skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's say it takes 30 minutes to fully check for copyright compliance 10 minutes of video. This means that the speed of one person checking videos is 1/3 unchecked-minutes per minute, or 1/3upm. 400 hours of content are uploaded every minute to youtube, which makes for 24000upm. You will need to employ 96000 people 24/7 to check all videos. Of course, they can't work 24/7, so a more realistic figure is 150000 people. This isn't menial work, it requires legal knowledge and familiarity with copyright law, so you're looking at hiring entry-level law clerks, which is about 16$/hr or about 33k$/yr. It will cost Google about 5bln$/yr to check all uploaded content manually. Which seems like a lot but is like 10-20% of Alphabet Inc.'s gross profit, so not actually impossible.
This set of trade-offs in self driving cars is exactly the same one that CAD (computer aided detection/diagnosis) systems have been making in medicine for decades. In many cases both type I and type II errors will (with statistical certainty) kill people over enough iterations.

It's not an easy problem, but the best you can do is demonstrate that the system improves on the standard of care. In other words, overall the trade-off has better outcomes than not using the system. The same will be true for self driving cars if/when they reach mainstream use. The important thing is the average performance is improved significantly.

It's worth noting that, like the CAD systems, focusing too much on fixing an individual error can cause a degradation to the overall system. As these things get better and better, you'll have to be much more careful about applying non-obvious fixes, or risk a much worse outcome that doing nothing at all.
Yeah! And here's another idea: publicly complain about and discuss PUBLIC issues that are systematic and affect the whole society, not just you.

Unless you want to keep your kids in totally isolated bubbles, they live in the world. If the rest of the neighborhood kids or classmates are watching certain things, then you can't keep your kids from exposure and social pressure etc.

Issues are on a continuum from totally private, isolated concerns to broader social ones. Social problems require social solutions.

But yes, impressionable young children shouldn't get unrestricted internet access. And also we can and should criticize anyone profiting off of systems that are causing harm.
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I have mixed feelings about this piece, it is a little heavy handed and does come across as the rant of an old person who is disoriented by change. So I sympathize with those who are leveling that criticism.

But with that said, as someone who's been in NYC for 20 years or so, I have to agree that there's definitely something to his underlying point. It's just a fact that New York feels like it's rapidly becoming a place that literally just has no place for anyone that doesn't have significant economic resources.

It hasn't actually happened yet, the city is still incredibly diverse in nearly every dimension. And so some extent some of the change is just the poor/hip neighborhoods moving around, as they always have, as the artists go from Tribeca, to Williamsburg, to Bushwick, to Ridgewood, or wherever is next.

But like I said this era really does feel different. The author's central premise here is that NYC soon will have no place for anyone that's not economically elite. I'm not sure he's wrong about that.
Ultima Underworld 2. I can still remember the joy of reaching a high enough level to kill one terrible beast after having to load goodness knows how many saved games after the bastard had killed me yet again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

Lasers, and a lot of other things as well.
>> Transferring money internationally without additional costs.
>nope

It costs between $70 and $90 to send $1AUD from Australia to Iceland. Bitcoin transaction fees have _never_ been that high, and they're currently somewhere around $1AUD.

$50-$70 of that fee is taken out of the transaction instead of charged seperately, which means it may be impossible to pay a bill accurately via SWIFT.

I tried to pay for a tent via SWIFT from Iceland to the USA recently. Because the US bank used a customer support system that required you to log in via a wells fargo account that I didn't have, I was unable to ask whether they charged fees to receive swift transactions. I added $15 extra to the SWIFT payment as a hedge against any extra fees from wells fargo. I guess that was enough, because the merchant sent me the tent.

If you think that the SWIFT system is better than bitcoin you haven't used SWIFT much.
And when will we actually start saving lives? How many humans are going to be killed by bad self-driving technology before we hit the break-even point? No one can even say! Self-driving advocates never seem concerned with the real-world present day costs of the technology, only the futuristic possible scenarios. You have to weight both sides of the equation.
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One more from Mr. Norton: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Norton-Programmers-Guide-IBM/dp...

