skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reading the WW1 series of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast (highly recommended by the way) it seems part of what led to the scale of destruction caused by WW1 was the relative peace between the end of the Napoleanoic Wars and 1914. There were smaller wars here and there but the great powers had not faced off in a generation, no one truly understood how the new technologies would affect warfare and tactics.

It makes me concerned about the possibility of the next war between great powers, we've only seen nuclear weapons used twice, no one knows how satellites and cyber attacks can affect war on a grand scale, new biological weapons also have not been deployed at scale. There's a lot of theory out there about what the next great war will look like but without any tactile examples we really have no idea.
> As usual, context is critical. By the end of the primary, DWS was a lightning rod of controversy. Hillary recognized DWS was an obstacle to the Bernie wing rallying behind her and so she made a deal with DWS to get her to step down without a fight. She wasn't "forced" out due to wrongdoing, it was purely a political move to put the primary fights to rest and look towards defeating Trump. Had DWS stayed and defended herself, that would have severely weakened party unity. In such cases, truth takes a back seat to reconciliation.

If DWS stepping down was a purely optics move, then why was she then immediately added as a campaign chair to the Clinton campaign, in probably what was the worst possible optics given the situation.

> Brazile's case is trickier. Taking everything she says at face value (which is a mistake)

"Let's just start off delegitimizing what she had to say, not because I have any evidence to contrary. I just don't like what she said."

> the main thing she demonstrated was that Hillary's campaign saved the DNC from bankruptcy before the primary by assuming its debt. Hillary (reasonably) put some controls on the DNC's finances in response to the mismanagement. Brazile had no evidence, nor did she claim that Hillary or anyone directed the DNC to act against Bernie. Besides, with the unfiltered look into the DNCs emails and Hillary's campaign's emails, you would expect to see mountains of evidence of Hillary manipulating the DNC against Bernie. But there was no such evidence whatsoever.

> The other issue is the fundraising agreement that combined DNC-raised money with Hillary campaign money. But the fundraising agreement was standard and Bernie's campaign had the opportunity to sign the same fundraising agreement but declined.

You fundamentally misunderstood the scandal it seems. What Brazile revealed was the full extent of the issues with the Hillary Victory Fund, and why that happened. These aren't two different issues.

The way the HVF worked was as a way to subvert maximum donor limits. You as a donor can normally only donate $2,700 to a campaign. Instead the HVF allowed you to donate simultaneously to each of the 50 state's individual DNC parties, who then immediately donate that money to the national DNC, who then immediately donated that money to the Clinton campaign. Yes the same deal was available to the Sanders campaign, in that they were also essientially allowed to donate ~$100 to the Clinton campaign for every dollar they raised. Yes, the setup was that all VF money was to make it's way to the Clinton campaign. I wonder why they didn't take that wonderful offer.

Nothing about that was standard.
This setup of giving VF money during the primary had never previously happened, was against internal bylaws, and is the main reason why we lost the house so bad. She had been pilfering funding for down ticket races in order to fund the primary campaign.
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Downvotes but no responses... But seriously, its already built to a huge scale, its core product that people actually use (newsfeed / apps) havn’t changed in years(functionally - I’m sure the code base has..). is it the appeal of working on a product used by a significant proportion of the worlds population or just working at a huge company?
Kevin from http://fossa.io here. Did this happen to be us?

If so, I’d love to hear you feedback on our demo, if not I’d love to offer you a demo.

kevin@fossa.io
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Nice, I didn't know about the free bucket permission check tools, that's good. Looks like here's the announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/02/aws-trust... Sounds like you can still only automate it (using AWS dashboard anyway) as "Business and Enterprise support customers."

But yeah, simply being able to set a bucket as "never allow public access in here" makes a _lot_ of sense, an easy way to deal with "misbehaving" software components (whether the developers who wrote them believed it was misbehavior or not).

In most of the web software I write these days, I make _nothing_ public in S3, but provide an endpoint that will HTTP redirect to a signed URL to grant access. It's a bit of extra work (cpu cycles for the software that is, relatively trivial for the developer), but makes it easier to keep track of what I've granted access to how and when.
I think there are consistencies in your second paragraph. You don't buy the low-hanging fruit argument, however you then state that we need to spend decades on in-depth studies. Well, those are exactly the opposite of low-hanging fruit, those are extremely hard-to-reach and abstract fruits that the vast majority of the scientists of the past would have been unable to grasp, simply because they did not have access to all the foundations we do today. You can't attack Poincare's conjecture without basic arithmetic, nor can you understand antibiotics without a knowledge of infection and germ theory.

