skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a linked Washington Post article at the bottom, that links to an updated Washington Post article that says:

I also quoted two prominent researchers who think this pattern reflects a much feared slowdown in Atlantic ocean circulation, a scenario made famous by the film The Day After Tomorrow. Granted, even if they’re right, what’s happening here will be nothing like the movie. At most, the circulation may be slowing, not stopping abruptly. And with a warming globe overall, there will definitely be no new ice age.
I'm merely pointing out that the parent mischaracterized the statement as a conclusion. It's just a guess. (it's also an unnecessarily adversarial post)

You are trying to counter my observation about terminology, guess vs conclusion, by saying that evidence is better. Not really relevant.
non-profits and research organisations can also have a "core business", it's just a different word normally for the main thing they were created for.
Agreed that many CRMs etc. don't have a lot of data. And that's actually good, it makes the database size very manageable in the context of trustless, distributed networks.

I'm not following the logic of the argument here though, jumping from "X is good for Y" to "...don't actually have huge amount of data", perhaps you can elaborate?

With a merkelized append-only log (immutable DAG), there's always an audit trail. I agree with your point about "mutable look and feel", in a lot of use cases there's only a limited set of "writers" and updates happen infrequently.

Perhaps I should rephrase my previous comment, then, as "immutable systems are good for building mutable systems on top". Does that help to provide a better counter argument?
Yes. You are right. Spanish government has failed miserably, just look at the images.

The next obvious step will be end-to-end auditable voting systems.
Same, no idea what's needed from me on most of the questions
FWIW, it's readable for me with JavaScript disabled.
Indeed I would not have created Magit from scratch. From the campaign description:

"I would like to thank [Marius] and the maintainers who came later, for I would not even have known that I needed something like Magit had they not laid the groundwork in the early days of Git."

Not trying to undersell my own work - elsewhere I also write:

"Despite all this, it would be wrong to assume that Magit started out with a predefined set of interface concepts and abstractions, and all that was left to be done was incrementally filling in the gaps."

Oh, and thanks for you contribution.
"Converting the (VERY analogue) Morse key into a digital device was the next step."

Urm what? A morse key is either on or off, pushed or not pushed, morse code is an on-off keyed digital mode. It is not analogue under any circumstances.
> Health care is a huge sector of the economy, comprising close to 18% of US GDP

This is why health care is hard to change. 1/5th of the economy is in the current system. Systems that big are going to be hard and slow to change - some inertia, some corruption. The revenue of "McKesson Corporation" (one of the highest in healthcare) is single-handedly(!) 1% of US GDP. Imagine how much power those guys have. They must have shaped the entire country (laws, regulations, public opinion) to an extent with that big a share.
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I don't literally mean a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi is the Apple 2 of what I'm imagining. I'm talking about some next generation stuff, picture a Firestick with a much more refined iteration of sandstorm, with distributed apps that have hardly even been conceived of right today in 2017.

If my roommate can plug a Roku into the TV, and knows how to use Ableton Live and Squarespace, there's absolutely no reason he couldn't use something like that.

And there's no reason that those non-technical people couldn't continue to pay you for helping them use stuff like that.

And there's no reason that people can't continue to use stuff like Facebook. But I have a feeling that people are going to be over that way of doing things by the time the next two decades are over.
Actually the free market can often be irrational, inefficient and completely unpredictable. The free market (caring only about profits) is what has given us an environmental catastrophe.

If the regulation gets captured as you say that means less, or no regulation effectively and more freedom for the businesses. Regulation has to have teeth if we’re gonna implement it.
Agreed with lgierth and I believe this is what sets IPFS apart from many similar technologies: integration path for existing technologies. As far as I can tell, it has been an important design decision from early on for IPFS.
Because it is a democracy, and an electoral majority of the country vehemently opposes it.
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Actually if the US wanted they could copy paste the Dutch healthcare system right now. It's better and cheaper, though not free.

But this is an ideological problem, nobody wants to pay up. Things like income equality and social justice aren't things most Americans care about. I don't mean that as criticism. The US is just different.
>the democratic process

The will of the people is clear: illness ought to be ruinously expensive, health insurance ought to be a privilege for those who can afford it. The democratic process has considered the issue quite seriously, several times in recent years, and decided on the present situation. There is overwhelming bipartisan support for keeping healthcare pretty much as is, with very slight variations between red and blue.

Barring a major change in public opinion, any improvement in healthcare will have to be undemocratic.
Yeah that’s why I say I stand corrected on that issue and I’ll watch it first, then criticize it.
I mean, obviously it's not allowed. Though, you really had to try hard to get phished through those 10 bright red warnings
You descend at just about the stall speed. It's pretty close to the slowest the individual plane can go before losing lift. I believe the term for coming in with no lift, purely gliding, is called dead stick.

