skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the same group with fanatical penchants who mercilessly eviscerated the Alexandrian mathematician/philosopher Hypatia.

IIRC, that's a bit of a myth. According to Wikipedia, she was murdered due to a political power struggle in Alexandria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia#Death:

> Socrates Scholasticus presents Hypatia's murder as entirely politically motivated[95] and makes no mention of any role that Hypatia's paganism might have played in her death.[95] Instead, he reasons that "she fell a victim to the political jealousy which at that time prevailed.

This is also interesting:

> ...Hypatia['s] sudden death not only left her legacy unprotected, but also triggered a backlash against her entire ideology.[146] Hypatia, with her tolerance towards Christian students and her willingness to cooperate with Christian leaders, had hoped to establish a precedent that Neoplatonism and Christianity could coexist peacefully and cooperatively.[147] Instead, her death and the subsequent failure by the Christian government to impose justice on her killers destroyed that notion entirely[147] and led future Neoplatonists such as Damascius to consider Christian bishops as "dangerous, jealous figures who were also utterly unphilosophical."[147] Hypatia became seen as a "martyr for philosophy"[147] and her murder led philosophers to adopt attitudes that increasingly emphasized the pagan aspects of their belief systems[148] and helped create a sense of identity for philosophers as pagan traditionalists set apart from the Christian masses.[149] Thus, while Hypatia's death did not bring an end to Neoplatonist philosophy as a whole, Watts argues that it did bring an end to her particular variety of it.[150]

> Shortly after Hypatia's murder, a forged anti-Christian letter appeared under her name.[151] Damascius was "anxious to exploit the scandal of Hypatia's death", and attributed responsibility for her murder to Bishop Cyril and his Christian followers.[152][153] A passage from Damascius's Life of Isidore, preserved in the Suda, concludes that Hypatia's murder was due to Cyril's envy over "her wisdom exceeding all bounds and especially in the things concerning astronomy".[98][154] Damascius's account of the Christian murder of Hypatia is the sole historical source attributing direct responsibility to Bishop Cyril.[154]

And the ideologically-motivated myths seem build from there.
From the Zen of Python:

> (...) Although practicality beats purity.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
Its also possible that the mafia (or mafia esque tactics) gain control of businesses too.
OK. I'm going to assume that you aren't American.

Imagine a European country...

a lot of space right?

Now imagine it's in the middle of a desert. Literally.

OK, do you have that picture in your head? Great!

Now... imagine that it's ALSO landlocked.

If you've followed along to this point, then I want you to answer the following question in as honest a fashion as you can:

How many, "resources per inhabitant", would that nation realistically have available?

Continuing with our thought experiment, imagine there was no federal government to provide the structure for, say, Texas, to share its energy resources with other states...

now, ask yourself why Texas would continue to give Idaho free energy resources? Should Texans continue the charitable practice, in exchange for a few Idaho potatoes? There are just better markets for those resources. And I wouldn't blame Texans one bit for availing themselves of the opportunities those markets present.

Governments, and common sense, can, and do, block the flow of goods.

What I'm trying to point out, is that I don't think you've thought this whole thing through.
From my understanding, Jamal Khashoggi, a regime insider journalist was disappeared and allegedly dismembered by a hit squad of 15 assassins in the Saudi Ankara embassy, according to Ankara/Turkish police, because he violated an unwritten rule: once an insider, one must never be critical of or disobey the royals. His "self-imposed" exile didn't diminish his insider status in the minds of the regime. His gruesome murder (and possibly torture) was intended to send a message.
Surprised that a rich person contradicted his stated "beliefs" when time came to make himself a stack? Don't be.
>It was clearly a matter of time and money, not “these jobs are impractical hard to do with automation”

I take it you haven't seen a single item dropped on the floor result in several Kivas playing bumper cars with each other, necessitating human beings to physically drag them away.
Start a foundation and just don't put your name on it.
Well, maybe not "easily," but I agree. Worth noting that heroin prescriptions have been happening in Switzerland for going on 20 years now, with excellent results.[1]

The article was fantastic reporting by the way. Hard to read, but difficult to put down once you start.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Well, I grant you that it won't be done in a day.
Saying "a rule" sounds like powerlessly wishing a problem gets fixed. The term makes sense for the OP about a detail in the context of a larger process, but you're talking about a more general topic that needs a wider legal-philosophical push with how metastasized copyright and adhesion contracts have become.

My question was rhetorical - asking what is right, not what legal mechanisms are being abused to create the current state.
Which is why the ongoing attacks against the press are so serious. No joke: a free press is almost as fundamental to a democracy as a good electoral process, or good courts.
Supermicro firmware were easy to hack. So why would China need implants?
Not sure I interpret your comment properly, but did you mean that you particularly liked the sentence? Or was there irony instead?
Why does it matter if automation doesn't work for everything. There is a particular breaking point in unskilled labor where doing enough means lots of unemployed with little chance of being reeducated for the necessary jobs the future demands.
It wouldn't be HN if the top comment weren't critical of asterisks in Python.
That saying does seem to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, so I look forward in the same way.

