skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me wonder, as I've been many ask for an "AI government" and such, will our future societies be ruled by constantly-watching and always-listening AIs that follow the absolute most strict versions of the law and punish automatically anyone who breaks them in the slightest?

I remember a few years ago we were arguing about the fact that it's not a good idea to have a society where 100% of the people are punished for breaking the law 100% of the time, because then you can't have any progress. Who's to say the version of American society today is the the pinnacle of a modern society and that no law should ever change?

However, for change to occur, some people first need to break the law, and begin to make that new thing a culturally accepted thing before there's a strong enough movement to support a law change.

But if the AI automatically sees your first instance of breaking the law and then automatically punishes you for it, how is that change ever going to come about?

These things won't just "work themselves out" if by that you mean anything but people viciously fighting for their rights against an AI-totalitarian state over the next few decades. Just like AI today can sometimes make a mistake of seeing a helicopter instead of rifles, we'll need to keep "updating" the AI along the way to include these rights, and hopefully before too many people have to suffer in the process. Hopefully that process will be much shorter than the time it takes today from a law being passed by Congress to being shut down by the Supreme Court when found inadequate.
Well it sounds nice but I feel there are some parts left in the dark. Working this way seems to be over reliant on a single manager. The world is now smart enough to know that we are continually misled by biases, focusing on a single person will emphasize and neither that topic nor a strategy for correction has been discussed by the author. I want my manager to be smart, but this is expecting the manager to be very smart at various levels and leaves very little room for mistakes.

One on one meetings are underrated, especially with tech people and even among them. It is important that managers and tech people build acceptance and try to align their mindsets and share knowledge. But one on ones also leave room for manipulation and favoritism which can tear teams apart.

I agree that many group meetings are boring and badly executed, but a team needs sit at the same table once in a while, even if it is just there to detect conflicts and resolve them one on one. Group meetings suffer greatly from groupthink and dominance of invidiuals. Which is usually badly compensated, if at all. But the failure usually starts with a sloppy agenda and inviting the wrong people. There has been quite some work on that but I usually only see scrum masters randomly doing some of them without serious reflection.

Managers should take care of decisions and tasks that teams or invidials cannot make. Most importantly bring the right people together, get out of the way and cash in the results later. Being the single point of failure is not the solution.
For me attempts at meditation when one tries to shutdown verbal thoughts for some time were extremely revealing. I realized how "rational thought" has very little with defining myself and how much time is required indeed to change something that I do not like about myself.
Generally I do agree, but would add a “how do we want to change?” to your question of “how did we fail?” A lot (not all) of real deep problem solving and innovating requires face time and more than 2 people
rescue on do blocks!!! Wooooo. Merry Christmas!

Ruby is a joy to use.
I currently owns a redmi note 4, Indian version

the hardware is great.

price is good,

but the software it's literally a spyware/adware, even after removing all the chinese crapware and preinstall adware from the stock rom there are still trying to send my data back to there chinese server,since removing some of there system app will crash the stock rom

https://imgur.com/a/mlcgq

So if you are thinking of using stock rom, your privacy is at great risk.
Every year it's the Christmas gift I wait the most!
I also identify with the author. Tried the startup game on two occasions and got burned 2 times (one as senior engineer the other as CTO) - somehow both companies managed to sell but not at a price that made my shares worth it.

I then swore I would never be an employee again and decided to join an accelerator but crashed out. Now I am freelancing and building a bootstrapped business on the side: much less headaches, I earn a good living, and get to build something I am passionate about while remaining master of my destiny. Not seeking VC money nor VC-esque returns, just a meaningful life where my work is valued and provides enough to live comfortably.
Keep your eye on HeartMath. Stanford is involved. There have been rumors of some awesome (in the true expression of the term) discoveries.
I think he meant to use exclusivity as a straw man to show that "IP is not food", instead of the more often misused: "not paying is not equal to stealing".

Both are obviously false, but I think that was the intend (argument by confusion?).
Good questions; I have no idea about any of that. I was guessing that might use an Ethereum Dapp, but the podcast is the first I've heard of the project and it had no technical information, being concerned instead with property rights and economics.
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Enhancement for python pip uninstall command
Ask HN: I am colorblind
Hello hacker news,

I am colorblind and I work at a relatively large international corporation. I know that it's not a serious disability like the loss of a limb, except I notice it every day. The higher management always used a color scheme I can't understand for graphs. The new boardgame my friends buy is difficult, as I have to concentrate to understand which color is which; games like junglespeed, where speed matters are unplayable for me.

I also know that I am not the only one, so please, if you are a designer, a manager or someone who has to use a color scheme for their work, take colorblind people into account.

