skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it shouldn't be surprising that some languages are less efficient than others, right?

A long time ago I read a comment somewhere saying that Arc is interpreted (as in by a program itself written in MzScheme, instead of translated down to MzScheme), which struck me as odd but I didn't check back then, so now I finally went and looked through the Arc history[1] and release 0 already does the translation, so apparently that was just wrong. There can still be reasons why Arc could be slower, though, I remember PG's design called for overloading function calls so that e.g. hash table lookups could be written like function calls, and if implemented naively this could cost a slower than usual type check on each function call and prevent optimizations applied by the MzScheme/Racket compiler like perhaps function inlining. But just a different parsing infrastructure could explain it too (working on strings-as-vectors vs. lazy lists would make a large difference, but I couldn't get down far enough to see how that's implemented; srv.arc in parse-multipart-args uses regular expressions, not sure that's what you optimized?). Anyway, new code always has large potentials for optimization (early lisps were very slow, today's implementations are generally very fast; same was/is true for Java, JavaScript, ..).

[1] http://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
No. :-/

Can you provide examples of recent innovation, which was performed using child labor and caused significant growth of economy?
> originally intended to only be a temporary communications channel

Some code never dies
did the kickstarter fail?

Sounds to me like those people got tons of people to give them free money to try to bring something to market with no ramifications if the product can’t go to market. And no obligation to give out refunds if the product doesn’t go to market. How is that a failure?
ISP have so far been pretty neutral and have not been acting as gatekeepers. I'm more worried about Google's Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Apple who've been acting as gatekeepers, banning people they do not like from entering their de facto monopolies. If ISPs start acting this way one day, I will start worrying about them too but so far, it's these social networks that are the real gatekeepers.
> Organisations that can keep their mistakes secret, can make themselves seem much more capable

And also much slower to learn from their mistakes. The history of the CIA is pretty depressing, in this regard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Ashes_(book)
I tend to not give out my Uber email as I get a ton of solicitations every day. Forum/web email scraping is still very much a real thing unfortunately.
Yes, he assessed the situation back then correctly. That was not hard to do. He said it himself in the interview "do the math" to indicate how this was a no brainer.

What he didn't foresee was that the world would change in a way that makes a +4$ billion "content club" business viable.

The journalists don't put their cards on the table. Were they pressing him so much because they thought a +4$ billion "content club" was possible? This is not clear from the video.

If they thought so, was this out of naiveté or foresight? Of course I can't tell, but back then Wired was much better than today, to say the least.
Would your comments be different if we were discussing Amazon's shipping experiences?
You may overestimate the demand for taking the pregnancy completely outside the body. I offered to pay for a high quality surrogate for our kids, but my wife didn’t want to. She went through a brutally complicated delivery and then a more regular but still, to my eye, horrible experience because she wanted her children to grow inside her.
Maybe it's a very sophisticated way to tell that {AND,OR} are not functionally complete.
Why? It makes sense to adapt what you are giving to the ethnicity (= where they likely come from) of the guests.

When I was in Malaysia, I was warned all the time (I am white) and thanks God because the few me I did not listen I suffered.
What model of phones do you have and what software do you use them with?
Google Hacking (or Dorking): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hacking
Agreeing with cliches and analogies:

The deeper we look, the more we realize everything is connected.

Homelessness is societal cancer. There isn't one cause, one cure. It's a complex adaptive system that must be treated as a whole.

Mental health, addiction, and homelessness is a vicious cycle.
Similar thing with my uncle. He wanted to donate an organ to his church worth $100k+. They couldn't afford the insurance and maintenance on it.
Only without human oversight. Human proofreading might not be economically feasible, but maybe detecting likely OCR errors and making humans decide whether it's an actual error or not would be feasible.
> SELECT * FROM EMBASSY_EMPLOYEES WHERE CIA

ftfy
I think there are states in America where you can go to prison for stealing a pack of bubble gum.

So I won't really cry for the targets here.
Is this it?
https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
Why weren't people paying the workers who deliver $15/hr in value that much money? Those people are getting fucked by the system.
I disagree. It's time to start setting an example for white collar crime.
I remember trying to make that point at a former employer, and getting nowhere. Once something was in the spec it was written in stone, no matter how much pain it caused the users.

