skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article, thanks for sharing! I actually found your Google talk some years ago and found it fascinating.

I agree with basically all of your article. It certainly explains the dichotomy of physical laws allowing a spacetime to be "played backwards", while our experience must always be that of it being "played forwards"-- the time reversal of learning something is forgetting it, and this would invert the topological sort of knowledge dependency that places slices of our experience in the "future" or the "past". As such an observer in an isolated part of the universe which was being "played backwards" would label our future as their past.

If we buy into the Second Law, it makes sense to me that there would be some direction where there are more messy entanglements between all the parts of the universe, and in the other direction there would be fewer, and we would name the first direction "the future" and the second direction "the past", since there would be information embedded in all those mutual entanglements that would over-constrain states in the past and under-constrain states in the future.

What I don't get is what prevents me from setting up a circumstance where a measurement I make in the present is correlated with the result of (say) a coin flip in the future. That is easy to do if the coin flip is in the past, but impossible the other way around. I agree that by your logic if I were getting more information on the whole from the future, then I would almost definition label that "the past". But why not even one bit from the future? I can make a meaningful mark on a particle at time t0 and read it at t1, but not if t0 > t1. How come?
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There is a public-private investment model used in Australia which explicitly monetizes the imputed rise in value to local business from an activity, and includes it in the model for upside benefits, including increased rates and taxes. Queensland recently ran into a federal-state (partly party political) accounting model gap around this, and other cost/benefit assumptions which made funding a city centre underground system very difficult.

I think its cute for Alphabet to try and leverage some takeback on this. I think when the corporation shows its not using double-dutch-irish sandwich accounting methods to do transfer pricing and shift income offshore by fanciful IPR licencing and other tricks, it would be worth discussing.

In the meantime, until these entities pay their full tax component anywhere, let alone in Toronto, I think the answer should be "no"
> thoughts on bulc.club

Looks like pretty much the same thing as Kopi, but more polished and without the the forward to RSS functionality.

How does "free" work though? Couldn't find anything in the FAQ.
For the curious, other human trials targeting aging can be found here:

https://www.lifespan.io/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/
I recently learned to my surprise that Exchange has a feature that allows you to recall emails from the recipients inbox.
18,000 Android Apps Track Users by Violating Advertising ID Policies
> I was talking about the city's targets.

Ok, the next part addressed why it's not really possible for those to be accurate either.

Also see the whole 407 thing discussed elsewhere in the thread. Trusting the cities numbers to be accurate/not just a version of Google's numbers is foolish.

The fact that you have to trust someones numbers at all is sufficient proof of my original statement, that this obscures the actual cost of the project.

> and has already gotten approval from all 3 levels of government.

That's a gross exaggeration. All the levels of government are talking to them, but as discussed in the article they are hardly on board.

Edit (2m post posting): Sorry, this article: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/15/news/alphabets-s...

> Who said more money? Why do you instantly assume the worst?

You did. I don't appreciate the accusation of dishonesty.

> it's a win-win situation because Google makes more, [...]
They also invariably evade taxes. Go wild on that downvote button, guys, but there's no need: everyone already knows it, and there is never going to be a political will to do something about it.
We expect that Chromecast connects to Google's servers when you are using Google services. By forcing you to use their DNS service, they can track every non-Google DNS query you make as well, which is all tied to your IP address. It is a form of surveillance of everything that you do on your Chromecast, for which there is no explicit consent.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62273/can-dns-s...

It is similar in some ways to Facebook tracking users across the internet through Facebook "Like" and "Connect" buttons across the internet, even when the user's aren't on the Facebook site and did not opt-in to having their browsing tracked by Facebook outside of Facebook.
One common advice to help in decision making is the 10-10-10 rule. How much will this decision matter in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years.

When I have the right perspective, many decisions that I used to agonize over become easy.
The "how should a self-driving vehicle deal with someone messing with it" question gets interesting once that self-diving vehicle is armed with torpedoes.

If a Chinese fishing trawler "accidentally" drops a net on one of these and "rescues" it, can it defend itself? Should it?
I don’t think the phenomenon of unpaid internships is primarily driven by a wish to shape wealth dynamics of society. It’s mostly about companies thinking “why pay ... when we don’t need to”. It’s still despicable because it has the same side effect in the end - only folks from wealthy families can afford to take these internships. But I thought it was worth drawing a distinction between the primary motivation and the inevitable consequences.
My workaround for #6 is that basically all passwords are auto-generated to include A-Z, a-z, and 0-9. If this doesn't pass character class muster, then I manually append something like "-" to the end of the generated password.

I've already got my entropy needs met in other ways, and "-" is special enough to be considered special, but not special enough to be unsupported.

