skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phrasing you are using:

"Millions have died in wars for us to have what we have today"

is problematic. I think a lot of the replies interpret it as a case of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

Even if that's not what you are thinking: sure, people die fighting for particular causes, but people also die fighting to oppose those causes. The history of war doesn't confer any intrinsic moral value on fighting. What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is–ought_problem

"There has been a ton of conflict and struggle for our species"

This is more ambiguous. What does the "for" mean? Could it be replaced with "in"? (i.e. it has just been endured) Or do you mean that the conflict and struggle has all been directed towards the furtherance of the species? (e.g. "it's been a tough two millennia for our species")

This is not simple stuff from a philosophical perspective.
That sounds like a stupid human cognitive bias of judging powerful less harshly by following their self serving standards. The CEO made a mistake and has a problem by showing up to work drunk. The janitor doing so is an irresponsible waste of space.
> the words I've written

Which words? I'm confident you misunderstood something.

> both disingenuous

Throughout this thread you've been very creative in pissing people off. Don't assume malice in other people's positions, it's uncouth.

Here's an ingenuous question - god forbid saudis ever did something objectionable, would my perhaps justified complaints be filed under banned antiwahabbist speech? If we start bartering on speech I doubt there wouldn't be endless streams of money to minimize their suffering and indignation.

> It is possible to say

It's possible to say that for now. I doubt it will be for long after bartering starts. Just look at the current environment and parties that are on the rise, do you think they look like they would favor any pontification that go against them if they had any choice?
Similar story, in my 20s though. Went from 1-2 books a year (three years ago) to 48 this year (on track for 55). I too wish I discovered this earlier. There is so much to read about and the density of high-quality information in a book is unmatched.
The dinosaurs had no space program.
Pumping a few billion into fusion research would also be a great jobs program to train highly qualified people.
IANAP, but I'll give a try: it is needed so that the units (mass, i.e. kg) in the equation balance out when expressed in the SI measurement system.

For historical reasons we measure time and space using different units (seconds and meters in SI) but phisically space and time ought to be measured with the same unit. It is possible to construct such a measurement system, indeed many of them, known as natural units[1]. In natural units, c, i.e the ratio between the space and time unit, would be simply be set to dimensionless 1. In such a measurement system the E=mc^2 equation simply reduces to E=m i.e. each unit of max correspond to one unit of energy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
The question and references are specifically about domestic state to state migration patterns. That was was obvious from context.

Illegal immigration to Texas btw is much higher than to California:
https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article174373...
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Exactly. The weird thing about zombies are that now the board and the CEO are seriously not aligned. VCs seem to have only two questions, do I get my return this year or do I get my return next year? :-). And being cash flow positive you can answer, "Over the next 'n' years." and a commitment to run for 'n' years.

That leaves them with the solution of figuring out what sort of a return 'n' would be with various discounts on their investment. I did see a company that was buying back preferred shares at 2x their initial price (that was the liquidation preference) out of net income, but money has a time value as well so that doesn't work for a lot of fund managers. If it takes you 10 years to repurchase that is a 7.2% rate of return, but 20 years and you're down to half that at 3.6%. And that doesn't do well for the internal rate of return on the fund.
WA Supreme Court ruled that schools we not performing at the level demanded by the WA consitution. Funding might or might not be a part of that.
I see this as a thinly-veiled "any ads that aren't run through Google Ads Network will be blocked"
That looks like a Marine and this kind of pointless punishment is common in the corps. The more pointless, the better. (Think, digging a hole and filling it back up again, repeatedly.)
pandering to marketeers and ignoring contributors is a dumb decision
You two are not talking about the same thing. You are talking about publishers, OP is talking about university students vs employment. Universities accept paying students knowing that there is only a job for 1/10 of those students.
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lol. typical anachronistic oracle. their blog fails fail to render on 2 out of 3 browsers I tested. What is this? 1995?
There is more to human female sexuality than pair bonding and pregnancy.

Your understanding of human sexuality and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book.
Just took a look at this, here's my guess.

