skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that Tim Wu discussed the cycle of technology starting amongst outsiders and then becoming monopolized in his (phenomenal) book The Master Switch. The cycle always repeats itself by the next new technology coming along, making the prior one less significant.

We seem to have accepted that the internet is essentially the final communication tech. Maybe that's true, but it seems improbable. Simply based on his past writing, I'm surprised he isn't advocating for a solution based on the blockchain.

I'm not suggesting that's the right answer; I merely find it curious that he didn't apply the same assumptions to the future as he did to his historical analysis.
I'd guess that most people who've travelled have seen something similar (in SO many countries). It's just the western post-Victorian world that seems to have such an aversion to poo.

Washing is definitely far superior. Yay Romans! (although not so much for shared poo-sponge)
Oh, sorry:

> Thanks for the personal attack

Yep, that's better, thanks!
And then you end up losing legitimate mail as well.
Except of course that Google and Facebook manipulate the data you see so that it becomes much, much harder (if not impossible) for any competitor to gain traction because they are blocked or buried on page 50 of search results.
> If it's got the name of a specific currency in any of the emails, it's marketing.

I think this is way too broad and leads to absurd conclusions. For instance there's an MIT research group whose mailing list I subscribe to (not mailchimp) and which would fall under marketing by your criteria. Papers with specific cryptocurrency names occasionally appear in top CS conferences.
I was more talking about some of the roots of the 2nd amendment - the uks' gun control laws started to be brought in during a panic over the general strike.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation
That's unlikely...

Those who fled probably did so for a reason, namely the fear of serious prosecution. They would have had a rather difficult time to continue exerting any influence after '45. It may have had an influence in reducing the number of trials and possibly resentment in the German population, but from what I gather there wasn't ever a risk of widespread open disagreement with the Nuremberg trials etc.

In a certain way, the most significant effect on reconstruction (and de-nazification) may have been their use as a reservoir for prosecutions in later years. The Eichmann trial, for example, had a lasting positive influence for German-Israeli relations, provided us with one of the most meticulously researched accounts of the bureaucrats' guilt, and an excellent treatise on responsibility. In Hannah Arendt's seminal work "The Banality of Evil" it changed the narrative from "Some Germans were evil" to today's "it happened once, so it can happen again".

The dark truth of de-nazification was that large parts of the German upper-middle class almost seamlessly continued their careers after the war. There were simply too many to prosecute them all, or even to shut them out of leadership positions. The rise of the cold war also changed the incentives for the western powers to quickly rebuild the country's economic and political strength. A few hundred or thousands in Argentina simply didn't matter in the grand scale of things.
Zuckerberg: 'I'm responsible for what happened' with data privacy issues
Except of course that Google and Facebook are also the places that people go to search for information. They manipulate the data you see so that it becomes much, much harder (if not impossible) for any competitor to gain traction because they are blocked or buried on page 50 of search results.
Each human actually does have a unique anus print and I'm pretty sure it was pornhub that figured this out. If I find the article I'll edit.
Mailchimp is a spamming service. They pretend not to be, but that's what they really do. If Mailchimp was legit, they wouldn't have to work so hard to conceal where they're sending from.
> I've yet to meet any of these mythical post racial liberals.

It seems that you are one, since you're claiming that class matters more than race. I.e. you claim that race doesn't matter very much, which suggests that you are post-racial.

> Black women earn more than white women. At best you're showing that sexism matters more than racism. But it's only sexism when it happens to women, just like it's only racism when it happens to blacks.

If the issue was purely of sexism you'd see white males and black males with the same socioeconomic backgrounds have equivalent social mobility because "race doesn't matter". But article [1] refutes that with a chart that clearly shows a huge difference in social mobility between white males and black males of the same background.

Sexism is when men aren't paid the same amount as women. That's not the same as a trend between males that shows differences in pay which disappears when looking at women. In other words, people are less racist towards black women compared to black men. That's a problem with racism, not sexism (unless you're suggesting that we should be more racist towards black women so that we aren't as sexist towards black men).

> anyone who claims race trumps class has not been paying attention: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/5210833....

This article doesn't support your point. In particular, it supports a claim that mortality rates are rising for middle class white males because their prosperity has decreased in the last few years. It doesn't even control for background. That is different from my point, which says that when controlling for background, race affects socioeconomic mobility.

