skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh!

Money has really corrupted free and open source. The entire idea of free software is that it's free, without any catch. People loved to create and would create and give it away, the reward was in the creating and seeing other's use it. If you didn't care about that, you charged for it. Sometimes, the idea was that a bunch of random people would show up and create a free alternative against a very expensive software. For photoshop, see gimp. For oracle see mysql & postgresql. It was not free so companies couldn't profit off them, it was free for anyone to use, students, people without money, bums, anyone, companies included. The idea of open source was you can be free to inspect the source, tweak and customize to your taste, fix a bug if you have it, share your knowledge so other's can also borrow. This was the ethos of the hackers spirit. Build shit, share shit. Not hackers vs for-profit companies. We have coexisted along side for profit companies companies for a long time, they have built some cool shit that an individual or a random bunch of individuals couldn't. iphone, gpu, cloud some of those profit companies were started by hackers, and we have built shit they couldn't imagine or dare build. napster, torrent, bitcoin, linux.

So let's please stop this rhetroic about for-profit companies gaining value from open source. That was always the intent. Would it be nice if they gave back? Sure! But if they don't, no problem too. If they build cool stuff with open source that drives society forward, it's good for all. Case in point, see Linux or raspberry pi tons of amazing IOT devices out there that won't exist without it or worse running windows ce.

Companies are also giving back, go to Github. Sometimes it's just a single line of code commit, sometimes it's finding a bug, sometimes it's a correction to documentation. Then some are giving massively, see go, dart, react, angular, ionic, tensorflow, kubernetes. The symbiotic relationship between hackers and for-profit companies are really strong and we are not enemies. The only real battle that's been fought since the beginning is that information must be free. It's never been about the battle of money.

Want some money? Go get a job or start a business. Bill Gates did it, Jobs & Woz did it, Linus got a job. John Carmack has a job, Jeff Dean has a job, even Paul Graham works for his. If anything I'm very suspicious of those who want to get paid for working on open source.
> Imagine if you were an intelligence agency and you were permitted to surveil American communications, and there was this pesky congressman who didn't want to support your organization, so you collect lewd photos of him from his phone and post them on his Twitter repeatedly.

> You could effectively use the data on Twitter to control the leaders of the US. "Hey, remember that congressman who didn't like us and then accidentally tweeted his own sexts? That was hilarious. Anyway, we'd really like you to increase funds and be more permissive about what our agency can do."

> Apropos of nothing, here's an interesting interesting website: https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/23162/anthony-wein....

I may be dense but it was not clear to me what the point in linking to the votesmart site was? Is it the change between pro/against for patriot act?
Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future
Great, that means Conversion Therapy works then right?
> independent

That assumption and the birthday paradox is what leaves people walking funny.
> This raises an interesting question. Such an attacker would need to craft a tweet with the following constraints:

> * Plausible so that people do not believe it is a compromise

> * Offensive enough to cause action

> * Not in the category that people just roll their eyes and think Trump is being outrageous on the internet again.

> This is probably harder than it seems at first glance.

Is the third bullet even a thing after the whole Greenland debacle? Before then I had already thought I'd heard it all.
It won't, the charging coils are on the back of the phone, and there's both too much metal and too much distance between the coils and the front of the phone. In some phones with removable backs, the Qi charging coils were actually on the removable back part. (e.g. Lumia 950)
WinRar, maybe. It is an example of a software when you dont really need a license, but you can buy one if you desire.

https://www.win-rar.com/winrarlicense.html?&L=0
Sounds like she would know what to do with a horse in a hospital.
I’m interested in learning some of the techniques that make gaming more enticing. I’ve got some educational apps for iOS that I would like to make more engaging. I’ve noticed that after 5-7 days retention really trails off. Do people buy into badges, leveling up, daily streaks, etc?

Two of my apps:

Hundred Words:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hundred-words/id1469449237

Language Pairs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/language-pairs/id1438817614?...
Shopify and the Return of the Merchant Class
The article points out different ways yield is increased to get to a practical level
Note that the aviation industry (as you are likely aware) operates on a blameless basis in the interest of preventing a repeat of the same tragedy. That part has come and gone. The cooperation has happened. The investigation has been conducted, the physical, objective nature of the issue; it's implementation, and the physical chain of events that led to the crashes is established.

Boeing survived that.

What they haven't survived is the full process of peeling back the layers of paperwork, and subsequent investigation into what enabled the physical foundation of these crashes to come about.

Considering there was apparently a whistleblower willing to testify that decisions material to enabling the crash were made specifically to meet deadlines by dodging regulator scrutiny, I have the feeling Boeing will have a rough time of it.
I urge anyone who is using dark patterns in their software or business models to take a step back and think about this: some of the people your projects engage are fighting to keep their head above water. Your decisions, however abstracted they may be from these people, could make or break somebody's will to live.

