skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a well-known narrative that before the Internet, for all of human history, information was scarce and humans found ways to adapt; and since the Internet, information has been overwhelming and humans must find different ways to adapt.

What is disappointing to me is that, with so many more options, people have not adapted by utilizing only the best information. Anyone can read the best sources (with a major exception; see below), but instead they choose more and more crap and now even actively delegitimize the better sources in favor of propaganda. In other words, why hasn't the vastly increased competition in the marketplace of ideas yielded far superior knowledge? Epistemology should be one of the hottest words and hottest subjects of the day.

I hypothesize that it's a failure of the intellectual elite. Instead of spreading their incredible wealth to the world over this new medium, they kept it to themselves behind high paywalls (science journals, OED, JSTOR, etc.). And instead of defending the values of and passion for knowledge and intellect, of the Enlightenment, scholarship, and reason, many I see and talk to adopt the trendy anti-intellectualism, bizarrely undermining their own reason for being.

I know many people will say that they can get a dictionary for free, why use the OED. The problem is that those who know better are not standing up to assert why it is superior, necessary, and incredibly valuable to the world.
I have seen that happen with a $100 million s/w company. It was very depressing. Not only where the people they brought in thinking of themselves as “heavy hitters”. They where also poor at their jobs. They wouldn’t have done particularly well even if the company was ready to scale. That of course didn’t help. It was sad.
Gotta give credit to whichever cavemen/cavewomen discovered fire, and all the civilizations that invented the wheel, Ben Franklin for harnessing the power of electricity, and then maybe Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for inventing Unix.
Competing with the Android/iOS duopoly was a war of attrition the Microsoft, Firefox, Canonical and Samsung (Tizen) all lost. If you don't have the resources that those companies do I have a hard time seeing how you survive, and I have no interest in investing in a platform that has an extremely high risk of being orphaned. I wish it was otherwise - earlier today I was lamenting that my Samsung Galaxy S7 is laggier and less responsive than the $100 unlocked Lumia I bought myself years ago was. But I don't see another platform succeeding here.
PuTTY
“In February 2009, a Twitter user called @popelizbet issued an apparently historic challenge to someone called Colin: she asked if he could ‘mansplain’ a concept to her. History has not recorded if he did, indeed, proceed to mansplain. But the lexicographer Bernadette Paton, who excavated this exchange last summer, believed it was the first time anyone had used the word in recorded form. ‘It’s been deleted since, but we caught it,’ Paton told me, with quiet satisfaction.

[…]

A few days ago, I emailed to see if ‘mansplain’ had finally reached the OED. It had, but there was a snag – further research had pushed the word back a crucial six months, from February 2009 to August 2008. Then, no sooner had Paton’s entry gone live in January than someone emailed to point out that even this was inaccurate: they had spotted ‘mansplain’ on a May 2008 blog post, just a month after the writer Rebecca Solnit had published her influential essay Men Explain Things to Me. The updated definition, Proffitt assured me, will be available as soon as possible.”

One Wiktionary contributor did a better job[1] in 2012 by immediately finding the use[2] from May 2008. The OED is more Prestigious and Respectable and Authoritative, but the Wiktionary is more comprehensive, informative, reliable, convenient, useful, also cheaper.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Citations:manspl...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130518221612/http://www.journa...
Man I know almost nothing here. I'm doing this stuff as a hobby. This is great to know what people really use.
Ah, understood. I hope I didn't sound offended, just confused until I read your reply.

I agree that it is similar to Google in that they seem to hedge their bets too much (like how Google has two OS, two languages...etc etc). I would really like a third popular OS...there are so many out there, but with no steam (this, firefoxOS, sailfish...)
> In order to believe the doomsayers, you have to ignore the entire history of the industrialized world.

Why do you say this? Plenty of unpleasant experiences have occurred via industrialization in the past. Industrialization can be good for society overall and result in new jobs over time, but for a given set of workers today, they're looking at losing the jobs they have no and seeing no replacement for it, as it is unlikely that any of the newly created jobs would be willing to take them in.
> Why should one of these market actors be taxed lower than the other?

my prevailing theory is the common belief that an investor's money brings in more economic knock-on effects, and the $50k earned by the wage earner is less "powerful". in order to incentivise the investor, they are given a tax break.

this isn't helped by the fact that those in position to make this sort of tax law are also beneficiaries of said law.
I believe that would be possible even if it were not a dialer feature in CM? Also, I did look around for dialers, but a lot of them seem to do "cloud" stuff of some sort, which I definitely don't want. I ended up finding a non-dialer program to do this, but even that was a pain, since most of them that I tried are either missing functionality or buggy in one way or another.
No, and they said several times that they had no plans for it (which might have changed, to be fair). Their roadmap was to target servers, which have a use for secure OS and sane driver requirements.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293436 is the only source I can find, but I'm sure I've seen it elsewhere)
Symbian programming platform was a nightmare: C++ with no exceptions, no STL and no RAII. You couldn't use any normal C++ programming idioms, you had to use Symbian-specific memory management primitives. A quote from TheRegister article:

