skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to start with, the Peloponnesian War was a "hot" war

Comparing those to wars is actually much more relevant then you might think.

Both wars were incredibly long and drawn out conflicts, where it was almost impossible for either side to really win. Both wars the waste majority of the fighting was done in far flung regions (Sicily, Byzantium and so on) and threw trade wars/trade zones.

The ended differently, but Persia stepping in and massively involving itself broke the balance.

Comparable to if Aliens had just started to finance insane military spending for the USSR.

> the cold war was also very ideological (communism vs capitalism) in a way that would be totally foreign to the people of antiquity

That is very questionable, we don't have enough data. But the few sources we have do make a very big deal about the cultural differences and later writers pick up that thread. Sparta was saw itself as an explicite representation of the perfect greek state and thus the definition of what civilization was about.

Athens is the dynamic new state that stands for a number of new things, democracy, ocean commerce, increase use of money and so on.

Both tried to get neutral states to adopt their system of rule, but both were willing to compromise if it made strategic sense (just as the USSR and US did as well).

The ideological discussions between those stats were limited because of technology.

> they fought for much more concrete reasons, mainly for immediate defense and to secure access to resources by controlling territory or extracting tribute.

Arguably that is what the USSR and US also did.

In both cases you can make an ideological case and a geostrategic case. And in both cases we have both things being said by some people on either side.

> Sparta also had little in common with the USSR as a society. it was certainly not egalitarian like the ideal of communism, but neither was it autocratic to the degree of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Sparta had a system of government with two Kings, whose power was checked by a council of elders.

There are also similarities. Both stats supported a massively oversized military and depended on other stats they had conquered to subsidies those expenses.

They both had a communal system, rather then a family based one. Or at least the ideal they proclaimed was communal. In Sparta there was a very strong identification with the military units, those men spent lots of time there away from there families even if they could have gone home. Children are not primary educated by the parents but rather by a community/state program that teaches them the 'right' ideals to function perfectly in that system and make the system as a whole stronger.

Its not a strong connection but the USSR<->Sparta, Athens<->US lines up pretty rather well.
Some companies[1] indicate their Plaid dependency in their Privacy Policy, just like it is common to do when they use Google Analytics. But yeah, it's unfortunately not a standard.

[1] https://zerodown.com/privacy
could be it has secretly been bonded at some point
Not that I know.

But it's at least an understandable and defined problem.
Archive: Privacy/security concerns · Issue #68 · plaid/link
At first I was wondering why everything looks backward. But of course, it is stack oriented. I would expect push and pop to be quite powerful commands in such a language, since it appears to be the method by which functions are built and invoked.

There are a few crazy bits in there to keep it interesting. For example, bi appears to be a "lite" version of Lisp's multiple-value-bind macro.
A good presentation is rarely unrehearsed.
China-made 64-layer 3D flash memory starts mass production
> if the intent were to remove the UA it would be worse

That is hopefully the end goal. It's not worse, it's an ideal that goes hand in hand with reducing cookie usage, removing flash, mandating SSL, etc. The UA was an attempt to see if the ecosystem could cooperate to make apps more actively intelligent. This is a failed experiment. Security teaches us to reduce attack surface and we should not be using half-measures like a header-string to trigger naive/implicit client behavior. Behaviors should be explicit for safety.
Every legendary Pokemon returning in the Sword and Shield expansion pass
The @ is a regular email character that Google happens to treat specially. Same with them disregarding the period character.
Can anyone explain the issue of hiding fares in more detail? Which fares? Where? When? Why?
Not all the songs have posts on them yet. You post pictures to a specific time during the song and then they show up while listening.

As far as design I've just been focusing on making it functional for now.
I'd like to use this version of Stripe's product. The one I used makes you wait a month or so until you give up and use LegalZoom.
It doesn't seem to be mentioned in this thread yet that the founders tried to buy it back:

https://skift.com/2020/01/14/hipmunk-co-founders-spurned-by-...
> no other country can compare to ours in terms of diversity of thought

So long as your thought is within culturally accepted norms. Otherwise, American companies will happily chase you completely off the internet, sometimes with the force of American law (it’s frankly scarier when they do it without being forced by law).
No it can't. The 'petrodollar' is a massively overestimated in its importance. Just like the 'global reserve currency' argument it simply does not hold water.
> We can deduce from that change that your internal model of the world changed to associate "buzz" with "food" so you experienced our experiment.

This is a giant leap to claim that they have a model and experience. You demonstrated that what they have is internal state, i.e. memory, which many machines have. That's what you proved, not that they experience anything.
cool. would be an interested user, but building a plug in ... beyond my team's ability.
Interesting, makes you wonder how many exploits the NSA purposely doesn't mention to the vendor for their own benefit
'Robert Nelsen, of ARCH Venture Partners, said he invested because “I think it’s really cool and I like throwing rocks into the pond.”'

