skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've also been around for longer than anyone else with a modern democracy

No, we haven't. In fact, we copied it largely from the UK. (We didn't like the fact that as a colony we didn't get representation in the national legislature or the full range of rights citizens in the UK itself had, but, hey, the US does the same thing. Initially, and still partially, even to it's capital district.

We've got the oldest surviving written Constitution, sure, but that's a different issue.
There is a Xiaomi band I think (named Xiaomi Amazfit Health Band), but currently only sold in its Chinese version I think.
Very glad to see everyone here is defending white nationalists. Exactly the kind of content I expected to see on this website

First they came for the Nazis. And I did not speak up because I was not a Nazi.

Then they came for the pedophiles. And I did not speak up because I was not a pedophile.

Then they didn't come for me, because I'm not morally reprehensible, and life was good.
Not a showstopper, as you can tunnel ssh over https. Also there's the option of using your phone as a hotspot (thank you unlimited plans).
> They wouldn't do that, because there would be justified public outcry.

If Facebook and Twitter suddenly decided to de-platform and ban any discussion praising, defending, or favoring a political party, where would the outcry happen? On Facebook? Sorry, it’s banned!
Nationality is a proxy for race. Discrimination based on nationality is discrimination based on race.

Just like race, one has no say in where they were born. You don’t get to arbitrarily change it if you don’t like the one that was assigned to you by the people with the most arms in the region in which you happen to be born.
Another interesting service Amtrak offers is its relatively low-cast shipping. If you're willing to bring your boxed stuff to the station, and pick it up on the other end.

https://www.amtrak.com/express-shipping

There's a 500-lb limit on each shipment, between more than 100 cities. An option for those not in a hurry, or who want to avoid driving the stuff.
A few things. It's based on nation, not race. The government doesn't care if your spouse is a 5th generation Chinese-American, they care if you have close family that is under the influence of a foreign government. It's not an auto-blacklist or anything, you can be born in China and still have a US security clearance.

Discriminating based on citizenship status is usually illegal, but US security clearance is typically contingent on being a US citizen. The relevant anti-discrimination laws have an exemption for "national security purposes"
He's not talking about absolute freedom in general, though. Only about absolute freedom of speech.

And there's no paradox of tolerance with speech - you can tolerate intolerant speech just fine, so long as you police the actions.
It depends on your criteria. But it's a wealthy country with a high standard of living, relatively safe and stable, with well-established democratic and legal systems, has relatively low corruption, safety nets for health and welfare, subsidised education and if you avoid the crocodiles it can be very pleasant in parts.
Everyone has patents. That’s not impressive. Bell Labs had like a dozen Nobel Prizes.
Music by Peter Gabriel.
The utility of the forum comes from other people. Social graph is absolutely a means of lock-in, and it's long overdue for us to recognize that.
Australia could offer a reward to employees that ratted out employees that did that. Then other countries with have to outlaw accepting the reward.
When in an early iteration of Apple Music, the app ‘accidentally’ erased all of my music library except that which I’d explicitly bought from the iTunes Store; they burned me as a customer forever.
Well deserved. I was thinking maybe it's a bit too soon (the Turing Award isn't exactly timely awarded) but remembered it's 2019...

If you wanted a first-rate CS education, you could do a lot worse than to go through the winners of the Turing Award[0] and review their seminal works. I've only sampled maybe half of them but every time I pick one I learn something interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award#Recipients
Health Care Despairia
The blockchain developers were always transparent about 51% attacks, but it turned out to be far more plausible in a scaled network than was expected. The viability of 51% attacks are a result of the business deals surrounding the ecosystem, not any technical deficiency in the code.

Personally, I think the entire concept of cryptocurrency is flawed because it punts on the governance problem. Ditto for smart contracts. People / companies like to have the ability to dispute the outcome of a transaction, and you really can’t do that without vesting authority in a governing body to overrule the technology. But then, if you have a central authority that has the power to modify transactions, do you really need blockchain?
like the downvotes of this comment. there is significant bias in the space
Pretty much the lower part of NASDAQ. Established companies like Apple is unlikely to hit 10 trillion market cap.

Out of the big ones, only Amazon has huge potential, as they're still mostly limited to developed countries. E-commerce in developing countries is huge, but they make little effort, often have a lot of counterfeit products and such. I can see Amazon coming in and disrupting incumbents.

Chinese companies are in one of the fastest growing markets and they go into it with a good work ethic, and are also highly defensible. They tend to have a strong P/E ratio too, e.g. something like Huawei makes about as much money as Google and has many more products, but is unfortunately not for sale.

