skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ends always justify the means

Read The Prince in high school. Took me 15 years to come up with a short appropriate response.

In civil society the means are your ends.

If the means you use to bring your utopia into the world are violent and ruthless then your utopia is also going to violent and ruthless. Not much of a utopia.
Thanks, I'd forgotten that paper.
It allows you to query the blockchain using a consistent API and offers some features not present in the standard JSON RPC API, like ENS domain resolution. Makes it useful for building decentralized apps.
Apple already contributes to and works with OSM data.
It doesn't need to be solved or ameliorated. The internet is a reflection of humanity, and the truest reflection because, out of all other forms of media, the image it presents isn't entirely manufactured or mediated by corporations (although they are trying.)

The internet has only become a "cesspool" because it's matured as a platform and gained enough critical mass that it can accurately reflect the noxious rat-king that is the human zeitgeist.

But the same platform that shows us the worst of ourselves can also reflect the best of ourselves, and the same freedom that allows the vile and the profane allows the creative, intellectual and profound.

The answer isn't to change the web, but to change ourselves. Hate is as much of a problem as it is on the internet because hate is accepted in the real world. Censoring the web won't solve that.

Or maybe go all the way in the other direction and have some kind of Psycho-Pass scenario where AI builds a "crime coefficient" out of a profile of your online and offline activities and estimates your emotional stability and moral alignment based on cameras monitoring your irises and skin as you surf the web, and if your hue gets too red, someone shoots you with a gun.
I wish it wasn't based on IDA.
I once mentioned this to an old NASA engineer who worked on the moon landings. He corrected me and pointed out that it's still possible to launch - you would just need more staging. Obviously at very high levels of gravity, the staging requirements would be extreme. I'm not sure what it would be if Earth was 50% bigger. Maybe someone can do the math or share a link to a page that's done it already.
Los Angeles is starting to paint its streets white.

https://www.popsci.com/la-is-painting-its-streets-white-to-k...
My younger brother, over 18, is rather fond of his Juul and I don't quite understand why. My parents smoked while raising my sister and I, which I believe contributed to our fascination and addiction to cigarettes; but they had quit long before having him.
I've worked my way off but after seeing what vaping has done to my brother from what appears to be social (peer) pressure, I'm not certain if it has provided any net benefit to this point.
I guess hardware-based techniques like 1588 and SyncE will come down in price in a few years. It seems natural that consumer-premises equipment will start offering 1588 in, say, 2 years. Cheap 1588 can get you within 3ns, fancy switches can get you to within .3ns.
Not really. They call him Mister (先生) as an honorific. In chinese culture, that's what you call the big boss.
> If Apple staff are reading this - please fix this ridiculous issue - the fact metro stations show up at arbitrary levels of zoom. Zome show up at level x, some show at x+1, and some dissapear at x+1, meaning at many levels, you see some, not others.

If you really want it fixed, give some proper examples with pictures.
> The low-hanging fruits of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are calling to public health far more urgently than this pie in the sky limitless life.

Still, it's definitely worth it to continue research along these lines and plenty of other ridiculous lines. Even if they don't come to anything. We have such a tremendous abundance of intellectual capacity as a species. If we dedicate all our intellectual capacity to solving the low-hanging fruits in healthcare (or to increasing the click-through rates of ads, among other things) it would require us to allocate many people to no task at all, just because there was already an excessive abundance of resources already dedicated to the tasks.

It's a little fun and encouraging to think about, but the more people there are alive, the more important unimportant things become, because with more people there are more problem solvers.
If i have never reflowed a pcb before, how should i learn?
Serious question: how much of that cost is because we don’t have to fire them more?
These "experts" are just journalists who wouldn't be writing articles if they had enjoyed any success analyzing orderbooks. This article is perhaps the most clueless garbage I've read on the topic of crypto, and there is a LOT of cringeworthy stuff out there. What's that saying about how people scoff at the inaccuracies when reading about something in the news they know intimately, and then read the rest of the paper as though it's going to be any better?

> Meanwhile you don't seem to understand why it is remarkable that the market can absorb a huge order that should move the market because of its sheer size while much smaller order have a much larger impact.

