skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aye, the Lockheed A-12. It was apparently the 12th iteration of the CIA's "Archangel" program, hence "A-12."

Knowing the CIA, that designation may have been misdirection too. 'Main battle tanks' are called 'tanks' today because of WWI era misdirection. Instead of calling them "armoured tractors" or something descriptive like that, the British called them "water carriers." The abbreviation of that (w.c.) was considered crude though, so they were renamed "tanks" as in a container for carrying water. This was to ensure any German spy who overheard the wrong conversation would get the wrong impression.
Is there any market signal that this is the case?
Same. If I reinstall the OS on my raspberry pi I will ignore the warning. I once had an issue where using the WiFi hotspot on a coworkers phone caused the SSH warning to trigger and neither of us could work out why. I did not ignore that warning.
Here's the actual apology, unfortunately behind a paywall (that Outline no longer supports): https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...
> The proper solution would be not to collect personal data, especially if it is not necessary for functioning of the app, rather than worry about who is going to buy the company.

How would that work? Even if the app doesn't collect data now, it could always be modified to collect data later. The problem isn't so much the data they collect, but the users they have.

Avoiding the collection of personal data only mitigates against actors who can only access data passively, like in data breach events. It doesn't mitigate against actors who can initiate active collection of data.
SpotMicro is an open-source robotic dog inspired to SpotMini
Australians have very few constitutionally guaranteed rights (compared to countries such as the US). The Constitution only gives us the right to vote, the right to a trial by jury, and freedom of religion (and a few others). But many more rights, including extensive privacy rights, exist in statute law and elsewhere.

The main argument against adding more rights to the Constitution, is: "we don't want to end up with obsolete rights that do more harm than good, and that are virtually impossible to get rid of, like the US with its right to bear arms".
Thanks; this is nice to know about when talking to people about MIDI.
Capturing Value and Managing Change in API Ecosystems
World Bank Innovate4Climate Entrepreneur Pitch Competition
I wonder if the same owner as Tinder and OkCupid will buy this, becoming a dating (and casual sex, and etc.) superpower.

I always thought funny how OkCupid pushes ads like "You're tired of the dirty flesh market of Tinder? We hear you! Come use OkCupid!" and they have the same owner as Tinder
Microsoft has showers for people who bike to work with fresh towels provided. HR tried to remove that perk - probably thinking nobody would care because only a few people used it.

Turns out a lot of people cared.
twitter, facebook,youtube all banned alex jones at the same time. you can use say oh go host it youself if all the tech companies conspire together on the same damn day. Plus they are the only ones who can truly allow your words to get heard. you cant ddos youtube but you damn can get ddos'd on your puny server.
The page asserts that audio content to many listeners is firstly "defined" (though perhaps "subconsciously emotionally engaged with to some extent" would be more accurate) by perceived gender, before semantics. The notion is that by adding a genderless/neutral voice, this would be removed. Of course, you then need to discard genders in names as well, hence 'Q'. It's pretty forward thinking... I don't doubt assistant tech may go this way. However, wouldn't "dehumanization by association" for non gender identifying individuals be a risk if that popularizes? A nice thought-provoking art project, if nothing else.
I promise you, people would still want to police communications like the kind that are being discussed here.
I'm seeing a lot of responses related to EV. Is this an evolutionarily stable strategy? Is there any way for a minority to exploit every one's focus on EV? I understand that, mathematically, this sounds ridiculous. But I'm wondering if, psychologically, there's a way to exploit everyone's EV mindset.
Just to be clear, I'm not asking anyone to support white nationalists. I think it's important to address problems with ideas like this directly and not make them into something they're not. If opponents of white nationalism always characterize them as advocating violent ethnic cleansing but they don't present themselves that way, some curious people will look them up, and all the arguments they heard against them will seem like ignorance. I believe that just helps their case. Arguments are most effective when they're fair and honest. People are attracted to forbidden knowledge and love to feel like they know secrets, and there you have the attraction of things like the "intellectual dark web."
Is one of those life lessons "stop playing poker"?

Because in my many hours frittered away in card rooms, I never once thought "these people have it all figured out."
As opposed to some one fresh from a BSc who got through the interview by rote memorisation who will be just as clueless.
The exemption on capital gain tax on house sales is for avoiding taxing the gain from inflation over the years.
Ask HN: My Optometrist says I need a new monitor help
My Optometrist wants to adjust my prescription but also wants me to buy a nice monitor to help combat vision reduction.

I’d like to buy 2 monitors, one that does portrait and then a second landscape. It would be nice if they are the same

Recommendations please that won’t break the bank but something crisp for c++ and writing docs. Most everything I do is code.

