skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Coercing developing countries into taking out loans they can't afford to build infrastructure they don't need has been the USA's MO for decades

Yes but in China's case they don't expect to be involved in the internal policies or demand specific budgetary restrictions when they default on their loan. As opposed to an IMF loan, China has better and simpler terms (someone below outlined this already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16796087) and they know it.
pay your registrar to return a WHOIS on Mars. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/planets-maps-exp...
> not because they're not valuable

It's not because they aren't valuable; they're just not more valuable than our leisure time (for the majority of people). Of course, even this varies--for example, outsourced child care is very popular.

> patriarchal social structures benefit from the asymmetry in value placement. if only men can create value, they hold power.

I don't think the patriarchy/power theory is a particularly good one. Men have never behaved as a social class nor monopolized social power. While it's true that men are overrepresented at the very top of almost every society, it's also true that men are overrepresented at the very bottom of almost every society. Theories of patriarchy don't predict this anywhere at any time, much less in almost every human society that has ever existed on the planet.

I don't know what the right answer is, but it's very likely that for hundreds of thousands of years, a society's survival has depended on reproductive success where men are expendable and women are crucial. As such, men are left to do the risky work while women added social value in low risk (but important!) areas of life like tending home and family. These dynamics incentivize risk taking and competition among men, which explains men disproportionately occupying the tops and bottoms of every society. Working outside the home has only been the less risky occupation in the last hundred years or so, and our society is still adapting to the change. This is probably wrong on some of the particulars but right in general.
Humans need intermediate punishments. It's how we work. (Homeostasis and all that.)

Therefore Facebook (etc) ought to provide a very automatic "time-out" system for moderators allowing them to one-click to create a temporary ban (a week, a month) for a user that reinstates that user automatically after that period without further action by the moderator. Automatic tracking of past penalties and auto-escalations (if desired) to harsher punishments up to a ban would be a good idea, too.

A quick display of relevant stats regarding that user would be helpful right then, too; giving you some rough idea of how valuable past contributions by them have been. (Sometimes what looks like a troll is just a fact that few people, even in the field, know.)

Manually managing such a system works but Lord is it a ton of fiddly (and unnecessary) work for the moderator.

One of the advantages of this is that mild penalties can usually make the point with little risk that a bad penalty decision will permanently piss-off a valuable contributor.
Rationale: Or why am I bothering to rewrite nanomsg?
Apparently Google does IP diligence for AV1 to navigate around patents.

Matt Frost of Google is quoted as saying:

"Obviously, if we have an open source codec, we need to take very strong steps, and be very diligent in making sure that we are in fact producing something that's royalty free. So we have an extensive IP diligence process which involves diligence on both the contributor level – so when Google proposes a tool, we are doing our in-house IP diligence, using our in-house patent assets and outside advisors – that is then forwarded to the group, and is then again reviewed by an outside counsel that is engaged by the alliance. So that's a step that actually slows down innovation, but is obviously necessary to produce something that is open source and royalty free."

The original source is a video, but this quote transcript is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#cite_note-frost-sme2017-16
And by being considered feature complete and being pretty decent back then, it has held back the entire field for a generation.
Is this similar to what Svelte does, where Svelte compiles down to the right DOM transformations?
> It was being shared with advertisers and analytics providers anyway.

That doesn't make it acceptable in any way.
Man, you sound pretty grumpy about it. I'm pretty sure that the author does not mean "just like Java but with no types". Python is all about the syntax (and it's certainly not all about "math-friendly" syntax), though the syntax was an interesting choice. "Fixing JavaScript" means different things to different people, but I take it to mean that crayon differs in some aspects that annoyed the author about JavaScript.

Notice that the author was rather effective at getting us to think about the features of these languages and how crayon fits in.
nmap, a standard pen tool, already sees through port mapping and other convenient obscurity tricks, there's just nothing like actually keeping your system up to date
Yes, I agree most people don't care. But I won't be eating lab grown meat either.

I have the money, and when I consume things, I'd rather they be of good quality (i.e. certain organic foods that are locally produced). Personally I don't mind paying double, triple or even quadruple the price on something if I know it is of better quality and/or healthier.

Then again, I also don't eat meat every single day, while many people do. Probably great for the masses, but not for me.
Well, yeah of course all of those things are important factors in what keeps people down. And all of those issues need to be addressed, and the solutions to those issues would probably help her situation immeasurably (aside from health care, we don't have to deal with that).

