skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fun fact about the name of Australia is that it's kind of a mistake, and the name should have been applied to Antarctica.

Terra Australis (Latin for South Land) is a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. The existence of Terra Australis was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that continental land in the Northern Hemisphere should be balanced by land in the south. This theory of balancing land has been documented as early as the 5th century on maps by Macrobius, who uses the term Australis on his maps.

In the early 1800s, British explorer Matthew Flinders popularized the naming of Australia after Terra Australis, giving his rationale that there was "no probability" of finding any significant land mass anywhere more south than Australia. The continent that would come to be named Antarctica would be explored decades after Flinders' 1814 book on Australia, which he had titled A Voyage to Terra Australis, and after his naming switch had gained popularity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Australis
The results will absolutely be total success. How could it result in anything but success? Anyone who complains about any aspect of the social score system will have their score lowered until they are effectively silenced.

Marginalizing minority views and other edge-cases is a feature of the system.

I feel very sad that there is likely to be an entire generation of Chinese whom are crushed into the most extreme pressure to conform and obey.

#Resist #QuestionAuthority #Disobey
It would still only last until the artist dies in that scenario...
QGIS indeed has this in the form of a Python interface you can use to write your own code:

https://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/user_manual/processing/scr...

The wonderful thing about the processing framework is how it gives bindings over several other GIS OSS tools like gdal.

In fact, you can run scripts developed using the Python interface without having to open the QGIS GUI at all. See the below gis.stackexchange question for a snippet on how to do this:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/152762/error-algorit...
You're making the unstated statement that those parties have the same propaganda models. I think it's pretty clear that they don't.
Money laundering and tax evasion: also known as failing to pay the men with guns for "protection."

Stalin was also quite sure he knew what was useful for humanity.
I would say there's a negative trend from the beginning of the 80s. Yes, there has been some amount of progress in civil rights (though it's been very slow) and inevitably there will be technological/medical advances, but the economic position of all but the rich is significantly worse than in, say, the mid-70s.
You shouldn't have been downvoted for that, it's a perfectly reasonable question. I had the same question myself.

Here's the funny part: there is no such thing as O(10,000) in big O notation. Big O doesn't concern itself with constant factors, it's about how performance changes with the size of the dataset. If two algorithms run in constant time but one takes twice as long as the other (maybe it's a debug build), they aren't O(1) and O(2), they are both O(1).

So it's not surprising that anyone would be confused by O(10,000). In big O, this would be an impossible value. It just wouldn't make sense.

The best solution, as always, is to use plain English. You will never go wrong by saying "about 10,000".
Thanks, that's really cool!
> I've been thinking for some time now that as productivity keeps growing, not all people will need to work any more.

How much energy do autotrophs and heterotrophs need to thrive?

"But then we'll be rewarding laziness!"

Some people do enjoy the work they've chosen to do. We enjoy the benefits of upward mobility here in the US; the land of opportunity.

Why would I fully retire at 65 (especially if lifespan extension really is in reach)?

> Society will eventually start to resemble an open source project where a few core contributors do the real work (and get to decide the direction), some others help around, and the majority of people just benefit without having to do anything.

Open-source governance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_governance

Free-rider problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem

As we continue to reward work, the people who are investing in the means of production (energy, labor, automation, raw materials) and science (research and development; education) continue to amass wealth and influence.

This concentration of wealth -- wealth inequality -- has historically presaged and portended unrest.

How contributions to open source projects are reinforced, what motivates people who choose to contribute (altruism, enlightened self interest, compassion, acceptance,), and what makes a competitive and thus sustainable open source project is an interesting study.

... Business models for open-source software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-sourc...

... Political Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science

... National currencies are valued in FOREX markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market

> I'm wondering if any books have been written to explore this concept further?

"The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology" (2005) contains a number of extrapolated predictions; chief among these is that there will continue to be exponential growth in technological change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

... Until we reach limits; e.g. the carrying capacity of our ecosystem, the edge of the universe.

"The Limits to Growth" (1972, 2004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

"Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System" (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781927

Who owns what and who 'gets to' just chill while the solar robots brush their teeth? Heady questions. "Tired yet?"
Setting up http-proxy-middleware via Express in a Next.js app is under 10 lines of code.
But they often aren’t trivial, e.g. like breeze conversions to Scala data structures that appear like simple attribute accesses and don’t indicate at all that really they are complex function calls with important performance considerations.
The sound they make is functional for advertising or deterrent or making people think they are hearing things, but the quality is currently far too low (IMHO) for entertainment purposes.

