skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) THC pills don't stink the place up like weed. I very much doubt the security guy who called this in did it for the kick.

2) While I'd never criticise somebody own decision to avoid opiates (long term use gives you epic constipation), this preachy "opiates are evil thing" that's floating around (see every comments section everywhere) is bullshit that needs to stop.

Well-prescribed palliatively-applied opioids (in concert with other drugs) are great for palliative care. That doesn't change just because a few dipshit doctors hand out oxy for chronic backpain, or that drug companies have inappropriately marketed fentanyl, or that people die from opiate abuse because they try to self-dose using help on forums.

The fact here is this guy has an extremely finite amount of life left. People don't get better from stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

So again, props to anybody who can manage their pain through alternative mechanisms, but don't be part of the witch-hunt scaring people in pain off the good stuff.
It’s most commonly justified in terms of “liquidity” - allowing orders to be filled at as close to “perfect” market prices as possible
You'd think an article about the fate of California would mention Los Angeles, or agriculture, or anything other than the SF bay area and tech. Even the mention of the state government is a reference to the tech industry.
No personal attacks or shallow dismissals, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is no meritocracy? So if we compare a kid spends all of his or her childhood doing nothing productive and slacking off in school, a kid that studies rigorously and is engaged in productive activities then you'd expect absolutely zero difference in success between the two in a non-meritocratic system. Let's put that theory to the test.

Let's see if college admissions are, at least in part, meritocratic. College admissions depends highly on SAT scores and GPAs, these are probably one of the two strongest factors. Even just spending 20 hours following along with free videos is associated with a >100 point gain on SAT scores [1]. Spending more time on studying does increase grades on average [2]. Test scores and grades are some of the primary factors that determine, for example, college admissions. So, yes there is empirical evidence to suggest that college admissions do depend on several meritocratic factors. Granted you're right that it's not completely a meritocracy. Factors outside of the applicant's control like race, gender, and family background are taken into account. An Asian student and a Black student are going to be judged very differently if they have the same scores - that is at least one instance where the system is not genuine meritocracy.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/...

2. https://news.osu.edu/the-secret-to-academic-success-hours---...
For me personally this is the best place I could find where the environment pushes me to be better always. It’s the difference between launching something and making $8k in a week and people around you saying “Why so little? What went wrong? How can I help?” instead of “That’s not possible you must be lying”

I for one find it easier to change my environment than to fight my environment.
Ugh. He makes some good points, but the framing is incendiary. "Summary of the Grammarly privacy policy, and why you might want to be cautious" would be better.
Or, you know, start taxing all properties based on fair market value.
"We need reducing, not recycling."

Why not more of both?
And not removing them completely removes your control over the landscaping, because they will kill everything under them by suffocating them and blocking light from reaching it.

Most people in suburban areas end up with tooo many leaves to compost or to try to mulch with a lawn mower.

>to teach us, the widespread degradation and depletion of soil and other resources leads to a civilization’s collapse.

This is why I can't ever take this hippy dippy shit seriously. Because I pick up my leaves society is going to collapse? Okkayyy....
Thanks for this explanation. I previously thought the distance fight was over being closest to the NASDAQ co-location building in New York, not connecting Chicago and New York.

I am still not clear why microwave is faster than fiber though. Is it simply that the fiber lines are multi-tenant, so there is not a direct hop?
Could they not just make one tower a few feet higher than the other?
>The author is almost making it seem like models are reality and that people think that. They're not and I don't think anyone has ever thought they were...

The author is arguing that when there is a "monopoly" of models with respect to a given domain, like the brain, that inexorably tends to make the conceptual distinction between model/reality irrelevant. The author then goes on to cite examples of this, not only with respect to our current age's infatuation with the IP model, but _previous_ ages own repetition of this with respect to their own guiding technological framework (hydraulic engineering and the humors, etc)
An astute observer would note that it also a case why technology advocates should not become lawmakers.
Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?
They don’t need to save it forever. They don’t need to allow themselves via the EULA to do whatever they want with it.
Grammarly's response: https://twitter.com/Grammarly/status/1104504155991793664
I recall one monthly service (I forget what, as it was some years ago; I think it was a language learning tool) where the way to get the cheapest option was to select monthly, click back, and be _immediately_ offered a 75% reduction.
Too many people on Earth, not nearly enough people in the rest of the solar system.
Yet the oligarch’s power plays and Russia’s tough posturing seems popular among the population. Or at least tolerable to the average person.

