skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my Mac, I leave this running all the time:

https://github.com/halo/LinkLiar
No, because blocking people takes one click. You can completely solve the problem in literally two seconds. For that reason, I’m more confident of my privacy when on social media sites than in real life.
Intel is the one who defined feature presence flags in the CPU, but then doesn't use them for their compiler.
Really interested to see where you go with this. Amazing achievement so far
There were a lot of hours spent and features unimplemented those days in want of RAM. Now we don't have to do that- we can do more, and we can do stuff way faster as developers.

If you spend a half hour over the entire life of your machine even considering RAM, you might as well double it for $30.

Using RAM is good. It's fast, it's cheap, and anybody with 8 gigs has it in abundance
5 million over 100 years is $50,000/yr. The median household income is just over $60,000.

I think you'd do fine.
I don't understand how this isn't a violation of HIPAA. Comparing a DNA upload against the medical records of other people without their express written consent seems to me to be wrong.

I think there is a legal issue here around wether uploading your medical data to a 3rd party service allows that service to take ownership of your medical data and allows them to do what they please with it.

DNA absolutely falls under PII (personally identifiable information). I can't understand how a company to collect and use this information without (it appears) any rules or regulations.

Not only is it a security risk and a privacy violation but it has implications for every aspect of your life and the lives of your children and immediate relatives. I can't understand how this can be run out of someone's house with a part time volunteer staff with no security.

Mind Blown.
It's not important, but FYI it kinda is in China. It's right on China-Pakistan border.
> We spend way too much time worrying about the wealth of a small group of people that, in the end, doesn’t add up to that large a fraction of total wealth or income.

People focus on billionaires due to the fact that they are the most stark representation of the deeply unequal society in which they live. Wealth inequality is very real, please refer to the following: https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/august/wealth-ine... It's a rhetorical device

> Middle class Americans make $8 trillion a year, compared to about $130 billion for America’s billionaires.

So the group of people who leverage capital to sustain themselves and don't have to work have lower net income than the group of people who have to work to have a roof over their head?

> $50 trillion

I love how these numbers increasingly grow. First it was 36 trillion from the well-known Cato institute. Mind you, this was actually going to save money in the long term, so we have to bump up the number. The United states spend almost 2x per capita what Canada does on healthcare, so it seems pretty odd that we'd use current pricing systems to estimate the cost when the original M4A bill expressly increases leverage to negotiate. $50 trillion is a spook.
That video says the truck weighs 2500kg so I presume the 7200kg lorry is a different thing.
The price would go down, sure, but the chance of it going to zero are... very close to zero. People aren't investing because these folks have shares, they're investing (at least in part) in the underlying value and forward numbers for the company.

I guarantee that 100% of any of their shares would be swiftly picked up if they were sold at a 5%+ discount to the 52-week low stock price.
Won't this send loading times through the roof and increase RAM requirements greatly? I never use powerpoint on a phone; occasionally, I have to look at word/excel docs. How does forcing a user to keep installed things which he may not use improve his experience?

That aside, I like having separate windows in my android changer-thingy for different documents. Won't this ruin that? I'm regularly switching between a word doc and an excel sheet; now, I suspect I'll have to navigate some clumsy MS menu rather than doing what I do for all my other apps.
I started reading through On Liberty recently and I was surprised by how topical it was. This discussion doesn't seem to have changed much over the past 150 years. Mill spends a long time addressing arguments for censorship that I still see used today.

A lot is lost when a book-length discussion is reduced to a single sentence. In his work, there's a very thorough discussion of why this liberty is essential. I don't like how the grandparent used the quote so flippantly. Without the supporting context, it's a baseless statement that encourages low-quality discussion.

One of things Mill did really well is that he thoroughly described his opponents' position before arguing why it was incorrect. You haven't done that, which is why it's unclear what part of his argument is invalidated by improvements in communications.
Cool, you do you then. But Ive got family in some of these places you seem to care so little about.

Indifference to evil is all the same to me.
I've thought about negative interest rates specifically at length, and I can't imagine a situation where they don't lead to a chaotic breakdown in capital markets or even a currency collapse. The problem is in the compounding: normally there's a negative feedback loop against borrowing too much because you have to pay back more than you borrowed, and if you don't, you go bankrupt and can't borrow any more. With negative rates, there's a positive feedback loop: the more you borrow, the more you make in profit, so everybody is incentivized to borrow as much as they possibly can, nobody wants to pay anything back, total debt increases to infinity, and with it the amount of money in circulation and asset prices also increase to infinity. Additionally, the most profitable sector of the economy becomes borrowing money, so all productive work stops and people focus on financial gains.

This is pretty much the definition of hyperinflation, so there's a template for what happens here, but not in the developed world.