Here's an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p42IRDaKNc

There used to be a company selling speakers called Hypersonic or something, they were equally directional but sounded terrible.
Why did this get flagged? I don't see how this article isn't relevant or violates any HN submission rules.
There’s a real need for a currency that’s actually backed by something real, given the amount of silly money sloshing around the system these days

Linking a currency to wasted energy isn’t great, but what solution would you put forward? A few countries out there have tried to go back to gold or use their oil but it doesn’t end well for them
Outlook Mac to Windows
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>The Copenhagen Interpretation is not even a fully-fledged interpretation, because it uses undefined, unscientific terms like "measurement" to determine when a probability wave collapses.

No, measurement is just a poor choice of name for a type of interaction some matter can have with other matter. I'm a wave function, and sometimes I have a measurement interaction with other wave functions and that causes collapse. When wave functions of random environment particles do the measurement and cause (seemingly) spontaneous collapse, we call it decoherence and its a serious drag on building quantum computers.

I'm not advocating for Copenhagen, but it is not inconsistent for the reasons you stated. Outside the paper linked here, I'm unaware of any inconsistency in the Copenhagen interpretation.
Totally. And in the generalised version: Rear-ending is always your own fault. You hit the car in front of you, you were too close || too fast || not paying requisite attention.
The only explanation I've ever seen of when worlds split is when decoherence has become "effectively irreversible." That's not a well-defined physical event, and so it's hard to say that worlds "actually" split.

For your unentangled state on the left, Sean Carroll explicitly describes it as a state that doesn't have two worlds yet. I can find the post if you like, or maybe we already agree and I'm misunderstanding.
Yeah, in America you make up sex scandals - much less bloody and way more effective these days. Anyway, America is not better - it's just more polished and sophisticated at these kinds of things.
Well the issue is more that it's been such a asterisk on a song it'd be more kids never hearing 'Happy Birthday to You' in the first place. 'Happy Birthday' and sharing blowing out the candles may be the most common non-direct experience provided by media for a group of people who wouldn't pass on the song as tradition, and so on and so on.
Well that's a pretty good point.

I wonder if this might be an anti-trust issue?
Here the argument is about commuting observables and isn't relativistic. For example, position and momentum are non-commuting observables. If you measure both, and then ask "what is the position of this particle," you have to know whether the position was measured first (in which case the position of the particle is still known), or whether the momentum was measured, so now the position is no longer known.
This is an example of you misunderstanding the US Government's motives for labeling crypto as a non-exportable weapon. ;)

If they had been able to keep it up, they would have. Unfortunately for them, practicality won over here once it began to threaten corporate profits.
Thanks! I think Shortcuts has access to some lower-level system configs/functions which Pythonista doesn't have. Also, although Shortcuts can invoke a Pythonista script, control won't automatically return to Shortcuts after the script is executed. So I'm looking for a way to do everything within Shortcuts.
There's another essential component to this systems which is that the artists, managers and promoters are all often in on this. See:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123672740386088613

and

https://www.theringer.com/2016/6/3/16045790/ticket-industry-...

LiveNation often offers the artist guarantees for the tour up front. This is great for artists as the risk it transferred to LiveNation. LiveNation then extorts the fans via Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster becomes the scapegoat, but since they're a near monopoly with a one of the worst public images it makes no difference to them. The artists also take a piece of those "convenience charges" that often make up a large percentage of the face value of a ticket. Again Ticketmaster takes the heat and everyone wins except the fans.
The Aragon Project has a really interesting take on open source governance:

"""
IMAGINE A NATION WITHOUT LAND AND BORDERS

A digital jurisdiction

> Aragon Network will be the first community governed decentralized organization whose goal is to act as a digital jurisdiction, an online decentralized court system that isn’t bound by traditional artificial barriers such as national jurisdictions or the borders of a single country.

Aragon organizations can be upgraded seamlessly using our aragonOS architecture. They can solve disputes between two parties by using the decentralized court system, a digital jurisdiction that operates only online and utilizes your peers to resolve issues.

The Aragon Network Token, ANT, puts the power into the hands of the people participating in the operation of the Network. Every single aspect of the Network will be governed by those willing to make an effort for a better future.
"""

https://wiki.aragon.org
The last straw for me was when Theresa May declared, without any doubt, that the Russian state had attempted to assassinate two British citizens using nerve agents (10 days after the fact, before the conclusion of any investigation and without any concrete evidence to implicate Russia).

