skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your argument, that frivolous spending and basically throwing money at technical problems until they go away are the exclusive purview of superpowers. But I think calling Russia a "superpower in decline" is slightly off-mark. I would call them a "Great Power that understands its limits". I would argue the decline has stabilized from lows of the 1990s. Now they are in a kind-of stagnation caused by demographics, sanctions, and a failure to diversify away from a kleptocratic resource-export economy.

The Russian approach to their defense industry is pretty rational IMO: they do small batches of extremely high-tech stuff mostly to keep their engineers active and to improve their institutional knowledge. Then they spin off iterative improvements and upgrades to the bulk of their legacy military hardware. Perfect examples are the T-72B3M and the Su-35. Hell, the Su-57 itself, if you look carefully, is basically a heavily-stealthed Su-27 planform.[1]

And they can do this because their MISSILE tech is absolutely first-rate. Russia understood the "payloads over platforms" mentality long before the US did. And their national defense posture is basically "We have nukes to deter anyone who is an existential threat, and everyone else can be beaten by our leftover Soviet stuff."

[1]https://migflug.com/jetflights/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/20...
Why should it be here?
> Is there something the average police force in America does right?

Protect their own?
Wait until you try it with a bit of butter then! I think the protein-to-price ratio makes sense when you compare it to similar products like beef jerky or pepperoni sticks. I'd bet hardfiskur is a lot healthier than jerky and deli meat though, since at the least it has much less salt.
Aiding and abetting is a lesser crime than the actual theft crime. Eliding those things into one is intellectually dishonest.

Further, the person who actually committed theft has been pardoned serving less time than Julian spent in the embassy. It makes no sense that he would receive any punishment at this point for the lesser crime.
Oh my... Normally, I'd have an uninformed opinion on this; full of opinion and hyperbole.

However, since this happened to me, my opinions are vastly different. There were paragraphs written below that I deleted, mainly because they would likely land me in prison, or at least (further) complicate my life.

The TLDR is: surveillance and search warrants are granted without true probable cause or appropriate knowledge. By "appropriate knowledge", I mean the judge is in no position to comprehend what he or she is authorizing, or the repercussions of granting it.
hey, that's machine learning baby. Sounds to me like it's a successful market.
I just watched a fascinating video on 18th century cooking where this same kind of fish (cod) is prepared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzAt6e1l-c

I thought the step where they beat the fish with a mallet was so wild. It's certainly led me down a rabbit hole of seeing how we used to prepare food a few hundred years ago.
Maybe its cold enough out for minimal bugs? The pics seem to have snow in the background.

The article mentions they dip the fish in brine before hanging up as well. Google indicates other methods of drying fish include sprinkling salt on to keep bugs away.
Except he already has his billions and has sold his company. Thus his only 'speaking against his own interest' is estate tax which is easily avoidable with preparation.
How are you defining "discovering" vs "finding"? In plain language they are synonyms.

Are you saying that seeing the answer is more satisfying than solving the puzzle? (as in a joke or a magic trick that you don't even try to solve?)
This is going to sound like nitpicking but is there a way that you could avoid the flicker on the listing page?

Perhaps adding the <div> on load with a static height and then filling it with the filters? Another option could be to allow the user to show / hide the bar and remember the setting. That way, one could open it when needed only and it wouldn't flicker on every load.

Same thing for the "toggle all comments" button in a thread.

I get nauseous with such flickers. I really like this extension but won't be able to use it unless this changes.
Oh, absolutely. My point was more that huge swaths of the world are underserved by things that we take for granted and would otherwise assume "everyone" has been exposed to. And so, there's still a ton of headroom to grow.
Previous discussion, which was flagged for some reason, perhaps anti-Buzzfeed bias: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168340
You could also "sign" using a random figure, not your real signature, after all. No? Nothing prevents you to do so, legally speaking.
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"Chief Internet Evangelist" sounds like a ceremonial position. When I was working at Google, I had no idea who this person was or their position.
I think in the case of most documents you sign when buying a home, a) you don't have a choice (except don't buy a home) b) there are way too many documents to read (are you seriously going to pay the notary to sit there for 6 hours?) and c) it's all highly regulated and formulaic. Have you ever heard an anecdote to the contrary, ie someone who was bitten by a hidden clause when buying a home?
I don't feel like it's any worse (or better) than Photoshop usability-wise. Really, given the sheer complexity of that sort of raster image editor, confusion is unfortunately par for the course.
It's an interesting article, but also feels like peak buzzword with use-case 1 essentially being "machine learning in the cloud using blockchain and big data"
we are not talking about the same meaning of “race” then. you’re talking almost entirely about socio-cultural elements (here. not earlier about Latinos, you should notice).

see my above comment about Inuits and Pygmies and notice how your tangent here doesn’t relate to it. of course DNA explains that difference - nothing else can.

your divergence into culture is a bit disingenuous - especially since you were talking about Alzheimer’s and Latinos earlier, a disease which has nothing to do with culture...
This is probably the most important quote from the article: "Of course, to brag about being a great employer, it helps to be one."