Unlike Microsoft's case, this one wasn't required for backwards compatibility. It was simply a dumb decision that nobody wanted to revisit.
Partially, there is no guarantee of all EF 6 related tooling like the data designers will fully work with the Core 3.0, just the actual code execution.
But you have to get that knowledge, and the specific software to implement it, from some source other than the blockchain. In practical terms, it barely changes the security model if the download for new users includes a known blockhash from several months back, instead of only the hash of block zero.
I always like to think of the counter case, but note, this is pure speculation. Could the CIA have planted a fake insecure communications system in order to execute key players in Iran's nuclear program? It would be a force-amplifying move. Instead of having 15 spies, you could have 1 (the double agent in this case) who reveals the fake communications network, that in turn takes numerous other players off the board.
>Market economy perhaps gets redundancy for “free” (or cost subsidized by losers)

That's a platitude, not a fact. We just are moved to believe that the market is naturally redundant by propaganda, our governments in the west urge us not to look at the instances where it's not, like economic collapses caused by banks or other government investing groups that are "too big to fail."
>p is a prime in a ring R

That reminds of the topic of groups, rings and fields that I had in either last year of high school or an early year of college (Math.). I thought that was a really cool topic. Not too hard (for the stuff we covered), and still some cool results/theorems in it. Also, they underlie a lot of other areas of mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(mathematics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
I agree that "Soylent pregnancy" is unlikely to catch on. Furthermore, we have virtually no idea what all the longterm impacts of that connection are, and what the longterm impacts of severing that connection could be.

P.S. I think HN will tend to have a more mechanistic view of this process than the broad public.
pick any SF author that didnt predict Google, Internet, universal surveillance or military AI
For those more interested in this, there's a follow-up to comments, which results in this (still on-going?) exchange:

- The original article (linked by OP): http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...

- A comment made by Paul Cockshott (a Marxist economist and computer scientist, most known for "Towards New Socialism" book): http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...

- Shalizi's response to Cockshott, among his other responses to other comments: http://bactra.org/weblog/919.html

- Cockshott's response to above: https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/plan-balancin...
>Number of people arrested for a marijuana law violation in 2017: 659,700

http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics

Yeah, I'm not going to even bat an eye about millionaires and billionaires going to jail for actual crimes and damage done to significant parts of the population. We need to start putting more millionaires and billionaires in jail for crimes instead of black teenagers for having 2 grams of weed in their pocket.
Because the psychological appeal of physics for a wider audience is the same as the appeal for sci-fi: the feeling/emotion of wonder.

So you can get still get the wonder by dropping the rigor, and you end up with What the bleep or The secret
Very similar stories happen with Russians too, like 300 spies outed recently because of cars registered to gru headquarters.
Not a bug, bug backwards compatibility.
Indeed that particular part of the law is a joke. However, also in Spain, things like advertising time for political parties on TV or on city streets are regulated so that each party gets a share of the space/time proportional to their last election results (and they cannot buy more advertising space/time than that, even on private media).

It's very far from perfect but it's at least better than an unregulated market where the reach of each party depends purely on money.

Unfortunately, I don't think the regulation covers social network advertising. As usual, the law lags behind technological changes.
This reads like anti-Prop-10 propaganda piece.
What I am trying to say is that it was a convergent decision to buy from a single manufacturer (although perhaps cost-driven), rather than a decision to, in order to reduce costs, have only one manufacturer.

Making HDDs is quite difficult and there is only a handful companies that can do it. If the barrier to entry was lower, there would be more different manufacturers and probability of relying on single manufacturer would be reduced. Like in most other industries.
Legacy of Ashes does a pretty good job to that end...

https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/03...
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I’m not sure what your statement means. Can you explain what you mean?
The cyclical nature would be overcome in the relevant areas if, as stated elsewhere in this thread, this exodus from the Bay Area is a slow and steady trickle.

That trend is so powerful precisely because lots of trade-working parents don't want their kids to suffer the kinds of medical bills, chronic pains (with potential resulting opioid addictions) and stunted healthspans, that they do.

Granted, construction is rather especially bad among the trades in this manner: things like welding are not quite as physically-demanding.
I agree, what I am saying is that Facebook feels like the right channel for information dissemination, not necessarily for driving traffic outside of Facebook. The paid acquisition I am trying is on Facebook, sorry if that wasn't clear. I have ideas for other channels that will drive a lot more traffic (and is stuff I'm a lot better at).
There a more environmentally sound form of disposing of bodies called alkaline hydrolysis [1]

The environmental benefits of alkaline hydrolysis are significant. Its carbon footprint is about a tenth of that caused by burning bodies. Mr. Wilson said liquefaction uses a fraction of the energy of a standard cremator and releases no fumes.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/business/flameless-cremat...
In my experience they cover any aspect of the interview process, down to the layout of the office.
Hi! I appreciate the effort, this seems like a good way to write in a neutral way.

