skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Childhood friends from Christchurch Michael James Pratt and Matthew Isaac Wolfe face FBI sex trafficking charges over GirlsDoPorn website

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
I really like a stalled out OS. Really give me 20 year stability. Do not change interface and add eye candy every year just to sell new stuff. Just security updates.

Really hope there is RHEL (10+ year release) type ChromeOS.
Come on, Haskell is not that complicated. C++ is way more difficult
> 10. Still no hoverboards

Man! You really know how to drop a bummer for your last one :(
Have you tried the MS Ergo keyboard? Also check https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/ you find good advice in better keyboards.

BTW: I made mine for my own tastes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9wjpg0...
Why call it inspect instead of match?
I don’t think anyone is saying they are particularly computationally efficient. It’s just an extra limitation to make the process of writing the code more fun. It’s just for entertainment.
I'm not sure what you're asking. People drop their phones; the screens crack. People are too busy|lazy|cheap to get it fixed in a timely manner. Anecdotally, this group has a high percentage of people with younger kids - why replace the screen today if your toddler is going to drop the phone again tomorrow?
It really isn't that bad. Compare it to school shootings in the US, you can take actions to prevent something without it being on your mind 24/7.
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How about that being in an atocracy might be much better when you have a population of 51% wolves and 49% sheep.
A lower climate impact is almost like a luxury item. Sure, a fancy expensive restaurant can afford to do this, and the best part for
them is that the whole thing can be sold as part of the dining experience.

That’s not exactly a solution to the dives and street food joints that couldn’t operate without some form of disposable containers or cutlery. And more importantly, that’s not a solution to the customers of those dives that can’t afford anything more expensive.

On the other hand, I imagine that a portion of waste reduction can simply be a change in habits and doesn’t necessarily cost anything.

I was once trying to explain this sort of idea to a climate change denying acquaintance. I said, forget the environment or the turtles, even if you don’t believe this is harming our environment, why are we using these devices designed to be immediately thrown away? Why do you need a straw with your water/soda but not with your beer? Where does that habit come from?
1. People finally realize that wind and solar are not going to replace coal any time soon. Nuclear goes back in fashion. China and Russia lead the way.

2. Interval combustion engines are finally seen as the bane of mankind. Electric cars become commonplace. Petrol is only used in planes and boats.

3. The world gets used to negative credit rates. Some companies abuse this system and a few large bankruptcies threaten to pop the bubble. The central banks massively inject money to prevent systemic collapse.

4. Remote work becomes the norm. Real estate prices in large hubs go down a bit, but not much.

5. South East Asia becomes the new silicon valley, welcoming a horde of digital nomads.

5. Hurricanes gain in strength and some coastlines are redrawn.

6. Trump-like governments are elected all over the Western world. Global trade slows down a bit. People get happier overall. Global Super richs are a bit less rich and way less global.

7. Fully autonomous Electric cars are there but only for niche use (touristic islands, Gated communities). They are slow and uncool.

8. Intel and Boeing go under. US federal government save both companies with taxpayer money. Both companies are cut in pieces and resold to competitors.
Comanche 4 is one of the first games my dad bought me and I loved it a lot. After years of playing it, I was disappointed to learn then that the actual Comanche helicopter program was cancelled.

Anyways, it seems new Comanche game is on the way!
> The AI not leading to job displacement prediction is just silly, given that it's already leading to job loss.

The prediction was about job loss, not displacement, and you are incorrect about the current state. Job displacement and job loss are two very different things. AI is leading to job displacement (less jobs in certain industries, but not necessarily overall reduction in jobs), it does not seem to be leading, so far, to job loss (less jobs overall). It's harder to tell if it is leading to a greater share of jobs with lower wages, which has similar economic and policy implications to it causing net job loss, because there are lots of confounding factors when looking at the dynamics of wage distribution.

A lot of AI fear is based around net job loss (which has not generally historically been associated with technological advancements), not mere job displacement (which is a common effect of technological advancements).
Applications written in JavaScript tend to be hideously slow (and getting worse) but this is more of a community problem; the language itself is now rather fast by dynamic language standards.
Healthcare isn't a hard issue because the details are hard to figure out. Healthcare is a hard issue because millions of Americans work for companies and industries that are dependent on the status quo. One of the primary reasons for skyrocketing healthcare costs is the explosion of administration staff/costs in healthcare systems. And the private insurance industry has given rise to some of the largest companies on the planet.