How do you account for that?
Yes, of course. But does that mean that they have to give themselves a "a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content"?
I've booted Haiku on a 27" 5K Retina iMac, 6th gen i7 without too much hassle. The AMD graphics didn't work, so needed VESA mode.
The Experimental Video Art of Peggy Ahwesh
You are as petty as you are fascist.
The only kind of HFT I’m directly familiar with is for automated market making, so I’ll speak to that.

Market making in itself provides a valuable service by keeping spreads razor thin and ensuring there’s enough liquidity to satisfy almost any trade at close to the current spot price. HFT is mostly just a way for market makers to gain an edge over each other. In general, it neither helps nor harms ‘regular’ customers. It would hardly be noteworthy if not for the insane lengths that HFT groups go to in order to gain an edge. And, of course, the possibility that a HF system with inadequate controls goes on a trading rampage that significantly moves the markets (see Knight Capital).
Google gets everything I type on Android, am I correct?
Certainly not any more uncharitable than the smug question.
I think the author's main point is that they save all the text on their servers indefinitely.

Also back in the days you did not need to send all your data to a server in order to do some processing on it and I believe Word still has an built-in grammar/spell checker that works just fine without all your documents being sent to Microsoft.
Just saw this (among other things) after searching for Vaka Moana:

https://okeanos-foundation.org/vaka-moana/

https://okeanos-foundation.org/foundation/
Your percentages are a bit extreme, but in general, I think this policy would do a world of good toward moving housing back from an investment vehicle to primarily being treated as functional places to live. I think the percentages should apply to domestic non-occupied as well.
This is a much more entertaining topic to contemplate than non-existence. :)

If the universe is infinite then we are always likely to be at the centre of whatever range our instruments manage. In a universe where there is no such thing as centre. If it's simulation, it seems reasonable for the edge of observable to be the limit of simulation - the rest being under the galactic equivalent of fog of war.

Of course we don't know if it actually is centred, or just appears so from being in a local hotspot. Without knowing the extent of simulation that may be unknowable. There could just as easily be countless other species in other parts of the sim, or earth as an insignificant backwater with all the real activity outside our range. Unless it's encoded in an easter egg we may one day find, I suspect it will always be unknowable. And that's without considering multiverses. :)
SpaceX has rekindled my childhood wonder for what we're capable of; for our ability to precipitate the greatest collective achievements of evolved primates from intangible dreams and relentless determination. I fear my initial post here betrayed my true intention as a simple reality check on our path to a grander future.

Credit where credit is due; landing an orbital booster should be lauded as a fantastic engineering achievement. Fingers crossed this is a step towards interplanetary exploration (a la that one episode of Stark Trek Enterprise). The flight we're currently celebrating is again a fantastical achievement for the sheer logistics involved. All I'm saying is this is technology (so far that's what it is) is still on its way to make tangible changes in our species' exploration beyond earth's orbit and I have a few thoughts and concerns as follows -

1) We've currently matched the performance of the RD-180 on a test stand, where they left off. Arguably this is part of the structure to achieve interplanetary whatever. (we're in 1970 with more advanced materials)

2) I'm extremely wary of the bias towards automation. As a robotics engineer by training and profession I've seen firsthand complications arising from the over reliance of machines and contemporary bias against human capabilities . If the full-flow combustion engine removes barriers to a interplanetary future this, I perceive this developmental philosophy is a setback to those efforts carrying catastrophic potential. We set up the entire Gemini Project to prove we could achieve milestones in orbit (an entire space program) and we still encountered number of issues in the subsequent ventures.

3) Every large-scale space project has been beset, often bested, by dramatic technological failures. Are engineers now somehow more capable then our forefathers? If not, we should expect massive setbacks in achieving truly novel accomplishment and I pray that the good men and women at SpaceX helming this burgeoning revolution overcome them. My fear is private enterprise without government support carries its own risks.

4) The space Shuttle program faced a dearth of expertise resulting from Apollo engineers retiring or otherwise. Poor documentation had us rebuilding lots of technology from scratch. Simply another barrier to overcome in progress.

Finally, what the heck do I know? I'm nothing more than an armchair observer and now a faceless internet pundit. As a somewhat technical Lazy-Boy inhabitant I'm simply voicing my thoughts in the hopes of a rewarding discussion.

