skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books that have survived into the present from antiquity did so (except in a few unusual cases like the Dead Sea Scrolls) not because the physical media survived from antiquity but because people copied them onto new media over and over again. Sometimes they even translated them into new languages -- many works in ancient Greek we only have today in Arabic translation. Assuming that we don't descend into a "Mad Max" style primitive society, I could see current computer data surviving centuries or millennia given how small current data will seem. It's like how storing ROM dumps of every Nintendo NES cartridge is a trivial amount of space today.
Ask HN: What is the best/coolest example of a real-life plot you know about?
Ray Tracing in Games with Nvidia RTX
> after the war when the Allies were writing history alone for a few years.

British machinery like Colossus was still kept a closely guarded secret until the mid 1970s.
> Wait what? Are you arguing that 'god(s)' where and or might be incompetent?

I get the humor in your question. Yet I would like to comment for the people who might be more seriously interested in this question, that the most enlightened view seems to be that 'god(s)' are not incompetent, but are simply not done yet, they haven't completed the design. That the design itself is not a finished final product, but rather a continuous form of development. If there is such a development, it would be quite logical that one could take any future (or just further in terms of advancement) iteration of some thing (like human genome), compare it to a previous version and make a claim that it's "inferior" or "incompetent". But this is just an assessment of a logical mind. It could just as easily be called an iteration which is perfectly designed for it's time and place and has an irreplaceable role in the grand scheme of things.

> The problem is it's not a falsifiable theory because it makes no specific testable predictions.

I so wish that more people would understand this. I was trying to point into exactly this by the original comment, saying basically that no scientific truth can be an argument for or against any spiritual claim, that they simply belong to the different areas of knowledge. People who are proficient in either areas of knowledge, are often ignorant to this incompatibility, trying to prove each other wrong. The solution is to recognize the proper way to fuse the two areas, not choose one of them and pretend that it's enough.
Why manslaughter though? Wasn't the victim the real offender, crossing a road on unmarked spot without paying attention to oncoming traffic? It's a safety failure of a self-driving car tech surely, but the offense came from the victim. Especially given how some human drivers can't avoid similar situations either (see some videos of Chinese driving)...
Most of this has a latency that's orders of magnitude different. For electricity, those are microseconds (and for anything longer you do have UPS and generators and failover, right?), for the other things, it's days. "Half an hour" is just about the worst timeframe for a deadline.
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Ideally, yes. In practice, it depends on the contract. My bet on this is its provisions were pretty weak (and definitely not multi-million as it's suggested elsewhere) so Twitter's lawyers went through it and said "screw that", knowing that any lawsuit isn't going to be successful.
"Is one of those racist and the other is not? Please don't hack my browser history.".
Great show.
Type variable. Since data definitions can bind new type variables, it's necessary to consider variance there and in the resulting type constructor, too.
I'd say the main one is that investors now can see the historical growth of the company and will see red flags all over if the company has taken a nosedive, as described.
Given Google's role in surveillance through advertising and frameworks when they could actually redesign the whole system to be as private, secure and distributed as possible, I don't think they have any moral ground to stand on. IT's obvious to me why they had to drop the 'Don't Be Evil' motto. They can't help but be evil unless they give up the control that gives them all of their power and profits.
As driver of the car you need to be able to stop the car at any time for any reason, otherwise you're not in control of your vehicle. By not being in control of your vehicle you accepted the fact that you might seriously harm someone.

This is why it's manslaughter.
The distinction is vanishingly small. Every new memory technology (paper tape, punch card, drum, core, rom, prom, eeprom, magnetic disk, NFS, NOR flash, NAND flash, stone tablets, etc, etc) would then generate a "first computer to store on X". X is just a storage technology. Heck - computers from the 70 still stored programs on paper punch card and only loaded a few opcodes into RAM. If you are aware of what cache hiearchy is, then this distinction becomes even fainter - the Z3 might have some instructions cached as relay state - electrical storage.
You’re missing the point - which is that Google does business and has offices in many countries that are not America.
Uh, the whole thing? Do you need a link to the documentation or something?
if 10,000 more fellow brits had said the same 78 years ago, you might be speaking german now.

Moral? No.
This whole thread is moral posturing about how unprofessional Twitter/Smyte have been, but if we want to talk about professionalism we should look at ourselves.
I never said Twitter cares about startups' customers panicking, but it cares about being able to make strategically useful acquisitions, like Smyte. And acting like this makes it harder.

