skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We are in a world where moralistic mobs gather on social media and rise like a storm, falling upon newsrooms in an overwhelming blow. This requires immediate counter-measures by publishers, leaving no room for ponderation or meaningful discussions. Twitter is a place for furor, not debate. The most outraged voices tend to define the conversation, and the angry crowd follows in."

It's strange, and perhaps unfortunate, that having pinned the blame on "Twitter Mobs", the examples he chooses to give are where cartoonists have been silenced by autocratic regimes (Turkey, Venezuela, Russia). The solution in these cases is to push back and defend press freedom, not to cave in and blame faceless social media mobs.

And when it comes to 'social media' mobs, is anyone really going to come into bat for the NYT and claim that the below is not really anti-semitic or homophobic? If you need to lean on anti-Semitic or homophobic tropes let me suggest you're not as funny, incisive or subversive as you think you are. Comparing yourself to CH in such circumstances is to claim a martrydom you don't really deserve [1] [2]

[1] https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/new-york-times-antisemi...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-york-times-trump...
That is average debt for those who have revolving credit card debt. I assume this means if 10 people have credit cards, 9 pay them monthly and don’t accrue interest, but 1 person doesn’t pay and owes $6k, then the average balance carried forward is $6k.

I guess I should add to my original comment that not only are median and mean of interest accruing debt relevant, but what portion of credit card users even have an interest accruing balance.
I like to draw the connection between the climate change, natural world destruction and the epidemic of loneliness [0]. They all have the same root cause I believe. We are working our ass off chasing illusory happiness of material goods, while not spending enough time with our friends and family.

Take a break. Take a day off. Or two. Go see your friend you haven't seen in a long while. Go for a walk in a park. Good for climate, endangered species and your mental health.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116699
Mocking is still legal in the West. But not for long. Mocking anything but white men/Christianity creates huge uproar today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/09/1...
Oh man, I think what you're trying to say is:
You're trying to figure out how the worst characteristics of religious people also exist in nonbelievers. Is that right?

There will always be people who have varying amounts of commitment to their inherited and / or adopted value systems.

For example:
I'm pretty gung ho about surfing. I'm all for property rights but turning beaches into private property... well now, shut the front door!
They have a project to do exactly that:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collabo...

IMHO this'll end up being one of the most influential research developments of the last few years, but it's only a couple years old at this point and needs a lot of supporting infrastructure (which'll have to be done by people outside of Google - the mothership has no economic incentive to support this) before it really works well.
I wonder if Mynewt would consider adding Rust code to the OS core code. It would probably complicate the build process and other things and I'm not sure it would be worth it for this type of programming.

Thanks for the interesting article, I enjoyed reading it.
Decades and billions and billions of dollars, plus a 90%+ failure rate.
> especially if Gov gets out of the way

Who exactly do you think the government is? The government is the people when it comes to things like this. The government will not get out of the way of housing in SF because the existing landowners -- regular people -- like it that way. And they currently hold a voting majority.
Does it matter why people donated and/or became more aware of the disease?
That's a fair point. But if we also compare the meddling in this century to those past this one has had the fewest deaths due to war, famine, etc. This is, from what I've seen, a commonly held principle is fundamental to my belief that the US isn't as bad as what we've had historically. If that is wrong then I need to re-evaluate my entire opinion here.

Again, I'm 100% not saying the US is perfect or should be in this role. I'm just kinda extrapolating that based on what previous super powers have done the USA/USSR are less aweful.

That could also be to religion losing a lot of it's hold over superpowers, but IDK that's pure speculation on my part.

I also want to say, I get your position and WANT the US out of it's role too. I know this is probably weird for an American to say but I'm super glad that there are other powers out there to push back on the US. I could see us running amok a lot more if there weren't.
Start from a random graph, then simulate relationship dynamics. People who know each other are more likely to be at the same location, and people who are at the same location have some likelihood of getting to know each other, creating circles of friends. Some people eventually have children together and if they have more, it's likely to be with the same person. Iterate for a few generations and you should get a reasonable graph of friends and family.

The harder part is probably procedurally generating believable social activity to communicate those relationships to an observer with enough variety to be interesting.
How many who call themselves "rational thinkers" or "scientific minds" are unable to agree that humanity is essentially a parasite/virus which has taken over its host (mother nature).

If you accept that premise then it's not difficult to conclude that the only way to buy time is to reduce the disease (number of us).

Obviously acting (or even talking) like that might be illegal, and anyone who propagates such ideas is an outcast. Prominent example are the protesters from the extinction rebellion in London that have been labelled as radicals by the media.

Desperate times will require desperate measures so obviously saying "we need to reduce our numbers" doesn't go down well. Those who care will ultimately end up behind bars or labeled terrorists (if they act).

