skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brute force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilisation. The danger is profound and terrible; it cannot be waved aside with easy optimism.

> The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points. This was not always the case. A hundred years ago the philosophical radicals formed a school of intelligent men who were just as sure of themselves as the Hitlerites are; the result was that they dominated politics and that the world advanced rapidly both in intelligence and in material well-being.

> It is quite true that the intelligence of the philosophical radicals was very limited. It is, I think, undeniable that the best men of the present day have a wider and truer outlook, but the best men of that day had influence, while the best men of this are impotent spectators. Perhaps we shall have to realise that scepticism and intellectual individualism are luxuries which in our tragic age must be forgone, and if intelligence is to be effective, it will have to be combined with a moral fervour which it usually possessed in the past but now usually lacks.

-- Bertrand Russell, "The Triumph of Stupidity" https://russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM
> nobody has ever called the press the fourth "Stand".

Because unlike in the UK, the press as a Gewalt in a political system with Gewaltenteilung (division of power), appeared only after the society divided in estates (Ständegesellschaft) ceased to be. It's a timeline issue.
In short credit cards do not move value at all. You authorize payment instructions. Which in turn leads to balances being adjusted. It's basically a debt transaction instead of a value transaction. It has several advantages like that banks can adjust balances for a specific time with many parties and then calculate the effective difference (a lot will cancel each other out) and only settle the real differences. There is more of course but that's the basics.

For the consumer, streaming value doesn't need any kind of subscription. It doesn't even require a contract. You do not need to stream from netflix because that's what you already have an pay for monthly. You pay whoever gives you what you want. It's kinda like if you could use cash without the obvious downsides of physically moving coins and with the ability to split it in whatever fraction you'd like. Please watch the youtube video. He explains this way better than I could. It goes down to the level of IP data packages. Something similar could be made (is being made) with value.

>If I understand correctly, the current situation is that there are free services where you can upload/insert data, free services where you can download/consume—and there are paid services for both too.

Most of the content people access on the internet is "free" as in no need to pay for it other than pay for the internet access. Same is also true for "inserting" as in upload it somewhere. However physically inserting it (hosting) isn't free even if you find a free host it's just paid by someone else.
Hence hosting (inserting) costs while pulling is mostly free. Every other market works exactly the opposite way. You can't get an apple for free at any store. There is no way someone else is gonna pay the apple for you if you just look at some ads.

If the internet would work more like a store, some people would insert data and other people would access/download and they would pay for that directly not let someone else pay in exchange for horrible userexperiences, horrible privacy, huge additional traffic waste etc.
All of that could really only turn successful because data started moving freely over the internet and it grew exponentially while moving value basically has not changed at all.
All centralized, too. :(
does blogging count? I write blogs to share what I learn and I learned a lot from other bloggers.
I mean, if you liked 20% ownership at 50bn, you prob love 70% ownership at $8bn.

This is where the value of all that liquidation preference kicks in. At some point it becomes in SoftBanks interest to push for lower valuation, as it means they get to wipe out all the people that came before.
> Nobody is forcing people to upgrade

Except if you want the latest Xcode version.
Jessa and Louis knocked it out of the park - and the corporate lobbyists kept tripping all over their words. Was a great watch all around but my God that timer beeper was ungodly loud.
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https://techwomennetwork.com/events/mnf-week-7-nfl-streams-reddit-patriots-vs-jets-nfl-live-stream

https://techwomennetwork.com/events/watch-new-york-jets-vs-new-england-patriots-live-stream-nfl-football-game-online-0

https://techwomennetwork.com/events/mnf-week-7-nfl-streams-reddit-patriots-vs-jets-nfl-live-stream-reddit

https://techwomennetwork.com/events/mnf-week-7-nfl-streams-reddit-jets-vs-patriots-nfl-live-stream-2019

https://techwomennetwork.com/events/new-england-patriots-vs-new-york-jets-monday-night-live-0

https://techwomennetwork.com/events/watch-new-york-jets-vs-new-england-patriots-live-stream
That would effectively mean that Apple decided to purposefully cripple their current products in order to make their future products more appealing.
Different OSes have different sandboxing capabilities.

Until relatively recently, Linux had effectively none, just chroot, and selinux which almost everyone disabled for a decade.

The point, which you seem to be missing, is that with generalized sandboxing tools like containers, you can isolate any application to limit the potential damage of application exploits.

It's a form of defense in depth. We must assume browsers have many bugs and are exploitable. Ok, from that perspective, what do we do to safely access untrusted input (the entire internet) with the browser on a computer we also do things like banking, private communications, and access privileged servers from? We run it in either a dedicated VM or more recently, we use sandboxing technologies like containers.

