skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would need a rail network to pass the salt.

So... I'd need a train set in the kitchen? This is not a downside.
Very true! I'm just trying to explain that there is a distinction between central banks and commercial banks, objecting to the statement `The central bank "prints" a lot [of] money, but so do private banks.`

I think that the difference is important, because if one believes that a commercial bank can print fiat money the way a central bank does, then the idea of a bank run or bank collapse looks incomprehensible.
That's another false equivocation.
The vast majority of killers aren't aiming to kill a lot of people. Just one, usually. You're focusing on the dramatic mass killings instead of the significant majority of murderers, who could switch to knives and acid.

And then there are the mass killers, but since vehicles won't be banned because they have "overwhelmingly more legitimate use", they would remain available for mass killings. As would bombs, though that does require more skill than the other weapons.

And guns would remain available too. Gun control does very little to prevent criminals from obtaining guns, as the gun crime rate in Chicago shows.
>Out of those claims the "language X is more precise/able to express more nuance than Y" is probably the reddest flag of them all.

This may be nonsense as an overall comparison between languages but this is definitely the case for specific concepts. Here is a paper where the reactions of 30 Dutch people and 30 Jahai tribesman to a set of odors were compared:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...

First two paragraphs of the conclusion:

Olfactory abstraction varies across cultures: while Dutch participants confirmed the often-touted claim that ‘olfactory abstraction is impossible’ [19] by providing mostly concrete language in response to odours, Jahai speakers overwhelmingly described odours with dedicated, abstract language. In addition, their responses were faster and shorter, providing converging evidence that the Jahai are communicatively adept in talking about odours.

Even for the monomolecular odours used in this study, which do not have a single object entity associated with them, Dutch participants predominantly tried to identify a source (e.g. flowers), or situation (e.g. house that isn't aired), corresponding to that aroma. Their grappling to identify concrete sources was in sharp contrast to the fluent abstract Jahai responses. Previous studies have shown that Standard Average Europeans struggle to identify odours [5,13–16], as also illustrated by the Dutch here. The greater ease of linguistic expression demonstrated by the Jahai is not unique, however. It appears that hunter-gatherer communities in particular find odours easier to talk about [23].

It's not really an objectionable concept. It's essentially the same as how any kind of discipline with a reasonable amount of information to learn comes up with their own terms. It makes it easier to navigate relevant information.
"dissident free speech activist website" is a pretty darn charitable description of 8chan, and certainly not what makes it unique. Are there even a significant number of free-speech absolutists at 8chan, or do they just want their particular kind of chicanery to be unrestricted? By what objective, rational standard should 8chan be completely unregulated while that's not the case for sites dealing (for example) in drugs or sex?
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The expectation level for UIs on mobile devices has been set very high. There is a lot of detail to get right in order to deliver the experience that people expect. That UI specific work is very time consuming.

It doesn't really matter what else is going on in your app, if that work can be done more efficiently to produce a more consistent result, then that's the decision you make.
We agree, money (under various definitions) is created within limits.

In fact banks also create money when they take cash deposits (and destroy money when they hand out cash).

If I deposit a $100 bill into a bank we’re increasing the money supply because I have $100 and so does the bank (until it spends it, trades it for a non-money asset or lends it out).
or tie every login to a donation to the other political party. that should do the trick.
To be fair most of the things you listed can be "learned" on Discovery History Channel.
Interesting post (esp loved the ending), but it missed two key points:
1) if you want less of something (e.g. email), you don't always have to say 'no', if that's a problem somehow you can also just deliver slowly
2) the best way to do things quickly is not to hurry, it's to break it into smaller pieces whenever possible, so that each piece is delivered quickly
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So then let's go back to stuffing our heads in the sand and doing nothing instead.

Show a link between games and hate crime fueled mass shooting by sad white boys and we can put it on the list of things to worry about. Until then, perhaps making it harder to get guns could help...
That is not garbage, that is exactly what he's saying: do something interesting, then share it with the people who are interested in that kind of thing.
This is the sort of "laws work like computer code" thinking that gets you "I don't recognize this court because it has a fringed flag" sovereign citizen types.

A judge is not going to see it this way.
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if by knowledge workers you mean developers, automating their job is their job and they have been doing it since the 60s.

Medical personell -> over-regulated, their pay doesnt fully reflect the work they put in , but the work they don't allow others to put in

Legal professionals -> they control the regulation, they will always pay themselves even if they dont show up to work at all.
Unless your adversary has a time machine, deleting from the server protects your past e-mails from any server-side compromise.