It covers a wide range of interrupt routines, both DOS and the BIOS ones. Also, some PCJr sound chip programming got snuck in.
A lot of car how-tos are being posted on YouTube. If you need to replace your alternator, for example, look no further.
Correct

> The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Apple Inc’s bid to escape a lawsuit accusing it of breaking federal antitrust laws

https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN1JE1JH-OC...
A good alternative to Google news is http://newsnow.co.uk

It has high information density. It is headlines only which makes it easy to scan lot of information in one go. The categories are also very wide covering everything one can imagine a news aggregator to cover. Only problem is that it doesn't filter or categorise by events or topics so there tends to have duplicate coverage from different sources.

http://radio3.io/rivers/ by Dave Winer is also good. You can make your own aggregator with his River5 (node.js) program. Do anyone of you have any other suggestions?
Probably it was already said, but quite crucial in the process would be proper analytics. To see where the user's flow is concentrated or stops at all.
That's still a lot of people, even statistically, and a weird, weird, phenomenon.
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I think you skipped over the comment that I was responding to, which said this:
> They want to be named after a geographical region which is way bigger than their borders.

Sounds exactly like the USA at the time of their founding, and is in no way describable as "the opposite".
The US goverment / military dumps obscene amounts of money into the development of technology. This provides a solid foundation on which to build a thriving consumer technology sector. It's totally viable to develop and bring to market devices that cost millions of dollars per unit as long as it possesses some modest degree of military application.
FWIW, I get about 40fps unless it's a pretty small window, then it's around 60.
I think this is more of an observation on the distribution of land masses than people. Ushuaia is as far south as you can go on a non-Antarctic continent. Conversely there is a ton of accessible and (relatively) resource-rich land north of Copenhagen (much of Canada and Russia, all of Scandinavia). Obviously the "great deal of land" below the Antarctic circle is extremely inhospitable and inaccessible to early settlers.
>Some consider the physical characteristics to be part of the charm of the city.

Especially people fighting to keep the value of their home equity up.
True, but a human would have applied the brakes at least which may not avoid the collision but would reduce the injuries. We can never know but maybe a human would have been able to stop. Or maybe a human could have braked enough to prevent death. Or maybe the exact outcome would have happened even if the brakes were applied.
I think to many programmers assembly is the "GOTO" of programming languanges: From the day you start learning to program, you are told that all this fancy high-level-language stuff is there so you do not have to deal with assembly. So most people never go there.

I did go there, briefly, about ten years ago. It was wicked fun. But all in all, I may have written maybe 20 or 30 instructions of assembly in total. I did try to rewrite a few small, heavily-used functions from our code base in assembly only to discover that the code I came up with was practically identical to what the compiler emitted. At that point I figured that the people who told me that "you can't beat the compiler" were probably right and called it a day[0]. Alas, I never had the hardcore performance requirements that would make go back there. But it was fun to get a taste of it.

[0] At the same time, I was kind of proud that I did not get beat by the compiler. Then again, those functions were fairly trivial.
Sort-of, the National Security Act of 1947 created the Department of the Air Force[0]. I've seen previous articles stating that the "Space Force" would become a sixth branch, but it would fall under the purview of the Department of the Air Force. This is similar to the Navy / Marine Corps arrangement wherein the USMC is an independent branch, but under Department of the Navy.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force#Histor...
Hi, thanks for your feedback.

I can understand that it might not seem useful to you if you already have a stack you've invested in, or it just doesn't fit the kind of projects you are working on.

But I just wanted to respond to a few things. :)

> A) Come from a javascript background

It targets all web developers, who are all generally familiar with JavaScript. It aims to be another tool, not a total replacement for all projects.

> B) Want to deploy on cheap hosters where node isn't available?

Shared hosting is still a very popular way to run websites. And node is often overkill for basic CRUD sites.

> C) Don't care about performance

There is a big difference between not needing to support 100+ requests per second and "not caring". :) Out of the box, PHP is fast enough for a lot of apps, and the overhead of THT is not enough to be noticeable at that scale.

> don't mind the additional complexity of the transpiler

There are no build steps, so the extra complexity just involves running the initial setup script. After that, you drop in new files and update them like you would with PHP. Ideally, it won't feel more complex than any other framework.

> Can this even leverage the enormous PHP ecosystem?

This is on the roadmap. Though there are still plenty of projects that don't use 3rd party libraries and could be built with THT as it is today.

I personally have never needed to use composer, etc. in my projects, but it's still something I am looking to support.

Thanks!
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would recommend William Basinski - The Distintegration loops in this regard
Think of it like a portion of Canada bordering Montana seceding from Canada and calling themselves Montana. Also, a lot of the people of a certain ethnicity from that portion of Canada move into Montana in the US. In time, the ex-Canada Montana people lay claim to the US Montana region. After all, it's all Montana, right? That's what they are worried about.
Yes but you can't browse Facebook videos without a Facebook account. You can view them if people directly link them, but viewing someone's video page is blocked, let alone actually searching for videos.
How would anyone know what OS their in-seat entertainment system uses? I've watched the inflight movie on a wide variety of systems on varying airlines and I don't recall the experience ever being branded in that way.
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Also out of the meeting, AP reports a directive to reduce satellite clutter: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-white-house-aims-satellite-clu...
"But New York should be a city of workers and eccentrics as well as visionaries and billionaires; a place of schoolteachers and garbagemen and janitors, or people who wear buttons reading is it fascism yet? [..] A city of people who sell books on the street [..] street photographers [..] immigrant vendors [..] bus drivers [..] driven businessmen [..] hedge fund operators. All helped to get along a little better, out of gratitude for all that they do to keep everything running, and to keep New York remarkable."

