skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you literally missed a wedding and probably lost some friends and you still think it was a good idea?

I mean I don't spend too much time on Facebook (I hate procrastinating so I'm limiting myself a lot). But it has been the most useful website I have used in the past 10 years. Yes more than Gmail or Github. It wasn't useful for work, but I'm still working hard even with facebook. I check it only in the bathroom.

Concerning privacy? Privacy is long gone. And I couldn't care less. And I knew that in 2010, no need for cambridge analytica scandal. I just only communicate as if everything was public. I don't mind if any employer sees my entire Facebook/Twitter history. I don't mind if the presidential candidates know what type of milk I drink. I don't mind the government can track where I am using GPS or cell tower triangulation. I am who I am, and I have nothing to hide.
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I didn't know they had a desktop app. I only use it in a web browser and on my phone and I don't think they have those issues. Maybe you should give those a try?
There is currently limited support for account migration in Mastodon, and ongoing discussions about how to improve it. It's not at the level that it's at in Hubzilla, but it's not a lost cause, either.
Politics is a science of course.
Fighting a limited war action is very different from the total war scenario I detailed.

China would have a really tough time invading Japan. The country is extremely mountainous, limiting ship landings to a few easily-defensible locations, and air transport is going to be limited by anti air weaponry that can be hidden pretty much anywhere. I'm not saying it can't be done and I'm by no means an expert, but even if that was all China had to do, meaning they could pour the entire resources of the country into it, they'd find it really hard.

If they had to fend off Russia at the same time? Forget it. Japan is basically Switzerland and the UK rolled into one. China found it easier to expand a thousand miles to the west than to conquer an island 3 hundred miles to the east. China couldn't even conquer Korea, much less Japan. I'd have to ask Rotty to be sure, but I'm fairly sure that 90% of the war plans end with negotiated settlements rather than complete surrender.
As I said, this is Fitt's law[0], and it's a very valid thing that goes well, well beyond HCI.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law
I agree with your statement, my business model IS incompatible with the spirit of GDPR. You and I are just looking at GDPR differently. You think its somthing good.

You are wrong about the business profiting from personal data however. That doesn't happen. Again, my assumption is you are a lay person and you do not understand the complexities of data management. You are making assumptions about why data is handled the way way that it is, assuming the reason is greed or incompetence. You're wrong.

I certainaly conceed that it is possible that compotition could come along and be GDPR compliant and 'win' but from my perspective that wont happen. What will happen is the largest organizations will be fined into regularly spending large amounts of money to work on GDPR, hold the regulators off to to some extent and small players will never exist or get destroyed because one small wrong move and one wrong bureaucrat has that power over them.

Time never stops telling a new story, but what time is saying right now is the America is dominating the EU in information technology and that sure looks like it will continue throughout my lifetime.
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Great story, would be nice if the voice emulator became open source
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We are getting enormous value from using zulip topics between just 2 people.

Myself and my cofounder use Zulip effectively as 'WhatsApp with topics'. We can chat to each other on a variety of things, and they're easily retrievable, searchable and persistent.

For example, one of our topics is 'interesting articles' where we send HN Links etc. that the other might be interested in. They can be separated from other conversation but it's easy to go back and scroll through them when you've got some time to kill.
Cf. Ateji in Japan where kanji were fitted to Latin words. It was more common in the past, transliteration is more popular now.

A daily use of ateji is for abbreviations for country:

仏 fu, 仏蘭西, France
英 ei from 英吉利, England
米 from 亜米利加, America
露 from 露西亞, Russia

One that uses katakana:
ソ from ソビエト連邦, Soviet Union

Usage: 米ドル bei doru, US dollar, 英国 United Kingdom

米 is used for America because 亜 was already an abbreviation for 亜細亜, Asia.
SMS interception is hardly a low bar for attackers. If you are being targeted by someone with these capabilities then there is a lot more you have to worry about. Many other 2FA mechanisms would be similarly vulnerable to an attacker with that amount of money and technology...
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I really enjoyed reading that, thank you for posting.
If a private company fails over and over again it goes bankrupt and is dissolved. If a government department or organisation completely fails at their goal they’ll generally be given more money and resources. See many, many school districts in America, the CIA (failed to predict the fall of the USSR and 9/11), the Pentagon (Iraq and Afghanistan), the State Department (Let’s destroy Libya and Syria!)

Organisations very rarely reform or change. Usually they die and other successful ones take over their market niche. Where this doesn’t happen or happens very rarely things change very slowly.

