skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% Invisible did a great piece on the invention of air conditioning and its role in modern architecture. The part of the story discussing the battle for the ideal office temperature reminded me of the open vs. closed office debate. Some memorable excerpts:

"And some architects, like Lisa Heschong, see this as problematic — “you will never achieve a static environment where 100 percent of the people are happy,” she says. “There is a huge amount of individual variation in what people experience and what they prefer,” based on factors like age, sex and the kind of climate we are used to. All of this runs against the idea of targeting a single static indoor temperature."

And

"Brager says we could save enormous amounts of energy by letting the temperatures in buildings fluctuate over a wider range, and giving people more tools to heat and cool themselves. To accomplish this, Brager advocates a take a combination of high and low tech approaches. A window that you can open right by your desk is a great personal cooling device. A sweater is a pretty good personal heating device. But Brager and her team are also developing low energy desk fans, foot-warmers, and chairs that can heat or cool."

I for one am very happy to have my own office with windows that open and an individual thermostat. That's not to say that I would say no to a self heating and cooling office chair...

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
And Moxie disallows people from building third-party clients for the server where 99% of Signal users are on, and without that, group chats aren’t useful.
2.1 times slower to 4.2 times faster – MJIT versus TruffleRuby
I applaud your focus on health. It's not an easy thing to change in life.

What happened to your tooth where the filling fell out? Did it fill in at all naturally? (ie, fully or partially in any way?)

Not sure about the listerine, as I think some (or most?) bacteria in our mouth is supposed to be there. There may be some long term issues to consider. But who knows, everyone is affected so differently, I no longer am dogmatic about what will help or not these days.

Last note on the calcium build up in arteries (off topic a bit), but any build up in the arteries is now known to be a good thing, as it's keeping you alive by repairing a rip/tear in the artery. Even doctors are starting to admit this. It's a bandage, not a blockage.
Twitter deletes thousands of suspected bot accounts?
Using OMEMO on XMPP is a federated implementation of the Signal protocol. I believe Matrix' e2e encryption is also based on it.
Of course not. Moore's law is about the number of transistors per unit area. Battery capacity doesn't have much to do with transistor density.
You need to understand WHY people sue others to be able to draw the correct conclusion.

There are reasons why infrastructures don't get sued, yet users who download illegal files very often get sent a warning from their ISP that they may cut them off and charge them with penalty.

If IPFS takes off the same way BitTorrent took off and a lot of people end up using IPFS to download illegal content, ISPs will do the same thing, not because each individual file is illegal, but because they look at the entire network as a whole and conclude that it was this network that caused the rise in pirating, which is technically true. Their goal would be to scare the users into NOT using the network altogether unless they know EXACTLY what they're doing. That's their playbook.

The reason people don't use torrents as much as they used to is because people are afraid of getting sued by their ISPs and content owners. They know it won't completely get rid of all BitTorrent pirates, but they DO know that it will lower the usage. And they will do the same for IPFS users if that's what it takes.
It would be interesting to see how much CEO compensation has increased when you control for firm size. My guess is it's still increased but not as dramatically. Given growing firm size and industry consolidation it makes sense that CEOs would get paid more. There's fewer of them and their responsibilities are larger.

I also disagree that CEOs are unskilled. Try putting a random Ivy League graduate in charge of Goldman Sachs. I don't think they would succeed.

There's undoubtedly rising inequality, but I don't think there's a single cause, nor a simple solution.
It's a bug. You just see a single straight line from the first letter to wherever your finger is and the keyboard fails to guess the word.
Isn't this open for everyone to see though?

I think you want something like KeyBase for encrypted storage which can be shared among groups, right?
Kevin Phillips' book Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich http://a.co/1wny0Iz details how the creation of the middle class was (three times) a deliberate policy choice. As we're now seeing, Freedom Markets™ leads to inequality, consolidation, monopolies, destruction of the middle class.

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I subscribe to Scott Galloway's (L2 Inc) views on our winner takes all economy.
We've given FANG and a few others an extended tax holiday. Because apparently they're just that awesome.

The remedy (radical cachectomy, restoration of capitalism) will happen when all the other corporations, who somehow manage to carry their own weight, finally band together and demand fair treatment.

Can't believe we're now dependent on the likes of Walmart coming to our rescue.
There are half a billion passwords in the list. A bloom filter with even a 1 in 10 false positive rate would still be 286.59 MB.
> Slack is a quick sign up

You don't even have to sign up to connect to IRC (though you can register with a nickserv if you want).

> and pay if you want history over 10,000 messages

IRC is only limited by disk space on your local machine.

> IRC, possibly available by hacks/add-ons and not by default or available via quick button, is missing chat history

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but pretty much every client can keep a log of messages sent and received separated by channel/dcc session.

