skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assumption is developing nations relive variations of the past of the developed nations, while adding some new mistakes of their own.

In the industrial context, there's a whole bunch of worrying things that had to be learned not to do the hard way but were probably obvious and emergent discoveries making them likely to recur without sufficient intervention/education.

At least our mistakes were made with relatively small population multipliers. Repeating them on the scale of China or India's population, there's massive potential for environmental harm the likes of which we've never seen.
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If you go farther back to before NI existed, the reason the UK finally gave up and let Ireland have independence is because the Irish used violence against the British who were abusing them.
I think other languages call "phones" different things. In German I think it's a "handy". While like most German words its a bit awkward, it does seem closer to the truth.
$400? Ouch.

Cost aside, I can see the benefit for consumers who are prone to "social media addiction." Or children, where a slightly-smart phone has some benefits to a 100% dumb phone and many benefits over an actual smart phone.

I'm trying to wean myself off most social media. Removing the FB app from all but one device (and removing favorites/bookmarks from all browsers) was great.
The banner should be about 10% of its current height.
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Are you talking about the conflict over northern Ireland like in your other comments? If not I have no idea what shooting Aramlite was involved in or what conflict they had with the UK.

If you're referring to northern Ireland, my point is not that we should get into a back-and-forth of cases where guns did and didn't prevent tyranny - my point is that the debate has seemingly skipped the "reasonable regulation" so many people were suggesting and is now basically a tug-of-war over blanket bans of property people currently own when the politicians will openly admit it will have no impact on violent crime and is intended to be symbolic. What I'm saying is that's already tyranny and is stupid.
We all live in pg's submarine: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
From TFA:

"As Axios[0] noted Thursday morning, there was something a little off in the conversations the A.I. had on the phone with businesses, suggesting that perhaps Google had faked, or at least edited, its demo. Unlike a typical business (Axios called more than two dozen hair salons and restaurants), the employees who answered the phone in Google’s demos don’t identify the name of the business, or themselves. Nor is there any ambient noise in Google’s recordings, as one would expect in a hair salon or a restaurant. At no point in Google’s conversations with the businesses did the employees who answered the phone ask for the phone number or other contact information from the A.I. Further, California is a two-party consent state, meaning that both parties need to consent in order for a phone conversation to be legally recorded. Did Google seek the permission of these businesses before calling them for the purposes of the demo? Was it staged in the simulated manner of reality TV?"

0. https://www.axios.com/google-ai-demo-questions-9a57afad-9854...
I have an odd monitor setup: main monitor is a 23" 4K, above that is our old HD TV - a 36" screen with 1080p resolution. To the right is an old 19" Mac monitor with the odd resolution of 1680x1050, and on the left is an ultra-wide 2K monitor with 2560x1080 resolution.

The old HD TV is certainly not as crisp as the 3 computer monitors - so I have it located behind and about 3 feet back and up. At that distance the fuzzy pixels are lost, and I can use it as a reference monitor quite well.

I have the funky setup so I can insure the software I write handles layout correctly with the different aspect ratios and pixel scaling factors the OSes throw in.
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google fake and lie. Its fact
It happens in biology too, where scientists sometimes identify new species while examining old specimens that have been in museum collections for decades or longer.
Apple’s famous ‘think different’ campaign is based on the opposite idea. They used Lennon, Henson, Einstein, Ghandi, etc as examples. They got plenty of attention for their different ideas.
>Knowing that if you abuse people enough eventually you'll run into someone who shoots back is a massive check on abuse of power.

It doesn't seem to be in practice. Did it stop segregation in the South, for example? That was a far more egregious abuse of power than a porn pass.
Growing up, I was told to go to college if I wanted to earn a good income and provide for a family and it worked out that way for me.

However, when I hire, I never look at education, only work experience. I can't recommend my kids spend $250k or more on college when they could get 4 years of work experience or start a business with a little bit of training.
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Policies like these always get argued through the lens of "won't someone think of the children?"

It's hard to make a rebuttal to that in the UK without being pilloried
Where is ZeroTier's protocol documented? All I could find was a document that said it was custom, and "like IPSEC". What could ZeroTier do as a VPN protocol that would make it better than WireGuard, which has a pedigreed protocol that, in its WireGuard incarnation, has had multiple rounds of formal validation?

