skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moloch is game theory. Moloch is emergent behaviors in large groups of agents. We want to stop it, but these things are vastly larger and more powerful than the individuals who make them up. We can't resist any more than atoms can resist the properties of the matter they form.

Or can we? I think there are a few cases where we have, cases where we have used law or religion or spiritual awakenings or technology or bureaucracy to countermand the emergent will of the mindless collective of history, economy, and ecology. But somewhere along the way we listened to those who equate is with ought and gave up on such attempts, or we listened to the cynics who say the whole endeavor was a waste because it was only 70% successful not 100% successful.

BTW I think conspiracy theory is a folklore level awareness of game theoretic and emergent properties. Conspiracy theorists posit invisible canals behind these things. They are right about the effect but wrong about the cause. The agenda is real but the cabal does not exist. The cabal is all of us and none of us.
I actually believe that their question was a right one to ask.
There typically is a better way to do pretty much everything you write in Go..but Go doesn't support it.

It's just Worse is Better The language for better or worse.
but maybe they can use seawater for cleaning?
This doesn't add any value to the discussion.

Also, I've had TMo without any sort of contract or lease for 5 years now, lived in 3 different states, and travel all over the US (and a little bit of Europe). I've never once said "Wow, if only I had Verizon". It's been really great, and the only time I don't get phone service is deep in the mountains or desert
Thank you! I for one am not self loathing and proud of my country and thinks it doesn't need to be destroyed as a prerequisite to getting better
If I read the report correctly, this is a protocol level issue. The report lists a potential client side fix, but it’s not without
problems and includes the following sentence regarding openssh: “ The developers of OpenSSH are not planning to change the behavior of OpenSSH regarding this issue, because of the aforementioned drawbacks. ”
It seems to me that the web started to look like today's web in 2000.

Websites that have been around that long haven't changed their composition a huge amount since then.
Many webdevs have used systems like those for their development work. Today, the web can nicely represent them right in the browser. This makes it quite easy for the new generations of devs to take a feel of those systems. Feels like the Web is giving something back. Thanks for sharing!
Asians voted Hilary 65-27: http://2016.elections.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-pol.... Latinos were 66-28. Lots of brown skinned people voted for Trump.
That's not what subset means though.
But he tries his best to tie it to the "right" anyway, whatever that means nowadays. Conservatives shooting police? Give me a break.
You can definitely put together a GEM on top of FreeDOS stack.

I got some janky 486 laptops for note-taking in university and swapped between that and OS/2 3.0 with its rudimentary pack-in wordprocessor. PC/GEOS would have been even better, but was not readily available at thwe time, as I think it was still a commercial product targeted towards schools using hand-me-down PCs.
> Putting the wrong text in front of people does not turn them into zombies.

It does for some people. Look into all the marginal, vulnerable, mentally ill, or just gullible people who have been sucked into the Qanon cult and utterly brainwashed just by reading the wrong text.

There does seem to be a contingent of people who can't handle unrestricted access to ideas, especially if some of those ideas are deliberate cons.
Yes the point of our founding documents is exactly to outline a set of rights that citizens collectively enjoy and which shall not be impinged upon. It's not simply the classic "government vs private" dichotomy. We've had freedom of expression cases hit the supreme court related to what students at a public school can wear on a t-shirt. Clearly a scenario much more complex than the government explicitly impinging upon freedom of expression.

> If you have an issue with your employer, find a new job.

I used to say that too. But there's a catch. Our government sets economic policy. Economic policy governs citizens' ability to find and obtain work, ultimately their ability to prosper. If the economic policy is "anything goes" then we will see and have seen rise of economic machines that suppress freedom of expression in the service of increasing shareholder value. The questions I think we should be asking is "does this make sense?" and, "have the goals outlined in the constitution been effectively achieved?". If government has enacted policy that yields an environment where people are not actually free to express themselves, is this not a failure of government to secure those basic freedoms?

I'd be a lot more comfortable telling people not to bother with oppressive employers if, for example, we had a concept of UBI so that people could feasibly sustain themselves in absence of a private economic machine writing their paycheck.
The books by Tent are mathematically at a 4th or 5th grade level. They’re sort of like Jean Lee Latham’s bio of Nathaniel Bowditch (you learn a fictionalized life story but you can’t really grok the person’s contribution). Of course, most mathematicians lead far more boring lives than Bowditch did in his youth, so the kind of kid who is reading Harry Potter by 4th or 5th grade is going to find them very dry.
Aluminum is called congealed electricity due to the energy intensive manufacturing process and recycling is very economical.
"So be respectful and step out of the flow of foot traffic to check it?"

You say this on Americas birthday of all days?

