skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Government services in the U.S. are both bad and expensive. The NYC MTA spends seven times as much money to build subway per mile than London or Paris.

This has basically nothing to do with the fact that it is government-run.

I don't know if you noticed, but building massive infrastructure cost a shitload of money for private enterprise as well.
Congress Has a Chance to Finally End the NSA’s Mass Telephone Records Program
I support the First Amendment wholeheartedly, and believe it's important that the government refrain from shutting down speech it doesn't like.

You may note that Cloudflare is not a government.
No, I meant it specifically causally. As in, the people who commit crimes are the last group to catch up to technological trends. So technological trends cannot be used to explain sudden shifts (= coincident to the new technology) in the behavior of that group.
This is a really bad bug. Arbitrary file read on Rails applications can be pretty close to RCE. Worse still, it's present in all the mainstream versions of Rails, so it'll be lurking in commercial Rails applications for years to come. It's pretty amazing that the bug lasted as long as it did.
At http://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html#Haltin... I was only able to determine the first 4 bits of Ω_λ, the Chaitin number or halting probability of Binary Lambda Calculus.
Of course you haven't seen swipes at these kinds of people. All the professions you mentioned are strictly hierarchical and highly regulated, and rewards to them come much the same as they come to schoolchildren - due to the benevolence of a higher authority.

When someone succeeds as a doctor, people are hardwired to think "they deserved it" because of the very human drive to seek a hierarchical tribal structure, while when a businessman succeeds without going through what is seen by polite society as the "proper channels", they are vilified for not respecting the structures of authority, regardless of them contributing to society or not.

It is a very widely adopted attitude. I'd say over 90% of human beings find the professions you mentioned to be the most "respectable" of all, while businessman are seen as the lowest of the low. Policemen also used to be treated that way, but they've fallen out of favor a bit.

I find it sad that people who don't feel the need to cringe and submit to their supposed "betters" get treated as troublemakers who wish to destroy the harmony of society, except at the highest levels of business achievement (which are in turn disproportionately lionized)
I Rode an E-Scooter as Far from Civilization as Its Batteries Could Take Me
> it has greatly increased the marketability of live music

Yet that might be a blip. Some of my friends who used to be passionate concertgoers, now say there’s no reason to pay for a concert, deal with getting to the venue, etc. when bands are uploading full-length concerts in fine video and audio to YouTube. Also, since musical tastes have fragmented enormously due to the wider supply, people are less likely to share favourite bands with friends, and so you might not have anyone to go to concerts with you. Concerts used to have an attraction as a social outing, but if you’d have to attend alone, what’s the point?
Because the media types are parsed and used to select layout templates (layout.html.erb vs layout.xml.erb, etc).
Netflix Is Disrupting Hollywood Employment Model
“lets not forget that the whole school of psychoanalysis grew out of psychiatry. It's simply wrong to say the whole field is focused on biological issues.”

That’s why I explicitly referred to “mainstream psychiatry”, rather than the “whole field” as you imply in your inaccurate characterization of my comment.

I’ll grant you that the DSM may provide some value for understanding the range of personality disorders at least at a high level. But it’s really messy. Other tools may be more useful for understanding specific disorders, for example the Hare psychopathy checklist.

[edit: replaced “testing tools” with “tools” in previous sentence]

(note that psychopathy isn’t even listed in the DSM, the closest thing is ASPD - just another indication of how messy and imprecise this entire field of personality disorders is, underneath the veneer of scientific rigor)
My boss recently have me six of her previous MacBooks that Apple deemed unrepairable, stating liquid damage on all of them. Upon further inspection only one had liquid damage, two had unresponsive touchpads, one non functioning keyboard, one a shattered screen, and a screen that was peeling excessively. I was astonished at the disrespect they have for their own customers.
That is indeed hard to believe. Do you have any idea what the legal basis for this practice was?
Nonsense. I have Bipolar. Psychedelic microdosing consistently triggers a manic episode. Extreme trips are known to trigger psychosis in those with related mental conditions. There is very little empirical evidence that microdosing has any benefits at all. James Fadiman is a serial fabulist. The original creativity study he was involved with (and I use the term involved very loosely), and constantly keeps harping on about, was a terribly conducted farce. Just keep that in mind.
Woah! This is so cool! Thank you so much! Runs my Tetris clone perfectly ahaha.