I suspect that a lot of the demand for Bitcoin is also driven by fear of this scenario. In the world above, the incentive for savers is to simply not play in the established financial world; they'll take their savings and put it in assets that are not rapidly going to zero. If only there were a transferrable currency that's deflationary by design and immune to manipulations of supply & interest rates...
It’s Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa
Pure hodling means you never take profit. Ideally you sell high and rebuy low.
I thought of Leibniz too.

> "In Leibniz's mind, “this language will be the greatest instrument of reason,” for “when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without further ado, and see who is right”"
I've never heard of them, thanks.
Ive lead teams in the 15-25 person range in companies as small as 50 and as large as 300.
I hate when people say that WeWork is not a tech company. WeWork is a real estate tech company. They make a ton of internal tools that help them to automate the business, which is exactly what technology is for - affect real life experiences. In a sense, they are a pure tech business.
A 7.2ton vehicle would definitely be called a LKW (Llkw or Mlkw).
So is screening. Men can be carriers of HPV.
A large number of choices in how we choose to socialize online? I can post this reply to you as easily as I can text my best friend or mother.

The problem I have with these discussions is that we aren’t talking about it in a more nuanced manner. The problem with Facebook and Twitter and their kind isn’t their size, magnitude or shape on the public discourse. If it weren’t them, it would be partisan newspapers and newsletters and cable networks pretending they have integrity and objectivity that they don’t. I’m sure they have some measure of integrity, I’m sure they strive to be objective, but I vastly prefer when people And networks fess up to where their biases lay.

Well Facebook and Twitter destroyed what was status quo, fine, I have no problem with that. Have they contributed to negative polarization? That’s much less clear, but I’m leaning towards no. Negative polarization is near as I can tell, an old English tradition and near as I can tell, runs through Catholics, Protestants, Barkers, Quakers, Whigs, Jacobites, Revolutionaries, Loyalists, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Federalists 1.5, Democratic-Republicans, Democrats, Whigs, Republicans, Unionists, Confederates, Progressives, just to name a few off the top of my head.

If there is a problem Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. it’s that they collect enormous amounts of data, not just directly but they buy and sell with data brokers and use that to confirm or reconfirm identities. This by itself wouldn’t even be an issue except that they are bad stewards of our personal data. That’s a problem, and one worth focusing on, but let’s not pretend they are anymore powerful than they are, or that they are a cause of our society’s rifts.

The splits in our society are real, but they are older than Silicon Valley. Technology will not fix them. Social media will not fix them. The only thing that will do anything about them, and only then, very slowly, is actual factual dialog between people like you and I, and the fact that you and I are even having this discussion is because we have a choice in how, when, where and with whom we would like to talk. This isn’t Facebook, and this isn’t the Post Office or the Forum in Rome and somehow we’re able to talk anyway.

I’d say that’s at least one point in favor of the free market.
> But would the Congolese have had electron microscopes but for Belgian colonialism?

Probably yes. Europe and Central Africa were already connected and trading since the 1400's[1]. The kingdom of Kongo sent an ambassador to Vatican in the 1600's[2]. Things would have played out differently if the slave trade in the Americas did not precipitate the downfall of many African kingdoms. The part of Congo where Ebola was discovered would probably not have been called Congo today.

Colonialism's goal was not to trade or bring technological advances but rather to accelerate the exploitation of the continent[3]. Belgian colonialism in particular was vicious at that.[4]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_C%C3%A3o

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuele_Ne_Vunda

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Conference

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...
Haha, I just realized the typo in the title. "What products have documentation?" -- most of them.
12.3K stars on Github; over 1.300 commits; 197K downloads.
0 supporters on Patreon

That's the sad reality for open source devs.
I was just discussing with a colleague how technology accretes and how no one reevaluates high-level design decisions even after every single factor leading to those decisions has changed.

It's weird that basic filesystems today are so out of touch with modern realities that we are universally forced to resort to using complex databases even in cases when the logical model of files and directories fits the storage needs really well.

It's weird that hierarchical storage is the only universal model available on all OSes and in all languages.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that we live in a bizarro world where software runs everything, yet makes little to no sense from either human, or modern hardware or system design perspectives.
I tend to view tech companies as companies that consider custom tech a competitive advantage and attempt to maintain in-house competency.

If you're a grocery chain and you contract out most of your technical needs then you aren't a tech company. But if you're a grocery chain and you hire and maintain a large technical team to provide you with various custom pieces of technology, you're both a grocery chain and a tech company.

