skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think I'm asking the last question.

Historically we do seem to need "kings" of some form or another. This makes the requirement socially tautological. Kings have to be assholes because people need asshole kings.

My depressing hypothesis is that because the average human is essentially depressed, un-driven, and anhedonic, we depend on being dominated by hyper-driven assholes to reach our full potential.

What's weird about this is that in a way we are using or even enslaving the king. There's an anthropological hypothesis out there that monarchy evolved in part from the practice of human sacrifice, and when a king's company or country does not perform we still do sacrifice them at least in word if not in deed.

I hypothesize that the conventional model of the "great man" has it wrong. It's not the genius of Steve Jobs or Elon Musk that is driving excellence. It's the drive itself. The actual work at SpaceX or Tesla is being done by the employees, but I question whether the employees could drive themselves to do that work given that we are naturally wired to sit around a campfire, eat, fuck, and occasionally go hunting or berry picking. My hypothesis is that without drive and charisma to emotionally mime, most people don't do much.

I've wondered for a long time if the solution might not be superior stimulant medications. Could we have a king in pill form? Could a simple emotional or even metabolic tweak (again pun intended) eliminate much of the need for inspiring leaders to motivate us?

Now I'm incubating this goofball speculation that the post-enlightenment-era rejection of monarchs was driven in part by importation of coffee reducing the need for kings, which is hilarious and utterly insane. I better get back to work.

Edit:

This whole line of thinking has a big question mark after it. I am speculating and philosophizing, not pronouncing dogma.

I also do not intend anything I wrote as a personal insult against anyone. I've never met Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, and regardless of the circumstances I do think the things they're doing (or did in the former case) are making the world a better place.

I'm just asking if we can find a better way to make the world a better place that is also more compassionate and pleasant at the immediate interpersonal level. You don't solve problems by denying unpleasant realities, so I'm exploring what I see as an unpleasant reality.
> In terms of the number of JavaScript requests, first party has gone up 50% from 4 to 6 requests, whereas third party has increased 140% from 5 to 12 requests.

> Third party growth in terms of JavaScript size is more alarming. First party JavaScript doubled from 53 KB to 106 KB. Third party JavaScript octupled(!) from 32 KB to 258 KB.

one more reason to use NoScript
I understand why voting for a third party that has no chance of winning is like casting no vote. But I'm not talking about this election or next election. I'm thinking about how to change our messed up polarized political system. It's not going to happen without major changes, one of which is getting away from the two party system.

How do we do that? People get fed up and vote for the third party even if they know they wont win. Next election a few more people do the same. Even though the candidate they voted for isnt going to win. The next election a few more... and eventually change.

Really if I view my two options as awful I'd rather vote for someone I actually want or no one at all. If someone offers me a nasty drink with a rotten vegetable floating in it and a nasty drink with a rotten fruit in it I'm not going to drink the one with the fruit just because it's a little less gross than the other.
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I am actually only interested in scriptable XML technologies, so pretty much like Mozilla's XPFE (XUL) was.
A lot of people and small businesses updated very rarely. Often only when forced to by something like an OS upgrade. It’s only cheaper if you were a person or business that could afford an annual upgrade cadence.
It's not about conscientiousness, it's about quality of information.

When you buy something for you, you know your exact needs and how to evaluate compromises. For gifts you care, but not as much since you lack significant information. You get something that is "good enough". For close friends you'll land a great gift in value and cost, but when you don't know the person very much, the gift usually tends to become an Amazon gift card or the like, since any guess may be a poor choice.

For example, many years ago I bought a projector with all the money I had saved (still student, at my parents), and I projected films on the wall, which was suboptimal but I was fine with that. On my birthday my friends got a sliding screen to hang from the ceiling! And I thank them very much for it! But even if they took the measures and all while visiting me, they missed the fact that the ceiling was ultra light drywall, rendering the gift useless.
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> making $7 for every $1 spent

This is tremendously effective and a good argument for spending more on the IRS.

Demanding that border patrol be moved to private charity is an .. entertaining idea. Would be interesting to see people take up a collection for the "wall".
> I think we'll see a new age in public housing and basic income

With a tax expenditure of 2,600U$S per household by the city management, i wouldn't expect any basic income ever.
Absolutely. Concussions are a very real thing and it’s definitely not worth any serious injuries. The better you get, the harder the falls will be.
And in reality, there is always an "unless" caveat:

- Farming subsidies
- auto bailouts
- Bank bailouts
- No bid defense contracts

I don't understand why discussions on HN always go back to speaking in terms of economic absolutes. Those do not exist in reality, because the world is made of numerous complex, interdependent relationships between different economic entities.