https://repl.it/@nickbarth/Tk-Tetris
Simple: Mononesia-1 met Mononesia-2.
I like the idea that anti-free market thought pervades academia so deeply because people who succeed in academia tend to see the modern school with its strict hierarchical structure as the ideal model of society, missing the fact that they only find it such because they thrived within it.
Wedgewood pottery. Charles Dickens.
This has a wonderful bunnyhop :)

now I have to find the easter egg
Atlassian get away with their awful software because there is no decent competition.

Rather than moonshots from Google, or free internet from Facebook, or even buying a football team; somebody putting their hand in their pocket and funding a decent, modern Agile software suite that is GPL would make the world a far better place than it is now.

Nobody I know likes Jira. The rest of the Atlassian suite is a dumpster fire. Jira itself is hated by everybody, but we learn to tolerate it.
I've never been able to see these things.

In this example, I always see two squares when trying to look behind it, never 4 like the instructions require.

How can I let my eyes focus behind the screen? I can focus my eyes in front of it by looking at my finger, and get 4 squares that way, but that doesn't work for focusing behind it, for me.

No planet appears when making it 3 squares while looking at finger in front of it either for me. And if I remove my finger, my eyes immediately change their focus :/

Any tips?
Repl.it co-founder here -- happy to answer questions :)

This is just coming out and lots of users are building impressive games; here is quick small sample of things I found interesting:

- Super Mario: https://repl.it/@JONASRAINS/SMOB3-Python

- Pacman: https://repl.it/@argthe1st/Pacman

- Flappy Bird (hold space to fly): https://repl.it/@rennecastro/FlappyBird

- Dungeon game: https://repl.it/@AbrahamTinajero/VOLTHEGAME-V-061

- LOVE2D Ant: https://repl.it/@Essentuan/AntLove

- Evolution simulator: https://repl.it/@dumfing/OutpaceEvolution

- Doom style 3D maze: https://repl.it/@KatyaDelaney/GameJam-3DMAZE

I'm personally bullish on Pyxel -- the pico-8-like Python environment. Here is one of the example games running: https://repl.it/@amasad/jumper (make sure to check the sweet asset editor; instructions in the comment).

Also, I forgot to mention in the post but this works great with friends on Multiplayer -- you'll be able to interact with the same machine and output. Earlier this morning I watched YouTube with a bunch of random Twitter users: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1108804242393821184 ^^
Not the original poster, but yes you're right
To top it off, one should try Trans Siberian Railway, the longest railway in the world.[1][2] There are 3 routes:

- Moscow to Vladivostok

- Moscow to Beijing

- Moscow to Ulaanbaatar

I haven't been myself, but it's one of those things one should try once before they die. And there are even movies set in Transsib. [3][4]

[1] https://wikitravel.org/en/Trans-Siberian_Railway

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsiberian_(film)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express
Physics explains why time flies as we age
Well, you are just throwing random numbers.

The topic is an article saying "Precision studies of antihydrogen atoms, for example, have shown that their characteristics are identical to hydrogen atoms to beyond the billionth decimal place." This suggest the "characteristic" is some kind of physical property that can be measured and compared.
Altium also costs $13k/year per seat!!
The Apple Store doesn't really 'dominate retail' - it's a flagship strategy.

They're #1 in sales per square foot, but they only have 250 in the US stores at 6-8K square feet per store. A 'Whole Foods' with $1k/square foot, but at 40K square feet on average, will do a little better, and they have 500 locations in the US.

