skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell where you draw the line. Would you share your alternative to credit scoring information for private money lenders? And government watch lists?
Interesting. So you actually find the news to be a reliable source of information when deciding to buy stocks and voting? I mean, there are no bias or clueless writers out there?
Background info on the exploit used at:
https://antichat.com/threads/463395/#post-4254681
Alright, I'm geared up, I'm going to go take out this hive-

> Saving

> Crash the already difficult to drive vehicle into a nearby rock

> You died
However the Godhood system is much more educational than programmatically enforcing rules (PK/PvP zones or ToS and ban threars).

I have two examples in mind:

Riot implemented a player tribunal in League Of Legends. Players would examine chat logs to judge verbal abuse and misconduct cases. Eventually a Riot employee would decide on the punishment (warning or temporary or permanent ban). I don't know if this system is still in place, but at the time they reported good results and players saw it as an improvement.

A French high-school is using Minetest (a FOSS Minecraft) to run a student-driven server. The "administrator" chose to let the player-students do their own thing with as little intervention as possible. The admin even created a reward system granting privileges (fly, ban) up to full admin powers (that is, a god).

They saw player-students create a laws, then a police and then a tribunal. For sure those kids got a better understanding of the society they live in.

In one case, the admin invited his colleagues to introduce them to the tool/game. Those people were clueless and apparently thought that because they were teachers, they were above the rules. The student-players banned them.

Games being an entertainment-only device is a severe misconception. Online interaction in an MMO or a MOBA is often a form of social training. One role of games is to allow to experiment with dangerous things safely. The pseudonymous online society allows people to test different behaviors on others, and I believe that some of the "toxicity" comes from that.

So Godhood is a way for people to experiment with the exercise of power. And as the article concludes, "it ain't that fun after all".

I believe that if more people could have the chance to come to that conclusion, that being able to do anything is not fun, it would be a significant contribution to humanity I believe. Because it seems to me that too many people are driven by the delusion of wealth and power.
Nice resource! It explains the difference between parallelism and concurrency quite clearly.

Some things can be improved though:

> The difference between green and lightweight threads is that green threads aren't necessarily lightweight; an example of green threads is classic Java Virtual Machine threads, while Go goroutines are an example of lightweight threads.

Saying that the difference between green and lightweight is that green aren't necessarily lightweight isn't helpful. Some explanation on what they are and when they differ would be useful.
Missiles, just like planes, still use most of their energy to not crash into the ground.

The point was that this current design won’t be enough energy to keep a heavy vehicle aloft, but it could be enough to propel something that can passively stay airborne.
Amazement at iOS cursor movement shortcut says a lot about discoverability
well, there's the spread of BTC between Bitfinex and the other exchanges, which has somehow magically stayed suspended in air since Nov 9th.
Briton Matthew Hedges jailed for life on UAE spy charge
Revenge is a dish best served cold.

I was thinking how Musk could do that. Launch some tungstan rods into a highly eliptical orbit, small thruster + control pack on them to adjust their orbit when required. When it's out at say 300,000k+ fire the engine for a few seconds, adjusting the orbit so it will crash into the chosen target a few days from now. The high apogee means not a lot of power to change orbit to collision, and almost impossible to detect. It would likely appear to be an asteroid hit.
Doesn't society determine how wealth is concentrated based on how they use their wallets? The wealth accumulated by founding Amazon is due to millions of people's purchases on the retail site. It is further enhanced by the amount of money being spent on AWS cloud services.

This is how a free market works, the market dictates where wealth concentrates and disseminates. I don't disagree that in theory we shouldn't have it so lop sided but I don't see how we have a free market without the possibility of a Jeff Bezos rising to the top.
This is excellent. Thanks for sharing! It seems like a very close parallel to the adage of "my kids will wait tables for a living at least once", to teach humility, respect and empathy.

I'm super stoked that students ran their own in-game government, where no citizen was above the law. I'm curious what rules the teachers ran afoul of.
from a pr standpoint sure, but you extract value by buying when people are selling (assuming you believe in btc long term)
Counterpoint: for me, buying an easier (in my case: much lighter) bike, was the difference between deciding to ride or to not ride at all.

I don't think I'm alone in that.
Revenue generated from older devices would be in peripherals and services.

They don’t even need to sell devices to Android users. The diets of people that tend to use hand-me-down iPhones are quite likely to get an Android instead. If iPhones last longer, these people will stay in the iPhone ecosystem longer and there will be more of them.
The key thing to keep in mind here is incentives and motivation.

