skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the evidence I've seen points to the sovereignty argument in Brexit wasn't about sovereignty being ceded, but who it was perceived as being ceded to

They're impossible to disentangle.

Voters in the UK had for years been telling politicians, here's our priorities, here's what is upsetting us. Mostly, massive immigration that overloaded public services. In response they were told, sorry, we can't do anything about that, France and Germany won't let us. It's out of the question, even trying to talk about it is pointless. Oh yeah, and you're probably a racist for even asking.

Voters don't like being told to shut up because some foreign politician disagrees. Is that dislike a desire for "more sovereignty" or is it a problem with who power has been delegated to? Arguably if the UK had entered an EU-like arrangement with the USA instead, and become the 51st state, voters would have faced very similar concerns over things like gun control instead of immigration.

Ultimately technological progress does allow us to satisfactorily decentralise power in new ways. Some people want society to go in the opposite direction and centralise it as much as possible. This is a bad idea, and the Eurozone predicament is an interesting example of why.
Spectrum allocation for personal radio service is almost always country specific.
The unencrypted metadata is a transaction between Bitcoin addresses, not mapped to any identity. This is similar to the Bitcoin network, where we just know that addresses contain a certain amount of Bitcoin but we cannot identify who the address belongs to. Compared to privacy apps such as Signal or Telegram, they have some metadata about users.

One should think of a message as a small transaction that embeds some encrypted data on the blockchain. Miners are including messages on blocks because they get paid a small miner fee. These transactions are uncensorable because the Bitcoin network is uncensorable. Traffic of apps such as Telegram can be identified and blocked as Russia has done so in the past.
Java would have really rocked the client side web world if Sun had figured out the interface between DOM and Java applets instead of pushing their GUI implementation.
oh i just discovered this guy like yesterday and it's nice to see he has a website with all of his projects and such in it :)
I don't disagree, but do bear in mind

1) not everyone is a start-up. Established businesses also hand to put up web apps

2) you can use it for free with some limitations

3) Some other cloud services can work out quite expensive defending on your use case. Vs a Linode bare metal server, yes it is pricey, vs Heroku maybe less so?
How to Write Clickbait Headlines That Force Floods of Traffic to Your Site
It looks like every message in this system create a new Bitcoin Cash transaction. Is that a good idea? You don't really need the consistency guarantees of the blockchain, so any gossip protocol would work equally well, and you wouldn't need to keep every message around forever.

Also, this leaks unnecessary metadata. If you know Alice's address, and you know that she talked to Bob at 8:05 yesterday, you can figure out Bob's address by following the money.
And absolutely terrifying the moment elliptical curves get broken.
Funny how Oracle marketing dept signed up to HN just to shill their APEX service.

Didn't even bother to make it sound like a genuine HNer plugging their favorite tool.
Sort of but not really, right?

America has a large population of Spanish speakers and go to many cities and you'll find official signage and documents written in Chinese and other languages.

Single culture, well, compare people living in the deep south and Manhattan, what they value and enjoy. Beyond sports do they have a lot in common?

That said I agree Europe is much less homogenous.
Also what I use. Definitely isn't ideal, but checks the most boxes right now.
Does this mean I would need an own power plant to sent and receive message with this protocol?
It's a danger. It used to be unthinkable. Now it's just very very unlikely. The recent Republican tax cut for the first time really explicitly targets blue states. If the urban areas get upset and act like Germany towards Greece/Kansas/Alabama, you could see great divisions in the US.

It's the reason James Clapper[1], who measured other countries' instability, is now worried because he's seeing it in the US.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-former-us-spy-chief-became...
“The United States had begun to show many of the same characteristics of instability we used to assess other nation-states,” he writes, including rising income equality, an increasingly restive population of young people who couldn’t find work, a rural-urban divide, and declining political discourse.

[1] Leave his signals intel role aside for now; he ran agencies whose role was to predict which other countries would be unstable, and rural-urban divides are a big predictor. Gulp.
What do you find problematic about Cloud Datastore for small-scale projects?

I work on an open source implementation of it, so I'm always curious to hear about use cases and opinions.
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison

> The story takes place 109 years after the complete destruction of human civilization. The Cold War had escalated into a world war, fought mainly between China, Russia, and the United States. As the war progressed, the three warring nations each created a super-computer (with AI) capable of running the war more efficiently than humans.

> The machines are each referred to as "AM", which originally stood for "Allied Mastercomputer", and then was later called "Adaptive Manipulator". Finally, "AM" stands for "Aggressive Menace". One day, one of the three computers becomes self-aware, and promptly absorbs the other two, thus taking control of the entire war. It carries out campaigns of mass genocide, killing off all but four men and one woman.

