skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to know if suffering has increased or decreased over the years and while the extra measures are being put in place. I agree with your opinion btw. I'm just skeptical if for all we know there is now more suffering than before because of the internet.
I totally disagree based on experience with using a CAD software for many years. A space mouse isn’t a trackpoint. It is a 6 degrees of freedom device that feels insanely natural once you get used to it.

There is a reason why professionals working on 3D software use a Space Mouse - animation studios to Boeing. Everyone got one when you start a new job.

You should try one if an opportunity comes up. Honestly, it will change your mind forever about what it does. And it’s nothing like a trackpoint, trackball or a joystick. I wish I could show it in person to you and blow all previous expectations.

Edit: a couple of things:

* Trackpoint: 2 axis device

* Trackball: 2 axis device

* Joystick: Usually 2 rotational axes, but you can get 3 axes (twist about Z-axis)

* Space Mouse: 6 axis device

You don't need to move things physically... try flipping through pages on iPad for 1 hour straight vs. using PageUp and PageDown keys on a keyboard. See it for yourself which one is more tiring.
I feel you should be able to make that decision yourself and you have no obligation to make anyone else but you, to sign off on what you feel is important.

If I now feel that a another person is the most important person, that's it. Now it's so, for me.
I think it's also preference. I like being close to the city, but living in the city proper is suffocating.
Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes
Or, buying BTC via a credit card from an exchange in a legal jurisdiction local police isn't going to bother with, so the money->BTC trace is lost. Tracing transactions in a local currency is a lot easier than having to issue warrants over international borders.
Why are they worried about something being under strain? Because it won’t work as well and is more likely to break. Why wouldn’t you be concerned about that?
It actually doesn't provide a prompt. It silently denies access (I think maybe it shows a notification in the bottom right?) and that's that. You have to navigate to the protection settings window in order to whitelist a program. Which I guess makes sense, since if you don't add friction, people will just blindly allow everything as you say. I had problems like stuff not working despite whitelisting, which is what really annoyed me. I would've left it on otherwise.
I don't have a citation on hand, but I know one of the early psilocybin experiments (of seminary students, so probably prone to spiritual response) used niacin as the control compound. These were drug-naive test subjects so having no response at all would have unblinded the experiment. Niacin, in enough of a dose, causes tingling, flushing, and heart rate changes.
> I don't like this tech in the hands of the state but I'm more worried about criminal use of this.

I'm equally worried about those two, as well as tech like this in the hands of big businesses.
>Do you find it a little odd that in response to an article about rampant pedophilia you are admonishing people for not using Monero?

This is a hacker site. Is the most important point in the article that the Feds traced Bitcoin transactions to nab criminals, or that extensive child-porn rings exist? Only one of those is hacker-newsworthy.
you can certainly look at it that way, but the cost to change the lease is way bigger than the "rent". I'm also implying that you shouldn't be taxed on improvements you make to the land (like building a house). you pay for occupancy of the land itself and for any services consumed.
>How are they going to compete with fiber-delivered Internet in big cities?

Who is this mystery company building fiber-delivered internet in big cities? You must not be talking about the US, because:

#Google

#CenturyLink

#Verizon

Were the major players building out, and all have stopped. That's ignoring the tens of millions of people who don't live in the city and have 3Mbps DSL as their best case scenario. And that's ignoring the mess in Australia and Canada. There will be PLENTY of demand for high speed, low latency satellite.
Like another poster said, unlock a text box, in the settings, or about page, or wherever, saying: "Thank you for your support!"
Deep fake child porn is pretty much possible.

It's another ethical quandary but certainly fake child porn is better for children then real child porn.
One nitpick: "While there is some debate about the ideal storage for eggs..."

There really isn't a debate. There is a difference, due to whether or not the eggs have been washed. If washed (like in the USA), they need to be refrigerated. If not washed (like in Europe, or on farms who raise their own), they can be left out.
I like to think of exchanges as an unacknowledged patch to the Bitcoin protocol as it stands in 2019. Or even as it stood in 2012 or 2011.

