skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right: Dropbox isn't a safe-deposit box for your data; it's a checking account for your data.
My point was it was a stupid idea, and done really poorly, even by standards of the day. It was made worse by the fact that people respected him, so his errors perpetuated for nearly two millennia, rarely challenged because "the ancients" were seen to possess great wisdom.
Everyone is on Facebook but only some people are on the other networks. Fragmentation is not much of an issue or danger.[1]

Sure, if I'm not looking at Facebook and a party happens without me I'll receive some snaps about it. However at that point it's already too late. Snapchat is for sharing slices of life. Nobody organize big events via Snapchat.

Twitter and Instagram are for interacting with strangers. I can't see how posting a photo of a private event to my Instagram followers would help the situation. All it will do is end up with people unfollowing me for posting content that is not what they follow me for. It's not somewhere to interact with friends. Twitter is even worst. Am I to do? Look at #party daily in hope to stumble on a real life friend using it? On both those networks, I follow brands and hobbies. Not close friends.

Everyone is on Facebook and leaving it would simply make my social life harder. I've tried it many time and I've also seen it happen. Whenever someone isn't on Facebook, you don't see them. It keeps happening. "Where is Bob? Did we forget to invite Bob tonight? Does anyone of you has his phone number? I can't seem to find him on Messenger." Phone numbers and addresses are on a need to know basis. If I never needed someone's, I don't have it. Since everyone uses Messenger to communicate, I don't have a lot of them.

[1] Perhaps that's a French Canadian thing, over here Facebook has around 70% of the population while Twitter has only around 10%. Even if you go Canada wide, Facebook has 71%, Twitter 27%, Instagram 20% and Snapchat 9%.
I have a very good friend with a similar story about long term back problems. He was on oxycontin for literally 10 years along with other medications. Multiple back surgeries.

Then when his prescribing doctor got arrested, he ended up detoxing involuntarily at first, and then voluntarily, and he found that he didn't have any pain after he managed to make it through withdrawal.

I honestly think a lot of people with chronic pain that they're treating with opiates are actually treating withdrawal with opiates.
sorry, I didn't mean to imply it would derail or threaten the existence of it. Like I said, money is going to be made by the state hand over fist just from tourism.

But for your regular person who's made due without a legal marijuana distribution network isn't going to start paying a premium on the regular for the privilege of retail. It's mostly a novelty, IMO, and may increase graymarket demand for untaxed marijuana for everyone BUT the people looking to do some weed tourism, etc.
By reading through the comments. I don't think people realise how much energy it actually uses.

One bitcoin transaction already now uses as much energy as your house in 1 week.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mi...

I'm sorry but I just fail to see how this can work going forward.
I believe this exists, but I don't think that is the majority of cases.

There was genuine movement among doctors in the US, with serious people writing about how pain was not necessary. It is also the case that legally in the US you can be accessed of not addressing peoples pain enough.

Also again, if doctors had an intensive to care for their patient they would have to be more careful about what they give to them.
No chance. Ford is just a company of managers and labourers. All of the creative/R&D work is farmed out to vendors. They didn't even design their new super car, the Ford GT; it was done by a Canadian engineering firm.

You can't turn that kind of machine around. Whenever they're faced with a problem, the only thing they know how to do is ask someone else.
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If you don't understand why people would avoid the full force of their emotional response to life then you apparently have had great fortune in your emotional experiences. I note you don't have to want it for yourself to understand why others would want it.
My wife gave me the paper strip super taster test. She is a vile, vile woman. We also tried the counting method later. I recommend the strips so long as the subject doesn't know the expected reaction. It's easier to do. Being a supertaster is not a good thing necessarily. Earlier in life I avoided a lot of foods. It was only after I forced myself to put up with the bitterness and accept it'd always be there that I was able to branch out. One curious thing I've found is that I have a very strong like of certain smells. Some of them are smells others consider off putting or uncomfortable. Things like cardboard, paper, certain glues, heavy mechanical grease, certain rubber smells, skunk spray (yes the animal), the belts in bowling ball return chutes, etc all smell intoxicating. The only other person I found with a similar interest is also a super taster. I wonder if there is a correlation.
> This is kind of like neutering/spaying feral cats, and returning them to where they were found. They stop breeding, but continue to compete with others for resources.

What resources are mosquitoes competing for in the environment?
Eliminating wolves contributed to higher deer populations and an increase in the number of deer ticks that spread Lyme disease to humans. Intensive forestry operations also help to increase deer populations as they like the more open spaces that result from clear-cuts.
Given that https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc... happened as well, this allegation is sadly unsurprising and probably true.

