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> Increased polarization has caused the legislative Branch at all levels to grind to a halt. As a result the majority party, in many cases Republicans, have used illiberal means to consolidate power.

I think calling it "polarization" and using similar concepts that don't assign blame is the modern political correctness. If we don't identify the cause of the disease, we can't even begin the cure it; it's a self-inflected wound. If there's a problem with the switches in your datacenter, it would be shooting yourself in the foot to say 'the whole infrastructure is freezing up'. No, it's the switches.

I'm not partisan in that I don't care for one party or another, but I believe the disease in the U.S. is the Republican Party. They are the ones implementing all these things, disregarding all limits, moral, democratic and otherwise, to the pursuit of power. They elected this president, embraced torture, deny climate change, embrace naked partisanship in the federal judiciary (and in states), etc. etc etc. We can say bipartisan things, but until Americans recognize the disease and act, they will get sicker, and the condition of democracy is becoming grave now.
Skin Reading: Encoding Text in a 6-Channel Haptic Display
You could argue the '65 Stang was a cheap Falcon. So they had everything in place, just changed up the bodywork.
Hmmmm...in the 2018 survey results, among Trump voters, in response to "False accusations of sexual assault are a bigger problem than unreported assaults", nearly 2/3 disagreed, even though it was in Sept 2018 when the Kavanaugh nomination was in the news daily. That's among Trump voters, AFTER the supposed shift. Which, you know, good, because I doubt that false accusations are a bigger problem than unreported assaults, but still, I think they're overstating the magnitude of the change a little bit.
This is one of the reasons I still have a few subscriptions to magazines. No micro-distractions, just long form journalism.
That's why you don't run a free service with actual value that people would pay for. F5Bot is just being taken advantage of in my opinion. They recently got front page of HN again, and their patreon page went from $41 a month to a whopping $50.
So if I buy a regular ticket and don't make the flight, by this reasoning that's fraud too? Are they going to send me to collections to get paid twice for missing my flight? Seems pretty ridiculous to me as I see literally no difference between the two scenarios.
I wonder if it's intentional that they named the system Callisto. In mythology, Callisto was raped (in Ovid's account, violently); she became pregnant and, in punishment for being raped, was either killed or transformed into an animal, at which point her own son did not recognize her and attempted to kill her. Or, in another account, her father cut her son into pieces to revenge himself on the rapist. It's all rather confused.

My point is that none of these stories seem like the kind of treatment I would like to promise to sexual assault victims. It makes me question the founders' motivations; it's a bit like naming a Messianic Jewish club "The Final Solution", except that of course 100% of the people who might consider joining a Messianic Jewish club already know what that phrase connotes.
> Has it really shifted?

The data in those charts, if it has any statistical merit, does indicate an attitude shift: more people agreeing with anti-victim sentiments one year later.
Please refrain from such emotionally charged posts where you don't fully read the content of the parent, and you stoop low enough to start claiming you can read my mind and calling me a lier regarding an amendment for which you didn't even read beyond the Wikipedia summary.

http://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Bills/421/Government/C-16/C... it is literally an amendment that describes gender expression as literally anything you want to label yourself, than suggests misusing these labels is a crime and finally suggests increasing imprisonment and punishments as a result of not using these labels correct. Clause #4.

You are welcome to debate with me if you believe one of my interpretations are incorrect, but the way in which you chose to engage with me is very immature and makes it difficult to hold a discussion with you.

Please read the HN rules first before making future replies.
Operations per second per dollar are still increasing merrily it seems if you include GPUs eg https://aiimpacts.org/wikipedia-history-of-gflops-costs/
I can admire you attitude and I wouldn't encourage you to chase money. Many people on Hacker News lack perspective because of the bland way that Hacker News works. But I would still fear that being underpaid isn't sustainable, especially not in the US. I see people all the time online that don't negotiate, or question the terms, of their contract and then get disappointed when they e.g. get laid off without notice. Are you sure you wouldn't be negatively affected if your landlord, manager or friends decides to screw you over?

There is nothing wrong with being underpaid, but in the long run you want to make sure that it is for a good reason. It is hard to focus on more important things and ignore inequality, because inequality sucks. It doesn't matter how much attachment your have to an area, or what it means for your quality of life to live close to that workplace, when your rent skyrockets. You will most likely move while instead your landlords and their new tenants do whatever they think is important.

Maybe you are prepared for it or found some way to avoid that, but to me the US often just seem fundamentally incompatible with caring about important things without a lot of effort or money to back it up.
That's basically any successful minority in any country ever until time does its work. For example, it wasn't until recently that open discrimination toward Jewish people was accepted at certain prestigious universities.