Concretely, I was so disheartened to hear of Facebook/Cornell's studies a few years back around effecting users moods by controlling the negativity of content. In the communities I come from mental health is not simple and people are dying. Relationships are being stretched. People are out on thin ice just to survive. Those researchers were clearly completely out of touch with the gravity of their decision to experiment on people like that. We need to do better.
Thank you for the interesting reference to Heine., which is nicely translated, btw. I didn't know this.

I assumed, the "spearmen" background, however, I find the analogy to be, probably by accident, to have a much wider reach, which I can not really communicate in English, since the vocabulary differs too much for that.

Thanks for the interesting comment.
Because it’s so much more than just sexual attraction.
Can't tell if sarcastic or not, but that question will certainly be resurrected.
Opinion Warning: I'm no scientist; this is just my opinion.

I know several people who are gay and what's very interesting is most of the people I know, is there are people in their family, sisters/brothers/uncles/etc. That are also homosexuals. I suspect there might not be "one gene" that makes a person a homosexual, but a collection of genes that increase the odds of someone being homosexual.

That being said, I feel like search for such a gene is to combat religious beliefs that homosexuality is wrong.

I'm still confused with why so many people are obsessed with the sexual orientation of another person?

I remember one time, I attended a meetup that was focused on LGBT startups. In the elevator, there were four people; two other men, a woman and me.

One guy who was apparently by himself and didn't read the agenda of the meetup asked the "couple" next to him how difficult it was to start a company and be in a relationship. The man replied "We're not a couple, I'm gay." then the women laughed and said, "I'm also gay, and this meetup is the LGBT community raising capital for their company."

The guy then turned to me and asked: "Are you also gay?" I replied: "No, but that headband you're wearing might be." Everyone but he laughed, and I thought that would ease the mood. This guy seemed very concerned about being a straight man in a gay meetup. I told him to relax and explained I was there to join a couple of friends who were speaking at the meetup.

I understand that some people feel uncomfortable being around people they are not used to being around; sexual orientation, race, income status, etc. They just haven't had that experience. Hopefully, that guy was able to feel more comfortable around none heterosexuals. They make amazing wing men and women :)
It’s pretty easy to get access to a gun in the states, it’s not like we have the lock box policy that Germany has (responsible gun ownership laws are ironically faught against by the NRA). Most kids use their parents’ gun, no background check required.

Getting enough pills to do yourself in without a prescription is super hard and not very reliable. Most OTC drugs will cause you to vomit long before you die. Anyways, this is the route my terminally ill mom took with a doctor’s help, the best way to do it anyways. (I only knew two people who committed suicide, the other one was a girl who shot herself in the head in high school)

Surviving a suicide by gun is kind of gruesome, it isn’t something I want to think about.

There are plenty of great reasons to restrict firearms, making suicide more difficult is just one of them. Honestly, it’s only something you have to worry about if you have guns in the house in the first place (the girls’ dad was the heavily pro gun type, so she had easy access), so it’s easy to opt out of that problem for us anti gun types (unlike say mass school shootings).
What do you mean by “FED”? Do you mean “the Fed”, the Federal Reserve System?
It would be nice to one day be able to edit out heritable genetic diseases, e.g., known deleterious BRCA mutations, in humans.
> But wide adoption of the optional security setting would make the app far harder to use for the vast majority of its more than 200 consumers, who rely on uploading phone contacts to identify friends and family members on the app, the source said.

This is false: regardless of Telegram’s nags to upload my phone book to them, I find it quite easy to use the app without doing this.
Less so, this is VBx2 not vantablack. They made a supposedly less cancerous version for this type of application.
Not sure it’s a good one, but how about this:

A hub of software, like github or npm could acts as a general mediator of funding. A new license could be designed such that entitles above a certain size would have to donate a percentage of revenue to the hub, while also reporting which software they which to license (this only acts as a kind of voting for where to place investments, the donation size is fixed). The hub in question could then spend the income on the various projects taking popularity in account for prioritzation.
the first daunting task is editing trillions of cells. rough estimates [0] put the number of cells in the body at 37 trillion, with about 80% of those being red blood cells (who've lost their nuclei), so that puts the number of intact-nuclei cells at ~7.5 trillion. how many of those would you have to edit to mitigate such a syndrome?

even if you could edit the critical cells, you'd end up with a chimeric cell makeup, and what does that mean in the long-term? then you have to tackle ethics, psychological effects, physiological effects, etc.

not trying to squelch the thought or effort, but that seems like a very long, hard road.

