skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solution: people pay to use twitter. Kill advertising as the main model.

Either Twitter will do this or the future decentralized apps will do this naturally through micropayments of having to pay for compute through the network.

I see a distributed p2p database that costs money to interact with and anyone can build a client for it. Go ahead, build a client - maybe it's free, maybe it costs money because it uses the protocol really well and people like it the UX. Hell, maybe even the client has advertisements in it. Either way interacting with the actual content costs money and that will naturally bring in a balance of information. Right now we have information asymmetry exploited by advertising.
In theory DuckDuckGo. Just because someone can, does not make it good/right.
“The reality is different though.
There is nothing in this world quite so soul crushingly painful as having your child die while doing something that the parent and perhaps people in general, consider to be 'safe.'”

Actually there is and by several orders of magnitude more painful, and it is this: Watching these same parents scream safety, proclaiming the presciouness of their children while simultaneously condemning entire populations to death by their implicit support of wars, racism, and the governments responsible. Granted it may not be as immediately appearant of a reaction than say watching your child suffer, but while experiencing the death or suffering of a child may heal with time, the systemic effects of these masses of “concerned parents” lingers on with us forever.
Eunice the Unit: The Secret Life of Code
Is constantly barking dogs a thing in rural Finland too? I thought this would something that only America would have, along with various very poor and underdeveloped nations.
Likely it would be. But really Docker is more about convenience of deployment and (much) less about security. I would not run seriously untrusted code in merely a (Docker) container; I don't know much about the isolation guarantees of OpenVZ.

In any case, containers share OS kernel, OS page cache, etc. This can be beneficial even for a shared hosting as a way to offer a wide range of preinstalled software as ro-mounted into the container's file tree. Likely code pages of software started this way would also be shared.
How does the third party know the asset was cached if I don't actually visit the third party's page?

The CDN (Google) knows all, but that's true with AMP too.
Or, more likely, "3,000 fewer people were forced to move out".
Older, but relevant: https://courses.aynrand.org/works/extremism-or-the-art-of-sm...
That was by far my favorite childhood activity. I must have built dozens of dams on various creeks over the years.
And yet, if you look, dangerous still lurks. Sharp metal, no failsafes if a critical part fails, “V-like structures which could snag an arm, etc. Now, to be fair, when a critical part fails, the systems are sturdy enough that the whole thing wouldn’t normally come crashing down.
I think induced demand is real, but it's a second-order effect. So while building one unit might attract an additional 0.1 people to an area (for example), it's not going to attract more people than it houses. So building more housing is still the right thing to do to lower prices. Even if you don't get perfect efficiency of 1 person's housing needs met per 1 unit built, meeting the needs of 0.9 people is still pretty good.
Honestly "cyber security" is a joke beneath the intellect of retarded children. Most of the technology the internet uses is insecure by design. The world chases its tail as speculative execution backdoors the planet, and bit twiddling by row hammer, overflow, MitM or escalation leaves RAM, disk and network traffic prone to pretty much anyone taking the initiative to twiddle.

Ordinary people are scared of their own shadow because the doors and windows are as drafty as an eleventh century arrow slit. We just waltz around downloading shit and running whatever the fuck. Security for regular people is actively prevented and disrupted. People are discouraged from encrypting their hard drives, their email. Police clone phones and confiscate devices on a whim. So, whatever you're on about is a laugh.

I also fail to see how investing in space programs might be a bad idea.
How to Enable Full Mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Vulns
There might be possibilities between "no nuclear power plant" and "tritium-laced drinking fountains".
Suppose you have two video-sharing platforms which use basically the same recommendation algorithms (etc.) to keep people engaged and clicking on videos, and they're equally effective — except that one of them censors recommendations based on some political criteria, for example, being "extremist", such as whoever the modern equivalent of Martin Luther King is. Let's call the censored platform "JedgarTube" and the other one "MLKTube", for lack of better terms. There are a couple of possibilities:

1. Those recommendations were actually less effective at keeping people engaged than whatever recommendations replace them on JedgarTube. In that case, MLKTube needs to copy the decision in order not to lose users gradually to JedgarTube. In fact, whichever platform blocks those recommendations first will experience improved user growth and engagement. Essentially the recommendations were just a bug of a primitive recommendation algorithm.