I'm joking, but dude come on. You're not allowed to use GPS while walking? How uncoordinated would a person have to be to not be able to do that? If it's that difficult, people need to be walking more so they don't have to think to do it successfully.
It is germane to the OP.
Without humans, 20% is achievable in the very near future.

Payloads would be measured in grams, though. That's what Breakthrough Starshot [1] is all about. Given suitable infrastructure (e.g. lasers stationed across the solar system), even 1/3 c is possible for machines.

Crewed missions would be seriously limited given near future technologies - the craft would simply be too heavy for using solar sails and even nuclear thermal propulsion
only gets to a tiny fraction of c.

Also keep in mind that you need to slow down at the target, too, if your mission is crewed as fly-bys like Breakthrough Starshot aren't desiderable for crewed missions.

The cold hard truth is that your ΔV = 9.8 * ISP * ln(MR), where MR is the mass-ratio and MR = (Mass[Propellant] + Mass[Spacecraft]) / Mass[Spacecraft].

ISP and MR for known near-term propulsion systems are as follows:

• Chemical rockets: ISP <500s MR ~10 => ΔV < 11 km/s

• Ion engines: ISP <5000s MR ~2 => ΔV < 34km/s

• Nuclear Thermal rockets: ISP <15000s MR ~2 => ΔV < 102 km/s

• Multi-stage ion engines: ISP <25000s MR ~2 => ΔV < 170 km/s

So basically the fasted currently known option that doesn't straight up use nukes + pusher plate can get you
to 0.5% c give or take.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
There are a few companies doing some stuff commercially - some have mentioned TFHC, sponsored by commercial entity called Inpher (https://www.inpher.io/ ) and you have others like Enveil (https://enveil.com), who are building some cool use cases for Private Information Retrieval.

Ultimately, they end up being very niche use cases that are part of a broader security strategy- we are very far away from having this be practical enough for general use cases. Deployment are also difficult because they require client side changes to adapt to the underlying cryptographic protocols.

At my place of employment, we believe the right approach is a combination of locked down execution environments (see: keystone enclave) + webassembly that expose what is effectively a compiler to choose the right cryptographic computation paths based on query planner (similar technologies that power database query engines). It’s not a one-size fits all, but there are ways that you can optimize down to a fully homomorphic operation _for a particular computational path_. If this stuff is interesting to you, we are hiring :)!
I found an interesting Easter egg on that website. Hide the window using the up triangle and touch or click the face of the agent.
What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?
Capital expenditure, in a system where resources are finite and trade-offs must be made, is a notoriously tricky problem to solve.
Yes. And some people are illiberal. Some people don't like the conflict and confusion and disruption of a liberal democracy; they'd rather a consensus of "people like us". And bad things happen when they support a leader who promises to make things simple.

This is not a left vs right thing, it's a liberty vs autocracy thing. If the popular autocrats win, they punish the people who have "mindsets that are different from" their supporters.
I think he's implying that customization is pretty much something you take for granted and there is no real reason it's not in putty.
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It’s not that people’s opinions are harmful to themselves, per se. Its that they are harmful to society as a whole. Right now, a hundred thousand Americans have died because of the meme factories. Millions more will die from the “climate change is fake” meme.
Consider the simplified example a electron uniformly distributed around a single circular orbit. If we say that it has a speed of 90°/sec, then its position at t=0s is uniformly distributed, and its position at t=1s is uniformly distributed, but those positions are correlated such that, conditional on it being at 12 o'clock at t=0s, it's most likely to be at 3 o'clock at t=1s. If its speed is instead 180°/sec, then (conditioned on 12 o'clock), it would most likely be at 6 o'clock one second later.

But it's not more likely to appear between 12 o'clock and whereever, because that's only in the subset of cases where we assume it started at 12 o'clock; if we instead assume it started at 5 o'clock, it'll be moving to 8 or 11 instead. The starting positions are uniformly distibuted, so the later positions are also uniformly distibuted.
I think its really great that this exists. Bonus points for it being a public project on GitHub that any American can contribute to. It's also really hard to argue with the licensing terms.
Remote British village that built one of the fastest internet networks in the UK
A Shuttered Garage, a Devastated Trade
I find it hilarious how evil naive this forum is. Read some court documents on torture cases sometime, or even just read crime and deterrence literature.
>holy crap the UI elements feel instantaneous.

I seriously doubt it's an SGI optimization.

I had an SGI Octane (multiple levels higher than an Indy). I've never felt IRIX's UI was noticeably more performant the contemporaneous Windows running on standard consumer PC hardware..
> A perspective is something that is biilt upon a truth, not something that is part of a truth.

Says who? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perspect... doesn't seem to support that assertion.