No, they're not in the source code itself, but without them the project would still be sputtering along in almost total obscurity, if not abandoned altogether by now.
> So by this definition Apple is worse than Google for privacy?

Wait what? I think you have that backwards. Unless you’re suggesting Apple sells ads?
It effectively embeds a coin mixer in every transaction, so to speak. In bitcoin you can trace transactions from one account to the next in the public ledger, with Monero theoretically you won't be able to follow the funds quite as easily.

Of course it remains to be seen if it really works if some three-letter organization really wants to figure out who you are.
If in San Francisco: downhill.
> But if a model with more complex assumptions is a better approximation to reality than a model with simpler assumptions, would you not adopt the former?

Not necessarily. Maybe the simpler model is enough to understand what is going on. Maybe a more complex model suffers from over-fitting and performs worse than the simpler model. It really depends.

> The SMD theorem guarantees, for example, that most market demand curves will NEVER satisfy the fundamental neoclassical "law" of demand.

Does it really say that? Or simply that weird market demand curves are possible in a few exceptional situations?
PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters
Massive demand in this case being 300 some users worldwide. The site had generated a million addresses, but it's clear that most of them were not being used.

You should feel better that on a per-capita basis this is an extremely rare occurrence. Like around the same chances as being struck by lightning. It's horrible, but not widespread.
The poster has negative karma over-all so I think that might have affected it. I vouched for the comment and it looks un-dead now :)
I don't think that latency is a decisive factor for most people / networks (as long as its below certain threshold). Most people will tell you it's a price-based decision.

On the other hand, roughly 85% of the population worldwide is already covered by 3G or 4G networks. I am not sure that space will be able to offer lower prices for backhaul if the infrastructure is already there. A fiber PoP / tower has much lower OPEX than launching, operating a constellation of satellites.
It has some effect. If you deposit bitcoin into an exchange and it's coming from an address that's associated with a hack or other criminal activity, it's more likely to get flagged. It's hard to say for sure, though. Different exchanges probably use different mechanisms.
They are not enabling this money transfer. They have nothing to do with it at all.
This assumes that the operators of the tumblers are to be trusted and aren’t state actors themselves. It would be a pretty smart move for the Feds to run one or more of those operations.
no? if you renovate your house in a way that increases the value of the structure, you will pay more tax. under LVT, you only pay more tax when the land itself increases in value. that's how the tax gets its name.
Possible the thought is that in a country where online transactions are not well monitored, it might take a while to be traced down.

Personally, I don't understand how one time use money cards would have any preventions to prevent the same thing from happening. One could send someone to buy a stack of them with a wad of cash, and the original store the cards are delivered to might be tracked, but after that, what else is there? The money gets transferred out, and they might not even know what the purchase was.

There are more private cryptocurrencies, but it's near mathematically provable that all with sufficient transaction history and brute forcing capability are traceable. In the case of law enforcement, all they have to do is sit in these transactions until the have the CPU power to break them. I'd had to be the one that used cryptocurrency to buy something illegal knowing that 50 copies of the ledger exist on other people's computers.
It looks like it won't have a web interface or archive. It's becoming email only with no web archive history:

Will I be able to use Yahoo Groups going forward?

You'll still be able to communicate with your groups via email and search for private groups on the site.
Actually, looking it back up,the particular example I was thinking of, while possibly non-chimeric, was still mosaic with about 80%/20% 46,XY/45,X in the skin but ovaries 93% 46,XY; at any rate, the idea that biological sex is simple and binary is pretty clearly not true except in loose approximation.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/93/1/182/2598461
> The US isn't maintaining a constant and widespread campaign of industrial espionage and then feeding what they find to our own companies' R&D teams the way China is.

