skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" The hydrogen bombs we have now are already so large that no legitimate military target could ever exist which called for one."

Which is why all of the large ones have been decomissioned.

Ironically, eliminating "bigger" bombs in favor of smaller ones is being cited as a danger in and of itself. Because the threshold to using nuclear weapons currently is so high (even in the 170-300kt range as they are now), pursing accurate weapons in the tens of kilotons range is seen as destabilizing because it's seen as being more acceptable to use against say, a remote, hardened target.
I wish there were a simpler way to change grip orientation.
> It's not protecting your interests, it's protecting Google's interests.

But you can always install (or develop) another browser that might do this job better for you.

> If it was protecting your interests, it would be a toggleable setting that defaults to normalized behavior.

The problem with this view is that the vast majority of end users do not want, and in fact will never know about or use a new setting, and so the when doesn't move forward. This is the opt-in problem that Google is talking about. In politics, an analogy is called public choice theory.
This exactly. The law is a lot like the formal description of an algorithm that processes data. The courts and lawyers are the implementation, and the way in which people behave is the data being fed into the implementation. Overload even a good implementation and it will probably crash.
+1! You can try to apply morals to companies in an internationally competitive environment all you want, but it ain't gonna happen. The only way to ensure they can't play governments against each other is to effectively make a cartel. How you'd get over the collective action problem and prevent countries from defecting is beyond me though, would probably need something like the OECD to pass a resolution.

Most current tax havens are UK dependencies, so such an agreement would have a significant impact. Additionally, individual countries could do something like what the US does with its citizens - if you've paid a sensible amount of tax abroad, great; if not, pay the difference here. You can locate wherever you want, but relocating to save on taxes becomes moot.
<blink> was never standard cross-browser

> There's no absolute in "putting users first" there - you're either putting the minority user looking at an old site first, or you're putting the majority looking at newer sites first.

I'm not talking about old sites; I'm talking about current sites. The old sites were illustrative examples of the backwards compatibility in the web.

The point is that the web has always been a platform you can deploy code to without needing to tend to it later.

This post is an example of it breaking a current site.
The entire and only purpose of laws and regulations is to dictate behaviors and punishments in a theoretically fair manner.

If a law is not broken, then any punishment would very likely be unfair as it would not be evenhanded in application.

I feel American political problems are rooted in having a professional political class, and a system in which politicians can enrich themselves by legislating.

If I were king, I would enact short term limits and regulation preventing any politician from increasing their networth while in office and for a period thereafter. Not applicable to myself of course.
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> The only way to prevent this is to impose fines, tariffs and penalties on businesses undertaking this behaviour (effectively disincentivising it financially), since it fundamentally unbalances the power dynamic between Government and business.

That is neither the only way, nor a particularly effective way. I think we should go back to having representatives who represent a reasonable number of people (~100-500), and who are not full time politicians. Then regulatory capture would be much more expensive and difficult.
Other threads (hidden from the home page):

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=15637412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637607
No.

Some part of me wants to believe that this is a cyberattack, but it'll probably come out that someone fat fingered a BGP/DNS record or something.
Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH) is actually pretty much a computational theory of the universe. It basically makes the assumption that there exists somewhere the simplest process imaginable: One that counts through and runs all mathematical formulas which includes all programs, which, in turn, includes all (computable) universes. This assumption explains why our universe is oddly complex: If all universes exist, then a weird one such as ours merely exists because all universes do. This line of reasoning is also called the "anthropic principle".

I think, Tegmark does not talk about computations per se because the hypothesis is agnostic about what kind of computer our universe is. It could, for example, be a geometric computer in which the position of objects can be determined with infinite precision (i.e. using the real numbers). Such a computer would be strictly more powerful than a Turing machine or equivalent (i.e. all computational models that can be described and run inside a Turing machine). Enumerating the space of all formalisms (i.e. the domain of mathematics) is as agnostic as you can be.
> okay I have a system and structure..why am I not as successful as Henry Ford or Russell Simmons or Bruce D. Henderson.