What intrigues me about Chinese companies is that they've expanded well into both developing and developed nations. American companies can be flawed in that they have a huge local market to work with but it's culturally homogeneous. And so they have trouble expanding into other countries unless they're willing to learn.

E.g. Uber entered markets that were 80% cash based versus competitors who knew how far they could play dirty. They got a bloody nose in some of the more corrupt countries. Stripe's making effort to expand, but the countries dealing with corruption also have a complex bureaucratic process. I'd also advise to be careful with listed companies that deal with things like finance, as they're going to be tied down by regulation in other countries and often get disrupted by locals who know how the play the game.

Islamic sector looks underdeveloped. Lots of money, lots of people. But don't invest in something you don't understand deeply. A lot of non-Muslim investors overinvest in the halal sector, not realizing that it's not that big a deal. A good example is Muzmatch, where Muslims are looking for a spouse (not a date!). This is something that OKCupid and Tinder can't disrupt.

The Middle East may not have the talent of the West or the work ethic ot the East, but they have a heck lot of money and are eager to invest it into something other than oil. With Careem's acquisition, middle eastern tech ecosystem will probably get a huge boost of both investment and talent in the following years.

Privacy is also a huge trend, especially with the rise of AI. I don't expect it to beat Facebook, but it can certainly grow 10x.

In this "late" era of apps, I'd look at solutions that still haven't expanded globally, or those who did and are riding a growing market. e.g. SE Asia's e-commerce market expected to grow 5x from 2015 to 2020, and e-commerce companies in these countries would start reaping the benefits around 2022.

Disclaimer: This is not financial advice, just some things to think about, and a lot of this is probably wrong.
“Let’s say that I want to spend $5 a month on a SAAS that will save me x hours a month. What process do I have to go through? What if the SAAS is $25 a month? Or $150?”

Of all the questions I’ve ever asked, I consistently learn the most from this one.
lol https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
A Practical GraphQL Architecture
They could make it a little thicker and use the old keyboard.

While they’re at it, add 4 USB-C ports (mouse, keyboard, external SSD) and MagSafe.

I bought a 2010 MacBook Pro and another in 2013. I had an Nvidia problem which took a long time for Apple to finally fix.

I’ve been reluctant to spend another $2500 for the potential problems and compromises.
That’s still just a matter of race, so long as Americans and Chinese people are not entirely free to go live and work in either country without restriction. It’s just a proxy for race. If you are born in a China, of course your extended family is going to be under the control of the Chinese government. Same for Americans in America.

Don’t get it twisted. It’s just racism.
Another way to phrase this might be, "Grade-separated public transit has seen only marginal improvements in most places in the last 30 years."

I know there are exceptions (Denver, parts of L.A., parts of Seattle) and I approve of them. At the same time, Nashville: https://www.wired.com/story/nashville-transit-referendum-vot..., Austin: https://www.kut.org/post/austins-rail-and-roads-bond-defeate..., Atlanta, and other cities have voted against rail and, implicitly, for traffic. We're also not working hard enough to make it cheaper to construct: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15681560/g...
I wouldn't advise this. Defying or subverting a lawful order can itself be a crime and you can bet the Crown Prosecutor and the Judge have seen far more attempts than you have.
No, business hiring is influenced by risk and value. Having any of this language is a risk that's just not worth it, especially because of how ambiguous and surreptitious this is.

It's up to the citizens and their government to rectify such poor legislation.
Indeed, you can't do illegal things, and inflicting violence on others is generally illegal.

If someone is consistently threatening violence at some point you need to make the determination about how to deal with that. You can of course do nothing about it but if the person eventually goes ahead and commits violence you now have a bunch of injured or dead people, which seems a worse ill to me than deplatforming.
ISPs never see .onion URLs. They just see encrypted traffic to and among Tor relays. But yes, they could block that.

In this case, it helps if the evil US military actually does use Tor :)
https://www.alivecor.com/
If history has taught us anything, the problems that technology creates - it solves. What's the worry?
It might be cheaper foor a business to just not hire Australians than to hire a lawyer and dedicate bizdev time to figuring out the intricacies and nuance
The 2009 discussion at least partly understood that the article is not about calculus, while it seems the 2014 and 2019 discussions missed the point. I don't know if that really says something about the culture of the times but it's interesting.
> The relevant anti-discrimination laws have an exemption for "national security purposes"

So, the latter: they get a free pass to do racial and national origin discrimination. That was my answer, thank you.
How did we discard the idea of college faculty?
And I would value that lottery ticket at about $1 today - with the understanding that:
a) the face value is over-stated by around 100%, and
b) I have no hope of riding out the variance, so the gamble is a poor one for me.
You are absolutely correct, if the company is successful, equity might be worth quite a bit. It's unlikely that you will choose a startup that will be successful in a way that makes equity valuable.