There are solutions which yield results because they will reduce our numbers, but as the threats increase, speaking about it becomes more dangerous (naturally security will tighten as "radicalization" happens as a response to events):

1) anti-natalism. The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is not to have kids

2) suicide: instead of expanding life expectancy we need to increase life quality and that requires understanding that as we get older we should have the right to leave on our own terms. governments and societies should allow us and assist us with that decision the moment we want to depart from this world. most importantly we need to discuss quality of life not life expectancy.

3) create safe spaces for nature: instead of national borders we need borders that are off-limits to humans and that belong to nature. but these borders need to be policed with the same strictness as the current nation states police against immigrants

4) ... [use your imagination. history has many examples]

The ugly truth and why I hinted at this being illegal is that none of this will happen peacefully. The only way to get there is via measures that utterly uproot the status-quo. Forget any technological solution (geo engineering, moving to mars etc ...). They are just another dystopia and distraction. Instead learn how to prep, grow things, live in the wilderness, hunt, and most importantly defend yourself from the biggest danger to your safety: other humans.

I understand I sound like a total nutjob but if you read Ted Kaczynski[1][2] (currently rotting in a cell) you might realize he was far ahead of his time.

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

[2] https://www.singularityweblog.com/bill-joy-at-ted-we-cant-pi...
Correctness literally doesn't matter in the realm of politics. Only, who is the loudest and most persuasive.
Even if the SDK's are open source, a lot of the problems we experience with FCM at Signal seem to be more of an issue with devices trying to optimize battery. Do you have any advice on how to avoid the system heavily delaying notifications? We've seen instances of high-priority notifications being delayed and batched together, even for users who have disabled battery optimizations.
> I want a UN controlled military of the size of the US military patrolling the world.

To get a US-sized military from Europe, you would need to require most EU states to triple their current GDP allocated on military. That might make it difficult to fund other things.
Where, though? So do we now have to have dedicated self-driving-car parking farms? Where would you put one of those in SF such that it wouldn't increase wait times to 15-20 minutes?

Regardless, self-driving systems like this are at best decades away. Do we just sit here and do nothing in the meantime as the already-terrible situation continues to get worse?
> Why do I borrow $100 to buy groceries every week? I have more than $100 in my bank account at any given moment. Why do I borrow $3.50 to buy a coffee at Starbucks? I'm constantly borrowing money that I don't need, and then paying it back within a few weeks, just so that I can prove that I'm a responsible debtor.

I do it because I get a 1-3% rebate on all my purchases. That's free money for me.

Before I had a credit card that gave me a rebate, I bought everything with a debit card. I still had a credit card, but it was only for emergencies.

> Still, the whole system of taking on debt for every minor purchase, just to prove that you'll pay it back, is sort of absurd.

You don't really need to use the credit card to establish credit history. Simply having one is enough. A lot of people believe that to maximize the boost to your credit score, you shouldn't completely pay off the card, and instead carry a small balance every month, but that's a myth.
I’m not clear on the numbers you’re thinking about: is that $10 per month or $10 per day? The former is impossible (that’s... 1/300th of what Airbnb-ing would earn) and the latter is equivalent to the cost of a formal co-working space.

As the existing startups have proven, there’s no market for individuals renting houses to work from, the economics don’t work. A day pass at WeWork is cheaper than every listing on Vrumi.
Implementation: https://github.com/pjt33/Alchemist.Py/blob/master/Alchemist....
I would recommend Bruce McKinnon - he's great https://www.artizans.com/browse.htm?artist=2
https://www.reddit.com/r/aboringdystopia
Netflix? Its entire business is basically the equivalent of one of Amazon's side experiments!
Any of the millions of poor people that buy lottery tickets every week could have spent a much smaller initial sum and worked up to the millions. It just would have taken longer.
Refusing food is less violent. Just like people have the right to refuse refuse to take medicine, refuse medical treatments etc, they should be able to refuse food.
It's not that, it's the systems. 15 years ago I built a pretty sophisticated for its time data warehouse for a company that ran call centers. The amount of data that came off of the call systems was staggering, and the format arcane. Every vendor patch had the potential to wreck the ETL process. Then there was account data from clients, and other internal systems.

The people and their spreadsheets was the easy part to control.
All cards are pretty much the same in my experience, they have monthly billing cycles, and after the end of the cycle you have roughly 20 to 25 days to pay before it starts accruing interest.

Your last sentence is what I suspect, that many people don’t pay interest, but those who do might be outliers and have a decent debt burden. The type of person that is okay paying credit card interest rates is probably not going to stop at a few dollars of spending and say it’s enough.