I don't like the label "asian" and "white", they make very complex mosaic look like monoliths.

The US Census Bureau's labels (White Caucasian, Jewish, Hispanic, etc.) is singular in that its the stupidest and most harmful nomenclature ever created, even contextualized with US history.

It has introduced conceptual confusion at every level and is all the more devastating as it is the standard mental model people use to reason about these issues.

It is setting back the US by at least a few decades, the time people realize its inaccurate, and discard it as what it is: trash.
You would be correct if Spotify paid the majority of its artists meaningful money. Aside from Taylor Swift, there aren't many musicians living off Spotify. Spotify is just a less technical distribution method than torrenting.

Most people who make money off music are doing live gigs. Society has collectively chosen to reward these artists for that effort, regardless of how they listen to it digitally.
Using it today, still complete garbage UX wise.

My least favorite aspect is that the API always claims a success even if that address is in the global blocklist, the only way to learn about bounce backs is to subscribe via SNS.

Also the UI is effectively useless.
My favourite is http://www.slayradio.org
Same. We have what in some parts of the world would be called a "country garden". A mix of flowering natives and imports. We have bugs (especially bees) galore. Have now taken to leaving out suitable fruit scraps in the garden and water as well, and have been attracting small and large (raven) birds too.
Before Windows (technically 3.1, the breakthrough mainstream version), getting your computer to print something to a printer required the software (e.g. WordPerfect) to handle the printer driver itself.

Before Windows 95, to connect to the internet you had to do a fair bit of config.sys and network driver tweaking and use Peter Tattam’s Trumpet Winsock. Windows 95 incorporated TCP/IP into the operating system, paving the way for Netscape Navigator to reach quick adoption.

Standardization helped accelerate the growth of personal computing. While they were not necessarily open standards or the best standards, not having to worry about custom printer drivers freed up companies and software developers to write more apps...

Which brings us to Microsoft Visual Basic. The JavaScript of its time. Before VB 4, you had to know and understand Charles Petzold’s WinAPI books to make a Windows app. Arguably, some apps were poorly designed or implemented but it bulldozed the way to wide usage of applications for business.
TFA is about a roughly 80% drop in biomass in a pristine, protected tropical rainforest, in a country where pesticide use has dropped 80 percent.
And if "FreeBSD has it too" is our standard for portable UNIX features, then /proc counts thanks to linprocfs.
SES allows you to purchase dedicated IPs
The essential problem is that the great majority of voters are vastly apathetic when it comes to privacy, and there are strong incentives for governments to infringe upon it, especially in law enforcement.
Harvard doesn't exist in an ivory tower. Harvard is preparing graduates to go out into America, where 30% of the population is Hispanic or black. It is a good thing for society if the future academics, politicians, and business leaders educated at Harvard reflect that community. It is also critical for the 70% of Harvard that is white and Asian to be exposed to the diversity of their country. Most of these kids come from enclaves where they may literally have never had a black or Hispanic friend until they get to college. (I grew up in that kind of area and I can't name a single black or Hispanic person I knew well enough in K-12 to remember their name). Having future politicians, judges, etc., graduate ignorant of the society they live in would be a disaster.
How could they make that judgement when no context about the advances were provided?

Say I sought VC funding, and met a single investor. In the end, I decide to accept funding from another firm. Afterwards said single investor congratulates me on getting funded and asks me out on a date now that we no longer have a conflict of interest. I decline because I'm not interested in this investor.

Did I receive an unwanted romantic advance from an investor? Absolutely. I was asked out on a date when I didn't want one.

But was I harassed? It seems dubious to say so. At the time of the advance I had no business relationship with this investor. If the questionnaire specifically said unwanted advances _during_ the search for funding that would be a different situation. But that context isn't given, hence the confusion.
It’s been a while since I read ‘On Intelligence’ but I think I remember it containing a pretty good primer of his ideas, and references to open source implementation of his predictive algorithm with the invitation to apply it to specific domains because his team had no chance of exploring all the applications.

If tweets were searchable, I was really taken reading this book and I think I made a pretty grand statement that future generations would compare this book to work like The Origin of Species.

Now I’m interested to dig up my copy and read again :)
Or an Apple Watch.
The Shadow in Silicon Valley (April 29, 2000)
> Every CT scan increases your odds of cancer.