2. Those recommendations were actually more effective at keeping people engaged than whatever recommendations replace them on JedgarTube. In that case, JedgarTube will gradually lose users to MLKTube, again, assuming the platforms are otherwise equal.

Of course, the truth is that any particular censorship decision could fall into either #1 or #2. The #1 censorship decisions will be copied by MLKTube, if they aren't too incompetent or principled, while the #2 decisions will gradually accumulate into a competitive disadvantage for eyeballs at JedgarTube.

That's why the media platforms and government censors are trying to set up a global censorship system — whichever platform steps up first to be JedgarTube will lose viewers to whoever's censorship implementation is a step or two behind.

Note that none of this logic depends on normative judgments such as "extremist content is bad", "extremist content is good", "people should have freedom of speech", "people shouldn't have freedom of speech", "platforms shouldn't manipulate people with algorithmic recommendations", "algorithmic recommendations are good for people", or anything like that. It's purely reasoning about objective causes and effects about people's behavior, although I've chosen my terms to weaken the evident bias against "extremism" in this discussion so readers can reason about these causes and effects instead of being thrown around by their emotional biases.
I was a stupid kid that fell from a high slide. My parents apparently made a sizable donation after I landed with no harm other than a scare because of the special tiles laid under it. Rather than paying for lawsuits, I'm happy to be able to tell a story to the contrary of many in this thread, with a happy ending and money going to the playground. My parents are great and I hope to live up to this one day.
> What's the Unix Time for the UTC second 1985-06-30 23:59:60? My understanding is this physical second

That's not a physical second, it's a calendar second.
I only fell through the ice once going over our makeshift bridge/dam... great times indeed :)
I think that's kind of missing GP's point that, while

> the increased happiness of millions of children is worth a couple children's health, or even lives.

might be totally true, it's borderline-impossible to convince concerned (or worse, bereaved) parents of this in many cases, for human, not utilitarian, reasons.
I read an article long ago about incorporating optical illusions into traffic calming. Things like the shape of ditches and the placement of trees on highways and parkways to make the shoulders look narrower than they really are.

Making the road appear more dangerous than it really is makes people slow down and pay attention, without the uptick in danger of an actual hazard.
Upzoning would not make a place like manhattan more affordable, there have been studies (https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2018035pap...) that evaluate what up to a 20% increase in housing supply would bring to any one given area and they never say it would fall by anything more than 2% (and that would be if the supply was introduced all at once in todays current environment).

What is shown by this is that, when you build more housing in desirable areas, people will always move in to fill it. The value of which being that more people can now experience such desirable areas. In fact, the price decreases aren't coming from the actual housing supply increase directly, but that prices fall when there is a bigger competitive pool of those seeking housing and those supplying it even with 1:1 increases on both sides.

So what's the solution?

The truth is there isn't one, in our current political environment we will neither see a command economy that seriously solves housing issues (or even something like what singapore does). We won't see national multifamily by right zoning/building codes that enable economies of scale for high density construction. We won't see every suburb in America allow density increases to the level that automotive travel becomes a serious hassle. Additionally, we won't see major financing efforts come about for new housing production at the scale of a trillion dollars a year (which is the level of investment needed from a debt financing perspective).

Within the broader market, the cost of financing and construction are just too high right now for housing prices to fall on the production side of the equation. It is not possible to build 1000 sqft apartments in existing dense parts of the US that cost $100k on the production side (what it would cost to build a similar sized average single family home) in any of these major cities, and that's before land acquisition costs.

The truth is, that the most viable way for creating affordable housing in this country right now would be to build an entirely new city made up of moderately sized row homes that would have the ability to sprawl as such for 60 miles in any direction from its center.
>Having had wells... The electricity isn't the least of it. These things require regular servicing. Hopefully, you aren't unlucky enough to have it back up... which happened to my mother soon after moving into a newly purchased home. You need to watch the toilet paper you use because some are better than others.

You're confusing wells with septic systems. Wells are where you get water (you pump it out of the ground), septic systems are how you dispose of wastewater (basically by dumping it into the ground in a concrete tank, from which it then percolates into pipes with holes in a "septic field").

You're right, septic systems can be a maintenance nightmare.

>Not to mention the need for a water softener in some areas. I've lived in areas whose water smelled of rotten eggs.