Is the concept of an orderbook so foreign to non-finance/math people? Firstly, 13k is not a "huge" order. Secondly, someone clearly just had a somewhat large maker order placed at $1 for the example cited which absorbed a few orders, and the book was thinner for a subsequent price movement (liquidity vacuum). Explained by the market being low volume, low volatility, likely dominated by a handful of traders/algos, and plain old random variation (individual players' orders have a more significant effect in low volume markets like Tether/USD). It's also important to note that psychological price levels (like 1.0) tend to accumulate larger walls as a result of human nature. For Tether in particular, it makes sense that the price never breaches 1.0. It's an easy short above 1.0, as it is impossible for Tether to ever become worth more than the price it is pegged at, whereas it could become worth less if it were insolvent. So there is probably a huge wall sitting there on every exchange.
It needs to be combined with something like dnscrypt with cached ssl credentials (and the occasional request to known dnssec domains for the slightly more paranoid)
I wonder how a system would turn out in which all electronics/software are forced to have both their diagrams/schematics and code published, but in exchange this is copyrighted for like ~7 years or so.
This is something I'd love to do. Do you have any resources for learning the background info? Everywhere I've looked just plugs in some TCP/socket library, but I think the real learning would come from _making_ the library itself.
You cannot, part of the reasoning will be that the footage may need to be used in court therefore the integrity of the information needs to be maintained, another reason will be that it would be incredibly impractical and a burden for businesses to erase the faces of everyone that requests it. You cannot request that a business deletes CCTV footage of you either, probably for similar reasons. You can request a copy or to view that footage though.

In another comment you posted:

>I'm still not sure that recording everyone who walks past your store 24/7 is legitimate interest.

Stores and businesses need to display signs for when they are recording in the areas they're recording, inside a store it may be obvious that the store is recording, so a sign may only be needed on a door. Outside of a store you may need more prominent signs. If it's not obvious that the area area is being recorded then even more signs need to be posted still. The degree to which stores and businesses can record outside of their businesses will vary by country, but for the UK the ICO provides information for consumers [0], and businesses [1].

[0] https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/cctv/

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/police-justice/
What do you think of Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome?
There are countless uses of drones that endanger nobody and create no such risk. And private firefighters are just as real as any other firefighters.

You should give up this totalitarian impulse to have the government control all uses of drones by private parties regardless of circumstances, just because there happens to be a fire nearby. Many things can be dangerous if improperly used, which does not grant power to the State to ban their every use under the pretense of emergency conditions.
Nice. I browse with gallium on a Chromebook but I have a desktop at home with elementary. A little fancy but tolerable.

Still not quite the Year of the Linux Desktop... Any year now....
You could check it out a hundred times, but uless you were there during a relatively short window of time after a big storm in the eastern pacific, you wouldn’t have seen these waves.

In the 60s we didn’t have satellite photography or radar, so only a handful of ‘lucky’ people would have ever seen conditions like that. Remember - it’s 100 miles offshore, it’s not inhabited...
Won’t it be hard for 1588 hardware to compete on price with a pure software solution?
Legitimate question - if most of the harm of eCigs is not on your physical health, what is it?
I personally find them more annoying than just BGA. But conventional wisdom is they are easier since technically you can solder them with a soldering iron and eventually you'll get lucky and remove the last solder bridge without creating a new one.

The trick with BGA parts is to use solder paste and a stencil. Once you try it you will never go back. By the way make sure you read the xilinx documents extremely carefully. Its easy to forget to wire PUDC_B and prevent the thing from ever being programmed. There are lots of little gotchas.
Stockholm and LA are excellent examples. In Stockholm, there is a municipally owned company that builds fiber. It received no government funding, and built the fiber over more than 15 years in a demand driven way (building first to businesses, then to places with highst demand). It leases access to ISPs, and there are no mechanisms to force it to subsidize lower income or disadvantaged people.

Contrast Los Angeles. There, Stokab’s business model would be illegal. Builiding out based on demand might mean that wealthier neighborhoods would get fiber a decade before poorer neighborhoods. Disproportionately, white residents would get fiber before hispanic residents. That would be politically untenable (and would be completely impossible to put the government’s imprimpteur behind such an effoet as with Stokab). For that reason, most US cities make Stokab’s business model illegal.

Los Angeles had a fiber proposal: https://www.wired.com/2013/11/la-fiber. It tried to get companies to build a fiber network. By contrast with Stockholm’s approach, neighborhood income and population density could not be a “factor” in the rollout. That means that any ISP would have to build to new neighborhoods that were not economically justifiable. The ISP moreover would have to provide a minimum level of free access to all residents. It would thus have to recover the cost of that from other residents, driving the price higher and decreasing the competitiveness of the product. Unsurprisingly, nobody took up Los Angeles on that proposal. Nobody would build it, it made no business sense.