That's not nothing. :-)

But you're right there are trade-offs. If you don't have good backups, you are indeed increasing the odds of data loss by managing the data yourself. That is also true of encryption of data at rest, you are increasing the odds of data loss to buy some protection against unauthorized access. There are always trade-offs.

I had grand visions for how Mailpile could help mitigate such issues by encrypting the mail and re-uploading back to an IMAP server. But I haven't gotten that written, so for now it's just an idea. Someday, I hope.

Disclaimer: I wrote Mailpile. :-D
> You would not think that this is a complicated problem to puzzle out.

Sure, “the unique access to guns is a significant cause of the unique problem” is an obvious conclusion. Others are plausible, however, the most obvious alternative being that the two are effects of a common cause rather than cause and effect: that is, that America is uniquely heavily populated by violent maniacs, which produces the access to guns as a political result (both of the maniacs seeking arms to commit violence and others seeking access in fear to the maniacs) and the mass slaughter as a more direct result.

In that case, cutting off access to the guns might not have as much result as one might hope.
I wrote them in Portuguese because I don’t feel like explaining my opinions too much in English. I don’t find it productive and it might just bring other people into the discussion, which I didn’t want. I hope that was clear.

I hope you’re right and things get better. There would be no greater joy in my life than seeing Brasil succeed.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610395
> A shocking number of places still use a crappy magstripe reader or have a nice new Vodafone terminal but disable NFC (and possibly chip as well).

In other words, Apple's enlisting millions of people to push at a grassroots level for NFC adoption, and making money off them at the same time.
Author here, AMA!

Ever since solving a similar problem on the terminal a few years back [0], I kept wanting to explicitly change working context, keeping application states between whatever tasks I was working on.

Cleave attempts to solve this by allowing you save and load "context" in macOS, in a manner similar to how IDEs and text editors lets you manipulate "projects" and "workspaces". These actions are available via a global hotkey that triggers the command palette, or via the menu bar.

The Open Beta will be out this fall.

[0]: https://github.com/eivindarvesen/prm
If you aren't buying the product, then you are the product. Maybe the problem is that extensions stores aren't as monitized as the IOS and Android App stores?
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Right, but QT apps are QT apps -- they're not really native on any platform which is the same problem you run into with Flutter an Electron.

If you want an app that has platform semantics on every major platform then you need separate code bases. If you want an app that has the same semantics on every platform then you go with a cross-platform toolkit.
> Imagine if real life utilities did this.

Coming soon to a wrongthinker near you.
Unless we're talking about a different Voltaire, he did precisely that many times to avoid prison and execution...
May not help your resume much.

But I would say go for it (Esp. Perl6) just for the fun of it. It is a very modern multi paradigm language which is still accessible to regular folks.
Have any of those "other countries" used similar laws in the past 100 years for political suppression and consolidation of power?
> I'd love to see companies actually do the right thing and not talk about it;

Was this being intentionally ironic? If companies do the right thing and don't talk about it, then you won't see it. They could be doing it right now, and you'd have no way to know.
> Comparing the two implicitly accepts the idea that one can choose to be gay (and can thus be changed with the right methods)

Not necessarily, it can also mean that you don't choose ideology or belief either, which I think is hard to argue against: nobody decides "I'm going to be a socialist" and then models their worldview after socialism.
For the record, I do not consider myself to be right, I may lean to the right on some issues but as a supporter of Universal-Basic-Income and Universal Healthcare, environmental science etc. I would say many of my view lean left of center. It total I consider myself a centrist.

Where I don't waver from the alt-right on is on constitutional rights, so while my talking points may seem to you to come out of a playbook they are my views on the world and I tend to form those views based of my experiences and reasoning.

I do not believe I am making the world a boggy man for anyone. Just calling the numbers as I see them. I believe these young men are cowards as evident in the Texas shooters manifesto where he explicitly states that he targeted Walmart as he would not meet armed resistance.
I think the most important point is in the final paragraph:

"Find the place where your tribe hangs out. Show up, help people out, talk about what you're doing, and the rest will take care of itself."

The article starts out sounding like it's about effective marketing, but as it progresses, the unavoidable conclusion becomes that it only works because he's sharing content relevant to HN, in a way that appeals to HN, because he himself is a HN user.

Marketing as an insider of the crowd you're marketing to is trivial. Marketing as an outsider is hard.
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In the context of startups, speed definitely does matter. Reminds me of something PG used to say at YC - "if at some point you don't feel ashamed of what you released, then you released it too late" (paraphrasing).
Many years ago, in another life, I knew this guy who worked in TV. He still works professionally so lets call him Orwell. One of Or’s first jobs was working on the special makeup for Star Trek : The Next Generation and boy did he have some stories. I always assumed that you just slap on a rubber mask and maybe a bit of glue and start the cameras running but apparently it is a lot more complex.