But I can’t say anything for sure without data.
Lack of socialism, I think.

In Norway, I believe a bank is legally required to offer you a detailed, reasonable rationale if you're denied for a loan. This is to empower the consumer to fix the situation, and to avoid unfair discrimination.

This means that the bank can't reject your loan simply for being your first one, or because some black-box AI said no. Essentially you're considered trustworthy until proven otherwise.

Meanwhile, an American bank can probably tell you to get stuffed for any or no reason, meaning that the onus is on you to prove that giving you a loan is in their best interest: i.e. you have to build credit.
Practically everyone that does C++ or C# development on Windows?
>From Visionular website, Auorara claims to improve encoding speed by 32.2% against x265 veryslow

This is extremely unlikely. But a game changer if true.
The credit card companies compensate you for "borrowing" $100 to buy groceries, which makes it, de facto, a good idea, assuming you can actually pay for those groceries anyway.
Yes, one of the bright lights at CBP left the name in the title of an otherwise redacted Microsoft Word document, confirming that it's them.
Is it hard to compete with? How would they own the market?
This ends up not being a problem in practice as long as you just simply have enough housing.
This seems less like a case the "oh, the PC Police want to do away with political humor!" and more just shifting tides in media - i.e. that the conventional newspaper political cartoon is a form trending towards obsolescence. Political comedy is very much alive, at least in terms of its popularity and range across the political spectrum, attracting from the far left (e.g. Chapo Trap House) to liberals (e.g. most late night hosts) to all your various forms of conservatives (e.g. Crowder). To me the "political cartoon" as we once knew it seems like a dated formula, one that might be argued has already been replaced by the format of internet memes which can serve similar political function.

(Also personally I have never really cared for political cartoons, they've always seemed unfunny and too reductionist. Although I suppose the Stan Kelly Cartoons from The Onion might be an exception.)
This... is not good advice. Do you tell people to roll their own databases and networking protocols as well?
The money is only tied up for a few days of the year while they hold tickets though, the rest of the time it could be sitting in a suitably liquid investment. In that sense it far outperforms the market.
Exactly - this is a merger to increase revenue, not necessarily cut costs.
‘Full Page Editorial’ Sand Sculpture by Hosaka Implores Japan to Reduce Plastic
Oddly funny to me that there are data journalists out there not following the headline advice. The average person really is doomed.
I understand your concerns but it's too expensive to create a private network just for games. Nobody is going to do this.

What we do is open up existing private networks and resell excess capacity on them. There's more than enough excess capacity on existing private networks to satisfy the needs of game traffic, and we create a neutral marketplace that opens this up so game traffic can go across these networks.

Think of this in terms of turning cloud backbones, CDN private networks into carriers of game traffic... nobody is going to build a private network for games, the traffic volumes are just too small.

cheers

- Glenn
There are plenty of modern day ETL tools like Funnel, Improvad or Dataddo to help with that part of the puzzle, though it does mean you have to pay another saas each month on top of Tableau.
Working at gitlab sounds amazing!

I have a question about your compensation calculator however: it seems employees are penalized for living in areas with lower cost-of-living. It looks like you pay someone in San Francisco almost 2x what you pay someone in Vancouver.

Why is this? Is the SF employee worth 2x the Canadian employee?
Perhaps, but I'd still like politifact or snopes or whomever to fact check everyone without regard to their past, even if that includes people like David Duke or Richard Spencer. The mere appearance of bias makes it easier for them to point at the rest of the fact-checking org and say "now that you know that the fact checkers lie, let me tell you what really happened in the 'Holocaust'", and that's not something most people want to enable.

And since when are 'facts' dependent on the person who said them? Perhaps if they do depend on such, those 'facts' shouldn't be included in the purview of a fact-checking org.
I haven't see the cartoon, but the link above describes it as "Netanyahu as a guide dog leading a blind President Trump in a skullcap."

If you want to make a statement that the US blindly supports Israel, that is not in itself anti-Semitic. But why put Trump in a skullcap?
> If you are a company then bad stories on Twitter could cause a significant drop in business.

But does it cause a drop seems like the pertinent question. New media isn't like the old media where bad press was big deal. Maybe it's just not anymore for exactly these reasons.
Are you Amazon?
How do you know such detailed financial numbers? It sounds like she gave her financial bookkeeping records.
If publishing a cartoon causes your death I think the mockery may well have been legitimate.
If CBP is not directly forthcoming with facts relating to the breach (specifically, whose information was unlawfully taken from the CBP production network) how does one seek redress for the harms created by the actions of the contractor?
Or let this be proof that biometrics are a terrible way to verify someone's identity.
It's not prepaid, its secured.

