skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was waaay into debate in high school (cough cough years ago) and I still clearly remember how much we dreaded getting a lay judge for a round. You just never knew how he or she was going to score you - maybe on your public speaking skills, or maybe on the strength of one particular argument. It would be like playing a basketball game and finding out afterwards that the final score was based on who dribbled the most times.
Elderly people are probably just as scarce in some of those statistics.
100% the objective is get the most out of experts given the opportunity. Its completely unreasonable to be an expert in everything. But it can be difficult to engage an expert if they aren't there to talk shop. Having the right framework to even phrase a meaningful question often requires quite a bit of context and prerequisite knowledge. If someone tried to strike a conversation with me with vague, malformed ideas and buzzwords, I may respond with a semi-scripted answer because I don't know this person and I'm not going to assume their background is the same as mine.

Its completely unfair, but the way that first question is framed, depending on that field, can demonstrate whether this individual is "in the club" and has sufficient information to carry this conversation beyond the most superficial layer. It would be nice have that fluency in many subjects, but browsing wikipedia is certainly not the way to go about obtaining it.
Shareholders aren’t all ‘rich people’ - pension funds, insurance funds, and regular old retiremt funds all hold a lot of stock.
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That mindset only works without the reality of globalization.
It makes no sense to talk about means without ends.
People who have no hope of ever retiring from their low wage job that they live in fear of losing to automation might count anyone with a pension plan/retirement fund access (and even insurance) as rich.
I think that is the message being missed. They are poking around American servers as well. Future problem I guess.
In a world where we measure webpage size in megabytes, why do people consider key size to be so important? I can see TLS caring due to latency, but gpg? I could attach a McEliece quantum 8MB key to every email I ever send, so your "large" RSA keys aren't a big deal.

Edit: oh, smart cards...
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That's when you discover what they really want it flashy graphs and charts, they don't actually care about the data.
There were stories of looters in evacuated neighborhoods. CHP was patrolling for them. Not every evacuated home burned.
Very means I have made a lot of money with this approach - far, far more than I would have using a passive index-based approach.

I am sure you understand that I don’t want to get into specifics in a public forum.
Censorship is a blight on society, no matter the target.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. — H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880-1956)
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No, QBASIC could not.

QBASIC was a limited, interpreter-only version of QuickBASIC which you got for free with MS-DOS.

QuickBASIC was a separate commercial product from Microsoft which did include an AOT native code compiler.
Sure but then a driver can hop into the truck and drive it to the local Walmart.
It's a protest. Protests work. For example, this paper used rainfall as a source of exogenous variation to measure the effect of the Tea Party protests.

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/128/4/1633/184...

Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the movement, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also affected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences.
OP hasn't said that it's the answer to the hardware problems as well.
Spray it with fire-resistant foam? or just water?
Similar, but slightly unrelated (SSH keys), I find this one of the best resources to look at:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH
But it seems humans only tend to acquire and demonstrate knowledge for some sort of self gain. These tests would then just tell you the general level of apathy of the students and do not tell you how much they know.

If I wanted to know how well the average person on the street can clean a toilet and my test involved asking a bunch of people for a demonstration without pay nor feedback of any kind I don't suspect I would find a lot of clean toilets. I would instead have learned that people don't like cleaning toilets and gained no insight into their ability to do so.
Center-fire cartridges usually have seated the primer with a material that will melt at temperatures lower than is needed to set the round off. This has the effect of reducing pressure, as well as the normal lack of pressure when it isn't chambered.
Startups fold or get bought and shutdown their product all the time.

With Google you usually get a year heads-up before your API disappears

Sure, both scenarios are not ideal, and there are usually other very good reasons to prefer the non-Google solution. But it's not like going with Google is a horrible mistake that would leave you SOL.
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Interesting technology... not sure why the downvotes. Although the price is insane.
> Do American anti-virus, social media, and search companies do exactly the same, but for the US military?

Doubtful. Keep in mind that in Russia / China the state has a lot more leverage against commercial companies. It's very easy for the state to effectively shut any non-complying company, not to mention far worse (Russia and China have thrown businessowners into jail for no reason before).

> Almost like they know the power of a capable search engine or social network for intelligence gathering purposes.

