skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all of the points that the video makes are more or less addressed in the books. Don't want to spoil too much, but and important part of the argument _for_ complete genocide of everybody you meet is that (the book argues) any other more primitive civilization can, at any moment, go through a sudden technological explosion and leapfrog yours. It's imperative to eliminate them. The whole reasoning is based on the assumption that this can happen (not saying that it's a realistic assumption). The video doesn't mention this at all, and most of its arguments are rebutted by this assumption.
Genetic evolution is path dependent. Starting point of evolution severely limits where evolution can go.

In other words, evolution never does whole system redesign. It's all legacy code from the beginning with incremental optimization steps in response to selection pressure at the moment.

Genes and amino acids are very close to the starting point, it's unlikely that they are optimal outside the starting environment. 4 amino acids was enough to get things going, inserting new amino asides later would require redesigning all the machinery starting from scratch. Evolution can't do that, but humans might be able to insert news stuff.
Oh yeah, it's a well known personality tic of Wolfram to the point that it's a joke. He'd be full blown "iamverysmart" if he were not actually smart.

If he had a sense of humor about it and started knowingly self-parodying that would be awesome.
Ask HN: Benefits of Being Disagreeable in Business?
Im naturally an agreeable person, team player, easy to get along with, friendly, collaborative and rarely rock the boat.

Lately I've changed jobs and for various reasons I'm finding myself having to be more disagreeable. To stop being flooded with work, to stop bad decisions being made and so on. It's quite tough for me as it isn't my natural mode.

However, I've started to notice benefits of being more disagreeable. People are more prepared when they bring work, I get more respect, and listened to more.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Is being tougher/disagreeable/assertive a benefit in your business compared to being easy going? Being my 'nice' self has served me well so far, but my experiment in disagreeableness is showing some positive results.

Would love to get your thoughts.
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling
From the FB statement generator:

We promised a history tool and have not delivered it. We are deeply sorry. We founded Facebook to connect the world and facilitate relationships. We remain committed to doing things.
I agree, I think the fact that we laude those with money or power on a pedestal based on immutable attributes is a problem.

Just as many imply money with power and evil - but seem to make passes for their favorite actors or celebrities.

I think we'd be in a better place if we could accept as a culture that gluttony in money and power without reason, irregardless of what someone thinks is "enough" money, should be met with criticism agnostic of race, gender, etc.

My only caveat is for people to assume that anyone with more money than them - moreover anyone who owns a business is "evil" by design. This seems to be one the more present falsehoods of Hollywood as of late. IMO, to take the potential gains out of act of taking risk to build something is wholly un-american. I think making more public those who fail in business or make huge sacrifices more present in media would help this. I only bring this up because the general public seems to tie certain attributes to people they're "okay" with being successful and others who they deem evil just because popular media told them those people don't "deserve" their success or wealth. Et al - the farmer in Iowa or small business owner in Chicago making $250k +.
I really like the idea!
The NorthVPN screenshot is a bit to dark and you could invest a bit more love into the design. (Maybe a bit more like:https://themacindex.com/)
How is it that some articles, like this one, manage to stay on the front page for more than a day, while others (which seem to be popular, based on points and comments) seemingly vanish within hours? Is the human intervention in these rankings stronger than I realize?

Edit: I'm not opposed to this article's longevity, by the way. Far from it, it is a very important topic.
I was looking up nationalism on Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, but didn't find it (probably too sensitive a subject at the time), so here's its definition of politics:

> POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

This is hardly relevant, but I'm using the occasion to share the great piece of satire that's Devil's Dictionary. Here's a few others:

> OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

> POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

> PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state or quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Edit:

> PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin’s Strength
It's the shadows and the unnecessary animations for every single interaction.
https://flippa.com might be relevant also. I've never used it though.
Seems like the author was right; I'd look to Minecraft as the analogue for model trains.
Congratulations on the audience that you've built up. You've done an incredible job in attracting and retaining an audience based on a common interest.

Selling the project immediately likely won't give you the greatest value for the effort you've put into it simply because there is a lack of evidence on whether you're able to sell anything to the audience.

However, there is still some value in the audience, credibility and web properties and you can approach classical music promotion companies, etc. to see if they would be interested in taking it over.

If you collect data and have an insight into user preferences, this could add additional value but as what some have said, you'll likely get more money if you show that you can also sell to this audience.
I guess you haven't been paying attention to the clamping down of the NDK I was talking about.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/fortify-in...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/control-fl...

Also Google is working with ARM to adopt the new memory tagging architecture from ARMv83+ in Android.

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/slides/Serebryany-Stepanov-T...
> And in less than an hour, this post is flagged and removed from HN first page (with >160 votes).

