skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’d be very wise to listen to the people who want to keep private American businesses out of government weapon development.

How is it wise? Most weapons are developed and manufactured in a kind of public-private partnership.

During the Second World War, for example, the vast majority of industrial capacity turned towards building war equipment was private, dwarfing the capacity of government arsenals by a fair margin. Much of the design and development occurred in the context of public-private partnership, with national proving grounds and military agencies collaborating with aircraft manufacturers and other manufacturers of heavy equipment to design and develop weapons systems.

Boeing, Lockheed, Texas Instruments, Browning — and to go further afield, Supermarine, Marconi, Glock — these are all private names, not the names of government agencies. There are few cases of states where all, or even most, development of weapons systems is in state hands: totalitarian states.
Omega-3 Trial for Prison Inmates for Violent Behaviour and Mental Health
It comes down to whether you think RTX/raytracing will go from being a novelty to being a Must Have within the next few years. If it doesn’t, the 1660 would be the right choice, you’ll save some money now and can always get RTX in your next card if it makes sense then. On the other hand, if it does, getting the 2060 today will spare you having to buy a new card sooner than you normally would just to get RTX support.
You're right that that should be the URL. "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

But it doesn't make sense to have two threads about this on the front page, so we'll merge them. I guess I'll merge the comments from that one into this one as a crude form of karma sharing.
Businesses are well within their right to refuse service to the government (anyone, really) if they believe they’re participating in unethical practices.
>Right now the curriculum is JavaScript (React, Redux) and Python and focuses on the web, which is only one sliver of the software universe.

And I highly doubt you will expand beyond this given who you are likely to be contracting with.
Agree. More is too often used to display 'more options', which is what I thought this was going to be. I tailgated on your Snapshot and "Time Capsule" suggestions (which I liked) to try to find other one word alternatives. Came up with the following:

cache, record, timecard, log, chronicle, registry, diary, chronology, timeline, calendar, register, log and archive.

I'm partial to snapshot, archive and timeline - as one word substitutes.
It's good for personal bookkeeping. Whether you've already read a story, the comments or just have no interest - it's nice to get off your page so you don't have the unnecessary clutter and/or distraction.
We have enough check-ins, code reviews, and logging that this would be hard to do, but in theory someone could try. The income share agreement identity verification/collection is pretty efficient though so it would be hard to do at any meaningful scale.
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Correct. They get paid what they do because they set their own compensation. Performance has nothing to do with it, unless things get so bad they are removed.
It was a bad question, but I'll answer it now for you to clear up your confusion. A Humvee is neither a car nor a gun. Not sure why you think it must be one of those things. It's a Humvee.
There are all kinds of consistent policies a person could have for ethical work: refusing to manufacture weapons, refusing to manufacture anything designed primarily for war, etc. I don't see any contradiction or inconsistencies there. If you were trying to point one out, maybe try again.
(1968) Republican lawmakers

Whom, exactly? Seems odd given that Democrats controlled both houses, and House Democrats voted in favor 211-16. (Congress.gov only goes back as far as the 93rd Congress.)
Why Decentralization Matters (2018)
I just mentally built this list, but I have:

Here to Stay:
Facebook, Twitter, Square, Netflix, Salesforce, Workday

Likely Strong Businesses:
Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Palantir, Twilio, Trade Desk (profitable), Zendesk, Automattic, Squarespace, One Medical, Juul

Profitable:
Stitch Fix, Yelp, I'm sure there are others.