> What you are talking about variables seems to be about partially revealed truth. Even in that case, a partially revealed truth can be stated as such, showing what variables are fully known and what are unknown.

For simple scenarios, perhaps.

> Curious about your idea of supposed complex examples where its not objectively possible to state the truth.

The United States is systemically racist.

We should (or should not) extend the coronavirus lockdown in the US.

Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

Joe Biden is attracted to young girls.

Decoupling from the Chinese economy is good for India in the long run.

Global warming is real and primarily man-made.

We should get our news from respectable media outlets.

Democratic capitalism is the best system for managing a society.

We should trust scientists and ignore theologians.

So many examples, so little time.
How a US Operation to Snare Rwandan Genocide Fugitive Félicien Kabuga Went Awry
try pressing CTRL+C :)
No.

How hard would it be to write "men and women" (or "women and men").

What do you reckon? The fellas who "did all the work" in US history, you reckon they did all their own cooking and cleaning, you reckon their intimate partners, or close-others didn't contribute any to the people whom history attributes greatness?

Probably not old boy, fair chance the wives, partners, and mistresses went a long way to getting us where we are.

And that's if they weren't directly responsible but not attributed. How's that saying go, next to every great man is an even greater women. It's often true, except that the woman part could be generalised to partner or carer.

Some people act alone, outliers though.

And to still, in this socio-political climate, not to bother to include women is, at least, tone deaf, if not outright intentionally exclusive.
The only reason I would never go this direction with my business is because you could wake up tomorrow and the features of your app become a standard feature of Shopify and you’re instantly out of business.

Think flashlight apps for iPhone, health apps, etc.
The whole world has watched on as crowds of leftists have looted, attacked property, chanted death threats, beaten and even killed people for a month straight. The same ideology captured a part of a city, set up an "autonomous zone" with its own police force who themselves shot and killed a kid recently.

And yet the Atlantic, and recently the BBC, want us to worry about some fringe group who've collectively done nothing (good or bad). Going from disappointment that the right didn't get involved whatsoever in the last month, to attempting to meme a conservative boogeyman into reality.

>The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

>Please become a terrorist movement, you guys, we and our ideological partners have significant egg our faces and it's limiting our candidate's election chances.
It's not actually a thing, and has never happened historically, at least not that i could find. Even widespread crime and civil wars don't result in 'they all killed each other', and no war ever killed even 30% of the population.

There have been many isolated communities and if they die, thats because they succumb to diseasse or disaster.
Ask HN: Services or Products you have subscribed on monthly or yearly basis?
Title.

Please name service or product and how much you pay?

Looking to have interesting conversation while pooling alternatives from the community.
How will this play when a mea culpa acts as blood in the water for some groups of bad actors?
Pity the client scripting thing is absent.

Then again, which script would you use?

The overall web itself is going WASM for a lot of projects. Pure javscript that is actually readable isn't exactly common now either as more frameworks build multiple layers on top.

I see this as an interesting step sideways. Less is more and all that. Perhaps check in 2 years from now and see what major shifts it caused.
This is precisely the discussions and issues we need to be solving to better the social media death trap we’re already in. Not only that, they supplied some really solid ideas on how, also. Kudos
Given all the probing they do, they’re clearly after our best ideas.

They’ll be converting to imperial units and base 10 any day now.

Converting the flying saucers to coal will take a bit longer.
FVWM was more a mwm (Motif) clone. It dates to the '90s, back before OpenMotif or Lesstif and having something with even that aesthetic was a step up.
According to the Wikipedia article cited it takes 30 people 10-15 days to clean all 392,158 panels fully. That sounds like $100,000/y in raw wages but it seems to be limited by water supply more than raw labor cost. The dust being cited as 40% of the panel efficiency loss and not always being an issue depending on the season also drives some of that RoI down, looks like a good portion of the loss is due to the heat as well. By far the biggest costs seem to have been with corruption from choice of renewable source to choice of contractor vs operation of the actual installation.
http://www.therestartpage.com/ full screened would make a good prank. The Windows XP startup sound invoked a surprisingly strong reaction from me.
It works in Firefox for me for about 10 seconds, then stops producing audio unless I refresh. Running 79.0b3.
The procedure here is actually using WebAuthn, which is now explicitly implemented by OpenSSH.
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Name service or product you miss and how much you are willing to pay for it.
It's neat to see themes reminiscent of Irix and Solaris as well.

The vast majority of people have only been exposed to Windows and Mac graphical operating systems and might not realize that lots of these ideas had roots in not-so-personal computers.
Hey, no tables, even basic? If this protocol is to be like 'library', instead of a 'mall', it definitely should have tables.
Patriotism is about fighting for the principles and values espoused in the constitution, and working towards improving an imperfect republic, not worshiping the flag.

