skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are social animals who evolved in small communities

I agree with you. First, historically speaking, large disparities have led to revolutions and countless atrocities. Also our neural cortex isn't so highly evolved that it doesn't bow to the will of our chimp brain most of the time anyway, which is just to say we have a plethora of evolved intuitions and feelings. However, just because we have some innate biological sense of right or wrong or good or bad, that doesn't necessarily mean we should advocate for that in a normative way.

That was kind of my point. If we are going to build a better society I think it is important what normative values we strive for since we are not completely controlled by our impulses and those values will certainly have an effect on the systems we design and the relative effectiveness or lack thereof.
I work for a company that does both SVG+JS and Flash media, and there are some legit cases where we still choose to use Flash, because SVG can't reach the same performance — anything with lots of animated gradients, deep scene hierarchies, transparencies, masking, filter effects, or high vertex counts. SVG rendering in all browsers not named "Chrome" is crazy slow, and in Chrome SVG rendering is not pretty when you look closely at it.

But SVG is the only browser graphics tech with excellent tooling for illustrators (namely, Illustrator). So we've been forced to change both our art style, and our rendering stack, to deal with the death of Flash.

That's life in the tech industry, fine. But it's misguided to say that the browser is unequivocally better or worse performing than Flash. It really depends what you're making, and how you make it.

It's totally possible to make something on the web that looks and performs better than it would in Flash. But you have to put strict restrictions on what kind of art you use, and what technology you use to render that art, which puts restrictions on your production process, which sucks.
Any custom Android builds without installing google play services (possibly with microG if you still want some services like push, but with a FOSS client) are a great option.

Sure that's niche, not mainstream. But, like, xda-developers is pretty popular. To the point of people making subreddits for making fun of custom ROM users whining about things like VoLTE not working: https://www.reddit.com/r/xdacirclejerk/
It was probably distracted while browsing internet for news on new iPhone.
Could you please provide an example of these proxies that one could use to block outgoing connections? I'm only aware of Ad-blockers that do so for incoming ones.
At the current gig, we're stuck in an open office setup that is a thoroughfare between the warehouse, marketing, another dev bullpen, and sales.

The main AC unit (the size of a mid sized Kia) is directly above my head making sure that this place feels like a damn meat freezer every day.

The things you endure for clients.

Nice to see you posting here Nick, I don't think we've seen each other for about 7 years now; last time being the CS building at KSU.
Any other developed country provides free healthcare to its people, it's cheered and called a human right.

The US does it, and it's used as proof that the US is collapsing. Under your premise, if the US moves to universal healthcare it implies total economic collapse.

Medicaid didn't exist in 1960, that doesn't mean things were great for poor people back then, it was in fact far worse (see the homelessness and poverty rates back then, they were nearly twice what they are today). The US barely had any social safety net 50 years ago. Now it has one of the best social safety nets in the OECD and it keeps getting larger and more inclusive.

So which is it? Do you want free healthcare for more people, or do you want to take that away from everyone so we can pretend nobody actually needs it?

Beside that, healthcare expenses per person have roughly tripled in 20-25 years. Even the immense US median income levels - among the highest on earth - can't sustain that rate of increase. It's hardly an issue of affording the basics: when healthcare costs an average person $10,000 per year, it's clearly far outside the realm of being a basic.

In which developed country can poor people afford that healthcare cost? None. The middle class in most developed countries can't come close to affording $10k per person in healthcare expenses per year. Countries like Britain, Finland, New Zealand, etc. are at less than half that cost. About half of the EU would fall under Medicaid's income line.
The same argument applies to driving any vehicle. e.g. When you're driving a car and you cross a junction/intersection - you're trusting the stopped drivers to not run a red.
So nice to see the sensible and pragmatic Dutch going without the silly, soulgutting bicycle helmets. Not to mention the usual orgy of blinkenlights and assorted fluorescent garments.
Or maybe people realize the raising kids is an enormous cost from both money and time. Maybe it's selfish, but myself and many of my millennial friends would rather spend their prime earning and health years doing what they want rather than what they "have to" do for kids.
Studded tires make riding on slippery roads a non issue. The risk is from drivers sliding into you.
I always find it amusing when people of either party persuasion suddenly find qualms with economic metrics when their guy isn't in office. Republican leaning people did it under Obama, and now Democratic leaning people are doing it under Trump. Because neither could explain the grown that was happening when their opponent was in office. I've seen the drum beats of "GDP is irrelevant now" from the Left ever since Trump won and the GDP numbers have generally been above estimates. Stats have become political footballs.

