skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About formalisation of laws in code (read: "write down laws as code"), I wonder how far this can go (eg. in a 10 or 20-years timespan).
Any idea what are the most suitable parts of law (notably public) where to apply this principle?
And how far can companies/startups go without the help of governments in this venture?

Another note on "smart contracts" in the first sense, or as I would put it, trusted computation as way of executing multi-party agreements.
This approach already in application in electronic markets for example, and public blockchains seem to be a way to bring this to the masses.
But I think it's still hard to say how this can interplay with "wet" decisions (involving a judge or an arbitrator). That's probably one of the interesting questions in this domain.
>Only people who are not served by better programs will spend time picking up cans for recycling value.

The inverse is more true: people will continue not serving others by better programs if they can have them work for them for pennies...
Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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Good point. Yet still I rather take 6 spoons of sugar than 3 spoons of butter.

But that's HCLF me :)
vim|atom|vscode|.. + plugins can provide all ide features that you need, even better since this is a modular approach, swapping some plugins turns your favourite editor into any ide you like, suitable for many different programming languages
No, but they have union agreements for minimum wages (enforced across sectors) and they have excellent welfare for those without a job (to the point that being a bastard boss and merely giving people scraps wont going to land you many workers).

Plus, as societies they have a basic decency, absent from other more exploitative societies.
It's "impenetrable head high thick scrub" according to the article, which makes it sound like the kind of place a body could be hidden trivially. But that might just be nonsense - I don't believe the Australian desert can support impenetrable anything.
This website is so unusable broken on mobile.
Given the victim's name, Sherlock would be more appropriate
Yeah, Hitler was no trojan horse. He pretty much laid out his plans in a book... Which he wrote in prison after a failed coup.
Completely ignoring the content:

God, the saturation of framing! Every sentence spiked with adjectives (either overwhelmingly positive for the owner or negative for the city), big friendly picture of the owner, name of her dog gets mentioned, tirade of irrelevant positive details about the owner...honestly just reads like WWII propaganda. At least be a little more subtle about your message!
If you ever have the misfortune of being on the wrong end of injustice, particularly where perpetrated by greater authority, or number of authorities, you start to really quickly realize how pernicious conformity can be.

It's still possible for one to be infected with the kind of unjust hatred that turns one into a bad or wrong kind of person. Perhaps our collective consciousness tells us that is not possible anymore--we are not really persecuting witches, anabaptists, the poor, racial minorities, etc, etc. It's deceptive because there's truth we have made lot of progress there. But what is still true is that these human behaviors that made all of this constantly possible throughout history are still a part of us. Hatred and wrongness is extremely infectious under the right circumstances and you would be amazed by how many people immediately conform to that, no matter how unjust, rather than at least ask questions. In that way the shadow of our unacceptable past still lives on in the present.

If it were not for this experience, I believe I would be ignorant of this and unbelieving in it: that the willingness to conform to unjust authority--perhaps the vital ingredient in all of the mass injustices in the world--is still something that most of the human population possess, not unlike in our past. Which is really scary. I hope I'm just particularly unlucky and wrong about this conclusion.
Yup, and code formatting:
https://github.com/jaspervdj/stylish-haskell
The main advantage to me would be "not having to remember openssl commands you use twice a year"...
I’m content knowing you won’t back up your claims because you know you’re wrong.

Have interesting times.
That's very interesting. Thanks!
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I got the opposite impression from the article. Everyone is happy to talk about who they think did it, and everyone has their own theory.

After something got public. Small communities have things non-public for decades or forever as well.
pretty much. But, they really found a way to cut the gem with most of the cost being borne by others and their opposition, while the positive optics being in their favor.

Horrible, and hopefully not precedent setting.
I don't remember much rage or viciousness in Gibson, early or late - my overwhelming impression is of cool capers and if anything a general optimism about the future.
This is a good point. What value is Google search in China adding beyond better-targeted and more profitable ads - a filter bubble within a filter bubble? Will Google Books be available? Is Project Gutenberg available in China?
Given the responses here I think he has accomplished this already. Plus, there is no need to put more pressure on him. :)
The majority of the hotels on the Vegas strip are owned by only two companies, Caesars and MGM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Las_Vegas_Strip_hotels
> Imagine the "pollution" caused by civilizations [...] Destabilizing solar systems or even entire galaxies, maybe even violating causality..

If you are interested in such a plotline you should read the "The Three-Body Problem" triology by Liu Cixin.