Any competitor with the public school system has to compete with free at the point of access. Absent transferable budget per child local school systems have a huge advantage.
This is because macOS uses a document-centric model, in which case the window is a document, as opposed to Windows where the window is the application. In the former case it is therefore perfectly possible for the application to be running when no document (hence no window) is opened.
I feel this is a disgrace!

Not the removal of live bookmarks, it's fair to expect this to be an extension, but the removal of feed discovery.
of course, it wont matter that much to most people, since Mozilla removed that functionality from the URL bar years ago and put it into a button that is not visible by default, thus making sure Joe Average never needs to think about what an RSS feed could be. I would argue that started the trend many sites picked up, where there are still feeds available, but they are nearly impossible to find unless you stumble upon some old sub page via a search engine that used to advertise them and someone forgot to delete it when it was unlinked.

Honestly, RSS is great and I don't see it dying anytime soon, but there will also be no more adaption, because it is just such a technical topic and is nearly impossible to discover the feeds and how they work unless someone knowledgeable shows it to you.

And for a web browser to have no option of displaying available feeds to the user is just embarrassing. But then, that also was the death of micro formats as useful to end-users, having no UI available to interact meaningfully.
Commercial damage is often worse than technical
3-4 new polymetalic mines can easily double the global cobalt supply.

The story with cobalt is the same as with REEs and Lithium - they are everywhere, but few big companies dare to mine them expecting the business to go bust the moment China or Congo resort to further dumping

For Nickel, global supply is being dominated by a price cartel, doing the same thing.
Yeah that's one of the more direct criticisms I had as well, just like the author

- not realising that (though this is an assumption from me) the most common workflow in GNOME is for applications to have a single window, i.e. users not being aware of distinctions between windows and applications.
- thinking that you can only interact with focused windows. The result is that on multiple monitors, you don't need to be constantly aware of which window is focused - except to know which window's menu bar is currently showing.

That said, in broad lines I'm mostly annoyed by the author's trivialising the reasons for things not being the way they'd like them to be, and placing their own intuitions over actual user experiences - as an interaction designer.
I wonder if one of the reasons Hawking was so tied to that specific voice and hardware was so that there could be a way to verify that a recording was actually him. If nobody else had that hardware and software combo, it wouldn't be possible for anyone else to put words into his mouth.

With that in mind, it was nice to read that the original CallText boards as well as the emulator are with the family. That should provide the security to ensure that nobody can impersonate him in the future.
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Facebook’s debacle, $100M rounds and Slack links up with Atlassian
> Most find that a useful shorthand in achieving concise and clear discussion, that helps to avoid overly formal and long grandiose Victorian circumlocution, without finding it vague waffle. Something I am eternally thankful for.

This is what I'm talking about. You are exaggerating to absurd extremes. No one is using "overly formal and long Victorian circumlocution" here. And I literally pointed out where you explicitly said things that run counter to your claim that you didn't mean those things you said.

> "most customer-centric company"

This one can technically probably be measured along some metric. A company that is actively hostile towards its customers can be said to be less customer-centric than one that doesn't.

> Quite, and yet you write "What if all I have is corn? I'm a customer."

This is disingenuous. You are the one arguing on the basis of anyone in the shop being a customer. I'm showing you, from your perspective, how quickly the adage breaks down. It doesn't matter that it doesn't cover every, single incident. The problem is that it doesn't even really cover most incidents.

> you're not offering legal tender or any other form of recognised currency.

That's not a requirement to be a customer.

> As the article points out 7.5% in the US are unbanked. 12% aren't on the net.

And? Not being able to go to one burrito shop is hardly going to harm anyone. Not to mention, this is how things change. That 7.5% is going to go down. There's a large portion of people who don't receive any sort of cash. They can't be "customers" either. What happens if they want something?

And I know what you're going to say: Yeah, but money has to be earned. No shit. And you have to do something someone else feels is worthwhile in order to earn that money. It is inherently discriminatory. But we accept it.

> Legal tender is currently cash

You have that backwards. Cash is currently legal tender. But so are electronic payments. Like someone else pointed out, electronic payments are currently the currency in general use.

> I would encourage requiring businesses to accept legal tender (subject to any legislated limitations on paying large amounts in small change that many countries already limit).

Give with one hand, take with the other. Already you accept the premise that a business can restrict the forms in which you pay. You buy into that. You just think the line should be drawn where you're comfortable with it.

> You're not yet a customer and you're not offering legal tender or any other form of recognised currency. Which is why it is clearly absurd and takes the discussion away from the actual topic in TFA - the rise, and potential discrimination, of cashless.

These statements are in conflict with each other and that's what people are trying to tell you. Discrimination you accept is still discrimination.