I predict that a large swath of the population still won't care much about privacy, or at least take action to protect theirs, but I'm seeing an awakening of people coming to realize how dangerous big tech can become. What's funny to me is if Google wasn't so brazen in ditching their old "don't be evil" pretense, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion as often as we are.
Sneaker heads buy Nike, or at a push Adidas. Sneakerhead.com has no results for Bakenciaga. It’s been a long time since the publication of Where'd You Get Those? 10th Anniversary Edition: New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987, but sneaker heads are about limited runs and artificial scarcity, not expensive shoes anyone with money can get.
There is a doctrine for contracts that aren't considered "negotiable" where any ambiguity must be considered in favor of the weaker party. Of course this then makes it so the writer of the contract wants things to be explicit as possible. Quite the opposite of succinct and "plain" English.

Also the courts fundamentally consider arbitration to be the solution to the power imbalance problem. Its much less expensive and quicker for both parties. HN has the opposite impression of them, but that is the reason they are being pushed so hard.
The paper says

> Using immature oocytes with a deletion of the H19 imprinted region, Kono et al. (2004) produced the first mice from two mothers [...] bipaternal reproduction, which has only been found in specific fish (Corley-Smith et al., 1996), has not been achieved in mammals until now.

so I guess a mouse with two mothers existed before, and they now also made a mouse with two fathers.
I agree, sounds pretty affordable for a rocket. I think the Hubble costed around ~ 4.5B. color me surprised if it doesn't end up to at least 15B.

Now for cost over runs for something I am pretty sure isn't going to work? James Webb tele.
The intention of the blockchain is to provide a feed of memes to user where the memes aren't tailored for each user unlike things like Facebook which proactivly show you the content you want to see to keep you on the site for longer. You would only see the memes in a category you subscribe to. Think of it like a distributed social network based on memes.
This is a wonderful implementation - Congrats.

Other features that could be great (long term):

- Inter-entity relationships. If there is an email that comes through related to an asana/todist item, can they be linked other than by tags? Nesting and bundling of items would be great.

- 'Projects' alongside tags, so that users can collect items into finite-time groups

- Export feature (to JSON or CSV)

- Zapier integration

- Reports, or integration with a reporting / sql / dashboard application such as PowerBI

- Integration with Google maps / embedding maps / location attributes on entities

The above may be way beyond scope and not in line with your vision - However, I believe the next 10 years will see a consolidation in B2C tools not unlike B2B ERPs did to consolidate old micro services back in the day - Not to just an 'inbox' but more of a larger scope 'entity relationship manager'. Therefore users may want other entities represented and inter-related such as Areas (of focus), Tasks, Events, Locations, Goals, Items etc. Monolist could be seen as a step in this direction.
Build a Task App with Hapi, MongoDB and Vue.js
If you find Opal, my take on them is that they're what Golden Delicious wants to be when it grows up.
How about concentration camps for Muslims in China? Not enough attention being brought to that.
It's a long story, and part of it I am not happy to share publicly.

Let's say that there were signals that I should have left earlier, and I didn't listen at first; such as: two co-founders fighting often and disagreeing; not a clear product-market fit, and my product proposals were never taken seriously; lots of arrogance; etc.
I’m an ex-Muslim blogger. Muslims are trying to kill me for leaving Islam
Which is why we need to remove their noise from the system. A real debate of ideas is impossible with you have bad-faith actors masquerading as participants.
How can people put a spotlight on the people who are running or "contributing" the most to groups, and how accurate the information is?

Found myself doing a startpage.com search for "determine group owners" - found a funny line during that search.

So this article points out that fbook has removed a bunch that were gaming this kind of thing for profit - but what about those who are using groups and people's kneejerk sharing reactions for other reasons?

I'd like to see one click/tap/hover to show who exactly adds the most content to any group, what affiliations / funding they may have, how many apparent real world connections they have to other people in my state and country - some important info like this.

Mainly to help others.

I logged into fbook for the first time in 6 months and poked around. Mostly it's better than it was a year ago, but I noticed a couple of "friends" who were sharing sensational political type stuff, and the info in the memes or infographics or whatever they are called seems to be mostly not true.

I'd love to have a truth meter for each graphic, but also each group, and for the top X% of each group - so people can make better decisions about what things they repost / share.

It's one thing to post things tongue on cheek or whatever, but I get the feeling people re-posting things they believe are true, there must be a better way to show these people that they are sharing stuff from a group who is aligned with "insert-whatever-ideology-here" - and the stuff shared within the group appears to be 60% untrue.