A Cessna 172 is worse, for comparison. I believe they are just 9:1. I guess it improves if you stop the prop entirely. I assume it is less drag.
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>But in every way that mattered he made those changes worse, our culture coarser and crueler and more sterile

I know that this is a political and personal, but hope this article and topic does not get shunned as yet another politically incorrect crime of thought.

There is something about culture that is at least approaching a resemblance to science: it is inescapable that cultures evolved alongside people over thousands of years as not just individuals, but groups competed for resources to survive. Therefore, our cultures--including ethics and morals--are not just incidental to random variables, but the product of the competition and very bluntly the deaths of untold numbers of people.

Since The Enlightenment and subsequent developments in Western ideology such as The Age of Reason, major aspects of status quo Western culture such as god-fearing Christianity have been tossed out as unreasonable. But there is maybe something to be careful about here. We are not as rational as we believe. Even scientists, even the greatest scientist ever, Newton, was a devoted Christian who spent countless hours studying and publishing secret messages in the Bible.

I'm not saying we should be Christians, but perhaps there were certain aspects of organized religion that were productive and the baby is now being thrown out with the bath water. If we are not rational, perhaps there is value in, for the time being, balancing logical reasoning with traditional culture. Right now it feels liberalism has us rethinking and reshaping everything.

For me personally, I am not afraid to say porn was an unredeemable and destructive vice in my life. It cultivated low self confidence in myself, and objectified and over-sexuaized women in my mind. I am glad to be away from that now.

I don't think it is government's role to restrict personal liberties either: if it works for you and everyone else involved, that's none of my business. But culture could help guide us with this kind of thing.

After seeing some recent Bill Nye and Adam Savage productions, this growing theme of sexualizing children's minds in particular is why I want to start a conversation. See NSFW: https://m.imgur.com/26YWvus
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Why a company the size of Walmart does this cross platform crap is beyond me. Do they not have the resources to actually write real native apps in actual Swift? Why is it desirable to code to the the worst common denominators for devices? Cross platform is just lazy. And React “Native” is inferior to actual native.
The Post Office usually loses money:

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/306224-us-postal-services-...

I don’t know the right answer but starting with a good system that works seems like a good idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
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So calling someone an arrogant jackass is bad, but advocating “ I think we should start throwing lawyers in jail for such bullshit laws until you hit one powerful enough and watch the bullshit law suddenly disappear“ is fair discourse?

HN is a disgusting cesspool, and always has been, because mods pretty much say “anything goes” when talking about outgroups (anyone who isn’t a white male engineer) while clamping down on any sort of attempt to identify the groupthink bullshit.
In economics "rational" has a very specific, technical meaning, specifically acting in the way that is most profitable. So I'm not 100% sure I understand what you mean when you say that free markets can be irrational by caring only about profits and I would suspect that we are speaking past each other.

Regulation doesn't "get captured." Regulatory capture is where a monopolist captures a market by means of regulation. For example, PayPal invented a new business model: digital money transfers. They then lobbied for and got expansion of financial regulations to make it very, very difficult to enter the money services business. So difficult that for 15 years until now they had no serious competition. Were consumers made safer by that regulation? No, because as it turns out the hurdles to getting approval to operate as a MSB really aren't consumer protecting at all, they're just that: very expensive hurdles, outside the reach of a startup. And the innovation we've seen recently with Venmo, Apple & Samsung Pay, etc. is what we could have had all along if they weren't granted a de facto monopoly that took an Apple-sized company to break.
> Will I be able to see you in Nest, watching me work?
> No. Nest will be coated in one-way mirrored glass.

With polarised filters you can see through such glasses. How do you make it polarfilter-proof?
Indeed, your comment was quite off topic.
Simply repeal the Jones Act.
I never switched to Chrome and stuck with Firefox since Firefox is user pro and not profit pro.
Maybe this person was just an example of the stupidest / loudest misrepresenting the whole. I have to say it was very off-putting.
That seems similar to the economics concept of Sharpe ratio (Return divide by Risk). Behaviours will change till the time all opportunities in life offer equal risk-adjusted return.
This is quite interesting, are there major performance benefits to using something like AtmanOS? My main concern is if something like this will ever be able to run bare metal, and cut out the overhead of a hypervisor, if performance is critical, then a dedicated box is likely.

