skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised at the number of "basic phenomena" that turned out to have cultural origins. Look up the language of the Piraha people, who famously does not contain any concept related to numbers or counting (because they have no use for it and introducing it would disrupt the trades they have), among many other things.

Also, cursorily reading a study that contradicts one's preconceptions and going like "nah, my gut feeling doesn't agree with it" is so quintessentially Hacker News ;-)
> Please explain the monumental advancements of technology witnessed during both world wars

The problem is that you can't counter this by showing the monumental advancements that may have happened without the destructive nature of those wars on lives, economies, etc. because, well, we have no idea.

> Please explain why we have not seen a significant drop in defense spending during the periods when the threat of war has lessened.

Because "the mere threat of war" still exists - except instead of Russia, it's now terrorists, Middle Eastern countries, North Korea, etc. Also because the military industrial complex has an ungodly hold over governments.
Apple has approved HEY in the App Store
Provide low latency broadband internet to the entire surface of the Earth (Starlink). To me that's a good enough benefit to justify it.

Musk is serious about building a Mars colony. Of course if you dismiss the possibility offhand with a "lolol" then you won't agree with what he's doing. But personally I think it would be beneficial to have space colonies, and we eventually will have them in the far future if we don't blow ourselves up first, and accelerating the timeline for that is a fine thing to work on. SpaceX is not zero-sum with farming.
WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands documents about Russia[0][1] and there's no evidence for your quoted claim made by ForeignPolicy. Where are those chatlogs?

For matters about Assange you should definitely look for more independent sources than only FP. A lot has happened since 2016/17, and there's been cases which show that certain groups within the US establishment been wrong for alleging Assange of a Russia connection[2].

[0] https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=Russia

[1] https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/

[2] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html
But you’re agreeing.

Variable morality is a problem.

The solution is (imperfect as it often is, as BPA ex illustrates) effective regulation.

Effective regulation is synonymous with “making individual moral differences irrelevant.”
> Americans [...] have bought into the narrative that wearing masks is fascism

They're not wrong. Enacting pro-social policies that restrict most individuals in small ways—but benefit society-as-a-whole in large ways—is one of the core things Fascists did that was actually effective at improving lives—just like forcing everyone to wear masks in the United States would also be effective at improving lives.

So yeah, Fascists would absolutely have forced individuals to wear masks for the good of everyone—but that doesn't make the policy "bad", it's just one of the rare policy areas where Fascists tend to get good results.

The actual problem is that people today believe literally anything Fascists would have done is, by definition, "bad/wrong/evil." That kind of simplistic thinking is all too common.
A constitutional “right to privacy” amendment would help, but it would need to be carefully worded to avoid the loopholes that have been established around unreasonable search and seizure.

Short of that, donate to progressive candidates, and tell them that this is your hot-button issue.
Indeed. On the day of the election, Assange and Donald Trump Jr. engaged in a direct message conversation via Twitter, where Assange stated:

“Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do."

These are the words of a political actor, not a journalist.

A month after the election, Wikileaks requested an extraordinary favor from Trump: to ask the Australian government for Assange's appointment as ambassador to the U.S.

“Hi Don. Hope you’re doing well! In relation to Mr. Assange: Obama/Clinton placed pressure on Sweden, UK and Australia (his home country) to illicitly go after Mr. Assange. It would be real easy and helpful for your dad to suggest that Australia appoint Assange ambassador to [Washington,] DC.”

With requests like these, it becomes clear why Assange was helping Trump win the election. It was to improve his chances to escape detention in the UK. It had little to do with exposing the truth.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...
I love the arm chair analysis of every external person here. Code quality is extremely important at Google. That doesn't mean people don't write any features.
They look nothing alike, it's a distant reach. It's sad that someone even attempted that comparison given how weak the link is. There's a reason that shot by shot only has about 30 seconds of remotely similar footage.

Do you show an object under water or a person traipsing through a field? Now you're just ripping off Tarkovsky. Do you show a person with a sign on them (old westerns anyone?), or a family in a bed, now you're just ripping off Tarkovsky.
/proc/.../exe exists.

ETA: and most Linux apps will just sit there blocking in the syscall, or at the very worst, retry/show an error/crash.
Perfect? No. But no one, not being capable of noticing clear warnings has no business operating a vehicle, especially a commercial airplane. It is actually the corner case, that the airplane refused to deploy the wheels. Usually, there is a technical problem preventing the deployment. So checking that the landing gear actually deployed should be one of the most fundamental things a pilot does, as well as looking out for error messages.
I mean, yeah, obviously you should show all of the data. But if the data is that across the board, evictions are down, you shouldn't headline it with "In the midst of a pandemic, a growing number of families face the threat of eviction.". The opposite is true.