-Brandon
the index of refraction of a material is essentially a ratio to the speed of light in the material, where free space is 1. Glass, being around 1.5, has a lower speed of light.
I wrote some shell scripts a while back [0] for almost this purpose. I have a backup MX that does not run any Web services, but I wanted TLS anyway for the SMTP.

It uses the let's encrypt client (certbot) and nsupdate so I can use any RFC2136 compatible DNS server, in my case, Bind. This has been running on the backup MX since I wrote it, without any hickups so far.

This can also be used for. Internal services, since you do not expose anything to the internal machine.

[0] https://github.com/zyberzero/certbot-rfc2136
True, phasing out prop 13 would help a lot.
If I’m the random person you are referring to then you should not rely on evidence from me. My conclusion was based on what was written by the author of the article. I quoted from the article. You may want to rely on what the author says or on another expert. I did state that my opinion was a non expert one. The quote I made said that even if one had a snapshot of the current state of a person’s brain that would be meaningless without the full history of that brain’s owner. That’s a pretty damning fact if one wants to think of a brain as a computer.

I see from another comment that you disagree with the author. I’m guessing you aren’t an expert in this area either. Do you have more than visceral reasons to doubt the author’s conclusion? The author’s credentials seem to imply that he has thought about these issues far more that you or I. He presumably knows much more about how the brain works than you do. Why do you think your few minutes of thought on this article are enough to discount what he says and his conclusions? Isn’t that a bit arrogant?
How exciting will this be?
I am in Europe, not in US. For example, we have a center-right party that wants to abolish private property. Far enough? For me, yes.
can't they do it all locally? At least by installing a local client, I would assume they could?
In theory the liquidity created by HFT lowers the cost of capital and increases economic growth. Whether it creates a net benefit relative to the profits it sucks out of the system is unknown. It would be quite difficult to obtain the data necessary to make that calculation, and all of the second-order effects would be complex to model.
> But when we think forward to the inevitable autonomous vehicle accidents that will occur, the conversation turns to how many lives they’ll have saved, and how much safer they’ll be.

Driving to the airport is orders of magnitude less safe than flying. If a malfunctioning automatic system is decreasing the reliability of flying, that's a huge problem. However, I'd wager that even an autonomous car that's only just able to pass a driver's exam would be significantly safer than a human driver because it would _follow the rules_ and _not be distracted_. Even if that system isn't perfect, it's probably still better than an experienced driver.
On the East Coast, there are maybe two months out of the year when the weather doesn't strongly disincentivize going outside. And those months aren't in contiguous blocks - there's usually a week in January where it's nice out, and then it's crap until one afternoon in February and a randomly selected third of the days in March, and so on. I bet that has something to do with it - especially since you need cities for this stuff, and cities have to care about the weather more than suburbs, since people aren't just driving everywhere.

And, having lived in both regions, the only difference between the Northeast and the South is that the Northeast rolls fewer of these days (it still gets way too hot in the summer in Massachusetts) - but the Northeast is where most of the cities are, because a few hundred years ago, colder overall weather meant 1) you couldn't develop a primarily agricultural economy the way the cotton and tobacco belt did, but 2) you had fewer parasites and disease carriers to worry about. (It's a little harder to build major economic centers when half your population has hookworm, malaria, or both, which was true of the South until the mid-20th century.)

Lee Kuan Yew called the air conditioner the most important invention of the 20th century.
https://twitter.com/vanreflipflops is also great for this.
And then there's the video rights, Netflix buying up the rights to make a series, there seems to be a ecosystem of people living off of deluded people: all grist for the media:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Delvey#Arrest_And_Fame
Ah, nice point indeed. 'Forever' is the issue here, it would sound better to be limited for 1 or 2 years at most.
Author here. Just wanted to comment on the Certificate Transparency issues that some of you have raised:

My company (Datto [1]; we're hiring, see [2]) sells backup appliances which our customers place in their company network (much like you would place a router in your own network). Since we do not control anything other than our appliance inside our customers' networks, we went this route to provide a secure web interface to our appliance. And since the 65k servers/appliances (now more like 80k) are located in tens of thousands of different networks, leaking the internal IP isn't bad at all -- especially since there is no way to correlate them with the customer.

For normal "internal servers" within a company, I'd probably recommend using a wildcard cert and an internal DNS server.

Also: Yeyy, I'm on HN!

