skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can differentiate between trusting people's words and trusting individuals themselves.

The distinction is that people who disagree with us are not out to do us harm.

We can disagree and work together.

Trust is a nuanced subject, which is the very fact the "Us vs. Them" attitude ignores. If we clump everyone who disagrees with "us" into one group, we turn a prudent critical attitude into blatant distrust.

It is important for us to be critical of ideas, but not of people.
English wine glass sizes through the ages [pdf]
That's a good strategy in the aggregate but complete defenselessness is no more sustainable than complete hostility
I use pass with git for synchronization. It's simple, and portable (passwords are gpg-encrypted plain text files)
I'd recommend Keepass.
When did America integrate its armed forces anyway? It was some time after WW2.
That's funny. It should say FM is more robust, for exactly the same reason!
Oh, stop backtracking. If I were you, I'd take the metaphor further and explain why eating with utensils is more hygienic. Type safety, food safety, ... You could write some flavorful prose (ha!).
Nah, that's just employee of Organic™ industry hopped on a train and added some lame ads to the topic.

But in reality the faster people realize that genetically modified products are more nutritious and less harming to nature, the better are our chances of survival.
tech enthusiasts need to seriously consider taking permaculture and polyculture out of the fringe bucket
A third party is always a spoiler in the current electoral system. We can only fix the problem by using the current system or exploiting it to apply the agenda.

We need main 2-party candidates like Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders (who understood that running as an Independent is mathematically impossible in any meaningful election so switched their party affiliations).
Isn't this just a case of you paying attention to the things you are focused on most during the day?
Secrets of One of the World's Dirtiest Banks and Its Powerful Western Protectors
The numbers are way off. It took around 10 years to get 4" of topsoil on my 80 acres of timber soil (clay). Not 1000 years.

And we have 111ft of that kind of soil here in Iowa. It going to take a hell of a long time to go through that. Its been farmed since the early 1800's. And not all gone, not by far.

I didn't read any further after that, maybe the article does have something to say. But I doubt it.
No and I didn't put a clear context- only Jewish, Druze, and Circassian citizens of Israel have mandatory conscription, Arab citizens are exempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Israel
This is what mature technologies look like. We also had rapid change (and obsolescence) in infantry rifles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one big jump when the assault rifle was adopted, but since then mostly minor changes.
McDonald's McVegan burger becomes permanent menu item in Finland and Sweden
The headline sounds like a threat: "we might take your money through regulatory action". The statement was actually that the value of cryptocurrency is volatile and it's risky as an investment or store of value.

This is sound advice for someone who doesn't know much about it and is only interested because they've heard about people making huge profits. It's not news at all to most of the HN audience.
That's about the sensible minimum for a decent long lasting bike I definitely noticed when I went from cheap MTB to one twice the price the stopping power was phenomenal I almost sent my self over the handlebars in a driving rain storm as I was used to the soggy breaks in the wet of my old bike.
I can tell you the units you supplied are off. You need at least 2 more dimensions to get a volume of topsoil, otherwise it's a meaningless number. do they mean 3cm^3 of topsoil, because I guarantee that doesn't take 1000 years. Is it 3cm*earth_surface_area in a thousand years. Maybe... but my understanding is topsoil by erosion is the slowest way to get topsoil. I read a paper some years ago on biopurturbatuon, which changed my thoughts on topsoil mining. Basically worms, root structures, and other organisms are very good at creating topsoil. So you could very much produce huge amounts of the stuff in human time spans if the economic incentives were there.

It was an interesting paper, and I wonder if it didn't gain much traction, or was heavily refuted. If I was more cynical, I'd think Semedo was purposely ignoring it for political reasons.
“Social media: not that bad!” -Facebook
I believe that he feels like he made a mistake.
> women who wished to live a life outside of the cultural norm at the time were oppressed

I think you've missed that living within the cultural norm was pretty oppressive for women, and still can be sometimes.
Not viable? Just depends on who you ask or what your definition of viable is. We need to rip that bandage off now and reduce our standard of living by however much it takes to get into a sustainable symbiosis with our planet.