Absolutely, the typical pattern is that some dominant foreign provider refuses to comply with say, Chinese Firewall rules, so the Chinese block it and instate a friendly domestic provider instead.
Guns go in the gun safe. Ammo goes in the ammo room.
Interesting. Will it eventually use vulkano library, or its own Vulkan bindings?
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Do bar fights actually happen in this day and age? I’ve hit up bars of ill repute around the world since before I was of legal drinking age, and I’ve only witnessed a single bar fight between two grumpy locals in rural New Zealand.
https://www.keylength.com/ presents the recommendations from various best-practice documents for many key types and cryptographic operations.
Make sure to charge all your batteries before you leave! You may be stuck without power, and it's helpful to have backup power banks and charged phones with you while you're on the road.
Surely there must be plenty of people like this today: old, retired, destitute. What happens to them currently, generally speaking?
Another option would be to make it an easily abortable multi-step process with a long delay timer, ie. you disable 2FA and an abortable 3-4 day timer starts ticking with frequent reminder mails inbetween. Once the timer is done, you can confirm the deactivation.

Video games have been doing similar things for character deletion for years, yet it is rarely if ever found for account credentials in general.
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If well-formed and well-delivered argumentation is what you are looking for, then your sport is extemporaneous speaking (extemp, for short). You get 30 minutes to prepare a 7-minute speech on a topic provided on the spot. There’s no real benefit to speaking quickly and you are judged on both the quality of your arguments and your presentation style.

A lot of debaters cross over and do extemp on off weekends.
A lot of people in this space now...especially at the premium tier. Canvas (https://drivecanvas.com) is another, but more targeted at the mainstream.
> something like Patreon, but which would take some monthly subscription amount and automatically distribute it to the creators I like, in proportion to the enjoyment they've provided.

Like Spotify, radio, broadcadt TV and such? They pay artists based on airtime and they allot airtime based on viewership/listenership,
Does anyone know how to connect a service like this to a Heroku Postgresql DB securely and reliably?
I'm not the op, but I have the same grapheme–colour synaesthesia, and I perceive Google's logo in its original colors. But if I look at the word Google in plain text (or imagine it in my mind's eye) the coloration is different. [G] is kind of a brown, the [o]s are black, the [l] is white, and only the [e] at the end has any color, a bright green. I have to think about the individual letter associations; the brown and black dominate my perception of the word itself, but the vowels are a bit brighter. It's... kind of hard to describe, I'll admit.

I guess I should stress that I don't "see" these colors. I just know, intuitively, that they are there. They are the color of the letters in my mind's eye, if you will. I suspect thus that it has nothing to do with the shape of the letters, but is a side effect of how my brain processes the language, and understands the underlying phonemes. That would also explain why the vowels seem to be so much brighter, since they are the most important letters when I'm scanning text quickly for comprehension.
You should read up on it before you draw conclusions. It does have useful properties, it structurally is similar to Bitcoin while having the smart contract capabilities of Ethereum. Eth is inflationary, and being valuable is really not what you want in the token that drives your smart contract ecosystem. It's value is almost entirely driven by speculation. Further, it's designed to virtualize the mining process for all tokens that derive from it, that keeps work on chain and creates long term value rather than the ICO which is designed to remove as much money from people as quickly as possible.

Whether those properties matter to you is up for debate, but we have replicated the semantics of Bitcoin very closely, on a network that does more transactions. It makes the store-of-value argument for Bitcoin very weak indeed.
Sure, but definitions aside, are we fine with it? I'm fine with it. I think there is a perfectly reasonable distinction between being cautious and wary of individuals based on statistical evidence (including race/gender/age/dress/demeanor), and treating them differently once you start interacting with them.

I.e. Every individual I talk to has a fresh, blank slate with me. Stereotypes and "profiling" only really apply until you start getting a concrete instance of said group, and deal with them in getting "fresh" data that is unique to them.
Assume have an equation like `Energy = 0`, where `Energy = Mass + Photons`. It works great for almost everything, we can get the curvature of space by `f(Energy)` where `f(Photons) = 0`.

However there's this one experiment that says the answer is `Energy = 42`. `f(x)` is still useful, everything else works.

We can just amend the equation to be: `Energy = Mass + Photons + DarkMatter` where `DarkMatter = -42` and `f(DarkMatter) = 0`.

Or we can keep the E=M+P but change the way f works to be: `f(Photons, X) = Y` where for almost any value `f(Photons, X') = 0` and in this one case `f(Photons, X") = 42`.