Definitely a bold approach that will require lots of cash up front, which explains the $200M round. It will be interesting to see how many VCs let their FOMO get the best of them and fund the first credible copy-cat pitch they hear. After all, there is only one Alexis Borisy out there.

It will also be interesting to see what kind of tech or novel operational methodology is developed to deliver on their promise to lower costs. I'll also be interested to see whether they demonstrate substantive progress by the time they raise their next round.
Had to reset device (3rd gen fire hd) but finally installed. Still find classic version framerate much better than disney ;)
They did? Who copied their features (particularly the awesome visualization)?
Congrats on the job! It’s always awesome to hear how a community helps one of its members!

Edit: looking at your submissions, you’ve been a machine, good work. I’m moderately curious what hiring platform came back with feedback for you, it seems in retrospect to have been helpful :)
Bitcoin SV Goes Parabolic, Flips Bitcoin Cash
x * x has two 2nd roots, namely, x and -x, and the result of this "function" (in quotes because it doesn't obey the definition thereof) requires you to choose arbitrarily between them, thus creating a dichotomy.
Agree. This is a prime example of a blowhard programmer making a bunch of naive and half-true accusations. I see things like this in healthcare constantly.
It seems fine now?
Have you tried tensorflow.js?
In the article mentioned by parent comment, they suggest extracting CO2 from atmosphere and storing it somewhere safe. There is (at time of article's writing) no technology capable of doing so. I guess it is would be "safer" than creating a "solar shade"? I am not a climate scientist either..
> So how far would the US have to fall economically (the base of its military power is its economic output, the ability to tax & fund it), compared to where it was at in 1980 versus other powerful nations, to no longer be considered a global superpower?

You are cherrypicking data. Sure, the US has done well compared to france, italy, uk and japan. What about the EU and China.

Compare china's economy in 1980, 1990, 2000 against the US. Compare the EU's economy with the US. In PPP terms, China and EU outstrip the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

In nominal terms, US and EU are near equals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

And all projections are for china to overtake the US in nominal GDP within this decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_...

I wouldn't call china a superpower. A superpower is just more than the economy.
The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find It, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite
> " By Peter W. Wood"

> " Mr. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. "

Of course the person being "cancelled" would write an opinion piece on "cancel culture".

One person criticised his event on twitter and he wrote an opinion piece on WSJ about how he's being persecuted. This seems incredibly childish to me. Especially considering the original tweet* got under 100 retweets and about 130 likes.

Honestly, I feel like this is more likely to be advertising for the conference than an actual complaint about "cancel culture". Nothing here is noteworthy in any way.

*https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1215380405597065216
I meant random as in "randomly picked from list of common UAs", not as in "randomly generated GUID".
Yes. And US doctors make more "per capita" than Australian doctors. About twice as much. If they continue making more, I don't see how paying their billing rates from the taxes addresses the "affordability" problem. If you were to fix billing rates at a lower level (through single payer and such), you wouldn't really have any doctors to begin with, at least not for a while.
I wonder how much these in-app-purchase tactics would be mitigated by Apple/Google listing the median per-person spend for each app: e.e “Free (with average $5.00 in-app fees)”
I’m guessing it has something to do with the size of a liver. Organs that have spares are relatively small.
Well as for entrepreneurs, limited ability to meet people is a common complaint. There's even a TED talk about the issue. We had a successful founder speak to my class when I was in school, and this is one of the downsides they discussed. Most people meet friends through work, and meet significant others through friends.
If you want to run an already very large business your best bet is to go in to management consulting. In that case what you study is less important than getting top grades at a top school and interviewing like a champ.

If you want to run a business that isn't but has the potential to maybe be very large then easiest way to do that is to build your own and CS has a very low bar for entrepreneurial activity.

If you just want to run any business then no degree necessary. Just work in food service and treat it like a career. Maybe do a bookkeeping course. You'll get to manage a restaurant eventually.
The pop-up basically says that there is limited heat in the museum and will reopen 2020-01-15. Because of inconvenience, they will give free access to the exhibitions and some coffee at the end of the exhibit visit. They also extending the visit to one of the exhibits.
Congrats and I hope you'll keep contributing to this HN community in the future as well.
Owning an iPhone is almost an universal value signal.
May the Forth Be With You! :)
Bug HN might become a huge hobby for me if people follow through on that.
I wasn't really trying to say OT is better than CRDT. Nor was I intending to provide a complete detailed explanation (there's enough research already).

I was driving at CRDT not being capable enough for arbitrary HTML structures, and giving a quick summary of what was an extended multi-week research process.
I'm a huge gamer (and make both video games and board games in my spare time), but as I get older, I'm also playing less games yet watching more TV (or Youtube or podcasts).