Fossil fuel companies: bankrupt

Cheap Chinese goods: gone

Meat in every meal: nope

Cheap processed foods: gone

It would be a huge lifestyle change for everyone on the planet. Difficult, but certainly viable.
Would you mind describing in more detail?
Do you have anything to support your claim?
Trump’s bizarre love affair with Putin deepens: What is he hiding?
Oops, my mistake :x
TRACING ISIS’ WEAPONS SUPPLY CHAIN–BACK TO THE US
I'm surprised the bike manufacturers have not stepped up to create their own branded shops as a way to provide/control a more direct 'experience'. Imagine separate 'Specialized' stores, 'Cannondale' stores or "Gary Fisher' stores all with carefully crafted service and support.

It's similar to how the local generic electronics store (including CircuitCity and now BestBuy) got squeezed from the bottom by Target/Walmart on the low end and the high end by the Sony/Apple/Bose Store at your local luxury Westfield or Simon's mall. Even woman's fashion is trending way - Target/Walmart/Costco for the majority and direct 'experience' stores like Coach/Burberry/Tiffany with Macy's and Kohl's getting squeezed out.
ISPs won’t promise to treat all traffic equally after net neutrality
>That said, the majority of studies that I have seen disagree with your calculation. http://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-ef.... is typical. Even low skilled immigrants have a small but net positive effect on the net wealth of US citizens.

I understand that reducing productivity costs will increase productivity, so unlimited immigration would make GDP go up. (And GDP does not factor in the costs of supporting increased numbers of unemployed people.) But this, from the study, strikes me as pure hand-waving:

>Moreover, immigrants are often imperfect substitutes for native-born workers in U.S. labor markets. That means they do not compete for the same jobs and put minimal downward pressure on natives’ wages.

For the statement "they do not compete for the same jobs" to be even partially true, you would have to show me at least one job in the US that only immigrants do, and no natives do. It certainly would not be construction, or landscaping, or custodial work.

A flood of low-skilled, low-educated immigrants would benefit people like me, who they do not compete with for jobs, because it would make the services they provide cheaper for me.

But as you acknowledged, it does hurt the people whom they DO compete with, and I would argue that extends beyond blacks and teenagers, although that alone is enough for me.

Roughly half of the working population in the US has an IQ of 100 or below. These are the people upon whose well-being, I, personally, place a far higher priority than similar people who are currently not US citizens. That is what my position is premised upon. I am willing to forgo the extra GDP and cheaper lawncare so that their lives might be a little less difficult than they currently are.
Ask HN: goodreads accounts of techies
While reading a post online, i found account of Colin Jones on goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8508151.Colin_Jones). He has good list of books, that i surely wants to read.
Are you following any tech guru on goodreads, to keep track of books ?
If yes, Please share name or goodread account of theirs ?
Edinburgh is hilly and all those sets (cobbles) make those fat tired MTB's look a sensible choice
There was a story about this in Motherboard just the other day. Tl,dr— Metals and drugs are a big problem *edit: spelling https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8xnk/turns-out-...
I don't know why, there's just something extremely pleasing about archiving things. I have a 2TB external hard drive, and I find a lot of enjoyment out of downloading my favorite things. Archive.org is one of my favorite places to browse and download stuff.
> If you adhere to the view that Nobody Is Truly Bad

I do.

It is their actions and ideas that are bad.

Even if you do not agree with me, I think it is important to show others trust until you have a real reason not to.

What the "Us vs. Them" attitude does is ignore the potential for people in the "Them" group to have anything of value to the "Us" group, or the potential for both groups to work together.
Trading crypto currencies by activity on social media
Thank you for your responses.

