skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also there are 2 sets of definitions I believe of introvert and extrovert. The traditional and the clinical one. I am not sure those are the right labels for the 2 interpretations.

And I think me and the 2 I've replying to all agree with the latter one. Which is independent of shyness or outgoingness. It's purely a mental recharge thing really. Do you feel like you need to be alone after a long time of being with other people.

This is different from the traditional view which is correlated with shyness vs outgoing charismatic view.

Also no one is ever just 1 or the other. But can be all of the above at various points at varying and ever changing degree.
Could you write also Python-version of this script?
One might speak of "cooperating with the hijackers", or even more commonly one might refer to "cooperating with police officers", even though such cooperation in both cases has been compelled by threat of force. Cooperation would ideally always be a consensual collaboration but common usage of the word would not seem to require it.
The 1% own the media companies which are happy to tell you what a winner looks like, and there is a general belief that voting with your heart is inferior to voting for a probable winner.
> Local warlords rule because they are armed in particular. If they didn't have an advantage over the general populace, they wouldn't be ruling it.

This claim does not seem well supported by evidence.

We can look at otherwise largely comparable places where either small arms are largely limited to police/military or where small arms are broadly distributed, and violence is generally much higher in the latter.

Giving everybody in an economically precarious place a gun increases violence, strengthens the influence and size of local gangs, amplifies ethnic tensions, etc.

Much of the violence in developing countries is worsened by US and European arms producers/merchants distributing weapons. In the past it was deliberate US policy to distribute weapons broadly in particular countries with the goal of destabilizing them via widespread violence.

There is plenty of evidence that all else equal, gun control leads to reduced violence. See e.g. https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/38/1/140/2754868

Unfortunately in the USA a powerful arms industry resists efforts to systematically study the effects of gun policy, much less implement effective gun control, using comparable techniques to the tobacco industry of a few decades ago. The result is uniquely and shockingly high levels of gun violence compared to the rest of the industrialized world.

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> There were periods of time in the US when there were tons of hyper partisan local newspapers

Yes and the propaganda was highly effective politically, leading to terrible policy outcomes.
some aspects of the political problems are definitely driven by voting blocs rather than money per se. For example, construction trade unions leverage generally block changes to simplify/de-cost the building code or the use of public money for pre-fab housing. Those are just concrete examples I'm aware of, theres probably similar dynamics in healthcare, government administration, environmental policy.
Good story.
If you run FreeBSD, you can easily use it for disk encryption: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gshsec&apropos=0&s...
We end up no matter what fix you propose, having to fix it while the engine is running. Saying you have to fix money first is no solution. You can't fix money in politics, until you can overcome money in politics, at which point you may act to reduce the influence of money in politics.

On the hopeful side, I feel like there is a bottom enabling threshold where money is needed for a campaign, but beyond that basic level there are many modern channels for voter engagement.Those channels only now are really starting to be employed effectively by younger, newer politicians and will let us "fix the engine while it's running".
$150-300k puts you squarely in the upper percentiles of income-earners, but it does not put you into the range of meaningful campaign donors that get the ear of electable politicians. From the perspective where we're talking about the influence of money on politics, $150-300k is still on the side where your opinion gets ignored because of your lack of money that you're going to spend on political influence.
I keep noticing that, too. I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg, though - do regions become left-leaning because they start to experience poverty (and people start to vote in left-leaning politicians who promise wealth redistribution) or do they become poor because they vote in left-leaning politicians who impose wealth redistribution policies?
> I am not sure what premise of Copenhagen is being contradicted.

Before measurement, the state of the particle system is Σ α_i|i>. Copenhagen says, "after you measure the system, all but one of the α_i go to zero". The authors don't do that, and in fact say that you can't. Unless I am misunderstanding something, they keep all the α_i around at all times and project the measurement for each particle separately, regardless of whether it has been (or will be) measured somewhere else. There is nothing philosophically or physically wrong with this, as they point out, but it is different than what Copenhagen says you should do when you measure something.

And if you look at what it means (which they refuse to do), you'll see that after Alice makes her measurement, Bob's quantum state is still explainable in terms of a superposition. When is the measurement (joint or individual) "finished"? Answer, per the authors: Never. The superposition permeates spacetime. That's how we escape the need for a causal connection between Alice and Bob's measurements, and, naturally, that's how many worlds does it.

(And if we take it further and ask, when Bob makes his measurement, "What is the state of Alice's particles?" we'll see that she is in a superposition of being entangled with each of the superpositions of the particle, which remains in superposition before, throughout, and after our ~measurement of~ entanglement with it).
Feedback Loop
Dunno, seems pretty out of date. The mentioned price of $15,000 per kg to the moon is already 3 times cheaper, even if you need to get it to mars.

