skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are very naive.

Julian Assange would be free if the USA respected journalism. But the USA does not.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/16/julian-assange...

For the USA, this is about about national pride and personal revenge. Trump said that a death sentence is appropriate.

The trial and accusation might be kept secret. Like in Guantanamo and similar places around the world where people are held captive without trial and where torture is normal.

Do you really think the world is worried about Julian Assange because a fair trial is expected ?

Do you really think that he has spent his life in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 because a fair trial is expected ?

Do you really think that Ecuador has protected Julian Assange in the embassy since 2012 because a fair trial is expected ?
Everyone knows corruption is rampant. He’s just the first one to talk about it so much. Too bad he’s only worsened the problem.
It's been a problem since the luddites in the 19th century, and as we move further into the 21st, human adaptability is going to become a stronger selling point.

Nobody really cared as the blacksmith, farm hand, or the secretary lost jobs. Coal mining is a celebrated profession for some reason.
It was PIA - PrivateInternetAccess. I first tried ExpressVPN and for privacy I'd recommend ExpressVPN because they located in a place with no data retention laws. However PIA has port forwarding support and that is crucial for my case.

Both support payment via Bitpay. ExpressVPN returned the money no problem after I've discovered that they don't do port forwarding.
Many probably - and when they downvote critical comments they probabaly secretly know they might be supporting something unethical.

And if my comment - which will obviously be downvoted - changes the perception of only one single Facebook employee, then it was worth the downvotes!
Eh. This seems fluffy.

This seems more like the Industrial Revolution + Twitter. Just like all the studies that the world is technically better off in every modern metric of improvement (poverty, starvation, mobility..etc, but things feel shitty because you are forced to read about the one dude kidnapping and eating children one state over, I think it's probably just amplified fears (and ultimately seperation of teams) than it was during other large periods of change.

It's also worth noting that people dont die, jobs just shift unexpectedly. Sure it can crush a generation (see the american midwest from 1960-2020), but most people move to where the work is geographically and intellectually or just die out.
>There are many periods in human history where things have significantly worsened

Sure, which is why I said over time. If you look at any isolated period you’re not going to see any trends that take place over longer periods of time. The standard of living world wide goes up over time, and has done so at a very accelerated rate since the industrial revolution. The world is generally becoming a better place, it’s much better than it was 100 years ago, and still even better than it was 10 years ago. New technology, and the progress of emerging economies makes life better for the whole world. There’s plenty of people who have an interest in selling fear, especially when it comes to technology, but that deception has been around for as long as technology itself. They said all the same things about mechanization back then as they say about automation now. The sad truth is that good news is critically dangerous to too many people with agendas, that it’ll end up getting ignored or denied with ignorant passion.
Amazon restarted my prime subscription without my consent. I definitely cancelled it and left it canceled for months. I think they auto renewed it when I bought something? No idea. Very dishonest
> I don't know why Greeks are so paranoid

I think during the Greek Civil War the National Liberation Front which was composed of Macedonian Slavic minorities waged a war of secession in Macedonia. If I remember correctly I read allegations that even after the civil war the National Front based in Yugoslavia would kidnap and impress young men from Greek Macedonia.

They aren't remembered fondly by Greeks.
Have you ever known a McDonald's worker, or a coal worker? I have known plenty of bottom-barrel blue collar workers who do it begrudgingly and some fast food employees who take pride in their work.
Show HN: PJON protocol specification v3.1 – What do you think about it?
I am working on an automated way to test what you are describing. It's a codeless functional testing SaaS for browser based apps/sites. It's still new and I am looking for early customers to gather feedback and validate the product. Check it out at https://ninjaqaiden.com and I'd love to help see if it fits your needs.
Why? I'm fascinated by any meaningful, superior-quality tech innovation these days that doesn't come from FAANG or a pre-existing unicorn. There don't seem to be many.
I'm sure there are many more, but Mullvad is one VPN provider accepting bitcoin payments (as well as cash).
Can you run into legal issues with this? If the company still thinks youre using the product/service but not paying? I would like to know because i want to use this strategy.
> I once asked the infamous 'how man tennis balls on a 747' question - and the interviewee started calculating how many balls would fit in the area of various body parts, it was ridiculous.

I guess the implication here is that this was a bad approach? This is why I would be skeptical of this sort of question, it's really not clear to me why you think that answer is any more ridiculous than the question.
Announcing BigCommerce’s migration to Google Cloud for it’s merchant platform
i’ve been using this in production to stream logs to a web console (~2,000 sets of logs distributed across 4 server with about 350 active connections at a time) and have never had any issues
I think this debate underestimates the psychological value of contributing through work and the identity and belonging that come from that. And I don't even think obsolescence becoming common will help to normalize this state. People want to contribute, and it hurts when they aren't needed.
If you really wanted to follow UNIX philosophy, why not build atop xinetd?

for example... simply accept stdin and stdout as I/O streams by default, but don't provide a network mechanism.
There are targeted ads, and then there are invasive ads. The tremendous intrusion of privacy falls more in to the invasive bucket.