It occurs to me that this is pale nostalgic romanticism, and we don't really need cities at all except for commerce & trade. Most of our country's population was rural about a century ago. No reason we couldn't go back to that and still benefit from modern convenience.

I think mega-cities should probably evolve into massive business parks with no residential housing, and that collective mega-business-park can then pay for the services their employees need to access it (transportation, sanitation, etc).

It sure seems like a modern transportation system might make living in rural or suburban land more feasible for lower-income people.
I wonder if the history of x86 is holding us back in a big way. It started out being close to the metal but now it's an abstraction that can mislead you if you think processors are literally working the way x86 assembly describes.

And surely the whole spectre issue could be lessened if we could be less reliant on CPUs having to guess what to keep in cache, which code paths are most likely, etc?
Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech was made when audio recording technology was being born, so in a little miracle of technology, we can actually hear the man himself give it today: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/

(The recording is from a later 1925 performance of the speech by Bryan, not from his original performance that famously turned the tide of the 1896 Democratic National Convention. But it's still a fairly unique opportunity to hear a speech from that era in the voice of the man who gave it.)
I am amused how airports like Lands End (which was grass runways only before 2014), and Chester(!!) made the cut. Plymouth closed in 2011

However that's all nitpicking, this is a pretty cool map, I'd never encountered Voronoi diagrams before.
As I've been watch Spartacus this really hit a cord with me and basically how even what may seem like, to some, limited justice, it is still evidence of progress.

Things take time which is hard to deal with considering other things in our lives move faster than ever. I did ask a friend once that if the FCC getting rid of net neutrality requires Google or SpaceX to launch a better way to connect to the internet does that further justify capitalism? I.E. Do failures of capitalism not exists over a long enough time horizon?

*This was just a thought not something I subscribe to.
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One interesting product decision with Square Cash and Robinhood Crypto services is that customers can't transfer off as BTC ( to another exchange / hardware wallet) . When I asked Robinhood they said it was so customers didn't user BTC for illegal activity as they hadn't built out specific anti-money laundering measures.
Just this weekend I was searching for some older news, and was spending quite a bit of time poking around Google News, and eventually came to the conclusion "this has gone totally to shit".

Near as I can tell, nearly every change Google have made to News has made it a worse product. It's enough to make me want to start building a news aggregator. Of course I have time to do something like that... sigh
Is that meant as a positive or a negative, as chargebacks help the consumer, as does non-repudiation. The general public wants these features in our exchange mediums.
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I thought it stood for "Engines turn or passengers swim"

I'm not sure I'd like to be on a plane 6 hours from an airport -- better hope you don't have any sudden medical requirements that would lead to a diversion!
To which the honey badger says, "Bring it on". Bitcoin is a public network that has been attacked relentlessly by the best hackers in the world for the past 10 years. It is currently protecting/storing around $115 billion dollars in wealth, which can be seen as a bounty to anyone who succeeds in bringing it down. So far it hasn't happened, and even in the face of hypothetical challenges there's no reason why the protocol cannot patch a fix and move on.
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No, on average existing drivers kill more than 100 people each day [source?].

There's no proof yet that self driving cars are safer than human drivers. And more importantly there's a big difference between being safer on average than a human driver, and being safer than the average human driver.
I found military boots to be literally ever lasting.
The problem is that alot of different political associations are connected to those boots.

You are obviously a facist or punk for wearing uncapitalistic everlasting boots.
I actually preferred the first one over the second.

/ducks
Not quite the same, but the D&D bases games scratch the same itch for me. Baldurs Gate (2 is easier to get into), Neverwinter Night (prefer the first), and recently Pillers of Eternity was a fantastic throw back.

Even better: you can get most of those DRM-Free on Gog!
As someone living in a mid sized city, please do not wish this on anyone. I enjoy my low tax, low welfare state. I'd much rather give extra amount to my church and the animal shelter than give it to the government so they can waste it away on new governments building that are'nt needed
Yeh. Seems like Air Force is already Space Force.