Look at some of the most sea-changing discoveries in the history of science and you will see it was not the result of decades of laborious and thoughtful calculation and musing. Penicillin was discovered by coincidence or luck; the production of rubber for tires was also lucky. How about chance astronomical observations like an eclipse, whereby a great deal can be learned in a fleeting moment? How about displacement of water, or the pythagorean theorem, or Michael Faraday's cheap and quick experiments into electricity. These are not tours de force, by and large they are little fun divertissements, interesting observations with great consequences.

I think there's no doubt that MANY of the low hanging fruits have already been plucked. It's the same way in many other fields, such as music, art, computer science, or anything else. People naturally discover the simplest things first, and then build upon those, with later discoveries taking far more investment of time/learning to even be capable of understanding, let alone discovering.
Oh don't get me wrong, I personally oppose eugenics from a moral standpoint. I was just quibbling with the assertion that eugenics does not work because of a "misunderstanding on how DNA works". If that's the case I'd like him to explain how we have crops and domesticated animals.
> the state often pays a lot of damages and compensations

Even more often it denies suit. It's called sovereign immunity, and at the US federal level it must be explicitly waived before a suit can even start. There are many other ways that governments at all levels protect themselves from the liability a private party would have for doing the same things. An occasional exception doesn't change the fact that they have and use the ability.

> you could think that the state should bail out PG&E

Not "should" so much as "will". I know it's not free, but it's going to happen anyway in the case of essential services. That's the real point. You can't sue PG&E into oblivion. You can just back-door nationalize it via lawsuits. Is that what you think should happen? I'm really not sure what you're trying to get at here, other than repeating a "gubmint is evil" trope that has no bearing on the situation at hand.
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M.2 isn't designed for hot swap. It would have to engineered into a carrier that can provide the necessary electrical and mechanical interface to permit that.
So it's planned to be focused on once WebRender is out and enabled everywhere?

I see some work here: https://github.com/szeged/webrender/issues/198
I find "What is the value we are getting?" to be the absolute most crucial question.

We were paying a few K$ a month for DataDog. The value we were getting from it was quantified. We evaluated how long it will take to build the features we are using from DD ourselves. It took about a month and we cut them off completely from our stack.

If you take the AWS approach, you have to keep providing value and you have to keep getting your users to buy-in.

I don't know if there's a very good way to actually communicate with all of your users, emails you get seem to mechanical and artificial. "What can we do better?" type of emails don't really work.

On your "manage the saas", did you see https://toriihq.com/ ?
There was a movie on this very topic about 17 years ago.

Right down to a thinly veiled character for Microsoft & Bill Gates.

Migel de Icaza even has a cameo.

See "Antitrust" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
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Theft by deception. https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/theft-by-deception/
Interesting stuff. The talk of a new kingdom or supra-kingdom (domain? empire?) prompted me to see how we currently model the tree of life. (Something I probably haven't known since elementary school!)

Within the life of some readers here: kingdoms.count() -> 4, 5, 6, 3, 8, 6, 7, ...

Currently, seven kingdoms: animalia, fungi, plantae, chromista, protozoa, archaea, bacteria [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)
You could (maybe?) use it as a "I am close" metric in your home-automation setup.
My MERN stack yeoman generator – Feedback
https://github.com/sbernheim4/premiere-mern-stack

Looking for some feedback on this project (MERN yeoman generator). Still working on it to add more features but it's pretty solid now. Thanks in advance!
> That's fine, I guess. Just as long as we all remember there's no such thing as a chemical that makes you fall in love.

Indeed, there are many such chemicals, and they don't make you fall in love, the complex soup combined with our neurology is what we call love.
I hope not for the EU's sake :)

That really isn't that huge anymore, and it's definitely not growing that fast.

I don't think you want to make a consumer argument because consumers buy expensive stuff everywhere.

There are also larger and more growing consumer markets.

The better argument would IMHO probably be "They need to sell business products and to businesses there, and the EU businesses are spending more than elsewhere".

IE it's a concentration of business wealth.

That is also likely to change over time.
This is very cool, but you're gonna get a lot of push back from people who feel more attached to their podcast hosts than they do to random websites.
This is necessary.

Yes there will be ideas discussed at the quality of eugenics.

However, there may also be ideas like the earth orbiting the sun.

Example topics that should cause too much controversy for open discussion are:
* The Palestinian apartheid

* How Carolyn Bryand Donham fits into the #metoo movement

* Supply side economics is the root cause of Facism

* How long should a peaceful protests be ignored before it can morally be violent?

* The United States was violently founded on "Taxation without representation". The same situation is happening now with gerrymandering and outdated Senate rules.

