skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who aren't familiar with the original one: https://littlealchemy.com/

I think the animated overlay when you create a new thing lasts a little bit too long in the new one. An animation might be cute, but it would be better if it didn't immediately prevent me from continuing to interact with my pile of stuff...
> The united states is a republic whos purpose is "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. "

It's true that James Madison was deeply concerned with a tyranny of the majority supplanting core constitutional rights, a flaw in democracy first identified by Aristotle.

> In a letter to Thomas Jefferson in October 1788 James Madison expresses lukewarm support for the idea of a bill of rights since “repeated violations of these parchment barriers have been committed by overbearing majorities in every State.”

> [...]

> He continues to believe that the real threat to liberty will come from “the majority of the Community” and not from “acts of Government”.

To say that the United State's purpose is to protect the minority is way off base. After all, the country was born as an opposition to the idea of people not being represented by its government and instead at the behest of a very small minority of royalty and aristocrats.
I've often wondered if maybe sitting upright might not be the best position for a modern combat pilot. I can see pilot who is laying down pulling far more Gs than even a legless one sitting upright.
But the reason cannot be simply that they "are not FDA approved and thus are not covered by insurance" given than many non-FDA-approved things are covered. They could cover them already (and they would if they thought ER visits would be reduced as a result). And as far as I know some insurance plans do actually cover these treatments.
As mentioned, we can spread dragonflies, a beneficial insect that eats many mosquitoes a day both in larval form and in the air.

Dragonflies are also an important prey item for birds and bats, both of which have decreased in numbers in recent years and would benefit from more food sources.

We can restore some of our wetlands, where dragonflies breed, and try to eliminate standing water in urban areas as much as possible -- old tires, ditches, etc. Mosquitoes love wetlands too, but in a properly balanced system, their populations would be controlled by fish, dragonflies, and amphibians.

We should also continue research into gene drives and similar efforts to reproductively target a species for extinction.

At the same time, we should be careful not to damage the thousands of non-biting mosquitoes which are valuable pollinators. About 5000 known species exist of which only about 100 feed on blood, and about 9 of those blood sucking species carry deadly diseases. If we target just the blood sucking species while not affecting the others, the effects on the ecosystem should be minimal.

Mosquitoes are a remarkably effective and robust creature, dating back 100 million years, and existing in nearly every part of the world. They bring great misery to many species of animals and their extinction will not be mourned.
What is your definition of immigrant?
Your skeptical reaction was understandable (there's been a lot of crappy new accounts on HN in the last year or two) but seems misplaced in this case. Get in touch with me if you have time.
My wife and I adopted a Bengal from a coworker who took it in, when original owners moved and could not keep it. It turned out he was allergic. Anyhow, we tried for several months, but the Bengal would stalk and attack all of our other cats, completely terrorizing them. It was a beautiful cat, and super friendly to humans, but we had to find her a home where she was the only cat.
Take note, propagandists: If you keep your crude ad hominem wordplay to a minimum, you may find more success in manipulating opinion.
Ask HN: Avoid ReCAPTCHA on Login Through Tor
I've started getting them when trying to login, and they can take a long time to complete. Sometimes completing one, then clicking login, would just open a new one. Could we get a "I know the risks, don't protect my account" option to avoid this, if we're confident our password is strong enough to withstand brute-forcing, or if we just don't want to give Google free training data? Ideally there would be a way to avoid it even when creating a new account, but I suppose that could put too much strain on moderation.

A second concern is that reCAPTCHA may be used for fingerprinting and deanonymization - I'm not sure how well founded this is, but it would be very consistent with Googles other activities.
> Many young engineers can't see societal potential in what they do.

Then they are defective citizens. Citizenry before a job is just not that complicated.

Everyone is complicit in dirty work and I've very happily fired clients and quit jobs for being dirty. Do thou likewise or have your fellow citizens find you wanting for it. It's not hard.
Hedge Fund Manager Leon Cooperman Calls Private Equity a Scam
> I can trust people far more who I can stay in touch with

Reading this made me think of a situation with a non-adversarial notion of trust. It used to be that you could make plans with someone a week or two in advance, and generally just expect to show up at a place and time, and they'd be there without further coordination. Whereas now with instant communication, personal plans can be easily altered at a moment's notice, and so they will. (Of course my own getting older is a confounding factor here too...)

The larger effect you're describing feels like a different way of describing model "precession", in that once a state of affairs becomes taken for granted, the head of the pack/smarter agents/attackers (however you want to think of them) move to playing off those assumptions. Everyone else who is still "playing by the rules" then feels like their trust has been violated.