She is irresponsible though, and short of becoming deeply invested in discovering solutions to all the problems you stated, the best chance she has of helping herself is to become better at managing her own life.

I'm not trying to bust on anyone for buying a TV, I've been there. It's kind of a two sided problem. The really big side with all those societal and government issues, and the other side with the things that people can actually control
Central authority necessary for Blockchain coordination
i have not implemented this, but i would love a good way for smart electricity management.

for example i want to power down my router when i go to sleep, and power down all tv related electronics. right now i've been pulling the plug out of the wall..

i did try getting a random remote controlled power adapter from amazon but that worked for about a week.

it would be neat to make it at least voice controlled
Yay, another distro. /s

Seriously though, software isn't the issue here, hardware is. Anybody with the skills can slap Linux on an old computer and turn it into a server. It's packaging it up into something you can sell to the non-technical that's the real win.

I wish free software advocates would take more lessons from Jobs instead of blindly idealizing Woz.
This is exactly how i use RSS. It's so convenient to have one place instead of checking dozens of blogs that only get updated once in a while.
"Debate"
I've reposted this a few times, but it's worth repeating: Graeber, the author of "Debt: the first 5000 years", lies extensively about easily verifiable facts. Here, for example, is Graeber on Apple Computers:

> Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages.

Someone who's willing to say something like that has blown their credentials in my book, especially when it comes to economics, which is an ideologically touchy field already. Here's a further, somewhat ranty discussion by Brad Delong, a well-respected left-wing economist: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/04/david-graeber-april-fo...
> That goes for [...] data privacy. We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake.

Judging from [1], this wasn't any "mistake":

They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

This was a deliberate policy of allowing people "on their side" to access and use these data. Now, when it turned out people on the "other side" can do it too, it became a "big mistake" suddenly.

[1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997
> it's ruined for everybody

I'd prefer that it was. This is clearly something that leaks personal information.
You aren't going to get up out of the middle class without embarking on a sensible investment program.
It's been quite a few years since I read it, but I seem to recall it was mostly things like dams, oil fields, electric grids, and stuff like that.

I don't recall if the author lists very specific information about the examples, such as "The Salvajina Dam, located at such-and-such coordinates", in the book, but I don't think so.
The Austin bomber is a perfect example. They caught him because he brought his cell phone with him when dropping off the bombs. He didn't use it--it was just powered on and with him.

Imagine that happening before cell phones. The criminals carrying a tracker 24x7.

The Unabomber sent mail bombs for 18 years. The austin bomber gets caught in 3 weeks.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/03/21/authorities...
Congrats team! However, since I've gotten lost in a flood of nostalgia by listening to "Nothing's gonna stop us now", I will have to wait until later to seriously read the release notes.
Still better than what china does.
Good question, and the best answer would probably require a trip down some rabbit holes.

One answer might be, bring it to an org you trust, that specializes in those rabbit holes, like OpenAI, that is if you decide you trust them.
Another data point here in SF. Up until last year I had zero bike share racks installed around my apartment, and as of this year, there are still zero in >80% of the areas that I actually go to in the City (mostly in the West).

As of about a month or two ago, I have seen these Jump bikes pop up around the streets I frequent, even seeing a row of 4 of them at some point parked in a bookstore's bike rack parklet as if it were a dock made for them. I was considering trying out Jump up until this announcement, but I essentially can't use Bay Area Bike Share because there aren't any docks at any point in the city where I would ride to.
Unfortunately "Podcast" is becoming synonym with non-music content on Spotify & Co.
I love Youtube. All of the videos by Brady Haran are worth watching, Numberphile, Periodic Videos, and Sixty Symbols. There’s just a ton of great content, but of course there’s also a screaming pit of nastiness, politics, and conspiracy. The good news is that it’s incredibly easy to avoid the bad stuff, and easy to find the good stuff. YouTube is very much what you make of it, while Twitter is mostly toxic unless you curate aggressively.
Another bad rule I don't advise: insist on a peer-reviewed journal reference for literally everything said. There are a lot of problems with this, too many to list, really.

One is that inevitably it is only fully applied to statements that contradict the current prejudice, whatever that is; blocking the very sort of up-to-date knowledge you hope to find in a forum.

Another problem is that accomplished trolls will badly distort or reverse the takeaway from an opaque study and drop then drop that as a reference. The moderator can't possibly devote the hours to police that.

