skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read through "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou. He describes a lot of the research that went on by Theranos engineers.

There were attempts to do good work by people who believe in the vision.

Now, to put things in perspective, if you're anywhere near or over middle age, you've probably had blood drawn. It's freaking scary every time the needle is pushed in for me, and I frankly had to flat out reject my doctor's request to get blood tests every 2-3 months. (I got a second opinion.) If these tests could be done with a much smaller amount of blood, things would be much easier. I'd be much more willing to run into my local CVS for whatever test my doctor wanted if the test involved a lot less blood.

That's why the engineers believed in the vision and did a lot of good work to try to lower the amount of blood needed for tests.
Libertarians are considered right-wing because the left-right axis is simply, "How much do you think the government should be involved in the issues?" When it comes to economics, the answer "more" is left and the answer "less" is right-leaning. When it comes to social issues, the answer "more" is left and the answer "less" is right-leaning.

How can this be? Well, the answer is that while social conservatives sound very authoritarian- and they are- when it comes to things like gay marriage, sex, etc, the authoritarian force for them doesn't come from the State. Ideally, it comes from society and the church. They would rather the government not get involved at all, private beating do the work.

Socially liberal people, however, want the government to protect this behavior. Notice that the Left didn't take the 2015 SC decision and say, "Yay, we've got marriage, we're done." No, they wanted the government to protect the employment rights and other various rights of gays.

Where do libertarians stand? Well, they don't want the government to help! When given a hateful baker, they say, "Hate and bake, I don't care, the market will handle it!" On the spectrum of answers to "How much do you think the government should be involved in the issues?" this is obviously a right-leaning answer. The distinguishing factor is that libertarians don't have any personal gripe against the discriminated, they just think the government shouldn't raise a hand to help them.

tl;dr: The Left-Right access is about government involvement, and libertarians want less involvement, just like their more "socially conservative" counterparts.
in the present american political environment, the left outgroups libertarians while they find policy influence on the right
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I write mostly about web dev, front-end, ux, dev productivity and whatever I happen to be tinkering with at the moment. All of it with a pinch of fantasy on top ^_^
The threat of the legal system is a useful spur for resolving contractual disputes, but most disputes are resolved without engaging the legal system.

One of my frustrations with discussions of blockchain is how quickly it diverges from reality. Most financial disputes today are resolved without a lawsuit or a prosecution, which I think you know. And transacting $5 via blockchain today will involve 3rd parties with whom you could develop a dispute, and then you'd be right back where you would be for any other $5 transaction.
>It seems like we're moving in the opposite direction these days

Good.

>with the internet as a means to control, oppress, and indoctrinate.

No, we're just not allowing "information anarchy." Not all information is beneficial, useful, or constructive. Some of it has net negatives.

Stop assuming there are enough rational/good actors to counter act the bad/ignorant actors who propagate bad information. We don't have the public education infrastructure in a good enough place to assume that. So stop assuming it, because the data is telling you you're wrong. We're seeing the opposite of what everyone claimed would happen if everyone had access to as much information from as many different sources as possible. And we've just tip toed into this era and we're already seeing bad effects.

The internet of yesteryear (and I mean decades ago) was largely populated by well educated people. Most of them were educated in a fairly structured environment, and knew how to qualify credible sources and credible information against information that was most likely incorrect or uncredible. That's not indoctrination. That's not "oppressive." The exact opposite paradigm you want for the internet created a populace that allowed the internet to be a great place to have civil, intellectual, and life altering conversations. Someone saying something absurd/incorrect/dangerous never could go far. It was always beaten or it was ignored, left to die because there wasn't an audience for those ideas.

Now you can present almost any idea, no matter how ridiculous, harmful, or "bad" it may be and there will most likely be audience. And that's a problem. The idea that again, we can just let ideas fly off the wall and it'll slowly get filtered out is not tenable and has every ounce of data loudly saying this perspective is not true.

You might be well educated enough, or even just have the intelligence, to discuss certain topics in an intellectually curious manner from a distance. But others, a lot of others, are going to take them at face value and run with them.

It's information anarchy. Anarchy always results in new power structures that are less suitable to civil existence.
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> Find something to specialize in and do it fast.

I specialize in unfucking harebrained implementations written by teams of "engineers" with five months of experience.
1a. Mining is absolutely inefficient as an individual and barely economical if you're Bitmain. That's a complete red-herring.

1b. Effectively nobody accepts bitcoin. It's something like 3 major merchants and around a couple thousand total, world-wide. So yes, you will be buying BTC for real money and exchanging it for real money on the other side. Pretending we live in a land of hyperbitcoinization isn't helpful.

