skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This line is bogus. "I cared about police brutality until someone else who cares did something I don't like. Now, FOX News is telling me to care about looting!"

Stop using looting as an excuse to not really give a damn about police reform.
I could probably respond in several ways but I think I'm the most curious about the economic angle here.

What if there is no money to be made or lost but a certain group is simply worse off? What if fairness lowers GDP? Does that mean it should be abandoned? Without even getting into what the realities are, I'm trying to understand what you're saying here.
Same for deregulation too, TBH.
Check out the sibling answer above, you can embed HTML in svg and it generally works well: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/for...
So would I be wrong to post a link to a full movie when link requests you pay for it?

Piracy is piracy
R/fakehistoryporn – Silicon Valley is founded (1957)
Well it does look like an interesting experiment.

All the standard warnings about lack of privacy on Keen, treat it like you would FaceBook, enjoy checking it out, but treat it much as you would a rattlesnake on a hiking trail. I almost regret reading the book Surveillance Capitalism because life before that was like ignorant life in the move Matrix (except for me, I could have written a shorter version of SC myself). Reading that book was definitely taking the Red Pill. I don’t blame anyone for continuing the good old Blue Pill lifestyle :-)

EDIT: it is interesting how the site is not really “Google branded” at all. Just in the fine print “ Keen - An experimental product from Area 120 and PAIR at Google”
State of the Union – Bret Weinstein – JRE#1494
Interesting. I've recently been thinking of something similar as a form of population control in a post-aging world. Rather than individual resource consumption, every time you reproduce, you jump forward in the euthanasia line. I suspect this would not work very well.

There's got to be some more formal line of research or thought about population management in a post-aging world.
I guess it depends on how you're adding those 50% together: add three bullets to a 6 chamber revolver for a game of Russian roulette and 3 bullets = 50% chance of death. If you take two tries, sure, that's not 100% chance of death. But 3 bullets = 50% chance, so if you add another another 3 bullets then those percentages combine quite well for 100% chance of death :)

(assuming your aim is good & lethality on hit is 100%)
> I think gaming consoles are general purpose computers.

This is a contrived point of view, and I'm sure the product managers at Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and Google would all strongly disagree.

Remember when the PS3 used to be used for super computing? Sony quietly ended that program when they realized that wasn't the business they wanted to be in.
Why is Netflix different?

Sending email is distribution of “digital content”.

This old game of wobbly semantics to describe “organizing electrons in silicon” is pretty much done isn’t it?

Society has hit an information entropy. Where the masses get one message “austerity” while the elites tirelessly bike shed the rules, struggling to maintain their old epistemology as they die off from natural causes, which is extinguishing their norms instead.

Varoufakis is right: leadership of the old generation is out of net new ideas and has us nickle and diming old ones to keep up the ruse.

Their only endgame, which isn’t driven by more than an intuition, is keep the hierarchy story looking like it did decades ago.

This is just biological survival instinct. There’s absolutely no real reason to carve up “digital content” into more than electrons zipping through silicon, except for financial Machiavellianism.
No, though it’s invalidated for other reasons, the enumeration of which would here seem only to cause a resounding whoosh passing overhead.

It’s child’s play to orchestrate this. It amounts to getting thrown out of a bar for not wearing pants, and then putting up ishouldbeabletovisitbarswithoutpants.com. Not something that requires a man on the inside.
Can someone explain why I might use this instead of downloading a select group of files using a torrent file/magnet link? Is the advantage that it selectively downloads files on an as-needed basis? Or, is the product niche somehow related to the fact that the torrent file/magnet link is mounted as a filesystem, instead of only as a collection of files and folders?
Is this an idea or a product? The site is wordy, dense and has no link to a download. I can't find a release date, pricing, a business model -- anything worthwhile except very fancy mockups.
That YouTube video you showed, though, just left me wondering "why?" I mean, it looked cool, but we've all basically got our phones always in reach. If anything, I'd like to get rid of plastic cards, not get more that would require glasses and an unintuitive interface to figure out what to do.

It just looked like a million other AR demos I've seen: gimmicky with less utility than what I've got now. I can imagine a place for AR, but "worse interface for something I can do right now on my phone" is not it.
nc is much faster if you don’t need encryption
TXR Lisp setup is easy. If you have to build from source (not a user of a distro that has packaged it like Guix or Void, then:

./configure && make && sudo make install

Then there is a txr executable with some auto-loaded library files in /usr/share, and that's it. The txr executable performs all the sysrooting calculations so you can move an installation of it anywhere, as long as you keep the relative locations of the files the same (the installation tree shape). If you have a tarball of it, it will unpack and run from anywhere.

The documentation is all in a single man page, covering everything.

TXR is designed from the ground up as a system utility integrated well into a POSIX environment.