I'm drawing the distinction between general trends and specific technologies, because I feel the only thing you can get out of the general trend is to predict that we will have ever less societal trust over time (barring using it to indict technology in general ala Kaczynski). But is there an inherent problem with less trusting, IF the same thing can be accomplished with verification? Keep in mind, we don't necessarily account for all the people that previously got swindled because they had no choice but to trust, and that trust was betrayed! So it seems like the real "trust" crises arise when something we traditionally trust has been undermined, but without a corresponding better way to verify.

Looking at the specific course of mass news media - everyone kind of came to just trust what they were saying, so that trust became an asset to monetize (propaganda). Then as more people saw through their bullshit, their remaining audience became less critical, meaning they can lower their standards even further, setting up a feedback loop. Now the TV is down to base disaster porn and a political sporting arena.

Granted I do think there is an abstract point to be made that even if mass media was pushing detrimental propaganda to eg go to war or further other entrenched-interest goals, having everyone united on the same page can be valuable in and of itself. I just think that has to be evaluated on its own topical merits - like considering all of those remote victims of economic wars - rather than generally lamenting about trust.

(This comment got lost in a tab, and I didn't necessarily cover everything I wanted to. But I might as well late-reply with what I did write)
Once you pre-order, you can log in via your battle.net account to get access. You can download the game from here: https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/download/
That's sad, It's not on desktop tho'.
Give it a try.
John Bolton is fired and oil drops 2% as hopes for war and restricted oil supply fade for the worlds exporters. A week later we get drone strikes against Saudi Arabia by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. It’s like Jeff Goldblum once said, ‘Nature finds a way’.
I remember Oxitec or a related entity mentioning at the time that it was not a permanent solution, but would need to be repeated every year to re-suppress the population.
The strange part to me is just that there are already hundreds of crypto currencies available in Germany. When the government says that yes, these hundreds of currencies are fine, but Facebook can’t create one, then it just seems like the policy is anti-Facebook for the sake of being anti-Facebook.
More generally, and IMO the most important point: an assumption was made that the modified animals would not be able to reproduce. This turns out not to be the case, and therefore the genetic modifications made are now in the wild.

In this case, as far as I can tell, there's little cause for alarm. But with a different alteration, things might be worse, and one wonders about the robustness of the decision making process at play here.
If they just took the “wait and see” approach and some fraction of the population took it up, they’d find themselves fighting against a group of citizens with vested interests, and the corporations would say “you can’t take this away from these people” much like the gun lobby does in the USA. The real “wait and see” approach is to prevent it get a foot in the door, see what happens elsewhere, and then perhaps repeal the decision in the future.
Of course FB has ways to use most of what they announced with Libra and most of that would be fine. The problem with Libra is its core, the fact that it's an alternative currency backed by a company that can reach almost everybody. Other companies develop other coins but they do not have the influence FB has and so it gives legislators time to regulate it.

Sovereign monetary policy goes out the window if Libra takes a serious hold in society. The only solution to that is a decisive ban on it.
That should be easy to figure out by looking whether the transaction shows up in the checking account or in the credit card account.
That Zuck...is he really trying to turn the crypto community from wanting to abolish banks towards appointing Facebook as the biggest too big to fail bank in history?

People seem to be swallowing it, though.
If you have money you can just launch 50 of them and hope 2 or 3 find their target. The marginal cost is relatively low.
I've never lived in Silicon Valley. And I've been fired from jobs before. The longest I was ever unemployed not of my own volition was twelve days.

The poor benighted developer--engineers have expectations upon them that participants in this thread are clearly all too willing to abrogate, the term is invalid--will be just fine.
What's the delivered power of experimental directed RF weapons?
What about PAL and NTSC-J NES systems? It seems that the NYSC color system would just be one signal generation target among the 3.
Mysterious fast radio bursts continue to baffle astronomers
Ah yes, because over the course of humanity the "no harm demonstrated yet" has panned out beautifully. We're compounding interest on our "Well it seems fine for now?" damages.
Most likely, or it's a transcription error.
And yet, the odd successful terrorist attack makes word headlines.
RemoteMore is for remote employment, with TopTal you get pretty much only freelancing.
Are we then paying the price in latency and added hops for development agility? I would have guessed a user request would never be subjected to that. With a mesh, don't you get even more latency because of the sidecar? The link you provided looks interesting; will give it a read, thanks!
Until my city installs a sufficient number of separated bike lanes, I'll continue to ride on the sidewalk rather than risk my life in traffic, even if it hurts your feelings.
More generally, democracy means rule by the people. It's possible to allow the population to vote without actually giving it any power. Eg.

- If the elected government punishes people who voted the wrong way once it gets in power, then it's not really a democracy.