And that's pretty much the crux of this whole phenomenon. Rather than actually step up with better working conditions, better pay, and more appealing work culture, way too many employers are just trying to emulate the parts of startups they like (laughable work-life balance and overly loyal employees) while ignoring the parts they don't (actual perks, career advancement, equity lottery tickets, etc.). It's a cargo cult.
> I've seen an employment contract that stated any hand-written addenda were invalid, so the idea of crossing out a clause or correcting it is at least partially defeated

Couldn't you just cross out that line?
If we're going to base his guilt off of the similarity in his actions to Manning then remember that Manning was pardoned. It would be pretty piss poor precedence to ignore that and charge assange in a different light.
All true.

There seemed to be a distinct hierarchy to racism back then. That so many were in the NHS, running takeaways or corner shops undoubtedly helped soften the popular view for some nationalities.

You're right there was a hope, even expectation that China would eventually move somewhat into step with Hong Kong, as at the time it was so far ahead economically. I've always wondered how much of that was the public line rather than actual assessment within the Foreign Office or government. It seemed a little wishful when Communism still looked secure - before the wall fell, Eastern bloc nations were dropping like flies, and there were pro-democracy demos across China - which of course culminated in Tiananmen.

You're also right it mainly disappeared from view after the 97 handover ceremony, which is to be regretted.
200-400 gigabit/s is not that huge.
Our safe word has become sacred, because there's a lot of benefit to having it, so yielding to it works.

I did date a woman who had two daughters.. she needed a safe word in their dynamic but tried introducing it too late in the game.

I think you have to start this one early.
Probably by doing it when it's too cold out for the bugs. They also dip it in brine to neutralize the pathogens on the surface of the fish.

What I'm curious about is what they do if they put a batch out and then a warm front blows through unexpectedly. Do they take the fish down and stuff them in a freezer until the weather cools off again? I can't imagine they let the whole batch get ruined.
Hacker News?

It would be one thing if this was an entirely new website.
I wonder if this is to allow safe digestion/absorption of blood types that might otherwise cause rejection problems.
This article ignores large body of knowledge about parenting, unapplicable in most cultures and families in the world. I tried it personally. Techniques described serve no good purpose, just irritate everyone and ultimately destroys family from inside
Emory scientist was told to vacate as reprisal for activism on Asian ties
Google is such a large company, with so many different teams and goals, that it is hard to believe that the words of someone, even as high as the CEO, represent the practices of all the employees.

Good on Google to support ETH.
> "Swartz accessed a system he did not have permission to access. He did so by entering a restricted area he did not have permission to access."

> These two sentences appear incorrect. I can simply refer you to Wikipedia, where it states that he accessed "JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT."

He was not a student at MIT and was initially looked at for trespass, though the Institute declined to prosecute.

If trespassing is _not_ "entering a restricted area he did not have permission to access", what is?

> "Swartz was never going to get anywhere remotely near 35 years and people need to stop spouting this nonsense as it makes them look completely ignorant of every single fact in the case."

> Incorrect and inflammatory; again, a simple check of Wikipedia suggests that you don't have your facts right.

Being theoretically possible to be sentenced to 35 years in jail does not in any way say that it is assured that you will. You willfully ignore context in the posts that discuss the difference between what a realistic sentence is, and how it differs at times from the sensationalist maximum sentence.

Just yesterday, a man was sentenced to 12 years jail for rape, despite there being a maximum sentence possible of 72 years. It is not incorrect or inflammatory to say that it was unlikely that person was ever going to get sentenced to 72 years in prison.
Killjoys at the FDA would probably make it difficult to import.
‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news means
In case anyone isn't reading the article, these aren't "autonomous self-driving" trucks. They're remotely controlled trucks. Though I think Starsky has some longer-term goals of making some highway portions autonomous.
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Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.
That's exactly what I was thinking, I can't imagine driving a semi on a busy road, let alone doing so remotely.

Then again based on those pictures the operates have far better views around their truck then you would sitting in it.

