skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a bit triggered.

This segregation stuff does not make sense to me, it almost feels like prison rules - keep genders/races away from each other because if they interact it will probably be violent.

I wondered what would happen if I created a community where the core culture was set by women, and the software and product decisions were also made by women

-> This also seems strange to me and counterproductive. If we build a society where any interaction happens without confrontations against the people that may be causing the issues, in this case "men", then how are we to make progress? Do men and women think differently about the merits of different software technologies or not?

Even when members have opposing views, they’ve given each other the benefit of the doubt and continue to talk productively.

-> Are you implying that men are incapable of this? Or that an environment where men and women interact is incapable of achieving this? Seems regressive...
> If a pedestrian crosses the street at a particularly inappropriate time is there a statute under which they could be fined?

No.

There is semi-binding guidance called the Highway Code, which includes sections for pedestrians (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedes...) but there are no criminal or administrative penalties for not complying, except for Rule 34 (railway level crossings) which carry a criminal fine.

Crossing the road in a dangerous way is discouraged by education ("The Green Cross Code") and by the obvious downsides of getting hit by a car. If you do something stupid you may well get a bollocking from any passing police officer, but no fine.

edit: The Highway Code is actually a very good example of (kinda) law which is sensible, well-expressed, easy to read and well-illustrated. Well worth a look.
I'm going to assume this is a good-faith argument and not a "bury them in BS" reply:

> This is the same United States where just about everyone already carries a tracking device by choice.

Sure, that's a very reasonable counter-point, however not everyone does.

> where lots of people have installed 24/7 network-connected microphones in their homes

Plenty of folks find asking a wiretap for pancake recipes fine, and there are plenty that balk at the thought. This Christmas my sister bought everyone Amazon's cute little NSA Listening Post™ - was fun how quickly the look of disgust crossed their face when I explained that every conversation would be recorded and store in Amazon's data centers... and probably a few three-letter agencies.

> and where everyone believes you need ID to fly. This is the same United States where a common political argument is that of course ID should be required to vote because ID is required for everything else, and citizens should just carry ID. This is the same US where a special police force arrests and detains citizens and forces them to prove that they're actually citizens. It's been a long while since we actually objected to the "papers, please" world.

There is an insanely large leap between having an ID for a few specific purposes and being mandated to carry a homing beacon.

> they're only needed if you want to use the roads as a pedestrian or cyclist.

The post I replied to did not state "to use the roads" - it stated general use of mandatory beacons. You're moving the goalposts.

> And if you don't carry the beacon, that's not illegal, it's just your fault if you get hit by a car. It's not the government forcing you to carry it, it's algorithms and corporations, which makes it okay, right? If these beacons are produced by the free market, why should government regulation step in and stifle innovation?

If the AppleMobile hits me because I don't carry an iPhone, you can best believe they will be sued into oblivion. Remember, this is litigious America!

The Evangelical community would surely denounce a mandatory tracking device as the work of the Antichrist, and I would love to watch politicians shit on that high-turnout demographic.
Very well put. I would say that containment went too far (even Keenan thought so later in life) but violent class struggle and Communist takeover was exactly what was being pursued by the Soviet Union. Although initially the hope seems to be an international coalition of workers under Communism (i.e. there would be no need for an invasion, workers from all nations would unite under its banner) the Bolsheviks quickly crushed that idea by turning the first truly communist state into a virtual dictatorship, and crushing any opposition using violence.
>the BDSM gear is completely irrelevant to anything

Only if we presume that HN's fascination with Waymo vs Uber and the man at the centre of it all serves as something other than a tech world surrogate for lurid celebrity gossip.
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A sizeable and growing portion of the population refuses to have any dealing with this shady corporation. Facebook is not a universal authentication platform and never will be.
I just finished Ready Player One, it was a great read, super interesting story, If you like the 80s and Arcade Games it's a must read.
You can't sell postgres table inserts.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is a legitimate concern.
In bad neighborhoods, the carjackers(might not want a autonomous car though) or robbers might just roll a beach ball into the street to stop the car or maybe just a cheap open umbrella. I can imagine those people who practice "rolling coal" doing the same thing to rich autonomous car riders or just throwing a beach ball out the window on an interstate. Lots of possibilities that security researchers will need to consider.
I'm not using Facebook's definition of sex to include or exclude anyone. The link to Facebook is so I can check that each new member is real. Anyone who identifies as a woman is invited to join.
It is noted in the article that this airplane has no real mission profile. I mean hypersonic cruise speed is an impressive feat on its own, and may result in new methods and applications in space travel. But the military usage of a plane like this is questionable. Recon aircraft have long since been abandoned in favor of satellites, and a fleet of bombers might not be maintainable because of the huge costs involved.
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It might be too late for it at this point. Some of that information is pretty much saying he did some illegal things. A prosecutor could just subpoena her and she has to tell the truth or risk going to jail.
In hindsight the US should have just supported Ho Chi Minh and his government. The man was more of a nationalist and anti colonialist than a Soviet pawn.
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Actually the Hacker News mobile app for iOS has done this for as long as I can remember and it's extremely annoying that it still hasn't been fixed. After opening the app, if I click a post right as it updates, I'll often click whatever just loaded in its place.
Honestly, I think the only hope for the future is open source AI that can read and digest the vast landscape of "truth" on the internet, and help the average citizen be more informed by corroborating facts.