This is a rather naive notion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Yeah, it's normally a pretty basic task--in this case I was working with Firestore, which required a special nested structure to be able to write the security rules I needed. A week is a bit of an exaggeration anyway--it's a couple hours a day for a few days.
we actually track a large list of digital currency, more and more each week and there is a ton of funding more than we'd ever expect being given for getting anything we need done, i dont see it really as an issue.. digital currency has been great for us
I didn´t meant Gates or Jobs rich but wealthier than average. For them an startup is just a gamble they can afford to do comfortably.

For example: a couple of months ago I talked to a guy that was trying to decide between founding an startup or going to India to study yoga/meditation for a year (and he was not going to travel on the cheap, believe me). For him failing meant going back to work in his fathers company for a while until he gets motivated to start some other company again (or quit an go to India).

Way above most people possibilities.
Give over. The guy is focusing on the technical aspect of the story which is the reason it's on this site. Stop trying to make out that he's morally inferior to you.
Discussion from reddit suggests that this might not be 30k more satellites, just multiple radios on 1525 satellites.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dge0xk/we_nee...
But in practice, we don't observe that these organizations blindly support 'those at the top'. Empirical observation over abstract philosophizing, please. Society is much more complex & interesting than Chomsky imagines, with many more nuances. Even the actual federal government and military have many competing factions with different interests, different goals, etc.

It's a philosopher's 'let's model civilization as a one-page flowchart' level of analysis. I don't think it's particularly deep or interesting, and I read a great deal of Chomsky back in the day
Thanks! Yeah it's almost an insane amount of video, but I've made it fairly easy to skip to the interesting parts if you want to see them. We'll see how it goes :)
I am interested in the fact that an amateur astronomer discovered this and have some subject matter questions. What type/size of telescope would be required? Is this the result of simply arbitrarily scanning night skies? Do amateurs use software of some sort to aide in locating sky locations where undiscovered objects might be? When you do think you’ve found something how do you report it? Do amateur astronomers gravitate toward any one social site, i.e. is there a vibrant Twitter community or subreddit? Was/would Gennedy (and amateurs like her) working in coordination with a group of others (local or distributed).

TLDR I want to discover a space object. How do I do this?
The book "The Food Lab" by J. Kenji Lopez from Serious Eats has a section devoted to organization of refrigerators and freezers.
PRISM is selector-based (email, ph#), where is there anything to say that Chinese surveillance is more than that? I might just be ignorant of well-known facts, but there's nothing obvious to me so far with which to do a comparative analysis.
It's true that when it breaks there's often little you can do, and that is a downside. But gasoline engines do require maintenance, and you do save that effort with electric tools. Really the main effort saved is just refilling the gas though, especially when you forget you're out and end up halfway through the lawn having to go get more. Of course you still need to sharpen blades and change trimmer string and such; I didn't say no maintenance, just less.
Macpaint and Quickdraw Sourcecode
I'm having exactly this problem at the moment. Been isolated far too long, not used to noise now, stir in some buggery of mental problems... But I' forcing myself out right now to the pub. I won't enjoy it now nor for weeks yet, but going through that is necessary if I'm going to recover.

Sometimes it's just down to repeated practice, same as anything else.

HTH and good luck.
No, people just use monero and convert to bitcoin last minute through xmr.to . Bitcoin is used because it's the most popular cryptocurrency. What's a better alternative, credit cards?
Yes, I agree. I'm not saying it's wrong/right for a referendum, just giving a possible reason we can't trust the numbers of the referendum that happened (or didn't really happen, if you're the spanish government).

There are a few cases where the independence referendum was legal and recognized by whoever they were trying to get independence from. Algergia, Guinea, Samoa, whole bunch of ex Soviet Union countries. There are future referendums planned that are recognized as well.

So it's not impossible. It just won't work with the current Spanish Government (a referendum. Indepedence, maybe)
Interesting. I've always heard it pronounced "vacaracted".
I read the referenced papers :
https://atap.google.com/soli/technology/

About 60Ghz technology :
https://www.embedded.com/why-60ghz-mmwave-is-moving-into-the...