- Pretend they're a crawler such as Google and pull down the HTML, potentially executing javascript

- Once it's pulled down, clean it up using open source code such as readability https://github.com/mozilla/readability

- Store that result as a document in a nosql database

Once they have pulled the article down once they don't need to get it again.
Not related to encryption, but I enjoyed this article where they hack into the microcontroller on a typical HDD: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
What's hyperbolic about that? The article says:

"As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals, as well as be a permanent resident of that unit."

They were breaking the law, Herrara enforced said law.
Personally I don't think that is new at all. Farmers have long identified as farmers above all else, sailors as sailors - and that isn't even getting into cushy positions like the warrior-elites.
Changed directly? No, well maybe no. I would consider the possibility that people otherwise apathetic or independent ran to the nearest ideological corner and stayed there evidence be damned.

A person who might be open to ideas, closed off pulling the lever for someone based on out right lies. Someone who might have stayed home or voted for someone else.

I think that's a real possibility.
Often you need a clunky expensive version first so others can learn and do something better. I bet SpaceX couldn't do their rockets without all the expensive lessons NASA and others have learned before.
This tradeoff was definitely worth preventing bots from using Google Search, something that affects us all deeply on so many levels.
But the internet is not a utility...
You literally need to look up the definition of what literally means.
Easiest for me to get started (since it was topical and I could convince myself there was value) was to pick the most interesting books from the "most mentioned on HN" lists out there [0].

[0] https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
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Success for who?

Customers: probably, employees: maybe, investors/early founders: maybe, maybe not.

Capital has a cost. The job of investors is to allocate it. A company that gets to moderate success on a million of equity is a much different beast than one who blows though $100 million with little to show for it.
> Everything in the article and this thread seems consistent with these programs actively running for rich coastal cities to return people or send them to places where their friends have space to spare.. That doesn't sound like Manhattan.

It seems just as likely to be a rich coastal city as anywhere else, tbh. The article makes a point of saying that they only do the most cursory of checks anyway, so we can basically assume they're meaningless.

> A convergence on rich cities getting more people is a possibility.. But the richer cities are setting precedents, have actual budgets for these things and regulations tend only to increase.

It's certainly a possibility. But I don't know if you live in a rich coastal city, but I do, and the homeless problem here is out of control. The homeless population in rich coastal cities is empirically growing very quickly, and it is not growing in the same way in other places, consistent with net migration of homeless into rich coastal areas, not the other way around.

These bussing policies have been in place for a while, and there is no epidemic of homeless leaving SF and setting up shop in Des Moines. So while it may theoretically be possible for this to increase flow in the way you describe, despite the policies being in place for a good while, that is empirically not what is happening.
The phrase "to lay down" has this meaning-

> to state officially what someone must do or how they must do it

As in,

> The Natural Resources Department has laid down tough standards for water quality.

Using that meaning this "literally" seems to work just fine.
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No idea, but my comment is focused on how Apple could deepen the moat and find evermore cashflow.

You point out two distinct aspects, how locked in is a locked in household, and how many households are actually Apple only. I bet it’s rare to be all-Apple households, but Apple should be finding ever more reasons for a household’s next purchase to be an Apple related one. Since my locked-in household still only buys so many devices per person per 2-3 years, Growing services is another way to do it.

As far as degree of lock in, I’d say not much, I think it could all collapse with a few major missteps. There’s an enormous amount of pressure on the board of directors and C suite to maintain the expected quality.
Sure, but how many users care about 20ms to their local data farm versus 70 cross country and maybe 200 to China?
VCs can force a company into selling. That's true, and that is one of the misaligned incentives that comes from VC funding. It also only happens if you don't maintain board control. It's not as if young, slow-growth companies are being abducted by evil VCs handing out cash from an unmarked van. You know what you're getting into when you sign the contract.

It's also not the scenario of a "zombie startup". If you're a zombie, nobody wants to buy you. If investors can line up an acquihire in that scenario, it again falls under the category of "mercy", not "evil".

The case of the happy, naïve, slow-growth company who is forced to sell out by evil investors is more theoretical than real. The people who complain about that outcome are shooting for the moon, not for a lifestyle business.
Holy crap, they made 700k in profit on Airbnb? How much would they have made as just landlords?
CT and Chinese ISPs have been hijacking user traffic for decades, profiting off of it by selling traffic dump to data exploiting companies, insert ads in webpages, steal social media tokens (for follower boosting and ads retweeting).