Well, if this is what it takes to stop the outrage cascades from taking over HN too, I'm quite fine with it. It's not like the article was telling us anything we didn't already know - no point in just rehashing the same old stuff over and over.
Indeed, it was hard to miss. There was tons of coverage.
Their calculator can be a little harsh for sure, I just appreciate how up front it is. Still, rent in SF is crazy if you compare it to anywhere that isn’t near a coast. I wonder do you think the pay cut was unfair based on other offers? I am biased because we only do genuinely minor comp adjustments for location.
To make new proteins, you have to create new ribosomes, as it's they who interpret the RNA codons to stitch amino acids together. Bootstrapping a new ribosome is several magnitudes harder than constructing a synthetic DNA/RNA.

Actually, you don't even need new DNA letter to do that. DNA codons can encode 64 different amino acids (63, as one codon must encode the end of sequence), but only 20 amino acids are actually used.

Adding another amino acid is theoretically possible, but this would require rewriting the whole DNA to reencode, say leucine from CTG to another codon to assign CTG to some other acid.
Yup, and I use it religiously. I keep my work Google account separate from my personal Google account, which is separate from everything else. If I don't trust it, it gets a separate container.
It's in Development™
You're comparing a bytecode virtual machine to a processor microarchitecture. He's talking about why a particular hardware platform becomes dominant. You could say the same thing about any interpreted language, not just Java. How about python or javascript? Java didn't displace x86.
I've read it. And as far as I knos RISC-V systems are meant to be inexpensive.
If Wolfram didn't drag a self-aggrandizing anecdote into every third sentence it might be easier to focus on his ideas.
user agent blocking is the most pointless kind - as you can set your string to whatever you want

Services.prefs.setCharPref('general.useragent.override', 'apple spoof');
Ask HN: Is the Motley Fool credible?
Over the last decade, I occasionally look at The Motley Fool.

However, they send a lot of e-mails each day with "Rare Buy Alerts" but you have to be a a member of their "Advisor" service to see it or "All In" alerts, etc.

I've read a bit of the history on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motley_Fool
They are rated a top place to work and employ over 300 people.

Does anyone have experience with them? How do you find their advice? Are you a paid subscriber?
The Long Road Back to Utility Pricing for Systems
Many games have a modding community. A lot of these mods are usually suprisingly detailed model packs.
Your worldview (or object of faith) shapes your perception of reality.
I wouldn't bet on a thick order book.

The first one sold for 7,000 pounds; the second one sold for 3,200. Continuing that trend would mean an infinite number of bees would sell for less than 14,000 pounds total.

There just aren't that many rich bee collectors.
This wouldn’t likely be hard to write a linter for: is the name 1-2 letters other than a method receiver, “i” or maybe “j” and is referenced more than 5 lines from where it’s declared? Lint warning.
It's not clear what the relation between sensory input and the experience generated actually is. For a crude analogy, one might think the client sending a certain JSON structure is what leads to a certain database update, but the server can alter that structure in arbitrary ways. You can also get database updates without sending any JSON at all. We should be looking at the server, not the client, to figure out how the database updates work. Similarly, a brain can probably generate arbitrary experiences in qualia-space (although probably dependent on the neural structure to do so).
woo, glad that it's getting better. riot should be as simple as cd /var/www/html && wget https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/releases/download/v1.0... && tar -xzvf riot-v1.0.1.tar.gz :)
Zuckerberg did promise Winklevoss twins to build their social network as well.
.Net Core is not an iteration of .Net framework.

.Net Core and .Net Framework are separate implementations of .Net Standard.
You're talking about being "simplistic", yet you want to reduce all unions to one bad example (which seems to protect the members of the union) from a city nicknamed in part due to its overall political corruption[0]?

Plus, if you read more than one sentence of the parent post, you'll see it blames than just the media.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City_(nickname)#Politics
These type of articles always make me question myself and whether I'm on the spectrum, but I look online and only see resources for screening children. Is there a straightforward way to get screened as an adult?
I don't see how the theory outlined in your post makes it a "PR stunt". You're just saying they wanted to do the right thing but needed political cover to be able to get it done. If anything that makes them look better.
On the one hand, I agree with commentors that this is way too long and way too over the top... but I think that is definitely the point.

If you don't want to be in my studio, and follow my rules, I don't want you to be in my studio. The length and tone of the video ensures that non-compliers will self select out of the applicant pool.

However, not having the content available in written form is really not acceptable.
Yet you have only two "teams"... (I loathe to call a structure with so malleable a program a political party.)
Ask HN: Tools to Manage Shell Processes from the Browser(Start/Stop/View Output)
I’m sure this exists. We have legacy command line scripts that run continuously to support various internal processes.