> The survivors live together underground in an endless complex, the only habitable place left. The master computer harbors an immeasurable hatred for the group and spends every available moment torturing them. AM has not only managed to keep the humans from taking their own lives, but has made them virtually immortal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
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In Germany, in most places you can't pay with anything but cash, or a card called EC for "Electronic Cash". No credit card. At all. Even for large amounts. They're still healing the wounds for 1922/23 hyper-inflation.

The Germans clearly have a very peculiar relationship with money. Giving them control of the Euro was therefore a very dangerous idea.
Powerpoint.

I had to use google sheets for comercial offers, and I really bate it.

Why?

Latencies.

When you have to submit a proposal in a few hours you need something that reacts very fast.

Having to wait 1/4 second adding an object to a slide is not tolerable for salespeople (or anyone under heavy pressure).

If speed matters, go native.
You are telling me all this time I could have made money with a hackernews client supported by ads?
How is this legal?
I think the mistake you're making there is presuming that people like Aristotle are representitive of the average person of their era. That's certainly not the case. Peoples who's names are still remembered and revered thousands of years later are anomalies. The Aristotles of the ancient world represent the best humanity had to offer over a thousand year period. Comparing them to an average person of today is apples to oranges. Instead compare to the most prolific thinkers of the last 1000 years. How does Aristotle stack up against Leonardo Da Vinci or Isaac Newton?
Exactly. People complain about how music in the 70's or 80's or whatever was so much better than modern music.

That music never went away. It's not like you're no longer allowed to listen to Pink Floyd. Music doesn't have an expiry date.
taxing wealth in California and giving aid to Appalachia

That used to be taken for granted. But going forward I am worried. California is very pissed off by being targeted by this recent Republican tax cut. Let's hope it doesn't lead to retaliation against GOP base areas.
Indeed one can argue that any form of photography beyond "pull out your cellphone and take a quick snap" are not "capturing the moment". For a good picture, you've identified a good subject, moved about to find some good whitespace for your background, selected a focal point, aperture and shutter speed etc., maybe even instructed your subject or moved a distracting item away, captured O(10) images, chosen the best one and then postprocessed it in the digital darkroom.
LOL, what are you talking about? I asked why OP had such a dismissive attitude towards the original paper, and that's "researcher worship"? Gotta be one of the most toxic responses I've gotten so far on HN.
I like to think I'm pretty well read, and I read mostly used paperbacks. But, aside from the universal question mark, I have never seen the markings you would prescribe for all to use. I have my own system involving brackets and post-its that suits me just fine.

My point is, it's hard to generalize reading requirements. I couldn't possibly write an extension to enable my markup style, because it changes to suit the book I'm reading. That's why electronic will never replace paper for me. Except for my trashy romance novels.
steps that provided seating for gatherers have now been filled with plant boxes

So, the same policy of hostile architecture that gets used to try to be unwelcoming of homeless people can be applied to other demographics and other social problems. Color me not thrilled with this approach.

I've just never had the kind of life that involved lots of alcohol and loud parties. So my admittedly biased tendency is to feel there is no tremendous value in fostering such things. But as other people have noted, this doesn't just impede loud carousers. It also prevents other kinds of just hanging out with people.

The article notes that the nearby commercial development basically sold pizza and beer and suggested this was influenced by the nighttime activities here. It seems to me that trying to get more of a commercial mix in the area could help or otherwise try to foster evening activities other than drinking, hanging in the plaza for free and being loud.

There was one charity that created a midnight basketball program to combat the problem of inner city youth having nothing to do but be troublemakers. It's not like you need to reinvent the wheel here, so to speak. There are examples out there for how to resolve similar kinds of problems in a win/win fashion that gives the offending parties something better to do instead of merely vilifying them.
Bitcoins pseudonymous nature is getting weaker daily and blockchain analysis is maturing as a technology, the biggest coin mixer recently admitted that their services were useless and shutdown. There's very few exchanges if any in the western world where you can swap cash for bitcoin and not hand over ID.

Blockchains are forever.
We should have explained better and we will improve our website, sorry about that.

The blockchain that we are connected to is Bitcoin Cash(BCH). Bitcoin Cash is a fork of Bitcoin that aims at instant, cheap transactions. Bitcoin Cash transactions are instant unlike Bitcoin transactions. Each message costs around a cent as the fees is 1satoshi/byte(https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20cash-transact...).

The private key is being stored on the client side and we will open source the code soon so that users can verify that we do not store their private key. This is similar in functionality to Bitcoin wallets.
Bing Wallpaper for ChromeOS

https://github.com/chew-z/Bing-Wallpaper-for-ChromeOS

Augment - simple reminder that Google is a Big brother

https://github.com/chew-z/Augment

Foogle - fool Google - my fork of TrackMeNot - which pollutes your search history with possible but random searches....

https://github.com/chew-z/Foogle

NewTab - custom new tab page

https://github.com/chew-z/NewTab
Re: Economist.