I don't understand why this is so difficult for you to grok.
In case you missed it, first, watch the video on the website, then click on the link provided there, which leads you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiyBGUmTip4&t=123
Run it on https://1984hosting.com. I've heard it's good although I can't attest personally.
As others have said, we get revenue from contextual advertising as opposed to behavioural advertising. In other words, if you search for "car" you'd see a car-related ad rather than an ad based on your search history or personal profile (which we don't have anyway).

There's more info about our business model here:
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-revenue-model/

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Chan culture is one of three things that I personally list as having killed the creative Internet, with the other two being gamified / addictive social media and spam.

Chan culture is itself a form of addictive gamified social media too, albeit of a much more niche variety. It popularized memes and snark as a cheap zero effort way to get attention and as a "thought stopper."

I started hating chan culture way back in the 'oughts before any of this Nazi alt-right edgelord BS, but none of it surprises me. I saw the way cheap shitty memes and repetitive jokes were overtaking substance everywhere and that the chans were the origin of the cancer.

I still struggle to describe the essence of the chans but I know it when I see it. There is this odd cognitive style and of course jargon and buzzwords. It's almost like a very weird cult... like how people who have had contact with them say you can smell a scientologist.
> Apple makes more margins on Mac hardware

Maybe but sells a lot more iOS units.
You can't handle the truth!
Unions are optional. There are at least 3 unions at my place, and most employees aren't members.

What's the issue?
The normal people came to the internet, and crowded out the nerds. You can still find all the weird, wacky stuff that used to be out there; I daresay there is far more of it, by volume, than there ever was. It just requires more effort to sift out the dross.
I've often wondered about the viability of putting all my build agent's folders in a ram disk to speed up build times.

Granted, IT won't be thrilled that I'll need ~4-8x the RAM, but the devs would certainly love the speed.

....now if only I could make fastlane take less than 2 hours....
Indeed. We keep chasing our own tail. It's largely pointless.
It reminds me of how gas stations generally having the same prices can be interpreted in two ways:

1) Competition is almost perfect, so they are forced to sell at the market price.

2) Competition is almost non-existent, so they are forced to sell at the monopoly price agreed upon.

As far as the questions people debate about upbringing and resources, wouldn't (identical) twin studies be the way to go if you really want to know?
It's just a potshot at amazon and walmart. Their misdeeds are totally tangential to whether or not a city does the upstanding thing (raises taxes with approval or tightens its belt if it can't get approval) or the unethical thing (extracting more money from residents and people who pass through in the form of fees for services and fines for petty violations of civil law).
The problem with this is that jumping out onto the net from a VPS-allocated IP causes all sorts of trouble for "normal" internet use. For example you won't be able to use Netflix doing something like this.
Some examples of 'toys' in today's market - AR/VR, Drones,

Another factor is that investment in tech is dramatically higher today that it was 20 years ago (partly due to success that early investors had) and people are willing to invest in anything that looks like a 'toy' in the off chance it pays off.
You can always setup Algo on your own personal VPS running on Azure, GCE, DigitalOcean, Vultr, etc.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Also, hasn't CloudFlare been audited to verify their no log claims? I know while Mullvad hasn't been audited to verify their no log claims, they have at least been audited to verify the security of their app.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/

"1. We don't write user-identifiable log data to disk;

2. We will never sell your browsing data or use it in any way to target you with advertising data;

3. Don’t need to provide any personal information — not your name, phone number, or email address — in order to use the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp; and

4. We will regularly hire outside auditors to ensure we're living up to these promises."

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2018/9/24/read-results-security-...
I have a Korg Microsampler. It's a common music synthesizer (er, sampler) keyboard manufactured in 2009. The only way to upload and download samples to this device is via a piece of proprietary software made by Korg USA. Which is 32-bit. So I'm in the situation that OS X Catalina will not only break my various 32-bit applications, it will also obsolete external hardware that I use regularly. I am lost as to why Apple would do this with no legacy option whatsoever.
The courts very much got it right in this case. Joe Shmoe has health problems and will listen to a "doctor" but they don't have a bridge half-built in their backyard or an automotive manufacturing setup. There's just no risk to letting people say they are engineers, and the first amendment should only be infringed upon for good reason.