> doesn't support uploads

You can send files to others via DCC.

In any case, the other messenger services I mentioned did not have a long sign up process either. Creating new accounts for AOL instant messenger didn't require much effort at all, for example. Their clients also handled logging much like an IRC client would.
I think the decline in the labor rate isn't as much of a mystery as some people think. Baby boomers are definitely retiring. For the last 10 years we've had two demographic bubbles (baby boomers and millenials) in the job market at the same time, and now that is shifting. Obviously there is more at play when you look at certain demographics in certain regions, but a lot of this can be explained by the number of older people who are choosing to retire or being forced to retire by medical issues.

I believe HN misses this issue sometimes because on average tech workers are pretty young. However, anecdotally, in my last office (in the same organization) we had a team of 10. 5 of my coworkers there were over 60 years old... Those people are going to retire soon and hopefully live good long lives outside of the labor pool.
Why does 0000 have the largest number of hashes? Does SHA-1 not distribute hash values evenly?
Users "want" what everybody else is using so they can communicate. If everybody is using a federated protocol, like email, that's what they will want.

You might say it is fundamentally easier to build closed systems and entice users to adopt them, but that's a business aspect not a user preference. Exactly the type of business that's of interest to regulators.
> All the cons about living in an apartment/condo vs a single family home (which all basically boil down to a reduction in one's personal freedom on/in their own home).

I personally grew up in a spacious single family home, but love my current life in an apartment. I don't feel it restricts my personal freedom at all, plus I get the perks of living in a vibrant area.
Fair enough, how about this?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-usa-order/exclusive...
"American office workers have barely looked up while their work quarters have been degraded from sensible to silly. Not so long ago, they worked in two- and three-person offices with walls, doors, and windows. (You remember walls, doors, and windows, don’t you?) In such space, one could work in quiet or conduct meetings with colleagues without disrupting neighbors.

Then, without warning, open-plan seating was upon us like a plague upon the land. The advocates of the new format produced not one shred of evidence that effectiveness would not be impaired. They really couldn’t. Meaningful measurement of productivity is a complex and elusive thing."

-- Peopleware by Lister and DeMarco
Ohh no, the PL-10 is no match to any other 5th gen missile. Sapphire domes made it quite easy to spot the propaganda, they really should have that seeker covered during presentations and airshows. The effectiveness of a 5th gen missile depends heavily on its seeker; it doesn't really matter the other performance metrics when it consistently breaks lock due to countermeasures.
So why don't they just also list checksum of the F-Droid binary?
Yes. To be fair, sometimes those interventions have worked out for the better - look at the difference between North Korea and South Korea today. Of course the reasons for that intervention had little to do with the best interests of the Korean people and a lot more to do with preventing the USSR from spreading their influence - but even that seems to be a clear win in hindsight - those places where the USSR spread it's influence suffered in poverty, their populations denied basic human freedoms. Many of them still do.

So yeah, the US looked out for their own interests, and I don't suppose that should be a surprise to anyone, because that's what every nation state does. But by and large they made the world a better place for it - with a few glaring exceptions. I don't think the world would do as well under Chinese leadership - but I also do not think we will see that world in this century. China is not poised to overtake the USA as many seem to believe is inevitable - their near future is written in stone in the demographics of their country, and will more closely mirror the story of Japan. This seems likely to be a second US-led century.
LinkedIn profiles unearthed diversity rankings for 100 tech companies
When I think of the Culture series, I immediately think of the descriptions of incredibly vast spacecraft, the General Systems Vehicles and whatnot. Even listening via audiobook, my imagination was able to conjure a fragment of the sensation that one gets when perceiving something with incredible scale. Similar to the sensation I got when I first gazed upon the Rocky Mountains.

I'm happy that the series is getting more exposure, but at the risk of seeming curmudgeonly, the series will remain on my "watch only after reading the books" list.
You don't submit to the API either a full password or a full hash (which, since Troy produced the hashes is identical). A hash is pretty much perfect for K-anonymity because if you use a prefix like this then it's extremely likely your data will be spread across the buckets, so no 5-character prefix is close to uniquely identifying a password.
This server code crashes Firefox desktop-based browsers (without JavaScript)
The FDA and USDA come to mind as institutions with a lot of questionable health policies.

"To obtain permission to market a drug, the manufacturer must satisfy the FDA that the drug is both safe and effective. Additional testing often enhances safety and effectiveness, but requiring a lot of testing has at least two negative effects. First, it delays the arrival of superior drugs. During the delay, some people who would have lived end up dying. Second, additional testing requirements raise the costs of bringing a new drug to market; hence, many drugs that would have been developed are not, and all the people who would have been helped, even saved, are not.