> That's a far larger and problematic discrimination than "no hats". I won't be discriminated against, just inconvenienced.

By not being allowed in the establishment? You can't just call discrimination you're comfortable with "inconvenience" and pretend it's not discrimination.
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> Email does not convey the emotion of a phone call, let alone a video call.

Certainly does not, and it's a nice bonus, but when on earth do people use video calls? Since they are even better at conveying emotions, by your logic everybody carrying a smartphone should be making video calls at all times. But it's the contrary, people even prefer texting on Whatsapp over phone calls or even voice messages.

> Easy access to information fosters discussion - by ending pointless, heated debates over nothing.

They are the opposite of pointless. I feel the current/younger generation has completely lost the ability to have civilized, structured debates. If you can't solve a disagreement by a google search people freak out pretty quickly. And then we need safe spaces left and right and everybody is a victim and it's all society's fault. Those pointless debates over trifles serve a purpose, like kitten playfully fighting all day.

> Only teenagers, and I now presume, older people, fuddle with their phones instead of talking to the person in front of them.

Mostly teenagers yes, but them being the next generation of adults I doubt they'll just stop once they're into their twens. It'll just become the norm.
> I hope that in the future the highways can be electrified

Obligatory remark: Let's also put the cars on metal rails instead of on asphalt to reduce rolling friction. And maybe instead of small cars, we could use large wagons or chains of those that could transport a lot of people at the same time.
The maps in the article look like something taken straight out of one of those scifi movies about global catastrophe.

Here's a direct link to one of them: http://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.co...
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"Analysts are people who tell you what the world will look like in 15 years if nothing changes."

I noticed at the bottom of the page this disclosure:

"Competing Financial Interests

G.Y. is a co-founder, chief technology officer, a board member and a shareholder of Sila Nanotechnologies, the company commercializing silicon-based anode materials mentioned in this Comment article."

Referring to co-author Gleb Yushin, "a professor of materials science at the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA."

The other three authors are:

Kostiantyn Turcheniuk, "a research scientist at the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA."

Dmitry Bondarev, "an undergraduate student at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA."

Vinod Singhal, "a professor of business at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA."
I also feel like articles like this tend to evoke some kind of sharp discontinuity – as if we’ll suddenly run out of nickel, and prices will explode. But the fact that we can predict the problem 10 years out is exactly why that won’t happen. Even if we do hit a hard limit without any natural tapering in supply, the clearer it becomes that we’re approaching a shortage, the more speculators will buy up current supply, smoothing the process out.
This is a nobel reason, however I imagine the real answer is closer to sex appeal and money.

Also, who should determine how the resources of humanity are deployed?

People who arbitrarily have gained control of the resources?

For a tiny fraction of what is spent on space, we could solve world hunger and water.

It also seems a well fed and hydrated global population would be much happier, healthier, creative and productive.

Another question for folks who make the hedging argument — at what point do we say “ok, we have X% of the population living off world, so now we are going to divert funds to make sure people have access to basic human needs on earth.”
Ask HN: Who Will Win the Race to $1 Trillion?
At the open of trading today, 7/27/2018, the top 3 are:

AAPL: $955 Billion

GOOG: $882 Billion

AMZN: $877 Billion

Momentum favors AMZN, which is up 4% pre-market. But AAPL only needs to gain 5% to hit $1 Trillion.

Who gets there first?
You're in a gloomy waiting room. You arrived early, so could be waiting awhile. Nothing to read except a few old Vogue magazines. You're by yourself, you didn't bring a book. Your inventory is a wallet, keys, and flip phone. What is your next move?
Doesn't this example go against your point? I've been hearing that we were nearing the end of the oil supply since I've been a kid but the date keeps being pushed back. As the demand for oil grows the price goes up and new methods to extract more oil from the ground become profitable. Now current projections seem to target the 2050s at the earliest.
Poltical unrest, lost human potential, death, suffering at a massive scale.

Is a humanity that doesn’t bother taking care of its own people worth saving?
This has been always a question I always asks myself on a personal level. I was still in school during the recession and graduated when the economy was picking up so I did not experience the impact of the recession first hand. Now that I am older, I am always worried how I can survive with my family through the next dep/recession. Is saving up the best way to protect myself? Are there things I can do now to increase the chances of having income during a downturn?
That's just because Google doesn't index Library of Babel!
https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?fsgju,xzpeiboivi.ul...
And even if there is a social media bubble burst it’s not clear whether that would affect other tech stocks or the market as a whole.
I was under the impression that most of the administrative work was now done in a browser anyways. I wonder what exactly they get by switching to windows, better fleet management tools maybe?
Octane really challenges that notion! (my back still hurt)
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Definitely. It uses this version of the homepage: http://wpdemo.oceanthemes.net/icos/home-token-sales/
We have limited resources and free attention.

