skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your understanding of spycraft is naïve. If you are a target of an international spy agency, like Osama was, trust nothing or no-one.

CIA is blameless. They didn't mass infiltrate the vaccination program of the entire country, or state or city. Then ran a targeted mission on a particular neighborhood, which is what spy agencies do and are supposed to do.

Again, this is a blatant and obvious shifting of blame.

1. the Pakistani state protected and harbored Osama --> their fault.

2. Informing them about the mission would have jeopardized it as Pakistan plays both sides routinely --> Pakistan's fault.

3. Osama was a ruthless murderer of innocents, and a target of international spy agencies --> his fault

How is any of the above CIA's fault?
Yeah, Reddit's search is unusable. Some of the important features used to be corralled into CloudSearch but I think they killed that too.

I pulled the dumps from Bigquery and am going to load them into PG at some point here, so I can do arbitrary queries without hitting BigQuery every time. Haven't looked at how to do that in realtime though, retrospective queries are mostly what I'm interested in.

If you don't want to do that, there's also https://redditsearch.io/ - if you want to search back farther, be sure to set the toggle to "all" instead of "day"!
I think the complaint is that the gold bullion will just be hoarded and used as a unit of account. You could have achieved a similar thing with some strokes of a pen.

It's wasted effort in the same sense that bitcoin mining is wasted energy.
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Agree with you there.

We've been thinking about having an "advanced" toggle which would hide the "developer focused" inspector and just leave a comment field. Wondering if you have thoughts on how we could do this better??
There are uses for this besides ads.

When I worked on Google Reader, something like this would have been incredibly useful. At the time, the only truly safe way to handle embed/object/iframe in post content was to completely filter it out. That's pretty terrible for usability, though. We ended up having a exceptions in our HTML sanitizer embeds of content from certain sites (eg: elves of popular video sites like YouTube and Vimeo were allowed).

I always hated that solution because it made us vulnerable to any site in the whitelist (whether because they become malicious, or because they themselves have a vulnerability), it was unfair to smaller/newer sites, and it was a additional maintenance burden.
Uhmm... too bad I can't buy an Enterprise edition. Would love to be able to disable all those things.

Then, does that mean that you can't edit those settings in the Pro version? (I know there are some utilities to do that, but I would prefer to do it natively)
> The solution is pretty easy though: Widespread enough ownership of robots.

"Get everybody rich" is a solution to a lot of problems, but it’s not easy.

> Making sure there are good open source versions of the robots should allow everyone to benefit from robot labor.

Open-sourcing is a great thing, but does it really reduce the cost of building a robot?
I'm not sure that's true. I think they both work, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/u_Shitty_Watercolour/

Maybe one is just an alias though? I wonder if you can make a r/u_$unused_username and then later register $unused_username

edit: nope, you can't make a sub that starts with "u_"
They passed Prop 13.
But imagine a less one-sided scenario: You have the job of national security, with the presumption that $HUGE_NUMBER of lives are impacted. You have a medical aid group allegedly doing something good. But you know they could be a cover for a force trying to do something that would threaten that $HUGE_NUMBER. There's a cost-benefit analysis that goes into deciding how much of an obstacle you put up in front of said group. It might be minor, such as checking credentials, or posting a dedicated solider/analyst/guide to keep track of things, or scheduling delays, or perhaps denying/delaying access to different areas.

There are a lot of ways to respond that aren't on the "kill doctors" side of your example and yet still impair the $GOOD_DEED. To avoid such debates, It makes sense on both a humanitarian level as well as a public moral-high-ground marketing level to have a line you don't cross even when an individual case looks to justify it. <Insert MIB speech about there's always a crisis here>
I don't know, but I think "Chain" might be a better name than "Monoid" to introduce the concept and capture the main idea.
I wish your comment were at top instead of the don’t-go-to-mars folks :-(
Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns tells a similar story. A family of 1,000 clones split up to tour the galaxy and reunite every 200,000 years. Since they live lone, solitary lives off the grid, they witness from afar many civilizations rising and dying. I found it much more interesting than Reynolds' bone-dry Revelation Space series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Suns
I've been very particular about using my own router and/or wifi in the past, installing one of openwrt/dd-wrt/tomato and tweaking to my heart's content. I would create a DMZ for one or more servers, do the dynamic DHCP, the whole bit.

But now, the ISP provides a single device that is where they terminate the DOCSIS connection and originate the Wifi router. And casual investigation leads me to believe that I "can't" replace this device. I don't want/need a DMZ or my own public servers. Also, I have less patience for tracking down my own breakage these days. The ISP's device works and performs spectacularly. I know of no public vulnerabilities for the provided router.

So IMO no I don't "really want to get rid of any kind of ISP provided router and Wifi".
Cool!