Let's take this case as an example. Anyone can send a letter saying "The traffic light is too short; here's the math to prove it". Saying "I'm an engineer" might help you get that letter noticed, but it would almost certainly be illegal to reprogram the light without a professional engineer's sign-off independent of that letter no matter the person's qualifications. The state was never at risk of acting on his advice no matter how he represented himself. So why not let him say it?
> Frankly, if you're waiting my table and I need more water, you should bring me more water.

is the logic here that as a software developer, your quality of life should certainly be better than that of the people waiting on you? that seems wrong to me. i mean, i know this is a common sort of latent assumption in our society, but it is one that's worth examining.

regardless, you need to find a more sane and human dev job.
True enough. But when it was big, it was nothing special. 2.2 (2, in the final number scheme) was pretty crashy. One would not expect a Bell Labs person to find a SysV variant interesting.

As I recall, solarix had Doors by 2001, but I can't remember what it was.

Solarix probably deserves mention if Tru64 nee OSF/1 did. Ah, the Unix Wars: Sunview vs. Motif, buggy vs. ugly.
You may shock yourself with what three hours a week can do for you. After years of playing the "I'm smart, I'll just figure this out myself (finally, this year)" game with my fitness goals I outsourced the planning to a trainer and have been super happy with the progress I've made. I'm definitely in better shape with three hours a week of HIIT and strength training than I was as a six day a week gym rat in high school who was making it up as I went.
Agree. And that raise of socialism is also annoying. But some of US citizens are communists, not just socialists, so it's not just Europe :)
wrong assumption, I'm from New Zealand and am aware of most of the reputable (mainstream scientific) research orgs here. The original article made a big deal about those who are supporting a call to action to give legitimacy to the concern. While I have no problem with further research, I was interested in seeing research from credible researchers that have some link to a credible research organization that I'm aware of. None of the New Zealand people meet that criteria (though they may still have done legit research).
Thanks for assuming "feigned ignorance". I indeed have not owned a television in a long time and any attempts at watching one lead to migraine attacks.
Considering that the articles about this rate hike specifically mention dropping subscriber numbers, it seems a fair question to ask. I expected a higher level of discourse on HN.
>There are intersections here where 3 or 4 cars will continue to turn on a red signal - it's insan

Well then maybe they should increase the time available for a left turn instead of using it as an opportunity to collect revenue.
I think there's an argument that the consolidated internet caused 4chan to morph from a benign imageboard to the relative monster it is today. 4chan didn't start as a cancer, it became that way when all the 'normies' left for reddit|facebook|twitter.
> Others, like you say, don't dare.

I'm in that camp. I'm not afraid (they aren't going to send goons over to beat me up or anything), but looking at the most common responses to questions posed by others gives me the clear message that it's not worth putting up with that stuff.
Do you have anything relevant to add?
I don't think it means that in Chinese. However I agree it is not a decent name.

金 = gold/golden, 玉 = jade, 鹅 = goose

Usually the more chars resembling wealth in your name, the less educated family you may be from. Basically it just shows your eagerness to become rich. Not to mention the last character, which is rarely used char in names, who wants to name their child "goose"?

金 and 玉 are actually common in names, but usually combined with other good words like 诺(promise), 心(heart),... something like that. Decent names are not that straightforward and I think it may be the same in the western world.
If you're at under 400GB/month, Netlify may be an option, their Functions are AWS Lambdas and the paid plan ($25/month) comes with that traffic included. It's $20/100GB for extra, though, so it stops making sense for greater scale.
Ask HN: Guide to Friends and Family Safe Investment?
I've been looking everywhere for good information on small investments from friends and family, and a still have a few questions. If you can link me to a good guide or book, that would be wonderful.

For reference, I've only been working on my startup for 2 months and need only ~$10,000-$30,000 for the next 6-12 months. Its just me, and I live in a very low cost of living area. My family also has invested in family members a few times before, so its not something they are not accustomed to. I still would like to know some details, however.

1. What is the lowest amount worthwhile in a SAFE, assuming I trust the investor? $100? $1000? I don't intend to take money from cousins I hardly know, but if my brother wants to invest $500, that seems okay, even though it isn't all that much money. Is there an easy way to have a single representative for a large number of smaller investments?

2. What valuation cap and/or discount should I target? Some of my family just wants to support me and will trust me to give them a good deal, without negotiation. Problem is that I have no idea what's fair. I just need somewhat reasonable terms and I can give them to everyone.

3. For dealing with un-accredited family members, do I just need to talk to a lawyer to figure out details, or is this simpler than other HN posts and articles have made it seem? Can I use the 504/506 exceptions without much headache?