Without going to much into detail: This topic pops up several times in the third (and perhaps already in the second) book of the series.
If they were just entering the rooms, or even entering and rifling through their stuff, maybe, but what does Steven Paddock have to do with confiscating lock picks?
What does any of this mean?
Your technocentrism approach to security is contradictory. On the one hand you say shoes shouldn't be checked with tech (even though there were many AQ/ISIS bomb makers trying to use the technique) and then you say modify lifts (at enourmous cost and dubious enhanced security - what about stairs? etc) to detect explosives.

Reality is that the searches of peoples stuff was a heavy handed and unclear policy that the hotels didn't make clear to the customer so that they could have an informed choice. However a Mark 1 eyeball is in this case probably the most effective choice for a security mitigation.
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>Imagine the "pollution" caused by civilizations which are advanced enough to tinker with the fabric of spacetime, but not advanced enough to understand (or care about) the long-term consequences of that tinkering.

I once had, and never used, an idea that the consequence of using such technology was to accelerate dark energy, so that the more civilizations used FTL travel, the greater the energy requirements became. As if seafarers had to deal with the oceans expanding just a bit every time they were crossed.
Let's get the logic straight here. Economic stagnation is a result of living under an aggressive totalitarian state, not of foreign sanctions on that state. You personally are unfortunate to live in that state and suffer from the side effects of wars it's waging, but Russians as a nation fully support the regime and have been empowering it for many years, therefore I feel they deserve what they're getting and more, until they regain their wits once again. Sanctions or not, the opposition movement of 2011-2013 in Russia had never had popular support, anyway, as the wide population chose to stick to its imperialistic ambitions and ignorance.

The same argument can be made about China. But even in badly behaving states that are not supported by their own population, the effects of foreign actions can only be viewed as a side effect, not as a central part of the narrative. Same as civilian casualties in a purely defensive war are only an unfortunate, but often necessary side effect of one state defending itself from the other.
Some states have gone so far as to limit this right, but typically you have the right to declare that you won't allow guns on your property and enforce such a rule
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I didn't downvote you but what you're saying is just trivially, factually untrue and you're conflating several different things. Healthcare in the US is a mess and the evils of US foreign policy are well documented but to claim that there is no significant difference between the degree of control that China and the US exert over the internet is just silly and not at all dependent on any pesky "facts".
Speaking from europe where healthcare is basically free.

Medical care for these patients is extremely expensive. Each surgery costs around 50 to 60 thousand euro and it's not uncommon to get 2 or 3 of those before dying. Add to that the frequent visits to the doctor's office, the oxygen tanks if needed, the medications, etc. The other option would be to just "let them die" but that's not what we decided to do as a society.

The trend is that we are now able to keep them alive slightly longer, ( at a higher cost) and that they start developing symptoms slightly later thus reducing the potential "benefit" for society.
Not sure why you can't have a bit of CSS just because you don't want your data collected.
Woo, turbines are great; fantastically reliable, awesome power-to-weight, able to use cheaper and safer fuel than gasoline piston engines. They are pretty expensive though, wikipedia says the PT6 used in this project starts at around $500K.

There's a few companies designing smaller turbines (100-200 kW size) for aircraft, http://www.turbotech-aero.com/ and https://www.turb.aero/ , competing with Rotax 912, Lycoming, Continental. Guess we'll see if the promises of lower costs come true.

There's also a few companies making diesel aircraft engines, AFAIK these have seen some success in Europe where 100LL is crazy expensive.

Maybe GA is, ever so slowly, entering the jet (fuel) age..?
> It does appear that some people think that I denied scientific character to the historical sciences, such as palaeontology, or the history of the evolution of life on Earth. This is a mistake, and I here wish to affirm that these and other historical sciences have in my opinion scientific character; their hypotheses can in many cases be tested. [Popper, 1981]

Certain things like 'carbon dating' are certainly scientific, and can be falsified. Evolution itself is the best historical explanation we have, but hard to set up an experiment to disprove.

I personally think 'falsifiability" is particularly useful in separating a soft 'fact' like Freud's theory of the id, and the Oedipus Complex from something like say, the theory of gravity.
What do you mean by "progressivism"? Could you give a definition?

The reason I ask is that I'm not at all convinced that it is that meaningful as a political term. For example, I believe that many problems have and can be solved by technical progress. Depending on the nature of technology involved, this position has been defended by conservative politicians (e.g. nuclear power, space race) and by liberal politicians (e.g. stem cell research, solar power). Hence, no political position corresponds to this aspect of 'being progressive'.

At the same time, what one group of people considers a genuine progress in the social domain, e.g. international human rights laws and conventions, is not considered progress by other groups of people.

