skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s an interesting view on “entitlement.” How about, the reason YouTube is where it is today is because of the content creators since its birth. Without quality content it wouldnt be where it is today. YouTube grew because a large chunk of its early content has copyright infringement and other sorts of material which would be deemed “offensive” by its current standards.

So I would hope that given its history, YouTube would try to fight for the content creators as opposed to fighting for its ad partners.
"The peaceful dissolution of the USSR has been a miracle, although that story isn't really over yet. "

I would argue that dissolution didn't really level anything. It just gave a few oligarchs an opportunity to grab vast fortunes for cheap.
> Ford Foundation is often cited as one of the main culprits pushing the ultrasound technology in these countries, the result of which is the current situation of skewed gender ratio.

The spread of ultrasound technology in China and India, did not result in the current situation of skewed gender ratios. You're confusing the underlying cause (desire for male labor or heirs) and a healthcare tool.

How that technology was used, may have had a role in amplifying or accelerating the result (they could still just kill the baby girl after birth). Obvious, simple proof: ultrasound tech didn't cause the same extreme gender skew outcome in the US, Germany, France, UK, Russia, South Korea or Japan, those nations chose not to disproportionately kill baby girls despite having ultrasound tech (that's also the case for nearly all nations).

China and India should have widely available ultrasound tech. All nations should.
still using imperial units in 2018
Former Googlers Say Strain Exists Between Google and DeepMind
Any documents from the county to that effect?

I didn’t find anything that said the county wouldn’t let him just open the access.

I found lots of references that said people used to have reasonable to access the beach, but he bought the property and locked the gate.
Probably the worst thing I've encountered is a junior engineer trying to encourage me to change a coding style by having two coding styles coexist.

I just kept repeating, over and over, that I expected the coding-style to be consistent. It was totally over his head, and he totally didn't even bother looking to find a code formatting utility to do a One-Shot style change.
Scientists Discovered a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells
I guess "high-tide line" is assumed to be somewhat constant, and therefore a good demarcator. We need a better way to enforce land boundaries in this day and age (especially in the bay area, which is prone to earthquakes and faults). But that's a longer story. Yeah, he clearly doesn't want anyone on the beach. But he does offer to sell it for fair price. Just taking it away from him doesn't seem fair to me either if it wasn't enforced when the purchase happened.
In the FAQ, Temkin says she has previously notified Nvidia and vendors like Nintendo about the existence of this exploit, providing what she considers an "adequate window [for Nvidia] to communicate with [its] downstream customers and to accomplish as much remediation as is possible for an unpatchable bootROM bug."

Why would you even want to do that...? Money? Fame? As I've heard it said memorably, "would you tell someone who takes you hostage and locks you up, that the lock is actually trivial to open?" This is just further evidence of a fact I've noticed for a long time: a lot of security researchers are pro-DRM, pro-corporatocracy authoritarians, and their vision of "more secure" is a dystopian nightmare.

I still remember the good old days, when the hacking/cracking scene was entirely composed of people doing it for the freedom, with no do-gooding snitches to worry about...

10 years ago, if you shared a way to bypass a DRM scheme in the right places, it would live on for a long time. Now, it's more likely that some bastard is going to report it and get it patched in days to weeks.
There are many foreigners, even rich ones, who don't have those views. It seems like a red herring.
The clock/text thing works really well for me. I’ll read a line of text, look away, then read it again. If it seems to have changed, I’m dreaming. Same thing with the clock. If it behaves erratically, I’m probably dreaming.
Press Release Distribution Service
Except that it's not civil disobedience. It is disrespecting someone who is being civilly disobedient. Disrespect and civil disobedience, one action is not always bad, the other not always good.
Nice job moving the goalposts there.
Here in the West it's really hard to hike cross country. Big areas are fenced in without any way to get through. In Britain and Germany they usually have a path through but here it's just closed off. Really annoying and doesn't feel like the "land of the free".
I used to do all plural but then I read a good argument online for doing singular so I switched to that for the next project and I've done singular ever since.

The few advantages of singular:

1. It's not always clear what the plural of something should be.

2. Chances are the singular maps better to your application layer (Person class <=> Person table).
Yup, similar story here.

My wife and I hold "great" jobs right now. Some of the best in the nation. Yet we can't afford anything close to what our parents could when they were 10 years younger than we are now.

And it just pisses me off to no end when we see shit like this from the boomers:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/15/news/millennials-home-buying...

These people have no idea how lucky and easy they had it compared to what young people are dealing with now. The deck, is stacked.
Easier if your target phone connects to you.
Oxford defines "left leaning" as "Sympathetic to or tending toward the left in politics." Just because an organization is run by "a huge multinational for-profit conglomerate" doesn't preclude it from leaning to the left.