If you like ads, maybe there should be a portal you go to see ads just for you- if you'd like to surrender all your data to have someone else tell you what you should buy. Having ads be part of browsing experience is just an awful user experience.
I feel so weird saying this at 32 but I'm new to Twitter. And I find these tweet chains to tell a larger story really weird. We solved this problem already.
Every programmer should implement 6 languages
assembler, basic, c, lisp, prolog & APL.
What you said is more applicable to gym memberships or cell phone contracts where you actually sign in-person multi-page agreement for 1-2 years conscious slavery.

CC chargebacks works just fine for any online business that try to pull a quick one on you and making it artificially hard to cancel/unsubscribe/change services.

Most people choose to spend 1-2 hours online try to get hold of someone "who can solve your problem". You CC service dept can do it faster for you by transferring the problem to the other side.

I mean - it's always fair to try to solve problem by contracting vendor to have them to honor your legitimate request first. If that doesn't help [quickly and painlessly enough] - then there is a plan B in place.
Now Your Groceries See You, Too
>say a regulation that requires TBTF banks to offer payday loans and make up for the loss through their other products

but if banks are forced to make loans at a loss, aren't we effectively subsidizing people that don't repay loans? you might think this is a noble goal, but I'd doubt many people will be on board.
Examples? Especially, an infinite series of examples?

The point of life is to keep entropy forces at bay for long enough to raise the next generation. As living beings, the core point of humans is to gather enough food and build a good enough shelter to survive through the next winter.

Society will succumb to nihilism, depression and lack of meaning long before those 'infinite' amount of work will ever be tapped.
I thought it was dangerous to use `strip` on any go binaries, because it would result in an incorrect program. LDFlags might cause something else but isn't it the same concept?
I think the public facing role and risk is adequately compensated.

CEO's start the company and suffer share dilution. They did their job if the shares are valuable.

Future CEOs don't get the same incentive package, and need something somewhat comparable.
Well sports betting has been around forever, but dark patterns and intentional deception in mobile games leads to children being manipulated. Not consenting adults, CHILDREN.

https://humanetech.com/
Datomic does this. There’s (Clojure syntax) d/with that given a database at any point in time runs a transaction “virtually” (there isn’t a current db per se - you can use (d/db connection) to get a reasonably current one though) . You can then query that virtual database as you would a real database.

If you do want to durably commit, you have to use (d/transact) which takes a transaction in the same format as d/with, but operates on a connection rather than a point in time database (the transaction can have special functions that read the active db at the point in time of the transaction, to implement things like cas).
Pentagon hired the world's best poker bot to work for the US army
Everything can be automated.
I don't see how the scheme works without the workers sending acks back.

First an ack to confirm the transaction request was received and durably logged (in case it needs to replay it when recovering from hardware issues), otherwise the client has no way of knowing it has to resend the job to the crashed worker. Once the client gets the first ack, it is certain the worker will move to the next phase.

I presume transactions would have a unique transaction id, so that the workers can easily identify duplicate transaction requests in case the client resubmitted due to timeout, but the worker was just slow to send the first ack.

Second an ack that confirms that the worker has applied the transaction, or a nack in case any constraints were violated.

The key point is that the algorithm guarantees that the workers will be unified in their second response. If the client gets one nack back from a worker, it can be certain it will only receive nacks from the remaining workers, and that the whole transaction was aborted.

The data fields in the transaction request has to be versioned, so that the remote reads are consistent across the workers. This also makes it easy for the client to regenerate a transaction request should it need to, I suppose.

So from the client's POV they generate the transaction request, send it to the relevant workers, with a retry loop in case of timeouts until first ack is received. Once all workers have ack'ed it is assured all workers will unanimously either apply or reject the transaction, so it waits for the answer from the first worker.

Once the client receives the transaction-applied ack/nack from the first worker, the client is thus free to continue working under the assumption the transaction is either applied or rejected, respectively, and issue further transaction requests.