But then again the UX of looking around vs a computer screen has to be another hurtle.
I feel like the risk of this is lower than that of rail car theft (find a place where the train slows down, hop on it, steal stuff, leave before it gets to a depot. Or alternatively disconnect the last car and take everything).
"Assange was covertly acting as an agent of a hostile foreign government with the intention of interfering in U.S. domestic politics."
That is quite an accusation, is there any proof of that?
I suggested a simple solution for the problem. Ask users to meet a certain fund raising goal and if they don't come up with it, either stop working on the project, or pull it entirely and let them worry about it. This is a capitalist approach to the problem of capitalists exploiting communists. Better approach is probably not license your stuff under exploitative licenses and put clauses in there for bigger companies using your work.
Compare that article to this one, specifically the editor's note at the bottom:
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/203...
I haven't seen this exact thing.

I have seen a variety of dried fishes available in Slavic and Asian markets though, so I'm sure you could find something similar.
I can’t wait until high res 24/7 lifelogging of audio and video is common so that these sorts of things are documented regularly.
This is way cool. I recently started a new app and decided to see how far I could get without a build tool. My early impressions left me wanting to write a blog post "ES Modules Make JavaScript Fun Again." The whole development cycle felt clean and simple. Ultimately though I got hung up on dependencies. For a while I was just including things directly from node_modules/. But npm flattens things so that library location is not predictable (this crops up when en ES module dependency tries to look in its own node_modules/ directory for another ES module dependency, but that dependency has actually been flattened to the top level). So you're basically stuck downloading all your dependencies (and their dependencies) manually. This isn't 100% a bad thing. It pushes you to use smaller dependencies with fewer sub-dependencies. You're also stuck using libraries that export an ES module. Pika could be just the ticket to bridge these gaps.
Exactly. The whole response ignores the existence of consumer surplus. We can see the silliness by applying to the actual examples - since core-js brings in $16204 and is used by 2442712, by such definition it only contributes $0.006 in economic value to each user. Would any of them accept 1 cent - or even a full dollar! - in exchange for not using core-js?
Ours has become very multi-use, but it's pretty righteously observed.

My girlfriend and I may be in the car with my son, and the conversation may steer into very adult territory, the kind of thing that makes my son uncomfortable, and after a bit of the talking, we'll hear a moderately voiced "baaaadingo..." from the backseat, which we know means he thinks we've gotten too far into adult-land and he's not feeling comfortable.

But sometimes when we lose our tempers, the safe word can be a gift. He's 15, his teenager-ness is kicking in just about now, and we can use the safe word to disrupt a self-esteem spiral. He'll stop whatever rant he's on, and sit down and wait it out. The safe word most often stops a behavior and introduces silence... everyone can use that gift regularly enough.
Related: an analysis of Super Mario Brother's Level-1 design as an invisible tutorial:

https://medium.com/@abhishekiyer_25378/the-perfect-game-tuto...
I don't think there are many bugs in Iceland so long as you don't fish-shack-up near a lake, ponies, or puffins.
Yeah I figured there was relatively little legal risk here. I just wanted to point out that if your legal defense is the party at fault keeping support chat logs then you might want to rethink your legal defense :P
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I spent $500 usd on Fiverr in the last month getting design done, getting studio musicians and rappers recording parts for music. Previously had full animated videos made there. It's pretty great.
Are there any worries around drivers being more careless with driving since their own live is not in danger like it would be while actually in the truck?
I wonder... at one point I wrote an extension (for the moderators) which had the ability to essentially follow users. Think of it as a news feed for HN.

Really wish I could make that open source if no one is using it lol I use it personally to follow people on HN which post interesting comments (still works after 4 years with no edits)
> Because, while transgenderism isn't against the law, there are definitely parts of society where it is against the mores of that portion of society and with some people being strongly enough against it they want to make it against the law.

What does it mean to make transgenderism illegal? In the US it would not be possible to legislate someone's appearance or how they choose to identify.
My fave spot for interesting dried fish in SF is "New World Market" on Geary in the Richmond district. Its pretty good but slightly confusing if you don't speak russian.
Hey, could you elaborate a little more on "skipping the entire thread"? I don't quite understand. Please consider creating a feature request in the GitHub repo's issue, it'll allow me to track the issues better. Thanks!
When I bought a house, my bank, Chase (naming names!) made me sign a form saying that they had permission to repossess my house.

Not conditional on non-payment or anything. Not conditional on violation of the terms of the mortgage. Just a blanket document that said they could take it whenever they liked. Apparently the idea is that if I die and my survivors continue to live in the house, then they might have trouble foreclosing on the house because my survivors did not sign the loan agreement. Otherwise, they promised, this document would stay in a drawer somewhere and never be used.

I said that of course I would not sign this document, and they said that the bank would not issue the loan without it. At this point, at closing, what can I even do? Closing was a formality -- my lease had already run out on my previous place, movers had been arranged, HOA had signed off on the purchase and the mortgage terms, and the approval of the loan itself took a stupidly long time to get all the documentation necessary so I couldn't just go to another bank and start the whole process again (especially since they would probably make me sign the same damn form).