They also mention a wildly optimistic "I'm not holding my breath" $20k per kg to mars, which is already is 4x higher than a SpaceX BFR launching stuff to mars.
> Frank Lloyd Wright was around 67 years old when Falling Water was built

As a teenager in rural Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright worked for a graduate of MIT school of architecture and then went to Madison to work for a civil engineering professor at UW Madison. His big break was to run away from home and go to Chicago, which was in the midst of the largest building boom in the history of the world up to then, where he was hired within a day of arriving by the firm owned by the MIT grad he worked for years before.

The guy started very early and then never stopped working.
I was talking about the operational aspect, not scalability. Read my first paragraph again. :-)

I don't see any huge issues with the design in terms of scalability.
Breakthroughs are not produced by the scientists produced and favored by the current system of inkremental research. For a breakthrough you need the ability to step back from the paradigm without any investment in it.. Thus only academic beginners and outsiders are even incentivized.
then you need a miracle, the miracle usually beeing a wrong analogy beeing made and thought to the very end. So you need people who by accident of birth can't stop analogizing.. aka people on the schizophrenic spectrum. Needless to say that integrating chaotic people, who constantly recombine, are notorious bad at planning projects and who perceive normal social interaction as a spy novel they want to run away from - is a challenge. Even worser when they have success and the world worship them for it, while the pursuit the laser eyed pigeons. It's a doable job, as any theater Regisseur will tell you, but the Leviathancyberitics of this kind are definitely not comfortable.
Usbauth: USB firewall against BadUSB attacks
Three 9s vs Five 9s. The mainframe wins here. Heck I remember moving a system for a bank that had been up for 23 years.
The "baby system" market does exist at IBM, it's just Power-based instead. My personal POWER6 is one of those (an 8203-E4A), and with AIX you can do all the fun stuff like hotswapping PCI cards while the system is up and running. It's a different level than typical commodity boxes.
None of the issues you're describing really still exist now in the majority of those kinds of tools, though.

Keep in mind it was usually always the case you could set widget sizes (or do anything else you wanted) "in code", also.

It's not as though you were ever forced to always use the visual designer for absolutely everything.

In general, there are no significant differences whatsoever between the way something like React actually works and the way something like WinForms works.
That last bit should have read "requires a silly gconf tweak in Gnome/Cinnamon", of course.
https://github.com/kochstefan/usbauth-all/tree/master/usbaut... , also in Debian

usbauth: USB firewall against BadUSB attacks

It is a firewall against BadUSB attacks. A config file descibes in which way USB interfaces would be accepted or denied.
To the kernel an interface authorization was developed with this firewall.
The firewall sets the authorization mask according to the rules.

usbauth-notifier: Notifier for USB Firewall to use with desktop environments

A notifier for the usbauth firewall against BadUSB attacks. The user could manually allow or deny interfaces of USB devices.
Every user that wants use the notifier must be added to the usbauth-notifier group.
To get notifications, at least one usbauth rule must be specified.
The ideas you're saying are quite common in the West, as you say, but that's not the attitude in NYC. Everyone realizes it's worth funding and fixing. The disputes are about the who, what, how, and paid by whom.
> At present they're not exportable though.

You may want to think this one more through. As a publisher, I would definitely be in the market for your product but the mailing list is the most valuable (and expensive) data set I will be working on for years, and to have it not exportable in the case that you might go out of business or if I decide to use another product is a definite showstopper for me.
Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds nothing (2008)
The ridership is definitely not plummeting. A lot of people have started moving to deeper parts of Brooklyn and Queens because the rents are rising, so they depend on trains even more. The only people who've stopped using trains and buses on a regular basis, are people who can afford Uber or Lyft.
Here's kind of the definitive analysis of Starship Troopers the book, how well it works, Starship Troopers the movie, and where the movie didn't work in the same way the book did: http://www.kentaurus.com/troopers.htm
It was quite useful to people getting money out of China.
I'll believe that real progress has been made when google updates the major kernel version for a phone. No OEM (AFAIK) has ever done a kernel (major version) bump.
Tworoutines: an unorthodox way to mix asynchronous and synchronous Python code
Billionaires who just want to conserve the status quo but tell the everyone they're innovating. No actual morals
The thing is, all Linus rants that I've seen are entirely reasonable. Yes, calling someone stupid is rude, but rude things should be used in extreme circumstances. And when a single developer can negatively affect millions - wait, actually, billions - of people around the world with a stupid patch, that's exactly the case where being rude and aggressive is entirely reasonable.
>Unfortunately, a lot of the solutions are expensive and frankly politically toxic.

