skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if anyone launches a direct attack on the US, they’ll be attacked with nuclear weapons in return. Hololens wouldn’t help the US at all for self defense, only for action involving deploying troops.
And also regular wealth. Have you seen the photos of it? It looks like a pre-assembled Radio Shack kit. Probably cost thousands of dollars in professionally machined parts.
The anti-blockchain sentiment seems severely short-sighted when news like Youtube coming up with new ways to push people off its platform are posted within three hours of this submission.[1]

Where do we move the endless amount of unique content to, once that previously trusted party breaks down? Be it greed, bad management, economics that just won't work out or whatever. Are we just going to watch it disappear? Is that the course of action you condone and suggest? Or are we moving to the next monopoly that will ultimately fail and disappear, hoping that time won't be the one where it's all lost?

The amount of data we generate only goes up, and just throwing a dart to pick which megacorp is responsible for not losing or abusing that data is clearly unsustainable.

In my eyes, Blockchain and other decentralized approaches are the way to move forward in terms of owning your own data, and keeping things that are worth preserving from disappearing at the whim of some third party that couldn't care less.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227294
This is their description of their methodology:

> HIP Investor regression we’ve used every year that computes excess CEO pay assuming such pay is related to total shareholder return (TSR). The second ranking identified the companies where the most shares were voted against the CEO pay package. These two rankings were weighted 2:1, with the regression analysis being the majority. We then excluded those CEOs whose total disclosed compensation (TDC) was in the lowest third of all the S&P 500 CEO pay packages. The full list of the 100 most overpaid CEOs using this methodology is found in Appendix A. The regression analysis of predicted and excess pay performed by HIP Investor is found in Appendix C, and its methodology is more fully explained there.

This doesn't make any sense. Hell, the first sentence isn't even a sentence.
I suspect the reason this doesn't make any sense is because they don't actually have a coherent methodology. They just want to complain about CEOs making too much money, so they'll create any arbitrary measure to attach numbers to their complaint. Notice how they never once mention who the most underpaid CEOs are. They surely have that data and it would be just as interesting as the most overpaid. They don't release it because they care more about their agenda than about giving you unbiased information.
> Software engineer unions are coming, and it will start with the games industry.

And it will end there.

Video games are more like movies than they are like other kinds of software, and the labor to produce them should resemble the movie business - not the software business.

That means a bunch of union members get hired for the production itself, for the duration of the production - not "indefinitely" for the distributor like they are now - and when the game is done, the production company for that individual game and all its labor is disbanded, and then everyone finds another production - possibly from a completely different distributor - to work on.

Except they'll all know this upfront and they'll be unionized, which mitigates the downside (ex: they'll get their health insurance from the union, not from Sony or EA or whoever.)
> what's the point of claiming "white people didn't invent slavery?" I can't think of any reason that doesn't involve a blanket statement about either white people or some other race

I could easily say that in response to a claim that white people invented slavery, in total innocence that somebody would read me as racist. I am somewhat naive, in my defense.
SCOTUS is quite restrained, meaning that a lot of the power is in the lower courts.
No this is actually a good strategy if you want small gains of 20%~ per year. The idea is you are long on the stock but you run the wheel against it so you make money without the downside risk, since you are planning to bag hold it. A lot of people who don't trade don't understand there are lots of ways to make money in the market.

Edit: I posted in my history a way to automate something like this.
I don’t know dude. I think there’s a big difference between piloting a B-2 bomber over the Iraq desert, and firing at a target with an Xbox Controller and a Hololens Headset, from an office in a Virginia suburb.

If it doesn’t dehumanize war at the very least is commoditizing warfare.
Looked briefly and saw a typo.
"A word typing game a friend and me created during LD 42."
Should be "a friend and I".
Yeah, and I really wish I had a better solution than just excavating the cancerous parts of the government, but Americans aren't very rehearsed on the Constitution or their rights, and finding people who openly advocate for them in their entirety is rare.

I think we need need term limits in Congress, so the same stale minds can't dominate forever. Also I think states should start flexing their 10th amendment rights to show the feds that they care about their rights (state legalization of drugs, prostitution for example).

In general our court system is fairly good at upholding constitutional rights. It's not uncommon for a trial to be thrown out because some evidence was collected without a warrant, for example. However you're right that certain events question the viability of upholding our rights against a tyrannically government. That of course is why the 2nd amendment exists.
BTW: If there was something to reduce accidental hits on hide and flag, that would be great.

On mobile touch screens, being right under the main links they can get hit a surprising number of times and then you've got to go fumble around to undo it.