It's nice that you've found this, and are interested. There are clues elsewhere in the thread, but email me for another clue, or an explanation. Address is in my profile.
Pro sports is a weird one... I follow American football and over the years I've seen various players who by all accounts have the talent, but for whatever reason have short careers, don't get much playing time, etc. I remember watching this running back a few years ago, where every time he got on the field would get 7+ yards at a time, but the team only sporadically put him on the field, let alone gave him the ball. Likewise, there are plenty of players who get on the field because they were a first round draft pick and thus the team has a lot riding on them financially - which may or may not actually pan out. So while yes, professional sports are mostly about merit, I'm not sure we can say that's the only thing at play.
you know that research test they do where the subject can have $5 now or $50 at the end if they don't take the $5 and a disappointing amount of times they go for the $5.

The problem is everyone cheers on the politician that says you can have the $5 AND the $50.
Not sure what it would entail, but unlike Goodreads, your catalog didn't have Mexican books like "La insidiosa fatalidad de las cosas"[1] nor the Spanish version of books like "Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego"[2].

IIRC you originally could add your own books to Goodreads which let you fill in the gaps.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869210.La_insidiosa_fat...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101558.Harry_Potter_y_el...
Honey contains glucose oxidase from bee guts, an enzyme that produces hydrogen peroxide in the presence of glucose and oxygen[1]. The accumulation of small amounts of H2O2 is what makes honey shelf stable.[2]

It's probably also what causes honey to have antibacterial properties when you put it on a wound.

That's not to say that it would have any effect on bacteria in your body if you eat it.

The enzyme is deactivated or denatured somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 C. [3]

Honey itself has antibacterial properties but there's no evidence I can find to show those properties translating to your body after you eat it. It makes sense that honey is effective to help treat wounds because it's still honey, not mixed up in your stomach and beyond. I'd bet stomach acid would do a fine job denaturing that enzyme as well, heat be damned. So maybe don't boil your honey if you're going to put it on a scrape, but drink your tea as you like. I personally really dislike honey in tea.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey

2. https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/77

3. http://www.jbc.org/content/278/27/24324.full "The midpoint for thermal inactivation of residual activity and the dissociation of FAD was 59 °C"
His argument isn't about conception of scale, it's about a fallacy of units. The analogy would be comparing the annualized diameter increase of a tree to the width of CO2 molecules in a conversation about inputs to environmental policies. The CO2 molecue simply doesn't grow. You have to compare the rate of CO2 release.
That reminded me of this quote from Arnold Bennet[0]:

"Nothing that really helps towards perfection costs more than is within the means of every person who reads these pages. The expenses connected with daily meditation, with the building-up of mental habits, with the practice of self-control and of cheerfulness, with the enthronement of reason over the rabble of primeval instincts--these expenses are really, you know, trifling."

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=XKcyIXBVALsC&pg=PA99
Yep, just like college tuition, social security, health care, war funding, and housing prices. Pension promises have always been a way for boomers to get the things they want while making future generations pay for it.
unless you get injured.
I think that what's changed is that people have lost faith that these advances, however spectacular, are going to benefit them in any compelling way. At most maybe we'll get a new method of soulless consumerism, but I don't think anyone believes in the sense of optimism and adventure that NASA or old sci-fi used to represent.
> based on historical market returns we’re ---only now--- discovering are unrealistic

This is a crisis that has been unfolding in sloooooow motion. They had been warned, and warned, and warned some more--for decades!

Boomers decided to add it to the credit card anyway.

edit: Also, I don't know a single sane person who ever believed that 7-8% was long-term maintainable.
PiWallet uses insecure hashing and has SQL Injection vulnerabilties
No, I'm talking about the Build engine.
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> Let's be honest - the only thing we care about is "are the programming jobs safe?!" Well, are they?

As a sofware developer myself, I’d love to ever see a world where my work is not needed anymore. Wouldn’t that be awesome to have worked so hard toward automation that you can automate your own job?
the report that led to its cancellation was written by William Penney

Civil Servants often get it badly wrong, Beeching for example. Or who was that other bungler that killed off AI?

The U.K. could have been leading the world in both aerospace and computing today if it wasn’t for those Latin-verb-conjugating clowns.
>With more substance I guess we could start looking up FCC standards when it comes to broadcasting lies over the air.

They gave thousands of licenses to iHeartMedia (Clear Channel) in the 90's, which now broadcast Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, so I doubt the FCC really cares. I'm not sure the FCC has the rights to limit free speech as long as the company who owns the license doesn't care.
Then why is there a flag button if the simple answer is "don't read it"?
So it's collectable, but has "value" through a promotion where you surrender the collectible for one sandwich only available through 2018. This is so weird, why would anyone redeem them?

