skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laughable, huh?

>Files we obtained, mainly through the US Freedom of Information Act, show that between 1911 and 2017, more than 800 feature films received support from the US Government’s Department of Defence (DoD), a significantly higher figure than previous estimates indicate. These included blockbuster franchises such as Transformers, Iron Man, and The Terminator.

On television, we found over 1,100 titles received Pentagon backing – 900 of them since 2005, from Flight 93 to Ice Road Truckers to Army Wives.

...

When the CIA established an entertainment liaison office in 1996, it made up for lost time, most emphatically on the Al Pacino film The Recruit and the Osama bin Laden assassination movie Zero Dark Thirty. Leaked private memos published by our colleague Tricia Jenkins in 2016, and other memos published in 2013 by the mainstream media, indicate that each of these productions was heavily influenced by government officials. Both heightened or inflated real-world threats and dampened down government malfeasance.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washingto...
This was one of the points made in http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf about why people find Metcalfe's law compelling despite the numerical evidence against it.

Our personal perception of the size of a network is directly proportional to the value that we get from it. Extrapolating from that we estimate a square law. However we are neither aware of nor directly value the long tail of people distant from us in the network. From multiple ways of estimating, the value of that tail works out to be O(log(N)), leading to a O(N log(N)) valuation for a network.
Communication is integral to society.

And housing isn't‽
How to run secret ZX Spectrum message from Radiohead’s OKNOTOK C90 tape (2017)
No - they bought Android 2 years before the iPhone was announced, and 6-12 months before rumors about it appeared.

You're thinking of the apocryphal story that Google completely pivoted Android when Eric Schmidt heard about the iPhone at the last Apple board meeting before the iPhone announcement
The English language is a scalpel. It's more expressive than any other language in history. As far as I'm concerned, the more widespread it becomes, the better.
For the record, my OP wasn't meant to dispariage hard work by the Zulip team. When one company has 100x the employees of the other, there is a lot of room for substantive work to be "easily" replicated.

My main issue is that HN loves to compare products based on UI features that stand out to front line users, especially dev, and underestimate other aspects (admin features, sales strategy, community development) that drive value for users and success for products. Without attention to these things, you can do good design and difficult engineering without the impact you're looking for.
I don't even have that option.
Maybe yes, maybe no. But realistically, with the hype out there about AI solving all problems, do we think its not going to get used?

Seems like more productive conversation could be had over how to use, than blanket dismissals. The proverbial 400-lbs man in his basement can code this up relatively easily with existing tools, to near state-of-the-art results. So the guy that works for the FBI will too. Let's come up with appropriate, targeted safety mechanisms so the oven doesn't light the whole building on fire.
Why not just accept VISA/MasterCard? Why does everything have to be run by the big tech corps? VISA already has solutions for this and they have been out the last, what two decades. It can’t be the tech that’s lacking in USA, it has to be a pollicy or market issue.
Won what?!?

We keep happily using Skype for Business and Lotus Sametime.
Not going to happen for the movies worth watching in the theaters.
That wasn't true until recently on Chrome/Android, and seems to be a direct response to EU actions.
And Apple didn’t invent the smartphone, but they reimagined it in a way that basically made things 10X better in UX, just like buying ads on google is 10X better than the process described earlier.
Library: A library is an asset to a community.

Company: A community is an asset to a company.
You're critiquing a very narrow interpretation of a sentence written by someone in a second language.
No, the EU is failing. Merkel has spearheaded the importation of millions of people who (along with their descendants) will NEVER thrive in the information economy, and who will accelerate their fiscal demise as their native population ages.
Interesting, do you have a source? I'm interested in misjudgment and cognitive errors, so i'd like to read about this.
History of Programming Language Topics
As we transition from a pedigree-based to a skills-based economy, it would make sense that the humanities would be an earlier casualty than many other fields.
I often wonder what parts of the world are well-documented in OSM because my city is sorely lacking. I'm sitting reading this in a restaurant that has been here for decades. Not only is the restaurant not in the data, but the building itself isn't, which is something that I thought was pretty well covered.

I've added a major post office in the past. Not a new one either.

It's really hard to get enthusiastic about contributing to it when the data is just abysmal here. I hear about people adding hedges and just am baffled that their area is so well-covered that a hedge is a notable omission.

I know, I know, do it myself. Be the change you want to see. But man, without some sophisticated AR tech I don't know how Indianapolis can catch up.
Isn’t this obviously a possible outcome since federal law still doesn’t change regarding marijuana?
It really depends specifically where, how much competition exists and what type of last mile tech that competition uses. How big the market is in population and small to medium businesses.