Then again, this brings us to the same issues that the *BSD and Darwin kernels have, with really lackluster driver availability. While some big corps like Sony might get AMD to build them a performant GPU driver, the tragedy of the commons situation repeatedly occurs with BSD licensed projects, major improvements aren't contributed upstream reliably as there is no business reason.
No, that's a gross oversimplification. The post I was replying to had a link to an instance search including the flag "hatespeech=true". That's why I protested, for the same reason as you, because free speech != hate speech.
Here is a map of the network topology. Open up the legend on the right http://mapa.czfree.net/#lat=50.05831104094459&lng=14.4759189...

The mesh network is then connected to NFX fiber lines in some places. https://www.nfx.cz/

NFX is then connected to the main fiber backbones for the Czech Republic, NIX: https://www.nix.cz/cs

You can read about the exact connection information on page 3 here: https://www.nix.cz/en/file/NIX_PROVOZNI_RAD_EN

Edit: I also posted the map here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376982, so "maybe" there will be more discussion on the technical side of it.
This is completely side-stepping my point.
I don't currently own any furniture. For the past few years, I've been moving every month or two and never acquired any furniture.
Fly to Romania or Hungary etc., and she'll likely get almost immediate attention at an Austrian/German/US-funded state-of-the-art private clinic at a fraction of the UK private cost.
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Please don't bring Brexit into the NHS debate, the reasons for Brexit were broad, and the debate over the future of the NHS is already complicated enough.

That aside, the push for the privatisation of the NHS has been going on for a long time. For example "Britain's Biggest Enterprise: Ideas for Radical Reform of the NHS" was a policy essay written by Oliver Letwin and John Redwood in 1988. You can read it here: https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/111027171245-B... . It sets out a group of suggestions for moving the responsibility of the NHS away from the government and towards the private sector. It's quite interesting reading it now (it's only 20 pages), as despite key problems with each approach being identified back in 1988, we've ended up with similar policies being pushed forward in 2012. I think this boils down to the blindness of ideology, if you're determined to break up public healthcare institutions, it doesn't matter if your reforms lead to a more effective healthcare system or not.

As an example of this, PFI has been used heavily since New Labour came to power in 1997 (and by the Conservatives that followed them) to fund the building of new hospitals and schools. To explain, PFI is effectively funding public building works by private, for-profit loan companies. Before PFI, these building works were funded by government at low interest rates. To give some idea of the burden of PFI on the NHS, it's been estimated to drain £2 billion a year from NHS funds. If you want to reduce NHS waiting times, I'd suggest pushing for scrapping PFI would be a good start.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11748960/The-PFI-hospita...
Belligerent rhetoric? You mean from that wacko mayor of San Juan? She’s a nutcase.
Map of the Czech CZFree community network
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Indeed, it's a shame that this op-ed wasn't written while he was alive so he could read it himself. But then it would never have received so much attention.
IBTD. This is mostly an educational issue. Here in Germany the metric system was introduced in 1872 [1], and compared to other European countries we were already late to the party. That's plenty of time for transition. The last generation who didn't work with the metric system is dead for a very, very long time.

[1] The history is actually more complicated, but let's not get into that.
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You could try not having half the things that come out of your mouth be easily construed as offensive, I guess?

Who is the gatekeeper for what is offensive and what is not? Why would you even accuse a stranger of having half the things coming out of their mouth being offensive?

If you haven't experienced the vitriolic "safe-space" syndrome present in modern heavily-moderated social networks, give it time and you certainly will. When, for example, I get reported and called a "future rapist" by a gang of radical feminists for stating that there should be legal consequences for false reports of rape / domestic violence, then there is a problem.

It was such occurrences that ultimately led to me leaving all social networks in the first place. The moderation is too heavy-handed and skewed in the direction of political correctedness to the point where if you disagree with someone you are labeled a nazi and silenced / blocked. It's a sad state of affairs.
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I've used it before as a demo building something to run on flash based set-top boxes. Hey couldn't process XML quickly so I moved the code that did it to run on a server and use the built in serialise/deserialise functions. Then I just compiled one side to flash and one side to PHP.
In general? No.
Just because you can, it does not mean you should use a distributed db. Please remember to say that distributed, open databases have very narrow use cases.

Leaving aside use cases like credit card information, there are a lot of user information that is illegal to share unless the user explicitly consents. In the EU you can't even share your access logs by default.

And how do you handle authentication? Passwords? how do you avoid user enumeration, the collection of user email and info?

