skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree, some countries and regions could very well be on the decline, while the average is still going up. And that's a big problem. And if you're looking for insight into your own area, ya this is not really trying to be an article to allow you to make data driven decisions about your local politics and laws. It would have been nice of them to put all these into a tableau dashboard with many more dimensions so we could have played with the data some more and gathered better insight.

That said, I disagree about these averages being useless. They're still a valid indicator of the world average in some specific metrics. And for those, they're showing a good trend for the better. If we were to monitor them, and discover a drastic change in one of them, it would be cause for concern. Similarly, seeing them continue to improve is cause for consolation.
Yeah. See: Britain and its Indianised cuisine. Nobody calls or thinks of that as appropriation and I really think that whole thing is overblown, only what I call the ‘college left’ tend to worry about that.

It gets blown up on the internet though, you actually see more memes mocking that than actual people bothered about it.

It’s silly anyway most American dishes are ultimately from somewhere else originally or use local ingredients to change them.
As I understand it, pharo was squeak. But squeak with etoys was very much aimed at children - pharo was a fork to make a more "serious" open/free smalltalk. Since then the projects have moved forward together - and apart. Sharing advances (like new VM) where it makes sense.

But I'm sure there are people that know more on here. Like Alan Kay, for example :)
Vegetables aren’t necessary either. Historically, humans (at least in Europe) consumed much more more milk than vegetables, deriving probably an order of magnitude more calories from dairy than from vegetables, because you could get more calories from an acre of cattle pasture than from an acre of grains fiels, and an order of magnitude more than from vegetables. Milk is also more nutritionally valuable, containing carbs, protein, and fat in very good proportion compared to vegetables. This is no surprise, since milk literally is produced by cows to be consumed by calves as their sole food.

I don’t think basic milk vouchers is a good idea, but basic veggies is even worse.
I enjoyed this post - but I don’t feel like it added much beyond SICP itself and also one of my favorite books, Design Concepts in Programming Languages (Turbak et al.)
>Favoring stuff with Greek/Latin names is just a bunch of Euro-centrism

I think Taleb's heuristic here is for him to eat only fruits his ancestors have been eating for at least 1000 years. IIUC, his advice to a person of Chinese ancestry would be to eat only fruits with a Chinese name.

(Also, you changed the "Greek/Hebrew" in the earlier comment to "Greek/Latin".)
What was thorough about his analysis? He mentions a few things that could easily be detected with grep within a corpus of millions of messages.
BONOKOSKI: Liberals finally get around to dealing with ‘legal’ bestiality
Yes, median would be better than mean. However what is most important is the overall trend. Child mortality trending downward worldwide is a great thing and says the world is getting better in terms of nutrition, disease, etc for children. Is there still child mortality? Yes. Will some parents have to go through the loss of a child? Yes. Is the world getting better overall in this regard? Absolutely.
The Impact of Politics on Workplace Productivity
Then that "non-corrupt side" is corrupt, therefore it's only the corrupt who do this; is ignorance bliss and an acceptable excuse and make you less responsible, how far along the chain of trust is enough?

Someone's moral compass is inherent to the equation - their path dictated by their ability to understand/be compassionate, and level of non-violent practice they hold themselves to; if they lead with bad acting and violence as "a means to the end" then I'd argue they're less intelligent - whether through emotional blocks from unhealed trauma early in life that put their ego mind up on guard and started layering coping mechanisms that blocked ability for compassion, and/or inherently on their genetics, brain structure, has prevented this.

This is all a holistic fight against violence and aggression, which through intelligence, the battle has become more and more and more subtle as a means of violence sustaining itself; we quickly put someone in confinement if they're physically aggressive and attack someone in our society, however manipulation and the such is perhaps the least aggressive - and so doesn't cause a reaction until it's perhaps too late, when the network of bad actors is large enough - and where they as a whole eventually realize they are or can get away with more and more.
So the chemistry set encouraged consuming some of the chemicals and also contained mercury? How times have changed...
What I don't get is that the trend is increasing. Every Month i Can find vast amount of things.
The article in question appears to be postulating, in part, that the value of rewarding jobs with long-term growth options is becoming increasingly marginal. With that in mind, what is the relevance of precarious employment situations where alternative possible situations are not of significantly different value?
SemFuzz: Semantics-Based Automatic Generation of Proof-Of-Concept Exploits [pdf]
No, actual feature film VFX quality, which requires a VFX budget and is not created trivially. Any studio or production facility we negotiated vetted the process and understood it's viability. The process was used in dozens of VFX films, but as a one off technique, where the process could just as easily have been used to actor replace anyone. You see, that is somewhat the key the process, because it is successful regardless of who is being inserted into the media, it grants an amount of freedom, or casual attitude for the production artists who used to view actor replacement as a difficult, time consuming challenge.
Feel free to email me someday if you dare expose who you are to me - matt@engn.com :)
I don't know, I think you would have to limit yourself to federal or at least government spending before you couldn't tell many stories.

