skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said anything about going to war? That's a false dichotomy. How about just:

- Not giving credibility to the North Korean regime

- When Russia kills dissidents overseas in a pretty public way (eg Polonium-210, nerve agents), annexes a sovereign nation (ie part of the Ukraine) and their meddling leads to giving anti-aircraft systems to rebels who use it to shoot down a passenger plane (ie MH17) then they're treated with sanctions and are ostracized to some degree from the international community. To be fair, a lot of this predated Trump. The MBS-Khashoggi affair should be met with a similar amount of condemnation.

Oh and there's the whole Yemen thing too.

There was a time when Saudi Arabia wielded a lot of power due to their oil output and the West's dependence on it. But those days are gone. The US is now a net oil exporter. There are sources other than OPEC for oil (eg Venezuela, Russia although each of them has their issues now obviously). More to the point, Saudi Arabia needs to sell oil to buy off their own citizens.

Supporting an unpopular autocratic regime is part of why many in the Middle East hate the US.

The real tragedy of the Middle East is that the US caused no end of problems and then picked the wrong side (again and again actually). There's a case to be made than Iran would've made the better ally.

But our hands are tied. Because Israel, basically.
Intel has an IOMMU for PCIe. And DMA sees cleartext with (MK)TME.
This is the second article discussing the same study. Previous thread was based on the NYT article [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19041021

Very interesting to see the difference in tone in the headline alone between NYT and Salon.

* NYT - This Is Your Brain Off Facebook. Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so bad.)

* Salon - A "gold standard" study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health. A unique study praised for its rigor finds numerous upsides to deactivating your Facebook account.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/health/facebook-psycholog...
Yes, some of the explanation is an increased population, but it's also clear they're committing more crime than they did.

The graph in the article (1990-2016) looks like the proportion of offences committed by pensioners has roughly risen from 3% to 20% (6.6x increase, maybe 5x if it's 4% to 20%), yet the proportion of over 65s (1990-2016) in Japan has risen from 11.9% to 26.6% (a 2.2x increase)[2].

The source of the BBC graph is in Japanese[3], so I can't get exact figures for the crime and papers I found that did have exact figures only went back as far as 2005.

[1] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/B06F/production/...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS?locat...

[3] http://www.moj.go.jp/housouken/houso_2008_index.html
The UAE’s secret hacking team of American mercenaries
Certainly you could cross if you had permission. One difference is that it was much harder to get that permission, especially for people on the Communist side to get permission to leave. (How many countries have you heard of today where that’s a thing?) Another difference is that the penalty for crossing illegally was often instant death, which tends not to be the case on most international borders today.
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You could have looked up that data yourself to prove the article wrong and shared it rather than just repeatedly commenting that the article sucks. From [1] and [2] the percentage of the population 65+ increased from 15.7% in 1997 to an estimated 28% in 2017. From the article, "In 1997 this age group accounted for about one in 20 convictions but 20 years later the figure had grown to more than one in five".

So percentage of population roughly doubled, but in the same time the percentage of convictions quadrupled.

[1] http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/nenkan/pdf/yhyou02.pdf

[2] http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/index_english/esuikei/ppfj2012...
True, but _probably_ old enough to understand the consequences of her actions. Certainly more so than a five-year-old at least.
"Property is the legal right to deny other people some set of actions regarding a thing."

People often denied other people some set of actions regarding things even without the state-enforced legal right to do so. As I said, the only thing the state changes is that people do not need to defend their property themselves.

If, for instance, I raise a sheep for a few years expecting to be able to use its wool and milk, it is in my best interest to stop other people from using its wool and milk, as they have not participated in the raising of the sheep.

Therefore, I would declare myself proprietor of the sheep, and would obviously stop other people from taking its milk and wool, in order not to deprive myself from the benefits I have acquired through my own work and effort.

This is not "state-licensed alienation".
Scientists Have Detected an Enormous Cavity Growing Beneath Antarctica
Facebook. Yes, they are evil. Most of us always knew. But this flood of news items lately, isn't this just mass hysteria?
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That book is central to this article, which even includes a photo of its cover.
I imagine it will be illegal for an actual human to drive on public roads by the time we get to this point, but it would be so cool to drive my car in third person camera like in racing games.
”Those who deactivated also observed a decrease in political polarization and news knowledge, and an increase in subjective well-being.”