There is no evidence for that statement. More specifically, there is no evidence that a single radiation dose below 100mSv is harmful at all, but plenty of evidence (Taiwanese radioactive apartment buildings, nuclear navy worker study) that it isn't. Muller made it up for political reasons.
> A very good case can be made for such an expansion to slow down the amount the Court can change in the short term.

Very interesting.

Also, for context: In the 1930s Franklin Roosevelt advocated expanding the Supreme Court when it kept interfering with his New Deal plans.
Just in time for Zuckerberg's presidential campaign!
That’s not the point. While it’s great to remember the good he did, it’s fair to remember that he was also a bit of a patent troll. That’s all.
Despite being mentioned everywhere, the term "object" is never really formally defined at all.

What does the brain even consider an "object"? The paper is fundamentally flawed by missing this definition, since their idea is entirely reliant on the definition of an object.

Are there some common things in the physical world that constitute the basic atomic building blocks of objects according to the brain? If so, this needs to specified, otherwise all of this theory is totally vague...

How is the statement that "the cortex is capturing the relative positions of objects" in the slightest bit novel at all? Obviously mammals are capable of navigation, hunting, etc etc. Basically any interaction with your environment requires immediately knowing where all objects are, so obviously this is critically encoded within our learned representations of the world.
It seems like nowadays, we wring our hands about the effects of constant access to the internet on a near-daily basis. And isn't it kind of odd that the people working on these products in an 'individual contributor' capacity are often the same ones encouraging others to stay away from their platforms?

Maybe that should tell us something. Anecdotally, most of the things that this article recommends are things that I wholeheartedly enjoyed several years ago, but tellingly no longer have time for despite a similar schedule.

Reading for pleasure took the biggest hit - I can just listen to an audiobook or podcast during the commute, right? But it does also feel like I've gotten worse at persisting in tedious tasks after being interrupted, exercise feels more like wasted time, and even my breathing exercises are getting shallow and rapid these days.

What is going on? It's not that thumbing through the news feels like an accomplishment, and I know that I'll look back on these years and shake my head at how terribly I'm wasting my time - it's already happening - but this is a comfortable lifestyle and I just keep on doing it. That does sound like an addiction, right?

I don't know. But I do know that I've had enough, and I'm coping with it by planning to spend a couple of years on the road in the hopes that things blow over and the people of 202x will have this all figured out. And hey, maybe I'll feel better after forcing myself to be bored for several months.

Because these issues seem so massive and unapproachable that I can't think of anything to do besides throwing up my hands and leaving. I can't even talk to other people about it because everybody's noses are in their phones everywhere. Is that weird?
It's bit funny to see all these outpouring of emotions. Just last month we been talking about him and some folks pointed out how he has spent a tiny fraction of accidental lottery in to actual good such as Allen Institute and Semantic Scholar. A REALLY tiny fraction of his immense wealth. Many people think he has spent an order of magnitude more on organizing private rock concerts in desert, building yacht with his private music studio, buying up sport teams, bidding for momentas and slapping his name all over things to stroke his ego. I wouldn't want to say bad stuff for him on this day but I rather not encourage billionaires doing this get impression that HN crowd is in tears for them living extraordinarily exuberant lifestyle while throwing bread crumbs to science.
I worked as Paul's technical adviser at Vulcan - he was funny, warm, and prickly in turns, well aware of the outsized shadow he cast, and absolutely dedicated to bringing the sci-fi future he so loved into reality.

His legacy in the Institutes, in his philanthropic ventures, and in the bones of Seattle itself cannot be overstated. Outside of the sciences, he built South Lake Union (home of Amazon and many other tech companies), saved the Seahawks, supported thousands of famous musicians, and played a mean guitar himself.

I'll miss him.
This is likely going to go the way of the Essential phones
Unless one views combatting unwanted sexual conduct to which people are subjected without consent as an unsavory purposes, no, there isn't.

But if one views the efforts towards combating unwanted sexual conduct as a pretext used by certain people who want power as an end, then it becomes an especially unsavory purpose, no?

True, but irrelevant, for several reasons: first, this isn't a law enforcement issue

The classic strategy of non-governmental authoritarians, since they do not have a monopoly on violence, is to do what they can with the same effect. If you don't have the state monopoly on violence, then dress in uniformed hoods and do violence and vandalism under the cover of anonymous crowds. If you don't have the state function of the judiciary, then use kangaroo courts, "trial in the media," and extralegal means to make accusations with the presumption of guilt. All of the above is very relevant today.

third, no one is suggesting equivalency or arguing for ignoring the distinctions between acts within the category while discussing the broad category.