In Stockholm, fiber was a simple business proposition, built with private capital. In California, it was a social justice initiative, unattractive to private capital. Which is not necessarily itself a problem, but if you want to do that you need to be willing to build it with public money.
For better or worse, IDA is the standard tool.
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome seems to not be that well known. CHS appears to suggest that for certain segments of the population there is a physical component to marijuana addiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_syndro...
I believe there are some Lattice ispPAC parts that still use ABEL, at least on the back end of their GUI.
What is Juul doing that led to such resounding success compared to all the other ecig makers?
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Is nicotine bad for you? I thought it was just what made cigarettes addictive, and all the other stuff is what made them unhealthy. Happy to be proved wrong -- I'll let some eCig friends know ;)
It's never a surprise about the fact that scoundrels find their way into what's lucrative. It's surprising to find out the many ways an economy can find lucrative endeavors.
> Look at Bitcoin over the past 1-2 years. It is completely common for it to trade at a 3-5% spread between USD exchanges.

This has not been the case for a long time.
My guess would be a Kodak 16mm handheld. The Cine-Kodak Model B was introduced in 1923 and a few subsequent models had been released by 1935: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cine-Kodak
Yes but in normal programming it is uncommon to need to write algorithms that traverse the global object graph. You normally care about some local view of it.
I would highly recommend looking into microdosing psychedelics for improving state of mind.

Has worked wonders for those around me. One person suffering from depression and another young adult with Aspergers. In the young adult's case, they say that their anxiety basically has gone away. After several weeks, they are far more social and comfortable in their skin as well. Seems to be bringing some normalcy to their lives. Seems to be much better than cannabis for relaxing them. This individual gets anxiety attacks from cannabis.

If you are worried about the various myths about psychosis and flashbacks, read "A really good day" and the author goes into the safety aspect of it. TLDR, it's safe. What is not safe is mislabeled things.

The general regimen is usually a 3-day cycle.

day 1 - dose

day 2 - transitional day

day 3 - rest

day 4 - repeat

I have tried a more aggressive cycle and it's quite a bit much, so 3 days seems to be the better regularity. After some time going down to 1-2x/week is adequate in its effects as well.

A little bit of cryptocurrency and some googling can get one access with relatively little effort.
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Australian defense budget is 36 billion [1] with a GDP of 1.2 trillion. US defense budget is 600 billion with a GDP of 18 trillion. It is just about the exact same percent of GDP.

[1] https://www.pyneonline.com.au/media-centre/media-releases/a-...
"All the watts"? Just because a fancoil can dissipate 45 kW doesn't mean there aren't limitations elsewhere in the system (e.g. the compressor can only pump that much coolant around). The Twitter thread mentions nothing about the compressor..
This is really fascinating. I still don’t have an intuitive understanding of why getting into space takes so much more propellant than flying an airplane, but it seems like it’s definitely a hugely more difficult thing to do. Thanks for posting.
But, but but ... what will all the gas stations do with their 99.9¢/gal signs? ;->

The same argument could be made for the nickel and the dime. (How many of us collect them in a jar, and pay a 10% royalty to turn them into dollars?)

We all know that the real reason we hold on is that we know the price of everything will go up. Skinflints!
I live in one such building. It takes one week of high temperatures and it remains hot inside no matter the temperatures, it takes a week of cool weather. That has nothing to do with the topic though, and 15 °C at night is not a heat wave no matter how bad the design.

By the way, I found by personal experiment that all it takes is one layer of something like cloth in front of the stone to prevent if from heating up. I completely cover my large balcony on the outside now, including the thick stones. In all previous years they always stored to much heat during the day that the balcony remained hot well until morning, heat radiating from all sides, making it almost unbearable to go there (or to open the wide door) even when the outside air temperatures had dropped below 20 °C. The difference this summer is huge. So it does not take anything fancy or expensive at all, just prevent direct sun exposure of those heat sink surfaces (like solid concrete).
Value of Tether is nominally $1, right? So why would you expect it to significantly deviate from that value?
Apple Maps has this gesture now too.
Dai is not backed by Ethereum. Dai is backed by Ether.
>> where indeed they use machine learning to induce the rules of chess from a large number of played games (and then learn to play better than any human).

They didn't induce the rules of chess! What they did was learn an evaluation function for chess moves, from scratch, i.e. without giving it the rules or any hand-crafted features.

So they learned a classifier for good/bad board states, which was later used in an alpha-beta minimax search. However, the classifier didn't learn the rules of the game, only a mapping from board positions to labels, good/bad. This is not made explicit in the text, but minimax typically has a rule-base to generate moves as successor states for the search; so the rules of the game were hand-crafted, but did not contribute to the learning of the evaluation function.