Further, you incur huge forex risk in between the time it takes to buy, transfer and re-sell. Do it at the wrong time and you could lose tens of percentage points. The parent post understates the cost as a result.

2. Drugs.
>A subreddit devoted to insulting and mocking me personally and Culture War thread participants in general got started; it now has over 2,000 readers.

Anyone know which subreddit that is?
I can trace my personal issues as a result of my parents experience to their parents experience in WW2 (Germany). My grandfather for example as a teenager had to clear landmines as a prisoner of war. The damage from these experiences lasts for generations, like a ripple effect.
>hen make some fake accounts and post something bad yourself. Write hit pieces on the owner or author and highlight those cherry-picked things. Spread those pieces far and wide, and keep writing new ones with the same theme.

I've never heard of this happening - was there specific instances of this you were thinking of? I'd like to read more, if possible.
other than https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?
It was quite common in the game industry.

As confirmed by multiple interviews on the RetroGaming Magazine, almost every indie that managed to get enough pounds to carry on with their dream, invested into such setup when they started going big.
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Russian Hacker Accused of Creating NeverQuest Malware Pleads Guilty
He means fair in the sense of content-neutral or objective. Obviously any forum can just delete stuff the mods don't subjectively like, that's the default option used by most fora.
Klasky Csupo, the studio responsible for the first season of the Simpsons, did a gritty segment of animated shorts based on this.
BMW Says It Will 'Emerge Winner' of EV and Autonomous Transition
> With all due respect, maybe he would have had better luck moving the community to another site

I think you're missing the point of his announcement and nowhere has Tom complained about visibility, contributor pool etc. The maintainer is in his 70's and likely kinda done with the project and fancies a change of pace, as evidenced by:

"I am now departing on an extended trip to visit some of the places in the world
that I have always dreamed of seeing."

Not all projects need to level up to GitHub and the unwashed masses blasting you with issues and pull requests. SourceForge, despite its past transgressions, likely suited his cadence of work.
Anonymized is unfortunately not useful for this -- you need to be able to get to the reddit user names. I don't see anything in there that would provide number of comments they make in the culture wars thread, and that's really what you need.
Good security teams*. I have definitely experienced overzealous bad security.
>As soon as you introduce strong fines and/or consequences

If strong fines were sufficient to prevent tampering then the proposed blockchain solution wouldn't even be necessary; just fine dishonest actors, period.

> if every luxury Louis Vuitton handbag is tracked and you know precisely whether it's been sold

There is no way to accomplish this though. You cannot reliably track a physical object because there is no way that a computer can automatically verify the authenticity of an object.
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>is that some people have good faith beliefs, respectfully expressed, that are nevertheless so repugnant to others that you will be tarred for not censoring them.

I'm skeptical of this - I've never seen a polite racist argument, for example, or a polite homophobic one. The closest I've seen is a post riddled with condescension - something along the lines of "you don't understand, I'm trying to save your soul from the sin of homosexuality."
I like and use Gitlab, I just wish they would call it PR instead of merge request.
Have you considered bracketing it or is this a purposeful marketing point? If a graduate is offered 2 jobs at 39k and 50k, would they make more at the 39k job in the short term?
Your generalizations are discriminatory and unfounded. People on the spectrum are, well, a whole spectrum.

I, personally, am on the spectrum and have very strong empathy and emotional understanding. It wasn't natural, but it is a skill I developed after much hard work trying to get by in a normie world.

It does, however, cause a high cognitive load. My analogy is software emulation. Most people have dedicated hardware, but I have to do it in software at a cost of increased CPU usage.

Tldr; you can't make sweeping generalizations about which jobs a diverse group of people should be allowed to work. Bad bosses come in all shapes and sizes.
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I want to agree with the direction while disagreeing with how the details are framed. Particularly the taste of the idea that the internet is supposed to realise the ideals of technocrats leaves me with a bad taste on the tongue.

Small numbers of highly motivated activists are part of the problem, but also part of how things are - pretty much by definition, change is led by activists who commit to an idea before it becomes mainstream. I find even for movements that I agree with the person pushing for change is often someone who I consider unhealthily dedicated to that particular topic. To say nothing of movements I disagree with. I'll pick on Stallman as a well known figurehead for this sort of thing. Activists attempting to shut people down when they can is (a) not going away and (b) going to be a tradition dating back to time immemorial.

We should look to politics for examples of the forces at play and the organic solutions that are found. Political debate in a government setting swiftly degenerates into a shouting match if it is not absurdly ritualised. Technical discovery and discussions is done by small committees and with a few chosen representatives of the major ideologies to keep the signal-noise ratio acceptable. Executive power is embedded in an apparatus of precedent, ritual and respect that protects it from activism, even if it looks like the executive is misbehaving.