To me it's clear that the first approach is less complicated. The first approach raises one question, "why -42?" The second approach raises "why does X?" exist and "why 42?"

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By the way, you are mistaken, we do interact with Dark Matter, that's how we detected it (Bullet Cluster). Gravity does interact with it.
The comment above you directly disputes it.

How is it indisputable? Please don't forget your citations.
At this point you just assume that any sufficiently large company based in Russia with capabilities of misusing their power in a way to profit Russian state government will be coerced into doing so or go out of business at some point. Russian thugs have no issues applying pressure till the victim collapses or agrees to cooperate even against their interests. I lived in Russia for 25 years and I saw that happen many times.
I had real trouble getting ack to work when I first started using it. On Linux I had some trouble, I can’t remember what, but on Windows it was downright hard to get it to work properly. When using a new computer once I switched to ag one time because I was unable to get ack working on Windows.

I believe that defining the output using Perl regexes was what I was referring to with “Perl magic powers”. I work at FastMail, the backend of which is mostly Perl, and have been unable to convince most people to use ripgrep because they like Perl and ack and occasionally use some of that fancy superpower. I, on the other hand, lack that experience (I’m most used to Python, Rust and JavaScript, and have never seriously worked in Perl) and thus don’t really get anything out of ack over ripgrep, without putting in a fair bit of effort to figure out what I need to do in a particular case. I’m more likely to feed the output through sed or vim if I want to rewrite it, actually!

I’m very glad that ack existed; it led the way with better tools, and I used it heavily for some years. Thanks for making it!
One word - teamsters.
I love how even commenting on this topic requires the use of a throwaway account.

I will be brave and post in my own name. Yes different populations of humans around the world are genetically different, but we don’t know if any are better or worse in any significant way. Tigers and lions are different species, can interbreed (Liger), but we would not say one was a better or worse - just different.

Of course on the flip side we don’t know that the different human populations are not significantly different in some important feature. The bottom line is we have no good data one way or the other on this topic.
So twice the cost for the 22 car package, vs. your lease, but with the ability to traverse the catalog of cars depending on your particular needs at a given time.

Expensive, sure, but we’re talking about consumers that most likely view a $1500/month lease as a semi- or fully reasonable monthly expense.
This brings back so many memories of hours in the afternoons, classrooms and roadtrips. It's nice to be reminded how we kept ourselves busy before smartphones and tablets...
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Are you insuring it as a daily driver or a secondary vehicle, out of curiosity?
Is there a way to use a REST API as a data source?

I'm not very comfortable with giving Google access to our databases.
Users associate application behaviour with file formats.

Analogy: people think PDF files are safe, but aren't aware of the constant stream of RCE vulnerabilities that is Acrobat Reader & how widely it's used, which invalidates their model of behaviour associated with PDF files.
Maybe more Mad Max than Santa Rosa:

If you have 2 non-EV cars, a way to siphon gas into the "good" car, before you leave, to top off the tank: https://www.harborfreight.com/multi-use-transfer-pump-63144....
I used to order lots of plasmids from Addgene when I worked in bioscience -- it's an awesome service. The plasmids are hugely cheaper than anything you can order from a for-profit supplier, and it lets scientists easily share and remix each other's work.
As if they already don't have enough, feed more data in to Google.
I own a significant number of firearms. It isn't law but I recommend storing the ammunition in a second safe. I have multiple safes and, even without children in the home, keep ammo and firearms securely stored separately.

On this subject, I'd also seriously recommend that people take advantage of the holes on the bottom, or rear, of your safe. Those are so you can secure the safe to the building.

In my case, all the safes are attached to bolts embedded in both the floor and the walls. The basement room walls are concrete block and the door to the room is made of steel. If you have a sizable collection, or own any firearms that require an NFA tax stamp, your insurance company will probably suggest such things.

But, even if you just have a handgun or Gramp's old shotgun, I'd still recommend keeping ammo stored separately.
Bring a warm jacket, OP. It's the last thing you think about in the summer heat, but if you somehow end up standing around on a lonely road in the middle of the night, it gets surprisingly cold, even in California! And take some pictures of your house the way it looks now. You'll really treasure them someday in the future, telling your kids, this is the house we lived in before the fire.

Stay safe, hope the wind is favorable.
> Most of HN and others who are in educated professions appear to dismiss religion

I think a lot of us just keep our mouths shut due to the large amount of vitriol that results from any rational discussion of metaphysics or the supernatural :)
>As far as wear and tear on the highway: that's what weigh stations are for.