At the end of the day, everything is political. Instead of shying away from it engage with it because it is the only way you'll change society.
You're asking members of a military, that is, the custodians of ultimate state violence, to decide who the enemy is? Are you sure about that?

To whom does the soldier have a greater duty, the government elected by the citizens of his country, or the citizens of some other country?

Let's say I take a 4-star general, and strip him of all rank. Put him in a platoon and tell him to follow the orders of the lieutenant in charge. No matter his geopolitical insights and experience, he is now dependent on the information of the lieutenant. It's no longer theory, now it's specifics. He is told to knock down that door and shoot the first person he sees. How can he possibly make any decision other than to execute the orders he is given? This is the terrible responsiblity of the lieutenant: he is the last source of information and direction the soldier has. Would you want your soldiers to die for a lie? As the result of misdirection? Do you want them to know to kill an innocent?
When you deploy a new version of a container, how do you avoid downtime? Do you start a new container running the new version, wait for the new container to be ready, switch traffic to the new container, stop traffic to the old container and drain connections, and then stop the old container?
Employee costs are 60% of the expenses for the MTA [1] and employees are making $30/hr + generous pension and medical benefits[2], I'm not sure how you can possibly justify your position.

That being said, paying union construction workers $1k/day (!) to do nothing is pretty egregious as well [3]

[1] http://web.mta.info/news/pdf/MTA-2019-Final-Proposed-Budget-...
[2] https://www.empirecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MTA-...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
I hang out in an area of Denver where they can’t seem to build $500,000/2,500 a mo. condos fast enough, and a couple blocks full of homeless people sleep 1/4 miles away. A coffee shop I visit at had its portapotties taken over by a homeless band who informed us they were sleeping there and we should donate. Turned out they were also smoking crack. So far it seems the city’s plan is to keep pushing them around the city - Denver is privatizing alleys, for instance. I imagine that at some point the food missions will be moved towards Sun Valley, Valverde, Commerce City, North Aurora or the like.

In Eugene it was a more intense issue. I swear the two cities have equal communities despite the populations differing by an order of magnitude. Bands of homeless people rove the streets with bicycles with trailers, collecting recycling to fund their lives at the insane meth/bicycle thievery park downtown. My girlfriend’s daughter took out the trash and said “there’s a guy in the dumpster”.

Clearly a lot of people need psychological services and job counseling - if they were in homes, they could not sustain them. Given that the US doesn’t even seem to be likely to devote proper care of our aging relatives in residential care over the next 30 years, it seems unlikely.
DFW airport and Las Vegas airport both have trains that seem to operate autonomously. There might be a remote operator as far as I know.
AnChain.AI is on its way to becoming a blockchain security industry giant
There was some other news about the display side of things. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pixel-3-...
In that case, I am sure they would be ok with a longer term and 0% APR at a minimum for the data provided...
Well said. I’d add to this that it’s not uncommon for a developer to need 3 months to get sufficiently up to speed on processes and codebase to be meaningfully effective. Salary up to that point is an investment in future employment, and wasted if the developer leaves after that period.

Not to even mention team time spent on the hiring and onboarding process. There’s a reason most companies strongly prefer to hire people who will stay at least a couple years.
>Strictly taking everything people say at face value is great way to become somebody who "can't take a hint."

Yes. And yes, that's the way to go.

In my experience, when people of differing backgrounds try to read between the lines, you will get more damage than when things are simply not said. Absence of information leaves you somewhat open minded. Wrongly interpreted information often leads to bad decisions and fruitless battles.

If you've been the person that lots of people attribute stuff to because they read things between your words that simply did not exist, you'll know what I'm talking about.

>The problem is that there are many things people want to communicate but would rather not say because they're likely to lead to uncomfortable situations.

Completely agree. That's why the standard communication trainings/books focus heavily on making it safe enough for the other person to speak. There's no good alternative to that.

>Suppose a coworker offers you mints or gum every time you speak to them. If you only take their words literally, you'll think, "Gee, what a generous person," and miss entirely their true meaning: "Your breath stinks and it's bothering me but I don't want to hurt your feelings, so I'm giving you out where we can both pretend you fixed the problem before anyone noticed."

Sorry - I completely read the first half of the scenario and came to a different conclusion. As will many others.

I'm going to say what one book on communications essentially said: Utilizing tact is a poor fix to poor communications. People use tact because they do not know how to communicate well.
Nothing... they can also print them at will too, there's no true proof of funds. The site is a joke, I've been watching it since it launched and you can never create an account.

Only way to obtain USDT is second hand on exchanges.
"In my case, I can usually code and watch TV out of one eye while spending time with my wife."