Maybe:
Cloudera, New Relic, Dropbox, 23andMe, Robinhood, Plaid, Opendoor, Instacart

We will see, but big private valuations:
Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, Coinbase, Instacart

Then for NYC I would have:

ZocDoc, Warby Parker, Classpass, and probably also Harry's, 1stdibbs, Lemonade, Compass, and Betterment. I'm sure I missed a few interesting ones, but I still think the current crop of SV companies established after 2004ish are on a different scale or tackling a bigger addressable market than the ones in NYC. Wallstreet is probably an even worse critic when a company is in its own back yard. I was at a Bloomberg event where the founder of Blue Apron was absolutely annihilated by the interviewer, and you could tell it was taking a toll on him mentally. Meanwhile, Evan Spiegel is in a similar situation and doesn't appear to have a care in the world out in LA.
Along the same lines, the recent cures for Hepatitis C have been an amazing feat. I'm hoping the cost for treatment comes down over time. Currently treatment costs upwards of 60-$80k.
Uh, well, John Lee malvosenior, I would guess that, as a company, it is radically different from what its original form once was, at its moment of incept. Indeed, given its trajectory, he’s leaving at a moment when it’s doubtless, above and beyong anything they might have imagined.

You should keep in mind that he did use the word “company” and not platform, network or application, or even API.

So, while you whine about “features” available to end users, oh dearest John Lee, there’s more than one perspective to be had, and this is more about them than it is about you.
Free Speech Skepticism (2018) [pdf]
That says FreeBSD
This takes me back to all those videos earlier last year claiming FB is "Listening to you through your mic to target ads" , it's most likely one of these third party apps doing sketchy stuff and sending interest data back to FB through the custom audience endpoint.
The Dollar Is Still King. How (In the World) Did That Happen?
Americans hating Americans is part of our culture. There were people who didn't want to leave England. 100 years later, half the country up and split off and both sides went and killed each other trying to decide who was right. Then 100 years after that, half the country freaked out about the mere concept of equal rights for all and the North-South/Dem-Rep/urban-rural divide became solidified once more and hasn't really changed to this day.

I find it hard to blame it all on a few paid Russians commenting on twitter or reddit. If a few guys can get paid to completely divide a nation of 300+million through internet comments, either they're the most persuasive people to ever exist, or the divide was already there. It's not even hard just to read some American news and see how literally every single site that covers mainstream events or political topics makes every single thing into an us vs. them situation. There's no escaping it, and it drives clicks, so there's no motivation to stop.

And it's absolutely bizarre how certain parts of the internet are absolutely flooded with hatred for Russians as a whole, with someone always coming in to scream about them. It reminds me of hearing people's ramblings after 9/11, except this time it's primarily "young and informed" individuals.
I think it's hard to find a more flagrant exploitation of overcompensation than that of Angela Ahrendts at Apple: given something like $70 million to join, quitting 4 years to the week after starting, as if just used Tim Cook's good will to profit, disgusted many of us hardcore engineers when hired that compensation saw someone with no technical history so rewarded.
Novosbed+Coupon+Awesome+Savings+U.S.+Canada
Performing Low-Cost EM Side-Channel Attacks Using RTL-SDR and Neural Networks
Linus' post reminds me of the Slashdot thread where people were saying the iPod would never catch on.

Saying there's no ARM "at home" is closed-minded to say the least - it's already here - clusters of ARM boards are everywhere, laptops are rapidly gaining ground and I'm currently buying the parts for my first desktop-class ARM machine.
These kinds of articles like to play tricks to paint a narrative. Take this paragraph for example:

>Yet overall CEO pay continues to increase. According to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) the average pay for a CEO in the S&P 500 grew from $11.5 million in 2013 to $13.6 million in 2017.

Notice how it says "overall CEO pay" but then goes on to cite statistics for the average CEO of an S&P 500 company? It's a very common tactic whenever CEO compensation is discussed.

CEO pay is increasing for these companies though and one reason for it is that these companies are becoming bigger and bigger. This means that a CEO is responsible for more people and companies want more qualified candidates for that. Meanwhile the median employee usually doesn't have additional responsibility compared to the past.

Let's look at Walmart and a corner store. The clerk working at Walmart and the clerk working at a corner store roughly have the same responsibilities. On the other hand, the CEO of the corner store is responsible for 5 employees, but the CEO of Walmart is responsible for 2 million employees and this responsibility is growing.