Maybe a "comfortable" setting a la Gmail?
Russia and China don’t care about US military spending when they’re considering genocide. For example, see the Uyghur muslim population in China, which is being genocided right now.
Yes, many people in my community chose not to vaccinate years ago. If you listen first and treat them with respect and patience it helps a ton.

Trying to use facts against emotion never works as you mentioned. Helping work through the emotion and then introducing facts does in my experience.
From Ev:

"Thank you, @jack and @biz for starting this crazy company with me—and continuing to make it better and better."

Do you think he really means that? Has Twitter changed at all in years? It seems like the service is objectively worse than it used to be (no 3rd party apps, no chronological timeline...).
This conversation is pretty uninformed.

* MS has had various contracts with the military for decades. The baseline of nearly all end user software in the military is composed of MS products like many other businesses.

* Augmented reality headsets are not weapons anymore than rucksacks or combat boots.

* The military has some cool training aids, such as converted SNES systems that help teach marksmanship on simulated in door ranges. That is by no means unethical.

This really just sounds like activists searching for something to fight about.
Pretty sure the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is the largest Active Directory deployment in the world still.
Wow this thread has the most heated arguments I've seen on this site.

My feeling is that since this is HackerNews, instead of arguing about censorship of idiots... let's instead build a startup to solve this.

It seems anti-vaxxers main concern is that vaccines are unsafe due to preservatives. Why doesn't someone make a startup that has "freshly killed virus" that charges $10k per vaccine? Do you know how much money you could make from celebrities advocating these preservative-free vaccines? People would sell their homes just to get these "safe" vaccines from the startup.

It's a win-win-win solution... someone gets rich, the idiots do whatever it takes to get vaccinated or they get put in jail (let's jail them for child-abuse if they don't vaccinate), and we still have herd-immunity in society. So common HN, someone has to have the capital to get this started. Let's solve this.
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Yes, cross-platform development is more work, but that example you gave is the wrong way to do it. It's better to abstract the differences using typedefs, functions, macros, etc., and keep the platform switches in a few isolated places in the code.
I saw a figure in another article that said $10k had gone into his fusor.
The same thing happened with the Cheniere Energy in Louisiana but due to the location they were able to turn it into an export facility.
Active trading with options is a great way to make money. I always suggest it's good to park money in something like AAPL and collect dividends from it, as it's the market leader, if it drops, everything will. Alternatively put most of your money in an index fund and just keep adding. Something like 10% of your portfolio in options trading, and 90% in an index fund/powerful stock, preferably a dividend paying one. Then limit your options trade to 3% of your options trading account. This way you can make money from options and grow your account at the same time using the buy and hold methodology.
> It's great that "if it's free, you should run away" or "if you're not the customer, you're the product" or any of those other sayings are finally been seen as extremely reductive.

Is it really the case that we've forgotten "There's no such thing as a free lunch?"
Isn't CEO compensation generally determined by the compensation committee of the board?
Isn't this already a thing? Per below links, I thought most schools require vaccinations. It seems to be a minority of states that allow 'philosophical' exemptions.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/laws/state-reqs.ht...

https://vaccines.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=003...

Obviously, restricting access to all public spaces goes much further...but functionally, this works well enough if we just get rid of the states with philosophical exemptions.
Posted here with a slightly different URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19230245 .
> Most everything on the internet is free...so are you saying we should just stop using it?

Free in what sense? We need to stop constraining the notion of "free" to monetary value.
That's all fine and dandy for the software you build, but then if it happens that the easiest way to get some job done is to extend an existing docker image or using an existing docker image in a multistage build, you might trip over the fact that the authors of those other images didn't care enough about your arch of choice to cross compile their stuff.
Ask HN: What Moonshots Have Had Real, Tangible Progress?
I was just listening to a technical podcast about self driving cars, and it seems like a lot of progress has been made. I want to work on something similarly difficult, building a diagnostic, preventative health system that we can all access.

Are there any other examples of moonshots with tangible progress?
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Note that a lot of "fusors" are actually "demo fusors", i.e. they run at too low energy to produce detectable fusion even if you did fuel them with deuterium. A "demo fusor" just produces plasma that looks similar without doing real fusion.

This article is about the real thing, which is substantially more difficult to build.
Spotify has revenue in the billions each year. And while this is a nice bit of code and obviously scratches your itch, don't you feel maybe a bit silly doing their work for free?
It's not that complex an issue. They're one website, they only have control over the content on their platform, they can't censor the entire internet.

>What happens when they decide to silence or stifle a group that's actually trying to help the good of the people?

They're not even deleting these videos, they're demonetizing them. No one is getting silenced or stifled. Videos that probably weren't attractive to advertisers to begin with, can't get advertising revenue.