The comment about the visibility of the add-on (Bugzilla, QA process, documentation, etc.) is well taken, as are those regarding the naming of system add-ons, Pioneer, etc.

I've got an intercontinental flight coming up soon, and I'll do some grepping around to try to understand the prefs mentioned. If someone else beats me to it and posts a specific set of steps to reproduce a pref flip on those, I'd appreciate it.
There's an interesting contrast between completely-anonymous communities (like the chans) and pseudonymous communities (like forums where people have usernames). The issue is that people tend to want to not be constantly on guard in all their interactions, and if they chat about subject A they will often want to chat with the same people about subject B. This is why forums so often have an "off-topic" section that tends toward flamewars.

One issue with the sort of pseudonymous communities, where there is a common identity that persists across discussions, is that once someone is "outed," they can never be un-outed. Systems that rely on forced anonymity assume a single communication channel and no leaks. Also, if a group of dedicated people wants to subvert a community, they can easily do so in a group where their opponents are "playing fair" under completely individual/atomized notions that "we're all just guitar fans!" If a collection of Stripers is able to know that they are Stripers beforehand, or tend to have certain ways of talking about things that secretly reveal their Striperness to each other but not to Dotters, then they can coordinate and increase their own influence to drive Dotters out of the community.

At the end of the day, these systems require some sense of common civility where enough people on both sides are wanting to have the system actually work. If you have to design the system to be completely trustless, that's a hard thing.
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Even when staying on-topic, shibboleths will still leak through. The discrimination rate will remain above zero, especially for motivated participants.
Jon Duckett: HTML/CSS

It's really beautiful, and a crazy visual way to learn how to design web pages. And it ramps up slowly and nicely enough for you to fully understand everything.
Sorry that befell you. Hope it hasn't unduly impacted your life. Indeed the possibility doesn't even occur to most people. It's gotten so bad that I will literally get out of a car if the driver picks up his or her phone.
My go-to bike shop is a commuter shop right at the base of the Manhattan Bridge in Chinatown. He's always getting all sorts of walk-ins from, e.g., banged-up people whose brakes failed them on the downward slope into the city. The entire space is the maintenance area, and he's always right in front of you working on bikes.

You can also order bikes online and have them shipped to him for assembly, and his rates are extremely reasonable (something like $45 for a single speed, $75 for a geared bicycle). He did a great job assembling my bicycle.

Poor guy also works something like 80 hours per week, because he's always there during opening hours (which include everyone else's commuting times), and he often works late on the backlog of bikes to repair that's been building up.
Why would you assume that it does? Have you ever seen how big products like core Firefox binaries are written, reviewed and tested? I took part in that, and this doesn't look at all as part of that process. I see it's even not in the same repository where the "serious stuff" is. It's not the part of that process.

This looks like "let's give litte Perry and these marketing departments something to play, whatever, it's just an extension, who cares." So little Perry writes a description of the extension "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT FROM YOURS", the extension gets silently pushed to all the US users(!) (Firefox has support for that) who freak out, and the first response from somebody involved with that was "it was not supposed to be seen." You see, it was planned to keep the extension also "invisible" to the users -- Firefox has support that too! The extension was obviously not formally reviewed or formally tested, if the "invisibility" was the goal. Of course, it being "invisible" wouldn't be better. It's a misuse of the whole mechanism, compared to what Mozilla explained to the users. The mechanism was supposed to allow making "studies" from the behavior of the users who agree to take part in them. Instead, it was an attempt to a "viral ad" that was delivered to the whole Firefox using US population. There are multiple wrong decisions in this story.

Now I hope Mozilla does get the idea that the users do care.
I completely agree. A browser sits on a bit of a higher plane than most other pieces of technology these days, as it is so important. I have no reason to doubt the ability or intent of the developers involved with this add-on, but there is zero reason for it to be pushed to everyone without consent. I use Firefox because I want to trust my browser and not have to worry about it doing dumb shit behind my back. This goes against that very notion.
This seems pretty late in the game. BTC was whitepapered in 2008 and implemented (in code and network) the same year.