I don't follow you here. The toxin in question is known, or at least widely assumed, to be produced and controlled exclusively by state-sanctioned facilities in Russia.

So, scenario one is that Putin's agents committed the assassination attempt. That's obviously bad.

Scenario two is that Putin has lost control of his country's WMDs, and that they are being deployed in foreign countries by rogue actors without his permission. That's arguably even worse.

So, which is more likely, in your opinion?
Even if a user trusts Google, because the data is digital and therefore permanent, there's no guarantee it will remain internal forever, whether that's because of a hack, a rogue employee, police/government pressure, or a change of ownership.
As a counter argument, your standard browser already caches a ton of stuff, might as well serve some of it back up if your upstream can support it. If you replace your browser cache with IPFS, and replace bookmarking with pinning you've got a functioning system. Your hosting requirements for content will likely go down, you get massive scale redundancy and reliability for free, no more slashdot effect and you might be able to claim 100% uptime due to just how unlikely it would be that someone hits your site while your root host is down and it's so low traffic that it's not bouncing around the network, even if it's just a standard consumer phylink.

You could still get 'a hug of death ' but as the host you can just sit back and let the infrastructure work, distribute and recover, ala what it looks like to be the first seeder of a torrent. I predict this is unlikely in real world situations though, as for someone to share your site they'd likely have visited it first, thus your content host is likely to not be the only host. I'm an optimist, mostly because I think is stupid where we are at concerning self hosting from our homes.
It depends on how many factors you control for. I’ve seen pay gaps of anywhere between +10% and -3% depending on how aggressive they are in controlling for confounding factors (willingness to negotiate being a particularly notable factor). The studies that show men out earning women are probably not controlling as aggressively as they should.

It should of course be noted that e.g. controlling for level is not justifiable if women get unfairly denied promotions.
I agree- Also, bonus pools also decrease in some groups year after year because the new project pool has dried up & you end up in BAU (business as usual) support mode and can't get another "new" project. New projects have nice bonus pools for most folks.

Salary increases can also decrease, but you get something VS a bonus which could be 0 - some percentage of your base salary in some cases.
Cool, thanks! This one does have deep integration with Shortcuts.
damn, truly fucked up that these people are using their skills and resources to seek profit
Can't argue there. The rise of arbitration clauses has done a huge amount of damage to consumer rights.
Great article. I didn't know DataView was much slower than TypedArrays. I always prefer DataView over TypedArrays when writing protocols and file formats, because TypedArrays follows system endianness so you cannot set endianness manually. (It is true that big-endian CPU is very rare but I cannot stop worrying about endianness.)
In some cases you won't even need that attorney. That costs money on their end too. Every once in a while you can stand your ground a bit and tell them to fuck off. I consulted one which was a waste of a small amount of money. It's amazing when they realize they have to spend a lot of money, and you are not going to back down. You don't even need an attorney to write a letter that says "fuck off". I've found when you meander around an issue like that, it's sometimes useful to go hard right out of the gate so the other side doesn't think you are a pushover. Although I generally prefer a more pragmatic and polite approach, there is a shock value that is useful.
Yeah, I’m not so sure - basically imagine you’re an low/minimum wage worker. You (and millions who are earning more than the anemic us minimum wage) are fundamentally trapped in a paycheck to paycheck existence. A few hundred dollars right now could actually be worth more than an equivalent pay rise, because you don’t have to wait an entire year to have recovered it. That money you could use to immediately pay down debt, and you’re low income so you credit interest will be higher than the rich.

Don’t get me wrong: I know that in general a bonus is probably cheaper than an actual wage increase for the company, but there’s a fairly large group where it can legitimately be worth more to someone.

(Please no one respond with “poor people waste the bonus” it’s not helpful and also largely not true)
Your comparison is completely unalike. Yes the US drone war program is bad. Yes the endless war on terror is bad. But these are not the same as a tyrant poisoning anyone who becomes inconvenient to him.

The closest comparison I think you could validly make would be something like the harsh treatment of Chelsea Manning or Reality Winner (or Drake, or Snowden, etc). None of which were taken out with poison or a Hellfire missile.

(Edit: that’s not to excuse the treatment of those people either.)
Remember when Julian Assange had rape charges magically materialize against him the same month that Wikileaks released US diplomatic cables?

