skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But, even if the field adopted a larger/better vision, you still have a bigger problem: Most smart people are attracted to mediocrity. Example: The LFTR (ie molten salt breeders) people have been trying to get their stuff adopted but most smart people (I know of) are attracted to micro-optimizing wind mills and outlawing coal. Even smart people who want to take on a larger vision are still able to snatch mediocrity from the jaws of succes.
It may be counter-intuitive, but Hans Hoppe's views on how to improve civilizaltion would lead to a fulfillment of your goals. It's not a coincidence Japan, Germany, US, Italy were centralized in the 1800s and became involved in world wars in the 1900s. Medieval Europe had no central empire, yet was able to catch up and surpass China and Japan, with the Renaissance a culmination. A lack of mega states lead to more diversity, cooperative competition and a stable global civilization through variety and choice. If we are to repeat past success and get more Faradays and Teslas, micro states or no states are necessary. The EU is an example of this: A poltical wing of NATO. First they get you by passing regulations protecting the "consumer", then the wars and corruption come about. Goldman Sachs made money when the wealthier states wanted to pay off the debts of its clients (Greece). This is no different when Clinton/Congress wanted to bailout Mexico (who owed lots of money to US banks like Citibank/Citigroup). Singapore amd Lichentenstein both have a powerful de facto monarchy in control, but its small land size and population limits the destructive desires of the state. Yet look at the diversity of race/opinions/demographics that exist in such a small area. Until the fetish for megastates subsides, we are doomed to slow adoption of knowledge. However, I am not a good communicator. Might I suggest this book for a better scholarly discussion: https://mises.org/library/economics-and-ethics-private-prope...
The problem here is not the secession, it is the right to vote.

I'm Catalan, I'm against the independence, one reason is because I don't give a shit about being Spanish or Catalan, another is because the politicians here are exactly equally corrupts than the Spanish ones and economics ones.

But what I want is the right to have a referendum and vote no.

Funny thing is that if the entral government wanted to destroy the independist movement they could have modified the Constitution and allow that consult, the majority here is against the independence.

What a majority wants here is the right to vote
Trump is a big outlier though, in both the primaries and the general. More spending usually does correlate with success.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/does-mo...
> Beef is perfectly safe to serve at rare if it's been ground the day of serving

Why would that be the case?

The reason we can cook and eat steaks rare is because dangerous bacteria form on the outside surface of the steak, and cooking the outside while leaving the inside rare destroys the bacteria. Grinding the beef mixes the surface of the beef with the inside, meaning you should cook the inside to 165F as well.

That's my understanding at least...
As a fourth-year returning volunteer, I strongly agree with all of this!
You don't think there are thousands of people working on exactly this stuff already?! There is deep research into this in academia and the private sector which has been going on for decades :|
So after Tesla hiring Jim Keller -brilliant engineer- from Apple (DEC Alpha 2116421264, AMD K7/x86-64/HypertransportK8/K12/Zen, Apple A4/A5), the cards are on the table: they will play hard for winning the AI race on cars.
I would agree that thinking slavery is bad is better than enslaving people but I think that statement is not very useful because it is like saying x > -(Graham's Number) and is not a very useful statement.

What I am wondering where you stand on a more exact statement. Is "Hating what white people did to Africans" morally superior to "thinking what what people did to Africans immoral"? Why or why not?
So, not to be a troll, but can anyone actually vouch for the legitimacy of this? I don't really doubt it's legitimacy, and it's nice to think that gender is not just a psychological spectrum but a biological one too, but this article is completely devoid of sources.

I was a tortoise until age 7. Being a reptile is a bummer, and my tutle penis didn't develop until age 45. Most people born in CA are like this... Just sayin'.
I've met with people from the Berlin mapbox team and feel they are a nice bunch.

However this map idea also reflects my core impression. Really smart people that provide constant high quality content (just look at the blog itself, how it's designed, and the other posts), but not really a disruptive spirit.

Sie sind nicht der Elefant im Porzelanladen, you could say. That is their strength and their weakness.
Hi, Joe User here! Just got my new Apple Watch 3! All I can tell you is that when I walk into a Starbucks, the music on my watch quits streaming and I can’t send texts anymore.