This could be any piece of tech: from custom software to custom refrigeration systems.
IIRC the play store requires this for beta signups.
Apple updates privacy website to highlight data protection tools
I'm able to refuse the state/hospital in California to take blood samples, right?
Embraer is pretty large. Not Airbus or Boeing large but they make passenger aircraft for medium and shorter routes.
>distributed the wealth of the world

In the limit of a single individual wealth works in a naive fashion where such distribution is possible. But on the scale of the economy, such a thing is not possible without inventing a better distribution mechanism than capital itself. If you redistribute each peace of your car's engine to each passenger, you will be forced to walk. Even as a thought experiment, evenly distributing the wealth of the world is not possible. As the wealth is produced by the incentives inherent in gradients of inequality.

Thus the project of the modern socialist is to develop redistributive structures that maintain such incentives. There are echos of this in George and Harberger, but little in modern Jacobin-style socialism, whose proposals amount to gifting the means of production to the sorts of people that staff an HR department.
You absolutely need Spectre/Meltdown mitigation otherwise someone could attack you with JavaScript running in your web browser.

https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(...

noibrs - We don't need no restricted indirect branch speculation
noibpb - We don't need no indirect branch prediction barrier either
nospectre_v1 and nospectre_v2: Don't care if some program can get data from some other program when it shouldn't
l1tf=off - Why would we be flushing the L1 cache, we might need that data. So what if anyone can get at it.
nospec_store_bypass_disable - Of course we want to use, not bypass, the stored data
no_stf_barrier - We don't need no barriers between software, they could be friends
mds=off - Zombieload attacks are fine
mitigations=off - Of course we don't want no mitigations
Facebook has such awesome AI tools open sourced. I am more impressed with their code than Google
This can be overkill for searching something like a product catalog, though I'd love to have something this detailed on Amazon. For exploring large data sets with hundreds of data points, it's required, and paying customers will demand it because they know how much it helps them do their work without having to request and wait for new features every time a new type of use case comes up.
Yes, it is very difficult to actually judge skill versus just survivor-ship bias. I worked for a hedge fund that had around $20B under management, lost 60% in 2008, then made all of that back in 18-24 months. Now, they're worth 50% more than loss. Are they skilled? I don't know.
feedback instead of anonymous downvotes? crazy!
Really? $5M is $100k a year for 50 years. I can live comfortably off of $35k a year a long as I'm not in San Fransisco or something. With just $1M I could live indefinitely off investment income, which would be like $50k a year. Double those expenses to support a family, and you're still under budget.
Can you please stop spamming your site? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=eXpd8

It's not like you're contributing anything of value to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=eXpd8
Interview with Jared Friedman of Y Combinator
What happens to a passenger car if it drives straight to it? My guess would be that the metal shaft would impale the car and the occupants.
>They have done shady anti consumer things like decreasing battery life.

I was under the impression they throttled devices with poor batteries to _increase_ battery life.
True, because of the way broadcast frequencies were regulated.

However the point remains the same with industry crossover into the new media space - TimeWarner x Verizon merger etc. Consolidation via acquisition and monopolistic behaviors tends to _reduce_ competition, not encourage it.
And most importantly the regime ended without having had the chance to destroy much of its document stash. The Nazis were diligent record-keepers and an absolutely enormous trove of secret files turned up after the war.

The best trawl through this marterial is the gargantuan (but highly readable) "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer, an American journalist living in Europe during Hitler's rise to power and the second world war.
> the driver got a lot of heat for fumbling with her phone (or 2nd computer?) right before the accident

Based on news stories I found, she was glancing at a television show on her phone [1].

> make the car sound its horn when it gets into this absurd 1s "action suppression" mode?

If they added the suppression because there were too many false positives, that would just have resulted in the car honking at apparently arbitrary times. It's just converting the garbage signal from one form into another. It's still too noisy to be reliable.

1: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2019/03/17/... Vasquez looked down 166 times when the vehicle was in motion, not including times she appeared to be checking gauges [...] In all, they concluded, Vasquez traveled about 3.67 miles total while looking away from the road. [...] starting at 9:16, Vasquez played an episode of “The Voice,” The Blind Auditions, Part 5, on her phone.
> mostly by Muslim extremists

Could you try to quantify that claim instead of just throwing it out there?

Particularly in the context that ramming attacks have become rather common across the world in these past years [0], with plenty of them having a "non-terrorist" background [1].

[0] https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/society/18798/rise-in-vehicle-at...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack#List_of...
The obvious answer is cost. How long do you want young people to live with their parents to save up for the efficiency improvements you propose? How much longer should their mortgage be? How many people become unable to afford one at all and have to live on the street?

I have a friend who is a building a house by himself. I think that's really cool. If you set standards too high that wont be possible.