So I think 250 stores x 8K size x $5k/sq foot is $10B a year, very good, but a tiny fraction of their sales. Let's say it's 2x that globally for $20B meaning about 10% of their sales. Ultra rough ballpark.

So they do really well, but it's still a flagship channel.
How do you assign probability to those two hypothesis? I'm genuinely curious.
> All it would take is one conservative majority congress to semi-dismantle any MMT mechanism and completely mess up any "controls" put in place by MMT proponents.

One liberal majority Congress could do the same. They might dismantle in a different direction, but it could be just as disastrous.
I got to three and was about to try four, but then the second one spontaneously combusted or something and reloaded itself.
Intel should release documenation/example code how you can program the GPU "bare-metal" (i.e. load a raw binary program directly on the GPU instead of providing, say, SPIR-V intermediate code to the driver).
I'm interested in hearing what exactly you mean by "lay psychoanalysis." Analysis performed by someone who isn't a mental health professional? Analysis performed by anyone who never received formal analytic training?

It's an interesting question, whether there is such a thing. On one hand, Freud himself was a lay analyst. On the other hand, there's probably a reasonably large contingent of (orthodox) analysts who would assert that it can't exist for structural reasons (the setting, the lack of payment, the nature of the relationship, etc.).
Show HN: Simple realtime two-way sync with SSH, fswatch and rsync
They might on newly issued debt - that still allows the ~40 trillion USD of existing private debt to be watered down, however.
Take these:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
http://f-droid.org/
https://deletefacebook.com/
> Does anyone else feel disgust towards the world we live in?

How do you reckon someone market their business without promoting it or telling people about it?
Yep, if you buy something from walmart.com with a credit card and later go to a physical walmart and buy something else with that same credit card then that item you bought in store will show up on your walmart.com account.
I wonder if the in-house reason for liberating military recruitment protocols is the same reason for liberation of sexual standards: there is a smaller pool of interested applicants/mates, so we make do with what we can.
You can describe anything to anyone but that doesn't mean they'll actually understand it. A blind person who has never seen anything, let alone colors, will never be able to comprehend what a rainbow looks like.
Newport Rhode island has there too, I think some are occasionally found to still be in use.
Thanks, I’m not familiar with Jenkins but I’ll check it out.

I have to admit that I used to spend time reading and painstakingly setting each and every option in CPAN, some of the time not even understanding why or what I was setting, but these days I just say yes to “do you want me to try and configure as much as possible automatically?”. It hasn’t failed me yet! :-)

Any tool that can do the heavy lifting by poking the environment a bit like that seemed to fit what you were talking about so that’s why I mentioned it.
> Nobody cares how many collections of 6 digits something has. 3 digits are what people care about. (Except where they care about 4

4 is a more common grouping than either 3 or 6. All of China and Japan and many places in between group their digits in fours.

And I always group the digits of hexadecimal numbers in fours.
Not the person you responded to, but I'll take a stab:

> Don't those mega billboards annoy you?

No. They don't impact my life whatsoever.

> Don't the auto playing audio/video ads annoy you?

The auto-playing ones like what you get on a news page, yes. The ones that play before a video on YouTube, no.

> You get on the subway, there are ads (and you've paid for the ticket, it is not even you are traveling free).

Don't even notice them most of the time. Sometimes they're mildly funny. Can't remember ever being bothered by one.

> You switch on the TV, there are ads.

I don't really watch TV (I guess that's a pretentious response), but when I do I just ignore the ads I'm not interested in. They don't annoy me.

> You open a bank account, the bank sells your address and the very next week you get junk in the mail.

Are you sure it's the bank doing this, and not the post office? In any case it's moving the goal posts a bit, because this is not advertising per se. It's data collection in service to advertising. I find it annoying, but not because I get junk mail. I don't find junk mail annoying, I throw it out without reading it. In fact I don't really read any physical mail.

> How is it self-righteous to expect a quiet, clutter free life/atmosphere?

