skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All communities have leaders, whales, whatever you want to call them. Even Bitcoin is now controlled by a small group of mostly Chinese people. Decentralization does nothing other than put control in the hands of an unpredictable and potentially unaccountable group of people, whereas centralized systems have people you can point to and hold accountable (or so we hope). There is a reason it's never worked throughout history, and why decentralized systems always collapse into a more efficient centralized form.
> do these Googlers honestly think Russia and China and others aren't working on the same thing to be used by their military?

It's been my observation that vehement anti-war activists seem unwilling to admit that there are threats that need to be defended against.
It's incredibly dangerous to brake, swerve, or otherwise alter your course for a non-life-threatening object in the road. People have died from this, and people have gone to jail doing this [1]. If people are likely to crash from panic after hitting a small animal, they're more likely to crash when the car swerves and then can't regain control afterwards. When you're about to hit a deer, the advice is to brake hard, but never swerve. Because you're never going to keep control of your car when you're both braking and swerving, and if you hit someone in the oncoming lane while swerving, you are at fault.

I don't like it either, but occasionally hitting animals crossing the road is the price we pay for millions of miles of high-speed pavement crossing the country. Hitting small animals is the best outcome in that situation, as opposed to hitting larger animals like deer (where the driver can be killed or seriously injured too).

Please don't brake or swerve for small animals. You could very likely end up killing another person in the process.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/17/canada-...
Afaik schizophrenia is a spectrum, so some are bound to be affected worse than others.
I also didn't say it was the only reason for people having trouble kicking the habit, only one of the factors for it, so there's still plenty of room for non-schizophrenics not being able to kick the habit due to tobacco (and the additives tobacco companies add to it) being highly addictive.
You have to trust your node admin and the admin of any node you talk to (ie your friend's node)
>The problem with this thinking is that Google is not in the "business of war" but in the business of artificial intelligence. They have written an AI engine and a customer, the defense industry, wants to use it.

Well, they could still always refuse that.
There are plenty of future employees ready to fill the empty spots.
Indeed, this fact this makes me proud to be a Jew. (A happy Passover to all whom it may concern).

As a young boy my father used to take me to the Pergamon museum in Berlin - one major exhibit is the Babylonian street of processions (it dates to the neo-Babylonian empire) He used to say - here you see our heritage, we were around the show when Berlin (and all the other great capitals of the world) were still a swamp.
You could take a look at my framework which I initially posted to HN recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16743476

I'd be more than happy in assisting you how to use it.
10 a day may be right for the first month or so, but it doesn't make sense to extrapolate that out for a year.
Replace 'capitalism' or 'soviet communism' with X (= just about any current topic) and you'll likely get the same. Is that ironic?
That depends on the municipality, I think.
They're more effective, yes, but carry more risks since you're keeping a foreign object in you for up to 10 years at a time.

You can see the various options and pregnancy rates (both based on the typical use and the perfect use case) for the first year: http://www.arhp.org/Publications-and-Resources/Quick-Referen...

Personally, rates like these makes me glad to be a gay male.
That actually undermines my claim :) $208.75 in 1928 is over $3000 today.
What kind of sorcery is this??? Purely black magic computing :-)
You must not know how these things work. If they are working with the DOD they are probably American citizens on American soil. Especially if anything is classified, I’d put money AI is.

There was a video of Elon Musk talking about how they can only hire Citizens at SpaceX due to government restrictions. Same concept would apply to Google and DOD Work.
Great, thanks for the info. I have worked with @roji before on EF Core upstream issues, NPGSQL EF Core is very good. I will reach out to him!
$60/year to post about taking the kids to visit Grandma is pretty steep for most users.
12 doesn't seem that strange to me. That's every 2 hours on average. 8 a day is every 3 hours like clockwork to keep a fresh/dry diaper on. Add in the unexpected poops that don't land on 3-hour boundaries and it's not hard to do 12. It seems like the upper end of normal but not an outlier.
They are also not forced to not voice their concern.
Yes, and there are plenty of future employers ready to take the ex-Googlers.
Do those sprays have the pressure and duration to really spray everything down?

I can poor water from a bottle of water onto the poo on my arm and I'd still think it'd be unclean. I'd need some positive pressure to think otherwise. Oh, and some soap.
if you're emailing support@myhostingcompany.com and it ends up in a shared mailbox, then it isn't allocated to your account like it is when you're using the ticketing system.

when using a ticketing system a unique mailbox is created for the issue, only the agent that was allocated to the issue has access to data.
I have been intrigued by scuttlebutt for a few months now, and these are pretty interesting comments you make. Did you try to discuss them with the community around scuttlebutt?
Maybe a Honeypot approach would work here.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16755530, which is still in the middle of the front page after 21 hours, and links to the text of this letter.
I'm halfway through the course and it's really basic and underwhelming.