I'd suggest the last sentence is key to the problems emerging on the internet - infrastructure controllers (Google, SSC, etc) aren't emerging from large agglomerations of people and don't have the unbreakable support network enjoyed by political leaders allowing them to fight back against unreasonable activists (eg, think Trump - the structures that protect him from activists must be world-class). I found this post enlightening to just how damaging the N-to-1 relationship between the weakest link in the system and activists can be, even when the weak link isn't a creator and is obviously committed to free speech and moderate ideals. The implications are profound.
I don’t understand why people think giving space and respect to odious beliefs is somehow virtuous. What it does is normalize those beliefs and enable them to propagate while simultaneously exhausting those who oppose them.

See Sarte’s comments on Anti-Semitism; the holders of odious beliefs are generally not “playing the same game” as those who oppose them, and giving space to all ideas, no matter how awful, is actually conferring an advantage on the worst.
Well, I wouldn't exactly say no one is. Often, it ends up being revealed that the people attacking others for these culture war things are usually hiding some dark secrets of their own, or acting as hypocrites, and people have made quite a deal out of that.

For example, the person whose video about questionable YouTube comments set off an advertiser backlash ended up getting involved in a bunch of stories themselves for making the exact same kind of content (as mentioned by Keemstar, Review Tech USA, etc). The GamerGate controversy had dozens of examples of people getting doxed or revealed as hypocrites, and certain entire forums exist pretty much to dig every bit of random people's personal backgrounds.

You're right in that everyone has said something they regetted/should regret, and that people should be more forgiving and understanding, but it's not due to people not looking up the histories of the attackers. It's because everyone even remotely involved in a controversy will basically get doxed to hell and everything they've ever done or said used against them, accused and accuser alike.
I roughly agree with your diagnosis about why libertarianism is considered right-wing but your example elides some pertinent details, e.g. segregation was sometimes (often?) imposed on private parties by the relevant governments.
But what if the switch to arm comes with a lot more battery life and great performance?

Not all Mac users are devs.
And to top that, Apple also has their own customization of LLVM bitcode, for more binary neutral deployments.
I enjoyed the culture war thread. It was a place on the internet where there was a radical toleration of ideas, so long as they were given in good faith. Bans were frequent to those who broke the rules, and some ideas were morally repugnant. But when people made them, you were able to read a discussion, debate, and often refutation of their points, that focused mainly on ideas.

You had some weird people, with weird ideas, who found this to be a nice home. Often they were very smart, but had strange ideas on humanity, race, religion, politics, and knew they couldn't share them anywhere else. I, personally, enjoy trying to look through the world of all different types of filters.

In fact, I think it's important. While the mistakes of history are so obvious now, at the time plenty of smart and good people supported terrifying and cruel policies. The first step, in my opinion, to not making those mistakes, is to formulate a deep empathy for why they made them. For why you might have made the same mistake without the benefit of hindsight.

My best defense against this is to inoculate myself by reading and understanding a wide variety of strange ideas on the world.
If we can imagine "ripping out" the middlemen and replacing them with blockchain, then we can also imagine ripping out the middlemen and replacing them with any other centralized ledger.
I actually mentioned the Klan in my comment above too, originally, but removed it for fear the mods would consider it flamebait. However, I'm not sure folks here on HN are really aware of exactly how unpalatable (to most people) the contents of the Culture War Thread often were.
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Except they allow nearly everything for regular Android apps since libc lets you access nearly every syscall.

Nothing was meaningfully "clamped down" there. You can't directly syscall some obsolete syscalls anymore, and you can't syscall random numbers, but nearly any actual real syscall is still accessible and nothing indicates that it won't be.

As long as libc can do it so can you, since you & libc are in the same security domain. Or anything else that an NDK library can do in your process, you can go poke at that syscall, too.

It'd almost always be stupid to do that instead of going through the wrappers, but you technically can
You want to send five DOLLARS to a poor African family. Here's a few questions.

(1) Since the African nation in question doesn't accept either dollars or bitcoin, you're going to have to convert the currency one way or another. Buying BTC is not cheap, you pay ~1%+ to Coinbase, so that's 5 cents right there. Transaction fees on Bitcoin are $0.36 right now. Then you're going to have to convert it to something they can spend in their local country, and good luck to you. That second transaction is going to cost them another $0.36, and so is any other transaction they may be wanting to spend the BTC in. If they're making purchases of just $1, thats a THIRTY SIX PERCENT transaction fee.

(2) Does this poor African family have a phone, laptop or computer, and access to get to their nearest BTC exchange/ATM? Are there any in your country in question?