There are a large number of ISPs that use licensed PTP gear on rooftops in NYC already, in combination with their fiber networks.

If you have a specific area in mind for a rural part of the state, send me an email address and I'll contact you to see what might be possible.
Adding to this:

> vgo tries to install the oldest version of a packages that still satisfies any lower bounds specified anywhere in the dependency tree

Another benefit of this that may be a little less obvious (it wasn't obvious to me) is that this means every package-version selected by MVS in the entire dependency tree is explicitly specified somewhere in the dependency tree. This means that every selected package-version was specifically tested with at least one other package (assuming, reasonably, that libraries are tested with the versions that they specify). You don't get this with SAT, in fact it's possible for SAT to select a set of packages where no two package-versions were ever tested with each other anywhere else before.

I feel that this property, combined with upgrades requiring affirmative action by the root package maintainer (by editing go.mod or having a tool do it), will make vgo-managed packages much more reliable over time.
Backing up 20 DEC RA81 disk drives with 120MB capacity 9-track tapes. The RA81s were 454MB each.

A 20-node VAXcluster using workstations and 10base5 (coax) Ethernet.

StorageTek anything.

Real laser printers that could set the paper on fire. (DEC LN01s that were rebranded Xerox units)

PL/I

Bliss-32

Microfiche of the VAX/VMS source
People win the lottery.
That PR reads like a Monty Python skit.

"That's a dead bird!"

"No it's not, it's just having a little sleep!"

etc. etc. etc.
Other package managers (cargo, gemfile, etc.) also give reproducible builds by using a lockfile. Upgrading dependencies to their maximum version is an explicit action (cargo update). It's not clear to me why the go team things lockfiles are a huge issue.
Housing is too. Land reform (Or, to sound less scary, property taxes and capital gains) is a subject that seriously needs to be revisited.
You asked before that I clarify my arguments.

If the recipe is so secret, do not patent it. Some companies forgo patents for that reason.

Here nobody is compelling anyone. My anti patent point just means not letting the government enforce IP rights. In case like these, it is not just ideology - it is morally wrong as explained in the quote.
https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ is allegedly still a thing that exists and that you can install if you have Windows. It says it works on Windows 7 and 8, IE, and Firefox. My guess is that they haven't updated that, and it'll no longer work on Firefox since Quantum, but it's likely some flavor of IE will work with you there. And my guess is it'll work on Windows 10 with IE, since most things that work on 8 work fine on 10.
--- at a rate orders of magnitude faster than trees currently do
The article says that Australia has 14% of global reserves not that they're only mining 14% of what they have. We've also found all the easy stuff already, the cost of exploration will only increase over time since the good stuff will be deeper or in more random places.
Unicode characters probably aren't all rendering on your end due to your font.
I may seem that this is a trivial conclusion for many of us that take sometime to understand technology. However, this is actually a well tuned selling strategy that get most of the people around the world hooked-up to several paid services with money or they private information:

https://hbr.org/2008/04/the-four-things-a-service-business-m...

This is the main reason why large free service companies have products to sell, and then people who understand do not usually like.
Nobody is (or should be) trying to immunize the DPRK here.

I didn't say that, if it sounded like I did, sorry!

is exploited by the administration as casus belli

That's a different argument with a higher bar - you can't meet it debating the state of Otto Warmbier's teeth.

it's the subtext (in many comments here) that the reporting in this GQ piece is slapdash or done in bad faith.

For what little it's worth, that gets my goat every single time as well.
> You don't know that. If the quark degeneracy pressure is high it could support far more massive objects.

Nope. Go read Shapiro and Teukolsky's textbook on compact states of matter. They go into excruciating mathematical detail to show that this is not true. It has to do with relativistic degeneracy, which is a general phenomenon that applies to any kind of compact state of matter.

> Why would you assume, without data, that there is no other degeneracy pressure that could support such pressures?

Because physicists have already figured out a general model that applies to all possible states of compact matter. See above.

> Run the numbers - that's about a factor of 1,000 too large to be a black hole.

You're missing the point. For a system of that mass, there is nothing else that could fit even inside a radius 1,000 times the Schwarzschild radius and remain stable for a significant period of time. For example, if there were a million stars (or neutron stars) of one solar mass each, they would not be in stable orbits; the whole system would collapse to a black hole. This has been studied in detail numerically and is part of why astronomers are highly confident that the object at the center of our galaxy is a black hole.