I'm too lazy to try and find a more recent source, but a 2010 CBS report showed that, of the top 15 recipients of donations from Google execs, 12 of the donations were to Democrats (accounting for about 90% of the donated dollars in the shown group). Sure, that's individuals and not the org, but it clearly indicates that leadership leans left... which means the org does too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-political-donations-wher...
In Malibu there is a similar situation and I have seen private security guards harass people who walked to the beach. You have to have good nerves and be 100% sure of the legality to ignore them.
Wow! Great idea! So, how are you panning to overcome the problem of adaption?
How do I make a complaint about this? There's one spot on my college campus that's completely dead.
What I said is true no matter how you split races, because any sufficiently complex trait will have average group differences. You can read about average IQ differences at lots of different levels of granularity.
Sorry I meant to elaborate the thought. The government can’t just tell you to keep using your property a certain way. So if you get a notice from the government claiming to exercise some power it probably doesn’t have, what exactly do you “know” you’re buying into?

If the county sends you a letter saying that they want you to operate a public park out of your back yard. And then you sell your house to someone who has notice of that letter. What does that mean? That the government gets to order the new owner to operate their back yard as a public park?
"How could it not?" isn't scientific, it's prejudice - you're assuming the conclusion. But there are so many example of it not happening. Here's another - Jews have been persecuted for centuries, kicked out of country after country, had whole families killed in the holocaust, and yet they repeatedly bounce back. Jews in Europe today are not a disadvantaged class despite their severe persecution from all sides before and during WWII.

If the effect is certain, how long does it take to wear off?
Oh come on. The US workforce is over 160 million people. 2.2 million out of that is “typical”?
There have been lawsuits about children born to deceased fathers and inheritance.

So it's a real issue.

For example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-kids-inherit-sperm-donors-f...

https://cathompsonlaw.com/estate-planning-for-your-embryos-d...
Well seeing all things are finite, including the universe itself, I'm not really bummed by the fact that eventually consciousness extremely more powerful than humans will exist.

But I feel that like you I think humanity has a really enormous value and beauty -- beauty that hasn't run its course yet and is perhaps partially independent of "raw intelligence".

I have a few human beings in particular that I admire and love so much that I'd be immeasurably bummed out if we were replaced by some kind of hyperintelligent simpleton.

It's still quite far though, I believe. I think humans are not too far from the practical physical limits of complex cognition. But almost surely the day will come that we'll be replaced with something else...

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On a side note, I've been exploring different branches of philosophy to quench existential dread. Lately I've been more and more intrigued by Tegmark's 'Mathematical Universe Hypothesis'. My argument is, it is too absurd for this universe to be everything that will ever be or has been. Why this particular thing and why do we exist at all? The only plausible answers to me are two:

1) Brute fact, just accept and shut up. (Sean Carrol et al's view)

2) Everything that is mathematically possible exists (Max Tegmark et al).

I'm leaning toward believing (2) is more convincing atm. The unresolved problem is if you can define something of a probability distribution on the same of all possible universes that would explain ourselves as "roughly typical". Doesn't look like an insurmountable problem.

How does this relate to existential dread? Basically, we're just this one universe. Others exist (with greater or lower likelihood/numbers ?) with all sorts of things happening, all sorts of beings and variations of humans. It soothes me in a strange way.

Anyway, I guess I think way too much about existential questions, although by now I have some personal resolutions (some more some less satisfying) for most questions I've faced. The cosmological question aforementioned is a quite satisfying answer I've found, but there are even worse ones that still keep me up at night... (please don't ask me what they are unless you are a rationalism masochist like me!)
Oh man it’s like having to pass props all the way down through my react components. No wonder the surgeon closed as #wontfix.
Religion encourages education or not which affects wealth.
New DNA structure inside human cells known as the “i-motif” has been identified
Photoengraving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoengraving
Either the regulation is legal or it is not. Just because you buy the property with notice that the government thinks it has some right to regulate it has no bearing on whether that regulation is legal.
I dont think any of the above social sites allow you to directly consume i.e. the hackers news rss stream on your timeline
Let it be fought by them all the time. Useful websites will have an RSS feed. It's a nice filter, IMO.
I've updated the post to include a chart of the Tezos raise, which was both much larger than the Eth raise and I think illustrates my point rather well.
Have We Reached Peak Tears of Joy?
I liked th author's description of the hidden cost of the freemium content model:

> Freemium relies on one basic assumption: that attention is cheaper than money. It essentially allows you to pay for content with a cheaper currency — your attention — than cold, hard cash. But this assumption has now been overturned. For an increasingly larger percentage of the online population, attention has become the scarcest good of all. So “free” content has become terribly expensive, if it consumes your attention without delivering tangible value.
> SQL (formerly SEQUEL)

Off-topic, but today I learned I've been pronouncing it as originally intended all this time.
The commons is the part up to the mean high tide line. Maybe a path to get to the high tide line. But the parking lot, etc, that the state is forcing Khosla to keep open certainly isn’t the commons.
What's with the ungrammatical title?