Yep, this is the other problem with well water: it frequently has sulfur in it, and is really nasty.
I've a friend who has run his own small IT business for a bit over a decade. When I talk to him and he mentions how much he charges, I always tell him it is far too low. He sees it as being easy for him, so he doesn't think he should charge much. I've tried to explain to him that when the plumber comes over, you're not loading that guy down with quantum physics work... he knows how to unclog your drain or run a new water line. That's easy for him. He charges a high amount because his services are valuable. And I, for one, am happy to pay that plumber the high amount. It saves me having to invest far larger amounts in learning and tooling up to do it myself.

I've worked alongside him a few times on projects that his clients had which required coding work alongside the hardware and sysadmin stuff, and each time I've had to badger him into charging double or more than what he wanted to charge. And of course the customers paid for it, because it was still a good deal and I could show them a conservative estimate that said the system would pay for itself in savings in under 2 years. When freelancing, those are my favorite contracts. Where you can show to the customer up-front that you will be saving them money in the long run. It's always much easier to sell them at that point, and I think the amount its going to save is a pretty good proxy for the value of the work.
Agree. In other words, computers should use UT1 (where one day is a rotation of the earth, and 86400 seconds; and consequently a second is not a SI second).
Reedy Creek is not a sovereign nation, building a reactor would still need to clear the federal NRC.

It’s a great concept to demonstrate how much leeway WDC got from the state of Florida, but not much else.
Very possibly, AMP in search is (sadly) enabled in mobile Safari.
Sandboxed containers with kernels - so what's the difference now between this and fully isolated virtual machine?

Another approach might be to make virtual machine technology more like containers. Then the two shall meet.
Beancount's budgeting capabilities are virtually nonexistent (despite what the author keeps claiming).
What's the difference between left and right?

The old definition was about republic vs monarchy. Now everyone keeps using those labels. Conservative? Right wing. Socially conservative? Right wing. Economically conservative. Left wing. Weird!

Authoritative government that's socially conservative; Venezuela. Wait what? Thought they were labelled far left?

Left and right labels are pointless, refer to the parties for what they represent; social conservatives; authoritarian; etc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectru...
For anyone in the bay area, I found a playground with adult sized monkey bars a few weeks ago. You know, the old school steel pipe structures from the good old days.... Some kind soul even place-marked it on Google Maps. I present, the Kennedy Middle School (Cupertino) Monkey Bars:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/KMS+Monkey+Bars,+Cupertino...
Do You Want to Be Doing This When You're 50?
Counterpoint: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-hasnt-cra...
There are indeed Bitnami images in the GCP Marketplace, and they are even used for examples in the code-labs that GCP produces.

It is only somewhat recently that the emphasis in their marketplace is towards to Google-sourced images.
Nothing in biology is exactly the same - or said another way, biology is optimized at many different scales - from basic (even quantum) physics, all the way up to social adaptations. So screwing with codons could have very subtle effects that have nothing to do with the physical design of the organism, but nonetheless affect its size and growth rate. Off the top of my head, to give some random examples - the locations on the genome of two metabolic enzymes have been shifted by what amounts to a few nanometers, and that affects metabolic flux, or the DNA now has more purines in a row than before and that causes some charge buildup that calls in DNA repair mechanisms slightly more often and disables transcription slightly more, or the genome when folded up is slightly more rounded than oblong because of strange sterics, or any number of very weird optimizations all the way down the physical causal ladder.
I've walked all around Manhattan many times. No, it's not a constant, permeating stink, but that city does stink a lot, though it's worse of course when they put the trash out since NYC doesn't have alleys like other American cities.

However, I haven't had the same experience in non-US cities like Tokyo and Munich. Those cities are just much, much cleaner in many ways than NYC, and it's not just the smell.
Yikes I'm an idiot
Not an expert, but for example maybe decoding the TCG instruction (in the ribosome) is slower or uses more energy.
Can you give any pointers? I'm finding it quite hard to find datasheets and spectral measurements for bulbs sold online, they really don't give consumers much information.
Doesn't mean it will run at its max speed. Thermals are a huge issue in phone CPUs, and that's even worse when you add the heat generated by charging the battery. Maybe it's always running at 2.5GHz when plugged in, I don't know, but it seems extremely likely that it'll try to use less power just to reduce heat output.
Teeth of Early Neanderthals Indicates the Species’ Lineage Is Older Than Thought
It wasn't that long ago someone was claiming it was (surprisingly!) an old Hebrew dialect. So the skepticism is completely warranted until they present something fully "decoded" to demonstrate an actual translation of sentences and a coherent story, versus a few random words and surprising name connections.