I believe WalterBright meant that even at the legal weight limit, trucks cause 10,000x as much damage as cars. In 2005 this amounting to a $60b taxpayer subsidy.[1]

This isn't to criticize Starsky Robotics (this inefficiency predates it), which is just operating in the environment it finds itself. And in general, inefficiency begets opportunity.

[1] https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu...
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How does Fair compare to Turo?
Thanks, so those on HN not living in US knows what is going on. And may god bless them.
What about McAfee? He divested from the software/company shortly after it was created. He has a colorful personal life, but I doubt that has much of anything to do with the software that he hasn't been involved with for a around 2 decades.

(Other than the software made him rich/a minor celebrity.)
Yes, "spent" was the wrong word.

All I'm saying is that the money will be moving, and still providing employment.
If think the Australian startup scene is small you should see the size of the investor pool! Every event is like going to a wedding.

I was at the Sydney final presentation and some interesting starts in this cohort. I am already an investor in SmartrMail (great team and product), but I thought Nightingale and EverProof were very interesting too.
Have you encountered the SF writings of R.A. Lafferty? He was greatly influenced by Augustine & Aquinas. His writing seamlessly blended science, history, theology, philosophy, metaphysics and speculative fiction.

>Currently in the US we are losing our sense cultural understanding

Season 1 of Sleepy Hollow has much commentary on this topic, from the perspective of a "lost founding father" who reawakens in modern day America.
Struggling along in poverty until they die (seriously). My grandmother lives in a retirement community in Florida, I have met these people, and it is a terrible way to live out the last part of one's life. It is part of why I'm an activist for social causes.
Makes me happy I am moving to AMD not systems and staying away from their pro line that has this nonsense built in.
> while truckers are prohibited from driving more than 11 hours per day without taking an eight-hour break, a driverless truck can drive for the entire day. This effectively doubles the output of the trucking network at a quarter of the cost.

Interestingly, doubling the throughput of the trucking network would also halve the average lifetime of road surfaces. "The federal government has estimated that a 40-ton, 18-wheel truck causes the same damage as 9,600 midsize cars." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0215-sunda...
A couple of years back, after being tossed around by a dozen doctors for simple infection. A few hours of internet research helped me solve my problem, better than any doctor did.

Health care industry is a cartel that optimizes for profit.
Programming involves producing algorithms, and that is difficult, no matter how you do it. You have to write, or (if your language is visual) draw code. People have tried making programming easy, beginning with COBOL. It doesn't work.

There isn't any information about what kind of programming language Bubble is. Visual languages are usually either procedural (Drakon, Scratch), or dataflow (Prograph, LabVIEW, Max, Full Metal Jacket) or its variant flow-based programming. There have been a few attempts at functional ones too, I think.

It's obvious a lot of work went into it, and there might be a few good user-interface ideas in Bubble, but it's hard to tell from the web site.
I realize HN might not be the time and place but I wanted to wish you the best of luck. Hope all works out as well as it could.
That is beautiful! Imagine that on a much larger scale and much more accessible.

I don't recall hearing of the tractors before. Imagine if they had GPS, greater numbers, and all arrived at the same time?
I know startup founders who graduated through startmate and can vouch for it. Our start-up was passed on by black bird ventures but I still keep in touch with them and attended their pitch training session

There is really good raw talent in Melbourne but I agree with the comment below that startup scene sucks due to lack of Angel investors
I don't understand how people keep bringing up Google product shutdowns as if literally half their products get discontinued. Yes, there are a couple, but that's because they have so many more products than any other company. I'm sure if you looked at it percentage wise, they're actually probably on the lower end compared to most other companies.

Obviously if you make thousands and thousands of products, then a couple will eventually have to be dropped. Can you even name me 5 big products they've ended which had a huge impact.
If I'm using the comparison tool correctly, then it shows that 2048-bit keys would be fine up to 2020 ~ 2030, and 4096-bit keys beyond ~2022. This is in line with my understanding.

FWIW, ssh-keygen(1) generates 2048-bit RSA keys by default[0]. Generally if I had to appeal to authority over security matters, I refer to the OpenBSD / OpenSSH guys.

[0] https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen#b
It can be turned off, just turn off the"join users experience program"in"advance"option,