> "Symbian is the only platform that has to spend one day teaching people how to use strings before they can code in it. The approved method is that you create an HBufC (a Heap allocated, BUFfer that is Constant), then Call Des() on it (which returns a TPtr - a pointer to a writable descriptor),"
Then buy one of the phones that gives you that. There are phones out there with 4000 and 5000mah batteries.
But this time it will be different. We're not talking about a shift from one class of employment to another, we're talking about a shift from employment to unemployment for a very large chunk of the population and we don't have the foggiest idea of where we will find the money to pay for that and we haven't got a clue on how we will keep these people from feeling worthless and depressed.

It's an illusion to think that everybody will be happy being pensioned off at 23, especially if that means that they will be without income.

This shift will move a lot of wealth to the top 5% or so and will leave the remainder in serious trouble.
But but but isn't making an animated emoji the absolute top of your priorities? How else will you get likes on social media???

/s

I do wish phones hadn't been reduced to this, but here we are.
armed police on campus

In fact, just one security guard was assigned to the campus but was not, in fact, near any of the buildings... and all officers who eventually responded made NO attempt to interdict the shooter.

of the five deadliest mass shootings in the US, three were in nothing even remotely like a gun-free

Really? This is what CNN calls the 5 deadliest:

The Harvest Music Festival: the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival grounds disallowed attendee guns and used metal detectors.

the Pulse nightclub in Orlando -- posted "no guns allowed" club.

Virginia Tech: gun-free campus except for weapons stored at range.

Sandy Hook: gun free school zone

First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs: posted "no guns allowed".

That's FIVE of five.

It "seems" your "substantive facts" need better research.
My uncle immigrant living in the US, working as a cleaner, very poor English (bad hearing) and his wife managed to get a terraced house in a decent area of Chicago.

When I see teenagers with iPhones and their parents buying Tesla cars I can see why they will never afford a house. Average American is unable to save money, most overspend. Combine this with poor education and unwillingness to learn or relocate.
Then why not use your 1985 Rotel poweramp instead of the Sonos?

If you added the functionality of the Sonos to the Rotel poweramp, it would have the same complexity-based problems.
> must contain a valid non-empty URL potentially surrounded by spaces referencing a non-interactive, optionally animated, image resource that is neither paged nor scripted

So it is invalid to point to a scripted SVG, then?
I agree. I would love a standalone app (Mac, iOS) which did not require offline access, even if it was multiple gigabytes. There was an old OED 2e app for the Mac with the full content.
[video] the Legend of Zorba
What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
If you’re extremely harsh on the IC in general, then you wouldn’t be saying this. Those people chose to get those clearances, and voluntarily agreed to ridiculous and insane terms like “reading things other people say I can’t is now grounds to put me in jail”.

Such people do not deserve special workarounds by the rest of society because of their terribly poor judgement.
I had a Sony mini disc player at the time the iPod came out. A friend had one so we were comparing, listening to the same track with the same bitrate on the same headphones. The iPod sound quality was notably poor in comparison.

I understand worse is better. It's just that every so often it gets me down.
if there's any segment of the market that's zero sum, then some gains are at the loss of others, and eventually, some actors will fail, leading to an in equality that mimics today's.
take a look at the feather m0 from Adafruit - I have a few deployed where wifi is quite a ways away, gathering data for me and sending to another one acting as a base station.

I haven't added solar, as these are inside, near power, but have some solar panels and hardware waiting for me to deploy out in the field (literally). so far, it's been my lack of good waterproof enclosures that has slowed me down. I wonder if there'd be a good opportunity for someone in that space.
A kickstarter type model? Indie-journo?
I don't really agree with the claim. What allowed the Linux desktop to take off was extreme security problems in Windows and generally a terrible user experience. Anyone adopting Linux had to put up with constant hardware incompatibility issues. It's just that Windows was so bad that it was worth it. (I made the switch sometime around 2003, and have been Linux-only for more than a decade.)

In contrast, there is no obvious need to move away from Android, and if you don't like it, you can move to the iPhone. The Mac was not a good alternative 15 years ago.
So I guess if the cash itself is not flushed between switches in execution across VT-x boundaries, then data could leak in the same way?
Thanks for all the good games from Sierra Online!

I learned a foreign language English by playing text based adventure games such as those from Sierra! Got the English basics from school, but it was by playing text adventure games that my English got much better. In order to play the text based games in English I had to use a Swedish to English dictionary to understand the words. Remember Sierra games such as Police Quest, Kings quest, Magnetic scrolls, Lucas art games.

