skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are specific arguments as to why we should expect AIs to go from ridiculous to dangerous very quickly. You don't have to agree with them, but it's worth acknowledging that Musk et al do have a rationale behind their worries, one that doesn't apply to corporations etc.

Targeted advertising can be mutually beneficial. Of course corporations are incentivised to promote it beyond the point, to the point where it's actively harmful. But they're not the only game in town; countermeasures do exist and are practical (adblocking or simply ignoring ads). More generally, fun is inherently addictive, and the author isn't going to convince me to try to bar people from doing things they enjoy without drawing a more principled line between the two.

Likewise "propaganda", and in any case politicians have been lying for longer than anyone can remember, and our society has thrived; indeed political speech gets stronger protection than other forms of speech, which translates into free rein to stretch the truth further than an advertiser or regular person would be permitted to. Humans can learn to ignore hearsay and rhetoric and pay attention only to a politician's written manifesto. I'd argue we should've done so years ago.

Video can now be faked, sure. But it's always been cheap and easy to fake quotes, and again, this is something we've dealt with.

Mob violence apps... eh. I don't really buy that people can be "nudged" into the kind of huge behavioural change that getting involved in violence would be for most ordinary, peaceful people. Assuming of course we maintain strong social norms against violence. But who would be so foolish as to try to dismantle those?
I'm not sure why everyone else is downvoting you, but I was really tempted to when I saw that you didn't include any links to Lego Mondrians!
> A core proposition in Western world is that intellectual property is indistinguishable from other properties such as house you own or piece of art you create or your stamp collection or your startups.

It really is not.

What makes you believe that it is?

> When you die, you have right to transfer these properties to your designated heir.

A great many people who don't get to inherit their wealth have been questioning this mantra for centuries, probably longer (albeit more cautiously).
There is a lastpass extension, including the binary version, for firefox:

LastPass Firefox Toolbar
Version: 4.2.3
Built: Mon Dec 04 2017 13:51:36 GMT-0500 (EST)

Binary Component: true (Native Messaging version 4.1.44, built Nov 16 2017 23:33:27)

Is it broken upstream in the nightly build, but not in the stable build?
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because of renewed formular? I'm no pharmacist nor chemist, but my impression with drugs is that the popular names and actual composition are two different things. All they need is approval and if it helps relieve or avoid addiction I'm sure a minor change in, I don't know, isomery or adding a tiny functional extra tail to a big molecule doesn't preclude approval.
China southern runs a 380 between Guangzhou and Beijing. But it won’t last forever: china is building lots of new airports to take pressure off its big city airports and provide more direct routes; while the big city airports are expanding and aiming to provide more frequent service betterment handled by smaller planes.
AI is creating fake faces, how dangerous this could be?
Couple more which haven't been mentioned yet:

- Can I run the tests in random order?

- Are the tests optimised for readability?

- Are the tests unnecessarily testing third-party code?

- Do individual tests contain the whole story?
(Or do you have to look in many places to understand each test?)
Here is a similar approach using water droplets instead of a diffuse film, but they don't go as far as performing 3D reconstruction from the light field and the ray directions are not calibrated by a calibration pattern but by inferring a 3D model of the droplets: https://light.cs.uni-bonn.de/4d-imaging-through-spray-on-opt...
Or why the employees where not transferred to the new employer unless their role was redundant (note I say role here)
It'll happen when there's a business model that reduces the operating margin for a company. My best guess is this will be when the price for lithium or trans-uranics goes up significantly, or some engineering process requires microgravity conditions.
Feedback, of course, is appreciated.
Great to see such initiative by Basecamp. This is good for devs around the world. GitLab sits on the other extreme with their "open salaries": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924957
None, due to the glare and distractions. The real work gets done back at hotel/airbnb/coliving/coworking.
Know thyself. Find a niche and develop an appreciation for the value of your work. Only if you know what you're good at and if you have the self-esteem to say so will you be able to say no to work that doesn't suit your profile.
Star Wars: Regency
Most VR games make sense with 2 displays (Headset + screen), and 2 sound systems (binaural for the headset + stereo for the audience). You'd likely know that from the outset, though.
I use an algorithm. In short:

1. Memorize some base password
2. Memorize a way in which you mutate that password based on the name/type/other of the service logging in to.

Eg. Hunter2 becomes eHunterG8
Because my example algorithm cares about Google's first letter, length, and service type: email.

It allows every password to be different but you only memorize two things. It is meant to be a "good enough" solution that is much better than using the same password for everything, but naturally is worse than using significantly different passwords.