TV is something I can have on while I work on responsibilities around the house (dishes, cooking, putting things away, for example), while eating dinner, and in the background while I'm working on graphic design or programming for various personal projects.

I can't do those things and play games at the same time, like I can with TV. Sure I could watch other people play games via Twitch, but that just tends to annoy me because those people waste so much time doing what I wouldn't do, or trying to figure things out, or saying dumb crap to try to gain an audience, so I've never really gotten into it (I know I'm in the minority there).

I do still play games, but it's a lot less time than it used to be.
Second hack that kills food cravings and melts 62lbs of raw fat
> Python uses encoding specified through LANG/LC_

Yes, that's the best you can do, but it's still not always correct. I agree that it should be, but "should be" and "is" aren't always the same.

> If your application works on binary data, you can use sys.stdin/out/err.buffer to get binary version.

Yes, but there are still standard library functions that will use the regular streams, and that might conflict with what your application is doing. There is no way to tell Python as a whole "use binary streams everywhere because they are pipes for this application".

> Personally I would like if there was no automatic conversion when using files/network/pipes etc.

That would work if (a) Python could always detect that condition (it can't) and (b) the entire standard library adjusted itself accordingly.

> I guess that would make it more confusing for new users, and would be unnecessary boilerplate for most use cases.

Python 2 worked fine with the standard streams being binary, and applications wrapping them to decode to Unicode when necessary. Python 2.7 even back ported the TextIOWrapper and similar classes to make the wrapping as simple as possible. A similar approach could have been taken in Python 3 (binary streams and a simple wrapper class), but it wasn't.
You've lost me. What are the glaring counterexamples to NOBUS? The NOBUS framework says that NSA introduces vulnerabilities and backdoors only when it has some assurance that only NSA will be able to exploit them. It doesn't follow that NSA would immediately disclose any vulnerabilities they discover.
Opinion piece author, an anthropology PhD holder, has been pushing climate change denialism and attacking individual scientists via his NAS organization since 2009. He did the same thing to another scientist in 2011[1]. The publications he lists on the Federalist Society make his other agendas very clear. And yes, this is plain as day advertising and deception.

[1]:https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/b...
There's an old language, pop11, that's similar to lisp but stack oriented. A few sections of the manual will show you the kind of stack tricks that make different order useful:

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/primer/#s...

Functions that return several results, implicit parameters, open stack, etc. It's a lot of fun.
The term cancel culture like political correctness is a PR term and an effective one. For global warming 1st year college physics is enough to tell that global warming is in fact real and pretty much all the cranks are on the well funded fossil fuel side. And then there's the likelihood that man created global warming will put an end to the human race.

Like the tabacco industry, maybe dissing these folks and giving them a hard time is in fact a good idea and also like tobacco pushback comes from older folks and the industry. In the former case it's a conservative form of ignorance. I've been smoking my whole life and it hasn't killed me yet or in this case I've been driving my whole life and it never caused any harm. In the latter case, it's psychopathic opportunism.

Meanwhile Australia and California (in season) are burning.
I pay $15K/yr for a family of 3 for health insurance. Where I live it costs $95K/yr post-tax for a family of 3 to maintain middle class lifestyle (verified by not working for a year), including about $3K/mo mortgage, $1k/mo real estate tax, $1K/mo groceries, and a modest vacation in the tropics in December. So while $15K is clearly expensive, it's not dominant in the grand scheme of things. Of these numbers, BTW, it's the real estate tax that pisses me off the most: I have to pay the government to live in my own goddamn house, WTF.
Was playing the game Control last night and got to a mission/area called Panopticon. I thought "huh what a cool made-up word". Cool to know this a real thing.
But what is the minimum size for a business to "get so big they have taken over control of regulation"? I have seen very small companies (like, think size of one) deftly manipulate state- and federal- level regulations to their advantage.
You misunderstood. I didn't say we have to leave the planet. What I am exposing in the data is that we know how atmospheric CO2 would decrease if we did (and took all of our toys with us).

The answer is simple: We cannot fix this. Because any attempt would require energy and resources beyond planetary scale. Which means we are far more likely to kill everything on this planet than to fix it.

I am not a climate scientist either. I am, however, an engineer, and I have a pretty solid handle on Physics. Conservation of Energy alone says we cannot fix this.

BTW, by "fix this" I mean, any faster than the natural rate of about 50,000 years for a reduction of 100ppm.

If you take the time to read the Google paper I linked you'll find the statement that sent me on a path to truly try to understand this many years ago. They said, paraphrasing:

"Even if we convert all energy generation on the entire planet to the most optimal forms of renewable energy, not only will we not see atmospheric CO2 levels decline or level-off, they will continue to rise exponentially".

