skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I feel like weed is our generations racism;

Actually, weed is the previous generation's racism, literally.

Here's a quote by John Ehrlichman, Nixon's campaign aide:

>The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

While weed here is mentioned in the context of singling out hippies, there's plenty of evidence that the War on Drugs, and, in particular, criminalization and stigmatization of weed have disproportionate effects on people of color.

So yes, this kind of prejudice is also a part of racist ideologies.
Parts of South Florida have flooded during king tides for decades. This is not a new occurrence.
California to attend Justice Department meeting on social media
> Even on the crazy fringe frontiers of real science, I am not aware of any candidates for communication any better than EM.

There is one, and it is essentially

> people carrying things around on Segways

Electromagnetic radiation must obey the inverse square law. It spreads spherically through space, so required power for a given SNR raises with distance squared.

Moreover, there are severe interference issues. Once you have several systems communicating on the same bands you get more noise in the relevant frequency bands.

Unlike waves which don't self-interact (i.e. obey the superposition principle, are linear), matter is coherent. If you shoot a hard drive at a distance galaxy (with greater than escape velocity), it may take significant time to get there, but you can travel arbitrarily far for essentially the same energy, as a first approximation.

Of course, as a second approximation there is necessity of guidance/control (because of finite motor precision, target uncertainty, etc), but also the possibility of harvesting energy or photon momentum from stars en route.

Aside from the expansion of the universe there's no theoretical limit as to why a sufficiently advanced probe couldn't propagate information arbitrarily far (if it "refuels" periodically, then its total energy usage is proportional to distance, i.e. linear, but launch cost stays bounded).

In the worst case (perhaps for cosmically large distances) it'd need to colonize a planet en route to rebuild a pristine copy of itself.

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

–Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

"The only way to actually reach the FedEx point is if transfer rates grow much faster than storage rates. In an intuitive sense, this seems unlikely, since storage and transfer are fundamentally linked—all that data is coming from somewhere and going somewhere (...)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
I have trouble connecting to the cell tower down the street. I don't know how they are going to receive a real communication signal from that many light years away.
I don't understand your argument - why would the SSL certificate need to be publicly signed but it's alright for self signed PGP keys being added as part of initial install?

You may ask "well why not just use PGP if it's not going to be publicly signed" and to that I would say "so the attacker can't even establish an HTTP session, further reducing the attack surface".
It's in the full article, but Rush's idea was that you should give like ten times the customary dose.
Is there a good source explaining how this whole thing works?

How do we know that the US isn't just printing this money out of thin air (as in money that is not declared to have been printed)? The system seems extremely complex which worries me that such things might be going on.

As the global reserve currency the US has way more power than a country like Venezuela and in my view could be getting away with printing extra money.
The only scenario in which I can see my local grocery store accepting silver coins is in such a situation that my local grocery won’t continue to exist. I’m sure there are some $100 bills to be made by speculating on precious metals, but my local Kroger is never going to be cutting silver coins in half to make change.
Netflix's dreamy Maniac miniseries fails in every reality
I switched from nginx to HAProxy for my internal reverse-proxying needs and it is excellent, the configuration is a bit more verbose but it handles every app (including WebSockets, weird RPC, cookies etc) with ease.
If you want to optimize systems, you should expect people to operate with self-interest with respect to the law. Attributing moral blame for self-interested parties not donating money to be within the spirit of the law is unreasonable.
Roads are currently designed for human drivers. Roads designed for automated vehicles could use different signalling systems for intersections and road works, and even parking (it would help if unattended vehicles could be moved at will for tighter packing).
Ohm’s web playground is an awesome way to learn how to build up a language from scratch. I’m in the process of porting Postscript to it and it’s amazingly easy.
Who Lost the Most in the Financial Crisis? Ordinary Americans
Good article! This part makes me laugh though

>Here's something that, as a kid, I couldn't get anyone to explain to me: "Why can't you signal using an entangled pair of photons that both start out polarized up-down? By measuring A in a diagonal basis, you destroy the up-down polarization of both photons. Then by measuring B in the up-down/left-right basis, you can with 50% probability detect the fact that a measurement has taken place, if B turns out to be left-right polarized."

He must have been a pretty smart kid...
Yes. It's deeply out of fashion but trade balances are also important. If your country is producing more than it's consuming then debt is unlikely to become a problem.
The English button does work great... But doesn't tell you a DAMN THING about which line to transfer to get to some location just how much it costs. And when you need to transfer green to blue, good luck, because you better know that this one blue arrow pointing left means you need to go upstairs, cross the street, go into an entirely different station and then go down two flights of stairs with basically no more directions in English.

