library</li>
</ol>
<ol class="breadcrumb">
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="#">Library</a></li>
<li class="breadcrumb-item active">Data</li>
</ol>
I'm not sure that any of the current browsers actually do this though
> I am fascinated by holocaust denial and the people who think the moon landing was faked. Does anyone believe both?

A work colleague of mine and otherwise very good friend does indeed believe that the moon landings were fake. It took some time until she started admitting that during our chats, and I have to say that I was at first baffled that she actually believed that they were fake and I've only recently stopped mocking her about that.

I also met a friend of a friend (man, late 30s, otherwise quite a great guy) who told me straight-faced that he believed that the Holocaust was not real, that the numbers were "exaggerated" or somth like that. I couldn't continue the conversation because I felt that there was nothing much that I could say, you cannot really continue that kind of conversation without calling said person an anti-Semite and it all goes downhill from there.
I'm interested in that last one- why the focus on that time period?
Placebo effect has been observed in animals too.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about this very subject, and have in fact made a few small stabs at solving it.

Here's one way I think would work: Start as a matchmaking service. A severe, almost crippling problem that many dating sites have is that a great deal of the listings are, in one way or another, not in good faith: scammers, liars, fakes, people who are fantasizing about leaving their spouses but will never get up the nerve to do more than waste other people's time, etc. So you can start as a participant on one of those sites, and get yourself a list of contacts, and start vetting them for sincerity. It would help a lot if you can take a "boots on the ground" approach. For example, if the site is for American dudes to hook up with Chinese women, then you should hire an assistant in a major Chinese city who can interview the women in person.

Eventually, you'll have a deep enough bench that you can open up the site to more traditional participants.
now that's a bad trip lol
You can sail around a torus.
The age of bullshit
I have had a few bites at the start-up cherry; the first at about 18, the latest at about 45. Nothing has failed spectacularly (I'm still using the company I started at 18), and the previous one now has a decent turnover (~US$15m/y).

I think that I have a better chance of paying attention to more of the important things with the current one, and letting go of the ego a bit more. We'll see!

I've only been someone else's employee for about 2 years out of my working life of about 30 years. What is this "risk" you speak of? B^>

Rgds

Damon
I used to work in John Deere Power Systems. The parameterization exists to allow Deere to sell their engines all over the world (different emissions regulations), to a variety of different equipment manufacturers (barges have different power requirements than tractors than cranes than etc). I'm not aware of any "pay to unlock more power" schemes, but I also wasn't particularly attentive toward pricing.
I feel as if the picture quality of most contemporary televisions has topped out for my tastes. OLED can really look wonderful.

I wish more effort was being made to have them more smoothly integrate into a livings space rather than remaining as a great, black square on the wall [0].

[0]www.dezeen.com/2017/03/14/yves-behar-design-samsung-television-look-like-frame-artwork-design-technology/
OneNote, Mac and iOS
Apple drops to fifth place in laptop brand survey
It's an expensive e-ink display big enough to read PDF. Kindle abandoned that market in 2010 and never looked back. Right now the only options are this tablet's predecessor and one competitor, both of which are expensive and discontinued.
Ikea uses torsion boxes with cardboard a lot: http://www.core77.com/posts/26334/A-Look-at-Torsion-Boxes
I've been involved in the *nix ecosystem for a long time, so I'm familiar with the commands/file structure/etc. And PowerShell isn't even close to replicating the terminal experience I currently have.
they're being oppressed by Russia but muslim prbs take priority?
Notice the horizon. On a flat surface you should see until haze. On a clear day on the ocean you see a horizon.
That doesn't sound in line with my preferences but quite Apple. So maybe high quality (hard to say?) but quite proprietary.

Makes me curious about how that homebridge node thing makes it work.
List iTunes Apps by Purchaser – Walt-O-Matic
That's the problem: even with top-notch data, unless you continuously audit the source code, you're still blindly trusting a third-party website regarding tax advice. In the event that something goes wrong, that could be construed as negligent.

Hence why I appreciate that yours and the other project are open source! Because even though I might not be able to use the REST API, I can certainly download the code and integrate locally after auditing it, or having it audited by my accountant, or tax attorney, or whatever.
Twitter, Reddit, and entirely against my better judgement, well you can probably guess.
Dale – A Lisp-flavoured C
https://z.cash/
This is typical of the verge.
It's called aoeui, it's now on github, and it uses simple gap buffers.
I think you are misreading this question. It is a merit of the organization and I think gets at the issue of lots of organizations using OSS, but very few of them actually contributing back. What this requires of the organization is to acknowledge that they need to contribute if they want to benefit long term and thus they need to allow and encourage their engineers to participate.

If employers were encouraging or at least allowed it you'd see a lot more great developers have this merit, but for most medium to large organizations it's a one way street with OSS and prohibit their engineers from open sourcing projects or contributing to projects the organization depends on.
Yeah, I used to mud/moo back in the day (1994-1998 probably, since that's when I was at school), but apart from infrequent ifcomp-inspired excursions, I haven't tried any lately.
The legend of the Legion
> How legitimate is their use of "concentration camp", as opposed to the less automated and smaller scale "black site"?

