skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear, I don't have any judgment about the morality, nor any personal complaints with your funding.

Given my druthers, and with the knowledge I have on the subjects, I'd say that I wish what you were doing we're legal.

That said, you seem like a nice enough person with some intelligence. OpSec or not, I'd really not like to see anyone from HN end up in prison. You can do what you want, it's your life, but going to prison sucks.

Long story short, I paid for my education by spending eight years in the Marines. Yeah, I'm old. I was nearing the halfway point to my last four year commitment and things were changing in motor pool.

I was a light-medium vehicle operator. I also had my security clearance. I'd driven staff vehicles and done embassy duty. So, they sent me back to school and my MOS was changed.

My new job was being a transportation officer at a detention facility. Basically, I drove the accused and convicted inmates to court, medical appointments, and other things as needed. I worked in the brig. I worked at a prison.

They are a lot less rapey than they are in the movies. Many of the detainees developed a mental illness while enlisted or slipped through the testing and managed to enlist. Prison is largely an exercise in learning to get really good at doing nothing while time seems to move slower than anywhere else.

It's horrible. There is nothing good to say about it. That was a military prison, ten times better than a civilian facility. It's loud, dirty, smelly, and violent. It is stressful and your agency is stripped away. Your only friends will be other convicts who are not, in fact, incarcerated for jaywalking. You will be told when to sleep, wake up, eat, drink, move, stop moving, sit, stand, and lay down.

You can do what you want, but it's important to know that prison sucks. Who knows? Maybe you'll get away with it? Given the nature of your offenses, and assuming you don't hurt anyone, I'd rather you get away with it than go to prison.

Why? Because I've seen what it does to people. I'd absolutely not wish that on you.

Good luck!
Ugh, servers!

Except, you're gonna have to have servers unless you've got the entire web backed up on everyone's computer. Otherwise, you don't and can't know how many copies of a page or other file are out there. But who's going to pay for servers to retain random peoples' and companies' web detritus? This whole project exists because that's not feasible in the long term...

It's not "crazy", it's pure, thoughtless hype.
You are right. I am aware of the history of the name. All I was trying to say was that it wouldn’t be open source if it wasn’t for the browser wars.
What's MFA?
Yes, Dat sites can be rehosted over HTTPS. See for example https://github.com/beakerbrowser/dathttpd

Also: https://hashbase.io/
Where I live they sometimes put a series of raised "vibrating" white strips before a crossing. In some places it's even only painted lines.
One problem I’ve thought of with UBI is that it may very well make everything more expensive. Since people will have more money they will not need to work as much. When people don’t work as much, of course the amount of goods and services decrease. And when supply decreases, prices go up.
> You're just being disingenuous to be a dick.

Yowza. No I'm just discussing a topic you emphasized. Don't take a disagreement as a personal attack.
Some might consider "employment" a euphemism for slavery. It goes both ways.
United Airlines Flight 232 (Sioux City, IA, 1989)
Without hardware and userspace this is pretty useless to anyone but security researchers right? That is why he said that I would imagine.
Not being a state, can Pierto Rico mint its own currency?
Yup, the caste system was so relevant to the discussion and so beautifully explained.
Right sure, then you'll have something that (supposedly) goes as fast as C and has even more issues! This is going to be great!

/s
Show HN: Hustling Sunlight – Anagrams on Black and White
The fan doesn't ensure quality. It is possible for an empty tube not to get blown off.
Quoting [1] "No Other Rich Western Country Comes Close
Gun homicides per day if each country had the same population as the U.S." See chart.

"Chicago has some of the strongest gun control laws in the USA; yet, gang members don't seem to want to follow the law...and the violent crime rates hold testament to the consequences."

The cat is out of the bag in the USA. Guns are everywhere, and the Constitution permits it. You cannot change a society like that overnight, even with the best will in the world. You can put effort in tightening the grips, apparently like in Chicago, but that doesn't mean its going to be followed. Especially not by criminals. The other part of strict gun laws, is actively enforcing them. One big advantage when you do see a gun in such case is: either its an undercover cop (unlikely) or a criminal (that means: freeze or flight, since you don't have a gun). In the USA you got far too much fight instead of flight, the source underlines that.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-...
So, electricity and a satphone. Both in very short supply there at the moment.
Well for example, T cannot be less than the temperature of the cosmic microwave background. You can make regions with lower T, but only by pumping heat out in some way, which is more energy to do.

Being on mobile and not able to explore in depth, that quote sounds like a variant of Maxwell’s demon. It is correct to say that the Landauer limit is not due to a single physical law that must hold true, but rather a lack of knowledge about the state of the universe and the fact that acquiring that knowledge to do a “free” bitflip requires at least equivalent energy expenditure as that bitflip. TANSTAAFL.
Ho Chi Minh is very much recognized across Asia for precisely the strengths outlined in this essay: his brilliant intelligence, chess-play like negotiations and fierce dedication to the Vietnamese people. That was quite a lesson for me to learn coming from the American education system.
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But how do you see your dash while driving? Do you just see through the blurry?
Am I the only one who thinks that humans might be pretty good at adjusting speed for risk?