In other words, sorry for the pun, but I have special token that I use as a token special.
> by investing 10% of income, I can accumulate wealth of over 100 times annual income

That wasn't even true for 50%, let alone 10%. Wrong facts lead to wrong conclusions. Get facts.
let's just require robots and ban human soldiers...
> In December 2016, the U.S. Navy announced it needed 66 nuclear-powered attack subs, or SSNs, to meet regional commanders' needs.

This feels like a ridiculously high number
So if I may - your assertions are:

A) There is nothing wrong with how funding currently operates in the tech space. It allocates resources optimally in terms of risk adjusted returns for investors and there is no room to try alternate approaches.

B) There is no way to assertain what the potential size of a business is, anything could become Dropbox (including - I dunno, a SaaS focused on kitchen countertop installers)

C) The only way to provide suitable risk adjusted returns for investors is the current approach (focusing on finding unicorn outliers that can scale to 1000x)
I am currently hopeful given a new treatment that's care-focused.

I'd also add that discontinuing antidepressants (with the associated emotional blunting, at least in my case) means I am more empathetic to the impact on my wife and kids.

It's when there's no hope you want to leave the world. Especially when you have means that are painless, assured and safe to everyone around you. Plus you can use logic like financially your kids are better off with you dead due to testamentary trusts and the lack of your resource consumption (I had a startup exit, so retired long ago).

While I still hate living, I'm not actively planning to die at present.
The L only runs through Brooklyn
Now and then, insurance companies will pull fast ones. E.g., insured dies of heart attack two years after buying policy, preexisting condition even though preexisting exclusions go away after one year according to policy.

Put mostly the dim view of insurance companies comes from health insurance in the US, which is a catastrophe.

Or someone gets cut rate car insurance and has trouble with a claim. How do you think they keep the rates so low?
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As a US citizen i would love to see Germany pay for their own defense. So sure have at it.
The modern alternative to PGP is GPG. Or, PGP.

The implication that a tool like MH (or PGP) "needs" a modern alternative probably deserves to be questioned. There are nits, and there are problems, but GPGMail plugins for mail mostly work as well as anything else which is an accretion.

My corporate mail is using X.509 client certificates. LDAP (which is basically X.500-- so naturally fits X.509 information model) makes it work. We all grow a long tail
of past certificates to make sure we can unpack our own p7m data.

I don't think we ever solved how untrusted people come into trust without some form of painful mediation. The dream of the Quipu X.500 global directory remains...
> I don't see how this harms anyone outside of the intern/company

perhaps it harms ppl who cannot afford to do an unpaid job?
> In other words, if a beach is made of eroded granite, its radioactivity will be between 25,000-500,000 Bq/t: assuming the sand is more than a feet deep, I think it's safe to assume > 25,000 Bq/m^2.

I don't think this computation is valid, because you have to consider what and how much radiation makes it out of the solid. So converting from activity per mass to activity per surface area cannot be done, I think, by simply assuming a given depth.
Still on track to allow SoftBank and the Saudi’s to foist this steaming turd on to the retail investor.
How do you feel about the minimum wage? Do you think workers who flip burgers or stock shelves have the bargaining power to reach a fair wage? In such a negotiation who will blink first, the individual, replaceable worker or the multi billion dollar corporation?
The Myth of Worker Exploitation in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector
My two cents: regular sufficient sleep, physical and mental exercise, food and natural supplements (gingko, ginseng)..
It's not by design. There are stuff like decaf, ristretto and qDSA which "fix" this
LinuxKit is really neat. Don't get me wrong. I think each have their benefits. LinuxKit is great if you need that flexibility. With Talos we would rather focus on building a Kubernetes-centric distro.
The server can still bruteforce it though right?
I'm curious, what's wrong with the BitTorrent DHT that you can improve in your own?
That feels like a ridiculously low number to me.

Not all subs will be underway at the same time. 70% of Earth's surface is covered in water, and they only need 66‽ Though is it 66 more, or 66 total? If it's 66 total, that's about 5.45 million square miles of water per sub. That's incredible!
>I also really like the "go to this website on your computer and enter this code" for logging in to Apple TV, Chromecast, etc so you aren't typing a 30 character password on a TV remote.

I hate this with a passion. I'm all comfy in my chair, ready to watch something, and I get the message that I have to get up and go to my computer and do stuff when all I want to do is watch TV. So I watch something else that doesn't require a computer to watch on TV.
But what if you start with a binary representation?
Riders won big. The ability to order a car and get a ride in minutes is now engrained into society. Who can imagine major metros in the US without ride share? The continued capital injections and subsidized prices have been great for consumers.
I could not have afforded my internships, had they been unpaid. A potentially less qualified person with more affluent parents maybe would have. As it is, those internships proved to be vital to my career, and I hope the company that I ended up with is happy that they paid me my internship salary in exchange for a later employee.