I was surprised that the machines only took cash, but it was annoying as hell that we were 10yen short and the nearest ATM was 2 blocks away under the street then back up again.

The rush for the 11-11:30pm trains are nuts. I've never seen so many black suits filled by unsmiling faces than the last train out near Tsukiji.
Petty, charted off 'areas of responsibility' that hamper natural collaboration.

These may be cozy to some middle-managers to protect their domain, but ultimately this slows down the project flow via scrolls of email, request tickets, kowtows and 'bribes' just to have some matching project pieces fit. I guess, it's all down to team interactions.
Why? Literally the cheapest thing to use acrossm interstellar distance is your local star in the cosmic equivalent of flashing in Morse code.

Say you want to communicate between 2 star systems all you need to do is to position say a polarizer between at the edge of each solar system such as that polarizer can obstruct a suffiently large portion of the star from the point of view of the system you want to communicate at say the edge of a solar system it won’t even have to be that big.

You use the polarizer to modulate the passing light and encode your message onto it.
No reason to assume that they use the same encryption schemes we do.
"The system is insolvent. No one knows what to do next — except repeat the insanity till the next bubble blows. That'll be the one. The big one."

— Gekko, Wall Street 2, 2010

#thewayoutisup
Yep, but the same applies to debt as well. A contractual IOU may say seem abstract but it can be almost as valuable as the money itself (sometimes more valuable, with attached APR).
Would you not describe the benefit of having more users being... More money?
Shouldn’t Amazon shareholders expect the company to look for low tax jurisdictions to operate from?
Is there a morality issue that I’m not seeing?
I see, so is your argument not that we need more total federal dollars for research, but that they should be shifted away from the other organizations and towards the NSF?
On your specific comment regarding quantum entanglement see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Yep. Obviously I'm a fan of HAProxy based on my post history - but it truly is one of those transformational tools you only come across a few times during a career.

It's basically one of those tools you end up looking for problems for it to solve it's so elegant. I have my HAProxy hammer, and everything is a nail!

Cannot give Willy and team more kudos!
Even then you have to ask "How long do ETs live?"

Listening for radio signals is way, way cheaper than broadcasting. It might be fair for an advanced civilization to fire up its transmitter for one year every thousand, and transmit a dense "welcome to the universe, here are our civilization's greatest achievements" message to all the listening civilizations. Running a listen-to-the-sky antenna for 500 years is still vastly cheaper and easier than what the advanced civilization has to do to transmit the message, and transmitting constantly is kinda hella wasteful.
I don't think it would take long at all, sadly.
One possible answer would be that we aren't intelligent enough to create such systems. I don't think that's true but its a possibility.
> each bit of energy expended in the search of aliens is an opportunity cost to do something real here on Earth

How do you feel about other activities that don't provide immediate, tangible relief to human suffering or environmental impact? What is your opinion of people who devote their lives to artistic, literary, musical endeavours, or who write software for social-media companies?
I'm not blaming the legislation, I'm blaming him for ignoring it. Using sub- contractors to evade employment taxes, for instance, is illegal in the UK. Somehow Amazon (and similar others like Uber) are above that. Jo Maugham QC (tax lawyer) has aledged that there is some kind of sweetheart deal with the UK government with regards to US tech firms, and brought a related case against Uber for using a similar ruse to evade sales tax.

[0]https://goodlawproject.org/uber-case/
Of course they did, why wouldn't they? You don't expect them to willingly pay more tax than necessary. They're a business and their job is to make money.
Most of that is because of demand for real-estate here, and because the weather brings homeless from states with crappy weather. It's not bad governing. It's not Brown's fault TX is humid.
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I do take you seriously

You came out of the woodworks because Jeff Bezos is doing something with money and the PR engine is masquerading this as a panacea to chronic homelessness. You want the world to know that "something" isn't enough and isn't holistic enough. And I'm right here in the middle saying "huh preschools thats kind of interesting"

I know plenty of people that do things for schools, Jeff Bezos doing things for more schools (or at least on the subject of schooling) at once is nice. I support that. Its not the only thing he might do, not the only thing he has to do, or plans to do, yet it is interesting that he's being held to a separate standard solely from the announcement alone.

If he just said "yo I'm making preschools its gonna be lit", a wild Doreen Michele would have never appeared. But because it was billed as a solution to homelessness and impoverished areas, here comes college educated Doreen Michele to let everyone know its totally wrong and misguided!