[1] https://www.datto.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19071727 or https://www.datto.com/careers/
Light signals in an optic fiber bounce off the walls (repeatedly, frequently) of the cable they're in -- the actual physical path the light is taking in this case is approx. 1.5x the path of the cable itself.
I think you have the situation wrong.

Federal bureau of prisons will not let you mail books on any subject to inmates unless directly from the publisher. Did you buy the books new from Amazon shipped direct? That’s pretty much the only way they get the books.

Imagine the number of steel files tucked in the spines or hollowed-out pages, and LSD-soaked paper they’d have to deal with.
well actually it's clear that docker is bad at building images, thats why a lot of solutions are coming around to build them.
I mean google has over 3 different ways of building containers, kaniko, jib and even a way in bazel.

also security you can't run shared environments with docker or container runtimes. thats why they invented givsor. however docker will still live as a runtime and probably a lot of companies still keep docker as the runtime. I mean containerd will probably be the default one in k8s, sooner or later, but that will only happen because containerd was designed just for that. being a awesome container runtime designed to have a good api.

docker basically has only lost because they focused on too much. docker can do all things, but way worse than all the special tooling.
Being aware of the general standard of software devs + teams, it is terrifying to think that my life is in their hands.

Thats not the case with structural or civic engineering say. The more I know about that the safer I feel.
Boiling water would be a huge risk, yes. On the other hand, cool/tepid water can make things a lot easier.
You are promoting a dog-whistle phrase that refers to an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory: https://www.salon.com/2018/11/04/how-far-right-conspiracy-th...
Baby steps ;)
Smarm had and still has a huge advantage over Kubernetes - it's its simplicity. I wouldn't call Swarm "simple" but it's "tolerably complex".

Unlike Kubernetes, Swarm deployments are actually maintainable by a small team (or even a solo sysadmin). If there is a bug (there always are), you can actually diagnose or even debug it without the feeling that you're wrestling with a 800-lb gorilla.
Light is slower in glass than in air.

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/speedoflight/index....
I had to look "shunting" up -- I'd heard of it before but then forgotten.

The big oceangoing voyaging canoes like Hokule'a are double canoes so they are symmetric, unlike outrigger canoes. There still might be an advantage to shunting depending on what kind of sail the canoe is using. According to Wikipedia, some types of lateen sails (of which the crab claw sail is a variant[1]) suffer from a "bad tack" due to the position of the mast[2], which shunting would address.

I don't think hokule'a is shunted, but I'm not actually clear on that. Hokule'a isn't a perfect replica anyway since it's built of modern materials.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_claw_sail

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen (look for "bad tack")
Would this not happen if we did the trades at human speed? Wouldn’t we get to the same result, in theory, perhaps just a little slower?
Homebrew is effectively a "rolling release" with fast turnover of package versions. So in that sense it's not directly comparable to Debian stable (or even unstable). That rapid turnover has led to numerous breaking bugs over the last five years or so that I've been using it. It's a lot simpler, but it also lacks the sophisticated versioned dependencies which dpkg/apt provide. Both have their tradeoffs, but I wouldn't want to use Homebrew for anything serious; it can break at any moment, and can be very painful to manage. It's got better over the years, but still has some way to go to match up to Linux package management.
Can anyone in the industry comment on whether this kind of strategy really exists? Surely any automated, news-based strategy's bottleneck is not due to sub-microsecond latencies stemming from microwave tower placement. I've always assumed that the strategies that require microwave networks are using market data and only market data as a primary input.
Thanks for the perspective! Ubuntu’s founding was before my time.
By what measure? Surely there are useless people, but we can feed the entire world, so why not?
Quite the opposite. In lie of facts one should err on the side of caution. So far the similarities to the previous accident are striking. The whole fleet should be grounded immediately.
the law bans this kind of thing now (as of October 2018): you simply can't have a noncompete unless the employee is exempt from overtime.

even for an exempt employee, the MA law now requires 50% salary to be paid for the period the employee can't work.

i don't know if existing agreements are enforceable or not though.
There are companies (in India) buying the plastic though.

So there obviously value being extracted. This isn't a story of the 1st world paying to get rid of their waste.

I agree with you in general. We should be generating less waste and recycling and we should be taking responsibility for that waste and recycling. I would stop short of cutting out the 3rd world from the opportunity to benefit from the opportunities waste and recycling bring though. Theres money to be made, they have the ability to compete. We developed nations shouldn't let it become a race to the bottom though.
If China wants clean pure plastics, we should be willing to supply that.