* Cloning is going to happen, and it is going to get weird

* AI is going to happen, and it may be scary

I am NOT opening these ideas up for discussion. What I am saying is that all these are worthy of open, thoughtful discussion. Sometimes to say they are not a thing, sometimes to change perceptions. Mostly they are going to make a lot of folks angry.
> ...are paid a percentage of cost

Principal agent problem comes to bite us in the ass really hard in many industries where percentage of cost embedded somewhere within the incentive structure raises its head. Real estate, finance, insurance, the list of industries is long.
You don't have to use QML/QtQuick. Qt Creator inherited Qt Designer code so you can also use it for traditional interfaces.
Wasn't you :)

But I am now actively looking at it.
I hate doing this... but what has changed on HN such that a comment like this is downvoted so soon after it's been posted? Sources are present, the tone is not hostile. There may be valid disagreements or gaps somewhere here, but the typical HN response in the past was to explore that via further discussion.

That said, it really does seem like the term "reductionism" is overloaded. Perhaps it would have been more clear if the author had specifically referred to the concept of Scientism, which is related to a specific problem with excessive or mis-applied reductionism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
> The term scientism is also used by historians, philosophers, and cultural critics to highlight the possible dangers of lapses towards excessive reductionism in all fields of human knowledge

I believe in that context, the original article and content make more sense. Personally, as a fan of David Deutsch's "Beginning of Infinity", I see absolutely no conflict between acknowledging both that scientism is harmful and that many systems can be reduced to elegant, simple definitions that are incredibly useful to understand.
Thanks, I stand corrected!
I was thinking what a headache it must be to read a bitstream from one of those machines onto an 8 bit byte machine.
> Getting a high/near-perfect score on the SAT does require preparation due to time pressure.

Sure, but it is completely possible to get a very high score with virtually no practice. Time constraints are an issue, but not too huge of one, so long as you are willing to trust your gut so to speak.

> The material tested in the US SATs is relatively unsophisticated compared to the curricula of many East Asian countries.

That is exactly why I think the SAT is superior.
I didn’t call him a eugenicist. But I do put his opinions in the same category.
This, and compiler performance, are my big problems. Unification can be very costly on large codebases. And for this reason, I wish my IDE had a hotkey that would automatically infer and then insert type annotations on an entire file (as opposed to a single statement). Usually, after writing and getting everything working, it's helpful to have everything annotated.
Since the articles cites CNN, here is what I found over there:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/us/gofundme-scam-donor-trnd/i...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/us/couple-homeless-man-gofund...

> The couple, Kate McClure and Mark D'Amico, and the man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., face charges of second-degree theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said Thursday.
Unless there is no opt out.. Unless the data is for core functionality, a lawful purpose you have to have consent. I would consult a lawyer on this if you have any doubts. I suspect Microsoft have done already though.
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Chocolate chip cookies: the creation of a culinary classic
That doesn't mean that it is something in need of an antidote (which is specifically what the person you were replying to was bringing up).

Of course understanding quantum mechanics does not give you an understanding of psychology, and nothing about reductionism claims it does!

Reductionism says basically that everything is evolving configurations of quantumn-mechanical elements, interacting in quantum mechanical ways.

But it does not directly telll you anything specifically about what the different kinds of (massive) configurations are or the ways those evolve over time. Such details are what we capture in our knowledge of fields such as Psychology.
Most people seem to agree that the next great power war might be the last one. I don't think 'cyber attacks' or satellites are going to matter much after the ICBMs launch. Though I guess they might in the event of a biowarfare attack.

Someone should tell the imbecile US establishment; they seem determined to have one.
As someone who has struggled with sleep since childhood, I’ve been scared stiff by popular media that every ailment known to man is going to afflict me... underperformance, won’t develop muscle, won’t form memories, cancer, heart attacks, ED, high blood pressure, whatever.

I’ve always felt fine despite sleeping 5 hours. I wonder if the bell curve of what people need is centered on 8 hours and I’m just in the left hand tail somewhere?
I'd love to use your app (even pay for it) if you ever get it out on iOS!
These table tops are the same shape and size
The Enterprise version was full of adverts. After running through latest updates, I had to uninstall store apps again.
I'm getting a new PC in a week, I fully expect to spend time tracking down a Powershell script to uninstall a bunch of crap (thinking about it: that script was for visual studio to uninstall crap add-ons).
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Sarcastically speaking, it all started with the division of labor between hunters and gatherers. If hunters had to gather too they wouldn't have had developed a specialization for killing other beings, and many of them would have preferred gathering to hunting due to the risk involved in the latter, so hunting would have been a fringe activity, not an institutionalized part of society (aka armies) Also, women and men who are not so driven by testosterone most likely gravitated toward gathering rather than killing, and so there we have the roots of sexism and machoism, with the assholes doing the killing and normal human beings relegated to "less strong" gatherers. And I believe natural hormones in meat affected the hunters own hormonal balance and pushed them toward more aggression, and the act of killing became normalized. Then we have technology being developed to increase the efficiency of killing other beings and eventually to increase the efficiency of killing other people. The tribes that engaged less in killing and more in gathering got wiped out by the ones that engaged more in killing than gathering. The End.
The second paragraph is the point I was trying to make.