The point that eviction proceedings are suspended is also totally relevant, and their thesis in the long term may be accurate. But their way of showing data here is counterproductive to conveying that understanding. Worse, if we imagine that the pandemic has had no impact on evictions and that things will just resume to normal levels once the suspensions are over, the dashboard is going to flare red and look apocalyptic.

For the record, I do think the pandemic is going to have a fairly severe impact on housing problems. I just don't think this is a good way to show it. You need charts over time with well labeled events that are affecting the data.
That's an interesting question. I'm not sure how you would pump CO2 into a bag and kill a colony. I'm not sure it's an accepted process for doing that. Maybe there's a chance you might accidentally euthanise yourself.

I imagine at the start of the process, he was hoping to just kill the queen, and the entire colony would survive. In that case the other bees would replace the queen, with an emergency queen cell, if this was to happen the queen would probably be as aggressive as the previous generation.

But he mentions that he intends on introducing a queen himself. In which case, I would have thought the colony would calm down.

But I have no idea how much by, because I've never been in this situation.
He mentions that that is another way to do it, the problem is you use dry ice to generate the CO2 and he doesn't know where to find that. I imagine that this process is not very simple; of course the dry ice goes on top and the cool carbon dioxide falls, but making sure that it pools and collects and fills the hive requires enclosing the hive from the bottom up which sounds nontrivial when it is that swarmy. I think the bottom is enclosed so one would get those huge things of plastic wrap and wrap around the sides over and over? Similar idea though. And then you would just need to know how long to wait for them to suffocate.

it didn't look like he went through very much effort at all to euthanize with Ajax though.
With all respect, a leaked chat log from 'foreignpolicy.com' isn't evidence of anything and shouldn't be used as such.
what annoys me the most, is i can't click on the folder icon to go into the folder, i _have_ to click on the folder name. you have no idea how annoying it is when you see an icon and can't click on it. we have become visual people cause of smart phone and making an icon unclickable is just bad design.
> My favorite example is probably the infamous Indiana Pi Bill, via which local politicians wanted to regulate the value of Pi to be exactly 3.2, according a "proof" published by some crank.

Honestly, that seems to be a bit of a distortion. What I've read about that makes it sound like some state legislators were fooled for a little while by a crank, which caused a dumb bill to advance a little before being killed. No law was ever passed, and the motivation appears to be less of trying to force nature to submit to law and more trying to secure rights to (what they thought) was advanced technology. Even the "regulate the value of Pi" aspect is a (popular) overstatement, since (IIRC) that value was only implied by the bill.
If you live in California, let Senator Feinstein's office know you're not pleased with this. Unfortunately I don't think she's up for reelection this year, but if she doesn't retire next year, consider not voting for her in the next primary,

Feinstein was one of the EARN-IT Act's sponsors, and a long-time opponent of cryptography.
> Route DNS to trusted non-profit entities.

I'm sure you know this, but some readers might not. DNS is totally insecure. Even if you change your DNS server from the default to 1.1.1.1 or whatever, your ISP can and does still read and/or intercept these requests. This sort of interference is absolutely trivial to implement, even at scale. Don't think it isn't happening to you.
_You_ can. Plenty more in this thread that can't though.
This is a really good point. Those popups are disgusting and this is yet another reason to not disturb your users. I'm fine with a button in the footer of every page to do this, I think displaying a popup for this is terrible and I won't do it unless compelled to. Does anyone know what the rules are, I think they are much vaguer than most people suggest.
This doesn't respond to either of the points I made: that raw deaths have increased in non us nations, and did so even prior to lockdowns being implemented.

> Those numbers agree with expert opinions on the mortality rate.
In many cases you can't even really say why someone died without an autopsy which isn't gonna happen for so many basically routine deaths.

Death due to sudden onset pneumonia isn't super common. And there aren't that many causes. If you die in a hospital due to pneumonia having tested positive for covid, yes it's actually very likely that covid is that killed you. You can disagree with that all you want but it's ultimately the way the world works. And it's kind of scary and not fun, but it's a truth we should death with, not avoid.

> any answer at all and not be held to account, except if they give the most honest answer: we don't know.

Scientists are actually exceedingly good at giving this answer. It's why there number I gave had a confidence interval. Experts are so good at saying "we don't know" that they can quantify it. And they do. And even to the extent that the expert opinion is 2 sigma off, you're still completely wrong.

Let me ask you this: given all the information you have, how many people do you believe have died of covid in the us? How many have been infected?
I sometimes use ‘private’/‘incognito’ tabs or NewPipe on Android to watch one-off vids that I otherwise don't want in my feed.