I've used this for a few years to great success. The one issue I have is I sometimes have to try multiple times when one account is many types of services.
As remote work proliferates, I think that local market rates become less relevant anyway. So I’d say they are paying the remote worker rate, not the SF rate. It’s not so much because Basecamp wants to give away extra money, but rather because they are competing for top developers that have the choice to work for companies in places like SF and must offer salaries that are competitive with those companies.
auto_increment doesn't lock the table. When you use an auto_increment column, MySQL will grab the next int as it creates the insert write-ahead log message. Two concurrent transactions with T1 beginning first and T2 beginning second but actually committing out of order can thus have out of order ids. e.g. T2(id=10) T1(id=9)

Also, note that this means auto_increment IDs are not continuous (read: a reader looking after T2 commits but before T1 will see a gap, and if T1 fails that gap is permanent!)
Here's the link: https://www.athena.cool

I have no idea why OP posted a link to another site and not the product itself.

EDIT: Talking about the website. IMO, things could be categorised and grouped better. There's no grouping by fields of learning resources (e.g. technology, arts, languages, sciences, etc.). There seem to be links to individual lectures and not the whole courses. When I search, I get links sorted somehow randomly - theres no particular order. Not to mention UX, i.e. when I search for something, then click I link and want to go back. I go back to the homepage and not to my search. This SPA thing is not helping, and there are even more UX hiccups. IMO this site could've been much simpler - just a list of links, tags, titles and descriptions, where cmd+f will do the searching.
When I was a small child in the 80s, I visited one of those Death Valley ponds which is the entire habitat for a pupfish species. They were actually pretty amazing. A small piece of foil had fallen into the pond, and they were grabbing it in their mouths, racing from one side of the pond to the other, clearly engaged in some type of play or competition with each other. Kind of mind-blowing to think that this was the whole world for that species. Felt like a sacred place.

Sounds like they've had a tough time since then. I hope they make it.
Yes, Google Is Running Fuchsia on the Pixelbook: Calm Down
The thing is, the definition of a great product is one that solves a user's need. While people may have problems with the internet-connected door locks they have now, I'm pretty confident their issue isn't with the deadbolt mechanism, which is as close to a solved problem as you can get.

The market for people who care that their door locking mechanism is as precise as a Swiss watch is so vanishingly small, it feels almost self-evident that there's not a viable business there.
I wish it would be replaced with https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/ as qwebirc is quite dated :)
While technically accurate, this is non-standard to such a degree, and represents such a minority percentage of the population, that "don't do this" really is an appropriate response to the user.
Here’s the research paper:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9cff/c0c80b1ae3c1b773b761f3...
Show HN: 8,760 hours – How to get the most out of next year. Now mobile friendly
User Authentication with Passport and Koa
Last year the link to Alex's original PDF was posted[1], and I really liked it. I couldn't understand however why it was a PDF, how was I supposed to consume the content in a reasonable way? Now converted to HTML, it's significantly easier to read on a small screen.

[1]: https://alexvermeer.com/8760hours-v2-update-announce/
I disagree that UUIDs are generally preferable over integers. For one, they take up more space (on disk and in memory). And for something like a key, it is likely that there will be multiple copies of that value stored, since it will exist in the table itself, at least one index (possibly more) and foreign keys. More space means fewer records per page on disk, more I/O and more memory usage (potentially leading to more I/O). I would wager that for most users (including this case), the cost of this additional I/O is far greater than some theoretical scalability limitation on generating IDs.

Most database vendors make sequence generation (whether through explicit SEQUENCE objects or auto-incrementing columns) performant by making a few compromises:

* Numbers may not always be sequential (you might get 1, 3, 2 - in that order)

* There may be gaps (you might get 1, 2, 5, 6)

But since these are supposed to be opaque identifiers, neither of these compromises should be a concern for most users. But this means that these sequences can live outside of a transaction (you might grab an ID, rollback, and that ID is gone) and that systems with multiple nodes can be allocated a "block" of numbers from which they can quickly pull new values, without needing to coordinate with a master node.
Ask HN: What do you use for note taking?
> Native apps had a head start: they don't load every asset from a potentially untrusted source

The whole native app is "untrusted" at the point of install. Even an app store offers a fairly thin guarantee about what apps are actually doing. It's far easier and less risky to open a web page and start doing something than install a native app.
> It would be like if you woke up one day to see a family of squatters living in your house, that you can't get rid of, because the person who built your house died 70 years ago and your house is now "Public Domain".

It wouldn't be like that.
"Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest,
They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast
The trees around them all their food produce:
Lotus the name: divine, nectareous juice!
(Thence call'd Lo'ophagi); which whose tastes,
Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts,
Nor other home, nor other care intends,
But quits his house, his country, and his friends.
The three we sent, from off the enchanting ground
We dragg'd reluctant, and by force we bound.
The rest in haste forsook the pleasing shore,
Or, the charm tasted, had return'd no more.
Now placed in order on their banks, they sweep
The sea's smooth face, and cleave the hoary deep:
With heavy hearts we labour through the tide,
To coasts unknown, and oceans yet untried."