Venture Capitalists are in the business of making money off successful startups. They work day in and day out on finding startups that are likely to be successful and investing in ways to help them be successful. Most of the time, they're wrong. The only way that VCs are able to be profitable is by having a diverse portfolio of companies in the hope that one is successful enough to outweigh the losses of the others.

Picking out successful startups is (probably) not your expertise, and you only get about a dozen chances (on the high end?) to choose a new employer for the duration of your career. The odds are very very against you. Given those odds, we can value startup equity at approximately $0, perhaps a bit higher.

Unfortunately, most startups offer lower salaries in trade for equity. They also are offering you _options_ instead of actual shares. Unless you stick around long enough for a liquidity event that guarantees the option's value, you will have to exercise those options prior to knowing their true value. This costs you money _twice_ for an entity that has a near-$0 value.
Nowhere, IIRC you have to add new device from an already trusted ones. GP probably thought about other messengers.
If have two hedge funds to choose from I would choose neither and choose an index fund :-)
You take a flight from Toronto to Vancouver to get to Vancouver.

You ride the Canadian sleeper from Toronto to Vancouver to ride the Canadian sleeper.

Not super comparable, imho.
WTF-8 could solve the windows issue and I think for Linux it’s time to demand unicode filenames :)
I suspect the double minority status plays a part here. That is, it's classism and sexism. If she were a society woman or a male caregiver she might not have been called out on her status.

I'm forever amused by the low status granted to people the gentry put in charge of their children though. Teachers. Nannies. I wonder where stablehand fits on that continuum. Or the person who cares for hunting dogs.
I don’t think there ARE any other consumer devices with those features out.

It seems someone else has announced one but it’s not out and hasn’t gone through a clinical trial of 400k people.
From my experience lack of sleep or low quality sleep will cause all kinds of problems. When I am sleep deprived I can't think straight, get irritable, anxious and depressed. And I think I observe this in other people too.
"Have you ever argued with thousands of complete strangers in another country while you sit on the toilet? You will."
I like your comment, I only disagree with the word "spirit". I believe this policy is a slippery slope. No one likes these groups but alienating them, creates a precedent/a policy that legitimizes removal of the one element of our existence that allows for our individuality(spirit). Silence of that which we loathe is failure to embrace our own capacity for loathsome behavior. We all like and dislike different elements in our life. I am a married man; is this not discriminatory to the rest of society. When a corporate entity profits this much off the indoctrination of public, they should be obligated to enforce the tenants of said republic.

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn,
From my experience, 90% of CS undergrads hate math and don't want to do math. And make that 80% of undergrads doing "research" in machine learning. PhD is a pretty good filter to filter out people who don't like math.

Also PhD's simply have more years experience in writing code than MS graduates. So your comment about circles don't make sense. What makes you say PhD's write worse code? And please don't compare the code they write alongside their research to production code, because research code is throwaway code (seriously).
There are many scenarios where the Australian Government ends up not having it their way. For example a very likely scenario is: your commit which contains a backdoor goes to code review and then someone asks you "what is this". In theory you would say that you are not allowed to explain for legal reasons. Yet that commit is not going to be deployed.

(edited for clarity)
By the 1980s most Stockhausen recordings were out of print (as Stockhausen had bought the rights back from Deutsche Grammophon), and Stockhausen was no longer traveling widely to promote his works and he had become rather reclusive as he focused on writing the LICHT operas. So, there was limited opportunity to hear his work and his influence on electronic musicians of that decade is overstated. The advent of drum machines and then PCs that, as people discovered, could be modified to produce unusual sounds is really what sparked electronic experimentation for most producers of that generation.
Since when was triggering "mass killing" the standard for censorship on the internet?
They are economically useless - not useless as people. In fact, that's kind of the point. Here's a quote from Andreessen that highlights that potential:

“Imagine six, or 10 billion people doing nothing but arts and sciences, culture and exploring and learning. What a world that would be.”
This article from that link (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/14/knife-and-we...) suggests 21 thousand knife incidents in 2018 across all of England and Wales, the combined population of which is nearly 60 million people.

The whole thing seems like an overblown hysteria to me. 21 thousand sounds like a lot until you put it into perspective. How low does that number have to get before knife regulations are walked back and people are given their rights back?
It's kind of funny to me that every single one of these more or less came true with one notable exception: "Have you ever carried your medical history in your wallet?" As it stands today, at least in the US, most people's medical history is still fragmented across dozens of proprietary, non-interoperable EMR systems or locked away in paper charts in doctors' offices. I can't think of a single company that's tried to play in the personal health portal space—Google included—that hasn't failed utterly.