This isn't about people typing furiously on internet forums. This is about business risk, as weighed up by people whose job it is to care. Acquisitions take time and negotiation. Just because a startup is talking to Twitter, doesn't mean the acquisition will definitely happen. But if customers get wind of it, then they may start looking to move elsewhere, anyway, instead of waking up to find services they rely on have been shutdown without warning. If you're the customer of a startup Twitter is negotiating to acquire, then you're negligent not to reduce your reliance on them. And if you're the CEO of that startup, then you have to consider the risk of customer flight (and your own comfort with the thought of screwing them over) vs. the likelihood of the acquisition happening.
Deep Learning in Combination with Crowd Computing for Photo Labeling in Browser
As a general rule all of the failure of the technology complaints that have registered in my head from HN has to do with Uber intentionally turning off safety features and doing things in such a way that the driver might have assumed things were safer than they actually were and then have decided, idiotically as humans do (humans - such as myself I assure you - being idiots), that it was totally ok to do something stupid like text on a phone or watch tv.

Just because one party is neglicent does not mean other parties are cleared of their neglicence.
> First of all, thanks for the feedback!

Make thicker lines on "Summary" charts, because currently it's too thin.[0]

Please, add also option for export report as PNG/SVG/PDF file, in style like Web-capture[1] or URL2PNG[2]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/1mpMB3h.png

[1] https://web-capture.net/

[2] https://www.url2png.com/
Money is a voting system on how natural resources and the time of others is spent.

The non-democratic component of money is good for innovation.

How will we find a money-distribution process that: prevents 1% of people to accumulate 90% of the wealth, allows individual mobility across social classes, incentives innovation and correct allocation of resources?
It's not unlikely the costs of work performed for these customers wasn't enough to keep the company running. Honestly, it looks more like "let's cut down on costs, immediately", rather than a mistake on a part of an exec.
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A Bitcoin wallet is a software program that store Bitcoin. BTC.com wallet ensures the safe and easy storage of Bitcoins.

Read more in details: https://coinpedia.org/crypto-wallet/btc-com-wallet-review/
> Given that society created the environment for these tech companies (and their employees) to acquire their skills and thrive, does not society have some moral/ethical lien on how those skills are applied?

Why do these workers have such a lien, whereas the people who happened to go into a career that isn't useful for the military don't? That sounds quite unfair. I'd say they pay their obligation the same way everybody else does: through taxes. And people who benefited more from that environment will earn more, and subsequently pay more as well.
HPE Boots Up Sandbox of the Machine for Early Users
Bill Gates Letter to Hobbyists (1976)
> The Tempe police report said the crash was "entirely avoidable" if the Uber operator, Rafaela Vasquez, had been watching the road while the car was operating autonomously.

Absolutely no surprises there. Everyone who has ever taken a picture in the dark should have known this after seeing the footage from the car.
I think we're agreed that one shouldn't be absolutist about these things and that different approaches will be optimal depending on the circumstances.

It's worth reminding ourselves that the root comment was an absolutist assertion about the folly of outsourcing.

So the discussion is easily resolved: don't be absolutist :)
Yes there will always be scams. That doesn't mean we should leave the field wide open and encourage scams, or create a legal landscape in which it is difficult to detect and close down such things.

Education is probably not any sort of cure for this - the scams are often run by educated, authoritative people who offer a fake lifeline to parents who are almost beyond hope and who are certainly not rationally evaluating the options.

There is a role for authorities here.
How Customized Event Apps Enhance Customer Experience?
Everyone that does online transaction of money, and many more. Like all those who use AWS services on AWS.
An more interesting thing to me is why resilience is so overlooked nowadays. We "design" young people to shatter like a glass when bad things happen.
I don't understand why Alphabet (parent of Google) does not just start a new government contracting firm, they should of done that or started a new division within Google dedicated to the matter. Don't expect engineers to switch their entire career tract just because you tell them to because they work for you, that's just not a good idea. They would clearly have the resources to hire talented people who've already done government contracts or are willing to, people who already have the necessary government clearance.

Disclaimer: I do work for a government contracting company.
> Yes I don't understand why so much focus has been put on the failure of the technology rather than the failure of the back up driver.

Waymo specifically monitors the driver plus checks their attention span before hiring them. There's various things which went wrong for this to happen. It's not just one cause.
I got zero sense of a 'highly submissive (almost grovelling) attitude'.

I got a strong sense of irritation and annoyance that people still, after many years, have not understood the organizational structure. He's using repetition to make it clear, in no uncertain terms, that his boss really is his boss.

Kuhn writes "I can't think of a single reason this donor could want to speak to me that would not be more productive if he instead spoke with Karen."

Since you don't know what he's done, why do you second-guess his explicit statement by positing "is it unfathomable that he has accomplished something that some donor would like to speak to him about privately."

Apparently yes, it is unfathomable to Kuhn and Sandler.

