skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, what do you see as the advantages of dnscrypt vs. DNS over TLS?

I looked at dnscrypt myself, it's implementation is much more complex than using standard TLS support libraries that already exist. TLS and dnscrypt seem to cover similar use cases...
This was great, although from the title I was expecting a Kinect sort of thing. Enjoyed the read though!
This has to be the most cringe-worthy digital assistant of them all!
sounds like a great place for teens to get intimate on the sly.
I guess it depends on what you mean by outcomes ... if the outcome is finding a job after graduation, probably not; if the outcome is becoming a 'better' human being, probably yes :)

Having a 7:1 teacher/student ratio means that students will have tons of contact with the faculty outside the classroom; they can walk to their offices and chat (and a lot of learning happens that way). It means 'large' classes are 15-20 students, which means there's no 'lecturing' per se, and a lot more discussions.

Doubling that rate means larger classes (40 students means teacher cannot answer all questions, assignments are made to be graded quickly etc), less interaction with faculty inside and outside classroom

Is it worth it ? I think so, and, if needed (and able), would willingly pay it for my kids. If you don't think it's worth it, or can't afford it, good state universities cost 1/2 or 1/3 as much (tuition is probably around 10K for in-state, room and board is still probably 1K/mo). Community/technical colleges are cheap for a reason, but teachers want to teach, and good students will learn from them, and get a degree; and of course, there's tons of free learning resources
You made a good point. I’ll happily concede he worked at Verizon for two years, although he did focus on regulatory issues so it’s still a major conflict of interest as likely a large shareholder. The tone of your responses is still quite negative and you glossed over many paragraphs of facts to pick apart one detail that is important but hardly a reason to suddenly support Pai’s position.

Meanwhile still no examples of a minority party nominee not getting confirmed or rebuttals of a large number of other points especially around Lifeline which you talked about for quite a while.

You’re welcome not to continue having the discussion and you can think poorly of me for not knowing the exact time that Pai has been working in a position of conflicted interest. I’ll admit when I’m wrong but so far the bulk of my argument stands and I refuted many of your points which you didn’t acknowledge while you reprimanded me for #fakenews. Please spare us the ad hominem attacks. They don’t belong in this community and I can (and have) pointed out flaws in your arguments as well. Of course when you’re wrong it wasn’t fake news or misleading.

How many of your points about Lifeline don’t hold up under scrutiny? Sounds like you fell for some fake news yourself.

Sorry if I exaggerated / misunderstood his career length at Verizon. To be honest his arguments against net neutrality (in conjunction with no effort to guarantee shared access to utility poles or other cables, among other issues) show he is being disingenious even if he didn’t have Verizon stock and had never worked for them. Leaving monopolistic policies and getting rid of consumer protections is a recipe for large companies with unfriendly policies.

A few other facts about unpopular and messed up positions he’s taken, straight off his Wikipedia page:

1. As chairman, Pai scrapped a proposal to open the cable box market to tech companies such as Google and Amazon (Hmm another pro-monopoly pro-Verizon action)

2. Pai wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post criticizing a government-funded research project named "Truthy" at Indiana University which was studying the spread of "false and misleading ideas, hate speech and subversive propaganda" (Speaking of fake news, apparently Pai didn’t think it was worth looking into. What a waste of taxpayer money! mock horror)

3. The whole Sinclair scandal which I won’t try to summarize here as you can just read Wikipedia. This one involves Trump and Kushner currying influence with Sinclair. Fun
I have long since come to grips with the reality that learning something is going to take some time. It is a challenge to put up with that time sink if what I'm learning is merely an intermediate step between now and a point in the future when I can do this third thing that requires that I understand something first. This is because the goal doesn't feel like it is getting closer while I'm wasting my time learning how to use a tool or technique for example.

That said, I have experienced many times where learning the tool or technique along the way to getting something done has been rewarded in a better outcome in the goal or a bit of knowledge that was applicable elsewhere. I use those memories of those rewards to mitigate the feelings of impatience or frustration with the time investment.
Wow, that's a really nice experience.

I should note in fairness that many bugs I report into Apple's black hole of a bug reporting tool also don't end up fixed. Maybe I just report weird bugs :-)

(An example of one I reported against Mac OS that got emailed as fixed, but still happens, though less frequently: Sometimes when alt-tabbing, the system will act as though the tab key were never released.)
I skimmed the article again and didn't find any obvious equivocations regarding IQ and intelligence.

But, regardless of this, I think solving problems requires creativity, not intelligence. Creativity seems to be independent of knowing how to do IQ tests. It's also, pace the author, independent of the environment. The main limiting factor is whether you want some particular knowledge.

>sufficient number of communicating, above-average intelligent agents could expand the intellectual environment

Haven't we already got that, with the internet?