I wrote the article we're commenting on. Why would I take the time to talk about something like ZeroTier? WireGuard solves the problem I'm talking about decisively.

I'm prepared to hear something about ZeroTier that makes it interesting in the WireGuard setting, but I am not interested in a long list of non-VPN non-access-tunnel features that ZeroTier might have that WireGuard lacks, because lacking random features is exactly the point of WireGuard.
Keep in mind, there are situations where the website you're using is interfacing to backend systems that have constraints that can't easily be changed (colloquially known as "legacy systems"). Feedback is good, but change takes time.
Same here man, I'm 26 too. Have gotten some good thoughts from HN and other places. But part of me really just wants to quit for a few months and be alone and out in the world, get out in nature and away from social media and the city folk. Meditation has been very helpful. I also wonder about psychedelics. Maybe being with a good, relaxed friend in nature could be a good setting. But I also think, from my experience with the herb, that it might make me even more questioning, paranoid, and unsure.
This was figured out in an Dept. Homeland Security "red team" test of the TSA a few years ago, where the TSA failed like 95%+ of the tests against them: https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-fin...

I think the TSA has switched strategies recently, and they've been improving since then. But ultimately, its not the "bag check" where the TSA catches goons, its the random more intense check that they do these days. And sure, going from 95% failure to 80% failure isn't much of an improvement, but its still going to change the calculus of an attacker. When you have a 20% chance of failure before you even board the airplane, that's an issue to your plans.

Furthermore, TSA includes air marshals and the Israeli-style "behavioral" cops who are scanning airports. These are the more successful cops at the job, and the ones we are relying upon for real.

I wouldn't discount the entirety of the TSA just because of the failures of the bag-check program. Again, US Air marshals (armed cops who sit on every aircraft secretly with plain-clothes) are under the TSA and I think the US Air Marshals contributes a LOT to our real security.

Unfortunately, the bag-check thing is mostly security theater, but at the same time, the more "serious" checks vs attackers are more hidden and less well known (as it should be). But security theater might be enough to discourage an attack, or at very least cause our enemies to focus on the bag-check (when our REAL security really lies with other programs). So its a useful distraction IMO. There's a bit of "wink-wink lets not talk about this" going on that you need to understand though.
Better network tech =). You can probably thank trading for consumer 10G now and 40G in ~5 years.
What kind of extortion could you not describe as free speech?
Lower network traffic (No DHCP and associated overhead), simpler routing (IPv6 is only CIDR). That may not seem like much but that's actually pretty huge to mobile carriers where that can translate into hours of battery life on the device and power costs at the node.
There's nothing stopping you from having a sshd instance dedicated for use just by ansible, on a different port/different network, on every node. Now if that's simpler or more complex I don't know.

But "have two ways in" is a basic principle of sys admin (typically via traditional network and some out of band console access).
With homicide rates I'm referring to London. But you're right I should have been more specific - I too live in a place with a declining and exceptionally low homicide rate and have to put up with people who think confiscating property is a reasonable response to mass shootings elsewhere.
Despite all of this, I don't think we've hit peak blockchain fetishism yet. There's still a lot of room to make solved problems worse with a blockchain.
Agree that the title is misleading.
It's a routed tunnel, which is what distinguishes VPNs from encrypted tunnels.
Now, this comment is proof that Germans can have a sense of humour.
How could you possibly judge that?
I really love all of the things that I can do with my smartphone these days that I'd never have been able to do with an older device (trying to even browse the Internet on a phone that I owned as recently as five years ago was painful), but I do miss a certain amount of reliability and hardiness of the older devices. Maybe nostalgia plays in a bit here, but I think that the move away from embedded device to general-purpose computer brought with it a lot of the downsides of the latter, along with the upsides.

As nice as it is to be able to watch an HD video stream on my pocket-sized computer on a stretch of rural highway halfway from nowhere, I don't always trust my phone to be able to, like, dial 911 when it really counts, and that's a little scary.
I don't think there's a formal proof, but the idea has certainly been entertained. The scalability trilemma might be what you're looking for:

https://multicoin.capital/2018/02/23/models-scaling-trustles...
It's not useful, it's grossly misleading. People think it means the site is safe when that is not the case.
The -'s are no doubt true in many (most?) cases but they don't lead the final conclusion. That's just your personal distaste.
We're not wasting money trying to prevent something that never happens; we're basically paying career insurance for the powers that be (Tm) in case someone actually /did/ blow up a plane.