Thank you. I’m a bit depressed today my vision has deteriorated more.
i’m reminded of SA’s “read history of philosophy backwards”:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philos...

> My hypothesis – and I don’t know if it’s true – is that this is only cliched now because Sartre won. The point of studying Sartre is not to learn that you choose your own identity, but to read him backward – to start with this idea that choosing your own identity is obvious, and then read Sartre to learn exactly how controversial it was at the time and what sorts of arguments Sartre had to go through to get people to accept it, and eventually understand the position that the original reader of Sartre was supposed to have started with. If you succeed, you might still believe that you choose your own identity, but you’ll also understand that this isn’t an obvious necessary fact of the universe, that there used to be people who believed you didn’t and that they had some good arguments too.
From the updated FAQ: How DARE you attack Project XYZ?

This still reads as unnecessarily acidic to me, given the update notice at the top of the article.
Point taken, apologies. Feel free to edit my post.
They must have added that later (or I failed at reading comprehension). Anyways thanks!
It's not easy to make a new platform. it's insanely difficult. These big social media companies have huge moats at this point, due to network effects and scale.

When other things have such powerful network effects we force them, through the state, to treat people fairly. For instance, utilities like water and electricity are natural monopolies because of the limited physical space for the infrastructure. Social networks aren't quite the same but there are powerful similarities.
> people should test out

Why should they, though? The fault here is on its management team. Users and clients lost their trust, for good reasons.

I never used MongoDB, but I know people that got in real trouble due to it.
They can do what Russia does and some of Europe do and require AU citizen data remain in AU.
the other difference today is that 'the masses' used to mean ~millions of Internet-connected people staring at screens on their desks, now it means the whole damned planet, at all times.

as these networks have grown to global scale we need to assess them for what they are, not for abstractions that may be less relevant now that these systems represent unprecedented "public squares"
Skin’s melanin can conduct electricity, and scientists want to harness it
> but that you also are guaranteed a place to say it and an audience who must listen to you.

I never did that. There's a difference between "audience must listen to you" and "audience would want to listen to me but unable to because I'd have to build a new Internet to do it".

> only on characteristics we have determined shouldn't prevent your access (race, sexuality, religion)

So we agree that denying people access to private services can be not OK even if it's not done by government coercion? But only if it's because of racism? If it's because of other forms of prejudice not listed in the list, or because of their non-membership in the ruling party, that would be ok?

> This is a slippery slope argument.

It is. We know for a fact that the slope is slippery. We witnessed the descent many times. We know how it works. We are observing the narrowing of the bounds of what is acceptable on major social networks right now. Should we refuse to believe the experience and our own eyes because "it's a slippery slope argument"? Yes, it is - because the damn slope is very slippery!

> (falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is a classic example)

Very bad example. That decision by Wendell Holmes was overturned decades ago. But if you knew what the actual case was about, you'd be even more wary to use that quote. The case sought to ban American Socialists from distributing pamphlets opposing draft. If there's any case for free speech to be protected, the case of political speech opposing government action forcefully sending people to die overseas is that case. So maybe when you complain about slippery slope arguments, you don't realize how far the slope actually gone. Do you actually want to be jailed for criticizing the government? If you do, keep using that example.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
If you're including RSUs in that number, sure
> Do we wait until it can be shown that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. influenced elections because they refused to serve information from a candidate they didn't like? If we aren't already there, it's not long before it is.

That's an interesting question. What if Google and Facebook would secretly demote and hide articles about one political party and promote articles about another party? Theoretically they are absolutely free to do so but how do you think, will it cause a Congress investigation or not? Those people made noise about much smaller things.

Also, what if Google would start demoting its competitors and everyone who deals with those "untouchable" companies? That would be interesting to see.

I think people don't realise what power these new media have. The monopoly of Facebook or Google is a serious issue and we should not believe that they will always stay neutral.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Fires Partner Chris Schaepe
How do you ever remember to write in it after waking?

I'm lucky if I remember deodorant first thing in the morning. I'm usually good 5-10 minutes after waking, but before then I rarely do things like shower and sometimes won't even make coffee. I guess I can talk to folks and be really mean at first - I don't remember these outbursts, though. It gets worse with bad sleep hygiene.
In practice, it's going to be an arbitrary mess. They draw a series of vaguely defined lines across highly nuanced issues, make their fancy press release, and then send it off to implemented by underpaid and undertrained workers (in 3rd world sweatshops last time I checked).
Getting caught up in the freedom of speech question is folly. In context it reads as a not-so subtle dismissal of racism. I’m not even questioning the right to free speech. But when the first response to platforms removing white nationalist content is about “just wanting to have a conversation,” people of colour tune out. Freedom of speech is a valid concern, but I think in this instance it belongs further back in the sprint queue.