TXR requires no package management or build system because the load function behaves sanely. If you load a file that is located in path/to/dir, and that file itself does a (load "foo") at its own top level, then that top-level load look for path/to/dir/foo.tlo (compiled file) or path/to/dir/foo.tl (source): i.e relative to the same directory as the parent file that is being load-ed.

There is no need to mess around with irksome path schemes (look for stuff here, look for stuff there, ...). You're in the driver's seat: put the pieces you need where you want, load each of their main files, and that's it.

We can make a package just by putting some files into a directory, and documenting which one is the main one that is to be loaded. That one loads the others using relative paths, and that's that.

A module/program's main file can rebuild itself and the others like this:

(defvarl myfiles '#"main foo bar baz xyzzy") ;; word list lit, same as '("main" "foo" ...)

(each ((f myfiles))
(or (compile-update-file `@f.tl` `@f.tlo`)
(load f))

compile-update-file checks the existence and time stamps, rebuilding the .tlo if it is missing or older than the .tl file. Compilation usually has the same effect as loading, so in that case we don't have to load. If compile-update-file returns nil, then it means it did nothing; we load the existing compiled file then.

> But it is not designed from ground up as one of the language in a system.

I know exactly what you mean there; that is why I designed TXR from the ground up in the form factor of a utility that fits into the surrounding OS environment instead of being a kind of immigrant from a Lisp planet. It's Lisp, for Unix and C people -- with a decent Windows port.
This was a CVE last year (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6111). AFAICT this exploit has been patched.
Wow, not really. The point is that the vast majority of apps are never featured and you know it.

Everybody that’s paying the 30% still has to do their own marketing. Discovery through the app store is absolute shit. You’re trying to argue that getting lucky enough to be featured covers everybody that’s paying the 30%. It doesn’t.
No Damned Computer Is Going to Tell Me What to Do
Noticed yesterday the NEETS modules were posted, and it seems there are a few of us old Navy techs on the board.

This is the story of the beginnings of Navy computing -- it's also indirectly a history of the Data Systems Technician and the Data Processing rates, those of us who worked on Navy computers from the 1970s on. As DS techs in the Navy, our main job was to keep operational the computers and display systems that processed radar data and track data, presented that picture to the people who had to make firing decisions, and passed their commands to the weapon systems.

This link is to a paper written by Captain David L. Boslaugh, it's been around for a number of years. I've linked each chapter below as the article is a bit hard to navigate through if you start reading with chapter 1.

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Navy_Codebreakers_and_Their_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:McNally%27s_Challenge,_Conceptua...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Building_the_U.S._Navy%27s_First...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Testing_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Moving_the_Firing_Key_to_NTDS_-_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Naval_Tactical_Data_System_i...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Marine_Tactical_Data_System_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Legacy_of_NTDS_-_Chapter_9_of_th...
I posted moderation replies to the other user also. It takes two to keep these things going.
Any chance you can take some screenshots or a short video? I'd be curious to see it but don't want to install anything.
I'm willing to entertain this possibility, but how can you be so certain that they weren't persuaded by the persistence of the nonviolent elements? baltimore's protests have been remarkably peaceful, and the city leadership has already made some (albeit minor) concessions.
Nah, some AI just figured out it was an easy way to get more clicks on YouTube.
The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills
Investing and Human Psychology
> We say that a function f is linear when f u is consumed exactly once implies that u is consumed exactly once (defined as follows).

- Consuming a value of a data type exactly once means evaluating it to head normal form exactly once, discriminating on its tag any number of times, then consuming its fields exactly once

- Consuming a function exactly once means applying it and consuming its result exactly once

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/p...
Could you give any government the power to euthanize innocent people and trust them to use it for only that one narrow purpose?
Quick question. Why was it a found this article on HN about an hour or so after it was first posted, but after 3 hours it is nowhere to be seen?
...There's not much adrenaline in searching for a lost hiker. It's laborious and methodical work.

Now, alpine/cliff rescue, yep, that's a tad more exciting.
Infrastructure, Tom Scott and Investments
Are you sure it doesn't have a USB port? Most blu-ray players do (some of the discs let you download something to usb storage for some reason), and the front panel has a USB logo according to the Amazon listing:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-JM57C-Streaming-Blu-ray-Re...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61v%2BV4kna...
...and if you can, why bother with the losing side of the transaction?

Conversely, if you can't pick winners, then I think you can only set up a pair of trades which sometimes moves money in and sometimes out, with a net of zero.

I tried making charts of option prices in Excel and didn't come to any particular conclusion, except that maybe you always lose because of the dividend rules, spread, and commissions, and it seems like the maximum expected value is at-the-money.

It makes me think of violating thermodynamics with Maxwell's Demon.