Can Kaspersky Lab sue the CIA / the US government for hurting their reputation / business in this manner?
Does the UK not have consumer protections for delivery mistakes like this?

Should have had every right to tell them to get fucked and keep the switch the second they threatened him. They sent it to him, they can eat the loss. if they don't want to then they can politely offer to get you a return shipping label and apologize for the trouble.

This type of thing sounds about right for Nintendo.
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In case of uncertainty they would both stop before a collision, because they both would have cameras that see all around them, rather then just backing into a blind spot.
"windows [...] terrible performance"

Uhh... what? The only significant performance difference is in graphics & media, which is where Windows handily bests Linux. What performance are you talking about?
Where they planning on setting up a TLD? It seems like you have to have an almanac before you do anything these days, lest you offend someone.
No, your product is not broken. You have a marketing problem. You sold your product as something it was not and now you pay the price of lying to all your users.
I think "zero" is being a bit uncharitable. What about plant and animal reintroduction programmes? What about culling invasive species? Use of firebreaks? Eradicating disease? Did you have any incidents in mind when saying active management results in worse problems?
No, I do want a file-syncing service—so that I can have the same dirty git worktree on both my laptop and my desktop.

Myself, when I'm at home, I just check out the project on my desktop, use SSHFS to mount it on my laptop, edit it on my laptop or desktop as needed, and have an SSH window open from my laptop to my desktop for doing things like running npm (because that'd be way too slow if I ran it from the laptop and depended on SSHFS to sync it.)

If X11 or RDP was snappier, I'd just use my laptop as a thin client, but it's not, so I'm stuck with figuring out multi-master realtime source-code tree sync.

A similar problem obtains when using VMs, but at least there, there isn't the requirement that I have the ability to run a GUI text editor in the VM that sees changes I make outside the VM quickly enough to be unnoticeable.
The single greatest web app I've ever seen. You can display the original text and click on every single word to see a grammatical parse (beside the translation). So many other web sites pale in comparison, despite having more colours.
You can choose to switch jobs and not use the internet :p

What you don't have is the power to make others choose what you'd want them to.
Testing for iOS 11 is more of a challenge for developers
he got "triggered" because systemd simply had no impact on the linux desktop space.

the rest of your points are true though. and significantly more than systemd, the coming change to wayland will alienate even more people.
Hey ! Thanks a lot for the reply, looks interesting I think I'll give it a shot then.
> Where I think FB should be sheepish about is allowing the optimization to go on directionless. The only goals are quantitive. Quality is a foreign concept. No one has asked the question "what should FB be." The answer is simply "popular."

Problem is: Quality itself is defined by quantitative measurements. It's not some separate product attribute. If something increases your business KPIs, it is ipso facto higher quality. Motivated only by the imperative to optimize these KPIs, a company will do so, believing that it is continually making the product better. Allowed to run its course, you end up with a Paperclip Maximizer [1].

1: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
The more casually people treat opiates and the more that are on 'the market', the more that are going to be diverted.f
They have another problem to address as well: Detroit. Or, culturally speaking, the high-strung midwest attitude. I say this having spent the first 15 years of my life about 30 miles outside of Detroit and then moved to the Seattle area to finish high-school, college & start a software development career. I've still got family back in Michigan, but they're so culturally closed-minded & uptight I don't know if a $200k salary and dirt cheap houses from what's left of The Great Recession would be enough put up with the rest that's broken. Oh - and if you have kids, don't forget about the mess that is the state educational system: Betsy DeVos' blueprint for destroying public education nation-wide.
> In order to change the Database, you have to go back > and do the "work" which becomes practically impossible after approx. 10 blocks.

I think if some entity devoted 1000x the current mining power, they would catch up in less than a year. Historical hash rates were negligible.
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I think OP's point is that its not "guaranteed" to do any of the things you listed. If the FED raises rates, the companies may want to hold it, as an example. Or if the best business application is to do a buyback or dividend, you're bypassing the jobs part.

We're also talking two buckets of money. The money coming back in to the US, and the taxes the govt collects. I think this one-time tax money in this case is already spent with these tax cuts?
Sure, but the only possible side affect of eliminating smallpox was increased population growth. Different than introducing an organism who's evolution we don't control into the wild.
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What's the actual technical thing that happened here? Did they manage to trick Thawte into issuing real SSL certificates for Kaspersky's internet domains?
The trouble with this, of course, is that you build an echo chamber for both yourself and your friend. You no longer see the posts you think are BS, and you preclude yourself from challenging your friend's BS in comments.