You have a motivation toward self improvement, you make a change to your environment, monitor it, and see what happens. You want to increase your physical fitness, awareness, education, life position, finances, etc. and you make corresponding changes where you and yours are the primary beneficiaries.

Google has a motivation to deliver value to their shareholders. They want to deliver more, so they take advantage of their privileged position in our lives and change our environment for us without asking, monitor it, and see what happens. They have far more capability for analysis and, considering the scale, far more financial motivation to make tiny adjustments that we would pass over in our own optimizations.

Is it necessarily evil or bad for us? No, it doesn't have to be, but I have very little faith in Google to make any choices that even border on altruistic when it's far more profitable to exploit us. Let's remember that fundamentally they are an advertising company, and that drives most of the money in the business; advertising isn't just ads as we know them, but fundamentally the business of changing your mind, suggesting things, and influencing your behaviour to make you exchange some money for some service or good.

When you have a privileged position of influence, and you're willing to sell it to literally anyone who signs up, there is clearly a lot of potential for abuse.
I would be more inclined to believe it if it didn't fly out of frame before it had even been in the air as long as the "unsustained" flight. I simply can't imagine why they are so careful to obscure their sustained flight from scrutiny. I think it is healthy to have a measure of scepticism.
Enterprise Disruption (DARPA) [YouTube]
What would be involved to make ccache [1] support D?

[1] https://ccache.samba.org/
A majority of Americans don’t think social networks are good for the world
"Tor Hidden Services" are services hosted on the tor network and inaccessible outside it.

Hosts are assigned a dns name <id>.onion so clients can connect to that service.
The experimental CUDA bindings for LWJGL3 might also be an interesting target for Clojure interop: https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/blob/master/modules/samples/...

LWJGL3 is full of hidden treasures.
You don’t really see individual fireworks so much as the entire landscape ripples with light
CBP’s Facial Biometrics Program Has Caught 26 Alleged Imposters
Sociology had their high profile scandals already for one with the Stanford Prison Experiment among with others that people were concerned about being treated like lab rats.

Look at everything not controlled with manipulation already even in the relatively restriction friendly commercial advertising space. If we go down that rabbit hole we'll have to mandate package colors and store layouts. No more milk in the back of the grocery store or using attractive people to sell products.

Even putting aside practicality altogether many people would probably choose manipulation that left them feeling more fulfilled over unhappy bland truth that their job is tedious repeated trips and waiting that is wearing out their car since they know they need something to help make ends meet.

It is accepted that good management is to make your workers motivated - not even the most radical of labor would complain that their boss is making work too engaging. One could argue the status quo is messed up but it is accepted.

It might even have good outcomes and be ethically consistent to establish a strong precedent against manipulation but it would be completely outside the overton window and look like trying to swat flies with backhoes even if it was completely right.
EFF Asks Zuckerberg to Provide Mechanism to Appeal Censorship on Facebook
He even resembles Elon Musk! :-)
Great quote, haven't ever heard it put that way! I remember David Friedman remarking that one of his most lauded essays was him just saying, what he felt, was how things always worked. (I think it was the one on evolution of private property as a Schelling point.)

My own experience with this phenomenon was when I virtually rolled my eyes at someone insisting that an evolved biological adaptation "wasn't designed", and explained what "designed" meant in that context, and someone praised it for being a good definition he hadn't seen before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121874
Thoughts on 32-bit codecs being phased out in macOS
Shown: you, not reading the paper. https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-01...
No it's the other way around. I am a marketplace seller and I have started receiving phishing links to my unique amazon email account.

Sellers have been exposed not buyers.
Dragan does it again
And teleportation is not a player driven action (I hope!).

Happened in MUDs. Also, it's basically the main mode of transportation in space MMOs.
Use statistics to find data from today that predicts the price of some financial instrument tomorrow.
Do you have any examples of such cases? I'd love to read the law on this.
Bigger image of cover: https://tmm.chicagodistributioncenter.com/IsbnImages/9781684...

One thing I find remarkable is how so much of what Knuth does he manages to turn into a book. :-) (Including the TeX and METAFONT program source code, and the fonts themselves.) Probably a partial explanation of his phenomenal productivity.