If you trade with yourself, then it would be uninteresting plain fraud, and if you don't, I have the feeling the market will prevent you from getting anywhere.
How to Optimize Generel Matrix Multiply (2017)
Previous discussion of incident, different link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23556608
Cool, thanks! Very neat tool.
> The golden age of web app development was 2012-2013.

I have the opposite feeling. 2010ish was when companies really started leaning in to building desktop experiences on the web and 2012/2013 was when it was clear the tools were coming up short. I don't know about you but I don't look back on Backbone fondly. It's not a coincidence that React, Vue, and Angular2 all came out around 2013/2014.
The 1984 commercial highlights that Apple has always made fun of people who used other products (who do you think is in the audience? Consumers of their competitors products).

The 90's slogan "Think Different" was a direct shot across the bow of IBM's slogan "Think". When they say "here's to the crazy ones" they're directly saying their customers are inherently different from the customers of their competitors.

That's how Apple has always been.
But, see, this is where I draw the line.

Valve has the ability to set whatever rules they want within their store. A world where we didn't allow this would get very complicated very quickly. Do we also make Walmart and Target carry every brand? How much are they allowed to markup the price? Who decides?

If Steam provides such a valuable service that consumers aren't willing to shop anywhere else even when they can, then that's what it is.

And, I think that's what would largely happen on the iPhone anyway if side-loading was allowed, outside of extraordinary circumstances like when protesters can't access a critical safety app. But, in order to keep apps on their store, Apple would have to make a (slightly) greater effort to keep developers happy.

(I also think Steam zealots are ridiculous, but that is a separate discussion.)
With a large enough sample size that starts to go away. We're starting to see real benefits from GWAS, it just took 1.5 decades to get the sample sizes up to a level where the data generated was worth looking at.
I build a chat system in highschool
I wonder if anyone else remembers hoodwink.d by _why

For those that don't, it was a locally running proxy service that would inject its own annotation UI into any site you wanted. Basically your own pocket comment/discussion board where you could discuss whatever URL you were on with other users of hoodwink.

https://github.com/whymirror/hoodwinkd

Also, wow, I can't believe that was 14 years ago. I miss _why.
Some fascinating observations here. What they describe perfectly explains the rise of places like IndieHacker. IndieHacker is basically a website for Veblenian Entrepreneurs to show off how successfully they are, and how far along they are to being real entrepreneurs. It is a place where their real desires (success, social status, etc.) can be easily signaled to other people.

The increasing number of innovation hubs, incubators, development grants, boot camps, etc. are taken together, what the article terms the "Entrepreneurial Industrial Complex". An entire industry now exists around making money off people that want to be entrepreneurs, or posturing so that they can profit from the potential success of unicorns (e.g. Incubators that take a cut). SaaS that let's you make a SaaS to provide people with tools for SaaS creation anybody?

As others have said here before, in a gold rush, it is the tool makers that make the money. And I think in this current "unicorn rush" that's exactly what we're seeing.
MFA is great if it is something like Google Authenticator, with recovery codes.

And yes, store your recovery codes in your safe. Or print them, I guess, but it isn't that big a deal.

My problem is with most banks that make me use some MFA that I can't reasonably recover with codes, or those that can be recovered so easily that MFA is a joke.
While I agree that FIDO2 is great, especially far more secure than SMS based 2fA, people will still lose their FIDO2 sticks, they will still get stolen. And there will still be stories of people getting into accounts by pretending to be you to support.
“Cheap” biotech. Where yesterday’s billion dollar tools are applied to $10M problems. Starting with food and materials and industrial commodities, but rapidly altering the industrial and commercial and even consumer landscapes once one demonstration ‘works’. And then onto cosmetic, health, aesthetic and other ancillary spaces.

Notice companies like Bolt Threads, Impossible foods, Zymergen, and why they are different. And if/when they actually start winning they’ll dramatically change the entire landscape.
> If you want a phone, you've got only two options.

That's not true at all. There's 2 primary OS choices, but on the Android side there's dozens of manufacturers, all with their take on things. Android is not a single option, it's hundreds. You even have choice of app stores. There's even options that have zero Google at all - like the Huawei P40 Pro. Or for an older take, silent cirlce's Blackphone or Amazon's Fire Phone. And even if you are in the very small minority that actually buys a Google phone, they even provide instructions on how to unlock the bootloader & flash a different OS: https://source.android.com/setup/build/running#unlocking-rec...
How many dead bodies have you personally dealt with, out of curiosity? Because your rather glib dismissal would indicate not many, if any.
He ate poison berries because he was starving. The poison berries sure as shit didn't help, but he was still generally clueless as to get food anyway and was in serious trouble. He didn't know what plants he could eat (hence the poison berries), didn't know how to clean and preserve animal meat, etc.
Pan-Assay Interference Compounds
Well, Hey isn't trying to be yet another email service. The idea is that SMTP does not support the kind of messaging that Hey is built around.
> Today, a free app brings Apple zero revenue

Today and always, a free app brings Apple $99/year for a developer account, which is mandatory to publish on the App Store.
No, they are creating an locked in environment where switching is hard while switching is easy on Android. So you end up with 2 different groups/(markets?). One ready to pay more but locked in and another group wanting to pay less for more with a variety of hardware choices and companies betting against each other for a lower price on same hardware/specifications.