Economics is not a science in which you can measure out indicators into petri dishes and observe them in a controlled environment. Quoting Milton Friedman like scripture simply belies a glaring misunderstanding of how the world works.
I'm less optimistic about the conventional auto industry. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that conventional auto companies had to be dragged kicking and screaming into marketing desirable EVs. The conventional auto industry is full of ICE heads and hates EVs, and many of the dealers and unions and auto ecosystem companies also hate EVs because EVs require less maintenance. No oil changes, less moving parts, etc.

Most people will resist change until they are forced into it. Even then some people will literally go down with the ship.
https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

The military spends on R&D where it makes zero business sense for a for-profit company to spend. Private companies must be profitable.
The periodic references (mostly in a slightly negative tone) to not taking on funding were confusing.
>changing the technique to shift the body weight to the edges of the skis. This shift can take weeks.

There are some ski schools that skip the "pizza wedge" technique and teach beginners directly the weight on edge parallel skis turns. They're very, very progressive independent schools usually. In the French Alps, you can ask about the ESF, which have schools everywhere, and in some (very rare) places teach like this.

That being said, in a normal 6 day ESF beginners class you would start learning parallel ski turns by day 3 if everything goes OK, after doing the usual pizza wedge the first days.
No, it does say anything directly along the lines of "get updated when available in your region", but if you read between the lines, it could definitely be understood that way, now that you mention it.

I'm visiting from Scandinavia.
Popcorn? Popcorn sold potentially dangerous alcohol, drugs, almost certainly was guilty of tax evasion spanning multiple decades, was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.

Bootleggers aren't 'innocent'. They're extremely territorial up to the point of property destruction and even murder. They evade alcohol taxation, they often don't report the income from their sales (because, well, duh they don't want more attention). In some instances they are often involved in narcotic/meth/marijuana/heroin trafficking, sometimes have gang affiliations, have murdered law enforcement officers, etc.

Popcorn was convicted, and served time, for some of those offenses decades before his last arrest and continued to carry on with his illegal activity. If you think selling potentially toxic alcohol, tax evasion, drug dealing and violent assault are absolutely 'wrong'. Those are the things we KNOW he did.

His last arrest, in my opinion the alcohol charge should have been dropped as entrapment, but he was a felon in possession of a firearm which is a crime (and a sensible one, given his prior conviction of assault with a deadly weapon) and he should have been fully on the hook for that.

It's unfortunate he felt the need to take his life but his case is in no way similar to that of Aaron Swartz. Aaron made a bad decision and did a largely digital crime, Popcorn was overtly a career criminal.
The way you lean to carve and drive with your feet and let your body follow is very much like long boarding IMO.

I never skated on a regular board but I'd say yes you will have it easier.
Next-gen EV charger adds 62 miles of range in three minutes
I agree, we should all be such luddites that anything other than a CLI interface to watch youtube should be heresy.
> Chrome enforces this with new EV certs and Symantec certs.

Chrome enforces this for all new certs since earlier this year.
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> Verizon said in the filing Tuesday that it last assessed the Oath brand's goodwill at $4.8 billion. Writing off $4.6 billion of that means Verizon now values Oath — including AOL and Yahoo subsidiaries like Yahoo.com, AOL.com, the Huffington Post, MSN and TechCrunch — at just $200 million on paper.

They are saying the value the brand adds to the underlying assets (goodwill) is really 4% of what they originally paid. The brand is relatively worthless.
This is a really negative trend for Open Source, and I hope it runs its course and dies out soon. License proliferation, bizarre "field of use" restrictions, blurring the line between what is open and what isn't, none of this stuff is a win for anybody. If you want to make something proprietary, make it proprietary, call it proprietary, and let that be the end of it. If you want to make something Open Source, then make it Open Source and don't try to straddle the line.
Do you mean the Keynesianism that is commonly applied, also known as 'let's increase spending on random shit that will benefit by stakeholders, but will have minimal impact on the overall health of the economy?'. Keynesians haven't been in a position to dictate fiscal policy (as opposed to monetary policy, aka the Fed) for at least the past 3 decades.
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What does that say about the value of Verizon management if they couldn't determine that beforehand?
Especially for a publishing platform. It's almost like you're trying to attract the very worst kind of online commentary.
One can compare and contrast this dynamic with actual land and real estate. In the beginning land was cheap, concepts of ownership over it made no sense. Then tribes grew into civilizations which could hold on to the best lands, and drove out or assimilated other tribes. The concept of individual ownership still didn't make any sense, and even when it did, only kings partook on behalf of their kingdoms.

