skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this will sound provincial to the HN crowd since it's very Silicon Valley oriented, but a thought occurred to me while reading this comment. The thought that it's pretty amazing that there are places in the US where, say, 5 million in assets is "middle class". I understand the thinking, it's just that where I come from all of the guys with 5 million in assets are considered to be pretty F'n rich. I don't know anyone in the town I grew up in who would say that 5 million was "middle class". We wouldn't even call that "UPPER middle class". In my hometown they, (we? cognitive dissonance, sorry), would say that guy is LOADED.

It's that existence of these two completely different economic realities that makes the inequality issue at once so intractable, and so critical to address.
>One should be allowed to alter one's own consciousness any way one sees fit.

You state that as a self-evident fact. It clearly isn't. I can think of no human society where limits and restrictions were not placed on intoxicating substances. Objectively, as all societies have such restrictions, why should I believe your conclusion?
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Why would this be a bad thing? The Python code would be loaded from a traditional volume.
She was not left uncredited but is less well known. She didn’t share the Nobel Prize mostly because she had died and rightly or wrongly it’s not awarded posthumously.

Photograph 51 is a good play about Rosalind Franklin BTW.
Are you in shape and do you exercise?
Starting fresh gives you a lot of interesting options
Just a thought experiment...

Would this allow for full stack ruby apps?

Writing a client side router and controllers in Ruby on Rails compiled to web assembly?

If you could just toggle in production.rb if you want your routing to be client side or server side and the framework could transparently manage that for you.
It comes down to opposing philosophies. Without trying to sound too derisive, Crawl is a game made for gamers. It focuses on gameplay to the exclusion of all else. It's like those sports TV programs where they use aggressive editing to condense a 3.5 hour baseball down to 30 minutes.

NetHack comes from the opposite angle. It's the D&D world your brother's friend spent all summer creating while you were away on vacation. It's best enjoyed on a rainy Saturday afternoon when you've got a clear schedule ahead. Gamers might call it tedious or repetitive, but then so is knitting or dicing vegetables by hand. It's just not meant for people in a hurry.

It's a meditative exercise that also happens to be pretty challenging if you aren't a Munchkin. In that sense it's kind of like correspondence chess for one: sure, nobody's stopping you from cheating (or using other meta-game exploits) but you're really robbing yourself of a lot by doing that. On the other hand, reading books on chess theory (or the NetHack wiki) is just fine.
Where can I get a dough coprocessor? Can't see any on eBay :(
Years after spending close to 200K at an elite MBA program I've come to the conclusion that they are a waste of time for most candidates.

While students can be very smart and professors highly acclaimed, the MBA is a failed enterprise. In my opinion, business school only delivers an illusion of achievement and learning. MBA programs are too generic and formulaic to deliver meaningful value. Most notably:

1. Management science is even less scientific than Psychology. Yes, you can apply decision analysis, probability and game theory to business problems, but do these form a cohesive knowledge base? If management science does in fact exist, why do MBA programs' teachings differ so much from school to school?

MBA students get exposed to theories and frameworks transplanted from the sciences but they walk away with only a shallow understanding of these models. Are we training managers as confidence artists? As the business school alumni move across corporate ranks they ossify and think they get it, when in fact they are just managing randomly without rigorous understanding of the complexities underlying their decisions. And yes, these business school alumni are to blame for the collapse of 2008 and many others.

2. Shareholder value maximization should not be a way of life. Very few business school graduates can think of businesses in holistic terms. The shareholder value maximization mentality incubates the many destructive forces that turn corporations into sociopaths.

3. Business schools are toxic environments created by mixing a myriad of backgrounds in a room and expecting highly divergent people to learn at the same pace or even to coalesce.

In my experience, racism, discrimination, exclusion and backstabbing were the norm. Bankers drank with bankers, white Americans labeled the Chinese as "yet another international student", African Americans were severely under represented and military transplants were systematically labeled. My B-School experience was traumatic but not uncommon. I was literally swimming in a shark tank.

4.You will definitely learn a lot about corruption. I lost my faith in human nature after listening to business students talk about putting profits before lives. This are the type of people that will do anything for that bonus.

In sum, business schools are a playground for corporations to shop for high (but not very high) IQ, good appearance, business aptitude and ambitious candidates. Business school is just a runway of highly accomplished students who think they get it but in reality don't. Management can't be taught. It needs to be experienced. Business schools are the most salient cancer in academia and they need to disappear.
They are approximately as far-fetched as the ideas that AI will eventually destroy humanity or GMO crops will cause ecosystem collapse. Which is to say, it takes a new technology and contextualizes it with past bad behavior to try to imagine what the worst possible future looks like.