It's very true: no one has the time or attention span to deeply analyze everything we see/read/hear. We used to trust what was given to us, but now that's impossible.
To be fair, mobx is more of a not-anything-like-react-like library.

Disclaimer: I like mobx
I'd liken this less to an out of the box solution and more like selling a webpack config where you still have to plug in all your own info. You can sell anything, but this is in that weird middle ground where if you're technical enough to configure it, you're technical enough to not need to buy the boilerplate.
I ended up with a checkbox plus a mandatory input field requesting a reason for one irreversible action in a system I worked on.

Just adding a checkbox and later a popup with an additional warning wasn't enough.

An undo function is obviously best, but ufortunately while technically possible, it took a while -
possibly a day - to restore due to ripple effects in other systems, and it normally wasn't the person clicking the button that had any reason to notice something was wrong.
This is a huge deal to me that keeps me up at night.

I already see this with public transit. Public transport is a method of population control. You can keep classes of people confined to their neighborhoods simply based on how and where you choose to route buses/trains.

I can get in my car and go anywhere. That to me is the true spirit of America.
Btw (sorry for double comment, I can't edit my previous one anymore), all of this makes me think one thing: maybe console companies could build emulators themselves? There are guys like me who won't ever buy a console anyway. I use steam linux, and I've add a few custom launchers to it to play otherwise non-available retro games through emulators. I wouldn't bother paying for an official emulator if it allowed me to buy games that are exclusive to consoles (as in, games that are not on Steam).

This would also be an opportunity to generate revenue on retro gaming: if they make it easy to use, people will buy it. They could make an emulator for steam which then includes its own marketplace "in game". Despite the large availability of retro roms, I keep buying old final fantasy games for about 15€ each on android just because it's easy and requires no configuration.
She's instructed NOT to do the opposite of staying put.
You're right, my comment is filled with bias, Evan Madow, Senior Software Engineer at Lyft. Please go astroturf your mediocre repos somewhere else.
At his level (any C-Exec really) I'd say he probably doesn't notice because it'll be his assistant (or assistants) doing most of the searching...
I don't think that is necessary. I could imagine a world where bitcoins are used for large portions of the economy, but the government still wants to use dollars.

But there is no indication anything but online drug sales are actually being conducted in bitcoin. And even online drug dealers are looking for a replacement because bitcoin is an awful currency.
And leave all the INSERTs and SELECTs to a trusted third party like Uber?
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“However, Aboulafia noted, such a capability could also be considered a destabilizing development if a U.S. adversary decided to react preemptively to such an aircraft’s existence.”

In other words China and Russia may contemplate fighting WW3 now rather than waiting to be leap frogged. Fun.
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There's a bit of amusing irony in the article due to how a lot of the article's reasoning could be enlisted against the concept of democracy itself rather than the "democracy-poisoning" free speech. Analogous to the article's concerns about how everything is "optimized for engagement," one could say that the democratic values promoted by the author "optimize for votes/reelection/contributions." The dismissal of Mill's "notion that a 'marketplace of ideas' will elevate the truth" could similarly dismiss the idea that the masses voting would elevate the best leaders or reasonable long-term policy.

The common refrain might be that it's the worst form of government except for all else that's been tried. I'd invite the author to explore similar critiques for democracy, or else to consider the idea that societal taboos against restricting free speech exist out of concern of the alternative.
>The screenshots are so bad, not even the juniors I work with would consider deploying this. It's mind boggling.