Its preschools
It is an inside joke marking employees as stupid childish marks. As if to say that the person is someone management has identified who will at least pretend to be ignorant and naive as a child. That is the whole basis behind this infantilization shit.
Doesn't have to be a signal with meaningful data, just something that can be identified as not noise.
Cars don’t cause drunk driving.

Drunk drivers cause drunk driving.
Things like snow aren’t necessarily a problem in the beginning because you can start by selling a self driving car that doesn’t work in the snow. There’s still a market for it.
It doesn't have a lot of advantages right now. That said, it won't stay true forever. PnP is but the first step of a long-term goal I have. Check the Section 6.B from the whitepaper[1] for more details.

[1] https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs/blob/65b36475c04b1149eb51a81...
Now you've come full circle. You'll next be suggesting we use IBM 360 computers. http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/z-os/complete_360/
Google employees are quitting over secretive China search project
Then the speed of light is still not slow, cpus are just really fast. Point being, everything is relative, and lightspeed isn't necessarily the limiting factor.
"Ma said under the ROC Constitution, the ROC “definitely is an independent sovereign state, and mainland [sic] China is also part of the territory of the ROC.”

The interview was published yesterday.

Ma said despite the stipulation of the ROC Constitution, Taiwan cannot recognize the existence of another country, nor does China want to recognize Taiwan. In other words, under the ROC Constitution, “mainland China” is not a country."

from http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/10/08/2...

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy
> The complexity scale of intelligent life can't increase forever

What is the reasoning behind this statement?

> and there's no reason to expect the ants:humans ratio to extend to humans:aliens

the same is true of the inverse, being that there's no reason to expect that humans are at the limit of complexity, so for the purpose of speculation as to the likelihood of far more intelligent life, there's no good reason to exclude the possibility.
Thanks for mentioning Seller Tradecraft!

I'm one of the partners, if you're interested, feel free to email me if you have questions fernando@sellertradecraft.com. Amazon is an awesome place to be right now!
you're arguing a different argument.

China today is better than China yesterday is a fact. Their economy is growing, rapidly, and life is improving for the average Chinese person. This is also true.

Your last statement, that China would have improved under a different (better) organizational system might also be true (its one I happen to agree with). But that does not, in any way, mean the previous paragraph of this response is any less true.
Inflation was sub-par during the QE era.
Further, homelessness worsens addiction, mental illness, overall health. It becomes a downward spiral.
Not necessarily a developer problem exclusively, but I always have to fight with the AC.

I'm freezing all day long, while some of my coworkers are apparently sweating. I think it has to do with the fact that the AC outside of the conference rooms is much more "efficient", and these coworkers use the conference rooms way more than I do.
UK spy agency that violated human rights to launch startup accelerator
I totally agree here, if you want low level I think j1 forth (http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html) and for lisp I really liked http://www.buildyourownlisp.com which uses modern C libraries so it polishes your C knowledge too.
>> currently that average interest rate is below 3 percent [1], so for any countries with >3% economic growth, it really doesn't matter - they'll be able to make their interest payments to one another

What does 3% economic growth mean? Is it measured in terms of that country's own currency? But isn't that currency's value inversely proportional to the amount of money which was borrowed from the Fed?
So the higher the interest rate is, the more new money the government has to borrow from the Fed in order to pay back its old debt, the less the currency becomes worth, the less meaningful this 'economic growth' percentage becomes (because that growth is measured in this fast-deflating currency). This seems to be mind-numbingly complex.
You blithely say that no country has it figured out, but I'd note estimates of covering all tuition for a year to be $58-$75B[1]. The cost of the defense budget increase alone this year was $60B - the total budget is some $700B. So even with the inefficient (nonexistent?) cost controls of our current student loan system, it seems quite feasible in the US to rebalance budget priorities. If one were to start putting more serious cost control strings (e.g. no more than x% in admin budget) on a direct funding stream to public universities, I suspect the cost could get even lower.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/07/28/487794394/hillary...
Intel leads in x86 performance and comparing performance of System z CPU to x86 is not exactly trivial task as zArchitecture is "uber-CISC" with instructions like "give me SHA256 of this part of memory" that also typically runs on 4+GHz clocks (and the "CPU book" has TDP of several kW). But main part of the performance advantage (be it perceived or real) is incredible memory and IO bandwith combined with large caches and hardware offload for essentially anything that remotely looks like IO.

On the other hand, you can get rack-mount x86 server with several TB of RAM for fraction of price of mainframe which is exactly the hardware for new applications that would otherwise be best served by mainframe.
Inexorable sprawl of alerts, monitoring checks and dashboards
>which is a characteristic of the universe that it does not seem to allow any faster-than-light communication

Great answer, but do you have more information on this?