Depending on the lighting and any requirements for special effects (done optically back then), there were a lot of calculations to do in order to make the make up look consistent between shots. Simple things like the choice of foundation were very important.

Orwell used to tell me that he dreaded outdoor shoots the most. He would be feverishly working away with a light-meter and his formula when the producer would arrive on the location demanding to know why dozens of very expensive cast and crew were just standing around. The answer was always then same, they were waiting ‘ere Or’s tabulating Data’s base complexion.
> We really should be trying to use the native GUI toolkit

Yes.

The problem with that is that it requiere experience * each toolkit and that is pain-full for many.

This cause a FORCED split (when multi-platform):

- You want easy to use and fast iteration. You NOT use native UI. Reach for mediocre options

- You want the BEST of the BEST of the BEST. You pick native UI. However sometimes that toolkit is nuts (Windows API, Android, Linux. Ok like all of them?) Or if lucky you know the other alternative (Windows -> Delphi, Android -> Kotlin, Linux -> ????)

----

This is not a fair fight. UI is too hard everywhere. C++ toolkits are nuts.

And it not need to be this way.

I think today we already have a good idea in how truly a good toolkit must be done:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9bapwt/thoughts_on_wh...

- A lot can be actually cross-platform: Layouts, Units, colors, fonts calculation...

- Widget definition with a DSL (like SwiftUI) This allow:

- Real-time drawing of widgets AND easy drag-drop UI creation like Delphi or HyperCard (this is where HTML beat almost everything)

The above are candidates for cross-ui then you need:

- Rendered by each toolkit. With native controls

- Some way to communicate the backend to this front-end

I think this is alike a game engine:

1- You define the UI:

<Window title="hello"><UIButton if="iOS"> <Button if="the others">

2- You have a driver that launch the UI:

UI derived from BaseUI..

//customize it for my project or create a new platform

UI.register(UIButton...
UI.register(UIWindow for "Window"
//Attach listeners..
UI.listen(...)
//Run the UI
UI.run(the UI directory)

When using a "no namespaced" control like "Button" it work like Flutter: The engine chose whatever it want. When use a specific control "UIButton" it trust the launcher to handle it. Or fallback if to the generic.

---

To be clear:

This is almost the same as usual. Except it work like a interpreted language: It have a monolithic core but is possible to code a specific version per platform (if desired). The critical component is the ability to register to the engine (very easily!) new widgets, listeners, behaviors. etc.
> Since the decay chain of thorium consists exclusively of alpha and beta particle emission, neither of which is very penetrating, the closed shutter protects the film from the radiation from the rear of the lens.

This isn't true. Thallium 208, for example, is on the decay chain. Yeah, it beta decays to lead, but it also emits a 2.6 MeV gamma ray in the process [1]. That's one of the highest energy gamma rays you typically see from radioactive decay, and it's highly penetrating. That's one example, and there's also lead 212 and actinium 228, which also peaks in the 100s of keVs.

[1] See the "gammas" part of http://nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/toi/nuclide.asp?iZA=810208
I agree with this -- whether the portal be HN or something else. I'd gladly pay a subscription to a portal and ingest the content as I see fit.

I'd be against paying $.10 per article read (or clicked) because most articles, I never fully read. HN is an exception to that rule - I find most of the content linked from HN to be beneficial and worthwhile.
Here are some examples of excessive policing and prosecution:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4075328/Man-jailed-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-47638527

https://www.france24.com/en/20181031-blasphemy-middle-east-a...
Why would I choose this over
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/
or
https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/src/master/
?

I am just curious.
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One could argue that there's no insincerity there: "your body makes you look fat, not this dress" ;-)

Though one could argue that withholding the truth is insincere as well.

Anyway, I agree you can be polite and not sincere: on ocassion, it's required (especially if your opinion is not based on enough evidence).
Love the English place names "Foulness Island".
Uh, ARPANET comes to mind. Or, you know, digital computers. Those have been pretty successful team projects.
That special power is literally the distinction between bank and central bank, and what this whole thread is about.

Central banks do have that special power, they can literally create money out of nothing. A normal bank can lend out a $, but they need to have taken a $ deposit, and it stays on the banks balance sheet.

Normal banks special powers are turning risky illiquid debt and making it appear risk free and liquid to depositors.
Yes sure, if we reduce 'real' to just mean it's not created ex nihilo out of the aether sure, but everything is 'real' under that definition... ultimately everything is still attributable to a human decision to kick off a process.