I thought about unfollowing / defriending a few people just not see the bad things they are sharing, but that wouldn't really help anyone, in fact I think it would just change their opinion about me and not give them any info about why they may be losing "friends".

There's got to be more ways to add more transparency there.
Censorship would potentially block one from knowing a person was lured and whacked. Not sure how you can say assassinations don't happen anymore with any certainty. Russia does it via open poisoning. There are other ways to kill people subtly though without raising much or as much attention - or even making it look accidental. The countries where it's blatant are just because they have nothing to lose because they're safe in the areas they're in, however if targeting people outside that area - unless they're trying to make a point - they can be discreet, it's an illusion of safety otherwise.
MBS came to power as a prince during Obama administration. To his credit Obama was lukewarm to Saudis in his second term. There is an intersection of interests. The tight but informal alliance between KSA and Israel against Iran cannot be understated. The top priority of Arab-alliance and Israel right now is to contain Iran, and if possible Turkey. So, they informally co-operate and given all of these countries side with USA and Trump being hawkish put his entire support behind this alliance.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lost his job partially due to his opposition to KSA and UAE attacking Qatar (which did not happen because of lack of US support).

For now USA-KSA-Israel have a common purpose vis-a-vis Iran, and I do not think that is going to chance in the near term, but mid-term on since USA has ample energy reserves and in its pivot to greener energey sources KSA is of limited help, its very likely the KSA story will unravel. But the Chinese and Indians need that Arab-petroleum they may have to step-in if US steps-out.
Then you haven't balanced the size of your rooms. Slack should be your first and primary communication channel and there's a load of good reasons.

For one, you can never guarantee nor should you expect your team to be colocated. Even if you have one office, people should be free to work from home. Side chats get lost, people forget or don't hear. Slack is public and searchable. No mumbling and if you mistype, you can fix it. Plus you can add documents, links, images while you're talking.

People say getting communication on their phones is like an anchor to their desk but I feel the exact opposite. It means I can leave my desk anytime I want and not be out of communication. If something critical needs my attention, I can answer while I'm home and not go back to work.
So the 1000 jobs will be automated. The 1000-2000 jobs will not. Then again I don't think people working only 3 months out of a year at minimum wage creates a valid economy.
Employment of computer programmers is projected to decline 7 percent from 2016 to 2026. Computer programming can be done from anywhere in the world, so companies sometimes hire programmers in countries where wages are lower.

Also, this lacks consideration of automation of programming itself when deep learning can listen to users and build interfaces and APIs directly and faster than any human ever could.
Ah, thank you - "Instances" in the navbar didn't seem to ring any of my bells..
>we don't do outright assassinations anymore

Are you familiar with drones?

>What Saudi Arabia did here is just abhorrent, and akin to something out of the Sopranos or Goodfellas.

Funny that you mention this. Surely this violent act is shocking and catches the eye. But, the thing is that it can be argued that things like their financing of terrorism, or to be more direct their ongoing bombing of Yemen and funding of civil war is much more harmful than this one assassination -- much like Tony Soprano's asbestos dumping and HUD scams probably ended up causing more harm than the handful of people he "whacked"...

Less overtly brutal, not necessarily less harmful.
> 10% content and 90% offtopic musings about boring things

The worst problem I have with them is the structure. It is bait and switch, structured a bit like US TV Shows:

"Coming Next - you will learn the extraordinary conclusion X reached", but first let's go back 20 years to X formative years. Back to the present, X started working on Y where he made his huge discovery, but before talking about it let me give some context. And now you know why it is important, and X has been taking an original approach, to really understand how original, let me explain you all the other approaches first, except I won't explain any of those fully, just jump back and forth from one to the other, not necessarily in chronological order, just to build some sort of bullshit tension leading up to ... the sister of X explaining what she thinks of X and now we are back 40 year to learn about X grand parent living in the rigour of communist somewhere would create the core family value X is the present culmination of ...

You can't even reach directly to the end because the conclusion it is wrapped in pages of semi-intellectual musing.

edit: Make me think also of the semi-intellectual vocabulary. Nothing should be said clearly. X didn't have a dog, he "had a canine confident that contrasted with the rest of the family which was generally more attracted to the feline order"
I suppose I shouldn't have written "dig in", where I meant less actual digging, and more of adapting existing caves and lava tunnels.

Also, solar panels I place in the list of high-tech components that would need to be imported. Curiously though, I recall reading that wind power could be used on Mars. A wind plant could be mostly fabricated from local material, with only electrical components sourced from Earth, and apparently wind power is competitive with solar on Mars - the atmosphere is less dense, but solar panels also provide less due to R^2 drop in power per unit of area with distance.