I thought quantum entanglement allowed for teleportation of information at faster-than-light speeds. Yes, there is the original information being parcelled and shipped at slower-than-light speeds, but the individual act of disentangling particles can act as a faster-than-light signal.
Please see my reply above. It is alleged that they do not pay the tax that they are legally obliged to. No loophole, just special treatment.
Link to plugin's Github repo: https://github.com/matej-marjanovic/6Spiral-Sketch-Plugin/
Because the docker-compose is perfectly fine here?
I want FTP back!
Because I'm trusting individual package maintainers directly, not a suite of shady CAs. Have you ever looked at the list of trusted CAs? They're large, opaque, and shady businesses that I want no dealings with. CAs don't establish trust, they just establish privacy. I could go make myshadysite.com and get a certificate for it and serve malware. I trust Alpine Linux, not Alpine Linux's certificate authority.

And for the record, the initial iso download is secured with SSL. I can also establish trust through my other Alpine installs, with friends who have also installed Alpine, via magnet links from friends (which are inherently sha'd), by emailing several package maintainers and cross verifying their signatures, consulting keyservers, etc. However you do it, once you establish the initial trust PGP is a superior option to SSL.
As long as you have some swap configured you’ll probably be fine.
Ideally you would have a radio transmitter on the traffic light that broadcasts its location, metadata, and state information. You could still have a database, but it would be much more redundant to have live information.
Being told I was getting hired a backend Java developer for a first job and then working in a JavaScript, Java and DevOps full stack role for the last two years.

The frustration that comes from being required to be competent on a large range of technologies because of this and feeling just as I start to invest enough time in one I have to switch to doing something else. Most recently was working with Jenkins and Groovy!
The biggest downside is that if there is a big slump, the gov't doesn't have spending money for a stimulus. We could then get stuck in a protracted rut or deflationary spiral. In the longer term, GDP growth can make the debt moot (if more is not added), but if we have a big slump sooner, we are screwed.
I think neutrinos would be viable with real world physics. They can go through anything which would be pretty useful and you can direct it easily.

We don’t have an easy way to detect them but a more advanced civilization might.
I don't agree with the legislation in question (the upload filter is an awful idea, and the link tax is a really bad way of attempting to solve a real problem because it clearly exists to make sure German publishing houses get even more money).

But I don't see why this is relevant to my point that there is actually a real issue here, and ignoring it is going to cause even more laws like these to be passed because the narrative from publishers (that they are losing business because of internet companies that have a cavalier attitude about the people they are cutting off) is not entirely fictitious. When's the last time you saw Google telling large websites about changes in PageRank that will negatively impact them?
I'd be interested in mapping solutions for python. What is your preferred workflow, HN?
You forgot ‘A woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom’ and ‘people playing frogger on roads’.
And Waymo self driving car didn’t seem to have a problem with that.
Working on user pain and trying to serve their needs while someone is pressuring you to work on something that a number of people can do.
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At this stage, LA would be better off by "cramming more people" in, largely as a way to reduce car dependence and fund transit initiatives. Namely, the city would benefit a ton if it rezoned land in downtown to allow for a similar night time population as it's current daytime population.
But then you have the issue that the communication doesn't actually interact with the detector you've built to receive signals.
Good point. If you haven’t read “They’re Made out of Meat”, you’ll find this short story very amusing:

http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinki...
We do trade embargoes against North Korea, but not against Saudi Arabia. Maybe because the latter is (or seems) less brutal.

Before a certain size and/or complexity use of force to literally force changes seems like the best option. But above that, there's no point in waging a war for more world happiness.

And then, on the other end of the spectrum we have the sophisticated autocratic propaganda machines (that are democratic in name), where people 4 year after 4 year vote in (almost) the same kleptocrats. Of course the election system favors the ruling party, of course there's a lot of ordinary cheating, of course the ruling party somehow manages to spend many times more on campaigning than the opposition, but the brain washing works, so why not?
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A Ford–Johnson merge-insertion sort would need 28% fewer comparisons on average than the quick sort used here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge-insertion_sort
That's unlikely. And that theory failed bigly in Kansas.
Copy and paste programming
Israel apparently does desalination quite cheaply.
Jack Crenshaw, all the way. Parser for sure: go recursive descent. Don't mind 386 assembler - generate stack machine code.
Why not Terraform? Why not Puppet? Why not X? Pick your poison. But it does seem simpler to not have to learn Ansible if you're already using Docker.

The example you give has 6 config files.... the linked article uses 1 config file. shrug