Its difficult because the system has evolved to a place where the parasites in the relationship have grown so large that they can't be removed without serious damage to the host. Not overhauling the system is unsustainable, but doing so will absolutely incur huge economic consequences for a large part of the population.
> There are plenty of regulated free markets.

I think we're talking about different definitions of a free market then. To me, a free market is a market which is self-regulating or free from external regulation. It would seem to me that you define a free market as having some, arbitrary amount of regulation. If the amount of regulation is "under," that arbitrary bar, then it would be free. I don't really think this definition works, as the bar for what's "free" is arbitrary and would vary person-to-person, nation-to-nation, so it becomes a meaningless term.
So that's a step towards particle weapons, right? :).

I'm only half-joking here. In my copious spare time, I sometimes wonder how one could approach building something resembling a phaser. The most recent question I've added to my "to investigate" list is, is there a way of sending energy (either as photons or via larger particles) that would avoid scattering off targets? Scattering is a problem with lasers - if you take one that's powerful enough to be interesting and use it in enclosed space, you'll get everyone in the room not wearing eye protection blind before the target starts to heat up.
1. Still no flying cars.
Overweight people are more likely to gain weight without leftover. I wonder the health influence and environment issue, which is bigger. The food are disposable anyway, it’s the plastics electronics that matter
The fact that we were trained to look for https as a sign of legitimacy..

it kinda bugs me that letsencrypt which is a fantastic public service is being abused by scammers in this way.

Anonymity all the way down the stack...
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* Food printers will be commonplace. Lots of homes will have equipment to automate the cooking process. Same for restaurants that have equipment that is more specialized and expensive.

* AI and expert systems in design.

* People WILL care about privacy

* VR really takes off

* Very few political changes.

* Self driving cars don't become a thing until 2030s, after which society changes dramatically.
I also love the truckers' hitch. The key benefit is the tautline hitch that makes it easy to tighten. But sometimes I use an alpine butterfly loop and tautline hitch. I think that it's stronger.
There are quite a few people in the US who would rather not pay for schools and libraries for other people’s children.
I'm curious, what's the "everything else"?
Like any system you need a critical mass of infrastructure before it takes off. Is it worth it for your situation is always a valid question.
So the phone/device IMEI is not recorded for the session?

Not that it would tell who sent it, but would allow to track if the same devices were used as part of ongoing campaign.
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WebAuthn for everything.
Yes, but insurance is "voluntary". And socialism is bad.

(It's not really voluntary... While you can opt out, if you have moderate income or better, you do so at your own financial peril)
Great correction. That still describes a "relatively inelastic commodity" (PED = 0 < x < 1) so I think it does make a decent example but readers may need to change the magnitude of some of the numbers. In case anyone is interested, here's an analysis of the elasticity of crude oil:

>Six studies estimate the short-run
price elasticity of oil supply: Half of them estimate a supply elasticity of about 0.25, two of them found
elasticities near zero, and one study estimates a negative supply elasticity. By contrast, thirty studies
estimate the short-run price elasticity of demand. Estimates of the demand elasticity range from −0.9
to −0.03, with the bulk of estimates between −0.3 and −0.1.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/ifdp/2016/files/i...
> But Gauland from the AfD famously called the Holocaust "Vogelschiss" which is not far away from Hallam's "fuckery", is it?

It's very far away from calling it "almost just another fuckery" particularly when the context of that statement was other genocides and the prospect of the climate-catastrophe making all of them look rather small-scale.

> I disagree with the naive assessment about the AfD you're portraying here, but alright. Especially in connection to what just happened last week with the WDR and this week with the BR and Gutjahr's open letter.

It's not at all a "naive assessment", you only call it that because it contradicts the popular narrative of "Every single one of them is just a neo-Nazi, so none of them have any valid points".

It's a narrative that leaves certain political issues completely in the hand of the AfD, by painting these issues as topics that supposedly "Only AfD neo-Nazis would talk about", like the financing of public broadcasting and how it over proportionally encumbers single-person households.

No other party actually has that on their agenda, and that most certainly won't change because by now that whole issue has been "sullied" by the AfD.

Then there's the reality that the AfD abuses the stigma of certain topics to gain popularity trough controversy, literally gaming the system that's supposed to keep them marginalized.

> So if the German foreign minister criticizes a public activist's take on the Holocaust that to you is a witch-hunt? So Hallam bears no responsibility here? Who is allowed to criticize him then?

