skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It "works" only at relatively low values of "work". By that I mean you are fine with various governments having complete control as long as it keeps the 14yo moms-basement sorts at bay.

My complaints with PKI aren't technical difficulty but administrative and bureaucratic. Consider; The NSA issues an NSL for all the root keys to YourCA Inc. Now what?

We would flee PKI like rats from a sinking ship if the capacity for a government to obtain any CAs private keys was written into code. But because its written into policy we simply ignore it.
Electric scooters like Bird and Lime keep getting dumped in lakes and rivers
I'll need to have a closer look later, but would vaex fit in with somewhat indexed mapped files?

E.g. parquet supports column indexes now: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1201
I wonder the extent to which the problem is merely "Government should have moral people." (With the obvious caveat that those who proclaim their morality loudly are probably not the most moral.)

In the private sector there are plenty of cases where you're spending someone else's money on someone else and you care about doing a good job of it—and often without the requirement of personal mores as motivation. Banks and investment managers, for instance, basically do this. Some of course are awful, but some (loosely correlated with the ones who have been around for a while and built a reputation) actually do care about getting good results without excessive risk and without deception. Do the people who agree with Friedman's statement about government also conclude that private banks are bad too and people need to look out for their own money?
Iceland has no military spending

Not entirely true. It has no standing army, but it does have a militarized coast guard, air defense systems and an air force base it maintains, as well as a small Crisis Response Unit that can be deployed internationally. In addition it is a full NATO member for which it has certain costs.
And to think that some people think of him like he is/was some sort of demi-god, saviour, genious, mankind's last hope. In fact guys like Musk or Steve Jobs are just arrogant assholes with big egos, happy to take credit for the hard work of all the fruits of their engineers doing bulk of the work.
Split the cost with 4 other like-minded individuals and all of a sudden you're paying $10/month for all the benefits.
Discovery of Titanic in 1985 was cover for classified military operation
There was never communism established in Poland. Ever.
Can anybody explain how this works ? Is it only works for interpreted languages ?
When the self driving cars take over, there’s no reason not to sell to children! Think of all the money to be made!
>Does that mean that the polygraph is extremely restrictive or that 66% of applicants are liars?

Polygraphs aren't remotely scientific or even accurate. False positives are EXTREMELY common, simply being nervous that you're hooked up to a strange contraption can cause false positives.

Police departments often use them for hiring too, the Indiana State Police does for example.
News outlets and magazines can cover commercial products from an editorial perspective without it being an 'ad'. BBC News frequently runs stories about TV shows, new Apple products, Windows releases, and similar commercial stuff.
Also NASA. They just landed InSight on Mars. Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.

Most of the names are something where they're clearly trying to squeeze out a cute cohort name at all costs.
Afghanistan War 2018 – Special Operations Forces Fighting ISIS
Note that for Rust programs, there is also cargo-asm:

https://github.com/gnzlbg/cargo-asm

(I frequently use Godbolt though, it's so nice for comparing across languages.)
That's good to know since they carefully avoid mentioning anything about browser compatibility on their site. Bootstrap 4 also uses flexbox but they have done a good job supporting IE 11, which is good: on a general audience site I see ~2.5% of traffic from IE11 worldwide whereas IE10 is ~0.08% so it's much easier to write off.

I was also disappointed to see zero mention of accessibility, which is a deal-breaker for government and large business sites.
Took me until reading the example involving stamps (three or four times) to finally grok it, but I finally understand now.

:)
Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties
This tool is really built for AOT native code generation. Does Perl have a compiler like that? The ones I've heard of are all some flavor of compiling to bytecode followed by an interpreter or JIT.
...implying that the Keynesians are really empathetic and that the Chicago school folks are cold-hearted technocrats.

That kind of emotionality is what keeps people from making reasonable decisions on economic policy. It would be nice if the kind of naive Keynesianism that politicians love to apply actually worked. It would be nice if you could spend yourself out of a recession. Unfortunately, politicians only like the spending part of the equation, not the savings part.

It's important to note that the Chicago school does build on Keynesian insights. It's an attempt at improving upon its failures.
One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Socially oriented businesses: VPN, mobile phones and clothing
N.B.: I've "editorialized" the title as the original, "National Geographic Museum Reveals Previously Classified Story About Legendary Shipwreck in ‘Titanic: The Untold Story,’ Opening May 30", is just a bit too long for the HN submission form, but I certainly won't be offended if it's edited or updated to something more accurate or appropriate.
Ah you mean 99.99% of the real websites I consult on then - and those are all major brands.
This is very elegant, and encapsulates the problem with America. Well, many other countries as well, but certainly us, America. Not government -- but our conception of "ourselves".