Economist have always known GDP isn't perfect, but it is the best measure we have or that has been devised. That is taught in the first few economic courses if you become an econ major when you're covering GDP.
Why can't this be done today? Back when startssl was a thing and giving out free ssl certs, they didn't have you authenticate with a username/password, they generated a cert that was stored in your browser and used that to authenticate you.
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As a Chicagoan, the perceived value of an office's location tends to be directly proportional to how close it is to the center of town. Downtown is well-served by both the intracity bus/train system and the unrelated intercity light rail system. Even offices a mile or two further out can be much more annoying to get to on public transportation.
> by solely addressing issues on reservations.

The IHS itself is the culprit. It's hard to improve life expectancy when your only access to medical care is through a system that's not only overcrowded and underfunded, but which has truly zero incentive to provide quality medical care to its patients (and a long, documented history of corruption and outright exploitation of its patients).
DC was listed in that article as one of the places that didn't experience that trend so my anecdotal evidence is most likely biased. However I would be interested to see a similar survey done for 2017 and 2018 to see how electric bikes and scooters have changed things. I still see mostly normal bikes on my trips to work, but I have been seeing more and more e-bikes making the trip.
I would venture to say that you're just out of touch.
I think they care about feeling secure in their life. I think most people do that. In the current economy they don't feel secure so you can explain that with foreigners, capitalists or something else.
I have a wife and 3 sons and am working remote now for over a decade. If you have family around its super not depressing. Before that being single, I had my dog or went out to the beach and sat under an umbrella and programmed wirelessly or visited a coffee shop. Being in sunny SoCal helps too. If you don't have friends or don't go out and stay by yourself all the time, the vast majority of us would feel depressed. Being remote doesn't mean being alone, it just might be correlated to people who like to be alone more and thus depression ensues for most of us in that scenario as a "feature" of evolution. Some tips to combat depression in general are to work out in the morning, go for a run, listen to fun music that makes you feel energized, try to work outside or around people when you can, use sunlight as your friend meaning respect that you evolved for waking hours and your circadian rhythm sleep cycle is regular, and you have a nice social network where you also physically are in the same room with people etc. Basic stuff kind of like food... in that eating healthy over junk makes you feel better, so is the social and routines that make us feel more healthy, you needs it even if you would rather be a recluse at times and not shower for a week living in your basement with the blinds closed.
I remember thinking how utterly stupid it was to think it was a single gene that determined these.
Vernor Vinge has a character who comes out of cryo and discovers that code he wrote 500 years ago is still in production. It’s just under layers and layers of abstraction. He proceeds to pwn a bunch of hardware to aid a counter-conspiracy.
I said theories. As in "Russia stands to gain from Skripal poisoning, only they had the method, it was a state operation, approved by Putin, during election campaign and FIFA2018" And "Assad gassing his people while wining the war". But you also have reports from UN/OPCW that the rebeles were the ones to chemical weapons, or that there were no chemical weapons used in Douma.

I don't see how FUD of Russia damages western intervention. Also the disaster of previous western interventions, and the current in Syria supporting the terrorists speaks for itself.

Russia vetoed a US UN resolution to determine responsibles without an FFM, just relying on the civil society and media reports.
Other Russia delaying news were already almost 10 days in, including after US bombings. They say it was for security reasons, and there were shotings while the investigators were there. Also if there were journalists parading how could they interfere with the evidence?

They bombed in Douma area also. Which was strange since investigators were on their way. Also taking action before the investigation does not sound very credible.
How old are you? I was quite sure that I wouldn't have kids, either, but I randomly met a nice girl who lived in the (urban) apartment upstairs from me and next thing I knew, I was 38, married, and watching my son being born. It comes at you fast and unexpected and it wasn't at all the life-ruining thing that I was sure it was when I was 28. Here in my early 40s, my only regret is not doing it earlier.
That's a false choice. Do the right thing on the margin! Allow lots of new high-density construction. Tax cars entering city centres. Extend metro lines and allow plenty of high-density construction around each station.

Sure, you won't turn Tampa into Rotterdam overnight but those changes are important and they do add up. 50 years of these policies would give us much better, even if not perfect, cities.
The original author stated his intent to fork and resume the project under a new name and with a new device set, but probably still the Pixel line.
Unexplained physics today is primarily down to dark energy and dark matter.

The good news is that collectively they represent about 95% of the universe. So, that's a huge quantity of phenomena that we can't currently explain!

The bad news is that we have no local evidence for either; they only seem to have measurable effects over cosmic distances. So that implies that, even if we fully understand them, it's unlikely we will be able to harness the mechanisms to accomplish things at the scale of our civilization.

And--neither provides any evidence of FTL effects. So it's even less likely there is some amazing new form of FTL communication hiding in them.
It actually is not bad. I did couple searches. All came up fine. The results are relevant.
Have you looked at the source of Linux kernel or Chromium? Can you really tell what is going there without spending years working with it? Most likely you cannot. Moreover, as never ending stream of bugs indicates, neither engineers that work on the code can tell what the code does precisely.