If this technology is developed further and eventually becomes available to more than a tiny number of people, I don't think we can guess what the positive or negative effects on society will be.

We never can; we live in a surveillance state, but it doesn't look like Orwell's 1984. We have advanced technology that the dreamers of the 1950s never foresaw, but no jetpacks or flying cars -- just miniaturized, globally-connected pocket computers designed to capture as much attention as possible. The global climate has continued to worsen since alarms were broadly sounded in the 1980s, but most of us that have the luxury of discussing the topic are sitting in nice little homes and offices and blissfully untouched by it all. We have high-tech network-connected systems and a mix of severely concentrated wealth and a much larger impoverished group, but none of this looks like cyberpunk genre fiction.

Bad futures tend to happen gently enough for them to seem perfectly acceptable. A lot of people even come to defend them.
Perhaps so. But how would you have the issue resolved? Should the domain go to the most well known party? The product a reasonable person expects to find when they type in the address?

What happens if I register icar.com for product that syncs your car to the cloud. Then Apple decides they want to compete with Elon Musk, with their new Icar. Who will get the domain?

What happens when a large company decides to rebrand it's self and wants the domain?

What happens to Nissan? http://www.nissan.com
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> .gov was created for a reason.

Apparently, the .gov tld was created to be uses exclusively
by government entities in the United States.

France is not a government entity of the USA.
TBL is worth over $50 million.
I edited my post. I meant to say that governments have assigned/protected names like .fr, .de, etc.
I’ve never been able to bring myself to ascend a 3-rune game either. By the time I get to zot, I know I can win — why not go for the bonus round? I don’t think I’ve won (though I cloned my save file one time to try both 3 and 15 one time and did technically win the 3). My closest was a wipe on sentinel island at 13-14 runes.
I'm sorry, I cannot interpret readers' reaction in any meaningful way. Did Abraham killed his own son? Or is it my mistyping of 'its own son'?
Forget the math books, just exercise, get that blood running to your brain. And megadoses of B vitamins could help.
> I found it interesting that the author of the post didn't mention online purchases once.

The author also focused on clothing stores though — something I at least am very unlikely to purchase online (pants being the exception — and only after having purchased a brand/size I like from brick and mortar).

Add restaurants to that and you have a good deal of retail that can coexist with online. But yes, book stores are perhaps dead.
>So Dell does a much better job at mitigating failure. Sounds like Apple has a lot to learn here.

Or, you know, it's a tradeoff for a more streamline product line, that's less confusing to users, and can pack more for more general cases.

>Specialized parts are a liability, not an asset. How do you replace a broken component that only Apple makes, which they refuse to sell separately?

It's almost as if that is also a tradeoff, between having unique features that others don't and more control of integration, vs the ability to replace commodity parts.

What part of the idea of tradeoffs don't people understand?

As for whether people agree to said tradeoffs, well, being the #1 company is units and profit in the world, means people want what's on offer.

P.S. Not to mention that in fact in the past Apple was even more exclusive with their parts (e.g. PowerPC vs Intel).
Yes, but I don't think it is intended to be used to build huge systems.
So Apple uses crappy screens (when was the last time you found a dead pixel in an external monitor or TV?) and gives fake receipts after their warranty "repairs" (presumably those are "this is what you would have paid", not "this is what we paid"). Still doesn't sound particularly great to me
Yup... in other words, it is a gigantic Ponzi scheme.

The economy won't grow forever.
It’s for plugging into a Cisco IP phone with the regular phone jack.

Guess there’s not really a headset that works for both?
Nope, unfortunately. On the to-do list before stopping statins. Just need to figure out how to not spend 70hrs / wk at work.
Part of the security of observation comes from the observed not knowing whether or not they are being watched. The Stasi (as well as every other secret police) never had the manpower to keep eyes on everyone. (Of course, that was before massive computational power, widespread cameras, voluntary personal trackers (cellphones), facial recognition AI, etc.). They had to rely a lot on reputation and fear to get their job done (securing the state). It's in the NSA's interests to make themselves seem spooky and magical.

The encryption algorithms themselves might be unbreakable, but there are so many other stages involved in communication. And all it takes is one weak link in the chain, one tiny mistake or opening, and humans make plenty of those.

No, the magician did not look at you picking your card, but he found a way (based on your inherent inability to be fully attentive to everything) to figure it out anyway.