Because your system and structure is not good as theirs were. It is not luck, it is competence. Not survivorship bias, but you overestimating yourself.
Yeah, it was the grasshopper experiment that did it. The video was unlisted and only shared with his Patreon subscribers but definitely not something he should have done if he wanted to stay on YouTube's good side (something he realized since he redid it with a grape and put that one up instead of the grasshopper).

I've been a subscriber of Cody's for years but he can be a bit reckless about things. Particularly about safety (just watch his recent video where he sliced through his finger with a shattered knife blade he slapped against nitroglycerin) but also about doing something like explode a grasshopper without too much forethought about how it'll be received. It's part of his charm but I can see it coming back to bite him again and again.

I love the channel though. It's one of my favorites. He never seems to run out of ideas for interesting experiments unlike a lot of other sciency channels.
Maybe Britain should invade Jersey?
> Whatever your opinion of Chrome's break from standards might be, Google simply are not trying to lock people into Chrome on Android / ChromeOS.

That assertion is laughable on it's face. Of course Google does brand lock-in, the fact that their brand is further reaching across more markets than Windows/IE were doesn't negate that they attempt brand lock-in at every opportunity they can. In fact Chrome largely was started because Google wanted to control the browser aspect of the experience, otherwise why would they make it?
So they only players left are the large corporations? I don't think you can have thought this through, so I'll take you through it:

Nation states are social constructs, whereby some people collectively lay claim to some land, and have their claim recognised by all the other states. In order to be able to do this, a key thing you must be able to do is defend your patch of land. This requires some sort of military, who will need paying. You can further entrench your position and standing amongst the group of nation states by doing trade with them. The greater your economic output, the more likely the are to treat you well, be your ally, and do trade with you in return.

However, keeping a military, and generating power and providing infrastructure to enable economic activity (roads, ports, airports, healthcare(?), fire, police etc.) costs money, and to raise this money, the state charges people tax. All states raise money via taxes, and it's the predominant way they do raise money. So there's the question, who do you tax, and how much? Do you tax everyone the same (a poll tax), or do you tax people who have less money less? Or people who have more money less? The power to decide who pays is one of the key roles of Government, and one of the main expressions of Government power.

I would be interested to hear how you would see a limitation of the powers of Government, by which I assume you mean limiting their ability to set tax law would work.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, you actually make a great point. If there exists a Govt. which has the power to impose certain rules which change the markets, its by definition not "free". If there was no Govt. to create and enforce these rules, corporations could not influence said Govt. to create unfair rules (since it does not exist).

But I don't agree with your conclusion. If there were truly no Govt. creating and enforcing rules, there would be Guilds/Cartels that would (e.g. see how criminal gangs behave and operate). Which is why we do need an overarching authority that has the power to create, change and enforce rules that make the market less free, but potentially more beneficial to more rather than a few.

The problem isn't that the government apparatus has outgrown its mandate. Its that its become more easily influenced by money. Reduce that influence and you will have a Govt. that works for the general interests of its people.
Well no, Samuel Johnson and a good sized rock put an end to it centuries ago, jcmoscon is just trying to remind people.
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When talking about "tax avoidance", it is important to be fair. There is only one question, "Is this illegal?", and that question has only two answers. Either it's not illegal, and the onus is on you to lobby for and define laws which achieve your goals, or to simply accept things as they are; or it is illegal, and the onus is on your prosecutors to prosecute.

Avoiding taxes is the rational, moral, and fair thing to do. People should not be punished for playing by the rules, because then it becomes arbitrary.
If you're a human being in the normal (+- 3 standard deviations) bands of brain functionality, you're an information junkie, but people have different information diets/highs.
But how many of us should care? Why is it such a hot topic? I for one will stick with Slackware even when (if) it switches to systemd...
To put it differently would you buy stock in a board that doesn't act this way, would a mutual fund?

YES. I don't want to maximize profit, I want sustainable profits and minimal externalities. The economic logic that says all considerations can be reduced to a single metric of utility are extremely suspect (per results from behavioral economics, in both humans and animal species), and also rest on a false utilitarian conceit of perfect foresight that leads its adherents to wildly overestimate the quality of their own judgement (which is one factor in the failure of command economies).
You might want to think about what it was that, in a highly-competitive landscape of networking options, lead to TCP/IP and BGP succeeding where other options didn't.