Edit: I'm not saying that this explains the entire difference, but it's definitely one part of it.
A similar argument was made about television, and the printing press too. Quality of life over the arc of history - and the discourse - has gotten much better. Why do you suspect the internet will be any different? It's still the early days. Remember yellow journalism? Or Jefferson calling Adams a hermaphroditical character?
Someday Your Self-Driving Car Will Pull over for Police
It's no longer a safe and supported system. (Opposite of what I really want.)

Also the nag screen on reboot is alarmingly bright and, i think, just gives directions to disable developer mode.

Always backup your files if you use developer mode.

Always backup your files if you use the linux system.

Always backup your files.
> there has to be a better way than to put protected national land at risk.

Please explain where the high risk is ... explosions in the middle of nowhere aren't going to hurt much, and if their are leaks, the gas will simply vent into the atmosphere rather than cause the kind of damage that oil spills do.

Seems like firing up coal plants in heavily populated regions (the current alternative) is worse. In terms of heat and power generation in cloudy regions, natural gas is vastly superior to everything except nuclear for cleanliness and co2/gigawatt-hour... and if cost is considered, it beats out nuclear too.
Agreed! IMHO we’re in a golden age of biomedical research that will eclipse the silicon revolution.
Cave Rescuer Fires Back at Musk's Defense of `Pedo-Guy' Remark
Their right to practice their region shouldn't supersede everyone elses' rights to live a safe society.

If someone's religion said you needed to disobey red traffic lights, or shoot guns wildly into the air, we'd tell them to knock it off real quick.
Why do they benchmark at 1080p, can't every card under the sun run games at 60fps with such a low resolution.

And no 4k ? Wtf? Shouldn't that be the standard now.
Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups
Nvidia have used nonsensical model numbers for a long time. Remember the GeForce 4 MX?
A Dark Web Search Engine Can Be Your Eyes in the Internet Underworld
The real evil of fascism is not racism as evil as that is.

It's the nihilism and amorality, the weaponizing of the absurd and turning everything grotesque for selfish petty celebrity and sadism.

We really are fools to think hundreds of millions of fascist and marxists went away overnight. America taught the world one lesson, and we taught it well. Leave Americans alone. The world's evil is still there, as it always has been, and seeps into the marginalized parts onto truly poor victims who are degraded and brought to their destruction. Think of that next time you do drugs or watch porn or gamble. People who despise all human rights prey on others there.

To those, know we are created in self-evidence. You will never win over us.

We've touched the Sun. We've left our star. We soon will cure cancer and all diseases of the human mind. We bring matter out of nothing and scatter mass as if it was nothing.

It's not our part to defeat you. It's ours to completely embarrass you and your pathetic schemes.
It’s about time. Good on Microsoft employees for following Google. Now we just need our Amazon employees to step up.
So you are making all things equal and there is no point that you would agree one must break from sterile neutrality and admonish one for doing things that will clearly be a nightmare on peoples lives?

2k + Equivalent to free content = 15% of gross income for two years.

All things are not equal, and this isn't a software library or news article, these are peoples lives.
The Color Orange
Another thing you can't fool is the market. And the market will adapt, as it always does, and unlike say, the labor performed by employees of movie studios, software development doesn't necessarily require physical presence to successfully complete the tasks, and thus I suspect plenty of jobs will be outsourced to other places with cheaper and more flexible labor forces. Perhaps we will see new game studios popping up in other countries.

And although still considerable, the U.S. doesn't have the same competitive advantage in software anymore. The market is now global - e.g. in 2018 38.5% of StackOverflow traffic for top 30 countries came from Asia-Pacific, while only 32.9% from North America.
I think you're mistaken:

> The Jones Act requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on ships that are built, owned and operated by United States citizens or permanent residents.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/j/jonesact.asp
It would be treated just like a forced transfer would be treated today, depending on the jurisdiction. Which at least in some countries means that you would lose your house if the thief managed to sell it fast enough [1][2].