I agree that delegating to Facebook judgement of what speech is acceptable or not isn't a good idea, but the flip side of that is you have to take a slightly more active role in cultural discourse if you have any desire to see society converge on good ideas, and eschew harmful ones.
Being comfortable with what you know is one thing. The other one is that "they are just unwilling to learn something different" is comfortable narrative if you are advocate, but oftentimes too much of a simplification. At least based on what I observed when geeks interacted with users.

Google Docs, Adroid and iOS for that matter worked hard on making everything intuitive for average person. They are easy to start with. They are less frustrating for use case they are meant for then Microsoft products. Otherwise said, someone with influence and power in team who made sure users needs were cared about in gazimillion of small details. And they look good.

Many geeks are quick to write off users and assume they are dumb instead of trying to understand what those people do or need. As far as geek is concerned, the user is doing some stupid generic thing in word processor. If something does not work, it is unimportant edge case that user should not care about - because geek dont need it. People who say that it is all about users being lazy generally never valued what those users do and dont consider half their needs to be legitimate. I mean, people were "just not willing to learn something new" for not jumping to open office from Excel, but I swear to got that excel was both faster/responsive and easier to use at that time and open office really missed features that people I knew actually used.

Very-similar-but-not-quite-the-same-word-processor software may mean that report you used to generate within an hour suddenly takes three and still does not look good enough. Clunky may mean twice as much clicking for often performed tasks. If may mean that often used features are awfully complicated or hidden from sight. Or that it is generally slower in things that are visible while fast in things that dont matter.

You cant just write that off as lazy or stupid users to their face and cant just get offended and then get aggressive when they talk about their frustrations (which is what I have seen geeks to do).
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> otherwise it would go to the trash.

You wouldn't open it and keep it?
That wasn't very objective or thorough comparison. But I certainly learned that the guy didn't like OData.
There's something that doesn't sound convincing to me. The study proposes that

> Low-status males that have the most to lose due to a hierarchical reconfiguration are responding to the threat female competitors pose.

This seems to imply that females are seen as competitors in a male hierarchy. But competitors for what, exactly? Male hierarchies establish a dominance scale, and as the study recalls:

> Even in modern day society, dominance and not attractiveness is associated with college male mating success

(italics mine)

So the position in a male hierarchy largely influences male mating success. What does the position of women in the same hierarchy influence? Even if it improved mating success (and this is debatable), it would improve mating success with men, that is, partners the other males are not interested in. In other words, for a male only the position in the male hierarchy should be relevant, not the position in a global hierarchy.

On the other end, competition should be fierce among males as it's strictly the male hierarchy that determines mating opportunities. But this is at odds one of the results of the study, that women are the target of most abuse while interactions among males are much more guarded.
Even if not. Depending on your paranoia, lockfiles or containers or bazel solve that problem.
This is very easy to say when you have a very near 0% chance of being one of the millions.
Are there any fully-offline alternatives to this? What is the most capable open-source solution?
I suggest sending the author of the article a note with your complements!
Garbage and standing water benefit all mosquitoes against non-mosquito competitors. We only need to consider whether biting humans benefits human-biting mosquitoes over non-human-biting mosquitoes, or separately whether carrying malaria benefits malaria-carrying mosquitoes over non-malaria-carrying mosquitoes; eliminating either trait would be sufficient. I believe that neither of these are powerful enough, meaning that the malaria-carrying human-biting species can be almost seamlessly replaced by non-human-biting or non-malaria-carrying species with no risk of the trait re-evolving or of the broader ecological niche, as tiny and unimportant as it is, failing to be re-filled.
It's all fun and games until Shor's algorithm, anyway. If Bitcoin is broken-in-the-long-term in one way why not admit it's broken in another, and iterate to a better solution.
I believe dsacco's posted about doing similar work before. Apparently there are teams of people at hedge funds that comb the web to find these kinds of datasets - non-obvious signals for financial metrics. Very eye-opening stuff. I always find his/her anecdotes interesting.
Perfect isn’t enemy of the good. There is a perfectly good solution, don’t tax profits st the corporate level, tax them at the individual level.

If you eliminate corporate income tax and compensate by making captital gains and dividends ordinary income so you paid regular income tax rates on them, you’d encourage more US investment. There would be no repatriation or tax loophole issues. Hundreds of thousands of tax accountant accountants would be freed to work on actual value creating activities.

Apple shareholders lose 50-70% of dividend payouts to 5 layers of taxes. That’s true of the wealthy as well as the poor retirees on fixed incomes. Eliminating corporate taxes means the retirees pay very little tax while the wealthy still pay over 40% state and federal. That’s what progressivity should look like.
> I don't see these people complaining how much energy Las Vegas wastes. Or Hollywood. What about professional sports? How much energy does going to war cost?