So it seems after all to me that the term 'progressive' does not describe a group of people with very homogeneous political views. This is also a critique on the author of the essay who seems to identify 'progressive' with 'left-wing views', as is usual in US politics.

To give another example, in one sense of the word establishing a new Space Command is certainly very progressive. It may be a colossal waste of money, but that doesn't mean that it's not progressive.

That's just a minor semantic quibble, I do admit that in the US 'progressive' basically means 'left wing, leaning towards policies of the Democratic Party'. My point is just that it's misleading and confusing terminology, like most political terms in the US. (e.g. liberal != classical liberalism in the US, another weird naming tradition)
> What would the benefit be though? It seems that while not as fast, USB 3.0 pretty much covers all the usecases

Foremost, eGPU and external RAID storage units. However, only native Thunderbolt 3 implementation makes sense in order to meet compatibility standards.
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Thank you for your generous reply.
Wow, I completely agree that file is a great read.

Also, for reference, the closing " is in the following paragraph, but I'm not quoting it because the 2 paragraphs after that one made opening the link worth my time.
That wouldn't work because revolution would simply be a dimensionless number which would define Hz as 2Pi/s. Which it isn't.
> although we can't

The quote says we can.

Perhaps just the dots is enough to deter them.
Hot Fuzz, U-Turn, Dogville (others already mentioned them).

Deliverance (of course)

The Lottery ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116924/ tv movie, based on a great short story)

The Wicker Man

Twin Peaks

Cold in July
Do you really think someone going through all your bags and then confiscating things they find objectionable is a "cursory" search, or did you just not read the article?
I remember watching that on TV. IIRC, he failed totally with a fibreglass design, cut it up with a chainsaw in a rage, then went and found some people who actually know how build planes out of wood properly. And still failed the deadline.
Got my kitchen lighting done with these hue controlled light strips. Not entirely certain if they fulfill your need, but maybe an alternative if someone wants to replicate. They have very good CRI, which might be good/bad for your application.
https://www.sowilodesign.com
I would suggest that if you wait that long you've waited too long.
Don't be naive. There is no reason to think that the same thing could not happen in some other city.
Looks interesting, I also want to just say thank you for having a simple and clearly shown price.
I'm sorry, I simply cannot buy this idea that any kind of coding can't be made out to be fascinating.

I was asked today what about working with websites I found so fulfilling. The reason boils down to the fact that, more than any other domain out there, I feel like I'm working directly with the future. I'm working directly at the intersection of technology and business, driving real value for real people. Anybody who is making a website for dev money is doing this. It's just way too expensive to waste money on something that's not.

I feel like if you consider your job as 'just gluing', you're missing out on something amazing.

Friday we were having a team discussion about data modeling and how we wanted to structure a particular concept. When does it become worthwhile to introduce another database to accommodate a new data flow? What precisely is the criteria you use for determining when to denormalize? Our Postgres database worked just fine with little consideration towards perf, until we needed to use analytics. Now all of a sudden all those joins matters.

How do you work effectively with designers to produce a great-looking, functional website at the speed that a media company wants to work at? The whole team has had to really level up their CSS knowledge and code organization because things change really really fast. Layout goes from being a chore to a matter of fair urgency that you get right the first time and fast.

Say you don't work for a fast-paced media company. Great, now you have tons of spare cycles to devote towards maintainability and code quality. Just how far can you golf your job down to? At my last job I was touching a code editor twice a week.

I refuse to buy into the mentality that says that any programming job can be meaningless. There's always something neat you can be doing there.
This is not an representative code snippet. You can find such hard to read and entangled code in any programming language. I think a very good syntax comparison is offered by Rosetta Code, they show code solutions for over 800 programming task in many different languages https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
The DNC’s lawyers subpoena WikiLeaks with a tweet
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The idea that the only way to be 'safe' is to break into people's room and go through their stuff is setting up a false choice.

This kind of 'emotional' logic is dangerous and can be used to justify a police state and tyranny.

It's quite possible to ensure security without being a tyrant, and setting up processes upfront and being transparent about it. This is sinister, more associated with a police state.

As a thought experiment think of the Chinese security services doing this at an international security conference and it becomes clear why this kind of apologism doesn't work, no one would justify that.
Ah, right, Linux has "show full history" in the Back button menu (which can also be opened by right-clicking).

And yeah, ^H isn't fun(/useful).
These aren't the same kind of thing at all, though. "Ethical consumption" is a bit of a mess and I would agree that it's vulnerable to becoming just another form of conspicuous consumption unless people are diligently self-critical about their moralising.

Migration, on the other hand, involves key elements of human dignity. The right not to be subject to racial discrimination (e.g. the bad old days of "no dogs, no blacks no irish" signs). The right to family life: to live with your spouse and children even if they weren't born in the same country as you.