It's like McDonald's thought it'd be fun to join the make-your-own-currency craze, but wanted to ensure it didn't have any actual tradeable financial value that could subject them to banking regulations.
> We arguably even had the knowledge to build the neural nets to run them. Had more people been exposed to functional, declarative and data-driven programming back then, I think it would have seemed straightforward to wire up large networks as spreadsheets.

The problem back then was computing power, not people not being exposed to these paradigms.
Monads are easy to understand for imperative programmers.

Imagine, you have code "var a=new A(); a.foo(x); a.bar(y); print(a);". How you reimplement it when "a" is readonly structure, not even a object?
You will need to implement functions "foo(a, x) -> a" "bar(a, y) -> a", and so on. If you do so, you will have monad.
You're actually arguing against your own point. "Do one thing and do it well" is a great philosophy, and TypeScript actually does that more than Babel does. Babel does translation and polyfill, TypeScript only does translation. Type checking is only done during the translation phase for both tools (using Flow for Babel). So I would say TypeScript is cleaner and simpler in that regard.
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Are Ubiquiti decent? It looks like they have a consumer line (AmpliFi).

Cost is not a primary concern, within reason. Wanting a consumer focused router is more about wanting to minimize set-up time and maintainence. Frankly, I’m not sure I have the time or trust myself to set up OpenWRT correctly/make sure it’s updating regularly/I’m installing the correct version etc.
Hmm, I had (apparently wrongly) assumed this had become common knowledge.

Now I am beginning to wonder what percentage of people are aware of this issue.

On a different note, I saw elsewhere (Axiom perhaps? I cannot remember) that amazon claimed it was only roughly 1% of all reviews that were paid for. Which based on my past experience in E-Commerce, seems significantly lower than would be estimates.
I ruefully wait for the day that Comcast and the other big telecoms actually put fast lanes and walled gardens into place. On that day, when Randall Munroe and people like him complain about the death of net neutrality and the free exhange of information, I can relish in the silver lining of telling him and his ilk, that hey, freedom of expression doesn't apply to private pipes. Comcast doesn't have to listen or host your bullshit. They think you're an asshole and are just showing you the door.
While we're on the subject of Audible, and there are apparently Amazon employees listening; why can't I use Amazon gift cards to buy Audible credits?
One has to be careful in support. I don't know about the Infowars or Alex Jones situation. I had to read up in order to post.

Liberal ideology, in the one that designed the Bill of Rights, and such ideas do espouse in the free trade of ideas and thoughts. And generally, this is a great thing to be able to discuss controversial ideas or criticise people in power.

However, other groups figured out that this idea of liberalism has one major flaw - it would fight for the rights of those whom would stifle the very speech they use. in fact, some of these groups would kill dissenters over even so much as minor insults to the head of that state.

It's effectively the single major 'hack' that our system has. And the destructive outcome means the reduction or elimination of the very vehicle they use to spread - our speech, our freedom to petition government for a redress of grievances, our freedom of the press, our freedom of religion.
Remember the old adage, nobody ever got fired for buying <x> or in this case IBM.
Just because something's technically doable for a person doesn't mean that the government is going to be able to enforce that on a population eho was expecting a different and, more importantly, a better life than that. That's how you get rebellions or voted out of office if you're the politician trying to enact such legislation.

We have a problem in the US where no one wants to be told what to do my the government but they also expect government handouts regardless of their behavior, and this is a bipartisan issue so it's not some minority of the population that needs to be convinced
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They do both work, you're correct.

However the point of subreddit_name_prefixed (I assume) is to display something in a user-facing way. For this purpose, r/u_something is correct but not proper.
Never said it was. But the implication was that Sports are more meritocratic than Tech. You don't win MVP of your league through Nepotism but you could easily get $20M+ in VC funding that way.
Apparently it’s common for police to stack their final few years of work with excessive overtime to inflate their pensions for the rest of their lives. I wonder how much that contributes to budget problems. It certainly seems to be something that could throw off projections. http://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-police-overt...
I only took a quick skim, but it doesn't look like they do the optimization to aho-corasick where you store connections directly to "leaf" nodes (ie: nodes where you can have a finished match).

If I'm right, that would probably speed things up significantly.
I feel wary of doing this because I feel this is what's going to happen with my IRAs. I was promised that if I pay my taxes now I don't have to pay them when I'm old, but supposed the next generation decides they want to change the rules. Do I just pound sand and give up?

Pensioners were given a promise and now we're changing the rules. It feels wrong even if the promise was unrealistic.
> That's cheaper than most all-in-one routers,

It really isn't. There are plenty of consumer router+AP combos in the $75-90 range that offer equal or better performance to the ER-X + UAP-AC-Lite combination.
Were predictions made based on historical market returns? Or were the predictions optimistic even when they were made?