I've found China Unicom openly hawking their data mining products. https://imgur.com/a/uNxA50K
I personally have the opposite problem - I don't check email enough for the liking of others - and I skim over it at least once daily.
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Funny you should say that! The definition of literally changed in August 2013 to also include figuratively due to popular usage.

https://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary...

I was quite surprised when I randomly found out yesterday.
Copy pasting from another of my replies in this thread:

The argument of "ISP's choice is very limited in many areas, so it's different" seems rather weak to me. You can just use a cell carrier, or satellite, or even dial-up. If that sounds like "you can just start your own social media platform, your own website, your own payment processor, your own registrar, or just be accessible through an IP address, or tor etc." it should. All those options suck.

E.g., your ISP is likely not the only option, just the only decent one.
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The difference is between a seemingly "successful company" and a "successful investment". The latter requires the company not to just make enough money to cover its ongoing expenses (variable costs), but also to cover the cost of setting itself up (the fixed cost).

In starker terms, the same allegedly successful company would, had it been financed with a loan, be drowning due to the inability to pay off its debt.
I don't know that this isn't to somehow collect up user data, but this could be to showcase PDFs with embedded video. All my experience with the company has suggested they're on the up-and-up, though.

Disclaimer: I've used the company's SDK fairly extensively in my own product (but I'm not otherwise affiliated with them).
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As a category I now decline any questions at a site like coderpad.io where you have to code with a gun to your head. They're simply a waste of time for everyone involved.

On the other hand, I haven't declined any that are given as homework, except one where the guy said it would take 8-10 hours. <= 4 is a firm rule with me, unless they want to provide a stipend.

Two years ago was the most recent time someone asked about my "greatest weakness" and I simply lol'd.

So, while I realize the content of the questions themselves could be problematic, that's not generally what I push back on. Perhaps if the question was totally off the wall rather than merely a gotcha.
Literally (adv):

1) in a literal sense or manner.

2) (informal) used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible

I literally just did.
This paper should help. :)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10944/

Empirically, when running tests where you wanted a clear hemisphere separation, we always used between one and two degrees off the centerline axis. This was undergrad cog sci in the 90's, so take it for what you will.
The suspicious thing is the full block. The right thing to do would be to alert the user and let them decide.
I like the browsing history concept, because browsing and search history really delves deep into who someone is, but you might get a more accurate image of someone’s real-life self by using an interests questionnaire alongside or in place of browsing history to better see the offline interests someone has.

For instance, I really like cycling, but my programming-related Google searches eclipse my cycling-related ones by a huge margin, so your hypothetical algorithm would rank programming as a much greater interest than cycling, even if I spend about equal amounts of time on each.
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Having limited term length elected / appointed government figures responsible for making these decisions, and then free to accept industry positions, is toxic.

If we really wanted to stamp this out, throw some serious sand in the revolving door gears.
I suspect the author was thinking of the angle that a hotel/motel is mostly for "laying down". Though it's a pretty weak connection.
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This seems to be a literal case of "laying down the law" when the phrase usually just refers to some authority figure disciplining a subject.
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The schedule of cases is indeed limited to a portion of the year, and he missed the first few days of the session, but once he was sworn in, he was a justice. There's no waiting period.
Right, they generally say "my phone is getting slow, time to upgrade"
Wow! I was inspired by this back in 2013 - I hacked a version together that also took a second argument, which was a description of the operation to be done (so it wasn't always "Sort"). Worked surprisingly well.

https://github.com/jamesjennings/stacksolve

I cringe at the code now, but still think the idea is neat.
I cleaned up that text a little bit -- the 7700K doesn't draw the full 91W TDP when only a single core is loaded, as in this experiment.
Perhaps it would be useful to differentiate between the internet as a whole, and a last-mile service getting you access to the point where there is a fan-out of many different access options. As a whole, major parts of the internet do not have "utility" constraints, while wired end-point service certainly seems to have significant similarities in my mind.
I'm guessing it is intended as somewhat humorous. AirBnB is about "renting out beds for the night." The law here is addressing who can lay down to sleep, where and when and so forth.
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Sounds like a great place to work. Are you hiring? :)
This trend in language literally makes me irrationally angry.