Happy Christmas everybody!
The site/podcast 'Manager Tools' has an interesting series on the importance of one-on-ones which is definitely worth checking out if the article piqued anyone's interest in this tool. Don't let the date scare you, scroll down to the bottom to find them they're some of the earliest on the feed.

https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts?field_content_dom...

Some of the big takeaways are:

1. Normalise one-on-ones so people understand that a one-on-one is a meeting to build the relationship and actually sort things out, not the precursor to a punishment or other serious issue.

2. Make an agenda, communicate it and then actually stick to it.

3. That agenda should be based one what do you want to talk about, what do they want to talk about, and then discussion of the future. They leave it intentionally open ended and yet fairly strictly time bounded.

4. One-on-ones are regular and important. Do not prioritise things over them unless absolutely necessary as they're the way to build lasting relationships of trust and accord with individuals and teams.

They have some points of minor disagreement with the author of this piece. For instance their one-on-one's are egalitarian, and a fixed time every time, with no prioritisation of particular personal for extra meetings of these kinds (though I assume they're open to one-on-one conversations as necessary).

The podcasts go into a lot of exposition and example scenarios, common pit falls and the like. I actually really enjoy them for the people skills, not being a manager myself. Like I said, they have points of agreement and disagreement with the author over the precise purpose and format of the one-on-one, but I think this piece was good and complementary to the advice I've absorbed from them.
The MiOS or whatever they call it is utter crap. Frankly, it turned me off from a perfectly good Redmi Note phone. IMO, the low price is very alluring but the software should be at least as good as plain android. A good example is oneplus. I believe people have bought mi phones in india a lot due to the media blitz, but these numbers will not be sustainable because nobody will buy a phone from them a second time.
> Bkav simply scanned a test subject’s face, used a 3D printer to generate a face model, and affixed paper-cut eyes and mouth and a silicone nose.

Ah yes, simple as that!

> a BBC reporter’s twin brother was able to access his account by mimicking his voice. The experiment took seven tries.

That's actually extremely impressive!
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Which is faster? Vue; Which is more modular? Vue; Which is simpler to grasp and reason about? Vue; Build in CSS support? Vue;

P.S. Vue contains React. You could in principle write your components React style.
Mobile App Success Story: Google Santa Tracker
The blood moon rises once again.
I think the opposite. I feel that OOP had become such a mess exactly because of those ``compromises'' which were made in mainstream OOP languages (i.e. java, c++ etc). I expect the same from mainstream FP implementations.

Such ``compromises'' just ruin the whole carefully elaborated framework of the paradigm introducing breaches, which would be filled with workarounds. And voila, meet new java.
Souper Salad was awful. Houston has Sweet Tomatoes.
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But it's the low cost ones that have contributed to the "rise" of xiaomi referenced in TFA. The high cost ones nobody is buying.
The underlying issue here seems to be a conflict between a thin notion of existence and a fat one.

A fat notion includes properties. To say "x exists" is to say that, eg., it has a spatial and temporal location. This is often just baggage brought in from common ways of speaking and thinking.

It is more helpful to reduce "exists" down to its barest sense and discard any properties that often come along with it.

In this "thin" sense, exists only means that you can -- roughly -- successfully talk about it.

"Santa" exists, only that the object "Santa" does not possess the properties of being a man. He is a fictional object.

So "Santa, the man who visits you on christmas," does not exist. I cannot successfully talk about it (ie., i cannot refer to that man, I cannot point him out, there is no way of "locating" him).

In this sense I cannot see how one could object to the existence of the square root of 2. It can be successfully pointed out in the same way any number can be (esp. see the article). Only, say, that it failed to possess some properties of interest.

I guess the hypothetical objector in this article wants numbers to possess the property of "being easily exemplified by stones" (or whatever), in which case sqrt(2) doesn't have that property.

Why it should be that "2" exists because it can be exemplified by fingers, and sqrt(2) doesnt because it cant be -- is a bit strange.