Not to sound cruel, but having everyone slow down might not be worth the cost of all these precautions.
Wonderful articulation.

But I suggest that internet is 'centralized' not due to any technological function, but due to the nature of information, particularly the economics and business of information.

The 'protocol' used to pass information from A-B, were it changed to something better, would not yield what the author is suggesting. Google 'would still have all our stuff' - I believe.

When 'individuals' can 'run services' from a variety of physical locales, with robustness - we will see more decentralization, I think.

I believe this will happen probably by accident, gradually, as 'more tech' creeps into our homes, one day, most people will have enough 'gear' to run some kind of service from home/small office - and other places.

Finally - despite the obvious failings of HTTP ... incumbency is what it is. I'll be we're stuck with it for a very, very long time.

If a powerful enough entity decided to change that - like Google AND Amazon together, or the US Government, or the Chinese Government ... that could change. Funny enough I think it's China that's best positioned to do it. They have the wherewithal and the tech momentum, they could do it by 'fiat' and in 10 years implement some kind of 'new, better network' that we'd all eventually move to.

Hey - America is still using 'swipe cards' and doesn't even use 'smart cards' though they've been in use for 40 years around the world :)
> if every crosswalk in the world is replaced with this 3D version, we'll see a temporary boost in safety, but in the long run it may return to normal and in my opinion, our world will be uglier.

Although the illusionary crosswalks shown in the article aren’t really ugly, and even advertisements, like the cute mascots and dazzling neons of Tokyo, can have a certain beauty to them, I agree that most garish attention-seeking traffic guides, even just roads themselves [1], generally make the world uglier.

The solution may be to take humans out of driving altogether and just use signs and aids etc. that can only be seen by self-driving autoautomobiles.

——

[1] For a little creative exercise, try to imagine an advanced city without any roads at all. I don‘t mean just flying or even teleporting anywhere, but without the need to go anywhere (in a hurry): Robots do all the work that humans cannot do from their homes. 3D printing/molecular fabrication lets you manufacture whatever you need from home, including food. “Beds” are now sleep pods that perform medical repairs. For emergencies you call self-flying taxis. Why even have roads by then? Factories and their mines would still need to be connected cheaply, so they can keep using the asphalt, but a sufficiently advanced city would/should eliminate the need of roads for human driving.
Thank you for the posts. They are very informative.
Luckily, the internet itself has provided us with the means for knowing how to get the message out the the masses. For example, consider the following:

This is an important message about "Net Neutrality". The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation wishes to support the fight for "Net Neutrality". If you forward this message, either through social media platforms or email, my friends at Microsoft will track the message and I will send you USD $100 (ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS) by post. Originally the internet, through the DARPA (Domestic Animal Recreational Photo Archive) project, was created to share amusing pictures of cute animals; primarily cats. Later, Senator Al Gore reinvented the internet to be a series of "tubes". Not only did this slow the growth of global climate change, but it also allowed the introduction of services such as YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Tinder. Unfortunately, the telephone and cable industry are not content to simply charge you for access to the internet, they also want to charge for access to content that they don't even own. "Net Neutrality" will ensure the continued freedom to get free and unfettered access to cat pictures and news about the Kardashians. Please join me in sending a strong message to congress about the importance of "Net Neutrality". And remember that to be eligible for your USD $100 (ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS), you must forward this message via social media or email within the next 3 days. Regards, Bill.
Are there any serious dangers of debris falling over settlements in scenarios like these?
I can purchase a droplet on digital ocean than has gigabit and a terabyte of transfer every month for $5. A terabyte is more than enough content for me. I am sure most people could afford that to manage their interneting.
Because the apocryphal crap version makes a nice story. It's like the space pen story, or the radio exchange between a U.S. battleship and a Canadian lighthouse.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160128231021/http://workforces...
I agree.

In fact the “web” is consolidating onto those who have the capital to do servers at scale.

In some ways this is good as it makes computing power more accessible to the masses with good ideas but on the other hand it puts the power of what happens with that business in the hands of far fewer people.
Yeah man, LEDs are just a scam created by the government. Candlesticks made from all natural paraffin wax are what you want!
This seems unfortunate for the creators.

It’s quite clear though that building a YouTube brand is a terrible business.