Life's a journey. More should face it sober.
Does that scale to a full lunar mission though?

Just because it's cheaper to take the bus downtown doesn't say anything about the cost of airfare to another continent.
Sadly, no. Last update was 20 March 2017.
For #1, the "internal" package magic name allows you to have "private public" types; types that are public in terms of what reflect thinks about them, but are private in the sense that external packages still can't get at them (which is the operational definition of "private" in Go) so it's safe to have all of their attributes be "public", i.e., start with capital letters.

I often use the "internal" when I have a package with a lot of internal-only marshaling behaviors, so that the godoc for the package isn't made up of 80% internal implementation details and 20% payload.

"As nesting maps is a pain"

Spend a few years in Perl with its autovivication and it'll seem a lot less painful. However, this is just an observation, not an actual recommendation.
Seems unlikely to me that a new fleet of supersonic aircraft would use engines from a bomber that first flew in 1952[1]. I am assuming that modern engines would not have "similar particle emissions". For example, I would imagine that they wouldn't have afterburners.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan
I haven't conflated sadness with depression. I was in fact stating the opposite.

Unfortunately I am very aware of most of the symptoms of depression as I have suffered it myself in the past. And yes, I did take antidepressants. I am not against their use at all, only against misdiagnoses.

15 years of mourning the death of a loved one is of course abnormal, as I have stated already in another response around this thread, but... is it depression? Or is it lack of coping mechanisms? Maybe learning to face reality is better than depending on a daily dose?
There are no GAFAs in enterprise
I live in the SF Bay. My "onsite" day rate is much higher than my "remote" rate.

All of my local clients accept a compromise; meet in-person once per sprint (every 2-4 weeks). Otherwise all work is done remotely.

My remote employees and contractors are not required to commute or work onsite, therefore the remote rate applies.

Kudos to Basecamp for committing to standard salary levels, but I believe geographic cost-of-living adjustments are more accurately assessed through periodic bonuses.
I like the typography, I dislike the name as -in my opinion- it lacks connection to what the app does.

I'm not your target audience, I do not use these kind of apps (and I tried several), but even so I find that the landing page does not refer to anywhere with more information. An starting guide (open to the world) or something similar as to visually see how the app works (at length) would help discoverability for people that consider that free registration is a cost too high to pay.
The Retreat to Tribalism
Facebook, Google and Others Join the Trust Project
If they are a subscription service anyway; what would the value be?
Windows already ships with a JS engine - it's a supported language for UWPs. I don't think you can stream them, though.
Great execution!

I understand the impetus to keep things simple. But PNG image export would be a tremendous boon to me. Should be trivial as you are just drawing text to the canvas, no?
Out of curiosity, why NZ?
The issue with this line of thinking is that it is based on the assumption that a "war" is the appropriate solution because the cause of drug related problems is just people's weaknesses and moral failings. The hard Right of course thinks that, and they have pounded this metaphor into society's head ever since the Reagan era. If the real motivation for a "war" really was a matter of public health, then alcohol would be banned immediately. But ... so much money is involved...

As commenters here, and Rat Park [1], and "Drug Warriors and Their Prey" [2] explain, such a simplistic notion about the causes is not correct, along with the assumptions about the government's true motivations. There are more complex reasons, based in psychology and sociology, that explain why people have drives to alter their consciousness and why government policy is not actually what it seems a lot of the time.

This metaphor of a "war" is deliberately misleading, but simplistic enough to be jammed into people's heads - it is the 20th century equivalent of "Reefer Madness". Thus it is no surprise the Right is so fond of this, even now... they are obsessed with trying to mold society into what they want, versus trying to actually understand and solve problems appropriately. Thus their stereotypical dismissal of 'science' and all that...

But as I heard recently, conservatives have always been on the wrong side of history. US society is now evolving and legal marijuana is never going to go away now - primarily because of the money involved (and that is another essay)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drug-Warriors-Their-Prey-Police/dp/...
Concorde was of course a state-subsidised vanity project sponsored by arch-socialist Tony Benn: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/oct/17/theairlinei...

(Entertaining little bit of Sir Humphrey in a quote there: ""Secretary of state, we should tell you that Whitehall agreed before the election that whoever won, the Concorde would be cancelled."")
In inflation adjusted dollars? I would have still thought its 10X cheaper now because of all the learnings plus much lower cost computing and other engineering enhancements.

Back in 1973, the total cost of the Apollo program reported to Congress was $25.4 billion. By far the most expensive parts of the mission were the Apollo spacecraft (the Command Modules, the Lunar Modules) and the monstrous Saturn V launch vehicles. A single Saturn V launch cost up to $375 million in 1969 — or, in today’s money, a few billion dollars.