Groups tend to be dominated by groupthink which is why creative individuals are aloof.

Nevertheless, a young group of AGIs would be fairly isolated from humanity simply by virtue of being non-human. So, though their starting point would be determined by the state of our knowledge at their birth, they may well make rapid progress for a short period, rather like the renaissance or the USA in the late 1800s when the nation was young and expanding. Then presumably they would fall prey to groupthink and pessimism just as most adults and nations do eventually. Progress would slow considerably.
Most people in the US seem to be far more tolerant of circumcision than FGM. And under many definitions, circumcision qualifies as genital mutilation...
Yeah, I saw that on the portfolio page. Since about July I've been looking mostly at the portfolio on the homepage, so I missed it.
Sure but capitalism isn't libertarianism. Libertarians tend to hate rent seeking and hording if you spent any time learning about them you would know those are two issues they take very seriously.
why not just whitelist netflix, facebook and whatever other 10s of other services you subscribe to and call it a day?
Young kids in the US are usually addressed by first name at home and at school, so maybe they simply do not get enough practice with their last name to automatically remember it?

I bet that with most kids who don't remember when you ask them their last name would remember if you asked them what people like appliance repair people, exterminators, receptionists at the doctor's office, or their parents' bosses call their parents. They may hear those enough to remember them.
Wealth of the students family probably has some influence on "likelihood of becoming successful later". Especially if one measures success in how much money people donate to their alma mater.
You don't even need any spreadsheets, you can open any currency and sort by price, then take pairs from the top and the bottom of the list.

The problem is getting currencies in and out of exchanges in time and paying all the fees, while still making a profit. While there are fast cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Litecoin, most exchanges still force you to wait for something like 6 confirmations. Which takes minutes to hours. And forget about doing this with USD, it takes days to move from one exchange to another.

If you look at the exchange rates, fast pairs all have very similar exchange rates on different exchanges, because you aren't the only one doing this.
Brown (and all other Ivy League-ish universities) are non-profit; they do not seek (or have) profit
World "timezone" boundaries, in terms of which regions of the world adhere to what offset, sometimes move around. This is what most people think of when talking about timezones, in that they're talking about regions of the world in aggregate by offset: e.g. every place that's UTC+03:00. Seasonal shifts like Daylight Saving complicate this blanket definition further.

The IANA Timezone Database flips the definition to be local instead of global, and attempts to define a timezone as a region in which all clocks are supposed to have agreed since the 1970 Unix Epoch [1]. Furthermore, since governments are the most frequent source of official timekeeping changes, they attempt to prevent zones from crossing international boundaries.

Typically, IANA timezones (whose geographical extent is documented in shapefiles) don't change shape, or change shape only with national borders themselves. When a country decides to change clocks only in a portion of its territory -- "splitting" an existing IANA zone -- a new zone is created for the area that does not include the city after which the zone is named. Some recent examples are the island of Cyprus [2] and a new timezone surrounding Tomsk [3] in Russia.

[1] https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html
[2] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-October/024399.html
[3] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2016-April/000038...
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> To ensure those whitelisted subreddits stay safe, Reddit monitors the posts published to them using language analysis technology. If it finds posts that violate its quality standards, it turns off ads for that subreddit.

That's surprisingly honorable. I worry that, if Reddit is faced with more financial struggles in the future, this would be among the first things to change. Imagine if, instead of programmatically terminating advertisements and having a human check the content for moderation, they programmatically removed the content instead of the ads.
1) Stay solvent
2) Buy high growth assets when everyone is selling. There's a lot of value to be had during recessions/bear markets. Asset prices invariably go up when the market turns around.
Braiding hair without a license.
For me it's not OCD so much as cognitive decline. I often just can't remember if I've already locked my car or not, but for some reason I can remember having tugged on the handle.
Google Image Search also lets you to specify the license you are searching for, which is something anyone designing anything professionally should be well aware of.

Commercial stock image sites were invented for situations like this. Not having time (or whatever) to pay for your stock photography stops being a valid excuse when you rise above the level of "bake sale flyer".
Often financial aid is given out to very needy students (don't even have anything as collateral for loan), and there's sometimes a quota.
Some do-- for example, Toyota's keyless system won't unlock the door again for a few seconds after locking, which gives you time to pull the handle to verify that it's locked.
That article (blurb?) is impressively low on any detail.

Here's a better one: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-26/why-tence...
I created a straightforward explanation on how to take Fees into account. Because FEES are super duper important, and often people just don’t understand the simple math required to compute them.

The explanation is in this blog post: https://steemit.com/arbitrage/@kesor/the-math-behind-cross-e...