If the intention of central banks is to "protect peoples' investments", they should have warned about these concerns earlier.

At the risk of using Trump's favorite "ism", Wall Street and central banks don't exactly have a great reputation for "protecting peoples' investments" either. In fact, the EU and the US federal government are enablers of the same crappy behaviors that encourage financial swindling and speculation.
Had the same feeling...
I remember internet forums as a teenager. Back when people didn't use real names and profile pics were of random characters or celebrities not our faces.

It honestly never crossed my mind that the people I was talking to could be anything other than white and mostly guys. I come from a country where races basically don't exist so that worldview made sense kinda.

Sometimes I wonder how many racist jokes I made to people who were black or asian and I had no idea. In my defense, those were just jokes/opinions I picked up on the internet, completely learned behavior as I was trying to learn how this "American Society" thing works because most of the internet seemed to follow american society rules.

Anonymity is great, but it has its drawbacks. Had I known the people I'm talking to are black/asian, I would've asked about their cultures and how they perceive this American Society thing I was exploring.
My understanding of the article:

When people use Facebook in ways that reproduce interactions through technology that existed before Facebook, the results are positive (e.g. texts between close friends, IMs, emails, etc). When people use the core features that social media introduced, the results are negative (e.g. status updates to your 1000+ "friends", "likes", etc).

Is this an accurate summary of the findings discussed in the article?
Silicon Valley homes now out of reach even for big spenders
Where did the mercury in your body come from? Do you have any guesses? I avoid eating tuna and other large aquatic predators to avoid mercury but I've never looked into it other sources.
Also, if you don't have a cable puller, an easy way to tension the RD cable is to put the chain on the second smallest cog, then tighten the cable bolt. Cable pullers are really worth the money, though. Especially for cantis.
Private company
Hmm, and you can't really object with "I am not a number" either.
Fossil fuel companies being bankrupt is not viable. Fossil fuels allow the modern world to function. How are you going to get food distributed across the country without fossil fuels? How are you going to make sure critical infrastructure continues to run?

Edit: I'm not saying fossil fuel dependency is a good thing, but it's a fact of life, and any realistic proposal for moving away from fossil fuels needs to start with accurately understanding just how important they are.
I'm not going to take a position on whether DAB is worth it, however:

> ...the lag associated with changing channels...

It seems like this is mostly the fault of the receiver, to me it doesn't seem like there's any reason that the receiver can't just have several filters (tuned to adjacent or saved channels) and demodulators running, so that you can tune instantly to them.

I think the bigger problem with DAB, to my eyes, is codec selection and graceful degradation.
I still used AIM up until today. My friends and I just switched over to a private XMPP server, and we've been using Pidgin/Adium anyway, so it's not a huge change. AIM has been extremely reliable, I've been able to use it on every platform I've ever owned (usually with free software), and it's easy to end-to-end encrypt messages.

My friends and I just never saw a reason to move away from AIM. Everyone just decided to switch to things that were newer for novelty's sake, and transferred their friendships and conversations into non-private, non-free systems. Even Google, which at first used an open protocol, moved to a siloed system while adding nothing of much value (as evidenced by Google's low share of the messaging market). And now to talk to people I have to switch between Google, Skype, Apple, and Facebook, all of whom inter-compatible systems, all of whom reneged on their promises, and none of whom offer me any value whatsoever.