But still. The details in education put the US at #4 even for lower school (where the US understands the same obligations) including all source of money? The US doesn't want education very much. (I could say there is an education cult in the US, but not that the US is an education cult.)
Talks at Google: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Pretty cool, but why would anyone new want to invest in Perl when it has the language problem of Perl 5 or Perl 6 ?

Imho they should just fork Perl 6 and continue developing Perl 5.
when they get selected and complete the company incorporation in USA (if they are not already incorporated).
This is a strange sentiment because what is happening with the type of person is moving further from having attention sold to advertisers.

I am not unique and advertisers have a really hard time getting any of my attention. I have ad blockers installed, I don't have an antenna for broadcast television or a cable subscription, I watch television through netflix or purchased seasons/episodes/movies either digital or physical, I play video games, and I buy books at bookstores or on an ereader. The most advertisement I experience is for more media on the same medium. Astroturfing reddit and email are the closest I get to consuming ads.

This isn't unique or special and it's certainly growing. I find being forced to watch advertisements intolerable having been away from it for so long and it's easy to keep away.
One thing that gets overlooked by many when discussing Vancouver real estate- it is a very tiny municipality.

Unlike most other North American urban centres, Vancouver resisted amalgamation with all of it's connecting cities.

The result is a geographically constrained area (Vancouver proper) surrounded by cities that are effectively it's suburbs (greater Vancouver).

Homes and rents are somewhat more affordable when you look at these suburbs, although they have increasingly gotten worse.

The residential data from tiny Vancouver has increasingly become absurd, as people focus on this small handful of luxury neighborhoods in the centre of a large metropolitan area.
So it continues, pandora's box was already open. :)
Affordable housing is just the beginning of YIMBY
> To be fair, a blockchain is the data structure, the mining software, the client wallets, the protocol of broadcasting and collecting transactions, the network of computers to make this work, and the people who use them.

No, that's not really correct - and this is exactly what I'm talking about. Saying a blockchain is all of these things is like saying a website is the backend application, the client web browser, the TLS protocol and all the users who use the website. But most of those things aren't the website.

When we talk about the architecture of any given web application, we decompose these interactions and distinguish between them. We generally even distinguish between backend, frontend, infrastructure and and middleware resources on the server side. This allows us to productively talk about things with precision. In contrast any discussion involving the term "blockchain" suffers because it means 10 things to nine different people.

It's not even an issue of generality. It would probably be fine if the term "blockchain" referred to entire networks and protocols built over blockchain data structures. Then referring to a blockchain would be like referring to "the internet." The real problem is the lack of precision, because in conversation different people are crossing all sorts of layers of abstraction, each to varying degrees of knowledge and expertise. That makes ascertaining the accuracy of claims a murky business for those who aren't substantially well informed.
> I want to make that decision by myself and not trust Facebook to take it for me

And what’s stopping you from doing that?

See, really what you want isn’t Facebook from making the decision for you, since they can’t. Alex Jones has his own show, and FB has no interest or ability in changing that. What you want is to make that decision for Facebook, and not let Facebook make it for themselves.
To preface the rest of my response. One of my points why the GPL isn't magic is that developers will just "steal" code if is easier and most companies don't bother checking whether the code is violating licenses when supplying to a third party.

> Yes, you're reading me right, but I skipped over the question of software which is never released publicly - mmt is correct that the GPL does not require public release of works, instead it prevents you from releasing the binaries while withholding the source.

The fact it doesn't prevent you from doing that. It only really prevents large companies that people are watching.

Violations happen all the time. They just happen on smaller GPL projects.

> 'Secret' purely internal use of modified GPL software is not a violation - if the modified software is never distributed publicly, there's no issue.

The impression I get is that GPL advocates like yourself seem to think that the unwashed developers that work on proprietary code don't understand the GPL and have to be constantly told how a software license works. You aren't an enlightened individual because you understand a software license. I understand the license and the arguments about it just fine.

There is an issue with stuff not going back to upstream. If a defect fix only happens in downstream that is generic enough that it should benefit everyone then only downstream benefits, this things don't get contributed back and there is no improvement of upstream.

> Imperfect enforcement is a valid point, but the terms of the GPL are effective at least some of the time. Major technology companies do not want copyright scandals, even if plenty of fly-by-night companies are willing to risk it.