Most of the "techniques" are stuff you pick up in middle school.

Also I find the teaching style, with those cute cartoons and sounds, extremely patronizing.
>This one has a catastrophe happen every day, cars breaking down, teeth needing treatment, plumbing problems, traffic fines, credit card bills for expenses that happen before the game starts...

I see the issue more about it being a moralistic simulator. (or if you prefer a simulator with a political agenda behind)

The kid needs $15 to go with a school excursion, I don't have them, the kid remains in school and the stupid simulator doesn't miss the occasion to remark this.

And surely my kid won't get them $100 sneakers!

And my family pet is not going to suffer, because I have NO family pets, I can't afford them.

By behaving as a total bastard, including having my pet suffering, having the kid become hungry because he is too proud to get the free lunch and deciding to ignore everything else including the medical check for chest pain, I can get to the end of the month.

But a number of questions and answers are clearly targeted to inducing the player into anti-consummerism (which maybe is a good thing) while on the other hand hard pressing on completely senseless society stigmas.

This:
"You chose to live farther away from your job, so your rent is lower. But your gas costs are higher. In fact, for every dollar a working family saves on housing, they spend an additional 77 cents on transportation."

could have been written as:

"Congratulations, you know how to move a slider left and right, and choose the combination that costs less, between $855 living nearer and $760 living further you chose to save $95 per month or around 8% of your net income"
Ignoring the safety of the people doing the fixing for a moment, how do we know that these potholes have been fixed in a way that'll last a long time and be safe? If I want to know the method and materials used, where do I go to find that out?
Does anyone still use cloth diapers these days? They’re reusable and produce so much less waste.
Being good at war is a bad thing if it means you're likely to do more of it.
Of course you need to read the news. Select your news sources carefully and limit or eliminate your exposure to social media discussions of the news.

I understand the sentiment that news can make you depressed, but reading the news can also spur people to act positively in a multitude of ways.

When a natural disaster strikes and the news is filled with stories of anguish and despair in the aftermath, people donate to charities because of the news reports they've seen.

Imagine if we never read the news because such stories were too depressing?

Imagine if this young student had never seen a harrowing news report about the Syrian war?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29900968
On a recommendation from someone somewhere I pick up a book, typically fiction, to get my brain somewhere else. Or a brisk walk.
So $2 per month per user sounds about right.
"cloth diapers are for people with single kids"

Maybe not for twins, but "one kid at-a-time" is more than doable and the second kid is where the real money savings come in.
Ctrl+c is technically not quite the same as Esc: it doesn't trigger InsertLeave autocmds, and doesn't finish abbreviations. But as long as you don't have those you'll be fine.
When you are in that position, it doesn't scatter, or at least my limited experience on the topic says so.
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Found the choice of mirror material awful, looks like the surface of a child's plastic play mirror you'd find in a dollar store.
Wall Street’s Big Banks Are Waging a Technological Arms Race
It can be useful and still be terrible interaction design - it's uses are entirely lacking in discoverability
What is a awareness and how will you tell?

Why is awareness necessary for an AI to be dangerous?

A swarm of armed, autonamous, UAVs is plenty terribad already, and Google's making them smarter. It doesn't take much smarts to "find squishy warm mobile things and put missile there".
Also relevant, Aaron Swartz' I Hate the News post: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

Basically: Less news, more books.
Pacifism is evil.
>1. Companies are not democratic

That's just how it is today, not some natural law. Companies can and have been democratic (e.g. coops and other such forms), and companies can be more democratic going forward if people want it so.

>2.Being good at war is a good thing.

Not for the casualties -- and often not for the general population either. Would a better at war Nazi Germany be "a good thing"? Would a better at Vietnam US be?
I am not in that position, but I have a few friends that are. My advice would for you to hire a COO - I say hire instead of promoting because I am assuming that if there were someone with the skills for the job you would already have noticed and not be feeling that much pressure.

A non-technical COO can be helpful to discuss the vision of the company and share the responsibility to execute it.

A friend of mine is Co-CEO with 2 others. It works great for them (but they know each other for some time). The key is that anyone of them can make most decisions without consulting the others.
Tresorit also announced an end-to-end encrypted social network where the company can't see the users' content. I think that's probably the angle privacy-focused Facebook alternatives will need to take. Unfortunately, they chose a strange-looking Hungarian name for it, so probably nobody will ever pay attention to it because of that:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prevaat-the-privacy-focus...
For Heroku deployment you could take a look at this:
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/vibed/deploy-on-heroku

I'd have to add Heroku deployment to the actual documentation though.
This is cool, you should post it as a “Shown HN”. And don’t get discouraged if it doesn’t immediately garner attention. Post it again later if you only get an insignificant amount of upvotes. Your project is front page worthy and if it doesn’t get there the first time then it’s just bad timing / bad luck (or poorly worded title, that’s a possibility as well of course).