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318342.php
Thanks, that’s good advice. I’m ok with an external apple Magic Trackpad. As long as I can bring my own device so to speak.
I can only speculate why people are downvoting, but I suspect it's because sysbin's comment seems to suggest a particular state of mind:

- Ignorance of the First Amendment
- Extreme sense of entitlement and expectation that others should do as he/she expects regardless of how the other person feels about it

Phrasing it as "I was surprised to find that doctors in the US can refuse treatment to transgenders based on their religious beliefs" would probably have led to far fewer downvotes.
For a fun example of how trademarks are limited, check out the “Microsoft Windows 95” beer. Sapporo owns the trademark for use on beer products.

https://www.ratebeer.com/forums/saporro-black-windows-95-edi...
Psychological trauma (Spiced up with 2000 year old memes) has always worked to ruin minds, if that is what you mean.
Destiny 2 is moving from battle.net to Steam
Actually, they've been required to completely rearchitect the computer system due to being able to prove in an engineering simulator that a certain combo of single event upsets could end up causing loss of the aircraft.

They had three pilot's attempt the scenario, and one of them lost the plane. This never got looked at well enough before. If they had, they wouldn't have been able to certify before their deadline.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/a-lac...
Mastodon is minuscule, and has already been showing growing pains.

(I'm on Mastodon, have been for two years, and love it. But it is no majick bullet.)
Understanding Einstein's paper on the Photoelectric Effect
I have been reading the works of the great social reformer Henry George. A socialist literate in political economy, he advocated a land value tax, which does not distort economic incentives as land cannot be produced.

I see many angry youths, even very intelligent angry youths entranced by neo-Marxism, which seems to consider any concrete policy proposal as “logocentric”.

I stumbled across a Marxist YouTube channel, PhilosophyTube, whose solution to the housing crisis was to outlaw the housing market and distribute the houses to democratic committees. Things like incentives for production, supply and demand, the many pathologies of democracy, the sense people have that they ought to be able to express their choice as individuals, public choice theory, and the fact that no given unit of housing is fungible were presumably too logocentric to address.

I have seen the Marxist movie before and where it leads is not pretty.

I would urge people who think egalitarianism is important to read George. The space of political economy is much larger than either left or right would have you believe.

There are forms of wealth distribution that do not decrease economic efficiency, such as said land value tax. Harberger taxes are another such policy.
Because if homosexual behavior is genetically-determined (or inalterably biologically determined) the gays can argue that they are being discriminated for what they ARE, rather than for what they CHOSE to be. There's a large number of laws which prohibit voluntary behavior of one sort or another even if there are no direct victims (drug use would be one example) so the proponents of restricting homosexuality would have it easier to argue that there's an overriding societal concern which justifies this voluntary behavior. (The existence of laws creating "victimless crimes" is an accepted part of modern legal systems, sadly, but no one other than hard-core libertarians actually oppose the concept.)
There is a crime version along the lines of, a criminal needs to be lucky 100% of the time, the police only need to be lucky once.
You're right. No one should care who fucks who, when all parties are consenting. And it's completely irrelevant from ones ability to be awesome.
It doesn't have to be a bad thing. My ex-girlfriend and I spent over a year in Australia, most of which was circumnavigating the country in the campervan I built. It was amazing, I would without a doubt do that kind of thing my whole life if I could be a 20 y/o until the day I died.

We only spent about 500 usd/pp/month and were really comfortable. We had most of what we wanted and ate well. Learn how to cook, don't buy junk food and the best things, like surfing, are free. I made money on the van since I did all building and repairs myself.

Doesn't lend much gravitas, but it was a good life and I hope to build another campervan to use in the future. I'm quite scared of this in America though with our culture, crime, and police. I can also believe it is certainly not for everyone.
I'm saying that democracy is the least worst way of a society determining the rules by which it abides. Is your position that dictating those rules under threat of violence is better?
Who said anything about "Conversion Therapy"? I'm lost to what this comment is in reference to?
I realized that what will finally cause this system to change is when everyone stops paying these insane medical bills. Because they can't, and no longer even care about mortgages. I think that day is very near indeed...
even if there were rules regarding driving at night

This car still has lights; and in the dark, even cars with normal paint tend to be invisible except for their lights. In other words, I don't think the paint will change its visibility in the dark if it has lights on.
This is why I read HN. This led me down an interesting rabbit hole including the Wikipedia entry on “erotic plasticity”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers
Don't worry, the duopoly will soon die. Comac is coming with the C919 and C929, and with a huge captive domestic market they are bound to succeed (given enough time).

