skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is an interesting one, so not trying to disagree, but...

Modern conservatism is not so well-defined. I'd say "conservatism" is best defined by the values of people who call themselves conservative, not by political theorists. And that therefore that it's more partisan and tribal than ideological.
@dang is the only one I think?
They might seem to be, so let me explain: To me it looked like you were doing exactly what you accused the other poster of -- immediately sorting them into the 'villain' bin and taking a self-righteous stand against them.
I think Jack's ideas usually should be new companies and not changes to Square or Twitter. I also am disappointed that Vine was shuttered when TikTok is basically the same thing and now is a massive social network[1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/instagram-vs-tiktok/
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Yes, it's a safe bet we're talking about rubbing (wood) alcohol here, not grain (e.g. booze) to clean fingerprints and miscellaneous cooties off the screens. A single-malt is only effective for scrubbing off residue from social interactions.
I think that most monopoly technology companies now expect decentralized systems to challenge them eventually.

So its smart to try to build and promote something that is decentralized but also allows them a profit model. It also makes sense just from an architectural standpoint in terms of scaling. I think Ethereum offers at least a chance they may do both of those things.
We end up equivocating the word anonymity here. I've had this same debate with a gay, older relative. She spent most of her time in small towns, and constantly felt the social pressure due to being gay. To her, a city is "anonymous" because nobody generally cares what she's up to, and certainly nobody cares that she's gay. It's not even just about being accepting of homosexuality. Rather, most people she meets are strangers, and don't have any preconceived notions about who she is or who she should be.

I find cities anything but anonymous -- you're always around people, there's no privacy in the sense that there's always someone observe you. (ie, you're never alone in the woods)

So, you have at least two definitions of anonymity:

- a lack of social pressure due to lack of interest, and interaction with (mostly) strangers

- the ability to escape from observation for brief periods
Yeah, it's supposed to be on top of their existing 1-1s, but we still feel we fail them.
Just seems like any other language evolution to me?
Maybe the lead made a mistake. Or, I hate to say it but...maybe OP isn't viewed as HiPo and worth the perceived investment. There's always another side to a story.
No, in fact, I have heard the arguments you've made ad infinitum before, as have just about everyone else reading HN.
This is how brainwashed look like
If the original buyers of the bonds were still holding them, would that then make the lawsuit legit?
So this is primarily physically currency that is hard to counterfeit? Cash (in the US) already has billions of R&D in defenses to the point that most people will never see it, and centralization ensures that cash is always accepted.

I just don't see why people would switch to something to ensure 100% real bills and lose all the other benefits of cash. How is there going to be a cambrian explosion with an issue that affects almost no one?
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I don't think its mostly about egos but rather about money. Something like Ethereum offers a potential profit model which ActivityPub does not.

Also ActivityPub relies on servers/federated rather than p2p.
It is different in that screens are common and are commonly cleaned. In particular, as long as you use just water and a microfiber cloth you are fine -- except for this case.
Now that you ask that, I wonder if any other monitors targeted at high end pros have the same "special care" requirements.
You can't just say that and not tell who you think is last
Could I shoot you an email about this?
This is the exact opposite of how you should go about product market fit and is an anti-pattern that they are teaching students.

If they were doing this the right way, they would identify problems that exist that existing currency does not address and then work back to how they can solve them, which might include a blockchain based currency.

But not the opposite approach.

That said, can't wait for the students to come up with applications like "buying drugs" and "paying for kegs when you are underaged".
It’s a small company that creates software for the public sector in Kazakhstan.
Apparently (at least according to some porn site "categories") people pay to have this done to them for fun. Google "sounding xxx" (or don't).
I know it seems like Bush forgot the quote, but in reality he likely realized halfway through he didn't want a soundbite of him saying "Shame on me".
Doesn't one require the other? You have to buy back the stock from someone. That someone is necessarily divesting themselves of the stock as a result.
Even if the magnitude is wrong, this is still a problem of perverse incentives. Should people be allowed to sell a kidney to make rent?
What about the conversation here has been racist in the way you imply? This is a strawman that came entirely from left field.
I have a lot of mixed, mostly melancholy feelings about her self reflection there. The talk about imposter syndrome and self deprecation is something that rings true to a lot of talented people, not just women, and the power of her videos is that she demonstrates that failure is a part of success.

With most media you usually see a carefully choreographed final product that appears flawless and intimdating. You don't get to see the process or what lead up to it. What her videos demonstrate is that failure and imperfection are ok and part of the process.

A good example of this is Bon Appétit Magazine, it arrives as a finished product that appears, on the surface, to be perfect and unassailable. If you watch their videos on Youtube you get a much different perspective and get to see all the flaws and mistakes in the process that leads up to the magazine. Giertz brings that to engineering and that's what's so powerful about her work.