The control over the house, or majority of it, could be set to require multiple signatures, or require each transfer to have a forced delay.

[1] https://gradestack.com/CA-CPT/Transfer-of-Property/Exception... Sale by a person in possession of goods under a voidable contract

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale_of_Goods_Act_1979#Part_II...
In a way, I think the problem is that TypeScript doesn't go far enough: it adds static typing, but has to awkwardly attach those types to APIs intended for a weakly-typed language.
Waymo is a good example. The Google moonshot seemed quite ambitious decade ago. Many believed it won't happen at all. And now here we are. Closer than ever. Still work needed though.
Goes against the idea of blockchain. It's for untrusted parties to transact electronically. If you trust someone to review your books and sign off on it then both parties are trusting one another and no need for blockchain.
The Train-Hopping, Nazi-Fighting Literary Hero You’ve Never Heard Of
I recently read about some of the things that were printed about Lincoln in the newspapers of his day! Unbelievable. (Sorry, don't have a link)
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I'm the technical lead for the IOTN [1] which is a part of the Cancer Moonshot program [2]. Our mission is to improve immunotherapy outcomes and to ultimately prevent cancer before it occurs. Our team is moving forward on a few projects internally that I'm not at liberty to share but will be released later this year. There is a lot of hope that immunotherapy will have a profound affect on patient outcomes.

[1] https://www.iotnmoonshot.org
[2] https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-can...
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... is going to make for some alarming-looking stylesheets.
This is why you also (annoyingly) can't go on a cruise between solely American ports (IE, Hawaii island tour; California->Hawaii; Washington->Alaska; eastern/southern/western seaboard tour) without stopping someplace else. Typically, they use Canada for western/eastern cruises.
That is definitely the picture they try and sell you, I don’t disagree with you about that.

Look at the statistics on successful methadone withdrawal and their timespans though. Since you’re a throwaway account, I’m sure you probably won’t respond, but I encourage anyone interested in taking a look at the figures for yourself. The reality is that methadone is much more profitable than it is successful at curing patients of drug addiction.
I think there might be a misunderstanding -- we give $10,000 ($2000/month) not just $2000.
Got any data points to back up that claim of genocide?

Xinjiang is definitely under siege, with millions of people being placed in internment camps [1]. China's actions to date may be seen as a precursor to genocide, but that has not occurred yet.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/...million-uighurs.../2aa871d....
It makes it hard to know what I'm buying if I can't put it in a mental hierarchy.
1. LN won’t serve the worlds needs it will take 35 years to open a channel for everyone on earth and another 35 years to close it again, assuming the population doesn’t grow.

2. Coinbase merchants take out fiat like bitpay merchants because their suppliers take real money, and so does the tax man. Holding crypto exposes them to unbelievable forex risk. If they took bitcoin and held it over the last year how on earth would they pay their tax bills? Taxes are due on the face value of the crypto at acquisition.

3. That’s an anecdote.

4. Venezuela is zero sum unless you can trade bolivars for bitcoin with outsiders in which case that’d be better off with dollars by any measure. If you’re buying locally you’re moving the bags around. Real mining equipnent just gets nationalized. It’s not a solution for Venezuela or any other developing nation because you haven’t solved the initial distribution problem.
I found this port of auto-arima for Python. I haven’t used it in production, but it was easy to test on some demo data. https://pypi.org/project/pyramid-arima/
How to Decide If a Home Is Right for You? (Part 2)Vastu Tips for Dream House
"Everyone has committed a crime, it's about who we decide to prosecute" --KGB https://outline.com/x8FJ5B
From my comment: "the future of computing clearly involves an increasing number of specialised architectures and instruction sets".