This is not a happy day for me.
A tear down doesn't necessarily involve inspecting every part.
> Most of those studies were debunked as using very shaky methodologies

They weren't. In fact you don't even need to look at studies, you can look at raw standardized test scores and see this is true.
No idea. No idea what it is (Well, yes, HD, I get it).
They can hidef or lodef as much as they please, I don't really care. All I want is for the latency to be gone.
it is usefull
If you assume that NULL is a placeholder for a value that exists, you must require the basic property that A=A be true, even when A is NULL, because any value equals itself. This does not mean that NULL=NULL should always be true. So, this is just to point out one of the many examples of SQL being incompatible with a "value existent, but unknown" semantics. NULLs in SQL are quite a mess.
Interesting. Again, I have the polar opposite position. I can trust an idea because I can evaluate it on its own merit. I can’t trust a person because they’re inherently driven by emotion instead of logic. I may trust someone in some capacity but not another. For instance I might trust someone to feed my dog but not invest my money.

I also see the problem with “us vs them” with the “us” side of the equation. I’m a unique individual who’s thoughts, wants and needs don’t overlap with any group. To me everyone else is a “them” until I build a personal relationship with them.
I think that's definitely a cultural thing. It would be in poor taste in my country, but seems very American.

And many of the things he did do sound like he could be a good contributor - I guess you can't know about his personality without an interview.
If the world comes knocking for your soil, you’ll go through it pretty fast.
Customs can detain you until you unlock the device.
I am not white, and indeed, discrimination based on skin color is much easier to shrug off for me, than discrimination based on thoughts or beliefs. I think it's because I equate my identity to my thoughts and beliefs, and not my skin color. This perhaps also comes from stoic philosophy, i.e. I don't bother to think about things I can't control such as my skin color.
Thoughts on LastPass? Good? Bad? Cromulent?
Israel is an apartheid state. That is neither homogenous... Or particularly impressive.
The Downside of Net Neutrality
Ubuntu once sent everything typed in the search bar to Amazon, so...
Yeah, that's my idea. Student loan shouldn't be a crushing obligation for life. Riskier terms for student loans will mean a lot less money available. Less money available will mean universities will stop building expensive buildings and hiring a million middle manager bureaucratic types that contribute no value, and will instead focus on driving down costs and focusing on their core value.

If a student is going to graduate 200k in debt with an art degree, you'd be silly to lend to that student. If a student was going ~10k in debt to graduate in a field with a lot of economic opportunity then that might be a smart choice.
> “It's not psychology but basic probability math and game theory.”

while it’s true that a system set up that way with the given behavioral preconditions likely devolves into those stable solutions, you have the causality backwards. the math is descriptive of a behavioral phenomena, rather than prescribing the outcomes. human behavior seems fixed but it’s highly adaptive. just when you think you’ve figured it out, the system changes on you.
Personally I have never really seen the point in writing one. My resume has all my abilities and even a bit about me. The recruiter is going to scan the resume and let the computer decide if I get the interview. That said the smarter thing you can do is copy the job posting, attach it to the end of your resume. I usually do it in micro print and white, as it's just for the machines.

Speaking as someone that has interviewed a lot of senior level engineers in the last 2 years. The fastest way to get a black mark is to hand me an 6 page resume. Frankly as a lead, with 10 resumes on my desk.. most of whom don't have the right skill set. The last thing you want to do is make me hunt to see if you can do the job. Cover letters in the rare case I got them, I didn't read at all. If your resume interests me I'll look at your linkedin.

That said, I am a senior / lead android dev. So I don't exactly hurt on the job front.. I have noticed the smaller the company the more they want you to know about them. Especially start ups (the more obscure and small the higher the expectation)
If the 6 million parts figure is correct, it's obvious that it is not possible to inspect every part of a 747. Suppose we allow 1 minute per part inspection. Then that's still about 11 years of inspection time (without taking any breaks!)
This is not correct. "We ran" refers to the hoplite charge during the battle itself, which was notable for being a long run at full tilt (although Herodotus likely exaggerates): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

Here's the mention of "we ran" in Hansen: https://books.google.com/books?id=lAWEPUkz5sIC&pg=PT164&lpg=...

The story of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens (and dying on arrival) is certainly apocryphal, but it's nevertheless the origin of the modern marathon.