The flyby night companies as you put it are the majority, not the minority. If it isn't a big project most companies won't get found out.

Again GPL doesn't magically make people contribute back, which was my original disagreement with your comment.
Massive cattle farms according to the text below the pictures.
Jarlsberg Swiss

???
Jarlsberg is a region in Norway not Switzerland?
I think most "us" are aware of the fact that we are essentially exporting human rights violations and environmental impact in return for low-cost items. So, one can only conclude we don't really care. Caring would have implied an immediate, drastic change in lifestyle.
There were claims last year that "leisure demand" has increased: https://www.nber.org/papers/w23552
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/upshot/why-some-men-dont-...
I can't speak to the study's method, though.
> But what Canada does maybe the best in the world is 'boring, stable governance' - which is what so many people want.

Seems like an odd basis for a highly experimental idea.

The reasons they want to go to Canada is, as you say, because it is stable. China, and other parts of the world, is the experiment you are talking about.
A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
> there is one important factor that wasn't emphasized - weather.

Vancouver has always had nicer weather. If weather is the causative factor, why is there no correlation between Vancouver weather and housing prices over the last 30 years?
It could be a way to use the excess or that milk which is about to spoil. There's a large amount of fat left over from the production of skim milk. This fat usually gets turned into cheese, that's why pizzas are more cheesy than in the past.
I think you're making a lot of assumptions about how easy it is to learn these things now that a longform article has dug it all up and excerpted the most salacious bits for you. If you are a Wikipedian 5 or 10 years ago doing a bit of work on the article and sketching out a stub, where do you get a copy of trial testimony from Sewell, if you even know about it? You going to drive over to Texas to visit the court room and pay $0.1/page for photocopies and read a few hundred pages in case there's something useful?
Using FOIA data for marketing is not legal in USA.

It is done but not legal and hard to prove.
The social justice attack on the Linux kernel is too dangerous for all of us
A trick I've found out, which strengthens my suspicion that the "bugs" are just stupid a/b tests:

If you get worse results than you usually get, try reporting it (or reporting basically any problem) on the page.

For me at least it seems that magically within hours the problem is now gone.

In the beginning I thought they had fixed the issue I reported really quick. But after seing this happen again (and again) I think a better explanation is they have a systen that opts you out of the tests once you report a problem.

Personally I have moved on to DDG (and I have one browser with Qwant as the default) but this trick helped me a few times.
> I feel that most human beings, when facing a decision where the future is at stake, are not really capable of sticking to their principles

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that these are their principles, specifically the principle that they themselves and their own futures are more important than anything else.
While I agree it must be higher, the population does not consist of anywhere near 90%, let alone 99%, men over the age of 16.
I would like even these condensed stats much more if they told us where do these average improvements come from -- and whom they benefit.

I mean, it could just be 20_000 founders in SV getting rich because of the blockchain hype, and 50_000 Chinese businessmen making a lucky break, and 100_000 agriculture businesses going past $10M annual profits, etc. Add some more such data points and I still can't see how the world on average is better off -- it would still show a 5-figure number of businessmen being better off (less than 0.01% of world population), but not how an average single mother of two is.

...I guess I ended up trying to paraphrase another sibling comment of mine -- don't you think that if we see these stats without the extreme ends of the bell curve included, it would give us a better insight on how is the average folk doing?
It has long puzzled me that we don't have strong political constituencies for price transparency in medicine. Every medical provider ought to have a website that lists every fee and cost; this is not hard to do, yet when I call providers for cash prices, the answer is often, "I don't know" or "I can't tell you."
I remember a lot of east germans who rather
wanted to be „annexed“ than living further in the dull DDR. But if you want, we can build the wall again. I heard the american president is also a huge fan of walls nowadays.
The funny part is, in Asia, Dairy is a premium. Look at Philippines for example, stagnant production since 1995-

http://www.nda.da.gov.ph/images/2017/data/Phil%20%20DAiry%20...

I'm not Filipino, but, hell I would love to manufacture milk products.

The thing that fuels it is A: local population isn't used to dairy. B: Yogurt and such are considered high premium -- a half kilo of yogurt at the store costs $5-7$, a kilo about $10, from Australia.
I'll throw my hat on the side of wanting to know how the sausage is made. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I believe we are fully capable of making a better sausage, and doing it in better way. There may be many difficulties along the way, but that's the case with everything that is worthwhile.
This does not even consider basic supply and demand. You can sell 100 widgets for $1 a piece, or 20 widgets for $10 a piece. You're going sell 20 widgets. In real life Apple is the most obvious example here. They choose to sell their products at an extremely high markup which limits the number that are purchased, but thanks to that markup they end up making far more profit per item than most other comparable companies.
> out of all substances known to thermally decompose, none does it at a higher temperature than carbon monoxide.