Yeah but that's not the claim, is it? The person is saying it's self-righteous to constantly complain about advertising because it feels like a soapbox. In point of fact, I consider my life to be plenty quiet and clutter-free and I live in the same advertising-filled world you do.

There are legitimate reasons to dislike advertising. Sometimes ads are a vector for spreading malware, and the peripheral incentive structures are arguably unethical (particularly concerning the use and collection of consumer data). But quite a lot of complaining about advertising doesn't treat the subject with that level of intellectual engagement or nuance. Instead it's just impassioned yelling into a void about how unfair advertising is, or how unaesthetic the world is because of it.

I can see how that would become grating after a while, because on sites like HN and reddit you don't find nearly as many people e.g. crusading against climate change, disease, destitute poverty or hunger. It's actually a downvotable offense for someone to say, "Hey, I'm actually pretty okay with ads though!"

This is why the person you're responding to reacted that way. It's hard to take seriously the idea that the world is "disgusting" because of billboards. That's kind of a hyperbolic way of saying the world isn't the way you want it to be, isn't it?
Well now I'm sold.
fastener measurement is impractical and unrealistic on a device as well documented as an Apple product. A simple search query will find you all of the hardware sizings.

As far as measurement being difficult : we're already talking about major disassembly of a device here. These fasteners are small, sure, but I would hope that anyone that is undertaking the task of disassembling whichever expensive product already knows how to manage a magnifying glass and a ruler or caliper.

With all that said : with an Apple/Lenovo/Dell product, screw sets can be had on amazon/ebay for extraordinarily cheap. Measurement and fastener acquisition only really happens on one-off models and flighty brands.
This is the top comment of literally every Amazon thread. This has nothing to do with ads.

It has everything to do with the common person's idea of the natural progression of website quality. The appearance of ads is a part of that.
The problem is, quotes don't work anymore. Even the verbatim mode doesn't restrict searches to exact matches. No matter what I've tried, Google still messes with my search results.
But let's go to the horse's mount

Horse's mouth. The horse is a mount.
You still need rigorous proofs at the end, if you are trying anything new. I think I would look at it more as you might try an ugly/practical approximation, or add a term, or whatever just to see if it will improve things. And maybe it gets you "close enough" for the application. But if you have a deep think about where you are stuck and come up with a new tool, then you have to be careful.
This has happened before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN666q3ptAU
The GP's point wasn't that there is a technological parallel in the process, but that there would be a sociological parallel in the result.
Do you mean diagnostic tools? The DSM isn't a testing tool.
Because they are one of the biggest companies in the world and ads help them and their partners sell more via official channels. It's a very simple formula.

Counterfeit products are a separate problem and they're making progress with things like Project Zero: http://fortune.com/2019/02/28/amazon-counterfeit-products/
Fascinating. Yes that does solve the problem, and most importantly doesn't send the hash (unlike what the commenter I was responding to was suggesting, which continues to horrify me).

Most interestingly, it solves the problem where the server may not be trusted. I see how this would have protected against the Facebook problem.

I'm curious, have any major websites you're aware of adopted SCRAM as a best security practice? It feels kind of like overkill, since generally the server is considered to be trusted... but at the same time, it would definitely prevent accidental logging.
Yeah, I didn't realize this too until I read the first comment.

I would have put the arrows down where "complementary" and "analogous" and made them more visible rather than elongated and thin.
It's great if you want a major brand, shopping site, or easily answered question that wikipedia and sport sites can answer. Which has been the direction they've been going in for years with updates to prioritise brands, recency and frequency of update etc. Add in the search bubble from your history, and "Google knows best" including also words and considering even quoted terms optional. Not much search engine left.

Course it makes it ever more useless for the difficult, the rare and the old. The personal homepage, blog, or random site with the best knowledge on something esoteric almost never shows any more.