True, it's possible that the donor is (say) hoping for a private meeting with Kuhn to proposition him for a one-night stand - we can imagine many such scenarios which are broader than the simple context of a donor relationship to a non-profit. But these then become much more improbable than the stated view that the donor used a gender biased viewpoint to misjudge the dynamics involved.

You write "they are being very assuming about the donor's motives and beliefs" - but compare that with Kuhn's phrase "repeatedly insisted that the donation was gated on a conversation with me". If there were a reasonable explanation, perhaps based on Kuhn's past accomplishments, why didn't the donor say so explicitly?

Or are you proposing that the donor did say so, and that Kuhn is hiding the response, in order to misdirect us? You know little of him, so what is the basis of your doubt?

I cannot easily reconcile what you wrote, when I compare it to the original text, as something other than trivializing institutionalized sexism.
As the Z3 cannot perform conditional branches I assume it was difficult or impossible for the hardware at the time to do anything other than move the tape in a linear sequence in a single clock cycle. A stored-program computer that uses a program counter to point to the current instruction (the position on the "tape") seems to be a significant step forward.
At what condition surrogacy is needed?
If you think that Facebook doesn't already know your web browsing habits and phone use. I have bad news for you. They don't have email that is true, but they have WhatsApp and FB Messenger which might be worse.
A previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7013874

Found this interesting in light of Microsoft buying GitHub that Bill Gates wrote a letter against sharing software.
This might be the first positive thing I've ever read about iTunes.
No, you can tell by the design and the servers they use.
I think it takes a strong mind to overcome that belief framework.

That's not to say it didn't have inherent worth for you while you went through whatever you did that made you feel that way, but finding flaw in your own arguments/belief systems is a pretty significant skill set to learn too.

Learn to be resilient against yourself. Learn to take risks against yourself. Learn to fight harder against yourself, than anyone will ever fight against you.

Maybe you can, maybe you do, but that loop that brings you back to suicidal feelings is neither strength nor weakness.
Liberty comes in many forms. Why should one particular right unconditionally take precedence over others? If speech promotes oppression of others (e.g. "put them in chains") should an organization devoted to liberty defend it? It's ridiculous to say that this represents an abandonment of principle. It might be unwise because it makes their mission less clear than pure first-amendment advocacy would be, or because of the effect it has on membership, but a general principle of defending liberty would require active opposition to anti-liberty speech. It makes me wonder about whether some of its critics actually believe in liberty or something less noble.
How well does that work when a video isn't very popular though? The value of a thing like youtube is that anybody can put a video on there and it will be available for anybody else to play, instantly, for the foreseeable future.
If all they need is generic services with various certification and isolation, I see no reason not to sell that.

And the "air gap" mentioned in this article doesn't seem controversial. Doing AI for drones, however, could easily become controversial.
> Wasn't the victim the real offender, crossing a road on unmarked spot without paying attention to oncoming traffic?

If someone makes a mistake while in traffic I'm much more happy do not immediately die as a result. There's been a few instances such a thing could've happened to me.
Silicon Valley isn't lacking in government contracting firms, and it's not the only place where talented developers exist... You need to get out of that bubble that SV is the only place with competent developers, you do a disservice to developers everywhere.
When people say they “support unions” they mean that they support laws that “artificially increase one side’s bargaining power”, which you say you don’t. The most important of such laws are ones that inhibit employers from replacing striking workers.
I like the idea that Google's employees can have some backbone about what they're building.

It's still comically stereotypical to see every exercise of Google's corporate power rationalized away left and right even though they're more economically powerful than many nation-states; but then they gain perspective when their "military = bad" mental filter can finally override "I trust us."
There is nothing 'classic liberally' wrong with unions if they don't require everybody in the profession to adhere to them and don't have a monopoly
Not to mention integrated WebApp DosBOX.
If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in "promoter genes" which tend to be destructive to the organism they are part of, but which are also very good at promoting themselves, so they survive in the genome despite being harmful. A good book on the subject:

Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements

https://www.amazon.com/Genes-Conflict-Biology-Selfish-Elemen...
Joking or not, Sublime renders emoji just fine as far as I can see. I am not using them for variables, but they are sometimes embedded in strings, and in this case it's nice that they render correctly. How does Atom improve emoji experience?
Hmm in my community it’s very odd to get married before your late twenties. Children and house come several years later (if at all). Looking at the parent and grandparent comments I think there are two main reasons for this:

(1) If you grow up around educated people, college is the obvious way to kick off a financially stable life. That means school until 22+ followed by working for as much money as possible to dig out of student debt. By the time you can breathe a bit, you’re 30.