I've just unearthed my copy of The Matrix, John S. Quarterman's exploration of "computer networks and conferencing systems worldwide". It was published in 1990, just on the cusp of the breakout of the Internet (there's a late 1990s revised edition I've not seen).

It covers a lot of ground. Not of much practical use at this point, but a phenomenal historical document: Layers & protocols, management protocols, administration. And the networks!

AQ, HEPnet, PHYSNET, BITNET, USENET, UUCP, FidoNet, Ean, VNETT, XEROX Internet, EASYnet, Tandem, HP Internet, UUNET, DASnet, CUNYVM, CERN, EUnet, FNET, ARISTOTE, SMARTIX, REUNIR, Minitel, Dnet, DFN, AGFNET, BELWU, ARIADNE, HEANET, INFNET, SURFnet, Enet, JANET, UKnet, GreeNet, COSMOS, NORDUnet, DENet, DKnet, ....

(Nothing about WWW or Gopher though. Al Gore is mentioned.)

On the one hand, one network would have had to emerge. But on the other, why the Internet?
I use it and my passwords stick around, so perhaps enabling it would help?
Apple warns iPhone X owners of potential “burn-in” with new OLED displays
Are we counting only monetary payments? I'm assuming there is some benefit that is given to the scientist for publishing, especially in cases where the scientist pay to publish. It isn't likely at all a simple relationship between two parties, but I doubt that the scientists are being irrational by using a publisher.
Exploring Previously Unknown Remote Kernel Bugs Affecting Android Phones
> If you make it clear there will never be a tax holiday, but that you will instead keep adjusting the rules to go after earnings withheld abroad, at some point the rational choice for them will be to bite the bullet and repatriate the income.

Another rational choice is to relocate the company, a la Burger King's move to Canada [1,2].

Then the government can counter with tariffs [3,4]. It's a balancing act, though.

[1] "Tax inversion", Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion

[2] "Let's Abolish The Corporate Income Tax", John C. Goodman, Forbes, Aug 26, 2014. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2014/08/26/lets-abo...

[3] "Trump takes aim at Obama's ban on tax inversions", Larry Light, Moneywatch, April 21, 2017. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-taxes-corporate-transfer-...

[4] "Trump to keep Obama rule curbing corporate tax inversion deals", Reuters, October 4, 2017. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-inversions/trump-...
Either googles solution is better or its not. If it is then google should make it the default even if it provides an option. Then even if they provide the option 99.999% will use the default rendering the option basically worthless.

If its not they should probably just work how everyone else works.
Everything's back online now. It's been like 5 minutes.
Ok IPFS fans, here's your chance.

Can you build a better boat?
This is, unfortunately, very insightful, and also a very unfortunate persistent state of affairs.

I wonder how differently the world would look if companies didn't operate like this.
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anybody seeing a message asking for a flash update in the first video? https://i.imgur.com/mIQIKLx.jpg

possibly a Bad Rabbit injection? -_-
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‘Transcendental Nonsense’ and Technology Companies: Reframing the Debate
The situation here started to improve within the last two minutes.
As of 11:30 PST in Oakland on Xfinity, things appear to be coming back to normal. Anybody else?
The article does not really say what to use if something does not support grids? should your fallback be flex box? Also IE 11 does not support the @support.
I was having maddening issues with Comcast Business in Portland, OR this morning.

Switched over to my VPN and haven’t had any problems since.

My initial pokes at the issues I was seeing were DNS related, but even switching the DNS hosts to Google or OpenDNS didn’t completely fix it. Maybe they’ve got some deep packet inspection issues?
"Entrepreneurship for kindergarteners"? How can you even parody this stuff when the genuine article is so ridiculous?
I was going to suggest that the author was in marketing and didn't know the difference, but the article seems too in-depth for that. Maybe it's hybrid and devs wrote the more technical sections.
I've been using Otterbox Defender ever since I've had an iPhone. My phone has rolled across the garage floor, several times, with no problems. That's the information I want to know - how does an iPhone X in a case behave?
On the contrary, reality works because reality cannot contain contradictions. But the set of possible structures without contradiction is a superset of what is physically realizable. And mathematics is just discovering and cataloging the set of structures without contradiction. So reality works because math works.
Good to know that Github wikis aren't searchable. We have a Github Enterprise installation and were considering using the wiki for our longer, detailed documentation, but lack of search is a no go I think.
I'm actually surprised my infosec friends aren't tweeting about this. They must still be in meetings
> I think it's an unfair burden to place on a population.