Not defending the UI too much but I'm imagining this is something built and deployed on government contract in the late 90s or early 2000s (when it was considered high technology that they could do this from a web page in the first place?), occasionally migrated to whatever marginally newer system is required by law while consuming the minimal amount of funding.

It's a damn shame but a lot of govt. stuff ends up in this exact boat because nobody wants to pay to improve something that "already works."
I read it on mobile as well -- but I found the content really compelling and struggled through decoding it. At some point I invented a reason that they might've done this on purpose -- my brain's elevated error-rate while decoding sometimes produced wholly incorrect sentences (which I would hopefully correct by re-reading). These errors are sort of analogous to the kinds of timing dependent semantic errors you can get with distributed systems operating on data stored with weaker consistency models...

So -- google art project?
That's likely to have unfortunate performance implications, particularly on mobile or low-bandwidth connections.
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Shrug. I work at Uber and I find this project interesting, even though we're adopting Flow.

Haters gonna hate. If code quality is an issue, contribute, fork or gtfo. Be nice. Etc. Etc. Can we move on now?
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Also, it's allows loops to be used as multi paths from different points in the net. Say you have a rack at south and north and there is a loop to a rack in the middle. For failover, you'll take any path that is up. But for normal operation, you'd prefer to take the shortest path.
Prefetching state that's never needed is a bandwidth waste.
Is there any reason to favor bearer tokens over cookies?
Rolling a ball on the street is probably enough to stop human drivers as well. Is carjacking that much of a problem where you live? I've never heard of anybody being carjacked here. I guess you could equip your car with one of these devices if you're concerned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLhWzMOccTg
Man, you'd think - with all that extra time on their hands - they could pick a good game to play. :P
This article seems to assume a particular archetype of unemployed person, a sort of romanticized peasant who's good at working with dirt but unsuited to industry. Most writings about UBI seem to fall into similar traps, where they pick some particular type of people (struggling musicians, say) and design a perfect system for them.

But there are lots of different types of people. The system has to work for all of them. That's why you need large-scale studies, to figure out whom a given system works for and whom it doesn't. Nobody can do this in a thought experiment, because nobody can conjure up every type of person and predict how they will interact with the system.
You hit the nail on the head, the challenge with Blockchain and Bitcoin is that it did two things, which together were supposed to tackle the original problem, peer to peer monetary exchange without a trusted intermediary.

So for that the blockchain provides the trust mechanism which is useful. However, the blockchain is just the channel, it needed a medium of exchange, you couldn't very well use USD because then you are back in the banking system.

Here, BitCoin is introduced.

However, the problem with BitCoin is that it initially has no value. So if I bought a nice coffee mug for $10, and I wanted to give it to you for BitCoin, well your BitCoin is currently worth nothing, so we can't have an exchange.

This is where the scarcity argument for BitCoin comes in, which is supposed to inflate the value of the currency, because it is limited. You can also see by the amount of BitCoin initially envisioned the scale of how large the peer to peer exchange network was supposed to be.

We are used to paying $1 for coffee, but are you used to paying 0.0000000001 BitCoin for a coffee?

Now absent speculation, the price of BitCoin would be reasonable, and determined by the effort of the miners, since they are exchanging their fiat currency for computers and energy, and that creates a stable layer for the price.

It would also stand to reason that until all of the Bitcoin are mined the price would continue to increase, because the amount of energy used to mine them increased, while the supply was limited.

If instead an equal output of energy produced and equal output of BitCoin, then BitCoin would have a stable price, that would track energy prices globally, and then the coin would have value because it would still take work to produce it, or you can simply purchase one if you don't want to waste the time mining it yourself.

And you can pay a premium for that already mined coin because it's more convenient.

It's also important to note that the system was already incentivized for miners because they are the ones processing transactions and they collect a fee. So if mining produced a 1:1 BitCoin exchange for fiat currency based on energy usage they would still make a profit from transaction fees like VISA, or for selling the BitCoin for a slight profit because some people wouldn't want to setup a miner themselves, or wait for their coins to be minted.

Speculation occurred because of the limited supply and the increasing difficulty of mining, absent those two things, the value of BitCoin once established would actually be very stable and could in essence become a medium of exchange.
A derivative is a security with price that depends on the value of the underlying asset.

Bitcoins are derivatives for the blocks in the blockchain. You find a new block and you have a coins. Bitcoin value depends on the value of the underlying, the blockchain network.
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Signed requests are not in general more secure:

* The implementation of cryptographic "signing" (really, virtually never signing but rather message authentication) is susceptible to implementation errors.