Links to Police quest
http://www.sierragamers.com/Police-Quest-1
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/police-quest-in-pursuit-of...
About the idea of Apple buying a university. I read a story that Google had heavily invested in something called the Singularity University and wasn't a great success to put it mildly.
You did not understand my point,

1 I am ok with good self driving cars that are better then the average human

2 I am suggesting that forcing this systems on people is as problematic as forcing them to buy an AI car, so say from tomorrow in your city you have 2 choices : buy and install the system I suggested or buy a new car with self driving AI, why is second option easier to force on people?

3 My point is that if you want that in 30 years to force all cars in some regions to be 100% AI driven so forbid people the right to drive there, then why not also force that device I suggested today, you get the benefits today and in 30 years you can force no humans driver at all.

4 My problem is that the problem with car crashes has more then 1 solution, so if we want to solve it today we need to look at something else not only at self driving cars,
It appears that Sailfish OS might be getting bought by a Russian firm: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/rostelecom-cleared-to-acqu...
I keep a file of stories to check back in on every now and then. Mostly tech "breakthrough" stories to see if they ever resulted in anything. Most often I find no followup stories whatsoever. If it's something I'm really interested in, I'll sometimes do my own research down the line, but that's rare.

The main problem is there's barely a business model for superficial journalism. It's non-existent for in-depth followup work.
But you're looking at this from the point of view of the environment where automation has always created far more work than what was replaced. In fact, up to this point, automation has created so much work that we even reached a point where the male half of the population could not handle doing it all and we had to start integrating women, who historically were not involved, into the workplace. Minimum wage is working out just fine right now because every time a job is automated, several new jobs appear to take its place.

Previous comments have suggested this trend will not last. Be it that AI will reach a point where it is capable of taking on any new job that we throw at it, or that we will simply run out of new ideas for new kinds of jobs at some point in the future. That is the context being discussed above. In that case, your options are: Compete against automation on price, or go without work entirely. Minimum wage prevents the former, leaving only the latter as an option. The parent is saying it is less ideal to have a $0 income than it is to have a less than minimum, but above zero, income.

But that all hinges on the assumption that work will dry up. The opposite has held true for centuries. It seems highly unlikely that this time is any different. I sincerely doubt we have reached the pinnacle of human achievement already.
The Washington Post actually ran with this redaction analysis, in "What we learned from the Democratic response to the Nunes memo — and what we didn’t" posted a couple hours ago:

Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/25/w...

Handy GIF: https://img.washingtonpost.com/pbox.php?url=https://www.wash...

"By September 2016, the FBI had opened investigations into four members of Trump’s campaign team. The Democratic memo says the information compiled by Steele into his infamous “dossier” of 17 raw intelligence reports didn’t get to the FBI’s counterintelligence team until the middle of September. By that point, we can conclude thanks to a sloppy redaction (noted by former intelligence officer Matt Tait) and an unredacted footnote that Page, Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, who would go on to be Trump’s national security adviser, were all already under investigation."

Matt Tait links to: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/96752319618133606...
You're reduced to counting police shooting a murderer who shot one person as a "mass shooting"?
The only chance that would trigger China invading Taiwan is that it declares to be an fully independent country, in which case China will probably do so at any cost, even if it means full scale war with U.S. Will U.S. be ready for that?
No points for the others either: Manafort and Gates have also been indicted publically, and names and titles for each probably fit in the redacted section.
Cyanogenmod supported a lot of phones. LineageOS seems to have a lot of trouble supporting any recent phones (and a surprising amount of trouble letting users know what is and isn't supported, in case they were interested in getting a compatible phone).

I spent a while some time ago trying to watch for any modern phone to get full LineageOS support, and eventually just gave up. The closest things came was "partial support for the Galaxy S8, but it will ruin the camera". How much of a future is there here?

Edit: from elsewhere in the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460503 ):

> I bought an S8 with the intention of putting LineageOS on it. Sadly to this day there are things not working which are essential, like making calls or using LTE data... or wifi.. or the camera.

(Just to be clear, the Pixel is losing this comparison... it isn't supported at all. But the fact that the Pixel is losing doesn't mean we can say Samsung is winning... this looks more like a loss for everyone.)
It seems to offer less than the average Android or iOS? Why should I use it?
Really important tip for anyone that wants to show off something that has a visual output: show the output!
Any sense of the redacted word in that next paragraph?
Someone didn't read the parent comment. The article talks about re-taking of history and vitals during care transitions, after the patient has been admitted. The parent comment asked about taking those measures during admission / triage and checkups when the healthcare team doesn't have any data yet. Those are two different things.
Apple have several releases throughout the year.
One big difference is that java interfaces can't contain member types. They describe the methods of one particular type. Imagine you could define an interface for an entire java package.