I'm surprised your wife doesn't complain you're not giving your full attention to her.
I know you may not think so, but its important to realize that your response is highly biased. Many people see this differently and personally I think the best solution is for communities to realize this is an issue and volunteer time and money to help solve it. Things like volunteering time to go teach young kids and teens to code, taking a weekend to help with habitat for humanity, at a soup kitchen or helping with a coat drive. I firmly believe it is as big a problem as it is because the average person sees it as an intractable that they cannot solve and in the city its even more pronounced because there's less of a sense of community and more of a sense of fending for oneself. We need LESS red tape to help cities develop affordable housing more quickly, INNOVATION to bring down the cost of housing (think modular housing) and a CAN DO attitude that this is a problem WE CAN fix. As JFK famously said "We choose to ... not because it is easy, but because it is hard." And that's the mentality we need. Tax and re-distribution may be PART of the answer, but not THE answer.
This is even an issue with Chromebooks from Google (e.g. Chromebook Pixel 2015). Sure, it "runs Linux", but how useful is that if you can't put any other distro on it? After a few years we finally got all of the Chromebook-specific patches pushed to mainline Linux, but Google doesn't seem to care about mainline at all.
Then you have to explain why he didn't want to bomb random Muslims but the democratic party, their propaganda outlets, and their commisars did.

Can you explain that? That's the part that makes your statment seem like neither of you have actually thought about this.
Nothing. The person above does not realize that Linus doesn't yell like this at newbie committers. His rants are directed at people who -should- know better.

I'm not justifying them, but there is quite a difference.
Show HN: AWS Re:Invent 2018 Event Catalog – Only Show Available Events
What Happened to 5K Displays?
Learn Service Workers inside and Out with a New PWA Mastery Game
My favourite Richard Bransons quote says «Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.»

For a country, the imhabitants come first. Give the inhabitants higher education and healthcare for free, and the inhabitants will start new businesses that generate income in the years to come. Almost no companies survies past their first hundred years. A new company is nothing more than some people starting a business together.
Teacher in mosque gets partially suspended sentence for Rape of girl aged 6
The Galaxy S and Galaxy Nexus both got major version bumps. Old history at this point, but it does show that this can happen... (https://lwn.net/Articles/738225/)
I spent a lot of time in the guild hall there recruiting members to my party between trips to the dungeon[1] :-).

Definitely on a list of interesting places to visit, and it amazes me that places like this were occupied for 600 years and then abandoned long before what I think of as ancient times. How did folks develop the techniques for building these sorts of structures? Some sort of stone age think tank? It is really amazing when you think about it.

[1] This was the city in The Bards Tale which I played all the way to the end, back in the day.
Houston also doesn't have zoning laws, though having lots of land helps with that.
Most NYC residents don't have walkable commutes, especially those living in middle or lower income neighborhoods that are generally further from the city center. The city is too large, and not particularly pedestrian friendly in the outer boroughs.

FWIW Biking has become more viable in recent years, with a good amount of bike lane coverage even in the outer boroughs, but that's still not viable for the less physically able, and I don't know if it's actually cheaper than public transit once you factor in bike equipment/maintenance costs and increased travel times. Also the weather gets fairly extreme in both the summer and winter.

Taxing rideshares sounds like a good idea, though I'm sure Uber would fight like hell against it.
I've spent my career dealing with non-technical decision makers, so I understand where you're coming from, but this kind of cynicism and condescension is exactly what I'm talking about.
Ask HN: Interested in decentralized web. Where to start?
Hello.

I'm interested in the whole movement of decentralizing the web. However, I'm not sure where to start. I see many things being created and new ideas popping up and I'm feeling kind of lost. I'm a software engineer.

Among the things that look interesting to me are:

- The Solid project
- Beaker Browser and the Dat protocol
- IPFS
- Blockchains
- Aether

and more. Do you have any suggestions on where should I start? I'm interested in books, articles, projects, conference talks and everything that has to do with decentralization of the web.

Thanks!
you mean $31/hr + medical + pension and medical in retirement...

again for teachers you are forgetting the fact that they have similar generous benefits and only work 3/4 of the year...
>There is no "now" that is shared and can be discussed meaningfully.

This is only true if you spend too long navel gazing.

Relativity may have made a strict, absolute, universal "now" and "simultaneous" obsolete or non-existent, but language can't and won't adapt to the absurdity of claiming they don't exist. No one was making grand claims about absolute certainty of simultaneity before relativity, saying it doesn't exist has really only minor effects.

Language is contextual and with context it is indeed silly to claim "now" doesn't exist. Language can understand frames of reference and acknowledge disagreements without throwing out everything.

Unless photons and black holes start having conversations.