But then again I went to a highly renowned university in Germany, which I also could not have afforded if it wasn't completely free.

So, I was not free to make the decision to take unpaid internships.
Oh lord, what’s this going to do to the blockchains?
Its a pain in the ass because nobody has created a user friendly UI for that, but in itself it is a powerful technique to establish trust.
I suggest reading the Gospel of John. NKJV translation if you like poetry, or The Message if you have a bad religious experience in your background.

My father was born to and raised by an atheist and an agnostic, and grew up to be an atheist who used to publicly dare God to strike him dead, as evidence that God did not exist.

His study of organic chemistry in college eventually led him to conclude begrudgingly that a Prime Mover seemed more reasonable than spontaneous generation. He and some friends modeled a minimalist single-cell life form and calculated the odds of spontaneously generating it in ideal circumstances, and he just couldn't call pure atheism plausible after that exercise.

A few years later, he read the Bible so he could taunt his Christian friends with all the mistakes and inconsistencies he was sure he'd find. He wound up believing it instead, almost against his will, as he now describes it.

Maybe you'll find something similar occurs. If it does, it would resolve the fear of death as a side effect, as Jesus saving us from death is an essential part of the message.

If you spend a few hours reading it and walk away utterly unimpressed, then if nothing else you at least have a better knowledge of a major influence on the development of Western culture.
I would be a happier and more productive person.
Does the US Navy’s mission require it to maintain readiness to blow up anything in any ocean to smithereens at a moment’s notice?
Let me try to break this down from first principles, since I'm not sure I agree with the largely negative sentiment ITT around how complex this looks:

Most software projects are long lasting, and have unpredictable and constantly changing requirements.

Agile is currently the best software development methodology under these constraints.

Effective Agile teams should not be larger than 10 people total, minus the PO and Scrum Master leaves 8 devs.

Its not possible to run a large scale, high traffic web application with only 8 devs.

Therefore, it makes sense to split large applications up into chunks small enough for a 10 person team to manage autonomously.

Since the application had to be split up, we now have to solve the communication issue. Now we need networking, DNS, TLS, have to consider latency and bandwidth, etc... We also have other issues if we’re running at scale: redundancy, monitoring, separate environments for testing and production, having a local dev environment similar to the production environment. There is a huge list of things that are not important to for an early stage startup to think about, but are very important and very difficult for most large enterprises to get right if they want to consistently and reliably deliver good software.

Google is a large enterprise that operates large scale web services that has proven they know how to get this stuff right.

This repo is a reference architecture, from Google, on how to run micro services at scale using modern tools and methodologies. If you think this is over engineered I think you're just not the target audience, and something like Heroku is much better suited for your scale.
Yes, a company that is not willing to pay their interns a salary (which is usually rather small), probably should not offer any internship positions at all.

The only legitimate reason that comes to mind is that they actually cannot afford to pay the intern. In which case, they really should not offer any internship positions at all.
8.8.8.8 isn't a youtube IP, it's Google's DNS service. Most networks hand out their own DNS and generally expect clients on their network to be using it. While most consumer home networks are very permissive not every network is and not respecting the dns server handed to a client by DHCP is broken behavior.
I don't know if this justifies it, and it's a gross over simplification of a much more complex reality, but even with all 66 submarines deployed around the world, each one has over 2 million square miles of coverage. While it may seem like a lot of boats, the world is large, and it takes a lot of boats to be able to respond to a situation happening anywhere in the world in a timely manner.
Yes but when you’re constantly switching devices and machines. It’s a pain

Most password managers don’t do jack inside a native app (for good security reasons - thank you Apple)

I don’t want to go through 5 mins of clicking and pasting on my phone.

A number of services force you to change passwords every couple of months. They save (may be hash) the old passwords so you can’t use them.

How many goddamn passwords is one supposed to remember?

I care about passwords for important sites and they are all unique. For everything else, it’s yolo!
The Waymo vs Uber one wasn't a defense against a lawsuit.
What sucks is this is all generated at compile time. I loose out on auto completr from my IDE if codegen is done during build.
> You can't create tools for censorship in China and support a free and open Internet. Those things are completely opposed to each other.