So I signed it, and may God have mercy on my soul.
Wow. I know Fiverr for years but I never thought of it more than as a cheap version of freelancer dot com and now it goes to IPO with $700M valuation? That’s crazy!
yes it's hard to read. If the goal of technology is to make things simpler and more efficient and to remove barriers, all these blockchain solutions don't do a very good job of conveying how they're doing that.

I also still don't understand one part the article jumped over:

>But none of this addresses a fundamental issue: where to get the variables with which the contract is evaluated. If the data are not derived from recently added on-chain data, a trusted source of external data is required. Such a source is called an oracle.

I and my landlord don't live on the blockchain, if he claims that I broke the door and need to pay the damages, how does the immutable blockchain help me? This sounds to me like the semantic web. When people asked "well and what if someone puts wrong data into the system?" the answer was just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I will counter argue the imputation of misnaming with the auto industry examples that the Japanese cars with catchy and sexy names such as Toyota Camry, Honda Clarity, Nissan Rogue; whereas the German counterpart with unimaginative M-Benz c300, e550; BMW i300, i3, i8... and yet German cars sales remain strong
For those unaware, this part is key:

"Unlike some other "driverless" truck companies, Starsky isn't building a completely autonomous solution. Instead, it uses teleoperation to remotely drive the truck between freight depots and the freeway where a highway-only automated driving system takes over."

Starsky is doing really impressive work, but the trucks aren't designed to be 100% autonomous 100% of the time. I think this is a great solution to the last-mile problem for freight logistics, however.
Eh, we've had photo fakes for years. We're far too trustful of media.
Instead of science and the humanities fighting each other for dominance, there
Wouldn't that work pretty well with a human driver? I don't think most truck drivers are going to risk their life for their cargo. If you block a truck in with a couple cars and block them from calling 911, they'll just try to protect themselves and maybe try to film you if they're brave.
This is exciting technology! My father in-law is a trucker, although nearly retired. He's fascinated by the developments made by you guys.

I'm not entirely familiar with the industry and day-to-day of a trucker, but I'd imagine you'd need some "on the ground" personnel, at least initially, to perform tasks such as fueling on long hauls.

Aside from this, it'd be interesting to see how quickly you can go coast-to-coast without a human needing a break/sleep.
If every one of my friends and even my employer used an app to conduct business and I refused to get it no matter how much they tried to tell me to because I was concerned about my privacy I'd be ostracized. This did happen to me with Facebook to an extent, and Facebook isn't nearly as much of a mammoth as WeChat. Stop pretending it's a choice.
I agree, I think some of the best designs lead you along without making it obvious at all. My opinion is that some of the top tier level design has a strict path on moving forward but lets it up to the player to decide how exactly they want to move down it.
Orenstein was also the judge that ruled against the DoJ/FBI during the iPhone backdoor case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/technology/apple-wins-rul...
Yes it does: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01392
> "It doesn't matter that the product doesn't actually work, what's really turning off users is that it isn't pretty enough!"

This is unfortunately a very real phenomenon. You're telling me you've never worked with/for a company that went gung-ho on some half-baked pile of junk of a system because some sales guy wowed the execs with some flashy "whitepapers" and pretty demos? If not, then you're luckier than I've been, that's for sure.
The same argument goes to Objective-C in the 80s :)
How are you guys planning to handle the paperwork, inspection, and liability hand-off tasks typically done by truck drivers today? People at the depots on either side, virtual sign-offs/inspections, or what?
We aren't arguing for the contrary. We're just trying to make sure you're evaluating them correctly.

IanCal found some nice links that support your claim, but he even added that depending on what and how you use it, either may be better for you (You wanted to count cache hits).
This approach is as old as the hills. From RMS' Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism:

> Many years ago, a friend of mine was asked to rerelease a copylefted program under noncopyleft terms, and he responded more or less like this:
>
> > "Sometimes I work on free software, and sometimes I work on proprietary software---but when I work on proprietary software, I expect to get paid."
>
> He was willing to share his work with a community that shares software, but saw no reason to give a handout to a business making products that would be off-limits to our community. His goal was different from mine, but he decided that the GNU GPL was useful for his goal too.

The approach is far more common in other kinds of licensed, creative work. Creative Commons' choice to standardized noncommercial license terms helped make commercial-noncommercial licensing familiar in photography, illustration, music, and so on.

The model has gone by a few names. Those researching should search on "selling exceptions" and "dual licensing", too.

I'm doing what I can to popularize through License Zero (https://licensezero.com).
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