Post it until it gets to the front page, waiting a couple of days or more between each time you post it.
What's wrong with tap water? Formula still costs a lot, obviously, but you generally don't need special water for mixing formula unless your kid has an immune disorder or you live somewhere with unsafe tap water.
> “We don’t think the city should exist; we are only limited by our capacity and our imaginations,” says PARC.

Cities are the most efficient way we've discovered to live as humans. They're less wasteful, they consolidate resources, etc.

> “Don’t get us wrong, we believe that many of these services are crucial for society, like healthcare, education, and maintained roadways, but we believe that the way to achieve access for all is by deconstructing the state and capitalism, as well as other coercive hierarchies that exist in our society. It is this driving philosophy that motivates our actions, not only to fix the potholes, but to take power back from the state, into the hands of the people.”

Centralization and urban living were invented thousands of years ago and has made these services possible and more efficient over time.
The reason why bitcoin is so popular is because it's a "protocol" and not a specific implementation. If there was really going to be a distributed social network, it shouldn't require downloading anything at all.

Maybe instead, we can use a some already agreed upon protocol... like... english language!
I think that's the point.

More options = more skills needed.
I don't know it. So others who might otherwise be interested might not know it as well. So it would be nice to provide a small hint. That should'nt be that hard. As a startup, you cannot afford arrogance, if you want to succeed.
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

by Donald G. Reinertsen

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-G...
Yeah, the untold victims of pacifism... oh, wait...
The average citizen (not organizing protests and keeping away from fruitless online outrage) can probably catch up with all relevant political news in 1-2 hours/month of concentrated effort.

I've started doing just that and it has had great impact on my mental health. I don't feel any less prepared to make an impact when the time comes (elections, sporadic talks with friends and family).

Should I be more engaged? Surely. But I just look at all of it and think it's a necessary evil and I'm happy other people feel more inclined to participate heavily. I just don't have the mental skills to keep up and be sane.
Indeed it does. Google tried to flirt with the regime back a decade ago and be say at minimum "too conciliatory" with them. Now what came out of that?

After they did few token delisting of opposition websites, Russian three letter service felt they finally snapped, and that they can have their own way with them.

They had to evacuate their most valuable cadres out of there to Switzerland, by giving Swiss canton an eye watering sum for a carte-blanche from their immigration office to resettle former Russian office staff there.

Armed men in black now frequent their office on Balchug. Now, with suitcases stuffed with god knows what on them.
India’s Central Bank Bans Regulated Entities From Dealing In Virtual Currencies
Google is an ad company.

Let's not pretend it is anything more.
3. Being good at avoiding wars is a great thing.

(Which I believe is the intent of the signatories)
Like e-mail or the web, perhaps?
I replied at the same time with the same concern. Shouldn't the municipalities be more concerned about injuries potholes can cause vs. the injuries one could potentially suffer from fixing them?
I have been using Pharo since its 1.x releases and deployed commercial solutions using it.

Very stable. Quite powerful.

And it was/is a pleasure to work work with it.

One has to invest time and effort to master it. I would say that this is best suited to people who actually know what they are doing. Syntax is easy but frameworks are very advanced. So, do not go there without support.

I see comments that are not that kind to Pharo. I do to care to be honest. I do not think that Pharo is for the masses.

It has imperfections but nothing is at the core. And things are moving forward very well.

As a Pharo consortium member I vote with cash and usage.
ITAR Rules for rocketry technology is absolutely not the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
For whatever it's worth, at least as that wiki page described it, 'god' isn't cognitively meaningful. Most Christian philosophers I've read fall into a camp that would say that "hope" and "love" are real and cognitively meaningful, but also metaphysical and therefore something that we can know partially but not completely (and, as you say, understood poorly as a result of the incomplete knowledge).
Email is a decentralized system.
There is a double standard here: cars with autonomous features are held to the new standard, meat drivers are held to the old standard.

Just like we will probably never accept (neither socially nor legally) autonomous drivers that aren't at least an order of magnitude safer than human drivers, we will likely continue to accept drivers not paying attention to their manual controls - but we do not accept drivers not paying enough attention to take over after their AI driver.

> nobody would buy a car with this deliberately annoying handling.

Exactly. And since this is the only way of making a reasonably safe level 3 car, this is also why many car manufacturers have actively chosen to not develop level 3 autonomous cars (because they are either not safe OR annoying - and either way it's a tough sale)
Leaving aside "an average facebook user" (which is just an average person really), and weather they understand what decentralised means, I believe most people would care if they were aware of why the data is sold.