In fact, your sources support my claim. The NPR article mentions how middle class blacks haven't felt an increase in mortality rates. That suggests that there's something different about people from different races - maybe that middle class blacks barely had an increase in prosperity to begin with.
I left a PhD program to join Eve, so I'm going to finish that and join academia to continue this research. I'm working to bring some of the ideas I learned from working on Eve into my own project called HiveMind, which in an OS written in Rust and an Eve-like language I call Mech: https://gitlab.com/cmontella/hivemind You can think of it like baremetal Eve.
Do you happen to know how to do that on a linux machine running X? I'm afraid to dive back into the xkb rule hell-hole to figure it out myself.
> Except when the business model was to sell the hardware at breakeven and make it up with the monthly subscription, and people are buying subsidized hardware and skipping out on the subscription fees.

A couple other reasons:

* They want to sell the same product at different prices in different regions.

* They're concerned about copycat hardware vendors.

Hikvision (and I think Dahua) seems to want to prevent people from modifying their firmware; as far as I can tell it's for these reasons. I really wish they would just open it up. I'd love to put open source firmware on a decent outdoor IP camera. The vendors' own firmware is pretty lacking. It's untrustworthy (proprietary software from a Chinese company; how sure are you it doesn't have backdoors?), written insecurely (probably out of negligence rather than intent but again who knows), buggy in general, has mediocre motion detection (not sure I could do better on their hardware but I'd love to try), and has mediocre H.264 encoding (likewise).
It seems like the easiest way to relieve the pressure would be to hire someone to take over as CEO. Finding the right person may be hard, but you'd probably feel a lot better once you've been swapped out. You would likely want to remain in charge of product and hand off the rest of the business decisions to said person.
This isn't new, I've read articles on AlON before.
Synthetic Sapphire is more interesting in that its use is growing quickly due to demand for LED and laser substrates. Large single crystals are grown and sliced into wafers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyropoulos_process

New producers of the High purity Alumina (HPA) needed to produce sapphire are coming online, perhaps prices will come down enough that phone screens are an application, but I suspect that this is marketing speculation from the HPA makers to attract investors. For example this presentation from a HPA company speculated in 2015 that the iphone 7 would use a sapphire screen, which turned out to be wrong: https://www.altechchemicals.com/sites/altechchemicals.com/fi...
Post is little more than a list of all Google services the author uses. If you’re looking for insights on how to leave Google yourself, you won’t find them here.

The author even concludes:

> Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t have the magic bullet.

They also mention:

> It is possible to leave Google but in the end, does it worth it? I mean the company has “don’t be evil” as its motto!

Which is frankly laughable. Google has pretty conclusively demonstrated over the years that motto means nothing. The only thing I think about whenever I read that is the Doonesbury cartoon: http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2014/06/0...
Hooooly shit I never thought of this for backpacking.

You're a life saver. Accidentally pulling out my shit wipe Ziploc is my least favorite part of backpacking.
Rather than lsq, you could use autocorrelation within rows to line them up.
The second embedded YouTube video is probably a reasonable explanation. The full tree is replaced with eight (maybe nine, actually?) billboards.

N, S, E, W, NE, SE, SW, NW, and one looking down from above. That's nine.

Ok, I have no idea, either.
The CDC itself.

https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1

“Defensive uses of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed. Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.”

It was also discovered that when guns are used in self-defense the victims consistently have lower injury rates than those who are unarmed, even compared with those who used other forms of self-defense.
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So motorcyclists here have an acronym "SMIDSY" - stands for "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" - which is almost universally the first words out of a car drivers mouth after they've driven into a motorcycle.
Good list, though maybe auth types (16) should be looked into before creating an app that's gonna use authentication (9).
You are very poor at paranoia if you use facebook. The CA debacle isnt the breach here.
Consul only makes sense if you are already using it for something else. If just Vault, you can use DynamoDB (with full HA) or S3 (without HA support), same with Azure and Google Cloud (although without HA). There are other backends, like PostgreSQL.
Funny story. I actually sat next to a person on my last flight who does this for a living. She indicated they do business for large companies and small ones too.

They are paid on a lead basis. Average lead price is $5-$10. I don’t know many campaigns they run at a time, but I glanced at her laptop and it looked like at least 100 active campaigns.

There is big money in this as such people will pay to get investors.

I asked about her reason for travels. She was actually going to a conference for others in her field.
To add to that, "early SLI" stands for Scan-Line Interleave, not Scalable Link Interface like it is now. CRT was some crazy shit to deal with. I'm glad I never had to deal with it.