Digitization of health data has increased massively since 93' of course, but the landscape is still completely Balkanized and there is a growing body of clinicians who believe healthcare IT is actively making healthcare worse.[1] Put another way, the idea of a complete, centralized, useful medical medical history being available for everyone in the US still seems like a pipe dream. Interesting discussion to be had about how, in this particular industry, progress has been so slow...

[1]https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha... and https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/magazine/heal... for example
You only need to be intolerant of people whacking others with sledgehammers to avoid that issue. There's no problem with tolerating speech in your example. In general, the problem with anybody who is "violently intolerant" is the "violently" part. So when speech is a direct call to commission of a crime, or a conversation in conspiracy to commit a crime, we do not treat it as protected - but it's not because of violence of the speech itself.
A few years ago, I was told by someone knowledgeable about clearances that I shouldn't visit China or Russia if I was interested in getting a clearance or applying for defense or intelligence related work in the next couple of years.
Subsidies encourage more housing as much as any other demand-increase does, which is to say, not at all, where supply is effectively constrained. Existing actors in the landlord, real estate, and finance markets all benefit from constrained supply and price inflation.

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20190115035057/https://plus.goog...

You've got to break that logjam, and LVT is one of the most effective ways to do that.

Remember: they're not making any more land. You can build out (sprawl, congestion) or up (density). Low land taxes or high improvements taxes both discourage density and encourage sprawl. You cannot change land-use by adjusting demand parameters, long-term and large-scale, only supply and holding costs.

Land value tax.
There's an article called something like "The logging system you can't have" which talks about using a similar thing. In the case of a panic, the device would restart and find the buffer in memory, allowing you to recover crash data across boots.

From memory they then pointed all logs as /dev/kmsg rather than /var/log/syslog or equivalent logger, so that all userspace logs were buffered immediately into memory. I think that the system logger then read from the buffer? Wish I could find the article.
The only problem is that they constantly have China talking about how they want to invade and retake it.
Except it's not racial... It wouldn't matter if your hypothetical Chinese spouse is descended from Han Chinese, Russians, Mongols, Koreans, Tamils, or Marco Polo.
I must say that I am indeed not in the SV bubble. I come from a CS background and I now find myself in a position where I'm hiring people for my own company. This means I totally understand both sides. I'm mostly recruiting in the Amsterdam area though, and software engineers are not seen as rockstars here so it's a big cultural difference.
I don't think I've seen an arrangement like this before.
Which banned party (on Facebook) are you talking about? You said, '... yet I see no ban on the only party that...'. Which banned party are you comparing it to?
Startup Hall in the U district has a nice community, is well located & well run, has lots of optional events, and is a great place to set up shop if you're going to hire UW students.
I believe that is an incorrect interpretation of the law.

The govt can compell an entity to assist in making encrypted information available. But the entity in question is not the individual employee, but the company who owns the product or service.

If you're under the employment (i.e., not a contractor), you can't be an entity, and the employer will definitely know if they've been compelled.

But I do agree the law is stupid and erodes all trust from software owned by an Australian company.
Sounds like a fun experiment. I'll try this and report back in a month
Has anyone analyzed the effect that the next Bitcoin halving will have on the cost of a 51% attack?

It seems to me that on one hand, there will be less incentive to mine and so the global hash rate will drop. At the same time a bunch of miners would become unprofitable and therefore there would be an oversupply of mining capacity (assuming there is an efficient way to rent it.)

It seems like a perfect-storm event to me, but in my very casual interest I have not seen any attempts to analyze the effect of this on the 51% attack risk.
It’s not racism. It’s any foreign government, including allies. They closely scrutinize your connections to foreign nationals. They especially scrutinize people with connections to rivals and adversaries, though.
The Bitcoin script language allows you to create escrow systems without any trust in a third party intermediary.

A working example of this is the lightning protocol which is implemented on top of Bitcoin script. It uses time-based escrow written in Bitcoin script to eliminate the need for trust or third party intermediaries.

This is an important benefit that isn't very well known.
In principle, who could be opposed? In practice, how will this actually work out?

We've had Nazis and Klansmen effectively shut out of public discourse for decades. They aren't on TV. Their ads don't run in newspapers. If you go shopping in a pointy white hood and a swastika armband, the store (or the shoppers, more insistently) will likely ask you to leave.

Facebook (and similar) are the ones with the odd new 'principle' thing they tried which is 'it's ok for the hyper-overt bigots to shit everywhere with no consequences'. In practice, it has not worked out well so they are belatedly changing it.
I am still trying to figure out whether you're being sarcastic, trolling, or actually serious. Your statements are counterintuitive to an extreme of not seeming believable.