The defining feature of concentration camps has been planned extermination of inmates via malnutrition, overworking and bad conditions. Size is less important.
Pretty neat looking and interesting site.
Man forcibly dragged off United Airlines flight after overbooking
"They need to be at the advantage, their life and time is being bought."

Same is true for someone who is not good at negotiating, or is negotiating from a weaker position.

"And because if the pay is shit, they'll only end up doing shitty work."

So why not just have the company pay well for everyone?
How much of nginx's growth is, do you think, due to it being "better" than Apache httpd (which it isn't, BTW. Apache 2.4 is easily as fast and scalable as nginx), compared to either (1) The aggressive sales and marketing of NGINX the company or (2) nginx fronting Apache httpd and thus "hiding" the growth of Apache httpd usage. But there are lots of Apache httpd haters, for some reason, and so they LOVE promoting the FUD. And yeah, I am an admitted Apache fanboy so feel free to ignore my viewpoint if it shatters your world-view :)
I read lots of research papers and books. I used to think that once I get big and high contrast e-paper tablet with ability to annotate I don't need paper anymore.

Then I noticed that e-paper is window to knowledge that allows me to look in but never allows my mind to enter. There is cognitive wall between myself and the things I read.

Reading physical papers and books and storing them is concrete memory palace technique. Writing notes on them, underlying, leaving coffee stains and folding corners, adding sticky notes etc. is concrete physical creation of of a memory palace. It helps to arrange, retain and absorb knowledge with spatial associations.

When I store paper I have just read into a stack of papers, or put it into a folder in a bookshelf, it's stored in a spatial space that helps with remembering and recollection just like memory palace memorization technique. If I look at the paper years later, just quick glance brings in the associations. E-paper tablet is just the same tablet every time.

I still use tablets and computer to read fiction and skim abstracts. If I have to fully learn and think what I read, I print it out.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Jonathan Levin's MOXiL 2nd Edition volume 3 is out and I recommend you get it. 1st edition is still very good and can hold you off until the other volumes are out.

Amit Singh has a Mac OS X Internals A Systems Approach that is good we well.

There are also various talks at security conferences that detail parts of macOS/iOS.
>Everyone gets to get called by the label they pick for themselves and it seems everything is good. Except it is good only on the surface. Ultimately this is just impotent outrage. Those who have power still do, those that don't still don't, even if they get called however they wanted in the public sphere.

I don't think this is an accurate reflection of identity politics. Names are only the beginning. They indicate that the group being identified is a legitimate one; once this is established, particular concerns the group has are raised. If you think this is meaningless, consider that transpeople continue to face an uphill battle in being recognized as a substratum of society.

>It is interesting that this also gets shuffled over to the "left". That is liberals call themselves "leftists". Except, Marx would have probably laughed at that, and would have said "Why don't you destroy those who have power, instead of just forcing them to call you by a different label".

Identity politics has been practiced by the Left for a long time. The originators of the term were black feminists[1]. As to Marx, his thoughts may be important but they are not the be-all and end-all of leftism. There has been 150 years of evolution under the umbrella, and lots of disagreement, just as there has been on the right.

[1] - http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html
For consumer devices the solution could be the consumer protection legislation. For example in EU the manufacturers/sellers are responsible for the devices after the sale. The exact time is not defined, but I believe for average consumer electronics 2 years is kind of minimum. During that period the manufacturer is responsible for defects in the products. The responsibility means they need to fix them, provide new (working) gadget or provide financial compensation.

If we would defined that device with a known security vulnerability is broken, the manufacturers/resellers would need to take action. Suddenly there would be direct financial consequences for shipping broken devices for which updates don't exist. I'm sure this would quite quickly lead to manufacturers putting more effort on providing updates and maybe even to proactively preventing security issues.
What is your perceived benefit from this theoretical display?

It seems like the LCD panel would make the eInk panel less legible there by negating any advantage there. Being a fixed device with constant power, the other advantage of eInk is removed.
Hmm, are you sure there is a difference between consumers and businesses when it comes to VATMOSS? Google, for example, charges VAT for digital services such as Google Suite even when you provide a valid European VAT number. (As a business customer, this doesn't affect me, as I simply get to deduct this on my own return.)
There's an eink typewriter for that purpose - although I can't say that I've tried it -

getfreewrite.com
React or not to React?
After raising my own egg chickens and butchering some of them, my perspective really changed. Chickens are surprisingly smart.

After we left our hobby farm I decided to not eat anything smarter than a fish.
(I don't eat octopus)

I like being Pescatarian.