And if Youtube did "stifle" a group actually trying to do good.. their reputation would suffer and the Streisand effect would raise the visibility of that group and they would move their content elsewhere.

There's no slippery slope towards a boot stomping on our faces forever, here. Youtube's influence is not absolute and not unassailable, they're not a government, they aren't backed up by a monopoly on force, and their ability to control or censor information doesn't extend to society as a whole.
By coincidence I'm currently reading The Boy Who Played with Fusion https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Played-Fusion/dp/0544705025, which tells the amazing story of Taylor Wilson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson) who performed this feat when he was 14.

It's mind boggling what dedicated kids can achieve with parental backing and scientist mentors. In Wilson's case places like The Black Hole surplus store (https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/18130) also greatly helped. Sadly such places are getting rarer.
But I replied to the comment directly. So why would you think that original, not really congruent, grouping of concepts applies?
I'm sure if you lived in SW Washington with an infant you'd sing a different tune.

More than a few friends and people I know are immunocompromised, for them it is a big deal.
As further proof that I am not lying here's a screenshot from my Twilio messaging log...

https://i.imgur.com/6b3cg5L.png

62226 = PayPal and 51472 = Apple.
> putting the lives of those around them in very real danger

If thousands of people were dying of vaccine-preventable diseases I may reconsider my stance, but we are currently nowhere close to justifying crossing that line.

IMHO it's a self-correcting problem. If more people do start dying of these diseases some of the holdouts will get the vaccines.
Pretty delusional if you think a $120B Fortune couldn't benefit from blockchain
Yup. I was at a ML meetup and one of the kids who was only 12 or so knew advanced level coding and Tensorflow. Another one was a 16 year old who had been coding C++ for more than half a decade. They both credit a lot of it to the internet and the ease of learning which books to acquire.
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> I might nit and say that a lot of these things (especially vaccination and legal representation) are subsidized, the government or insurance is paying so you can get it for “free”.

This is not free except in the narrowest sense.
> But just for fun, let's see if anyone from Belgium, UK, Greece, Spain, etc can name 5 top judges. I, for one, cannot :)

I wonder how many people can name Norman Borlaug and what he did vs Adolf Hitler and what he did.
Plano and Frisco are affluent suburbs though, probably pretty heavily iPhone fans. The local community won't be happy. Traffic is pretty bad, and DFW is sprawling. If I were Apple, I'd make some effort to communicate the reasons to the locals.
The locals will know because Apple entirely leaving your district will make the local news and people will say why.

This "flip the bird" nonsense is a terrible idea. No one will even believe it. They believe subtly hinted things better.
Those highlights match my field experience.

I've found that ensembles aren't necessarily more accurate for individual forecasts per se, but in terms of aggregate errors over the long run, they end up being less wrong. (bias-variance tradeoff)
Um, isn't this how other spreadsheet applications work, by visually hiding -- but not securing -- 'hidden columns/sheets'?
I don't know about the standard offerings on cloud platforms, but people who do some sort of scientific computing care a great deal about the architecture and performance. As a C++ programmer, I'm constantly profiling my code to find out bottlenecks and optimize the code. Sometimes I even care if the CPU supports say AVX or some specific instructions.
"On Feb. 1, when Exemplar and Express were simultaneously berthed at the terminal, they sent enough fuel to run all of New England’s gas-fired generators for the day, according to Oliver Simpson, vice president of Excelerate’s commercial operations"

This statement says nothing of what proportion of the tanker capacities was consumed in that day. Anyone know?

It says nothing more than they fulfilled a single day of gas-fired generators needs, which by itself doesn't sound worthwhile.
That may be one of the specific circumstances I'd be ok with, just because children are in such close contact with each other.

> It seems to be a minority of states that allow 'philosophical' exemptions.

Antivaxx is basically a religion, isn't it? ;)
Why do we have words for, oh, "phrenology" or "phlogiston"? Or, you know, um, "Caucasian".

We've got plenty of words whose referents aren't sound concepts.
Love the article except for the part that encourages developers to rat on other developers. No. Unless another developer is so bad they are putting your job in jeopardy, let them be. It's the manager's job to sort that out and do something about it.

Throwing other developers under the bus when ones own job security is not threatened should be the number one thing on this list of asshole things a developer can do by far. By very, very, very far.
Except that's not how software works anymore. Everything is moving to long-term SaaS and subscription. Production never ends until the lights turn off.
Is a person’s way of life and economic prosperity also worth defending? If so, nuclear weapons are not sufficient. All another country needs to do is cut that person’s country off from the rest of the world. Bring it down from the inside. No invasion or war required.
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I actually boot-strap my own projects. So in a sense, you're right. I probably never would take VC funding. I don't think terribly highly of them, but I do think it would be naive for them to not want you succeed.