Do you feed your kids or do you goto a night club?
It seems complicated to explain, but it's not something that really impacts me much. It really is an okay way to live and the benefits of not having a phone really outweigh the drawbacks for me. It's super-valuable for me to be truly and completely jacked out.
> But the ads are not about “not liking foreigners.” They are about a country with very different beliefs and attitudes

People with very different beliefs and attitudes exist in the same voting blocs everywhere. Should people in Portland Oregon complain that people in Jon Day get to vote in the same elections? Rural people tend to be far more religious and have very different beliefs and attitudes.
It's peak cobalt! Just like peak oil.
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I see, yes you are right about the price.

I tend to call the attention for these Lisps, just because it seems a large amount of developers aren't aware what they are actually loosing in productivity by sticking with their free (gratis) tools.

Embarcadero is another good example, given what Delphi and C++ Builder were already capable of. Although here they have themselves to blame how Borland lost their hobby market ethos.
but everything relating to names of people seems to be unregulated in the UK

As an aside, one can indeed simply change one's name whenever one likes and start going by a new name, so long as it's not for fradulent purposes. One is advised to get some kind of documentary name-changing paperwork, and getting a passport etc in your new name will require that paperwork.
It’s not unheard of for alpha versions of applications to have issues. Does the release version also stutter?
Could you please elaborate a bit on your setup? I don't even know how to check which card is doing the rendering, let alone how to switch it.
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> XMPP spoke XML in an age of JSON

Damn, let's ditch all the XML protocols then, XHTML first :D

What does "age of JSON" means exactly? Those are two different technologies for different purposes.

Even if XMPP tried to move to JSON, how can you do namespaces in JSON for example?

You want ActivityPub in XMPP ? Just take Pubsub and put Atom in it, those are two stable and proven technologies, they fits perfectly (it's just one namespace in another) and with many many benefits.

Here is a news feed built on top of XMPP Pubsub https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim, and yes there's also an Atom 1.0 feed generated from it, because it's easy to just extract the (validated) Atom content from Pubsub and put it back to a proper HTTP page.
The Latin of the Gutenberg Bible is St. Jerome's, so from about 400. It should be nothing that you would find difficult. I imagine that there will take some but not much time to figure out the abbreviations, ligatures, etc.

Tuft's Perseus project (and many, many other sites) have the Vulgate available on-line: see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe... .
I've never really owned a smartphone before 2013, despite the first iphone being released in 2007

When I used to travel a lot a few years back, I went extremely low tech. I wanted to appreciate the beauty each city had to offer and nature as it was meant to be.

I didn't have a data plan and would just memorize maps at the hostel before I set off for an adventure.

To tell the time I would simply just look at the sun and shadows projected. I would know this after the first day since I would have some benchmarks there. The sun rises from east and to the west, but the amount it changes per hour depends on what hemisphere you are in. And the season too ?I believe?

Consequently, this is how I would determine where North, East, West, and South is. I would have a mental model in my head based on how many steps I took to know where I am on the map. I used mostly relative positioning and landmarks in densely populated cities to determine this.

I would carry a paper map with me though, in the event I got lost.

The only downside to having no smartphone is that nighttime navigation was extremely difficult. There was no sun to navigate, I couldn't use the northstar since the lights in the city were too bright to see it.

People think I'm joking when I use sun navigation but I am not. Looking up at the sun is actually sometimes faster to determine the time and direction then having to whip out your phone. This was true especially during flip phone times, but not so much because of how useful smartphones have gotten / smartwatches.

Historically using the sun to determine time was how it was always done since Ancient greek / Egyptian times with Sun Dials.

I also used to parasail too, sometimes on the lake I relied on sun navigation to determine where I was at, since whipping out a phone or looking at a compass is sometimes not reasonable at the time. Especailly when I have my hand on the rudder and the other on ?whatever rope controled the mast?
FIFA player identifed his data at EA by GDPR, realises he spent $10K in 2 years
I don't really have to rely on others to carry a phone. And when I do ask for help; I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Relying on each other is why we have society at all. There are also public phones that I have used on occasion. Also, it's usually just a convenience. If I am truly and completely alone, I am willing to bear the risk of being unable to use a phone to contact someone.
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Glad to see other people still using GWT in the wild.
> choosing the standard Latin-alphabet language

And of course choosing the standard Cyrillic-alphabet language
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