It's the MercuryNews title, so not the submitters mistype.

Reminds me that USA Today had a front page heading with technology misspelled as techonolgy
Well it's not the regulators who make the decision and set the precedents, it's the judges. Regulators are currently trying to figure out, to the extent existing precedents are inadequate, how to extend by analogy the existing precedents to the new circumstances in such a way as to convince a judge to extend the precedent. This is how a common law system is designed to work.
> Vinod Khosla is an immigrant from India, which I believe skews his views on public property such that he believes it is his right to take said property for his own use with no repurcussions.

I think the more likely possibility is that he's just rich and his views come from that, rather than the country he's from.
Sounds kind of like a Tesla, now that you mention a car like that. They already will call and threaten you if you own a Tesla and mess around with it under the hood.

https://www.slashgear.com/expect-an-irate-call-if-you-try-to...

How much further will they go? Will they remotely disable it? Or perhaps, they'll send it into "Service Needed" mode and cripple it?
Sure it can.
I am interested in your idea on offline cryptocurrency, how would that work?

Also the distributed ID.

Where can I read your thoughts?
Unpopular opinion: if your company is going to succeed, why do you need VC? Sure, (nearly) every really really big company pulled VC at some point, but this is an industry full of survivor bias - and VC's know full well that almost all their punts are going to fail. VC is, arguably, the most expensive money you will ever borrow. If you could borrow a couple of hundred K against, say, obscene house prices in San Francisco it would save you multiple millions down the road.

Unpopular opinion: if your company is going to fail, you need VC money. This, to me, is one of the biggest problems facing our entire industry. The 1/20 that succeed have to carry the 19/20 that want to be cool and have bean bags in their office.

The (smaller) VC's have to, ideally, find that little narrow gap between a self-funded startup starting to "go" and the time when the founders decide they can live on a quarter million a year and be just fine. To be frank, it sounds really hard and I don't envy them the task. But they do get to charge 2% for doing nothing and I could do with some of that :)

How can we create a VC industry that's focussed on more, smaller wins? Perhaps a focus on recurring dividends? Or does the math work out that there is simply no point because the big wins are so, so big?
How to Improve the Screening Accuracy of Quartz Sand Screening Machine? – AAREAL
Rescheduling Hydrocodone May Have Increased Abuse
People should start spending their retirement at some point. The article points out that in the 80s, the 45-65 group had the most money, more than the 65+ group. But apparently older people are now hanging onto their still-appreciating homes, and only when they die will they pass on their homes to their (also now aging) children.
Gusto is hiring full-stack developers in SF and Denver
Same. I used google reader heavily when it was around. Now I don't bother using any 3rd party service and I just host my own RSS server (tt-rss). Not going to start using a service and get used to it, only for it to shut down.
> become a specialist

Any suggestions for a specialization?

I've seen a lot of specialities become worthless or at least marginalized. I'd like some examples that stand the test of time. (For tech that's probably 10± years).

Ive seen plenty of niches were a few folks were able to cling like barnacles in Finance, Telco, etc but TBH their lives didn't seem that appealing. Lots of time on the road, etc.
The Mercury News was acquired by the Contra Costa Tribune, and barely has a newsroom any more.
Take a look at what'll cause denaturalization proceedings to take place: https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/Print/PolicyManual-Volume...
House Lawmakers Close Pentagon Budget Hearing to the Public
Thanks, I didn't know that. Mozilla should make that more prominent so that users who don't know what RSS/ATOM is could "subscribe to this website" with just a click.
Duly corrected.
Supply-Side Opioid Policy Doesn't Work
Parent comment could refer to self study in a domain until they know enough about what's in front of them to better tackle the problem.
It's funny, the only RSS feed I use I turn into json so I can store it tinydb in "native" format. Well, technically, I turn it into a python dict and then tinydb does the conversion to json automagically. Took 50 lines of code which I banged together from google searches.

Back before I started using the db backend I was parsing the feed with an auto-generated (from the schema) "rss reader" in python then merging the items into a master rss feed sorted by channels. That worked for a while until I got motivated and made it searchable/modifiable but couldn't find a simple database that I could just dump xml into.

Anyhoo, my point is it's easy to work with rss in either native xml or json with some simple tools that do most of the work for you. Would be super easy to bang together a converter that goes both ways if someone was motivated enough.