Then again, maybe they do have magic and it's a massive triple bluff. Or maybe...
We may argue that domain names are different from phone numbers because they are recognisable. They carry trademarks, and unlike phone numbers, are often the way we remember of an internet facing person or company. Also, the practical consequences of losing a phone number are much tamer than that of losing a domain name.

I'm not sure the courts would hold the same conclusions for domain names and phone numbers. While even if the latter is not property, the former could be treated as intellectual property. Though in this case, that would be one more reason to give the domain name to the French government…
Common Lisp’s object system (CLOS) allows you to specify on a method by method basis whether or not the most-specific method has priority or the least-specific one does. Generally people just use the default behavior—least specific first—but this post makes the alternative sound interesting.
As I understand, the fakes were not copies of an existing picture but rather an independent work by unknown painter.
> Meanwhile, I haven’t seen any change in usage from those people I know who actively use Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp.

Over the last three years, the percentage of my friends who are active on these platforms has dropped dramatically, like ~80% to ~20%. I think most of the people who understood that Facebook and associated properties were toxic tailed off using those services well before the Cambridge Analytica thing.
This quote is the mantra of the Unreasonable Group, an impact-oriented organization that helps startups solve “big f’ing problems”. They are awesome!

http://Unreasonable.is.
> Governments have the right to assign to themselves any telephone number they wish, and reserve ranges of phone numbers for themselves,

They don't do that after the fact.
Surely that's a cynical interpretation of "important"? We've seen examples in this thread where important can mean "not spam" or "not random newsletter", yet you hold on to the one meaning where users are asking for their shoelaces to be tied for them because they are so irresponsible.
>Thesis: it is possible that someone may access your laptop without you knowing if you leave it unattended.

This is known to be true, this experiment was about seeing if anyone would access this laptop. Which also addresses what you view as meaningless, real world scenarios are trying to avoid their laptop being compromised while the author was hoping that it would.
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Few people at amazon will disagree with a superior based on a vague feeling. I, as a business intelligence engineer, had no excuse to disagree without substantial proof or evidence backing my disagreement. That never mattered. If you disagree with someone a level higher than you, you need to not only have perfect evidence, but also the backing of several people at that same higher level or higher.

For example, one time I disagreed with my director, who spent his entire career navigating by the seat of his pants. I was generally considered an expert in the subject, after having written several whitepapers that had become canonical reference amongst higher level leaders. That didn't matter, he never conceded the point and he treated me like shit until his boss told him he was wrong (which was after I transfered to a different org). This demonstrates this problem on two levels: he wouldn't tolerate any disagreement from me right up until the point where he realized that he was the one with the unapproved opinion.
How do you know the chip as fabbed conforms to the final tape out?
You might find exercise changes those symptoms (brain fog, forgetting etc). It might reduce your serum cholesterol as well, though likely not by as much as the statins.
> Everyone already had enough space there anyway

Lol my 100mb before the uni (National top 30 research) switched to gmail was definitely plenty of space. And google should have just hired the $7/hr freshman that configured spamassassin instead of wasting all that money on Postini.
You’re funny; don’t quit your day job though.
I don't understand people complaining on free services. I believe it's something you can do, but not as seriously as this article makes it sound. Gmail is a toy.
I was looking for more subtle words, but you are absolutely right. Great work.
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Ah, that explains it. The business school cohort average age has dropped considerably since you applied. These days it's typical to apply with 2-4 years of real-world experience (acceptance & start add a year to that) and uncommon to apply/be accepted if you're over 30. Keep in mind that average experience statements like the sloan one are heavily skewed by the few old-timers in the programs who have been working for a long time in comparison to the kids who make up the majority of cohorts.

[1] https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQE7CzE_-7bwNA/articl...
.gov is purely American, the French equivalent is .gouv.fr
What's the economic value of the World Wide Web? How tiny a portion of that should we really allocate to the innovators who create the concepts our economy is built on?
Wow. Nissan.com has a dropdown labled "people's opinions" with 505 pages. Thats.. one way to build a navigation.
Good, and thanks for correcting, but he poor compared to Zuckerberg. All the latter did was riff successfully on the already established social media concept and then sell out his user base more brazenly than competitors.
I think it should be obvious that you won't get rich unless you sell something... None of those people sold things or seemed to be interested in the process of selling things (except Shockley and that point is moot since the coinventors/creators reaped the rewards).

Is it really that surprising to people that you wont become rich unless you convince thousands upon thousands of people to hand you money?