It's exactly like requiring a security deposit on an apartment. You still have to pay rent every month, but the landlord holds onto some money in case you stop paying rent. In this case the lender holds onto some money in case you stop making payments.

You still have bills, you still must make payments on time, you still have the option of only making minimum payments and carrying a balance. The collateral you deposit is only returned when you close the account or the account is upgraded to a non-secured card.
This is yet another reminder that managing the security of your company's third party contractors is just as important as managing your own company's security. Security is a game of weakest links, and it wouldn't have mattered if CBP's internal security was the best in the world if they were allowing access to a third party that doesn't have good security.

It is naturally very difficult to enforce security mandates on a company that isn't your own, but I feel that this is one of the best ways we can improve security overall in our society: companies need to start requiring that everyone they do business with have a strong, independently certified security program, or else no contract will be signed. This is already done for things like data center contracting, but it should be much more widespread and encompass every type of b2b deal.
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Strengthening the security with virtualization is something that's in the early stage of experimentation and research and will be a long-term project. Over the long term though, the goal is moving away from having the Linux kernel completely other than as the native API / ABI for apps. Projects like https://github.com/google/gvisor are very promising in that regard even if they end up playing no part in how this eventually happens for GrapheneOS. A clearer and much more detailed roadmap will be posted soon. The site is still very newly created and barely has any information about the project.

Essentially, the goal for the project is for it to be an OS compatible with Android apps, using the Android Open Source Project software stack to run them, but the underlying base can become whatever is most suited to the task. For now, the most practical approach is using virtualization to reinforce the app sandbox and user profiles. Eventually, the virtual machines can drop having their own Linux kernels (see gVisor as an example of this). In the very long term, the Linux kernel at the core of the OS could eventually go away too.

I'd recommend checking out the standalone projects like https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc and https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor for an idea of what the project is focused on doing. The hardened_malloc implementation supports other operating systems, as does Auditor, which supports verifying the stock OS on many mobile devices (they need to be added one-by-one to the internal database based on users submitting attestation samples with the app) and CalyxOS in addition to GrapheneOS.

The OS project itself is still in the early stage of reviving it, porting over past work and getting the basics done. It's very focused on the infrastructure and low-level work right now. Working on the higher level features that are more user facing and bundling various apps, etc. is not a priority right now. It doesn't even bundle F-Droid right now, because it's not quite at the point where bundling any third party apps makes sense. It also needs to be determined how to best approach that. A lot of these things will also be done in collaboration with other projects like CalyxOS, with GrapheneOS focusing more on low-level security hardening. CalyxOS is primarily working on areas like the backup service implementation and various other higher-level services, and a lot of this will be used by GrapheneOS too.
Thanks for the feedback — that's really helpful. I agree that our pricing isn't good for a large org that is looking to build a tool or two (instead of say, a few hundred).

Do you mind if I email you? (I can't see your email in your profile, but my email is david@retool.in if you're interested in reaching out.) I'm really curious — just to learn — what kind of pricing plan might work for you. Would a per-app model work for you, for example? Thanks!
I can replicate this same thing in a chrome incognito window...
Valuation inflation / delusion only really matters if you’re the last one left holding the bag

Not if you're positioned as too-big-to-fail [1] and can force a government bailout.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/wework-strategy-t...
Presumably he meant 'spirit', but thought 'spirituality' sounded more elegant or whatever (despite not being synonymous).
It's not even that. Even if the governments could use it effectively, they'll get hit with lawsuits by NIMBYs not wanting rail or a new station too close to their house, which eats up valuable funding.
That doesn't mean they had that amount of capital under investment.

If you bet $10 every week, and every week you win $11, at the end of the year you've bet $520 and made a profit of $52. But you never had more than $10 "invested".

If that $18 million was evenly spread out over 7 years, it would be close to $50k/week, or $215k/month. Those are probably more accurate amounts of working capital for calculating ROI.
It's not that bad normally (I get to do that every day). ADSL 12mbit was enough to handle high quality Google hangouts up and down. More people only impact the centralised service, not your connection (unless you're using a really terrible conference implementation)
No. Antizionism, anti-Israel, etc is not Anti-Semitic. Israel is a politic nation-state, subject to critique just like Zimbabwe or Australia. It's not equivalent to the culture, race or religion of Judaism. Many Jews disagree with the Israeli government's actions.

But don't just take my word for it. This has been a long-debated topic. take a look at both sides: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=antizionim+is+not+antisemitic&t=ff...
Six years ago the founder said setting up a nonprofit foundation for the thing was a good idea but it doesn't seem to have happened. Their pledge doesn't mention anything about what happens when the current two people get bored of it or otherwise lose the ability to maintain it. I don't see any clear reason to believe the ad copy about "lasting forever."