False. Exactly that is happening in order to turn the tables on current power structures, and to let one group intimidate another.
Yea....Timber Hill is owned by Thomas Petterffy, founder of Interactive Brokers, and handles much of the options order flow from IB users. So...IB may not be making money off those trades, but the founder is still profiting from them. Don't get me wrong, as someone who has followed market structure for years, I don't think that IB is doing anything worse than anyone else, but they aren't innocent in this regard.
Not everyone speaks English as a first language and “payed” is a completely reasonable assumption given how a bulk of words are conjugated.
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I went camping in west Texas last summer and any lights we had on attracted enormous swarms of flying critters. I do not say that to discount you or OP but rather to console with the fact that there are still times and places where this occurs.
I have to mention an article by Allen which I think is the single best critique of the idea fo the "singularity" which I have seen.

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/425733/paul-allen-the-sin...
The vast majority of Asian Americans support the lawsuit. A small contingent of progressive Asian American activists (many of whom happened to luck out and make it to elite universities, thus allowing them to shut the door behind them) oppose the lawsuit and claim to represent Asian Americans at large.
How many of these zombie branded products are there? Remember the vaporware Commodore PET phone?

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/commodore-smartphone/

https://pocketnow.com/commodore-smartphone-vaporware

And how many bonafide spiritual successor products exist? The Gemini PDA springs to mind.
I'm well aware of what I'm wishing for. No need to be condenseding.

What would happen if your tools were used against you?

I certainly don't presume you and I would see eye to eye on the society I'd build.

Do you imagine your faction would be in charge? It certainly sounds like you do. "Revolutions are often initiated by idealists, carried out by fanatics and hijacked by scoundrels." -- Thomas Carlylse
It's shocking to me that even now, hours after the announcement, Microsoft.com is completely bereft of mentioning the news. I know Paul Allen's impact at MS isn't akin to Bill Gates in popular culture, but it seems soulless to make no effort whatsoever.
Management as Anarchism: It works
Pyramid schemes strive until they run out of victims.

How much of Herbalife’s success is from selling a competitive product will determine its survival in the long run.

Still its MLM sales methods are questionable and cost a lot of people money.
Why Istio
> I'm equally surprised that at the same time, it comes with a list of pre-judged decisions where you have removed the context in favour of just the title of the event.

I believe some situations require more assurance of “it’s okay” than others. In the office, I’d have to be super very absolutely certain it’s okay before saying anything. At a singles event in a bar I might lead with a sexual overtone and see what happens.

And no always means no. Once you say no I say sorry and move on.

Although I do like the policy of a sex club I was at once: If you do anything you have to apologize for, you are banned from the club for forever.

More venues should adopt that policy.
Also worth asking: what have you said to or around those women that made them believe they can’t trust you with those stories?
But, there are over "14,000 developers who are already building apps for Snips"!
Not the person you asked, but yes, I do have a problem with that. Luckily, it's not allowed in most of Europe.
I don't see how anyone could be for race based discrimination.

If we are going to make up for systematic oppression of the past, why not do so far earlier in a person's life instead of waiting til college?

I think it's fairer to help minority mothers with day care help or schooling assistance for their children and even out the playing field there rather than discriminating at the college level to even the playing field.

I just don't see how more discrimination is the answer to past discrimination against minorities. Especially when it's discrimination against one set of minorities to make up for the discrimination against another set of minorities in the past.
I have an anecdote, email me if you care! Your profile doesn't have one.
It really depends on the application. If you're making something that has a highly interactive UI, then React is a great tool for that. It doesn't have to be all or nothing though, you can use Rails server side rendering with React components for the complicated stuff. Basecamp is not a fair comparison, they use Stimulus which is their own frontend framework.
I've been using Wyze cameras. They're notable for being very inexpensive but still including high quality cameras.

The tech in home security cameras is basically a lens and a cable, usually some software with questionable UI. I'm really skeptical of companies that manage to take that commodity hardware and ask for hundreds of dollars.

It's also a field that's still iterating pretty rapidly, so tech that's priced at near disposable levels is extra appealing to me.

With most home devices I'm assuming there will be security issues, so the fact the Wyze team is at least transparent when they are working on a vulnerability (and hint at how they prioritize) seems above average to me: https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009314072-S...
What an irritating webpage. Just a bunch of pretentious photos with text that loads way too late.
Conspiracy theories that circulate on social media are causing damage to our democracy.

Facebook is a private platform. It's not, and it shouldn't be, bound by the First Amendment.
That’s not how language works. These things have a history of usage which informs their meaning. The dictionary is the cliffs notes. The true meaning is how it has been used throughout time.