I wonder if this is how people felt when some guy invented the word "flammable" in 1813.
Letters from an Arsonist (2007)
on what?!
Exactly my thought too. Trust,however, is a weakness. This weakness is overcome by the average web surfer due to knowledge and time constraints or unintended clicks on links and ads. The future hopefully will have security audited browsers which increasingly minimize dangers arising from these actions.
No that is just physical fact. Disbelief in the supernatural is not hubris.
There are too many, but look at where that population growth is coming from.

Looking at the bigger picture we should be doing everything we can to encourage family growth within our own ranks. I'd argue that most people on HN etc would make excellent, above average parents if only because they are so engaged.

Sorry to go further off topic.
14 units times 11 months times the median rent in 2017 ($3000) = $462,000 in revenue.

I suppose the article implies approximately $200,000 in expenses but it’s not clear whether those are Airbnb specific or whether those would have been required even if rented to tenants. It’s unlikely that each unit requires $14,000 in maintenance per year. It’s fairer IMO to use $1/sqft per year for condo maintenance when an HOA looks after the exterior, though I’m assuming these were condos? Assuming 750sqft, that’s just $11,000 in costs. Then there’s opportunity cost of capital, etc. The top line number should be good enough for napkin math.
So looking at the ROCA vulnerability, it looks like the vulnerability wwas with how the primes were generated, not with the correctness of the actual crypto algorithm. Fips typically certifies that the algorithm is correct, but it can't be faulted for bad primes.

So I'm still going to have to ask for an actual citation

Edit: I also didn't see where that device is Fips certified either
> Given the separation between chrome and ad words, I think the abusive ad could even be from google..

I'm not trying to get investment advice or trying to manipulate the market, this is an honest question. How should investors react in situations like this? If Google Chrome's this new feature ends up being very effective, Chrome will be more successful but Google will have less ad revenue (possibly). Is GOOG safer now or what?
If you told me you wanted to count through all the natural numbers but we’re going to skip the evens, how much time would you save.
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Agreed. I couldn't have chosen better examples, either.
Google's Web Tools Help's definition of what constitutes an "Abusive experience": https://support.google.com/webtools/answer/7347327
Idioms are not literal. The implication of my original comment, is now spelled out.
Which one of his decisions on the DC Circuit do you think shows he doesn't understand the Constitution?
Doesn't matter what to call these symptoms, sex addiction or extreme sex cravings, there are stranger mental and other illnesses and urges out there, the understanding should be that something is causing harm for those who have it and should be some kind of help provided.
> Microsoft are a different company to the one that tried to damage FLOSS.

Sure, "the river is never the same" :) But it's also the same shop and should be up front about this type of change in attitude, right?

> IMO, it's not the attack on FLOSS that people hate. It's the impact on the tech landscape during their time in tech, and no apology will repair that history.

I do think they still suffer from their sneaky behavior. That kind of impact on tech is to be expected of any capitalist outfit. Fixing that would be gov't's job.
Does your argument boil down to any review process that doesn’t catch 100% of problems is worthless? I don’t think anyone claims fips certification is always going to garuntee perfection but it’s better than nothing. It also stipulates things like tamper evident seals which would mitigate attacks that need jtag access to muck with firmware.
This sounds very fear mongery. I bet you'd get more radiation from eating a Banana than the residual radiation of every nuclear test combined.
What is the motivation for this law? Why is SF regulating the length of stay or rentors at all? Seems like a gross violation of freedom and property rights. Zoning I can understand but duration? This seems like a bad law.
Surely fairly thickly veiled?

Any grounds to believe that?
I wonder if this is a specific instance of a general principle, namely that sarcasm is hard to identify in written form.
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This article got my attention.

Hats off to the author. Ok, I'll consider Azure for projects of any language. (Mission accomplished for the author.)
There are some legitimate concerns there. However, given that the current Republican White House is outright censoring government science agencies on a large scale[1][2] when their results are politically inconvenient, it's pretty laughable to claim that leftists are the real science-haters.

This article was published before the 2016 election, so at the time it might have been merely naive, but I see that the author has a video from just a few months ago where he "explains that the real war on science is the one from the left." He is absolutely not arguing in good faith.

[1] http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tr...
[2] http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/fws-...