Either way, they have a global audience. It'll be super interesting if they are right.
I think this is something most Americans probably support.
Conspicuous consumption and its ilk have a very poor status in sociology. Thus far, wealth inequality and displays of it are the only things actually shown, when all societies are considered, to always increase violent crime. Even poverty has no effect except in situations where it is juxtaposed with wealth. There, it irresistibly tends to violence. (Source: 'Nine Crazy Ideas in Science', chapter 1, which was actually about gun ownership rates and violent crime levels but which mentioned the finding about wealth inequality after dealing with the original issue)
First they came for al Qaeda content,

Then they came for ISIS comtent,

Then...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166908
I left government work a while back for the private sector. The nice thing about SCIF work is the privacy and autonomy :)
So what you're saying is a published paper failed peer reviews yet is heavily cited.

Welcome to modern science reporting and interest groups. :(
Ex professor turned hedge fund dude here --
Can confirm working in a hedge fund is more ethical than being faculty.

Vote with your feet people. Stop pretending to care, and leave a system which really does no one any good besides a handful of faculty in the top 5. -- certainly not science
They want to force them babies to live regardless of quality of life, danger present to mom/child, etc. etc.

What is this, the 1720s?
Could a lookup table be faster even for fairly sparse bits? I'm imagining something like

uint8_t *result;
uint8_t numpositions[];
uint64_t positions0[];
uint64_t positions1[];
...

*(uint64_t*) result = positions0[byte0]
result += numpositions[byte0]
*(uint64_t*) result = positions1[byte1]
result += numpositions[byte1]
...

Or probably accumulating results in a register until you get 8.
If what you said were true, then UNIX time were at some fixed offset to TAI. But it's not.
"Let's train people to ignore danger"

what we need is red camera* at every light and speed trap at every road, only the fear of enforcement keep people honest

*minus the whole shorten yellows for profit, of course
That's why the media platforms and government censors are trying to set up a global censorship system — whichever platform steps up first to be JedgarTube will lose viewers to whoever's censorship implementation is a step or two behind.

The market isn't going to do what we want, so we're going to implement it using centralized power instead.

I didn't elect these big companies to censor the public discourse, and it's highly disturbing that they're working hand in hand with the government to do this.

Note that none of this logic depends on normative judgments

The "logic" depends on the normative judgement that what would result from a free market would be bad. There have been too few big players doing too much meddling and manipulation of the markets contained within their walled gardens to know whether that would be the case or not.
The attack is against high profile politicians who regularly act to block or dismiss gun control measures, but also reliably jump to announce that they are sending "thoughts and prayers" to the victims of gun attacks. I don't think this would be relevant in the case of an individual interaction.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/us/thoughts-and-prayers-flori...
Also: swine/pork, deer/venison.

Turkey as the name of the bird is however something still unclear. It's not called so in Turkey.
In these sorts of discussions I think it's very important to quote the relevant parts of such a large, dense document when linking to it.

US Code, Title 18, §842(p)(2)

(A)

> to teach or demonstrate the making or use of ... or to distribute ... information pertaining to ... the manufacture or use of an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction

> ... with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence

(B)

> knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence

Note that this very narrowly applies only when intent can be demonstrated, at which point you are arguably an active participant in whatever crime is being committed. In my opinion, that is quite different from your earlier claim.

> The US has plenty of laws against the use of speech to promote violence.

This isn't regulating mere promotion, it's regulating a form of active participation. The Christchurch Call agreement isn't even remotely similar.
That doesn't make any logical sense. If you're driving the speed limit and some idiot is 20mph above it he can switch to the right lane far faster than you can and often basically cuts you off from behind. If you decide to switch to the right too then the situation is reserved and you're cutting them off which massively increases the risk of a collision. Your solution will just result in more people driving above the speed limit or more aggressive driving to protect the right lane. Ticketing people because others broke the law is completely insane.
What matters in your example is where that extra money is spent, you might try to invest it in the company by purchasing new machinery rather than just wasting it on a new luxury company car (or an overseas 'business meeting'). That way if you are making a 10% return on your company/investment each year it continues to grow.
There must also be the satisfaction derived from keeping a quality craftsperson in business, in face of the cheap-shot mass manufacture that seems to happen everywhere.