In regard to comments concerning why it only addresses white-nationalism, understand that these statements are made in the context of North America’s on-going flirtations with white nationalism going back 300 years. It’s not an easy pill to swallow and speaks little about individuals regardless of colour.
That's absurd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting
Was the Buran ever actually flown with air-breathing jet engines or is this purely hypothetical fantasy like most of that program?
Nice to see someone taking the Chinese foothold in SV seriously. I've also heard people who go to work for Chinese companies are then blacklisted from US Government defense- and intel-related work for 1 year. Can anyone confirm?
PR is what awards are all about
Does it have to be the same graduation for which you incurred the loans?
Your budget is not even close for a company as large and complex as MCD.

That $300mm is an investment in a reoccuring revenue stream as well. There is a very real possibility that the true org cost is zero for MCD.
I know it's anecdotal, but I have the most recent MacBook Air and I already get concerning keyboard behaviour like I did with the TouchBar MacBook Pro. I don't have a good feeling about this. Like you, I needed an Apple machine to develop for the App Store.

A $2500 computer's keyboard really shouldn't get stuck keys after a month. I'm absolutely crazy about keeping food/drink/any kind of debris away from it after what happened to my MBP (although that wasn't totally preventable anyway).

Here's hoping, I guess
This question reflects a misunderstanding of a startup’s mission (to grow extra-ordinarily fast)

> What cost center would have to be cut to be profitable today?
Results are often governed by factors you have no control over or knowledge of. If you get unlucky, it may not be because you made a bad decision.
Law/Legal fact vs science or engining fact.

They are really different things.

Offtopic: One time the Cardinals of the Catholic Church couldn't come to an agreement over the next Pope. After a few months of that the Holy Roman Emperor or some such had workmen remove the roof and locked them inside. A day and a half later, new Pope!
Ahh, so delusion
I like the voice "Ivy" from Amazon's Polly.

It sounds a little bit like the voice of a moppet-type character from League of Legends that just huffed helium.
Because it is so stylized you don't have the problem of a
"perfect english gentleman" who pauses unnaturally, sometimes makes vowels like T-Pain, etc. that you have with more realistic voices.

It definitely comes across as female to me, but it is cartoony enough that it not so culturally coded as female -- so there is less of a sense of "female servicing" as there
is with most voice assistants.
"This isn't the kind of development that can sit back idly after performing its primary function."

To me, this sounds like you _don't_ fully support this development. And rightly so. It'll soon be technology in search of additional applications.
Sounds female, usually, but clearly wavers between male and female. Primarily though it sounds unpleasant to me. Not a fan.
Of course “they” would say that. Easier to sell than enshrining rights in the constitution makes it impossible for us to encroach on those rights ;) tin foil stay strong
Since I'm arguing from the research standpoint, published research or citations by other research.
Equity isn’t money, it’s a lottery ticket.
Some customers demand to know which jurisdiction their data is stored in, so it isn't as simple as "move it somewhere friendlier".

You have control if you are running your own services on top of the main cloud providers, but if it is in O365 or GMail/GApps it used to be a different story, and this precluded their use by a bunch of .au organisations (universities, Govt departments) early on.

So now some of these orgs that need to have data stored in .au for privacy reasons (among other reasons) are subject to these new badly formed laws in some kind of twisted catch-22.
From a legal perspective, yes. Age discrimination in favor of older workers has never been frowned upon. It is unlike race/sex discrimination, in which all directions are notionally equally bad.
> the right to vote

Yeah, but they mess even that up by making it obligatory. :)
A high school or AS degree only would get thrown in the trash directly everywhere I've ever worked for even the most basic technical jobs.

50 years ago big companies would take you with just a HS degree, and if you were smart and showed initiative, put you under the wing of an engineer - or pay to send you to school. This does not happen anymore.

You're also SEVERELY limiting your career if all you complete is high school - you might be OK technically for now, but you will lack all kinds of foundations that would allow you to stay technical, and you'll certainly be disregarded completely as you age for any kind of leadership track.

I think the root of this myth (that having only a HS degree you can still get a technical job) is twofold: One, a currently hot hiring market, and two, the "be what you dream!" movement that was big in the 90's.

If you've worked through a recession (or even just a dulled market), and seen people around you lose their work, their homes, heard their struggles about how hard it is to find work - people would stop parroting this mantra about having minimal education. It's really doing damage to people who hear it.
Replace grindr by some_other_site where some_other_site.orientation != 'straight' or some_other_site.fetish in (...) and it works out to the same result, no?
Maybe we should try to figure out why our society is producing people with this rejection of basic biology rather than ignore the problem
Because people need to tell each other about time-related things while being globally distant.