Bing isn't much better, DDG became best - it's certainly not worse any more - almost by default.
Aaaah Thankyou!
Not to diminish the spirit of your post which I very much suport, I would however like to point to the fact that psychiatry is very much aware of psychadelics and is engaging more and more in formal research using it for all kinds of very promising applications, PTSD therapy with MDMA and Psilocybin for instance. I am sure is just as influenced by the recreational experiences of people in this field as in others.

Additionaly, though I give psychedelics much credit, if we are going to point to the value and promise of subjective first person research into the nature of the mind, its worth mentioning meditation and mindfulness, another subject area that is widely studied by psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists and is also gaining wide spread adoption clinically, for instance in the treatmentment of depression and anxiety.

Additionally, though both psychadelics and meditation have only really been studied widely in the west recently (you mentioned two generations, might be a bit more) they are both built upon long traditions of study in cultures around the world. I would argue that budhism contains one of the most in depth, analytical and methodological studies of the mind from a direct and subjective first person experience amongst millions of practioners for thousands of years. I am truly inspired by the synergetic results of combining the scientific and emperical tools of science with the considerable knowledge and tools of these traditions.

It seems to me that the biggest problem in tapping into these worlds is that science just doesn't like self reported subjective studies, it really likes to measure things objectively, hence all the brain imaging etc. However, it seems as though with a system as complex as the brain, it might just be that the best tool to measure and understand the mind we have is our own mind. I hope that the scientific pardigm can shift to make use of it.
> Studio-quality analog has had better than CD-quality audio since the late 50s (lower noise, more headroom).

I'm not sure what you mean by "studio-quality analog". If you literally mean playback from professional studio gear, what's the relevance? What consumers could buy was records.

And records are temperamental. For decent sound quality, you needed expensive turntables. Also a clean environment. If you used mass-consumer turntables, you'd destroy high frequencies. And if your records got dirty and/or scratched, there'd be noise.

Also, if you didn't have space to put the turntable and speakers in different rooms, you'd get low-frequency feedback at high volumes. Which could damage your speakers.

So I did have a decent turntable. And I only played new records once or twice. To record on reel-to-reel tape.
Do you think that negative attitude would change if you told them you are working on math problems? I don't think much, the attitude is there for a deep reason. If people do not identify with actions of their military, they won't like that you're helping the military. If they do identify, they would support you even if were working on actual bombs.
Why do the games run at super low FPS? Seems like 3 FPS or such. Mac Mojave, Firefox 67.0b3 64bit
I've been having trouble getting some folks at work setup with OpenOCD and FT2232 for programming widgets over JTAG and SWD, this looks like a great solution. Thanks for the tip!
deep linking would be great
What is now a common practice was nonexistent a few years ago.
20 years ago you could bypass Windows login with a few clicks.
15 years ago CORS was nonexistent. 15 years ago it was common to send sensitive data unencrypted..and so on.

Ex Facebook people told me that until around 2010 FB management turned a blind eye on its employees digging around their databases. Then they released a warning that people should stop and started locking prod data down. A few months later those who still peeked around prod data were let go.
So you are saying that if I owned a bitcoin before the split worth X and owned a bitcoin and bitcoin cash worth X + Y after the split that is not identical printing money.

If the US made dollarsPlus and gave you one for every dollar you currently have and said you can spend them just like dollars. That is a different currency and would not be inflationary I suppose.
It's a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_analysis
Its more like buying a very expensive hammer, and “everything looks like a nail”

See: afganistan, expanding africom, iraq, etc
Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) once reported about Telegram links being censored on Whatsapp.

https://twitter.com/durov/status/671357796730834945?lang=en
This is not even true. I just went to the Economist website and I got exactly the same ads you claim for the print version:
- Louis Vuitton watch ad
- Accenture strategy ad about company purpose
(served by Google DoubleClick)
Absolutely. I want to see what I searched for, not what some algorithm thinks might be related. A lack of results is often useful information when searching for an error, for instance. It tells me whether I've run into a common situation or something that's likely related to my specific configuration or use case.