4. Others have given friends and family raises poor reviews in general, and said they seriously regretted them. Is this warranted? Should I be wary of this altogether? I don't think I have much choice, I have to get money from somewhere. I could reduce the amount raised to be just enough to find an angel or secure a larger investment from a single family member.
They can also wipe out themselves by throwing good money after bad.
I guess it comes out so terrible because Lebron has been very vocal on many other civil matters, and has labelled himself as someone who speaks his beliefs.

From his past positions people would have expected him to be pro-HK, instead he’s asking people to basically shut up. Him bringing warnings that all of this could hurt financially is the most unexpected angle to most of his followers.
These traffic numbers are the number of anonymous searches we serve per day. We don't know how many individual users we have, but we do try to take into account bots.

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I was directly referencing the parent comment:

> At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women.

Which suggests that there is an apparent increase in cancer rates. So yes, I was referring to an incident rate. Regardless, the semantics here don't change the meaning of my statement. We have solved (for lack of a better word) many of the lower hanging fruits of human disorders. As such, we can't effectively control for incidence rates over time
A tricky beast indeed!
No, the formal proof is a work in progress, so I'm also looking for counter-examples. And since posting on hackernews, someone found some problems (thank you so much Ekdohibs). However, there is for sure an implementation issue so they do not count as counter-examples yet. I'll investigate and fix that asap, then we'll see...
An interesting thing to think about is that having the best person possible for a job is usually incompatible with that person having the job they are best at. In a "meritocracy", which one predominates?
When they do it properly! I remember my first bloomin' onion as a revelation. But the next two times I went back over the years, what I received as a soggy mess, sometimes with undercooked batter. I have coincidentally only gone to Outback three times, since I was so disappointed by the repeated failure on my third attempt that I felt no need to return a fourth time. (This was back in the '00s at multiple franchises.)
Not a Mac user, so I have a little anecdotal evidence here, but with all the buzz about Catalina being broken, has this been a problem in earlier versions?

Just last night I spent all day trying to do some work on a friend's 2011 or 2012 MBP (16 GBs RAM, i7, should be fully capable). They needed Windows 10 for some special software, and wanted some help cleaning the hard drive to make room for the partition. After hours and hours of fighting tools and trying to work around Boot Camp Assistant limitations (it insisted on always reformatting as exFAT, in spite of Win10's 4+ GB .wim files), I finally determined that it was probably all fixed in a later version of macOS and proceeded to update her to Mojave.

Fast forward another hour and we're stuck in a bootloop of failing Mojave installs with some barebones diagnostics and repair tools that do nothing.

Thank GOD she had months worth of complete Time Machine backups we could easily restore.

But it's insane to me that a system update served by the App Store in the golden path on a piece of hardware still within it's support lifecycle could fail so catastrophically. I've given the middle finger to Windows' "Don't turn off this computer" messages scores of times, and it's always been able to boot up again just fine. As of late, I've not even experienced the need to do "Automatic Startup Repair" like the old days.

Is Apple really slipping that hard right now?
Thanks for the answer - I figured it would be some bioinformatics/mathematics/statistics leaning field - you can definitely do more as a lone wolf there than say, biology.
My caps lock is mapped to ESC.
Another thing that makes it different from "a Fitbit" is that most Fitbit users wear the device completely voluntarily. But with this device tied to employment these workers now would have to choose between their privacy or their job. Very unlike a Fitbit as far as the general implications.
I used to work at a very large and entrenched publishing-cum-tech company, too. Sounds like they were different companies, but very much the same rationale for migrating to a well-known cloud service provider. The ossified and entrenched IT department was becoming one of the biggest challenges to quickly reacting to market challenges and opportunities, and was long overdue for a few boots planted firmly to the rear end.

The cloud was probably always more expensive if you only considered the cost of computers. But it was about so much more than that. Mostly, it was about creating a hostile environment for the BOFHs who were creating a hostile environment for everyone else.
Ask HN: What startup/company was that?
Sometime back(don't remember the exact time frame) on HN there was a post about a podcast by an investor. He was interviewing one of his portfolio companies. The startup was US based ecommerce platform company that used it's own branding and packaging to sell it's user's products. The founder who was being interviewed was Indian origin. But I am unable to recall the name of the startup? Does anyone remember what startup was that?
Seems easy enough to work around. Just fill the extra space with completely different products. Put the other seller's products in a different location, also mixed in with other stuff.

The rule would be that you can put two products together if they are either the same seller (in which case you don't need to distinguish) or a different product (in which case you can distinguish visually).

Amazon already mixes different products in the same slot in order to optimize space anyway.