I agree that there are a lot of people, not just women, who are afraid to step up and be an expert. I believe that fear is what drives people to become experts, while simultaneously holding them back. Her growth and self actualization are both powerful and inspiring, and at the same time sad because it means she probably can't create more of those early videos that were very special. Even still her growth and continued aspirations will produce ever more inspiration for others.
This is 100% true from an investor standpoint. The breakdown is when EPS is used as a measure of economic or corporate health.
Apple iCloth...
We've just given up on it, I just give people tickets with stuff they want to learn about. "Oh, you want to learn Selenium, here's a ticket that has Selenium"
It’s worth mentioning that this VC is an investor in Webflow, one of the companies mentioned that is “unbundling LinkedIn”.
It's going to be Oracle.
> How many times can you tax the same dollar bank note.

As fast as it can be used for transactions that are subject to tax - sales, payroll, inheritance, etc. In a world where High Frequency Trading exists, that number's almost infinite. The whole "double taxation" argument has always been stupid because every dollar already gets taxed many times throughout it's lifetime. I'd love to hear an argument for why taxing money at rest is worse than taxing it in motion, considering the principle of "tax bads not goods" and the fact that hoarded money is worse for the economy. Want to try and make one?
Decentralization first came to mind as a "try to pawn off the hosting costs" as a motivation but I can see trying legal zones to try to adapt to the multiple conflicting legal requirements and demands because countries would never agree on "neutral international business rules". It is certainly rational and often of questionable legal fairness to expect otherwise.

I am not happy with the balkanization involved in that concept - part of the beauty of the internet is a disregard for the globe's petty fiefdoms and their ability to literally divide and conquer.
I think one reason a lot of people are rolling their eyes is that we don't believe this claim.

It's (probably) just Apple trying to sell fantastically overpriced cleaning cloths.
My entire professional "office" career, if not my entire working experience since starting full time as a bicycle mechanic at 16 years old, has been wholly reliant on the opportunities to do something I wasn't perfectly 100% qualified for (it should be noted that I am a white male.)

I wouldn't knowingly join an employer that pigeonholes anyone across their organization. I'd also propose that a role with little or no horizontal or vertical professional mobility is probably a good candidate for automation and a human shouldn't be subject to it for longer than necessary anyhow.
I think it depends on what you want to use your freedom to do.

Sure. I didn't mean anything illegal or inmoral, just different enough from the norm as to make the usual idiots to tell you. If you don't know what I'm talking about, chances are you haven't lived in a small community.
1. For mature tech companies selling high margin products, R&D is typically 8-16% of revenue while operating profit margins are 20-40% of revenue. Even after taxes and interest, it’s natural for buybacks to exceed R&D

2. Not all R&D spent is booked as accounting GAAP R&D. Any internal tool for example can not be booked as R&D because it’s not sold to end customers.

3. Companies outside of tech do not report their amount of R&D spend but include it with SG&A. If deemed immaterial then you don’t see it
Exactly. I hate all these comments about how if we pay people for blood then we'll get "dirty blood".

Poor != dirty
Those aren't caveats at all.

First, this is explicitly a vulnerability compromising SGX itself, so saying SGX has to be enabled is tautological. It's not a vulnerability attacking Intel processors generally, and it's not being billed that way either.

Second, securing memory against untrusted privileged execution is a defining characteristic of SGX, so it's likewise unsurprising that it would be required. That is quite literally the intended purpose of SGX.

The design thesis of SGX is to prevent "all hope is lost" from being true in the context of privileged execution.
I'd rather see interest in Matrix than ActivityPub.
> EDIT: I read some other, more complete sources, it looks like jamming.

Care to share those? It's an interesting topic but I don't have the base knowledge to make out bogus/incomplete information.
Didn't the HK protestors win the online poll? Was that not legitimate?
Past, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583402
If you're electing to have a prostatectomy (i.e. removal of your prostate), then yes, your alternative is likely death.

I haven't read this paper, and it's been years since my Masters when I last kept up with this, but the patients at this stage are usually getting their prostates removed. The aggressiveness of the cancer is enough to threaten their life and well-being, so they elect for this procedure. It's usually followed up with radiation and chemotherapy to kill any residual tumour cells left behind, usually at the periphery, or if metastasis has occurred.

So great, prostate and cancer's gone, everyone's happy right? Well, no. The surgery damages a lot of the surrounding tissues, so these men are left with sexual dysfunction (which sucks but you can somewhat handle since you are living) and incontinence. The urinary and bowel issues affect your quality of life immensely. If you're in your 60s, you might have another 10-20 years to live with this. But if you're in your 40s, which is a lot of the cases for aggressive cancer types, you're stuck this way for many decades.