HN occasionally has articles about education and the comparison of, say, Finnish education and American education comes up. I am firmly of the opinions that Finnish education works, when it works, because it is a service that the population is providing for themselves via government. It is seen as spending their own money on themselves. These other social services are seen similarly: people are getting what they paid for. And they (Finns, in this example) are conscious of it: in large part, I lay this lingering national consciousness of the value of government at the Karelian refugee resettlement of the 1940s. My inner armchair historian/anthropologist sees this massive national effort from family level through the top of government as providing a bit of national glue that also led to feelings of agency and efficacy among the population.

The sense that government takes our money and gives it to someone else, or steals it, pervades the US discourse. Our efforts are focused on avoiding taxes, lessening taxes, eliminating services for those undeserving others. We don't want to pay for other peoples' kids; they shouldn't have had them and haven't they heard of birth control, which they should also be able to obtain on their own. Personal responsibility is king. It subtly pervades even how we teach reading -- if you read [1], you see that teachers were taught that kids learn from their parents reading to them, and it's also just a matter of parenting choices and personal responsibility. From the family to top levels of government in the US, there's now an anti-glue, the story that government is an adversary, that it's a wasteful theft of honest peoples' money.

They are both just stories that make themselves true through our behavior, the behavior of government officials, citizens, and contractors.

[1] https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-a...
Personally I’ll never go back to Adobe as long as they force me onto a monthly subscription.
Should have gone with Blackwater instead
I guess someone there really liked the naming of their XBox.
I recall that the women of Warsaw were all clothed in style at the time, despite all the problem with the economy. How did they all manage?
Can we really say that government changes this? The powerful in this case is government itself and lobbyists. They are taken care of. We do not ensure in general that the weak are taken care of.

Furthermore, government uses the military for anything else than the protection of its citizens. How many of US military campaigns are for protection and how many is to support the military industrial complex?
> Government is nearly always the least effective use of a citizen's money

These kinds of broad, factless statements do not deserve to be on HN.

> Huge discussion on HN a few days ago about the IRS barely making $7 for every $1 spent

Are you suggesting that the totality of taxes we pay to the IRS are only 1/7 of the IRS cost? What are we... paying for roads with? The military? Is the entire government going down in flames solely because of the IRS?
You can only call that a total failure if you ignore the entirety of human history and compare it to some fantasy of world peace instead. It's good to thrive for a better world, and notice when things go worse, but when evaluating effectiveness of american military as a whole, you should compare it to a time before Pax Americana.

Also, did I understand you correctly: you not only want to cut american military spending, but also keep US morally responsible for situation in Ukraine?... Now, both these viewpoints are to some extent reasonable, if they come from corresponding first principles. But I can't possibly imagine how the same person can hold these two views at the same time: they completely contradict each other. Either US is responsible for events across the globe, OR it shouldn't have a huge military - how on Earth can you believe both?!
What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980 (2016)?
This goes along with another current top story on HN.

I wonder whose money Verizon spent to purchase Yahoo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662822
Studies like this don't provide good data points for "if you jump[...]" as the GP mentioned. The data is gathered from people who either accidentally fell, or intentionally jumped not intending to live.

They can't just randomly recruit people and have them jump to their near-certain deaths from ever increasing heights due to pesky medical ethics boards.

This matters because a person who's forced to jump from a significant height out of desperation (e.g. to avoid a fire) is likely to take certain precautions that people who accidentally fall don't take, and those trying to kill themselves intentionally avoid.
What is the US supposed to do? You literally cited two cases, Ukraine and Libya, which are polar opposites. Ukraine the US is criticized for NOT intervening, middle east and Libya US is criticized FOR intervening.

And now we have Myanmar muslim situation and Yemen where people are begging for US intervention, but in all probability if we intervened we would be getting criticized for it by the same people asking us to intervene in a few years
Neat. But once you're using command line tools why not just use the constituent tools used by Compiler Explorer? `objdump`, etc?
As @slavak mentions, Chrome APIs are far more hobbled and every tree-style implementation I've seen has been glaringly deficient in comparison to Tree-style-tabs on Firefox. TST should be the way all browsers handle tabs, especially considering that vertical screen real-estate is far more expensive. I've been using it for 6+ years and can't imagine browsing any other way.
Why would private charities be any less corrupt than public ones?
Toronto tech market year in review
... yet Tesla pushed the entire world to electrify transport.