Apple therefore controls the price for their locked in environment. Rising prices for hardware, fees, accesoirs, repairs,...

At least this is how I understand this theory but since I'll probably get downvotes again, this will be my last comment on this. Sorry.
It's simple, demand "pulls" the economy far better than supply pushes it, and we are a rotten insecure society with no demand. VC as a solution to chronicle too small capital expenditures is like pushing a rope.
Just curious, what is considered as 'using' the value?
See also:

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14689280

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5616323

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4154421
Discussed at the time (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9585794
Why Full-Time 9 to 5 Jobs are Risky
Many people view businesses as risky when in fact it is not entirely true. I wrote this quick piece to explain my thoughts on why 9-5 jobs aren’t diversified and are in fact riskier
I am seeing multiple discussions confusing the 'have I been pwned' and 'pwned passwords' services. This is a release of pwned passwords. I wrote a small commandline tool where I generate my own passwords and I validate them against the pwnd passwords database. The code can be seen here https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator/blob/9a3ca8aa.... The two lines of python code summarizes the approach. Create an SHA1 and send the first five characters.
Nice, how do I invest?
Black Lives Matter.

It needs to be said more. Not sorry.
Don't they spin again before each round? That's the difference between (3/6) * (3/6) and (3/6) * (2/5) survival.
Thought it's an interesting concept to keep in mind with the explosion of interest in biomedical research, and the number of articles we tend to see about compound x curing disease y in a petri dish.
> Most of even the top of the line digital pianos seem to get the resonances and cross-talk between the strings wrong in my opinion

I agree. A well-maintained, in-tune acoustic piano, especially a grand, has a richness of tone that digital pianos cannot match. The main problem with digital seems to be the resonance between the strings, which has apparently been difficult to model well. Your neural-net suggestion might work better.

Decent digital pianos, though, are superior to mediocre acoustic pianos, which can be unpleasant to play or listen to. They also require little or no maintenance and can be played with headphones, a definite advantage for many living situations.
One Token to leak them all: The story of a $8000 NPM_TOKEN
Sure thing, give me a couple minutes.
Another analysis would be they're seeing the violence in other cities and want to get out ahead of it.
To play devil's advocate, maybe DHH hoped it would get rejected so he could launch his protest campaign, then when Apple approved the app only to turn around and reject an update, he was given an even more exploitable situation than the one he had hoped for.

Who knows? All I know is if the end result is that Apple is held accountable by regulators and is forced to stop engaging in capricious anticompetitive behavior, then whether DHH is a master astroturfer or not doesn't matter much to me. The end result will have been good for us all.
You run NFS within which secure tunneler?
Also, the git repo includes binaries for Linux, Windows, and Mac.
Criticism of McCandless does not constitute curtailment of personal freedoms. You're free to go out into the Alaskan wilderness unprepared, just like he did. What you don't have is a "freedom to not be criticized for it".
Like I suggested, it's highly problematic.

But what are the alternatives if people stop dying of old age? If the birth rate is even marginally higher than the very small death rate, we eventually over populate. The only way to resolve that is some kind of culling mechanism. War, starvation, and disease are what usually happens to humanity when resources get too constrained.

But now we have nukes.
FWIW the S3 BitTorrent support is very primitive and limited. It hasn't been updated since 2006 from what I can tell.
Focus your brain with these secret tips
Speaking of controlling the terminal, TXR Lisp has a built-in comprehensive wrapper for termios.

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-0260AE30

It even supports the coreutils "stty -g" string format for saving and restoring termios settings.
“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”
Executions? Wtf are you talking about?
See also from 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17288727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850233
I wrote https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent specifically to address the on-demand and streaming requirements of some products I created. It also doesn't make assumptions about how you store the data as you stream, so there's no requirement that the files exist on disk as they're described in the metainfo, like other clients.
Sounds like a home cinema system is also affected by a similar issue - https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Audio-Video/HT-J4500-hom...

First thought coming to mind is if this is indeed a bad firmware update as some suggest. Or maybe an x509 certificate used internally to verify something like firmware signatures has expired? I guess a bit of digging through these threads might shed some light on if people accepted updates recently.
See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580765 if you want an alternative.
I hunt and tramp (hike) and there's inherent risk, and risk that can be removed or minimised, and the risks he took that killed him were unnecessary ones.