I've played with some 6Ghz 2$ microwave radar sensor and Software Defined Radios though I have not yet used 60Ghz.

Electromagnetic Waves are kind of magic when used in not conventional ways. I remember seeing the 2015 disney EM-sense video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpKDNle6ia4 which is a non-radar way to listen to the environment.
Actually, F-Droid is not panacea. F-Droid apps do not have access to Push notifications. Coupled with crippled background app performance in recent Android version, it extremely limits certain classes of apps, especially all messengers.
They will have to develop new methods to deter the illegal behavior

RIP Tracing bitcoin transactions, 2010-2020
fastmail.com recycles accounts too once you stop paying.
And how many tumblers are actually being run by law enforcement/intelligence agencies?
Yep, Powershell is actually really powerful, and even cross-platform with Powershell Core... I wonder if anyone has tried to large-scale "re-skin" it, aliasing command names to make them less verbose and more obvious?
Many of the larger exchanges will track funds moving into or out of their customers' accounts, and will close accounts which appear to be transferring a lot of funds to/from tumblers.
>I would be curious how people behaved wrt sex before the modern repressive religions came along.

My impression is it has less to do with religion itself but rather the culture. China under the CCP is far from a religious culture, but they’ve banned porn for decades.

>Don’t you think people are naturally more private about sex though?

The first rule of Fuck Club: don’t talk about Fuck Club.
Powershell was one of the first scripting languages I actually learned, so I'm a little more forgiving, but I think you've summed up one of the more annoying issues. It seems as Powershell has grown, Microsoft has tried to stuff every module into every session (except the ones you actually need, those you'll inevitably have to import). If Powershell didn't auto import ~30-50 modules, each with 20-200 cmdlets all sharing the same Verb-Noun structure it wouldn't be so bad...except then Windows makes it worse, by making it difficult to limit those modules yourself, and most major updates will notice that you've moved modules around and will happily undo all that work and re-add them.

Its still a nice little scripting language, and its awesome when you want to just avoid some Windows GUI nonsense. Plus Powershell's interactive nature makes learning it significantly easier than some of the more complicated languages I've picked up since then, although its getting harder and harder to excuse Microsoft's poor design choices around it.
Yeah, I think you did a better job of describing my dichotomy than I did. The galaxy brain corollary, though, is that if I get _too_ many folks who are asking for free-tier support, it means I can't support everyone at the level I'd like to; sort of a microscopic version of the OSS labor crisis.
> Is Steam a big vector?

I've never heard of something like that happening, and I've been using Steam since day 1.

Trying to find something on Google about that only turns up the usual "Hijacked accounts spreading malware to friends" scheme [0] and vulnerabilities in the client itself [1], but nothing about Steam distributing malware hidden in games.

Which is kinda unexpected, I probably just didn't dig deep enough?

[0] https://www.hackread.com/hacked-steam-accounts-spreading-mal...

[1] https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/03/21/valve-steam-vulnerabi...
Do you have an example of a “true tech company”?
> depictions of violence (real, not video game/cartoon ones)

That's what I mean about depiction. Violence is glamorized right away from the very early stages of childhood. Toys, cartoons, comics and of course games showing weapons, fights, injuries etc but its unthinkable to show a kiss.

There was an infamous scene from some movie or TV show that I can't remember the name of right now, where they didn't want to show naked corpses so they increased the amount of blood to cover them up...

That must have been a cosmic facepalm moment where the Universe rearranged itself to put us in a corner far away from every other sentient species.
The world has been getting better objectively.

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health...
I used the definition from Wikipedia:

> In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors.

Admittedly, this may not be the best source.
> For instance, D-Sub is available for free on F-Droid but costs something like ~$4 on Google Play.