But history is full of people wishing to arbitrarily define a set of properties that count as existence.
>This is the same anywhere there's direct democracy. 51% of the people vote in the government

Uh, not quite. 51% of the voters. I highlight this because it's incredibly important to understand that only voters have power, and if you refuse to vote then you will be screwed by politicians in favour of people who actually keep them in power.
I zoomed in on a commercial airliner flying above my house once with a 40x camera, it was really cool.
The Nature of Proof (2011)
Waiting till we achieve warp.
No, Bitcoin isn't likely to consume all the world’s electricity in 2020
I think that's understandable as an attitude given the way meetings are actually utilised in corporate culture. Personally I've found group meetings to top out in effectiveness at 3, maybe 4 people. I would say at that threshold they can be incredibly efficient and effective versus online communication/telecom and important for building human relationships. But beyond that, any additional heads seem to dramatically reduce the effectiveness of a group meeting, let alone its efficiency. It doesn't take many faces before a group meeting is having an all-round negative impact. But I do strongly believe in the effectiveness of moderately infrequent, tight-group meetings. From my own, generally blessed experience anyway.
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Believe me, you don't want Xiaomi's "updates". The base OS is bad, and the updates usually break already working stuffs. I had an issue where I couldn't use photos from Google photos as my whatsapp profile photo. Unlimited small headaches like this.
I recently somehow ended up in the Tai Lopez* ad funnel. I decided to click on every ad, and the more ads I clicked on (and closed the landing page), the more the ad system thought I was a prospect. It ended up serving three different ad formats on almost every site I visited (all of which I clicked on).

It was fun while it lasted, but at some point I got blacklisted. I haven't seen a Tai Lopez ad since.

* One of those scammy "get rich on the internet telling people how to get rich on the internet", uhh "gurus".
It lost the "battle" by resorting to violence rather than policy and law.
That makes me wonder.. how many hacks do we have implemented just for the cursor to feel like it does.
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The initial assessment is quite accurate, since the mobile phone hardware market is brutal. The list of companies that were once great but stumbled and were unable to recover is lengthy: Motorola, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia, HTC...
That's mostly not X11, but fancy DEs with fancy DE-oriented apps. Try some lightweight window manager with xterm.
> we can safely assume that there _were_ actual physical flying objects in the are

Why not some kind of an advanced hologram combined with an electromagnetic disturbance? If it were possible, it could be used as a great decoy.
Yes, it's great for focusing on content. I wish I could enable the reader view by default for a list of sites. Or even better, the browser does so automatically when a page has lots of text and is not responsive/is too small.
I'd been doing this a lot lately and thought it might be time for a new prescription on my lenses. Maybe it's just poor UX after all. I've never been a "content should be completely separate from presentation" guy, but recent design choice by websites have pushed me further in that direction.
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It seems he confuses a quantinty with its numerical expression. The square root of 2 is just the length of a segment: the diagonal of a square of side 1. As long as “square, side and 1” are allowed to “exist”, sqrt(1) does exist.

No, you cannot write its decimal expansion. But neither can you that of 20/7. However, its continued fraction is trivial.
Are colorblind-friendly palettes widely known among visual designers?

Can these palettes (and patterns) be included as a choice in end-user and programmatic graphing apps?
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003501
I think its for Christmas. Also, another thread to reach:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003501
Cryptome
I would guess this Twitter issue may have been a mistake. Wikileaks and Assange's reputations have taken a bit of a hit since the elections. Previously, liberals loved him and conservatives loathed him. Now the tides seem to have reversed, but I don't think it's a conspiracy.
'More than half' of pilots have slept while flying (2013)
There was no Airline Industry Winter or Software Winter either.
You are correct. He was born December 25th, 1642 as per the Julian calendar and January 4th, 1643 as per the Gregorian calendar that almost everyone uses today.
There are so many Indians and Chinese in the industry that I doubt that "twenty-something white males" are the majority.
> plain ASCII

Is Unicode support in xterm really adding the latency?
I believe it is Bhutan that measures gross national happiness in addition to GDP, realizing growth just for growth's sake doesn't necessarily increase overall happiness. Don't know how well that works for them but good for both the nation and this startup to have it as a goal. My concern in the context of the startup would be that another player would enter the same market segment and use funding to expand aggressively, eating all of my market share in the process. Even if there is plenty of space in the market for both the slow growth and quick growth startups, there is going to be a danger of getting steamrolled by the quick growth company.
This tutorial is almost the same as this ~10 years old tutorial, only a little bit modernised: http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html
I shall remain sceptical until presented with some kind of highly irrefutable evidence.

But assuming for the sake of argument that some of these observations are actually founded in somthing real, then where on earth does the idea of aliens enter the picture? Bugs or vira in the metaprogram sound no more farfetched, nor does my personal favourite, that it's just our great^n grandchildren visiting from a more or less distant future.
One thing you have to realize about the law, it doesn't translate to a rule set, as understood by computers, at all. If that were the case we could just implement the law in code, there would be no need for judges or lawyers, and every case should be clear. But the law isn't just a bunch of logical statements, that you can run any given situation against, instead it constantly leads to edge cases or even contradictions. People practicing the law are interpreters, that often have to argue about how a real world situation even fits into this rule set.