I have always been curious what boeing X37 does?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
They've decided to compete in the dedicated POS space, yet they continue to compare themselves to tablet based solutions. To that end, I don't think they're actually delivering much novelty here, they've only eliminated the flexibility and low cost benefits that their other products provide.
Very interesting piece, and a fascinating blog in general. Seeing someone document their ongoing struggle to understand the world reminds me how little I've done about that myself.
Can you elaborate? In the near future, it seems unlikely that passenger vehicles are going to be fully driver-less legally in many places, regardless. But I might be misunderstanding what you have in mind.
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Are you saying that even if AI can't react as well as humans, the roads would potentially be safer with more AI drivers because of the cumulative effect of all the little safety rules they follow that human drivers do not?
human drivers routinely do things that are not justifiable by vehicle physics (e.g. stopping distances) because they have a comparatively sophisticated and unconscious understanding of our physical world, how changes may develop and how other human drivers or pedestrians might react. self-driving is a much harder and unlikely problem than the perpetual hype-cycle is willing to admit.
How is the MTG scene these days? I spent my childhood through high school obsessively playing the game, reading these sorts of breakdowns, and spending all my money. Then life got in the way and I haven't played in about 10 years. I remember Friday Night Magic used to be a wholesome way to spend a Friday evening, and you got a lot of entertainment for the $5 entry fee.
Assumed abandonware, anyway. Some companies have legit given the rights over to the public domain for stuff. Hasbro releasing the encryption keys and rights to Atari Jaguar comes to mind.

http://www.atarihq.com/news/1999/990514.html
it's quite a shame. google are not being good chaperones of what has become an amazing service and resource.

hopefully a completely decentralized replacement will arise.

(OT: wow, HN strips emoji!)
Any tips for how my girl and I can get started on that path? Basically like you and your wife, for the social rewards?
I'll give you $5k for a bitcoin, and I could find you 100 people within 100 miles of you who would do the same thing today. It has value because people give it value.
I mean, the name "United States of America" would also fall into that description, but nobody's up in arms about it.

Many people in South America think it's a ridiculous, pretentious name.

It's not even the only United States in America (for example, Mexico is formally United States of Mexico).

But nobody is that worried, it's true.
> This reads like an example of the classic genre of writing "nostalgia for how a place used to be which is really nostalgia for the life the author used to have"

Yeah, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but it's practically a New York tradition to publish essays like this[0] every so often - about why New York isn't what it once was (the "Why I'm Leaving New York" essay). Typically, it's an exploration of the ways in which contemporary New York doesn't match up to the New York of nostalgic memory. Usually, the essay ends on an ambiguous note, with the sense of discovery and adventure, but ultimately results in the author either returning to or remaining in New York. It's so common that it's almost a literary genre trope, with predefined criteria and stages, similar to the Hero Journey[1] concept first formulated (but not invented) by Joseph Campbell. And, like the Hero's Journey, the journey usually (though not always) ends where it started, but with the participants ("hero") changed somehow in the act of exploration.

The first[2] was Joan Didion's, which she wrote back in 1968. While she took a short break while raising her daughter in the suburbs, she's lived in New York City for 35 of the last 60 years and still lives here today.

[0] usually better-written than this one, but on the same topic and format

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

[2] Not necessarily chronologically, but seminal[3] to the genre

[3] It's influential enough that a recent essay on the genre even opens with a nod to Didion's work: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/fashion/From-Joan-Didion-...
I dug it out of my browser cache and uploaded it to imgur:

https://i.imgur.com/1CQkZPF.png
Way too complicated compared to Diablo.
Lower transaction costs, more control, easier to trade for small cap companies?
There are a lot of TLDs owned by companies like Google, Verizon etc
Primarily tone, aesthetic, and depth. Of course they didn't copy the systems 1:1, but it _feels_ more like diablo than diablo 3 ever did. I realize that I'm using vague terminology, but you'd be hard pressed to find fans that don't agree.

We're talking about a "spiritual successor" here, not "add up how many aspects of PoE are identical to D2." I know you said D1, but few people make or care about that comparison. D2 is the most popular and the latest entry in the series that people who were turned off by D3 care about.
Imagine a CAD system that was so fundamentally unreliable that it ignored positive hits because the high rate of false positives otherwise would make the system useless. Instead, the CAD system came with a warning printed on the instruction manual that a doctor had to review every scan anyway.
The agreement with Iran and the Paris Accord were not submitted to Congress, and so did not have the weight of treaties. TTIP negotiations have been suspended and it has not been ratified. Like the president, Secretary Clinton publically opposed it during the presidential campaign. Trump has expressed an interest in renegotiating NAFTA but it's still in place.