My understanding (which is from a distance, and could easily be wrong) was that even when made, the estimated returns were optimistic - not necessarily wildly optimistic, but toward the top end of the historic range of returns. This reduced the burden of funding the pensions at the time they were defined, making funding them less painful for the people running things at the time they were granted.
The point is that these people worked under a contract that promised them a certain pension for a certain amount of work. Even if the amount was unrealistically high, reneging after the person has put in all the work is basically fraud, or theft of wages.
A Bussard ramjet sounds like the opposite of Star Trek's warp deflector. :)
How is it "pretty fucking clear" when you have real people contradicting what you say is clear. I personally know people who have regressed after being vaccinated.

Autism is a label slapped on a whole host of conditions that likely have different etiology and obviously different presentation of symptoms. But there are definite cases of healthy, speaking children regressing to a non-verbal state after being vaccinated. You found some of them on Facebook yourself.

I'll leave you with the CDC's factsheet on MMR: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.pdf

Please read the "Severe events occur very rarely":
* Deafness
* Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
* Brain damage

So whatever "very rarely" means, you can be sure you will see lots of cases when you vaccinate 4 million babies every year in the U.S.
I've been using Syncthing for the same purpose.
is ayn rand a real influence ? i've seen one interview of her and I can't read her name without being filled with negative emotions. such a free-market fanatic.
The anti-pensioners' historical influence is enshrined in the California constitution, Article XIII A.

https://ballotpedia.org/Article_XIII_A,_California_Constitut...
> It is increasingly likely that retirees, as well as new workers, will be forced to take deeper benefit cuts.

Boohoo. Public service union members should have thought about that before pursuing a pyramid scheme retirement plan instead of a defined contribution pension like the rest of us.
It's actually quite impressive how the central banks avoided a major collapse while walking a tightrope blindfolded carrying their spiked punch bowl and having rabid dogs nipping at their heels.

Then again, "other like him" have always said that the bad things happen when they start to raise interest rates as things that are no longer profitable at the higher rates start to get liquidated and eventually causes the bubble to burst. Don't think anyone could have reasonably predicted the ability to keep interest rates at low as they've been for so long without the "animal spirits" getting restless.
You can purchase a modem as a separate device that you could then use with any router. It could save you some money depending on whether or not your ISP charges you for renting their hardware.
How much money does the low-taxed wealthy need that so many others need to live a paupers life style. Is there not productivity enough in our society to provide better?
Short answer: no.

Long answer: The effect of volcanic eruptions on climate is somewhat overblown in popular culture. In recorded history, we only have a handful of VEI7 eruptions, and only one within the range of well-recorded history (that one being Tambora). Tambora is known to have been followed by a particularly severe summer, but it was also concurrent with climatic minimums due to the "Little Ice Age" and the solar cycle. Some other VEI7 eruptions are known, but it's highly speculative how severe any sort of climatic was response, both locally and globally.

A supervolcano would be a VEI8 eruption. There are two known VEI8 eruptions in the history of humanity, both well before recorded history. People have claimed that one of these, the Lake Toba eruption, is responsible for a severe bottleneck in human population, but work has shown that a) global ash distribution is identifiable, b) wildlife populations don't seem to have been too affected, and c) even relatively close populations don't seem to have collapsed.

In other words, the largest eruption in the climatic record was incapable of producing an extinction-level event. A Yellowstone caldera eruption wouldn't be all that much larger. For anyone in the ash cloud, it would be problematic for the short term, but that's a relatively short term issue (1-2 years). More serious would be the loss of productive farmland in the US for perhaps a decade or so, but that wouldn't be anywhere near extinction-level for humanity.
The power over who gets to host what on the internet is _extremely_ consolidated, especially for media. A few companies are effectively playing the role of government as far as censorship goes.
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One reason is that many places changed the actuarial tables. Average life expectancy is higher than it was, driven by improvements in outcomes and more women at work.

Another is that monetary policy has made fixed income securities a low yield investment. Funds need to diversify and add risk.

Another reason is that folks writing these things assume workers work a full career. The reality today is that many government workers start in their 30s and 40s, and only get the rich benefits if they work until their late 60s. That neutralizes the problem, as they will be dead sooner.

Personally, I think the WSJ and other anti-pension people overplay the liability. The drivers of pension expenses are police and firefighters, and these (mostly) guys tend to die young.

They also tend to report on the problem in masse, while it varies from outright disaster (Illinois) to Oregon, which is overfunded.
Yeah, great to see it made it on HN
> all economic output of Japan in a year

We all know they meant "in a year", but the article isn't explicit about it -- it just says

>> the output of the world’s third-largest economy

Not "annual", not even "GDP". I bet a lot of readers came away thinking "a shortfall as big as Japan".

And maybe not just lay readers -- a "smart but not knowledgeable" reader might try to convert the stock into a flow or vice versa by assuming some interest rate and doing a back-of-the-envelope net present calculation and be off from the real numbers by an order of magnitude.