I agree it won't be easy - or cheap - but both the prospect of a colony and all the potential spin-offs make it worth it.
Thanks yonl!
What did you have in mind? I'm working on this as a side project. It's a fun way to spend my spare time.
I'd argue it's the most important factor to a functioning democracy.
Also, the very next sentence uttered by the scientist makes this into a very reasonable statement.

"But unlike a light bulb, there are some sources that actually emit light, one photon at time, and this can only be described by quantum physics."

Single photon light sources are not, in fact, packed with photons.
That's a good point. I am not against being acquired, and I hope I will be a good leader and accept what's best for the company, not just for me.

I guess if the acquisition happens, I can happily accept it as a necessary evil to get more "freedom" in the form of money, and to make my co-founders and workers happy.
To get him high?
Other than seeing what that'd be like I think Rogan would lack the technical background to ask interesting questions, at least the kinds of questions I'd being interested in being asked of Carmack.

But maybe I'm being too narrow in my thinking, what kind of questions would you hope Rogan would ask of him?
Got it. Good advice. I’ll try that.
We are our own worst enemies
Anymore? They never did that in the first place.
even a direct and immediate exchange can form a contract. for example things like (extended) warranty for the laptop that you're just buying with cash is a contract.
Man, you're good!

The two co-founders had personal conflicts; the business was broken, and never became viable. And a few other things...
After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis
On Earth, you can always airlift people at the earliest sign of trouble, so I don't think the risk is that big. And even semi-serious attempts could give wealth of data useful for actual mission.
MBS may be more liberal than his precursors (mostly because a majority of people in the country want that, and because it's the only way for KSA to lessen its dependency on oil), but he is in now way less of a monarch and if anything he clamps down on journalism and critics harder than ever, especially since he's one of few who ruled the kingdom holding power over all intelligence services and police/military/secret police forces (previously they were more "distributed" in terms of power).
Sam makes himself available to discuss issues publicly, and seems to have a functioning sense of morality.

Do you have any knowledge to contradict this picture? Surely billionaires are as individual as anyone else.

I agree this sounds like a contradiction, and I'm curious to hear Sam's reply. Let's not pre-judge him.
Stock clocks are up and the solder is reportedly allowing a slight increase in peak OC.

Frequency is mostly determined by process node and can't be increased without a die shrink. In fact, early 10nm nodes will actually be slower than what Intel can do on their highly-refined 14nm node. Jokes aside, 14+++ is actually amazingly fast.
If you are not experienced, you should not use root, because it's dangerous. Your experience confirms that. When you need to use root, plan for disaster.

You opened command terminal. You entered user mode using sudo. You entered command manually instead of using a user-friendly file manager, e.g. Midnight Commander. You disabled user-friendly interactive mode for rm. Literally, you said "system, delete everything and don't ask any questions".
Yeah, sometimes sheet happens. I did that too once on production server with about a hundred of web-servers because I hit enter in the middle of the command. But I never blame system for my errors. Now I write tested scripts to make changes, use RPM to deliver updates, and use file manager to manage files manually. Learn from your mistakes. It's price for performance. For example, I needed to erase my partition recently. Using Linux, I erased it in less that minute.
Armchair speculation here...

Is Canada only able to stand up like this due to the decreased competition improving the quantity of profitable petroleum reserves? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Canada

Moreover, I think this points to a need for greater energy independence. Be that capturing solar energy more effectively or actually modern nuclear plants that burn up the fuel instead of producing lots of waste.
No. There are standard, specific clauses in contracts to prevent this. If one clause is deemed void, the rest of the contract stays as is.
For what it's worth, I use a U2F key regularly with Firefox. Just enable the security.webauth.u2f flag under about:config. I realize that's not a good solution for everyone, but if you're just looking to do it for yourself it works.
Because we created millions, if not billions of new jobs that machines couldn't do.

Physical work -> thinking work -> ???

Also, you forgot that many of the Luddites actually starved to death in the streets.
Is the secret of productivity really just doing what you enjoy?
> we don't do outright assassinations anymore

Well, your country (probably) doesn't chop up people in your embassies, but your country most certainly does assassinations and abductions in foreign countries world wide. It's proven fact.
Next Cloud
Isn't being jewish (like most of YC) an even bigger issue to the saudis?
Ask HN: Do you use the Google Authenticator app?
Disclaimer: tangent/speculation ahead :-)

"how people from different societies deal with cooperation and punishment"

Whenever I read some writing from Sustrik I wonder how related it is to his experiences in the nanomsg/ZeroMQ debacle [1].

Similarly, maybe I'm completely wrong but when I learned about Hitjens' "The Psychopath code" [2], and because of the timing, it was hard not to make a guess whose psychopath Hitjens had in mind :-).

I'm kinda curious to know how deep did the grudge between these two Software Engineers / Philosophers go.

1: http://hintjens.com/blog:112

2: http://hintjens.com/books