Point is, you and I might know the nitty gritty, and so does the reviewer, but Average User just sees that “always connected watch” isn’t when they go to Panera. Is it BS to conflate the two? Eh, maybe. You want to drill to the specifics, whereas the reviewer is taking a more macro “general connectivity” view. I mean, they’re not wrong: if I’m connected to a “broken” wireless network, LTE is hosed as well. One can be forgiven for not expecting that to be the case.
With the internet the cost is coming down. A candidate could be on youtube giving speeches and on reddit answering questions (or on twitter spouting nonsense), reaching millions of people without spending a dime.

The question is more whether the average voter would respect someone only on the internet as much as someone making 1000s of campaign stops and printing millions of littering flyers and signs. I think by 2030 there will be a respectable primary candidate that campaigns 99% from the internet spending almost nothing.
Also: What makes such snowflakes largely 2D?
> they are not trained or known as cryptographers, that's a warning sign.

Actually, they are. Or a few of Durov's family members are. IIRC it was his brother that developed Telegram's cryptography. His family has a pretty impressive academic mathematical background.

The warning sign is that, academic credentials or not, they still rolled their own crypto, and didn't use common ( = "crypto community" vetted/approved) cryptographic primitives and techniques, but came up with new stuff that isn't vetted properly. And that is a warning sign.

What is also problematic is that Telegram's encryption is not enabled by default. Even if the crypto turns out to be flawless, that is still a big problem.

One other thing I wonder sometimes myself--though I'm not knowledgeable enough to lean either way--is about this crypto community. I know it's international, in principle. But how inclusive is it in practice? I'm probably biased from reading most on the topic via HN, but how much of it is US-based? Does Russian academia take part in it too? Honest question.

BTW I use Telegram (also Whatsapp, Signal and recently Matrix) myself. I just don't consider any of it (Telegram) encrypted. Really fast postcards. But the UI and functionality (especially with the desktop app) is a joy. Why can't they all just team up or something and have the Telegram guys do the UX part? :)
Some clarifications:

1. My larger point is that this license simply is not going to interest a lot of people because they don't have patents to begin with. Only a minority of contributors will have patent claims, and almost all of them will be commercial contributors. They will simply not be interested in such a license and not contribute to a project using it; for people who don't have patents, the additional patent grant does not make a difference, other than that they're possibly scaring away contributors who do have patents.

2. The point here is that the license may require you to grant rights that you can't grant, ergo you can't contribute work under the license. The license requires you to grant any rights that you hold, but you may not have the right to grant such a sublicense. The Apache license, in contrast, only requires you to grant a license for patent claims that you can actually license.

3. My point here is that the patent grant may be uncomfortably broad especially for commercial contributors in that they give up rights that they're not willing to give up.

4. This is quite different from the Facebook situation. It's one thing to allow others to use your patents; patent holders may be much more reluctant to unilaterally disarm defensively, too. In order to get them to accept such a broad patent grant, you have to convince them that this in their best interest, too. That you can convince people without patents to their name to use the license is irrelevant, as it does not matter whether they use a license with or without a patent grant. If I were a patent holder, why would I give up my defensive rights against third parties along with a patent grant for using the software? How would that serve my interests?

5. So, what are the usage rights if you believe that this is a well-defined legal term? Can you be more specific? How are they related to patent claims? Have you researched whether this would include sublicensing rights and whether sublicensing scenarios need to be considered separately?
Pretty sure that rumor is incorrect. Google just had strong aversion to losing hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter, and bifurcating its workforce into haves and have nots. The bifurcation problem is now solved with the Alphabet reorg. The loss problem very much remains.
Side benefit of this approach: the high deterrent camera / possible fake camera serves as a honeypot.
Won't they simply purchase what does have more influence in our lives then?
Alternately, the VMWare ESXi bare-metal hypervisor is considered a legitimate "hardware" configuration that macOS will install under. If you have a spare server-grade PC laying about, or are willing to reformat a Linux server to put ESXi between it and the metal, it's a good option to get a local, "authorized" macOS VM.
Not quite. It'd be closer to a feudal system where your political standing is proportional to your tribute.

It'd be an oligarchy if the rich people decided it should be an oligarchy. Right now though, the rich don't pay much in taxes. A few software engineers probably pay more in tax than their CEO. The CEO would have to stop taking aggressive deductions and tax-advantaged compensation if they wanted a 'louder' voice.
Why does DDG not present "direct" URLs in its search results?

Why does DDG, like Google, by default instead prefix all results with a URL pointing to DDG servers enabling DDG to track what results that the user clicks on?

Google started doing this some years ago, e.g., all the URLs in search results are prefixed with something like https://www.google.com/url?q=

Needless to say, this serves no useful purpose for users and it showed the direction the company was moving in.