I remember years ago reading article after article and forum post after forum post about how once we finally deplete oil transportation will revert to the 19th century. I don't read that anymore.

I have little doubt that without Tesla you wouldn't see a dozen other EVs on the market. You might have one or two crappy "compliance cars," but nobody else would be striving to make EVs anyone actually wants to buy.

I am not arguing with you. I don't disagree with much of anything that you wrote.

One of the things that keeps me up at night and frankly depresses me is the question: can you lead or otherwise achieve great things without being an asshole?

Steve Jobs? Asshole. Winston Churchill? Asshole. Stanley Kubrick? Asshole. Bill Gates? Quieter, but judging from MS's behavior in the 80s and 90s, asshole. I could go on.

I'm a founder and have been trying for quite a while to build something great without being an asshole or a total workaholic. It's hard, and I sometimes worry that I'm failing.

Anyone got any good inspiring counterexamples?

I have a speculation about why this might be. The human brain is wired for the much slower, simpler life of a hunter-gatherer. In a modern context most people exist in a state of low-grade depression. We're not really all that driven and our appetite for opportunity and action is calibrated for a world where opportunities for those things are much more rare.

There are ways of tweaking oneself chemically (pun intended): caffeine, amphetamine, cocaine, modafinil. Unfortunately all these have side effects. They accelerate thought but they also muddle or impair it.

But...

Occasionally you get people who are naturally wired with an extreme degree of drive and charisma. It's not that these people are necessarily smarter than everyone else, though some are certainly smart. It's that they operate naturally at a pace that fits the modern world.

Here's where the magic comes in.

Humans are deeply mimetic. We pick up and unconsciously mirror the states of those around us. It's part of why concentrated centers of excellence such as those found in urban settings are often so mysteriously alluring and powerful. When we are around people who are driven to excellence, it increases our drive to excellence.

So you get this positive emotional-mimetic field around these people. Everyone else around them gets tweaked up too.

Unfortunately these traits seem coincident with narcissism, antisocial personality disorders, even full on psychopathy in some cases. So you have these inspiring, driven, animating assholes that seem superhumanly powerful simply because they are not (in modern terms) naturally depressed and anhedonic.

Like I said it's depressing. This is one of those thoughts where if I were proven to be wrong I'd celebrate.
How can I verify whether this is actually working as advertised? For all I know this is just a blog running on a central server with terrible URLs.

And what happens if I create a piece of content, close the window, and then share the URL with somebody? Will they not be able to see it?
They're producing 7000 Model 3 a week. That's more than any other electric car currently, as far as I know.
How significant would the revenue from these services? I mean, if it's quite significant, doesn't it make sense to offer an "ad-free" plan where they do not track the user and do not show them ads. Only a small portion of their tracking user base would be affected and they would not lose many of the privacy aware users as customers.
Same here. For small tasks I use GIMP because it’s a lot faster.

Loading my VM is faster than loading any Adobe products.
See also Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to Find Out, by Peter Gutmann:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pkitutorial.pdf
it was obvious, just as it's obvious that the first words i said were that it was just a minor nitpick based on what the technical definition of the word "murder" is. i wasn't per se trying to make a legal argument, more making the claim that murder itself is defined as an unlawful act. obviously it can be used in other contexts, but then again, so can basically any other word in any language if you're willing to warp semantics enough to suit your purposes.
There is no y in the Irish alphabet, could be the reason it sticks out.
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about PKI but Were Forced to Find Out [pdf]
The two questions I'd ask are what percentage of those millions of accounts are actively used and what their cost of providing the service is. I could easily believe that the costs of processing and storing all of that spam for people who switched to Gmail a decade or more ago are greater than the ad revenue from the percentage of users who actually login to the site.
How different is this from state of the AI report?
‘Silent Night’ turns 200 this year. Is it the greatest Christmas song ever?
The snippet seems to circumvent the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on which many sites mention as a way to disable GA tracking in their privacy policy. So if you use the snippet, don't tell your users that they can opt out with the add-on.
> 2. most major advancements in tech and healthcare are due to the military.

Can you back that up? That military spending has been high gives no guarantee that having spent the same money in the private sector wouldn't have led to even better results and advancements.
It didn’t have a file size limit at all until I did that.
Just because more than one person/group of people looks at something does not mean they are all looking at non-overlapping aspects of a large thing.
I should have placed a sarcastic remark.

It is however the pace how things are going, even most mobile apps are modern versions of those 2-tier apps during the 90s.
> Are the items coming from multiple Amazon locations?

