skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where countries like India are going with Biometric Auth plus 2FA (though the implementation has issues). The government provides a public API for sending fingerprint or Iris scan data plus SMS 2FA to authenticate identity with a cost.
Explaining the “Magic” of Consciousness (2003) [pdf]
This is just standard corpspeak. All of that can be summarised to "k, bye".
Love it. Not in it to change the world or gain enormous profit, rather in it to make cool shit and have fun. A breath of fresh air.
It starts with uncertainty (1999)
Has anyone used Utopia : https://u.is/en/ ?
To put it into perspective: "Only about 1 per cent of the land burnt in NSW this bushfire season can be officially attributed to arson"

"Investigations into the cause, origin and overall impact of fires are continuing" - NSW police strike force Tronto

So far 1% of the bushfires can be officially attributed to arson and investigations are continuing.
A Student Makes His Rent Creating Spammy Porn Bots
>I'm not really a huge fan of HOA's personally, but maybe if I was a millionaire with a mansion some are nice, but some HOAs are just regular people with like 100K home values.

I would worry more about neighbors who don't keep up their property in a neighborhood of cheaper homes than a neighborhood of millionaires.
> ...the easy solution to that is to only target a small set of hardware which effectively makes you a hardware company (kinda like Apple)

Perhaps with this idea the only companies able to do this are Apple, Microsoft and Google. Every other OS aiming to be a new desktop OS has essentially failed. Including the Linux desktop community and everyone else.

The desktop OS market only has room for 2 or luckily 3 and always requires at least a billion-dollar (in profit) tech company with such resources to even plan for years to do such a thing. Hence the fierce competition in this space, some may ask themselves why bother.

> but that probably won't work either since people are a lot less likely to try out your OS if they need to buy a new computer to do so.

The exception to that is Google with ChromeOS (Laptops) and Android (Mobile) which they're probably both replacing with Fuchsia. I'd expect Fuchsia running pixelbooks and phones to arrive in this decade. Which will make the desktop market as Windows, macOS and Fuchsia OS.
Assuming that the story in https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely is accurate, that man is a monster.
Some could argue, that under sufficiently corrupt or inherently unfair regime, business success is mutually exclusive with being moral/ethical person.
Yeah, and there already is of course the on-line onenote from MS...
Yang supports Universal Healthcare as a key attachment to UBI. [1]

He does care about the student loan problem, but has a less aggressive and more nuanced plan than blanket forgiveness. [2]

Traditional college is not a necessity for most people. We should be pushing for more trade school participation like most of Europe does and train people for skilled labor that won't be automated any time soon. [3]

Most importantly, Bernie doesn't seem to even want to acknowledge the coming wave of automation. And somehow, he thinks that a $15 minimum wage won't just accelerate the drive to automate jobs. Higher wages also does nothing to help stay at home parents or caretakers (mostly women) who find themselves completely dependent on their breadwinner.

1 https://www.yang2020.com/policies/medicare-for-all/

2 https://www.yang2020.com/policies/student-loan-debt/

3 https://www.yang2020.com/policies/promoting-vocational-educa...
Except he was her boss at google, google forced her into a position she didn't want, and he encouraged her to quit under false pretenses.

This is a high level google executive engaging in grossly unprofessional behavior with one of his employees. It's abuse of both power and trust. As far as I'm concerned the judgement and behavior shown by him should make him completely untouchable.
Corporate Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Duke Nukem Forever finally came out 14 years later, so maybe we are half way there.
Dumb question: why do these ejected photons mirror the incoming photon's trajectory if they're a new particle?
I have owned two Fiats and rented one.

I think a Panda excels in Southern European medieval plan cities with its nimbleness, short dimensions, good visibility and just overall practicality. Also looks good. It isn't a sports car or a luxury car and the design accepts that.

In Northern Europe, I would recommend something much more robust than a Fiat.
> Had those young men simply decided to do nothing rather than join, the world would have been a better place.

Words cannot express how disappointed I am with people who say things like this.

Assuming you believe that your country's political system is not worth overthrowing, then serving your country is an honorable act, and people who have served should not be criticized for taking on the burden that is service. Quite the opposite.

Now if your political system is beyond repair and unsalvageable through reform, then sure, service is not honorable.

It's unfortunate that so many of my fellow citizens seem to take the intellectually lazy way out: Criticize the choice to serve, but be unwilling to reform/overthrow their government. This line of thinking is so widespread, it's truly disheartening.
I’m liking the occasional drops of new games (if that’s how it works). Makes for something like a collective community experience similar to the airing of a television limited series. To match, it would be interesting to have a universal leaderboard (perhaps tiered by time-played to shuck the obsessives away from the casuals).