Is QAnon actually a highly placed government official (or someone with access to information about the function and plans at a high level)? From all their big predictions so far (arrests etc) being false I think we can pretty easily conclude no.
It depends. For the euro tunnel train from Paris to London you have to go through the same security checks like at the airport. But this is not the rule and rather an exemption. However, there have been voices in the EU Comission to perform security checks at train stations, too.
These prints are currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago [1] and if you're in the area, it's a highly recommended temp exhibition.

AIC is having a great run with prints lately. Before this they did a whole exhibit on Japanese mass produced prints, using Hokusai's "Great Wave off Kanagawa" and its variants as the leading example. [2]

[1] https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9332/yokohama-e-19th-centu...

[2] https://www.artic.edu/articles/743/seeing-triple-the-great-w...
I think the issue is that what Tcl people think of as simplicity is for most people an uncomfortably-radical minimalism.
That is not what CF or any CDN does, and that's not what "deplatformed" means. If you toss it around like that, it won't be clear that it has a precise meaning and people will think it's a phrase that is thrown around to coerce people to unwillingly associate with people and organizations they don't want to associate with.
I mean, great that you had that experience, and thankfully you didn't make a blog post talking about how you solved ______. It's fine to come up with ideas on your own, but if you don't know enough about the field to know whether you're on the right track, don't announce to the internet that you've found the solution.
Try this: https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/
I never said we should be more like China. I just said that internet censorship can prevent extremist groups from organizing (which it can).
Those communities will just be driven underground, more than likely, to Tor sites and be much harder to track. At least once 4Chan and 8Chan are pushed out.
That's an interesting idea.

I'd hesitate to implement it though, because of secondary risks. It would need to be thought through very carefully, and there are a whole bunch of abuse scenarios that would need to be avoided or mitigated.

As a rule, Mailpile does very little when it receives a mail - until the user has interacted with it, we have to assume the mail is junk and/or potentially hostile.

See the chapter on Oracles here: https://research.checkpoint.com/cryptographic-attacks-a-guid... - automatically triggering sender-controlled network access based on the contents of e-mail opens the door for such things.

This applies not only to cryptographic attacks, but also to more pedestrian exploitation of bugs in the app itself, or silly things like turning Mailpiles into DDoS attack robots.
I'm not arguing that that other forms of engineering are completely inflexible or that software doesn't have some constraints. I'm just saying that in general it is far, far easier to change lines of code than it is physical objects. That's why when there is a hardware issue that can be addressed in software, they send you a patch not a new CPU.
Extract fuzzy url, url without protocols, email from natural language texts
How good of a fortune teller is DNA?
Think of brine as industrial pollution. It wont stay in a dump, it will leak out and poison an area for tens of thousands of years.
> In a way I already like deep fakes since they force people not to take anything they see on the net too seriously.

Personally I find that perspective to be incredibly naive.

Roughly equivalent in effectiveness to "we should spread fentanyl everywhere. Because it's so easy to OD people will be afraid and stop using drugs." Nope, people will just start over dosing way more frequently.
Feels like trying to treat symptoms rather than the illness...
> known length tasks.

I think the only known-length task is a completed task.
The end goal of bigotry is to distort legal structures to eliminate equality and preferentially harm certain people, often because of attributes they can't change, like their ethnicity or where they were born. If you're worried about protecting people of the future, you should be opposing bigotry.

Bigotry has cloaked itself in the mantle of victim and you've totally fallen for it.
> Hey everyone, before you comment: This article is a reviews of the HBO TV-show Big Little Lies.

Thank you. This was rather odd without context.

> Apparently HN cares a lot more about kitchen islands than about mainstream TV-shows!

HBO is mainstream, now? I thought it was premium. Super-duper-premium, maybe.

Ah well. I suppose in a land where Netflix can make its own movies, HBO is positively dowdy.
I have tried to find numbers on this after I made my comment and couldn't come up with anything.

> have drafted and passed a complete background check law have not considered any of this, or looked at any data

Yes, generally because the people proposing gun laws know nothing about guns.

I have watched national politicians tell townhalls that it's perfectly legal for someone to order a gun online right to their door without a background check, that is a felony.

I have watched them tell people that fully automatic guns are easy to obtain, which they are not.

I have watched them tell people that banning the AR-15 should be our #1 priority, when in reality more people are punched and kicked to death each year than are killed with rifles.

So yes, politicians generally talk out of their @$$ to pander to their bases and get votes. They are not experts on most subject matter so I wouldn't expect them to have any info that isn't widely known.