If you said to someone "I'm going to collect information about you whether you like it or not, and then sell it to someone who wants to manipulate your thinking", then I suspect they wouldn't be so keen on the data being collected (let alone sold) in the first place.
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>maybe I'm one of few doing AI projects not involving a deep neural net

You're not. While progress in machine learning is astounding and is going to do great things for humanity, it is kind of frustrating that "AI" to many people these days means neural nets, deep learning, high-end GPUs, and huge datasets. Not every problem needs machine learning as a solution, and there are still some of us solving hard problems with classical AI and old fashioned data analysis. But it's not trendy right now.
> Giving up political news didn't make me happier, but it certainly reduced that niggling feeling that everything is headed towards doom.

I highly recommend Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" (2018) as a cure against the doomsayers.
Right clicking on desktop brings up a contextual menu - useful. In the case of 3D touch in apps it frequently just directly performs an action, which is worse for understanding what's happening.
I believe that different countries have different ratings systems. This is part of the problem as well. Germany for instance has recently crafted laws to try to financially punish companies for content on their site that is deemed "hate speech". [0]

Should this "universal" body be established country by country?

Should laws in Germany affect what people in the US can see?

What about competitors who want to have different policies in an attempt to give themselves a competitive advantage?

Personally I'm not a fan of the direction the major tech companies have gone with free speech, but I hope and believe that ultimately these principles will win out. However, when a man is convicted by the UK government of committing "gross offense" by recording a joke video of his pug responding to Nazi references; the situation seems a bit more dire. [1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/17/german-of...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD_QlnY8Ggg
In context, they clearly are referring to the municipal government when they say the city shouldn't exist, not to the physical collection of people and infrastructure.
The reason Friends Reunited failed (at least here in the UK) was definitely that any payment was too big a barrier. Most people just don't care. They didn't before CA, they don't now.

I use FB as I attend various gatherings that organise there, but I no longer contribute much, and am phasing it out.
Ask people what they use Excel for and convert those into SaaS apps (you won't believe the things people do with Excel - I've seen Financial models running in Excel!). Even if you know nothing about an industry, this can be a quick conversation starter "do you use Excel often? what do you use it for?"

Try old school, boring, slow moving industries for low hanging fruits - manufacturing, leasing heavy equipment and even agriculture/animal raising in some cases. These have actual time saving requirements than building yet another project management application
Yes, my family did a few years ago. I would guess that we used around 80% fewer disposable diapers... disposables are still useful when traveling and other miscellaneous situations.
I destroyed my tire on a pothole last year and I had to change the entire wheel. I doubt a "fixed" pothole can be more damaging than an unfixed one.
I can not see me using this ever
> They also run the risk of being held personally liable if someone were to be injured by the pothole they attempted to fix.

Are they suggesting that the city can be held liable when a pothole they _haven't_ fixed jacks up my car or its tires? I've not really heard of that working in practice. From Portland's own website [0]:

> Most pothole claims are not paid.

Yea, figures - I think I'll take my chances with the anarchist-repaired potholes.

[0] https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bibs/article/629953
> That's just how it is today, not some natural law. Companies can and have been democratic (e.g. coops and other such forms), and companies can be more democratic going forward if people want it so.

Wouldn't survivorship bias dictate that the most successful companies are the ones that are left over, i.e. not democratic > democratic in the business of surviving. Regardless of your ideals.
I don't know how it's done on the West Coast, but here in New Hampshire they're not usually fixed in a way that will last a long time due to the fact frost heaves will simply bring them back again. Given the nature of the freeze, run plows over them, thaw, possibly refreeze schedule, the city uses cold patches all the time. I am no road engineer, but I'm guessing attempting to truly "fix" winter-generated potholes would simply move them around by 5 or 10 feet.
You were trying to evoke some fist shaking gentile mad at them thar jews and gooks.

Jesus Christ dude, quit putting words in my mouth.

Saying "welcome to being white" wasn't saltiness, I was making a glib comment Asians have assimilated enough, they're going to get treated more like white people (e.g. "diversity" in tech (and now, apparently, higher ed) changing from "less whites" to "less whites and Asians").

I don't think my posts harbor any resentment toward Asians or the Jewish, I was trying to be sympathetic toward them by hedging my glib blanket comment and acknowledging the fact they're exposed to the worst of both worlds as bigots' prerogative will treat them in whatever context that best serves their end.

I should have bailed when you said "victimology" and name dropped Unz.

I'm not here to break out my A Beautiful Mind corkboard and reinvent tolerance from first principles. I was just commiserating with a point that it sucks to be on the receiving end of "the insinuation that my race might be considered a meaningful dimension in the pursuit of class diversity".