Open source is very nice for tinkering, less so for security assurance. For the latter sound architecture is essential, and one can understand that without having the source for all the components.
Batteries get old. I'm not sure what Apple can do about that.
Different is fine, however I certainly don't expect my search results to be atrocious.
I think it's still close to the most likely cause of violent death for an American; Neck and neck with gun deaths, if you count the self-inflicted.

I mean yeah, compared to medieval statistics, it's great, but in comparison to the other non-medical ways to die you face as a 21st century American? automotive fatalities are quite high, and the problem deserves a lot of focus.
The Speed Strategy books are really good as well (Chris Brooks). There is a neoclassical, and a sweep picking one as well.
Another econ 101: some group taking an increasing share of a more or less fixed pie will cause others to get less.
It was pretty interesting (and disquieting) to see a linear trend.

I don't know how the statistics are gathered, but I wonder if they separate those who wish to/need to work from those who don't. For those who have given up searching, that is.
I have been starting to read TASS news in parallel to Reuters' feed.

From only reading news, I don't know which side to trust anymore. Putin's gov denies almost all accusations (cyberattacks, chimical attacks, nerve agents, etc) from Western countries, and instead accuses the West govs of creating a "russo-phobia" amongst people opinion.

Example of news you can read on TASS, but not relayed by Reuters :
http://tass.com/politics/1021365
http://tass.com/politics/1021274
http://tass.com/defense/1021107
http://tass.com/world/1021091

And it goes on and on...

If you only read TASS, you would quickly think Western govs are not much "cleaner" than Russia
FaceID does not scan a user's face.

Upon enrollment, the phone illuminates your face with a grid of dots, and creates a three dimensional depth map of your face from multiple angles.

The results of that are stored in the secure enclave, and when an unlock is requested the device re-scans the face that is in front of it. If the two maps match "close enough" the phone is unlocked.

You cannot recreate a face from the data, and the phone has no idea what you look like unless you actually look like this in real life: https://i.imgur.com/fNBiIUU.jpg

If you're worried about the very low resolution biometric map of your face being used to impersonate you, that can already be accomplished with just a couple of seconds of video, or a photograph and the only known defense against that is never venturing outside a secure perimeter into which camera lenses cannot see.
>They have a higher than average desire to be challenged

A lot of them also take a lot of MDMA and drink a lot of alcoholic beverages. There's something for everyone at BM.
What is the difference? I'm not going to read multiple posts in multiple subreddits that aren't esp. related to me while at work; elaborate on your point.
I worked remotely for 7 years, sitting at home (alone), and it’s great, I interact as much with other people as in an office, just over slack/zoom, I do not feel alone and save allot of time not commuting, time I spend with family and friends.
It will be back. Hopefully soon.
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it was a category in their ring tones contest. they have three boot up sounds, which has absolutely no real use.

fun fact, it was originally included in older phones as a marketing gimmick, a way to generate more revenue. someone at nokia or siemens had the idea to sell it to operators the same way as an Ad spot is sold. telco operators paid manufacturers to have their jingle there instead. and in markets without buyers, they put in the manufacturer jingle as a placeholder.
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I get lonely, but I feel it more poignantly when I'm in an office and everyone is taking in groups, sharing personal details. I don't know how to get into such groups. I fail to resonate with what they discuss, and generally am faced with a demonstration that I am alone.

Put me remote and I can get by just fine with some casual jokes on slack. I can lurk in channels where issues that matter to me are discussed and tune out when it doesn't apply, and there is no anxiety because people dont know not care that I am "present".

Not saying my practice is healthy socializing, just saying that putting me in physical proximity of other people does nothing good for my loneliness.
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complex numbers are not interesting because they are 2d; otherwise we would just use xy coordinates instead of bringing in this whole sqrt(-1) business. Complex numbers are useful because the definition of complex multiplication fundamentally says something about rotations.

If you start at 1+0i and multiply twice by 0+1i, you end up at -1+0i. If you try to imagine this in the xy plane (where we pretend x and y are currencies) then this would mean that multiplying a positive amount of one currency (1x + 0y) by a positive amount of another currency (0x + 1y^2) would put you in debt (-1x + 0y). This would be a very strange property to have in your currency!
Unfortunately Apple seems to have taken a couple steps back from supporting good ad-blocking tools. They forced AdGuard to cripple their iOS app to only allow DNS-based blocking instead of the superior local VPN blocking.
https://www.pyret.org/ does it like this:

for each(str from [list: "Ahoy", "world!"]):
print(str)
end

for map(n from [list: 1,2,3]): n * n end
# ==> [list: 1, 4, 9]

for filter(n from [list: 1, 2, 3]):
n >= 2
end
# ==> [list: 2, 3]

for fold(sum from 0, n from [list: 4, 5, 6]):
sum + n
end
# ==> 15
Moreover it's interesting to see how Apple is marketing durability with new iPhones... some of this is a byproduct of their environment strategy, i.e to reuse parts and thus generate less waste and perhaps is economically sound in the long run. But as a consumer, when you are spending that much money, you are going to decide on durability rather than how environmentally friendly it is - although for apple both mean same thing.