At least that's my understanding of how it would work. Not my field, and it's late, so possibly I'm all wrong.
Pandas v0.24 released
Most of the US still buys cable TV, even though ad free streaming sites are cheaper and widely known. The average person really doesn’t care about ads.
> Her “total design” favored open work spaces over private offices

Good riddance.
Honestly, I haven’t a clue what the deal is here, but I will make a note to remember to discount their coverage on online stars. Thank you.
The main concerns are not the ads themselves, but the uncontrolled amounts of information that are being collected to tailor those ads (and that can potentially be then used for far more evil purposes), the emerging tendency to try to get users addicted to content so they can see more ads (with unintended consequences like radicalization of news because extreme content receives more visits ), and the question of how effective a manipulation technique has to be before it crosses the line between marketing and control of masses.
I mean I actually have the bank send checks. Is that how you had that set up?
Nonsense. Why should the government ban Facebook? Unlike a lot of industries that consumers must use, Facebook is 100% optional. If you don't like what Facebook does, close your account and tell your friends to do the same. But if others want to use the services that Facebook offers, who are you to tell them that they can't?
No, YouTube Kids has the same problem. Content on it isn't really vetted in any way.
> Where will the future unemployed be redeployed?

Pay attention to which jobs currently pay well, those jobs are the most likely to get pressure from surplus labor.

There's also a big and growing demand for health care and care for the elderly.

I doubt that automation will truly replace such a massive amount of labor as some predict, but even if it does, that will cause an equally strong lowering of the cost of living, requiring less labor to live, cheapening welfare, etc.
> Can't drain the swamp you didn't know existed.

I.e the corruption has become so blatant as to be more widely acknowledged. I think there's an interesting possibility of "hitting rock bottom" and recovering, vs the probably rampant but less overt corruption in past decades.
So if one creates a HN profile from Amundsen–Scott Station, you can have a disproportionate effect? Very interesting.
One of my friends who does Spanish tutoring also does “clean up” of automated translations to make them sound native-speaker like. Según her, DeepL is not bad but not great. If you use an automated translation for important communications, native speakers will be able to tell and may even be offended that the company did not bother to use the services of a quality translator.

One example from the NYTimes.

English: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/style/modern-love-how-i-m...

Spanish: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2018/09/28/modern-love-donador-es...

Excerpt #1

Original English:

> A couple of years ago I began seeing ads for 23andMe, a service that analyzes your saliva — you spit in a test tube and mail it off for analysis — and provides you with information about ancestry, health and DNA relatives.

Translated Spanish via DeepL:

> Hace un par de años comencé a ver anuncios de 23andMe, un servicio que analiza tu saliva - escupes en un tubo de ensayo y lo envías por correo para analizarlo - y te proporciona información sobre ascendencia, salud y parientes ADN.

Translated Spanish (professional translator):

> Hace un par de años, comencé a ver anuncios de 23andMe, un servicio que analiza tu saliva —la pones en un tubo de ensayo y lo mandas por correo para que se analice— y te da la información de tus ancestros, salud y familiares según tu ADN.

DeepL’s translation has the same faults as other services. Namely, in Spanish, object pronouns are very important. In the sentence describing how he sent a saliva sample, the DeepL translation does not use pronouns correctly like a native speaker would. Also, it stumbles on what is the most common vernacular. The DeepL translation does not use the right way to say “DNA relatives” which is “familiares según tu ADN”. “Según” is commonly used to denote authority of a source or in other words “according to”.
Suing is using force via the legal system. Undercutting someone is not. "bankrupting" someone depends on how they go about it.
Is that a feature or a bug of *nix?
I never thought I wanted kids. I had one because my wife wanted one. Then I fell in love so hard that we had two more really quickly and I am in the process of transitioning to stay at home dad. If I had waited until I was ready and certain I would have never known how happy it was possible for me to be.
I agree with this, but I also recognize that it’s not feasible for governments and industries to invent meaning in people's lives. Supporting people and providing them with more than a skin-of-their-teeth existence is and it’s something that isn’t historically addressed very well during transitional periods. If automation eventually dominates work, society will have to change, but that’s something we’ll have to work through as a society. The experience will be less horrific if people are not being dumped into poverty or awful makework jobs as well as having to reinvent the meaning of their collective existence!
Fremont Police Replaced an Old Dodge Charger with a Tesla Cop Car
From the post you're responding to:

>The first suggestion was...

It doesnt sound like they were choosing the most right-leaning perspective, but rather the first on the list (the one that would play after your current video finishes if you have autoplay enabled).
Physicists aim to outdo the LHC with this wish list of particle colliders
That sounds pretty unlikely to me.
Same values here, same disappointment as well.

The $2.2B shiny new Transbay Terminal shuts down after less than 2 months? The Chinatown subway boondoggle? The Eastern Span going from $250M to $6.5B and still having seriously troubling defects? Where are the adults in charge?
>“The choice isn’t between automation and non-automation,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, the director of M.I.T.’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. “It’s between whether you use the technology in a way that creates shared prosperity, or more concentration of wealth.”

This could lead to a scenario with what happened when there was aristocracy. Land was a major necessary means of production and was overwhelmingly owned by the aristocracy, it was guarded since they had no reason to sell it and could rent-seek with it (and primogeniture guaranteed it didn't disperse much), and they simply owned nearly everything.