Finally bureaucracy sucks. Even an "obvious" regulation that all houses follows like "your house has to have a roof" has the potential to become seriously annoying if you have to get an inspector who is only available in a month and only on Mondays 9-10, to take a look and write a statement that your house indeed does have a roof.
Those animations videos are so well done, very pleasing to the eye to watch
What about all the people getting from/to work roughly at the same time and plugging their cars. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup for example, and that's just tea pots

> All we need to do is make use of it outside peak time

Seems like a huge thing to overcome to me.
Have you ever used WordPad? WordPad is a lightweight "word processor" not a text editor. It is not really an option.
This is awesome Peter – thanks for sharing!
> I can't understand how this can be run out of someone's house with a part time volunteer staff with no security.

But that's the promise of software and the internet. The ability to compete globally with minimal effort.
In a previous lifetime, I had access to pharmaceutical industry data, at the level of individual products, which reported the relationship between detailing (visits to doctors by drug reps) and prescription behavior (for target drugs and competitors).

Bottom line, pharmaceutical manufacturers employ drug reps because they increase sales. For up-and-coming brands, detailing is a major promotional component. And it's carefully managed.
Last time I evaluated it to do casual games Godot was lacking production ready ads component. Is it now something fulfilled?
Dragon's Teeth (Fortification)
Thanks, yes, I've heard that NTSB crash reports are mind blowing in their attention to detail. A follow on question: how do they ensure people honestly answer questions, is the person not inviting personal liability by answering?
Same experience here. Initial integration for 1-off purchases was easy peasy. Updating to PaymentIntents to support SCA was non-obvious. Trawled back and forth through many pages of documents many times before we got there. In the end, the code changes are few but I feel we could have got there via some easier route.
This is a fascinating idea... don't think of it as a tone generator for a heatsink (well, not initially -- though that may be one use case)... think of this as a research project... heat dissipation vs. temperature vs. vibrations vs. material vs. shape...

In other words, the more materials you could test at different temperatures, with different types of vibration going through them, the more you'd gain an understanding of the phenomena... perhaps there's a new theory or discovery in there... I can see the research paper or theory: "Heat dissipation via pulsation in different materials at different frequencies".

Of course, you might fail... but you'd (have to!) learn a lot of things from diverse areas of physics (and probably math too) in the process!

That would be a win, no matter what.
I read though a bunch of your post and thought I would reply to this one.
Are you not aware of network effects and economies of scale? Do you actually think monopolies are only a product of government?
We're actually facing an issue with our Ceph infrastructure in the 'upgrade' from FileStore to BlueStore: the loss of use of our SSDs.

We created our infrastructure with a bunch of hardware that had HDDs for bulk storage and an SSD for async I/O and intent log stuff.

The problem is that BlueStore does not seem to have any use for off-to-the-side SSDs AFA(we)CT. So we're left with a bunch hardware that may not be as performant under the new BlueStore world order.

The Ceph mailing list consensus seems to be "don't buy SSDs, but rather buy more spindles for more independent OSDs". That's fine for future purchases, but we have a whole bunch of gear designed for the Old Way of doing things. We could leave things be and continue using FileStore, but it seems the Path Forward is BlueStore.

Some of us do not need the speed of an all-SSD setup, but perhaps want something a little faster than only-HDDs. We're playing with benchmarks now to see how much worse the latency is with BlueStore+no-SSD, and whether the latency is good enough for us as-is.

Any new storage design that cannot handle an "hybrid" configuration of combining HDDs and SSDs is silly IMHO.

I joked that we could tie the HDDs together using ZFS zvol, with the SSD as the ZIL, and point the OSD(s) there.
Web UIs can be used with my screen reader's search functionality and quick navigation keys. For example, in Spotify, which uses a web UI, I can do ctrl+ins+f, type rock, press enter and I'm focused on the Rock playlist. Similarly, in Skype, I can search for "audio call" etc. Some elements can also be reached pretty quickly with navigation keys. I think it's much easier to screw up a win32 gui than a web app. The non-web paets of Itunes are a good example. They're accessible, but all objects need to be reached by pressing tab, and there's a lot of objects. There's no semantic structure and no way to provide one. A website-like document would work better in this case.
I don't disagree, and I think that's an ideal virtually everyone agrees with. But an ideal alone cannot be the premise for asserting an enforceable change to the status quo.

The reason why the Founders – and subsequently, the courts – enshrined freedom of speech from government censorship, is because that is the most the government can enforce without violating other limitations and stipulations of the Constitution. It's not as if the Founders completely forgot to consider "Hey wouldn't it be nice if everyone had a right to be heard in our society?"

If the author wants this ideal to become reality, then he needs to accept giving greater power to the government (or propose a completely different paradigm). The fact that he apparently can't – possibly because he recognizes that increased powers would end up undermining freedom of speech – is the reason why things are as they are right now.