In 2009, NASA looked back at the cost of the Apollo program in its entirety, and arrived at a figure of $170 billion in 2005 dollars (or around $200 billion in today’s money). Compare these costs to modern day space travel, where companies like SpaceX charge just $133 million to launch a spacecraft to the International Space Station. The Falcon Heavy, which will be comparable to the Saturn IV, will be in the same price region.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186600-apollo-11-moon-la...
Not with the current models. They were constructed for long haul flights and frequent takeoffs and landings on rather short haul routes will result in a faster degradation of the airframe, meaning safety concerns and high maintenance costs. That’s why Bowing came up with the 787-3 (which was cancelled)
I just assumed the bucket came from under the sink.
You need all the art and sound for the first few minutes. Probably a lot more than 300MB.
> besides making them feel guilty and pathetic when they relapse

I don't see how a bit of time to reflect and cope in a careful environment is strictly a bad thing. You reinforce a stereotype that is not helpful to those to whom it really applies, because it implies a inevitability, which hopefully, is not actual.
Sapiens. An insightful book on the history of humankind and its possible future.
Why use a PGP key instead of symmetric encryption (either with a random key encrypted with your master password, or a key derived from your master password)?
Code {poems} (2012)
eg coinhive
Re: NYC vs France.

I'm gonna assume you're a heterosexual male. NYC is one of the worst market for heterosexual women, because 1. they outnumber guys by a significant amount 2. NYC is very gay friendly, so homosexual males are overrepresented.

I have personally observed this difference even in meatspace.
lmao You guys are a riot.
> Now pretty much anyone in the middle classes can afford it.

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/484941939/a-portrait-of-ameri...

Quote from NPR "Since economists first began keeping track in 1970, every decade has ended with fewer people in the middle class than at the start. And 2015 was the first year on record when Americans in the middle-income bracket did not make up the majority of the country"

Middle class can afford it now you say and yet the middle class is shrinking and the poor class is growing. Are you ignoring the inequality and shrinking of the middle class when you make such a statement?

> deregulation and consolidation

If there were many air lines and now they are consolidated to fewer is this not anti competition? Or is the market going to fix it by less regulation?

Here's the graph from the 1970s to 2010s: http://psf_blog.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/201...

Do you believe in the concept of natural monopoly Ihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly)? If so what's your solution to that?

edit/update:

Something in the back of my mind was skeptical about your claim of airflight being cheaper without source. It seems more like you're making a statement base on feeling.

I googled:

Note here's one article that stated that it went up on average by a bit adjusting for inflation:

http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/airlines-airport...

Another article argued that the statistics ignore the outlandish carry baggage checkin that in fact it is more costly today to fly than it is in the 70s.

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/blog/seat2B/2014/05/...
The reading was worth because of the curse generator anedocte.
Are you a broke-as-hell Freelancer?
Bugzilla Profiling
Remember that your email is part of your password. When sites are compromised your email is never encrypted and when you use the same email across every site a hacker now has part one of your login. For those unlucky to use the same password across many sites, once the password is obtained it can now be used at other sites. If you have a unique email (login) to every site then using the same password becomes less of an issue as the hacker now only knows 1 part of the authentication values. Still best to use different passwords though.
Pain is always evil, or the word "evil" has no meaning.

BUT....

"And since pleasure is our first and native good, for that reason we do not choose every pleasure whatsoever, but will often pass over many pleasures when a greater annoyance ensues from them. And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure. While therefore all pleasure because it is naturally akin to us is good, not all pleasure is should be chosen, just as all pain is an evil and yet not all pain is to be shunned. It is, however, by measuring one against another, and by looking at the conveniences and inconveniences, that all these matters must be judged. Sometimes we treat the good as an evil, and the evil, on the contrary, as a good." (Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus)
Sure, given a dev in India and a dev in SF with the same skill set, then the one in India will be willing to work for less. But when you offer a SF salary in India, then you might get a much better dev.

So, theoretically, in case of remote work and a global pool of talent, it is a less optimal use of your dollars to adjust salaries to the cost of living (all other things being equal, e.g. skill set level, culture).
Yep, is TenX making a habit of this?
This seems to follow natural evolution, everything coming and going in waves, each time reaching a new evolution and better version of that older wave. Before personal computers, terminals were the thing, just connecting to a mainframe and executing programs there, then we reached the state of standalone computers being offline for a while mostly, then the Internet boomed really fast and computing went more to server/client model, and now we are going towards back loading code from a server, but having more intelligence in the client and executing more offline.

It's interesting to notice these things repeating themselves, I bet at some point maybe the OS and the computer merge more and we will have again more systems like we did when the Internet became to rise.
Put pressure on the legislative power. And it will happen.