It's extremely hard to induce a set of rules with neural nets, or indeed any statistical machine learning algorithm. I mean, imagine representing the rules of chess as a function; let alone trying to learn that function from data.

(Full disclosure: I study algorithms that learn rules from data; they're not neural nets).
What are the EDA discussion boards? Curious to peruse.
I think this all changes in the nearish future.

In my line of work, we sell an extraordinary amount of hard drives to surveillance companies. As an old timer, I've seen this "edge of the wedge" happen twice before, and it feels that it is happening again. I feel that surveillance seems to be equivalent to the PC in 1985 or Smartphones in 2003. In other words, in the same way that society and business was changed forever by the PC or Smartphones, crime will be changed forever by real world tracking. If you lived through PCs or Smartphones, we all said it would change the world, but I think very few (Alan Kay as a prime exception) really internalized the obvious future.

The roadmap and growth of the commercial and consumer surveillance companies are absolutely extraordinary. And resolution x cameras x facial recognition = a future society where large things, such as packages in front of your door, bees in a field, or traffic accidents, will all be caught.

Within a decade, in the same situation where somebody steals a hive of bees, the people that picked up the hives will almost guaranteed to have evidence from a camera on a face or license plate or vehicle type creating probable cause, so you can get the phone records and coordinates of not only the people that picked up the hives but where they dropped them off. I just think it is going to be much easier to catch bad behavior and ensure punishment.

The real question to me is do we have a backlash against this similar to a GDPR? We see that laws are emerging to keep people from tracking us on the web. But will these types of laws be created so that we cannot track people in real life?

If society determines that crime is so bad that we allow real world tracking, what happens to crime? Once you know that any physical act in the open will get you caught, does the crime rate drop dramatically except for those that wish to be caught? Do we have a new breed of off the grid criminal? Or a breed of super hacker criminal that evolves to beat the system.

I think the most likely is that physical crime drops dramatically because everybody knows they will be caught.

As an anime fan, there was program called Psycho-pass. The tenant of the show was a technology that was developed so that any crime would quickly be caught. In many ways a robust surveillance system is this fiction brought to life. One of the most interested arcs (spoilers) is when the system is broken, and the current society is completely unable to deal with the criminals because they have become so naive because the crime rate is so low. I can actually see something like that happening in the future just with a robust surveillance system if society allowed it to happen.

Fun time to be alive, and I think we'll all see this story unfold in our life times.
>The Tether company does not offer this service, which is incredible.

How does sending to a Bank Account work, then? Do banks take Tether now?
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Because even though they say that it's backed by a dollar per tether, there's literally nothing that is keeping it from being traded like a speculative security like BitCoin and other cryptos are.
Can we get the bees to defend themselves? Like if you pick up a hive incorrectly it breaks open?
> The low-hanging fruits of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are calling to public health far more urgently than this pie in the sky limitless life.

Vastly more people die each year of age-related causes than obesity, heart disease, and diabetes combined. It's an unrecognized holocaust inevitably terminating the potential of all humans on this planet, and it is going entirely unrecognized because if you work on solving aging you are a crackpot, whereas "obviously" obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are more deserving of our time and grant money.
Proof that we can indeed traverse backwards in time. Q.E.D.
Dude, if you'd just asked me a more specific question, you could surely have baited me into commenting on this or that culture war issue. Since you asked a general question, though, I'll simply answer with the generality that I wish we could all make more of an effort to show empathy for each other's problems, and (as I said on the podcast) carefully articulate where we agree and disagree with each other rather than just flinging 140-character excrement.

OK, I'll also give you a few links. Here's my Quora answer about what it felt like to be widely attacked on social media, for trying to host a conversation about gender and teenage nerdery that got past platitudes to the roots of people's feelings:

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-for-you-to-be-widely-...

Second, here's my friend Sarah Constantin's blog post about the changing nature of social media, the one I mentioned in the podcast:

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/hiding-in-plai...

Third, here's a recent post called "On Culture War Bubbles," from the blog "Thing of Things":

https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/on-culture-wa...

This is much easier said than done, but as Ozy writes in that post, may we all be granted the mental strength to ignore culture war bullshit, until and unless we decide with the rational parts of our brains that it's important or worth responding to.
I’m always curious what the motivation is when I see someone that is militant about forcing the rest of society to live by their personal moral code. Is this a religious issue for you, @rablo, or is it something else? Why do you wish harm/difficulties on sex workers? Finally, you asserted that it is in fact “in your wheelhouse” to declare that “Sex worker is not a career”. What do you believe gives you the authority to make this declaration?