It's weird if you think about it, but from a logical standpoint, whether or not you broke the law is often undefined.
So it seems these were mainly suicides, and it's about as relevant as blaming water for people intentionally drowning themselves.

Worth noting that e.g.the doses listed under energy drinks on that page are well within ranges that have been used in various studies of impact of caffeine on athletic ability. If those levels are dangerous to some it seems likely to require a pre-existing heart problem as there seems to be exceedingly little evidence that those levels are risky to the general population.

To reach levels toxic to most people with tea you'd likely end up concentrating it so much you'd end up eating a slurry with a spoon...
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If anything, it was an effective conspiracy by the Iraqi government to make foreign intelligence agencies believe that Iraq had nuclear weapons or was close to having them. It's entirely rational for someone in Saddam's position to want foreign governments (and not just western ones but Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran as well) to believe he possesses nuclear weapons. Israel plays this game too, with its policy of strategic ambiguity. Saddam miscalculated how U.S. and U.K. policy makers would re-evaluate this ambiguity in the wake of September 11th. In the wake of that miscalculation, North Korea's leadership has been pursuing an upgraded version of his strategy, with unambiguous demonstrations of actual nuclear weapons and ICBMs. Time will tell whether that clarity will prevent a war on the Korean Peninsula or precipitate it.

At any rate the existence of WMD, in general, rather than nuclear weapons in particular, was never in doubt, and stockpiles were found in Iraq and disabled or destroyed. You may remember some of the hand-wringing about Isis overrunning some of the chemical weapons facilities containing sealed bunkers of damaged sarin and mustard gas shells.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middlee...
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In my experience coming from a multi-paradigm background the difference is experience writing code. A newb tends to argue about things like tabs versus spaces, latest trends, and easiest abstractions. Rockstars don’t care about any of that and instead focus on performance, predictability, and simplicity.

This can cause a fair amount of friction as simplicity isn’t easy and newbs cannot differentiate those terms. Simplicity is the fewest instructions to perform a task, which often means fewer conventions and rituals in the code.
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TLDR; My sleep is gradually getting worse and my Ivy League center(the head doctor went to Yale) hasn't alluded that there is much to do. Any have advice on alternative sleep life styles?

After being diagnosed bipolar, I have been taking a medication called Zyprexa for 4 years. I used to never have any sleep problems but had other bipolar side effects. My sleep has progressively gotten worse since starting the medication. It used to always put me to sleep now it sometimes works. It is such that If I am no longer on the medication I don't sleep like at all for several nights. I have come off the medication up to 2 weeks and have gotten hardly any sleep compared to my previous sleep schedule of not taking the medication. Frankly I am just really annoyed that ~12% report insomnia compared to the 11% of the placebo. My biggest concerns are jobs and sleep in old age. I am 23 which likely means this won't get any easier.
May I ask what is your bootstrapped business?

I am about to start one myself and I am curious about how and why experienced devs choose their ambitious side projects
The cartel is directly infringing on my freedom, with the use of the governments guns.

Many hundreds of thousands(if not millions or billions) of people are under compensated for the work they do, work which is much more valuable. Make a list of every volunteer open source developer, 12 year old working in a Bangladeshi sweatshop and stay at home mom. If you want to blame anything, blame capitalism. Funny how the reasoning gets inverted while discussing Intellectual Property. Suddenly, we need to threaten peaceful individuals with violence and imprisonment in order to make markets work and to ensure that resource allocation for un-excludable goods happens via capitalist forms. We go from "Capitalism is human nature" to "We must use guns to make sure peaceful actions don't disrupt capitalism from functioning" without a hint of irony or self awareness.
I think every program should be sliced like this and not doing so is a programming mistake. Of course, Im talking before bottlenecks optimization.
But in reality, waiting 5 seconds for modern webpage to load all the fancy Javascript (in response to that small packet), pixel rendering latency is not such a problem.
Building a small boot-strapped company vs a funded company is in a large part dictated by market and product rather than by individual intention.

If you try to build a funded company in a space that can't sustain one you will struggle, likewise if you try to build a small bootstrapped company in a space that can you will similarly struggle.

If your direct competitors have a much better product then you (because they have more dev/product/ux resources than you), a professional sales org, marketing machine, etc. then it's very hard to compete. Your acquisition costs and churn will be high which will severely hurt your ability to grow to a sustainable level.

There are some ways to compete by going after the customers your competitors don't want (if they're price sensitive, too small, wanting unusual customization, services, niche needs, etc.) but you should think about upfront what your strategy is going to be.