But also, since the same vid popped up for me as well in the past days, and it's not the first such occurrence—I feel that it might be a not-entirely-organic phenomenon.
It seems very strange to claim that Tesla's sales aren't impacted by their lackluster fit and finish. I only vaguely follow Tesla news and I've heard this complaint a lot.

Even if this were the case, that prospective consumers didn't care about paint quality and panel fit... then what's the problem? Why should Tesla focus on a problem you say nobody cares enough to buy a different car over?
Have an upvote for an ET allusion.

The blog has some interesting philosophy about collective "philosophical" inertia - everything is meta-stable, until it isn't. I can't help but think and feel that we are at or nearing a maxima change - we are pushing over the edge of our current local maxima, and many things about modern society will change all at once.
>With this switch, Apple is giving Adobe higher quality hardware to work with

Yeah must be an absolutely a great deal for Adobe...you know Adobe is not just the CreativeSuite.

>higher quality hardware

Lets see about that...
And yet the construction here in the US have reputation of doing shoddy works, not doing work on time, and being more expensive than they should be, while skirting any regulations any way they can.

Or at least that's my impression.
Blackberry OS definitely did this, and it was brilliant because you could allow the NYTimes application to access news.nytimes.com but not ads.adcompany.com.
Yea, I thought the same when I read retribution. I think this could be retaliation but not retribution but IANAL.
You say potato, I say politics.

What startup company could survive unionization and striking workers?
#ifdef GetAHearingAid

(Credit where due: That was from the C/C++ User's Journal's Bad C Pun contest, 1992.)
Hey Martin, I was looking into this to understand current landscape of iOS development. Found this[0] very detailed post about SwiftUI vs UIKit - HTH. When you do decide, do you mind posting about your decision and rational as well? In addition what made you decide against ReactNative and going fully native?

[0] https://medium.com/@SteelKiwiDev/swiftui-vs-uikit-benefits-a...
In which jurisdiction is it illegal for an Australian to publish evidence of American war crimes?
It helps if the escorts pay attention, though: https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN23O27W.
I am pretty sure in most places they can't touch you even if you do steal something.
I don't disagree with your comment in general. But, just like everywhere else, ag is a very wide umbrella. There are niches which are ripe.

For instance, it is telling that you can drill deep into the earth, pump a liquid to the surface, process it, transport it a significant distance to an expensive port, pump it into giant floating tankers, sail those around the world, suck the payload back out and pipe it to additional processing plants, pipe it across a continent, refine it into relatively finished product, pipe it hundreds of more miles to a depot, pump it into tankers, transport it to underground tanks, then pump it back up to sell to customers. You can imagine how much a product would cost per gallon. Then, as a customer, walk inside to pay for the product you just pumped and snag a gallon of milk. Guess which gallon is more expensive?

Put the milk back on the shelf and drive to your neighbour's house. Walk around to the back porch where they sell their milk out of an old fridge. Um, no, they don't sell it. That would be illegal. They just happen to have a fridge full of milk that people keep stealing. But the thieves have a conscience. They keep stuffing money into the tin can next to the fridge.

Because in the U.S. it is legal to sell a product with a big label that says, "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT WILL KILL YOU." Unless that product is milk.

Plenty of people have figured out how to sell milk cheaper than gasoline. But they are restricted by regulation.

You may well agree with the protections those regulations provide. But it might also look to you like the same problem as taxi cartels.
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Defender ATP is closer to an EDR tool, which means it's designed for detection and response teams, not individual users. It'll take more a reporting and contextualizing approach than an av that is typically blocking.
How can you find out about who is auditing a company?
Exactly. You know that you're going to end up making a "facilitation payment" to an official to get something done after you've met all the actual, legal requirements.

What is your incentive to meet those requirements when the "bribe" to that same official to get that same thing done is the same amount of money, only you don't need to go through the legal hoops?

As a matter of law, for U.S. companies the former is legal under the FCPA whereas the latter is not. For individuals ... the incentives are all to heck.
Or from another, more accurate, perspective, Symbian didn't win.
I'm going to guess nobody is reconsidering over this if they haven't reconsidered the last hundred times they've been shown what kind of person Musk is.
As you might guess from my earlier comments, I disagree with you, but I (will try to) appreciate your opinion. I think you are probably judging the SSC by its worst, rather than best or average. I'm confident that at its best, it was a really valuable resource --- the open question is how much to discount this because of its worst. Where we probably agree is that SSC would have been better with the skilled moderation of someone like Dan.
Yes, definitely. This sort of issue is very hard to resolve adequately. There's no definition that always does everything we want.