I’m looking for a web based solution to do the following:

- Start whitelisted processes
- Stop whitelisted processes
- Live output from the processes in the browser while they are running
- Authentication (optional, can hide behind SSH or use client certs if required)
- Audit log (optional, nice to have)
He probably wishes he was 10% as human as you ;-)
How to Load Bitcoin into Neo4j in One Day
This was a great read. Hopefully this trend can spread to more countries.
More information on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/atc0av/apples_apple_...
> So you run a Linux VM, just as lots of Mac-using developers do today

I hear far more make do with just homebrew.

> unless you’re in the mood for slow emulation

I run an embedded OS (made for a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 board) on both Real Hardware and on my ThinkPad (via systemd-nspawn & qemu-arm). I found (and confirmed via benchmarks) the latter to be much faster than the former — across all three of compute, memory, and disk access.
A to Z of Health Writing (From the UK's National Health Service)
the reasons you need encrypted messages stored on the server are:
* to synchronise them between multiple devices
* if you lose your device, to have a hope of recovering your history
* to be able to search them (either homomorphically or via a search bot you run)

however, we're adding message retention configuration currently to let you limit how long your messages get persisted for (whether they're encrypted or not): https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc176...
Blocking user agents does not provide security, but it does increase the cost of attack which is perfectly acceptable as a part of a larger defence strategy.

It's like moving SSH to another port -- it won't stop anyone who knows what they're doing, but the majority of the bots that blindly connect to port 22 on every single host that has it open will be stopped by it.
Breaking Out of Docker via RunC
Beating the Averages(2001)
>nobody is even asking you to do it

It may not have been your conscious intent, but your previous comment was in fact in the imperative:

>Don't implicitly approve Wolfram's narcissism. Just don't.
Same. I came back from a long work trip (3 mo in a foreign country) and said "I'm moving. I'm either moving and I'm going to keep working with you it I'm moving and I'm not. I'd like to keep working eih you." The reply was something like "Let us know when you get there." We a had no remote culture for a while but eventually started a couple small (3 people) remote offices. That opened the door and I've been working remote ever since.

I'm with a different company now. The original company didn't actually handle full remote well. Poor communication made everything difficult. The new job has a pretty strong remote culture. MKe sure you out in the effort of no one else does or you'll be unhappy.
Inside a Fly-by-Night Operation to Harvest Ballots in North Carolina
The next step is that they will let third-parties inject javascript from the backend. At that point all is lost and the web will die a horrible death.
Seriously what is the point of this other than novelty? Why would you throw out billions of years of biochemistry and evolution? Is the expressive power evidenced in all of life not good enough?
You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
I predict this will become the basis for many sci-fi/horror books and movies coming up in the future.
I like this, but I'd prefer something like $1 for 5 times over 10 hours or something. Like, I don't want to drive them nuts for an hour, but an occasional "lol wtf?" would be fine for laughs.

An hour seems.. annoying, in a bad way.
Focussed procrastination

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I don't necessarily disagree with the first point that you raised, but I would posit that if my quality of life sucks as an engineer, eventually that will become the employers problem when I update my cv and find work with a better quality of life, potentially too soon or at the wrong time.

Moreover, an employer is 'selling' their reputation to potential talent as well as selling their product.
If advertising created value, people would seek out ads. They might even pay for them. In reality, they block them.

> People are consumers, whether we like it or not, and they enjoy consuming things.

Making people want to consume things is the point of advertising. Looks like it works.

Most people's consumption is not limited by how many things they are "connected" to, but by money. Exposing someone to stuff they can't afford won't make them happier.

> If people didn't click ads, then it would eventually not be a thing.

If people didn't use heroin, then it would eventually not be a thing.
Exactly. "I believe in science" is nonsensical and should be "I practice science."
Show HN: Node Based Vector Designer Mac App
Hi!

I've been working for a few weeks on a node based vector design tool.

It's non-destructive and exports to Sketch and Illustrator.

You can create graphs of Vector Nodes which feed into each other and produce a new Vector shape.

I've created a quick video on how to use the grid component, and also a longer video where I go other a few more features.

Longer overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM8fgL-ibjI

Grid tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPYTu8_XwE

I wrote it in Swift 4.2, using Cocoa (It's a Mac app), It also uses Metal for rendering the canvas and a SpriteKit view for the node editor.
Jeez, maybe I'M on the spectrum. That describes me a lot.
I had the Motorola Atrix when it first came out, my first Android phone. The experience with the laptop dock blew me away, and installing chroot and a terminal made it my daily laptop my freshman year of college. It was unfortunately never updated, and the system was just a bit too slow for me.