As a "translation" of the Book of Revelation into music, this composition is intended to be performed accompanied by video tracks -- the Duane Bibby illustrations, the Greek and English text etc. (example: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fantasia-premiere.jpg). The video from such a performance is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvixIGKr5sJffdfwecygY... (I've heard people say that the music is unlistenable without the accompanying text.)
"Backups? Forget it. This is the Dark Web. Winzen told ZDNet that there ain’t no such thing as backups on Daniel’s Hosting, by design:"

I'm wondering why encrypted backup is not an option for them?
Iceland not Ireland.
Parent: > Could you expand on this? I’m not aware of banks having to pay Apple

Me: > Apple takes a cut of every ApplePay transaction.

Your comment: > Looks like they charge banks and payment networks for the transaction.

Details: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-pay/
I imagined "the front fell off."
> But I think insider information is only with respects to stocks.

Technically it's "securities," which is a broader array of financial instruments than stocks. But I'm not sure that real estate, particularly real estate that one might use as a primary residence, is considered a qualifying security with respect to SEC insider trading laws.
I don't understand this. In the American startup I'm working we're extremely careful with respectful data practices due to ethics and GDPR (we have a lot European customers). Why doesn't Amazon give a shit about GDPR? Do they have a leverage?
Polyaxon is really great in term of functionality and UX.
It's still pretty early stage, so there are some bugs, but overall I am very impressed by it. We have been using for a few month now with a couples of ML researchers.
> "The constant boxes are actually against the spirit of the GDPR and it's only a matter of time until they are banned as well."

I note that some of the EU's own websites have them.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

I like to think (and

the sooner the better!)

of a cybernetic meadow

where mammals and computers

live together in mutually

programming harmony

like pure water

touching clear sky.

I like to think

(right now, please!)

of a cybernetic forest

filled with pines and electronics

where deer stroll peacefully

past computers

as if they were flowers

with spinning blossoms.

I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace.

by Richard Brautigan (1967)
I'm not a seller and I got the email.
P123 maintains a record of simulated trades. Those trades are recorded at a price of trade day (High+low+2*Close)/4. They also make a slippage adjustment. Trade commissions are added under their Book system.

There isn't a direct link. You may find my models under Models->Designer Models (https://www.portfolio123.com/app/r2g) and then filter by my username - wwasilev.
It seems like a very difficult and iffy technique to get NOT a lot of information.

We're talking here about an attacker finding out what website domain names are open in other tabs on a target's browser? Is that a big deal?
Filtering an employer that finds having a couple clearly established moral boundaries "pretentious" would probably be working as intended.
That's why I switched to Android. iOS is great and had no complaints about the platform. It was lovely. But the price hikes became ridiculous and as a symbolic protest I am now an Android user. I can't accept the prices anymore.

Android isn't an equivalent replacement, but I can adapt.
Yeah, when I used to sell on Amazon about 10 years ago, I'd see celebrities' names and phone numbers.

One time Jimmy Kimmel ordered some gimmicky yoga thing and wanted it overnighted to his house along with a gift card. I checked and it was his girlfriend's birthday the next day. I called up offering to gift wrap it at no charge just hoping to talk to him but I ended up getting his assistant. Still offered the gift wrapping which they appreciated.
Good. It was a truly horrible name.
I wrote a whole thing on that subject :-D

You can read it here: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/
I would be surprised if that was enforceable, it sounds more like an effort to ensure they're proactive about their trademark.
> Which seems rare.

I don't think you've spent a lot of time around bikers!
The example implementation of Unix cat(1) is... intimidating!

https://github.com/CakeML/cakeml/blob/master/examples/iocatP...
Why Aren't There C Conferences?
JavaScript Open Source of the Month
Low-Calorie Desserts for Thanksgiving Simply Delicious
SRE courses/e-learning under 570$
I have this budget to spend before the end of the year.

I am looking for courses, e-learning, workshops,...

Stuff I'm interested in:
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- Vault
- AWS
- Infrastructure as code
- Prometheus
- Golang
Dayum, just dayum. This is the geekiest thing I've ever seen. The video. #5stars
Brit academic jailed for life for spying in UAE
I think a hypertext browser that, by default, lets any document you load also spy on your session as clearly as if there were a camera over your shoulder is nuts, but inevitable without harshly crippling any document-accessible scripting language available. Which is what should have happened. Most of the best things that JS provides from a user perspective could have been added to HTML and browsers themselves, e.g. better file/image upload, better tables, frames that don't suck, field validation. Mixing "apps" indiscriminately with hypertext browsing has left both in a pretty bad state.
I'm surprised to see you downvoted so heavily; I thought HN was generally familiar with Georgism (which I'm pretty much a full-throated supporter of), and what you're suggesting is a softer version of Georgism (limited to short term gains).

