skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “What if machines of war are really the greatest investment of capital”

Then it would negate modern History, specifically in regards to the collapse of the Soviet Union, wherein a country with 100s of ICBs with nuclear warheads, warehouses churning out AK47s and ammunition surplus that still are being exported to this day (Viktor Anatolyevich Bout), tanks and war ships in such quantities that they'd trade Pepsi for them [1]! And still end up destitute, with a plutocracy and a massively disenfranchised population both at home as well as much of the former satellite nations.

Capital investment is best spent on a sound currency, strong local manufacturing base and a strong legal system to protect both from corruption as well as the Human rights of its populations; unfortunately no nation Western or Eastern seems intent on doing that... like ever in History. Thus proving that Humanity is not capable of not giving into the intoxication of ending mutually beneficial collaboration with others for extended periods of Time in exchange 'for more of their share.' It may occur for short windows, but so long as a Human entity remains in charge of those aspects of Civilization it will always succumb to the same avarice and corruption regardless of whatever the rhetoric is espoused of National Brotherhood or Patriotic duty. Hence the argument for currencies and economic models outside the control of centralized systems like Governments.

I'm sure many of you are seeing visions of Westworld or Psycho pass type dystopias but I'm convinced there is a middle ground between the two we just haven't been able to arrive to due to constant conflicts, and endless wars that drain the World of Human capital and technological resources best used for this end.

But I also find it funny how some of Elon Musk's, an openly declared Utopian Anarchist, biggest proponents haven't realized the fact that all of his and Kimbal's businesses are aimed to help establish a colony on Mars where he has gone on record to say one of the biggest reasons to do so it try and re-do all of this non-sense on Earth with a blank slate canvas approach, and this is the extreme one has to go to do it.

People keep accepting that War with China is inevitable, as it were some unavoidable deterministic outcome, but I disagree and have hope that Humanity can come to reason and refuse to participate. War is never in anyone's best interest, I really wish that we'd have learned that by now.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...
But a true human would make the performance more exciting to watch.

One area though where a robot like this would be fantastic would be some sort of roller coaster ride where you would be able to see a superhero fly up with you and then dive at certain points in the ride. Just gotta figure out how to reset it automatically.
I suspect that this comes from tunnel vision and not interacting with enough casual users. Hypothetically, if the feedback they're seeing is that people desperately want jobs and will do whatever it takes, they may only be exposed to a subset that would have no qualms with making the info public. Especially if that subset is already out of work.

I can imagine, in that scenario, not thinking about all the devs who signed up over the years and are no longer searching, or are searching but doing so quietly.
Oh boy. Where do I begin?

Rather than safeguarding the fact that you are or were job searching, we threatened exposure. Current employers might retaliate if they saw that you were job searching. You did not expect that any personal information you’d given us, in the context of a private, secure job search, would be used publicly without your explicit consent. I sincerely apologize. It was my failure.

How about we stop giving our data to third parties just so we can use their software.

"The Cloud" is a corporate euphemism for "extreme centralization of data in our servers".

And "Software as a Service" is even worse, because it basically says you are RENTING the software, and trusting them to do "the right thing", including and especially with your data.

This is insane. It's 2020. Why are we doing this? One reason: we don't have a good open source alternative that can be hosted on many different places. Such an alternative should actually be end-to-end encrypted, and the hosting should be just redundant dumb boxes earning cryptocurrency for storing something.

So, what happened? How did I screw this up? I’ve been asking myself this question a bunch over the past 48 hours.

What happened was the same thing that happened 17 years ago when Mark Z laughed about the "dumb f$cks* who "trusted him" with their passwords. To quote the excellent V for Vendetta speech:

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

Look, I'm biased. I have put my money where my mouth is and am building this reality (https://qbix.com/platform and https://intercoin.org). I have historically been downvoted for even mentioning that I am doing tangible things to solve this and give away the software. But I persist in doing so because it's better to actually build the alternative than talk about it endlessly. The Impossible Burger will do more for veganism than decades of talk ever could.

If you want to join this effort, email greg at the domain qbix.com . But whether you choose to support Mastodon, Matrix, IPFS, Dat, MaidSAFE or whatever, realize that we need to move towards a future where infrastructure is decoupled from power over your data. Your data should be encrypted and only enough shared for indexing. It should be provable with verified claims and zero-knowledge proofs, but only with your consent.
tomorrow's popsci headline: "Do barrels of water emit harmful 5G radiation? The answer may surprise you!"
Without reading the solution: wouldn’t this impossible zero resistance zero inductance ideal setup result in infinite frequency infinite magnitude oscillations? Add in some resistance and the missing energy goes into heat generated by the resistance on the way to equilibrium.