Easy for any nerd to remove client-side, but it is on by default and this will catch many non-technical users who do not know about them or how to remove them.

In DDG the prefix is something like https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=

Even assuming no logs are kept with client IPs, and no correlation can be made by any party in possession of DDG's logs bewteen client IP and clicked URLs, this practice is still collecting data. The data collected is not merely what searches a user submits i.e. search data, but also data about the user's browsing, i.e., which URLs she chooses to follow. And of course it collecting this data without asking for the user's permission.

If the company can argue having this data is useful to the company and therefore somehow useful to users because company will make better website/software (a common argument made by many web companies caught collecting user data by default), then it seems the respectful thing to do is ask users if they want to contribute such data. Let users make the choice.

As I recall this default prefixing of results is not something that search engines before Google used to do. Nor did the original Google do this either. It is something that Google started doing some years ago.

Note: Some browsers allow the user, e.g., to preset a default HTTP referrer, to set it to the target URL, to send an empty one, or to not send this header at all. Same options as offered by "meta referrer" except it is controlled by the user in their browser, not via a third party website. I have no idea if the popular browsers have such settings.

Finally, a problem with having bad design choices (such as prefixing URLs) and then offering users the option of changing the "settings" via a website is that this usually requires Javascript or cookies, because as everyone knows HTTP was designed to be stateless. Cookies and Javascript are two things privacy conscious users may want to avoid. By default DDG does not set cookies or require Javascript. (Good.) But if in order to change a bad default, the user has to enable cookies or Javascript, then we have sacraficed the goal of no cookies or Javascript required. (Bad.)
Snowflakes start from a crystal with hexagonal symmetry and grow via processes that preserve that symmetry. See the top two answers here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3795/why-are-sno...
I'm not completely sure what you are trying to say, but this is what I'm referring to: http://www.unpo.org/article/4957
Somewhat agree. If you really want to understand lean principles, start with the masters of the topic and consider reading some books about Toyota. The first in the list below is a wonderful introduction to how lean manufacturing principles evolved at Toyota over decades. The others can provide more hands on experience on the topic and if you can mentally translate manufacturing principles to software construction techniques, everything will start to make sense.

The Machine that Changed the World

https://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolution...

Toyota Production System Beyond Large Scale

https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Production-System-Beyond-Large...

The Toyota Way

https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Management-Principles-Manu...

Out of the Crisis

https://www.amazon.com/Out-Crisis-W-Edwards-Deming/dp/091137...
Democracy is a very silly way to do anything. How many people in your town or city do you think could give you seriously valuable political advice? Think of the most effective companies in the world: Are they democracies internally?

(No. They have a board of directors who appoint a CEO-person with wide latitude and therefore real political will to implement improvements. Shareholders watch or they can revolt, but not much else. Thankfully.)

If you want to do democracy, the best way to do it would be as bottom-up. The more distributed things are, the harder it is for money to make a mark.

The best democracy would be one where people care fiercely who their local politicians are, and are more or less disinterested in who the president might be.
You can tell this is the legit site, because there's "O = Equifax Inc" in the certificate subject.

Haha, just kidding, their certificate is DV.
Like the new Nokia phones, Essential is an Foxconn supported project.
One of the reasons I brought this up was a recent article about energy efficiency of programming languages.[1] JavaScript is ~2x less energy efficient than Java, so it will eat twice the battery.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/re...
Just to be clear, it's far less safe to eat ground beef rare than a steak. With a steak, potentially harmful bacteria are all on the outside, which you sear. So the interior can be practically raw and the steak will be safe to consume. If you grind it up, the outside is now mixed into the inside.

One cool trick to get around this is to cook the beef sous vide. Beef can be pasteurized at as low as 130 F as long as it's held at that temperature for long enough. That's basically medium rare.
Personally this is not how I think about this kind of concept divorced from the geography. But am glad there are tools to help express how I want to use GIS info! https://boundlessgeo.com/ is a highly customizable open source suite for GIS data as well.
I don't have a problem with their hardware design, just how they handle support. I'm specifically avoiding their hardware in the future because of the customer experience I've had, not for any other reason.
Please, tell the whole story.

Yes, Azaña said those words in March, 27, 1930, in the Restaurant Patria (Barcelona) but soon he learned about his error, and the grave consequences of that speech.

In May, 1937, Azaña wrote in his diary: "las muchas y muy enormes y escandalosas [...] pruebas de insolidaridad y despego, de hostilidad, de 'chantajismo' que la política catalana ha dado frente al gobierno de la República".