Certainly a fine read, and very popular amongst us finance folks. It's national impact is lost in the roundings compared to the Daily Mail with their 'crush the saboteurs' theme IMHO.
paysa.com tracks real salaries. glassdoor.com collects reported salary info, and estimates pay at open positions.
The US is a very big place, with a huge geographic distribution of cost of living and salaries.
In Silicon Valley, software engineers at tech companies typically make $100k and up. The cost of housing is enormous canceling out the high pay.
There are a number of Cost of Living comparison web sites.
This is spot on. They offered me $6500 for my car, which was way below blue book. I sold it on Craigslist for $9700 a few days later.
At least you got someone to talk to. I got "no other humans online" and told to come back in 59 minutes and 39 seconds...

Anyone know the significance of the time? Or is it just trying to be more effective than saying an hour? (In the same vein as parking lots that have speed limits of 4 mph rather than 5 mph so that motorists are more likely to actually watch their speed because it's different)
> Can’t square this comment with the long front page discussion just a couple days ago about whether ref’ing a Google font could violate GDPR.

This is a very good point, and to be fair you're absolutely right. The definition of user-tracking extends far beyond Google analytics, and if you're not fully informed about what 3rd-party services you're using on your own website, and the ramifications of those, this could present problems.

When I said "they can simply not do so", that assumes they are aware of what tracking they're doing, which may not be the case. If you're using some WordPress.com blog theme with CDN calls built in, you might have no idea. There may even be an argument for this falling to WordPress.com (in this example) as the provider of the themes.

Realistically, I don't predict CDN calls to turn out to be in violation of GDPR in practice, even though there's a very reasonable argument for them being that in theory.

I kind of half-hope they are though, as a user. I've never been a fan of their use, and use the uBlock and Decentraleyes add-ons personally to avoid them. I wouldn't be devastated if we returned to a norm of locally linked resources (especially with HTTP2 adoption), though that's probably just wishful thinking.
Cool... but clearly overfit to match Billboard and Music Genome databases.
But the uncertainty principle says there's a limit to what observables we have access to.
the best way to increase your salary in tech is to change jobs, keep learning new skills, and market yourself locally and globally.

in 2016 I was an over-worked web developer making $50k. Now I am an under-worked software engineer making double that. I have changed jobs 4 times since then (3 layoffs, 1 resignation from a dead end role, several other offers i turned down) and learned multiple new technologies. i also go to meetups and keep my network growing.

Here in US we pay about 30% in taxes and insurance. I try to keep some savings around in case of layoffs or to give me the flexibility to walk away from a role
I got into programming as a boy in the 80s because I wanted to edit snake, went to college for programming and every project I begged teachers to let me warp the requirements into something video game related.

But by the time graduation was coming, even 20+ years ago, it was obvious that the video game industry was a terrible place to work. Low pay, bad hours, no security, bad publisher arrangements.

So, for a long time I never understood why so many engineers go through that. In my arrogance I would think "... surely _engineers_ immediately see the abuse and turn away." I guess that calling is just stronger for some than it was for me.
> Clearly, the person who made off with the money would not benefit from a union.

How would a union have stopped corporate insider theft?
What does Elon Musk have against AI?
The idea of trying multiple things and seeing what works is a good one, and doesn’t imply NHST logic.

Doesn’t sound like that’s what your quote is talking about though: they describe sharing ideas and “letting the group find the right answer.” Sounds like mob rule to me...
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They don’t share knowledge (especially software patents)

Can you explain how they do not share knowledge?

They only incentivise defensive, litigious behaviour in the market.

1. A patent grants you a right

2. If someone threatens your right, you are going to defend it. Or are you suggesting that we should not use legal methods to defend our right? Any right? Or just patent rights is the exception you propose?

3. If you threaten other's right and they threaten yours, you have a way to negotiate at a table outside the court and save society's precious resources.

I still don't see how it's bad. Please enlighten me.
Bare-knuckle boxing makes US comeback after 130 years
Location is a huge variable. The cost of living is what you’d be looking for. In the US alone a same software engineer would make $200k in SF versus $100k in a lot of other cities within the same state (California). Of course, anyone living in another state would have a complete different salary and set of rules.

Now, connect the ocean in between the US and Europe and it makes it even harder to relate to your $100k/y as a reference. In europe alone you have different countries, rules, etc. I would say that the general rule is that your buying power within society remains fairly equivalent no matter what location you’re in.
In Zurich, Geneva, Oslo and Rejkavik, you can also get a job that pays that much at a software/financial company/startup (and healthcare it's much cheaper/included in taxes).

In the US, that kind of salary it's common only in the Silicon Valley and NY.
Because IQ is a very specific thing.

It doesn't mean you know a lot or are good at high school maths.

IIRC an ideal IQ test would be something you could take even if you can't read and haven't learned maths and it will tell you something about your general problem solving skills.