- If the elected government doesn't have any real power, and all the important decisions are made by warlords or corporate heads, then it is not really a democracy.

- If your boss can stand behind you while you cast your ballot to make sure you vote the right way, under threat of being fired, it's not really a democracy.

- If the only information you have on which to base your vote is the official state-run news, then it's not really a democracy.

- If all the government's power is concentrated in one person, who is elected for life, it's not really a democracy.
You've noticed bad reporting. What you are seeing is somebody taking advantage of a trend to get their average reader to behave a certain way. They just take the news and stuff it into the simplest narrative that they think would resonate with their readers. "Work bad." It's a straw man, even if by over-simplification, that warps the conversation.
Let's be honest, if Libra takes hold as Facebook wants it to, given the power Facebook already has over communications, ads and social networks, it very well could affect the capability of states to exert their own monetary policy. Not a single one of the examples you made had such a real possibility of being as big as Libra could be.
15% + my info? With so many remote job boards out there I don't see a benefit.
Sometimes you can be checkmated in your job and personal life. It's not that easy to quit a 150k job and find another when you've got a family and a mortgage. In those situations, your only option is to follow orders.

In my experience, it really is the managers who often are to blame for a lot of evil practices. To generalise, I'd say 80% of engineers are rarely evil, but 80% of managers are rarely not evil.
There is clearly no reasoning going on in those samples.

Computers have been able to reason for longer than they've been able to dream, anyway.
I did a lot of it a few years ago. I liked it but you had to get out in the evening for social reasons.

The hardest part of remote working is stopping. People assume it's difficult to get motivated, but in fact it's knowing when to stop is the problem because you don't have the external cues of people around you winding up, shutting down computers, seeing the office emptying, the commute back. All these are cues to say Stop, You're Done. Without them you can just keep going, and that's not good.
Taxation isn’t monetary policy. You can tax without even having your own currency.

Monetary policy is entirely about currency control for inflation, etc.
What about airless tires? I havent looked deeply into them but they sound like they would not be as profitable since you will be less likely to change tires due to a nail certainly reducing sales. But I am not sure what kind of cars these tires compliment and what kind of driving they are not for.

https://www.bridgestonetire.com/tread-and-trend/tire-talk/ai...
One thing on our roadmap is - resources (series of videos) on best practices for managing a remote team.

We see ourselves mostly as helping the companies to adopt remote work, and in this way helping the developer community. Most developers are ready to work remotely, it is the companies that need to get ready (as a whole, in general).
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
This is tangentially addressed in the wiki article:

When Goodall reported on the events of the Gombe War, her account of a naturally occurring war between chimpanzees was not universally believed. At the time, scientific models of human and animal behavior virtually never overlapped.[9] Some scientists accused her of excessive anthropomorphism;[9] others suggested that her presence, and her practice of feeding the chimpanzees, had created violent conflict in a naturally peaceful society.[10] However, later research using less intrusive methods confirmed that chimpanzee societies, in their natural state, wage war.[10][11] A 2018 study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology concluded that the Gombe War was most likely a consequence of a power struggle between three high-ranking males, which was exacerbated by an unusual scarcity of fertile females.[12]
> Libra is a token that's backed 1 to 1 on some basket of currencies and mostly government bonds

And that architecture is decided by the Libra foundation, therefore they control currency.
It won’t. Germany already doesn’t have control of the monetary policy for the currency it uses (the Euro). Monetary policy != taxation.
That happened to a colleague of mine with the Eiffel compiler (a long time ago). He was pissed off. Ditto full compilation thereafter.

Had something similar in our office with scala & SBT, but SBT is a POS anyway.
I have always thought the way to go was to mimic their practices. If you have a requirement to partner with a local company majority owner, so do we. If you require IP transfer, so do we. I think this would be more strategic than a broad tariff.
Like any incumbent, they don't like competition.
If the condition is brought on slowly, i.e. because the animal grew to a large size, I'd think that it would have enough blood to fill their vessels at the increased pressure required to have positive blood pressure everywhere.
"fly towards" doesn't scale too well with the huge speed difference. Your intercept cone is super narrow when jets travel 10x your quads speed. Then factor in altitude and this approach only works near airports, where defense is arguably easiest.

where this works really, really well is with boats. Iran did this with 15m RHIBs.

I work on these problems directly. Its scarey but mostly because we're not thinking about it, not because it's something we can't prevent. Don't get me started on all the truly horrifying things commercial drones are capable of even worse than airline terror.
I don't understand why people think that data leakage is ONLY a problem for facebook and it's competition. If data leaks into an ad-tech company we can still compel them to delete it. All it requires is a good US version of the GDPR.
It's legally tricky to be anti-Facebook for the sake of being anti-Facebook, but I don't think it's morally tricky.