* The concept of signing is susceptible to an entire class of implementation errors falling under the category of "quoting and canonicalization". See: basically every well-known implementation of "signed URLs" for examples.

* Signed URLs have to make their own special arrangements for expiration and replay protection in ways that stateful authentication doesn't, either because the stateful implementation is trivial or because stateful auth "can't" do the things stateful auth can (like explicitly handing off a URL to a third party for delegated execution).

Stateless authentication is almost never a better idea than stateful authentication. In the real world, most important APIs are statefully authenticated. This is true even in a lot of cases where those APIs (inexplicably) use JWTs, as you discover when you get contracted to look at the source code.

Delegated authentication is useful situationally. But really, there aren't all that many situations where it's needed. It's categorically not useful as a default; it's a terrible, dangerous default.
> I'm a developer at an agency that specializes in building design systems

Can you shoot me an email? Link's in my profile. Would love to pick your brain about a few things.
> every conversation would be recorded and store in Amazon's data centers

I agree with everything else you wrote (I think?), but I thought that the Echo only transmitted things it recognized directly following the activation phrase?
Yes you can. Google made a business out of it.
If you're paying a worker and 2 managers, that's 3 bodies. Not one.
Thank you for the kind words hoodsy!

Did you already have a chance to look into the new architecture for Prisma and GraphQL Bindings?
I think it is called "optical computing".
I'm glad to hear it! I look up each person who signs up for the beta to make sure they're a real person, so it depends how many people request access and how fast I go.

So far discourse has not gone off track. When participants disagree they've been able to discuss their views constructively and assume the best in each other. That's something I'm most excited about. I expect there will be cases where that's not true though, so members who don't contribute in a net positive way will lose access to the community.
I think kemitche was saying was they would have two groups. One would be "Test Alerts" and the other would be "Real Alerts" not that we needed to have a philosophical break down of alerts by severity. severity may have not been the best word but He did explain his definition in the next few words.
You're saying there's no basis for these claims. The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible. The whole reason the news media is reporting on this is because they now have access to a public legal filing.

Without being a news reporter myself, I must rely on what is reported to me. While I know that the news media will give it their own biased slant, certain things, like her saying that she has the license plate numbers of those visiting his house, or that he has BDSM gear, I believe I can take as objectively factual.

Would you also say that without access to a rocket ship or the personal ability to do advanced astrological calculations that there is no basis to the statement that the earth is round?
The US didn't meddle, NATO was co founded by European governments. My own country literally begged the US to house nuclear weapons in order to keep the Soviets out.
There is nothing wrong with the way it _looks_

The problem is that two drastically different interactions are too easy to interchange by mistake.

This application could easily look-and-feel the same while having much a better user experience.
Works pretty well. If you want to minimize trust you can add signing, encryption and hash-chaining to your central database, but I doubt people actually care much about any of that.
Would love a mix between workflowy and Google keep. Ideally, a web app with mobile clients that has an open source server side that you can either pay to have hosted or run yourself :)))
Potentially, but I am a bit sceptical. Plague reached a lot of new territory during the third pandemic (for example, australia and the americas), while still having a low mortality. One could check whether native populations to those continents were especially hard hit compared to people from European descent. I haven't heard anything like that.
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I watched Vietnam In HD (great series) and I came away with many of the same observations that you did.

Do you feel like this was also a generation that missed their chance to be "men"? What I mean by that is that in all past memory, men had gone off to battle and were welcomed home as heroes. This was different, and I feel like in some ways led to the emasculation of the American male. They missed their chance to be heroes like their fathers had been in WWII. The women's rights movement also started at the same time. It was a complete upset to the social norms that had been established in society.
It's a bit off-topic, but there are indeed many! The simplest that I can think of is the grammar that produces all statements of the form (N not gates) <-> (N+2 not gates). Although, the search for a real answer to your question is an active subject in philosophy.

What I was really talking about was how there are a huge number of "methods of convincing" that work better for the truth than for lies - sometimes so much better that they essentially don't work for lies at all. An example of that kind would be pointing at an object everyone can see and saying, "that thing, there."
"All the mobile carriers will begin rolling-out 5G wireless networking in 2018, though only about 22 percent of the country will be covered by the end of this year."

22% by population or by geographical area? (Yes, I think I'm funny.)

What exactly are the details of 5G? My understanding was of lots of short-range, very smart antennas. Which would require some kind of backbone, probably wireline, right? And which those of us who do not live in major metropolitan areas probably shouldn't expect to see, ever.