Due to moving from one macbook pro to another, my current user folder name has a space in its name, which macos itself selected as the name of the folder. This seems to prevent your app from saving any files.
In the early 90s in middleschool (6-8th grade) we had access to a macintosh lab - the original macs - and they were all networked and relatively locked down. What they didn't do however, was lock down access to shared network drives. In the lab we had a limited number of games on 3.5" floppy disks and if you didn't get there early enough, no games for you. In one of the classes held in the lab we were instructed as to how to save our work to the network instead of a floppy. This was in the heyday of Hypercard and so that's what was usually stored by students on network drives. When my father showed me how to copy data from a disk to a drive at home, I connected the dots. I went into the lab after school one day and copied all of the games I liked playing, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50, from disk to the network. At 13 years old, I thought I was slick. No more waiting for games. I enjoyed this advantage for about a week, until I was called into the Principal's office and had a talking to by the network admin and the lab teacher. I had absolutely no concept of storage size, and at ~60mb I had taken up a considerable amount of storage on the network at the time.
When a $30B+ corp sits on a security vulnerability for 14 months while their customer's in K12 and local government sit exposed, something has to change. Student's futures and safety will be impacted.
Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal
The payoff is that you master a skill that is hard to master, but I suspect you're asking more about what are the rewards in practical terms.

For me, the extra effort I put into learning Prolog has actually paid off in career advacement. First, because several potential employers noticed that I listed Prolog in my CV as one of the programming languages I know (a CV is where one is required to brag about what they know, right?) and definitely considered it a factor in their decision to at least interview me, or hire me (I know because they told me). I could of course just list Prolog in my CV without knowing any, but I could have been found out, and I'm a wuss so I'd never do that.

Second, because my interest in Prolog led to an interest in AI, because a majority of Prolog textbooks are also (Good, Old-Fashioned) AI textbooks and reading them to learn Prolog led me to learn about AI, and eventually take a Master's course in, well, actually, machine learning and data science, right around the time when it was exploding in popularity.

And third, because my interest in Prolog combined with my Master's in machine learning led me to apply for a PhD at one of the highest-rated technology research universities in the UK (and in the world- Imperial College), to study Inductive Logic Programming, which is basically machine-learning Prolog programs from Prolog programs, under the supervision of the guy who, literally, wrote the book.

Prolog has taken me places- places I'd never have been without it. Lucrative places, and prestigious places. Anyway you look at it, for me at least, it was a worthy investment in time and effort.
> How are cadavers donated to science disposed of?

In the UK, by incineration.

[0] https://www.ciwm-journal.co.uk/downloads/Healthcare-Waste-WE...
I make sure mine is 1 page long, despite 25 years of international businesses, managing greenfield ops, R&D sites etc for huge companies and whatnot.

I find it hard to belive that one needs to have more than one page, no matter the civilization changing things they did.
I agree.

The journalist who posted the original article was too busy to put a link to the proposed bill. [EDIT: link: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Privacy%2...]

To those who say white collar crime is out of control, I agree, but we don't get it under control by criminalizing new things. We control it through fairer and better enforcement of things that are already illegal.

I strongly suspect the only people criminally prosecuted under such a bill will be patsies, leaving the politically powerful free to continue rear-ending Americans while prosecutors continue to whistle and look the other way, occasionally rounding up (and convicting) the usual suspects to appear busy, and laughing all the way to the bank when they run for higher office and the same politically powerful underwrite their campaigns.
Do you own a car? There are plenty of homeless without transportation. Can we rip the keys out of your hand? Don't worry about the fact that you paid for it, this is for justice! We'll pay you a "fair market value" - 10% of its original price.

Eminent domain isn't so much fun when its your stuff is it?
>will find a way to push this cost onto all consumers including those happily earning higher wages

I never understand this argument. Those happily earning higher wages are already planning on spending most of those wages. The resulting increase in sales should already cover much of this cost, price increases aren't the only way to generate more revenue.
Landlords have wide pricing power. They basically get all of the money. Rents rise until merchants make minimal margins. If the law says that wages have to go up, that depresses margins and therefore rents.
FWIW: It’s been suggested by Qanon that the Clinton email server was compromised and this is how all those Chinese spies died.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
"But the rest of the agency had become too reliant on the system, which was originally intended to only be a temporary communications channel, and had left the relatively insecure site up far longer than intended and used it to send information that should have been reserved for more secure channels."