The German foreign minister did that on the basis of an interview that wasn't even publicly available at that point. So nobody could actually read the full context of Hallam's statements, but plenty of people ended up reading Mass unique take on it.

How Mass got hold of the interview prior to publishing? Nobody knows, and apparently nobody even cares because who would want to defend somebody who supposedly relativizes the Holocaust? Certainly nobody in Germany, because that would be the equivalent of character-assassinating yourself.
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A good deal is that doctors and healthcare providers in other countries don’t make well into the $300k+ range. There’s a lot of money to be made in the US versus other countries. Without the insurance companies, who would have the power negotiate pricing with the providers? Americans don’t find government intervention palatable unless the person is over 65.
Ask HN: Looking for a Web-based Webinar/Training platform low-cost / free
Hello - I'm looking to run a few online courses with a live instructor with slides and some video. There are number of solutions that require either the attendees or the trainer to use a desktop app or other download to either deliver the training or attend, or both. I'm trying to find something with no such requirements.

The meetings will have slides, require chat with trainees, and allow for viewing videos and perhaps cameras. The sessions need to be recorded for future viewing by trainees.

I've tried BigBlueButton, but there's no credible hosted solution, and I'd rather not have to go through the expense and trouble of running my own BBB server and managing it. There are very few third-party hosted BBB solutions, but if there was one that offered long-term recording storage as well as just BBB hosting that would be great.

Right now, there are very few web-only / web-based training solutions that don't require downloads and also record the webinar / training for future use.

I'm hoping something is out there that fits the bill!
>I do not understand the mental gymnastics to reach the conclusion that citizens as a whole would pay more in a single-payer system

The reasoning goes like this:

The entrenched well funded (and money loosely translates to political power) interests influence the legislators doing the implementing in order to ensure a regulatory capture that allows them to continue swindling people at their current level but because it is now proxied through the additional overhead of government the net cost to the citizenry is greater than the current "get swindled directly" system and we have little/no net change in outcomes.

Basically people don't trust the government to not screw it up so badly that it actually costs more. I'm sure the cost would come down over time but with the high cost and uncertainty involved that's a tough sell.
Is that a gameport or USB device? Looks like there are a bunch of adapters out there which will allow legacy gameport sticks/pads to represent themselves as modern xinput controllers.
People have sent me this link because I've reduced my food packaging to filling less than one load of trash per year (which I blog about http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging-2) and my diet has become more delicious, cheaper, more social, healthier, and more accessible for people in food deserts, who have invited me to help them cook this way.

People also keep suggesting I start a restaurant since the food tastes so good and is so easy to make. I'm waiting to meet the right person with experience starting restaurants.

I'm posting because while everyone who knows the numbers considers the amount of food waste and packaging we create unconscionable, what I don't think people realize is that what the food industry purports to solve -- that industrial food is more convenient or tastes more appealing -- is all wrong compared to once you learn to cook. Then from scratch is faster, cheaper, more delicious, more convenient. The backbone of industrial food is ignorance and lack of skill. In places with tons of fast food restaurants but no farmers markets or fresh produce, the best solution is more cooking from scratch to teach people to demand fresh. The transition is hard, but doable and a great project for enterprising people who want to help people improve their lives and communities. I find it tremendously rewarding.
> But you try to lock() on a backgroundworker (the sane thing to do)

That’s just a leaky abstraction. Updating image from background thread is a sane thing to do from general-purpose programmer POV. To understand why it’s not so good idea, and why it’s not supported, you need to know what happens under the hood. Specifically, how 3D GPU hardware works and executes these commands.

> No solution exists.

From graphic programmers POV, the sane solution — only call GPU from a single thread. In D3D11 there’re things which can be called from background threads. It’s possible to create new texture on the background thread uploading the new data to VRAM, pass the texture to the GUI thread, then on the GUI thread either copy between textures (very fast) or replace textures destroying the old one (even faster). Unfortunately, doing so is slower in many practical use cases, like updating that bitmap at 60Hz: creating new resources is relatively expensive, more so than updating preexisting one.
I had an Acer c270. Probably the best laptop I will ever buy. Also went out of update but I sold it right before then. My biggest pet peeve was that it would not receive android play store.

Now I have a Dell chromebook with android. And it sucks. Incredibly slow. Even on guest mode. And it is new. And recent.
I do have a prior, which is that I don't think any "free" markets exist in western nations due to broad consumer laws, plus applicable domain specific laws but interested in your perspective.