(2) Marriage is moving from a foundation to a capstone. In my social circle, virtually nobody got married in their early 20s. They didn’t feel they could before figuring out their careers, choosing a city, having some independent adventures. Sure there was romance, but not the long term commitment and financial integration.

I think The common thread between these two issues is “hunger.” If you’re like GP and grew up in a poor area, you’re willing to take risks to get out. It makes sense to marry the best partner you can find locally and climb out together. You’re not “discovering myself before settling down” you’re pair-climbing a mountain, recognizing it’s safer with help. Hopefully when you reach the summit the shared experience will keep you together against the pressure of expansive options available there.

One key question: does marrying reduce or increase your geographic flexibility? For college-first people, you have to move around while single to build your career, then marry wherever you wind up. If you marry first, it’s harder to find a place that optimizes earning potential for both partners.

I think a lot about what this means for my own children. I want them to take more risks, but I don’t want them to fall short of what I have achieved. I want them to support themselves as early as possible, but I know education is generally a more profitable use of time. (Should they be working minimum wage jobs or studying or school nights?) There are many reasons why the youth unemployment rate is so high.
It is in my opinion too eager. Watch one high quality dash cam video and you'll get flooded with hundreds of copies of the same videos for days.
Reminds me of Kevin Smith's Prince story [1].

1: https://speakola.com/arts/kevin-smith-on-prince-2002
Shocking in many ways. But not in others.

I predict some back-pedalling later today and access switched back on and properly 'wound down'.

If not, customers with contracts should have every right to angrily sue.
/zish: A data serialization format
What does glass look like when it shatters?
I've done exactly that https://github.com/fairlayer/fair

Single auth_code shared between web session and local app is all you need.
Also, make sure to not burn yourself out -- management laying off everyone else isn't justification for you working double shifts. It was their decision, so the consequences should fall on them, not you.
That's a shame, I like their presenters. Are there any interesting science-related YouTube channels that you can recommend?
The US military is mighty, but not terribly effective. I mean, we're 17 years into the second gulf war. 17 years and we still can't pull-out because we screwed up the first one so royally.

I'm writing this from a refugee community center here in Istanbul, the Ad'Dar Center, where I volunteer a couple of hours every day helping helping kids with their lessons, especially in English and Math, cooking, making music, talking, and listening. (To a lesser extent I help people with paperwork and UN refugee processes, but I don't really have the patience for bureaucracy, so I leave that to the experts).

I'm not a political or military expert, but over the past five years 25% of my life was spent backpacking around the middle-east / balkans / black sea / eastern block regions studying languages and music, while the other 75% has been spent living / studying / working in Istanbul. I say this so that you know my perspective is not that of a SJW sipping $10 lattes while pigging out on $20 avocado toasts in SOMA. I haven't been in a war, but I've been through a coup, bribed my way through checkpoints, volunteered at refugee camps in Bulgaria, Greece & Albania, and have spoken to many hundreds of people who have been privvy 1st-hand to direct and indirect American "wars". Back stateside, I grew up in Michigan and 1/2 of our family friends were Afghani & Iraqi engineers who had fled to the US in the 1980s (the other 1/2 were white-trash patriotic biker gangs. Michigan is a weird place).

As you would expect, the feelings and views about America here are quite varied and diverse, but the two constants that come up in every conversation:

- America should stop policing the middle-east, we do more harm than good.
- Supporting Israel and Saudi Arabia makes us the real financiers of terrorism
- America is using the Kurds, our best allies in the war against terror, and will be stabbing them in the back at the first opportunity for political favor

ISIS isn't defeated, by the way, they've just re-branded.
It's different because the honeymoon is probably finished. You are likely considering how to best part instead of how to best work together.

And you are thinking about what went wrong, how much did you contribute to it, what could you have done better, did I overestimate myself or the team or the product? What is my next step? After X years, what was my return on investment? (i.e. not money but skills, connections, personal growth)

Why act so blasé about it? "Oh X died, he was living, dying is a given, why the tears?"
I'm from UK - I spent hours practicing football by myself (spot kicks, volleying to myself, keepie-uppy, trying show-off skills like rainbow kicks). Many, many hours playing football with just a few friends at the park ("spot", "Wembley singles", "headers and volleys"). At high school we'd play football mostly with a tennis ball, but we'd kick around a drinks-can if there was no ball.

I was only ever a mediocre player, mainly relying on speed - which also got me in just about every school team (small high-school, small market town). At Uni our team did come 2nd in the intra-University cup.

Why did I do all that rather than basketball (a sport I've really enjoyed playing), pervading culture would probably be the main reason (which in turn means availability of fields/courts, etc.).

After Uni I took up volleyball because that was the social sport played at my workplace; now I do karate because that's the sport my kids are doing.

tl;dr You can play football without a football and with 1+ players.