If the population is unable to read the code that is used to relieve them of wealth, something is off--in both their own ignorance and in their inability to appoint people they trust to handle that for them.
Community colleges like the one I work at can't afford the journal fees. One of my assignments involves reading several peer-reviewed articles on a narrow topic and writing an explanation of the research. Every semester I have students that struggle with finishing this assignment because the articles they need are inaccessible.
Careful with this. Having a number of laws people ignore can lead to situations where all of a sudden the existing power structure starts to enforce them arbitrarily (usually against political opponents and/or an 'out' grou p).
I think it's tricky to quantify; a lot of opioid use is illegal, and that aspect undoubtedly alters things.
Invest in crypto currencies and hopefully you won't have to ever work again in 5 years.
How can businesses benefit from Digital Twin technology?
Agreed that BTC deflation makes it hard to spend.

Making something people want is necessary but not sufficient to ensure a meaningful revenue model. I would be hesitant to start a decentralized company today planning to make money primarily on ads, data sales, or taking a cut as a middleman. I think there are other solutions available — just want to see us find them.
Yes, things appear to be back now.
1. You're totally wrong about free speech in America. In the United States, "hate speech" and fearmongering are totally legal and protected by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly and overwhelmingly so ruled.

2. Twitter is not bound by SUCH legal requirements, i.e. the requirement to allow freedom of speech among its users. The First Amendment only legally constrains the actions of the government (with very few exceptions, irrelevant here).
I agree with both of you.
Yes, it covers what most people in the space already know, but these things must be reiterated to the public. For every ICO hype article, a piece like this should exist.
They are not serious about this, are they?
> The problem isn't that the government apparatus has outgrown its mandate. Its that its become more easily influenced by money. Reduce that influence and you will have a Govt. that works for the general interests of its people.

I think it's simpler than that: you need to have one entity which could ever possibly have the mandate, and then bind them eternally never to use it. The supreme court is supreme, but it also has rules. When the supreme court plays by its rules, it does not create a power vacuum for violations, it creates an assurance against them.
it's amazing how every single person i know that used ES has had a freakton of bad experiences with ES. and it's still the only ok solution in this area.
In fact I think a lot of this stuff is more frightening or ominous than "exciting."
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Same, shortly before you in Sacramento on (I believe) Comcast.
Wouldn't replacing the 74S86 with a 74VHC86 have worked? I'm a hobbyist, so my knowledge is pretty limited[1], but I was under the impression that the VHC series chips were drop-in replacements for the S series in both timing and logic levels.

[1] Read as 'I know just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to understand why what I'm doing is dangerous.'
> With well set up CI and automated builds, would you need this documentation at all?

We have that. But how would you know that we have that without documentation telling you? How would you know where to find the resulting builds or to check the status?
Hybrid apps are definitely part of the story. And if they have a revenue model already, they can keep it. I'm more anxious about new and "fully decentralized" apps like marketplaces.
Didn't they make it so that you can switch tabs and close tabs even when one of the tabs has an alert open?

Of course, sometimes it still is nice to be able to turn off alerts and then keep using the page.
A British judge, Lord Hoffman commented ‘The only way in which Parliament can express an intention to impose a tax is by a statute that means that such a tax is to be imposed,’.

In other words, for tax there is no distinction between the spirit and letter of the law. They’re one and the same.
- This is really crazy sounding, but can individual or a group of individuals sue a corporation for what they view as an attempt to sidestep the law in civil court? Since the burden of proof is different in civil court?

- Did Justice Learned Hand make this statement with this type of scenario in mind where the amounts of money are on the level of an entire small country? Isn't he just talking about private citizens?

- The point is just that they didn't pay taxes, either to Ireland or to the US. To the extent that they could have paid those taxes to the US government, its still dodging taxes.
Is this “keto gatorade”?