And as we all know, people can be excellent problem solvers without being very athletic at all, so mixing that into the score would actually make it less useful.
It would be like an IRC server where your username is your public key - and your messages are signed with the recipient's public key, so only the recipient can decrypt it. Like some kind of "PGP chat server". Unless you wanted Coin functionality included.

Public rooms in the "PGP chat server" would have their public key as their room name. "Joining" the room would involve being sent the room's private key by an administrative bot. The server could send to all clients the full firehose of encrypted strings from all parties, and let the clients decrypt any messages they can. The clients could group chats into channels and messages by which private key successfully decrypted each string.
Just cause it CAN be done doesn’t mean it SHOULD be done.
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I don't want to bother with authentication if it's within my own private network.
There is no gossip protocol that is built over Bitcoin Cash right now. The only way to send data over the network is to create a transaction.

If we want to use a gossip protocol, users will have to run federated servers and that requires a different incentive system. In this system, users pay a small fee and are assured that their message reaches the intended party.

New addresses can be used for new chats, since these addresses can be generated randomly, there is no way to connect them to an identity. Money can be routed to the address through a Bitcoin mixer to increase anonymity. (https://news.bitcoin.com/coingeek-to-fund-the-bch-anonymizer...)
In the late 80s, I had gotten hold of a Pong table.

Went to explore it, as it was not working, I was amazed to see no CPU. Inside, there was a C sized paper blueprint of the schematic. Wish I still had it.

Timers, latches, etc... the circuit was the game. Very cool.
This was just irritating.
I asked why OP is dismissing the possibility that the authors considered the specific factors OP mentioned.

The quote you posted did not address that question. That is why it is not related to my comment, like I already said.
Aristotle's notion of megalopsuchia, seems richer than our modern sense of manganimity, and it is a very interesting jumping off point for personal growth. From a practical view, the temperance Aristotle required on qualities to make them virtues, could be applied with the tools of the stoics.
That absolutely is ordered dithering. Not only does it have the characteristic cross-hatch pattern but ordered dithering is relatively efficient even on very limited resources. I can't picture the Game Boy's Z80 or even a toy-market ASIC of the era having the horsepower to do Floyd-Steinberg or anything more modern.
My partner didn't reply. From that I guessed correctly that they were a human, but (for a 30 second conversation on an interface your users will be using for the first time) just saying nothing would be an effective low-effort way to implement the chat bot.
>> He should have taken a conciliatory approach. Let French and German politicians sell good-natured Greeks in need of help, not a people mindlessly throwing a tantrum.

Yes, absolutely that. There always was -and still there is- a lot of goodwill towards the Greeks in Europe, for historical reasons, some nostalgia, some guilt, some genuine Philhellenism; this was the primary reason we were allowed to join in the first place, much more so than Simitis' bare-faced fraud.

And so even at the height of the crisis, the EU did not push for a Grexit, even though that was the constant adage in the media- Greece must now exit the Euro, Greece is about to exit the Euro, it's going to happen in two weeks now, they're exiting tomorrow etc etc. Merkel and Sarkozy and most everyone else kept saying "we don't want the Greeks to leave, but, of course, if they insist... ".

I'd contrast this with the Europeans' reaction to the Brexit: most member states have reacted with something very close to relief; there is a general sense of "good riddance" to the problem child of Europe. With Greeks, instead, I got the feeling they just didn't want us to hurt ourselves any further.
Would be nice to increase the time to a minute, I tried a few times but only got two lines back and forth before having to guess. It was always a human in my tests though so perhaps the bot would respond quicker?

Love the idea though! Hope you can share the results and analysis with us when completed
But a lot of people now don't turn on the radio or TV; the alternate channels of music discovery are becoming primary. Once there's an initial contact — and there are plenty of opportunities that aren't controlled by labels — it's increasingly frictionless to find more of what you realize that you like.
I met a human. I wrote "Who am I" and then "Who are you" and then s/he said "What is life" and I said "Cats". This made him/her think I was a robot :- )
+2 to me

It would be fun to see a pic of the other person, and to chat for 90 seconds instead of just 30. And maybe continue chatting for 90 seconds afterwards.
And WordPress, Yahoo, Salesforce, Adobe, eBay and on and on. You'll have a hard time finding any tech company that doesn't use it to some extent.
How could a company signal this virtue to their customer?
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I’m sure he got his contracted notice. Suppose Sal had got another job offer, or just decided to move on, handed in his notice and left after his contracted notice period. Would you be just as appalled at the way he treated Apple?
Does flutter have a canvas yet? Whats the story for making arbitrary custom components, like a draggable rectangle that can be moved around a grid?
How often is that really required? OP asked for a quick deploy, for most apps it's enough to put the db into read-only mode and then update the schema. Upgrading the app binary is as simple as replacing it on the file system and then restarting the service.