"Call me at dinnertime, say 7."
"My 7 or your 7?"

Is a lot easier than

"Call me at 0400" and having both parties do offset math in their heads.
The card network handles this I believe. I've never worked in payments, but I have spent some time analyzing the space for investments. As far as my knowledge with regards to online payments, the merchant gateway talks with the merchant acquirer/payment processor, the acquiring bank then pays the merchant, and the acquiring bank sends a request to authorize and settle the transaction through the card network, which talks to the consumer's bank/digital wallet. Stripe in this case is the merchant gateway and acquirer. If PayPal is used, ACH replaces the credit card network.
Meh:

In an earlier episode Wittgenstein and Eccles, his friend from Machester, were planning to catch a train from Manchester to Liverpool. However, having missed the train, Wittgenstein suggested hiring an entire train to bring them to their destination. The plan was eventually dropped, but he still opted for a costly solution, namely hiring a taxi.
I find it artistically interesting. A computer assistant doesn't have a gender so why should it represent itself as male or female?

I find something offputting that so many agents pick a female voice (e.g. Alexa, Siri)
> Facebook to ban white nationalist content

This is _literally_ racist
>From week long install processes to loads of crashes during use, this is not a good example of a PhD only success story field.
Clearly, npm ecosystem is a better outcome.
Love me some retro-futurism
Right, they got what they wanted out of it, so now they are just selling the trash. The fact that they're selling, coupled with the basis for the decision to sell, will probably crater the price. And I suspect this will have an adverse effect on Grindr's monthly-user count, which won't help that sale price. Wouldn't be surprised if Grindr folds. And that will have a deterrent effect on other companies interested in Chinese money. Because for the Chinese government, it ain't about the money.
Both of those claims need qualification: it’s not quite secure, and it’s not quite as fast as C.
This is poorly documented; I don't see a REM statement.
One of those things on my bucket list, to ride across the country in my own rail car.

Reading the article and how dependent the whole thing is on Amtrak though makes me wonder if we're talking to the wrong railroad. The freight folks have a better system for building custom consists and sending them around the country.
I'm interested to know what the farmers whose properties get taken by mining companies have to say about that.

Though genuinely unsure and curious as to whether that's a separate legal (or perhaps media reporting) issue.
> stereotypes that many have fought hard to progress

What stereotypes would this help to alleviate?

> the technology we create should follow.

Why it's a service that communications via artificial audio. Why is it important that you can't have a male or a female voice? People still exist, the voices in question don't have a physical appearance.
Related, but possibly tangentially:

I'm convinced my father would've been diagnosed with 'high-functioning autism' had it been a thing in his day/environment.

But he's happily married to someone who compensated for many, if not most of his deficiencies. Together they form a pretty functional human, and as a son I'm very lucky to have grown up with that.

At the same time, many of his quirks have become very noticeable now that I've been officially diagnosed with 'high functioning autism' too.

From his inability to deal with emotions of any sort to OCD(-ish) behavior around the house, from a lack of social life independent of his wife to obsessive interest in the most specific things, all of it strikes me as rather autistic, and uncomfortably recognizable, but softened by a life-long partnership.

It often makes me think about such diagnoses and how insular/individualistic they can often be, and how powerless they can leave one feeling when diagnosed. If you're 'on the spectrum' but your symptoms are mediated by partner/family/culture, are you still on the spectrum? In some ways, yes, but perhaps we don't talk enough about the influence of others or environment.

All this not in direct response to the article, just saying.
>$3.67 per mile

Well there's your problem. Raise the price! You'd think a senior fellow at the Cato Institute of all places would have thought of that.
If your an "investor" an not a "speculator" you should not be investing in hedge funds right from the off.

You should spend several years of investing starting with index funds then moving up to more complex instruments before you invest in exotica like hedge funds.
Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi
Bustle Digital, the company that bought Gawker and Mic, has acquired The Outline
Huh. Cool, but I'm not really sure what problem it solves.
Your "comically easy to steal a train" remark reminded me of the 1980s movie, Malcom: https://youtu.be/7lwqDX3fMzA?t=89 ... I always wanted my own tram after seeing that as a youngster!
You don't have to know anyone to read that comment as satire. I suppose Facebook would also have banned Johnathan Swift for his "Modest Proposal". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Once you see it in the context of protecting your country from hostile and belligerent neighbors, you will realize that it is not at all wasteful, rather is absolutely necessary.
I shipped the jeep inside a shipping container from Panama to Colombia. http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...
So?

Government policy should incentivize constructive industries.