What our system rewards are practical products that provide value that the average working class person would want to spend money on.
Can you recommend such a registrar? I also had bad experience with Network Solutions / web.com. They seem to blur the distinction between being a hosting company and a domain registrar.
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No, they have not. Each country can manage country-code top level donains, but that's just it: a specific top-level domain they are free to use. That doesn't negate them the right of using other domains, just like if you buy a domain name you don't lose the right of using a second or a third one.

It boggles the mind how anyone in their right mind can believe that a cyber-squatter shoud somehow have the right to hold the domain name of a sovereign nation for ransom.
In Chrome's case, I believe it auto updates. So you don't really have a choice unless you actively try to disallow it or switch of auto-updates.
While it's certainly unfair that innovation is more rewarded than invention, the idea that this is a significant driver of economic inequality is pretty dubious. Also given that academia has already gotten in bed with Reaganism and Bayh Dole, asking government to bail them out now is basically just wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
http://sci-hub.hk works, but https://sci-hub.hk gives me a revoked certificate error which I can't seem to work around in Firefox 55. Connecting from Belgium.
forgive me if my ignorance is showing, but it doesn't entirely seem useful to talk about particular systems being "right" or "wrong". to me it just looks like a fairly typical risk-reward tradeoff. if you want wealth to grow fast, you need to accept high variance in the market. if you want low variance, you need to resign yourself to a low rate of return. one of the main ways that we enter into this tradeoff is through leverage.
Get off Gmail and get on... what?

You're only offering non constructive criticism. Gmail is light years ahead of any other email client I have tried so far.
Maybe, but since I was responding to, The first year of a new car design of any model of any brand having qc problems is actually so common that sometimes buyers will actively avoid them... it doesn’t actually apply here.
Resources processed into consumables (soon to be waste) and waste byproducts will have a meaningful impact on future people. And with fewer easily processable resources available they'll be less equipped to clean up our messes.

Economics and money are tools that could help mitigate the consumption-at-all-costs problems we have today.
I know that it is true, it is actually a truism.

The "experiment" has too few data points to be meaningful, and the proposed way to verify remains meaningless, two simple cases:

1) the evil maid simply makes a forensic image of the disk

2) a sector in the hard disk goes bad

Case 1: there was an intrusion, all the data was stolen, but the hashes do not show that (false negative)

Case 2: there was NOT any intrusion, but the hashes show that there was a change (false positive)
Never bother with a poem that is less than 100 years old.

If you really want to be 'moved', don't bother with any poem less than 200 years old.

The poems that remain after 300 years are even better... Unfortunately, you start running into problems in that more work is put into deciphering the archaic English than enjoying the ideas expressed.

The point is, 99.9% of modern poetry sucks. It's not you.
I know we are talking about this in the digital realm, but this also exists in the property realm too. Imminent Domain is used be governments to acquire land, generally below its actual valution, for building of infrastructure.

I wonder if this concept will ever make it to the digital world.
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I'm sure the four people who want to wort their emails by size are severely disappointed.
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Start new hobbies you're interested in, socialize, and remain physically active. You cannot stop aging, but you can mitigate the effects a bit by remaining active.
A friend of a friend designed chips in the 80s. One of his chips became a high-end audio component if hooked up in the right way, unbeknownst to his employer. Apparently he had a very good home hifi system.
I've hardly ever found a good reason to inherit functionality - plain old data objects yes, but I always favor aggregation over inheritance.

When it comes to inheriting a base object to reuse cross cutting concerns, not only do you run into the fragile base class problem - there is usually a better way.

I personally prefer aspect oriented programming when possible.
my comment that started this thread was admittedly of low quality.

to the extent that i am making a real point here, it is just that westerners should probably not find the idea of willing child sacrifice so bizarre/unbelievable when the common patriarch of judaism, christianity, and islam is portrayed as being totally devoted and willing in one of the faiths' most well known stories.
So I do have a choice, right? HN is a pretty technical forum -- not normally a place for ignorant-consumer type viewpoints (no offense intended). Case in point, my version of "Chrome" (chromium on Debian) does not auto-update (I think so - It's the normal way on Debian, although I don't really use chromium but firefox).
Your last paragraph is no longer really correct. The largest rewards have for some time been going to equity plays and financial schemes. You don't build a company for customers but for the next round of investors, and your product is its stock. In the extreme these can be highly clever and polished versions of the "big store" scam where nearly all actual value is flimsy or illusory.

This is because all the money is now at the top. Your customers are the ones who can pay.

A related phenomenon is Internet companies where the user is the product. Advertisers and others who want user data or access to attention have far more money to spend than users. Computing has transformed into a surveillance platform to monetize users because users are not the ones paying for anything.
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