Another critical thing that creates arbitrage across exchanges is a malfunction at some exchange. One great example is the YoBit exchange, which has about 100+ wallets permanently as “offline”. The price at YoBit might be much higher than on some other exchange, but without a wallet, you cannot move the funds across. Newbies beware!
You really shouldn't be posting this FUD even as a devil's advocate.

You don't (and hopefully should never) pay by the bit. The marginal cost of sending bits (any bit) is 0; the ISPs know this but would love to resurrect the SMS gravy train of charging for things that are free. Any packet inspection necessary to provide a non NN internet is only going to increase latency not lead to any measurable improvement to quality at the consumer end.
Insightful reply, thank you!

Makes me ponder what other kinds of angles of approach are required to "fix" this problem.
Excellent comment. The way we program for the web is ridiculous currently: the abstraction level is way too low.

> Today it is like chasing specifics of plain 80386 assembly

I suspect the fetishization of the unholy Web trinity (HTML/CSS/JS) is impacting the ability of devs to imagine a better workflow. Case in point: Electron. Rather than take some of the lessons learned from the web stack, such as immediate mode UI being a decent default, they just crammed _all_ of it into a Chromium shell and declared it The New Way To Write Desktop Apps.

If the web is your first platform you've spent a lot of time on, then what I'm writing will probably just sound grumpy. And part of it is! But, on the other hand, when something new comes along, it may render all of your intimate JS knowledge useless because it isn't JS, and you need to be able to let that knowledge go. Even if the web as a platform sticks around, history shows that whatever comes next might be less powerful than using raw HTML/CSS/JS, but it doesn't really matter for getting most things done.
As an experiment last year, I tried to run Windows Firewall in "block all" mode and wrote this tool to manage it:

https://github.com/caesarshift/msfw

I would run "msfw log --tail" to watch for blocked connections. If I wanted to allow the connection, I then added it as a rule.

It was alot of work to setup initially, and I even found some scenarios where adding a rule was not sufficient to allow the connection. I never understood why.
Email is the greatest tool for external<>external communication ever. I hope it never goes away. The "Broken" part is usually the dread you feel when you have it on your phone and check it 300 times a day, or when you use a non-major client and get tons of spam. Using Google Inbox on a PC and nothing on your phone? Pure communication bliss.
A lot of racing leagues have rules that favor female drivers, I'm sure that there's something that could make the sport more accommodating but I don't think that any motorsport is ever going to appeal to a majority of women.

Most racing leagues specific minimum weights for the cars, the lighter the driver the better. The average man weighs something like 50 lbs more than the average woman, that's a huge penalty in sub-2000 lb cars. Even with that advantage though, there's never been a woman motorsports champion.
Revenue is easy. Anyone can bring in revenue. Uber brings in revenue. The more important question is is the athletic department as a whole even profitable? At Berkeley, the football coaches make $16.3M.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cal-footba...

The law school deans make $333,847. At the same time, Cal Athletics faces largest debt among all college programs.

https://www1.salary.com/CA/Berkeley/Dean-of-Law-salary.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-f...

So your humanities deans vs revenue digression is just whataboutism.
You might want to look into QtWebEngine or Chromium Embedded Framework, which give you a stable API over Chromium's content API.

Then again, this sounds a lot like qutebrowser ;-)
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You're on target, but I think you missed the bullseye by an inch.

Netflix, Steam and Spotify made it incredibly convenient to obtain content legally and at a reasonable price. They removed most of the incentives for piracy. There was a surprisingly long period when piracy was hands down more convenient than buying stuff legally, and services like these were responsible for reversing that trend.

More specifically, Spotify deserves a special mention, as it has been single-handedly responsible for massively changing my listening habits, because of the way the Daily Mix/Discover Weekly features keep pushing my boundaries. It gives me something valuable that I couldn't get otherwise.
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OK, so in your world Bitcoin is an overpriced bubble.

That's a reasonable position to have. I think it is overpriced too.

It still doesn't make it a 'fractional reserve system'. It instead means that the price is to high.

These are different things, that have nothing to do with each other.
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... assuming the crash isn't accompanied by significant inflation, which would wipe out cash stores too.
I think you are very narrow minded here. It takes considerable cost to hire developers if you have code debt and the kind you get are quite different. It is really not something that is wasteful, quite the contrary.

Also, I have yet to meet a team that has all the developers it wants, with all the expertise they desire. Maybe FB and Google, most other places need to focus their talent on what will bring best value.

It actually makes more sense on bigger codebases then on smaller.
Why does he need to call you back? Stock market crashes are nothing new. Bitcoins are basically the same thing as stocks in terms of the way they're traded.