I'm not saying that nobody cares about the choice of architecture, I'm saying that major tech companies with vast quantities of servers are beginning to develop their own silicon with custom architectures and custom instruction sets, precisely because that's vastly more efficient than using a general-purpose architecture that happens to be popular in the wider software ecosystem. The fact that nobody else uses that special-purpose architecture is unimportant, because it is economically viable for them to invest in tooling and training to write and port software for these weird chips.
Except that in a thermonuclear bomb, fission also occurs at the end as well as the start... The initial fission explosion starts off a fusion reaction, and then neutrons from the fusion process carry on to start another fission reaction, usually of the LEU 'tamper' encasing the bomb. In fact, a large proportion of the energy output is from this third stage fission reaction.
I always understood the dark web as the non-indexed part of the web, so, by making a search engine on the dark web wouldn't you make it not dark web?
1963. Teletype Model 33, e.g., terminals. VT100, X Windows (xterm), Windows TS/Citrix/Remote Desktop are extensions to these.

If you want to do things without storage, you become completely dependent on a low-latency network to perform and receive operational transformations. If you have some storage, cached/disconnected operation becomes possible given additional conflict resolution strategies. In practice, most office desktops can be replaced with centralized virtualization terminals to shared computing resources.

Ultimately though, the answer is never because each instance "it depends." There are many, many use-cases requiring local storage and absent central network access. And, becoming too ubiquitously-dependent on an illusory presumed infallibility and reachability of internet access is a recipe for disaster.
Wouldn't that depend on the actual compensation? If it's mostly stock there are all kinds of capital gain games that can be played, no?
I don't think it's that arbitrary. If Microsoft employees really wanted to bring the US military to a screeching halt, they could just turn off the DOD's email.
This was recently on hn:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war...
Or call it 'archive' may be!
If liberalism surviving is defined as “western military hegemony” then I think there’s a problem with liberalism, but the military tools used to enforce it.
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How many more? How many Googlers signed the anti-Maven petition? Something on the order of 1% of the workforce, maybe less?
Please note that Linus is talking about SERVERS, not mobiles
The Reuters link is crashing Fennec F-Droid, the version of Firefox without the tracking. Anyone know why?
Sadly not the retired people of today. This is a little pessimistic, but fully self-driving cars where they basically guarantee that you won't have to touch the wheel, or are level 5 autonomous, will likely take another 30+ years to mature. Hopefully we'll see this in the lifetime of boomers, and we'll get to hear tales about how everyone used to text and drive, while now everyone just texts while the car drives itself.
Or just quit. If you're working on something you believe can be used immorally, why should it matter who your customer is?
My phone has a convenience key on the side, and I love it (I have a BlackBerry KeyOne). I just wish it had another one so I could set it to do more things. Here's what I use it for:

- single press: play/pause

- long press: toggle rotation lock

- conv. key + volume down: toggle flashlight

- volume down + conv. key: toggle night mode

I can turn the flashlight on in a jiffy, without having to touch the screen, even while wearing gloves, which is super handy. I can also pause my audiobook while driving without having to muck around with the screen.
Do you think it should be literally dismantled tomorrow and not replaced by anything?

You can't conceive of any situation whatsoever where you may want someone to trained and equipped to defend against force being used against you or someone else?
wasn't that like wooden pipelines from the 18th century or something?
Boots on the ground actions certainly aren't targeting China and Russia, but what about capability improvements which will pay off if we have to defend ourselves from 'genuine threats'?
Was Google's Ex-CFO Right to Say DeepMind Could Have Been a U.K. Tech Champion?
Do Twitter wars count?
Maybe I'm too much of a layperson here but if it were the first of what was thought of as an extinct animal, I would think we shouldn't touch it or stress it at all.
In three days you can accomplish what someone else ... would take a year to do?

Sure, why is this surprising? There's no hard limit to incompetence. A bad CEO can sink the ship; a bad manager can destroy the team; a bad product manager can make the product useless; a bad engineer might never deliver on any timescale. Hell, even a bad janitor could burn down the building.

"Training" is just not a very good metric of skill or value. If it were, they'd hire CEOs straight out of college.