And add ten dollars for a leather case rather than (what appears to be) a padded plastic lid reminiscent of my 75¢ childhood pocket calendar.
Japan’s Sacred Island
Casper sued a mattress review site, Sleepopolis, for writing negative reviews of their products. Casper then settled the lawsuit by taking over Sleepopolis. The site now posts only positive reviews of Casper's mattresses.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

I would take any reviews of Casper's products with a grain of salt.
I think requiring you to be physically present and having a human take the sample in a prescribed manner serves as an effective 'password' - unless it's a live sample, the DNA is useless.
Hell’s Kitchens
If you're trying to hire "top 10% pay at FB" smart level people, hiding behind poorly constructed rhetorical barriers is more of a negative thing than recognizing a real negative thing. It doesn't have to be anyone's "fault" even, but more of a consequence of the system that was built with good intentions.
> I think this is a dangerous way to look at things...

When I'm walking through my hometown and the tall grass next to me shakes, I think it's a rabbit or a dog or something. When I'm on the African plains in lion country and see the same thing, I think it's a lion. Bad association begets cynical assumption, because it's more often correct than incorrect.
>Very strange how WWI makes almost no sense from today's perspective. Every country was damaged either directly by the conflict, or indirectly through its protracted (and still ongoing) resolution.

US won big in that war. WWI nearly bankrupted the British Empire, guess who it was loaning money from? (Hint: it's the US[1]). The only finally paid it off in 2015.

WWI turned the US into a world power, and marked the end of many (other) Empires.

As for the European powers, the war made a lot of sense before it started, as a lot of money was spent on making the shiny toys that killed so many people. Maybe not to the citizens of the countries that took part in the war, but surely to the profiteers.

Finally, one can argue that the war made sense for Germany in the long run, in spite of all the losses. Before the war, Germany was surrounded by Empires: the Russian Empire, the British Empire, the French Empire, the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman ones. Germany was allied with some of them, threatened by others, but the history shows how fickle the alliances were.

Fast-forward to today, and Germany is still there, while the Empires are gone. WW1 effectively took down the Russian Empire, and was the beginning of the end of the British one (to say nothing of the others).

I am being facetious here, but if the goal of WW1 was to establish a more friendly Europe for German ambitions, then that goal was eventually accomplished.

That's to say, the war made sense for Germany because it was surrounded by states that stood to lose more (if you ignore human life).

Of course, this argument doesn't make sense if you care about people to the slightest extent. But the people who start the wars rarely do.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_nationa...
Jan 2019: "The New Acting Interior Secretary Is An Agency Insider And Ex-Oil Lobbyist"
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/677390503/the-new-acting-inte...

"The president's objectives actually represent the will of the people," Bernhardt said during a speech to ... the Heritage Foundation in September 2018.... Those goals include deregulation and relaxing environmental standards for oil and gas companies.... For instance, late last year he erased a chapter on climate change from the department's handbook."

The order, 3360 (Sect.4 a.1) which erased that chapter:
https://www.eenews.net/assets/2018/01/05/document_gw_04.pdf
Wait and watch. Tesla stock is going to crash with the release of Comma AI 2. Tesla stock is highly volatile.
Sure. Women are limited to painted-on pockets for pants, while men get the entire gamut from painted-on leghuggers to many-small-knapsacks cargo pants.

Right now, most men's fashion is terrible in terms of how it models the waist. Put on anything that you consider to be fashionable, and then see how well your hip-hinge and thighs-parallel squats do. No wonder the Scottish loved their kilts!
He tricked her into having a baby with him, then abandoned them financially and emotionally.
That's a good idea. I should at least try, but tbh I've always just kinda figured they wouldn't take me seriously. Jetbrains seems pretty broadminded though....
Point 3 is not a straw man argument; he was objectively a horrible person before that quote came to light. It wasn't remotely surprising to anyone.
Cost. Standardizing is expensive.
Misinformation? A verbatim partial copy of the police force's official statement with a link to the original source? I'm reasonably confident that a Guardian article titled "Police contradict claims spread online exaggerating arson's role in Australian bushfires" does not consider the NSW police official website as exaggerated online claims which the police are contracting. It is a police source, if they think their own website is providing false information they can take it down.
Did he start 4 civil wars though? That's my point, a lot of voters weigh that heavily against what you bring up. Don't shoot the messenger.
I would argue a more relevant landmark would be the introduction of photographic plates. Prior to that astronomers had to sketch what they saw and judge brightnesses qualitatively (usually by comparison to other stars). Photographic plates introduced a whole new level of quantitative rigor to the field.
Kickstarter for Anime episode about tech startup in Tokyo
What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
They may not matter as much for this particular scenario. Most of the conclusions I would draw wouldn't extend past independent projects with a small close knit team, or an individual project.