And then he added: "Y si esas gentes van a descuartizar a España, prefiero a Franco. Con Franco ya nos entenderíamos nosotros, o nuestros hijos, o quien fuere, pero estos hombres son inaguantables. Acabarían por dar la razón a Franco".
For what it's worth, I don't want veggie burgers to taste like beef. I want them to taste like a veggie burger. The ones that try too hard to taste like meat (save for this one perhaps), taste weird at best and terrible at worst. Beets, oats, and beans make for a pretty good meal.

For health reasons I don't eat much beef these days, so a veggie burger is the way to go at a lot of stands (or Chicken if I'm eating meat that day). I'm pretty happy deciding between the two instead of choosing one instead of the other.

I can appreciate the ideal of a marketable plant based product that tastes like beef but from a culinary standpoint I think it makes sense to just enjoy it for what it is. No one is trying to make Falafel taste like pulled pork. It's good as it is.
I am actually amazed at how little money is needed to influence politicians.

Lobbying exists because the return on investment is ridiculously high in favor of person asking for favorable treatment from politicians in policy making. It is peanuts invested and Boeing 747s harvested.

If anything the cost of buying a politician should increase multiple orders of magnitude. Currently hundred, two hundred thousands to a senator's re-election campaign can buy really serious attention to your concerns. It needs to be hundreds of millions to buy a senator.

Politicians should start Patreon campaigns to get livable wages from supporters and then just execute on what they stand for. Bernie and Trump was essentially that, self/people funded efforts.
Feel free to see all of his photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexey_kljatov

I'm more than mesmerized by his work; just stunning, I'm in complete awe!
Why should we care about the correlation? It's apparent that an election isn't an auction.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-snowflake...
Sounds pretty self-evident to me.
>The fundamental geostrategical priority for Russia is to maintain control (or at least good relations with, see Belarus) of the buffer regions around its densely populated regions.

Invading your neighbours is ok, if you'll just call it 'good relations'?

>That is why there are “tensions” when your neighbor begins discussions of entering NATO with a bit of USDS help.

Invading Ukraine was not a 'tension' and had nothing to do with NATO. Russia used another pretense.
Try to distinguish what is real and what is not in The Hobbit.

Afaik, except the dialog scenes, practically everything is CGI.
Shooting from the hip here, but another hexagonal crystal, graphite, is strong laterally but not between its lattices.
Watch the NASA video linked towards the end. Explains the H2O bonds and how the crystals always form to 6 sides. Temperature, Pressure, etc... trigger different patterns.
Nope, you have no clue :) thats what a trackpad is good for. The trackpad is easily reachable with your thumb without leaving your fingers too much from the keyboard (most linux distros have the right of the trackpad configured as scroll area). So no annoying multi finger scrolling needed.

Furthermore, middle mouse button + trackpoint scrolls as well, so scrolling really isn't an issue.
The question is: are any of them still working there?
How Venezuela went from a rich democracy to a collapsing dictatorship
Exactly. I've been researching Kotlin as a Java replacement at my company and would like to promote it as an all-around, traditional language. In my experience Scala is favored by language nerds (not derogatory!) and their code, while fabulously concise and clever, was largely unreadable outside of their clique and used paradigms that are bizarre to even seasoned developers.
I'm surprised David Chang let this burger onto his menu.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-meat-of-the-...
This depends on ARKit for iOS, so it won't work on any phones that ARKit doesn't support. On older phones, ARKit falls back to 3DOF "rotation only" mode that is not anything you can't already do in WebKit with DeviceOrientationEvent.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkitjs/deviceori...
I'm glad that you like the book. If your goal was to share your positive feelings about it, "obtuse deliberate misreading" and "bae, you cray-cray" may not have been your best strategies. If you want people to be kind and understanding, don't start with insults and insinuations.

It is also not convincing when you say that I missed the tongue-in-cheek dry humor but decline to say which of my quoted passages you think were intended to be humorous.

I read this book because I had high hopes for it. It disappointed me a lot.

I understood your sentence. You didn't understand mine: I made a clear distinction between data and patterns/ideas. I think Tufte overemphasizes data and underemphasizes patterns/ideas.
Good for initial decision making, but worthless for actually helping someone get somewhere, which is the function of a map. Perhaps this needs a different name.
Democracy is really about changing government without the cost of a civil war. People that don't show up to vote wouldn't show up to fight, so their opinion doesn't need to be counted.