Actually... now that I think about it, changing generateDS to use a dict to store xml attributes could easily go back and forth with all the error checking one would desire -- might have to hack that together.
I like using make even for basic task running. It’s usually installed where I’m working and is familiar. I don’t want to install rake or mage.
Wars were preventing overgrowing of populations before. Now technology, peaceful era causing overpopulation of homo-sapiens which is really big problem. Thus I think what you suggest makes sense. Also it will give some people reason to live, distraction, some glory.
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Have you tried DomTerm (http://domterm.org)? It works great on Windows, though it requires WSL: https://dzone.com/articles/running-domterm-terminal-emulator...
Cyber security basics 5 common methods and tools of prevention
I'm a fan of h3h3, but this video is misleading. The reason Kimmel and CNN still have ads on their channels is because they have a sales team who negotiates their own ads. Joe YouTuber does not.

In other words, if your sales team is essentially the "black box of YouTube" you are beholden to YouTube's "demonetization algorithm". Kimmel (ABC/Disney) does not.

Negotiating ad deals for every creator is hard, so "bundlers" (even those owned by Disney, like Maker) would rather just rely on YouTube.
Film scratches are not all equal. Some scratches would go all the way through the emulsion resulting in solid white or black lines depending on if it was a print or a negative. However, if the scratch as not that deep, then the scratch would have a color tint depending on its depth.

Maybe this is what you are seeing? If you provide a time reference to a specific example, I can take a look to see if that matches what I'm describing. I used to work in film post in transferring and restoration. The restoration software is pretty magical. The scanning software/hardware has also come a long way, but the really nice equipment is still $150k-$250k(US) depending on the options.
Yeah. Although when I looked at the math[1] it's a moot point since if you make $100k/year you're only paying 15% _without_ any of those mitigations.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/03/07/new...
>I still remember the good old days, when the hacking/cracking scene was entirely composed of people doing it for the freedom, with no do-gooding snitches to worry about...

>10 years ago, if you shared a way to bypass a DRM scheme in the right places, it would live on for a long time. Now, it's more likely that some bastard is going to report it and get it patched in days to weeks.

From the article it looks like someone else was trying to sell it so she put it in the open for free.

>The release also seems to be partially a response to Team Xecuter, a separate team that is planning to sell a modchip exploit that can allow for similar code execution on the Switch. Temkin writes that she's opposed to Xecuter's explicit endorsement of piracy and efforts "to profit from keeping information to a few people."
I just write homebrew "makefiles" with Go. The language kinda doubles as a scripting language almost, so I've found it much nicer than makefiles.
> What is the meaning of ownership if the land is not really yours?

You can't own the beach. And you can't de facto own the beach by buying all the land around it and then restricting access. These were both well-understood when Khosla bought the land. He knew exactly how California interpreted land rights in this particular case.

Land purchases regularly come with both private (contractual) and public (statutory) limitations/restrictions on use.

Landowners are not kings, and private properties are not sovereign borders.

> But then, the state should not have allowed the sale, right?

I guess that's one way the state could react to these sorts of lawsuits. That would be unfortunate, because it'd probably end up meaning that one asshole prevented a whole bunch of reasonable people from buying beachfront views with their hard-earned money.
Yep, it's basically just lying on your citizenship application and joining a terrorist organization. Not nothing, but also not a terribly "high standard".
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The State of the Facebook Platform (2008)
Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic
> It could also be argued that comment quality could be improved by allowing people to delete comments at any time

Ok, but what's the argument? What specific incentive for good comments or disincentive for bad comments is there with such a system? If anything, there's no disincentive for ill considered comments because you can always come back at any time to clean up your bad behaviour, but in the moment of commenting, there's nothing holding you back. Compare that with:

> As it stands, an ill considered comment is set in stone after 2 hours.

Which is a clear disincentive for making ill considered comments. Having such a system in place certainly makes me consider my comments more carefully before posting.
This is on purpose. If the number of support people is a linear function of the number of users, the business cannot grow past half the worlds population.
I wonder how many Quark users would dream of going back to the manual ways? Quark is still my number one of "least favorite to use programs". I could just never think the way Quark wanted me to thing. I took to PageMaker in a heartbeat, but just never got Quark.
Yeah, it would be nice if the API's were standardized and then every browser had an "App Mode".
The opinion starts at page 50 of this pdf: https://d3583ivmhhw2le.cloudfront.net/images/uploads/publica...

The agency forced him to not only allow access down the road, but keep running the existing parking lot. Nobody disputes the parking lot is private.
This exploit has nothing specifically to do with DRM, and compromises the entire root of trust chain on devices impacted (including devices which aren't locked down).
Or there was a big trend where they only links were to an itunes page which a) requires itunes to be installed because b) there is no direct link for the rss feed.

I had to write a scraper to find the underlying rss feed for itunes only podcasts.