They'd look awfully bad if they hadn't done anything to counter the threat, no matter how marginal (Oh, and in fairness - there /are/ people who want to blow up planes, though as a first approximation one could do worse than estimating their number at zero...)
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"German" und "English" usw. immer groß schreiben. FYI.
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That's a brilliant trick to depoliticise an essential part of the DNS.
Is there a purpose for the military-technical jargon beyond sounding serious and sophisticated (and thus expensive)?
Legitimate frauds? Or "Fake it till you make it" type frauds who think their idea is legit and just inflate some numbers and their capabilities to get the money they need to prove it?

What matters more, it seems to me, is that both the cryptocurrency and tech startup world are filled with bad investments which are going to make the next economic bust exponentially worse.
It's not only the communication part of it. Increasingly there's a tendency towards an "app first" thinking, where the primary thinking is that something could just be a app on our phones. How this thing is suppose to work for people without smartphone is an afterthought.

I do have a smartphone, but I strongly dislike the "Just download our app"... are you really sure you need an app?
It's difficult to work up much sympathy for any armaments manufacturer who sells to the USA military. However, this "whistleblowing" didn't really accomplish much. It was a thoughtless mistake to bring the explosives on the plane, but there is no indication that it was SOP or that the company made any money by doing it.

In general, I believe it's customary to maintain secure storage at any location where explosives are used, and let professionals move the explosives around.
Having never really used Windows, except from a brief inter job as a kid, it seems to be getting better and better, to the point were I'm beginning to consider it as a viable alternative.

Unix + Photoshop is what I need and MS seem to be coming from the other side by embracing Linux more and more.
That was from September. Since then it has become one of the most expensive stocks to short and I don't believe the unit economics have improved meaningfully.
> so probably better to just change PHP version rather than edit the source files?

NO.

It's better to improve the code than roll back to an older and less secure version of the language.

This is PHP we're talking about, after all.
I'm still using my "dumb phone" from 2010. I like it cause it has a physical keyboard, a long battery life, and I can drop it without worrying about breaking the screen. Plus I don't have to worry about the privacy issues that come from apps collecting data.

Honestly the only feature I feel like I'm missing out on is GPS. But I've actually found that not having GPS improves my sense of direction, since I force myself to actually learn the map of my surroundings instead of just always relying on the phone.
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College is completely worth it^, in that it opens a ton of opportunities that tend to be closed without it. College is more about social signaling and entering into the professional class than it is about learning and scholarship etc.

I'm not a fan of community colleges, in that they substantially increase your likelihood of not graduating, or at best, not graduating on time (only 39% of Community College students graduate in SIX years, which is shocking) [1]. I know it's a broadly popular point on the internet to suggest going to a CC to save money, but the risk factor is never mentioned.

I didn't go to University in America (although I now live in SF). If I were 17 again, and growing up in the US, I'd go to the best college I was able to get into, regardless of the cost.

As an employee, Silicon Valley is sort of a meritocracy, but a degree is the price of admission, unless you're very very good (and even then, you've made it harder to job change). Go through this week's funding announcements on TechCrunch and check where the founders went from, and I'll bet you my last dollar, you'll see a couple from Stanford, a couple from Harvard, and then maybe one or two from somewhere else.

^provided you graduate on time, and take advantage of networking opportunities while you're studying.

[1] http://hechingerreport.org/new-book-addresses-low-community-...
Not sure why you think the UK has a high murder rate, it's relatively low, better than average for Europe or the Euro area, and in the top 20% worldwide.

At about 0.9 per 100,000 intentional homicides, it's quite a lot lower than the 4.9 per 100,000 intentional homicides in the USA, which is solidly mid-table.

(I took the data from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5 )
Or nobody is trying and security isn’t perceived to be that high.

We don’t have a huge domestic terrorism problem in this country, despite what the media might lead us to believe.
That is absolutely not true. If you found the guy with your guitar you can take it back(without harming that person in the process, obviously!), the ownership has never transferred from the store to the buyer because the store never had it in the first place.
How did they detect 2015 BP519? On the diagram, it looks like the proposed Planet 9 is 10% farther than the detected object, but is 10x Earth size compared to the size of a Kupier belt object.