I'm really hoping the experience on this will be much better, and really get me the convergent experience I've wanted since then.
I've checked browserling and it spins up a browser in a hosted VM.
One thing that had me wondering about is how on earth he deals with reflections on the screen. Any attempt I've ever made to work outside in the sun (usually when it's too nice to be indoors) has resulted in me frustrated and giving up when I can't see a bloody thing on the screen. Maybe I'll give it a go on the Macbook Pro I've just gotten at work.
Unfortunately adding value to society isn't very correlated to profitability. The most extreme example I can think of is selling heroin.
well, perhaps someone unaffiliated with Matrix or XMPP should update the wikipedia page to explain. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19223963 is a very good summary, for instance.

From our perspective, the room replication is absolutely critical - it means that the network can partition and the servers can come up and down without the room being disrupted at all. It's the opposite of a MUC, where if the server hosting a MUC is inaccessible or goes down, you're screwed.
...except that ARM laptops and desktops are the next wave, as ARM dominates mobile devices and tablets already, it's sneaking up on Linus from behind.

Additionally, Linux is the server platform, abstracting the ISA to a large degree, particularly with regards to what most people consider web applications development, tooling, etc. Docker and Kubernetes serves as this paper for many, as well.

This all will matter in the coming rise of Risc-V devices, as this ISA begins to eat parts of the ARM empire.

Linus would know a thing or two about challenging X86 (transmeta) and this probably shows in his display of his emotional wounds. I don't think his fear holds for all time nor in the coming decade.
How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You
The diagnostic process varies greatly from place to place. Even within countries different regions will handle diagnoses differently, and diagnosis for adults is typically much more difficult than it is for children. You may be asked to bring a parent or guardian who can answer questions about your childhood and development.

A good first step may be the RAADS-R test, which you can take here [1]. While not comprehensive, your results will be shown alongside those of people on the spectrum for comparison, and you can get a good idea of where you stand. If you do pursue a diagnosis, it could help to bring a printed copy of your test. The site also offers various other tests, including ones for voice and face interpretation.

[1] https://aspietests.org/
We had no idea we weren't developing it.
> New York is the most important city in the history of world civilization, this shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone.

I wouldn't even consider New York to be the most important city in the history of the US, much less world civilization
United Technologies once owned United Airlines in a vertical play, before anti-trust pressure led them to split up:

>The origin of UTC lies with the company formed in 1928 by William E. Boeing as Boeing Airplane & Transport Corporation, which held controlling interests in Boeing Airplane Company, Boeing Air Transport Inc., and Pacific Air Transport (see Boeing Company). Within a year the company was renamed United Aircraft and Transport Corporation and acquired a number of aircraft- and aircraft-component-manufacturing companies including Sikorsky Aviation, Stearman Aircraft, Avion (later Northrop Aircraft), Chance Vought (aircraft), Hamilton (propellers and aircraft), and Pratt & Whitney (engines). In another two years it consolidated four smaller airlines into United Airlines and made it a subsidiary. In response to legislation prohibiting the affiliation of airlines with aviation manufacturers, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was dissolved in 1934, resulting in three separate companies. Manufacturing facilities west of the Mississippi River became Boeing Airplane Company, those east of it became United Aircraft Corporation, and all transportation services were unified as United Airlines. United Aircraft Corporation retained, among other companies, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Hamilton Standard (later Hamilton Sundstrand), and Chance Vought. The first three companies remained core units of United Aircraft and then UTC until the early 21st century.

from: https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Technologies-Corpora...
>> Not limiting the number of high-paying tech jobs in the Bay Area has been terrible for blue collar workers who don't own any land.

I'd say limiting high-density housing is really what has brought down the Bay Area. In contrast, New York has mostly embraced high-density housing. Take a look at LIC:
https://www.6sqft.com/queens-new-skyline-a-rundown-of-the-30...

When you build upwards, the sky is the limit, literally.
A Star’s Shoe Breaks, Putting College Basketball Under a Microscope
U r just a puppet implementing ideas from higher ups within the wolfram clan not him. As if u know how the times were when Matthew cook was still w the company. Come on puppet , grow up
Prototype: Querying Data by Example
It's very interesting how this bee relies on termite mounds to live in and specific kinds of tree resin to build termite free sections. Since there's a finite number of termite mounds on the couple islands it lives on there's not many of these bees in the world, nor will there ever be. Also interesting that the bees, being near extinct, are worth a lot of money to collectors at auctions, and that the people who live on this island have very few sources of outside income.