(3) WU is $1. Other services exist and are priced competitively. Have you looked into M-PESA?
> People settled on a narrative. The Culture War thread was made up entirely of homophobic transphobic alt-right neo-Nazis. [...]

> But instead it was always that the the thread was “dominated by” or “only had” or “was an echo chamber for” homophobic transphobic alt-right neo-Nazis, which always grew into the claim that the subreddit was dominated by homophobic etc neo-Nazis, which always grew into the claim that the SSC community was dominated by homophobic etc neo-Nazis, which always grew into the claim that I personally was a homophobic etc neo-Nazi of them all. I am a pro-gay Jew who has dated trans people and votes pretty much straight Democrat. I lost distant family in the Holocaust. You can imagine how much fun this was for me.

I see this happen often, including to myself, and it's why I stopped talking about politics (or even interesting philosophy/economics questions except among other phil students) on Facebook. Anything deviating from the opinions of a few vocal friends would lead to muted threats, worded like: "So you're essentially making space for Nazis by saying its OK to talk about this?"
Let's just summarise the story:

Fuck Facebook.
Ok, I guess that joke was a little bit too subtle.

Let me rephrase that reply: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.

Everyone takes the singular, but in that reply, I paired it with the plural their.
> "The report said that the company can access data in some cases even when the user is not signed into Facebook or does not have a Facebook account."

I realize frivolous comments on HN are frowned upon but frankly this leaves me speechless.
>> number is only growing IMO

Please cite sources to justify your opinion because every graph I've seen has accepance going down.
Polling Can Be Useful, Even When Imprecise
MIPS support has been officially dropped but x86 is still very alive - mostly due to the emulator these days, though, but some Android TV hardware was using it for a while, too.
What a depressing read. Even acknowledging controversies are controversial.
> Except the Wolfram Language provides access to vast information about the world.

Which is mostly pulled in from public data sources, such as the CIA World Factbook, US census and economic data, US Geological Survey data, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, etc. Knowledge Graph was based on Freebase, which in 2016 transferred its database to the Wikidata project (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page). So once again, instead of throwing more undeserved money at Wolfram for appropriating other people's work, the better alternative is to work on integrations of Wikidata into Common Lisp, SciPy, Org mode, etc. and contribute to Wikidata itself.
How about expanding beyond coding? The U.S. has a shortage of skilled people that goes well beyond coding. E.g. machinists, pilots, nurses, etc.

Also, I think your business model would be much more scalable if you left the educating to others and instead focused narrowly on being a financial program.
Pulse Q&A Wants to Transform the Way We Gather Data from CIOs
Hi all,
I work on this search engine which is made to help patients to research prices from various US hospitals. Hospitals are required to publish their price lists online starting this year but it is a real pain going from website to website.

Current version contains 5M+ prices from doznes of hospitals and will be growing.

Planning to addd these things:
- Indication of charge types (procedure, drugs, etc)
- Better filtering
- Export to downloadable CSV

Please share your thoughts and suggestions!
We also need to pay attention to this line from the article:

>> ..but how they face adversity is also a factor, speculates Dr. Shrira. “After all, the transmission of trauma is also the way the story is told.

I dont mean to diminish past events, or the lasting effects. But at the same time, we need to find ways to remember the lessons of history without reinforcing those effects.
Actually, you make the best case for ARM servers of anyone else in this thread.

The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price range...

That doesn't invalidate his point. He's just saying that is basically what needs to happen for ARM servers to start taking off. The next step is for companies to start deploying ARM workstations. That part still seems to be a good way off, MS abandoning their Windows ARM port didn't help the cause.
I've been told that the trucking industry needs every year more platinum than has been mined in all of history. Since there obviously isn't supply they instead use alternative means to achieve their emissions goals.

I'm not an emissions system engineer so I can't evaluate the truth of the statement. If it is true, and supply existed: it would create demand, potentially it could even drive up price as potential users quit using less desirable alternatives.
Slightly off-topic: Did you read Pirsig's sequel, Lila? He goes into the structure, levels, types of Quality in great detail, and it makes a lot of sense. There's a lot about anthropology, and about society vs individual, static vs dynamic etc. It's pretty great too, I've read it a few times, doesn't have that over-heated feel of ZAMM.
EA and Activision Blizzard CEOs Featured in 'The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs' Report
Question is: when will development not occur locally at all? Is it possible that in a near future you actually develop directly in the cloud, on your own development instance directly? When this happens the cpu architecture of your laptop is irrelevant. It will just be a window to the cloud.
> Well, actually...
Apple has larger cash reserves than Google. Also Google has spent years buying companies for their patent portfolios to help prevent patent trolls. But also many tech companies are joining groups like LOT Net to help stop this as well.

This is just defense in depth.