The principle behind capitalism is that you create value and get a portion of the value thereby created as income/return. Land value appreciation very much doesn't fall into this category, unlike every other investment in which 1) the capital serves an allocative purpose and 2) is being put into productive use by someone else. Land value gains are generally extractive (and destructive, through the inefficiency it introduces) of the wealth created by nearby economic activity. I know someone who bought a bought a house in Beverly Hills in the 70s for $30k: forty years and a ~million dollars of value growth later, they sold it and collected four decades of extraction from the economic activity of the area around them. There's no universe in which this is sensible policy, and as you rightly point out, encouraging it through tax policy is even more insane.

I think it's something about homeownership that makes people hyper-defensive about this topic and unable to think clearly. I can't say I relate, given that my dad's career (and an outsize portion of his portfolio) in real estate doesn't prevent me from seeing the issue clearly.
I think this only matters to Amazon internally -- if some employees had advance notice of the move and bought property before the rest of the company was informed, that's not fair to other employees.
Apple and just about every manufacturer supplier Foxconn [...]
Tips for starting with Gunbot trading bot
That was already done with the supermarket in the first place and nobody minded - old school stores had everything grabbed by the clerk from behind the counter and totaled on your bill of goods. It had longer wait times and you couldn't just pick the best apples for your bushel.

Like everything in capitalism it is just a strategy - if shrinkage or other issues are more of a concern they would keep it behind the counter like jewelry stores or if people reacted negatively enough it would fail.
Kinda over-interpreted, it's essentially a state-run TransUnion credit score plus background check.
It's primarily targeting at people who borrow a lot money then escape to other cities or abroad to avoid paying the debt.
The political suppression part that media is obsessed with is still largely determined by the existing legal system which considers certain anti-CCP behaviors as crime.
USPS Site Exposed Data on 60M Users
> Apple announces it will no longer report unit sales. This is a clear shift in strategy.

It's literally the shift every analyst has been clamoring for - revenue from something other than the iPhone. So while that is slowly happening, all anyone seems to look at is the top line iPhone unit number. A number that has become less and less meaningful over time because of the growing range of iPhone models.

Apple's guidance is always conservative, and their guidance next quarter is 89-93B in revenue. If you're keeping score at home, that would be another record quarter.
On a way to wordpress of IoT
The same reason people host their emails, websites, photos somewhere else or host their infrastructure in the cloud instead of colocating. It’s not hard but just another thing you have to care for when your real focus should be on what you provide not how you provide it.
Yep. A few.

One was a series of electronic game callers used by hunters to kill coyotes. I'm not opposed to hunting, and I realize coyotes are predators, but with the caller, the coyotes don't stand a chance.

The second was a commercial PC product that didn't end well. For me. It ended pretty well for others.
Welcome to the Brothers of the Phin.
Bridge card game
That doesn't make sense. If it's so lucrative that people start fighting to work on that day, even if it's a holiday they'd usually spend with family, then it's probably overpaid. You want to have the right balance so that some will agree to work during those days, but not so much that people start fighting over it.

It's also worth noting that not everyone celebrates these holidays, so for some, that's just a normal day like any other and they wouldn't mind it as much, but appreciate the slight bonus.
If I remember the details right, there were two parallel runways (call them 17L and 17R) and a taxiway to the right, running parallel to 17R. It was night time, and 17L was closed for construction/repair (lights off). He was cleared to land on 17R, saw two lit lines, and landed on it.

It's not that hard to imagine how that could happen to someone. We heard about it because it was Harrison Ford, but I'd wager it happens more often than we'd like to think about...
Thanks, and yeah, the part about lightweight threads stands to be expanded. Other missing parts are reactive vs interactive, linearizable vs serializable and push vs pull.
For the Nature paper they compared unpowered vs powered flight. Unpowered got about 10m, powered got to 60m, the length of their test facility.
So? It's not illegal so what is the story here ?
Flapping wings are also silent. And articulated wings can perform complex maneuvering including hover and vertical takeoff and landing.

So is there any other advantage to ion propulsion besides quiet operation?
Hey guys, Dan Clark here - the CEO of Brain.fm. I’m just seeing this thread now and want to jump into the thread and answer some questions and address a few of the comments and points of feedback you guys brought up. Feel free to ask me anything.
wow, I thought you were talking about a normal size household. 300+ of them were registered to the same address.
Spreadsheet of 2018 House Election Results
Yeah, by paying all you're doing is showing you're prepared to pay for stuff; making you a better mark and so worth more for referrals.