Right now, I'm working on a piece of personal productivity software and trying ideas and patterns that I couldn't get away with in building software with others and to the requirements of other people. I can get away with things that are traditionally anti-patterns because I'm the only one it has to pattern to.

I have to imagine indie game dev is a similar sort of getaway.
> Do non-billionaire people (active academics at that) really lead lives like this?

If a billionaire calls you up and tells you they're sending their plane to pick you up if you're interested in going, then yes. That's fairly common, in terms of billionaires sending their planes to pick folks up they want to meet with, or letting others hitch a ride.
Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream
You might find Garet Garrett's writings against World War II interesting [1]. He was not a socialist (he was an ardent anti-communist), which makes his conservative arguments against joining all the more interesting.

[1] https://fee.org/people/garet-garrett/
Hi-Fi Audio on the C64 – 48Khz, Yo
Once one person knows how to do it, they can document and even automate the process, then other people don’t need to have any domain knowledge.
Consider if you're kidnapped and extracted DNA in unwilling manner
I agree completely with you that some anthropological knowledge can be useful in any number of fields, but then as a cultural anthropologist I'm more than a little biased. That being said, I'd argue that sociology isn't a necessary accompaniment to anthropology to understand/analyze contemporary Western cultures. I earned my doctorate studying World of Warcraft guilds (believe it or not), so I can vouch for the discipline's ability to address "modern" concerns.
jwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.
The LOI, at least the ones I've read, prevents you from discussing sale opportunities with anyone else. It's called a "no shop" clause.

Before the LOI? Go crazy.
Bank of America won’t send sms to my Canadian carrier either. I have to request a call every time.
Linaro has gone a step out from a "socket" to define board spec and mezzanine connectors.

Arm has a lot more variation than general purpose computing in the processor / SOC / SOM implementation, that is indeed the main appeal on the small end of the scale
> The company is focused on a class of molecule known cyclodextrins, and have candidates capable of efficiently binding and sequestering 7-ketocholesterol. This form of oxidized cholesterol is of great importance to the progression of atherosclerosis, and possibly other age-related conditions as well.

The thing is cyclodextrins have been linked to causing deafness, in as little as a week. As per
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676048/ and https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/deaf-or-death-in-drug-trial...

Heart disease or hearing – tough trade-offs. Here’s to hoping that they’ve engineered a novel compound without any of the downsides.
I have been saying this for years.

The amount of knowledge one needs to port a phone number is unbelievably little, and peoples very nature to be helpful works against us. Up until maybe just very recently you needed the account number of the phone number and the last four of a social security number... sometimes, just the account number. Also, the last four of one's social security number is perhaps the shittiest way to authenticate _ANYTHING_. For many years, a lot of sites online would show you the last four of an account holder's SSN (and some places still probably do) if you have an email address, correct name, and phone number or physical address.

Getting the account number would likely be even easier thanks to helpful store reps... Just go in and make up an excuse why you need it or forgot it, it's like "social engineering 101" because it seems so benign to most people. You already know the name, address, and phone number-- you just "forgot" your id at home... Or one could just listen to them call each-other write down their info and then call another store.

With those two things in hand, the phone number is pretty much the attacker's, and getting it back would take more than enough time for extensive amounts of damage... ESPECIALLY if that is the only line on the account (or they took all the lines)... I'd guess a bare minimum with near immediate recognition of the real problem (your number heisted) and police involvement, probably a minimum of ~12 hours.

So, if phone numbers are so bad why are they ever used? IMHO, that's because they aren't to provide security, they're to provide easy tracking between your virtual life and your physical one. You're only securing the businesses data pipeline, not your personal data.

If you want 2FA (and everyone should) use Google Authenticator or a Yubikey... or whatever I'm not trying to shill brands just ideas that work.
This isn't really going anywhere, so I'll say my last bit on this and you can feel free to have the last word on the subject if you'd like.

You seem to be identifying the constituencies that exist for the outcome that happened, and seem to be saying that because they existed it simply couldn't have been any other way. This is sort of tautological - in a sense yes, it couldn't have been any other way because it happened the way it did. Nobody made an arbitrary decision on this, nobody flipped a coin. But of course those constituencies weighed various factors, and made choices. That they made a choice does not mean it couldn't have been any other way or was correct. That's a bizarre way to look at history. It would essentially render all analysis and criticism of past decision-making moot. "Well it had to be that way, because the people who made the decisions made the decisions because factors existed that influenced them to do so!" I mean yeah, welcome to every subject in the history of the world.