When the market is already saturated with smartphones, the new features and technology in each new release have become incremental. Also it's easier to do much more with the software.

Adding more hardware in a already complex, miniaturized device is difficult and may take more than the 2 year cycle...
Same here, wife and 4 kids. Definitely not depressing. People like to associate big targets with their mental health, but honestly remote work doesn't make you depressed, your lifestyle can, and remote work can emphasize that. If you get your "fill" of social interaction via other means, there are enormous advantages as well.
Yep! This is the "smart for the individual, dumb for the group" type of a dilemma. It absolutely makes sense for you to do this, individually. As a society, it's rather undesirable for people to live this way. Your lifestyle is being subsidized by (mostly poorer) people living in dense areas [1], and by the externalities we all deal with: pollution from extra driving, lawn care (leaf blowers, gas powered lawn mowers, weed wackers, etc), otherwise unnecessary infrastructure (bridges, plumbing, electric lines, roads, sewage, etc.)

It doesn't make you a bad person to be taking advantage of bad policies. But cities do need to incentivize sustainable living over unsustainable suburban sprawl.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/5/but-rich-people...
Read your comments and saw this wasn't the first on this theme.

Depending on your status, do you have anything against asking guys/gals to grab lunch?

Sounds weird but honestly, I ask out plenty of girls all the time not to date them but to see if they'd be an interesting friend.

EDIT: I see you're also 21 like myself. Ever tried going to meet ups? Maybe not tech-oriented meetups but hiking, kayaking, boating, etc.
None. GP is conflating US companies with the government.
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It is. And, FWIW, Russian bots/trolls/whatever seem to have been as equally active in pushing left wing issues as right wing issues.
I'm guessing the parent is asking "what's their Qwant's edge?". Competition isn't only providing the same product. Usually one will have a certain edge or do something another doesn't. DDG's edge is privacy. Qwant's edge is... European? Does that make a difference?
In the Islamist POV the war is still ongoing.
I totally agree! It seems to me that the current scientific paradigm is still way to reductionistically or mechanically oriented.

While cybernetics or the theories of emergence in systems-theory is a step in the right direction, i think the reality of how "something", "works" is way weirder than we expect.

It's much less about how different components superficially "interact" with each other and much more about mind-numbingly complex emergent properties that somehow "happens" between objects, emerge through complex space-time interactions probably with even weirder quantum factors or "fields" that are not apparent by n-dimensional modelling.

When you really begin to dig deep into these problems it becomes an increasingly weird mixture of philosophy, physics and mathematics, revealing endless paradoxes as we increase the resolution.

Basically it becomes like a chicken and egg problem: is the complexity and life-force of a cell or its components in any way able to be "deworlded" or is the cell or other complex organisations simply not able to be understood without the context in which they exists, in other words, the entire universe.

We won't be able to "understand" by looking at the "thing" because no thing is actually at the center, it's not "doing" anything and doesn't even exists outside of our own simple taxonomical concepts. The genome can't be sequenced because it's simply a way to label, divide or reduce a "thing".

Feeding a neural net with enough extremely high resolution data from a space large enough and i could imagine extremely strange patterns emerge.
How we would be able to capture such data from reality is the big problem because we simply don't know how many factors are at play. Protein folding is already an incredibly demanding calculation and it's very simple compared to even the tiniest mechanisms of a cell.
This is weird--I remember Pepsi commercials with a blind taste test on TV when I was a kid. Oddly, I distinctly remember them framing it as people not being able to tell the difference, and that being seen as a good thing. But now I can't find any reference to those commercials or that marketing angle anywhere.

Now you've got me wondering if I misunderstood the commercial as a child and have had a tainted perception of Pepsi's marketing my whole life because of it.
Android 9 Pie is opportunistic: it tries to connect to port 853 and sends a probe query to make sure the server behaves plausibly well. Other clients need explicit configuration.
The cancer drugs fund is the kind of thing that people on HN sometimes call for: access to cancer medication that has passed safety tests, but hasn't yet been appraised for efficacy.

The UK ran this fund for 5 years.

Results were predictable. Length of life wasn't improved. Quality of life wasn't improved. Often quality of life decreased because of severe side effects. It was hugely expensive, and that caused lost opportunities for other measures.
They're separate issues. It is not coherent to argue that one problem isn't a problem because another problem exists.