I do try to avoid wild fish for ethical/environmental reasons. Food animals should always come from a farm, obviously.
I think if you spend an afternoon watching their YouTube videos, you'll come away feeling like they really do believe what they're saying. Certainly some of them are weaving elaborate fan fictions of reality, but many truly believe what they're saying. Part of it is a lack of education about the natural world, part of it is mental illness.
Beijing will give its citizens a $72,000 reward if they catch a foreign spy
Five years ago, I would have recommended AlphaMail, a service me and some others were building. However, it does no longer exists...
The only thing that ever helped me was meditation. And by 'helped' I mean solved completely. Even having these thoughts in your mind at all is bad. Practice having a clear mind that's mostly aware of real present things.
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ nailed this bit last week:

> A financial website documents Tesla's overvaluation, while explicitly noting that Tesla cannot compete with real automakers in any sense. The company's valuation is recognized to be so high purely because Elon Musk is our lord and savior.
Having fun with PE files and GoLang
Huh? That is as simple as not installing any games on your computer, using GPUs like Quadros if you do CAD, and using quality components that don't have 1000 RGB LEDS all over them. This is not impossible to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Turchin
Linux.Zariche: a Vala virus
Any non-paywalled sources? The original article does note that "The Queensland tourism industry raised questions about the reliability of the survey, saying scientists had previously made exaggerated claims about mortality rates and bleaching."
The Theory of Constraints
Is a transcontinental country. A club that includes for example Spain (Europe + Africa), Egypt (Africa + Asia) or USA (North America + Oceania). Turkey is in Europe and also in Asia

One interesting example in the group could be Portugal, that is European but also has two islands placed in the same tectonic plate than New York so in some sense could be seen also as a N American country. Another extreme case is France, that extends its territory for Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, and Africa
Probably the new intern with the 'information technology' major.
Author here. Nothing in the post is illegal.

Apple allows 3rd party kernel extensions so naturally you would need to be able to debug the kernel. In my post, I link plenty of official Apple documentation that provide information on how to debug the kernel.
> ... it impossible to have a rational discussion with irrational people ...

Not necessarily.

Many are able to compartmentalize irrational beliefs into their everyday lives. You can have folks that appear perfectly rational in almost all things and live full professional lives. Yet when they discuss their tar-baby, "the crazy" comes out. I would lump fundamentalist religious people into this category.

I think if one is able to introspect hard enough, it is possible for _everyone_ to realize that they're holding irrational beliefs at some level. Whether or not this is harmful depends on the norms of the culture, and to what extent one is willing to act on their beliefs or impose them on others.
1. news.ycombinator.com
2. Reddit
3. Local news site
Deja Vu happens when they change something in the Matrix.
> America's a broken system. How can we fix it?

it's not nearly as complicated or intractable as everyone makes it out to be. the basic problem in the system is concentration of wealth at the top and wage stagnation at the middle and bottom.

the solution is progressively distributed pay raises in private sector employment, concentrating on raising the wages of those on the bottom and in the middle of the economy. this will massively stimulate demand in the economy and produce an economic growth spurt.

the reason this doesn't happen is because the ideology of shareholder capitalism is completely sociopathic and has caused business managers to behave like sociopaths in the pursuit of short term gains.

so the situation is not that we have no idea what needs to be done to fix the problem, it's that we have no idea what needs to be done to remove the deeply entrenched causes of the problem.

but honestly, a lot of these people with their broken pathological ideology, well, they gotta go. they are unfit to lead.
This is correct if you live in the US, where interest rates are artificially low.

If you try to live like that in a country with double digit mortage rates, and credit card rates in the ballpark of 30% for people with an established good record, then you are setting yourself for debt servitude regardless of your eventual income.
Aside from the fact that "black site" is an Orwellian gloss on a form of illegal internment, the term concentration camp predates the Holocaust and covers all kinds of similar, reprehensible abuses by governments:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment
Toshiba Chip Business Makes Hon Hai Willing to Pay $27B
Deis has changed a lot since I last looked at them. They've dropped their original PaaS and developed an ecosystem on top of Kubernetes. Microsoft has been showing a lot of interest in Docker, so can see why this acquisition would make sense for them.
The problem is more like lack of oppression by Russia - Chechnya is being run as a semi-independent islamic state receiving heavy subsidies from federal Russia but ignoring central Russian authorities, up to killing of federal forces that press their authority too far.

In Chechnya, Kadirov's word is the law but federal courts are not. Makes one wonder who really won the last war.
Fat is what gives meat most of its flavor. We aren't talking about deep frying as in your chicken nuggets example. We're talking about fat that is naturally on the meat.
Delete your LiveJournal account without accepting the new ToS
Even from that perspective the US still doesn't use chemical weapons on people.

The only use of weapons of mass destruction by the US was in WWII, and nukes weren't consider off limits yet. Since then we helped to get them banned in as many places as possible, and in general find them too indiscriminate.

Just like the world community agreed chemicals were a bad idea after WWI. Countries using the WMDs use them once in one war and found them so reprehensible that everyone gets together afterward and an agrees that these are too much even in war against hated enemies.

Anyone using any WMD after the hard lessons about them have already been learned is so evil that it is trivially easy to get many armed nations, even those with only the loosest ties, to attack them.

Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weapons_of_mass_destru...
I feel you have not fully analyzed how far reaching silly ideas have affected your life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law
9 Biggest Drivers of Product Hunt Launch Success That Are Not Your Product