It’s a fun project and I like the colors, but let’s not pretend that the flag and the idea of ‘patriotism’ are anything other than distractions from the work that needs to be done.
Here is a boilerplate you can copy/paste if you don’t want to opt out of the “Project Lighthouse” discrimination study, but only out of data sharing for marketing purposes:

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I am sending you this email based on your documented policy quoted below:

> Please note that you may, at any time ask Airbnb to cease processing your data for these direct marketing purposes by sending an e-mail to opt-out@airbnb.com.
I think you meant turkey.
Maybe try to assume best intent, and assume that this person doesn't speak English as their first language?
There you go, assuming anyone who thinks differently from you is stupid or mentally ill. I'm not a fan myself, of anything really, but I respect everyone's freedom to make up their own mind about the world they live in.

This is classic divide and conquer, and it's being pushed down from the top since it's only hope of the ruling class to stay in control. Please don't play their game, start using your own brain before it's too late.
The defining difference between fuel-cells and batteries is that fuel-cells don’t need to be “recharged” as in running an electrochemical reaction in reverse, they just need you to change the fuel.
Just curious, what happens when the old people come after you? Is it because they could be yakuza?
The first Ghanaian-born congressional nominee in the U.S.
I feel uninterested in R-nought (or R) when there is evidence for a huge variance around how many people each person will infect.

Infections seem to happen at large gatherings: one person can be identified as infecting 50 others simultaneously, especially in the early cases, even though the R-nought is said to be no more than 2.5

That suggests infectiousness is an incredibly skewed distribution, to the point of implausibility.

An epidemiologist apparently setting out R-nought as the underlying basis for their modelling (or even: communicating it to the public as such) worries me.

I wouldn't begin any statistical modelling unless I was thinking about the distribution of infectiousness more generally: even a high school student of statistics would know to look beyond the mean and to the variance.
The _elites_ weren't superstitious, but that doesn't mean noone was. Evil always needs useful idiots to grab power, a dynamic that's only accelerated with the move to democracies (though to be clear, this isn't a knock on a democracy: I'm with Churchill when he says democracy is the least bad of all the forms we've tried).
Not one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross
I also recommend Nick Bostrom's article "The Future of Human Evolution", predating OP by ten years, which contains essentially the same arguments and conclusions.

https://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.html
Precisely my concern.

When social media channels are new, the bad faith actors are small and legitimate discussion can occur. As they age, people get burned more often and a higher proportion engages in the contagion.
There are many books on that front, particularly the ones related to recreational math or intro higher math (see https://mathvault.ca/books for instance). Spivak's Calculus as an intro would be an interesting start, though Stewart's Calculus is dense but more accessible.
> If images and cookies are to be forbid that should be made from the web developper decision.

Unfortunately even today that's not 100% under your control. I don't have to accept cookies nor load images from your site with the proper settings or browser.

You seem to be forgetting HTTP is a user-initiated protocol and while a lot of it is hidden behind Javascript and common browser features, ultimately it's the user agent that initiates everything. You as a web developer can only control the files on your webserver, put cookies in headers (which the user agent has to send back to you) and possibly take advantage of some other Javascript features like DOM storage (which I can turn off).

I'm 100% on board with Gemini being a 'liberty constrain' for those who put information online - honestly it's not necessary for remote systems to be executing code on my system just to display text. Yes, you can't monetize it as easily. That's a feature, not a bug, for a user like me.
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Features
It's hard to say how long Silicon Valley can be an economic diver without immigrant talent, especially if that talent concentrates elsewhere.

A lot of that talent originally came to the US for an education, and those numbers leveled off when Trump was elected. Most of the foreign student growth was also from China, which I'd expect to see drip in the next decade regardless of who wins in November.

https://www.educationnext.org/files/ednext_XIX_4_usher_fig01...

Because of the education angle, I doubt Ireland will be a winner, but the UK might be, Canada, and Australia look promising.
Nice one, a Linux Botnet edition. I can't see it very well because I'm using a phone, I'll try it again later on a computer.
wow, that's an amazing level of depth! really cool article
Yes, but without single payer, I don’t see a viable alternative to insurance companies or a similar organization double checking a doctor’s billing.
Interestingly, everytime I hear this I feel like the constitution is treated like the bible, some holy book holding the truth. That is very dangerous imo
> I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common.-The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

> ... the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters.

_ the quotes above are taken from the text version of the document discussed in the article, which links to it:

https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945
"What a customer thinks about your product" is a input, not a metric. You can still fail, just like a chair factory can fail to produce chairs if provided with unlimited amounts of wood but no nails or glue to hold the pieces together.