If you ever wondered why some old Youtube video looked like crap and has lines that don't match up, interleaving was why.
"We're really going to restrict it this time - pinky swear!"
I was also convinced that it referred to Microsoft Edge applications, definitely worth a little explanation.
It always bugs me when people throw AI buzzword around when they are talking about machine learning.
I would really think that environmental concerns would ground a supersonic commercial passenger aircraft, until those problems are overcome - most likely with a breakthrough in technology.
use a "phone cord detangler"
Unfortunately, neither of the links show a concrete indication of where YouTube profitability is right now.

It was approximated to be break even two years ago but doesn't have a growth factor as part of the number that is reported in the article, which is a key metric for determining revenue in the future. Revenue aside, profitability is extremely difficult to calculate as we don't know what the costs are as YouTube grows.

You would have made a better case here, but it's still far too old for any relevance in this discussion:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...
Wow, just wow.

We started at submission about Google employees waving around a paper tiger petition, we proceeded to top ranked reminder to everyone of DARPA and how military funding is the One True Way, then on to crypto export controls, rolling onward into a gun control debate, conflating semi-automatic weapons with rocket launchers, and finally into yes, the meaning behind "fire in a crowded theater."

The comment section on HN is now second only to the comments from Yahoo news stories. Keep up the great work everyone.
> By recognizing these aspects of human nature as something fundamentally not controllable by laws, we can instead force government to work with that human nature instead of contrary to it.

If human nature is ultimately "not controllable by law", then that would certainly apply broadly, not just to cherry picked aspects of it.

Certainly assault, murder, rape, theft, harassment, abuse, cheating, and the like are facets of feral humanity; just as much as positive traits like self-preservation, compassion, parental instincts, social bonding, etc. Law usually stands in a directly contrary position to the former list, to wide agreement.
Well id agree on the stakeholder side but try that in the USA and they will treat it in the same way that they would union organizing :-)

You will find that in general that a lot more googlers probably wouldn't take that view.
>Is it really debatable on whether or not discriminating against individuals/groups makes things fair for other individuals/groups?

I don't think that comment could be any more centered at the heart of this debate. Thanks.

The problem with your reasoning though, is that it starts in the middle. It wipes away history and fast-forwards us to a state of egalitarianism that doesn't exist. That is, it really just begs the question by assuming the very reality we seek to create.

So, where we agree is that any sort of consideration of race is lamentable. Where we depart is in the idea that we address that fact by discounting the history that got us here and also ignoring that we're actually still here.

In other words, this idea that we just do nothing and hope that people will suddenly stop discriminating completely offloads the burden of unfairness to those who have already been systematically and inter-generationally disenfranchised/disadvantaged; and so can least afford such a laissez-faire approach. It's easy to say "hey, let's just all love one another". But, what are generations of systematically disenfranchised people supposed to eat while we're waiting patiently for our society to get there?

Which leads to...

>At best, you've made things fair for one group, unfair for another group

No fun answer here, but here's what it comes down to: Yes, individuals in the latter group may experience some "unfairness". But, as a whole, which group can best weather a bit of "unfairness"? Is it the group that has other options because they won the birth lottery or those who are hanging on by a thread due to a host of complicated historical reasons that essentially boil down to their complexion? This is a cold truth and it churns my stomach to posit it, but it's the hard reality of the reasoning.

I want to qualify my "birth lottery" comment though. Because, what is incorrect is the idea that every member of the majority has these tremendous advantages simply by being a member. What I'd really like to see is a system that acknowledges people's station in life and history, irrespective of race.

For instance, if we were to say that coal-miners in West Virginia are having a rough go of it and set aside some educational opportunities and jobs specifically to transition those folks, I think most of us can get behind that. And, we would accept as the cost that "a Kid in the Suburbs" might lose a scholarship as a result.

Affirmative action is no different. A harder irony is that it is deliberately ginned-up racial animus that has birthed much of the discrimination that created the need for affirmative action and simultaneously generated resentment for those who benefit from it.
Thanks, I will remember to add to the list :)

FP2 is a respectable piece of hardware, by the way. I just never had it because I am too poor.
Why? Just use different address for the legitimate service and whitelist it. If an address is out there on some spam list, you'll be getting spam to it eventually.

I have different rules for different addresses. Public e-mail adresses and e-mail adresses that are meant for online services. Public ones are permanent and filtered and mailchimp and similar don't get to send mail there. The other type of address is whitelisted and disposable. Everything ends in the same mailbox. Works like a charm.
When a criticism of the US (or any free country) is raised, the discussion is multifaceted. The conversation is never overwhelmed with by "calling out Russian hypocrisy" implying both that the post is from them and no one anywhere should object.