A while back I wrote an article comparing each U.S. state's largest and second-largest cities. (https://blog.plover.com/misc/second-largest-cities.html) I made a perfectly reasonable choice of which definition to adopt, but it still had major peculiarities: the largest city in New Jersey was Trenton, not Newark, because in the data set I used, Newark was considered part of New York City.
When they double down on the mistake in light of the evidence it becomes intention and not 'miscommunication'.
Use Managed Services. Please
I think that's totally related for what I was getting at—great example. Of course you're right that there is almost certainly some level of collaboration here too.
> So each employee should be able to make the choice to take a very small risk and go to work or to live in irrational fear and quit their job.

I get the feeling that this will not age well[1].

[1] https://update.covid19.ca.gov/#top
I created one of the most popular Elasticsearch plugins, Elasticsearch Learning to Rank[1], which uses machine learning to optimize search results.

HN helped make this happen - I built a 0.1 version for one client (Snagajob). I encountered someone from Wikimedia Foundation on Hacker News who was going to build something similar. We ended up partnering after meeting on Hacker News, and now work together on version 1.0 of Elasticsearch Learning to Rank which ultimately has been used on Wikipedia's search[2].

Wikimedia Foundation ultimately had super deep Elasticsearch internal knowledge which helped tremendously, whereas I mostly worked on building out the docs after the initial prototype[3]. I'm rather proud of the docs as it's a bit of a mini book on Learning to Rank :)

[1] - Plugin itself http://github.com/o19s/elasticsearch-learning-to-rank

[2] - WMF article on the plugin https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/17/elasticsearch-learning...

[3] - Docs http://elasticsearch-learning-to-rank.readthedocs.io
I’ve read tons of ideas about how to extract “nuggets of information”, and reading more effectively, etc. Blinkist, for example, creates great and short summaries of books.
That’s all good and fine. But it does not work for me. I need to read through a book. I need it to take time. I don’t want the nuggets, I need it all. I need all of it to help me let the points sink in.
I might remember a book years later, but I cannot recall a Blinkist summary after even two weeks.

I do agree with the “reading of multiple books in parallel” part though. It’s a natural way of reading, when curiosity is the driver.

But what’s the rush? It’s not a competition (I think). Let’s just read the books like the author intended them to be read (which, for non-fiction often is suggested in the preface or similar).
Gamified Pomodoro Timer
The average human attention span is 8 seconds. With the rise of social media, youtube, netflix, etc. We get everything we need instantly with our phone. It's impossible to consistently stay off it, so much so that it begins hurting our relationships and work life.

Regular pomodoro timers are boring. Why not add an avatar that you study alongside with and give experience to? A collection of over 200+ items to collect, and a cool UI that makes it feel like more like a treasure quest than a pomodoro session.

Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions. I am an indie dev, so I need all the help I can get!

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Like NBC Nightly News? When I was a kid, there were ~3 major national newscasts from which to choose and no internet.
Freedom of the Press has limitations.

Example, as a journalist you cannot just walk into a US Army base and start reporting.
If it's such a "well established and obvious fact" then cite some sources and give some proof that the accusations were faked.
You mean full self driving?
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"More people, especially a lot of intelligent people, are despising US more."

If they are more offended by treatment of Assange than innocents kept in Guantanamo Bay 'camp' without a trial and summary drone executions with huge collateral death toll I'm not sure I would call them that intelligent.

I mean really, US government has a huge assassination list whose targets are taken down by bomb raids killing and maiming civilians and one hacker being manhandled pushes you over the edge? Those are some sick values.
I read up and watched some videos in re: "syntropic agriculture" last night. Ernst Götsch's farm produces crops all year w/o any inputs and with continuous improvement of the soil quality.
In simplest of terms its corruption. When people stop believing that hard work will pay off they look for shortcuts or they leave the country.
>Go to many countries outside of that spectrum and you may still see beautiful architecture and more. Now did the team that worked on that project have the necessary experience to drive a safe and long lasting solution? Does the concrete and steel used follow good standards? This means that it may not have critical structural problems today, but in 5 to 10 years, you may have to reconsider your infrastructure. By doing shoddy work, you have a higher rate of catastrophic failure, larger carbon footprint and many other issues.

High labor costs in the western world drive construction techniques. We (try to) build stuff that never breaks because we can't afford to fix things if they break. Low labor costs mean structures can be replaced more often and built for a shorter lifetime. It's folly to pretend that those engineers designing shoddy Chinese apartment complexes that occasionally fall down during construction don't have the same formulas and simulation tools at their disposal. They just have different inputs and design constraints. They know that if they build 100 buildings and ten fall down it's still cheaper than 100 better buildings where none fall down. There's no point in building a 100yr building if it's gonna be bulldozed in ten.
> I hope people don't forget that Wikileaks has never published anything that has been proven false.

You need an edit for that incorrect statement as well, as many comments have already pointed out.