We should, though. War destroys the planet. Energy consumption needs to go down across all areas, including entertainment and other things that we consider fun or useful.
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This is not a genetic modification of the mosquitoes, thus I don't see it as "modification of nature".

We use bleach to kill bacteria, insecticides to reduce insect populations, condoms to negate the course of insemination, and breed animals and plants to have specific properties they might not otherwise acquire for our sustenance (cow, pig, chicken). Do you not consider these processes the same? If so, do you disagree with these, also? If these are not comparable, why are these different?
Given that this was done poorly by the standards of the day, can you point to a superior contemporaneous text on the same subject of superior quality?
> The lack of generics was something I was hung up on, too, but TBH I haven't found myself reaching for them for a while now.

I mean, if you lose an arm you probably stop trying to pick stuff up with your missing hand after a while too, doesn't mean it's not better to have two arms.
I remember the tale someone fuzzing the same fuzzer to find bugs. I can't find the link though.

General tools like an editor, a decompiler, or even an image editor can be used to modify the software itself. After all, if you're the creator of the tool itself, most likely you feel comfortable using it.

What I always wonder is how people built the first tools. How did people compile the first version of GCC? How did people build the first programming language? How did people built the first OS?
I can imagine ways to solve these, but I guess the tale behind how they did it is what makes me wonder.
> his Tuesday win makes a Democrat-packed statehouse the only obstacle.

They aren't an obstacle. They wanted it done and Christie was the obstacle.
Another impressive system for mental arithmetic is the Trachtenberg System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system
> It turns out that while GraphQL allows the frontend developers to select the data they need, that doesn't result in an unlimited set of queries.

Could you please elaborate on that? Im new to GraphQL and I assumed that you only have to provide it with a schema that defines entities and their relations and it will let you query any combination over it.

Does queries have to be explicitly set on the server? As an example, if I have the table "doctors" that has a 1:n relationship with the table "patients", do I have to explicitly define something like:

queryDoctors
{
id
name
patients
{
id
name
}
}

To be able to query a doctor's patients?
Yes, like what if there is an existing chemical signal for "climb up." the fungus might emit that signal and then just ride along, without any understanding of how that happens. Because it works, those fungus do better than ones that gave a different signal.
After a while, it gives the "bite" signal and hopefully, the ant has already climbed up. Voila, the ant has served the fungus.
So maybe some pretty simple steps result in an effect that appears carefully planned?
Well, if you don't distinguish...then you're just taxing a company who has a foreign subsidiary and takes out a loan. Which seems sort of arbitrary, no? You wouldn't want to tax that across the board for the same reason that you don't tax loans generally.
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Most people don't jump up to "defend capitalism" because it is already the status quo in America. It is already being aptly defended by the oligarchy of big business that profit off of the inequality being discussed here.

You argue in another comment that "you just want it to be said" that modern American poor are better off than the poor people in Laos in the 1800's. Congratulations, you've won that strawman argument.

Now you should move on to how to solve the actual current problems of the modern poor and the hollowing out of the American middle class rather than wasting your breath defending the current status quo and arguing against improving people's lives. It might be a better use of brainpower.
Right...so you want a world where there is no collective security. But hey, at least we all have bitcoins in our wallets?
You would spend half of time solving merge conflicts and dealing with compile errors after bad merge constantly.
It's all about immutability and finite money supply. Huge achievements that are impossible with centralized government fiat.

Here's an articulate presentation on these qualities of Bitcoin that many argue are it's primary function, viewing it as an ideal store of value[0].

Here also is a book by George Gilder on the flaws of fiat currency vs sound money[1], but which also covers a much broader spectrum of economic issues we've face in recent decades, and highlights qualities of Bitcoin (and to a lesser extent gold) that counteract these trends.

They both support the argument that Bitcoin is not primarily useful as a high volume, high speed payment network (though 2nd layer solutions can serve this purpose, as well as a decrease in the rate of price appreciation long term), but rather as a store of value, mainly concerned with locking value away from central banks and governments, and in practice would as you highlight be most useful for higher value lower speed transactions.

The economic argument of sound money is that it promotes low time preference [2] vs inflationary money incentivizing high time preference.

[0] https://youtu.be/ukjDCeuNK3Y

[1] "The Scandal of Money - Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does"

https://www.amazon.com/Scandal-Money-Street-Recovers-Economy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference
It's worth noting that this is not Horseshoe Falls that most people think of when someone says Niagara Falls. The one that ran dry is American Falls.
I would say there are only bad boys.
"His daughter was able to rent an infant for the day." This is just astonishing.