But yes, I've actually seen this system tried in a forum.
Well what was the “most intriguing research finding” you saw? Don’t leave us hanging haha
Old foundations are meant to be redefined/invalidate by new.
- Complexity theory
- Computational Theory
- Graph Theory
Are all subsets of Information theory. They're approaches/frames. New ones can be created that invalidate the established limits imposed by others.

Everything is possible until proven. Given how little attribution is paid to people who break through fundamental aspects of understanding and given how much politics and favoring is played in publications/academic circles, one who doesn't have standing in such circles would be a fool to openly resolve some of the most outstanding and fundamental aspects of the problems that plague them. I've read about and watched a number of individuals with proven track records and contributions to science/technology be marginalized, exploited and written off. I've watch a number of corporations exploit such individuals works w/ no attribution or established recognition beyond a footnote. I've watched the world attempt to suggest such inventions/establishments come via mechanisms and institutions that they do not. So, I know better this time around as to what to do w/ my works.

Just about every person who contributes fundamentally to the world is called a crank at some point it in time. It conveys the huge disconnect the average and even prestigious individual has with reality and/or the attempts they make to reframe it to fit their purpose, narrative, standing..

My comment history has yet to receive any remarks that refute its establishments beyond down votes. It stands alone in this manner as will the foundational establishment of AGI.

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-r...
Inflation is a tax. You're also explicitly taxed on the fake capital "gain" from inflation.
Kind of like tomato-timer.com. I like the more options feature though..gives more flexibility.
Before nuclear weapons were built, the only examples of their large-scale destruction were in fiction. The World Set Free by H.G. Wells is the main example I can think of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free

It got some of the details wrong (i.e. the atomic bombs exploded over a long period of time vs instantly), but the consequences were fairly accurate.

If you're going to wait until all the actual details and examples happen in reality, then it's too late to have much insight, especially if we're talking about something capable of self-replication like a virus or artificial intelligence. The nature of the problem REQUIRES anticipation instead of mere reaction.
I had read that, but from what I read they get it to launch steam, but cannot run a game yet. So still a WIP.
How did you start running docker on 67?
yeah it was easy to modify it in the query string.
"Waste" and "one year" are horrible assumptions behind this question.

What about "wasting" 4 years of high school and "wasting" a few years of college? Why should someone with an idea be hampered by wasting this time? One year is nothing, and even if it were a long time, it's not a "waste" -- you come out of it with a skill that is needed today, ie if you want to be part of the technical side of the company you wish to found.

Secondly, a mere one year of study is not going to result in a skilled practitioner. You will be able to make prototypes.

Digging a little deeper:

> *It's a fact"

No, it isn't. FE development is still not a "mature" space and Wix and the like only offer rather trivial customizations to a well-defined and constrained environment. What you describe as FE development is really content creation and styling, not "development".

Now that I've poo-poo'd the thought, in counterpoint do you know about kintone and the like? There's an entire ecosystem of no-code app development systems out there already. Some of them probably qualify as "mature".
I sound uncharitable because you posted a (from my perspectively, completely random) link to a research article in a different field and implored me to change my thinking, without any other commentary. That's not a substantive addition to the conversation, because on my end I have no idea whether to take your link seriously and how much time or effort to invest in learning about it.

After reading it for two minutes, it's not obvious how to take a productive insight about artificial intelligence from what seems to be an article about mutations. I offered my sincere first thought about what you might have meant and asked for further clarification, and you shot that down without any further clarification.

Now after I've twice asked you for clarification and you haven't provided it, you're telling me you're wasting your time. Do you see how this is unhelpful? It's borderline Kafkaesque.
And when someone clicks on a targeted ad, is their identity still private? Or does the company get a handy referrer that allows them to correlate that user's Facebook profile (and hence real name) with the specific criteria they paid to filter by?

It seems to me they have quite a lot to do with each other, in that Facebook has an enormous amount of valuable personal information about people (which in many cases was extrapolated without the target's consent, as opposed to explicitly given), and is entirely reckless about where this data ends up, as long as it isn't actually "public" as such.
Tl;dr You don’t.

California’s problems all come from one place - your legislature.

You’ve legislated so that high buildings can’t be built and sprawl can’t happen more than it has. Which causes your housing prices to sky rocket.

You’ve enacted ridiculously high taxes and engaged in making stupid things like owning a plastic box, offering straws, and calling someone by the incorrect pronoun a criminal offense.

You’re homeless population exists due to the climate, the fact there are numerous services to “help” them, and assist them. Without even considering a root cause analysis to resolve it. I.e. you feed and cloth your homeless without finding out why they’re homeless and fixing that.