This was a conclusion exactly opposite what the researchers went into this "knowing". I appreciate they were honest enough to publish this and actually expose just how confused we've become about this concept of saving the planet. It simply isn't going to happen. Not in a generation, not in a hundred, not even in a thousand.

You see, it's that pesky bit of data: 50,000 years for a reduction of 100 ppm. Without humanity.

This means that if humans stay on the planet, even if population growth stopped, and we magically --because it would require magic-- became carbon neutral, it would still take at least 50,000 years to drop 100 ppm, or, more than likely, 100,000 or 200,000, pick a number.

This is equivalent to trying to remove smoke from your kitchen with a small fan while you continue to burn the food you are cooking on the frying pan. You just can't do it. You have to stop cooking and then wait for the small fan do do the job over a couple of hours. If you want it done faster you have to stop cooking and use a much larger fan (more energy). If you, on the other hand, continue to burn your food and install a bigger fan, you may or may not clear the smoke. If you do, it will likely take just as long or longer.

This isn't difficult stuff to understand. It's actually the most common sense science I've seen in a long time. The graphs tell a story. All we have to do is see it, read it and understand it.
If Witcher 3 is possible on mobile (see Nintendo Switch), then everything else is also. :)
It's not impossible, particularly in cases where the model is fairly flat.

In complex models it is symptomatic of a larger issue with complexity in CRDTs; the post was already quite long and I didn't want to repeat any more of the research I'd linked to.
Pressure can also make diamonds and I know a lot of people who have become incredibly driven and successful precisely because of what they went through, while others who have had it easier tended to coast through life.
SF rent control does not apply to new construction. The argument that rent control causes this is a little more convoluted: renters would support more development if they were not shielded from the impact of not building.

SF has its own way of discouraging development via long discretionary review processes.
Cancel culture is when people are actually canceled: when accounts are shut down, people are fired, bank accounts closed, people are blacklisted. Actual material damages. Trivialization does not serve your point.
I can see it now "We only want to advertise to 'missionaries', we find their click-through rates are better."
The Soviets were kicked out by the Taliban. How could a democracy be started with them? How can you make the Iraqi fractions live together if there is oil money to be distributed? How do you conquer Russia if they have nuclear weapons and still plenty of tanks?
I think it's also because if you're a company that wants to make money doing real estate related activity, it's easier and more profitable to just buy existing buildings and sit on them than build new ones. This is a recent trend, and home building companies do still exist but...

"Between 2011 and 2017, some of the world’s largest private-equity groups and hedge funds ... spent a combined $36 billion on more than 200,000 homes in ailing markets across the country. In one Atlanta zip code, they bought almost 90 percent of the 7,500 homes sold between January 2011 and June 2012; today, institutional investors own at least one in five single-family rentals in some parts of the metro area"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/singl...
I haven't! This is what our server team is looking at as an option for encrypting our RTC traffic.

https://tweetnacl.js.org/
https://github.com/dchest/tweetnacl-js/wiki/Examples
Red Hat and IBM Stand by Google in Supreme Court Case Against Oracle
It is, as I'll cover in the second post ;)
Why is "how GOOD will it be will all this extra carbon" never considered as an option?
Part of the reason this got a good response is due to Ned himself. nedbat@ has a great reputation in several communities. Also he showed his homework. And then posted with a good, tight repro case.

Fun to see the problem and the solution. Thanks Ned and thanks HN.

Source: have seen nedbat@ in action.
Somebody should get it started...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Ask HN: Where do you look for a remote part-time programming job? Do they exist?
I'd asked to be moved to part-time at previous jobs but they would never let me. I've asked local recruiters about part-time work and they basically told me that it didn't exist. But I imagine there has to be part time work out there and probably even remote work.

Do those jobs exist and if so how do you get them?
I don't know anyone who owns property and has renovated it. Of everyone I know my age, I'm in one of two couples that owns our dwelling, at all.

You should consider whether you've got a sample bias.
Note that Plan 9's cat written in C is still smaller.
It's called maturity... code that isn't radically changed or added to will asymptotically approach being completely bug-free as all the bugs get gradually discovered and fixed over time. This also implies that the majority of bugs are found in the newest code.
honeypot, they were all over Reddit some time ago

edit: I think the lady who was dealing with my profile felt bad cause I had zero offers, lol.
Thanks, I hope I do too.
Safari was not following the spec.
I always wondered why Barr, Comey and basically every AG I paid attention to, consistently want to break encryption for the populace.

I guess it makes sense proponents of those changes would be ok of breaking it for the proles of they thought their secrets are protected.
I do not see how this is an example of what GP was speculating about. Flights between Hawaiian islands still exist, they just cost more now. What GP seemed to be gesturing at is price competition killing an entire market segment, and nobody moving in afterwards to occupy it again.