People who are worried about e.g. people moving from Mexico to California but not Ohio to California need to take a look at themselves. Are we really saying that to avoid overcrowding and ensure access to jobs for locals, that countries would be better off with internal migration control? You'd need a visa to move to the big city?
First ever RNA-based gene-silencing drug approved by FDA, and it's not cheap
AsteronX is an awesome channel and goes into the mechanics of space travel [0] and then two videos on the Alcubierre-Froning Warp drive [1], [2].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kkCGRqZWaSIK3BmLC8vaw/vid...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38aP2tROBo

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fw2wQlWL4
Circumvention of local government is a very real application.

Anonymous (micro-)payment for things online.

Decentralized cloud storage (Sia, Filecoin, Storj, MaidSafe).

I'm personally fond of the idea of federally controlled stablecoins.
> so that the more civilizations used FTL travel, the greater the energy requirements became.

That sounds like a recipe for some terrible monopolization by the first few civilizations that manage to achieve FTL:

Those who are the earliest to expand into the universe, would have access to the most resources, so they would be the only ones left who can afford to use FTL anymore, while younger civilizations may never have a chance to get out of their home stars.
FortLeague, the iOS app that gives players a ranking in Fortnite
Thanks a lot! I've taken some notes.
It can't. That's why it's important to remember.
When you say "with", do you mean you write a letter & other person writes an answer letter in that same diary? E.g. with wife; does that means letters between you both in that diary?
>>people have been asking (aside from motive) is how a man managed to bring that much firepower into his hotel room and keep it there for so long

I don't understand - have those "people" never been to a hotel? Or do they visit hotels where luggage searches are somehow normal/acceptable? What do they want? Airport-style luggage searches for people who stay at hotels?
There are several ways to use information from your phone to take a good educated guess.
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In Galicia (NW region of Spain) there is a TV series called "Serramoura" which elevates this to ridiculous levels. The series is supposed to take place in a very small town (maybe 20 people or so) but the series' death toll is probably like 50 by now (they are in season 8). At the beginning I think there were only sawmill enterprise conflicts for land, but now the viewers have seen arms trafficking, drugs trafficking, Russian mafias, mass kidnapping... and probably more (I don't even watch it, this is what I have picked up just from looking at parts of chapters from time to time).

When I see my partner watching it casually, I always joke that I don't understand how there are still survivors in Serramoura and how people still go live there, it would probably be less dangerous to go to a city in war.

I wouldn't exactly "recommend" the series and don't even know if it has been translated to any other languages than Galician, but just wanted to share because I find it funny.
FortLeague lets you visualize your level in Fortnite. There are 5 tiers and 5 divisions. The idea is to give a context for the player.

You just need to search your Epic Name, there is no need to login.

The app provides a sense of competitiveness as you can see if a player has a better ranking than you, or even try to better your stats in order to have a higher ranking.

The latest update lets you visualise your game history and how it is affecting your ranking.

You will finally have the proof that you're the one carrying the squad!

We would love to know which rank you guys are!
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I'm blocking third-party JS, not specifically ads.
Likewise, I only ever heard of it from this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFjm-u6RO8
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Judging from the installed game files it seems to based on SDL2 and not Unity3D.
The features make GIMP more than an image editor
> This is just an example of a corporation buying out a local government.

I gotta question whether it's realistic to say that Starbucks bought out local government with it's infinite resources but McDonalds couldn't afford to?

I'd love to see the actual/official reasoning behind the exclusion though
This means you can actually have a push-button anti-lag system. Push once for normal, nice keep the home owners association happy mode. Push twice for Group B hell on Earth mode.
Neutrollization:Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17649374

Follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688980
I want to make a voice assisted keyboard.
Too long to fight against it, or to make Hitler comparisons ?
Nice that you cherry pick a quote, I also suggest that you check which fruits they eat hint it’s not what you would consider fruit or be able to digest.

We do not have a similar GI tract to other primates we have a GI tract simmilar to some primates Gorillas have a closer GI tract to hippos than to humans.

Even the lowland gorilla which it eats “fruit” would say not eat a banana, in fact they destroy banana trees as they eat the leaves and the stem rather than the fruits.

Gorillas can digest about 70% of the plant cell wall material they consume they are one of the most efficient herbivores on the planet in this regard the fruits they eat at rich in cellulose not sugar or starch.

And while cellulose is carb the fermentation process turns it into fatty acids.

What little ripen fruit they eat seem to involve around maintaining fermentation not as a source of energy.