But the specific question being replied to here was, "how does nuclear energy help with climate change?" from OP, obviously specifically in the context of the article. In that context, it's completely fair and correct to critique the decisions made as I and others have done, and it's frankly completely irrelevant what other constraints there were politically or practically.

And even if we do take those into account, it's fine to be critical of the decisions. You are right, there wasn't a huge appetite to take on coal in Germany until well after there was one to take on Nuclear. And that's something that's rightly criticized. Nobody forced people to embrace their goofy "Atomkraft, Nein Danke" crap.
This is one reason I love having changed network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy[1] in Firefox. I never send the referer to third party domains, and I've only ever seen one or two sites broken because of this. It's a vast improvement for privacy as well.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
>They explained for example how Cambridge Analytica was totally overblown in the media, specifically because users opted in, and the media was just bashing them. [Emphasis mine]

That is really troubling. Excusing nefarious behavior because "well the user opted in" is a downright horrible way to rationalize bad behavior. Users never read the TOS. They barely understand the privacy settings (though I've heard they've gotten better ... haven't had Facebook in years). I tend to think that, yeah, Cambridge Analytica was probably overblown a bit for a number of reasons, but wow. I know a couple people who have quit Facebook (one recently, one a couple years ago before the election) and a couple who have stayed. I have to say, the ones who've stayed have drifted away from the rest of our friend group. Sad to see.
The campaign also has a pilot what quality to expect. I really enjoyed the humor in the episode.
The struggles with cloud vendors seemed really on point and technical explanation did not stop the flow of the episode at all.
I thought the HN crowd might enjoy it.
[I am not involved with the project]
Biological Science Is Terrible
That would be pretty cool. I'd just mostly hate to see this project get into trouble over something like that. Honestly, I hope however it would work out it ends up being positive. Having some more popular games on there would help with exposure.
I don't think it's extreme at all. It only seems that way because we've all be conditioned to accept taxation as something normal. But there's no particular reason why that must be so. And, as Bastiat points out, the Law is nothing more than the collective extension to our individual rights, and so can have no legitimate authority beyond what an individual can do. I can't collect money from you under threat of use of violent force, no matter how noble my intentions for that money. Ergo, "the law" / "the state" / "society" likewise have no standing to do so, except "might makes right".
I see two issues/potential strategies with Facebook.

1) Facbook could be broken apart from Instagram and WhatsApp.

2) Mark Zuckerberg is not beholden even to shareholders due to the rights of the shares he owns. Restructure the companies so he still owns the same % of the companies but has the same voting rights as any other shareholder.
I think this is the sort of thing that philosophy is good for. If you want to talk about questions like, "what is truth?" or, "what counts as real?", philosophers are the people you want to ask.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a succinct consensus quite yet.

Speaking of, I recently started listening to the Philosophize This podcast, which attempts to give basic overviews of some major philosophers and schools of thought in a generally chronological order. I'm really enjoying it so far, and while it's probably easier to download and organize them with itunes or an app, the episodes are here:

http://philosophizethis.org/category/episode/
Even if we grant that this is all we need to do (I don't believe it is), you can't honestly be suggesting that 8 billion people are going to wake up this year and decide to voluntarily sacrifice such a primal desire.

Without big acts of legislation, this will only become reality when lab grown meat becomes significantly cheaper and available. That could be decades away, which is too late.
All transactions are already supposed to be reported so I'm not sure in what way you wouldn't be able to acquire the exact same information using the current regulatory requirements, so I'm not too keen on your stance here.
Illinois DMV definitely sells names and addresses. They misspelled my name in a very unique way on my drivers license once, and I’ve received junk mail to that name ever since.
Panic is a good example of a tech company that is (I think) not tied to the VC, unicorn wannabe, must dominate an industry or get a huge acquisition rat race most of us work for. They just make good products and make enough money to pay their employees and try new things like this.
You should read the full quote, he really doesn't disagree with you:

> fuse works fine if the thing being exported is some random low-use interface to a fundamentally slow device. But for something like your root filesystem? Nope. Not going to happen.

His point is that FUSE is useful and fine for things that aren't performance critical, but it's fundamentally too slow for cases where performance is relevant.
In general, I agree, and I also agree this is not acknowledged often enough.

I can think of one exception, though: I think Apple would have done significantly worse if they had forced Steve Jobs out in response to the option backdating scandal or the non-poaching collusion scandal.