There are severe limits on what any of us can buy and/or sell and how we talk about it. A good kick starter for discussion would be an example of a free market as you see it.

If you are doing things with widespread societal impact generally society will have some things to say about that and their (perhaps slow and ham-fisted) means of expressing opinions about that is law and regulation.

As a consequence of seeing all fields as essentially regulated, I have a pretty low bar for free markets which is mostly "multiple parties can meaningfully compete and politicians do not completely determine that. Also consumers have a genuine choice.". This excludes China but kind of includes the USA, in many fields. But health care is weird.

As an example of my point of view, I think we can have laws that regulate carbon, material waste or other externalities and might be "onerous" but still have "free markets".
I really wanted to buy my mom a Pixelbook (and then the Go), but it's literally sold in three countries: US, Canada, UK.

Pretty much like the Pixel phones that still ignore a few major markets after all these years. What should I feel about a company that doesn't even try to sell its hardware seriously?

Meanwhile, any 2nd tier Chinese OEM will manage to have its products sold at the electronics shop down the road.
>It starts with https:// - that means it's secure, right? Is .info even recognisable as Top Level Domain?

It's not his wife, it's him who needs to be protected.
> People already pay for local schools (K-12), even if they have no children.

Very rarely. Good schools attract paying parents with large families, leading to a self-reinforcing effect and affecting property values so much that it's one of the search facets on property sites like Zillow. So really they pay for their children, usually.

> They already pay for a local library, even if they never use it.

This is a relic of when people did use libraries more. A lot of library systems are dying out with the excuse of "but we prefer Kindles".

> They pay for a local fire department, even if their house never burns down. They pay for a local police station, even if they are never the victim of a crime.

They do this more out of fear of avoiding viscerally life-threatening consequences. Somehow healthcare has assumed the status of not such a thing in the States.

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For what it's worth, I am strongly opposed to these viewpoints, but just stating that there is not as much self-contradiction there as you think.
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My daughter's school just switched from iPads to Chromebooks.
I have four children. I've been using all-screen smartphones for the entire time that there have been all-screen smartphones.

I've endured zero cracked screens. Ever. A couple of my kids are old enough to have had smartphones for a couple of years now (kids these days) -- they've had zero cracked screens as well.

This is one of those posts that tend to raise people's ire, but I'm just pointing out that a lot of us manage to never have cracked screens. It isn't just a normal that we all tolerate. And yes, I've always used a case -- I have a case in hand before I even take the phone out of the box. It seems insane to not have a case. Maybe when phones are unbreakable I can enjoy the sleek design, but until then it's a Spigen 100% of the time.
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I got the original Cr-48 Chromebook back in the day. That thing was phenomenal good at just-surf-the-web™️. If ChromeOS was really stalled out, I could use it as something else than a paperweight.
Interesting to see that many of the predictions weren't far off.

But one recurring prediction that was notably wrong was of Microsoft's declining prospects. It would have been difficult at the time to argue otherwise, but WOW did things turn out differently.
The sending network may have a record of the IMEI, but I don't think the receiving one gets it.

But SMS sending devices are cheap and disposable. Sure, it's illegal to alter your IMEI in the UK - but if they're already committing one crime, I don't think that'll stop them.
Sony joins race to develop vision sensor for self-driving vehicles
The "ten building blocks" in the press article are actually ten bits (probably implemented as short DNA sequences chained together). I'm not sure why they can't calculate the square root of 961.

These kind of DNA computers had a lot of hype a few years ago, but for the real applications they are too low and difficult to retarget.
Because of regex.
>Syntax matters

I would say a good developer can make the code clear, I can make my ES5 code clearer then some bad ES7 code, most of the time clear code depends on how you name and split your code in logical and intuitive steps.
I think there's a lot of hype around Tesla and that it's not a particularly well run company. Eventually the hype dissipates and fundamental issues show themselves.

I kinda think any other car company could make the cars Tesla does more efficiently.

But then again who knows :).
That what systemd homed is supposed to enable
I think it's time stuff like domains and basic internet things like that need to become part of the school curriculum. Education is the only way to combat these things.
Well, I hoped to read a similarly opinionated piece on transporting convex objects on a camel :(

But then I went through a bunch more posts, including one on how SVG renderers mix in background color before figuring out the mixed colors of objects—which seems obviously wrong.
I think we can conclude advances in transportation technology made it cheaper to deliver the mail. Trains, trucks, planes.