> A cold object would be invisible.

There would have to be on the order of a million cold objects, not just one, because of the maximum mass limit. See above.

> How do you know it's a black hole and not a neutron star?

All of the candidates I linked to are well over the maximum mass limit.

> It would "see" it gravitationally.

I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean, would an object on the other side of the hole detect the increase in mass when the first object fell in, yes, it would.

> Anything heading toward a black hole would (from my POV) look like it was frozen in time.

Not until it got very, very close to the hole. For example, in the case of the hole at the center of the galaxy, whose Schwarzschild radius is about 10 million kilometers, you could see an object fall to within well under a million kilometers of the horizon before the light emitted from it would be too redshifted to detect. (How close would depend on how low a frequency of EM radiation your detectors could detect; we can detect very low frequencies, which means my estimate above might be quite a bit larger than our actual current detection capability.)

> all scientists agree about that part

About the general fact of light from objects falling into a black hole being redshifted, yes. But I strongly doubt you have actually run the numbers to see how close an object has to get to the hole before the redshift becomes significant.

> Since we can never see any black holes form, black holes do not exist.

Faulty logic. Nor do any of the scientific sources you quote from make this claim. They know better.
They're sort of an intelligence network for payment processors. Took a few days and it worked again, but just be aware that having a new credit card every payment might put you in a higher risk bucket.
That movie was about robots fighting monsters and was named for its intended market as much as its subject matter: expecting complicated dialog given that seems ambitious.
Yeah, I took a look and that's exactly it - the US records over a year and the rest of the world a lot lower, so that could pick some stuff up. But I don't think that explains the higher mortality - I imagine the longer one lives after childbirth, the better odds one has that they will continue to live longer, and it certainly doesn't explain why minorities have so much of a higher rate.
Probably just a less obviously-hostile environment would be a good start.
Looks like they've accepted they can't censor people to suppress "problematic" ideas without criticism, so instead they will let the hivemind do it for them. "Downvote things that are uncivil or irrelevant" is the biggest joke.

I don't think it will make any comment section better and such mechanisms usually tend to push communities to one extreme or the other. Imagine if twitter had voting...
Yeh so not sustainable.. it will run out..

and...

it will run out even if we don't use it!
I received the same rant/incredulity from several of my own professors (in Philosophy). It was incredibly disheartening to see academics essentially give up on any sort of robust future for their field.
What this article misses is adapting diction to the customer (at least in non offensive ways.) For example, in my business I deal with a lot of mental health professionals that tend to use a lot more bigger words. I match my word choices to their own diction and tone, “educated collegues conversing.” While when I am dealing with therapy clients, it’s more variable: For a customer that uses words common in the South (such as y’all,) I will flow with that, for European customers, I become more clear and deliberate with my word choices, as an example. Having been a long term expat, that ability to adapt English diction to the audience has been invaluable — just don’t be patronizing or rude obviously. Just match the other person and stay within their vocabulary and diction comfort level. That’s very powerful and it works.
Good lesson in the value of being familiar with the local law when you visit places that don't protect basic rights you may take for granted.
Actually you're right... it isn't.

I was thinking in term of player base size. But now that I think about it more, player base size makes no difference in the context of this conversation.
So would Lebanon have extradited her, if she had waited to post it?
Evolution can talk to Exchange servers. I would have preferred Thunderbird, but so far Evolution has done nothing to annoy me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/
I use "fin de semaine" and people understands it perfectly.
Can't upvote this enough.

I'll take it a step farther. One of the consequences of building a distributed network is that individual nodes are much more likely to fail than a centralized node. The overall network health is going to be better, but for a given random article or person you find online somewhere, the odds that the server does something screwy are a lot higher because the server is smaller and has less backing.

It's not just about separating identity from hosting so that content creators can move around - content itself needs to be separated from its hosting. I want to be confident that if I share a link to some content, that content is still going to be available at that link 4 or 5 years from now. Minus that solution, in some ways ActivityPub actually makes my life worse because it means content moves around more often.

Mastadon and PeerTube are great examples of this - instances are not an implementation detail of these platforms that we could swap out later for something more robust - they're a core concept that's talked about at a user-facing level. That's insane to me. Why on earth do we even have the concept of an instance or a server? Why is it baked so hard into our protocols as to guarantee that we can't possible get rid of it in the future?