Please compare to thermolysis of water.
You would think this would be a huge problem for the "fake news" crowd. This is a government attacking the image of a person that criticizes, not government policies, but the attitudes and character of people in government.

And if the Saudis are doing it, well, they're not known for innovation. This means

1) governments are doing this

2) they're "putting their own version of reality" forward. In other words: fake news.

3) ... when they're not doing it to just protect the personal public image of important politicians

That does mean that fake news ... just cannot be policed by governments. Those simply want their own, equally fake, version of reality given precedence.

A cynic might say that's exactly why we have the fake news debacle in the first place. That the main problem anti-"fake news" efforts are fighting is not the fake part of the news, but that real news was actually available, even if not easily, at all.
Sorry, saw this late.

There are a few AI components here:

1. ML based recommendation engine to suggest flights, hotels, activities/experiences, and even destinations based on profile (social data, interaction data, and booking data) and clusters based on certain components. (Currently works well for flights at 85% accuracy - top five results, for hotels, we are at 52% in top 10 results)

2/ Voice + NLP engine to handle more intuitive queries. One aspect of travel inspiration is that when people google, they dont ask the question they have. Like for a question like 'Where can I go for a beach trip next weekend' becomes a search query of 'Top beaches in US' or 'Top 10 exotic beaches'.

3/ 80% of the trip planning effort is spent on just finding the relevant info cos it is way too scattered. There is a way it can be made more concentrated, when we scrape more data from existing blogs, and create a graph network of information to serve a more relevant and contextual answer to the queries. Initial thoughts only on this, since we are still solving this. (Example would be, let's say you are planning a trip to Thailand, the product should be able to give contextual info keeping your preferences in mind. If you are an adventure lover, focus would only be on those activities, if you like a secluded beach to relax, you will be given those answers.)

3rd is the most complex and requires a lot more effort. This is not the same as itinerary building (cos that is the part of experience). We just want to take away the frustrating bits away from the planning part.

Apart from these, the usual features, like fare prediction, flight delay prediction, deals info, are also on the roadmap.
It’s a shame the article fails to mention the history of Silicon Valley and the foundation of the tech sector being built almost entirely on Military R&D:

Steve Blank “Secret History of Silicon Valley”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Post WWII, 90%+ of R&D was military, a shockingly high number.

Coinciding with the year the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 saw that military R&D proportion fall to rough parity:

https://www.cove.org.au/trenchline/article-the-v-twin-effect...

Today, Military R&D has inverted compared to that post WWII, early Cold War environment making it only about 10% of R&D.

But that raises the problem of duel use commercial technology.

Commercial tech being combined or adapted for military purposes.

Personally, I’m far more concerned with the export of commercial off the shelf tech modified for mass surveillance and control than I’m worried about kinetic weapon systems.

Defence/Military money helped found Silicon Valley/Tech.

In-Q-Tel(CIA) has been in the Valley funding startups for 2 decades:
https://www.iqt.org

Hacking 4 Defense at Stanford is a more recent addition that leverages the increasing reliance of the military on commercial off this shelf tech(disclosure: I have had some involvement in H4D with their educator’s course).

What’s OK and what isn’t for modifying commercial off the shelf tech for Defence/military use?

What are the perceived black/white/grey delineations working in this space?
Relativity Space is working on a 'Stargate' system to print rockets
> Lots of racism.

What definition are you using for the word "racism"?

> The majority of real estate is not owned by foreigners.

There have been no published statistics on the amount of foreign owned real estate. Feel free to post evidence otherwise, and I will respond by pointing out it is not statistics on foreign ownership (or, you could just read the report yourself and discover the same thing).
Obviously I meant thermolysis of water when I wrote that. It only takes place at extremely high temperatures, and I'd like to see data that carbon monoxide is at a higher temperature.
Why is the state getting involved in primaries? That should be the parties' business. I think there should be no public record of party affiliation.
Can you? I would have thought that most US cities are either too small or too expensive for that. Or are you talking about the amount of rent specifically?
The opposite happened to me. I rented in a central location with high food prices, bought a house move west and prices are much lower but take-out choices are now limited.
This is a very important point. When we say that we're in all of those countries...doing what? Medical clinics? Training policemen? We do a little bit of everything everywhere.

Instead of a Space Force, I'm in favor of a new branch of DoD dedicated to non-combatant operations. Nation-building, partner-support.

Making one big pile of money that does all the things DoD does makes it impossible to make decisions about what's being spent well or not.

They used to call it the War Department. At least with that name, the public discussion about it could be honest.