I don't see why Google wouldn't actually prefer if China didn't have such draconian restrictions. At the very least it would reduce their regulatory compliance work in China drastically.
Well... yes. Maybe it shouldn't, but that decision isn't up to people actually in that branch.
Not sure how all three of drivers, Uber's profit, and passengers could all be losing. I think passengers are making out quite well atm. I haven't owned a car since Uber has been around, and get chaffeured around at a super affordable price.
People would rejoice, as they moved deep inside the next trap.
I could see it if op is including discounts. Uber and Lyft for me go thru cycles of heavy promos followed by dry spells.
But there are obvious and severe externalities as mentioned by some other comments...
Please stop publishing on Medium. I'm getting error "You read a lot. We like that. You’ve reached the end of your free member preview for this month. Become a member now for $5/month to read this story".

Not gonna do that.
You're missing the part where 8.8.8.8 is a Google service for which an open, internet service already exists. If whatever Google's data centers are providing (besides 8.8.8.8) for the device's features also already had open implementations, then yes, the same complaint could be levied.

By replacing parts of the internet that were open with non-open solutions, the intent and the consequence are clear.

But I will say that that bridge has been crossed long ago. 8.8.8.8 has been hardcoded in so many places today that it may as well be a fixture of the internet, like the search thing, like many other properties of Google that are maybe not monopolies but are 80% of one. There is no internet that does not depend on Google (except in certain Firewalled countries). It's already too late.
From the article, referencing a study where researchers got a bunch of people to quit Facebook and then studied what happened:

“They consumed much less news, and were thus less aware of events but also less polarised in their views about them than those still on the network. Leaving Facebook boosted self-reported happiness and reduced feelings of depression and anxiety.”

^^ this is why I’d like to see it broken up or shut down. There’s so much vitriol in everyone’s faces every day, it greatly contributes to the general unreasonableness of politics today.
? Been doing it for years
They’re mostly reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and defensive. Occasionally might fire cruise missiles if necessary.

Helps keep the bad guys and gals from trying too much.
> I'm not so sure it applied back then

It did apply, to a point. Before Google, I had switched to AllTheWeb as my search engine of choice since a lot of sites just wouldn't show up in AltaVista no matter what you searched for, and ATW had a bigger index (I guess staleness could have had the same result).

But of course eventually I switched to Google for the better search results.
I disagree very strongly with this.

As a YC founder who's raised millions of dollars and employs dozens of people, I got my start - and may not be where I am now - without an unpaid internship.
If you think about Facebook as an empire, it's worth considering that people who have lived under empires don't generally go back to living as they did before the empires showed up. They typically want a better empire to live under.
"Giant" is an odd choice of word in this context. 51 feet long, $43M for four, seems pretty cheap and small as military hardware goes.
How is the situation any different than at the moment?

If you can capture an autonomous submarine just by throwing a net over it, then presumably you can also capture a manned submarine in the same way? What difference do the bodies inside make in terms of being able to capture it? Just better at evading?

And losing a submarine compared to losing a submarine and the people inside it seems a better deal, doesn't it?
I've never had issue with a bank refunding fraudulent debit charges. They catch them within minutes to hours.
> There should be a very high bar for making illegal any activity between two consenting parties where there's no obvious and severe externalities. I don't see how this harms anyone outside of the intern/company, both of which should be free to make their own decisions.

Why is "obvious" a requirement? A hidden or indirect but severe externality is fine?
>For the smallest, false is 48k statically linked vs 32k for the Ubuntu binary.

Lol, you have to do some kind of stripping or GC sections or what not for this to be a fair comparison. A proper version of false is 508bytes on my machine.
It feels like you’re bending over backwards to mollify this person only because you got called out publicly and you’re getting downvoted because of it.

I don’t even know how emailing you about it is supposed to help. If GP has been ghosted by you years ago, in what way does it help them to contact you now? All it does is provide an easy way for you to improve your hiring process while giving the other person nothing in return. The dynamic is similar to the unpaid internships we’re railing about in this thread.
Someone's tried with https://www.internblitz.com/, I've never used it though and now I'm out of the university system.
How one Harvard biologist coped when AI beat him at his life’s work
There was a nice investigative report on Propublica on how short staffed US surface fleet caused the USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald crash into shipping containers.
Basically the navy is focusing on buying newer ships and deploying too often and not so much on personnel training(?)[1]. Can't train enough people quickly enough, crews were repurposed for Iraq war etc.

If the Submarine fleet is having these issues, this might be a step in the right direction.

[1]https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgeral...
> For my (and I expect most people's) threat model, google's prying eyes are a more credible concern than my neighbor's, and I wish they hadn't changed it, but it's nonetheless a defensible reason for making the change.

Phishing by a random bad actor taking advantage of lack of TLS verification is far more likely than Google putting a sandbox escape in a phone app they distribute to steal information from you. I really hope most people's threat model doesn't match yours in this respect.