This is great solution to sustain the app developmant and spread the word about F-Droid!
I like the idea of actors to encapsulate state management for my aggregates (a la Domain Driven Design). But I haven't wanted to be limited to just using Elixir/BEAM or an actor toolkit on the JVM.

I'd wager that Dapr's virtual actors [1] were inspired in-part by Microsoft's work on Orleans [2]. I've read through some of the Orleans docs, and Dapr looks to be a more accessible (cross-language, non-CLR!) way to build using some of Orleans' concepts and capabilities.

!! this is super cool: "You can also perform aggregate queries across actor instances, avoiding the common turn-based concurrency limitations of actor frameworks [3].

[1]: https://github.com/dapr/docs/tree/master/concepts/actor
[2]: http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/
[3]: https://github.com/dapr/docs/blob/master/concepts/state-mana...
Oooh, interesting. That's good to keep in mind — thanks.
I think that’s intended as a feature. IPv4 is just not good enough, we will run out of addresses. I think they want to kill IPv4 and replace it rather than improving upon it. At some point programs will ignore IPv4 altogether and our IP addresses will not be fundamentally flawed anymore.
LVT was part of the inspiration for this idea.

> Also, you can't avoid getting priced out of your home by buying it.

this is part of what I was getting at in the "land is one of the only truly scarce things" bit. I don't think the expectation that you should be able to afford to live on a specific piece of land forever is reasonable.
The correction is welcome - I am just a little sad we trained a cohort of developers to care about power, but not well enough to understand that race-to-sleep is usually the best way to achieve that.
This is a really good idea, and I'm going to start doing it; thanks.
Yes, totally. But any company in a slippery situation like Blizzard is now would do anything to avoid negative backlash, both at home and away, since there are tons of customers and money at stake anyway. Let's say Chinese govt says "if we see a single sign of support towards HK protesters all your contracts end down the toilet"; what would they do?
I'd never put limits to human creativity and destructivity when there's enough motivation just like in this case.
Children told lies by parents lie more as adults
Oh, yeah, to be clear I think that, given public information (you never know what secret crap's going on, same for Trump's moves, so we have to work with what we know), intervening in Syria to begin with—by which I mean encouraging and supplying the rebels, not the later anti-ISIS actions—was a massive humanitarian and geopolitical disaster, possibly a bigger blunder than (though related to) the invasion of Iraq, even, and I think that shouldn't have been too hard to predict from the start, not just an obvious-in-hindsight thing. It's a big part of why I don't hold Obama's (or Hillary's) actions on foreign policy in very high regard, to put it mildly.
So it would be fair to say that dapr scales to "fairly big" throughput - but not the right tool if your goal is in the ballpark of saturating a 10gps network with messages?

(mind, I have no such ambissions presently, just trying to get my head around what dapr is - and is not)
More importantly receiving money from a mixer could taint your wallet for converting the bitcoins into real money. KYC laws kick in. It's easy to check if you've ever had coins from a mixer enter your wallet.

The idea that your transactions are mixed up and impossible to track doesn't matter so much if they just assume everybody who uses a mixer is a criminal.
Thanks! Just rolled out a fix for this. Would you mind taking a look again?
Not doing illegal things, then paying with your Visa card.
The thing that gets you when you realise it is that most of the criminals that get discovered/prosecuted are discovered because they were doing something stupid, like using the equivalent of a public ledger to make transactions. You don't hear a lot of stories about smart criminals getting caught.
Conundrums like this make my head spin when I try to consider my position on Internet freedoms.

On the one hand I believe the Internet should be a truly personalized, private interface for humans all over the world to be able to communicate freely and privately - safe from censorship, mass-surveillance, profiling, and so on.

On the other hand I also believe if the Internet was that way, then it would mean that these elements of society, the ones that seek to horrifically and tragically exploit the most vulnerable of us, would be able to do so relatively unimpeded.
Nothing at all since that's an incredibly tiny number.