Slowly, slowly, the concept of total control by individuals evolved. Royal / imperial control devolved to feudal systems which eventually devolved to mercantilist systems, where our ideas of own vs. rent finally started to take shape.

Even there land was a huge investment and tended to be a family shared good, if you were lucky enough to have any at all. Everybody else rented. Slowly the economic position of individuals and the financial system itself, particularly in Anglo nations, improved to the point where individuals could, under their own economic steam, acquire real estate and use it to derive income, something that used to require massive investment on the part of an entire society.

The concept of ownership over a thing has always relied on the ability of whoever has ownership over it to derive income from it, to further the cause of industry, and therefore society. It makes no sense for individuals to have to buy up the publication and distribution rights for something like a movie, as they have no way of utilizing those rights. It makes no sense for AirBnB to actually own real estate.

It's ownership itself that is the anomaly, not the lack of it. The number of things it makes sense for an individual to own, soup to nuts, is always going to be a very small list. I foresee the era of invincible owner-chairmen to be a short one, to be replaced by an era where smaller businesses that can be fully operated by small teams to grow, where those businesses eventually cede control to larger collectives.
Decent article the article briefly tackled the protocols governing BTC(POW), ETH(FBA) XLM(SCP)

Biggest takeaway( Most know this)

Stellar Consensus Protocol values safety over liveliness thus is poised for Banking adoption when it comes to remittances. The article didn’t address some of the perceived negatives and was not valuably objective. However it does not come of as a shill article. The article paints XLM and Stellar Network in a positive light. Good place for people who are curious about Stellar. Even mentioned current price. Good read on train to work.
When it first entered English from Latin, the word meant ‘glass’ (https://www.etymonline.com/word/vitriol#etymonline_v_7846). But that’s not a sense any modern English speaker could be expected to recognize.
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National Security Letters (NSLs) are the things that every time they have been challenged in court the FBI drops the request, right? Since they don't want to test the constitutionality of them?

Seems like the University of Pittsburgh didn't call up the EFF and instead capitulated to a likely unconstitutional request.

https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters
> focusing on the Mac market was highly strategic

I think it was simply because of developer convenience: https://www.sketchapp.com/support/requirements/other-platfor...

on the long term this looks like a major mistake.
Have you tried the internet?
I would pay at least $10 for Yahoo on the open market, so they're definitely worth more than zero. :)
I hear this often but usually lacks explanation, can you elaborate?
I think you are missing the sentimental aspect of gift giving. It is not purely price/utility value. Emotions attached to gift giving have value for both the giver and the receiver.
It is IPFS based on the error that comes up
Blaming suicides on people other than the suicidal person is something I also rather not assume people would intend.
> complain about PKI being "too complex"

Usually when people complain about PKI being too complex, they're complaining about the opacity of the implementations. Certificates just stop working, and you don't get anything, and there's nowhere to look to figure out why unless you're really an expert on the topic.
Has anyone tried to use an OATH site from the EU and tried to make any actual GDPR decisions? It's unusably bad.

Now, it may well be perfectly legal to render the site completely unusable if you don't want the default (I'll let others argue that out) but... it's meant my personal use of these sites has dropped to zero. I literally go "Oh, OATH, never mind."

I might not be in the majority, but it sounds like they could use all the visitors they can get.
That's such good point it should be it's own topic even.

I thought about just that yesterday, too: In individual development, we need stimuli, but we also need a LOT of sleep, and being protected from stimuli. Too little or too much stimuli stunts development, roughly speaking from the armchair. So why wouldn't the same go for our development and use of technology, both as individuals and as a society? At what point is a too constant treadmill a detriment?

And isn't it interesting that the idea of taking a break for 2 years, fixing bugs and learning the tools we currently have, writing docs, would probably be met with fears of "stopping progress" or "falling behind"? Maybe that's like the idea of never sleeping so you can finish university at age 14, and maybe we're finding out that it doesn't work on a large scale, either.

I was also thinking about stuff like Directory Opus, which started on the Amiga and is still being improved. I don't want Windows anymore when Windows 7 "runs out", but the thought of Linux without DO makes me sad... a program so good, I will probably run Win7 in a VM just for it. Old Opera was also pure craftsmanship and skill, and empowering users, and I miss that "spirit" so much. It still exists, but it should be the norm IMO, we should accept no less.

Browsing new releases, freeware or open source or commercial, that should be purely awesome, not something where you have to be constantly on guard and worry about "fragmentation", or people not knowing about prior achievements and insights. I want to just celebrate and thank software authors. I miss not being cynical in the least, actually.