Sounds familiar...
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Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
And thats not even the top reason why you should avoid goldman sachs like the cancer.
I think it unlikely that blockchains which can actually be used at scale will fall by the wayside, while bitcoins triumph over all just sitting in cold storage.
Like in warmaking, success goes to whoever fails to make a dramatic mistake at a crucial moment.
Depends on the level (and I am just giving some examples):

- Advanced high school: You can use conservation of energy or other "conservation laws" as a guiding principle. This lets you solve a problem with just a couple of lines of simple algebra. On the other hand, using the "naive" approach of studying the forces that act on the system would require heavy algebra and some calculus.

- College: Instead of calculating the path of a ray of light through some inhomogeneous piece of transparent matter by doing some form of raytracing, you can use Fermat's "minimization principle". They are equivalent, but a rigorous definition of the minimization principle is a single sentence, while the other approach takes a lot of work to express clearly.

- Advanced college: Conservation laws are actually consequences of symmetries. Instead of thinking in terms of a complicated expression for energies and momenta, you can say that they are consequences of the fact that the laws of the universe do not change from today to tomorrow.

Yes, the more simple and beautiful a principle is, the more abstract it is. However, the simplicity and ease of working with it makes the abstraction worth it.

Just like in C you can have your own weird struct that implements objects and higher order functions, but using a functional or object oriented language makes everything safer and easier and more readable.
Human brain hard-wired for rural tranquillity (2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370900
> I strongly suspect the only people criminally prosecuted under such a bill will be patsies

You can claim that about any criminal law.

And there is an antidote. You even describe it yourself:

> through fairer and better enforcement of things

Voila, no patsies prosecuted!
Or it was intentionally left vulnerable with names of people the CIA wanted dead in Iran?

If I were the CIA and I wanted a few of Iran's top nuclear scientists killed, I'd just make it seem like they were working for the CIA and let Iran's counterintelligence do the work for me.
The question is, why did they need an informal communication channel? What made this easy, and why was using a correct channel considered too difficult? Maybe Edward Tufte will write about this someday, as this might be another example where user interface design ended up having a big impact on world history (Tufte has written about John Snow using a clever map to end the cholera epidemic in London in 1853 and the Challenger shuttle disaster of 1986, the launch being allowed partly because the engineers from Thiokol were not able to present their information in a comprehensible way).

The article says:

"But the rest of the agency had become too reliant on the system, which was originally intended to only be a temporary communications channel, and had left the relatively insecure site up far longer than intended and used it to send information that should have been reserved for more secure channels. "It was never meant to be used long term for people to talk to sources," the report quotes one official as saying."

So why did it last so long? What did it offer that the more official channels did not? What kept the agency from developing technology that might have allowed better protected communication channels that might have also been easy to use?

Protected communication is not a sideline for the CIA, it is the core competency. This is something the CIA is supposed to be good at.
all this complexity for what? seems like a lot for a little.
Have you submitted the paper to a peer-reviewed venue? I've read the arXiv version already, and I'd be more than happy to volunteer reviewing it if that's not too late.
I think the thing that enables Facebook is also the thing that obsoletes it. If we imagine Facebook 30 years ago when mass media was still a tightly constrained venture comprised of relatively little more than television, print, and radio, then I think your point would be extremely valid. Reaching an extremely micro-targeted demographic of immense scale, in real time, and for relatively low cost? I mean yeah, Facebook would be what would decides elections.

But we don't live 30 years ago. We live today. And billions of people are, in some form or another, doing exactly what you and I are doing right now. Discussing and debating ideas while influencing each other in various ways that are extremely difficult to quantify. We, in turn, are probably somewhat influenced by advertisements and the such still - but I think that people are starting to influence people more than any sort of advertising is.

The one thing that has typically predicted elections success in the US is money. Whoever spends more, wins. If they spend a lot more they tend to win by wide margins. In the most recent election, one candidate spent vastly more and were relatively highly praised by the media. The person that was greatly outspent and alternatively vilified or mocked by the media in a 24/7 loop for months leading up to the election, won.

For that matter even look at Bernie Sanders. A 73 year old man who refers to himself as a democratic socialist. That word polled somewhere south of cancer not that long ago. But times have changed as the internet can redefine the rules, zeitgeist, and overton window of society - in a flash. Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and full of some interesting quotes, defeated a deeply entrenched representative going on to his 10th term who was still serving as the chair of the house democratic caucus. These things are not happening because any of the cliches that have been blamed. They're happening because the internet has usurped control of dialogue away from any given behemoth. And now what happens is being decided by a collective of individuals that, if nothing else, have shown themselves to be rather less than predictable.