Thank you for explicating it.
Not the best source for this. As in it's light on details.

For one the LHC was designed to have a maximum collision energy of 14 TeV. The CEPC is designed for more like 70 TeV.

The goal of higher end is to make relatively infrequent products much more common. It says in the article they want to produce more Higgs bosons and this is how that happens.
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> Does anyone know more details on the actual crimes? I didn't see it in the article.

First sentence:

"The US protagonists in a viral fundraising campaign for a homeless man have been charged with theft by deception and conspiracy."

> Didn't just gullible people on GoFundMe fall for a fake sap story?

Yes, but there are laws that make various forms of such behavior criminal, such as fraud and criminal deception.
JPMorgan is poaching developers who work on video games
Ad Hominem is saying that something is invalid because of who the author / speaker is. I didn’t say that these ideas are likely to be invalid because they come from people like Peter Singer. I said based on the inclusion of people like him, it’s clear (to me, at least) what kind of ideas this journal will be discussing.
How is IAM a cutesy name?
WW-1 at the front was particularly brutal in comparison to the past in that millions died in a mechanical meat grinder and not a heck of a lot of territory changed hands.

It also made the rest of the world look at Europeans (who until then were undisputed masters of virtually the entire world) as being, well, kind of stupid; ultimately unraveling the various political systems that had run the West since post-Roman days. Western civilization more or less died in 1917. We've been dealing with the consequences of this ever since then.
If I only paid attention to the mainstream news I would not understand Assage. But I remember when Wikileaks was announced for the first time on slashdot and I read their mission statement.

Every time a big leak happens, the news cooks up a new narrative about who Wikileaks is and what their goals and motivations are. And every time it's just something the editor wants to be true. Its a better story for him to be the hero or the villain. But if you frame the actions of what wikileaks said they were going to do (publish verifiable leaks much more indiscriminately than the press), they've been pretty consistent.
Maybe someone else can explain to me how to feel.

I am from Toronto, as such I am kinda proud that Toronto didn't cough up a lot of money to entice Amazon - but did we miss the chance to attract a lot of jobs/attention/cashflow to our city?

These incentives are derided as ridiculous, but even with tax incentives I assume NYC&Virginia will be making >$0 in revenue and a lot more in side benefits. Am I wrong?
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More like the "Journal of truths that are uncomfortable for SJWs"

Your attitude precisely demonstrates the need for such a journal.
> Developers are very much the main problem here.

> But each time is even hinted "why not ACTUALLY fix things?" the answers is "nope, too much work", but for create chat apps and more tools for surveilance and privacy invasion the money pit is bottomless.

You're blaming developers but citing product/economic/business decisions. In all likelihood, the problem is as much organizational/economic as it is technical. For example, consider the manager who was warned about the security risks by the engineering team, but decides to ship the product on schedule and get promoted long before any serious vulns are discovered. Or the case where engineering raises the issue, but fails to effectively communicate the severity of the concern. Or the case where engineering _assumes_ management understands the risks.

I'm sure there are lots of developers who do think they should just use C because it's what they've used forever and _lesser developers_ might make mistakes but _they_ don't, but I'd be surprised if these folks are the primary driver of the situation.
Even if it did have JS, I think most of the crowd would be fine with minimal JS also, since there are some legitimate use cases. Having JS is not the end of the world, but today's standard is to completely abuse it, leading to horrifically bloated websites.
First: I'm sorry if I came of as aggressive. That wasn't my intention.

> You're assuming that Zone Alarm et al wouldn't also contain sane defaults ;)

I worked with third party firewalls and that is the case. They also are most of the time really similar to the Windows default.

My point is the Windows Firewall is a really good product. It's easy to understand for a normal user since it basically asks if you trust the network when you join it. This means no technical knowledge is needed for a sane configuration. Most normal users I know are overwhelmed by the Pop-Up they get when the Windows Firewall asks them if they want to allow Internet access for a unknown application.

The problem is there is no good solution to avoid the collection of telemetry data for the basic Windows user. But this is not a problem with Windows, this is a problem with most software in the year 2018. Since telemetry is everywhere and it's used more and more. If a basic Windows User is really privacy conscious they should jsut configure the settings at the first login (I think they are easy enough to understand and you can disable most of the data collection there) or get a professional help them setup their system.

Edit: The following link provides information about the data collected by Windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/