Edit: also when I think about it there is a little bit of additional energy in the open switch which is itself a capacitor.

Edit 2: for this circuit to stay the way it is in the initial state, wouldn’t the open switch need to have equal capacitance to the capacitors? Or some kind of voltage generating field applied across it that is removed when the switch is closed?
Yeah... that's a much better idea. I can tell you what was going through my head on Friday (I'm not at all trying to defend this now). Basically, it was that for a credential to carry weight with recruiters, it needs scale. There's a bootstrapping problem. But that's not an excuse for violating people's privacy. Opt-in would have been a far better idea.
> I'd expect them to pay a stipend on top of my wage, equivalent to the amount of money they save by not having office space

Holy sense of entitlement. No, that's not going to happen. That's not how any of this works. You don't see companies paying outsourced workers $150k/yr due to the "amount of money they save by not hiring expensive talent in SF"
"It's important to distinguish between what Chinese people wanted and what the administration wanted. The imperial administration's pursuit of mercantilist policy didn't mean that "The British could offer little in return that Chinese merchants wanted to buy." as the article incorrectly states."

Yes, of cause. I did not point it out explicit. I am also not surprised nor do I care that my post got downvoted.

"Useless to talk with someone where the hint of an idea is not sufficient" Gomez da Vila.

It is all pretty well explained in "The rise and fall of great powers" by Kennedy or "On China" by Kissinger.
Did this company decide to do this blindly or did they try canvasing a response from a target set of users about what they planned to do? Surely if they did canvas feedback for their plan then an overwhelming No would have prevented this unmitigated disaster.
Impressive! Coding in swift for OS9.
> can those convos be mediated via a wiki?

In the wiki page proper? Theoretically, yes, but it would involve a lot of discipline from everyone in your team.

One thing that worked for our team (i.e, our Confluence Space) was to keep all pages with a "comments" page at the end. Any comment that came up on that page was basically meant an "issue" to be resolved in the documentation: clarify a point, update another, link to a related page with more details, etc. Once the person that created the comment was satisfied, we treated the issued as resolved and deleted the comment without prejudice.
Pffft, 'companies' (as in plural) are so un-post-truth! The One Company it must be. And it well may be, because less and less companies will be able to cope with the firehose of New Normals.
My life is now organized just in time to die of old age learning this system. I'm the most organized dead-guy I guess.

When my scroll bar turns into a tiny square in the top right of the window for something as trivial as a note-taking system I nope right out of there.
The equations do reveal that! As Wikipedia pointed out in the idealized model the current is infinite and the time to settle is zero. Thus the energy loss is proportional to ∞*0 , that tells immediately that the model is not applicable.
Whataboutist arguments do not invalidate an article about something and do not show a form of hypocrisy.

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

One can be critical of behavior in one country and also not like the behavior of a country you also happen to reside. The linker is not the NY Times :)

Edit: And you don't have to profess the dislike of similar behavior in the same article
I know, just making fun.
Yeah, the automotive industry is gonna get a nice bailout from our tax euros this time as they'll justify it wilth all the potential unemployed people that result from everyone not buying cars any more.
Fair point. Though the excess seems to already eclipse car crash deaths in their entirety, and I'm not sure if other major causes of accidental deaths (e.g. drug overdoses) would really be expected to go down during a lockdown.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...
There was an excellent blog post recently on the inherence complexity of building software systems and how it boils down to understanding the problem, or "extracting requirements out of people" as you say:
https://einarwh.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/into-the-tar-pit/
Yeah it’s hard to reconcile that discussion and this apology. That is unless they were hemorrhaging users after that email hit and reversed course because of that. I like the idea of triplebyte but I’m a bit hesitant now. Perhaps this is the blindness that people in privileged positions in life can’t see... similar to the real name policy on google that caused a problem for the people that didn’t want their identities tied to it. Gay people that weren’t out of the closet yet or gay people in countries with laws against that or people escaping abusive exes/stalkers etc.

Hopefully this reflection is sincere.
Nginx: When you write a web server but you get served
https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459?ijkey=c3677213eca8...
Its source code is also highly ideosyncratic with lots of macro use, including definitions like "our" for "this ->" https://github.com/praat/praat/blob/9d20024e2f68f84bf23ff49b...
You can set this up with superconductors so they have zero resistance, but any wire will still have a trace inductance. (Moving charges must create a magnetic field, so if you're moving charges from one capacitor to another, you need to have some inductance somewhere).

Once you include that, you'll see your LC resonator is perfectly undamped and oscillates the charges back and forth forever, breaking the assumption that a "steady state" would equalize the charge on both capacitors.