Distributed filesystems and CDN in general are great, but let's use them for things that do not actually need a single bit of security, please.
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what a fucking rag.
Couldn't people build webapps like this today by heavy caching and storing data locally?
While there might not be a new ice age caused by temperatures decreasing in Europe, this will reduce the growing season for certain crops, increase energy usage, and potentially set the stage for conflict. In the distant past for most of us (WW2 & prior) Europe was a powder keg, with wars and turmoil. Only in the past few decades has the continent acted as more of a singular entity, though with Brexit and potentially Grexit this seems to be unraveling.
Absolutely agree, I avoid react / JavaScript ‘apps’ at all cost, they perform poorly, use excessive resources and seem to discourage an engineering mindset when writing code.
Is it the fault of the bank that you haven’t created a rainy day fund? Nobody forced you to get a mortgage, credit cards or student loans. Common sense indicates people should have 6 months of living expenses saved. Many people can’t afford to do that, but then if that’s the case, why are people incurring debts? A student loan implies a college degree, which implies that we aren’t talking about the profoundly poor, but some standard issue millennial.

And student loan default is really hard to do; you can get forebearances for practically any reason. There is zero excuse to default on student loans; they have every payment plan imaginable.
> I probably do watch too many documentaries.

You are not alone. I actually watch more and more documentaries than movies or TV series. Reality is even stranger than fiction often.
Yep, it's there, but buried in noise and superflous info.

Being neatly concise in journalism seems unfortunately nearly unvalued.

I'd appreciate any media that valued a simple information/words metric.

In other words, I shouldn't have to skim read articles like this; the journalist should have efficiently managed the info already.

Not to say long-form journalism is bad, but that's a different style.
This is 2 years old and is based on 6 months of data. Any updates?
First, it was not IPFS people who said HTTP was obsolete. If you check out the original post, it's from Neocities blog.

Second, people tried "sharing economy" startups back in the web1.0 era when everything went down crashing. But in 2017 we have Uber.

The freenet project doesn't change my argument at all because like I said, I'm not saying IPFS will succeed. I'm saying there's always a chance because the world is constantly changing. If you're lucky, you're at the right place at the right time building the right thing. If you're not, you fail.

In 1999 this wouldn't have worked of course, and that's my point. Successful projects succeed not just because of the product but also because of luck, timing, etc. There are so many new powerful technologies coming out nowadays, not to mention the societal change.

This is definitely a different world than what it was in 1999 and I'm saying just because it didn't work in 1999 doesn't mean it won't work in 2017.
Two thoughts immediately cross my mind. 1. You are not European, but more likely American. And 2. You didn't get the raw uncensored version of history.

Show me a temple, a Playboy mansion or a church. And I'll show you a place whose sole purpose is sexual abuse.

In Europe we've had to deconstruct organised religion not because it was so different from the Playboy Mansion, but because it was the same. A scam of power to enable sexual abuse.

When Bill Clinton had sex with a young intern the question some people had was 'why would he jepordize his career for sex with a young girl?'. Whereas the honest question would be the reverse: 'why would he have ambition to become president if he couldn't?'

The understanding of just how we are repressed by our own evolution is not making things worse -- just less hidden.

We no longer sell a 12 year to an adult for ownership/sexual-abuse/marriage in a legal contract overseen by the Church.

The world is actually a better place now. Not because everything is okidoki right now, but because the power structures of the past were not as glamorous or sinfree as you may seem to think. At the height of Christianity in the Roman empire having a little boy to abuse was the default.

Seriously, Hugh Heffner, although not very interesting isn't anywhere near the perversion of organized religion.
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I remember writing a JavaScript simulation to convince myself :)

I think the reason why problem is so unintuitive is some subtleties in how the problem is posed.

Monty does not just open a random door:

- He always opens one of the two doors you didn't choose.

- He knows where the prize is beforehand, and deliberately open a door which doesn't contain the price.

It should be stated clearly that these are the rules Monty follows. If the problem is stated like he just randomly decides to open one of the doors, then you can't say anything about how it affects the chances.

The citation on the wikipedia page does not really makes these rules explicit. It states

> the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat.

It is not really clear from this that the host are following the above stated rules. It is not stated explicitly that the host couldn't have chosen the door selected by the contestant, just that he didn't. If you don't know what rules he is following in selecting a door, then his door selection does not really give you more information. Stating the problem like this it is bordering on a trick question.
>Potentially set the stage for conflict.

I sincerely hope this idea becomes politically incorrect. There is huge potential for conflict with resources either becoming scarcer, or at least industry and agriculture needing to at least reorganize. Further, Russia is probably the only country to significantly gain from it. However, I don't want a "holy war" over global warming because that won't solve global warming. It will just create war, just as all our wars after WWII have done nothing but that.