But again, that's not against Vitriol, which I only very superficially glanced at, I'll give it a more thorough look later tonight and if I have any suggestions I'll post in this thread.
Would you mind naming some players in this space?
How one hacked laptop led to an entire network being compromised
that's such a wonderful tool, for which I have 0 usage
Ranked choice is likely the easiest way to make immediate change.
“Spy” Virus Eavesdrops on Bacteria, Then Obliterates Them
And 23andMe may know who you real father is from the lineage network they can build out of their database.
If you fine one, I'm very interested. Please share.

This article has great content! But at best I'm amateur skier not a snowboarder.
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Who ripped off whom?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoGear#iPhone

The "i" in all of Apple's names stands for Internet in 1990s nomenclature.

Similarly the word "one" predates any usage by MS.
Is the suggestion that those languages can't easily written on CLR? There's a direct, maintained (by the one-man-army that is https://github.com/dmiller) port of Clojure to the CLR:

https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
Do people really use .NET core, and if so, why?

Yet another case of “Do people still watch TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years”, style myopia.
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A Math Function Describes How Whole Societies Remember–and Forget
> so don't bother shooting the messenger

OK, let's shoot the original source: It only found that a certain unnamed version of GCC ten years ago performed tail merging, which does indeed defeat the purpose of the optimization. Without the author bothering to turn off tail merging in this case (as Python does), this doesn't mean much.

> Comparing language performance is tricky business, but it mostly runs faster than Python3 from my tests so far.

Presumably you not only have a different interpretation approach, but also a different object model, approach to boxing numbers, and garbage collector. "Tricky business" is a bit of an understatement ;-)
They might make the connection with “Vitrification” if they’re inclined in that direction. They might realize that Vitr- is a common root, and might even guess what it is.
Former head of Google China thinks AI means we should reinvent how we teach
Yeah, I never spent enough time skiing/boarding to progress past the beginner or early intermediate stage. The first time I went skiing I was already having fun because I was at a place with a long, meandering set of green trails.

They had a good combination of steeper bits to build speed and then leveled off to allow me to "regroup" and recover if I was pushing myself a bit. I understand how funny it is to think of "pushing yourself" on a green trail but this was the first time I'd gone skiing. The length of the trails helped a lot since even without being a major challenge, I could enjoy gliding through the woods for a good while before having to get back in line for the lift.

I didn't even bother with the short "bunny slopes" after a preliminary run or two since they were not long enough to get a feel for it before you had to just stop and start over.

I went a few more times over that winter and the next one and got to the point where I was feeling good on some of the easier "blues". I understood how edges worked and it mostly felt natural.

Snowboarding was very different for me. I have never taken the time to get any good at it because starting off is just so uncomfortable, awkward, and un-fun for me. I guess with skiing, it feels like the very basics feel like normal standing posture with some modification. I liked my legs being separate and not both strapped together in one direction.

What you're saying makes complete sense to me. I don't go often enough to ever get particularly good but I can still have fun and get some exercise as a noob skier. I've never had fun as a noob snowboarder and it makes it harder to put in the effort knowing that I don't have the money and time to devote to getting past that stage and to the fun parts.
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Shameless plug: For anybody interested in the cryptographic key management part there is a post about the hardware, people and processes behind the commercial cryptographic key management
https://www.malgregator.com/key-management.html
It depends on how quickly they add things which matter to you. The break-even point for their pricing was a little over a year – e.g. Lightroom used to cost $150 new / $80 for upgrades and it's $10/month so if they are regularly shipping improvements you want the subscription is a good deal but if it's fluff or support for hardware you don't have you're still paying.
Ok, but we’re they the right hires?
Robinhood's new checking account runs into legal trouble
[oh wow](https://i.redd.it/xmulu1f6urt11.jpg)
I'm absolutely happy people are taking on Illustrator/XD. I was a freelance illustrator specializing in print while in college, and have grown dislike Illustrator.

The issues I'm having now with most design and vector art tools now are:

* No Offline Support
* No Linux Support.

That leaves us with... well, just Inkscape. Honestly it has gotten decent with the most recent version. We finally have an objects menu, after 5 years of development. But features are still behind Sketch, AI, and Affinity.

I'm well aware Linux users who are into drawing or design are a small minority, so I can't really complain.
This is absolutely ridiculous. God knows how many swear words are in the Mac/Windows? We know how many are in Linux [0]. These are all professional pieces of software and yet the world does not come to halt because they have swear words in their source code. I'm all for gender-neutralizing documentation and hell, even source code, but this is just an example of people getting offended over nothing at all.

[0] https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/