Hence why this ultrasound technique is so appealing because you can perform a minimally-invasive procedure that destroys only what you target, and spares the urethra and other tissues. Better outcomes, and better quality of life.

Given that the gold standard is surgery, this new technique has to prove itself against that, by showing that it is actually successfully destroying the cancer. That's why these clinical trials are occurring.

As an addendum, one study in Thailand looked at a sample size of dead men, and found that 1 in 7 had prostate cancer, but died of other causes. What that means is that many men get prostate cancer and may be asymptomatic because it is not aggressive. It can manifest as localized tumours/nodules within the prostate that you wouldn't be able to detect without good palpation and/or sensitive imaging. And because you're asymptomatic, you might not even seek diagnosis, and you'll probably die of other causes.

It also means that many men get diagnosed with cancer and may seek premature treatment. Most good doctors will recommend a watchful waiting approach; regular checkups and PSA level checks to ensure that you're still in the asymptomatic area. There's other treatments that can occur before surgery. But if you end up down this path, your cancer could be very localized within the prostate.

However, surgery is an all-or-nothing approach, there's no saving the prostate. Ultrasound ablation could be a good alternative and allow targeting. We're still far off from proving that though, but it's definitely viable. It's also why ultrasound ablation is being used for things like uterine fibroids, and breast cancer. There's even use cases for brain cancers.

It's a very cool technology, and I'm very optimistic for it. But I left my Masters in 2012, and we're still conducting these clinical trials. This is exactly the pace it should be occurring at, since it needs to be ironclad. But I found it too slow for my liking, so I moved on in my career path.
I see a market opportunity for monitor-sized screen protectors coming up. Actually, for our TV at home, I had to cut and frame a piece of plexiglass to protect the TV from the grandkid.
I believe they turn into those cesspools because only people that feel outside of mainstream networks due to bans and stuff, end up there.

It would be a different scenario if it was the big network that supported free speech instead of a new ban reactionary network
As there are to carry packages.
Apple is really bad example.

Apple did buyback for a right reason. They are drowning in cash. Their debt is not an issue at all.
How much heat are we talking about? General anesthetic amount or local enough?
The surface is no less durable, but the coating wears out if handled.
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Students and part time workers are in fact people and should be counted as such for their work.

If you were just asking for additional context in the article, that's one thing, but this is certainly not "misleading."
Because they are giving away their work for free. It makes sense only if you don't actually work with software and can only think about money.
Yes, it's one of the few success stories of US health industry. You get paid to donate blood, and you are helping people in need.
The original company blog announcement (the canonical "Our Incredible Journey") is https://www.wunderlist.com/blog/join-us-on-our-new-journey/

Wunderlist has been absolutely awful for me the last 6 months or so. It crashes all the time on opening, and the syncing is so bad that sometimes items will disappear from a list immediately after I add them, then reappear a while later, on a single device.

This is on an iPhone 6s; I'm not sure if it's always been this bad and I just didn't notice early on, or if something changed. The only thing keeping me on it is the fact that my wife is familiar with it too and we share a few grocery lists, which is extremely handy.

What's with the video paired with the announcement? [1] It doesn't make any sense without the "moving" metaphor from the post, and even with it it's really strange.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvU5iqjsBQ
I see it more as it being a joke that has been done to death. Sometimes it's just time to move on. Nothing wrong with that.

That said, I do hope she does more machine comedy. I love unusual forms of comedy.
> Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because each individual company thinks their shareholders can better allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves.

This is very strange explaination. As stated it sounds like stock buybacks are some sort of altruistic endeavor resulting from some kind of collective shrug.

This couldn’t be further from truth. Buybacks are the result of executive incentives to hit a certain stock valuation. You can either do this the intended way by growing the company’s value by making competing in the marketplace, or you can do it the lazy underhanded way by manipulating the stock market by creating an artificial scarcity.

You don’t get chalk this up to a faceless emergent phenomena when there are a very short list of people on FTC documents who made the decision at each and every one of the these companies.
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Gotcha I was a bit slow yesterday this makes more sense
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It's been tried before on Eth... can't recall the name now but the biggest issue is the Gas price/cost to post any update.

As with all(Most) Blockchains ~ it simply is too expensive to store data. Especially at any scale.
The Web and email are both federated and thus theoretically decentralized, but in practice they're highly centralized. Yet another federated protocol (sitting on top of an already centralized federated protocol) is probably not a reliable path to decentralization.
Isn't that a good thing, since they're getting more recognition (people learning their first name), or am I missing something more subtle here?
before 20th century marketing woman would spend the whole day preparing food. And you couldn't really have a decent way of owning a home.
On iOS Google Maps go to Settings->Scales and set Map Scales to Always.