Yep! Especially if you live in NYC (or anywhere in the North East really). Amazon has something like 50+ different warehouses in NJ and Pennsylvania alone.
According to this article, the contract amount to be paid to Accenture is USD $297,000,000 to help the Government hire 7,500 employees. Nearly USD $40,000 USD per hire. Definitely makes me think about going all in on turning pure Libertarian.
Why would anyone get the impression they have to be an abusive brick? No one is claiming that, are you saying young entrepreneurs are sheep and blindly follow Elon's behavioral patterns?

This piece is okay, it provides a number of anecdotes by former employees, how do we verify these are accurate and not misleading? They square with some former reports, but do not square with other positive anecdotes I've read. This is the problem with using anecdotes as evidence.

In my view, executives and other high-ranking individuals are often mean and unfair due to extreme ambition and very high, sustained stress levels. Could someone without extreme ambition have even gotten to this point with Tesla? Do you recall how many bullshit hit pieces, legal obstacles, and issues there have been standing in Tesla's way?
Ten functions performing narrow, non-overlapping aspects of a large program is pretty decent design, so that you can change/update/troubleshoot one function without affecting too much of your whole system.

Your alternative has been tried and fails when you have to replace that all-considering function with another at the end of its life and the other one isn’t so good. It’s a less robust system.

Bureaucracy isn’t inherently bad, it’s just like, a model of designing complex systems.
How to Be “Team Human” in the Digital Future by Douglas Rushkoff
Do you work for the Boy Scouts?

I am not going to spend in excess, but if a company is paying for me to fly somewhere, I doubt a $30 airport meal is going to break them.

Now there have been times on site with a client, and I had a $120 per diem, where I might eat breakfast and lunch from a vending machine so that I can have a nice dinner, but I would never skip a meal at an airport if I had enough money left for it, and even if I didn't, I'd still charge the company and hope it flies under the radar.

Again $30 isn't going to bankrupt any company that can afford to fly you around.
> It's good that people are demanding social change and action; the answer should bbe private charity and community leadership, as the current system just funnels money into contractors pockets.

I agree. But a democratic government is not necessarily bad; it is only as bad as the democratic majority that voted for it and not against it.

> Government is nearly always the least effective use of a citizen's money.

I do not agree. All depends on the government.

A government is typically the worst as "minimalist" government that seeks:

- to promote austerity and thus poverty for the masses and the government. Typically enforced by harmful taxes as only money source for the government in a currency union.

- to promote certain evil ideologies (e.g. austerity and poverty and military) and elite interests by law and policies. The government is currently (and maybe only theoretically) the only force of the masses against the few at the top.

- to act as evil global night-watchman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-watchman_state

Clear proof from the USA and Europe:

https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-h...

https://juliareda.eu/2018/08/censorship-machines-gonna-censo...

https://juliareda.eu/2018/12/article-13-mess/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1jZNepTx80&t=35

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/medicare-for-all-study-peri-s...

Regarding public and private morality and charity:

No government and no economy respects the human rights. Obviously no charity of millionaires and billionaires tries enough to help. http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/human-rights/

http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000853/index.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/11/homelessness-chris...
In my experience: UPS has a program called MyChoice that let you specify what to do, but both them and USPS will usually leave it by the door out of sight if possible, unless the carrier is concerned about theft. FedEx will leave a note saying to come pick it up or request redelivery. In apartment buildings, all of them the will leave the package with the office if one exists.

I would bet most people getting regular package deliveries live in access controlled apartment buildings or very safe suburbs.
yes im aware. it's just that i think maybe that murder isn't the most effective terminology because of the simple fact that most of the taking of animal life in the context of providing food to the population isn't performed with any intentional malice, and even if murder isn't being used in a legal context, another important context within it is general malicious intent. i can see that maybe some people who are against the food industry could easily convince themselves that there is malicious intent and directed evil in the way that said industry works, but I'm almost 100% positive that in the overwhelming majority of cases that the only intent that exists is to provide food for the population, or arguably one of financial superiority. something something evil is banal something something
You can tell they don't want to be a useful tool, rather they want to suck in as many users as they can and extract as much eyeball time as they can.

I have multiple friends who are addicted to just scrolling through pinterest. The few times where I've thought it might be useful I've been stopped from using it and told to make an account (I don't want to post anything back to them, I don't see why I should have to keep track of yet another set of credentials just for them.)

If they where less aggressive toward their current and potential users and instead looked at them with realistic and helpful attitude they would probably be awesome. Right now I want nothing to do with them and I personally stay away.
Fun fact, though: their air force has office hours.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/19/swis...