In addition, because FDA approval is mandatory, industry and medicine must heed FDA standards regardless of their relevance, efficiency, and appropriateness. Not all testing is equally beneficial. The FDA apparatus mandates testing that, in some cases, is not useful or not appropriately designed. The case against the FDA is not that premarket testing is unnecessary but that the costs and benefits of premarket testing would be better evaluated and the trade-offs better navigated in a voluntary, competitive system of drug development.

Three bodies of evidence indicate that the costs of FDA requirements exceed the benefits. In other words, three bodies of evidence suggest that the FDA kills and harms, on net. First, we compare pre-1962 drug approval times and rates of drug introduction with post-1962 approval times and rates of introduction. Second, we compare drug availability and safety in the United States with the same in other countries. Third, we compare the relatively unregulated market of off-label drug uses in the United States with the on-label market. In the final section, before turning to reform options, we also discuss the evidence showing that the costs of FDA advertising restrictions exceed the benefits."

http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php

This may not be the most neutral source, but it at least raises some interesting points.
I eat starch and sugar, brush the minimum, don't floss. Never had a cavity in my life and I'm 40. My secret? Genetics. Genes play a much bigger role than hygiene. So going off anecdotes like this is probably not helpful.
+1 on the fasting (same with snacking all day), probably the easiest and best thing you can do to help you heal anything. (do some "critical" research on this, many people/doctors hate fasting...)

When fasting, you can feel and taste the difference in your mouth's saliva.
Imagine asking a computer to diagnose an illness or conduct a business negotiation. “Most real-world strategic interactions involve hidden information,” said Noam Brown, a doctoral student in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. “I feel like that’s been neglected by the majority of the AI community.”

Hum, Terry Winograd (author of SHRDLU) got out of AI in the 70s because of this very problem. I don't think it's been neglected; it just remained as elusive as, say, quantum gravity.
Anybody who bought a house for more than (napkin) $1.5MM? Lots of those out there.
Is this true? I think the average worker is much better off now than in the past. It's not that long ago that many people in the US didn't have electricity. I think what's happening is as we get richer our definition of what's necessary to have a middle class life gets continually revised upwards. Most people have a car, several electronic devices, eat out relatively often, etc. What used to be a luxury or aspirational becomes commonplace.

That's not to say there aren't problems, but exaggerating how bad things are makes any argument to fix them less credible.
This might be a silly questions, but it's not addressed by the article, I don't know the answer, and I suspect I'm not the only one: Is the microcode update likely to help reverse performance degradations that resulted from kernel-level remediations?
MISP 2.4.88 released (Fuzzy hashing correlation, STIX 1.1 import and API)
It is working wonders. It 10x'd my email captures.
What is a "local IGA"?
I think the closest thing to shopping guides is review sites like Wirecutter or magazines/blogs that run end of year Best of... issues. I do have to some go to sources for gear in particular categories. And for some specific electronics that I need, I find that Wirecutter won’t steer me far wrong.
The funny part is that Signal and F-Droid both have their own reproducible build system, but they’re incompatible (part of that is that Signal requires proprietary code in its binary)
What makes taxi rules fair but immigration rules unfair?
I'd be so excited for an Honor series. Of my favorite space operas, it's definitely one of the more readily TV-adaptable ones (arguably more easily so than Culture), especially after the success of The Expanse.
> Last note on the calcium build up in arteries (off topic a bit), but any build up in the arteries is now known to be a good thing, as it's keeping you alive by repairing a rip/tear in the artery. Even doctors are starting to admit this. It's a bandage, not a blockage.

Do you have a source for this?
There are a couple of people copying it. The main barrier to entry is that you need to do volume to make money, and to get to that point you need to do everything yourself or you'll be spending too much out of pocket. My partner and I can create products, design, build sites, market and advertise, run warehouses, do our own accounting, etc... We haven't hired outside help for any of it.
Wont this damage your gums and cause them to recede?
The best solution for cleaning those grooves is a dental hygience kit, which you can buy on ebay or amazon for around $10. The same stainless steel tools the dentist uses.
I have no problem with how the guy in the article did it. He thought he had a good cement formula, shipped it, discovered he didn't, fixed it. I do have a problem if people intend to ship a defective product and fix it later (in some circumstances).
If something creates zero value for many (most) people but some value to others, then yes, that is valuable.

If I get a haircut, that's not valuable to at least 7 billion people worldwide, but it is valuable to me, so it is some positive value created.