No Google cartographers necessary.
Buying back stock only creates value for shareholders if the stock is trading for less than its intrinsic value. Above that price buybacks destroy shareholder value.

Executives are doing this to meet performance targets and get bonuses. Not to allocate capital efficiently.
Can we not spread these pseudoscience lies on HN? Steve Jobs died in part because he believed he could cure his pancreatic cancer with herbal remedies and diet, which you're espousing.
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I think side projects over 30 will be more common pretty soon. Income inequality is getting worse and worse, other industry incomes are falling like crazy and lots of people are career changing to tech.
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ActivityPub? Who cares about what JSON schema gets adopted?

Much more interesting is the why, not the how.

#1 reason to decentralize:

"Centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information is unlikely to scale over the long-term without placing far too much burden on people."

#2 reason:

"The value of social media is shifting away from content hosting and removal, and towards recommendation algorithms directing one’s attention. Unfortunately, these algorithms are typically proprietary, and one can’t choose or build alternatives. Yet."

#3 reason:

"social media incentives frequently lead to attention being focused on content and conversation that sparks controversy and outrage, rather than conversation which informs and promotes health."
Just replace black boxes with '#' and voila you have real ASCII.
Huge tangent but this is the same thing that bothers me about pro piracy arguments. Some people feel they have a right to get a copy of someone’s music without paying for it and get upset when there are protections to prevent this.
My understanding is prostate cancer has a particular need for this sort of less invasive approach, as surgical procedures there tend to damage the sensitive equipment nearby - incontinence and impotence are common side effects of it, and often not worth it when prostate cancer tends not to be deadly.

Things like liver cancer you're probably better off just doing a surgery for, as you'll have more chance of getting it all, spotting metastasized offshoots, etc., and it's fairly accessible.
R&D spending is a badly understood black box. we incentivise miss measuring it with weird tax breaks and complex rules. From an economic point of view, it's not clear that existing firms should be engaging in it: many industries follow model where specialists create new products which are then available to industry via a mix of buying out small firms, licensing their products or imitating them (that seems to be how big chunks of silicon Valley work and also drug discovery and fashion for instance, three quite innovative sectors).

The result is the number being inflated up by firms dodging taxes, down by people working in their garages, sideways by including things and excluding other things based on weird regulations.

Share buybacks are similarly in a weird place: tax rules favour them twice, once when buying back and again when borrrowing to fund that. Plus interest rates are at a record low so that encourages them too.

People have a 1950s model that assumes research is something AT&T do and that the amount they spend is an honest reliable value. But they don't and its not. Some where someone is building WhatsApp 2.0 or 6G comms equipment in their basement in weekends. Their time and energy is counted for nothing in these numbers. And when they sell their company ro Facebook who issues shares to buy it and then buy those shares back (as that's the tax efficient way to buy things), they value they created will be a "buy back" not an "invention"...
I'm always surprised that Facebook didn't pivot into that space and eat LinkedIn's lunch. The bar is really low.

Facebook's main layout is already very professional-looking (except for the ads and games), and they market it for internal social networks.

Bolting on resumes and job searching, letting users have a professional face to their page... wouldn't be a huge stretch.
IME, that reflects (at least American) society in general, where males are referred to by their last names among friends much more often than females.
Never heard of ushahidi. It looks expensive. We developed a free, open source mapping app that uses MapBox vector tiles on to which you can drop pins that are then shared with neighboring nodes over the LoRa radio. Check out development here, https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio-map it hasn't been tested on latest dev hardware and might need some work to improve the loading of map tiles.
Those who are familiar with the Jepsen test may find Gemini of interest.
This retconned history of the mistake that's popped up in the last few years is bizarre. No one thought this at the time.

Bush tripped over his words all the time. It's much more likely that than a calculated move (that backfired btw, it's been his most famous quote since the day he said it.)
Folks, there's so much cynicism here. If you want to learn and invest in yourself, do it! If you want to sit back and wait for your employer to invest in you, don't be surprised when it doesn't happen. Orgs need to make smart investment decisions. If you're not feeling supported it may be that the org doesn't view you as HiPo and that's clear feedback on your current value to the organization.
Global warming will not cause humans to go extinct. We are adaptable and most will just move to better locations.

Polluting our water supply definitely will kill most land based species.

Don't waste your time fighting for something is an inconvenience. Fight for clean water and minimizing pollution.