The equations will also reveal the problem to you when you try to calculate the current that flows from one capacitor to another, with no inductance or resistance in between. You might try putting in an inductor and looking at the circuit behaviour in the limit as the inductance goes to zero -- you'd see the frequency of oscillation climbs to infinity; the full charge essentially teleports back and forth from one capacitor to the other, but still never settles into a steady state of equal charge on both capacitors.

Once you see this, it's like having a problem set up with a frictionless ball on a hilltop beside a valley, saying "in the steady state, the ball has rolled down and settled in the valley. But there was no friction! Where did the energy go?", and the answer is just that the ball doesn't settle in the valley, but rather continues back up the other side, carried along by the kinetic energy that had been neglected in the problem statement.

(Before the well-actualies point out that an LC circuit will damp itself via radiation, let's just say it's also perfectly shielded).
Now apologize for spamming my inbox without an unsubscribe link.
Good answer. Actually first good answer I remember seeing from any of you so far.

I still wonder why you tried the infamous "I'm sorry that you cannot understand" line here?
Ask HN: Is HTML/CSS the best general purpose display language?
please dont call this sort of thing a feature
How Much Privacy Would You Give Up to Stay Healthy?
YouTube views are easy to fake. From my observation of the "trending" section it seems that some music producers have figured out how to game the algorithms.
It recycles old inaccurate tropes too, such as the MiG-25 being designed to combat the SR-71.

It was actually prompted by the US Navy deploying the Mach 2 A-5 Vigilante attack aircraft; the MiG-25 had enough of a speed advantage to make interception of that type and the B-58 possible.
This is effectively the same paradox some friends and I discussed in college. Another way of looking at it is:

If you connect an ideal voltage source through a resistor R to a capacitor C, the amount of energy required to charge the capacitor is CV^2 while the amount of energy that winds up in the charged capacitor is 1/2 CV^2. The other 1/2 CV^s is dissipated across R. This is unaffected by the value of R, even as R -> 0. The only thing that changes is the charge time.

R = 0 is impossible for real circuits, but no matter how close you get you still lose half of that energy in the resistor.
Tracking and Disrupting the Illicit Antiquities Trade with Open Source Data
One of two things happened:

1. Triplebyte attempted a big move against LinkedIn, tried to ease the blow to users by dumping on a Friday before memorial day weekend

2. Triplebyte, the company built around helping people find jobs, truthfully didn't understand that people might have concerns about their current companies knowing they are job-hunting

It's pretty obvious it's #1, and that opt-out rather than opt-in was the only way it would gain the critical mass needed. The outcry hit critical mass and now they need to walk it back, until they have a different strategy for re-segmenting LinkedIn's market
Ask HN: What creative project do you pursue when your goal isn't to make money?
Suppose Universal Basic Income were implemented and you were satisfied with your standard of living, what would you do with your time? Looking for ideas.
The first section of this article is called "How To Use This Document" and it immediately reminded me of: https://xkcd.com/1343/
What do you do inside of the then and error blocks? _That_ is what this post (and state machines) are concerned with. Passing messages to a single entity (reducer in this case) that decides how to handle them, rather than spreading that logic across components, event handlers etc.

In terms of boilerplate, libraries like Xstate do a great job on that front. The goal here is to provide a from-the-ground-up overview of using explicit state machines.
Unrelated to the point of the article, but in the picture at the top look at the third woman from the left's feet. Grotesquely bound, I can't imagine the pain and what they looked like with the bindings removed. Could she walk? And her and the woman next to her are displaying their hands in a strange way, I wonder if long slender fingers were appealing?
Not in the bay area it won't.
The heuristic to think about automation is using a hand screwdriver (manual) vs a drill screwdriver (automated).

The latter dramatically enhances productivity, but also introduces some overhead and complexity.

This is also as good a time as any to link to the [automation FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/faq_automation)
No, that's 35 minutes of physical activity they have to make up some other way.
It feels like a huge hassle for a small business. Use a cloud, it's not that expensive. If, not even using a cloud is an option, you can still mount NFS, use a bridged network and use DHCP from that router, and run your software in systemd/upstart or simple Docker containers.

I don't like to sound like a grumpy old man that yells at new tech, I'm all good for experimentation home setups involving these, but every component you add is another thing to manage and monitor, even if you are a small business, you are still a business that you can spend your time on better things and sleep better at night.
z3 solver for comparison, from the original thread: https://gist.github.com/sielicki/fd86d68733133f654128519b3c4...

I find z3 python interface much simpler, more intuitive and more powerful than prolog for this kind of things
none of those assertions provides any relevant rationale for huge pre-existing demand prior to the british desire to extract riches in exchange for drugs.
Oh whait...why is then ZFS such a big problem? Just put it in a different repo at kernel.org right?