Surely not reading Salon and its ilk would also result in this. Half of the toxic political posts on FB originate on sites like Salon, HuffPo... I think they’re more at fault for the political polarization of our society than FB which is mainly just a conduit.
Mind linking to it? Otherwise this is just more hearsay on an already misleading click-bait title.
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I'd say it's one of the branches, alongside with friends and mobsters, but this classification makes the same highly connective graph.

disclaimer: russian citizen myself. Greetings from Urals!
> Explosives - It's the only thing that is illegal to make.

doesnt the US restrict import/export of encryption over a certain keylength as well?
Some medical devices also have other net cost benefits though. For example, shorter, less intensive hospital stays from less invasive testing.
ZFS has checksums, so you get a message if some bits are off. Backups has to be verified regulary, there is no exception even with ZFS.

For example once a week I fire up a PostgreSQL instance on my remote backup server by cloning one of the snapshots and then I use pg_dump so I also have a "traditional" backup of the database. I do not spend time on verifying this dump though, as the ZFS snapshot already worked fine :-) But I sometimes use the dump to test new hardware or a new PostgreSQL version.
I wonder if some people are built such that they can't just put the phone down, similar to how many people really struggle to quit smoking. For those people there may be no "healthy" was to use the product.
Mainstream things are almost never fun or weird.

Most of the "big websites" are now serving mainstream customers. As a result, they're not fun or weird. When the internet was younger, it was mostly early adopters creating their own culture, so it was weirder.

The great thing about the internet is that there's a bunch of stuff on it that is not in the main stream.

It's harder to FIND that stuff now because, as a percentage, it is not as prevalent, but it's definitely out there and it can be located.

If the internet were a city then yes, we'd be struggling to "Keep it weird" but since it's an ever-expanding universe there will always be weird corners and cultures, just like here on earth.

Stay weird, internet.
If the article writer didn't have 2 copies of his data, he didn't have a backup.
I keep a running linux server that all my desktops, phones, and other devices back up to, it's a sort of home NAS.
I have a 2nd internal drive that gets mounted and all the important photes and less personal stuff gets rsynced to it. My main drive is XFS, but the backup drive is btrfs. I use btrfs to maintain snapshots and unmount the drive when it's not in use.

I also take that same set of important stuff and rsync it to a cloud server. I have a TB "storage server" from Time4vps (affiliate link: https://billing.time4vps.eu/?affid=1881). I then use borg to backup my more sensitive personal data to my cloud server and 2nd drive.
What's the strategic advantage of blowing up the world trade centre?

If your goal is to destroy the US economy and lead to the decline of western civilization, and you see the impact that a cave dwelling goatfucker could do with a box cutter, think what a nuclear bomb would do.
Very bizarrely for something on mozilla.org, it incorrectly believes my firefox is out of date: https://i.imgur.com/BRNBDPj.png

I think there must be a cultural disconnect between how people at Mozilla use firefox, and how users like us use Firefox.
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Mine (through work) quadrupled when I got the wife even though we're childfree. The work benefit I was offered provided for either me alone or for my family with unlimited dependents.
How 10 million-dollar companies win by marketing smarter
Can you tell me a bit more about your trip? I have been wanting to go to Georgia for a few years now.
I'm still annoyed that a device like iPad doesn't support multiple user profiles, logons, etc. Yes, it does support this in a limited way for the education market, but that's not generally usable for others, and it relies a lot on iCloud to refresh one's own data instead of storing/caching as much as possible locally (I'm writing this based on what I remember when Apple introduced this feature a couple of years ago).
Wanted to say thank you, this explains the situation very well.
Pathfinding.js (playground)
Whats the site?
There is also something to be said for convincing your enemy to build obsolete weaponry that is more expensive to build than the obsolete weaponry they were already building.

If you have reasonable certainty there won't be a hot war, winning a cold war is a matter of having a stronger economy and better logistics. You can leak older missile tech to the enemy, and they can work on reverse engineering it, while you install cutting-edge countermeasures on all mobile targets. They wasted a bunch of time and money catching up to where you were, and you're already 50 miles down the road. Then maybe you have a proxy war to show off your new tech. You keep the war cold by convincing the enemy that if they start something for real, they will not only lose, but also suffer international humiliation and disdain.

It also keeps your rival in the game, so they don't give up. A cold war is good for the military-industrial complexes on both sides. Peace and consumer trade cuts in to the profit margins. Can't have people choosing butter over guns.
In other words, a 130 page write up focused on the overall picture instead of lots of details has the usual number of typos without a couple passes from a skilled editor.
> It's probably pict3d's fault, but there's no indication of this module being of "pre-alpha" stability. Or maybe it's an interaction with Racket-on-chez and C library interfacing.

Racket-on-Chez is what's pre-alpha. I don't think there's been requests for anyone to test it unless they were going to dig into the guts and try to fix things.

> since 3d is an application that needs speed

if the slowest part of your 3D is how quickly you can make calls into OpenGL, you're in a pretty good place.
FSS or FSB (translated/native modern name) had changed a little from USSR so I don't know why this thread is existing in the first place.
Merlin tale fragments discovered in Bristol archives
If the point of a gene is to reproduce itself, the GP's conjecture is likely correct.