It seems like detecting the smaller inject would be the harder task yet Planet 9 remains undetected.
German north is really very different from German south.
I find it funny how I was approached several times, by people with a smartphone in one hand asking me for directions. Most of the time I don't know answer either, because I suck with street names and my German is still spotty. But I can help those people by orienting myself with a map on my own phone.

I like to use my phone to navigation. Especially public transport in Berlin, however as I start to learn routes I don't need it as much as two years ago.

Recently my wife tried to get to a place on Streetname 65A, but Google Maps showed her only Streetname 65 (without A) and it was a wrong place. I found it on OpenStreetMap - it was a building on the other side of the street. That was a lesson for me and installed Maps from F-Droid (an ad-less fork of mobile Maps.Me). It is an amazingly detailed map and offline one as well.

So even with smartphone one has to be always prepared to ask around or plan in advance, so maybe after all it's not as good as we like to think.
Yes, but only on Thursday evenings!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for your support everyone.

I’m far from out of the woods yet, without all the support and suggestions shown here I don’t want to imagine how much worse off I’d be today.

First thing this morning I spoke to someone at my work about my isssues. It was difficult to work up the courage to speak, but I kept all of the support you had all given me to heart and knew what I had to do. I was open and told them exactly what was going on. I mentioned the fact I was seeking treatment and was up front about the exact issues I’ve had.

I had resigned to the fact I had lost the job, but was offered an extension on my performance improvement plan.

Despite the trouble I caused for myself by not coming forth to them about this earlier, I do want to be there, and their willingness to accommodate me solidified my resolve to solve my issues without leaving. I left my last job over these same issues and if anything, things got worse. This time I’m determined to fight

I’ll continue seeking treatment with a therapist and a psychiatrist. And while I was honest to both to myself and my employer about the fact that I can’t expect an overnight improvement, I feel like a tremendous weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Yesterday I truly felt like I was suffocating. I can at least breath again, and I owe that all to each and every one of you.
It is a chicken and egg problem. By shaming the person, they will be unable to ever find a job again, date anyone again, live normally again.
You push those people to the fringe and the most probable outcome is for those people to fall into criminal activities again.

As an anecdote, in my previous job I met a programmer at a Meetup and the guy had exactly the required skills. HR refused to even initiate an interview because he apparently had a "small criminal case" 15 years before that was found with one of those deep background check tools.
Yeah, I don't think the solution should be to get all entrepreneurs to take improv classes.
No, this RFC is not going to fuck that up. But some other might. Hijacking random domains is not a great idea, especially when domains cost only few bucks.
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You're suggesting that a house with solar panels pre-existing is a net burden on homeowners? I can't imagine that as a serious contention but I installed solar and every option had excellent warranty coverage that spanned owners, and the energy offset alone for an already installed system is an annuity worth thousands of dollars.
London doesn't have a high homicide rate either. Nor is its homicide rate increasing. See e.g. the following if you have (perhaps?) misinterpreted recent news stories that compared crime statistics for a single month between London and NYC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43628494

Again, it's really simple to check these facts before spreading misinformation.
San Franciscans need to earn $333,000 a year to buy a median-priced home
Crazy in what way?

Can you show me a precedent that shows that state agents are immune from the typical ramifications of defamation?
I totally agree. The Erdinger Dunkel is so much better than the "regular" version!
That looks largely similar to Ocado's solution that gets trotted out at trade shows. Kinect V2 coupled with a suction-based system. The difference here is the gripper. Their rep said that they found that suction works reliably and provides good grasp detection (e.g. loss of suction).

It's worth pointing out that this capability solves the problem of moving an arbitrary object from A to B. That's really not that hard with a suction cup. All you have to do - and this is how Ocado solve it, from my reading of the presentation - is locate a mostly-planar surface in your point cloud and suck it. All that changes in this case is the gripper closes to hold the part in. Bing - it works if you have no idea what the part is, beyond some basic constraints like size or weight. You don't need to worry about 'correct grasps' or anything like that.

What it doesn't solve is picking up a part precisely from a bin/tray and in a known orientation. That second problem crops up in manufacturing all the time.
How does that work for cellular plans? Are you in the US?

In the US, most carriers won't enable a portable without a linked phone. And you pay an extra monthly fee for the portable ($15-$20, I think).
Are you arguing that the "whistleblowing" was not worthwhile or legitimate whistleblowing?