No one is saying a price crash isn't possible. But it won't be caused by some liquidity issue, it'll just be people selling off.
> There is no evidence of systemic abuse by ISPs governed under Title I, which means there are not immediate benefits to regulation, only theoretical ones

False. They've tried in the past I believe. There was something with AT&T and iPhone users around 2010 (IIRC it was about Facetime)? There were more.

Also the thing about Portugal and Euros. Yeah that graphic has been circulating for a while now, it predates this discussion. It's an illustrative graphic, not like a screen shot. Kinda like when you post a MFW picture but it's not actually your face when.

Also, as a side note, what's stratechery.com? I've seen it posted a lot. I read the wiki, but idk why I should care about this guy's opinion.
Not sure why you'd expect that much variation - a good fry shop can make consistent and distinctive frites day after day. I don't know what all goes in to making them like that, but I've experienced it first hand...
IOTA cryptocurrency partners with Microsoft to create a public Marketplace
Right but Google doesn't do the former (sell user info), and the latter no big company will touch with a 10' pole once anyone in legal gets wind of it.
In California if you are a plumber, roofer, HVAC, electrician etc you can make six figures. If you own a small contracting business in one of the above fields you can clear $400K a year, tax free, for like 6 months of work. The real estate boom in CA combined with a shortage of skilled blue collar labor means that if you have these skills you literally have a 2-6 month waitlist for your work

I know some people who grew up in very low income situations, in and out of jail, but took an HVAC or plumbing course and are now making $150-200K at age 25-30

Of course this is definitely not recession proof but I was super surprised to learn this
Additionally, simplicity is rarely appreciated, even by developers.
Which is why you don't buy now. Later you might need to move states and lose big trying to get rid of dud real estate.
The French Revolution predates communism.
So expected is import and actual is export in unit module parlance?
Cutting cluster management fees on Google Kubernetes Engine
Bitcoin wasnt around during the last recession. We don't know what will happen in the next one.
Anyone can trade in index funds, commodities, and bonds and CDs. It's not a meaningless amount of diversity available to normal folk.
I really like some of Kotlin's decisions, but I prefer Haxe's approach to this.

For single target code, you can prefix the class module with the platform tag (e.g. "js" or "java"). These module names are reserved within the compiler and any code therein is restricted to their respective targets.

Another way is to use conditional compilation markers to indicate specific target-compatible boundaries. E.g.

#if java
public function print(s : String) java.lang.System.out.println(v);
#end

That method only exists on the java target, and the compiler will complain otherwise.

Conditional compilation also allows for more fine-grained support of multiple targets:

#if java
public function print(s : String) java.lang.System.out.println(v);
#elseif js
public function print(s : String) console.log(v); // as a simple example
#end

This makes a cleaner organizational distinction between extern code that must remain target specific, and true cross platform code that can be called on any of the supported targets. Editors can pick up on this very easily and provide early warnings as you are typing, and doc generators can also inspect these directives and show api availability between targets in the rendered docs.

(self-disclosure: Haxe compiler contributor)
The difference being there is an advantage to keeping economics knowledge shady & unknowable. Information asymmetry is one way those with wealth can maintain or grow their wealth. I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I do think enough independent selfish actors will result in a "conspiracy theory"-like outcome.
What's with the Tony Robbins wave on HN?

What does he bring to the table that's special?
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>But... there is the question of whether our economic growth brings us closer to the absolute carrying capacity of spaceship Earth.

Are we inching up on the absolute carrying capacity of Earth? Perhaps. But what about the carrying capacity of the Sun?

We are barely capturing a fraction of the energy the Sun sends our way. Think about what we could do if our ability to harvest renewable energy in the next two decades increased not tenfold or even a hundredfold, but a thousandfold.

The smartphones in our pockets are almost unfathomably more powerful than those of a few decades ago, yet we still power them by burning rocks we found in the ground, eking out barely a day of usage before plugging them back into the grid. There is so much about our digital world that is limited by energy in ways we don't fully appreciate.

Imagine a miniaturized particle accelerator [1] that could actually turn lead into gold [2]. Imagine this done at a scale powered by energy production several orders of magnitude greater than what we have today. Obviously, this is an implausible scenario, but the fact that it could even brush up against the possible makes me wonder. How would such a system affect the value of gold? Our perception of what gold is? How would such a system applied to any resource, design, good, or service fundamentally change the way we interact with our world?

The digital revolution we have seen is something to behold, but perhaps it is only a stepping stone to something larger.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/n...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l...
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How did you lock the rental car? with the fob? Because my car has this same feature (Focus Electric) but it has a sensor pad/button on the door (just like my 13 year old Prius).

Physically pressing that button and hearing the click is enough for me. It takes some training, but it works quite well. So maybe it's your rental but most cars with the keyless entry have thought about this.
But apparently the efficiency of these muscle fibres are greater than that of electric ones. So maybe a win?