Sure, someday maybe IPFS will completely solve the problem and we'll switch off of URLs. But probably not soon. So we should be trying to find mid-term solutions that allow us to separate identity and content from a location regardless of whether or not we're using IPFS. We should be designing everything around that constraint.
> The benefits to humanity are far too great to pass them up for the selfish needs of a single individual, even if she cannot comprehend her important contribution to science.

It's remarkable that this is not a parody. Much (critical) has been written about this attitude, which led to the Tuskegee study and other atrocities. Again, what you are suggesting is criminal. I won't comment further.
Libreoffice vs Openoffice, Hudson vs Jenkins, and there would be so many more.
For JS projects, I recommend husky: https://github.com/typicode/husky
Maybe, it is time to create an OpenGPS? Please, let me know if you know how to build one using RPi or something similar.
BTW:

cargo doc --open

opens documentation for the current project, including all its dependencies. Rust generates docs in HTML. While it doesn't stay purely in command line, it enables cross-linking, collapsible sections, and has built-in search.
I was going to say something like that, but it seemed too cruel.
University studies probably are on borrowed time. It seems to me that they are insanely inefficient for the stated purpose - educating people. They are more than ripe for disruption.

That said, it seems to me that the disruption probably will first be in the engineering areas rather than in the humanities. Do you know chemical engineering? I can test for that, whether or not you went to a university. (The GRE will do that in many fields.) But did you absorb the enrichment that should have come with your university education? The humanities cares about that; STEM doesn't.
Unrecycled material isn't "lost"[1]. Those batteries are still in landfills and can be recovered at least as easily as ore can be mined. Economics will fix this for us. Increase the price of lead and at some point it becomes worthwhile to scavenge those landfills for old batteries (or to use alternative battery chemistries, etc...).

[1] Though in a handful of cases it gets dispersed in a way that's very difficult to recover. I mentioned phosphorus in another post: P is being unsustainably pulled out of rocks and put into biomass, where it gets flushed into the oceans. Figuring out a way to get it back out is a far bigger mess than mere cobalt recycling is going to be. But even there economics will save us as fertilizer costs make recovery new techniques worthwhile.
That doesn’t sound as a good idea for a country with lots of tourists like Egypt to start putting them in jail.

Not a good signal for others.
I think what's changed is that the humanities have become so easy to access that degreess are no longer required for people with just a passing interest and since the degree itself isn't worth as much as the skills it develops; is more effective to get a higher value degrees and persue those interests in other ways.
Please consider not doing this if you're doing some sort of public / open source work. You're effectively installing software on someone's computer which they may not be directly aware of and that triggers silently in the background. I'm sure you're not nefarious, but if your project were compromised you could easily see issues of downloaded code from the compromise repo being run without the users knowledge.

Internally / privately it's generally a lesser risk, but if this is open source please consider removing that feature for better security. That or document it incredibly clearly.
True. But then you may have deliverability issues, right?
Your and Odlyzko's refutation still fails to consider frictional or hygenic costs. These are roughly constant for n, and set an upper size bound where marginal (actually: constant) cost exceeds marginal value.

Since a novel network might be able to selectively recruit high-value nodes, this sets up the serial monopoly / collapse / new monopoly dynamic.

A few other dynamics added (Gresham's law, tyranny of minimum viable user) accentuate this.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutat...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/61goq1/softwar...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
Not sure what to say about this. Proud to be an American I guess. Free speech is a glorious thing.
I'm curious to see how this will turn out particularly on controversial news articles. Most news site comment sections have a majority liberal/conservative audience, which curses minority viewpoints to be heavily downvoted. But she if this is true on Facebook.
"Liberal education" originally meant the education appropriate for free people, as opposed to education in a trade, which was for slaves. Translating that into the modern day, if you have to work for a living, a liberal education probably isn't going to pay.
> a hundred dead languages and frameworks designed by a single visionary leader who made the wrong decisions

E.g. there's the namesakes for Rails and Ruby, i.e. Grails and Groovy. Virtually no-one's upgraded to Grails version 3 since it came out 3 yrs ago, or started new projects in Grails version 2. The Grails 2 plugin ecosystem is as good as dead. It only has its "single visionary leader" listed for the 3 contact persons (owner, admin, tech) in the grails.org DNS registration.

As for Apache Groovy, it's hanging on as the build language for Gradle and Android Studio, but doesn't seem to have any other significant use besides its original use case of glue code and testing harnesses. Groovy's problem is its creator, who had successfully added closure functionality to a clone of Beanshell, left the project after 3 yrs and the "despot" at Codehaus who subsequently claimed the title Project Manager was someone who didn't have the aptitude for many programming tasks.