Well on the other hand, no one wants ZFS in the mainline kernel, it is perfect like it is, at least for me :)
I said just the other day, "Adding constraints that encode the additional rules is also a little puzzle, eh?" I think I see a kind of hierarchy that reminds me of the Futamura Projections:

1. Solving Sudoku puzzles.

2. Designing new Sudoku puzzles (with additional constraints even.)

3. Designing (e.g. CLP(FD/ℤ)) programs to solve all sudoku puzzles everywhere.

- - - -

How do you pronounce "ℤ" in this context? "see el pee eff dee zed"? Seems too plain. "see el pee eff dee Zahlen" seems too fancy. :-)
That question seems backward.

Instead they should have asked: design a manhole such that these constraints are satisfied.
Didn't get the apology email which may mean that they actually deleted my account as asked with no further nonsense or asking for identification. Which is honestly good on them. With this reversal, in the future, if I'm looking for a job, I _may_ look at Triplebyte again, but I'm certainly not giving them any info before then. Good luck, Triplebyte.

Edit: Nevermind, I just got the email. Still no response to my request to delete my account.
the name of the song being..... ? The most recent?

one job
Or more rings. The problem is that we have this idea of running trusted and untrusted code and data in the same context as far as the CPU is concerned.

Add more fine grained memory partitions to let the memory hierarchy in on what you're doing.

Make Rings 1 & 2 Great Again
If we go down that path how many famous rockstars were banging underage teens as well? Lots.
RPA seems to be the biggest area where this is currently popular. The "citizen developer" bullshit they're pushing IMO sounds good on paper but will lead to fragile bots that end up falling apart and not being properly maintained at scale. I can't imagine handing someone with no programming experience UiPath or whatever and having them basically deploying software directly to production. As far as I know there isn't a "code first" approach to this set of problems but there probably ought to be as someone who can't write code isn't likely to produce a high enough quality product even with a dumb downed drag and drop tool to make it worth it.
I am not an active Triplebyte user, but I have an account and followed the thread(s).

This e-mail (which I also got) seems like a heartfelt apology. They fucked up, realized it and turned the ship around. They listened and that's what counts for me. They listened to the negative feedback and responded to it.

Some comments around here are extremely negative of the whole situation. More negative than I think they deserve. They could've pushed through and ignored all the feedback they got. They didn't, and that's enough for to show the company and its CEO isn't utterly rotten.

@ammon Thanks for listening and participating in the discussions on HN. You made a mistake, but the fact that you responded is enough for me to put my trust in Triplebyte in the future if the need arises.
My experience using GKE so far has been fairly good - it's not that much more difficult than using Google App Engine, and we're not locked into a single provider.
Good: It achieves product/market fit and solves its stated problem.
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Just makes you wonder what else is going on there from a product standpoint. How many similar "good ideas" have they launched? Selling data? Employers access to your profile?

Hiring is their business and such a complete misunderstanding of the system and subsequent tone deaf responses (up until today) really make you question the entire thing. Or their grasp of hiring in general. Even with the best intentions, does make you worry.
The OP says there are 6x10^21 Sudoku puzzles.

If we remove rotations and reflections, there may be (far) fewer unique Sudoku puzzles than we think. In fact, there are many sub-reflections that are essentially the 'same' puzzle:

Take the first three rows as a block, 'rotate' to the bottom of the puzzle - its still 'solved'. In fact permute the blocks of three rows in any order, still the 'same' puzzle in a sense.

Same with the first three columns.

Same with the three rows or columns in a block of three - permute them, the solution is 'unchanged'.

Relabel the digits from 1-9 as 9-1 - another 'reflection' which is the same puzzle pattern.

In fact, permute the digits all different ways - its still solved.

I'm not at all sure there isn't actually just one unique pattern to sudoku. But I don't know how to prove that one way or another.
You should check objection.js[1] as I think it would get you what you describe and probably more. It is a relational query builder built on top of knex, which is a query builder.

[1] https://vincit.github.io/objection.js/
That seems similar enough to bear noticing, I appreciate you mentioning it because I'd not heard of it. That said, there are also some pretty big differences between the two. Not least of which is that Billboard isn't state run, whereas in Poland the state-run broadcaster has blacklisted the song.
Bed wetters in the house. The weekend is over.
> Original ideas are not instantly popular as most people fear originality

There’s also an acclimatization process. New ideas take time for people to adjust to them. You see this all the time in the arts, for example. Original works of music and film that are truly groundbreaking, can take years for people to learn to appreciate. The response the public had to the unveiling of the Tesla Cybertruck is a great example of this phenomenon in action.
What percentage of eBay users know what an IP address is?
There are no hardware obstacles to doing that, and BLE (BT4 and 5) support custom protocols. That said, I think you will find that working with the proprietary operating systems and architectures on watches and phones is much more difficult than you anticipate.