Your crime is ridiculous due to your proximity with the border, you’re failing school systems and unions that keep bad teachers in place. In addition to your massive residual crime due to the fact people can make more money selling drugs on the corner than they can working a 9-5. Not to mention your police departments basically exist to have their budgets increased and corruption there is ridiculous.

In addition to this you have California alienating entire classes of people; Like Gun Owners; because of ridiculous none-sense feel good laws that lock honest people up in prison; while those who are in gangs are let go.

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California per the most recent numbers is growing population wise. And if you just looked at those numbers you’d be fine.

The truth is California has a massive immigrant population influx. This is why they’re so pro-immigrant. (Which isn’t bad) - The Majority of Americans are moving elsewhere. Texas and Nevada are growing at ridiculous levels due to Californians. Las Vegas housing prices have skyrocketed and the sprawl of Las Vegas is now becoming on par with places such as LA.

The difference? By moving to Vegas/Texas your dollar goes much further and you automatically get a pay raise due to no state income tax. Really the only reason to live in California is for the beach, the climate, perhaps job market (although tech is going elsewhere), and perhaps opportunity to mingle with the likes of the famous.

Even people who have family there or jobs have a hard time. I mapped it out - if I lived in Vegas and had a job in SF. I could commute via Plane twice a week and save money as opposed to actually buying a house or condo.

The same is true for those with families. 60$ Southwest ticket and an hour long flight. No problem.
Go assembly is more of a low-level intermediate representation. It isn't as high level as LLVM-IR, but it isn't what the processor runs on. I wonder how much is obfuscated by this, especially when compiled with optimizations?

Is there really much to be learned by analyzing performance in unoptimized pseudo-assembly? It's like looking at JVM bytecode for performance indicators.
ICOs for literal hidden treasure are now a thing that exists
You're welcome to contact me when it occurs. I think I defined who I was in an earlier comment against the advice of someone who claimed it might impact my ability to get capital in the future.
The life and death of social networks. source: Google Trends [Graph]
Who caused the Bay Area’s housing shortage?
The best-tasting glass of water I've ever had was at the Galway Bay Hotel in Ireland. It tasted like slightly sweet and mossy. I've wanted to recreate that flavor in water ever since, but have no idea where to start.
Should be noted, on the subject of easily verifiable facts, that DeLong is not a leftist.
You do realize you wouldn’t even be able to make this comment in China if it was against the government right? You would be censored and picked up and killed
It will happen, as they like to say of democracy: "with Chinese characteristics".
Short term profiteering clothed in vague long-term grandiosities. Xi will be the last emperor of that era, methinks.
Does that mean the US can get officially recognized as a developing nation and get all the perks? Guaranteed the US would start pushing more initiatives like the Paris Climate Accord if they got the economic benefits, would be great for the climate change movement
FreemdomBox is a Debian package. It isn't another distro.

They are focusing on exactly what you are saying, putting together a UI that non-technicals can use.
I can only speak for myself, having never worked for massive clients with deep pockets. I care more than my employers. "does spending time on that make moniez?" "I mean...." "Then no, let's do that cool loading spinner as it is all about user experience".
does it also make moonshine?
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump's Personal Lawyer
Do you mean: People's Democratic Dictatorship?
The recently announced Droplet containers extend on this idea with a supposedly commercial-ready multiplatform solution

https://dropletcomputing.com/
This is survivorship bias. How many weapons of mass destruction have been foretold by science fiction that have never been invented? More generally, how much technology has been written about in science fiction that we have only the faintest hope of ever achieving?
Bullshit.

I've worked as a consultant in Germany for 13 years, and pretty much every large project has consultants in it, often half the developers are consultants. IBM, T-Systems, Capgemini and accenture each have around 5000 people doing software consulting, and there'S hundreds if not thousands of smaller consultancies.
What exactly does it mean to have an optical link in space that's not a radio? Radiowaves are light, aren't they? Is this just semantics in regards to light near the visible spectrum vs not?
vim, bash, puppet, chef, kitchen, terraform
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers train computers to understand dynamic events
Progress on my command based wireframing tool, TrueUX
Ray Dalio: More on Trade and Other Wars
Out of curiosity, how is this being solved in Scandinavian countries?
> So, somewhere along the way, largely by historical accident and inertia, we've decided as a society that it is ok to keep a huge portion of the population on the edge of desperation and that if they fall it is their own concern.

This has how the vast majority of humanity has always lived.
I'm Han Chinese, grew up in Shanghai, living in US right now.