Evolution itself is non-judgemental and has no inherent bias to the development of spaceflight over, say, a massively distributed system willing to tolerate huge die offs. They are simply two different approaches (not even strategies) for dealing with local conditions.
OMG, the memories.... .mod files, right? I used to have thousands
Maps distort reality
Lack of capital investment killed small businesses. Everyone now has to pay a tax penalty to take your earned capital and invest it into local main-street businesses. This capital instead, though 401k, goes into trans-national firms.
I quite liked facebook. I don't have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again).

I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn't respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative I'd be more than happy to become on of their first adopters.
800 numbers are toll free. Was it a 900 number?
Why Is High School Four Years?
Guess what, we'd get a lot more overseas clients as they wrestled with the labor shortage abroad.

India produces more than 20 million undergrads every year.
I don't think 10 million will make a dent in developers supply in India.
Thanks, I'll try that, I'm not really happy with the behaviour at the edges yet. In hindsight it proved to be one of the most difficult things of the whole simulation!
Interestingly, it's legal to market colleges to 16/17 year olds, which almost certainly now involves taking out big loans.
That it has not been observed in the wild (which is arguable) does not mean that it is not real.

It is quite obvious that a tax rate of 0% would lead to no revenue. It is also obvious that a tax rate of 100% would not lead to the full expected revenue, as people would need to evade taxes in order to be able to survive.

If we assume that tax revenue is a continuous function of tax rate, there must be an inflection point.

The Laffer curve is indeed a curve, but which curve it is is not specified by the theory. The theory simply follows from the argument I have outlied above. It is not a specific curve, it simply states that, if we take tax revenue to be a near-continuous function of tax rate, it must not be a monotonic function, but instead have an inflection point.
Did I miss a demo? I would have got more from this explanation if it also showed what it was talking about.
> Less political knowledge

If you got your political knowledge from facebook, you should probably get off of it right away.
Exploiting children for money is mass hysteria? Using very shady root certs to bypass Apple store rules is mass hysteria? Cambridge Analytica is mass hysteria?
What the hell is wrong with an employee of Facebook who laughs at a kid who wracks up thousands of dollars accidentally on their parent's credit card?

What sort of mentality is going on at Facebook where this can be seen as acceptable not to refund them?
You can look up H1B salaries online. Salaries seem pretty high to me. Now you may argue it may be even higher if they were forced to hire domestic workers only, but that's just conjecture. Like saying if Android wasn't available then cheap android users would switch to Apple devices.
It's the reality, you have accept it or be depressed all the time then.
>The Reveal reports that in one of the unsealed documents, two Facebook employees are recorded discussing whether or not to refund a child—whom they refer to as a "whale"—who racked up $6,545 in charges from a Facebook game.

I believe it was in paragraph 4.
Like I said, I agree that we should not sanction Iran.

How about not increasing the risk of war with N. Korea and Russia? It should not be our job to police other countries. We have enough of our own problems to deal with in the US.
"Their strategy of having some proxy forces in strategic places is part of their defence strategy, this has been studied."

Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah towards attacking Israel is part of their defence strategy?

Iran's passing of Hadouthi missiles to targeted at cilivian areas in Saudia Arabia is part of their defence strategy.

Yes 'this has been studied' and I'm afraid you're wrong.

Iran is a antagonistic entity, and they want nukes so they can point them at Turkey, Saudi, Israel, Europe and further embolden themselves.

The reason that 'UK/France/Germany' issue is important is because it undermines almost all of the arguments being made here i.e. that 'Iran is sovereign, a victim, and shouldn't be subject to sanctions'.

The fact that 'the entire world' wants to sanction Iran for pursuing nukes fairly points to their bad acting.

The only reason that trade is possibly going to happen - is because of the belief that they are not pursuing nuclear weapons.
The US acquired the ability to leverage the financial system to enact its will

And now it wont

It doesnt really matter if you are subscribed to the merit of the US’ claims or not
Yes, but automobiles aren’t addicting.

I believe a better title would be about “today’s smart phone” assuming we will still have smart phones in the future but they won’t be designed to be addicting anymore.
And just when I read your reply and I was about to edit it to remove the link, I passed the two hour edit window.....
Yep, you missed it. It's at the top of the page / header.
Actually there are a lot of therapeutic applications for Nicotine. Nicotine can be beneficial for a wide range of psychiatric disorders, and there's evidence it might help with Parkinson's symptoms as well.
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No kid would ever go through mom's wallet without asking right?
I don't think a blog post can possibly cover all the cases. A book will get you closer. For a great book on exactly that sort of subject matter, I couldn't agree more with the author of TFA: Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a book that everyone should read at least once.