Craftsmanship and high demand for skilled labor led to the middle class. Automation could be the new land. A wealthy "owning class" owns all the means of production (and less skilled labor) and has no incentive to open it up. Automation could lead to a small wealthy class, but a rapidly expanding lower class with little access to self-ownership of means of production.

Decentralization of means of production tends to have a beneficial effect on society. If normal folk can own means of production, then they will do well in any scenario because they will have choices, but if there is little choice but to work for large corporations, then they will get squeezed on the monopoly of means of production.

Whatever is having that effect of enforcing centralization of means of production is eventually going to not end well. It might be the tech, it might be some of the regulations, it might be cultural, or it might be the "legal entity" nature of corporations and the ability to amass huge amounts of resources with them; but whatever it is, it ain't pretty.
I actively avoid watching YouTube videos linked from Reddit or similar sites just to avoid this phenomenon.
TiDB 3.0 Beta Announced
That's very surprising to me, why would you care what ads you get if it means mortgaging your privacy? If we grant that ads are a given, just give me whatever bullshit you want, I won't click on any of them and I'm ignoring them either way.
I imagine it's not the mere creation that matters but where the login is usually from? And I'd assume the account age matters too...
So is using crack cocaine and meth. And somehow we chose to ban their use. And probably should tell our friends be highly suspicious of using them. This is age old conversation about how much government should protect people from themselves.
A New Infectious Mechanism for Alzheimer’s?
Canadian here, and I'd like to say: uh, no, thanks.

Canada has a very different culture than the US. Examples:

* compare types of crimes, and rates of crimes in major Canadian cities versus major US cities

* existence of many "socialist" policies, which all work on the following: "you contribute a small amount uniform across all citizens, to the national piggy bank, and the national piggy bank doles out to those in need (which may very well be you, but hopefully not, because things are likely not going to be in a good place for you then)"

* existence of media which would be "drowned" out by the US, if it weren't protected/supported by the government (e.g. CBC)

* different viewpoint on how to integrate minorities and First Nations so that everyone can prosper, together---partially because of the way history played out (not because "we're better")

* different take on nationalism

I actually get the US's immigration concerns. I really wouldn't want Americans flooding into Canada (no offense, but yeah, there are just major cultural issues which would need to be fixed first, otherwise the majority will just "win out").

Reading my post, I begin to realize that it could be taken very negatively. I want to convey the fact that my parents chose to immigrate to Canada, and not the US, for a reason. We would feel really weird if the countries somehow started to "integrate" further, unless it was Canadian "culture" that dominated. Otherwise, I am not sure if home would feel like home anymore (I don't feel like an outsider in Canada, but I often do feel like an outsider when I visit the US).

Immigrants who arrive to the country are usually extremely grateful, and willing to integrate into the bigger picture, or at least, that's the vision that Canada seems to operate under. This seems to create lower levels of "tension", less "ghetto-ization", and so on. I think that's the biggest culture difference between Canada and the US: most people aren't constantly thinking about the worst that could happen, and the worst generally doesn't happen.

I might be totally wrong. Scratch that: I really hope I am totally wrong.
For this reason I only subscribe via AppStore subscriptions or PayPal whenever possible (and unless I have no choice I won’t subscribe otherwise).
> The main concerns are not the ads themselves

^ This.

> but the uncontrolled amounts of information that are being collected to tailor those ads

^ Especially this. (side note: funny thing how so much of this information is gathered, yet targeting is still so bad)

> the emerging tendency to try to get users addicted to content so they can see more ads

Also very important. These platforms don't build features with "how to make things better for users" in mind, they do so with "how do we increase user engagement for ad spend" (see Snapchat as a prime example)
Mullvad has been great. Very easy to setup and they do not take any of your personal details. Instead of a user/email and password, you get a random account number that is used to track your payments and authenticate you.
Rapid depreciation is a highly stressful situation. You need reolize the single most import thing to do not ‘just fly the plane’ or check the dammage, but rather to start putting on a mask in a few seconds or you will die. Waiting wasting even 20 seconds may not give you enough time to finish putting the mask on properly.

The US Air Force has a long list of people who failed to do the correct thing in similar situations. On top of that even assume you would get it right 99/100 times that’s still more danger than most people experience over a full year.
Well, if I had any small amount of trust in FB / Zuckerberg to do the right thing, I just lost it.

These are some super shady and deceptive business practices.
Yupp. And they’ll have dark patterns for purchases after you cancel prime.

Those pesky engineers tried to charge me on my first post-prime purchase by giving me a $5.99 shipping charge. I was shocked! I knew the item said free shipping available. I checked other options (which were hidden behind a button), and lo and behold there was a free shipping option.