I know I will sound cynical, but if the past is any indication of what's coming, it is entirely possible that a decade from now Airbus and Boeing won't be able to fight for Chinese orders anymore, while Comac will enjoy the ability to fight for every single American and European order...
Not the same thing. The flaw in Telegram happens with the group feature.
It’s not surprising there are brain waves. Phase synchronization in coupled oscillators is well studied. I guess someone had to show it but otherwise the finding is boring.

Remove brain from mouse and stick in organoid. Understaning how networks learn and finding both continuities and discontinuities between single cell plasticity and network level plasticity is (in my humble opinion) more interesting.
Thanks. I’ll check them out this weekend. Thanks for the referral code!!
This is true, but I don't think VCs use young founders to prove an idea. A startup is a very different environment than an enterprise.. and it's very rare that a person can execute well at all stages. So eventually the startup grows to a point where more professional leadership is helpful.. and VCs will happily replace a founder if they think it'll make them more money.

There's a lot of research on this (and dating back quite a while.. not new at all). So here are just some quick links I found:

https://www.kauffman.org/-/media/kauffman_org/research-repor...

https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article-abstract/31/4/1532/4604...

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-founding-ceos-dilemma-stay-or...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-often-do-founding-ceos-g...

Also this is a nice article about this from the Founders Dilemma (which is a good book also):
https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-founders-dilemma
I’m always keeping an eye on tracking results to see if they’re doing ML (or nother technique) to extrapolate the muscle movements so that those movements can be translated directly in to a character.
Especially watching this in the fascial tracking since these “skin-stretch” animations are so jarring.
If I remember the study correctly, the scientists actually stated that it is clear that there is not one single "gay gene", but that (like many other traits) instead there are likely a number of genes that work in concert to produce sexuality outcomes.

This title seems like unethical clickbait.
I must second George. His whole idea of taxing things humans do not produce instead of labor, etc. is remarkably rational.

Both Marxism and fascism have made a comeback in a big way. Neither offer any solutions that will lead anywhere other than dystopia.
I agree - what I find terribly concerning in this day and age, we're not letting the actions of people to define a person. MLK talked about that and it's simply ignored. I guess it requires more energy to look at each person you meet and now they treat you vs. just saying "All gays are...", "all whites are...", "all blacks are...", "al women are..", "all men are..", etc..

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It all seems so childish and intellectually lazy. At least it gives people something to argue about endlessly on social media lol
> they are crazy and have fixated on a plan that would kill them

And if guns aren't available, they'll fixate on a plan which does not involve them. The coal→natgas switch only worked to prevent suicides because (at least per your description) people still expected the gas to kill them; if suicidal people already know ahead of time that a particular strategy is not actually an option (e.g. because they know they can't get guns, or they know that the gas in their ovens ain't toxic), then they'll consider some other strategy in the "pick a strategy" stage of suicidal ideation.

That is: this sort of "prevention" is temporary at best. Even in the UK, phasing out coal gas only decreased suicides specifically via carbon monoxide inhalation, while other methods of suicide rose in frequency [1]. The overall rate did decrease, but more for males than females (who readily seemed to start flocking toward other methods of suicide, at least per the graphs and the apparent far-more-modest decrease in overall suicide rate), and primarily only in England and Wales (Scotland's male suicide rate barely budged, and the female suicide rate held steady, with a visible switch from CO suicide to non-CO suicide in the graphs).

Hangings are currently the most common means of suicide in the UK [2], with poisonings a close second among women. Neither of these are likely to go away any time soon without actually addressing why people feel inclined to self-terminate in the first place (unless you're going to propose trying to ban all alcohol and drugs - like the US tried (and failed) to do - and require background checks and mental health checks when buying ropes and bedsheets, and even that almost certainly won't be effective).

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478945/

[2]: http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/resmethods.html
Sure, it's just I personally find the current quite extreme variety of keyboard switches gives a lot of room for preference. It seems surprising that you'd have to go back that far to find something ideal.

I mean if you like them best, certainly your prerogative, just found it interesting.
The LeapMotion actually use ultrasonics for measurements and then guesses to translate that to hand-tracking. Doing it fully from a camera may actually improve on it if done right.
You don't need to get the key per se, depending on your exploit. You just need a single valid signed pointer that's involved in your ROP gadget.
I'm making local website to deal with murder,How would I conceal my ID?
Put simply, I'm making a website to empower my local community to share information about murders in our neighborhood. However, because of the real and sensitive information that will be shared, how would I conceal my identity so that if you're a criminal (gang member, murderer) you could never find out who I am, or the members of the community. How would I conceal any identifiers (my credit card info I use to purchase the domain, my ip etc). I'm not worried about a low level finding me, but if you were a well connected criminal who could hire a private investigator, I want to make sure I can't be found. I will become a clear target. The website will make a lot of very dangerous people angry. Thanks in advance. - Benni Frank.

Is this even possible?