Hasn’t google made that clear for years?
It's kind of funny that the example link to a "permanent" object still returns a 404 ("ipfs resolve -r /ipns/QmTodvhq9CUS9hH8rirt4YmihxJKZ5tYez8PtDmpWrVMKP: Could not resolve name.") I totally want the web to magically be distributed too, but clearly not even the author is bothering to host their IPFS content anymore...
wouldn't the result be all of these companies (or at least new ones) moving outside the US if they have the chance? Then US internet customers would be in a precarious situation compared to the rest of the world.
Scala pattern matching is the same.

Both are less easy to misuse than C switch.
*For what a failing fan disk could do to a DC-10 built in 1973. Since this accident, hydraulic fuses and backup electronic actuators have become standard.
The mayor of San Juan managed to give a press conference about the lack of supplies in front of the actual pallets of supplies provided by US government. Narrative busting thing, if one is paying attention.
Could you expand on his work, related to CS and/or his influence in your work?

I've never heard of him so I'm curious, being a Field medalist and all.
Sure I guess you could call Aurora "alpha" (but it wasn't named "Alpha" for a reason)…

the point is, they're so confident in the stability of the "alpha" they're offering it as something to be used by, well, all developers. And they should be confident. In the last year or so, Nightly only broke for me once.
Ah... but it's your whole body weight on your neck at that speed that breaks it. Unless you've managed to seriously misplace your seatbelt, I don't think you can achieve the same result.
When you consider the frequency of incidents like this and factor in how sparsely populated most of the world is you'd have far better odds winning the lottery.
From a commercial, ROI standpoint, having %40 of your hardware eventually destroy itself is bad news. Especially since each time your whole enterprise stops for years until you find out what went wrong and fix it.
How would that make land affordable to everyone? Seems like the opposite to me - since the tax would have to be high enough to replace all other taxes, land would be incredibly expensive.
Thats true in small functions, but that's also true for statically-typed languages with type inference. In OCaml, the same function would also be

let add x y = x + y

Looks reasonable to me, and this is statically type-checked
Specifically, for step 5:

git reset .
git clean -df
git checkout -f wip
git branch -D final
I'm not sure why you think it's reasonable to extrapolate the conclusion from an accident with a 1973 plane to an accident with modern hardware and vastly different fan materials. UA232 had a titanium alloy fan disk, while modern turbofans tend towards a nickel superalloy, sometimes even a single crystal.
They have to follow all Federal laws that deal with that. Not being a state doesn't change that.

I assume you are asking out of curiosity, since that would not help anything on a practical level. There is no shortage of cash, the problem is getting it to people.
What I mean is mostly the idea of workers running and owning businesses to the largest possible degree and for all major institutions to be nationalized, such as banking, etc.

Indeed even most supposed “libertarians” even in the US want less regulation, meaning more freedom for big business to do what it wants.
Yay! More chips without results!

I'll link here to avoid re-hashing what I mean: https://www.quora.com/What-do-Intels-Loihi-chips-offer-with-...
Indeed, you could say that the front fell off. That's not very typical.
Who is at the forefront of medical imaging today?
I didn't know that, but I have considered contacts for cosmetic reasons. However, they seem like an awful lot of hassle compared to glasses.

Another question: wouldn't the contacts have to be complex/progressive lenses of some kind? Clearly, I need two different prescriptions—one for computer work, one for everything else. Does staring out a bottom or top portion of a contact lens pose any difficulty beyond what one finds with progressive lenses in normal glasses?
Re Tonkin, for those who are curious, the coverage of it starts at around 18:30 - http://www.pbs.org/video/the-river-styx-january-1964-decembe...

It first mentions that Johnson wanted to escalate so had a congressional resolution drafted for when the time was right, then goes into how the whole incident was started by South Vietnamese boats attacking North Vietnamese islands (at the direction of the US), and then mentions that the events that followed were "one of the most controversial and consequential events in US history".

Considering this the third episode of the series and that fact that the first ~20 minutes are spent explaining how Johnson was looking for a reason to escalate in the context of the election, I really don't understand how anyone can portray this as Burns trying to whitewash the incident!
I can understand it for the kernel. What about Debian bugs?
http://www.pbs.org/video/the-river-styx-january-1964-decembe... - Tonkin coverage starts around 18 minutes in, after considerable context being provided.
My personal anecdote has been the complete opposite of that. A few days after Irma my bank called to tell me late fees and penalties had been waived for the month. A week later they called to inform me that the program had been extended through the end of the year. That was just something they did without asking me if I needed any assistance or anything. If the end of the year wasn't going to be sufficient they would be happy to work with me on an individual level.
I've never read Dan Brown. I do remember a friend reading The DaVinci Code and thinking the book was garbage. I have watched the movie Angels and Demons and thought it was ok, but nothing special. Now I stumble on a discussion of a bunch of software engineers discussing how much Dan Brown's books suck. Most of these people are as skeptical as you can be when it comes to matters of religion and faith, so it's not like they're hating on Dan Brown because of his choice in subject matter, the way one might accuse me (I'm a person of devout Christian faith). So honest question. Does Dan Brown really suck that much? If yes, why are his books so popular? It seems that either he's a good writer or he's managed to hit a nerve that people latch onto due to their own preconceived desires. If it's the latter, then does Dan Brown sell to his readers the way that President Trump sells to his base or Michael Bay sells Transformers movies to me? Donald Trump doesn't seem to have a clue what he's doing sometimes (I'm Canadian, so again, outsider perspective), but his base seems eat him up due to his message. Everyone says that the Transformers movies suck, but I just love watching big robots bashing each other so much that I can't tell if they're bad movies; the movies seemed fine to me. Is Dan Brown in this category? Or is it possible that all of these learned and analytical people in this discussion are wrong and he's actually a good writer?
I've also enjoyed reading Chris Appy's post-show notes after viewing.

Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (2015), Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (2003), and Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993).

http://www.processhistory.org/tag/pbs/
It's a binary format which has 20 years of backward compatibility shims present to support 14 versions of PS. And it's huge and complex. No fun at all.
It wasn't decided that there was a right to bear arms outside of a well-regulated militia until the Heller decision, which is quite recent and the court chose to make a narrow determination based on the circumstances of the case (which is common).
Looking forward to OTR for XMPP :)
I'm fine with there being an explicit deviation from reality. "Angels and Demons" has one, spending a few paragraphs about how it explicitly broke conservation of energy. I'm fine with that, as it fits with the theological overtones of the book as a whole.

It's everything else that makes no sense whatsoever.

* A single lone researcher getting beam time on the LHC, without anybody knowing what the experiment was doing. I don't care how brilliant a person is, you're not doing experiments at that scale without having it be approved ahead of time.

* Perfect antimatter containment in large quantities. There's going to be some leakage, resulting in detectable gamma rays.

* Portable antimatter containment. Penning traps require large magnetic and electric fields, not exactly conducive to transportation.

* Countdown on a storage device with no safety margin. I can understand having a countdown to the engineered safe period. I cannot understand having the storage device shut off at exactly that time, rather than continuing to use whatever power it has.

* Inability to track wireless cameras. There is a camera pointed at the hidden antimatter containment device, and no attempt is ever made to track the signal from that camera.

* Failure to use binary search. (This is the only one that doesn't occur within the plot's setup, so avoiding giving spoilers.)
That's two Fields Medalists taken entirely too early in the past 3 months (the other being Maryam Mirzakhani). Very sad.
I have read a couple of his books and enjoyed them. Not favorite reads, but worthwhile. On he other hand, I love the movies with Tom Hanks playing Professor Langdon. When Dan Brown now writes, I wonder if he pictures Tom Hanks in his mind when write writes the Langdon character.
The three entire minutes between pickup and being fully winched into the plane must be the longest of your life.
Yes, and do they use Outlook or the Yahoo webmail interface to compose their patches?
Once the BFR starts flying and putting comparable-sized payloads into space for 1/100 the cost, I imagine there will finally be enough public protest to shut the SLS project down.
Probably this:

https://github.com/joshumax/QEMU-s5l89xx-port

Or this:

https://github.com/nvsio/qemu-ios

Found sort of via this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/6crw5t/question_...

I assume they won't mind my sharing. They posted it publicly with the same username and have public Git pages.
How would you be able to tell what the balance on the stick is without power?

How would you be able to calculate the current value in fiat, if you had power but no internet?

For that matter, how could you verify that someone hadn't transferred the balance in a transaction that didn't exist in your (now offline) ledger (if they had internet and you didn't)?

At some point, if you're being practical rather than ideological, isnt cash the clear winner in these situations? YMMV if your currency isn't as stable as USD though
Lots of what we now consider symptoms were thought of as diseases until the underlying problem was better understood. It wasn’t that long ago that your fever example was how people thought. The fever was the disease regardless of the unknown underlying cause.

That depression is considered a disease by itself and not a symptom of many, possibly related, problems suggests how little we understand it.
I know we're not supposed to upvote or acknowledge jokes on HN, but this was in such good taste I couldn't resist.
I think that people will still develop the theory. It still needs a bunch of work but it seems popular enough to stay around.
Snopes calls this a "Legend."

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/innovate.asp
> Does he present it as fact?

Yes. The book had an introductory page headlined "FACT:" that said "all descriptions of secret societies in this book are accurate", or words to that effect.
> They also won't talk about how crushing and depressing and difficult it is to live on 12k (they have no clue).

Ignoring medical for a second - $12k/year is actually not bad in many parts of the US.

In fact many college students get by on less for living expenses and have a great time to boot.

The struggle and depression comes from being unable to better yourself and in many cases actually hurting your health etc in the process.
He highlights the speculative nature of the theory quite frequently within the article. It would take pretty poor reading comprehension or deliberate misreading to conclude that he was presenting established scientific facts.