To your other point, I agree money should not be wasted on unnecessary military spending nor should any nation cut or spy on under sea cables.
I'm from America, lived in Europe, and definitely prefer European toilets at the office. It's an actual room that gives you real privacy.
Do you mean the noise, or the energy requirements? The former can be dealt with, I think, or at least greatly limited (and flight paths can be kept to areas tolerant of a bit of noise). The latter can't really a commonly held concern it seems, or we'd already be trying to cut back on the tremendous amount of regular flying that happens every day now.
resident alien != foreigner

I believe GP was referring to times s/he's entered the US on a visitor visa of some sort.
I find the notion of places as a state of mind - cognition that is externalized to your surroundings - quite interesting. So part of a formula could be creating a space that is filled with other ideas, that allows non-judgemental experimentation, actionable research and other people working on similar yet different projects.

So while there is no algorithm to produce ideas, you can consciously work on creating a surrounding in which they may develop 'by themselves'.
The structure of this article is weird. I just gave up reading it because it was too annoying to keep up. Or is it just me?
There's a depressingly large number of authors who say that, but the Japanese islands have little in the way of natural resources except farmland and a good climate for growing things.

The whole reason Japan started their program of military expansion in the first place was to guarantee access to natural resource, e.g., petroleum, needed by their industry.

By 1943 Japan was facing chronic shortages of petroleum products, rubber and other essential supplies because of interdiction by the US Navy's "Silent Service" (submarine force). And that was before Japan lost most of her navy, most of her large transport ships (by 1945 Japan was reduced to using mostly small wooden transport ships) the Phillipines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa (which while in Japanese hands could be used to operate aircraft to give Japanese shipping some protection from the US Navy).

It is unlikely that Japan could have done much more than feed itself after 1945.
The danger of process is that while some amount of official process is super valuable, it's very very very hard to only have a little process.

Once you start hiring for people specifically responsible for managing the process, you've got people whose incentives line up more with "furthering the process" than "furthering the underlying enterprise."

But yeah, places that say they have no process are falling into the same trap as places with "flat orgs" - there are always some power brokers once you're over 10 people or so, it's just not always documented (and even a non-flat org can hide the true power holders).
I reached out to abuse@telegram.org and have been waiting for a bit to hear back.

I think the problem might be related to the retry logic when the Telegram Bot API fails to get a valid response. Possibly Telegram is retrying the failed request forever.

We've started to block some of the most offending telegram IP addresses and are reaching out to any paying customers running Telegram bots.
As someone who build a few apps with early Fb graph I can say this is without a doubt 100% true and it's weird that anyone even slightly thinks it's speculative. Homie who wrote "Cow Clicker" did so around the same time I was working with it and has a great writeup on it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-co...
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Looks like the Boom jet will be business-class only, with single seats on each side, so it probably won't be a big deal if you are willing to pay up.

https://boomsupersonic.com/airliner
Ask HN: How do you spread a new theory?
Hi HN,

Say you solved a very complex mathematics problem, and it was not a famous problem that one particular institution was offering a prize for solving. However you felt the result was important to wider field of mathematics and you wanted the world of mathematics to know you had solved it, how would you go about spreading your result?

I was wondering if you could help me. My father died when I was young and when I was twenty I found myself in need of therapy. I have been in therapy for eight years and quite early on dreams became part of our therapeutic sessions. I am a data analyst by trade, did a degree in Economics, am dyslexic and find that I naturally think "structurally" (as if every system is made of lego, and to understand a system you need to understand the entire shape). I could not help but view dreams as another form of unstructured data to understand the shape of the system behind.

Obviously the claim is extremely contentious, but I am quite sure I have worked out the structure of dreaming. The theory matches the neurology, explains why dreams are so 'extreme' and I am able to accurately predict dream content consistently after only hearing certain aspects of someone's dream. I know it sounds rather bonkers, but please don't make the obvious bonkersness the focus of your answer, I would just love to know what you would do if you found yourself in this position. I'm quite stuck!

Thank you for any thoughts!
I really don't believe that Saudi princesses and similar are a meaningfully large demographic to be relevant in this market. I'd also think that ungodly rich oil royalty has better ways to spend their time and money than pay-to-play games.

The underlying hypothesis that these games have addictive properties targeting a segment with maybe low impulse control seems far more plausible. These are slot machines, not high-stakes blackjack tables.