It's been a while since I personally last read it, but, as I recall, it has an entire chapter devoted to each of your examples.
That would be saying that it will aim for pedestrians. If someone designs a car with that intent, then yeah, it will either be regulated or sued out of existence.
Perhaps, but not necessarily. They believed they were using in-game currency!
Yes, the price is $1 for 10x10 pixels block. It is very clear for users. They need to query the price in ETH. They pay only $1. It is me who gets only 20 cents out of it.
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It explains the situation very well indeed, precisely because it has developed to become "the" explanation of the other side of the argument.
Anyone think the same holds true for HN? :)
I see that kind of attitude even on twitter and large subreddits. I don't think its specific to imageboards, in my experience it's just a very popular attitude/outlook among those currently in their late 20s/early 30s.
Not sure how it's the forerunner to e-readers. The title made me imagine it as a way to save you from paging manually through a book.

It's a ferris wheel of books for the purpose of referencing multiple books when you're too tormented with gout to walk around a table.
He campaigned on the opposite, didn't he?
We're told frequently that 18-22 year olds are incapable of understanding the implications of their college spending and the associated debt. Is a fifteen year old supposed to be more financially savvy?
AFAIK air.mozilla.org is some ready-made product by a different company (maybe even run by them), not developed by Mozilla
Really though, I do found that the book is just stating the obvious most of the times, and I wonder at all the praise it is getting here. Some of his ideas on memorization and his methods to structure thoughts, were non-ideas, or perhaps just low level trickery, and nothing fundamental.
This[0] is from the organisation that got the files unsealed, and includes the "whale" reference at the beginning of the chat mentioned. Not sure it proves that 5-year-old were referred to in this way, but it does sound very casual in it's usage.

[0] - https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-...
It's best to google the theorem mentioned if you want to get more than the gist of what is being discussed.
Even in our current system, after a third party reaches a certain threshold, they qualify for government funding.

It's something to think about if you don't like the candidates the major parties are running and thus assume your vote means nothing.

Search for "Minor party candidates" here for the specifics: https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understand...
Is it in fact implemented in Racket? It used to be limited to PLT Scheme, which is the old name for Racket. But one of the changes that lead to the name change was making cons cells immutable. Arc was, at least at the time, mutating cons cells so Arc continued to use old versions of PLT Scheme instead of newer Racket.

I don't know if that situation with Arc has since changed though.
Isn't that specific to graphiql rather than GraphQL itself? From reading the issue it seems graphiql is expecting it in that format, and the actual status code to return is down to the developer.
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They lost an opportunity to really overhaul the system that would have drawn support from liberal groups. Like turning H1B allocation process into an auction - let the company that offers highest compensation win the visa. And associating the visa with the employee not the employer, so they are free to switch around.
I think we agree - skilled migrants are fine. I'm a skilled migrant (I hope!) and I pay more in income tax than about 90-95% of the people in my adopted country. But they wouldn't be thrilled if I'd tried to move here when I was 70. Unless I had a giant pile of cash, of course.

I don't _like_ that it pretty much all comes down to money. I'd love to be able to say "this buddy of mine is a broke artist but he's super sound, great guy, plays the drums like nobody else and brings joy to all around him - that's the kind of person you want right?" but I don't know of a way to implement that sort of system without 1) being incredibly prone to bias and 2) being pretty expensive if you're not careful.
> Let's pool our resources and try to give the best opportunities for the children in our communities rather than everyone trying to have children.

What's good for the macro is not good for the micro. For communities, we need a strong work force that enjoys entertainment, that takes care of their elders, and raises the next generation to do the same.

If you bring macro policy to the micro, you end up with desolation, a shrinking economy, decreasing home values, and nobody to do anything.
Thank you for doing your part to protect us from clickbait while Facebook ... what was it they were doing again?
Yes, it's still hypocritical.

You can, and in my opinion should, criticize Iran for a lot. For example for being a theocracy like you mention. But saying "you cannot have nukes, but we can" is still very much hypocritical.
That’s a study everyone on this site is probably interested in
ppl liked the unchecked greed before it turned
I assume sshine was talking about Freud's conjectures on evolutionary biology and the evolutionary conservatism of archaic structures in the brain.

Much of that work is on its surface unremarkable today, though not at the time. But as it wasn't really central to his most influential work, it also hasn't been (IMHO) particularly influential
> you should prioritize end to end testing. Test the interface of what you're selling, not the inner workings.

E2E tests can be slow and extremely fragile though. They have a place and purpose, but they should not be the only form. Why would you skip entirely over "inner workings" tests that could catch bugs sooner?