In a similar manner, if a million gamers like some game (or a satanic black metal song) and the whole of bible belt does not, well, that's a lot of positive value created anyway; assuming no actual negative externalities where someone else gets harmed by it. Individual value is subjective, but it can be aggregated - if you consider that playing a particular videogame has negative value and don't play it, then the impact is zero; if I consider that playing the same game has positive value to me and do it, then it adds a positive contribution to the global value created; I got something I liked, and that's valuable by itself, asssuming noone else got hurt by this.
Used it but it never stayed for long.
With larger phones, typing works fast enough for me.
Also I need a somewhat accessible keyboard.
is it for profit?
There's a lot of better things to say, for instance:

"How about I meet you at your place? I often run late and would rather you weren't sitting there waiting for me"

Or you could pick me up at my work; I'll already have to be dressed and out of the house since I'm at work.
There already is webtorrent https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent which is just a JS library that runs in all browsers.

If you're talking about browsers acting as seed themselves, I don't think that model would get much traction, and the first thing people will do after downloading a browser is to disable that feature.

Nobody wants to keep seeding. This is the #1 problem for BitTorrent, and most people only keep Torrent on while they're downloading, so they never want it running all the time.

I think same goes with IPFS, which is why they came up with FileCoin, but if the mental cost of maintaining a node (because of all the copyright issues mentioned elsewhere on this thread) is higher than the actual profit each node makes, it will never take off. So in the end I think filecoin nodes will centralize just like Bitcoin nodes became centralized--that is, if they ever do end up launching what they promised--and when that happens it's AWS all over again, although the content addressable nature is indeed cool and I can imagine some cool applications coming out of it. It's just that I don't think it will replace HTTP altogether.
As someone who has not read the book, I quite enjoy the Netflix series! Give me more! So much good SciFi finally coming in series format!!! Only had to wait 40 years.
I thought it was funny that toepoke thought "People won't know what 'pwned' means." So instead they inform the user that they have a "Pawned password."
> Will be intriguing to see how this develops, it's a nice idea, but you're soon going to figure out _why_ video is hard

You might want to take a look at the Team page before saying silly things like this.
US brings charges against Bitfunder founder
So they might have to go work for Goldman Sachs for a few years after graduating from Wharton, but that's not too big a burden in order to avoid bankruptcy.
Tinyblu: Be a better friend
Show HN: Scale 3D, API for 3D labeling of LIDAR, camera, and radar data
Our public libraries are now homeless encampments. As the other reply noted, no bathroom / stretch breaks.

Our local university libraries are pretty good, when I still had wifi access.

My laptop camping secret is hospitals. Free wifi, pretty good cheap food, clean bathrooms.

I've also found a few local companies which have their own cafes, which are still open to the public.

I'd probably pay $5/hr to laptop camp. I generally "pay rent" where ever I'm camping with tips, treats, and coffee. I'd rather just pay outright. A cafe, event space, or study zone that allocates hours for quiet time will clean up. I imagine all the vacant 2nd and 3rd story retail getting repurposed. Maybe even mall vacancies, kinda like the board game retailers & hosters are now doing.
The harm is just misunderstanding. Attributing a interest in dying "for the good of the species" shows a breakdown in usefulness of the metaphor, as attributes not associated with the process of evolution are being applied to it because of the anthropomorphization.

Species is a nebulous conflation of genetics, behavior and habitat. Some like to say that ability to bear fertile offspring is the limit to determine speciation. This definition allows ignoring the mule offspring of horses and donkeys, strengthening the position that the latter are different species, but fails on the liger, which can be fertile with few people claiming tigers and lions to be of the same species. So breeding is insufficient to determine species.

Species is then more a measure of the human perception of things being different than any more specific quality.

The idea that a species could somehow convince its constituent individuals to act for the benefit of the species isn't useful. Individual members of the species will each act with self-interest in the pursuit of resources, mates and territory. Altruistic behaviors will propagate by out-competing "cheating" behaviors, and most often multiple simultaneous behavior strategies will exist within a population. Even within an individual, which might choose different actions in different situations.

If there was more benefit to living longer in the species, cheaters would certainly exploit it in the face of "dying for the good of the species". However, if the detriments of living longer cause the individual to be unable to compete with shorter living individuals, the species will continue to tend to a shorter lifespan.

Suggesting that the creatures will conspire to die and make room for their offspring suggests that the anthropomorphized idea of species is causing faulty assumptions about the nature of the subject to be held, and that the metaphor should be discarded as detrimental to understanding.
I don't think he's against federation, it just doesn't make sense to federate an experiment. Once you've got something really really really solid, then it does make sense.

They've been able to iterate their protocol really fast thanks to it not being an RFC or something.
Dumpsty is actually handmade by another company, we just thought it was cool so we asked if we could sell it for them. We looked into steel beams but it was too expensive to sell. Cold weather is the bane of cement, so Q4 is the only time where we get close to running out of product. The great thing is that we make everything ourself, so we just make more.
There's also quite a few casual orgies.