Another big one is that module types are structural: you don't have to declare all the module types implemented by a module when you define the module.
You could easily tax robot labor to ensure it wasn't competitive with cheap labour
SF is temporarily down :(

tl;dr: Sourceforge's XMPP implementation is broken in such a way that prevents discovery of channels. Several people (myself included) have brought this to their attention, but they're refusing to fix it (because in fact they're not working on their gateways in any way).

Yet another reason not to use proprietary platforms, I guess :(
I’ve spent a long time thinking about this, and I actually think that most of the dangers are somewhat overblown and the corrective actions are already in progress. People are already willing to pay a premium for artisanal goods specifically because they are made by a human being, and this provides a growing economic niche for artisans. In and of itself, this isn’t exactly sufficient, since artisans don’t usually make a whole lot of money, but the flip side is that automated goods and services are going to become cheaper and cheaper over time, bringing them within reach.

A post-AI economy could easily be an economy of artisans, one where it’s easier to afford the more basic necessities of life but where human work and effort still has value.
This article doesn't answer why they should stop pretending, pretending have worked fine for them so far and there's no indication that it'll stop working anytime soon.
Perhaps I am fortunate to have grown up around technology. I knew network engineers who went to work straight out of high school without any college making $80k per year. There is a college major to configure routers and switches. It is just something you learn from gaining access to the hardware, reading books, and practicing.

I knew this because I was interested in technology and I was find people who were already making it in technology. I didn't wait around for somebody to simply gift me with a job. I know not everybody has this. If you think jobs are just something you happily pull off a store shelf like shopping in a grocery store merely because you got some college you are in for a world of hurt.

I could feel sorry for people who had absolutely no way of knowing better. Whether or not I feel sorry for these people the reality of the situation remains the same. Bottom line: Don't waste your time feeling sorry for people with first world problems.
I really like this idea, but I haven't seen anything from the docker side (using DockerHub) to enforce image tags being deterministic. Having a deterministic build doesn't get me all the way there if anyone can push over my tag with a different build manually.
Doesn't limiting one's media menu to the readers favorite sources exacerbate the "media bubble" problem?
This is also neat: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Interesting, but operating systems & graphics applications conform typefaces to different subpixel grids. 17pt Times in Pixelmator on a Mac is not 17pt Times on Photoshop on Windows, and certainly not 17pt Times on a scanned document printed on an undisclosed substrate by an unknown printer. Similarly, typeface tracking adds a significant margin of error to this interpretation method. Metrics can vary by application and some applications will automatically provide optical tracking adjustment for a better aesthetic. It's for these reasons that I'm convinced that anything other than trivial (in terms of LOE) & obvious disclosures won't be made using this methodology, and we can't universally trust the results.
It's pretty easy to guess. I just did my laundry and folded my clothes. Something "ai" can't even think about doing, not even close.
Could you use some kind of kerning randomizer to prevent this?
This is not accurate. C++ has statically enforced private variables that cannot be modified by outside functions without fairly painful workarounds and castings. But, if you want to say that the ability to do those castings would disqualify any compile-time guarantees, well, OCaml has an equivalent escape hatch. Module Obj contains a bunch of functions to manually manipulate any object fields and cast arbitrarily using the "magic" function.
The inner disagreement in Communist party of China could be as big as whether to adopt democracy or more central control of power; whether to stick to communism or drop it. That hadn't break the party into multiple ones so far
Year of the catastrophe.

It seems there keeps being warnings that the big happy run of things is not eternal, but these are ignored once any 'hiccup' goes away.

Perhaps war, perhaps market collapse (led by Bitcoin?), perhaps superbug, perhaps major hack of one of the FAANGs, perhaps lending collapse (again), perhaps natural disaster.

Otherwise we're going to have to find new careers for all those people displaced by AI and automation, etc!
Kiwi also comes up with suggestions to stitch the trip together from multiple, individually issued tickets. This can bring down the cost, but the drawback is that airline is then not responsible for helping you in case of delays and you may need to pick luggage mid travel and check them in again.
As I understand it, Netherlands have a wealth tax: rather than tax capital gains, net ownership is taxed at a 30% rate of assumed gain. So essentially you pay 0.6 to 1.5% of your shares, non-primary housing etc. in wealth tax depending on size of your assets.

http://taxsummaries.pwc.com/ID/Netherlands-Individual-Income...
Finding the Maximum Peak of Success When Iterating and Pivoting
> Honestly when I read that first line about SVG and Javascript, I was a little horrified. Who the fuck on what planet ever though that could possible be a good idea?

Adobe, when they were trying to position SVG as a competitor to Macromedia's Flash.