Thank you for finally highlighting something pivotal in our discussion: the shared interest (or lack thereof) in your success. Like I said, it doesn't totally add up to me. If you remain majority shareholder in your business, it seems hard for them to walk off with more than you would at the liquidity event (e.g, your company is acquired, an IPO, etc).

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. They're not 100% against your interests, but not necessarily 100% for them, either.
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I haven't seen a lot of active suppression of right wing views other than the more numerous liberals having more bodies to throw at arguments. If the tables were turned and liberal ideas were less popular than conservative ideas then by human nature we'd likely see the same kinds and amount of individual attacks.

It already happens in right wing enclaves. I've been banned from multiple conservative subreddits for making reasonable centrist arguments that conservatives historically agreed with or asking questions that stir the pot in a gentle way. On Facebook and Twitter I get people responding with ad hominems to arguments which are not liberal but which do not toe the current Republican party line. Also, someone was arrested the other day for seriously plotting to murder a bunch of popular Democratic politicians. The grass is not greener, in other words.

I have not attempted to engage on many other forums but it seems to me that arguing outside the local groupthink is what makes people angry, more than any particular ideology being the driver. Angry people do stupid things. If you're in the minority party locally, you might feel oppressed even if you could go to the next town over and feel right at home.
Here here. There is only total war. Anything else is just getting people killed for reasons.

Sorry about your friends. That really turns my stomach. My son was an Army Ranger (FIST/JTAC) he said being in SOCOM gave them more ROE freedom. And, in the rare cases when things started to get sketchy bombs and missiles could be brought on target on the authority of the ground commander (company cmdr or platoon leader) no questions asked.

edit: a/an
Interesting perspective. In my mind, the fact that any one developer has the tools to think up, create and launch applications that deeply alter our society, has already done more harm than any single doctor has ever done and probably could ever do (at least by putting his hands on patients).
/front seems like the right URL for what's there. But we can't put a 'front' link on the front page.
The point of a lawsuit isn't to destroy Facebook or its leadership. It's to stop them from doing some specific thing, and get compensation for the damage that specific thing caused.
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"flip the bird nonsense"? I didn't include any suggestion like that at all.

We've moved, where to and sometimes why, in the door of the now vacant spot is very common.
I see reddish green all the time, although it could be greenish red. Just as often it’s brown.

I’m red-green colorblind.
CEO pay comes out of stockholders' pockets. If you believe corporate money is wasted on them, don't buy their stock.

> completely independent of how effective a CEO is.

It's not for you to judge that, it's for the shareholders to.
I mean it was immediately set as [dead]. Not even 30 seconds after posting. Is that characteristic of a moderator action?
The conclusion is beautifully scary:

"Computer systems have become massively complex in pursuit of the seemingly number-one goal of performance. We’ve been extraordinarily successful at making them faster and more powerful, but also more complicated, facilitated by our many ways of creating abstractions. The tower of abstractions has allowed us to gain confidence in our designs through separate reasoning and verification, separating hardware from software, and introducing security boundaries. But we see again that our abstractions leak, side-channels exist outside of our models, and now, down deep in the hardware where we were not supposed to see, there are vulnerabilities in the very chips we deployed the world over. Our models, our mental models, are wrong; we have been trading security for performance and complexity all along and didn’t know it. It is now a painful irony that today, defense requires even more complexity with software mitigations, most of which we know to be incomplete. And complexity makes these three open problems all that much harder. Spectre is perhaps, too appropriately named, as it seems destined to haunt us for a long time."

Worth reading the paper [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
Let's just say getting DoD contracts isn't a simple process of showing you have a good idea and tech skills. There is a lot of who knows who, and is not entirely bad I think. We are building our security here, we need to be confident people can do what they say they will do.
As has been mentioned in this thread before it's not a 'self-correcting problem', because the people that legitimately cannot get vaccines or suffer from other issues compromising their immune system are affected as well. And as seen with issue issues relating to conspiracy theories...they tend to just deny the outbreaks as being government-orchestrated, or say that getting the disease is actually good for you.

Anti-vaxxers threaten the lives of innocent people and acting otherwise is incredibly callous and ignorant.
I think that statement only has no meaning if you are contending that I am one of those people who labels nearly everything “racist.”
It's just a list of past front pages. Once each day is over, its front page never changes. Does that answer your question?

(Well, it's not exactly a list of past front pages, because what appears on /front was never the actual front page at any point. Since that's always changing, we take a kind of average.)
Both of those ideas sound awesome.

I am a heavy Instapaper user but really liking Outline / Hypothesis lately.