The entire idea of anti-trust (and frankly, the premise of most western democracies) is to prevent the over-concentration of power.

Facebook is the most powerful private entity on the earth right now, far more powerful than most nation states. I'm not sure that we as a society have ever dealt with a non-state actor this powerful before.

Germany's response of essentially "yeah no, we're not letting Facebook make money here," seems prudent to me.
IANAL, but the association giving out the vouchers would probably sue for fraud, since the merchant acts like a member of the association even though they are not.
It needs to be fixed, but a $900 average that includes $200 charges for a $25 "medical boot" and charges for a $30 bandaid sounds like it may be not too hard to reduce costs across the entire board.

If the average ER visit was 5K of unknown miscellaneous charges than that would indicate nationwide maliciousness on the part of nearly all hospitals. If only a small # of hospitals are engaging in that level of unfair billing, then they can possibly be investigated one by one.

It is the same thing as "we have thousands servers that are crashing at random multiple times a day" versus "we have a bunch of servers that are low on RAM, and a couple servers that crash 5 times a day."

Neither scenario is good to be in, but it is possible to get a hand on the latter scenario, while in the first scenario a "burn it all down and rewrite" fix might be appropriate.
He had already broadcast that he had given the information to China. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-s...

> Seems dumb.

It sure does seem dumb on Snowden's part, doesn't it? Nobody with a technical background who has read Snowden's documents and read what he thought they said has ever accused him of being smart.
Full reserve:

> By fully backing each coin with a set of stable and liquid assets (described later) and by working with a competitive group of exchanges and other liquidity providers, users can have confidence that they will be able to sell any Libra coin at or close to the value of the reserve at any time. [0]

They'll fund expenses from the return of the investments.

> How will the reserve be invested? Users of Libra do not receive a return from the reserve. The reserve will be invested in low-risk assets that will yield interest over time. The revenue from this interest will first go to support the operating expenses of the association — to fund investments in the growth and development of the ecosystem, grants to nonprofit and multilateral organizations, engineering research, etc. [0]

Brokerages do this as well and earn most of their money this way (people keep cash in brokerage account and brokerage invests and earns interest).

> 57% of Schwab’s revenues are from net interest. The firm could literally give away every other service; discount the mutual fund fees to zero, do away with commissions, etc etc, and they would still be profitable. [1]

[0] https://libra.org/en-US/about-currency-reserve/#the_reserve

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
Do you understand what 1:1 means in the context of banking?
Not OP, but I've been happily working 100% remotely for almost 4 years, so I'll share my two cents. Personally, I get a lot more work done from home than I ever did at an office. Offices have lots of distractions, and it's way too easy to waste time chatting up the person sitting next to you. (That might just be me, though; I'm pretty chatty.) Cutting out the commute is a big one as well, not just for the time saved but also money (gas and car depreciation) and mental energy (I found driving 45 minutes each way pretty draining). Plus, I have the flexibility to take a break and walk the dog, or run a quick errand, or play video games—things that wouldn't be feasible in an office.

That said, there are distractions at home, too, and you have to have a lot of discipline. I got almost nothing done in my first couple months of remote work, and it took me close to a year to get into the flow and develop a structure that actually felt productive. (And then I had the opposite problem of working too much because it's harder to draw a line between work and play.) I do miss the coworker comradery sometimes, but my wife and I also have a pretty big group of close friends that live nearby, so I get to socialize with people outside of work fairly often.

Working remotely is definitely not for everyone, but you would have to pay me a LOT of money to convince me to commute to an office every day.
How many of those are backed (edit: created and fully controlled) by a foreign company with 2.4 billion active users and extremely questionable privacy track record?
I think you're right about the general unrest but frustratingly we see snake oil bubble to the top.

A new gold standard with rent seekers won't save us from stagnant wage growth.
The problem with waiting until harm is demonstrated is that we don't know what form it might take. Given the current free-for-all of genetic experimentation, it's only a matter of time until something we do has a significant unintended effect on an ecosystem. Unlike DDT, we won't necessarily be able to just stop the intervention and wait for things to go back to the way they were.
Is python the optimal language for writing a C parser? It seems like text manipulation is not one of python's strong points (not that that is a strong point of that many langugages anyway).
Who doesnt want a currency controlled by a private company?
Thanks. Really fun to play
You should check our blog - the article about reasons to work remotely, and reasons to not work remotely.
blog.remotemore.com
If an unprivileged process can gain super user privileges, you have a problem. This applies to both situations with chroot and those without chroot.