Less messy than poisoning I suppose.
Go: Generic generics proposal
Definitely would be more helpful if tech stack was searchable.
My brain's being a bit pedantic/dense about wording, so I want to clarify - are you saying that Windows 10 builds destined for Chinese governmental use are shipped to China in source form?
I have photographs that I took 10 years ago that I occasionally sell prints of. I don't try selling prints, but they're out there.

Removing copyright protections from them would be very disconcerting. I don't want to find my photographs as postcards sold somewhere without any licensing fees paid to me just because they're old.

Consider also that the GPL and all software licenses use the power of copyright protection as the legal force behind how they work. If copyright protection was 10 years, one would be able to take any 10 year old code and close source it (and sell it) with no legal repercussions.
> But we, in the West anc countries aligned with the West fail to understand their motives.

It's dangerous to assume this only holds true for one side, imho it's much more likely all the involved players think like that and act accordingly.

Case in point: Many Russian people also don't understand "Western motives" and they actually feel backstabbed due to cultural differences leading to, rather massive, geopolitical misunderstandings like that whole "No NATO Eastward Expansion" promise during German reunification talks. [0]

While Russians think "A word is a word", most Western responses to this pretty much boil down to a lawyered "nothing was ever ratified" response, which might be formally correct but is the diplomatic equivalent of flipping somebody off you just scammed.

There are so many barriers at work here, not just in terms of language, but also the cultural context, also ain't helping that pretty much everybody is running communication and information interference, so finding common ground is actively fought against.

[0]http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-ex...
> "Why did this get flagged?"

Submissions (and comments, for that matter) are flagged by members. When enough members flag an item, the [flagged] tag appears.

Asking why an item got flagged is in many ways pointless: as there's no single member responsible, finding an answer more definitive answer than "users flagged it" is nigh impossible.

Speculating, this may have ended up displaying a [flagged] tag because a significant discussion regarding the topic happened very recently (3 days ago, over 2K votes, over 900 comments).[0] The discussion in many ways is contentious and generally produces more heat than light and new insight. Members may feel there's little to be gained by discussing it again.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000698
I think that's wise. I could have done that. I actually sort of insulted him and that was probably unnecessary.

But if I had expressed an opinion explicitly maybe there'd have been a debate. Probably just should have said "I can't agree with that, but you are entitled to your opinion."
So let's think this thing through for a second. This will be best read in a Louis Rossmann-esque manner.

Hypothetical me: An HR staffer at a company with a headcount large enough to need an HR department. I get to post job listings and spend advertising dollars for those listings on Facebook.

Hypothetical my manager: Female. As ~75% of HR managers _globally_ are.

Oh yeah, hypothetical me again: Also female; depending on country and department rank, your HR staffer is 70-90% likely to be female. (It's the outlier, but in your country, new HR hires are 96% women)

The argument: Hypothetical me is going to buy ads, that my manager and probably my mostly-female coworkers can see, where I checked a box that says "only show this job listing to men". In an overwhelming social climate pushing for inclusivity and equal pay. In a work culture where these efforts are being _led_ by HR departments.

On what planet do think that this actually occurs? It is almost guaranteed that _at least_ one woman is involved in the decision making process or can audit it. Where are these companies with entirely sexist hiring processes that have significant advertising dollars to spend and where those dollars spent are going to make a significant impact in whether a man gets that job over a women in that industry and at that company?

I'll wait.
The number of steps you take is more intrusive than where you've been? I'm supposed to believe John Hancock is going to bring about the boring dystopia you describe because you claim insurance is enormously intrusive?

Was your first sentence a warning about the rest of your response?
Corollary: call Jordan Breslow if you are looking for real advice, which is something rare. He has a professional web page here: https://www.gettinglegalright.com/ it seems he is the real hero.
progress is promoted when people can use existing stuff. Just look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and other things remixing existing public domain stuff.
I don’t see any reference to controls in the article (and the paper is paywalled, because obviously it would be :D).

That said reading more closely it’s a study of 36 people. 36 how does this get published? And then get an article???
It can be extremely hard to predict revenue. We've made exactly this choice so that we can dial back compensation if revenue goes down, hopefully without sending the wrong message.
That makes sense. I didn't know the Apple's system framework structure. Thanks for the explanation.
Economic situation is worse than the stagflation of the 1970s? I’d disagree.

It seems like people view the 1950s to 1980s with rose colored glasses now.

The mood in the late 1980s and early 1990s was much better than it has been the last few years. And better than it was in the 1970s.